"There is also evidence that counterfeiting and piracy are becoming more and more linked to organised crime and terrorist activities because of the high profits and, so far, the relatively low risks of discovery and punishment," the Commission said in a statement.
Yeah, I suppose buying copies of Win XP for a buck or two in SE Asia gets some money to the Triads, but how is downloading an Win XP ISO from a P2P network making Osama any money?
I suppose when I installed Windows 2000 on two different machines caused some planes to smash into buildings.
-- Every time you download off a P2P network, God kills a kitten
One kind of nanomachine is the assembler, which is a tiny factory that can manufacture other machines, including replicas of itself. Drexler understood from the beginning that a replicating assembler would be a tool of immense power for good or for evil. Fortunately or unfortunately, nanotechnology has moved more slowly than Drexler expected. Nothing remotely resembling an assembler has yet emerged. The most useful products of nanotechnology so far are computer chips. They have no capacity for replicating either themselves or anything else.
We have the means to stop this onslaught, a lovely piece of legislation called the DMCA and an army of lawyers to back it up.
Any badass nanite that tries to replicate itself will be doing so without paying the appropriate copyright fees to the original creator and will summarily get slapped with a nice lawsuit and some jailtime to cool it's heels (erm... cillia? flagella?).
Just in case that does not work, we have Senator Disney who will make sure that these abominations have DRM technology built into them from the get-go, so self-replicating nanites will come pre-spayed and neutered for our protection.
We need not even go that far. The very fact that such a beast is being created is a violation itself, since it's its own circumvention device.
I agree. The very fact I keep the data to myself, and they want it bad enough to take it without permission implies that this data has some sort of value that I (and they) attach to it.
This value may not be of monetary value to me, but apparently it is for them.
I worked as a contractor on the CG-class cruisers, and in the upgrades for those we used a fiber optic ATM network w/redundant cables.
Additionally, people here seem not to be aware that the ship's systems controlled by the network (like above) are for propulsion, navigation, electric plant and damage control. The weapons systems are a completely separate entity.
Not a problem at all when using the device to record through small holes punched in walls of hotel rooms or mounting behind mirrors or light fixtures in restrooms.
This would be great for the pervert-who-works-at-a-hotel market, who are always looking for more recording time and an easy way to process and dump the files to a file-sharing network. A power supply simply isn't a problem here.
Unecessary. When you hop on WinMX looking for that great ALBW file of Norah Jones, you have your choice of the version shared by 180 or so people, or a few other versions shared by fewer people.
Try for the few that are different. More than one person will rip/share a file, and its probably too much effort to crapflood all the files on P2P networks.
What I would like to see is Kazaa or WinMX or whoever get a restraining order slapped on these monkeys. Turnabout is always fair play.
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Solve world hunger so tribe in africa don't need pork to survive
A shocking note: You know, in many parts of Africa and the Middle East, swine are considered unclean and unfit for eating due to cultural or religious belief.
Even more shocking: Yes, I am aware of the cultural differences among the many different peoples of the world, and I am a US citizen. I can even find Iraq on a map!
The real lesson here, I think, is that The Forces Of Evil never rest in their attempts to persecute hackers for actions that should not, by any sane measure, be crimes at all. This is apparently no less true in Norway than anywhere else.
Rather than engaging in discussion on hackers vs. The Establishment, take a step back from the keyboard and think like they do.
Here are a group of law enforcement personnel contacted by a large corporation identifying a case of compter-related theft.
I'm pretty sure the investigators listened to Jon's argument about Linux and use of his legal DVD's. But when a semi or non-literate computer user (a Windows computer user) who can play DVDs on his bundled player in his store-bought Microsoft-equipped PC will probably think to themselves that a legal, sanctioned solution to the problem exists, and if it doesn't work for Jon, then he should have be using an approved method such as Windows.
It's not necessarily evil intentions, it could just be a simple case of plain ignorance as well.
What I would want with the $XX tax the ISP pays is the implied license to download as much as I want, and whatever I want. The same way when I pay a tax on blank tapes and music CD-R's. The piracy tax is already applied, so my "illicit" downloads have been paid for as long as I affix them to that medium.
