Read it, fuckwad. If the media companies have their way, no one will EVER be able to record ANYTHING, EVER AGAIN, and blaming it on 'geek' scapegoats is only one more way you buy into their half-billion disinformation campaign.
Grr..
Sony vs Universal Studios.. AKA the Betamax decision. Why must I type so badly when flaming at a troll mindlessly? 3v1l_b0r1s at d4rkr0ck d0t c0 d0t uk
whos to tell a person/company what they can and cannot do with their copyrighted information?
The government. Copyright is not a God given right, nor a natural right, nor terribly well supported in common law before the 18th century, nor even terribly logical. Government created copyright, and government can take it away.
Unfortunatly, the schmucks in Washington just gave them the DMCA, so now they can ignore any and all of the laws governing how they charge for and sell content, not to mention what the consumer may do with his/her purchased content, merely by claiming that any technology required to access the content is unlawful circumvention and therefore covered under it.
No real speedup. The best speed on my Compaq 5100 @ 300 with 512 but only one processor inserted is at -j3 (diff between any was less than 15 seconds). The time (for 2.4.0test12, my minimalist config) is:
9m47s real, 9m12s user, 0m44s sys.
Same 5100, second processor in, the time is:
5m19s real, 9m25s user, 0m43s sys.
The result? Only a 82% speed increase. Which should be typical for all Intel based SMP systems (Loss numbers run 12-17% cumulative per additional CPU, depending on mobo.)
Compare that loss figure with, say the AS/400. Quoted loss figure is less than 3% cumulative per CPU.
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Bullshit. The ADA does NOT mention web pages, or any other technology used by the Internet, and it would require some enterprising judge to interpret it as such. As of right now, there hasn't been any such judge, and any supposed compliance is only because they don't wanna have to pay their lawyers $100K to get a bullshit suit tossed out when it'd only cost $10K to make the changes.
A couple of companies I am familiar have been faced with ADA lawsuits.
One was sued back in 93-94 because their product, a hypertext based work-flow system for Sun, wasn't able to be operated via a screen reader or using a voice teletype. Some of the dynamic data was expressed only as an image, and no 'convert to text' option existed in the official 'release' version. What happened? Judge tossed it out on the grounds that other third party helper applications were available that did do the job. Subsequently they released a version that was managable through pure text, although for the purpose it could be wrapped or scripted.
The other ran a pre-buzzword b2b out of Chicago, finally went out of biz back in early 98. Traded grey-market components for Big Iron. Anyway, they used to publish a fancy-schmancy delay inventory to the web manually. Readers barfed. Someone bitched to the DOJ, DOJ shared the complaint, they told the DOJ to get stuffed, the information is available over the phone too. DOJ filed, counsel called the DOJ and one again told them to get stuffed, the information was available over the phone too. It finally sunk in, and the DOJ dropped it without further request.
[soapbox]
So fscking what, you can't browse the Sony website? You can't browse the Sony brochures either. Wanna learn about the new Sony recievers? Do what you did before the internet, get your ass out to the news stand and spend four bucks on a Braille copy of Consumer Reports. Or pick up the damn phone, call Sony and ask to speak with a product drone. Shockwave.com impossible with your reader? WTF are you doing at shockwave.com anyway? They call it GRAPHICS for a reason. Oh no, Big Bad AOL doesn't work with your reader? Sign up with fucking Compuserve. AOL owns them, they use all the same dialups, and they do work. Boo hoo, the world makes it tough for you, not all of the software products or web pages work on my reader. Well, fucknut, they don't all run on my SGI workstation either, nor render well in my three year old copy of Lynx, and I don't expect them to either. Being blind is no worse than being ugly and trust me, I'm familiar with ugly. I'm not screaming at the mother every time some small child points at me in Kmart and says 'Look at the ugly man in the '1337 h4x0r'' shirt, or running tio the DOJ every time some bitch ass personnel director refuses me a job because I look like I just got hit with a running lawnmower.
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"Wrong" "Illegal" "Grow up and start acting like adults"
Gee, real nice way of saying "I never learned to write a real flame, so I call names"
BTW, fuckwad, (only responding in like kind) the Supreme Court says otherwise.
Betamax
Read it, fuckwad. If the media companies have their way, no one will EVER be able to record ANYTHING, EVER AGAIN, and blaming it on 'geek' scapegoats is only one more way you buy into their half-billion disinformation campaign.
