He violated a US law on Russian soil. That is the key point people SHOULD be upset about.
Hmmm, how did they arrest him again? Oh, he was at a US conference giving a talk about his circumvention technology. Whether or not that US law is unfair is irrelevant. He was on US soil, selling a product available to US citizens that violates US law. DMCA aside, how is his arrest unfair?
All election campaigns should be funded from tax-payers money.
Okay, here are the problems I have with this idea:
How do you decide who's campaign gets state money without squelching free speech? You certainly can't be giving money to every putz with an axe to grind.
As a tax-payer, why should I be funding the campaign of someone who's positions are antithetical to my own?
You capture the digital out of your sound card, rip the song to mp3, send it to your portable, and put it on the internet.
Not quite. Most sound cards that have digital out also have drivers that refuse to output on the digital out if the O/S (and media player) say the media file is copy protected.
Naturally, this is a pretty weak system and has probably already been cracked for a number of drivers or applications. Of course, that's what Palladium is supposed to fix...
The other, more sinister, thing to consider is that the file will quite possibly be imprinted with an audio watermark at the time of purchase. Should a copy (digital or analog) of this file ever end up on Gnutella, they'll be able to trace it back to the original buyer. So unless you're positive you wiped that watermark off it, I'd be real wary of giving it to the rest of the world.
I'm not going to try to defend the notion that a Linux desktop has a lower TCO than a Win 2K desktop, because frankly I doubt that it does. Linux requires admins which, unlike MCSEs, aren't churned out by the dozens by your local community college.
The problem I see here is that most of these Linux vs. Windows TCO studies hinge on the idea that you are replacing a Windows 2000 desktops with a full-fledged Linux desktops, and that's the wrong way to do it.
I'd like to see a unbalanced TCO review of what the City of Largo, Florida has done. Basically, they've got 800 very cheap thin clients (230 concurrent) running X-Windows applications (KDE, etc.) off of a couple big-ass terminal servers. Very similar to the Linux Terminal Server Project, and very cool.
There are so many businesses paying $200 for Win 2K Pro and $350 for MS Office just so their employees can send email and dabble in Word or Excel. It's insane. They could be saving $550 per machine in software costs alone! Not considering the fact that the thin client hardware costs much, much less than the average desktop. And there's essentially zero administration costs on the clients. Let's see a TCO comparison on that.
I'm starting to get off-topic, but I'm excited about the project so what the hell. I'm currently doing a little in-house pilot of the same thing at my employer. I've customized the KNOPPIX bootable ISOs to basically be X-Windows thin clients. You just pop the CD in a machine, reboot, and you get a KDM login box for our terminal server. Very, very cool. Even free server licenses from Microsoft couldn't persuade me to drop this project.
I could pop the hood on my car and figure out how it works, but I don't. Maybe if a company released source with their software, this same type of thing would happen.
Yeah, but intellectual property is VERY different from physical property.
Theoretically, you could acheive a complete comprehension of your Maxima by disassembling it and studying all the pieces. Can you now go into business competing against Nissan? Not hardly.
But with open source software, as soon as a company releases the source they are potentially in the position of defending against millions of competitors. Each one capable of matching them in distribution capacity and quality of product.
In the open source world if you want to make money you must do it through services. Period.
Hmmm - Lance Bass was willing to pay $20 million just for a couple weeks on it. Imagine how much rent they could charge all of N'Sync for an entire year!!
Just think - Earth could be N'Sync free for a whole year and NASA would have somebody to water the plants.
He probably just means an SMTP relay. Although, I wouldn't necessarily call that a "working mail server".
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Open Source Pioneers? Or $$$ Saving? [...] Not that this is a bad thing, just that it's not because they hate MSFT...
Uhhh, using Open Source software because you hate Microsoft definitely does not make someone an "Open Source Pioneer". Rather, it makes them a dumbass.
It seems to me that the movie studios are actually using OS for the right reasons - because it's cheaper and more flexible.
> Starting throwing Copyright notifications on your posts, the "media" is > starting to post OUR comments in their papers without our consent!
Copyright notices don't really do anything. Everything you write is automatically copyrighted by you. Furthermore, an explicit declaration of copyright already exists for everybody's comments. Read the bottom line of any Slashdot page:
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Encryption and compression make a lot of sense...
Yeah, I just hope PKWare remembers to compress the data *before* they encrypt it.;)
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Who here has not scrambled for a NT Admin password recovery disk, or a ZIP password cracker, or swapped NVRAM chips between Suns?
Aw man, just when I was thinking I was l337 you had to throw the NVRAM one in there.
He violated a US law on Russian soil. That is the key point people SHOULD be upset about.
Hmmm, how did they arrest him again? Oh, he was at a US conference giving a talk about his circumvention technology. Whether or not that US law is unfair is irrelevant. He was on US soil, selling a product available to US citizens that violates US law. DMCA aside, how is his arrest unfair?
I don't get it. I've been reading Slashdot for 5 years, but this "Soviet Russia" shtick is lost on me. I have two questions:
A) Where did the re-invention of this gag come from?
