Sometime in May? Let's make the whole month of May CT's birthday and declare the month as a holiday. What can 75,000 people do in one month besides the slashdot effect? Party!
I would like to see the trial drag on for long as needed. The most valuable aspect of the trial as I see it are the little gems of information that are usually hidden. The public and other businesses may learn that screwing your customers is not cool.
May they be fined a dollar, people learn a good lesson, and we might see evolution in action. At that time, people might ask, "what monopoly?"
I have a card with the bt848 chip on it and it does good for grabbing a frame or video up to 30fps. The bttv video4linux driver that are included with the kernels worked great when compiled and loaded as modules.
The three applications that I use most often that came with xawtv and work great. I run streamer from a cron job to capture an image every minute for the webcam on my homepage. xawtv runs under X, fbtv runs under SVGA through the kernel frame buffer, and both can run overlay, grab while displaying, or snapping images while you watch. The documentation with the source tarball is excellent.
Full motion high quality video at 30fps for 14 seconds yeilded me a whopping 46MB avi! streamer will also let you grab at a framerate of your choice if you wish to make interesting time elapsed movies, such as watching grass grow...
I did have some strange problems with my bt848 card at first, but they were traced to the card not being seated in the socket correctly. I would soon find out my bt848 works like a champ.:)
If anyone needs help I would be glad to help as I greatly enjoy this card. I got mine as a refurbished Panasonic color egg cam package for $75 (US). It has the usual video-in RCA type connector. For good reading about video in Linux, there is the video4linux mailing list.
Now, the Open Source people are disconnecting the wagon, and keeps selling the Open Source idea. The GNU/Linux phrase is RMSs way of connecting the wagon to the horse.
To me, this sounds like part of a defensive business philosophy to compete with free software. RMS does a great job to raise awareness of licensing issues. I do not feel threatened by freedom and as a result, do not have an issue with RMS being very vocal about anything less than free.
I have used Dvorak for one year and am very happy. My hands no longer feel like they have been pounding rocks.
Unfortunately, Dvorak makes one handed typing slow since the keys are strategicaly arranged to be alternating sides between keystrokes. Dvorak does not make a good hunt and peck layout.
what happens if you say you are *not* a moderator?;)
If part of my job at work was to moderate or censor the information of the internet feed, I'd quit in a heartbeat. Making a judgement for placing value on content has got to be hell. Having it placed as a job requirement, such as public librarians has got to be humiliating.
The only way I would consider judgement on a post is for damage control: your typical carpet bombing spam, the 10,000th first post, and maybe a dedicated lunatic who's undisputable sole purpose in life is to harrass and destroy intelligent conversation.
The signal to noise ratio is important, but I just do not know if value based moderation has much of an impact. I have set my preferences to -9 and the demoted junk is not that great, but I still like to know that I'm not missing anything. Freedom of speech means too much to me. I feel true noise, like sensless spam is not censorship, but regarded as a bandwidth damage problem. That's when the cluesticks should be turned on at full volume.
I love free speech and Slashdot is what happens when a large group gets together to talk. Its amazing and it works and best of all does not cost me a penny to participate.
WSJ: New brand of capitalism: Communism! Absolutely no capital changes hands between the 2 Canadians and HP, buy the WSJ calls it a new brand of capitalism??
Where does this communism come from? This is about taking control of your own operating system, not about being under control of some government. To many people, this is a hobby. I have a full time job that pays twice the average family income and yet I choose Linux. Does this make me a communist?
If Microsoft dictates how I should use an operating system, I might call that communism. Calling someone a commie, redneck, etc, is just namecalling and silly.
I see people who work on Linux on free time as a way to increase skills without having to sacrifice another stint in college.
judging from the posts here,/. readers seem to hate apple enough they boycott it no matter what.
I made the mistake of recommending an Imac to someone last week. I didn't even hate the guy, but now he is going to be stuck with a cute box that is closed. I cannot help him if he has a problem (except for things like not plugged in, etc...) Apple seems to be the pinnacle of marketing and trapping people into their side of the fence.
