I'm sorry. I did not realize there was somebody watching the threads that assumed that everyone here fits into the stereotypical IT type, and that we only pirate music and movies online, slacks off on the computer consuming bandwidth when nobody is watching.
For your information, I have kids that do some homework online through a web site and an increase in traffic usages will up the cost for these other services.
Gads people you have to read outside the box once in a while.
There are almost a whole cottage community of people who work from home and tele-commute via VPN into their offices. This; if allowed to proceed, would chase everyone over to DSL which to date does not have this intention, and for those that do not have access to DSL, they would be forced out of capability to work at home.
Most likely, Comcrap and their friends Roadrunning, Timewardoff and the like will ultimately say that if you are using a VPN, you must purchase a business account at most likely $200 per month or more not including cable TV. This will place internet out of the reach of many who cannot afford the costs associated with a price per gig system.
Lets remember people that the cable conglomerates are in this to make serious money at any expense.
I still will NEVER EVER buy a Zune, I've almost completely exited from Office now in favor of Open Office, and XP is all that is left and won't be upgraded. Will NOT go Vista;... EVER.
Two laptops. One legacy XP Pro, and the other Ubuntu with all my code development stuff and electronics software on it.
Hay; Ballmer!... Shut your fart mouth ass up. Unless you got it you can't bring it. If you got it, bring it. Otherwise; shut the hell up and go back into your hole you call an office.
just another business where a few principles in that business saw a lucrative cash cow when they were summoned into the foray. Now you see not much more than the ubiquitous; "baffle them with bullshit" directive, and you guarantee yourself future moneys from these awards. When you can dictate technology to a neophyte judge and jury to support your earnings from the action, whats to stop you! Who in their right mind turns down a chance at easy money!! Obviously not these folks.
Is that U2's manager is not at all happy with the amount of money he is being paid. So every one else is bad to the bone because he is not rolling in cash.
It certainly looks like it. There are the other possibilities of generating new tax revenue channels by taxing those who do have them and requiring yearly, or even quarterly review (at fixed rates of course).
Nothing but a bunch of greedy underhanded money grubbing lawyers have been turned out by one of our prestigious schools looking for that ever illusive cash-cow! They now think they've found one.
Even if he puts the copyright mark on the document, it becomes public notice information as it's required if I remember; as a prerequisite document to the actual filing a formal complaint in court, and asking for a summons and subsequent trial.
Then; if this happens, all of the particular documentation relevant to the case are public information and this rule of copyright can be negated... Correct?
This sounds to me as though we have another corrupt and dirty lawyer who is possibly looking for the "cash cow" and believes he or she has found it.
This stinks something fierce of former litigating folks who were beginning to see the eminent eating itself up from the core of the RIAA, have jumped ship and are now employed or contracting for Hasbro.
This really is a page right out of the RIAA lawyers handbook of how to collect litigious fees, irrespective of whether or not it is legal.
This very much is a show stopper now for Ford Motor company if the complainants decide to make this public. No self respecting American would be caught dead in something for which they give up some of their constitutionally protected rights to own.
A 15 year old??? Obviously this youth has become disenchanted with todays choices of so-called "music" for people his age, and so like my own kids; he is going to see what his parents listened to and probably liked it a lot. There is little or no "hip-hop" and "rap crap" that I know of produced on vinyl--at least nothing here in Minneapolis area. There are those few artists that decided to also market vinyl but it was a marketing experiment more than anything else. The CD's still outsold them by far. All new music going back to the mid 90's that I can find is all end-user produced on CD anymore with vinyl just not available. Even our local favorite; "Cheapo" who used to advertise they carried vinyl, now only has CD's and some tapes because nobody buys vinyl.
So this also begs the question how true is this article? I listen to MP3's on my Apple iPod; but all my MP3's are ripped from the CD's in high quality modes usually stereo 2 track (not joint) with 256 or 320 bit sizing. There is an audible difference with 128 and the others that use this as default, and even Apple's own 128 bit native format in iTunes is not that hot.
