Don't worry; it's a flawed concept anyway. For example, replacing the instructions in the program that cause the reboot with NOPs can combat something like this effectively. I'm tempted to set up a Windows environment in a sandbox just to break this.
It's practically impossible to find the independent labels who, under this scheme, they would owe money to. Also, this assumes that the record labels ARE the law. If one small independent record label didn't want to participate in this deal, could they sue Napster and cause the same contraversy there is now?
CSS is an encryption scheme. In all of the legal proceeding, it has always been applied specifically to the plaintifs and their products. This is not the whole story. Anyone who makes DVD's could use the CSS encryption algorithm. This is as ludicrous as banning HTML information becuase the some company accidentally exposed credit card numbers in HTML format.
This stinks of Napster-eqse corporate influences. Once Napster got into the deal with a big music company, for some reason it becuase unquestionably legal for it to support peer-to-peer music sharing. Some of those shared files could be data copyrighted by 3rd-party artists or independent musicians. For them, the situation has not changed at all. But now a few certain big companies are getting monetary cuts. How does that change the real or percieved legality of Napster's buisness at all??
Versioning by year does not make sense unless you release software on an annual schedule instead of when it's ready. Not only does it make you loose the flexibility of planning releases, but it also kind of breaks every 100 years if you use 2-digit years:)
Using the year as the version does not give you any indication of the program's maturity. And it kind of rules out patches, security fixes, or minor upgrades unless you want to lug around two numbers instead of just using a floating point number.
Software is not cars. Microsoft's marketing department must be really stupid.
SkipStone is not writen in perl. A tiny download helper it used to use called Skipdownload was originally writen in perl but has long since been rewriten in C.
Sure, sounds like a great idea. Only problem is I can't seem to find a link to the source on its page, so I can compile it on my SparcLinux box. Anyone know where they are hiding this? (presumably to prevent newbies from submitting stupid bugs in something that is a beta)
Downloaded the beta and it while it certainly is very bloated I see it as a major improvement from version 5 and just about the best (only) think around for presentations and stuff like that. I am an anti-gnome bigot. As much as I detest the current widget set, I would hate to have to install all of Gnome's libraries to open a PowerPoint file every now an then. Will openoffice be ported to Gtk, and will it require Gnome?
> That's also one of the reasons it's not as bloated and buggy as M$'s stuff.
HAHAHAH no comment.
I think it's really stupid to expect community assistance when the source code comments are in German, though. I looked at the source and can confirm this. It's bad almost by definition, at least in the free software world, to comment code in a non-English language.
Considering the fact that you can tunnel packets through a host in another geographical location using SSH or other methods, this method is inherently flawed.
This is NOT for Linux. Or FreeBSD. This is for Linux ON i386 and FreeBSD ON i386.
It also happens to be proprietary software that you won't see me getting near.
Linux has seen a dramatic increase in new license shipments growing from 15.8% of server operating environment shipments in 1998 to 24.4% in 1999, absorbing much of the expansion of the market.
Since the GPL is freely transferable, am I the only one who doesn't think that license shipments have anything to do with Linux growth or sales?
Mention something against Linux, open source, or Mozilla, and you get free advertising from Slashdot. Imagine all those ad-banner impressions!
What they're saying is true, though. I've been using CVS Mozilla as my primary browser. It is much slower, bloated, and intensive than Netscape4. I fail to see how it is any better than Netscape 4. GTKhtml is looking pretty nice, but it's depressing that the mozilla people fucked up by being even more bloated than Netscape 4 (!!!) and reinventing the wheel for everything including the widget set. Of course, the mozilla programmers are not good widget set programmers.
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Don't worry; it's a flawed concept anyway. For example, replacing the instructions in the program that cause the reboot with NOPs can combat something like this effectively. I'm tempted to set up a Windows environment in a sandbox just to break this.
TRUSTED CLIENT DOES NOT WORK
It's practically impossible to find the independent labels who, under this scheme, they would owe money to. Also, this assumes that the record labels ARE the law. If one small independent record label didn't want to participate in this deal, could they sue Napster and cause the same contraversy there is now?
zcc includes 'as', a good assembler with a linker and all. Search for it on google.
