1.Dimitry will not face any charges, nor will have a felony record.
2.Since this is not a case of testifying against Elmsoft, this means that a challenge to the DMCA is still possible, with a legitimate corporation with relatively large coffers defending itself.
So really, the tech-culture gets its day in court without any criminal reprecussions and we get a constitutional challenge to a very unconstitutional law.
I've seen your website and it almost seems as if you take every ounce of what is African in you and ignore it. It's OK not to be a cog in a wheel. It's not ok to ignore what is Black in you. Like your skin, or your family for two.
I hate to agree with the last guy as he is a complete idiot. The high school philosophy of who's better and who is not is pretty sad. I love the United States as much as anyone, but it doesn't mean that I can't appreciate our neighbors to the north and their importance to our economy and cultrue.
*However*
A trade deficit with a country usually means that the country with the deficit is buying more goods than it is shipping out, and is not indicative of dependence on another country but more indicative of deep pockets (or at least established credit).
By the way. The trade deficit of the US is down to it's lowest level in nine years. The market did not take this as good news. Why? Because it means that US citizens pockets just got a little shallower.
Acutally, my pc(s) have turned into a cost effective solution of getting expensive media equipment. For instance, I've got an 900mhz athlon proc on a 10x dvd player that serves as my linux box. We set up our monitor in our living room and I have the boxen hidden in a small entertainment center. MP3's are loaded into the XMMS and then played on my stereo system. That the whole setup cost me less than 300 USD (without the monitor. the monitor I already owned. ) Funny thing is, I tried this first on my windows box. didn't work. DVD kept stalling and couldn't produce frames fast enough. After a recompile on my Linux box, it was great.
What i'd really like is some info on a good streaming media format to utilize this "home theater anywhre in my home (i'm already networked)
I agree. However, the vision of these corporations is to make the passport, or their standard of it a form of currency, where your very credentials offer you a line of credit. Sort of like Blade Runner currency or Star Trek credits. We're looking at this from the wrong side. It's scary. Very scary to think that a passport or any other authentication service could become the de-facto standard for purchasing online. The credit companies already have this in line. How many places require a credit card to purchase and won't even accept cash? More and more these days. I don't even carry cash in my wallet. My visa(passport) card is my ticket to goods and services.
In a related article, a new copyright protection form is in place. The Music industry is now distributing music in an old IBM mainframe. In order to listen to music, a certified IBM mechanic will come and set up one sound file in machine code to play on your personal mainframe.
"We need to do this in order to change the way people listen to music. Their behaviors." Mr Noam complained. "Those who can't fit a IBM in their boxes will have to come up to corporate headcquarters to listen to music in our RIAA muzak devices, or rent space at a cafe and listen to the Jukebox"
When asked if people would take to the idea of a IBM technician with a plummer's crack coming into their homes to play only one song, Mr. Noam stated, " We have a picture of a guy who looks pretty happy with his IBM MonoSound system. He's happy! Doesn't he look happy to you?"
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/collage.htm l
This is great! Until software manufacturers decide that in order to purchase their software you will have to "click through" it at the store by prohibiting sale without a EULA at the checkout line. Simple to implement and a mere formalilty, like signing your credit card.
I'm sorry It's taken time for me to get to you. I don't have much time after 830 EST to reply. I'm at home w/family. But to clarify, it is a play on words and most get it right off..
Let people be free - - this is offering an invitation to leave people alone you know the whole invisible hand thing the lassaiz faire (forgive the spelling) to let people be free to do what the want.
Inother words, if people don't want to be hampered by compiling their kernel to get their new scanner to work, or to install modules to get their modem to work, let them. Let them be free from insults or attacks on their intelligence or their humanity just because they do not support the same cause as others. Let them be free to stay at home and be a mom, to be a doctor, to believe in god or believe in nothing. Don't harass someone who knows less than you. I find technology less significant in my life as I find other interests. I still love it, and many hours are infront of a screen. however, I don't oblgate my wife, my family my friends or coworkers to feel the same. Nor do I look down on those who do not. That's what I mean by being free from technology. I love tech far more than the average joe but I don't think that gives me the right to make others have my passion. A lot on slashdot and other forums seem bent on a Tech holy war. Technology is for man and not man for technology. and if given a choice, I would choose mankind everytime.
