Thanks for digging that up. Seems like the bridge will be router-side only, though, at least for marketing purposes. I hope it'll work PC-side too, since I'm not holding my breath for Linux support for that USB adaptor any time soon:/
Yeah, good ones do filter noise. I don't know if even the best filter at the frequency I'd assume this must use, though. I guess we'll see info on it at some point...
What happens on the PC side of the question? Like, do I have to buy a device that takes up a slot internally or is USB? Or can I just plug that device into a pre-existing ethernet slot? Obviously, some type of PC->poweroutlet adapter is necessary, but where are they? [Oh, and less importantly... can I run this through my surge protector?]
Thanks for the tip, but I'm unlikely to follow up since this is a Linux-only household and about 90% ogg as well, and last I checked mod_mp3's ogg support was nonexistent.
Wow. Awesome. Yeah, I'd definitely be thinking NFS mounted music (which is what I do in the rest of the house already.) And I guess I could learn QPE, even if (for obvious reasons) I'm a gtk man. Thanks...
If I nfs mount a drive after boot, can I run X? Also, what about sound support? I'm thinking this would make a nice cheap ogg terminal if I can rig up a simple UI and plug my stereo into it.
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A-fucking-men.
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As far as it being 'cruel'... if such lasers are powerful enough to destroy solid metal shells, they are probably powerful enough to kill instantaneously or fairly close to instantaneously. Compare to the rather gruesome and slowly fatal wounds gunshots produce... obviously, I'm no expert on these lasers but I'd think (offhand) they might be vastly more 'humane' than most current battlefield technologies. [Please take 'humane', in context, of course... nothing 'humane' about shooting anyone with anything more powerful than a Super Soaker.]
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I repeat it since I have points and the mods aren't bothering to read at 0 today:
The plugin runs as a component, not a library, so the communication is via a CORBA interface. Since no linking occurs (merely CORBA communication) there is no GPL violation, nor any need to re-license.
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Basically everyone here (with one stubborn standout; she knows who she is:) has been dogfooding evo since July. That includes Nat, with his >1G mail stores, and a large number of folks whose email load tops 1K messages a day.
You should give evo a shot. Many of my die-hard old-school BOFH mutt and GNUS loving friends have tried it and switched. Evo is not just 'trying to look like windows'- it's got new and powerful functionality (like vfolders) that are extremely useful for 1337 power users like yourself, and make the switch worthwhile. Open your mind, just a bit... you never know what might come in.
I think what it actually means is basically up to the court it gets appealed to. So... could be about anything:) I'd hope it means that amicus curiae briefs which contradict the opinion of the DOJ (not to mention the state attorneys still involved) will be given serious weight. But I don't know any specifics.
No, it's not an implication... I spoke with some extremely knowledgeable* lawyers about the case last weekend, and what I'm saying is just what they told me.
*like, directly involved in the case
Fairly soon I'll be unable to watch any online media content without paying an MS tax. If that does come to pass it'll be specifically because of this settlement.
I'm unable to start a business in any field might even vaguely compete with MS, because no VC in their right mind will give me money.*
If I were offering a competitive product in another field (like NS did or the PS2 is) I'm unable to sell product at a price that actually reflects the cost of production. If it were a japanese car or steel company, that would be called dumping.
And this is just what I came up with in a few minutes while on the phone. It's quite clear, from the acts of Congress, the rulings of the Supreme Court, and the writings of the Founding Fathers that we have a legal right to conduct commerce and communicate without the obstruction or cost of a monopoly. And that right is clearly being violated.
Luis
*No comment on what that says about our VCs:) but there is plenty of sworn testimony from the west coast VCs to that effect.
Actually, it's not that they think highly of our opinions but that they're legally required to get community feedback on this type of thing. This was originally intended to make it difficult to allow for pro-environmental decisions and such, but now it's coming around to bite the government on the ass.
