China regularly releases news reports like this to try to scare their population into getting off the internet, where they have better access to speech-related items
This article is probably another one of those B.S. articles.
Any kind of soap-boxing regarding laws like this is going to accomplish nothing, because 1) Voters don't know what the hell you're talking about, and 2) Voters don't really care. Most voting issues are spawned from stupid repetitive crap like welfare, taxing and gun laws. And frankly, there's a reason why these laws are so well mouthed by voters, because they're things people can understand. I retain and seriously accept the belief that voting is just a joke hobby for most people, simply because of how many lousy politicans get voted into office all the time. Not because they look like good candidates, but because of their party affiliation, or because they happen to support one stupid law you care about, while supporting a whole plethora of bad ones.
Us in the low power radio scene have a very similar problem to the DMCA, which is what I base my philosophy on. If people actually knew about how a senator used a "compromise bill" to cut out more than 80% (!) of the amount of licenses in the LPFM plan, they would be OUTRAGED. So why aren't they? Well, for starters, they've probably never heard of it before. A lot of the issue regarding bills like the DMCA is the lack of hard coverage regarding it. If it doesn't get printed in the news, front page, nobody's going to even know about it. You need to understand that we live in a selective reality society; Most people in this country don't even think about issues, they just listen to what their supported party platform is, and then blabber out the usual rhetoric they happened to hear from the source they saw it in.
So yes, I think the biggest problem regarding bills like the DMCA is general disknowlege. When ever bills become a technical issue, public comment completely hits the wall, because nobody knows what the hell they're talking about, and nobody knows what the bill will do. Heck, did WE know?
I am posting this because I thought this might be a good way to find pirate radio broadcasters that could have some useful information for me.
I've been doing a lot of research into Low Power AM Broadcasting, and hope to eventually get some useful schematics and designs that anyone can download from the internet, and use to create their own AM radio station. Information on AM pirating is extremely rare and hard to find, because most of it was done before the Internet took hold, so the information is all locked away in the back of people's file cabinets.
I am looking for good AM Transmitter and Antenna schematics. ESPECIALLY Antenna schematics. I'm quite aware of all of the "long wire needed, must have ground radials" stuff, but what I'm really interested in is not just theory, but a design for an antenna that has actually been used, and works very well. What I'm especially looking for is any kind of design that helps to get around physical limitations, such as the requirement of tons of ground radials, and very long radiators.
If anyone has -any- information or schematics that could help me out, please e-mail it to vmalloc@usinternet.com. Thanks!
This site has EVERYTHING you would ever need to know about pirate radio. If you are interested in starting your own radio station, THIS IS THE PLACE TO GO!:
If your FPS is going very slow, as in 9FPS-ish, and you're using an NVidia Card, go to nvidia.com and get the latest video drivers. It fixed the problem for me.
I think the Slashdot community should start practicing a little bit of civil disobedience. Refuse to pay the fines, and broadcast over the web anyways. There are at least several thousand web radio services out there, if somebody wanted to enforce the law, they would have another DE-CSS or Gnutella on their hands.. They could try to shut down sites, but inevitably fail, and cause a huge uprising amongst the online community, and probably most of the offline as well. Any and all lawsuits involving money will eventually crumble, because it's hard to call a nerdy kid in his parent's basement an evil cybercriminal for simply playing back music. Also, good luck trying to get any money out of him.
If you don't agree with the laws & regulations, don't abide by them. Take some risks. I mean, I'm not going around saying we should start torching the RIAA building with molotov cocktails or anything, but when stupid stuff like webcaster royalties comes up, complain about it and broadcast anyways.
You guys need to get more guts. We've been fighting corporate radio with no-license pirate radio for years.. they send MARSHALS to bust those places, for god sakes! Saying you disagree with something is important, but you're not making any progress until you start being an activist, too. The big wigs that create things like webcaster royalties don't talk, they ACT. You need to start acting too, or they're just going to trample on your rights while you sit there saying "Well I don't agree with this.."
I can't these people are getting sentenced to 3+ years in PRISON for doing this. Rapists and murderers have gotten smaller jailtimes. Hasn't anybody here heard of "cruel and unusual punishment"?
It's a shame, what this "land of the free" is turning into. We're throwing people into long-term prison sentences for civil, nonviolent, questionable crimes. Anybody that agrees with what these prosecutors are doing makes me sick.
