Horseshit. I don't think anyone really believes that pulling out of Isreal will create peace. However, it would be right, considering what the Isrealites did to the Palastineans was no better than what Hitler did to them. Some families could trace their homes back 4-5 centuries, so what right did Isreal have to decide their rights were worth nothing? And more importantly, what right did we have to support, and actually push for it.
I'm sure there'd be alot fewer criminals if the US would stop making everything illegal simply because some asshole couldn't handle the responsibility. Try this: Lets get rid of the assholes that can't seem to do shit a right, and leave the rest of us alone.
Really, I mean it. We need mass civil disobiediance . We need to unclog our entire legal system, and restore privacy, not the illusion of privacy. I mean this whole heartedly, I'm more than happy to take out a few police stations, or whatever it takes to get the jerks in our government out. We need to change, and Congress has made it more and more difficult for people to have a say. I mean, I vote, but what good is it if neither side really gives a fuck what I think? I think we should be able to try or representatives for treason if they a proven to misrepresent the will of the people. And it should be made easier to contest the decisions of all levels of government. That way things like this couldn't happen. hell, the Internet could be agreat interface between large volumes of people and government.
This is real simple. There is a big difference between being seen and being monitored. This does rob our rights. I can understand a cop being present in a public place to monitor what's going on, however, I would draw the line the minute he begins probing into my life without a cause. Unless I commit a crime, he has no right to delve any deeper into my life, and just because somone else may have committed a crime doesn't mean that they have a right to investigaste everyone.
Furthermore, I would like one example of a power the government recieved that they didn't abuse. I would like the comfort of knowing when I'm alone, I'm alone. And the rinky-dink little CCTV setup at the local 7-11 is not the same as a machine that attempts to identify you, and then reports you if it believes you're a crook. No one takes the tapes from the CCTV to the police unless there's been a crime. Besides, how long will it be before this system notifies local officers of "potential" offenders based on past offenses? Screw that, life will fuck you, life will hurt you, and eventually, life will kill you. Stop fucking it up for the rest of us just because there has to be a few casulties along the way.
Pretty soon you'll have nothing more to do in your home that eat and watch TV, or else the Police come busting down your door for the unwholsome activity of speaking out against the government. Oh, and while I have the soap box, we wouldn't have so many liability laws if people would just take responsibility for their actions.
First off, their label is Epitaph, Sony distributes them.
Second, any money the label pays for recording the albumn gets returned to said label from the artist's share of the money. The label is like a bank loan, not some generous promoter of music. And teh distributer and label take far more than their fair share out of the sales.
Third, the labels have had laws passed in congress that give them, not the artist, perpetual rights to the music, and if you want to have an albumn, they literally force you to surrender all rights to their own music. That's just bull-shit.
Unfortunately, the DOJ has consistantly over anylized the constitution to such an extent that they've been able to pass dozens of laws that are unconstitutional. There are tons of laws out there that are unconstitutional, however, by "creative interpertation" of the constitution, they've been able to pass them. Look at how items can get taxed twice, (for instance, you pay tax on a used car, that was already taxed, or the IRS can freeze your money, and the money of your family, without due process, and garner your wages, and you have to prove your innocence to get it back).
You're right, we should. And personally, I think corrupt behavior, if proved in court, should be punishable as treason. However, in order to do this, congress would have to approve it, adn that would never happen. Congress would never allow us to rewrite the constitution, and they would never treat corruption as treason simply because it would screw themselves over, and they know it.
No, they get bitchy when a person stumbles and stutters through the language, unable to create a clear sentence for their lives. I've dealt with all sorts of people who can't communicate well in english, and sorry, this doesn't work if you work in an english speaking shop. There's nothing racist about it, if YOU can't communicate well enough to be understood withyour employer, it is YOUR problem, no on else's. Stop bitching. I don't care what color you are, if you can't keep up with what's being said, go somewhere whre it doesn't matter. Don't bide behind claims of racism.
