PFFFT! Not everyone needs all of that speed! Yes their are some bennifits to cable/DSL, but with the providers around me, theirs no way I'd pay more to use them. I'm quite happy with Dialup at home, but then again, I don't "Surf" a whole lot. 90% of my online experience is ssh into my servers, the other 10% is google and howto pages. Dialup does that fine, and dialup does everything fine for pleanty of other people.
I have absolutely no interest in child pr0n. I'm just curious about the law here.. What if the pictures were taken by the child him/herself? And site built by him/her? I do understand that most kids probably would never do this, but then again, the 4 years I was in high school about 3 or 4 girls got pregnant (All on their senior year). My little brother said that the year he graduated their were 15 pregnant girls in school, freshman through senior. So this may actually be an issue in the future.
How about reversing the idea to some extent? For instance, all of the important information is now stored on your computer (If your running windows, I can understand your uneasiness about this), along with a serial # of some type. Now, the sign on server out in the middle of nowhere has your serial #, and just verifies that your serial # is valid for your computer. So, when you go to buy something, etc, your browser says 'Do you want me to put your info in here?' and you click 'Hell yeah', and it sends that info. Now the server on the other side checks your serial # with the sign on server. Viola.
I know this type of system would need some serious refining to work. And theirs probably lots of problems associated with making this way work. But then again, isn't the same true about the current system they are pushing?
I personally don't want to see any type of centralization, I just thought this idea sounded more fun.:-D
I know that was meant to be funny.. ha ha and all... But personally, I think it would be nice to do off site backups to a 3 gig dir on 1 DVD rather than on 3 or 4 CDs. Just my opinion. (Yes I know theirs alot better options, but its the thought that counts! or something)
Why should MS have to change? It is after all their product, and they know that even with shitty proprietary standards, they can still dominate the market, so why should they open up those standards and let all the *nix people in? Personally, I like the idea of open standards. But, keep in mind, if someone wrote a proprietary *nix file format and it ended up being widely used, MS is going to come saying "Oh, that should be an open standard, give it to us!". Now, since everyone wants MS's monopoly to die, they would more than likely say 'no'. Same thing, shoe is just on the other foot.
I'm on the same boat. I definately couldn't fix security holes in the software I run (especially considering that I'd have to have a fscking HUGE/usr/src partition). Even if I could, I don't know if I would trust the patch since:
1: I didn't write the software in the first place.
2: I'm not a full time programmer, I'm an administrator.
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Hmm.. I'm guessing most artists these days would go for the money.:-) Personally, I'm not all over the idea of being dirty rotten filthy stinking rich(tm). I'd rather just have enough money to live comfortably. Otherwise I'd prolly end up REALLY really bored.
I take it all you worried people are running Windows? Frankly I don't give a crap about this. Because is the DRM going to do anything at all under linux? Probably not. Atleast if MS's DRM efforts pay off, all the kiddies running windows to rip DVDs will be cut off. And the people that want to just play the DVDs will still be able to. Face it, this move is pointed directly at Joe User. He don't understand it, so he don't care. Oh well, I don't care either.
PS: I don't endorse Intel, nor Microsofts DRM bs, I'm just voicing my worthless opinion..
This is very interesting. More interesting yet, take this for example. A minor installs software, accepts EULA, then adult comes by, and uses software, and breaks the EULA. The adult didn't accept teh EULA, the minor did, and if that minor isn't binded to the EULA, does this mean it can't be binded to the adult?
In 5 years time linux and probably Sun/HP &co. won't be able to compeate with that level of natrual paralisation(or maybe not?)
Maybe this is due to the fact that quite a bit of Linux software is cloned. I'm not saying Linux is a 100% clone, look at apache.. nummy. But on the other hand, if Linux ever wants to take the market rather than just 'competing', it needs to come out with products BEFORE M$ does. Linux needs to become a leader, rather than the follower it seems to be 90% of the time now.
Guess what, their probably isn't any money left to sue for. And on top of that, GOOD FSCKING LUCK! You need a class action to sue almost any company these days. And if the company is big enough, they'll just shrug that off too.
