Look carefully and you will see that the protection of content is the stumbling block. Again and again more and more often we are seeing this. Will it change? Or will we change? Something is going to change. It seems that in some sence the means and modes of production are comming into conflict. Could we be looking at a world changing change (revolution) in our time?
Remember this is Linux with loadable modules. We can have more than one stack.
A full stack with all the stuff needed for all the different parts of TCP/IP and the kinds of buffering that is needed for all this different ways it will be used.
AND a striped down games stack that only talks to other stacks like itself. It would not need to respond to anything but gaming packets. You could also move part if not most of the stack to the ISP side of the wire. this could remove a lot of overhead. I mean what could be done in terms of NETBIOS type stack for local LAN (not routed) gaming. Who needs IP addresses if you are all on the same segment? heck.
The same kinds of things could be down with win modems (if we can figure out how to control them) no buffering low latency exect...
The point is that we can have choices we can do thing differently we don't have to be locked into a single stac
Mr. John Jamsey. Emailed me so point out this notice.
http://208.46.148.11/catnotice.htm
I am not sure if I did not look in the correct part of the site or if this is form his hard copy catalog. But I felt it should be noted here with my original comment.
I would say there seems to be some truth to the Feds comments. Check the web page, there are at least two items that are clearly described as disguised. There are also pictures and yes they are disguised.
I don't think the feds are right. I feel that if something has some legal use it should be legal. Hidden cameras are a common security tool and should not be in and of themselves a violation of this law. I could also see them used in scientific research (under an exceptable protocol).
I think that the company should have put clear warnings on there web-site about what it is legal to use these devices for. They don't. A lot of a case like this is about intent and I think the company could have gone a long way with a few words in avoiding the intent problem.
When Mt. St. Helens erupted there were 2 cars fleeing the area. one was going 90+ mph and was found in the middle of the road squashed by a tree covered in ash, occupents dead. How do we know it was going 90+? Well the car that passed it going 110+ that just made it out of the blast zone.
Why do I bring this up. Well at the time the highway speed in the USA was 55mph. I know on average many more lives would be saved every day if everyone had to follow the speed limit (and the laws of physics). But we need to educate people not put spies in there cars. I will let others rant....(they do it better than I)
Re:NEWS: Richard Stallman Missing
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more pics and the story they came from.
http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson/als98
Re:NEWS: Richard Stallman Missing
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· Score: 2
I would think a little Quake might be just what he the thing. Now that Quake is GPL RMS can play.
This is not about stopping people from copying music, proprietary code, or movies. It is about stopping people from creating, Yes I said CREATING. These industries are making money because they control the tracks that information flows over from creator to consumer.
Stopping copying is just the excuse and a nice side effect of the real intent. They will of course they will say that you can still make your own CDs and DVDs and you may be able to. But think about this:
A future DVD player (FDVD)is created that will only read incrypted disks. The FDVD is popular because it has better sound and picture and all the big studios have said they will only make FDVD disks from now on. The keys to incrypt FDVD disks are licensed so that only artists with connections to a licensed production studio can make FDVDs. These FDVDs would have access to the market. Artists without connections would not have access to the FDVD market. So you could still make your own FDVDs but they don't work most if not all of the players the public is being sold.
With a system like this control over the creative process (and the money it generates) is maintained. If you don't think this could happen... well I hope not too but I am having trouble thinking that this not happening already.
We can get all excited about how fast NT is and how fast Linux is but lets take a step back. Why run so fast if you will just run into the bars.
Linux and the rest of the GNU project, BSD as well is about giving us freedom. Without ownership of the tools of out profesion we are little more the cogs in the wheels of someone elses machine.
Get a grip we are winning. We are winning and they don't even realy know how much we are winning. In fact the only way we can loose is if we stop fighting our war and start fighting there's.
Let them run there benchmarks then we can go out and fix the problems. In the end we will be better in all the ways we need to be.
Can you keep your head, Your backbone, or your heart. Will will all find out the answere on the day it falls apart. (L. Fish)
Making backups is leagle Media shifting is leagle Fair use is leagle these are all things that this coding is preventing things that are leagle...
RE for compatibility is leagle
So what is the problem here?
It can't really be copying because the only copying that can do any real harm is done with disk pressing not disk burning.
