I'm tired of old farts saying the OSS and/or the net is evil and dangerous.
For the RIAA, CIA, MS, SCO and all I got a message for you: You're old farts and your mindsets are out.
When they are not truly scared about something they can't understand they are FUDding for the survival of some old useless scheme in which they have personal interest in.
I've seen that movie, as well as a less entertaining and more informative european made documentary called "Le monde selon Bush" (the world according to Bush) and it's scary.
But even without those 2 productions, the whole planet beside the USA knew there was no link between Irak and the terrorists. The Hussein regime was a Laic totalitarian one and therefore it was absolutly and totally against any form of religious and fanatic movement. Hussein wasn't a good guy but the death toll on both sides of that war tell me that it is not a better world with him out of the way. As a canadian who have access to american, canadian and european tv, I did not see your journalists, your anchormen, your editorials questioning any single lie after another that was spread from that machievical government of yours. Being your neighbor is a scary thing when you see all this.
Your mass medias are suffering from a tremendous lack of thruth, they are all participating in a strange gruesome dance with the people occupying your White House and the fact that Bush has a chance of being re-elected scares me.
Take the word of someone who can see more sides of many stories, President Bush will be remembered as the worst ever of all who resided at the White House.
The Republican party knows very well that all americans are still under the shock of the events of semptember 2001 and it keeps bringing back that gruesome memory while making you believe they only can handle it. With the july 2001 Security report President Bush had everything in hand to stop this attack but he didn't, he proved his incompetence right there and the fact that his party use this event as their main drive is both hilarious and scary. For this you have to see Fahrenheit 9/11 to have more details, it is at your reach and I tell you that you will make yourself a really big favor listening to it.
But there is another way to put it too... let's go with some numbers...
In the last 4 years in the USA
2 000 000 people died of Cancer
170 000 people died of car accidents
44 000 people died of gun shots
3 000 people died of terrorism
(numbers for cancer and car accidents come from rapid searches made with Google)
(car numbers are 2002 numbers multiplied by 4) http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%20sectio n/st atistics/stats-usa_indiv-states_per-capita_2002.ht m
(Cancer numbers come from this site:) http://www.u-turn.net/9-1/skeptical.shtml
(Gun shot deaths comes from what I remember from the movie Bowling for Columbine)
(Terrorism death toll come from an imprecise memory but close enough (mine) of one particular event in 2001).
After looking at these numbers, can you sincerely tell me that you will still put security and terrorism at the very first of your priorities?
And even if it was the most important thing, the Bush administration made such a mess of Iraq that it will take decades to clean up. With such a hard task in sight you better show the door to the ones who made this mess and let the others deal with it with more wisdom.
I read the articles, I am a programmer, not a lawyer and I understand, especially the comments PJ serves just before attaching the documents, the legalease documents are more there to sustain PJ analysis, you go through if you don't believe PJ on a point.
But you're right, maybe instead of saying "Groklaw had it first!" I should have asked "Why did you quote the clueless Internetnews journalist instead of PJ?", maybe you would have understanded me better.
First, Groklaw is made by a legalease for non-legalease.
Second, althought I pointed out the fact that it wasn't breaking news, I was more complaining about the work of the journalist at internetnews.com which did not dig a single thing out of the content of some press releases.
This total lack of professionalism from journalists is the reason why SCO was able to get so much money from investors to make those stupid lawsuits.
It's also for the same reason that Bush could lie so much and so long about the reasons for a war in Iraq.
This lack of professionalism from journalists maybe induced by poor leadership in the mainstream medias but I still consider it about being the worse flaw of the free world with enormous consequences.
1994, college student project: Someone I know with some of her co-students wanted to collate scenes from a variety of movies for their project. They took the whole night choosing and noting the timings of all the scenes they wanted to add but duh!... because of MacroVision, they couldn't use about half of the scenes, it basically messed their timing real bad with the music they chosed. They called me for help cause I was a tech who know howto edit movies, but when I got to their studios I couldn't get my hand on a Macrovision circumventing device at the time, it was physically impossible.
Those kids were denied their right to express themselves the way they wanted. All that was in the way was that stoopid corporative waste byproduct, the DRM technology.
You find the iRiver ugly??? I'm sorry not to agree with you, cheap plastic design "A La Apple" is definitivly not the norm in my book, actually the iRiver looks nicer than anything that was made by Apple. (Did my french head got the right "than" this time?).
