...not all DAT decks have SCMS. My Sony M1 ignores it; I can (in theory) copy DATs to my heart's content without it complaining, or I could, if I had another DAT deck. Most "professional-grade" DAT players ignore SCMS outright or have a means of defeating it, whereas most "consumer" DAT decks willfully obey SCMS. (The lesson to be learned here should be obvious.)
- A.P. --
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...not all DAT decks have SCMS. My Sony M1 ignores it; I can (in theory) copy DATs to my heart's content without it complaining, or I could, if I had another DAT deck. Most "professional-grade" DAT players ignore SCMS outright or have a means of defeating it, whereas most "consumer" DAT decks willfully obey SCMS. (The lesson to be learned here should be obvious.) - A.P. --
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"When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'" -- Linus Torvalds
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This is a question I hear asked a lot -- on news programs on television, all over the internet, and on slashdot. I'm not so sure breaking up Microsoft would solve everyone's problems, even though there are several ways the company could be split. Which of the ways of splitting the company do you think would be most effective? I've heard talk of creating four separate Microsofts, each with access to the same source code base. I've also heard of splitting the company by division -- one Microsoft handles applications, another handles operating systems, still another deals with the Internet.
On the other hand, what about other alternatives? I've been a big fan of the following as a partial remedy: force Microsoft to fully and completely document each and every API call in Windows, and thoroughly audit them every few months to ensure they're playing by the rules. This would go a long way toward leveling the playing field (though it would not solve every problem, admittedly.) There's really not even a reason the general public *needs* to see the actual source code as long as the interfaces to the system are all out in the open.
What do you all think would be a good remedy, assuming Microsoft does indeed lose?
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You're saying that, as human beings, we should assume a set of morals which dictate that we tacitly submit to the whims of (in this case) an industry? How on earth can you consider *this* any more moral than what the people who cracked DVD did?
I personally *applaud* the actions of MoRE and think of them as wonderful people. I think their source code should be spread far and wide. On the other hand, I wouldn't be too proud of myself if I believed what you do -- that people should be sheep, led around unthinkingly by the great cabals of industry.
Sometimes, two wrongs make a right.
- A.P. --
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If Hollywood produces a shit movie, is it any wonder people don't see it?
Of course, there are noteable exceptions - Star Wars Episode 1, Deep Blue Sea, and I hear Pokemon made $35 million over the weekend - but, for the most part, if a movie's truly *bad*, it won't make much money. This should be a lesson to Hollywood: Make movies that don't suck, and people will gladly pay to see them.
- A.P. --
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Sometimes just the threat of a lawsuit is enough to cause an ISP to cave, and that's all that matters. If your ISP cancels your web-hosting account because they got a copy of a C&D letter, you might as well pack it in and go home, because you've effectively already lost the case without it even going to court.
It's sad, and it's unfair, and it should probably be illegal, but it happens a lot, and not just with domain names. I know of a few people myself who've had this happen to them.
- A.P. --
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Was when the DVD consortium (the DVD Mafioso?) just outright called the program "illegal", even though it was produced in Norway, where reverse-engineering is fully legal. Companies will say any old stupid thing, though, when a threat to their bottom line, real or imagined, is perceived. At any rate, I hope everyone manages to grab the source code for it off the mirror posted above; Linux shouldn't be denied the ability to play DVD movies!
- A.P. --
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We have a long, sorry history of human rights abuses; we really shouldn't be lecturing other countries until we've perfected our *own* rights issues. Stop trying to sound like some righteous sage champion of freedom and start looking around at the way peoples' rights in the U.S. are slowly being eroded.
It's fine to be concerned about China and their admittedly bad record on the matter, but please don't act like the U.S. is some sort of shining example.
Now, I believe the man was talking about Linux use in his country. Do you have anything constructive to add to the conversation with regards to that?
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On all the AIX boxes I've ever administered, the default shell was ksh, not csh. Even root's shell was ksh, as was every user shell by default. I can't stand ksh as an interactive shell; it's best used for scripting, IMO. Its only saving graces as a login shell are the command-history and editing support, the first of which every other decent shell has and the second of which I've not found all that useful.
FreeBSD's default shell is also csh. I personally cannot stand csh, but find tcsh to be perfect for an interactive command-line shell. (I prefer bash for scripting, however, but that wasn't part of the original question.) tcsh also has command-line history which can be accessed with the arrow keys like in bash.
