I wonder how you'd feel if someone ripped the PC off your desk and gave you a dumb terminal. My guess is the the average slashdotter would be reaching for the latest local root exploit.
We aren't talking about the average slashdotter. We are talking about the average worker in a company who needs to use a certain set of applications that isn't going to change very often. It really seems like a no-brainer to me that putting a pc on everyone's desk is a giant waste of resources.
After a little searching, it turns out that it is 20 years. It was raised from 17 years in 1995. I seem to remember cds coming out in the beginning of the '80s. Wouldn't that mean their patent is either about to expire or laready has expired?
Yes, the large meteorite impact is a hypothesis - stating it as fact is what I called 'nonsense.' As with most things in nature, huge enormous changes (e.g. extinction of hundreds or thousands of species) cannot be atributed to a single factor.
The meteor impact theory is, by far, the one with the most evidence behind it. The fact that there is a layer of iridium covering the earth at the end of the age of dinosaurs that coincides perfectly with an impact crater in Mexico makes any other theory pretty unlikely. What makes you think mass extinctions [b]can't[/b] be attributed to a single factor? A huge, sudden change in the environment seems like a good way to wipe out a lot of species.
Copyrights are what keep being extended. Patents still expire after 27 years. I was just wondering when someone could, in theory, start making cd players in their garage without having to pay royalties.
Both of your comments can easily be solved by converting from pc desktops to X terminals. Number 1 is just obvious. Number two was addressed here last week. Your whole mode of thinking is way too windows-centric. You can't see that other ways of doing things even exist.
Damn, that's the second time in two days that I've posted almost the exact same thing as someone else at almost the exact same time...my karma is in free-fall!
Wow. Genocide is still around? I remember playing that in college in 1992. Not that I was ever any good at it or anything. I named my character Xqwzwc because I thought it would make me harder to attack if someone had to type my name.;)
No, you can't hack the set-top box that the cable company leases to you. You can, however, go out and buy your own cable box and do whatever you please with it.
Who cares if open-source is communistic? As long as it is completely voluntary (as communism is *supposed* to be), what argument do you have besides throwing around the word like its some kind of hand grenade? Open source may not be good for the software 'industry', but it is certainly good for businesses that actually produce things in the real world. Which is cheaper, paying a yearly, per-seat license fee or hiring a few programmers to support your applications and add features to them when needed? 'Software as a service' is a joke because it still comes down to paying for something that you can get for free.
I was under the impression that a denial of service attack was anything that denied access to that service. As opposed to say a normal, hacking in and stealing credit card numbers type of attack.
They say that they will connect and attempt to download things very slowly? How is that supposed to hurt me one bit? My limewire setup allows 30 concurrent connections with no more than 4 from any given IP. Even if they do manage to hold all thirty open by using different IPs to download, there is no possible way that they can do the same to any significant number of other users at the same time. Nevermind the fact that their IP ranges would quickly be built into the next release as automatically blocked...
This country was founded on the principle that freedom is more important than safety. People in every war up to WW2 died to protect all of our freedoms. To have these legislators come along and act like those freedoms are unimportant is an insult to anyone who cares about the sacrifices that have been made throughout the years. I guess it makes perfect sense to the same people who would consistently come within a vote or two of passing a flag burning amendment.
If they get Java up and running on the thing, I wonder how well the WeirdX X server would work on it. Still lackin a keyboard, but should be good enough to browse on...
Basically, your second link provides a pretty good overview of how the whole FastTrack network functions. Does the RIAA really think that someone won't just come along and reproduce the functionality even if they do manage to shut these companies down? It appears that the problem that still needs to be resolved is network discovery without a centralized server. Is there any easy way around this? Distributing ip lists on irc or newsgroups maybe?
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We aren't talking about the average slashdotter. We are talking about the average worker in a company who needs to use a certain set of applications that isn't going to change very often. It really seems like a no-brainer to me that putting a pc on everyone's desk is a giant waste of resources.