I i repeat. in a different way Let others be free to live their lives without a passion for technology and let technology work for them. I hope that explains a little...
It's just like going shopping for your wife and getting her a digital camera beacuse *she really needs it* and you end up using it all the time. The gift, or the donation is really for you. Only you benefit for it.
I find it hard to believe that donating a bunch of windows software and hardware to communities on a limited basis is going to resurrect the BeOS, put Sun back on the line as the company of the internet or put money into developing better products for less money for billions of people. This think of the children ploy is as transparent as those "feed the children in 3rd world country" foundations. Most of the money goes to to the Not for profit administrator and a scant few cents actually makes it past the us border.
NPR had a report on this eariler today regarding this
"Terahertz" chip. It seems both IBM and AMD had developed this technology and Intel snubbed it, citing that it was to expensive to implement. There is nothing breakthrough about "fast switching" electrons, just the fact that INTEL released a press story about it makes it interesting. Ho hum
That are given to offer an incentive to produce a product. I have no problem with Universities patenting research for funding. There's no way my paltry tuition can pay for the sonet ring around my campus, or the high end multiprocessing computers that seem to be in abundance (BYU). I do however take exception to the idea that the HUMAN genetic code can be licensed and sold. I don't see a problem with that researcher going on his own in his spare time and developing an alternate free source for his genetics program. However, if it is the work of many interested parties, (corporations, individual students and university admin, then it's just up to each person to do what they are able on their own. No one who is in open source makes software on company time and expects to give it away for free. In general, a researcher is employed by the university, on this specific case, however, he has them by the hoary beard, because they agreed to a contract that his work would be open, as solid as a contract if he would have had to patent all his work
sorry, but dna is not exactly life. It's sort of like saying "what if a bunch of sugary acid got together and turned sour?" all the sweet stuff in the world would be in danger! No more Mountain Dew or Coffee! What about jelly donuts? Bedlam! chaos! The price of kerplatz skyrocktets (apologies to daffy duck {the scarlet pumpernickel})
DNA are heredetary databases used to make genes, used to make protiens, used to make cells, used to make organisms, used to make multi organ system organisms ad nauseum. the chances of DNA taking over the world are less than a bunch of worms rising up ruling.
Unfortunately by analyzing all the dna contained in the test-tube the only answer the earth DNA computer ever gave was 41.496 or 98.8% of 42.
Palestinian scientists, not to be undone began an RNA computer which would give the question to the enigmatic answer of 42.
Unfortunately, the RNA computer was considered to be a circumvention of a DNA copyrighted device and the DNAMCA (DNA millenium copyright act) was invoked to assasinate the bioterroists and destroy their technology. to prevent unauthorized cracking of the DNA code
This isn't surprising if you are not mission critical
Where I live, I waited for broadband for two years. During that two years, I've seen download caps, bandwidth restrictions, disallowing of multiple IP addresses as well as privacy intruding features of ISPs RIAA and the federal govt. People who actively seed back doors if you actually UTILIZE the bandwidth that you pay for. Plus the qos stinks. nothing out there is worth it. Sure you may be able to vid-conference, but with whom? Watch movies over the web? Not until the entertainment industry pulls out of their litigation. I only surf a total of about 10 websites. And I need broadband for this?
I always said that anyone is a fool to pay for dialup. not I extend that. Anyone is a fool to pay for internet service. Broadband is useless in any applicable sense these days, and dialup is not a premium. Maybe this whole lousy ISP dynamic will collapse and be replaced by community networks. That would be golden, and something that I would pay for. Instead of paying corporations to tell me how much and what I should download and what I should use my property for.
Just a thought. Although this is something that should be brought up. Not all poor are gang-bangers and not all gang-bangers are poor. This community seems to be mixing the two together.
For example. I could be poor and not in a gang. This program does not apply to me. This applies to those that are rehabilitating gang members.
Other example. I could be a suburban punk who joins the gang out of rebellion, boredom or evil intentions. This program does apply to me.