You can't rename mplayer2.exe to wmplayer.exe, because Windows XP will prevent you from doing that.
What you CAN do that works great, though, is associate all of your movie files to be played back with mplayer2.exe, right click on a movie file and then click on "open with..." and find mplayer2.exe in the "c:\program files\windows media player" folder. Then it will always open with that program. I just tried that and it worked fine. It doesn't get you out of the EULA license problem, but 6.4 is a much better player than 8 is, because it's simpler and doesn't have a bunch of weird crap straddled onto the GUI.
Hey, your patriotic message on how much more free and successful our radio is sounds really sweet, especially to me, who has been trying to get a license for my low power radio station for over 5 years, but cannot get one, because the corporate radio lobbyists have shut down, at the CONGRESSIONAL LEVEL, all attempts the FCC has made to create a low power radio service.
The difference between the radio in Canada and the radio in America is minute. Here, the government forces control of the airwaves, just like they do in Canada. Instead, they do it in the companies' name.
And if you think the top-10 money grubber radio stations are giving me a good, cultured return on MY investment, then you're nuts.
In November, the company won the rights to use a designated frequency of 1.4 MHz in a Federal Communications Commission auction.
I HOPE that's a typo, because if it isn't, that's smack-dab in the middle of the AM Broadcast Band (1400kHz), and I would be furious if the FCC was auctioning off spots on a precious resource like that to a bunch of nuts with weather balloons...
The communists has been trying to get rid of cyber cafes for a while now.. they started by filtering all of the cafes, then they forced many of them to close down. They published an article about a guy dieing from playing too many video games not too long ago, which is total BS.
Isn't it incredibly obvious? CHINA IS TRYING TO SHUT DOWN THE CYBER CAFES.
I wouldn't be surprised if the communist party STARTED this fire, just so they could add this to their big pile of "destroy the evil internet" paperwork, which has gotten pretty damn big over the last year. Don't even bother rebuttling my points, theres articles all over the news that confirm my suspicion, just search for "china cyber cafe" on the BBC, and watch it pour in.
Your message is informative, however, I want to know WHY these things are happening... WHY are the windows barred up? I know that there is little crime in that area, so they must be there for a different reason..
Wait, I'm sorry, we're talking about an article that describes sabotaging a train station?
You're kidding me, right? They think that taking that off the search engines is going to stop people from breaking down trains? Hell, I haven't even read it yet, and i've immediately got about 5 ideas. Why not lace some plastic explosives on the track? Dump some concerete into the subway tracks... How hard is it to break down a train, for godsakes?
The DiVX developers are not idiots. They know that watermarking won't work, and they know that this move wouldn't forward well with it's followers. I have a theory that they might be doing this, just so that if they were ever legally threatened in the future, they would have something to say about piracy. "We're not about piracy, look we tried watermarking!"
Just a thought, anyways. I'm probably wrong.
Oh, and BTW, Franhaufer or whatever is a stupid kaiser that came up with one of the 50 million audio codecs out there, that just happened to become the standard by random choice, and nobody gives a damn what he has to say about any of this.
I thought Hollings was going to wait "a year" and allow the tech industry to come up with a solution before he entered it! Hmm.. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, this is a guy that we can all trust.
Here are some images of Fritz Hollings in his later stages of the campaign. Enjoy!
Keep a close eye on this one guys. If they decide to go through (and with horribly biased people like the ones they selected for the "review"), we're gonna have to retaliate. HARD. As much as I would enjoy starting an underground computer following, we CANNOT LET THIS GO THROUGH. You'd better ALL BE THERE for the protests if this thing comes to vote.
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It shouldn't. This "Lott", if I'm thinking of the same guy, is a miserably conservative thinker, in all areas of the political spectrum. Very biased.
SOURGEFORGE.NET is blocked! SOURCE FORGE! The inanity of it all!! AAAHHHHH!!!!!!
Hey Apple, why don't you sue Apple Records too???
I swear to god, how do you guys like Apple? They're worse than Microsoft.
Does somebody want to tell me why the US takes 17th place in Press Freedom, and Germany and France take 11th and 7th respectively?
China regularly releases news reports like this to try to scare their population into getting off the internet, where they have better access to speech-related items
This article is probably another one of those B.S. articles.