More importantly, they're legally required to respond. As I understand it, every 'valid' email sent to that address/must/ be responded to. Sure, the responses will probably be mostly form emails, but they also have to be forwarded to the judge- who is legally required to consider the public interest when approving the decision. So... it's not completely over yet, and yes, this might actually make a different. So... go and write something thoughtful and coherent about why you feel MS as is significantly impacts your freedom as a consumer, and it might actually make some difference.
Eldred (quick refresher for the/tons/ of people looking at this fascinating thread) is basically about an online archiver who puts works whose copyrights have expired on the web. He sued, claiming his first amendment right to post these works had been abridged. A good summary of the state of the case is here.
FWIW, Danse, Lessig and others discussed this particular issue at the conference. There is one case (Eldred v. Reno) that the Supreme Court is looking at soon and may break the Disney Act; if not, there are three others wending their way through the courts. The (extremely bright) group of lawyers at the conference seemed fairly confident that this latest overreaching would be a key component of the downfall of the law.
No, the problem is not that they misunderstand free software but that you misunderstand what they mean by public domain. I wish I had time to explain it further but I don't ATM... sorry. Maybe later this week:/
It's actually in Durham at the NC School for Science and Math, and less a conference and more just a speech by Eben Moglen. But it should be really interesting; I'd urge anyone in the area to go.
Read the papers, please, Mike. Free Software has a lot to do with the Public Domain, broadly construed. No, it isn't free for everyone's use, but it is open to use for anyone who agrees to also share- which places it pretty squarely in the center of a public domain which intends to grow and be vibrant, as opposed to our current public domain (which is stagnant as a result of the Mickey Mouse Protection Acts.) I assure you that Eben Moglen would not have spoken if Free Software were considered irrelevant by the people who organized the conference.
Actually, this is the most relevant 'YRO' link/. has posted in a long time. You just have to have time to read the 240+ pages of papers, or watch the 12+ hours of real video. Sadly, the piece I'm working on to explain why it's the most relevant thing you've seen in ages isn't ready yet, and evo 1.0 has ensnared it.
Here's a preview of a brief fragment of what I've been writing (for context, I went to the conference):
What I learned this weekend that every programmer, and every program user, and everyone else need to know
You have the constitutional right to speak; in other words, a constitutional right to create and use ideas. Creators and peddlers of information have a constutional responsibility to serve the "Public Good", for which in return they get the strictly limited right to copyrights and patents. Their current goals serve their own goods, not those of the public, so your right to learn and to create should win when your goals and theirs conflict.
Hackers aren't alone in realizing there is a problem. As a Linux user, I've known copyright and patent have been eating at my rights for a long time. I'd thought we were sort of alone in that realization, along with maybe a few clueful folks like Lessig and Barlow. But it turns out a
lot of other people understand the problem and are working towards solutions. There is an entire movement here, coming into being as
you read this. And it's full of incredibly bright and good people who are on our side.
We are also not alone in being affected. The continued erosion of the public domain threatens the ability of artists to create; it threatens
the ability of biochemists to fight illness; it threatens the ability of every academic to create new knowledge. From now on, when I talk to my family and friends about Dmitry or DeCSS, I'll also talk about how Negativland creates music, and how patents on SNPs can stop medical research, and how academic journals that are free create information much more efficiently than closed journals. [FIXME: links] And it isn't an American problem, either: it's a global problem, with implications not only for America and Europe but for the second and third world as well. [FIXME: links]
We need to be involved. Obviously, we need lawyers to argue for us in court, but they need us too. They need our numbers; they need our
help in generating publicity; they need our help in proving that people can and will work for the public domain for any number of reasons.
Obviously this is still a work in progress [the links are intended to point at specific papers and webcasts]; I was hoping to have a few more days before/. talked about it:/ But yeah, in a nutshell... this conference was incredibly important to anyone who consumes anything you'd refer to as 'content'; and that includes anyone who takes medicine or does basic research, or even just enjoys sports stats. So... please don't underestimate the importance of the conference.