I tried switching my default shell from tcsh to bash this summer as a test (to become more of a stereotypical second-wave unix dork, I guess), but found it very annoying in many respects compared to tcsh, mostly in the way it handles tab-completion. Needless to say, I'm still using tcsh and probably always will be.
(To sum it up: tcsh is the way to go for me. Stay the hell away from csh, and, if you use and like ksh, I'm worried about you.)
- A.P. --
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When you're deluged with garbage mail, hounded by telemarketers, and when youre e-mail spool is comprised 90% of make-money-fast.txt, I hope you'll still be happy you live in such a wonderful, glorious capitalist society.
Call me a commie if you want, at least I'll be the commie who's not receiving shit in my mailbox.
- A.P. --
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Doesn't work for me. I don't really care what color the flowers by the guy's house are or if his roof leaks or not, and most people don't, I imagine. Fact is, a high-school kid isn't going to pay $500 for Adobe Photoshop or even $100 for Bob's Neat-O App from Minnesota, and, thus, no money would be lost if a copy somehow magically appeared on his hard drive, no matter how you or anyone in the software industry try and convince people otherwise.
Honest people with enough money can and will pay for software; the booming software industry is a testament to this.
- A.P. --
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Stop running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Nothing has changed here. Big deal, so the government can plug a wire into a router and sniff packets. You think they weren't able to do this in the past? This just facilitates it. If it's that big a deal, encrypt your communications. Problem solved. Unless you're one of those people who thinks that the NSA has a secret underground room full of highly-efficient encryption-cracking machines whose SOLE PURPOSE is to watch you having netsex through your ssh connection.
Police and law enforcement officials have been able to tap phone lines almost since the phone was invented. Do any of you still use the telephone? It's even easier to listen in on open-air conversations. Do any of you still speak in public?
Bottom line: It's not that big a deal. Don't get so worked up over it!
- A.P. --
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I read an article *somewhere*, I think it might have been the NY Times, that said the poverty line in SV was $60K a year. They mentioned businessmen sleeping/living in homeless shelters because they couldn't afford housing yet had what people where I live would consider disgustingly high-paying jobs. It really, really does depend where you live. That's why I take anything anyone says about how much they make with a big heaping teaspoonful of salt, as should everyone.
- A.P. (who makes enough, even as a student) --
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a CD mechanism delicate too? Wouldn't dropping a CD Walkman (or a CD-based MP3 player) from any height have about as much chance of causing damage to its mechanism as dropping a powered-down hard drive from the same height would? Keep in mind, hard drives can withstand much higher forces when they're off, and the drive in this thing would be off 99.9% of the time. --
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At $150, they sound much better than just about anything out there, even Altec's newer USB speakers. That having been said, I recommend you also stay the hell away from USB speakers. I originally picked up a Philips USB speaker set with a sub since it sounded pretty nice in the store. Problem is, since I use linux, I needed to use the line-in jacks on the speakers and not the onboard DSP through the USB port. Well, Philips must've decided that nobody in their right mind would buy a pair of USB speakers and use only the line-in port, so they decided not to shield it at all. The end result was that the speakers picked up each and every little bit of RF noise in a 5 mile radius (perhaps an exaggeration, but it didn't sound like it.) I took them back the very next day during my lunch break and exchanged them for the ACS-45s, which weren't in stock when I originally picked up the Philips pieces of garbage. Remember, when you buy USB speakers, you're paying firstly for the sound card inside them, and whatever's left over is put into the speakers. I figure I spent about $149 on the sound card in those Philips speakers.
ANYway, get the ACS-45s. Trust me.
- A.P. --
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At $150, they sound much better than just about anything out there, even Altec's newer USB speakers. That having been said, I recommend you also stay the hell away from USB speakers. I originally picked up a Philips USB speaker set with a sub since it sounded pretty nice in the store. Problem is, since I use linux, I needed to use the line-in jacks on the speakers and not the onboard DSP through the USB port. Well, Philips must've decided that nobody in their right mind would buy a pair of USB speakers and use only the line-in port, so they decided not to shield it at all. The end result was that the speakers picked up each and every little bit of RF noise in a 5 mile radius (perhaps an exaggeration, but it didn't sound like it.) I took them back the very next day during my lunch break and exchanged them for the ACS-45s, which weren't in stock when I originally picked up the Philips pieces of garbage. Remember, when you buy USB speakers, you're paying firstly for the sound card inside them, and whatever's left over is put into the speakers. I figure I spent about $149 on the sound card in those Philips speakers.
