It covers exactly 1. The Person named, so what that their name just happens to be the default one installed by K++. You think on the subpoena it says: "Name = www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa" or "Name = Mr Foo Z Barr a.k.a. www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa"?
So the question remains, do they track sharing by username or by IP address. If they track by username and then resolve that username to an IP address and then to a person, then process is flawwed. Under this scenario, one person could be charged for the files that other people shared.
If they did do it properly, then why are usernames even listed? Usernames are not identifiers to a user, since many users can have the same name and anyone can change their name at anytime.
2 Here is the website of the campaign [respectcopyrights.org]. There's even some FUD [respectcopyrights.org]: Network users have a back door to your hard drive while you're online, thereby seeing your personal, private information, such as bank records, social security number, etc.
There is some truth to that. Although it's not really a back door. You can download personal files through Kazaa. Some users are not aware that they are sharing their own personal information.
Of course it's true that you can viruses and trojans anytime you download anything off the web.
That being said, they are definitely twisting truths to scare people. The best form of control over people is to make up a lie "Bad things will happen to you if you do x.". Basing a lie on a truth makes it seem real, just like "Have you ever had your computer crash and had to replace it or reinstall all the files due to a virus or other such problem?"
I wouldn't worry about getting it included in any distro. Just write the program(s) to fill the niche. Write the programs for yourself, and if other people pick them up, then great!
There are plenty of fabulous programs for Linux which aren't standard includes like ecasound (it isn't included in Mandrake yet anyway) which is a great tool for mixing and producing sound. Your programs do not need to be a standard includes to be great tools.
Me myself, I am just starting a project for the first time on sourceforge. It is called Sound Orgy. While do wish for wide spread use of the tool set, the main goal is to write it for myself the way I want it to work. There are loads of sound related projects on sourceforge. I am just trying to do the way I want it, and I'll see what happens.
Ok, I'm normally a big proponent of identity freedom on the internet, but I'm having a little trouble justifying this one. I think you need to be able to trace the money trail. I just think there are too many bad uses to justify the few good ones.
It's not adding any new loop holes. Cash isn't tracable.
Maybe YOU can. You probably are pretty experienced and can tolerate some downtime. Unlike you, a city can't just shut down for a couple of months until everyone becomes proficient with the new system. People can't learn something suddenly. If you ever worked in technical support, you would know that proficiency is acquired pretty slowly.
Absolutely.
My point simply was that it can be by individual users, not that it can be done overnight for an entire organisation.
I made the the switch earlier this year, and it was sudden. I wiped everything and installed Linux only. I got the must important things working with in the first day (Internet, Evolution for email, galeon, koffice). Slowly, I got my other things working. I switch to Open Office which great. I use mldonkey for p2p and ecasound for recording demos.
At first I though, "OK, I can handle this". Now I can't imagine going back to Windows.
My point is, the most important Applications that you need are ready for Linux and Yes you can make the switch over night.
1 - wasp 2 - suma wrestler stretching 3 - painting lips black 4 - shaking hands 5 - two heads in green hats 6 - woman, purple gloves, red top 7 - fly 8 - two men throwing tortches at each other 9 - a super hero peeing while excercising 10 - batman being f**ked up the ass by a purple monster
Before p2p file sharing, people searched websites and ftp servers for files. Because the files were at a fixed address and were easy access, many sites got shut down. That is why when p2p came along, it was such a hit. Since p2p is distributed, there are no fixed locations to 'shut down'. It is much harder to go after the masses of file sharers than those who explicitly share music on web sites.
BitTorrent was a step back towards the days when the web and ftp was the main source of getting MP3s or whatever content.
I know BitTorrent has technical advantages when it comes to handling load. But in terms of anonymity, it is easier to find the person sharing on the web (or giving an access point) then it is via a peer to peer network. The site is always there. It is hosted by someone who is associated with the owner of a domain name.
The point is it can be done quite easily. Not everyone has a computer. Not everyone has a video capture card. Still fewer have cards that get "freaked out" by macrovision because of automatic gain control. But the people who are into this sort of thing will have cards that can capture the content. Therefore, it is not copy proof.
Remembering, of course, to include your de-macrovision-iser, in between the two. If it's HDTV it will output encrypted on the DVI and so it wont be as simple as that anyway.
First of all, macrovision only causes interferience on VHS. Macrovision will not affect your ability to capture video on your computer clearly.
Second of all, HDTV is not standard. There must be a way to hook the device up to a normal TV. Hence, you can capture it with your card.
Gawd damn it. The hack should only take 5 seconds. Instead of hooking the box up to your tv, hook it up to the 'video in' on your capture card. Sheesh.
I'm especially amused by your 'other than drug dealers and criminals' comment, thereby associating law abiding citizens who own a firearm for protective purposes with peddlers of poison.