I do have a portable Sony EQ that I used to use with my old Sony Walkman (TPS-L2) way back when...; but almost never anymore since going titanium on the phones--they have a hugely hot bottom end!
So; I don't get it. Under my titanium headphones which are of exceptional audio quality, and my iPod; I only hear problems with MP3 at the 128 bit rate, but not higher rates. And; I'm a working musician with studio experience. I like and still own a lot of vinyl myself but prefer putting them in digital format. What gives??
Facts are now that I stopped patronizing them because I really got tired of ordering food that came swimming (literally) in the box full of cooking oil!!
They just don't want a federal law being passed that requires them to change the product they push. Many people here have gotten tired of going to Micky-D's and having to talk to someone on a lousy speaker that barely understands English, then getting a sandwich that usually is completely wrong, and that swims in a half-inch of oil in the box, along with it leaking out and soaking the bag, which then soaks your car seats.... you get the picture.
Stop buying the stuff and the obesity issue should begin to alleviate. Cheers!
This is the United States Of America. It is NOT Canada, Europe, Africa, Mexico, etc.
If you are student in the school, when you become of legal age here in the US, then you can petition Congress for relief on this issue in a legal sense. In the meantime, since you are a minor, you legally have not a foot to stand on and must rely on your parents. Thats the law here in the US. Those students are captured in a photo with beer bottles and all kinds of other paraphernalia on the table and the photo alone implies breach of agreement. Period. By sheer association--guilty.
If you are an adult with a student in the schools, and they want to play sports, better think long and hard about that agreement that must be signed. If you don't sign, you don't play. Period. It's right, just, and fair for everyone involved directly or indirectly. It's expected outcome is your youth will graduate and go on to bigger and better things. If you don't like it, there's always "Private School"! You of course could petition Congress for change of law to give minors more legal protections and rights, however I, and most other parenting adults would similarly petition Congress to leave our parental rights alone.
The fact that another student brought the incident to the attention of school administrators was the beginning of the mess for these kids seems to have missed the reading of a lot of readers on slash-dot. In fact the first thing assumed by many (not all) of the readers here is that there is a bunch of psychopathic morons working in a school, focused on kiddie porn, and trolling websites for victims. Man you people need to get a life and understand that the news media has tipped your bias pointer off-scale; and learn that not everyone in the world is a sexual deviant.
I live here in MN, and well familiar with Eden Prairie high school.
I am in agreement that there should be repercussions to these students by the school because it demonstrates a larger social issue with regard to how the school is teaching these students. But on the same tone, it demonstrates very well what happens when; over time, you slowly erode morals and ethics in society and in particular, the public school system, and the outcome with these kids as they grow up with that environment.
I have successfully gotten one of my 3 kids out the door as a young adult, and did not have to worry about teenage pregnancy, drinking and all the drug problems that many of these kids have. I fully expect to have my other two out the door in much the same fashion. Unfortunately there are a lot of households where this is not the case and these problems will continue to abound.
I'm not going to say that I'm better than anyone on here but lets face it, some folks do need to think a short while before you hit the reply link. Lets not assume the worst about everyone on the planet. Get some facts first.
There really are a lot of good people in the world.
And; there is something to be said about the first person who responds to this comment, and balks at all that I have said here! And that would demonstrate why these problems are here in the first place.
This effectively results in a trial that will not go the RIAA's way and they will loose it right? Then if that is the case, it effectively can reverse several other trial outcomes based on the same kind of mis-statements by plaintiffs council; and on appeal, get them all overturned.
Boy;... That would spell eminent financial doom for the RIAA because of the consequential litigation snowball, they would be defending themselves on and on and on for all those malicious prosecution claims.
I saw this and many other problems coming with the announcements of various online video services. Microsoft started all of this with their version of DRM management and it can only escalate from this point.
Like so many others on here, I suggest not only ditching these online services because their services are not worth the prices they ask (any price), but even the battles over Blu-Ray over HD media vs our common carrier; DVD has left me feeling they are trying to invalidate the DVD format now for something else. That caveat also means my old content will no longer be playable after a time if they can successfully get everyone switched off of DVD to some other format.
