DRM technology is still young by the way. If licensers were smarter about how they dole out licenses for music, this wouldn't be a problem. If they would associate the computer you just built with your previous computer (through account management), the files would transfer just fine. And you could probably be sneaky enough to send them to your parents, while still giving the licensers enough control to disallow widespread filesharing of DRM protected media.
Don't blame DRM for all of the stupid implementations to date.
I bought an older DVD-R drive. The media plays in all of the older DVD players (that cheap one I bought for my grandma). I think you're safe getting either as long as everyone you know has a relatively modern DVD player, but I didn't want to have to think about that.
I use floppies for Partition Magic, booting TiVo tools with my TiVo HD in my PC, net installs of FreeBSD when I don't want to plug a CDRom in, and Ghost. Very few of those tasks require floppies, but I still like them.
I just wish someone would have made a titanium cased floppy with magnetic shielding and something to stablize / protect the disk inside so that I could carry them around in my pocket without damaging them. I'll trade the IP on this idea for a mod++.
PS: Most of my Macs don't have floppy drives either, but they have a more elegant approach to booting off CDs.
Bruce is an exception because it's getting to the point in the USA that most citizens feel that unless they're rich and powerfull, they could be thrown in jail for a cause, and nobody would take notice or care beyond their mother.
We sure don't feel like Congress is listening when they hold meetings on new legislation proposed by Disney and their cronies, and the consumer and tech lobbies are blatantly ignored and not allowed to speak. Ironically enough, this is why apathy is rampant, and voter turnout has been around 30% for awhile. And it's safe to say that the public is being ignored more often in the halls of Congress BECAUSE they don't vote or stand up for themselves.
But take heart international community... We're Americans, and while we may be lazy, when it comes down to it, we will stand up and fight once pushed far enough. Besides, it's about time for the 60's to come back into fashion.
Spammers will always claim you opted in somewhere along the line. As hard as we try to read privacy policies, we're not all lawyers capable of proving we didn't.
My Consumer Responsive Anti-spam and Privacy Solution (CRAPS) proposal is that Spammers be required to show where you opted in or failed to opt out, and trace the legal transactions that landed your address in their possession. Such a law should require them to provide you with that information upon your request with reasonable frequency and delay. It won't stop Spam, but it will give American users a start at not only stopping unwanted Spam, but also limiting the propagation of your address (within the US).
Why worry about what the more childish in the crowd may do? It's fair to say that Microsoft would do better to show more earnest intents in the real world first, rather than simply showing up at a fanboy [not a flame] trade show and thinking all will go well. If they lived their lives in competetive harmony with the Linux world, they would be accepted at such an event without incident. As it stands, I want to see them run out of the joint. I don't feel being a better person about it will help them change, but I do think the bad press they could get would benefit us all.
What this proves is simply that we love good old fashioned duels, and chess is one of the oldest and most universal. This is not about which chip is smarter, but about rooting for a sentimental favorite and cheering until a winner is crowned.
Let alone, how many of us are well represented and can afford to seek advice for every little decision? This is just a little peer-to-peer legal advice. I'll write a client and call it Snake-ster. This can be a way for us to get back at all the legal community for being so fixated on taking our money.
At Google, I get the impression you don't buy solutions, but rather you are forced to (always?) create your own solutions. While this seems like more fun than most of us get to have at work, I'm curious...
In your time at Google, which single technology or innovation that you implemented failed the worst? Tell us a story.
Some people worry too much. If I want information, I want to be able to find it whether someone wants to host it anymore or not. If I'm bored, I can find entertainment from the Wayback Machine. If you don't want your site to be part of the Wayback Machine, program it so that it can't be snagged by the Wayback Machine. The wayback machine will not be confused with the real thing, and since the HTML / images format of most of the www is inherently unprotectable, content owners have no claim to stop linking and caching. It was the nature of the beast they signed up for.
I work in constant fear that I'll be replaced by someone cheaper. That is why I refuse to work for more than minimum wage.