I am amused by your amusment. In Canada, law abiding people don't walk around with concealed weapons. Your chances of being attacked randomly are slim to none. Most violence is commited against someone is by someone they know. More often than not, it's a friend or family member. Having a gun readily available makes things worse.
How often has someone you know needed to use their gun for protection?
I come from a small town, and the only times guns were used (other than hunting) were: - one guy commited suicide - another guy went crazy and ran around his house threatening to shout his wife.
Both were within a block from were I grew up. In both cases, the guns were legal and the owners were law abiding citizens previous to the incedence.
Are you sure about your PER CAPITA comment?
I was actually talking about countries with democracies. It would have a been a lot harder to kill hundreds of thousands of people in these third world countries if they didn't have guns.
Also, comparing gun killing statistics to Alzhemer's statistics doesn't make sense. No-body gave these people alzhemer's maliciously.
Everybody dies. The death rate is 100%. Are you going to campare the gun death statistics to that?
I don't know. I guess Canadians and Americans are two different types of people. I am not afraid to walk down the street late at night (I live in the city now).
If nothing else, they're a last resort against government oppression.
I don't people will be able stand up against the US military with their guns. The US military could crush any pockets of resistence.
No matter how small/weak of a person you were, if you had one you did not have to fear someone bigger/stronger than you. Nowadays I know of numerous cases where people's lives have been saved due to their carrying a handgun.
Protection by fear. Sounds like a great country. There are over 10,000 gun murders annually in the US. That is by far the highest gun death rate PER CAPITA.
Here in Canada, we have 165 gun murders a year and we have 1/10 the population. SO that means the gun muder rate is 10 times ours.
And no, are gun laws are not that tough. There are 7 million guns here (population 30,000,000). Most people do not have guns for protection (other than drug dealers and criminals).
I think that some Americans have the attitude that guns are the solution to violence.
In the same category we already have guns, knifes, airplanes, TNT, email, television, cars. I think Freenet has a good chance.
Why does the public need access to semi-automatic weapons? To kill deer?
My point being there is not valid need for some of these items. Sporting weapons are fine. But hand guns and semi-automatics?
In terms of freenet, I was using frost (a P2P client over freenet) and I doing some searches. A could barely find anything I wanted. But you should have seen the number of results that came back that implied the content was child porn.
I think freenet is a nature safe haven for child porn.
Freedom of speach is one thing. Freedom of expression is quite another. I believe in freedom of speech, but not neccisarily in freedom of expression.
Freedom of speach is the ability to have and discuss ideas freely.
Freedom of express is the ability to express your ideas in anyway you choose.
For example, it is okay to say I don't like George W Bush for reason X. That is freedom of speach in action.
An example of Freedom of expression would be burning an effigy of George Bush. Although I would view this particular example of freedom of expression as okay, others are not.
Allowing an individual to share their views on child pornography falls under Freedom of speach and is acceptable. But Allowing an individual to create or distribute child pornography falls under freedom of expression and is not acceptable.
In short: freedom of speach = good. freedom of expression = shady area.
I can not support freenet because it allows freedom of expression and hence child pornography.
So to be clear I SUPPORT FREE SPEACH.
When you say "freedom of speech, but only when I agree," is a strawman falicy (you are twisting our ideas). You are lumping things into free speach which should not be there. Not being able to distribute certain content does not place restrictions of freedom of speach (although it may put stipulations on freedom of expression).
The Child Pornographer: "Hey man, I took pictures of your 12 year old daughter naked. It is my right to freedom of expression."
I tried it out a couple of weeks ago. It was slow and I couldn't find anything I wanted on it. Plus, I don't like the idea that it is a safe haven for kiddie porn.
I think I'll stick with mldonkey. Nothing beats Fasttrack at availability and speed. You have a better chance at winning the lottery than the RIAA sueing you.
What's a good way to spam a spammer? When you fill out a web form, can you put in some address that will spam the spammer themself? (like 'root@localhost') Does anybody have any neat tricks?
If someone finds one that works, us slashdoters should go around using it.
No, your assumption is incorrect. I use email for correspondence. However, I have noticed that you get more responses from resumes if you print them off and mail them.
It only takes a minute to look at a map and plan your route. I find yahoo maps work quite well. Sometimes i print a few off. Print one zoomed out to show the whole route. Print another with your destination zoomed in.
Slashdot Mirror
When the museum closed it was at the lows of the dot-bomb, now it is finally re-opeining could this mean that tech industry is improving? Maybe.
No, just that there was an great influx of equipment that wasn't being used anymore.
It covers exactly 1. The Person named, so what that their name just happens to be the default one installed by K++. You think on the subpoena it says:
"Name = www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa"
or
"Name = Mr Foo Z Barr a.k.a. www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa"?