"Wanna watch that movie again;.. you gotta give it up for a new player and new media sir!"
This actually begs the question then about the current crops of routers out there, both the Cisco's and the cheap dime-store Speedstreams, etc.. All of these will have to cope and function with both IPV4 and IPV6 because as I hear it, IPV4 will not go away yet for a very long time because of legacy hardware/software platforms.
This will indeed get very interesting. The folks over at Worst buy will almost always steer you over to the flat panel TV's and try to talk you into one of these rather than a converter box. I guess there is more profits there.:-)
I wonder if any retailers will begin offering HDTV's at "reduced pricing" to those folks with these government issued coupons...:-) I know the difference as to many others, unfortunately there are many out there that do not and rely on anything a geek says at Worst Buy as gospel truth.
It's a giant commercial joke. I've seen these so-called set top boxes and all they are is a tuner with an MPEG decoder built in, and then an RF modulator to put it back on channel 3. They want $200 + for these boxes and it appears the pricing is only the bottom of the rung. I suspect they will be priced to encourage you to toss out your CRT based old TV and buy one of the new flat panel sets instead. I smell a real huge money deal for all who participated in the successful lobby of Washington for this.
If the RIAA makes this an official position, and posts this in prominent public places, and posts that they intend on taking action against anyone "ripping" their content, then the first place that logically must be sued is Apple Computer Corporation. And they must be sued for Billions of dollars because they are perpetrating this. Fact is; how in the hell do you think that library in iTunes is being built in the first place!! Then; logically the remainder would be XM and Sirius radio, Napster, Rhrapsody, Real, Microsoft, and the list then goes on and on.
This also spells eminent death to the RIAA, most of the companies making CD's and producing content for said artists involved, and the artists themselves will also wind up on the cutting block.
You will see a complete change in media handling in this country and the vaporization of all "Oldies" music, and anything else currently under the encumbrances of the RIAA.
The next step logically now in this endeavor for the RIAA is to make personal possession of CD's outside of one's legal place of residence a breach of their copyright because they will claim "performance" rights when you listen to the CD's in your car with the windows down!!! This is getting to be so hysterical that I bet you watch;... this might be next.
This all comes down to this. If you don't read and agree to the conditions of service when you drop it (your computer) off, then you should not drop it off.
I have no sympathy for anyone at all engaged in porn trafficking of any kind and firmly believe anyone trafficking in child or kiddie porn should get the death penalty.
If you need to keep yourself hidden from the world with your kiddie porn, then you should remove it from your computer prior to taking it in for service.
But that also has a two-edge sword with it. I run disk and file system checks and repairs routinely on any computer I service and if I happen to uncover deleted kiddie porn files mysteriously, then the customer is in deep do-do. When you take a computer in for repair you should expect that the tech will be seeing your files. They are morally and ethically bound to not copy it and to protect it as best as possible. They are also morally and ethically responsible to uphold the law.
Also; most people, including judges know the difference between a picture found in the browser cache versus one found in your My Pictures folder or some other "hidden" folder on your drive. Thats a real poor defense anymore too because if you had these in the browser cache, you were visiting sites promoting this stuff and that is still illegal even though the servers are not on US soil.
If you don't want someone looking at or fooling with your kiddie porn on your computer, take it to a back-alley repair person and stay out of commercial businesses.
I can safely and assuredly say that I HAVE NO PORN OF ANY KIND on my computer because I actually have a life and don't visit those kinds of pages even on accident.
I agree man. This is amounting to sensationalist writing and someone is looking for a pat on the back!
Those of us who are worth our salt in IT have "ghost" or ghost-like image file backups of the drive contents, usually both a baseline, and a running backup with which to put the said "brick" back into full operation.
I think this term is definitely being over-used. Must not be enough articles about bricking Apple phones I guess!
There soon will be a large hole where between 1950 something and modern 2007; there would be no music played anywhere because the RIAA would like a cartel, monopolize it and control it. We would revert to either INDE music or talk radio. Can you imagine XM radio advertising 180 channels of talk radio!!!
