I bet some slashdot readers could come up with a reasonable technology that would preserve everyone's rights, the listener's and the musician's.
Waste of time - the RIAA/MPAA would never use it. They will be satisfied with nothing less than a coin slot (or its equivalent) on every entertainment device you own.
I have a slightly different concern. My battery is totally dead. The machine won't even try to come on. I can just see me with guns pointed at my head saying, "honest, it has a bad battery!"
...and they don't sell ads on letters to your grandma
I saw someone offering just that a few months ago. They would print and mail a letter from the net and it was paid for by adds stuffed in the envelope.
The settings got reset everytime I started the stupid browser. Might be the way things are set up here at work
I had that problem at work too (worse yet the proxy setting kept getting cleared). This stopped the day I put security on the relevant Registry keys (NT Workstation) so only interactive users could muck with them.
sadly the built-in light dimming, which I had high hopes for, was not very effective
You must be using the wireless remote. Try a plug-in controller like the mini-controller and experience smooth dimming with barely noticable steps. The wireless seems to change the brightness about 5% at a time. If I was home I could check the command it sends. These dimmers are capable of dimming down to where the filament is just a dull red.
But how often do you need a car that goes through a big pile of sawdust? So much for real life skills. Hey, wait a minute--I wonder if that would work on snow.
Dial your long distance Co's 800 access number, then call your friends (assuming your calling card rate is good, otherwise switch to a LD company that gives you a good rate).
The industry term for this is 800 dial-around.
A keylogger is a keylogger is a keylogger. It was either legal, or it wasn't (given the FBI's reaction to being asked to disclose how it works, its easy to tell which one)....what am I missing here?
You are missing the FBI's claim that the bug only recovered the passphrase. The FBI had a warrant to recover the passphrase - nothing else. If they used a keylogger that captured everything then they probably conducted an illegal search (even without the wiretap issue[1]). The FBI claims their bug only captured the passphrase but will not say how they accomplished this. From the material the FBI initially provided to the court it does not look like the device captured just the passphrase (there were pages of data). That is the basis of the defense demanding the details of the bug.
As to why they don't want to reveal the details, possibly they have a few hundred of these logging away on "interesting" computers and they don't want people to know what to look for.
[1] The wiretap issue comes about because the defendant used the computer to access his AOL mail account. Thus the keylogger may have captured communications that were sent over telephone lines.
Ain't so. In fact, if you (artist) delete a song, it magically evaporates from everybody's mymp3 locker (which is why I download). They need the right to keep a copy permanently so you can't sue them over a backup tape from 1999.
Also, just because you put songs up on MP3.com doesn't mean you have to put ALL of them up there.
I have noticed though, that most of the artists with large earnings have a lot of songs available for free download. This might be because people like me come along, think the band might be interesting, and drop all the downloads into NetVampire. So the guy with 23 downloads available gets 23 downloads from me that day.;) The guy with 3 downloads only gets 3. The more downloads you offer, the more your outside marketing pays off. As far as DAM CD's go, I'd rather pay the same price and get just mp3's but at 192k or better (the audio tracks on a DAM come from the 128k mp3). I hardly play (audio) CDs anymore.
Sorry, you are mistaken. The FCC has kicked noncommercial users off of many bands over the years. Ask any Amateur Radio operator. I do agree it is very unlikely 802.11b networks would get kicked off of 2.4 GHz. More likely they will open up a chunk of spectrum somewhere (higher up for sure) where wireless networks can run at hundreds of megabits a second and we'll toss our present devices like so many 14.4K modems.
Get WinDAC you can set the sector offsets to start/stop ripping at (preview button to find the right place). I had one like this. Pain in the butt though. Ripping the tracks one at a time may work.
Back in the day, many college students had crates of Maxell or TDK high-bias tapes of albums. We bought blanks by the carton. Dorms and Frat houses would go in on a case and split it. Copying at 1x and plugging line in to line out was no deterrent then, and it isn't now. And now we have digital 'line' out and in.
I've heard so many bad rips/crappy compressors that it might not be an entirely bad thing if ripping went back to the technically astute. Aunt Minnie might be able to click a button and rip a CD with MusicMatch on the default settings, but that doesn't mean anyone would want to listen to the result.
I have plenty of Vinyl discs that are almost 50 years old. I fear they will outlast my CDs that are much newer. I have several CDs now that have a disturbing darkening [makes note to dig these out and rip them] and they have always been kept inside an air-conditioned building (unlike the Vinyl that has been in basements, in attics, and outside under a tarp!) A couple microns of Aluminum with a thin layer of lacquer to "protect" it is not an archival medium. We've covered this here before. There's a very real chance one could pull out a CD that hadn't been played in a while and find it had quietly died on the shelf.
I have nothing against CDs. I've got hundreds of 'em. Unless we're talking half-speed master audiophile albums, I prefer CDs. Just as I want to rip my Vinyl discs against their chance distruction (not to mention for convenience), I want to be able to rip my CDs against their ultimate demise. It is also important to me that I am able to move material that I have paid for to newer storage media. I'm sure our grandkids will find CDs as quaint as some find Vinyl or 8-track now.
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Some of Asimov's stories deal with robots keeping humanity in general out of trouble. "Evidence" (1946) comes to mind.
Could the robots be feeding articles to Slashdot--keeping you safely occupied?
Waste of time - the RIAA/MPAA would never use it. They will be satisfied with nothing less than a coin slot (or its equivalent) on every entertainment device you own.
