No, they will not likely conduct raids upon poor working class families. That's not the goal. Its when the warez are brought into places of employment that the software audits, or raids, are profitable in scoring new sales through "license settlements."
Play with warez at home and no one is going to complain.
Do it at work and you put the employer in a position of serious liability. $250,000 and 20 years in jail for each offense is a lot of negotiating power for agreeing to an all Microsoft solution. What a bargain.
$10 from a spammer? I prefer to ask for more from them.
Many people might indeed take the issue to court. I prefer just to do a little research and find out who their friends, family, and employer are. Call them up. Do background checks. I like to get to know my spammer. Market research? You bet! What house do they live in? What cars do they drive? Do they lock them? Do they have a dog around the yard? Have a pretty yard? A wife that gets lonely while they work? Get my drift? After all, if an invasive marketer wants to get to know me, I feel like I should know them too.
This ascii picture representing a beautiful female is impressive and was striking the first time, but may I ask that these pictures be posted in a more appropriate location?
Three people where I work have their necks on the chopping block (their computers are gone) for downloading masses of porn last week. Images like this can cause problems in a workplace where both genders work. I enjoy reading technical forums, but I can do without being the subject of a witch hunt when nude images are found.
An exterminator once told me the ratio was more like 100:1. For every cockroach that you do see, there's a nest of 100 of his buddies waiting to greet you.
6,535,000 cockroaces ain't all that bad. They're crunchy, full of protien, and just add milk!
No, a good poll question should have been something like: Do you plan on spending $500 to be an unpaid beta tester for a closed source operating system that takes control of your computer and data?
I have a Ford F-150 XLT pickup truck. There are two bugs that I know about on mine: the heater doesn't work and the windshield wipers have a loose wiring connection. Other people may not have my two show stopping bugs, but I'll be damned if I have to drive a truck with 65,000 goddamned bugs! Is that how a computer can crash twice a day? Good riddance!
That's an interesting idea. Have two passwords. One that will decrypt the real data and the next will decrypt random preselected harmless junk. When the papers are served, watch them not able to find those family secret cooking recepies.
Replying to myself, let me say the RIAA propoganda even had me going. If MP3.com had an agenda, its to make a wonderful method of communication more free.
The RIAA has been spewing out defamation against anyone who wishes to advance recording technology. Never mind that class lectures, meetings, memorable family events can be more intelligible given a good portable stereo recorder. Anyone that threatens their dinosour business model is branded a pirate like they pillage the recording industry, rape the stars, and are the scourges of society. Granted MP3.com has their agenda too, but the RIAA has no right.
Now I know exactly what you are talking about. Every digital camera I have used has a major lag time from the time the button is pushed, picture is taken, and the processing time required before the next one can be snapped. It would be nice to have a camera that the instant the button is pushed, a picture is taken. The slowest film cameras are faster than the fastest digital cameras when the button is pushed.
A delay of even 10ms can make or break a picture with people in it. For example, take your stopwatch and start and stop it fast as you can and you should see from 10ms to 20ms. Like the trigger finger on a stopwatch, people's faces can change in an instant.
In the world of high speed digital electronics, why hasn't there been an engineer that has programmed a camera to have the ccd ready to capture on an instant?
Compact flash slow? What interface are you using to transfer? I use smartmedia and my transfers max out the pcmcia interface at 2MB/sec. A 8MB card takes about 4 seconds to transfer all the pictures to and from the laptop. The serial cable that came with another camera is much, much slower.
I guess he feels guilty because he bought a DVD player before all the brouhaha:)
And found out it didn't work? I hate it when something I buy is strategically engineered only to work in a limited fashion. Not only have I been bit hard before from buying proprietary hardware that was to be an eternal secret (much to my dismay,) but I am surrounded by others who ask for help that are in the same position.
I have been burned with things like video grabbers with patented hardware and software compression that only work with Windows. In my case, the drivers only allowed about four frames or several minutes of operation before the system crashed in flames. A few times required a reinstall of Windows itself. I'm through with that shit. Done that. Buggy DVD players with annoying quirks? No Thanks. It was with great shame that I gave away hardware that didn't work properly due to shoddy closed source software to friends who might be able to use it in some limited capacity.
Alan Cox and anyone else who has the gift of making great hardware work with an eloquent software solution is a hero to me.
