Hey D00D! Ima haxxor too d00d. I runz that linux thingy also, but I uze a k-rad program kalled back orffice and sub7. I even wroted in a librbry too. Uhhh, they kicked me out cuz of my BO smell. HA HA HA HA HA HA. HEY J00! St0p making phun of m3.
Where's the safe haven for "hackers", "reverse engineers", and decrypters? There must be some place that has: 1: 1'st world type living 2: Somewhat bustling computer community/advancement 3: Decent economy 4: None of these "DMCA" laws
And dont answer Sealand. It's way overcrowded (for a cement pole in the ocean).
---Speaking about DDOS and IRC, either IRC will adapt and stand DDOS easily or new generation (decetralized one) will be based on something else. Perhaps Jabber? Or Gnutella?
Or how about RBL's? It goes something like this:
Admin 1: "What's this weird netblock doing in the OC-9 cisco table? And why's it getting bit-bucketed???" Admin 2: "It's the new IP's for the weekly RIAA netflood" Admin 1: "Then why arent we switching the dest/src fields? heh heh" Admin 2: "Yeah, give it back at-em"
Not as in flamebait as in "Questions to PR representatives". They're just re-telling what they were told to say. There's no sense to put anger and hatred in questions like I originally asked (even if the company does stuff like that).
In the original questions, I tried very hard NOT to sound like a jerk and not try to put them on the offensive. What he said pretty much discredited the tone I was trying to come across (neutral-questioning motives).
There's a thing called Journalistic Professionalism. I'm not an Newspaper editor, nor probably will ever be, but I know there's an ethic you uphold when asking questions.
---As a follow-up question, I asked how long they thought it would be until their licensing scheme was cracked. Neither Ms. Robbins nor her coworker, Pam Watkinson, had an answer for that one.
Why in the hell did you ask that question? As much as everybody dislikes Macrovision, I was TRYING to stay away from asking something like this. No company's going to know whether they have critical problems in a certain product - expesially when the third party's going to trust the run-time license (like sayyy.. Adobe).
Trust me, I hate Macrovision cause they lobbied congress to put a Macrovision chip in all DVD's, got tape players forcefully to install an AGC circuit (which enables Macrovision), all the while reducing quality on tapes afflicted with this crap. Not only that, but then they patented the decryption circuits and code so that it's illegal to even rip the shit-vision out.
Still, I TRIED to stay away from flamebait like the question you asked. Hopefully, you didnt attribute that to me...
As I understand, your main stakes are in the encoding of ntsc and pal video signals as to make them uncopyable in receiving hardware (correct me if I'm incorrect).
As that stated, why are you involved with Linux? Are you contributing to the video section (V4L) of the Linux kernel or making user-land utilities? In general, what are your open business plans with Linux?
---The head-on conflict between Microsoft and the Linux companies is still some way off.
WHuh? When's Linux a company? The companies that tried to profit off of Linux are dying/dead. Even RH is a support company. It's also quite hard to stop people from freely coding...
---There is also a chance that Linux will stumble. The Linux operating system is renowned for its security. But some Microsoft executives point out that Linux has yet to face the army of hackers, bent on finding weaknesses, that has assailed its own software and exposed security flaws that have dented Microsoft's reputation for reliability.
Heh heh heh. The hackers that find bugs in MS crap are the same hackers that ARE WORKING ON *nix programs. Our programs are built with security in mind, not as an afterthought.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so original! You make me laugh! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man! I like you jokes! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wow... my sides are hurting with that funny, funny quip you just threw down on us like some clever maniacal funny man! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Someone [will even probably | even modded] you as funny to show how funny you really are to the rest of us! Quip, quip says you! Everyone! Over here! Look at the funny man! He made a funny about [the thing]! Get it?...[thing]...[thing]... HAHAHAHAHA! It's a reference to [thing]... yes, [verb]... HAHAHAHAHA! Yes, I am not sure where this guy is from but boy is he funny! Who invited him to the party? We gotta have this guy over more often! Honey? Come down here a second and listen to this guy 'tell it like it is' in a really funny way. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! "[quote1]", that's priceless. "[quote2]." Gold. Just pure gold. How do you do it? I mean, so many people post on Slashdot but then you see a funny gem like this. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Pure hilarity. When's the last time you [did the thing] and so wittily remarked about it? Had you [done the thing] in the first place this wouldn't actually happen and hence your joke would 'have no teeth' as it were. But the brilliance of you tying in [thing] with [thing] had me splitting my sides. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man. So clever, so very very clever. I'll bet you were the funny man in high school too. Wow. You still got it!