What this is realy about is stopping people from makeing DVDs without going through the channels If we can uncode their movies we can incode are own. THAT IS WHAT HAS THEM JUMPING it is the same thing that has them jumping about MP3.
It's not the copying stupid it's the creation they have to stop.....
Without a free compiler like djgcc Linus might have started off on an other foot. DJ is nothing less that the John the Baptist to Linus "Godhood". If there is anyone who has been overlooked so far in the FreeSoftware World it is DJ.
It had an LCD screen and 4 buttons so you could scrol through the commands you had recoreded and pick the one you wanted. You could also build you own groups so preset your system or to move your antena when you changed channels. I think it could also interface with your computer so you could download and edit you programs.
I think with these plans, a free OS, and a good bit of updating could make a realy good remote.
It seems to me from my readings and hearings (radio interviews) of RMS that he uses the word(s) COMPUTER USERS in an inclusive way, such that developers are COMPUTER USERS as are the people that never program that most of us tend to call users. For RMS there are no develpers only COMPUTER USERS that write code.
Understanding this important because what RMS is realy defending is the Rights of Developers. As develpers the tools of are trade are not just compters but the ideas inbodied in code that make computers work. If we are denide access to our tools we can not do our work. I like the GLP because it protects me from being deprived of the tools of my traid. It also protects the tools that I produce from being taken from me.
It is as simple as this. Two men learn to put pipes together and assemble pluming system. One goes to work for a company that provides all the tools he needs to put pipes togeter. The other Goes out and buys the tools and becomes plumber. Which one is mor dependent on the will of others? Which one is a profecinal?
The other way I look at the GPL is in terms of a free market where ideas are put out with a price tage on them for anyone to buy. If I spent 100hours writing a program and put it our in the public domain (BSD is very close to public domain). Someone else could take that program and add 1 hour of work and till me I had to pay 101hours of work for the resulting program. When I put a program out useing the GPL I am not giveing you a gift I am makeing a prepayment on the future aplications of that code. Or to put it a diffrent way when I use GPLed code I am asked to pay for it with my work.
I was a programmer in high school and built some small hardware projects. When I graduated I went on to Tech School and got an Associate degree in electronic and computer repair. Most of what we learned on the digital side (the other side was analog, radio, audio and stuff like that) is what is covered in this book.
How has this knowledge helped me. I seem to have a grasp of computer logic and math, as well as storage and other hardware-related issues that I often seem to be lacking in the software only people I know. So I tend to be able to look at output and see where logic errors tripping up the code. I can still convert DEC=HEX=BIN faster in my head than on a calculator. So I can often find neat hacks and fix bugs faster. Because I can see the patterns of 1s and 0s that are involved. (Gosh if I mask out all but bits 7 and 9 we can use a simple 'if' statement to detect this pattern) or (gosh this fails every time bit 3 goes high). When it comes to drives and cross platform coding this knowledge is even more valuable.
All in all knowing how the computer works does make for better programming.
From other posts (I agree) Large screen low res. -- easer on the eyes Simple desk top with app icons
My thoughts No extra stuff, no xeyes, no clock, no xload Simple 1 color background (gradiant maybe) Change Icons to things that make sence to the user. Pencil for writing book for the web Telephone for phone list... UPS with autoshutdown. Simple shutdown from desktop. Simple backup... 2 harddrives auto backups Dialup for you to dial in. Directons on the desk top (I have made Custom desktops with directions write there) Lock it all down so that the only things That can change are the user files Back it all up so resotre is easy for you
It will take more to porting than replacing the API and emulating the environment.
There file permitions and home directories personal configurations. Windows is to single user focused. Not not that the wide range of hardware Linux runs on will make life easer for ports. Finaly there is the culture of FreeSoftware (not just OpenSource but realy free).
Of course there are some people who don't care if someone else owns the tools they use. They may give up there freedom and take there support and creativity with them. That will be sad, but I can live with the tools I have now and there will still be progress just slower and of better quality.
Since the first time I read this years a go I thought that PEPSI should give the man the MOCKUP they used for the ad. It is what thay showed with the sigh saying 700,000 points.
Of course it may be that he is being payed by PEPSI to keep the story and PEPSI's name in the public eye.
