If the FCC were abolished it would be the end to world hunger. Why don't you get a job and take a bath you dirty hippy. The FCC is one of the worst things about our country, it holds back our free-market economy that you seem to enjoy so much with your commodities such as eminem cd's!
Im sorry but you CANT give your movie to whoever you want. This is something that not many people dont understand. When you buy a CD your not buying just the CD. Your also purchasing a LICENSE to use the music on it. You own the CD but you do NOT own music on it and you may NOT do as you please with it. I dont think this is right but its how the law works. I am a law student who studies the laws of this topic and although some states have different laws most of these restrictions are due to international copyright. This is also why you cant download music and give it to your friends even if you pay for it. You are paying for YOU to use the song you are not paying you to CHOOSE who gets to use it.
With iTunes and ITMS, I can use PlayFair (renamed to something I can't remember offhand) to have no DRM at all and convert to MP3 at will if I were silly enough to own a lump of plastic player music and was not an iPod. Can you do that with your WMA?
Yes.
ANY music file i have used so far can be converted to mp3.
1. Download Winamp 2. Install and load up the files you wanna convert. 3. Go to Options > Preferences, under Plug-Ins > Output click on "Nullsoft Disk Writer plug-in" then click configure and set the directory you want to save the WAV file. 4. Now play all the music files you want to convert. This will rip out just the sound of the file in wav format to the directory you specified. 5. Now take that wav and either play it or convert it to mp3 with something like cdex.
Basically if you can find a way to play music you can convert it into a DRM free file.
I doubt this is true. It would be hard to keep a secret such as being able to break PGP. Maybe the NSA can do it but i doubt anyone else can. Lets say the govt can break encryption used in PGP and uses it to nab some members of the mafia. The prosecutor would explain how he was caught to prove that they got the right guy. If it came out in the courts that PGP could be broken very quickly many people would know. So what im saying is that if they CAN break PGP we would know. The reason why i think the govt. CANT break it is that if they could it would already be done. If it was possible for them to do it they would be using it to track down criminals all the time.
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From the article you linked to:
Thus a consumer broadband Internet user of 2004 may experience Internet usage substantially slower than did a dial-up user of 1997, before pop-ups, spam and viruses became so universal.
It is also however possible that such a solution will not be found, so that the quality of Internet communication continues to deteriorate, and its costs to increase.
Home users and small businesses, in such a case, may find that using the Internet becomes simply unproductive, at which point, with relatively little damage to their lifestyle, they will stop doing so, relying on DVDs and CD-ROMs for the information and entertainment they need.
So basically this guy is saying the internet is on its way out and so is google. I think this guy just doesn't WANT tech IPO's to work.
Wow you mods totally dropped the ball on this nice Simpsons quote. The episode is at http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F07.html. The quote is right near the end.
Whenever something new gets patented it makes a good joke to say that normal everyday things will soon be ILLEGAL but thats not quite how it will work. Nobody is going to be shut off form the internet becuae of their patent, thats the last thing Cisco wants to do. What they are trying to do is get some leverage to squeeze money out of hardware and software developers in the future.
I agree that PROBABLY the two are unrelated but honestly i dont claim to be able to do what linus does and untill i can im not gunna talk shit about using BK.
Neither i think. I think hes saying that the website isn't MOSTLY nerds as it is here on slashdot. Clearly your logic is teh borked and you need to be assimilated. (+5 Star Wars referance)
The author of the story doesn't give us any details about what kind of skills he has for this. Can he do simple scripting in linux or another os? Are the stations for listening going to be too far away to be centrally linked easily? What kind of a budget DOES he have?
I think a PC with some software might work great but unless someone is going to code the software for him i doubt it will work.
You guys aren';t going to slashdot ANYTHING by linking to it ni a post. More than 3/4 of all slashdot traffic comes from people who dont go beyond the first page. Most reador of/. dont read the comments they simply click on the link in the article.
Not only is it known about but there are ways around it. You can buy special archiving cd's that last much longer. Look for "gold" cd's to last longer. The problem is that organic ink just wont last forever but that doesn't mean you hafta use discs that die quickly.
The only time i can see someone wanting access to a database such as this would be to steal my identity. This isn't going to make my life safer by helping law enforcement do a better job, its going to put me at risk of being spyed on and if the database is broken into my identity heisted.
Nobody is going to do the extra work to invade youir privacy untill they have a good reason your right. The problem with this is that the only time theyn have a good reason is a reason thats not in your best interests. Im afriad that whoever "IS" willing to do the extra work is probably trying to rip me off or persecute me in some false way.
As soon as it is discovered that someone who was wanted for murder and was previously scanned (but the records were destroyed) drives through town and kills someone everyone will freak and say that if they extend it to a year it could have saved a life. Nobody will complain when the time limit is extended bit by bit untill the records are permanent.
Japanese has an alphabet. I dont see why people think asian languadges are so difficult. They are often structured much better and are far easier to learn. Personally i found japanese to be far easier to learn than spanish. Oh and for anyone who thinks that its hard to memorize a word that uses symbols nto letters think of it this way. Every work in english has a certain way to spell it. When you see a word on paper you take the letters and turn it into a meaningful word in your head. Its the same with asain languadges. Instead of letters they use slashes and in some languages circles. You to remember how to spell each word you read in order to read it just like asains must remember what each symbol means to read.
