Help show the FBI that "public" library does not oblige them to check out "private" reading habits. Practice information wash-out techniques by checking out a random book each time you go after searching for : explosives OR nuclear physics OR anarchy OR islam OR communism OR jihad
This solution is two-fold in that it helps decrease the effectiveness of FBI sniffing as well prevents real threats from checking out these books while you have them.
Of course this is all futile if you forget to wear your foil hat to the library.
We've been using Gyropoints for some time now. This is nifty technology, but definitely not news worthy anymore. They're really more of an arm strain than anything else for desktop use, but they're great for presentations.
The really crazy thing is the lack of troll postings / genital altering advertisements. Seems that almost every comment was insightful and relevant. just like this one isn't...
"If you bring it into a company, they're going to go, 'Wow, look at the toy!'"...And then what?? stick their thumbs back in their noses? This seems to be exactly why a dreamcast would be the worst thing for this. Somebody would go on ebay buy some controls and the next day the company stock would go down because they'd be having competitions in the lounge after they got it to play games or they'd get pissed that it was too hacked to play games and they'd chuck it.
It would seem the best thing would be a box disguised to look like a hub or a switch, nobody is going to yank that out, and if someone patches their system into it, the fake hub could be designed to crack into that system as well.
soil their legacies?? How is supporting the method of protest these people advocated soiling their legacies? We're not just DoSing those supporting legislation we disagree with, that's comparable to giving good groin kicks to people who you don't like. Specifically rejecting and turning the same negative energy that the RIAA is eminating towards the people that pay their bills against them is a demonstration showing our refusal to tolerate injustice and elitist laws constructed in an undemocratic fashion. Just as King Jr. was well aware that his actions defied law and was prepared to pay the consequences, a reverse DoS movement against the unjust RIAA should be executed with such precaution and with the goal of explicitly demonstrating the injustice and nondemocratic birth of heavily lobbied interest group laws.
Being a year behind in this industry is not something to be proud of. Rather this is something to hang our heads about. MSNBC must have loved posting this article. They're notorious for innovation delays, yet they still kicked our butts by 12 months. If the Linux/OSS community hopes to be competitive in the desktop environment it needs to stop being satisfied with second best. Granted these accomplishments are noble in light of the skimpy development finances being poured into OSS, but funds are growing.
Success will come when we start forming hardware protocal standards based on technology that we've accelerated beyond the point where M$ can have much of a say in the standards. People will run linux on their desktops when it can do really innovative cool stuff that other closed-source companies have only started circulating memos about developing.
Linux can no longer live of the legacy of its stability. Say what you will, but the NT5 kernel is suprisingly stable and new versions will likely continue to improve now that M$ home users have been exposed to stable kernels. Linux still has an upperhand is security, but M$ is spending a lot of $ and time into matching us there too. Our frontier needs to be usability, flexibility (open source media formats not restricted by heavy licensing), and innovative feature implamentation. This combined with the corner stone of extremely low cost will drive linux/oss above and beyond.
While it shows that he wasn't acting malevolently, ignorance of a law does not provide any sort of exemptions legally. I do not agree with the law or the punishment, but surely this guy must have realized that his hardware hacking was pretty nonconvential for a retailer and therefore perhaps legally questionable.
There is Nothing funny about warm beer. You are obviously either a sadistic child molestor or a 14 yr old that just doesn't understand.
No morally upright citizen talks about beer that way.
I agree that leaks would be a rarity in a closed system like this, but it certainly would happen now and then. I've worked with laboratory grade peltier units and have come in in the morning to find a dead preparation and a puddle on the floor (don't worry, mice not human). I think a fan dying would actually be just as if not more likely and really the damage done by this could be just as bad, only less sensational I suppose (although this is argueable too... I've seen an impressive amount of smoke pour out of a system with a dead fan).
My concern would be planes though, the pressure changes in commmercial jets seem to be powerful enough to make just about anything spring a leak.
The iPod is too thick. Therefore this is also too thick.
Yes the iPod is an impressive piece of technology and it was well engineered. This doesn't mean we should be content though. for pocket storage and long durations of time sitting in your palm, this thing is uncomfortably thick.
how will people not knowing about it not make a difference? Most of those people wouldn't care much anyways since they're happy with their clear-channel top forty music selection, and that kind of music isn't threatened by these decisions at all. What really matters in this case is the outcome of the trial and the formation of legislation around this issue.
More people knowing might mean more decisions favoring the people rather than the RIAA, so if you feel not enough people know (and I agree) start telling them about!
I'm not a Mac user, but are you guys accustomed to grossly unstable Operating system technology? I keep hearing Mac people bragging about their systems being up for four days, or one week, or 21 days. Those are the kinds of stats that made me leave win98 because I deemed it unstable. I don't understand the excitement surrounding OS X not crashing every couple of hours.
you're seldom required to prove your identity because it's already being done multiple times each day without your permission. London has an extensive network of hidden camera's; it's estimated that on an average day in the city your image is captured by thirty unique cameras. Many of these cameras are linked to what is perhaps the most powerful facial recognition system in existence.
