Good post, except that communism is actually evil. And the means used when attempting to implement it are evil as well; how could any method of implementing an evil not be evil? Conversely, how can a good end be implemented by evil means?
And before anyone decides to jump on me for being some religious McCarthyite nutball, let me affirm that I'm not -- a libertarian atheist is more like it. 'Communism' -- authoritarian socialism, that is -- attempts to make humans interchangable parts more than any other ideology out there; it must therefore typically result to force when implement its goals. Since the initiation of force against another human to achieve one's own goals -- no matter how 'ideal' they may seem -- is evil, communism is evil. Anyone making arguments on its behalf ("Education! Bithrate!"... whatever) is simply an apologist for Communism. Ignore that there has never been a Communist regine that didn't kill significant numbers of its own citizens, and you can argue that, for the people lieft living, they may have gotten a few benefits for a short period of time. Then the economy, culture and society are run ito the ditch, and people suffer on a much wider scale than before communism, with little hope of escape.
Celeron floating-point works just fine -- just as well as the one in the P-II in fact, because it's the same oneas that in the P-II. Any performance differences are artifacts of different cache sizes and bus speeds. Tom's Hardware has a review with benchmarks of a dual-celeron system. Dual Celrons actually outperform dial PIIs with 3D Studio Max (44 sec vs 46 sec).
Great April Fools day article, and all, but, it's the 3rd! Slipsies!
Amiga. Giggle. Although it would have been funnier to make it CE-based. Oh, I get it! You'll post that article later today, and then another one claiming the Amiga has been bought by Hasbro and turned into a line of talking girls' dolls, powered by CP/M!
How about an Open-Source Object Database? I've been fooling around with Cache' on Linux for a week or so, and it seems nice. I think OODBMSes are the way to go for web applications, especially ones that make any use of XML. Any Open Source ones?
I have to develop sites for ASP on NT. I would love to see an InterDev-type editor -- i.e., one that does syntax highlighting for ASP and talks to the frontrage extensions for publishing -- for Linux. Any such beast? Anyone know how the FP 'protocol' works?
That's arrogant. The world must conform to Mozilla? Like that's going to happen. If the next version of Netscape is incompatible with the previous version, no one will want to design pages for it. All existing websites will look stupid in it, so people will not want to use it. "IE displays sites correctly," after all.
I do report bugs to bugzilla. And the bugs I report include things like "displays table wider than 200 pixels regardless of 'width="200"' being specified." And "Javascript/DHTML do not work, even though same code works in NS 4+ and IE4+." If Mozilla requires a totally different HTML than what currently exists, and what IE and NS use, then screw it.
Javascript that works fine in Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x and 5.x flubs on Mozilla. And the layout is wrong, and slow. I'm not trying to be a naysayer, but i do not relish the idea of having to go make all my web sites "Mozilla compatible (TM)".
Because it's always the webmaster's fault. Even if the browser pokes itself in the eye.
Um, you were boycotting them because they were blocking your view? "Down in front!" essentially? That strikes me as kind of stupid. Maybe you can explain, so it'll seem less stupid?
Does Multics live on, conceptually, in the AS/400? I heard that it uses segments, and a "memory is disk is memory" permanent storage scheme ala multics. Does anyone know more aobut how OS/400 works?
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h, but there's the difference... Microsoft isn't "working out the bugs"
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You know, the whole idea of comparing software development methods and licenses to economic systems like Capitalism and Socialism, or political systems like Democracy or Fascism is retarded on a number of levels. It's like comparing apples to concrete. I think people jump at the "parallels" for the same reason they compare enemies to Hitler, or whoever. While they may amuse the writer for a little while, and annoy or rile up the reader for a little while, these kinds of comparisons contain no information.
Not to mention that "political" and "economic" systems are not really seperable, nor do they ever really exist in "pure" forms, but these kinds of comparisons always assume that to be the case.