Look, it's this easy. If you can't speak the language well, you can't communicate well. I don't care if you're white and can't speak english well, or from a different country. If I'm your employer, and you can't speak my language well enough to COMMUNICATE an idea, your communication skills suck. It's that simple. I'm sick of everyone covering for their inadequacies by claiming others are racist.
I'm thinking it would be nice if certain metadat could be embedded in the binary after it's been compiled. Say for instance, you try to open up a binary file using your web browser, instead of it not knowing what to do, you could have the first X number of bytes be a document in XML or HTML, with various info about the binary, maybe including things like; what other files are part of this program, and where they're located (this would have to be dynamic of course, created at compile time for instance?), the author, web sites, dependencies, etc.
First off, grow up. For one thing, the comment was meant in a humorous light. For another, not everyone is a raving "Free It All" loonie like ESR can be from time to time. There's nothing wrong with commercial code, but the prices charged, the quality the user recieves, the lack of source, etc etc is what most people are objecting to. No one said all code must be free, simply that if you're gonna charge for it, atleast make it good, and maybe give out the source.
However, even if he/seh was implying all code should be free, who the hell are you to attack him? This is a site for expressing opinions, so express an opinion, stop attacking people like a little fifth grader.
Lastly, get a clue. Russia, (I still get a kick that every idiot refers to the Soviet Union as Russia), is not communist anymore. That ended quite a while ago, so next time recommend China instead asshole.
Look, no one is "ripping off" cue:cat. You have every right to modify a piece of equipmaent you own. If you want to use a pot in your kitchen as a hat, it's your damn right, and it's not the pot manufacturer's right to say otherwise. They're not trying to get a free service here, they simply wish to modify whatever the hell they please if it's theirs, the problem stems from DC claiming that in doing so they are revealing IP. This is a load of crap b/c nayone with half a brain can figure out how this thing codes info.
ptical hardware is expensive at the 20 Gig level, but you're not gonna get 20 gigs. You'll get a frac channel at about 100 mb to start, with bandwidth expandable. Remember, there's gonna be a trunk carrying all of the channels, and each individual run (i.e. to your house) will have far more limited bandwidth. The equipment that works on the user level is pretty damn cheap. The only reason Ma' Bell doesn't have fiber running right to your door now is because the equipment to bring it to your door isn't cheap, is very fragile, and they've had problems keeping it running for reasonable amounts of time. It just became feasible to bring fiber to buisness in he past decade or so, actually, closer to the last 7 years.
I think the best way to deal with this is a two step method. First set up a proxy that either prevents or limits the size of the files being transmitted. Then, set up your database with a uniquely patterned/formatted key (the charchters won't matter, you'll see why) For instance if the key was always nnn%nn$$nn! (n=some character), then you could have your proxy search all e-mail and text files for a string that matches that formatted key. Because of the format of the key, it's unlikely you'll turn a false positive on regular e-mail and the such.
As far as preventing authorized systems (in this case, systems allowed to transmit binary files) from sending out confidential data, you could look into encrypted filesystems. I'm not experienced witht these, but I wouldn't imagine it to be too hard to force everything binary from that filesystem to remain encrypted if transferred from that filesystem. However, like I said, I don't know too much about encrypted filesystems.
Do you honestly think that if they try to use the DMCA down the road the government will eny them that irght? Hell no! Even if they give us the OK now, the government, who has alot of $$$ intrest in the RIAA, is gonna back them anyhow. We broke CSS fair and square, THEY left the keys out on that one, and it didn't matter one bit (for those not in the know, the literally left the key unlocked on a DVD, allowing the reverse engineering that became DECSS).
Granholm said: "Hacking is the dark side of high technology's power and progress. For every person using a computer or the Internet for research, commerce or communication, there may be another person using that technology to commit a crime. The Internet, unfortunately, has become one more tool to pick the locks of companies across the country."