Without symbols, I'm told the main binary package is around 6 or 7 MB. This is still bigger than sylpheed, sure, but it also does calendaring, tasks, and addresbook stuff. So... take your pic.
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Thanks for digging that up. Seems like the bridge will be router-side only, though, at least for marketing purposes. I hope it'll work PC-side too, since I'm not holding my breath for Linux support for that USB adaptor any time soon :/
Yeah, good ones do filter noise. I don't know if even the best filter at the frequency I'd assume this must use, though. I guess we'll see info on it at some point...
What happens on the PC side of the question? Like, do I have to buy a device that takes up a slot internally or is USB? Or can I just plug that device into a pre-existing ethernet slot? Obviously, some type of PC->poweroutlet adapter is necessary, but where are they? [Oh, and less importantly... can I run this through my surge protector?]
Thanks for the tip, but I'm unlikely to follow up since this is a Linux-only household and about 90% ogg as well, and last I checked mod_mp3's ogg support was nonexistent.
Wow. Awesome. Yeah, I'd definitely be thinking NFS mounted music (which is what I do in the rest of the house already.) And I guess I could learn QPE, even if (for obvious reasons) I'm a gtk man. Thanks...
Yeah, figured it couldn't hurt to ask, though.
If I nfs mount a drive after boot, can I run X? Also, what about sound support? I'm thinking this would make a nice cheap ogg terminal if I can rig up a simple UI and plug my stereo into it.
A-fucking-men.
As far as it being 'cruel'... if such lasers are powerful enough to destroy solid metal shells, they are probably powerful enough to kill instantaneously or fairly close to instantaneously. Compare to the rather gruesome and slowly fatal wounds gunshots produce... obviously, I'm no expert on these lasers but I'd think (offhand) they might be vastly more 'humane' than most current battlefield technologies. [Please take 'humane', in context, of course... nothing 'humane' about shooting anyone with anything more powerful than a Super Soaker.]
I repeat it since I have points and the mods aren't bothering to read at 0 today:
The plugin runs as a component, not a library, so the communication is via a CORBA interface. Since no linking occurs (merely CORBA communication) there is no GPL violation, nor any need to re-license.
Basically everyone here (with one stubborn standout; she knows who she is :) has been dogfooding evo since July. That includes Nat, with his >1G mail stores, and a large number of folks whose email load tops 1K messages a day.
It's a client-side plugin; it makes exchange 'just another source' like IMAP or POP. I don't understand why that makes it an abomination.
You should give evo a shot. Many of my die-hard old-school BOFH mutt and GNUS loving friends have tried it and switched. Evo is not just 'trying to look like windows'- it's got new and powerful functionality (like vfolders) that are extremely useful for 1337 power users like yourself, and make the switch worthwhile. Open your mind, just a bit... you never know what might come in.
I think what it actually means is basically up to the court it gets appealed to. So... could be about anything :) I'd hope it means that amicus curiae briefs which contradict the opinion of the DOJ (not to mention the state attorneys still involved) will be given serious weight. But I don't know any specifics.
No, it's not an implication... I spoke with some extremely knowledgeable* lawyers about the case last weekend, and what I'm saying is just what they told me.
*like, directly involved in the case
- Fairly soon I'll be unable to watch any online media content without paying an MS tax. If that does come to pass it'll be specifically because of this settlement.
- I'm unable to start a business in any field might even vaguely compete with MS, because no VC in their right mind will give me money.*
- If I were offering a competitive product in another field (like NS did or the PS2 is) I'm unable to sell product at a price that actually reflects the cost of production. If it were a japanese car or steel company, that would be called dumping.
And this is just what I came up with in a few minutes while on the phone. It's quite clear, from the acts of Congress, the rulings of the Supreme Court, and the writings of the Founding Fathers that we have a legal right to conduct commerce and communicate without the obstruction or cost of a monopoly. And that right is clearly being violated.Luis
*No comment on what that says about our VCs
Actually, it's not that they think highly of our opinions but that they're legally required to get community feedback on this type of thing. This was originally intended to make it difficult to allow for pro-environmental decisions and such, but now it's coming around to bite the government on the ass.
