Since I can't get to the site quoted in the article (I think maybe it's been/.'ed), I have a couple questions:
a) Is this a violation of the DMCA? (If he's in a foreign country -- please forgive the question. If he is, then this brings me to:)
b) If a US citizen goes to Canada, buys something for the purpose of reverse engineering it, does that in Canada and posts it on a Canadian website, is s/he violating the DMCA? I'm assuming Canada does not (yet) have any laws on the books like the DMCA, but assuming they don't...
Will there ever be enough pressure from artists to tell the RIAA to go packing?
I know that quite a few famous stars have testified against the RIAA and the record labels because some artists feel that the industry has a chokehold on them. I'm wondering if and when they'll ever say "Enough is enough!" and strike out on their own?
Does anyone know of any recent links to stories (other than the one gal who's been linked to via/. a few times... name escapes me) about what artists feel about this?
I have given up buying new CD's. I won't do it. I'll listen to the radio if I want to listen to music; but for the most part, if the radio is on, it's on talk radio.
I know it was a rhetorical question, but, if you're an American citizen... *YOU* are a stockholder...
Whether you like it or not, and whether you think they're good or bad... *YOU* (or maybe your parents, if you don't vote or pay taxes) own them.
Granted, you're a minority stockholder...:-)
Anyway, if you pay taxes and vote, then it's part of the government that past citizens voted for.
I'm not sure how necessary it is today vs. how necessary it was back during the Cold War. Yes, mistakes have been made. Yes, some of the agents/employees were overzealous.
But I'm glad they're on *my* side...
Flame away; I'm wearing my asbestos shirt and jeans today:)
Since you're a parent (I am as well) I'd think you'd be VERY interested in how your child is doing in school, and how he was doing in EVERY aspect of his life -- friends, classmates, activities, etc.
Yes, teens need privacy, and you need to give it to them when it's appropriate (when's it not appropriate? how about if he's up in his room with the doors locked smoking crack?).
However, you have the right and responsibility to help your child even in ways they don't comprehend as being beneficial.
While I'm certainly concerned about how lax the security is (since it'd be pretty easy to get at other students' grades), I don't feel sorry for this kid AT ALL, because his parents are making his life a living hell. POOR BABY!
Be thankful your parents GIVE A DAMN about you and are concerned enough to check up on you. There are MANY fatherless/motherless kids in the world who would LOVE to have a parent who would show them ANY concern at all.
Oh, that's lame. That's not even well thought out.
Fine you think it's good he took the money.
You're assertion that "It's $2M that won't be spent on death and destruction" is lame.
Where do you think Saddam got the money to pay for the stuff they're finding in Iraq now (chemical weapons if you are to believe the Washington Post)? I'll tell you where he got it from: you. And your Mom and Dad. And your neighbor. And, gasp, yes, even me.
It's called "oil." He's been spending the money he gets from us buying oil to build WMD's.
So, if we HADN'T gone in and started a clean up operation, he only would have done more until he could threaten a whole LOT more people with the "death and destruction" you're whining about.
Hopefully the $2M the US gave him won't be needed to fight this war.
So maybe this makes de Raddt a terrorist for consuming funds that would have better gone into the defense of the world?
First, I like OpenBSD. I'm in a "network free-state" so I can run NAT to allow me to let my kids play on their machine while I compute on mine and we can all get to the internet... OpenBSD lets me do this.
But, MAN, how can he take $2,000,000 from the US Gov't and still criticize them at the same time?
No backbone? No ethics?
Give us a break; if he felt that strongly about the war, he could've said, "Thanks, but I'll wait till you guys leave Iraq before I'll accept your money."
I question this, too... if it's purified water, why can't it be sold? Is there some kind of federal or state regulation/legislation that prevents it?
Couldn't they use the water for drought? (Maybe there's not enough?) Couldn't they use it in products that require water but aren't for consumption (i.e. cleaners, ice packs, swimming pools;) or SOMETHING?)
Maybe it's just not worth the effort to haul it around...
back in the 60's and 70's when women wore T-shirts and carried banners saying "Keep your laws off my body." (or something to that effect -- and while I'm passionately anti-abortion as a means of birth control, the parallel remains.)
This makes me want to carry a placard that says "Keep your laws out of my computer -- and my networks!"