Welfare programs may not be applicable. Rehab progams are not for poor people they are for criminals! Big difference. But this is not about poor actually. I would think this community should be able to separate classes from each other. Anyway. anything that keeps these punks from out of the loop and learning something is good. Web Devel could be a gateway to other things. Not all will take to it, but some will just like we did. Saying that it will be a great success or a great failure is premature and a failure to think critically.
I'm a gadget fool and I got a Dimension 8100 with the P4 the weekend they came out. I paid 2000 basically to say that I got a P4. I'll never buy Dell again. I got a lousy vid card, TNT2 64 a soundblaster Value, Windows ME(They would NOT install Linux), and with a 1 year nbd and 3 years tech support, they've not done a thing to help me out. The PC makers wonder why they can't keep business. It's because people are sick of the high prices for lousy equipment. I tell everyon I know to go local and I even pick up some business myself. Once I needed to know the keystroke to reset the BIOS (dell proprietary) and they said they wouldn't support it because my modem wasn't Dell Hardware. I didn't even want their help. The prices they charge for a winmodem is outrageous. 50 for a soft-modem! They've lost their perspective. Dell claims that they are the best beause they have custom systems. They're systems are no more customizable than DEC back in the win95 craze.
Think of a world where as a person you get a ISO or a DRM number that is like a catalog of people similar to SSN but on a world-wide basis. For any work that you have ever done or will do, there is an DRM associated with it. you have a patent for yourself to work tied to your skills, physical identity,(dna) etc. Now instead of you going to a job and getting benefits, or a consistent wage, the employer only has to purchase your rights through your ISO number and request your services. This can be to your benefit, unless because of your high demand you engage in anti-competetive practices and the govt. forces you to work for people in sort of a corporate digital slavery.
Not plausible? You are already managed digitally in your company by an employee number. A check is digitally sent to your acct. through a number in a bank. Your personal information could be easily but into a couple gigs of info to be sold to the highest bidder or rented out at a reasonable price, without you lifting a finger to help or stop it.
Instead of reading 1984, you should really read Orwell's commentary. It states some thins that really need to be addressed.
1. There is supposed to be a state of constant war. Orwell states that this constant war is used to keep the people nationallistcally proud of their country, while suffering privations for the "war effort" Remember the theory that the bombs were dropped by Oceana itself (not suggesting in any way that the terroists were not responsible just emphasiszing that in order for docility there needs to be a constant anxiety about war)? The constant state of war also lends people to worry about the nessecities of war and not the niceties of freedom and comfort.
2. Every citizen a criminal. The only way to keep people in check was to criminalize everything, down to thought. The understanding is that if you can be caught at anything, you will watch everything that you do or say. If posting negative comments about the party (Bill Maher) got you tortured or killed, you'd be likely not to speak out. If thinking ill about the party could get you busted by the goon squad, then you would even fear yourself.
3. The most frightening thing about taking away liberties is that it is a slippery slope. Remember that once the Party had a modicum of power, it's only goal was power. Soon after a few generation, there would be no thoughtcrime or punishment, because man would cease to be man in any recognisable sense. In other words, there would be no thought as we know it and so no thought crime. Today it's internet, tv and newspapers, tomorrow it's your desktop, the day after, your home and in a few years, your children have no concept of home. Scary. All too real.
What we need to do is make a conscious decision to effectively protest this crime against America and technology by having a "Tech out" like if this gets passed that we just do our jobs like normal, but when we get home, don't sit in front of the screen. I know that's a lot to ask of people who live and breath by the I/O but there has to be an effective voice to speak out against our liberties getting trampled on in the name of freedom. As too often is the case, we are conscientious objectors with no active participation until there is no protection in place to allow participation. It happened to a very civilized Germany, It happened in Afghanistan, it happened in the former Soviet Union, it most certainly could happen here.
Actuamally, the federal funds to build the nations superhighways are explicitly tied to both speed limit laws and seatbelt laws. Only recently with the GOP in power did those laws become lax, which is why you see states given the leeway to set their speed limits and seat belt laws. But don't think that those limits aren't still tacitly tied to govt. funds.
Richard said that supercomputing power could come in handy for certain tasks, like converting large video files from one format to another, that currently take a good amount of patience.
Any one else notice that this seems to be a very elaborate (and expensive) project just to bootleg encrypted DVDs?
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This actually means two things
1.Dimitry will not face any charges, nor will have a felony record.