What keeps me off Windows is mainly because I don't want to be locked-up in some savage immoral decommoditizing scheme.
The practice of scrambling and obfuscating the standards to insure the failure of the competition is so much a threat to my eyes that losing some compatibility and some discutable features for not dealing with this is more then acceptable.
Death to close source, death to DRMs, long live the Open Source.
WARNING: "New Bittorrent link" MD5SUM mismatch I downloaded the iso file using WaZiX' link and the result iso file got a md5sum of 49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f for the file KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso
And the official mirror sites Purdue, tp.gwdg.de, sunsite and some others publish a MD5SUM of 8e9cd4d310ad8381d1ec3326c6caae2b for the file KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso
If ever you are asking yourselves if I did get mixed up between.DE.iso and.EN.iso or between 3.3 and 3.4: I did not (maybe the providential provider did, I don't know).
So I'm stopping my BitTorrent client right now just in case it's some malware of any form.
I'm trying to download it but BitTorrent stucks at "connecting to peers (0.0%)" and it's been like this for the last 20 hours, I did many attempts to restart the btdownloadcurse.py app. This is happenning at home where I know that the necessary ports are open as well as it is happening at work. From both places I used to do some transfers (although at work I never did understand how my client got through the company firewall to upload but it did).
To make things short: My BitTorrent client used to work but it doesn't with Knoppix 3.4, is there anyone with the same problem out there?
It say some good points about Linux which is nice but it also vehiculate all FUDS about it too...
So much of them that I'm not sure that in the balance it is so nice. Think of any FUD you heard about Linux, the article mention it without really giving real figures.
This problem touchs only 1 kind of people.
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The Paradox of Choice
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I've seen one professor talking about the problem of having too much choices (I think it was the author of this book) and he was clear about something, it only is a problem for one type of people; those who are not satisfied with their choice until they absolutly know for sure they made the best choice. Those with a "good is good enough for me" mentality do not have any problem with too many choices.
Encrypted WMAs do not work on my linux box Encrypted WMAs do not work on my personal MP3 CD player Encrypted WMAs do not work on my MP3 CD Player in the living room.
If I need MP3 why are they keeping trying to sell something else?
Most of the music industry hates the MP3 standard because they cannot count each time a song is listened to with it, they have rights over copying and they want to count each time a song is copied from a medium to ram for play. This is ridicoulous. To stay in business they want to difform the spirit of an old law.
At least they understand at warp records: http://www.warprecords.com/bleep/
I got my cable-modem 5 years ago in Montreal and it was quite a new thing in Montreal. At the time I was hitting 350KBytes/sec (KBytes, not Kbits) for download and upload with good servers or close friends. But a few months later they limited the bandwith for uploads... down to 20KBytes/sec.
I sent a complaint and was answered swiftly with some really polite excuses but that's it. I could still download at 350KBytes/sec (about 70 to 100 times faster then conventional modems) but when it came to sending anything it was 20KB/sec (about 4 to 7 times faster then conventional modems).
When came the time to be hosting internet games I could not provide enough bandwith then for more then 4 players without starting to feel some lag going on. Same occured when I tried to host a voice server.
Somehow Internet habits have changed so now they made the limit at 40KB/sec but it's too late for me, I got bored with gaming.
You're right, it's a different company now, but I remember clearly reading "macrovision technology by Macromedia" in old videos, they used to be the same company. I got some old videos and I'll find proof this evening and I'll post it here somehow.
Slashdot Mirror
I listened to it and well...
it's a bit creepy, although it could reflect how I sometimes feel in the middle of the Christmas rush.
I'm tired of old farts saying the OSS and/or the net is evil and dangerous.
For the RIAA, CIA, MS, SCO and all I got a message for you: You're old farts and your mindsets are out.
When they are not truly scared about something they can't understand they are FUDding for the survival of some old useless scheme in which they have personal interest in.
There are people trying hard to counter any of it...i ndex.ph p
http://www.michaelmoore.com/electionwatch/
Dear americans
o n/st atistics/stats-usa_indiv-states_per-capita_2002.ht m
I've seen that movie, as well as a less entertaining and more informative european made documentary called "Le monde selon Bush" (the world according to Bush) and it's scary.
