This is just wonderfull. Just think instead of finishing most of the features, that were to be included in the newest Windows family member, they (MS) decided to integrate DRM, in lie of the file system, and all the other features that were pushed out, or for inclusion much later in the products dev cycle. Well, I know I am not going to partake of the latest offering from Redmond now. I wonder how much Macrovision is getting to cross license this sceme?
I know many States have Constitutions of their own http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/Legresou/Constitu/list1.htm , ad We are a United Nation of Sovereign States, so Doesn't this fly in the face of each States Rights to rule themselves? I do not pretend to be a Constitutional Scholar, but this just seems to be (SO WRONG) on so many levels it isn't funny.
So we have the recent crying session, over ubuntu and kubuntu being harmful to debian,when actually it comes to be a concern over "Release" dates and Press. Smells fishy to me.
U.S. appeals court debates anti-piracy TV technology
It's being dubbed 'AntiPiracy'. Not Digital Rights Management or any other Politically Correct term. It's being shock valued, to bias the interpretation by the regular Consumers, and Average Mom & Pops. Mom & Pop VCR User doesn't want to consider themselves in the same light as the wiley Video Pirate. Seems to me an attempt to make it a little more palatable to the masses, and smooth the adoption via other means.
Usenet alt.binaries.multimedia, alt.binaries.mutimedia.scifi, alt.binaries.great, alt.binaries.movies, alt.binaries.movies.divx, alt.binaries.svcd, alt.binaries.stargate-sg1, alt.binaries.svcd.yenc, and plenty of alt.binaries (mp3 take your pick.) These are but a few of the groups. Usenet is the lost and disavowed medium of the Internet. I really think any of the **AAs' will ever go after it, because it is way to decentralized and posters are in unenforcable regions. It would probably be easier for the **AAs' to push the Usenet Access out of ISP's than to get it shut down entirely. One good example is AOL, dropping Usenet Access. If your ISP doesn't offer a good News Server, go with a pay Server, there are a few good ones out there, and access is relatively cheap.
So now Cities that have fines for shopping cart being off the premises, can fine a business for Toxic Materials being improperly stored, retained or looked after. On the other hand, the homeless can really look forward to retasking the devices and get internet access.
If things this devious can be slipped through the OS, I wonder what other features of the OS can be bypassed, or circumvented. Like DRM, Broacast flag intergration, botNets and the like. I giess MS is just covering the A$$ests, and beginning to build a veneer of plausible deniability.
I guess they just do not get it. With the portability of News Items and Informational websites, this is just a bunch of $$$ moving hands, and NYT ruining a Resource in the hopes of trying to buy legitamacy, and a readily recognized Net Presence like about.com. Maybe they are just jealous of the CraigsList sale and want to feel like a player?
I keep pointing out to my wife about the broadcast flags, and HDTV and the PVR Card/ Device issues. All she hears is.. Blah..Blahh..Blah..Buy Card/ Device.. Blah..Blah.. July deadline....Spend..Spend..Spend. Damn Patriot Act, DMCA (insert offending legislation here.)
You know in actuality this is not meant to be as tasteless as you think. I am writing this tongue in cheek. If you consider the millions of attempts to get this file, and the resultant chaos it will entail, the damage I profess in jest, is actually a possibility. While not on a scale to consider the 'Entire' Naval Forces, this will be a disruption, of a governmental Service, for anything covering this Server.
So why don't you smile when you say that?
You gap toothed, oderous wanker. and here I thought the British Anonymous Cowards were supposed to have a sense of humour, and unflappableness. Whatever happened to that Stiff, upper lip, and all that rot? eh?
NEWS FLASH British Royal Naval Communications brought to a halt today. Somehow a Naval Report on the latest Tsunami damage was linked to Popular IT Community Web Site SlashDot.org. The resulting Bandwith usage rates shot to am alarming rate, and crippled Data Communications to Royal Naval Forces, and forced the Royal Navy to respond, by issuing the following Statement. "Koh! Blimey! We've been knackered by the BOFHs'!"
Two comments posted and this thing is slashed. Very Sad indeed. Thank Goodness we can load up the PPT and read it directly. How long do you think that is going to last? Oh, well... In true slash style, let fly with the comments and speculation a Damn all to the actual story.
Damn it! I used my mods up too quickly. Mod this up..up.. up... I concur whole heartedly. It just shows how insightfull our fore fathers were, all those years ago, and even more so... how pertinent the actual meanings of the Constitution. It was not written as a 'Living Document' they (the framers) meant what they said and said what they meant. They were not dumbed down, by TV, Radio, and all of the modern distractions we have today. Their thoughts were concise, educated and to the point. One Document summed up the Right and ideas of a Nation, and has survived 200+ years. Almost Every time we tinker with the 'Living Document' (as it's sometimes referred to by the ignorant) Constitution, we have screwed it up.