The RIAA needs to get over this fact that they're gonna loose,...
The RIAA has many legal tools at hand because it has money. They may win some key injunctions and get closer to making mp3's contraband material. They are a special interest group and they are interested in closing the market to get the cash flow. I have seen some bad laws passed and they have a chance with the effort they are pushing. If sex toys can be illegal, you can bet mp3's will be next.
I guess they could put a digital watermark in the.mp3 and then use that to track down the original pirater.
That would mean no one could buy a CD with cash anymore! "No sir, you must use a credit card and valid ID when purchasing that CD. Its so we can track you down like a dog if you make an illegal copy for your buddies."
Gore can take credit for helping to ban widespread use of cryptography and secure ecommerce on the internet. That's the dark ages to me.
It might be a coincidence, but a credit card number I used on a dumbed down Internet Explorer web transaction to buy my boss a sound card was later used for $2000 of fraud. It was a shopping spree at Kmart in silicon valley by one person. Nothing but 128 bit encryption for me from now on.
I would hate to see them break up. That would just tear my heart to see many little msnopolies fighting to dominate, rather than just one big dinasour left to die on its own.
Here's a classic usenet post where Mr. Gates states his company could have the responsibility of being big brother and turn people in when they were caught doing bad things, say, pirating software!
If you really want to start from scratch, start from the kernel:
http://www.kernel.org
from there you can get the basics, like the kernel, init, gnu utilities, and roll your own expert distribution. Most of the documentation is in the tarballs and source code itself and is quite good.
It is a lot of work, but very educational.
Can this information be used against in court?
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I wonder if Microsoft can gather enough information from a computer and use it against the onwer in court? Is it legal to get information this way?
No, it is not legal and not usable in court. That will not stop them from launching a legal investigation from which they may get enough information for a search warrant. Perhaps then they will request to visit your site. If you refuse, you might get a paper signed by a judge forced in your face as they enter your door escorted by the police. Everything from then on is fair game.
When you violate a license agreement, the software companies ARE the police.
After that is reconciliation if your credit is worth the time. Otherwise you will be fed to the dogs.
Are these IDs being sent to Redmond? Is there any information where Redmond people may read "General X., commander SuperTaskForce "Kamikadze", Room 0, The Hexagon, MAC XXXXXXXXXX". Can anyone else read this?
I wonder what happened when that navel destroyer got a bad entry in its database and the whole ship was rendered dead in the water. Was there any final IP packets delivered to an evil software company that declared: "US DESTROYER DISABLED, LOCATION: xxxx.xxxx"
Naive users HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT
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According to the article, the ID can only be generated when your name and a few other serial numbers are combined together.
Well yeah, what's the sense of transmitting the database before any apps are installed. It waits for a few serial numbers are entered, then the missile is fired.
For M$ to have your name, you have to have registered,
The whole point of putting personal information in all those little boxes. Suppose you do not put your personal information and something else in those boxes. They may get an IP address with your name on it anyway! Surprise!
... is GUID embedded in every word/excel document?
I'd love to see the memorandum or directive that specified the code for these programs to put the such information in documents. This was most likely a coordinated effort that required planning that came from a person. I wish this would be brought to trial and have the documents subpoenaed. Microsoft set a precident for getting documents to subpoena the bad-attitude list from Netscape and this should be no exception.
They have yet to get on my case
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However, will say that I have been used many illegal copies of Windows for some time.
I have every right to report your unauthorized software to the SPA and Microsoft. They have every right to prosecute violations to the maximum extent of the law. If you cannot pay the price, you will be doing the time.
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Sometime in May? Let's make the whole month of May CT's birthday and declare the month as a holiday. What can 75,000 people do in one month besides the slashdot effect? Party!
I would like to see the trial drag on for long as needed. The most valuable aspect of the trial as I see it are the little gems of information that are usually hidden. The public and other businesses may learn that screwing your customers is not cool.
May they be fined a dollar, people learn a good lesson, and we might see evolution in action. At that time, people might ask, "what monopoly?"