The whole thing is like dunking women in tubs of water to prove whether or not they are witches; it does not really matter if they are witches or not, and, the chosen method for proving the goodness or badness of the aledged witch does not actually indicate whether or not she is a witch. In short, it's just a pretext for drowning a woman people don't like.
The issue if "GPL == Socialism" is of the same nature.
If a company is a candidate for political office, would "northwest sux" then qualify as political rather than 'business' speech? Northwest for dog catcher!
Maybe the Baptists will clone Martin Luther to give the Pope another round of heck...
A religious movement aiming at cloning human beings sounds a little funny. I suppose that when the brainwashing doesn't produce a suitable homogeneous flock, there's always the option of just making copies.
And since when is a religion the friend of technological advances? Oh wait, this *is* a UFO cult, and there *are* those pesky Scientologists. So I guess there is a precedent.
I at least hope they'll clone Lazarus Long and have regular weekly orgies, like any advanced science-fiction civilization should...
Perhaps he meant that the Hurd is "object oriented" like NT is "object oriented." I.e., a componentized, layered system that uses standard interfaces and hides implementation details as much as possible.
Because making copies of CDs onto audio cassettes, and minidisks, is covered, "exact copies" cannot be part of the criteria. Dito for VCRs. All copies made onto VHS tape, cassette tape, or minidisk are lossy and therefore not exact.
Ah... the web has a long memory, even though I do not. He's been consistent, at least (or at most).
[4/2/98] http://www.calinst.org/bulletins/bull 512i.htm he suggested that the U.S. should expand copyrights to match the extended copyrights of European nations; continue its fight against worldwide piracy; and, expand intellectual property right protection by enacting the WIPO copyright treaties agreed to in Geneva in 1996 (see article below). He also stressed the necessity of other countries enacting and enforcing similar penalties for copyright infringements
[04/03/1997]http://www.star.so.swt.edu/97/04/ 03/040397n3.html As a war pilot, scholar, White House special assistant, movie industry leader and author, Valenti has worn many hats throughout his career ... He received his bachelor's degree in business from the University of Houston in 1946 and his M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1948. In 1952 Valenti co-founded Weekley and Valenti, the advertising/political consulting agency, which was in charge of coordinating the media during President John Kennedy's and Vice President Lyndon Johnson's visit to Texas in 1963 ... Valenti was in the motorcade in Dallas when Kennedy was assassinated, and within one hour of the shooting was hired as the special assistant to newly inaugurated President Johnson ...
[Mar. 14, 1997]http://www.mediacentral.com/Magazines/MediaDa ily/OldArchives/199703/1997031405.html "Sen. Lieberman believes if you say 'V, S and L,' nirvana has arrived," Valenti said, adding that such a content rating "winds up lumping The Three Stooges in the same category as "Natural Born Killers." However, Valenti on Feb. 27 told a Senate committee hearing that he was not opposed to some changes in the system. "I've changed my mind," he said at the hearing. "I'm not inflexible."
[1992-1997(?)]http://iitf.doc.gov/members/valenti. html Apparently, he was on "The President's Information Infrastructure Task Force." This site has not been updated in a while: "Use Netscape 1.1, IE 2.0, or CyberDog in 8 bit color" Cyberdog? Heh.
[1-28-98]http://www.twsu.edu/~news/insi de/1-28-98/forum1.html Valenti will explore the relationships among free speech, censorship and personal responsibility in "Lights, Camera, Rhetoric! Who has control of television and movie violence?" on Monday, Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Metropolitan Complex No stranger to controversy, Valenti's first movie content battle came just weeks after becoming president of the MPAA in 1966 with "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and its frank language. Other controversies followed, along with a Supreme Court decision that stated cities had the power to prevent the exposure of children to books and films which could not be denied to adults. Those events led Valenti to announce in 1968 a new voluntary movie rating system, which has been revised occasionally to reflect changes in the movie audience. In 1996, Valenti helped create a similar, and controversial, rating system for television.