Honestly, WHAT is the FSCKING POINT?? Is this a ploy by Microsoft to show the legilators that having all that "extra" equipment for security is really unnecessary if everyone were to use Windoze XP?
MS: "Really, Congressman, if everyone would just switch over to Windows, there wouldn't be any more security issues with the Internet." [gasp] [choke] [thud] MS: "Congressman, are you OK? Sir? Can you hear me?? HELP!! HELP!! I think the Congressman has just had a heart attack!"
Sorry, just dreaming there.
But honestly, WHO benefits from laws such as these? The cable providers? HA! If RoadRunner pulls this crap on me, they can kiss my cable subscription GOODBYE. I'll cancel the whole damn thing and get a free satellite dish and service for the same price a month. I can connect to a local modem ISP at 53K because I'm so close to the CO, and while that's a WHOLE lot slower than the cable modem, it would feel good everytime I connected knowing that RoadRunner lost me as a customer.
I suppose if I had 5 computers in my house and was fully using the bandwidth 24/7, they have the right to bitch and moan because that's unfair usage -- get another ISP in the area that will help with that. The bandwidth isn't free, after all (of course, it's not as expensive as the money I'm paying them, either, but I guess SOMEONE has to support those poor Hollywood singers and actors!).
Yeah, similar, but far and away nowhere near as cool.
This is from the MobileWise/Technology Overview page:
"# Data & Equipment Safety Since the Wire-free Electricity Base does not utilize magnetic fields, the technology is safe for magnetic media, such as hard drives, and does not interfere with the operation of electronic equipment."
So there has to be some metal-to-metal contact.
I think the product described in the article is way cooler.
Who says you need to be able to turn a computer on to be able to produce quality software?
Consider the vast number of people that used to work on mainframes, who would have absolutely NO CLUE what to do at the console, but who could connect and bang out large amounts of software.
There's still a definite line between 'hardware' and 'software'.
If you're thinking just about PC's, you're making a mistake in your logic.
But it turns out (read my other post) that if you use mkdosfs, and copy via a mount point (e.g., "mount -t vfat/dev/sdc1/mntflash") this all works just fine.
that when we did the formatting with linux, it worked? I thought that was one of the funniest parts of all this. When we used mkdosfs to put a FAT32 fs on the cards, it worked (disregard that FAT32 is probably not appropriate -- we discussed this, and I even recommended we try a linux fs, but since it's an embedded project, jvaigl didn't want to go off and "prove" ext2/3 for this, and I can't blame him).
You're wrong about a lot of that. IRC (the protocol) may belong to no one, but the people that administer the hosts certainly DO have a lot to say about what happens on their machines. The people who administer DALnet, having been put in place by some chain of inheritance DO have the right to tell you what can and cannot take place on their network.
Don't like it? Go somewhere else. That's one of the great things about the Internet: you can find what you want if you look hard enough.
As to people owning parts of the net: the guy who you connect to (via modem or dsl or cable) CERTAINLY owns a part of the 'net. And he has the RIGHT to kick your lame butt off if you violate your service agreement. He doesn't own the whole thing, and you can go look for another ISP, but keep in mind that the internet is a bunch of people COOPERATING, and they sure as hell don't have to put up with crap like your post if they don't want to.
I don't know much about the terms of your release, but I'm going to assume that you were told that they'd be watching you. In that vein, have they made any threats to you like "Step out of line again and we're going to come down on you like a ton of bricks?"
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Count me in! It's not so much in my house, as I now live in a quiet neighborhood... but just think you could SELL YOUR SERVICES:
1) Build a HERF GUN
2) Hire yourself out as a noise mercenary
3) Shoot THUMP THUMP THUMPER cars
4) Profit!
Oh... OK. I guess my impression of the DMCA was that you couldn't even tear something apart to see how it worked... Thanks.
Since I can't get to the site quoted in the article (I think maybe it's been /.'ed), I have a couple questions:
a) Is this a violation of the DMCA? (If he's in a foreign country -- please forgive the question. If he is, then this brings me to:)
b) If a US citizen goes to Canada, buys something for the purpose of reverse engineering it, does that in Canada and posts it on a Canadian website, is s/he violating the DMCA? I'm assuming Canada does not (yet) have any laws on the books like the DMCA, but assuming they don't...
Thank you, yes, Janis Ian.
