How can one take advantage of this law when much of the software and people that steals and deals personal information is being based in countries with weak laws against this sort of thing (like russia)
Adware, I deffinately see adware as 'misuse of electronic equipment'. It's the equivalent of buying a product and having a camara hidden in it spying on your daily activity.
After years of losing money to users pirating games, music, videos, and anything else that can possibly be pirated, the companies are now cracking down and trying to save their dwindling markets. I see nothing wrong with this, it is simply companies trying to stay in bussiness. It's because of the people who pirate software that we have these measures now.
And don't say that everyone should just move to free software, we all know the quality issues and how 'well' open-source companies fare.
Maybe they didn't violate russian law but they violated american law, and if they do bussiness in america, they are subject to it. It's someone's choice to do bussiness in a country but if you do you have to respect local custons, even bizarre evil laws like the DMCA.
Alot of animators have switched to win2000 based workstations with maya and the like, and linux based render farms. The workstations are alot cheaper and perform better than the sgi equivelants, and the render farms are MUCH MUCH cheaper than sgi's equivelant massive multi-cpu workhorse systems.
As much as I like linux, I am curious what advantages does it have being used in a pda besides the 'moral' ones of being open-source and such. I mean wince and palmOS have been around a while, and at least palmOS seems to do the job right. I know linux on a pda would make porting easier but do people really want straight ports of desktop applications to a pda? Running on a 240 x 320 res screen? Although ports of software such as quake to linux pda's are cool there isn't much point aside from the 'coolness' factor.
Midiman makes the quattro usb based sound system that apparently has very low latency and excelent quality. The price is pretty low too. It has 4 i/o's and you can get the omni system that adds 8 more inputs to it
I think this is more or less due to the growth of media companies in recent years. Obviously the merger of time warner ( a huge media company) and aol (a huge online company) would bring media companies deeper into the internet. The internet is a worldwide platform and the supreme market for any media empire.
It's too bad because BeOS could have been a great os for media production had more companies adopted it. Before they began developing the music production version of debian I don't there were any OS's that could match be's great audio latency.
The broadband market is big enough that ogg is a good option for streams. It would be nice if it had less than 128kbit bitrate support though, so modem users could benefit. Since a 128kbit ogg sounds comparable to a 196kbit mp3 in my option, a 56kbit ogg would probably sound comparable to microsofts, realaudio's, and the mp3pro low bitrate.
well with shoutcast it's possible to have mirror servers that rebroadcast the signal, it's good if you have some sort of popular stream (such as one a couple years ago that broadcasted vancouver cell phone conversations, very entertaining!)
Ogg is a great format, I'm not sure how well it is for streaming but is sounds a hell of alot better at 128k than mp3 does. And best of all it's free, no fee's for running a server like you find with some other formats such as realaudio.
Microsoft offers student versions of alot of their software too, I know someone in australia who got their version of windows XP through their school for 5$ aus. (ms had a deal with the school)
I went on a carnival cruise last winter and I thoroughly enjoyed myself despite not having a computer or net access. But I heard that their ships were going to be outfitted with internet cafe's. So you might want to check it out.. I'm sure it will be rather pricey however.
Since I don't live in america, I figure the compromising of systems in other countries could be considered an act of war. Russia said they would retaliate to computer warfare via nuclear arms, so I hope the fbi avoids infecting people in other countries with this 'virus' or they could have a whole new slew of problems on their hands
I seriously doubt they would use filters at all for this type of thing. They would just be able to arrest or press charges against the owner of a site/server and force them to take the site down. Really has nothing to do with any kind of filterering.
The people who really want to get their message of hate out will be able to find servers in other countries to host their sites. Besides, you cannot put aside the humour value of seeing the blather that some of these idiots come up with.
divx support on a media-player would be a godsend.. are there any players that support this format yet? Divx is going to become the next-big-thing format for pc's just like mp3 did, it would be smart for devices to begin supporting it (I'm sure an 800mhz celeron w/ 128megs of ram could.. my system is slower than that and I run divx's with no trouble)
it would be nice if there was a device that had open firmware, so people could write their own upgrades for it. I'm sure if there were such a device there would already be ogg support for it
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How can one take advantage of this law when much of the software and people that steals and deals personal information is being based in countries with weak laws against this sort of thing (like russia)
Adware, I deffinately see adware as 'misuse of electronic equipment'. It's the equivalent of buying a product and having a camara hidden in it spying on your daily activity.