ANYway, get the ACS-45s. Trust me.
- A.P. --
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...to stop the damned cluebies from posting HTML messages there too. God, I can't stand that. Learn a little bit about your client before you start using it!
- A.P. --
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I would rather a moderator spend his/her points in getting worthwhile things moderated up.. than worthless trash like this moderated into oblivion.
Not to sanction this kind of behavior, but stuff like this is something moderators should ignore anyway. Like the guidelines say, use your points to moderate worthwhile posts up, don't worry about stupid things like this.
-A.P. --
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Sure, it's "free" when you buy a new PC, but a cheap, no-frills PCI Firewire board is $150. At that price, I imagine it'll be a while until we see support for it in Linux. Who's gonna go out and buy a card, and then a $1500 DV camera (or a $700 Firewire hard drive) to start hacking in support in Linux?
- A.P. --
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Slashdot Mirror
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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I'd think he'd get a lot more support by asking the DOJ to tear Microsoft to shreds, which, if you've read the article, he seems to be hinting at.
- A.P.
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On the other hand, what about other alternatives? I've been a big fan of the following as a partial remedy: force Microsoft to fully and completely document each and every API call in Windows, and thoroughly audit them every few months to ensure they're playing by the rules. This would go a long way toward leveling the playing field (though it would not solve every problem, admittedly.) There's really not even a reason the general public *needs* to see the actual source code as long as the interfaces to the system are all out in the open.
What do you all think would be a good remedy, assuming Microsoft does indeed lose?
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
I personally *applaud* the actions of MoRE and think of them as wonderful people. I think their source code should be spread far and wide. On the other hand, I wouldn't be too proud of myself if I believed what you do -- that people should be sheep, led around unthinkingly by the great cabals of industry.
Sometimes, two wrongs make a right.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Of course, there are noteable exceptions - Star Wars Episode 1, Deep Blue Sea, and I hear Pokemon made $35 million over the weekend - but, for the most part, if a movie's truly *bad*, it won't make much money. This should be a lesson to Hollywood: Make movies that don't suck, and people will gladly pay to see them.
- A.P.
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It's sad, and it's unfair, and it should probably be illegal, but it happens a lot, and not just with domain names. I know of a few people myself who've had this happen to them.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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-A.P.
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It's fine to be concerned about China and their admittedly bad record on the matter, but please don't act like the U.S. is some sort of shining example.
Now, I believe the man was talking about Linux use in his country. Do you have anything constructive to add to the conversation with regards to that?
- A.P.
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FreeBSD's default shell is also csh. I personally cannot stand csh, but find tcsh to be perfect for an interactive command-line shell. (I prefer bash for scripting, however, but that wasn't part of the original question.) tcsh also has command-line history which can be accessed with the arrow keys like in bash.
I tried switching my default shell from tcsh to bash this summer as a test (to become more of a stereotypical second-wave unix dork, I guess), but found it very annoying in many respects compared to tcsh, mostly in the way it handles tab-completion. Needless to say, I'm still using tcsh and probably always will be.
(To sum it up: tcsh is the way to go for me. Stay the hell away from csh, and, if you use and like ksh, I'm worried about you.)
- A.P.
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Call me a commie if you want, at least I'll be the commie who's not receiving shit in my mailbox.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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Honest people with enough money can and will pay for software; the booming software industry is a testament to this.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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Police and law enforcement officials have been able to tap phone lines almost since the phone was invented. Do any of you still use the telephone? It's even easier to listen in on open-air conversations. Do any of you still speak in public?
Bottom line: It's not that big a deal. Don't get so worked up over it!
- A.P.
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- A.P. (who makes enough, even as a student)
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ANYway, get the ACS-45s. Trust me.
- A.P.
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ANYway, get the ACS-45s. Trust me.
- A.P.
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Reverse-engineering happens all the time. Now, stop whining about it and leave us to watch our DVDs under Linux.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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Not to sanction this kind of behavior, but stuff like this is something moderators should ignore anyway. Like the guidelines say, use your points to moderate worthwhile posts up, don't worry about stupid things like this.
-A.P.
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- A.P.
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