I had a business once, it failed, I didn't sue, I cut my losses and said 'Well, time to get a real job.'
Not all of its customers were theives. I'm sure you understand this already, but just for the people who done. If you are downloading music that is copyrighted, and you haven't payed for it, you ARE STEALING. But yeah, the industry needs to remove their head from their arses and lower the prices a bit, maybe that would make a bit of difference.
I'd really like to understand some economics here. In the last 5 years, the prices of cars, TVs, Sterios, telephone service, internet service.. the prices on everything drop. On the other hand, our local theatre now charges $3/ticket more than they did 5 years ago, and the price of CD's sure hasn't dropped. I listen to the radio. I don't steal music, and I don't buy CD's (Because I can't offord them). My actual question, why don't these companies lower their prices and see if they get a possitive reaction from it? I'd probably start buying cds again if they were cheap enough.
I think its Mozilla that has the ability to forge its client information to a webservers logs. So uhm, why couldn't CD ripping/DVD ripping software impliment this feature. I'm sure someone will figure it out, and make it work. (Atleast this one requires more than just a sharpie marker to crack)
Hrm... I switched.. from default KDE theme to an OSX theme. It is mad sexy. I think OSX's window manager is everything. I've been using it for a few days now, and it still makes me warm and fuzzy every time I look at its details. "Theropudic Window Manager?"
Uhm... Correct me if I'm wrong in thinking this would work, but why not:
Agent: "1700 mp3z, your going to jail a long LONG time rmAdmin"
rmAdmin: "All of those are backups from CD's I own, or at one time owned, I'm sorry, but most of the original CD's were thrashed when my 4 year old decided to play frisby with my collection *sniffle*" (With a 4 year old around, Let me say, YES things of this sort do happen!)
I'm still failing to see how they could prove it in court. Your innocent until proven guilty, so uh.. quick translation: You actually had the CD's, and your telling the truth, until they prove that you didn't own those CD's. Unless their is yet ANOTHER stupid DCMA clause that says something like "When dealing with copyright enfringement, you are guilty until proven innocent, even if you don't use the internet, have a computer, listen to music, or are deaf"
I work for a small ISP, and RIAA's size doesn't scare me. Like you said, we don't have to open access. RIAA bringing a lawsuit to you for blocking their sites (or their traffic) from your network, is the same as a porn site operator doing it. Both situations, you are protecting your customers, and if they want RIAA to have access to their machines, they can go to another ISP, its simply their choice.
If this passes in favor of RIAA, I'll block RIAA's site, and every other damn site that has.0001% affilliation with RIAA. I'm not in favor of illegal MP3s, but I feel I have the right to run my ISP the way I want. Its not my job to block sites for RIAA. Since Cable & Wireless my upstream provider, I'll feel the crush along with them. Plain and simple, if RIAA doesn't want people going to that site, they need to get it shut down. If they can't get the jurisdiction to do it, tough, thats their problem, not mine.
Except for the fact that the industry will _eventually_ push everyone into 64 bit processors. Look at the 286 to 386 transfer. Given that 32 bit programs going to run on the 64 bit processors makes it alot easier for the conversion. Sun currently supports both. When you buy the Sol 8/9 (Example) media kits, you can install on either 32 bit or 64 bit sparc boxen. The industry is going to have to do something like this. Of course I know their are more specifics behind what Sun does, but you get the picture.
Eh... I can go to the meet packing plant down the road and make 1.5 times more than I make being a sys admin right now. Small companies have their advantages, but a large paycheck isn't alway one of them.
I sent this link to both my supervisor and my boss two days ago. Both pretty much laughed at me. Now its here, and I'm hung over like hell (Slashdot meetup recovery), I kinda wish someone would atleast make this day a little better for me.:-( A simple 'thanks' would be more than enough.
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PFFFT! Not everyone needs all of that speed! Yes their are some bennifits to cable/DSL, but with the providers around me, theirs no way I'd pay more to use them. I'm quite happy with Dialup at home, but then again, I don't "Surf" a whole lot. 90% of my online experience is ssh into my servers, the other 10% is google and howto pages. Dialup does that fine, and dialup does everything fine for pleanty of other people.