I found her postings to be relevant and insightful.
Will there ever be enough pressure from artists to tell the RIAA to go packing?
/. a few times... name escapes me) about what artists feel about this?
I know that quite a few famous stars have testified against the RIAA and the record labels because some artists feel that the industry has a chokehold on them. I'm wondering if and when they'll ever say "Enough is enough!" and strike out on their own?
Does anyone know of any recent links to stories (other than the one gal who's been linked to via
I have given up buying new CD's. I won't do it. I'll listen to the radio if I want to listen to music; but for the most part, if the radio is on, it's on talk radio.
Who are the stockholders in the CIA?
:-)
:)
I know it was a rhetorical question, but, if you're an American citizen... *YOU* are a stockholder...
Whether you like it or not, and whether you think they're good or bad... *YOU* (or maybe your parents, if you don't vote or pay taxes) own them.
Granted, you're a minority stockholder...
Anyway, if you pay taxes and vote, then it's part of the government that past citizens voted for.
I'm not sure how necessary it is today vs. how necessary it was back during the Cold War. Yes, mistakes have been made. Yes, some of the agents/employees were overzealous.
But I'm glad they're on *my* side...
Flame away; I'm wearing my asbestos shirt and jeans today
Since you're a parent (I am as well) I'd think you'd be VERY interested in how your child is doing in school, and how he was doing in EVERY aspect of his life -- friends, classmates, activities, etc.
Yes, teens need privacy, and you need to give it to them when it's appropriate (when's it not appropriate? how about if he's up in his room with the doors locked smoking crack?).
However, you have the right and responsibility to help your child even in ways they don't comprehend as being beneficial.
While I'm certainly concerned about how lax the security is (since it'd be pretty easy to get at other students' grades), I don't feel sorry for this kid AT ALL, because his parents are making his life a living hell. POOR BABY!
Be thankful your parents GIVE A DAMN about you and are concerned enough to check up on you. There are MANY fatherless/motherless kids in the world who would LOVE to have a parent who would show them ANY concern at all.
I've read the article and I don't see where it mentions a date...
Oh, that's lame. That's not even well thought out.
Fine you think it's good he took the money.
You're assertion that "It's $2M that won't be spent on death and destruction" is lame.
Where do you think Saddam got the money to pay for the stuff they're finding in Iraq now (chemical weapons if you are to believe the Washington Post)? I'll tell you where he got it from: you. And your Mom and Dad. And your neighbor. And, gasp, yes, even me.
It's called "oil." He's been spending the money he gets from us buying oil to build WMD's.
So, if we HADN'T gone in and started a clean up operation, he only would have done more until he could threaten a whole LOT more people with the "death and destruction" you're whining about.
Hopefully the $2M the US gave him won't be needed to fight this war.
So maybe this makes de Raddt a terrorist for consuming funds that would have better gone into the defense of the world?
de Raadt: hypocrite AND terrorist? (j/k!)
I have no trouble with the war.
So I'm not sure exactly what you think your post was supposed to mean.
Oh, man...
First, I like OpenBSD. I'm in a "network free-state" so I can run NAT to allow me to let my kids play on their machine while I compute on mine and we can all get to the internet... OpenBSD lets me do this.
But, MAN, how can he take $2,000,000 from the US Gov't and still criticize them at the same time?
No backbone? No ethics?
Give us a break; if he felt that strongly about the war, he could've said, "Thanks, but I'll wait till you guys leave Iraq before I'll accept your money."
Come ON already!
I question this, too... if it's purified water, why can't it be sold? Is there some kind of federal or state regulation/legislation that prevents it?
;) or SOMETHING?)
Couldn't they use the water for drought? (Maybe there's not enough?) Couldn't they use it in products that require water but aren't for consumption (i.e. cleaners, ice packs, swimming pools
Maybe it's just not worth the effort to haul it around...
back in the 60's and 70's when women wore T-shirts and carried banners saying "Keep your laws off my body." (or something to that effect -- and while I'm passionately anti-abortion as a means of birth control, the parallel remains.)
This makes me want to carry a placard that says "Keep your laws out of my computer -- and my networks!"
Honestly, WHAT is the FSCKING POINT?? Is this a ploy by Microsoft to show the legilators that having all that "extra" equipment for security is really unnecessary if everyone were to use Windoze XP?