Seems to me all the folks that laughed at the WoW (World of Warcraft) folks for getting hammered servers, can see that Outages happen. It's a matter of playing the odd's, and sometimes ya roll craps. This also one of the disadvantages of Interactive Online Play. The games that are Interactive, should offer some kind of stand alone, that way the folks that shell out $50 can get some pleasure from thier investment. I mean $50, is a lot of money to shell out, to have a paper weight when the servers are fushmanged...
I thought the FCC gaurded the airwaves and held them in trust, for the American people? Does Joe and Sally Citizen need for the FCC to auction off the Bandwidth to the highest bidder? I think not. The sad part is all the hobbiest that are gonna get screwed, when the bandwidth they propogate is wanted for some other new technology. All this is is a sign that Joe and Sally Citizen are willing to do some grass roots, initiative type activities and spread the Bandwidth around.Screw the MAN!! so to speak, and for once utilize what is rightfully theirs. I understand that not all WiFi spots are opened purposfully and meant for use, but you cannot say that all of them are not meant to be so, either. I check for available spots before I go on any trips, and I keep Netstumbler and a few other tools with me always.
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I am in a similar situation, here in South Carolina. I have great access through a local Telco, but they outsource to the local conglomorate ISP, out of Charlotte NC. They have almost no binaries on thier News Server. Luckily I maintained my old ISP account, and pay $29 a month. http//www.vnet.net and they have damn near all of the binary groups, I can think of, and best of all NO DATA LIMITS I split this access to myself and my father, and split the cost. Compared to Giganews or Supernews, this is as cost effective as anything.
But since nobody owns Usenet--and people post from servers around the world--it's difficult to enforce copyright laws, says Bob Kruger, vice president of enforcement at the Business Software Alliance. The industry group is an outspoken foe of piracy. "It's very difficult to take action against newsgroups," he says.http://tinyurl.com/5uu7t/PCWorld.com Now this quote is from 2002, and it is still relevant and applicable.
With the RIAA spoofing files,and sueing anything that moves, http://tinyurl.com/4af7y/The Daily Texan I wonder how long before they start trying to propogate corrupt files into Usenet, as well. With AOL making it harder to access Usenet (by removing native support) this is removing alot of trash from Usenet and possibly a boon to the Network. All AOL has done is remove the clueless N00b (uninformed user) from the equation, and the more informed AOL user will still have access, yet from a pay Server. http://tinyurl.com/39dtp/aSlycks Guide to Usenet Newsgroups
No what I am pointing out, is that this is a moot point, because it is a tainted process. It is just a matter of time, before every aspect of our lives a controlled, or legislated in one form or fashion. I am not arguing for sake of justifying piracy, or infringment. I am stating that the erosion of personal freedom has already begun, and this is, simply an extension of that erosion. Also on the face of your statement that Corps' cannot vote is true, in that they have to pay the leslator, or represenative to do the actual voting, so I might be proper in saying Corporations vote via Proxy. Copyright is a measure of temporary safety, it is a measure of safety afford to the originator, for a limited period of time, and is supposed to revert to the public domain.Now on my point of Copyright bias..."In addition to Disney (whose extensive efforts in lobbying for passage of this lent it its darkly humorous nickname of "The Mickey Mouse Protection Act"), Mary Bono (Sonny Bono's widow and Congressional successor) and the estate of George Gershwin supported the act. Mary Bono, speaking on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, noted that "Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever", but that since she was "informed by staff that such a change would violate the Constitution", Congress might consider Jack Valenti's proposal of a copyright term of "forever less one day".http://tinyurl.com/37qz8 Sonnys' wife was his successor, this implies bias.
So. I guess the subversion of the Original Copyright Intentions, by biased legislators and coporate America, are fair as well? Or how about having a digital flag attached to your hardware, and then to your legally recorded media content is flagged because a corporate entity wants it that way. These things brought about by corporate lobbyist. Rights are for Sale, whether you like it or not, or admit it. Benjamin Franklin"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety...
Also "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
"Sell not...liberty to purchase power.
Here is one of his key qoutes. "History affords us many instances of the ruin of states...the ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy...An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy...
Slashdot Mirror
By far the most interesting movie. It's stuck in my brain all my life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I think the picture they should have shown was the water cooler for the power supply. The Nifty little white box next to the black brick.
I wonder how many items covered this year, were rehashes of last year, and "we told ya so!"