That's the spirit, but please don't be harsh on those who have money, but are burdened with obligations that may exceed their liquid net worth. Redhat and VA have an almost unlimited ways of spending money toward a good cause. Should they spend that extra dollar to help replace inbred technology in the office to help save costly lost production of our economy? The hightened awareness of this attack on our freedoms are encouraging many of us to make personal donations and innovative dinners showing support and gathering collections.
Remember, the entertainment cartel in America can match the liquid cash that we can throw at a legal defense.
The reason why I bring this up, is that I'm looking for some land to build a house upon. A donation is the right thing to do, but it can hinder those who have a great project ahead and need the funds. Redhat and VA have many great products that my company can use and I hope they spend their money wisely. Matching dollar for dollar against a very bitter fight against the might entertainment industry that's been well established since Walt Disney made it can drain us. Be careful with how much we spend. Give from the heart.
I just made my little donation to the EFF, but I know money only goes so far. I hope to help in other ways too and wish the best for all involved.
You see, issues like this affects how others view me as a computer hacker. The RIAA and MPAA are trying to villify anyone who circumvents their method of crappy entertainment distribution. I'm a hardware guy that likes to find better forms of communication. Cassettes suck. CD's suck. MP3's rock. DVD writers with no mafia tax would rule.
Its not that I like to use new technology for commercial entertainment anyway. Mass storage and playback of multimedia has tremendous utility in almost any field I can think of; however, they wish to make the common tools of playback and recording unreachable. They have a dinosour of a business model and I feel it interferes with what I think is my right to use technology how I see fit.
Its good to see well organized rights group such as the EFF back principles I feel are important. They have my support and best wishes.
MP3.com apparently is doing what the Big Recording Industry failed to do, which is create a market for music and audio entertainment distribution. They use modern technology to make the method of listening more flexible, rather than being confined to either tapes or a dozen songs per CD that can only be played in bulky, battery hungry players. They promote a market of listening to a large library of music on the run.
Compared to what the Big Recording Industry had in mind for us (nothing,) its a great change.
Latency... My zoomair gets 8ms ping times, while connections through my 10Mbs hub yields unmeasurable 0.0ms ping times. I suppose the 8ms through the wireless is due to the way the packets are modulated and then processed. The lag time is noticable when opening up a new X forwarded Netscape, say 10 seconds over the wireless is much longer than 2 seconds through the cable. But I forgive latency as mobility is a luxury.:)
These zoomair cards have real possibilities. No more dongles to break. I'm up the street at a friends house on my notebook typing through an X forwarded netscape on it now.
The only problem I had was the range. It only worked for about a block. So, I took the directional antennas off my X10 cams and patched them in. I had to take one of the cards apart to find out how to do it since no jack was available. Turns out a provision for a jack was on the circuit board layout, but not implimented. So, I notched the case at the end where the "Z" is on the zoomair logo, notched out some more plastic to move the "zero-ohm jumper" over from the internal antena to my new external. I epoxied the swivel mount of the miniture X10 directional antenna at the end. I wish I had my camera here to snap a shot as it looks pretty sharp. Anyhow, the range is spectacular. I was driving around town with it and only dropped a few ping packets.
Now I need to talk to my ISP and motivate them to set up a base station.:)
It might be a good idea to do a traceroute to the first remailer and make sure the packets aren't leaving a long trail through untrusted sources, such as satellites. See if you can route it via ground through trusted small ISP's that aren't an obvious portal to the NSA and FBI. Make sure at least the first remailer rotates the logs quickly or has no logs at all.
If the traceroute has a long way, such as 20 hops to the first remailer and, say *.maryland.core.gov or something comes up in the route, you are in deep trouble!
Anonymous internet access? May I recommend wireless lan with the usual 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11, signal unencrypted, and default settings. I leave it as such and anyone in my town can park their car in the neighborhood with their laptop and use it (ssh is your friend.) Someday it will be abused and I'll have to lock it, but its there and I'm sure many other people have their links in the open too.
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No, they will not likely conduct raids upon poor working class families. That's not the goal. Its when the warez are brought into places of employment that the software audits, or raids, are profitable in scoring new sales through "license settlements."
Play with warez at home and no one is going to complain.
Do it at work and you put the employer in a position of serious liability. $250,000 and 20 years in jail for each offense is a lot of negotiating power for agreeing to an all Microsoft solution. What a bargain.