For christs sake, why did people SETTLE WITH HIM? They're just making him go on by justifying his stupid illegal tyrade...
Any kind of soap-boxing regarding laws like this is going to accomplish nothing, because 1) Voters don't know what the hell you're talking about, and 2) Voters don't really care. Most voting issues are spawned from stupid repetitive crap like welfare, taxing and gun laws. And frankly, there's a reason why these laws are so well mouthed by voters, because they're things people can understand. I retain and seriously accept the belief that voting is just a joke hobby for most people, simply because of how many lousy politicans get voted into office all the time. Not because they look like good candidates, but because of their party affiliation, or because they happen to support one stupid law you care about, while supporting a whole plethora of bad ones.
Us in the low power radio scene have a very similar problem to the DMCA, which is what I base my philosophy on. If people actually knew about how a senator used a "compromise bill" to cut out more than 80% (!) of the amount of licenses in the LPFM plan, they would be OUTRAGED. So why aren't they? Well, for starters, they've probably never heard of it before. A lot of the issue regarding bills like the DMCA is the lack of hard coverage regarding it. If it doesn't get printed in the news, front page, nobody's going to even know about it. You need to understand that we live in a selective reality society; Most people in this country don't even think about issues, they just listen to what their supported party platform is, and then blabber out the usual rhetoric they happened to hear from the source they saw it in.
So yes, I think the biggest problem regarding bills like the DMCA is general disknowlege. When ever bills become a technical issue, public comment completely hits the wall, because nobody knows what the hell they're talking about, and nobody knows what the bill will do. Heck, did WE know?
I am posting this because I thought this might be a good way to find pirate radio broadcasters that could have some useful information for me.
I've been doing a lot of research into Low Power AM Broadcasting, and hope to eventually get some useful schematics and designs that anyone can download from the internet, and use to create their own AM radio station. Information on AM pirating is extremely rare and hard to find, because most of it was done before the Internet took hold, so the information is all locked away in the back of people's file cabinets.
I am looking for good AM Transmitter and Antenna schematics. ESPECIALLY Antenna schematics. I'm quite aware of all of the "long wire needed, must have ground radials" stuff, but what I'm really interested in is not just theory, but a design for an antenna that has actually been used, and works very well. What I'm especially looking for is any kind of design that helps to get around physical limitations, such as the requirement of tons of ground radials, and very long radiators.
If anyone has -any- information or schematics that could help me out, please e-mail it to vmalloc@usinternet.com. Thanks!
This site has EVERYTHING you would ever need to know about pirate radio. If you are interested in starting your own radio station, THIS IS THE PLACE TO GO!:
http://www.diymedia.net/links/
If your FPS is going very slow, as in 9FPS-ish, and you're using an NVidia Card, go to nvidia.com and get the latest video drivers. It fixed the problem for me.
I think the Slashdot community should start practicing a little bit of civil disobedience. Refuse to pay the fines, and broadcast over the web anyways. There are at least several thousand web radio services out there, if somebody wanted to enforce the law, they would have another DE-CSS or Gnutella on their hands.. They could try to shut down sites, but inevitably fail, and cause a huge uprising amongst the online community, and probably most of the offline as well. Any and all lawsuits involving money will eventually crumble, because it's hard to call a nerdy kid in his parent's basement an evil cybercriminal for simply playing back music. Also, good luck trying to get any money out of him.
If you don't agree with the laws & regulations, don't abide by them. Take some risks. I mean, I'm not going around saying we should start torching the RIAA building with molotov cocktails or anything, but when stupid stuff like webcaster royalties comes up, complain about it and broadcast anyways.
You guys need to get more guts. We've been fighting corporate radio with no-license pirate radio for years.. they send MARSHALS to bust those places, for god sakes! Saying you disagree with something is important, but you're not making any progress until you start being an activist, too. The big wigs that create things like webcaster royalties don't talk, they ACT. You need to start acting too, or they're just going to trample on your rights while you sit there saying "Well I don't agree with this.."
I can't these people are getting sentenced to 3+ years in PRISON for doing this. Rapists and murderers have gotten smaller jailtimes. Hasn't anybody here heard of "cruel and unusual punishment"?