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I'm sorry. I did not realize there was somebody watching the threads that assumed that everyone here fits into the stereotypical IT type, and that we only pirate music and movies online, slacks off on the computer consuming bandwidth when nobody is watching.
For your information, I have kids that do some homework online through a web site and an increase in traffic usages will up the cost for these other services.
Gads people you have to read outside the box once in a while.
There are almost a whole cottage community of people who work from home and tele-commute via VPN into their offices. This; if allowed to proceed, would chase everyone over to DSL which to date does not have this intention, and for those that do not have access to DSL, they would be forced out of capability to work at home.
Most likely, Comcrap and their friends Roadrunning, Timewardoff and the like will ultimately say that if you are using a VPN, you must purchase a business account at most likely $200 per month or more not including cable TV. This will place internet out of the reach of many who cannot afford the costs associated with a price per gig system.
Lets remember people that the cable conglomerates are in this to make serious money at any expense.
I still will NEVER EVER buy a Zune, I've almost completely exited from Office now in favor of Open Office, and XP is all that is left and won't be upgraded. Will NOT go Vista;... EVER.
Two laptops. One legacy XP Pro, and the other Ubuntu with all my code development stuff and electronics software on it.
Hay; Ballmer!... Shut your fart mouth ass up. Unless you got it you can't bring it. If you got it, bring it. Otherwise; shut the hell up and go back into your hole you call an office.
just another business where a few principles in that business saw a lucrative cash cow when they were summoned into the foray. Now you see not much more than the ubiquitous; "baffle them with bullshit" directive, and you guarantee yourself future moneys from these awards. When you can dictate technology to a neophyte judge and jury to support your earnings from the action, whats to stop you! Who in their right mind turns down a chance at easy money!! Obviously not these folks.
Is that U2's manager is not at all happy with the amount of money he is being paid. So every one else is bad to the bone because he is not rolling in cash.
It certainly looks like it. There are the other possibilities of generating new tax revenue channels by taxing those who do have them and requiring yearly, or even quarterly review (at fixed rates of course).
Nothing but a bunch of greedy underhanded money grubbing lawyers have been turned out by one of our prestigious schools looking for that ever illusive cash-cow! They now think they've found one.
May I add to this;....
Even if he puts the copyright mark on the document, it becomes public notice information as it's required if I remember; as a prerequisite document to the actual filing a formal complaint in court, and asking for a summons and subsequent trial.
Then; if this happens, all of the particular documentation relevant to the case are public information and this rule of copyright can be negated... Correct?
This sounds to me as though we have another corrupt and dirty lawyer who is possibly looking for the "cash cow" and believes he or she has found it.
Slap em' Danno! Then put the cuffs on them.
This stinks something fierce of former litigating folks who were beginning to see the eminent eating itself up from the core of the RIAA, have jumped ship and are now employed or contracting for Hasbro.
This really is a page right out of the RIAA lawyers handbook of how to collect litigious fees, irrespective of whether or not it is legal.
This very much is a show stopper now for Ford Motor company if the complainants decide to make this public. No self respecting American would be caught dead in something for which they give up some of their constitutionally protected rights to own.
A 15 year old??? Obviously this youth has become disenchanted with todays choices of so-called "music" for people his age, and so like my own kids; he is going to see what his parents listened to and probably liked it a lot. There is little or no "hip-hop" and "rap crap" that I know of produced on vinyl--at least nothing here in Minneapolis area. There are those few artists that decided to also market vinyl but it was a marketing experiment more than anything else. The CD's still outsold them by far. All new music going back to the mid 90's that I can find is all end-user produced on CD anymore with vinyl just not available. Even our local favorite; "Cheapo" who used to advertise they carried vinyl, now only has CD's and some tapes because nobody buys vinyl.
So this also begs the question how true is this article? I listen to MP3's on my Apple iPod; but all my MP3's are ripped from the CD's in high quality modes usually stereo 2 track (not joint) with 256 or 320 bit sizing. There is an audible difference with 128 and the others that use this as default, and even Apple's own 128 bit native format in iTunes is not that hot.