We're not fucking ourselves; They're fucking us.
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Grr.. Sony vs Universal Studios.. AKA the Betamax decision. Why must I type so badly when flaming at a troll mindlessly?
3v1l_b0r1s at d4rkr0ck d0t c0 d0t uk
The content provider, however, may not wish to give you that right
Too bad. Our rights are not dictated by the desires of the content provider.
See the Supreme Court's ruling in Sony vs. Betamax.
3v1l_b0r1s at d4rkr0ck d0t c0 d0t uk
whos to tell a person/company what they can and cannot do with their copyrighted information?
The government. Copyright is not a God given right, nor a natural right, nor terribly well supported in common law before the 18th century, nor even terribly logical. Government created copyright, and government can take it away.
Unfortunatly, the schmucks in Washington just gave them the DMCA, so now they can ignore any and all of the laws governing how they charge for and sell content, not to mention what the consumer may do with his/her purchased content, merely by claiming that any technology required to access the content is unlawful circumvention and therefore covered under it.
3v1l_b0r1s at d4rkr0ck d0t c0 d0t uk
No real speedup. The best speed on my Compaq 5100 @ 300 with 512 but only one processor inserted is at -j3 (diff between any was less than 15 seconds). The time (for 2.4.0test12, my minimalist config) is:
9m47s real, 9m12s user, 0m44s sys.
Same 5100, second processor in, the time is:
5m19s real, 9m25s user, 0m43s sys.
The result? Only a 82% speed increase. Which should be typical for all Intel based SMP systems (Loss numbers run 12-17% cumulative per additional CPU, depending on mobo.)
Compare that loss figure with, say the AS/400. Quoted loss figure is less than 3% cumulative per CPU.
3v1l_b0r1s at d4rkr0ck d0t c0 d0t uk
Bullshit. The ADA does NOT mention web pages, or any other technology used by the Internet, and it would require some enterprising judge to interpret it as such. As of right now, there hasn't been any such judge, and any supposed compliance is only because they don't wanna have to pay their lawyers $100K to get a bullshit suit tossed out when it'd only cost $10K to make the changes.
A couple of companies I am familiar have been faced with ADA lawsuits.
One was sued back in 93-94 because their product, a hypertext based work-flow system for Sun, wasn't able to be operated via a screen reader or using a voice teletype. Some of the dynamic data was expressed only as an image, and no 'convert to text' option existed in the official 'release' version. What happened? Judge tossed it out on the grounds that other third party helper applications were available that did do the job. Subsequently they released a version that was managable through pure text, although for the purpose it could be wrapped or scripted.
The other ran a pre-buzzword b2b out of Chicago, finally went out of biz back in early 98. Traded grey-market components for Big Iron. Anyway, they used to publish a fancy-schmancy delay inventory to the web manually. Readers barfed. Someone bitched to the DOJ, DOJ shared the complaint, they told the DOJ to get stuffed, the information is available over the phone too. DOJ filed, counsel called the DOJ and one again told them to get stuffed, the information was available over the phone too. It finally sunk in, and the DOJ dropped it without further request.
[soapbox]
So fscking what, you can't browse the Sony website? You can't browse the Sony brochures either. Wanna learn about the new Sony recievers? Do what you did before the internet, get your ass out to the news stand and spend four bucks on a Braille copy of Consumer Reports. Or pick up the damn phone, call Sony and ask to speak with a product drone. Shockwave.com impossible with your reader? WTF are you doing at shockwave.com anyway? They call it GRAPHICS for a reason. Oh no, Big Bad AOL doesn't work with your reader? Sign up with fucking Compuserve. AOL owns them, they use all the same dialups, and they do work. Boo hoo, the world makes it tough for you, not all of the software products or web pages work on my reader. Well, fucknut, they don't all run on my SGI workstation either, nor render well in my three year old copy of Lynx, and I don't expect them to either. Being blind is no worse than being ugly and trust me, I'm familiar with ugly. I'm not screaming at the mother every time some small child points at me in Kmart and says 'Look at the ugly man in the '1337 h4x0r'' shirt, or running tio the DOJ every time some bitch ass personnel director refuses me a job because I look like I just got hit with a running lawnmower.
Life sucks, get a helmet.
[/soapbox]
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Whoa. WTF?
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