I have absolutely no interest in child pr0n. I'm just curious about the law here.. What if the pictures were taken by the child him/herself? And site built by him/her? I do understand that most kids probably would never do this, but then again, the 4 years I was in high school about 3 or 4 girls got pregnant (All on their senior year). My little brother said that the year he graduated their were 15 pregnant girls in school, freshman through senior. So this may actually be an issue in the future.
How about reversing the idea to some extent? For instance, all of the important information is now stored on your computer (If your running windows, I can understand your uneasiness about this), along with a serial # of some type. Now, the sign on server out in the middle of nowhere has your serial #, and just verifies that your serial # is valid for your computer. So, when you go to buy something, etc, your browser says 'Do you want me to put your info in here?' and you click 'Hell yeah', and it sends that info. Now the server on the other side checks your serial # with the sign on server. Viola.
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I know this type of system would need some serious refining to work. And theirs probably lots of problems associated with making this way work. But then again, isn't the same true about the current system they are pushing?
I personally don't want to see any type of centralization, I just thought this idea sounded more fun.
I know that was meant to be funny.. ha ha and all... But personally, I think it would be nice to do off site backups to a 3 gig dir on 1 DVD rather than on 3 or 4 CDs. Just my opinion. (Yes I know theirs alot better options, but its the thought that counts! or something)
I think the point they were getting at was: "Now they have a taste of what it will be like when DRM bugs"
Why should MS have to change? It is after all their product, and they know that even with shitty proprietary standards, they can still dominate the market, so why should they open up those standards and let all the *nix people in? Personally, I like the idea of open standards. But, keep in mind, if someone wrote a proprietary *nix file format and it ended up being widely used, MS is going to come saying "Oh, that should be an open standard, give it to us!". Now, since everyone wants MS's monopoly to die, they would more than likely say 'no'. Same thing, shoe is just on the other foot.
No, I'm not on MS's payroll.
I'm on the same boat. I definately couldn't fix security holes in the software I run (especially considering that I'd have to have a fscking HUGE /usr/src partition). Even if I could, I don't know if I would trust the patch since:
1: I didn't write the software in the first place.
2: I'm not a full time programmer, I'm an administrator.
Hmm.. I'm guessing most artists these days would go for the money. :-) Personally, I'm not all over the idea of being dirty rotten filthy stinking rich(tm). I'd rather just have enough money to live comfortably. Otherwise I'd prolly end up REALLY really bored.
I take it all you worried people are running Windows? Frankly I don't give a crap about this. Because is the DRM going to do anything at all under linux? Probably not. Atleast if MS's DRM efforts pay off, all the kiddies running windows to rip DVDs will be cut off. And the people that want to just play the DVDs will still be able to. Face it, this move is pointed directly at Joe User. He don't understand it, so he don't care. Oh well, I don't care either.
PS: I don't endorse Intel, nor Microsofts DRM bs, I'm just voicing my worthless opinion..
This is very interesting. More interesting yet, take this for example. A minor installs software, accepts EULA, then adult comes by, and uses software, and breaks the EULA. The adult didn't accept teh EULA, the minor did, and if that minor isn't binded to the EULA, does this mean it can't be binded to the adult?
In 5 years time linux and probably Sun/HP &co. won't be able to compeate with that level of natrual paralisation(or maybe not?)
Maybe this is due to the fact that quite a bit of Linux software is cloned. I'm not saying Linux is a 100% clone, look at apache.. nummy. But on the other hand, if Linux ever wants to take the market rather than just 'competing', it needs to come out with products BEFORE M$ does. Linux needs to become a leader, rather than the follower it seems to be 90% of the time now.
Huoh, I'm seeing that american greed come out.
"I didn't get my way... GRR LETS SUE!!!!!!!"
Guess what, their probably isn't any money left to sue for. And on top of that, GOOD FSCKING LUCK! You need a class action to sue almost any company these days. And if the company is big enough, they'll just shrug that off too.