I do have a portable Sony EQ that I used to use with my old Sony Walkman (TPS-L2) way back when...; but almost never anymore since going titanium on the phones--they have a hugely hot bottom end!
So; I don't get it. Under my titanium headphones which are of exceptional audio quality, and my iPod; I only hear problems with MP3 at the 128 bit rate, but not higher rates. And; I'm a working musician with studio experience. I like and still own a lot of vinyl myself but prefer putting them in digital format. What gives??
Facts are now that I stopped patronizing them because I really got tired of ordering food that came swimming (literally) in the box full of cooking oil!!
They just don't want a federal law being passed that requires them to change the product they push. Many people here have gotten tired of going to Micky-D's and having to talk to someone on a lousy speaker that barely understands English, then getting a sandwich that usually is completely wrong, and that swims in a half-inch of oil in the box, along with it leaking out and soaking the bag, which then soaks your car seats.... you get the picture.
Stop buying the stuff and the obesity issue should begin to alleviate.
Cheers!
let me go one step further.
This is the United States Of America. It is NOT Canada, Europe, Africa, Mexico, etc.
If you are student in the school, when you become of legal age here in the US, then you can petition Congress for relief on this issue in a legal sense. In the meantime, since you are a minor, you legally have not a foot to stand on and must rely on your parents. Thats the law here in the US. Those students are captured in a photo with beer bottles and all kinds of other paraphernalia on the table and the photo alone implies breach of agreement. Period. By sheer association--guilty.
If you are an adult with a student in the schools, and they want to play sports, better think long and hard about that agreement that must be signed. If you don't sign, you don't play. Period. It's right, just, and fair for everyone involved directly or indirectly. It's expected outcome is your youth will graduate and go on to bigger and better things. If you don't like it, there's always "Private School"! You of course could petition Congress for change of law to give minors more legal protections and rights, however I, and most other parenting adults would similarly petition Congress to leave our parental rights alone.
The fact that another student brought the incident to the attention of school administrators was the beginning of the mess for these kids seems to have missed the reading of a lot of readers on slash-dot. In fact the first thing assumed by many (not all) of the readers here is that there is a bunch of psychopathic morons working in a school, focused on kiddie porn, and trolling websites for victims. Man you people need to get a life and understand that the news media has tipped your bias pointer off-scale; and learn that not everyone in the world is a sexual deviant.
I live here in MN, and well familiar with Eden Prairie high school.
I am in agreement that there should be repercussions to these students by the school because it demonstrates a larger social issue with regard to how the school is teaching these students. But on the same tone, it demonstrates very well what happens when; over time, you slowly erode morals and ethics in society and in particular, the public school system, and the outcome with these kids as they grow up with that environment.
I have successfully gotten one of my 3 kids out the door as a young adult, and did not have to worry about teenage pregnancy, drinking and all the drug problems that many of these kids have. I fully expect to have my other two out the door in much the same fashion. Unfortunately there are a lot of households where this is not the case and these problems will continue to abound.
I'm not going to say that I'm better than anyone on here but lets face it, some folks do need to think a short while before you hit the reply link. Lets not assume the worst about everyone on the planet. Get some facts first.
There really are a lot of good people in the world.
And; there is something to be said about the first person who responds to this comment, and balks at all that I have said here! And that would demonstrate why these problems are here in the first place.
This effectively results in a trial that will not go the RIAA's way and they will loose it right? Then if that is the case, it effectively can reverse several other trial outcomes based on the same kind of mis-statements by plaintiffs council; and on appeal, get them all overturned.
Boy;... That would spell eminent financial doom for the RIAA because of the consequential litigation snowball, they would be defending themselves on and on and on for all those malicious prosecution claims.
Wow.
I saw this and many other problems coming with the announcements of various online video services. Microsoft started all of this with their version of DRM management and it can only escalate from this point.
Like so many others on here, I suggest not only ditching these online services because their services are not worth the prices they ask (any price), but even the battles over Blu-Ray over HD media vs our common carrier; DVD has left me feeling they are trying to invalidate the DVD format now for something else. That caveat also means my old content will no longer be playable after a time if they can successfully get everyone switched off of DVD to some other format.