The first thing I would change is...
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...nothing. Well, maybe some perceptions, but the laws are fine (excepting the DMCA). Consumers ignored existing laws and escaped punishment. Big media and law enforcement got lazy , out of date, and felt powerless. The Napster revolution didn't have to go as far as it did. There was just-cause, evidence, and sufficient law to investigate and prosecute everyone involved. If content owners aren't savvy enough to change, or figure out how to protect their property, they will lose it. There will come an end of the line for new anti-consumer legislation, and they will be forced to fall back on the laws and methods they should have used in the first place.
I'm frustrated by my own inability to decide whether espousing illegal actions should be illegal, or whether the law should be limited to punishing (or "correcting") those who actually commit the acts. I can define how those are two different acts, but I can't decide if the (obviously lesser) act should be illegal in a country whose first founding stipulation is freedom of speech. This is not the most significant assault on most literal interpretation of the First Amendment, but the fact that it is yet another bit of sand washed off the river bank, makes me wonder if I'll see the inevitable deep canyon in my time.
Napster wasn't an "upstart MP3 indexing service," it was a "revolution in piracy" that bubbled up to the mainstream. The American Revolution was illegal in it's time, but it did some good. However, in our "civilized" society, Shawn Fanning shouldn't have given Napster out to more than his close friends. He should be held accountable for his role. Consumers should learn to hold the labels accountable for anti-competitive practices in a more legal way than simple looting. Before Napster, we had reasonable fair-use laws. Now we have the DMCA et al. Akamai didn't setup a massive pirate FTP network to get where they did. Good riddance Napster!
Ads pay for TV everytime you purchase anything. Those payments are so hidden and micro, that we don't mind paying that much. Shifting the cost of all those pennies to one single cable bill won't fly very far because TV isn't that important to most people. Advertising is here to stay. Just be happy you're one of the lucky ones who has a PVR, and do your best to fight the big lobbies.
This kind of legislation will not bring big media to broadband. It will create so much cost, confusion, delay, disinterest, and backlash that they will never see that goal as long as such a law is on the books. The CBDTPA will do harm where its supporters think it will help.
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DRM technology is still young by the way. If licensers were smarter about how they dole out licenses for music, this wouldn't be a problem. If they would associate the computer you just built with your previous computer (through account management), the files would transfer just fine. And you could probably be sneaky enough to send them to your parents, while still giving the licensers enough control to disallow widespread filesharing of DRM protected media.
Don't blame DRM for all of the stupid implementations to date.
Coke gave my High School $1,000,000 and free astro-turf, and now there are coke machines all over the district.
Just as it was about to wrap up, page 6 is broken. Can anyone please post page 6 here?
I bought an older DVD-R drive. The media plays in all of the older DVD players (that cheap one I bought for my grandma). I think you're safe getting either as long as everyone you know has a relatively modern DVD player, but I didn't want to have to think about that.
I just wish someone would have made a titanium cased floppy with magnetic shielding and something to stablize / protect the disk inside so that I could carry them around in my pocket without damaging them. I'll trade the IP on this idea for a mod++.
PS: Most of my Macs don't have floppy drives either, but they have a more elegant approach to booting off CDs.
Maybe, if only to brag that I'm rich.
We sure don't feel like Congress is listening when they hold meetings on new legislation proposed by Disney and their cronies, and the consumer and tech lobbies are blatantly ignored and not allowed to speak. Ironically enough, this is why apathy is rampant, and voter turnout has been around 30% for awhile. And it's safe to say that the public is being ignored more often in the halls of Congress BECAUSE they don't vote or stand up for themselves.
But take heart international community... We're Americans, and while we may be lazy, when it comes down to it, we will stand up and fight once pushed far enough. Besides, it's about time for the 60's to come back into fashion.
If you play Celine Dion in public, you deserve to be arrested.