2.Since this is not a case of testifying against Elmsoft, this means that a challenge to the DMCA is still possible, with a legitimate corporation with relatively large coffers defending itself.
So really, the tech-culture gets its day in court without any criminal reprecussions and we get a constitutional challenge to a very unconstitutional law.
Way to go, DOJ, I knew you were on our side!
This reminds me of Eddie Murphy's coming to America and that guy who's hamberger resturant was named "McDowells"
"See, they have the "Big Mac" we have the "Big Mic". They have Golden Arches, we have Golden Arcs."
Intriguingly, some people (37%) have an extra chunk of DNA in chromosome 20 and could have an extra copy of a specific gene of unknown function
Make way for homo superior
Cant wait till my kids start manifesting the X FACTOR
I've seen your website and it almost seems as if you take every ounce of what is African in you and ignore it. It's OK not to be a cog in a wheel. It's not ok to ignore what is Black in you. Like your skin, or your family for two.
nibasm@hotmail.com
I hate to agree with the last guy as he is a complete idiot. The high school philosophy of who's better and who is not is pretty sad. I love the United States as much as anyone, but it doesn't mean that I can't appreciate our neighbors to the north and their importance to our economy and cultrue.
*However*
A trade deficit with a country usually means that the country with the deficit is buying more goods than it is shipping out, and is not indicative of dependence on another country but more indicative of deep pockets (or at least established credit).
By the way. The trade deficit of the US is down to it's lowest level in nine years. The market did not take this as good news. Why? Because it means that US citizens pockets just got a little shallower.
Acutally, my pc(s) have turned into a cost effective solution of getting expensive media equipment. For instance, I've got an 900mhz athlon proc on a 10x dvd player that serves as my linux box. We set up our monitor in our living room and I have the boxen hidden in a small entertainment center. MP3's are loaded into the XMMS and then played on my stereo system. That the whole setup cost me less than 300 USD (without the monitor. the monitor I already owned. ) Funny thing is, I tried this first on my windows box. didn't work. DVD kept stalling and couldn't produce frames fast enough. After a recompile on my Linux box, it was great.
What i'd really like is some info on a good streaming media format to utilize this "home theater anywhre in my home (i'm already networked)
I agree. However, the vision of these corporations is to make the passport, or their standard of it a form of currency, where your very credentials offer you a line of credit. Sort of like Blade Runner currency or Star Trek credits. We're looking at this from the wrong side. It's scary. Very scary to think that a passport or any other authentication service could become the de-facto standard for purchasing online. The credit companies already have this in line. How many places require a credit card to purchase and won't even accept cash? More and more these days. I don't even carry cash in my wallet. My visa(passport) card is my ticket to goods and services.
great- even more spyware to collect my personal data and raise the purchase cost based on my demographics and browsing habits.
Are we looking in the window and not seeing the diference between the pigs and the humans?
(reference to G. Orwell's Animal Farm)
that was chrysalis, and yes, that game rocked
In a related article, a new copyright protection form is in place. The Music industry is now distributing music in an old IBM mainframe. In order to listen to music, a certified IBM mechanic will come and set up one sound file in machine code to play on your personal mainframe.
m l
"We need to do this in order to change the way people listen to music. Their behaviors." Mr Noam complained. "Those who can't fit a IBM in their boxes will have to come up to corporate headcquarters to listen to music in our RIAA muzak devices, or rent space at a cafe and listen to the Jukebox"
When asked if people would take to the idea of a IBM technician with a plummer's crack coming into their homes to play only one song, Mr. Noam stated, " We have a picture of a guy who looks pretty happy with his IBM MonoSound system. He's happy! Doesn't he look happy to you?"
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/collage.ht
This is great! Until software manufacturers decide that in order to purchase their software you will have to "click through" it at the store by prohibiting sale without a EULA at the checkout line. Simple to implement and a mere formalilty, like signing your credit card.
I'm sorry It's taken time for me to get to you. I don't have much time after 830 EST to reply. I'm at home w/family. But to clarify, it is a play on words and most get it right off..
Let people be free - - this is offering an invitation to leave people alone you know the whole invisible hand thing the lassaiz faire (forgive the spelling) to let people be free to do what the want.