[July 16, 1998]http://www.internetnews.com/i wlive/summer98/key4.html Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association Of America, took on the persona of a fire-breathing, circuit-riding preacher as he talked about digital copyright protection to the afternoon keynote audience today at Summer Internet World. ... "The only way to protect works [of intellectual property] and to guarantee their future is to employ technology to protect them whenever they go on the Internet," he pronounced. "If Congress confers legal status on any machine whose mission is to commit copyright burglary, we're in trouble." Valenti's jeremiad was inspired by proposed U.S. legislation being revised later the same afternoon in Washington. The bill would implement an international treaty--the World Intellectual Property Organization treaty, signed by more than 80 countries in October 1996--extending copyright protections to digital works, such as digitized movies, software, and the contents of Web sites. Each country must pass enabling legislation for the treaty if its existing laws don't already cover the treaty's provisions. In its original version the U.S. bill would have criminalized the manufacture of any device that could be used to circumvent copyright--for example, software to decrypt an encrypted movie--but this provision has been opposed by hardware and software makers who don't want to be responsible for every possible use to which their products could be put. They have proposed criminalizing the act of copyright violation rather than the manufacture of the equipment, but the motion picture industry and recording industries oppose this strategy as being too difficult to enforce. "We don't want to ban VCRs," Valenti said. "The only folks who have cause for concern are the makers of black boxes, which are nothing more than stealing machines." The film industry fears unleashing the ability to copy movies on DVD, since such technology could produce unlimited copies with no degradation in quality, removing any intrinsic incentive to purchase a commercial DVD rather than a pirated one. Valenti cut his remarks short so that he could fly to Washington to attend congressional meeting involving the WIPO legislation, saying that when he accepted the invitation to speak several months ago, he didn't know the bill would be revised the same day. Valenti wasn't exactly preaching to the converted, however. In a panel discussion put together to fill the rest of his speaking time, speakers pointed out that the Motion Picture Association of America's approach to the WIPO legislation could make it a criminal offense to commit such everyday acts as setting a Web browser to refuse cookies, if they were being used as part of a copyright protection scheme. Moreover, even manufacturing a browser that is able to refuse cookies would become a crime. "Jack doesn't want these laws to be so sweeping, but Washington doesn't always get it right," said Jason Catlett, founder of Junkbusters, a company dedicated to stopping the spread of Internet junk mail. "I run a Web site, and I think that people who violate copyrights should all go to hell, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions," said David Fiedler, editor of the Mecklermedia site Webdeveloper.com. "This legislation might make your computer illegal because if programmed correctly it could be used to circumvent copyright." He also pointed out that the Motion Picture Association of America had in fact sought to ban VCRs and video rental when they were first introduced.
[December 12, 1996]http://www.cme.org/press2.html "The age-based system that Valenti's group is proposing is inadequate and will not be helpful to parents," explained Kathryn Montgomery, CME President. "The ratings group has chosen to ignore the recommendations of academic experts, parents, child advocacy groups, and professional organizations to develop a usable ratings system that can work with the V-chip," Montgomery added. "Instead, they have purposely devised a system that will not tell parents whether a program contains violence, sex, or offensive language."
[Tuesday, 19 May, 1998]http://www.chl.ca/Cannes98/may19_pirac y.html CANNES, France -- The film industry is making progress in its war against piracy, but digital copying is posing a new and "cancerous problem," the head of the U.S. film association said Tuesday. Recent raids, including the seizure of 8 million videos in Hong Kong, show progress is being made against pirates who cost the U.S. industry up to $5 billion a year, said Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. ... "In digital, the 1,000th copy is pure and pristine as the first copy. So digital presents a cancerous problem," Valenti said. His trade group is spending about $50 million annually to fight piracy, including employing ex-FBI agents to bolster other countries' efforts. "What we're trying to do in China is get market access," he said. Hollywood is limited to 10 films a year in the world's most populous nation. Valenti said he'll try again with a trip in the fall. The carrot for the Chinese? "We'd like to invest with Chinese partners in state-of-the-art cinema," he said. "We are looking forward to a partnership relationship with China."