My Consumer Responsive Anti-spam and Privacy Solution (CRAPS) proposal is that Spammers be required to show where you opted in or failed to opt out, and trace the legal transactions that landed your address in their possession. Such a law should require them to provide you with that information upon your request with reasonable frequency and delay. It won't stop Spam, but it will give American users a start at not only stopping unwanted Spam, but also limiting the propagation of your address (within the US).
Why worry about what the more childish in the crowd may do? It's fair to say that Microsoft would do better to show more earnest intents in the real world first, rather than simply showing up at a fanboy [not a flame] trade show and thinking all will go well. If they lived their lives in competetive harmony with the Linux world, they would be accepted at such an event without incident. As it stands, I want to see them run out of the joint. I don't feel being a better person about it will help them change, but I do think the bad press they could get would benefit us all.
Bad for gamers?
Good for programmers.
See, they're not so stupid after all. And most programmers could use the exercise of hauling around an anvil.
GO AMD!
Let alone, how many of us are well represented and can afford to seek advice for every little decision? This is just a little peer-to-peer legal advice. I'll write a client and call it Snake-ster. This can be a way for us to get back at all the legal community for being so fixated on taking our money.
At Google, I get the impression you don't buy solutions, but rather you are forced to (always?) create your own solutions. While this seems like more fun than most of us get to have at work, I'm curious... In your time at Google, which single technology or innovation that you implemented failed the worst? Tell us a story.
Some people worry too much. If I want information, I want to be able to find it whether someone wants to host it anymore or not. If I'm bored, I can find entertainment from the Wayback Machine. If you don't want your site to be part of the Wayback Machine, program it so that it can't be snagged by the Wayback Machine. The wayback machine will not be confused with the real thing, and since the HTML / images format of most of the www is inherently unprotectable, content owners have no claim to stop linking and caching. It was the nature of the beast they signed up for.
I work in constant fear that I'll be replaced by someone cheaper. That is why I refuse to work for more than minimum wage.
...nothing. Well, maybe some perceptions, but the laws are fine (excepting the DMCA). Consumers ignored existing laws and escaped punishment. Big media and law enforcement got lazy , out of date, and felt powerless. The Napster revolution didn't have to go as far as it did. There was just-cause, evidence, and sufficient law to investigate and prosecute everyone involved. If content owners aren't savvy enough to change, or figure out how to protect their property, they will lose it. There will come an end of the line for new anti-consumer legislation, and they will be forced to fall back on the laws and methods they should have used in the first place.
I'm frustrated by my own inability to decide whether espousing illegal actions should be illegal, or whether the law should be limited to punishing (or "correcting") those who actually commit the acts. I can define how those are two different acts, but I can't decide if the (obviously lesser) act should be illegal in a country whose first founding stipulation is freedom of speech. This is not the most significant assault on most literal interpretation of the First Amendment, but the fact that it is yet another bit of sand washed off the river bank, makes me wonder if I'll see the inevitable deep canyon in my time.
Napster wasn't an "upstart MP3 indexing service," it was a "revolution in piracy" that bubbled up to the mainstream. The American Revolution was illegal in it's time, but it did some good. However, in our "civilized" society, Shawn Fanning shouldn't have given Napster out to more than his close friends. He should be held accountable for his role. Consumers should learn to hold the labels accountable for anti-competitive practices in a more legal way than simple looting. Before Napster, we had reasonable fair-use laws. Now we have the DMCA et al. Akamai didn't setup a massive pirate FTP network to get where they did. Good riddance Napster!
Ads pay for TV everytime you purchase anything. Those payments are so hidden and micro, that we don't mind paying that much. Shifting the cost of all those pennies to one single cable bill won't fly very far because TV isn't that important to most people. Advertising is here to stay. Just be happy you're one of the lucky ones who has a PVR, and do your best to fight the big lobbies.
Try voting ya hoser!
This kind of legislation will not bring big media to broadband. It will create so much cost, confusion, delay, disinterest, and backlash that they will never see that goal as long as such a law is on the books. The CBDTPA will do harm where its supporters think it will help.