So the question remains, do they track sharing by username or by IP address. If they track by username and then resolve that username to an IP address and then to a person, then process is flawwed. Under this scenario, one person could be charged for the files that other people shared.
If they did do it properly, then why are usernames even listed? Usernames are not identifiers to a user, since many users can have the same name and anyone can change their name at anytime.
2 Here is the website of the campaign [respectcopyrights.org]. There's even some FUD [respectcopyrights.org]: Network users have a back door to your hard drive while you're online, thereby seeing your personal, private information, such as bank records, social security number, etc.
There is some truth to that. Although it's not really a back door. You can download personal files through Kazaa. Some users are not aware that they are sharing their own personal information.
Of course it's true that you can viruses and trojans anytime you download anything off the web.
That being said, they are definitely twisting truths to scare people. The best form of control over people is to make up a lie "Bad things will happen to you if you do x.". Basing a lie on a truth makes it seem real, just like "Have you ever had your computer crash and had to replace it or reinstall all the files due to a virus or other such problem?"
I wouldn't worry about getting it included in any distro. Just write the program(s) to fill the niche. Write the programs for yourself, and if other people pick them up, then great!
There are plenty of fabulous programs for Linux which aren't standard includes like ecasound (it isn't included in Mandrake yet anyway) which is a great tool for mixing and producing sound. Your programs do not need to be a standard includes to be great tools.
Me myself, I am just starting a project for the first time on sourceforge. It is called Sound Orgy. While do wish for wide spread use of the tool set, the main goal is to write it for myself the way I want it to work. There are loads of sound related projects on sourceforge. I am just trying to do the way I want it, and I'll see what happens.
Ok, I'm normally a big proponent of identity freedom on the internet, but I'm having a little trouble justifying this one. I think you need to be able to trace the money trail. I just think there are too many bad uses to justify the few good ones.
It's not adding any new loop holes. Cash isn't tracable.
Heh, *you* can do it in one night, but you are one person...
Right... That's all I said. I never implied that *everyone* could do it.
Maybe YOU can. You probably are pretty experienced and can tolerate some downtime. Unlike you, a city can't just shut down for a couple of months until everyone becomes proficient with the new system. People can't learn something suddenly. If you ever worked in technical support, you would know that proficiency is acquired pretty slowly.
Absolutely.
My point simply was that it can be by individual users, not that it can be done overnight for an entire organisation.
I made the the switch earlier this year, and it was sudden. I wiped everything and installed Linux only. I got the must important things working with in the first day (Internet, Evolution for email, galeon, koffice). Slowly, I got my other things working. I switch to Open Office which great. I use mldonkey for p2p and ecasound for recording demos.
At first I though, "OK, I can handle this". Now I can't imagine going back to Windows.
My point is, the most important Applications that you need are ready for Linux and Yes you can make the switch over night.
1 - wasp
2 - suma wrestler stretching
3 - painting lips black
4 - shaking hands
5 - two heads in green hats
6 - woman, purple gloves, red top
7 - fly
8 - two men throwing tortches at each other
9 - a super hero peeing while excercising
10 - batman being f**ked up the ass by a purple monster
Before p2p file sharing, people searched websites and ftp servers for files. Because the files were at a fixed address and were easy access, many sites got shut down. That is why when p2p came along, it was such a hit. Since p2p is distributed, there are no fixed locations to 'shut down'. It is much harder to go after the masses of file sharers than those who explicitly share music on web sites.
BitTorrent was a step back towards the days when the web and ftp was the main source of getting MP3s or whatever content.
I know BitTorrent has technical advantages when it comes to handling load. But in terms of anonymity, it is easier to find the person sharing on the web (or giving an access point) then it is via a peer to peer network. The site is always there. It is hosted by someone who is associated with the owner of a domain name.
The point is it can be done quite easily. Not everyone has a computer. Not everyone has a video capture card. Still fewer have cards that get "freaked out" by macrovision because of automatic gain control. But the people who are into this sort of thing will have cards that can capture the content. Therefore, it is not copy proof.
Remembering, of course, to include your de-macrovision-iser, in between the two. If it's HDTV it will output encrypted on the DVI and so it wont be as simple as that anyway.
First of all, macrovision only causes interferience on VHS. Macrovision will not affect your ability to capture video on your computer clearly.
Second of all, HDTV is not standard. There must be a way to hook the device up to a normal TV. Hence, you can capture it with your card.
Gawd damn it. The hack should only take 5 seconds. Instead of hooking the box up to your tv, hook it up to the 'video in' on your capture card. Sheesh.
I'm especially amused by your 'other than drug dealers and criminals' comment, thereby associating law abiding citizens who own a firearm for protective purposes with peddlers of poison.