[September 28, 1995]http://ww w.economicclub.org/Pages/archive-old/abstracts/arc h-valenti0.htm Currently, a good many public officials have certified that the so-called "popular culture"-defined as movies, television, and musical recordings-is the prime villain in what they perceive to be the clanging of the last ding-dong of doom for this society, the source bed of much of our ills. TV is a powerful medium, but there are deadly combustibles in the community, more noxious than any movie or TV program, and violence has been on the decline in movies and television for the past decade. A restoration of the homely" standards by which ordinary Americans have so long and through so much turmoil sustained their values, maintained their families, and guarded their country--not rating systems and censorship--is the only means for solving American social ills.
[02/07/96]http://www.house.gov/judiciary/461.htm But what we do know is this binary numbers future is coming. It will have large impact, as well as both sublime and dislocating effect, on millions of Americans. It is the mandate of the Congress to peer beyond the veil, to make sensible and required judgments about how to make absolutely sure that America's grandest trade asset, its intellectual property, is protected in an era of technology so magical it verges on fantasy. ... This committee knows full well the broad global sweep of American intellectual property which in 1994 produced over $45 billion in international sales, and is that rarity, a producer of surplus balance of trade, a phrase seldom heard in the corridors of the Congress. These creative works are the jewels in America's trade crown. To protect these delicate products in cyberspace is of transcendent importance. For if you cannot protect what you own, you own nothing.
[03/26/99]http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/14 _1/199903/t4151392.htm President Kim Dae-jung yesterday told visiting U.S. commerce secretary that Korea will maintain the controversial screen quota system which limits imports of foreign movies into Korea, in defiance of U.S. demands for film market liberalization. ... He made the remark as Jack Valenti, head of the American Film Producers Association, suggested that Seoul scrap the system, saying Korea is the only Asian country which maintains a quota.
Somebody needs to ask him what his stand is on copying encrypted DVDs -- without breaking the encryption. In other words, what he thinks of raw bit-for-bit copies, and how his position on that differs from his position on breaking the encryption. Perhaps someone should put up a web page describing how to copy a DVD without touching the encryption, and see if the MPAA takes the bait. Looks like a job for GeoCities.
Of course, he is denying us our rights by disallowing private backup copies -- including copies to another media type -- which the courts have said is legal.
Blah blah blah. Sadly, I'm tired of hearing it, and making the sam arguments over and over again. But if we don't continue to respond, we lose.
Hi. Having worked with Linux for quite a awhile now, I've gotten dissatissfied in a few areas. My current peeves are the number of global kernel locks and the icky, yucky bdflush.
Linux has over 400 global kernel locks (calls to lock_kernel()). One even goes like this: lock_kernel(); nfs_read(); unlock_kernel(); It's insane. It's also a preformance-killer. Some stuff actually runs slower on SMP system because of all the locking going on.
bdflush is also a little retarded -- it flushes metadata every 5 and data every 30 seconds. So you get idle disk -- activity storm -- idle disk -- activity storm... etc. And, conveniently, there's a lock_kernel() and unlock_kernel() around the bdflush code. A performance killer, especially when writing filesystem code.
How does FreeBSD fare in these areas? Would it be a better choice than Linux for filesystem work? Esp. server-side?
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Good post, except that communism is actually evil. And the means used when attempting to implement it are evil as well; how could any method of implementing an evil not be evil? Conversely, how can a good end be implemented by evil means?
... whatever) is simply an apologist for Communism. Ignore that there has never been a Communist regine that didn't kill significant numbers of its own citizens, and you can argue that, for the people lieft living, they may have gotten a few benefits for a short period of time. Then the economy, culture and society are run ito the ditch, and people suffer on a much wider scale than before communism, with little hope of escape.