/must/ be responded to. Sure, the responses will probably be mostly form emails, but they also have to be forwarded to the judge- who is legally required to consider the public interest when approving the decision. So... it's not completely over yet, and yes, this might actually make a different. So... go and write something thoughtful and coherent about why you feel MS as is significantly impacts your freedom as a consumer, and it might actually make some difference.
More importantly, they're legally required to respond. As I understand it, every 'valid' email sent to that address
Eldred (quick refresher for the /tons/ of people looking at this fascinating thread) is basically about an online archiver who puts works whose copyrights have expired on the web. He sued, claiming his first amendment right to post these works had been abridged. A good summary of the state of the case is here.
FWIW, Danse, Lessig and others discussed this particular issue at the conference. There is one case (Eldred v. Reno) that the Supreme Court is looking at soon and may break the Disney Act; if not, there are three others wending their way through the courts. The (extremely bright) group of lawyers at the conference seemed fairly confident that this latest overreaching would be a key component of the downfall of the law.
No, the problem is not that they misunderstand free software but that you misunderstand what they mean by public domain. I wish I had time to explain it further but I don't ATM... sorry. Maybe later this week :/
It's actually in Durham at the NC School for Science and Math, and less a conference and more just a speech by Eben Moglen. But it should be really interesting; I'd urge anyone in the area to go.
Read the papers, please, Mike. Free Software has a lot to do with the Public Domain, broadly construed. No, it isn't free for everyone's use, but it is open to use for anyone who agrees to also share- which places it pretty squarely in the center of a public domain which intends to grow and be vibrant, as opposed to our current public domain (which is stagnant as a result of the Mickey Mouse Protection Acts.) I assure you that Eben Moglen would not have spoken if Free Software were considered irrelevant by the people who organized the conference.
Here's a preview of a brief fragment of what I've been writing (for context, I went to the conference):
What I learned this weekend that every programmer, and every program user, and everyone else need to know
- You have the constitutional right to speak; in other words, a constitutional right to create and use ideas. Creators and peddlers of information have a constutional responsibility to serve the "Public Good", for which in return they get the strictly limited right to copyrights and patents. Their current goals serve their own goods, not those of the public, so your right to learn and to create should win when your goals and theirs conflict.
- Hackers aren't alone in realizing there is a problem. As a Linux user, I've known copyright and patent have been eating at my rights for a long time. I'd thought we were sort of alone in that realization, along with maybe a few clueful folks like Lessig and Barlow. But it turns out a
lot of other people understand the problem and are working towards solutions. There is an entire movement here, coming into being as
you read this. And it's full of incredibly bright and good people who are on our side.
- We are also not alone in being affected. The continued erosion of the public domain threatens the ability of artists to create; it threatens
the ability of biochemists to fight illness; it threatens the ability of every academic to create new knowledge. From now on, when I talk to my family and friends about Dmitry or DeCSS, I'll also talk about how Negativland creates music, and how patents on SNPs can stop medical research, and how academic journals that are free create information much more efficiently than closed journals. [FIXME: links] And it isn't an American problem, either: it's a global problem, with implications not only for America and Europe but for the second and third world as well. [FIXME: links]
- We need to be involved. Obviously, we need lawyers to argue for us in court, but they need us too. They need our numbers; they need our
help in generating publicity; they need our help in proving that people can and will work for the public domain for any number of reasons.
Obviously this is still a work in progress [the links are intended to point at specific papers and webcasts]; I was hoping to have a few more days beforeWithout symbols, I'm told the main binary package is around 6 or 7 MB. This is still bigger than sylpheed, sure, but it also does calendaring, tasks, and addresbook stuff. So... take your pic.
At one point, I considered having my business cards say 'Chief Monkey Groomer' for just that reason :)