I am amused by your amusment. In Canada, law abiding people don't walk around with concealed weapons. Your chances of being attacked randomly are slim to none. Most violence is commited against someone is by someone they know. More often than not, it's a friend or family member. Having a gun readily available makes things worse.
How often has someone you know needed to use their gun for protection?
I come from a small town, and the only times guns were used (other than hunting) were:
- one guy commited suicide
- another guy went crazy and ran around his house threatening to shout his wife.
Both were within a block from were I grew up. In both cases, the guns were legal and the owners were law abiding citizens previous to the incedence.
Are you sure about your PER CAPITA comment?
I was actually talking about countries with democracies. It would have a been a lot harder to kill hundreds of thousands of people in these third world countries if they didn't have guns.
Also, comparing gun killing statistics to Alzhemer's statistics doesn't make sense. No-body gave these people alzhemer's maliciously.
Everybody dies. The death rate is 100%. Are you going to campare the gun death statistics to that?
I don't know. I guess Canadians and Americans are two different types of people. I am not afraid to walk down the street late at night (I live in the city now).
If nothing else, they're a last resort against government oppression.
I don't people will be able stand up against the US military with their guns. The US military could crush any pockets of resistence.
No matter how small/weak of a person you were, if you had one you did not have to fear someone bigger/stronger than you. Nowadays I know of numerous cases where people's lives have been saved due to their carrying a handgun.
Protection by fear. Sounds like a great country. There are over 10,000 gun murders annually in the US. That is by far the highest gun death rate PER CAPITA.
Here in Canada, we have 165 gun murders a year and we have 1/10 the population. SO that means the gun muder rate is 10 times ours.
And no, are gun laws are not that tough. There are 7 million guns here (population 30,000,000). Most people do not have guns for protection (other than drug dealers and criminals).
I think that some Americans have the attitude that guns are the solution to violence.
In the same category we already have guns, knifes, airplanes, TNT, email, television, cars. I think Freenet has a good chance.
Why does the public need access to semi-automatic weapons? To kill deer?
My point being there is not valid need for some of these items. Sporting weapons are fine. But hand guns and semi-automatics?
In terms of freenet, I was using frost (a P2P client over freenet) and I doing some searches. A could barely find anything I wanted. But you should have seen the number of results that came back that implied the content was child porn.
I think freenet is a nature safe haven for child porn.
I stopped using freenet and will not support it.
Freedom of speach is one thing. Freedom of expression is quite another. I believe in freedom of speech, but not neccisarily in freedom of expression.
Freedom of speach is the ability to have and discuss ideas freely.
Freedom of express is the ability to express your ideas in anyway you choose.
For example, it is okay to say I don't like George W Bush for reason X. That is freedom of speach in action.
An example of Freedom of expression would be burning an effigy of George Bush. Although I would view this particular example of freedom of expression as okay, others are not.
Allowing an individual to share their views on child pornography falls under Freedom of speach and is acceptable. But Allowing an individual to create or distribute child pornography falls under freedom of expression and is not acceptable.
In short:
freedom of speach = good.
freedom of expression = shady area.
I can not support freenet because it allows freedom of expression and hence child pornography.
So to be clear I SUPPORT FREE SPEACH.
When you say "freedom of speech, but only when I agree," is a strawman falicy (you are twisting our ideas). You are lumping things into free speach which should not be there. Not being able to distribute certain content does not place restrictions of freedom of speach (although it may put stipulations on freedom of expression).
The Child Pornographer: "Hey man, I took pictures of your 12 year old daughter naked. It is my right to freedom of expression."
I tried it out a couple of weeks ago. It was slow and I couldn't find anything I wanted on it. Plus, I don't like the idea that it is a safe haven for kiddie porn.
I think I'll stick with mldonkey. Nothing beats Fasttrack at availability and speed. You have a better chance at winning the lottery than the RIAA sueing you.
POPfile is an email sorter/classifier.
Ximian evolution already has email sorter.
What's a good way to spam a spammer? When you fill out a web form, can you put in some address that will spam the spammer themself? (like 'root@localhost') Does anybody have any neat tricks?
If someone finds one that works, us slashdoters should go around using it.
That's why I drive a Japanese car. I spent my money on a reliable car, rather than the latest techno gismos.
Once, when going through a Burger King drive through, I was told that they only serve people who drive Fords.
No, your assumption is incorrect. I use email for correspondence. However, I have noticed that you get more responses from resumes if you print them off and mail them.
It only takes a minute to look at a map and plan your route. I find yahoo maps work quite well. Sometimes i print a few off. Print one zoomed out to show the whole route. Print another with your destination zoomed in.
Several good examples are used, from farmers in Alabama to anti-theft devices.
Up here in Canada, farmers have been using it to level their fields for years now. Canada is usually pretty quick to pick up new technologies.
Ah yes. I remember, it was so much harder to look at a map and follow the road. What would we do without it?