Heck with fearing big brother... he's already up and running. An ID card would be a welcome change. At least then you'd know when you were being logged.
Disagree. Trading Warez is definitely not a clear cut example of theft. I would argue it completely fails to meet the "definition" of "theft."
Theft \Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See {Thief}.] 1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See {Larceny}, and the Note under {Robbery}. Courtesy Webster's dictionary
Software is not removed, nor is it in the complete possession of the thief.
I think that you really do have to "feel" that it is theft. By definition it hardly is. I consider myself a person with strongly established morals, and I do not consider warez trading theft by the literal or moral definition of the word.
Please never forget that "law" does not equal "right," consider the most clear-cut example in our community, the DMCA. There are hundreds of laws as unjust.
I think there used to be. But they stopped making it around version 3 or something like that. It was really horrible. I'm feeling kinda slothish... sorry for not actually researching this. Just pulling from my vauge long term memory.
Heck with the software companies. Take some responsibility-- if the checkout counter was at the back of the grocery store think about how many people would walk in grab some produce and then make a casual 180 out the front door. Just like shoplifting, piracy cannot be eradicated, but there are better ways to deal with the issue than jacking prices through the roof and then lobbying for stricter laws on the kids cracking and distributing this stuff (btw: probably not a good idea to ruin the career futures of what very well may turn out to be your next generation employment base. These now script kiddies have the potential to excel in the tech market, but not if they're labeled as cyber-gang members and spending time learning how to execute real crimes from their new inmate friends).
With the open source movement growing, I'm more and more willing to say screw these overpriced software companies if they can't offer services that people actually want to pay for. If they go under the market is still strong enough to replace them with someone that can provide what paying consumers want, or someone will offer a similar product in the open source community with the realization that distribution and replication of the product dissolves no real resources!
How much are taxpayers paying for forty armed agents to bust in on a man with stuffed animals in his parents' basement? How much are we paying for the years he'll spend growing bitter and learning about real crime (lessons he'll put to use when he fails to get a job thanks to his marred record) in prison? Well, at least we the tax paying public are a little safer with him behind bars; this stuffed animal toting psychotic monster can't hurt us now.
Are you really willing to pay for expensive laws (emperically flawed laws mind you) designed to help multimillion dollar corporations carry out their smug agendas?
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Help show the FBI that "public" library does not oblige them to check out "private" reading habits. Practice information wash-out techniques by checking out a random book each time you go after searching for : explosives OR nuclear physics OR anarchy OR islam OR communism OR jihad
This solution is two-fold in that it helps decrease the effectiveness of FBI sniffing as well prevents real threats from checking out these books while you have them.
Of course this is all futile if you forget to wear your foil hat to the library.
what about volcanoes??
Huh, I guess rather than blocking the site my ISP (Time warner) is rerouting it to the Tucows registered site http://www.mp3mediaworld.com
I'm not sure when something that benefits the RIAA but can only cause headaches for end users started being called a "feature."
If you build a car that is incapable of going over 65mph do you advertise it as an anti-speed ticket "feature"?
nonsense.
Why would you want a bigger MP3 player??
We've been using Gyropoints for some time now. This is nifty technology, but definitely not news worthy anymore. They're really more of an arm strain than anything else for desktop use, but they're great for presentations.
The really crazy thing is the lack of troll postings / genital altering advertisements. Seems that almost every comment was insightful and relevant. just like this one isn't...
This is also desirable when the beer is served with English food.
"If you bring it into a company, they're going to go, 'Wow, look at the toy!'" ...And then what?? stick their thumbs back in their
noses? This seems to be exactly why a dreamcast would be the worst thing for this. Somebody would go on ebay buy some controls and the next day the company stock would go down because they'd be having competitions in the lounge after they got it to play games or they'd get pissed that it was too hacked to play games and they'd chuck it.
It would seem the best thing would be a box disguised to look like a hub or a switch, nobody is going to yank that out, and if someone patches their system into it, the fake hub could be designed to crack into that system as well.
soil their legacies?? How is supporting the method of protest these people advocated soiling their legacies? We're not just DoSing those supporting legislation we disagree with, that's comparable to giving good groin kicks to people who you don't like. Specifically rejecting and turning the same negative energy that the RIAA is eminating towards the people that pay their bills against them is a demonstration showing our refusal to tolerate injustice and elitist laws constructed in an undemocratic fashion. Just as King Jr. was well aware that his actions defied law and was prepared to pay the consequences, a reverse DoS movement against the unjust RIAA should be executed with such precaution and with the goal of explicitly demonstrating the injustice and nondemocratic birth of heavily lobbied interest group laws.