But even without those 2 productions, the whole planet beside the USA knew there was no link between Irak and the terrorists. The Hussein regime was a Laic totalitarian one and therefore it was absolutly and totally against any form of religious and fanatic movement. Hussein wasn't a good guy but the death toll on both sides of that war tell me that it is not a better world with him out of the way. As a canadian who have access to american, canadian and european tv, I did not see your journalists, your anchormen, your editorials questioning any single lie after another that was spread from that machievical government of yours. Being your neighbor is a scary thing when you see all this.
Your mass medias are suffering from a tremendous lack of thruth, they are all participating in a strange gruesome dance with the people occupying your White House and the fact that Bush has a chance of being re-elected scares me.
Take the word of someone who can see more sides of many stories, President Bush will be remembered as the worst ever of all who resided at the White House.
The Republican party knows very well that all americans are still under the shock of the events of semptember 2001 and it keeps bringing back that gruesome memory while making you believe they only can handle it. With the july 2001 Security report President Bush had everything in hand to stop this attack but he didn't, he proved his incompetence right there and the fact that his party use this event as their main drive is both hilarious and scary. For this you have to see Fahrenheit 9/11 to have more details, it is at your reach and I tell you that you will make yourself a really big favor listening to it.
But there is another way to put it too... let's go with some numbers...
In the last 4 years in the USA
2 000 000 people died of Cancer
170 000 people died of car accidents
44 000 people died of gun shots
3 000 people died of terrorism
(numbers for cancer and car accidents come from rapid searches made with Google)
(car numbers are 2002 numbers multiplied by 4)
http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%20secti
(Cancer numbers come from this site:)
http://www.u-turn.net/9-1/skeptical.shtml
(Gun shot deaths comes from what I remember from the movie Bowling for Columbine)
(Terrorism death toll come from an imprecise memory but close enough (mine) of one particular event in 2001).
After looking at these numbers, can you sincerely tell me that you will still put security and terrorism at the very first of your priorities?
And even if it was the most important thing, the Bush administration made such a mess of Iraq that it will take decades to clean up. With such a hard task in sight you better show the door to the ones who made this mess and let the others deal with it with more wisdom.
What would have happened to Scratch music if LPs at the time that it was popular had any DRM on them?
What other kind of Art Genre was lost in the void because of MacroVision, DVDcss and other DRMs?
DRMs are false solutions to false problems and it should be illegal to use it over any cultural content.
What would have happened to Scratch music if LPs at the time that it was popular had any DRM on them?
What other kind of Art Genre was lost in the void because of MacroVision, DVDcss and other DRMs?
DRMs are false solutions to false problems and it should be illegal to use it over any cultural content.
This journalist had personnally picked this press release, signed it and re-release it (publicize it would be more accurate).
Does he mention anywhere that IBM is keeping mum? Did he really try to get IBM' side?
And you said it, "This sort of journalism" as if you recognize that something smell bad in it.
I read the articles, I am a programmer, not a lawyer and I understand, especially the comments PJ serves just before attaching the documents, the legalease documents are more there to sustain PJ analysis, you go through if you don't believe PJ on a point.
But you're right, maybe instead of saying "Groklaw had it first!" I should have asked "Why did you quote the clueless Internetnews journalist instead of PJ?", maybe you would have understanded me better.
First, Groklaw is made by a legalease for non-legalease.
Second, althought I pointed out the fact that it wasn't breaking news, I was more complaining about the work of the journalist at internetnews.com which did not dig a single thing out of the content of some press releases.
This total lack of professionalism from journalists is the reason why SCO was able to get so much money from investors to make those stupid lawsuits.
It's also for the same reason that Bush could lie so much and so long about the reasons for a war in Iraq.
This lack of professionalism from journalists maybe induced by poor leadership in the mainstream medias but I still consider it about being the worse flaw of the free world with enormous consequences.
And again, it's another journalist who repeat like a parrot SCO' press release without digging a little bit... annoying.
1994, college student project: Someone I know with some of her co-students wanted to collate scenes from a variety of movies for their project. They took the whole night choosing and noting the timings of all the scenes they wanted to add but duh!... because of MacroVision, they couldn't use about half of the scenes, it basically messed their timing real bad with the music they chosed. They called me for help cause I was a tech who know howto edit movies, but when I got to their studios I couldn't get my hand on a Macrovision circumventing device at the time, it was physically impossible.
Those kids were denied their right to express themselves the way they wanted. All that was in the way was that stoopid corporative waste byproduct, the DRM technology.
You find the iRiver ugly???