If I give them compensation then I obviously expect something in return.
If you were never going to buy anything from RIAA, downloading their crap won't solve anything. It doesn't cost them a cent and you take up a download slot that otherwise could be used by someone who is looking to download instead of buying.
If you were wiling to host what you download, then you would be costing them money.
No. The big drug companies would be content to know that whatever they come up with will be theirs for much longer than 20 years.
The investment in research will be even more valuable since the profits will be assured for much longer than 20 years.
With the patent portfolios they amass, they can always cross-license with each other, and shut out generic (cheaper) drugs, guaranteeing profit at the expense of everyone.
This will have no effect on research and development in the larger drug companies since they can always afford it and each will have massive portfolios they can cross-license amongst themselves. Smaller companies and startups will be shut out since they have no valuable patents to cross-license, and patent holders do not have to license a patent if they do not want to.
The court looked at patents and decided that what applies to patents also applies to copyrights.
I just love the can of worms this opened up.
Basically if it is OK to extend the copyright terms forever by doing so 10 or 20 years at a time, it is OK to do the same with patents.
What I expect now is the non-entertainment industries to start lobbying congress for longer patent terms. It's been 20 years long enough. I expect the pharmaceutical companies would be first in line to grease the palms of Congress.
Ain't nothing wrong with Chimera. In fact, I have both Safari and Chimera happily sitting side-by-side on my dock, right next to the IE icon.
I've been happily using Chimera since the 0.5 days and it sure has come a long way in that time. Safari pulled off an impressive first appearance and is perfectly functional as-is.
I dumped IE like a hot rock after Chimera 0.6.0 was released, since that was when Chimera hit "good enough" status. Safari also meets the "good enough" threshold in my case and it gets more use than Chimera because it's faster. That's not to say I am not annoyed by Safari (or Chimera) sometimes. Tabbed browsing is neat and all, but I have a dual-headed workstation and have little need for it with my workflow.
There's no reason not to have TWO browsers and be happy. I enjoy watching the incremental development of these things, with Slashdot being a geek site, I would have assumed people here would like it as well. No need for a jihad over which open-source version is better, or which open-source version adoption by a corporation is more "politically correct". Just because MS has a closed-source monopoly on browsers, does not make it right for Mozilla to have an open-source monopoly either.
Use whatever you want and be happy. Browsers aren't fashion statements fer crissakes.
With the right video card and a VGA to component adaptor, you can get the card to put out frequencies to drive an HDTV-ready set. The discuss this to no end on AVSforums for home-theater PCs.
I once had Tempest running on my XBR set (sideways) at 720P, and it was much sharper and better quality than I could get with a VGA to NTSC converter. Unfortunately for me, I bought the wrong converter and it didn't work well for the higher HDTV modes.
If the shape of a bottle is copyrighted, then the shape of the liquid inside is also forming the copyrighted shape.
Water is also a polar solvent: it has a negative region on the molecule and a positive region.
Because of this, the orientation of a water molecule can convey information by depending if the + or - region is up (or down). So you can say water is binary. No different than the string of 1's and 0's in a computer's memory except RAM doesn't slosh around.
Think this argument is stupid? I think DMCA cases against refill companies are stupid as well.
That may be so, but the requirements listed at the Apple site says:
* Requires AirPort Extreme ready system. AirPort Extreme ready systems are those with mini-PCI support form factor. AirPort Extreme cards cannot be used in older AirPort card bays (PCMCIA form factor slot).
Airport extreme is quite nice. Too bad no one can use it now.
I was drooling over the aspect of upgrading the wireless networking in my home, but it will have to wait. While existing airport cards will work with extreme at 10Mbps, the new AP extreme cards will not work on any currently shipping Mac. The older Airport cards have a connector the same as a PCMCIA card, the new AP extreme is Mini-PCI format.
That's right, if you want 54Mbps, you gotta buy one of the new Powerbooks and the new Access Point.