Doesn't the Child Online Protection Act (ugh) have protection against abuses like this?
http://www.ioccc.org
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/
http://linuxassembly.org
CSS is an encryption scheme. In all of the legal proceeding, it has always been applied specifically to the plaintifs and their products. This is not the whole story. Anyone who makes DVD's could use the CSS encryption algorithm. This is as ludicrous as banning HTML information becuase the some company accidentally exposed credit card numbers in HTML format.
This stinks of Napster-eqse corporate influences. Once Napster got into the deal with a big music company, for some reason it becuase unquestionably legal for it to support peer-to-peer music sharing. Some of those shared files could be data copyrighted by 3rd-party artists or independent musicians. For them, the situation has not changed at all. But now a few certain big companies are getting monetary cuts. How does that change the real or percieved legality of Napster's buisness at all??
This is _very_ important. When I first heard about this I read the license and was very sad to see that it was non-free.
opendivx ----> trashbin (for now)
How is the title of this article a question, or at all in question?
I am getting annoyed by seeing all the slashdot headlines having questionmarks after them for no particular reason.
Ironically, the NSA is getting slashdotted.
I think I'll run it over EFNet!
http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render/translucent. png
So it went:
:)
1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 95 -> 97 -> 98 -> 99 -> 2000 -> 10
???
Versioning by year does not make sense unless you release software on an annual schedule instead of when it's ready. Not only does it make you loose the flexibility of planning releases, but it also kind of breaks every 100 years if you use 2-digit years
Using the year as the version does not give you any indication of the program's maturity. And it kind of rules out patches, security fixes, or minor upgrades unless you want to lug around two numbers instead of just using a floating point number.
Software is not cars. Microsoft's marketing department must be really stupid.
Not like it matters to me, I just use lynx over SSH since I don't care for their fucking network.
SkipStone is not writen in perl. A tiny download helper it used to use called Skipdownload was originally writen in perl but has long since been rewriten in C.
Sure, sounds like a great idea. Only problem is I can't seem to find a link to the source on its page, so I can compile it on my SparcLinux box. Anyone know where they are hiding this? (presumably to prevent newbies from submitting stupid bugs in something that is a beta)
Downloaded the beta and it while it certainly is very bloated I see it as a major improvement from version 5 and just about the best (only) think around for presentations and stuff like that. I am an anti-gnome bigot. As much as I detest the current widget set, I would hate to have to install all of Gnome's libraries to open a PowerPoint file every now an then. Will openoffice be ported to Gtk, and will it require Gnome?
> That's also one of the reasons it's not as bloated and buggy as M$'s stuff.
HAHAHAH no comment.
I think it's really stupid to expect community assistance when the source code comments are in German, though. I looked at the source and can confirm this. It's bad almost by definition, at least in the free software world, to comment code in a non-English language.
You know very well that the only reason that people would want to buy self-service gas is so they can use illegal slave labor to fill their tanks.
This summer I was 14 and I was looking for a cool Linux job. asked at VA and ended up working in a summer internship with them. It rocked! :)
They open their source code. You guys know who to buy stuff from.
Considering the fact that you can tunnel packets through a host in another geographical location using SSH or other methods, this method is inherently flawed.
Need I say more?
This is NOT for Linux. Or FreeBSD. This is for Linux ON i386 and FreeBSD ON i386. It also happens to be proprietary software that you won't see me getting near.
Since the GPL is freely transferable, am I the only one who doesn't think that license shipments have anything to do with Linux growth or sales?
Mention something against Linux, open source, or Mozilla, and you get free advertising from Slashdot. Imagine all those ad-banner impressions!
What they're saying is true, though. I've been using CVS Mozilla as my primary browser. It is much slower, bloated, and intensive than Netscape4. I fail to see how it is any better than Netscape 4. GTKhtml is looking pretty nice, but it's depressing that the mozilla people fucked up by being even more bloated than Netscape 4 (!!!) and reinventing the wheel for everything including the widget set. Of course, the mozilla programmers are not good widget set programmers.