(Not trying to preach to the choir, just thinking aloud...) Now you can say you've experienced first-hand what professional musicians signed to major labels deal with on a daily basis. Your art gets sold off without your permission or compensation, and you don't even get to provide some input as to what pieces get released. It really is an amazing industry.
...another intermediate language. This is never going to fly. If we wanted one executable formate that runs quickly on every machine, we'd use one processor. It's just never going to happen. And it's good for business. There's a reason to innovate and build a fast chip, even if it means writing a new compiler. Building these endless layers of abstraction and interpretation just makes everything a cluttered mess.
If anyone out there has digital tv, they are monitoring you, they will use the data to directly advertise to you and to take as much of your money as possible.
While I don't want to be monitored, I don't mind targetted advertising. Let them do it anonymously. I'd rather see ads for new-to-market products and services that interest me rather than a lot of garbage that does not.
This is, for the most part, good stuff. It's what makes the economy run. At least in the US, we could use a boost. I have a job so I can make money and give it away in exchange for things I want.
I honestly don't care if advertisers know every single thing about my life. What's the worst they're gonna do? I get 30 spams per hour. They're not gonna do anything worse.
And remember, the more tinfoil you buy, the better the economy. Just keep those hats off until a real threat comes around.
With the new broadcast flag system on it's way in, soon advertisers will pay a little extra to have an equivalent flag which does not allow the commercials to be skipped or forwarded through. It will be illegal for a pvr to allow any of those functions that we enjoy now. So unless you're gonna roll your own, don't worry about TiVO running anyone out of business. It'll only let them target you more specifically, which I suppose may not be the worst part of it... And (probably redundant) but I'm sure 9.1% of all ads are already currently going unwatched, since I'm not gonna go get a beer during the friggin show...
I'm a little concerned about all of this remote control stuff. Some things were just not meant to be accessible via the web, you know? Now some asshole in Michigan can change traffic signals with a remote you can get on ebay, and next year the other guy he cut off will be able to pay him back by shutting down a truck on some bridge with his cell phone.
The world is dangerous. Some guy might drive a truck into a building, but chances are you're not gonna get enough advance warning to trigger a remote shutdown. But if all vehicles wind up with these devices, there's gonna be a period of trial and error when the authentication's not perfect or there's buffer overflow in some satellite control code somwehere that's gonna shut down an entire state.
When are we going to implement this on airplanes? After 9/11, you know, we can never be too careful. Remote shutdown is a must have...
The point is, these systems are bound to be exploited, and when they are there's gonna be hell to pay, because it's going to do more harm than good.
So many of you Slashdotters think that committing copyright violations against RIAA is just fine, but as soon as someone does it to Linux, you're all up in arms.
No. When I listen to music, I just listen to it. I do not take it, repackage it, perform and sell it as my own, claiming to be the artist. On top of that, I do not send a letter to the artist demanding a licensing fee for their continued use of their work. I also do not claim I developed music theory, and that everyone else who uses it is commiting ip fraud.
They have the right to tell you what you may and may not do with their product, yes.
Care to clarify? So if Ford says "You may not drive this truck on dirt roads," does that mean that I am liable to be sued if I do? If that's the case, Ford would've had a dirt-road-certified truck years ago, probably for the low, low price of only twice that of the standard 150.
They've got plenty on their plate with Fortune 1000 companies. They don't need an additional ENORMOUS class action suit filed by the rest of the world.
Scenario 1:
Maybe this is not malicious. Possibly a way to protect people in the event that something bad happens, like all this hyped anonymity and encryption turns out to be trivial to crack. ES5 may have already developed a worm that spreads and exploits this function to delete all shared files on the network, which may be in the users' best interests.
Scenario 2 (aka Conspiracy theory 1):
Orrin Hatch is making good on his promise to
destroy the PCs of filesharers around the world, while placing the blame on Palestine.
I like the #2 better, but you decide for yourself:)
That'd do it for me. If I could go to the store and buy a cd for $4 I would probably take my chances with the content. At that price, I can afford to give it away if I don't like it. I haven't downloaded music in months, not because of the threat of lawsuits, but because of the inconvenience of spending an hour or so trying to find good quality material of exactly what I want. Four dollars is worth my time. At least I'd feel like I was being provided a service rather than extorted. So here it is:
Doesn't the DMCA allow for "reverse engineering", etc. with the intent to allow interoperability? If so, this should be no more of a challenge to OpenOffice.org (and others) than figuring out another format. Not to make it sound easy or anything, but am I wrong in thinking that this would still be perfectly legal?
I've been using Promise controllers for a while now, with varied results based on method of implementation. I can't say that I'm extremely happy with them, but I've seen a lot of old info posted so, for the record, here's the deal:
Promise has not updated their literature in a long time. They've release some source for the driver so you can run a custom kernel and the distro of your choice. You're not dependent on Red Hat or SuSE, but the binaries are still available.