I suppose it's a matter of time before someone comes up with a Mini-PCI to PCI adapter card for the PowerMacs and a PC Card version for the older Powerbooks. iMac and iBook users are left out of the fun.
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Yeah, from all the accounts I've read here about activation I guess even the boxed retail versions are as well.
Yeah, I suppose buying copies of Win XP for a buck or two in SE Asia gets some money to the Triads, but how is downloading an Win XP ISO from a P2P network making Osama any money?
I suppose when I installed Windows 2000 on two different machines caused some planes to smash into buildings.
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Every time you download off a P2P network, God kills a kitten
Not random, I just paid closer attention when the two words appeared next to each other (I try to avoid that). The first occurence was carelessness.
We have the means to stop this onslaught, a lovely piece of legislation called the DMCA and an army of lawyers to back it up.
Any badass nanite that tries to replicate itself will be doing so without paying the appropriate copyright fees to the original creator and will summarily get slapped with a nice lawsuit and some jailtime to cool it's heels (erm... cillia? flagella?).
Just in case that does not work, we have Senator Disney who will make sure that these abominations have DRM technology built into them from the get-go, so self-replicating nanites will come pre-spayed and neutered for our protection.
We need not even go that far. The very fact that such a beast is being created is a violation itself, since it's its own circumvention device.
I agree. The very fact I keep the data to myself, and they want it bad enough to take it without permission implies that this data has some sort of value that I (and they) attach to it.
This value may not be of monetary value to me, but apparently it is for them.
I worked as a contractor on the CG-class cruisers, and in the upgrades for those we used a fiber optic ATM network w/redundant cables.
Additionally, people here seem not to be aware that the ship's systems controlled by the network (like above) are for propulsion, navigation, electric plant and damage control. The weapons systems are a completely separate entity.
I am suprised no one noticed that the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro is now a BTO option.
Still listed as "coming soon" though.
Virus? How? Loaded through a watermark embedded in a copyrighted video or picture?
Not a problem at all when using the device to record through small holes punched in walls of hotel rooms or mounting behind mirrors or light fixtures in restrooms.
This would be great for the pervert-who-works-at-a-hotel market, who are always looking for more recording time and an easy way to process and dump the files to a file-sharing network. A power supply simply isn't a problem here.
Unecessary. When you hop on WinMX looking for that great ALBW file of Norah Jones, you have your choice of the version shared by 180 or so people, or a few other versions shared by fewer people.
Try for the few that are different. More than one person will rip/share a file, and its probably too much effort to crapflood all the files on P2P networks.
What I would like to see is Kazaa or WinMX or whoever get a restraining order slapped on these monkeys. Turnabout is always fair play.
I always thought "The Blob" was red?
A shocking note:
You know, in many parts of Africa and the Middle East, swine are considered unclean and unfit for eating due to cultural or religious belief.
Even more shocking:
Yes, I am aware of the cultural differences among the many different peoples of the world, and I am a US citizen. I can even find Iraq on a map!
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Yeah, but bacon tastes goooood! - Vega
Rather than engaging in discussion on hackers vs. The Establishment, take a step back from the keyboard and think like they do.
Here are a group of law enforcement personnel contacted by a large corporation identifying a case of compter-related theft.
I'm pretty sure the investigators listened to Jon's argument about Linux and use of his legal DVD's. But when a semi or non-literate computer user (a Windows computer user) who can play DVDs on his bundled player in his store-bought Microsoft-equipped PC will probably think to themselves that a legal, sanctioned solution to the problem exists, and if it doesn't work for Jon, then he should have be using an approved method such as Windows.
It's not necessarily evil intentions, it could just be a simple case of plain ignorance as well.
What I would want with the $XX tax the ISP pays is the implied license to download as much as I want, and whatever I want. The same way when I pay a tax on blank tapes and music CD-R's. The piracy tax is already applied, so my "illicit" downloads have been paid for as long as I affix them to that medium.
If I give them compensation then I obviously expect something in return.
If you were never going to buy anything from RIAA, downloading their crap won't solve anything. It doesn't cost them a cent and you take up a download slot that otherwise could be used by someone who is looking to download instead of buying.