And before anyone decides to jump on me for being some religious McCarthyite nutball, let me affirm that I'm not -- a libertarian atheist is more like it. 'Communism' -- authoritarian socialism, that is -- attempts to make humans interchangable parts more than any other ideology out there; it must therefore typically result to force when implement its goals. Since the initiation of force against another human to achieve one's own goals -- no matter how 'ideal' they may seem -- is evil, communism is evil. Anyone making arguments on its behalf ("Education! Bithrate!"
Celeron floating-point works just fine -- just as well as the one in the P-II in fact, because it's the same oneas that in the P-II. Any performance differences are artifacts of different cache sizes and bus speeds.
Tom's Hardware has a review with benchmarks of a dual-celeron system. Dual Celrons actually outperform dial PIIs with 3D Studio Max (44 sec vs 46 sec).
Great April Fools day article, and all, but, it's the 3rd! Slipsies!
Amiga. Giggle. Although it would have been funnier to make it CE-based. Oh, I get it! You'll post that article later today, and then another one claiming the Amiga has been bought by Hasbro and turned into a line of talking girls' dolls, powered by CP/M!
A riot!
How about an Open-Source Object Database? I've been fooling around with Cache' on Linux for a week or so, and it seems nice. I think OODBMSes are the way to go for web applications, especially ones that make any use of XML. Any Open Source ones?
I have to develop sites for ASP on NT. I would love to see an InterDev-type editor -- i.e., one that does syntax highlighting for ASP and talks to the frontrage extensions for publishing -- for Linux. Any such beast? Anyone know how the FP 'protocol' works?
That's arrogant. The world must conform to Mozilla? Like that's going to happen. If the next version of Netscape is incompatible with the previous version, no one will want to design pages for it. All existing websites will look stupid in it, so people will not want to use it. "IE displays sites correctly," after all.
I do report bugs to bugzilla. And the bugs I report include things like "displays table wider than 200 pixels regardless of 'width="200"' being specified." And "Javascript/DHTML do not work, even though same code works in NS 4+ and IE4+." If Mozilla requires a totally different HTML than what currently exists, and what IE and NS use, then screw it.
Javascript that works fine in Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x and 5.x flubs on Mozilla. And the layout is wrong, and slow. I'm not trying to be a naysayer, but i do not relish the idea of having to go make all my web sites "Mozilla compatible (TM)".
Because it's always the webmaster's fault. Even if the browser pokes itself in the eye.
Oh. You mean hard links.
Um, you were boycotting them because they were blocking your view? "Down in front!" essentially? That strikes me as kind of stupid. Maybe you can explain, so it'll seem less stupid?
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Does Multics live on, conceptually, in the AS/400? I heard that it uses segments, and a "memory is disk is memory" permanent storage scheme ala multics. Does anyone know more aobut how OS/400 works?
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Amusingly, AskJeeves returned "Dementia -neurological diseases and disorders - more resources" when I asked, "how is os/400 related to multics"
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h, but there's the difference... Microsoft isn't "working out the bugs"
You know, the whole idea of comparing software development methods and licenses to economic systems like Capitalism and Socialism, or political systems like Democracy or Fascism is retarded on a number of levels. It's like comparing apples to concrete. I think people jump at the "parallels" for the same reason they compare enemies to Hitler, or whoever. While they may amuse the writer for a little while, and annoy or rile up the reader for a little while, these kinds of comparisons contain no information.
Not to mention that "political" and "economic" systems are not really seperable, nor do they ever really exist in "pure" forms, but these kinds of comparisons always assume that to be the case.
The whole thing is like dunking women in tubs of water to prove whether or not they are witches; it does not really matter if they are witches or not, and, the chosen method for proving the goodness or badness of the aledged witch does not actually indicate whether or not she is a witch. In short, it's just a pretext for drowning a woman people don't like.