Being a year behind in this industry is not something to be proud of. Rather this is something to hang our heads about. MSNBC must have loved posting this article. They're notorious for innovation delays, yet they still kicked our butts by 12 months. If the Linux/OSS community hopes to be competitive in the desktop environment it needs to stop being satisfied with second best. Granted these accomplishments are noble in light of the skimpy development finances being poured into OSS, but funds are growing.
Success will come when we start forming hardware protocal standards based on technology that we've accelerated beyond the point where M$ can have much of a say in the standards. People will run linux on their desktops when it can do really innovative cool stuff that other closed-source companies have only started circulating memos about developing.
Linux can no longer live of the legacy of its stability. Say what you will, but the NT5 kernel is suprisingly stable and new versions will likely continue to improve now that M$ home users have been exposed to stable kernels. Linux still has an upperhand is security, but M$ is spending a lot of $ and time into matching us there too. Our frontier needs to be usability, flexibility (open source media formats not restricted by heavy licensing), and innovative feature implamentation. This combined with the corner stone of extremely low cost will drive linux/oss above and beyond.
While it shows that he wasn't acting malevolently, ignorance of a law does not provide any sort of exemptions legally. I do not agree with the law or the punishment, but surely this guy must have realized that his hardware hacking was pretty nonconvential for a retailer and therefore perhaps legally questionable.
There is Nothing funny about warm beer. You are obviously either a sadistic child molestor or a 14 yr old that just doesn't understand. No morally upright citizen talks about beer that way.
I agree that leaks would be a rarity in a closed system like this, but it certainly would happen now and then. I've worked with laboratory grade peltier units and have come in in the morning to find a dead preparation and a puddle on the floor (don't worry, mice not human). I think a fan dying would actually be just as if not more likely and really the damage done by this could be just as bad, only less sensational I suppose (although this is argueable too... I've seen an impressive amount of smoke pour out of a system with a dead fan).
My concern would be planes though, the pressure changes in commmercial jets seem to be powerful enough to make just about anything spring a leak.
how is this insightful??
this post is offtopic (we're talking about a flagrant violation of privacy, not personal morals), and flamebait to boot.
Additionally, it makes no sense.
The iPod is too thick. Therefore this is also too thick.
Yes the iPod is an impressive piece of technology and it was well engineered. This doesn't mean we should be content though. for pocket storage and long durations of time sitting in your palm, this thing is uncomfortably thick.
how will people not knowing about it not make a difference? Most of those people wouldn't care much anyways since they're happy with their clear-channel top forty music selection, and that kind of music isn't threatened by these decisions at all. What really matters in this case is the outcome of the trial and the formation of legislation around this issue.
More people knowing might mean more decisions favoring the people rather than the RIAA, so if you feel not enough people know (and I agree) start telling them about!
Netscape 5.x essentially ='s Mozilla branch
however, it is about time people start calling the lizard by it's name.
I'm not a Mac user, but are you guys accustomed to grossly unstable Operating system technology? I keep hearing Mac people bragging about their systems being up for four days, or one week, or 21 days. Those are the kinds of stats that made me leave win98 because I deemed it unstable. I don't understand the excitement surrounding OS X not crashing every couple of hours.
Heck with fearing big brother... he's already up and running. An ID card would be a welcome change. At least then you'd know when you were being logged.
nope, more like modded down for being an uber-troll.
Theft \Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See {Thief}.] 1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See {Larceny}, and the Note under {Robbery}.
Courtesy Webster's dictionary
Software is not removed, nor is it in the complete possession of the thief.
I think that you really do have to "feel" that it is theft. By definition it hardly is. I consider myself a person with strongly established morals, and I do not consider warez trading theft by the literal or moral definition of the word.
Please never forget that "law" does not equal "right," consider the most clear-cut example in our community, the DMCA. There are hundreds of laws as unjust.
"I think it's just that people with bigger brains like better computers!"
  Oh, pleeez.. Just shut the hell up.
I think there used to be. But they stopped making it around version 3 or something like that. It was really horrible. I'm feeling kinda slothish... sorry for not actually researching this. Just pulling from my vauge long term memory.
With the open source movement growing, I'm more and more willing to say screw these overpriced software companies if they can't offer services that people actually want to pay for. If they go under the market is still strong enough to replace them with someone that can provide what paying consumers want, or someone will offer a similar product in the open source community with the realization that distribution and replication of the product dissolves no real resources!
How much are taxpayers paying for forty armed agents to bust in on a man with stuffed animals in his parents' basement? How much are we paying for the years he'll spend growing bitter and learning about real crime (lessons he'll put to use when he fails to get a job thanks to his marred record) in prison? Well, at least we the tax paying public are a little safer with him behind bars; this stuffed animal toting psychotic monster can't hurt us now.
Are you really willing to pay for expensive laws (emperically flawed laws mind you) designed to help multimillion dollar corporations carry out their smug agendas?
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