$10 from a spammer? I prefer to ask for more from them.
Many people might indeed take the issue to court. I prefer just to do a little research and find out who their friends, family, and employer are. Call them up. Do background checks. I like to get to know my spammer. Market research? You bet! What house do they live in? What cars do they drive? Do they lock them? Do they have a dog around the yard? Have a pretty yard? A wife that gets lonely while they work? Get my drift? After all, if an invasive marketer wants to get to know me, I feel like I should know them too.
Never mind the "up to 1GHz" processor's speed, think of the box as a space heater. Think of the power supply.
Put the box under your desk in the wintertime to toast your toes.
This ascii picture representing a beautiful female is impressive and was striking the first time, but may I ask that these pictures be posted in a more appropriate location?
Three people where I work have their necks on the chopping block (their computers are gone) for downloading masses of porn last week. Images like this can cause problems in a workplace where both genders work. I enjoy reading technical forums, but I can do without being the subject of a witch hunt when nude images are found.
If you had to reboot NT more than 68 times, you're simply an incompetent moron.
That's why I use Linux. It avoids emberassment and allows me to be productive. No reboots. No lost data. No reinstalls. No excuses.
An exterminator once told me the ratio was more like 100:1. For every cockroach that you do see, there's a nest of 100 of his buddies waiting to greet you.
6,535,000 cockroaces ain't all that bad. They're crunchy, full of protien, and just add milk!
No, a good poll question should have been something like: Do you plan on spending $500 to be an unpaid beta tester for a closed source operating system that takes control of your computer and data?
I have a Ford F-150 XLT pickup truck. There are two bugs that I know about on mine: the heater doesn't work and the windshield wipers have a loose wiring connection. Other people may not have my two show stopping bugs, but I'll be damned if I have to drive a truck with 65,000 goddamned bugs! Is that how a computer can crash twice a day? Good riddance!
That's an interesting idea. Have two passwords. One that will decrypt the real data and the next will decrypt random preselected harmless junk. When the papers are served, watch them not able to find those family secret cooking recepies.
"Northwest defended the search, noting that a federal court had authorized it." What is the judges name and address?
Granted MP3.com has their agenda too,
Replying to myself, let me say the RIAA propoganda even had me going. If MP3.com had an agenda, its to make a wonderful method of communication more free.
The RIAA has been spewing out defamation against anyone who wishes to advance recording technology. Never mind that class lectures, meetings, memorable family events can be more intelligible given a good portable stereo recorder. Anyone that threatens their dinosour business model is branded a pirate like they pillage the recording industry, rape the stars, and are the scourges of society. Granted MP3.com has their agenda too, but the RIAA has no right.
Now I know exactly what you are talking about. Every digital camera I have used has a major lag time from the time the button is pushed, picture is taken, and the processing time required before the next one can be snapped. It would be nice to have a camera that the instant the button is pushed, a picture is taken. The slowest film cameras are faster than the fastest digital cameras when the button is pushed.
A delay of even 10ms can make or break a picture with people in it. For example, take your stopwatch and start and stop it fast as you can and you should see from 10ms to 20ms. Like the trigger finger on a stopwatch, people's faces can change in an instant.
In the world of high speed digital electronics, why hasn't there been an engineer that has programmed a camera to have the ccd ready to capture on an instant?
Compact flash slow? What interface are you using to transfer? I use smartmedia and my transfers max out the pcmcia interface at 2MB/sec. A 8MB card takes about 4 seconds to transfer all the pictures to and from the laptop. The serial cable that came with another camera is much, much slower.
I guess he feels guilty because he bought a DVD player before all the brouhaha :)
And found out it didn't work? I hate it when something I buy is strategically engineered only to work in a limited fashion. Not only have I been bit hard before from buying proprietary hardware that was to be an eternal secret (much to my dismay,) but I am surrounded by others who ask for help that are in the same position.
I have been burned with things like video grabbers with patented hardware and software compression that only work with Windows. In my case, the drivers only allowed about four frames or several minutes of operation before the system crashed in flames. A few times required a reinstall of Windows itself. I'm through with that shit. Done that. Buggy DVD players with annoying quirks? No Thanks. It was with great shame that I gave away hardware that didn't work properly due to shoddy closed source software to friends who might be able to use it in some limited capacity.
Alan Cox and anyone else who has the gift of making great hardware work with an eloquent software solution is a hero to me.