The issue if "GPL == Socialism" is of the same nature.
Funny how anonymous posters typically champion or defend the status quo, while registered users typically champion or defend the underdog.
Just an observation.
If a company is a candidate for political office, would "northwest sux" then qualify as political rather than 'business' speech? Northwest for dog catcher!
Maybe the Baptists will clone Martin Luther to give the Pope another round of heck...
A religious movement aiming at cloning human beings sounds a little funny. I suppose that when the brainwashing doesn't produce a suitable homogeneous flock, there's always the option of just making copies.
And since when is a religion the friend of technological advances? Oh wait, this *is* a UFO cult, and there *are* those pesky Scientologists. So I guess there is a precedent.
I at least hope they'll clone Lazarus Long and have regular weekly orgies, like any advanced science-fiction civilization should...
Oh wait, that's us.
No one EVER saw anything like this coming in Russia, of all places. That would be like Massachusetts raising taxes.
Perhaps he meant that the Hurd is "object oriented" like NT is "object oriented." I.e., a componentized, layered system that uses standard interfaces and hides implementation details as much as possible.
Of course, he could have stated it better.
How long does it take to fsck seven terabytes? Or are you using a journaling filesystem (which one)?
Because making copies of CDs onto audio cassettes, and minidisks, is covered, "exact copies" cannot be part of the criteria. Dito for VCRs. All copies made onto VHS tape, cassette tape, or minidisk are lossy and therefore not exact.
Ah... the web has a long memory, even though I do not. He's been consistent, at least (or at most).
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he suggested that the U.S. should expand copyrights to match the extended copyrights of European nations; continue its fight against worldwide piracy; and, expand intellectual property right protection by enacting the WIPO copyright treaties agreed to in Geneva in 1996 (see article below). He also stressed the necessity of other countries enacting and enforcing similar penalties for copyright infringements
[04/03/1997]http://www.star.so.swt.edu/97/04/ 03/040397n3.html
As a war pilot, scholar, White House special assistant, movie industry leader and author, Valenti has worn many hats throughout his career
He received his bachelor's degree in business from the University of Houston in 1946 and his M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1948. In 1952 Valenti co-founded Weekley and Valenti, the advertising/political consulting agency, which was in charge of coordinating the media during President John Kennedy's and Vice President Lyndon Johnson's visit to Texas in 1963
Valenti was in the motorcade in Dallas when Kennedy was assassinated, and within one hour of the shooting was hired as the special assistant to newly inaugurated President Johnson
[Mar. 14, 1997]http://www.mediacentral.com/Magazines/MediaD
"Sen. Lieberman believes if you say 'V, S and L,' nirvana has arrived," Valenti said, adding that such a content rating "winds up lumping The Three Stooges in the same category as "Natural Born Killers." However, Valenti on Feb. 27 told a Senate committee hearing that he was not opposed to some changes in the system. "I've changed my mind," he said at the hearing. "I'm not inflexible."
[1992-1997(?)]http://iitf.doc.gov/members/valenti
Apparently, he was on "The President's Information Infrastructure Task Force." This site has not been updated in a while: "Use Netscape 1.1, IE 2.0, or CyberDog in 8 bit color" Cyberdog? Heh.
[1-28-98]http://www.twsu.edu/~news/insi de/1-28-98/forum1.html
Valenti will explore the relationships among free speech, censorship and personal responsibility in "Lights, Camera, Rhetoric! Who has control of television and movie violence?" on Monday, Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Metropolitan Complex
No stranger to controversy, Valenti's first movie content battle came just weeks after becoming president of the MPAA in 1966 with "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and its frank language. Other controversies followed, along with a Supreme Court decision that stated cities had the power to prevent the exposure of children to books and films which could not be denied to adults.
Those events led Valenti to announce in 1968 a new voluntary movie rating system, which has been revised occasionally to reflect changes in the movie audience.