After a little searching, it turns out that it is 20 years. It was raised from 17 years in 1995. I seem to remember cds coming out in the beginning of the '80s. Wouldn't that mean their patent is either about to expire or laready has expired?
The meteor impact theory is, by far, the one with the most evidence behind it. The fact that there is a layer of iridium covering the earth at the end of the age of dinosaurs that coincides perfectly with an impact crater in Mexico makes any other theory pretty unlikely. What makes you think mass extinctions [b]can't[/b] be attributed to a single factor? A huge, sudden change in the environment seems like a good way to wipe out a lot of species.
Copyrights are what keep being extended. Patents still expire after 27 years. I was just wondering when someone could, in theory, start making cd players in their garage without having to pay royalties.
Both of your comments can easily be solved by converting from pc desktops to X terminals. Number 1 is just obvious. Number two was addressed here last week. Your whole mode of thinking is way too windows-centric. You can't see that other ways of doing things even exist.
Just as an aside, does anyone know when the patents for cd playing devices expires?
Damn, that's the second time in two days that I've posted almost the exact same thing as someone else at almost the exact same time...my karma is in free-fall!
From the document:
"Although the social value of DeCSS may be questionable, it is nonetheless pure speech."
It's about time a court somewhere recognized the obvious.
Wow. Genocide is still around? I remember playing that in college in 1992. Not that I was ever any good at it or anything. I named my character Xqwzwc because I thought it would make me harder to attack if someone had to type my name. ;)
Wanna see something scary?
Invite Cowboyneal to Thanksgiving dinner!
No, you can't hack the set-top box that the cable company leases to you. You can, however, go out and buy your own cable box and do whatever you please with it.
Who cares if open-source is communistic? As long as it is completely voluntary (as communism is *supposed* to be), what argument do you have besides throwing around the word like its some kind of hand grenade? Open source may not be good for the software 'industry', but it is certainly good for businesses that actually produce things in the real world. Which is cheaper, paying a yearly, per-seat license fee or hiring a few programmers to support your applications and add features to them when needed? 'Software as a service' is a joke because it still comes down to paying for something that you can get for free.
Who controls the distribution?
:)
We do.
I was under the impression that a denial of service attack was anything that denied access to that service. As opposed to say a normal, hacking in and stealing credit card numbers type of attack.
They say that they will connect and attempt to download things very slowly? How is that supposed to hurt me one bit? My limewire setup allows 30 concurrent connections with no more than 4 from any given IP. Even if they do manage to hold all thirty open by using different IPs to download, there is no possible way that they can do the same to any significant number of other users at the same time. Nevermind the fact that their IP ranges would quickly be built into the next release as automatically blocked...
Have you tried the icecast streaming system? I've been running it pretty much nonstop for a few months with no trouble at all.
This country was founded on the principle that freedom is more important than safety. People in every war up to WW2 died to protect all of our freedoms. To have these legislators come along and act like those freedoms are unimportant is an insult to anyone who cares about the sacrifices that have been made throughout the years. I guess it makes perfect sense to the same people who would consistently come within a vote or two of passing a flag burning amendment.
Yeah, and we all know what a horrible inconvenience it is to carry around the little bottles of oxygen that each of *us* needs in order to breathe...
Geezus! It hurt my eyeballs to even read that!
Don't you mean "Jihad, or holy war..."
;)
If they get Java up and running on the thing, I wonder how well the WeirdX X server would work on it. Still lackin a keyboard, but should be good enough to browse on...
The more a file is transported around Freenet, the more copies are available. Popularity tends to make a file easier to get instead of harder.
Basically, your second link provides a pretty good overview of how the whole FastTrack network functions. Does the RIAA really think that someone won't just come along and reproduce the functionality even if they do manage to shut these companies down? It appears that the problem that still needs to be resolved is network discovery without a centralized server. Is there any easy way around this? Distributing ip lists on irc or newsgroups maybe?
That's funny. I was just browsing it this morning. For vapor, it has quite a few active sites.
Freenet already has this functionality. Why would we all wait around for vaporware when we have a mostly functional program available right now?