Flat out, stealing isnt the quite correct word. Copyright infraction is.
And in your case, if you make a copy of your music (without permission), you have to NOT listen to your music till he agrees not to listen to it. - Sounds kinda obtuse? That's how pawn shops, half priced stores, and other cheap cd places work. The buy legit copies and re-sell it for cheap. The bad thing is THE RIAA WANTS TO GET RID OF YOUR RIGHT TO DO THIS.
As an ethical issue, downloading songs we havent paid for is just plain stealing. And they tried to shut down the source (the transfer tool and servers), byt the judge bitchslapped them down.
What choice are we leaving them? They're spreading corrupted files. It's not like they're ping flooding every user. They're just sending what the USER REQUESTS.
I'm relieved that's all the Riaa are doing. After all, protecting the groups' rights are what they're about.
If you havent noticed already, Slashdot is not a Linux site. It's a site where whiners blame Windows for every problem. They somehow think that Linux is absolutely superior, however they just dont use it.
Prior from Slashdot being bought out, they posted logs of all OS'es and browsers. On average, it looked exactly as any other (popular) site. 94% windows, 5% Mac and 1% Linux. Now, all logs are hidden, cause they are ashamed.
Good day to you also..
You might want to come to www.tek-tips.com . They actually run a decent tech site, with a good Linux section.
Instead of that, I'd like a system that any user could copyright a works. The only restriction is that you pay a continually inflating cost.
The first year, you'd only pay a buck. Essentially, the formula is 2^N where N = year that copyright has been held. To compute the total amount paid to hold a copyright, it is 2^(N+1)-1 . To see a fair spread of copyrights, take a look at this chart:
1 year: 1$ 5 years: 63$ 10 Years: 2047$ 20 Years: 2097151$ --- seems to be the best agreed "limited term" 25 Years: 67108864$ --- You had better make a lot of money on this
If you cant cough up the fees associated to the copyrighted works, you lose the exclusivity and it dumps to public domain. However, the cheap cost at the beginning allows nearly anybody to copyright their work.
The cost of a 10 year copyright amortized over the 10 years is only 204$ per year. If anything, this would give a reason to copyright a lot of stuff but have it opened up fairly rapidly. The Big numbers at the bottom just make sure companies dont sit on their asses gobbling up any work they see fit.
Still, my question is this: WHy are copyrights transfferable? I can understand making a contract of exclusivity, but not copyrights...
I have an idea about "logical processors". If, for some reason Intel decided to make 1 cpu to 3 "virtual" cpu's, could you boot up the computer on cpu1 with a special OS that allows you to boot the other cpu's into their own modes, while having the master OS deal with memory and drive accesses?
CPU1 - MasterOS CPU2 - Linux 2.4.18 CPU3 - Win2k
It'd be even neater if you could shut down the os'es and reboot the chips.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey D00D! Ima haxxor too d00d. I runz that linux thingy also, but I uze a k-rad program kalled back orffice and sub7. I even wroted in a librbry too. Uhhh, they kicked me out cuz of my BO smell. HA HA HA HA HA HA. HEY J00! St0p making phun of m3.
Yeah, and if your code's GPL'ed, It doesnt depreciate any.
Where's the safe haven for "hackers", "reverse engineers", and decrypters? There must be some place that has:
1: 1'st world type living
2: Somewhat bustling computer community/advancement
3: Decent economy
4: None of these "DMCA" laws
And dont answer Sealand. It's way overcrowded (for a cement pole in the ocean).
Where's Kazaa getting all this money to throw around lawsuits? And dont tell me that Ad's fully support clusters of multi-homed high speed machines...