In 1996, Valenti helped create a similar, and controversial, rating system for television.
[July 16, 1998]http://www.internetnews.com/i wlive/summer98/key4.html
Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association Of America, took on the persona of a fire-breathing, circuit-riding preacher as he talked about digital copyright protection to the afternoon keynote audience today at Summer Internet World.
"The only way to protect works [of intellectual property] and to guarantee their future is to employ technology to protect them whenever they go on the Internet," he pronounced. "If Congress confers legal status on any machine whose mission is to commit copyright burglary, we're in trouble."
Valenti's jeremiad was inspired by proposed U.S. legislation being revised later the same afternoon in Washington. The bill would implement an international treaty--the World Intellectual Property Organization treaty, signed by more than 80 countries in October 1996--extending copyright protections to digital works, such as digitized movies, software, and the contents of Web sites. Each country must pass enabling legislation for the treaty if its existing laws don't already cover the treaty's provisions.
In its original version the U.S. bill would have criminalized the manufacture of any device that could be used to circumvent copyright--for example, software to decrypt an encrypted movie--but this provision has been opposed by hardware and software makers who don't want to be responsible for every possible use to which their products could be put. They have proposed criminalizing the act of copyright violation rather than the manufacture of the equipment, but the motion picture industry and recording industries oppose this strategy as being too difficult to enforce.
"We don't want to ban VCRs," Valenti said. "The only folks who have cause for concern are the makers of black boxes, which are nothing more than stealing machines." The film industry fears unleashing the ability to copy movies on DVD, since such technology could produce unlimited copies with no degradation in quality, removing any intrinsic incentive to purchase a commercial DVD rather than a pirated one.
Valenti cut his remarks short so that he could fly to Washington to attend congressional meeting involving the WIPO legislation, saying that when he accepted the invitation to speak several months ago, he didn't know the bill would be revised the same day.
Valenti wasn't exactly preaching to the converted, however. In a panel discussion put together to fill the rest of his speaking time, speakers pointed out that the Motion Picture Association of America's approach to the WIPO legislation could make it a criminal offense to commit such everyday acts as setting a Web browser to refuse cookies, if they were being used as part of a copyright protection scheme. Moreover, even manufacturing a browser that is able to refuse cookies would become a crime.
"Jack doesn't want these laws to be so sweeping, but Washington doesn't always get it right," said Jason Catlett, founder of Junkbusters, a company dedicated to stopping the spread of Internet junk mail.
"I run a Web site, and I think that people who violate copyrights should all go to hell, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions," said David Fiedler, editor of the Mecklermedia site Webdeveloper.com. "This legislation might make your computer illegal because if programmed correctly it could be used to circumvent copyright." He also pointed out that the Motion Picture Association of America had in fact sought to ban VCRs and video rental when they were first introduced.
[December 12, 1996]http://www.cme.org/press2.html
"The age-based system that Valenti's group is proposing is inadequate and will not be helpful to parents," explained Kathryn Montgomery, CME President. "The ratings group has chosen to ignore the recommendations of academic experts, parents, child advocacy groups, and professional organizations to develop a usable ratings system that can work with the V-chip," Montgomery added. "Instead, they have purposely devised a system that will not tell parents whether a program contains violence, sex, or offensive language."
[April 25, 1966]http://www. resignation.com/historicaldocs/letters/04251966_v
The economic commitments to my growing family cause me to regretfully submit my resignation as Special Assistant to the President, effective May 15.
(reply:) Dear Jack:
It has been a very long day.
[Tuesday, 19 May, 1998]http://www.chl.ca/Cannes98/may19_pirac y.html
CANNES, France -- The film industry is making progress in its war against piracy, but digital copying is posing a new and "cancerous problem," the head of the U.S. film association said Tuesday.