I have a card with the bt848 chip on it and it does good for grabbing a frame or video up to 30fps. The bttv video4linux driver that are included with the kernels worked great when compiled and loaded as modules.
:)
The three applications that I use most often that came with xawtv and work great. I run streamer from a cron job to capture an image every minute for the webcam on my homepage. xawtv runs under X, fbtv runs under SVGA through the kernel frame buffer, and both can run overlay, grab while displaying, or snapping images while you watch. The documentation with the source tarball is excellent.
Full motion high quality video at 30fps for 14 seconds yeilded me a whopping 46MB avi! streamer will also let you grab at a framerate of your choice if you wish to make interesting time elapsed movies, such as watching grass grow...
I did have some strange problems with my bt848 card at first, but they were traced to the card not being seated in the socket correctly. I would soon find out my bt848 works like a champ.
If anyone needs help I would be glad to help as I greatly enjoy this card. I got mine as a refurbished Panasonic color egg cam package for $75 (US). It has the usual video-in RCA type connector. For good reading about video in Linux, there is the video4linux mailing list.
Now, the Open Source people are disconnecting the wagon, and keeps selling the Open Source idea. The GNU/Linux phrase is RMSs way of connecting the wagon to the horse.
To me, this sounds like part of a defensive business philosophy to compete with free software. RMS does a great job to raise awareness of licensing issues. I do not feel threatened by freedom and as a result, do not have an issue with RMS being very vocal about anything less than free.
I have used Dvorak for one year and am very happy. My hands no longer feel like they have been pounding rocks.
Unfortunately, Dvorak makes one handed typing slow since the keys are strategicaly arranged to be alternating sides between keystrokes. Dvorak does not make a good hunt and peck layout.
what happens if you say you are *not* a moderator? ;)
If part of my job at work was to moderate or censor the information of the internet feed, I'd quit in a heartbeat. Making a judgement for placing value on content has got to be hell. Having it placed as a job requirement, such as public librarians has got to be humiliating.
The only way I would consider judgement on a post is for damage control: your typical carpet bombing spam, the 10,000th first post, and maybe a dedicated lunatic who's undisputable sole purpose in life is to harrass and destroy intelligent conversation.
The signal to noise ratio is important, but I just do not know if value based moderation has much of an impact. I have set my preferences to -9 and the demoted junk is not that great, but I still like to know that I'm not missing anything. Freedom of speech means too much to me. I feel true noise, like sensless spam is not censorship, but regarded as a bandwidth damage problem. That's when the cluesticks should be turned on at full volume.
I love free speech and Slashdot is what happens when a large group gets together to talk. Its amazing and it works and best of all does not cost me a penny to participate.
Here is a great soldering HOWTO that shows the way to make fine connections. Good reading.
WSJ: New brand of capitalism: Communism! Absolutely no capital changes hands between the 2 Canadians and HP, buy the WSJ calls it a new brand of capitalism??
Where does this communism come from? This is about taking control of your own operating system, not about being under control of some government. To many people, this is a hobby. I have a full time job that pays twice the average family income and yet I choose Linux. Does this make me a communist?
If Microsoft dictates how I should use an operating system, I might call that communism. Calling someone a commie, redneck, etc, is just namecalling and silly.
I see people who work on Linux on free time as a way to increase skills without having to sacrifice another stint in college.
To say nothing of the infinite amount of monkey poop they would generate... that could really be a problem.
This has already been done. Witness NT source code. Now they just have to debug and demaggot it to get the right version.
judging from the posts here, /. readers seem to hate apple enough they boycott it no matter what.
I made the mistake of recommending an Imac to someone last week. I didn't even hate the guy, but now he is going to be stuck with a cute box that is closed. I cannot help him if he has a problem (except for things like not plugged in, etc...) Apple seems to be the pinnacle of marketing and trapping people into their side of the fence.
The RIAA needs to get over this fact that they're gonna loose, ...