Well, although I think it's great that we can get info on products we want, or even buy them, I also feel that all of these "victim" companies are the same companies that are destroying the net with their petty patents, and greed grabs at cash (although this comment is not directed at this company, who I'm really not familiar with, I'm making a generalization about MOST companies, and no, I don't condone cracking). These companies have done everyhting in their power to make the net a nice fat Lazy-boy for buisness, and practically ruined it for the end users. Then they cry boo-hoo when people retaliate. I hate crackers too, but sometimes I get overjoyed when I see some fat-cat buisness, who has contributed to these "process patents" or "IP" lawsuits, get whacked by a cracker.
The M-Net system remained down into July and became available only after M-Net replaced the system's equipment.
Doesn't this sound more like random hardware failure? In all seriousness, it doesn't sound like the cracker was trying to damage the hardware, and it's pretty unlikely that hardware damage would occur without a malicous user's intent. Could this just be ordinary failure on a system that wasn't properly fault tolerant? I'm just wondering if this is another un-tech-savvy, bone-headed, government move, that is going to end up convicting a person for a crime he didn't do (although if he hadn't cracked in the first place blah blah blah...you get the point).
This is bull. For the millionth time, MP3s, although often illeagle copies, aren't always illeagle. There's thousands, maybe millions of MP3s available for free download, from the authors, for your listening pleasure. Taking these kind of measures because a company or group of companies don't like something is ridiculous. It's time we all, including those with power, stop this shit from happening. We are getting stepped on, and I'm personally sick of it. That would have been like banning CDRs when they first came out because they could be used to copy CDs, however, they have legitamate uses, including copying one's own CDs.
All I'm saying is instead of bitching, maybe we should all get up and start to do something. Lets organize a serious boycott of the companies who are pulling these tactics, bug our friends and family until they too participate, do whatever you can to squash these assholes. Look, Napster may be violating their rights to a degree (like they haven't been fucking us in the ass for years), but it's unstoppable, and to make these blanket attacks on consumers and even manufacturers is out of hand.
No you couldn't direct them to change the price. The cookie contains information, and that information is used to extrapolate a price from a database. All they are saying is that because of the data stored in the cookies, some people are getting quoted different prices. These prices are set by, and set on the server, all the cookie does is tell teh server which price to serve up to you.
MY FUCKING GOD......they have a right to an opinion too. Don't like it? Skip the damn comment, go to the fucking link. Get a goddamn life, they can say whatever they want, you get voice your worthless opinion on it....why can't they?
Sorry everyone else, just sick of people bithing about people giving opinions on a) their site and b) on a site DEDICATED to people expressing their opinions.....
First off....his site, he can say what he wants. Second he's not bashing all republicans (although of late they kinda deserve it), just bush, and third, Bush does suck. But hell, why CARE what he thinks about Bush, it's a stinking comment, and they don't post in the topics, that's their chance to voice their opinion, something everyone else does quite often here. Leave it alone already.
As someone who runs a record label but hates the RIAA, let me say tipping will probably never work simply because people are greedy and lazy, and most will simply figure the other guy willpick up the tab, and musicians will not get nearly enough. Labels insure more than just album sales, they help get tours and sponsors, and that and T-shirts is where the artist turns a $$.
However, believe it or no, your card's theft, although not making you liable, can have an adverse effect on your credit. It actually gets figured in with other things for that stupid algorythim that they use to determine your credit rating.
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Horseshit. I don't think anyone really believes that pulling out of Isreal will create peace. However, it would be right, considering what the Isrealites did to the Palastineans was no better than what Hitler did to them. Some families could trace their homes back 4-5 centuries, so what right did Isreal have to decide their rights were worth nothing? And more importantly, what right did we have to support, and actually push for it.
I'm sure there'd be alot fewer criminals if the US would stop making everything illegal simply because some asshole couldn't handle the responsibility. Try this: Lets get rid of the assholes that can't seem to do shit a right, and leave the rest of us alone.