Building the driver is not difficult, but you do have to edit the Makefile to fit your system. They don't provide much help, but I think most people running RAID in linux on something other than Red Hat or SuSE are going to be comfortable enough to do it.
Booting from these things suck. If you don't mind building the driver and making an initrd image to preload it, you're on your way. You should also be very comfortable with your bootloader and go over some of the linux IDE and SCSI boot parameters. If you're all of the above, it's still not a good time...
I've had some problems with the kernel support for the 20268R. Works on and off it seems. When it doesn't you have to rebuild the array and hope you didn't loose all of your data. Also, you still have access to both discs via/dev/hd? by default, and using them is guaranteed to destroy your array. I've also had some random kernel panics, and that doesn't fly for an HA system...
Now for my suggestion:
Since the Promise proprietary driver works, use it. Don't bother trying to boot off the array. Get a small disc for the system to boot from and run everything else off the array. If you want, get two small discs, use the card to make a mirror, and if the boot drive dies, plug in the other. That's the config I finally settled on, and I haven't had any downtime yet. If I could go back, I'd probably choose 3Ware, but everything is working fine so I won't complain...
IANA Jew, and maybe this is flamebait, but I think we're talking about two *totally* different things here. I bet nobody is responsible for protecting fucking copyright in Palestine. I think they're all a little busy with exploding buses, suicide bombers at Sbarro, and destroying Isreali towns. Something tells me this guy at ES5 is not afraid of a subpoena. He probably wishes he could afford a vacation to US federal prison.
I really hope nobody is suggesting that the US military sacrifice thousands of lives so Lars Ulrich can buy another house, but I'll bet that the RIAA has at least mentioned it in a board meeting. And when the day comes that the MPAA dispatches troops I know I'll be giving up my citizenship.
International copyright is the absolute last thing that should ever be addressed in this situation. I think I'd take it on the chin if I wrote a song and somebody in Palestine listened to it without paying me.
Nothing against the parent, but it disturbs me that this subject even came up. If it's posted here, you can be sure that somebody with a lot of power is thinking the same thing...
1) Purchase life insurrance policy. 2) Play with wires. 3)... sizzle... 4) PROFIT!
But seriously...
This sounds like a bad situation. I don't know your exact situation (residential, commericial, etc.), but besides death there's more to worry about, like wiring code, insurrance if the place burns down, legal liability if such a thing were to happen, liability if you electrocute someone else in the process... I upgraded my home from 100 to 250 amp service. That was a big enough job for me, and it *wasn't* a mess. I think the only sound advice is to wash your hands of it...
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(Not trying to preach to the choir, just thinking aloud...) Now you can say you've experienced first-hand what professional musicians signed to major labels deal with on a daily basis. Your art gets sold off without your permission or compensation, and you don't even get to provide some input as to what pieces get released. It really is an amazing industry.
...another intermediate language. This is never going to fly. If we wanted one executable formate that runs quickly on every machine, we'd use one processor. It's just never going to happen. And it's good for business. There's a reason to innovate and build a fast chip, even if it means writing a new compiler. Building these endless layers of abstraction and interpretation just makes everything a cluttered mess.
Suck it up and write native code...
This is, for the most part, good stuff. It's what makes the economy run. At least in the US, we could use a boost. I have a job so I can make money and give it away in exchange for things I want.
I honestly don't care if advertisers know every single thing about my life. What's the worst they're gonna do? I get 30 spams per hour. They're not gonna do anything worse.
And remember, the more tinfoil you buy, the better the economy. Just keep those hats off until a real threat comes around.
I don't think I need a book to tell me about the annoyances of Windows 98...
With the new broadcast flag system on it's way in, soon advertisers will pay a little extra to have an equivalent flag which does not allow the commercials to be skipped or forwarded through. It will be illegal for a pvr to allow any of those functions that we enjoy now. So unless you're gonna roll your own, don't worry about TiVO running anyone out of business. It'll only let them target you more specifically, which I suppose may not be the worst part of it... And (probably redundant) but I'm sure 9.1% of all ads are already currently going unwatched, since I'm not gonna go get a beer during the friggin show...
WHAT THE FUCK?
I'm a little concerned about all of this remote control stuff. Some things were just not meant to be accessible via the web, you know? Now some asshole in Michigan can change traffic signals with a remote you can get on ebay, and next year the other guy he cut off will be able to pay him back by shutting down a truck on some bridge with his cell phone.
The world is dangerous. Some guy might drive a truck into a building, but chances are you're not gonna get enough advance warning to trigger a remote shutdown. But if all vehicles wind up with these devices, there's gonna be a period of trial and error when the authentication's not perfect or there's buffer overflow in some satellite control code somwehere that's gonna shut down an entire state.
When are we going to implement this on airplanes? After 9/11, you know, we can never be too careful. Remote shutdown is a must have...
The point is, these systems are bound to be exploited, and when they are there's gonna be hell to pay, because it's going to do more harm than good.