B) Why do you fuckin' numbskulls think it's funny?
Thank you.
Out of curiousity, what did you do to piss off Bruce Perens?
Okay, here are the problems I have with this idea:
We are not a Democracy, we are a Democratic Republic.
Exactly. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. [Note: Technically, we are a Constitutional Republic.]
You capture the digital out of your sound card, rip the song to mp3, send it to your portable, and put it on the internet.
Not quite. Most sound cards that have digital out also have drivers that refuse to output on the digital out if the O/S (and media player) say the media file is copy protected.
Naturally, this is a pretty weak system and has probably already been cracked for a number of drivers or applications. Of course, that's what Palladium is supposed to fix...
The other, more sinister, thing to consider is that the file will quite possibly be imprinted with an audio watermark at the time of purchase. Should a copy (digital or analog) of this file ever end up on Gnutella, they'll be able to trace it back to the original buyer. So unless you're positive you wiped that watermark off it, I'd be real wary of giving it to the rest of the world.
Or are we braodcasting something barycentric? Can I tune in?
Yeah, we are - but you don't want to tune in.
Hey, does that mean I'm a moron for enjoying his submission?
I'm not going to try to defend the notion that a Linux desktop has a lower TCO than a Win 2K desktop, because frankly I doubt that it does. Linux requires admins which, unlike MCSEs, aren't churned out by the dozens by your local community college.
The problem I see here is that most of these Linux vs. Windows TCO studies hinge on the idea that you are replacing a Windows 2000 desktops with a full-fledged Linux desktops, and that's the wrong way to do it.
I'd like to see a unbalanced TCO review of what the City of Largo, Florida has done. Basically, they've got 800 very cheap thin clients (230 concurrent) running X-Windows applications (KDE, etc.) off of a couple big-ass terminal servers. Very similar to the Linux Terminal Server Project, and very cool.
There are so many businesses paying $200 for Win 2K Pro and $350 for MS Office just so their employees can send email and dabble in Word or Excel. It's insane. They could be saving $550 per machine in software costs alone! Not considering the fact that the thin client hardware costs much, much less than the average desktop. And there's essentially zero administration costs on the clients. Let's see a TCO comparison on that.
I'm starting to get off-topic, but I'm excited about the project so what the hell. I'm currently doing a little in-house pilot of the same thing at my employer. I've customized the KNOPPIX bootable ISOs to basically be X-Windows thin clients. You just pop the CD in a machine, reboot, and you get a KDM login box for our terminal server. Very, very cool. Even free server licenses from Microsoft couldn't persuade me to drop this project.
What proof can you show me that the combined revenues of the separate companies wouldn't be greater than Micro$oft's current revenues?
Well, without a monopoly Windows would have to be priced competitively. So the O/S division's profits would definitely suffer from a breakup.
I could pop the hood on my car and figure out how it works, but I don't. Maybe if a company released source with their software, this same type of thing would happen.
Yeah, but intellectual property is VERY different from physical property.
Theoretically, you could acheive a complete comprehension of your Maxima by disassembling it and studying all the pieces. Can you now go into business competing against Nissan? Not hardly.
But with open source software, as soon as a company releases the source they are potentially in the position of defending against millions of competitors. Each one capable of matching them in distribution capacity and quality of product.
In the open source world if you want to make money you must do it through services. Period.
Thank you all for making me the most-loved [slashdot.org] member of Slashdot (376 fans)!
Uh, you appear to be the most-hated too.
Hmmm - Lance Bass was willing to pay $20 million just for a couple weeks on it. Imagine how much rent they could charge all of N'Sync for an entire year!!
Just think - Earth could be N'Sync free for a whole year and NASA would have somebody to water the plants.
Considering that you probably won't be reaping the fruits of this discovery until after 15 years of R&D, where's the harm?
Extinctions happen, and I'd like to prevent ours if at all possible.
I too would appreciate it if you prevented our extinction.
Here here.
At $149, I may be the first in line when it comes out next spring.
I'll bet you will.
He probably just means an SMTP relay. Although, I wouldn't necessarily call that a "working mail server".
Open Source Pioneers? Or $$$ Saving? [...] Not that this is a bad thing, just that it's not because they hate MSFT...
Uhhh, using Open Source software because you hate Microsoft definitely does not make someone an "Open Source Pioneer". Rather, it makes them a dumbass.
It seems to me that the movie studios are actually using OS for the right reasons - because it's cheaper and more flexible.
And only if you give a shit about seismic data.
> starting to post OUR comments in their papers without our consent!
Copyright notices don't really do anything. Everything you write is automatically copyrighted by you. Furthermore, an explicit declaration of copyright already exists for everybody's comments. Read the bottom line of any Slashdot page:
Encryption and compression make a lot of sense...
;)
Yeah, I just hope PKWare remembers to compress the data *before* they encrypt it.
I used to grow my pot in compost!
;-)
Dude - you just made the exact same post 15 minutes ago.
Try Hosfelt. The second product listed is a 6000 MCD blue LED.