---Speaking about DDOS and IRC, either IRC will adapt and stand DDOS easily or new generation (decetralized one) will be based on something else. Perhaps Jabber? Or Gnutella?
Or how about RBL's? It goes something like this:
Admin 1: "What's this weird netblock doing in the OC-9 cisco table? And why's it getting bit-bucketed???"
Admin 2: "It's the new IP's for the weekly RIAA netflood"
Admin 1: "Then why arent we switching the dest/src fields? heh heh"
Admin 2: "Yeah, give it back at-em"
Not as in flamebait as in "Questions to PR representatives". They're just re-telling what they were told to say. There's no sense to put anger and hatred in questions like I originally asked (even if the company does stuff like that).
In the original questions, I tried very hard NOT to sound like a jerk and not try to put them on the offensive. What he said pretty much discredited the tone I was trying to come across (neutral-questioning motives).
There's a thing called Journalistic Professionalism. I'm not an Newspaper editor, nor probably will ever be, but I know there's an ethic you uphold when asking questions.
---As a follow-up question, I asked how long they thought it would be until their licensing scheme was cracked. Neither Ms. Robbins nor her coworker, Pam Watkinson, had an answer for that one.
Why in the hell did you ask that question? As much as everybody dislikes Macrovision, I was TRYING to stay away from asking something like this. No company's going to know whether they have critical problems in a certain product - expesially when the third party's going to trust the run-time license (like sayyy.. Adobe).
Trust me, I hate Macrovision cause they lobbied congress to put a Macrovision chip in all DVD's, got tape players forcefully to install an AGC circuit (which enables Macrovision), all the while reducing quality on tapes afflicted with this crap. Not only that, but then they patented the decryption circuits and code so that it's illegal to even rip the shit-vision out.
Still, I TRIED to stay away from flamebait like the question you asked. Hopefully, you didnt attribute that to me...
Any bets that this will be crippleware music with heavy DRM locks?
And then it will fail? I surely could do without this crap.
To Macrovision Corp. (booth R10)
As I understand, your main stakes are in the encoding of ntsc and pal video signals as to make them uncopyable in receiving hardware (correct me if I'm incorrect).
As that stated, why are you involved with Linux?
Are you contributing to the video section (V4L) of the Linux kernel or making user-land utilities?
In general, what are your open business plans with Linux?
---The head-on conflict between Microsoft and the Linux companies is still some way off.
WHuh? When's Linux a company? The companies that tried to profit off of Linux are dying/dead. Even RH is a support company. It's also quite hard to stop people from freely coding...
---There is also a chance that Linux will stumble. The Linux operating system is renowned for its security. But some Microsoft executives point out that Linux has yet to face the army of hackers, bent on finding weaknesses, that has assailed its own software and exposed security flaws that have dented Microsoft's reputation for reliability.
Heh heh heh. The hackers that find bugs in MS crap are the same hackers that ARE WORKING ON *nix programs. Our programs are built with security in mind, not as an afterthought.
---But that price isn't bad compared to ( much more reliable ) ZIP disks..
I only need say 1 word to refute the "Reliablity of Zip disks".......
Click.
The fanboys?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so original! You make me laugh! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man! I like you jokes! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wow... my sides are hurting with that funny, funny quip you just threw down on us like some clever maniacal funny man! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Someone [will even probably | even modded] you as funny to show how funny you really are to the rest of us! Quip, quip says you! Everyone! Over here! Look at the funny man! He made a funny about [the thing]! Get it? ...[thing]...[thing]... HAHAHAHAHA! It's a reference to [thing]... yes, [verb]... HAHAHAHAHA! Yes, I am not sure where this guy is from but boy is he funny! Who invited him to the party? We gotta have this guy over more often! Honey? Come down here a second and listen to this guy 'tell it like it is' in a really funny way. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! "[quote1]", that's priceless. "[quote2]." Gold. Just pure gold. How do you do it? I mean, so many people post on Slashdot but then you see a funny gem like this. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Pure hilarity. When's the last time you [did the thing] and so wittily remarked about it? Had you [done the thing] in the first place this wouldn't actually happen and hence your joke would 'have no teeth' as it were. But the brilliance of you tying in [thing] with [thing] had me splitting my sides. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man. So clever, so very very clever. I'll bet you were the funny man in high school too. Wow. You still got it!