Since sound is a part of many systems running X when (or is there) sound support. I would not expect sound drivers as part of X but it would be nice if there was a pipe so that an application displaying of an X server would would have its sound sent to that X server.
I think this would be nice since when my wife starts her X-terminal her sould come out of the servers speakers (on the outer side of the room). Not that I mind, but it would be nice if they came out in the correct place.
Could we not create a limited version of WINE that was just for running the windows DLL(s) for unincoding DVDs. since this would be a very limited emulater/thunker. It should be much simpler to write than a full functioning emulater/thunker. Then a person (having a legal copy of the DLL(s)) could play DVDs. This would mean not having a complety GNU/empowered/free system, but in hopes of creating a lack of market for the propritay product and freeing the code.
As I understand it a top level DNS is nothing special other than its size and it's listed in the standard dns setup everyone uses.
Is there something to prevent an alternative. It would answere what requests it could and pass the rest on to the traditional top level. Of course the names could not be the same but a few new.xxx.yyy would not be so bad. The big thing would be getting people to make the change in there DNS setup. This could be done with a setup/script.
It looks to me like the NSI is a hollow monopoly that only exists because we think it should.
or as a student interviewed on NPR last night (4/28/99) said.
If you don't give people crap they won't shoot you.
I to remember the revenge fantasies and the hate that wells up till you can't keep it down. I came close to that edge but was pulled back because my fathers shrink took action. He had asked my father to bring me to a session to meet me. When he did he talked the whole time to me. He convinced my parents to take action. They convinced the school system to take action. I would not be here having a good life if it had not been for that action.
I think the biggest problem here is that everyone is looking for a Cause. Because more than likely the Cause they find will not be them. What we all need to do is take responsibility for our part in the problem. It may be a small part but it is a part that we each can fix.
You could just cut and past this into the GNU web page and people would not believe it. People should think about this as a picture of things to come. How much longer before software starts being licenced this way?
Slashdot Mirror
Look carefully and you will see that the protection of content is the stumbling block. Again and again more and more often we are seeing this. Will it change? Or will we change? Something is going to change.
It seems that in some sence the means and modes of production are comming into conflict. Could we be looking at a world changing change (revolution) in our time?
Remember this is Linux with loadable modules. We can have more than one stack.
A full stack with all the stuff needed for all the different parts of TCP/IP and the kinds of buffering that is needed for all this different ways it will be used.
AND a striped down games stack that only talks to other stacks like itself. It would not need to respond to anything but gaming packets. You could also move part if not most of the stack to the ISP side of the wire. this could remove a lot of overhead. I mean what could be done in terms of NETBIOS type stack for local LAN (not routed) gaming. Who needs IP addresses if you are all on the same segment? heck.
The same kinds of things could be down with win modems (if we can figure out how to control them) no buffering low latency exect...
The point is that we can have choices we can do thing differently we don't have to be locked into a single stac
Mr. John Jamsey.
Emailed me so point out this notice.
http://208.46.148.11/catnotice.htm
I am not sure if I did not look in the correct part of the site or if this is form his hard copy catalog. But I felt it should be noted here with my original comment.
I would say there seems to be some truth to the Feds comments. Check the web page, there are at least two items that are clearly described as disguised. There are also pictures and yes they are disguised.
I don't think the feds are right. I feel that if something has some legal use it should be legal. Hidden cameras are a common security tool and should not be in and of themselves a violation of this law. I could also see them used in scientific research (under an exceptable protocol).
I think that the company should have put clear warnings on there web-site about what it is legal to use these devices for. They don't. A lot of a case like this is about intent and I think the company could have gone a long way with a few words in avoiding the intent problem.
When Mt. St. Helens erupted there were 2 cars fleeing the area. one was going 90+ mph and was found in the middle of the road squashed by a tree covered in ash, occupents dead. How do we know it was going 90+? Well the car that passed it going 110+ that just made it out of the blast zone.
Why do I bring this up. Well at the time the highway speed in the USA was 55mph. I know on average many more lives would be saved every day if everyone had to follow the speed limit (and the laws of physics). But we need to educate people not put spies in there cars. I will let others rant....(they do it better than I)
more pics and the story they came from.
http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson/als98
I would think a little Quake might be just what
e at-lead-software-hoarders.jpeg
he the thing. Now that Quake is GPL RMS can play.
http://www.netaxs.com/~esr/geeks-with-guns/rms-
After all would you want to be dealing with this in a dark CVS tree?