"Wanna watch that movie again;.. you gotta give it up for a new player and new media sir!"
This actually begs the question then about the current crops of routers out there, both the Cisco's and the cheap dime-store Speedstreams, etc.. All of these will have to cope and function with both IPV4 and IPV6 because as I hear it, IPV4 will not go away yet for a very long time because of legacy hardware/software platforms.
This will indeed get very interesting. The folks over at Worst buy will almost always steer you over to the flat panel TV's and try to talk you into one of these rather than a converter box. I guess there is more profits there. :-)
:-) I know the difference as to many others, unfortunately there are many out there that do not and rely on anything a geek says at Worst Buy as gospel truth.
I wonder if any retailers will begin offering HDTV's at "reduced pricing" to those folks with these government issued coupons...
It's a giant commercial joke. I've seen these so-called set top boxes and all they are is a tuner with an MPEG decoder built in, and then an RF modulator to put it back on channel 3. They want $200 + for these boxes and it appears the pricing is only the bottom of the rung. I suspect they will be priced to encourage you to toss out your CRT based old TV and buy one of the new flat panel sets instead. I smell a real huge money deal for all who participated in the successful lobby of Washington for this.
If the RIAA makes this an official position, and posts this in prominent public places, and posts that they intend on taking action against anyone "ripping" their content, then the first place that logically must be sued is Apple Computer Corporation. And they must be sued for Billions of dollars because they are perpetrating this. Fact is; how in the hell do you think that library in iTunes is being built in the first place!! Then; logically the remainder would be XM and Sirius radio, Napster, Rhrapsody, Real, Microsoft, and the list then goes on and on.
This also spells eminent death to the RIAA, most of the companies making CD's and producing content for said artists involved, and the artists themselves will also wind up on the cutting block.
You will see a complete change in media handling in this country and the vaporization of all "Oldies" music, and anything else currently under the encumbrances of the RIAA.
The next step logically now in this endeavor for the RIAA is to make personal possession of CD's outside of one's legal place of residence a breach of their copyright because they will claim "performance" rights when you listen to the CD's in your car with the windows down!!! This is getting to be so hysterical that I bet you watch;... this might be next.
This all comes down to this. If you don't read and agree to the conditions of service when you drop it (your computer) off, then you should not drop it off.
I have no sympathy for anyone at all engaged in porn trafficking of any kind and firmly believe anyone trafficking in child or kiddie porn should get the death penalty.
If you need to keep yourself hidden from the world with your kiddie porn, then you should remove it from your computer prior to taking it in for service.
But that also has a two-edge sword with it. I run disk and file system checks and repairs routinely on any computer I service and if I happen to uncover deleted kiddie porn files mysteriously, then the customer is in deep do-do. When you take a computer in for repair you should expect that the tech will be seeing your files. They are morally and ethically bound to not copy it and to protect it as best as possible. They are also morally and ethically responsible to uphold the law.
Also; most people, including judges know the difference between a picture found in the browser cache versus one found in your My Pictures folder or some other "hidden" folder on your drive. Thats a real poor defense anymore too because if you had these in the browser cache, you were visiting sites promoting this stuff and that is still illegal even though the servers are not on US soil.
If you don't want someone looking at or fooling with your kiddie porn on your computer, take it to a back-alley repair person and stay out of commercial businesses.
I can safely and assuredly say that I HAVE NO PORN OF ANY KIND on my computer because I actually have a life and don't visit those kinds of pages even on accident.
I agree man. This is amounting to sensationalist writing and someone is looking for a pat on the back!
Those of us who are worth our salt in IT have "ghost" or ghost-like image file backups of the drive contents, usually both a baseline, and a running backup with which to put the said "brick" back into full operation.
I think this term is definitely being over-used. Must not be enough articles about bricking Apple phones I guess!
There soon will be a large hole where between 1950 something and modern 2007; there would be no music played anywhere because the RIAA would like a cartel, monopolize it and control it. We would revert to either INDE music or talk radio. Can you imagine XM radio advertising 180 channels of talk radio!!!