Recent raids, including the seizure of 8 million videos in Hong Kong, show progress is being made against pirates who cost the U.S. industry up to $5 billion a year, said Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America.
"In digital, the 1,000th copy is pure and pristine as the first copy. So digital presents a cancerous problem," Valenti said.
His trade group is spending about $50 million annually to fight piracy, including employing ex-FBI agents to bolster other countries' efforts.
"What we're trying to do in China is get market access," he said. Hollywood is limited to 10 films a year in the world's most populous nation.
Valenti said he'll try again with a trip in the fall.
The carrot for the Chinese?
"We'd like to invest with Chinese partners in state-of-the-art cinema," he said. "We are looking forward to a partnership relationship with China."
[September 28, 1995]http://ww w.economicclub.org/Pages/archive-old/abstracts/ar
Currently, a good many public officials have certified that the so-called "popular culture"-defined as movies, television, and musical recordings-is the prime villain in what they perceive to be the clanging of the last ding-dong of doom for this society, the source bed of much of our ills. TV is a powerful medium, but there are deadly combustibles in the community, more noxious than any movie or TV program, and violence has been on the decline in movies and television for the past decade. A restoration of the homely" standards by which ordinary Americans have so long and through so much turmoil sustained their values, maintained their families, and guarded their country--not rating systems and censorship--is the only means for solving American social ills.
[02/07/96]http://www.house.gov/judiciary/461.htm
But what we do know is this binary numbers future is coming. It will have large impact, as well as both sublime and dislocating effect, on millions of Americans. It is the mandate of the Congress to peer beyond the veil, to make sensible and required judgments about how to make absolutely sure that America's grandest trade asset, its intellectual property, is protected in an era of technology so magical it verges on fantasy.
This committee knows full well the broad global sweep of American intellectual property which in 1994 produced over $45 billion in international sales, and is that rarity, a producer of surplus balance of trade, a phrase seldom heard in the corridors of the Congress. These creative works are the jewels in America's trade crown. To protect these delicate products in cyberspace is of transcendent importance. For if you cannot protect what you own, you own nothing.
[03/26/99]http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/14 _1/199903/t4151392.htm
President Kim Dae-jung yesterday told visiting U.S. commerce secretary that Korea will maintain the controversial screen quota system which limits imports of foreign movies into Korea, in defiance of U.S. demands for film market liberalization.
He made the remark as Jack Valenti, head of the American Film Producers Association, suggested that Seoul scrap the system, saying Korea is the only Asian country which maintains a quota.
Somebody needs to ask him what his stand is on copying encrypted DVDs -- without breaking the encryption. In other words, what he thinks of raw bit-for-bit copies, and how his position on that differs from his position on breaking the encryption. Perhaps someone should put up a web page describing how to copy a DVD without touching the encryption, and see if the MPAA takes the bait. Looks like a job for GeoCities.
Of course, he is denying us our rights by disallowing private backup copies -- including copies to another media type -- which the courts have said is legal.
Blah blah blah. Sadly, I'm tired of hearing it, and making the sam arguments over and over again. But if we don't continue to respond, we lose.
Hi. Having worked with Linux for quite a awhile now, I've gotten dissatissfied in a few areas. My current peeves are the number of global kernel locks and the icky, yucky bdflush.
... etc. And, conveniently, there's a lock_kernel() and unlock_kernel() around the bdflush code. A performance killer, especially when writing filesystem code.
Linux has over 400 global kernel locks (calls to lock_kernel()). One even goes like this:
lock_kernel(); nfs_read(); unlock_kernel(); It's insane. It's also a preformance-killer. Some stuff actually runs slower on SMP system because of all the locking going on.
bdflush is also a little retarded -- it flushes metadata every 5 and data every 30 seconds. So you get idle disk -- activity storm -- idle disk -- activity storm
How does FreeBSD fare in these areas? Would it be a better choice than Linux for filesystem work? Esp. server-side?
They itch! They itch!
Heh.