The RIAA has many legal tools at hand because it has money. They may win some key injunctions and get closer to making mp3's contraband material. They are a special interest group and they are interested in closing the market to get the cash flow. I have seen some bad laws passed and they have a chance with the effort they are pushing. If sex toys can be illegal, you can bet mp3's will be next.
Imagine the possibilities what you can get from an egg. Instead of the whole chicken from an egg, only a little drumstick is hatched. Wow.
I have badday.mpg and it does not jive too well with xanim (choppy frames and random junk.) Is there a better viewer or format of this classic?
I have not seen rage. Links?
I guess they could put a digital watermark in the .mp3 and then use that to track down the original pirater.
That would mean no one could buy a CD with cash anymore! "No sir, you must use a credit card and valid ID when purchasing that CD. Its so we can track you down like a dog if you make an illegal copy for your buddies."
Gore can take credit for helping to ban widespread use of cryptography and secure ecommerce on the internet. That's the dark ages to me.
It might be a coincidence, but a credit card number I used on a dumbed down Internet Explorer web transaction to buy my boss a sound card was later used for $2000 of fraud. It was a shopping spree at Kmart in silicon valley by one person. Nothing but 128 bit encryption for me from now on.
NT on the new Pentium II-350's at my college takes longer to *shut down* than Linux does to *start* on my K5-133!
NT at work takes longer to log in than it takes my Linux box to start.
Sometimes I wonder what NT does during that time and if it really is a multiuser OS.
I would hate to see them break up. That would just tear my heart to see many little msnopolies fighting to dominate, rather than just one big dinasour left to die on its own.
Nope, the packaging mechanism would be called MEEPT. :)
The Microsoft Extend and Embrace Package Transport, MEEPT. To be released Very Soon Now from the Borg Near You.
Here's a classic usenet post where Mr. Gates states his company could have the responsibility of being big brother and turn people in when they were caught doing bad things, say, pirating software!
I'd like to know how to do this as well.
If you really want to start from scratch, start from the kernel:
http://www.kernel.org
from there you can get the basics, like the kernel, init, gnu utilities, and roll your own expert distribution. Most of the documentation is in the tarballs and source code itself and is quite good.
It is a lot of work, but very educational.
I wonder if Microsoft can gather enough information from a computer and use it against the onwer in court? Is it legal to get information this way?
No, it is not legal and not usable in court. That will not stop them from launching a legal investigation from which they may get enough information for a search warrant. Perhaps then they will request to visit your site. If you refuse, you might get a paper signed by a judge forced in your face as they enter your door escorted by the police. Everything from then on is fair game.
When you violate a license agreement, the software companies ARE the police.
After that is reconciliation if your credit is worth the time. Otherwise you will be fed to the dogs.
Are these IDs being sent to Redmond? Is there any information where Redmond people may read "General X., commander SuperTaskForce "Kamikadze", Room 0, The Hexagon, MAC XXXXXXXXXX". Can anyone else read this?
I wonder what happened when that navel destroyer got a bad entry in its database and the whole ship was rendered dead in the water. Was there any final IP packets delivered to an evil software company that declared: "US DESTROYER DISABLED, LOCATION: xxxx.xxxx"
According to the article, the ID can only be generated when your name and a few other serial numbers are combined together.
Well yeah, what's the sense of transmitting the database before any apps are installed. It waits for a few serial numbers are entered, then the missile is fired.
For M$ to have your name, you have to have registered,
The whole point of putting personal information in all those little boxes. Suppose you do not put your personal information and something else in those boxes. They may get an IP address with your name on it anyway! Surprise!
... is GUID embedded in every word/excel document?
I'd love to see the memorandum or directive that specified the code for these programs to put the such information in documents. This was most likely a coordinated effort that required planning that came from a person. I wish this would be brought to trial and have the documents subpoenaed. Microsoft set a precident for getting documents to subpoena the bad-attitude list from Netscape and this should be no exception.
However, will say that I have been used many illegal copies of Windows for some time.
I have every right to report your unauthorized software to the SPA and Microsoft. They have every right to prosecute violations to the maximum extent of the law. If you cannot pay the price, you will be doing the time.