It's a shame, what this "land of the free" is turning into. We're throwing people into long-term prison sentences for civil, nonviolent, questionable crimes. Anybody that agrees with what these prosecutors are doing makes me sick.
You can't rename mplayer2.exe to wmplayer.exe, because Windows XP will prevent you from doing that.
What you CAN do that works great, though, is associate all of your movie files to be played back with mplayer2.exe, right click on a movie file and then click on "open with..." and find mplayer2.exe in the "c:\program files\windows media player" folder. Then it will always open with that program. I just tried that and it worked fine. It doesn't get you out of the EULA license problem, but 6.4 is a much better player than 8 is, because it's simpler and doesn't have a bunch of weird crap straddled onto the GUI.
Detective Bart Beavers
Hahaha
nice name man
Hey, your patriotic message on how much more free and successful our radio is sounds really sweet, especially to me, who has been trying to get a license for my low power radio station for over 5 years, but cannot get one, because the corporate radio lobbyists have shut down, at the CONGRESSIONAL LEVEL, all attempts the FCC has made to create a low power radio service.
The difference between the radio in Canada and the radio in America is minute. Here, the government forces control of the airwaves, just like they do in Canada. Instead, they do it in the companies' name. And if you think the top-10 money grubber radio stations are giving me a good, cultured return on MY investment, then you're nuts.
In November, the company won the rights to use a designated frequency of 1.4 MHz in a Federal Communications Commission auction.
I HOPE that's a typo, because if it isn't, that's smack-dab in the middle of the AM Broadcast Band (1400kHz), and I would be furious if the FCC was auctioning off spots on a precious resource like that to a bunch of nuts with weather balloons...
The communists has been trying to get rid of cyber cafes for a while now.. they started by filtering all of the cafes, then they forced many of them to close down. They published an article about a guy dieing from playing too many video games not too long ago, which is total BS.
Isn't it incredibly obvious? CHINA IS TRYING TO SHUT DOWN THE CYBER CAFES.
I wouldn't be surprised if the communist party STARTED this fire, just so they could add this to their big pile of "destroy the evil internet" paperwork, which has gotten pretty damn big over the last year. Don't even bother rebuttling my points, theres articles all over the news that confirm my suspicion, just search for "china cyber cafe" on the BBC, and watch it pour in.
Your message is informative, however, I want to know WHY these things are happening... WHY are the windows barred up? I know that there is little crime in that area, so they must be there for a different reason..
terrorists, wife-beaters, ----anti-globalization protesters----, etc.
Please, make sure the jokes are clear around here, I thought you were serious about anti globalization protesters being flagged.
Wait, I'm sorry, we're talking about an article that describes sabotaging a train station?
You're kidding me, right? They think that taking that off the search engines is going to stop people from breaking down trains? Hell, I haven't even read it yet, and i've immediately got about 5 ideas. Why not lace some plastic explosives on the track? Dump some concerete into the subway tracks... How hard is it to break down a train, for godsakes?
The DiVX developers are not idiots. They know that watermarking won't work, and they know that this move wouldn't forward well with it's followers. I have a theory that they might be doing this, just so that if they were ever legally threatened in the future, they would have something to say about piracy. "We're not about piracy, look we tried watermarking!"
Just a thought, anyways. I'm probably wrong.
Oh, and BTW, Franhaufer or whatever is a stupid kaiser that came up with one of the 50 million audio codecs out there, that just happened to become the standard by random choice, and nobody gives a damn what he has to say about any of this.
I thought Hollings was going to wait "a year" and allow the tech industry to come up with a solution before he entered it! Hmm.. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, this is a guy that we can all trust.
Here are some images of Fritz Hollings in his later stages of the campaign. Enjoy!
The breakfast of champions
Fahrenheit 451 baby
John Lasseter is also a big UNIX buy, BTW.
He drew the BSD Daemon on the cover of my "design and implementation of the BSD OS" book.
Keep a close eye on this one guys. If they decide to go through (and with horribly biased people like the ones they selected for the "review"), we're gonna have to retaliate. HARD. As much as I would enjoy starting an underground computer following, we CANNOT LET THIS GO THROUGH. You'd better ALL BE THERE for the protests if this thing comes to vote.
Chuck Jones was always my favorite. The guy was just funnier than all the other guys, that's all i've got to say.