In Service
Charles Puffer
I plan to live for ever or die trying.
(Blake-7)
This is not about stopping people from copying music, proprietary
code, or movies. It is about stopping people from creating, Yes I said
CREATING. These industries are making money because they control the
tracks that information flows over from creator to consumer.
Stopping copying is just the excuse and a nice side effect of the real
intent. They will of course they will say that you can still make your
own CDs and DVDs and you may be able to. But think about this:
A future DVD player (FDVD)is created that will only read incrypted
disks. The FDVD is popular because it has better sound and picture and
all the big studios have said they will only make FDVD disks from now
on. The keys to incrypt FDVD disks are licensed so that only artists
with connections to a licensed production studio can make FDVDs. These
FDVDs would have access to the market. Artists without connections
would not have access to the FDVD market. So you could still make your
own FDVDs but they don't work most if not all of the players the
public is being sold.
With a system like this control over the creative process (and the
money it generates) is maintained. If you don't think this could
happen... well I hope not too but I am having trouble thinking that
this not happening already.
We can get all excited about how fast NT is and how fast Linux is but lets take a step back. Why run so fast if you will just run into the bars.
Linux and the rest of the GNU project, BSD as well is about giving us freedom. Without ownership of the tools of out profesion we are little more the cogs in the wheels of someone elses machine.
Get a grip we are winning. We are winning and they don't even realy know how much we are winning. In fact the only way we can loose is if we stop fighting our war and start fighting there's.
Let them run there benchmarks then we can go out and fix the problems. In the end we will be better in all the ways we need to be.
Can you keep your head,
Your backbone,
or your heart.
Will will all find out the answere on the day it falls apart.
(L. Fish)
Making backups is leagle
Media shifting is leagle
Fair use is leagle
these are all things that this coding is preventing
things that are leagle...
RE for compatibility is leagle
So what is the problem here?
It can't really be copying because the only copying that can do any real harm is done with disk pressing not disk burning.
What this is realy about is stopping people from makeing DVDs without going through the channels
If we can uncode their movies we can incode are own. THAT IS WHAT HAS THEM JUMPING it is the same thing that has them jumping about MP3.
It's not the copying stupid it's the creation they
have to stop.....
Without a free compiler like djgcc Linus might have started off on an other foot. DJ is nothing less that the John the Baptist to Linus "Godhood". If there is anyone who has been overlooked so far in the FreeSoftware World it is DJ.
Charles Puffer
It had an LCD screen and 4 buttons so you could scrol through the commands you had recoreded and pick the one you wanted. You could also build you own groups so preset your system or to move your antena when you changed channels. I think it could also interface with your computer so you could download and edit you programs.
I think with these plans, a free OS, and a good bit of updating could make a realy good remote.
It seems to me from my readings and hearings (radio interviews) of RMS that he uses the word(s)
COMPUTER USERS in an inclusive way, such that developers are COMPUTER USERS as are the people that never program that most of us tend to call users. For RMS there are no develpers only COMPUTER USERS that write code.
Understanding this important because what RMS is realy defending is the Rights of Developers. As develpers the tools of are trade are not just compters but the ideas inbodied in code that make computers work. If we are denide access to our tools we can not do our work. I like the GLP because it protects me from being deprived of the tools of my traid. It also protects the tools that I produce from being taken from me.
It is as simple as this. Two men learn to put pipes together and assemble pluming system. One goes to work for a company that provides all the tools he needs to put pipes togeter. The other Goes out and buys the tools and becomes plumber. Which one is mor dependent on the will of others? Which one is a profecinal?
The other way I look at the GPL is in terms of a free market where ideas are put out with a price tage on them for anyone to buy. If I spent 100hours writing a program and put it our in the public domain (BSD is very close to public domain). Someone else could take that program and add 1 hour of work and till me I had to pay 101hours of work for the resulting program. When I put a program out useing the GPL I am not giveing you a gift I am makeing a prepayment on the future aplications of that code. Or to put it a diffrent way when I use GPLed code I am asked to pay for it with my work.
In Service
Charles Puffer
-HUP easy change weapons.
