I can't see the point in investing in these elaborate copy protection technologies in the first place. There's always going to be a workaround as long as there are stereos with audio outputs and PCs with audio inputs. It just means that you need a stereo and an audio cable and an extra 2 minutes to hook them up. As someone already noted this will deter Joe Sixpack, but not serious music 'pirates'.
It doesn't matter how difficult it is to copy the music, because once it's copied it can spread illegaly as much as any other song through filesharing systems. Only now people are forced to use the mp3 if they want to listen on their computers, and casual listeners can't easily copy the music to mp3 for personal fair use. Schemes like this will hardly affect music 'piracy' at all, if anything they'll make it more rampant by marginalising PC listeners.
http://nethack.devnull.net/login.html
I'm really sorry about the quantity of posts, I'm just posting new stuff as I find it out. In retrospect this is a stupid thing to do, and if I had any karma I'd be waving goodbye to it right now.
I don't think that's right, sorry. The name and password I got from there don't work when I ssh to nethack.dev.null , and I can't figure out any other way I'm meant to get at the game, especially since I don't see any other servers listed on the website. So now I just feel even stupider. Does anyone know how to work this??
maybe a whole shitload more of people will get killed. No maybe about it, actually. Crushing any countries who've had anything to do with islamic terorrist organisations can only create even more anti-US sentiment and breed another generation of terrorists and perpetuate the cycle of destruction. Yay.
I think anything that educates kids that there's a world beyond Microsoft can only be a good idea.
My school here in Argetina is considering coming over to the light side, and I'm doing a feasability study as part of a business project. I've got Debian up and running with GNOME on one machine, and so far there's been plenty of interest from pupils and staff alike.
One major problem is the system administration (who's ever met a decent sysadmin in a school?), ours doesn't even have a clue what protocols are used on the network for filesharing, authorisation etc. The ability to install windows and add a couple of network settings is pretty much it as far as qualification in this field goes.
The plan with this installation is to test how well a group of students can adapt to GNOME from Win2k. All that really goes on is simple stuff like word processing and web-browsing, and they should have no trouble at all using mozilla and abiword, so I'm optimistic that al will go well and if we're lucky the school network will be liberated before WinXP gets its clutches on it.
Now if I can just get the Quake 2 demo on there...
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'nuff said
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I can't see the point in investing in these elaborate copy protection technologies in the first place. There's always going to be a workaround as long as there are stereos with audio outputs and PCs with audio inputs. It just means that you need a stereo and an audio cable and an extra 2 minutes to hook them up. As someone already noted this will deter Joe Sixpack, but not serious music 'pirates'.
It doesn't matter how difficult it is to copy the music, because once it's copied it can spread illegaly as much as any other song through filesharing systems. Only now people are forced to use the mp3 if they want to listen on their computers, and casual listeners can't easily copy the music to mp3 for personal fair use. Schemes like this will hardly affect music 'piracy' at all, if anything they'll make it more rampant by marginalising PC listeners.
http://nethack.devnull.net/login.html I'm really sorry about the quantity of posts, I'm just posting new stuff as I find it out. In retrospect this is a stupid thing to do, and if I had any karma I'd be waving goodbye to it right now.
Try here: http://nethack.dev.null/registration.html
Try this:
http://nethack.dev.null/registration.html
I'll swear there's no links to it in the rest of the site
I found it finally!!! You know how? By guessing the URL at random. I knew that luckstone would come in handy.
http://nethack.dev.null/registration.html
Sorry about the wrong link confusion before, this should set you right!
I don't think that's right, sorry. The name and password I got from there don't work when I ssh to nethack.dev.null , and I can't figure out any other way I'm meant to get at the game, especially since I don't see any other servers listed on the website. So now I just feel even stupider. Does anyone know how to work this??
OK, for all the poor saps like me who couldn't find out how to register to join the tournament, here's the appropriate linkage:
http://nethack.dev.null/scoop/?op=newuser
you feel foolish, you haven't been paying attention.
> (maybe we'll hurt bin laden's feelings?)
maybe a whole shitload more of people will get killed. No maybe about it, actually. Crushing any countries who've had anything to do with islamic terorrist organisations can only create even more anti-US sentiment and breed another generation of terrorists and perpetuate the cycle of destruction. Yay.
I think anything that educates kids that there's a world beyond Microsoft can only be a good idea.
My school here in Argetina is considering coming over to the light side, and I'm doing a feasability study as part of a business project. I've got Debian up and running with GNOME on one machine, and so far there's been plenty of interest from pupils and staff alike.
One major problem is the system administration (who's ever met a decent sysadmin in a school?), ours doesn't even have a clue what protocols are used on the network for filesharing, authorisation etc. The ability to install windows and add a couple of network settings is pretty much it as far as qualification in this field goes.
The plan with this installation is to test how well a group of students can adapt to GNOME from Win2k. All that really goes on is simple stuff like word processing and web-browsing, and they should have no trouble at all using mozilla and abiword, so I'm optimistic that al will go well and if we're lucky the school network will be liberated before WinXP gets its clutches on it.
Now if I can just get the Quake 2 demo on there...