Inother words, if people don't want to be hampered by compiling their kernel to get their new scanner to work, or to install modules to get their modem to work, let them. Let them be free from insults or attacks on their intelligence or their humanity just because they do not support the same cause as others. Let them be free to stay at home and be a mom, to be a doctor, to believe in god or believe in nothing. Don't harass someone who knows less than you. I find technology less significant in my life as I find other interests. I still love it, and many hours are infront of a screen. however, I don't oblgate my wife, my family my friends or coworkers to feel the same. Nor do I look down on those who do not. That's what I mean by being free from technology. I love tech far more than the average joe but I don't think that gives me the right to make others have my passion. A lot on slashdot and other forums seem bent on a Tech holy war. Technology is for man and not man for technology. and if given a choice, I would choose mankind everytime.
I i repeat. in a different way Let others be free to live their lives without a passion for technology and let technology work for them. I hope that explains a little...
It's just like going shopping for your wife and getting her a digital camera beacuse *she really needs it* and you end up using it all the time. The gift, or the donation is really for you. Only you benefit for it.
I find it hard to believe that donating a bunch of windows software and hardware to communities on a limited basis is going to resurrect the BeOS, put Sun back on the line as the company of the internet or put money into developing better products for less money for billions of people. This think of the children ploy is as transparent as those "feed the children in 3rd world country" foundations. Most of the money goes to to the Not for profit administrator and a scant few cents actually makes it past the us border.
what a joke
NPR had a report on this eariler today regarding this
"Terahertz" chip. It seems both IBM and AMD had developed this technology and Intel snubbed it, citing that it was to expensive to implement. There is nothing breakthrough about "fast switching" electrons, just the fact that INTEL released a press story about it makes it interesting. Ho hum
That are given to offer an incentive to produce a product. I have no problem with Universities patenting research for funding. There's no way my paltry tuition can pay for the sonet ring around my campus, or the high end multiprocessing computers that seem to be in abundance (BYU). I do however take exception to the idea that the HUMAN genetic code can be licensed and sold. I don't see a problem with that researcher going on his own in his spare time and developing an alternate free source for his genetics program. However, if it is the work of many interested parties, (corporations, individual students and university admin, then it's just up to each person to do what they are able on their own. No one who is in open source makes software on company time and expects to give it away for free. In general, a researcher is employed by the university, on this specific case, however, he has them by the hoary beard, because they agreed to a contract that his work would be open, as solid as a contract if he would have had to patent all his work
sorry, but dna is not exactly life. It's sort of like saying "what if a bunch of sugary acid got together and turned sour?" all the sweet stuff in the world would be in danger! No more Mountain Dew or Coffee! What about jelly donuts? Bedlam! chaos! The price of kerplatz skyrocktets (apologies to daffy duck {the scarlet pumpernickel})
DNA are heredetary databases used to make genes, used to make protiens, used to make cells, used to make organisms, used to make multi organ system organisms ad nauseum. the chances of DNA taking over the world are less than a bunch of worms rising up ruling.
Unfortunately by analyzing all the dna contained in the test-tube the only answer the earth DNA computer ever gave was 41.496 or 98.8% of 42.
Palestinian scientists, not to be undone began an RNA computer which would give the question to the enigmatic answer of 42.
Unfortunately, the RNA computer was considered to be a circumvention of a DNA copyrighted device and the DNAMCA (DNA millenium copyright act) was invoked to assasinate the bioterroists and destroy their technology. to prevent unauthorized cracking of the DNA code
This isn't surprising if you are not mission critical
Where I live, I waited for broadband for two years. During that two years, I've seen download caps, bandwidth restrictions, disallowing of multiple IP addresses as well as privacy intruding features of ISPs RIAA and the federal govt. People who actively seed back doors if you actually UTILIZE the bandwidth that you pay for. Plus the qos stinks. nothing out there is worth it. Sure you may be able to vid-conference, but with whom? Watch movies over the web? Not until the entertainment industry pulls out of their litigation. I only surf a total of about 10 websites. And I need broadband for this?
I always said that anyone is a fool to pay for dialup. not I extend that. Anyone is a fool to pay for internet service. Broadband is useless in any applicable sense these days, and dialup is not a premium. Maybe this whole lousy ISP dynamic will collapse and be replaced by community networks. That would be golden, and something that I would pay for. Instead of paying corporations to tell me how much and what I should download and what I should use my property for.