Really, I mean it. We need mass civil disobiediance . We need to unclog our entire legal system, and restore privacy, not the illusion of privacy. I mean this whole heartedly, I'm more than happy to take out a few police stations, or whatever it takes to get the jerks in our government out. We need to change, and Congress has made it more and more difficult for people to have a say. I mean, I vote, but what good is it if neither side really gives a fuck what I think? I think we should be able to try or representatives for treason if they a proven to misrepresent the will of the people. And it should be made easier to contest the decisions of all levels of government. That way things like this couldn't happen. hell, the Internet could be agreat interface between large volumes of people and government.
Anyone?
This is real simple. There is a big difference between being seen and being monitored. This does rob our rights. I can understand a cop being present in a public place to monitor what's going on, however, I would draw the line the minute he begins probing into my life without a cause. Unless I commit a crime, he has no right to delve any deeper into my life, and just because somone else may have committed a crime doesn't mean that they have a right to investigaste everyone.
Furthermore, I would like one example of a power the government recieved that they didn't abuse. I would like the comfort of knowing when I'm alone, I'm alone. And the rinky-dink little CCTV setup at the local 7-11 is not the same as a machine that attempts to identify you, and then reports you if it believes you're a crook. No one takes the tapes from the CCTV to the police unless there's been a crime. Besides, how long will it be before this system notifies local officers of "potential" offenders based on past offenses? Screw that, life will fuck you, life will hurt you, and eventually, life will kill you. Stop fucking it up for the rest of us just because there has to be a few casulties along the way.
Pretty soon you'll have nothing more to do in your home that eat and watch TV, or else the Police come busting down your door for the unwholsome activity of speaking out against the government. Oh, and while I have the soap box, we wouldn't have so many liability laws if people would just take responsibility for their actions.
Please help us, the Constituion is dead.
First off, their label is Epitaph, Sony distributes them.
Second, any money the label pays for recording the albumn gets returned to said label from the artist's share of the money. The label is like a bank loan, not some generous promoter of music. And teh distributer and label take far more than their fair share out of the sales.
Third, the labels have had laws passed in congress that give them, not the artist, perpetual rights to the music, and if you want to have an albumn, they literally force you to surrender all rights to their own music. That's just bull-shit.
Unfortunately, the DOJ has consistantly over anylized the constitution to such an extent that they've been able to pass dozens of laws that are unconstitutional. There are tons of laws out there that are unconstitutional, however, by "creative interpertation" of the constitution, they've been able to pass them. Look at how items can get taxed twice, (for instance, you pay tax on a used car, that was already taxed, or the IRS can freeze your money, and the money of your family, without due process, and garner your wages, and you have to prove your innocence to get it back).
You're right, we should. And personally, I think corrupt behavior, if proved in court, should be punishable as treason. However, in order to do this, congress would have to approve it, adn that would never happen. Congress would never allow us to rewrite the constitution, and they would never treat corruption as treason simply because it would screw themselves over, and they know it.
No, they get bitchy when a person stumbles and stutters through the language, unable to create a clear sentence for their lives. I've dealt with all sorts of people who can't communicate well in english, and sorry, this doesn't work if you work in an english speaking shop. There's nothing racist about it, if YOU can't communicate well enough to be understood withyour employer, it is YOUR problem, no on else's. Stop bitching. I don't care what color you are, if you can't keep up with what's being said, go somewhere whre it doesn't matter. Don't bide behind claims of racism.
Look, it's this easy. If you can't speak the language well, you can't communicate well. I don't care if you're white and can't speak english well, or from a different country. If I'm your employer, and you can't speak my language well enough to COMMUNICATE an idea, your communication skills suck. It's that simple. I'm sick of everyone covering for their inadequacies by claiming others are racist.
I'm thinking it would be nice if certain metadat could be embedded in the binary after it's been compiled. Say for instance, you try to open up a binary file using your web browser, instead of it not knowing what to do, you could have the first X number of bytes be a document in XML or HTML, with various info about the binary, maybe including things like; what other files are part of this program, and where they're located (this would have to be dynamic of course, created at compile time for instance?), the author, web sites, dependencies, etc.