MS: "Really, Congressman, if everyone would just switch over to Windows, there wouldn't be any more security issues with the Internet."
[gasp] [choke] [thud]
MS: "Congressman, are you OK? Sir? Can you hear me?? HELP!! HELP!! I think the Congressman has just had a heart attack!"
Sorry, just dreaming there.
But honestly, WHO benefits from laws such as these? The cable providers? HA! If RoadRunner pulls this crap on me, they can kiss my cable subscription GOODBYE. I'll cancel the whole damn thing and get a free satellite dish and service for the same price a month. I can connect to a local modem ISP at 53K because I'm so close to the CO, and while that's a WHOLE lot slower than the cable modem, it would feel good everytime I connected knowing that RoadRunner lost me as a customer.
I suppose if I had 5 computers in my house and was fully using the bandwidth 24/7, they have the right to bitch and moan because that's unfair usage -- get another ISP in the area that will help with that. The bandwidth isn't free, after all (of course, it's not as expensive as the money I'm paying them, either, but I guess SOMEONE has to support those poor Hollywood singers and actors!).
That's a really insightful comment.
Why hide behind AC?
Yeah, similar, but far and away nowhere near as cool.
This is from the MobileWise/Technology Overview page:
"# Data & Equipment Safety
Since the Wire-free Electricity Base does not utilize magnetic fields, the technology is safe for magnetic media, such as hard drives, and does not interfere with the operation of electronic equipment."
So there has to be some metal-to-metal contact.
I think the product described in the article is way cooler.
What a ridiculous post.
How did anyone mention failing in the regular marketplace? Who, mentioned in the article, is an OpenSource writer?
How do you figure someone sinister is behind this action?
Go back to your cubicle at Microsoft, Bill.
It'd be interesting to know what Oregon's northern neighbors in Redmond think about this.
It's a baaare faced challenge to the quality of M$'s products.
Go OREGON!
The Apple //e sported 143K disks (DOS 3.3) :)
Who says you need to be able to turn a computer on to be able to produce quality software?
Consider the vast number of people that used to work on mainframes, who would have absolutely NO CLUE what to do at the console, but who could connect and bang out large amounts of software.
There's still a definite line between 'hardware' and 'software'.
If you're thinking just about PC's, you're making a mistake in your logic.
OT (in reply to the OP's .sig):
I actually took a Differential Equations test drunk.
I got a 96%.
It's safe to drink and derive! It's fun!
Yes, that's one thing we discussed.
/dev/sdc1 /mntflash") this all works just fine.
But it turns out (read my other post) that if you use mkdosfs, and copy via a mount point (e.g., "mount -t vfat
that when we did the formatting with linux, it worked? I thought that was one of the funniest parts of all this. When we used mkdosfs to put a FAT32 fs on the cards, it worked (disregard that FAT32 is probably not appropriate -- we discussed this, and I even recommended we try a linux fs, but since it's an embedded project, jvaigl didn't want to go off and "prove" ext2/3 for this, and I can't blame him).
(I work with jvaigl.)
Why is this post under "YRO?"
Using DALnet (or any other IRC network) isn't a RIGHT. It's a privilege.
DALnet is simply saying, "This kind of behaviour is not what we want on our systems."
Now, if they can ever get out from under the DDoS attacks, we'll see if this makes a difference anywhere.
Take a prozac.
You're wrong about a lot of that. IRC (the protocol) may belong to no one, but the people that administer the hosts certainly DO have a lot to say about what happens on their machines. The people who administer DALnet, having been put in place by some chain of inheritance DO have the right to tell you what can and cannot take place on their network.
Don't like it? Go somewhere else. That's one of the great things about the Internet: you can find what you want if you look hard enough.
As to people owning parts of the net: the guy who you connect to (via modem or dsl or cable) CERTAINLY owns a part of the 'net. And he has the RIGHT to kick your lame butt off if you violate your service agreement. He doesn't own the whole thing, and you can go look for another ISP, but keep in mind that the internet is a bunch of people COOPERATING, and they sure as hell don't have to put up with crap like your post if they don't want to.
I don't know much about the terms of your release, but I'm going to assume that you were told that they'd be watching you. In that vein, have they made any threats to you like "Step out of line again and we're going to come down on you like a ton of bricks?"