I agree, besides, there is nothing wrong with blocking email, especially if it is from someone who has an agenda against the company
After years of losing money to users pirating games, music, videos, and anything else that can possibly be pirated, the companies are now cracking down and trying to save their dwindling markets. I see nothing wrong with this, it is simply companies trying to stay in bussiness. It's because of the people who pirate software that we have these measures now.
And don't say that everyone should just move to free software, we all know the quality issues and how 'well' open-source companies fare.
Maybe they didn't violate russian law but they violated american law, and if they do bussiness in america, they are subject to it. It's someone's choice to do bussiness in a country but if you do you have to respect local custons, even bizarre evil laws like the DMCA.
Alot of animators have switched to win2000 based workstations with maya and the like, and linux based render farms. The workstations are alot cheaper and perform better than the sgi equivelants, and the render farms are MUCH MUCH cheaper than sgi's equivelant massive multi-cpu workhorse systems.
As much as I like linux, I am curious what advantages does it have being used in a pda besides the 'moral' ones of being open-source and such. I mean wince and palmOS have been around a while, and at least palmOS seems to do the job right. I know linux on a pda would make porting easier but do people really want straight ports of desktop applications to a pda? Running on a 240 x 320 res screen? Although ports of software such as quake to linux pda's are cool there isn't much point aside from the 'coolness' factor.
Midiman makes the quattro usb based sound system that apparently has very low latency and excelent quality. The price is pretty low too. It has 4 i/o's and you can get the omni system that adds 8 more inputs to it
this is great, but we all know what the true ascii enthusiast needs: a text-mode version of x-windows
I think this is more or less due to the growth of media companies in recent years. Obviously the merger of time warner ( a huge media company) and aol (a huge online company) would bring media companies deeper into the internet. The internet is a worldwide platform and the supreme market for any media empire.
To be or not to be...
I guesse now we know the answer to the question.
It's too bad because BeOS could have been a great os for media production had more companies adopted it. Before they began developing the music production version of debian I don't there were any OS's that could match be's great audio latency.
The broadband market is big enough that ogg is a good option for streams. It would be nice if it had less than 128kbit bitrate support though, so modem users could benefit. Since a 128kbit ogg sounds comparable to a 196kbit mp3 in my option, a 56kbit ogg would probably sound comparable to microsofts, realaudio's, and the mp3pro low bitrate.
well with shoutcast it's possible to have mirror servers that rebroadcast the signal, it's good if you have some sort of popular stream (such as one a couple years ago that broadcasted vancouver cell phone conversations, very entertaining!)
Ogg is a great format, I'm not sure how well it is for streaming but is sounds a hell of alot better at 128k than mp3 does. And best of all it's free, no fee's for running a server like you find with some other formats such as realaudio.
Microsoft offers student versions of alot of their software too, I know someone in australia who got their version of windows XP through their school for 5$ aus. (ms had a deal with the school)
I went on a carnival cruise last winter and I thoroughly enjoyed myself despite not having a computer or net access. But I heard that their ships were going to be outfitted with internet cafe's. So you might want to check it out.. I'm sure it will be rather pricey however.
Since I don't live in america, I figure the compromising of systems in other countries could be considered an act of war. Russia said they would retaliate to computer warfare via nuclear arms, so I hope the fbi avoids infecting people in other countries with this 'virus' or they could have a whole new slew of problems on their hands
it won't be long before spyware is considered an act of terrorism, unless it's the government's spyware!
I'd just like to know, am I the only one afraid of nanoids entering my body and building things inside me?
I seriously doubt they would use filters at all for this type of thing. They would just be able to arrest or press charges against the owner of a site/server and force them to take the site down. Really has nothing to do with any kind of filterering.
The people who really want to get their message of hate out will be able to find servers in other countries to host their sites. Besides, you cannot put aside the humour value of seeing the blather that some of these idiots come up with.
if told told us WHICH computers, how much you want to bet a bunch of kids and terrorists would try breaking into them?
divx support on a media-player would be a godsend.. are there any players that support this format yet? Divx is going to become the next-big-thing format for pc's just like mp3 did, it would be smart for devices to begin supporting it (I'm sure an 800mhz celeron w/ 128megs of ram could.. my system is slower than that and I run divx's with no trouble)
it would be nice if there was a device that had open firmware, so people could write their own upgrades for it. I'm sure if there were such a device there would already be ogg support for it
does anyone know if they will add ogg support sometime in the future?