I had a business once, it failed, I didn't sue, I cut my losses and said 'Well, time to get a real job.'
Not all of its customers were theives. I'm sure you understand this already, but just for the people who done. If you are downloading music that is copyrighted, and you haven't payed for it, you ARE STEALING. But yeah, the industry needs to remove their head from their arses and lower the prices a bit, maybe that would make a bit of difference.
I'd really like to understand some economics here. In the last 5 years, the prices of cars, TVs, Sterios, telephone service, internet service.. the prices on everything drop. On the other hand, our local theatre now charges $3/ticket more than they did 5 years ago, and the price of CD's sure hasn't dropped. I listen to the radio. I don't steal music, and I don't buy CD's (Because I can't offord them). My actual question, why don't these companies lower their prices and see if they get a possitive reaction from it? I'd probably start buying cds again if they were cheap enough.
This is a good question. Is your surgery going to get resceduled due to weather? This also eliminates these procidures during nocturnal hours..
I think its Mozilla that has the ability to forge its client information to a webservers logs. So uhm, why couldn't CD ripping/DVD ripping software impliment this feature. I'm sure someone will figure it out, and make it work. (Atleast this one requires more than just a sharpie marker to crack)
Hrm... I switched.. from default KDE theme to an OSX theme. It is mad sexy. I think OSX's window manager is everything. I've been using it for a few days now, and it still makes me warm and fuzzy every time I look at its details. "Theropudic Window Manager?"
Uhm... Correct me if I'm wrong in thinking this would work, but why not:
Agent: "1700 mp3z, your going to jail a long LONG time rmAdmin"
rmAdmin: "All of those are backups from CD's I own, or at one time owned, I'm sorry, but most of the original CD's were thrashed when my 4 year old decided to play frisby with my collection *sniffle*" (With a 4 year old around, Let me say, YES things of this sort do happen!)
I'm still failing to see how they could prove it in court. Your innocent until proven guilty, so uh.. quick translation: You actually had the CD's, and your telling the truth, until they prove that you didn't own those CD's. Unless their is yet ANOTHER stupid DCMA clause that says something like "When dealing with copyright enfringement, you are guilty until proven innocent, even if you don't use the internet, have a computer, listen to music, or are deaf"
I work for a small ISP, and RIAA's size doesn't scare me. Like you said, we don't have to open access. RIAA bringing a lawsuit to you for blocking their sites (or their traffic) from your network, is the same as a porn site operator doing it. Both situations, you are protecting your customers, and if they want RIAA to have access to their machines, they can go to another ISP, its simply their choice.
Nvidia writes their own Linux Driver. I'm using it, and it works great.
If this passes in favor of RIAA, I'll block RIAA's site, and every other damn site that has .0001% affilliation with RIAA. I'm not in favor of illegal MP3s, but I feel I have the right to run my ISP the way I want. Its not my job to block sites for RIAA. Since Cable & Wireless my upstream provider, I'll feel the crush along with them. Plain and simple, if RIAA doesn't want people going to that site, they need to get it shut down. If they can't get the jurisdiction to do it, tough, thats their problem, not mine.
Yeah! I'd rather hook my Atari up to an older TV anyways, just helps it keep its 'Old school' feeling.
Except for the fact that the industry will _eventually_ push everyone into 64 bit processors. Look at the 286 to 386 transfer. Given that 32 bit programs going to run on the 64 bit processors makes it alot easier for the conversion. Sun currently supports both. When you buy the Sol 8/9 (Example) media kits, you can install on either 32 bit or 64 bit sparc boxen. The industry is going to have to do something like this. Of course I know their are more specifics behind what Sun does, but you get the picture.
Eh... I can go to the meet packing plant down the road and make 1.5 times more than I make being a sys admin right now. Small companies have their advantages, but a large paycheck isn't alway one of them.
I sent this link to both my supervisor and my boss two days ago. Both pretty much laughed at me. Now its here, and I'm hung over like hell (Slashdot meetup recovery), I kinda wish someone would atleast make this day a little better for me. :-( A simple 'thanks' would be more than enough.