If you were wiling to host what you download, then you would be costing them money.
And you know that one was a scale-model mockup?
The full-scale model is now a restaurant at an amusement park.
And you can get entertaining maid service as well. Looks far nicer than a 14" diameter hockey-puck.
I like your sig. I'd like to take a contract out on a Roomba.
Nothing messy, the family would appreciate an open casket.
Thx.
No. The big drug companies would be content to know that whatever they come up with will be theirs for much longer than 20 years.
The investment in research will be even more valuable since the profits will be assured for much longer than 20 years.
With the patent portfolios they amass, they can always cross-license with each other, and shut out generic (cheaper) drugs, guaranteeing profit at the expense of everyone.
This will have no effect on research and development in the larger drug companies since they can always afford it and each will have massive portfolios they can cross-license amongst themselves. Smaller companies and startups will be shut out since they have no valuable patents to cross-license, and patent holders do not have to license a patent if they do not want to.
Wow, did you read the decisions? I did.
The court looked at patents and decided that what applies to patents also applies to copyrights.
I just love the can of worms this opened up.
Basically if it is OK to extend the copyright terms forever by doing so 10 or 20 years at a time, it is OK to do the same with patents.
What I expect now is the non-entertainment industries to start lobbying congress for longer patent terms. It's been 20 years long enough. I expect the pharmaceutical companies would be first in line to grease the palms of Congress.
Ain't nothing wrong with Chimera. In fact, I have both Safari and Chimera happily sitting side-by-side on my dock, right next to the IE icon.
I've been happily using Chimera since the 0.5 days and it sure has come a long way in that time. Safari pulled off an impressive first appearance and is perfectly functional as-is.
I dumped IE like a hot rock after Chimera 0.6.0 was released, since that was when Chimera hit "good enough" status. Safari also meets the "good enough" threshold in my case and it gets more use than Chimera because it's faster. That's not to say I am not annoyed by Safari (or Chimera) sometimes. Tabbed browsing is neat and all, but I have a dual-headed workstation and have little need for it with my workflow.
There's no reason not to have TWO browsers and be happy. I enjoy watching the incremental development of these things, with Slashdot being a geek site, I would have assumed people here would like it as well. No need for a jihad over which open-source version is better, or which open-source version adoption by a corporation is more "politically correct". Just because MS has a closed-source monopoly on browsers, does not make it right for Mozilla to have an open-source monopoly either.
Use whatever you want and be happy. Browsers aren't fashion statements fer crissakes.
With the right video card and a VGA to component adaptor, you can get the card to put out frequencies to drive an HDTV-ready set. The discuss this to no end on AVSforums for home-theater PCs.
I once had Tempest running on my XBR set (sideways) at 720P, and it was much sharper and better quality than I could get with a VGA to NTSC converter. Unfortunately for me, I bought the wrong converter and it didn't work well for the higher HDTV modes.
If the shape of a bottle is copyrighted, then the shape of the liquid inside is also forming the copyrighted shape.
Water is also a polar solvent: it has a negative region on the molecule and a positive region.
Because of this, the orientation of a water molecule can convey information by depending if the + or - region is up (or down). So you can say water is binary. No different than the string of 1's and 0's in a computer's memory except RAM doesn't slosh around.
Think this argument is stupid? I think DMCA cases against refill companies are stupid as well.
Airport extreme is quite nice. Too bad no one can use it now.
I was drooling over the aspect of upgrading the wireless networking in my home, but it will have to wait. While existing airport cards will work with extreme at 10Mbps, the new AP extreme cards will not work on any currently shipping Mac. The older Airport cards have a connector the same as a PCMCIA card, the new AP extreme is Mini-PCI format.
That's right, if you want 54Mbps, you gotta buy one of the new Powerbooks and the new Access Point.
I suppose it's a matter of time before someone comes up with a Mini-PCI to PCI adapter card for the PowerMacs and a PC Card version for the older Powerbooks. iMac and iBook users are left out of the fun.