This is just wonderfull. Just think instead of finishing most of the features, that were to be included in the newest Windows family member, they (MS) decided to integrate DRM, in lie of the file system, and all the other features that were pushed out, or for inclusion much later in the products dev cycle. Well, I know I am not going to partake of the latest offering from Redmond now. I wonder how much Macrovision is getting to cross license this sceme?
I know many States have Constitutions of their own http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/Legresou/Constitu/list1 .htm , ad We are a United Nation of Sovereign States, so Doesn't this fly in the face of each States Rights to rule themselves? I do not pretend to be a Constitutional Scholar, but this just seems to be (SO WRONG) on so many levels it isn't funny.
So we have the recent crying session, over ubuntu and kubuntu being harmful to debian,when actually it comes to be a concern over "Release" dates and Press. Smells fishy to me.
U.S. appeals court debates anti-piracy TV technology
It's being dubbed 'AntiPiracy' . Not Digital Rights Management or any other Politically Correct term. It's being shock valued, to bias the interpretation by the regular Consumers, and Average Mom & Pops. Mom & Pop VCR User doesn't want to consider themselves in the same light as the wiley Video Pirate. Seems to me an attempt to make it a little more palatable to the masses, and smooth the adoption via other means.
Usenet alt.binaries.multimedia, alt.binaries.mutimedia.scifi, alt.binaries.great, alt.binaries.movies, alt.binaries.movies.divx, alt.binaries.svcd, alt.binaries.stargate-sg1, alt.binaries.svcd.yenc, and plenty of alt.binaries (mp3 take your pick.) These are but a few of the groups. Usenet is the lost and disavowed medium of the Internet. I really think any of the **AAs' will ever go after it, because it is way to decentralized and posters are in unenforcable regions. It would probably be easier for the **AAs' to push the Usenet Access out of ISP's than to get it shut down entirely. One good example is AOL, dropping Usenet Access. If your ISP doesn't offer a good News Server, go with a pay Server, there are a few good ones out there, and access is relatively cheap.
So now Cities that have fines for shopping cart being off the premises, can fine a business for Toxic Materials being improperly stored, retained or looked after. On the other hand, the homeless can really look forward to retasking the devices and get internet access.
If things this devious can be slipped through the OS, I wonder what other features of the OS can be bypassed, or circumvented. Like DRM, Broacast flag intergration, botNets and the like. I giess MS is just covering the A$$ests, and beginning to build a veneer of plausible deniability.
I guess they just do not get it. With the portability of News Items and Informational websites, this is just a bunch of $$$ moving hands, and NYT ruining a Resource in the hopes of trying to buy legitamacy, and a readily recognized Net Presence like about.com. Maybe they are just jealous of the CraigsList sale and want to feel like a player?
I keep pointing out to my wife about the broadcast flags, and HDTV and the PVR Card/ Device issues. All she hears is.. Blah..Blahh..Blah..Buy Card/ Device.. Blah..Blah.. July deadline....Spend..Spend..Spend. Damn Patriot Act, DMCA (insert offending legislation here.)
Point taken
You know in actuality this is not meant to be as tasteless as you think. I am writing this tongue in cheek. If you consider the millions of attempts to get this file, and the resultant chaos it will entail, the damage I profess in jest, is actually a possibility. While not on a scale to consider the 'Entire' Naval Forces, this will be a disruption, of a governmental Service, for anything covering this Server.
So why don't you smile when you say that?
You gap toothed, oderous wanker. and here I thought the British Anonymous Cowards were supposed to have a sense of humour, and unflappableness. Whatever happened to that Stiff, upper lip, and all that rot? eh?
NEWS FLASH
British Royal Naval Communications brought to a halt today. Somehow a Naval Report on the latest Tsunami damage was linked to Popular IT Community Web Site SlashDot.org. The resulting Bandwith usage rates shot to am alarming rate, and crippled Data Communications to Royal Naval Forces, and forced the Royal Navy to respond, by issuing the following Statement. "Koh! Blimey! We've been knackered by the BOFHs'!"
Two comments posted and this thing is slashed. Very Sad indeed. Thank Goodness we can load up the PPT and read it directly. How long do you think that is going to last? Oh, well... In true slash style, let fly with the comments and speculation a Damn all to the actual story.
Damn it! I used my mods up too quickly. Mod this up..up.. up... I concur whole heartedly. It just shows how insightfull our fore fathers were, all those years ago, and even more so... how pertinent the actual meanings of the Constitution. It was not written as a 'Living Document' they (the framers) meant what they said and said what they meant. They were not dumbed down, by TV, Radio, and all of the modern distractions we have today. Their thoughts were concise, educated and to the point. One Document summed up the Right and ideas of a Nation, and has survived 200+ years. Almost Every time we tinker with the 'Living Document' (as it's sometimes referred to by the ignorant) Constitution, we have screwed it up.