Just a thought.
First off, grow up. For one thing, the comment was meant in a humorous light. For another, not everyone is a raving "Free It All" loonie like ESR can be from time to time. There's nothing wrong with commercial code, but the prices charged, the quality the user recieves, the lack of source, etc etc is what most people are objecting to. No one said all code must be free, simply that if you're gonna charge for it, atleast make it good, and maybe give out the source.
However, even if he/seh was implying all code should be free, who the hell are you to attack him? This is a site for expressing opinions, so express an opinion, stop attacking people like a little fifth grader.
Lastly, get a clue. Russia, (I still get a kick that every idiot refers to the Soviet Union as Russia), is not communist anymore. That ended quite a while ago, so next time recommend China instead asshole.
Look, no one is "ripping off" cue:cat. You have every right to modify a piece of equipmaent you own. If you want to use a pot in your kitchen as a hat, it's your damn right, and it's not the pot manufacturer's right to say otherwise. They're not trying to get a free service here, they simply wish to modify whatever the hell they please if it's theirs, the problem stems from DC claiming that in doing so they are revealing IP. This is a load of crap b/c nayone with half a brain can figure out how this thing codes info.
ptical hardware is expensive at the 20 Gig level, but you're not gonna get 20 gigs. You'll get a frac channel at about 100 mb to start, with bandwidth expandable. Remember, there's gonna be a trunk carrying all of the channels, and each individual run (i.e. to your house) will have far more limited bandwidth. The equipment that works on the user level is pretty damn cheap. The only reason Ma' Bell doesn't have fiber running right to your door now is because the equipment to bring it to your door isn't cheap, is very fragile, and they've had problems keeping it running for reasonable amounts of time. It just became feasible to bring fiber to buisness in he past decade or so, actually, closer to the last 7 years.
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E---(-) W+++(--) N++>+++ o++(--) !K w--- !O M V- PE(-) Y++@ PGP++ t--- 5--
X++ R-- tv b++>+++ DI++@ D++ G e h-- r+(*) y++(-)>$
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I think the best way to deal with this is a two step method. First set up a proxy that either prevents or limits the size of the files being transmitted. Then, set up your database with a uniquely patterned/formatted key (the charchters won't matter, you'll see why) For instance if the key was always nnn%nn$$nn! (n=some character), then you could have your proxy search all e-mail and text files for a string that matches that formatted key. Because of the format of the key, it's unlikely you'll turn a false positive on regular e-mail and the such.
As far as preventing authorized systems (in this case, systems allowed to transmit binary files) from sending out confidential data, you could look into encrypted filesystems. I'm not experienced witht these, but I wouldn't imagine it to be too hard to force everything binary from that filesystem to remain encrypted if transferred from that filesystem. However, like I said, I don't know too much about encrypted filesystems.
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GIT/CC/MU/S d-(---)@ s++:++ a23 C(++++) ULBSC++++$ P++>++++ L+++>++++
E---(-) W+++(--) N++>+++ o++(--) !K w--- !O M V- PE(-) Y++@ PGP++ t--- 5--
X++ R-- tv b++>+++ DI++@ D++ G e h-- r+(*) y++(-)>$
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Do you honestly think that if they try to use the DMCA down the road the government will eny them that irght? Hell no! Even if they give us the OK now, the government, who has alot of $$$ intrest in the RIAA, is gonna back them anyhow. We broke CSS fair and square, THEY left the keys out on that one, and it didn't matter one bit (for those not in the know, the literally left the key unlocked on a DVD, allowing the reverse engineering that became DECSS).