I was a programmer in high school and built some small hardware projects. When I graduated I went on to Tech School and got an Associate degree in electronic and computer repair. Most of what we learned on the digital side (the other side was analog, radio, audio and stuff like that) is what is covered in this book.
How has this knowledge helped me. I seem to have a grasp of computer logic and math, as well as storage and other hardware-related issues that I often seem to be lacking in the software only people I know. So I tend to be able to look at output and see where logic errors tripping up the code. I can still convert DEC=HEX=BIN faster in my head than on a calculator. So I can often find neat hacks and fix bugs faster. Because I can see the patterns of 1s and 0s that are involved. (Gosh if I mask out all but bits 7 and 9 we can use a simple 'if' statement to detect this pattern) or (gosh this fails every time bit 3 goes high). When it comes to drives and cross platform coding this knowledge is even more valuable.
All in all knowing how the computer works does make for better programming.
In Service
Charles Puffer
From other posts (I agree)
Large screen low res. -- easer on the eyes
Simple desk top with app icons
My thoughts
No extra stuff, no xeyes, no clock, no xload
Simple 1 color background (gradiant maybe)
Change Icons to things that make sence to the
user.
Pencil for writing
book for the web
Telephone for phone list...
UPS with autoshutdown.
Simple shutdown from desktop.
Simple backup... 2 harddrives auto backups
Dialup for you to dial in.
Directons on the desk top (I have made
Custom desktops with directions write there)
Lock it all down so that the only things
That can change are the user files
Back it all up so resotre is easy for you
Have fun
It will take more to porting than replacing the API and emulating the environment.
There file permitions and home directories personal configurations. Windows is to single user focused. Not not that the wide range of hardware Linux runs on will make life easer for ports. Finaly there is the culture of FreeSoftware (not just OpenSource but realy free).
Of course there are some people who don't care if someone else owns the tools they use. They may give up there freedom and take there support and creativity with them. That will be sad, but I can live with the tools I have now and there will still be progress just slower and of better quality.
Since the first time I read this years a go I thought that PEPSI should give the man the MOCKUP they used for the ad. It is what thay showed with the sigh saying 700,000 points.
Of course it may be that he is being payed by PEPSI to keep the story and PEPSI's name in the public eye.
Have Fun
Since sound is a part of many systems running X when (or is there) sound support. I would not expect sound drivers as part of X but it would be nice if there was a pipe so that an application displaying of an X server would would have its sound sent to that X server.
I think this would be nice since when my wife starts her X-terminal her sould come out of the servers speakers (on the outer side of the room). Not that I mind, but it would be nice if they came out in the correct place.
Just a thought.
Could we not create a limited version of WINE that was just for running the windows DLL(s) for unincoding DVDs. since this would be a very limited emulater/thunker. It should be much simpler to write than a full functioning emulater/thunker.
Then a person (having a legal copy of the DLL(s)) could play DVDs. This would mean not having a complety GNU/empowered/free system, but in hopes of creating a lack of market for the propritay product and freeing the code.
Please read me out I will keep this short.
.xxx .yyy would not be so bad. The big thing would be getting people to make the change in there DNS setup. This could be done with a setup/script.
As I understand it a top level DNS is nothing special other than its size and it's listed
in the standard dns setup everyone uses.
Is there something to prevent an alternative. It would answere what requests it could and pass the rest on to the traditional top level. Of course the names could not be the same but a few new
It looks to me like the NSI is a hollow monopoly that only exists because we think it should.
An armed society is a polite society.
or as a student interviewed on NPR last night (4/28/99) said.
If you don't give people crap they won't shoot you.
I to remember the revenge fantasies and the hate that wells up till you can't keep it down. I came close to that edge but was pulled back because my fathers shrink took action. He had asked my father to bring me to a session to meet me. When he did he talked the whole time to me. He convinced my parents to take action. They convinced the school system to take action. I would not be here having a good life if it had not been for that action.
I think the biggest problem here is that everyone is looking for a Cause. Because more than likely the Cause they find will not be them. What we all need to do is take responsibility for our part in the problem. It may be a small part but it is a part that we each can fix.
In Service
Charles Puffer
You could just cut and past this into the GNU web
page and people would not believe it. People should think about this as a picture of things
to come. How much longer before software starts
being licenced this way?