They've got plenty on their plate with Fortune 1000 companies. They don't need an additional ENORMOUS class action suit filed by the rest of the world.
So if I were to imagine a beowulf cluster of Dell clusters, I would really be imagining an G5 cluster...
deep...
I for one miss our old c64 overlords...
Scenario 1:
Maybe this is not malicious. Possibly a way to protect people in the event that something bad happens, like all this hyped anonymity and encryption turns out to be trivial to crack. ES5 may have already developed a worm that spreads and exploits this function to delete all shared files on the network, which may be in the users' best interests.
Scenario 2 (aka Conspiracy theory 1):
Orrin Hatch is making good on his promise to destroy the PCs of filesharers around the world, while placing the blame on Palestine.
I like the #2 better, but you decide for yourself :)
Later...
Mongoose announces massive recall, siting danger of falling.
I'm talking drop the price down to $3 - $4.99
That'd do it for me. If I could go to the store and buy a cd for $4 I would probably take my chances with the content. At that price, I can afford to give it away if I don't like it. I haven't downloaded music in months, not because of the threat of lawsuits, but because of the inconvenience of spending an hour or so trying to find good quality material of exactly what I want. Four dollars is worth my time. At least I'd feel like I was being provided a service rather than extorted. So here it is:
RIAA: If cds are $4, I promise I will buy them.
In some cities, the standard "Toynbee tile" is accompanied by smaller adjacent tiles that express sentiments such as:
Submit. Obey.
I, for one, welcome our new bricklayer overlords...
Doesn't the DMCA allow for "reverse engineering", etc. with the intent to allow interoperability? If so, this should be no more of a challenge to OpenOffice.org (and others) than figuring out another format. Not to make it sound easy or anything, but am I wrong in thinking that this would still be perfectly legal?
I've been using Promise controllers for a while now, with varied results based on method of implementation. I can't say that I'm extremely happy with them, but I've seen a lot of old info posted so, for the record, here's the deal:
/dev/hd? by default, and using them is guaranteed to destroy your array. I've also had some random kernel panics, and that doesn't fly for an HA system...
Promise has not updated their literature in a long time. They've release some source for the driver so you can run a custom kernel and the distro of your choice. You're not dependent on Red Hat or SuSE, but the binaries are still available.
Building the driver is not difficult, but you do have to edit the Makefile to fit your system. They don't provide much help, but I think most people running RAID in linux on something other than Red Hat or SuSE are going to be comfortable enough to do it.
Booting from these things suck. If you don't mind building the driver and making an initrd image to preload it, you're on your way. You should also be very comfortable with your bootloader and go over some of the linux IDE and SCSI boot parameters. If you're all of the above, it's still not a good time...
I've had some problems with the kernel support for the 20268R. Works on and off it seems. When it doesn't you have to rebuild the array and hope you didn't loose all of your data. Also, you still have access to both discs via
Now for my suggestion:
Since the Promise proprietary driver works, use it. Don't bother trying to boot off the array. Get a small disc for the system to boot from and run everything else off the array. If you want, get two small discs, use the card to make a mirror, and if the boot drive dies, plug in the other. That's the config I finally settled on, and I haven't had any downtime yet. If I could go back, I'd probably choose 3Ware, but everything is working fine so I won't complain...
IANA Jew, and maybe this is flamebait, but I think we're talking about two *totally* different things here. I bet nobody is responsible for protecting fucking copyright in Palestine. I think they're all a little busy with exploding buses, suicide bombers at Sbarro, and destroying Isreali towns. Something tells me this guy at ES5 is not afraid of a subpoena. He probably wishes he could afford a vacation to US federal prison.
I really hope nobody is suggesting that the US military sacrifice thousands of lives so Lars Ulrich can buy another house, but I'll bet that the RIAA has at least mentioned it in a board meeting. And when the day comes that the MPAA dispatches troops I know I'll be giving up my citizenship.
International copyright is the absolute last thing that should ever be addressed in this situation. I think I'd take it on the chin if I wrote a song and somebody in Palestine listened to it without paying me.
Nothing against the parent, but it disturbs me that this subject even came up. If it's posted here, you can be sure that somebody with a lot of power is thinking the same thing...
Just for the record, the real price is $331. They must have forgot about the $32 SCO because-we-can fee.
so am I
1) Purchase life insurrance policy. ... sizzle ...
2) Play with wires.
3)
4) PROFIT!
But seriously...
This sounds like a bad situation. I don't know your exact situation (residential, commericial, etc.), but besides death there's more to worry about, like wiring code, insurrance if the place burns down, legal liability if such a thing were to happen, liability if you electrocute someone else in the process... I upgraded my home from 100 to 250 amp service. That was a big enough job for me, and it *wasn't* a mess. I think the only sound advice is to wash your hands of it...
Agreed. From now on, pictures of hot guys.
Kinda brings a whole new meaning to "open" source software...
...who dry-shaves with a pair scissors?