If cheap Quantum Computing was created by the end of TCPA-installation of machines..
;-)
Would quantum computers be against the DMCA? After all, they just brute force the key (just all at once, heh
Billboard Top 40 hits ----- Hmmm
t .m p3
Let's see if Casey Kasem really care, or if's a PILE OF BULLSHIT (hint: listen to the song)
http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/U2_Special_Edi
Flat out, stealing isnt the quite correct word. Copyright infraction is.
And in your case, if you make a copy of your music (without permission), you have to NOT listen to your music till he agrees not to listen to it. - Sounds kinda obtuse? That's how pawn shops, half priced stores, and other cheap cd places work. The buy legit copies and re-sell it for cheap. The bad thing is THE RIAA WANTS TO GET RID OF YOUR RIGHT TO DO THIS.
As an ethical issue, downloading songs we havent paid for is just plain stealing. And they tried to shut down the source (the transfer tool and servers), byt the judge bitchslapped them down.
What choice are we leaving them? They're spreading corrupted files. It's not like they're ping flooding every user. They're just sending what the USER REQUESTS.
I'm relieved that's all the Riaa are doing. After all, protecting the groups' rights are what they're about.
His writing seems rather Orwellian, doesnt it?
If you havent noticed already, Slashdot is not a Linux site. It's a site where whiners blame Windows for every problem. They somehow think that Linux is absolutely superior, however they just dont use it.
Prior from Slashdot being bought out, they posted logs of all OS'es and browsers. On average, it looked exactly as any other (popular) site. 94% windows, 5% Mac and 1% Linux. Now, all logs are hidden, cause they are ashamed.
Good day to you also..
You might want to come to www.tek-tips.com . They actually run a decent tech site, with a good Linux section.
WHy hasnt somebody mirrored his data yet?
mPlayer broke a few laws (dmca) but guess where their servers are at.... heh heh heh.
Face it. The USA is really sucking now for computer technology, and the VP of MS is on that board. Wonder why they sent the C&D letter.
How many Libraries of Congress can it store and how fast can I get it out????
I need to know YESTERDAY!!!!!
Does that include smoking weed?
Why havent they been slashdotted yet? They have downloadable snippets and they're still up? Damn.
Instead of that, I'd like a system that any user could copyright a works. The only restriction is that you pay a continually inflating cost.
The first year, you'd only pay a buck. Essentially, the formula is 2^N where N = year that copyright has been held. To compute the total amount paid to hold a copyright, it is 2^(N+1)-1 . To see a fair spread of copyrights, take a look at this chart:
1 year: 1$
5 years: 63$
10 Years: 2047$
20 Years: 2097151$ --- seems to be the best agreed "limited term"
25 Years: 67108864$ --- You had better make a lot of money on this
If you cant cough up the fees associated to the copyrighted works, you lose the exclusivity and it dumps to public domain. However, the cheap cost at the beginning allows nearly anybody to copyright their work.
The cost of a 10 year copyright amortized over the 10 years is only 204$ per year. If anything, this would give a reason to copyright a lot of stuff but have it opened up fairly rapidly. The Big numbers at the bottom just make sure companies dont sit on their asses gobbling up any work they see fit.
Still, my question is this: WHy are copyrights transfferable? I can understand making a contract of exclusivity, but not copyrights...
I have an idea about "logical processors". If, for some reason Intel decided to make 1 cpu to 3 "virtual" cpu's, could you boot up the computer on cpu1 with a special OS that allows you to boot the other cpu's into their own modes, while having the master OS deal with memory and drive accesses?
CPU1 - MasterOS
CPU2 - Linux 2.4.18
CPU3 - Win2k
It'd be even neater if you could shut down the os'es and reboot the chips.
To the kernel devs: is this possible?