That's the spirit, but please don't be harsh on those who have money, but are burdened with obligations that may exceed their liquid net worth. Redhat and VA have an almost unlimited ways of spending money toward a good cause. Should they spend that extra dollar to help replace inbred technology in the office to help save costly lost production of our economy? The hightened awareness of this attack on our freedoms are encouraging many of us to make personal donations and innovative dinners showing support and gathering collections.
Remember, the entertainment cartel in America can match the liquid cash that we can throw at a legal defense.
The reason why I bring this up, is that I'm looking for some land to build a house upon. A donation is the right thing to do, but it can hinder those who have a great project ahead and need the funds. Redhat and VA have many great products that my company can use and I hope they spend their money wisely. Matching dollar for dollar against a very bitter fight against the might entertainment industry that's been well established since Walt Disney made it can drain us. Be careful with how much we spend. Give from the heart.
I just made my little donation to the EFF, but I know money only goes so far. I hope to help in other ways too and wish the best for all involved.
You see, issues like this affects how others view me as a computer hacker. The RIAA and MPAA are trying to villify anyone who circumvents their method of crappy entertainment distribution. I'm a hardware guy that likes to find better forms of communication. Cassettes suck. CD's suck. MP3's rock. DVD writers with no mafia tax would rule.
Its not that I like to use new technology for commercial entertainment anyway. Mass storage and playback of multimedia has tremendous utility in almost any field I can think of; however, they wish to make the common tools of playback and recording unreachable. They have a dinosour of a business model and I feel it interferes with what I think is my right to use technology how I see fit.
Its good to see well organized rights group such as the EFF back principles I feel are important. They have my support and best wishes.
MP3.com apparently is doing what the Big Recording Industry failed to do, which is create a market for music and audio entertainment distribution. They use modern technology to make the method of listening more flexible, rather than being confined to either tapes or a dozen songs per CD that can only be played in bulky, battery hungry players. They promote a market of listening to a large library of music on the run.
Compared to what the Big Recording Industry had in mind for us (nothing,) its a great change.
Latency... My zoomair gets 8ms ping times, while connections through my 10Mbs hub yields unmeasurable 0.0ms ping times. I suppose the 8ms through the wireless is due to the way the packets are modulated and then processed. The lag time is noticable when opening up a new X forwarded Netscape, say 10 seconds over the wireless is much longer than 2 seconds through the cable. But I forgive latency as mobility is a luxury. :)
These zoomair cards have real possibilities. No more dongles to break. I'm up the street at a friends house on my notebook typing through an X forwarded netscape on it now.
:)
The only problem I had was the range. It only worked for about a block. So, I took the directional antennas off my X10 cams and patched them in. I had to take one of the cards apart to find out how to do it since no jack was available. Turns out a provision for a jack was on the circuit board layout, but not implimented. So, I notched the case at the end where the "Z" is on the zoomair logo, notched out some more plastic to move the "zero-ohm jumper" over from the internal antena to my new external. I epoxied the swivel mount of the miniture X10 directional antenna at the end. I wish I had my camera here to snap a shot as it looks pretty sharp. Anyhow, the range is spectacular. I was driving around town with it and only dropped a few ping packets.
Now I need to talk to my ISP and motivate them to set up a base station.
It might be a good idea to do a traceroute to the first remailer and make sure the packets aren't leaving a long trail through untrusted sources, such as satellites. See if you can route it via ground through trusted small ISP's that aren't an obvious portal to the NSA and FBI. Make sure at least the first remailer rotates the logs quickly or has no logs at all.
If the traceroute has a long way, such as 20 hops to the first remailer and, say *.maryland.core.gov or something comes up in the route, you are in deep trouble!
vaporware
Anonymous internet access? May I recommend wireless lan with the usual 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11, signal unencrypted, and default settings. I leave it as such and anyone in my town can park their car in the neighborhood with their laptop and use it (ssh is your friend.) Someday it will be abused and I'll have to lock it, but its there and I'm sure many other people have their links in the open too.
let me add one to this...
What is your opinion of the MPAA and the United States DVD Copy Control Association?
One could always do what Linus did for backing up his work --sharing it with the world. I heard he didn't have a tape drive for many years until he was given an Alpha, but his work could always be found somewhere on the internet in good hands.
The internet will always save your best work and discard the junk.