I have a slightly different concern. My battery is totally dead. The machine won't even try to come on. I can just see me with guns pointed at my head saying, "honest, it has a bad battery!"
Start to walk out of the store. You'll be amazed how quickly they decide they don't need the information.
I used to be able to sit out on my deck, before the damm paparazi started climbing up the cliff every single day.
I wonder if their data rate calculation has this same 3-orders of magnitude error. They really shouldn't sit so close to the pulse generator.
I saw someone offering just that a few months ago. They would print and mail a letter from the net and it was paid for by adds stuffed in the envelope.
I had that problem at work too (worse yet the proxy setting kept getting cleared). This stopped the day I put security on the relevant Registry keys (NT Workstation) so only interactive users could muck with them.
You must be using the wireless remote. Try a plug-in controller like the mini-controller and experience smooth dimming with barely noticable steps. The wireless seems to change the brightness about 5% at a time. If I was home I could check the command it sends. These dimmers are capable of dimming down to where the filament is just a dull red.
But how often do you need a car that goes through a big pile of sawdust? So much for real life skills. Hey, wait a minute--I wonder if that would work on snow.
Pink bricks! Finally I can build that Lego flamingo!
Impossible. One cannot have too many Legos. Storage space on the other hand....
Thank goodness for the Preview button. I'd like for comments.pl to come up without the submit button the first time.
Dial your long distance Co's 800 access number, then call your friends (assuming your calling card rate is good, otherwise switch to a LD company that gives you a good rate).
The industry term for this is 800 dial-around.
You could also do this with a prepaid phone card.
You are missing the FBI's claim that the bug only recovered the passphrase. The FBI had a warrant to recover the passphrase - nothing else. If they used a keylogger that captured everything then they probably conducted an illegal search (even without the wiretap issue[1]). The FBI claims their bug only captured the passphrase but will not say how they accomplished this. From the material the FBI initially provided to the court it does not look like the device captured just the passphrase (there were pages of data). That is the basis of the defense demanding the details of the bug.
As to why they don't want to reveal the details, possibly they have a few hundred of these logging away on "interesting" computers and they don't want people to know what to look for.
[1] The wiretap issue comes about because the defendant used the computer to access his AOL mail account. Thus the keylogger may have captured communications that were sent over telephone lines.
Ain't so. In fact, if you (artist) delete a song, it magically evaporates from everybody's mymp3 locker (which is why I download). They need the right to keep a copy permanently so you can't sue them over a backup tape from 1999.
I have noticed though, that most of the artists with large earnings have a lot of songs available for free download. This might be because people like me come along, think the band might be interesting, and drop all the downloads into NetVampire. So the guy with 23 downloads available gets 23 downloads from me that day. ;) The guy with 3 downloads only gets 3. The more downloads you offer, the more your outside marketing pays off. As far as DAM CD's go, I'd rather pay the same price and get just mp3's but at 192k or better (the audio tracks on a DAM come from the 128k mp3). I hardly play (audio) CDs anymore.
Sorry, you are mistaken. The FCC has kicked noncommercial users off of many bands over the years. Ask any Amateur Radio operator. I do agree it is very unlikely 802.11b networks would get kicked off of 2.4 GHz. More likely they will open up a chunk of spectrum somewhere (higher up for sure) where wireless networks can run at hundreds of megabits a second and we'll toss our present devices like so many 14.4K modems.
"I worked at Dell for the last 30 years"
Would that be Dell Computers founded in May 1984?
Thirty years ago, Michael Dell was 6 years old.
Perhaps the AC is Michael's mom?
...and it magically appears at your destination
It is indeed magic if your bag appears at your destination. Personally, I suspect they've had those same bags on the carousel since 1968.
What? I loved that disclaimer. Anything that contained it got eaten by my mail filters.
For Acrobat there is DjVu
Get WinDAC you can set the sector offsets to start/stop ripping at (preview button to find the right place). I had one like this. Pain in the butt though. Ripping the tracks one at a time may work.
Back in the day, many college students had crates of Maxell or TDK high-bias tapes of albums. We bought blanks by the carton. Dorms and Frat houses would go in on a case and split it. Copying at 1x and plugging line in to line out was no deterrent then, and it isn't now. And now we have digital 'line' out and in.
I've heard so many bad rips/crappy compressors that it might not be an entirely bad thing if ripping went back to the technically astute. Aunt Minnie might be able to click a button and rip a CD with MusicMatch on the default settings, but that doesn't mean anyone would want to listen to the result.
I have plenty of Vinyl discs that are almost 50 years old. I fear they will outlast my CDs that are much newer. I have several CDs now that have a disturbing darkening [makes note to dig these out and rip them] and they have always been kept inside an air-conditioned building (unlike the Vinyl that has been in basements, in attics, and outside under a tarp!) A couple microns of Aluminum with a thin layer of lacquer to "protect" it is not an archival medium. We've covered this here before. There's a very real chance one could pull out a CD that hadn't been played in a while and find it had quietly died on the shelf.
I have nothing against CDs. I've got hundreds of 'em. Unless we're talking half-speed master audiophile albums, I prefer CDs. Just as I want to rip my Vinyl discs against their chance distruction (not to mention for convenience), I want to be able to rip my CDs against their ultimate demise. It is also important to me that I am able to move material that I have paid for to newer storage media. I'm sure our grandkids will find CDs as quaint as some find Vinyl or 8-track now.