Well, although I think it's great that we can get info on products we want, or even buy them, I also feel that all of these "victim" companies are the same companies that are destroying the net with their petty patents, and greed grabs at cash (although this comment is not directed at this company, who I'm really not familiar with, I'm making a generalization about MOST companies, and no, I don't condone cracking). These companies have done everyhting in their power to make the net a nice fat Lazy-boy for buisness, and practically ruined it for the end users. Then they cry boo-hoo when people retaliate. I hate crackers too, but sometimes I get overjoyed when I see some fat-cat buisness, who has contributed to these "process patents" or "IP" lawsuits, get whacked by a cracker.
The M-Net system remained down into July and became available only after M-Net replaced the system's equipment.
Doesn't this sound more like random hardware failure? In all seriousness, it doesn't sound like the cracker was trying to damage the hardware, and it's pretty unlikely that hardware damage would occur without a malicous user's intent. Could this just be ordinary failure on a system that wasn't properly fault tolerant? I'm just wondering if this is another un-tech-savvy, bone-headed, government move, that is going to end up convicting a person for a crime he didn't do (although if he hadn't cracked in the first place blah blah blah...you get the point).
Do you even know what's happening here?
Microsoft went to court (rightfully) for anti-competitive practices.
RAMBUS is attempting to cheat the system and bilk other manufacturers by using patents gleaned from JEDEC meetings.
The only relation between the two is a courtroom, so go read the article, and post when you have a clue, Troll.
This is bull. For the millionth time, MP3s, although often illeagle copies, aren't always illeagle. There's thousands, maybe millions of MP3s available for free download, from the authors, for your listening pleasure. Taking these kind of measures because a company or group of companies don't like something is ridiculous. It's time we all, including those with power, stop this shit from happening. We are getting stepped on, and I'm personally sick of it. That would have been like banning CDRs when they first came out because they could be used to copy CDs, however, they have legitamate uses, including copying one's own CDs.
All I'm saying is instead of bitching, maybe we should all get up and start to do something. Lets organize a serious boycott of the companies who are pulling these tactics, bug our friends and family until they too participate, do whatever you can to squash these assholes. Look, Napster may be violating their rights to a degree (like they haven't been fucking us in the ass for years), but it's unstoppable, and to make these blanket attacks on consumers and even manufacturers is out of hand.
And he made those comments WHILE announcing that Qt was now under the GPL....
No you couldn't direct them to change the price. The cookie contains information, and that information is used to extrapolate a price from a database. All they are saying is that because of the data stored in the cookies, some people are getting quoted different prices. These prices are set by, and set on the server, all the cookie does is tell teh server which price to serve up to you.
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GIT/CC/MU/S d-(---)@ s++:++ a23 C(++++) ULBSC++++$ P++>++++ L+++>++++
E---(-) W+++(--) N++>+++ o++(--) !K w--- !O M V- PE(-) Y++@ PGP++ t--- 5--
X++ R-- tv b++>+++ DI++@ D++ G e h-- r+(*) y++(-)>$
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
MY FUCKING GOD......they have a right to an opinion too. Don't like it? Skip the damn comment, go to the fucking link. Get a goddamn life, they can say whatever they want, you get voice your worthless opinion on it....why can't they?
Sorry everyone else, just sick of people bithing about people giving opinions on a) their site and b) on a site DEDICATED to people expressing their opinions.....
First off....his site, he can say what he wants. Second he's not bashing all republicans (although of late they kinda deserve it), just bush, and third, Bush does suck. But hell, why CARE what he thinks about Bush, it's a stinking comment, and they don't post in the topics, that's their chance to voice their opinion, something everyone else does quite often here. Leave it alone already.
As someone who runs a record label but hates the RIAA, let me say tipping will probably never work simply because people are greedy and lazy, and most will simply figure the other guy willpick up the tab, and musicians will not get nearly enough. Labels insure more than just album sales, they help get tours and sponsors, and that and T-shirts is where the artist turns a $$.
Uhhh...the unit comes with 64 megs built-in for stroing MP3s? Did you read the article?
However, believe it or no, your card's theft, although not making you liable, can have an adverse effect on your credit. It actually gets figured in with other things for that stupid algorythim that they use to determine your credit rating.