Seems to me all the folks that laughed at the WoW (World of Warcraft) folks for getting hammered servers, can see that Outages happen. It's a matter of playing the odd's, and sometimes ya roll craps. This also one of the disadvantages of Interactive Online Play. The games that are Interactive, should offer some kind of stand alone, that way the folks that shell out $50 can get some pleasure from thier investment. I mean $50, is a lot of money to shell out, to have a paper weight when the servers are fushmanged...
I thought the FCC gaurded the airwaves and held them in trust, for the American people? Does Joe and Sally Citizen need for the FCC to auction off the Bandwidth to the highest bidder? I think not. The sad part is all the hobbiest that are gonna get screwed, when the bandwidth they propogate is wanted for some other new technology. All this is is a sign that Joe and Sally Citizen are willing to do some grass roots, initiative type activities and spread the Bandwidth around.Screw the MAN!! so to speak, and for once utilize what is rightfully theirs. I understand that not all WiFi spots are opened purposfully and meant for use, but you cannot say that all of them are not meant to be so, either. I check for available spots before I go on any trips, and I keep Netstumbler and a few other tools with me always.
Damn It! Frelling coffee, is got me all fux0red today.
Crap! I meant to post that without any mods.
Also to be fair, http://http//www.giganews.com/ and http://www.supernews.com/ should have been added as well. Not to mention there are many list to open News Servers.http://http//www.newzbot.com/ and url:http://http://tinyurl.com/5uc4z/> Google Search
I am in a similar situation, here in South Carolina. I have great access through a local Telco, but they outsource to the local conglomorate ISP, out of Charlotte NC. They have almost no binaries on thier News Server. Luckily I maintained my old ISP account, and pay $29 a month. http//www.vnet.net and they have damn near all of the binary groups, I can think of, and best of all NO DATA LIMITS I split this access to myself and my father, and split the cost. Compared to Giganews or Supernews, this is as cost effective as anything.
But since nobody owns Usenet--and people post from servers around the world--it's difficult to enforce copyright laws, says Bob Kruger, vice president of enforcement at the Business Software Alliance. The industry group is an outspoken foe of piracy. "It's very difficult to take action against newsgroups," he says. http://tinyurl.com/5uu7t/ PCWorld.com
Now this quote is from 2002, and it is still relevant and applicable.
With the RIAA spoofing files,and sueing anything that moves, http://tinyurl.com/4af7y/ The Daily Texan I wonder how long before they start trying to propogate corrupt files into Usenet, as well. With AOL making it harder to access Usenet (by removing native support) this is removing alot of trash from Usenet and possibly a boon to the Network. All AOL has done is remove the clueless N00b (uninformed user) from the equation, and the more informed AOL user will still have access, yet from a pay Server. http://tinyurl.com/39dtp/a Slycks Guide to Usenet Newsgroups
No what I am pointing out, is that this is a moot point, because it is a tainted process. It is just a matter of time, before every aspect of our lives a controlled, or legislated in one form or fashion. I am not arguing for sake of justifying piracy, or infringment. I am stating that the erosion of personal freedom has already begun, and this is, simply an extension of that erosion. Also on the face of your statement that Corps' cannot vote is true, in that they have to pay the leslator, or represenative to do the actual voting, so I might be proper in saying Corporations vote via Proxy. Copyright is a measure of temporary safety, it is a measure of safety afford to the originator, for a limited period of time, and is supposed to revert to the public domain.Now on my point of Copyright bias..."In addition to Disney (whose extensive efforts in lobbying for passage of this lent it its darkly humorous nickname of "The Mickey Mouse Protection Act"), Mary Bono (Sonny Bono's widow and Congressional successor) and the estate of George Gershwin supported the act. Mary Bono, speaking on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, noted that "Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever", but that since she was "informed by staff that such a change would violate the Constitution", Congress might consider Jack Valenti's proposal of a copyright term of "forever less one day". http://tinyurl.com/37qz8
Sonnys' wife was his successor, this implies bias.
So. I guess the subversion of the Original Copyright Intentions, by biased legislators and coporate America, are fair as well? Or how about having a digital flag attached to your hardware, and then to your legally recorded media content is flagged because a corporate entity wants it that way. These things brought about by corporate lobbyist. Rights are for Sale, whether you like it or not, or admit it.
Benjamin Franklin "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety...
Also "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
"Sell not...liberty to purchase power.
Here is one of his key qoutes.
"History affords us many instances of the ruin of states...the ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy...An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy...