First they attempt to litigate, but they don't get the 100 percent returns they want. Then they try and remove our rights through precedent. After they get tired of precedent they buy off some disney lawmakers. They make it illegal to even teach people how to circumvent technological countermeasures to remove our fair use.
Then through precedent, they make it illegal to link to pages which teach others how to circumvent technological countermeasures which remove our fair use.
They have found the best route to getting their way. Disney politicians who can be bought, as they were bought by enron.
We have got to change the american political structure. We must mandate 100% disclosure of personal monies and campaign contributions of all politically elected officials.
In the meantime, perhaps autohack-backs on DoS need to start getting spread around.
Who cares if you take down huge portions of the net, at least you'll get back at the RIAA for putting people like Britney Spears out there.
Why bother there already is such a thing at: http://opie.handhelds.org
No it's not a window manager but it is a small footprint gui, and there already are tons of projects which are useable w/it.
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Well... I'd say after disney got through with copyright law, it doesn't look a damn wit what it once did when it was originally created *cough*mickey*cough*
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Litigation is a tool for both the right and the left.
One can't dispute that many of those in the right have closer ties to "Big Business". However, if after the disclosures and monies distributed throughout congress (regardless of their political bent) doesn't wake people up to the fact that the screwed up US government needs some change then I truly am ashamed to be an american.
The DMCA and it's subsequent abuse is just a by-product. And, if it weren't for the DMCA in most cases the website would get just as threatening a letter just citing different laws and restrictions.
Not to say I endorse this ridiculous piece of tripe.... but if it weren't the dmca it would be some other silly acronym.
We needn't place signs at businesses that say, don't break in. We needn't place signs at our homes which say don't break in. And we needn't place telnet banners which say don't break in either.
This is not good for the very basics, as it does not explain to the user the use of not having services running, and penalizes them for not setting up services which are not even installed/running.
The telnet banner is ludicrous, as it won't stop anyone, and at the very least is a waste of that individuals time to change./etc/ftpusers does not need to be created if there is no ftpd installed. If you are not running anything under xinetd, this does not take that into account.
A plethora of other false security holes are given to the user, and if the user is ignorant enough would cause them to have to reconfigure useless services which aren't even installed on their systems.
Interesting ports on localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): (The 1552 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 22/tcp open ssh Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0 seconds ---- tar -zxvf cis-linux.tar.gz cd cis rpm -ivh CISscan-1.2.0-1.2.i386.rpm/usr/local/CIS/CISscan ------ Lets see... The only daemon I have installed, and running is SSH... the only account available is root... and it spits out this garbage?:
Final rating = 6.07 / 10.00
Lets try turning off ssh... and then doing it:
Final rating = 6.07 / 10.00
weeeelllll... so... with no daemons listening whatsoever, no ports open... no way in other than the keyboard I'm holding... and no user other than root....... this thing needs some tweaking...
Windows users want easy, they even compromise uptime for ease of use. There need to be ways for joe-sixpack to use a GUI to manage the "usual" functionality that users have come to expect in an OS.
There are programs which give more "dashboard" functionality, but more need to be added by default.
File Sharing (if not right click functionality than an easy to use way to mess with smb.conf, or exports)
Printer setup, and sharing (maybe an online database of up-to date url locations of "all" linux printer drivers.)
Standard Installation program (and standard program placement in the path, uninstallation features and a good program to manage all the programs installed.)
Wizards for everything.(that work.)
Interoperability w/visio and office XP(People use them, you know they do, they will send you things in ZP and visio formats, and you will need to read them.)
The average user will not have to know what/dev/null is, or what ifconfig does and if you want to grab the desktop market, you gotta give people a reason to install linux. (Free stuff isn't good enough when the free stuff is too confusing to get working by joe-sixpack)
Carrying cases will be designed of some sort, I mean... a thumbprint would cover the whole cd. Possibly the older encased CD design will become more popular with this format. Or perhaps we'll need to turn on the fan to get rid of the vapor in a few months. Who knows.
Because of the current revenue models involved in software sales copying software you COULD afford and WOULD purchase does cost a company money.
The distribution of a hundred copies of a piece of software to 8 year olds without computers doesn't hurt their company at all. Neither does 500,000 copies to the same category of 8 year olds. But if one of those 8 year olds happens to have a computer, and enough money to afford that piece of software AND the inclination to actually purchase it, there still isn't a guarantee that 8 year old would even KNOW about the product unless it was given to them. (read advertising->target audience)
Maybe that 8 year old would actually purchase that software AFTER he had already used a pirated copy of it. If so any of the "projected" losses have just become REAL gains.
So the REAL loss on 500,100 copies of software is actually a gain! But, if you ask that company (and they know of the 500,100 copies) they would say that they lost 500,100 units worth of revenue.
Who knows how much that same company saved in marketing for that kind of distribution.
TIVO!... how the hell are they going to stop people from using linux anyways?... it's not like they can just delete every copy of the source that someone has burned onto a CD.... and it's not like people are going to just uninstall it from their running servers... if this legislation gets passed I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of linux geeks will export themselves, or just ignore the legislation and continue doing what they've been doing all along.
Why is it being addicted to this medium is a BAD thing?... Yes evercrack and others do limit ones social abilities. But I have no problem staring at a pile of code for hours on end just looking for the end of the spaghetti.
You can always read a book. Oh wait, but if I read a book for more than 2 hours a day am I an addict!?... if I spill through 3-4 books a week, because I enjoy the escape, does it mean I'm addicted?
There is no incentive for me to read for X amount of hours. But in a game like evercrack (and every other MMORPG) the more you play, the more you advance. In order for people not to invest massive blocks of time into a MMORPG the game would have to be goal based, and not investment based. But even then, there would be the die-hards who play just for the escape. Again I say, because I play MOO2 for more than 2 hours at a time, am I an addict?
This is no where near what the wearable community has been able to create on their own. And all it seems to be, or will be as it is only a "dumb" terminal. (Not quite as dumb as we would all like to think, but stupid nonetheless) If it were running SA-Linux, and had a decent Microdrive, it would be a "cheap" (who knows how much they'll charge for this thing) alternative for a Linux laptop.
Imagine a compaq IPAQ w/vncviewer loaded on it, then give it a 10 inch monitor...
If I want a strong arm, I'll buy one that fits in my pocket... if I want a portable display, I'll buy a cyvisor.
Steve Mann is/was an avid member of the Wearhard group and his true work, and current technology is available in the wearhard archives: wearables.blu.org
Funny enough, just recently there was a thread in the wearhard articles regarding airport security: wearables.blu.org/wear-hard-02/20026352 .html
Steve Mann's home page is located here: www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann
This is frightening for someone who uses technology in much the same way as Steve, and I'm sure all members of the Wearable community are going to be thinking long and hard about this one...
the mudd developer mailing list is an excellent source of information on exactly this sort of topic... although not specifically regarding the STRATEGY portion of online gaming... most of the issues you have spoken of have already been resolved... take a look at the archives publicly available at https://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev
Up until recently the "supported" coverage of UPS/FedEX didn't cover my area in California, and it would take upwards of a week to get next day shipped items... I think the whole idea of "remote" location is a joke and they shouldn't get us in the boondocks pissed... I mean... we can always let our wild pirahna poodles loose on them if they don't ship us stuff on time.
who uses the word trustworthyness when dealing with computers? It's not like they can lie to you, or decieve you... they do what you tell them... or laugh at you and seg fault
You have obviously never tried to copy a PS1/PS2 game... the methods involved are either prohibitively difficult, or ridiculously expensive (in the case of DVD copying, especially with all the failures involved in getting it juuuust right for the PS2 to read it.)
Making backups of my own games is a hassle, and there should be proper means to do this. Copy protection of any kind is a farce, it prevents copies of any kind, including fair use copies to be made.
Even when using a DVD/CD for a long period of time will cause wear, using CD repair tools and Lens cleaners does decrease the need for all out replacements of cds... but what about clear cracks? scratches on the back of the cd/dvd?... these things happen, and it limits my ability to use MY product... I don't have to send my car back to the manufacturer if the paint gets scratched... nor do I have to send my computer back if there's a problem with a component.... Even if such things were necessary, I should at the very least be given the opportunity to have replacements shipped to me FREE of charge. Using a faulty, horrible, broken, and ugly system of reference would be the XP licensing scheme... something similar yet LESS intrusive could solve the whole problem with current copy protection, and move the point of failure from the hardware (CD/DVD protection) to a central license server of some sort, allowing as many backup copies as you'd like... just limiting your ability to use those licensed CDS at the same time. No the tech isn't there yet... (or maybe it is... ) but it could be the solution... or something similar
The large demand for Diesel fuel will always keep those countries in business, if it were cheaper to run Semi's on hydrogen... they would be run on hydrogen, since it isn't, these countries won't be out of business anytime soon. (Not to mention railways...)
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First they attempt to litigate, but they don't get the 100 percent returns they want. Then they try and remove our rights through precedent. After they get tired of precedent they buy off some disney lawmakers. They make it illegal to even teach people how to circumvent technological countermeasures to remove our fair use.
Then through precedent, they make it illegal to link to pages which teach others how to circumvent technological countermeasures which remove our fair use.
They have found the best route to getting their way. Disney politicians who can be bought, as they were bought by enron.
We have got to change the american political structure. We must mandate 100% disclosure of personal monies and campaign contributions of all politically elected officials.
In the meantime, perhaps autohack-backs on DoS need to start getting spread around.
Who cares if you take down huge portions of the net, at least you'll get back at the RIAA for putting people like Britney Spears out there.
Why bother there already is such a thing at:
http://opie.handhelds.org
No it's not a window manager but it is a small footprint gui, and there already are tons of projects which are useable w/it.
Well... I'd say after disney got through with copyright law, it doesn't look a damn wit what it once did when it was originally created *cough*mickey*cough*
Litigation is a tool for both the right and the left.
One can't dispute that many of those in the right have closer ties to "Big Business". However, if after the disclosures and monies distributed throughout congress (regardless of their political bent) doesn't wake people up to the fact that the screwed up US government needs some change then I truly am ashamed to be an american.
The DMCA and it's subsequent abuse is just a by-product. And, if it weren't for the DMCA in most cases the website would get just as threatening a letter just citing different laws and restrictions.
Not to say I endorse this ridiculous piece of tripe.... but if it weren't the dmca it would be some other silly acronym.
We needn't place signs at businesses that say, don't break in. We needn't place signs at our homes which say don't break in. And we needn't place telnet banners which say don't break in either.
This is not good for the very basics, as it does not explain to the user the use of not having services running, and penalizes them for not setting up services which are not even installed/running.
/etc/ftpusers does not need to be created if there is no ftpd installed. If you are not running anything under xinetd, this does not take that into account.
The telnet banner is ludicrous, as it won't stop anyone, and at the very least is a waste of that individuals time to change.
A plethora of other false security holes are given to the user, and if the user is ignorant enough would cause them to have to reconfigure useless services which aren't even installed on their systems.
enough said.
Interesting ports on localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): /usr/local/CIS/CISscan
(The 1552 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port State Service
22/tcp open ssh Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0 seconds
----
tar -zxvf cis-linux.tar.gz
cd cis
rpm -ivh CISscan-1.2.0-1.2.i386.rpm
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Lets see... The only daemon I have installed, and running is SSH... the only account available is root... and it spits out this garbage?:
Final rating = 6.07 / 10.00
Lets try turning off ssh... and then doing it:
Final rating = 6.07 / 10.00
weeeelllll... so... with no daemons listening whatsoever, no ports open... no way in other than the keyboard I'm holding... and no user other than root....... this thing needs some tweaking...
Do you ever think (within the near future) there will be a near-cognative AI?
Windows users want easy, they even compromise uptime for ease of use. There need to be ways for joe-sixpack to use a GUI to manage the "usual" functionality that users have come to expect in an OS.
/dev/null is, or what ifconfig does and if you want to grab the desktop market, you gotta give people a reason to install linux. (Free stuff isn't good enough when the free stuff is too confusing to get working by joe-sixpack)
There are programs which give more "dashboard" functionality, but more need to be added by default.
File Sharing (if not right click functionality than an easy to use way to mess with smb.conf, or exports)
Printer setup, and sharing (maybe an online database of up-to date url locations of "all" linux printer drivers.)
Standard Installation program (and standard program placement in the path, uninstallation features and a good program to manage all the programs installed.)
Wizards for everything.(that work.)
Interoperability w/visio and office XP(People use them, you know they do, they will send you things in ZP and visio formats, and you will need to read them.)
The average user will not have to know what
News at 11.
Carrying cases will be designed of some sort, I mean... a thumbprint would cover the whole cd. Possibly the older encased CD design will become more popular with this format. Or perhaps we'll need to turn on the fan to get rid of the vapor in a few months. Who knows.
Because of the current revenue models involved in software sales copying software you COULD afford and WOULD purchase does cost a company money. The distribution of a hundred copies of a piece of software to 8 year olds without computers doesn't hurt their company at all. Neither does 500,000 copies to the same category of 8 year olds. But if one of those 8 year olds happens to have a computer, and enough money to afford that piece of software AND the inclination to actually purchase it, there still isn't a guarantee that 8 year old would even KNOW about the product unless it was given to them. (read advertising->target audience) Maybe that 8 year old would actually purchase that software AFTER he had already used a pirated copy of it. If so any of the "projected" losses have just become REAL gains. So the REAL loss on 500,100 copies of software is actually a gain! But, if you ask that company (and they know of the 500,100 copies) they would say that they lost 500,100 units worth of revenue. Who knows how much that same company saved in marketing for that kind of distribution.
TIVO!... how the hell are they going to stop people from using linux anyways?... it's not like they can just delete every copy of the source that someone has burned onto a CD.... and it's not like people are going to just uninstall it from their running servers... if this legislation gets passed I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of linux geeks will export themselves, or just ignore the legislation and continue doing what they've been doing all along.
Why is it being addicted to this medium is a BAD thing?... Yes evercrack and others do limit ones social abilities. But I have no problem staring at a pile of code for hours on end just looking for the end of the spaghetti.
You can always read a book. Oh wait, but if I read a book for more than 2 hours a day am I an addict!?... if I spill through 3-4 books a week, because I enjoy the escape, does it mean I'm addicted?
There is no incentive for me to read for X amount of hours. But in a game like evercrack (and every other MMORPG) the more you play, the more you advance. In order for people not to invest massive blocks of time into a MMORPG the game would have to be goal based, and not investment based. But even then, there would be the die-hards who play just for the escape. Again I say, because I play MOO2 for more than 2 hours at a time, am I an addict?
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This is no where near what the wearable community has been able to create on their own. And all it seems to be, or will be as it is only a "dumb" terminal. (Not quite as dumb as we would all like to think, but stupid nonetheless) If it were running SA-Linux, and had a decent Microdrive, it would be a "cheap" (who knows how much they'll charge for this thing) alternative for a Linux laptop.
Imagine a compaq IPAQ w/vncviewer loaded on it, then give it a 10 inch monitor...
If I want a strong arm, I'll buy one that fits in my pocket... if I want a portable display, I'll buy a cyvisor.
Feinstein is a plebe... ... guess who:
her number 4 contributor of funds during 2002 was
DISNEY
Steve Mann is/was an avid member of the Wearhard group and his true work, and current technology is available in the wearhard archives: wearables.blu.org
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Funny enough, just recently there was a thread in the wearhard articles regarding airport security:
wearables.blu.org/wear-hard-02/2002635
Steve Mann's home page is located here:
www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann
This is frightening for someone who uses technology in much the same way as Steve, and I'm sure all members of the Wearable community are going to be thinking long and hard about this one...
the mudd developer mailing list is an excellent source of information on exactly this sort of topic... although not specifically regarding the STRATEGY portion of online gaming... most of the issues you have spoken of have already been resolved... take a look at the archives publicly available at https://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev
Worst 1st ammendment violation ever.
Never tell Katz you can't be quoted - that's one challenge you can be sure he'll take on.
funny enough... you'd figure a guy who pretends to be a journalist would at least pretend to cover his sources...
Up until recently the "supported" coverage of UPS/FedEX didn't cover my area in California, and it would take upwards of a week to get next day shipped items... I think the whole idea of "remote" location is a joke and they shouldn't get us in the boondocks pissed... I mean... we can always let our wild pirahna poodles loose on them if they don't ship us stuff on time.
One entry found for trustworthy.
/-[th]&-lE/ adverb
Main Entry: trustworthy
Pronunciation: 'tr&st-"w&r-[th]E
Function: adjective
Date: 1829
: worthy of confidence : DEPENDABLE
- trustworthily
- trustworthiness noun
And I thought ebonics was bad.... they can't even spell trustworthiness right.
who uses the word trustworthyness when dealing with computers? It's not like they can lie to you, or decieve you... they do what you tell them... or laugh at you and seg fault
You have obviously never tried to copy a PS1/PS2 game... the methods involved are either prohibitively difficult, or ridiculously expensive (in the case of DVD copying, especially with all the failures involved in getting it juuuust right for the PS2 to read it.)
.... Even if such things were necessary, I should at the very least be given the opportunity to have replacements shipped to me FREE of charge. Using a faulty, horrible, broken, and ugly system of reference would be the XP licensing scheme... something similar yet LESS intrusive could solve the whole problem with current copy protection, and move the point of failure from the hardware (CD/DVD protection) to a central license server of some sort, allowing as many backup copies as you'd like... just limiting your ability to use those licensed CDS at the same time. No the tech isn't there yet... (or maybe it is... ) but it could be the solution... or something similar
Making backups of my own games is a hassle, and there should be proper means to do this. Copy protection of any kind is a farce, it prevents copies of any kind, including fair use copies to be made.
Even when using a DVD/CD for a long period of time will cause wear, using CD repair tools and Lens cleaners does decrease the need for all out replacements of cds... but what about clear cracks? scratches on the back of the cd/dvd?... these things happen, and it limits my ability to use MY product... I don't have to send my car back to the manufacturer if the paint gets scratched... nor do I have to send my computer back if there's a problem with a component
The large demand for Diesel fuel will always keep those countries in business, if it were cheaper to run Semi's on hydrogen ... they would be run on hydrogen, since it isn't, these countries won't be out of business anytime soon. (Not to mention railways...)