I'm sorry not to agree with you, cheap plastic design "A La Apple" is definitivly not the norm in my book, actually the iRiver looks nicer than anything that was made by Apple. (Did my french head got the right "than" this time?).
P.S.: can't wait to be able to buy one myself!
Then, than...
it's all sound the same for my french ears
What keeps me off Windows is mainly because I don't want to be
locked-up in some savage immoral decommoditizing scheme.
The practice of scrambling and obfuscating the standards to insure
the failure of the competition is so much a threat to my eyes that
losing some compatibility and some discutable features for not dealing
with this is more then acceptable.
Death to close source, death to DRMs, long live the Open Source.
That's a cheap strategy to make believe that free (as in beer) software would be unsustainable in the future.
It's cheap and ridiculous.
She is just trying to reach you and understand you more.
What it probably means is this: Take her out more often then just once a year you geek!
WARNING: "New Bittorrent link" MD5SUM mismatch
.DE.iso and .EN.iso or between 3.3 and 3.4: I did not (maybe the providential
I downloaded the iso file using WaZiX' link
and the result iso file got a md5sum of
49a62cdac7a3afcee0d2d47ea17daa6f
for the file
KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso
And the official mirror sites Purdue, tp.gwdg.de,
sunsite and some others publish a MD5SUM of
8e9cd4d310ad8381d1ec3326c6caae2b
for the file
KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso
If ever you are asking yourselves if I did get mixed up between
provider did, I don't know).
So I'm stopping my BitTorrent client right now
just in case it's some malware of any form.
I'm trying to download it but BitTorrent stucks at "connecting to peers (0.0%)" and it's been like this for the last 20 hours, I did many attempts to restart the btdownloadcurse.py app.
This is happenning at home where I know that the necessary ports are open as well as it is happening at work. From both places I used to do some transfers (although at work I never did understand how my client got through the company firewall to upload but it did).
To make things short: My BitTorrent client used to work but it doesn't with Knoppix 3.4, is there anyone with the same problem out there?
It say some good points about Linux which is nice but it also vehiculate all FUDS about it too...
So much of them that I'm not sure that in the balance it is so nice. Think of any FUD you heard about Linux, the article mention it without really giving real figures.
I've seen one professor talking about the problem
of having too much choices (I think it was the author of this book) and he was clear about
something, it only is a problem for one type of people; those who are not satisfied with their choice until they absolutly know for sure they made the best choice. Those with a "good is good enough for me" mentality do not have any problem with too many choices.
Encrypted WMAs do not work on my linux box
Encrypted WMAs do not work on my personal MP3 CD player
Encrypted WMAs do not work on my MP3 CD Player in the living room.
If I need MP3 why are they keeping trying to sell something else?
Most of the music industry hates the MP3 standard because they cannot count each time a song is listened to with it, they have rights over copying and they want to count each time a song is copied from a medium to ram for play. This is ridicoulous. To stay in business they want to difform the spirit of an old law.
At least they understand at warp records:
http://www.warprecords.com/bleep/
That's not insightful, it's Flamebait
The Hauppauge PVR350 is an affordable Mpeg2 hardware encoder
installing ivtv driver (for your hauppauge) is a pain in the neck but once done it's the most stable thing I ever saw.
For programming your TV shows (hear some drum rolls): the "at" program with some personal bash scripts
bash> at 23:00
sh> tvrecord60 37
sh>
job 114 at 23:00...
I got my cable-modem 5 years ago in Montreal and it was quite a new thing in Montreal. At the time I was hitting 350KBytes/sec (KBytes, not Kbits) for download and upload with good servers or close friends. But a few months later they limited the bandwith for uploads... down to 20KBytes/sec.
I sent a complaint and was answered swiftly with some really polite excuses but that's it. I could still download at 350KBytes/sec (about 70 to 100 times faster then conventional modems) but when it came to sending anything it was 20KB/sec (about 4 to 7 times faster then conventional modems).
When came the time to be hosting internet games I could not provide enough bandwith then for more then 4 players without starting to feel some lag going on. Same occured when I tried to host a voice server.
Somehow Internet habits have changed so now they made the limit at 40KB/sec but it's too late for me, I got bored with gaming.
Corporate decisions sucks.
You're right, it's a different company now, but I remember clearly reading "macrovision technology by Macromedia" in old videos, they used to be the same company. I got some old videos and I'll find proof this evening and I'll post it here somehow.