They're not cookies! they are crumpets and tea biscuits dagnabit!
For example. I could be poor and not in a gang. This program does not apply to me. This applies to those that are rehabilitating gang members.
Other example. I could be a suburban punk who joins the gang out of rebellion, boredom or evil intentions. This program does apply to me.
Welfare programs may not be applicable. Rehab progams are not for poor people they are for criminals! Big difference. But this is not about poor actually. I would think this community should be able to separate classes from each other. Anyway. anything that keeps these punks from out of the loop and learning something is good. Web Devel could be a gateway to other things. Not all will take to it, but some will just like we did. Saying that it will be a great success or a great failure is premature and a failure to think critically.
I'm a gadget fool and I got a Dimension 8100 with the P4 the weekend they came out. I paid 2000 basically to say that I got a P4. I'll never buy Dell again. I got a lousy vid card, TNT2 64 a soundblaster Value, Windows ME(They would NOT install Linux), and with a 1 year nbd and 3 years tech support, they've not done a thing to help me out. The PC makers wonder why they can't keep business. It's because people are sick of the high prices for lousy equipment. I tell everyon I know to go local and I even pick up some business myself. Once I needed to know the keystroke to reset the BIOS (dell proprietary) and they said they wouldn't support it because my modem wasn't Dell Hardware. I didn't even want their help. The prices they charge for a winmodem is outrageous. 50 for a soft-modem! They've lost their perspective. Dell claims that they are the best beause they have custom systems. They're systems are no more customizable than DEC back in the win95 craze.
Not plausible? You are already managed digitally in your company by an employee number. A check is digitally sent to your acct. through a number in a bank. Your personal information could be easily but into a couple gigs of info to be sold to the highest bidder or rented out at a reasonable price, without you lifting a finger to help or stop it.
1. There is supposed to be a state of constant war. Orwell states that this constant war is used to keep the people nationallistcally proud of their country, while suffering privations for the "war effort" Remember the theory that the bombs were dropped by Oceana itself (not suggesting in any way that the terroists were not responsible just emphasiszing that in order for docility there needs to be a constant anxiety about war)? The constant state of war also lends people to worry about the nessecities of war and not the niceties of freedom and comfort.
2. Every citizen a criminal. The only way to keep people in check was to criminalize everything, down to thought. The understanding is that if you can be caught at anything, you will watch everything that you do or say. If posting negative comments about the party (Bill Maher) got you tortured or killed, you'd be likely not to speak out. If thinking ill about the party could get you busted by the goon squad, then you would even fear yourself.
3. The most frightening thing about taking away liberties is that it is a slippery slope. Remember that once the Party had a modicum of power, it's only goal was power. Soon after a few generation, there would be no thoughtcrime or punishment, because man would cease to be man in any recognisable sense. In other words, there would be no thought as we know it and so no thought crime. Today it's internet, tv and newspapers, tomorrow it's your desktop, the day after, your home and in a few years, your children have no concept of home. Scary. All too real.
What we need to do is make a conscious decision to effectively protest this crime against America and technology by having a "Tech out" like if this gets passed that we just do our jobs like normal, but when we get home, don't sit in front of the screen. I know that's a lot to ask of people who live and breath by the I/O but there has to be an effective voice to speak out against our liberties getting trampled on in the name of freedom. As too often is the case, we are conscientious objectors with no active participation until there is no protection in place to allow participation. It happened to a very civilized Germany, It happened in Afghanistan, it happened in the former Soviet Union, it most certainly could happen here.
Speak up, speak loud and speak out.
Actuamally, the federal funds to build the nations superhighways are explicitly tied to both speed limit laws and seatbelt laws. Only recently with the GOP in power did those laws become lax, which is why you see states given the leeway to set their speed limits and seat belt laws. But don't think that those limits aren't still tacitly tied to govt. funds.
Richard said that supercomputing power could come in handy for certain tasks, like converting large video files from one format to another, that currently take a good amount of patience.
Any one else notice that this seems to be a very elaborate (and expensive) project just to bootleg encrypted DVDs?