Your recomendations lead me to believe you dont understand how internet traffic works. Becuase of the nature of traffic that real academic work uses (basically all ports/protocols/speeds are needed) you cant simply block it all to webpages.
Limits are reached and worked around all the time. Old styles of making CPU's has reached its limit already and been passed by. As CPU's used to exist at the speeds of today they wouldn't work. The basic architecture of CPU's from years ago would not handle speeds of a few GHZ. Thats why we have new improvements to cpus that you dont even think about. L1/L2/L3 cacheing is one example. Cpu's could never work at 3ghz without any cache by the simple fact that the speed of electricity isn't fast enough to supply to cpu with data from the ram at that speed. The CPU has to intelligantly cache date in a quicker around to not slow the machine down. Limits like this used to be worried about when people imagined going into GHZ cpu's a long time ago. They didn't know how they could run their cpu's assuming they managed to shrink the parts of a cpu to get it to run at GHZ levels. They thought that once we got so far we could no go any further becuase of this or that thing and yet we have gone far past what many predicted to be the limit. People will always work around whatever limit is put inhead of them, some people are just driven to do things like that and jsut wont quit.
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well at least it loaded the background color... btw its blue... i think thats as far as anyone will get
If the FCC were abolished it would be the end to world hunger. Why don't you get a job and take a bath you dirty hippy. The FCC is one of the worst things about our country, it holds back our free-market economy that you seem to enjoy so much with your commodities such as eminem cd's!
Im sorry but you CANT give your movie to whoever you want. This is something that not many people dont understand. When you buy a CD your not buying just the CD. Your also purchasing a LICENSE to use the music on it. You own the CD but you do NOT own music on it and you may NOT do as you please with it. I dont think this is right but its how the law works. I am a law student who studies the laws of this topic and although some states have different laws most of these restrictions are due to international copyright. This is also why you cant download music and give it to your friends even if you pay for it. You are paying for YOU to use the song you are not paying you to CHOOSE who gets to use it.
http://www.channelbeat.com/products/dance/dance_da nce_revolution_series/15.html
Check that out. Almost $6k for DDR. The shipping weight is 427kg too... i wonder if i could even fit that in my studio apartment.
With iTunes and ITMS, I can use PlayFair (renamed to something I can't remember offhand) to have no DRM at all and convert to MP3 at will if I were silly enough to own a lump of plastic player music and was not an iPod. Can you do that with your WMA?
Yes.
ANY music file i have used so far can be converted to mp3.
1. Download Winamp
2. Install and load up the files you wanna convert.
3. Go to Options > Preferences, under Plug-Ins > Output click on "Nullsoft Disk Writer plug-in" then click configure and set the directory you want to save the WAV file.
4. Now play all the music files you want to convert. This will rip out just the sound of the file in wav format to the directory you specified.
5. Now take that wav and either play it or convert it to mp3 with something like cdex.
Basically if you can find a way to play music you can convert it into a DRM free file.
I like in the pacific norhtwest where the moss on trees grows in all directions. Sorry but you still need a compass.
I doubt this is true. It would be hard to keep a secret such as being able to break PGP. Maybe the NSA can do it but i doubt anyone else can. Lets say the govt can break encryption used in PGP and uses it to nab some members of the mafia. The prosecutor would explain how he was caught to prove that they got the right guy. If it came out in the courts that PGP could be broken very quickly many people would know. So what im saying is that if they CAN break PGP we would know. The reason why i think the govt. CANT break it is that if they could it would already be done. If it was possible for them to do it they would be using it to track down criminals all the time.
From the article you linked to:
Thus a consumer broadband Internet user of 2004 may experience Internet usage substantially slower than did a dial-up user of 1997, before pop-ups, spam and viruses became so universal.
It is also however possible that such a solution will not be found, so that the quality of Internet communication continues to deteriorate, and its costs to increase.
Home users and small businesses, in such a case, may find that using the Internet becomes simply unproductive, at which point, with relatively little damage to their lifestyle, they will stop doing so, relying on DVDs and CD-ROMs for the information and entertainment they need.
So basically this guy is saying the internet is on its way out and so is google. I think this guy just doesn't WANT tech IPO's to work.
Wow you mods totally dropped the ball on this nice Simpsons quote. The episode is at http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F07.html. The quote is right near the end.
Whenever something new gets patented it makes a good joke to say that normal everyday things will soon be ILLEGAL but thats not quite how it will work. Nobody is going to be shut off form the internet becuae of their patent, thats the last thing Cisco wants to do. What they are trying to do is get some leverage to squeeze money out of hardware and software developers in the future.
I agree that PROBABLY the two are unrelated but honestly i dont claim to be able to do what linus does and untill i can im not gunna talk shit about using BK.
That would be a good question to hear hsi answer to but i doubt he will make much of a comment on something like that at this point.
Neither i think. I think hes saying that the website isn't MOSTLY nerds as it is here on slashdot. Clearly your logic is teh borked and you need to be assimilated. (+5 Star Wars referance)
The author of the story doesn't give us any details about what kind of skills he has for this. Can he do simple scripting in linux or another os? Are the stations for listening going to be too far away to be centrally linked easily? What kind of a budget DOES he have?
I think a PC with some software might work great but unless someone is going to code the software for him i doubt it will work.
You guys aren';t going to slashdot ANYTHING by linking to it ni a post. More than 3/4 of all slashdot traffic comes from people who dont go beyond the first page. Most reador of /. dont read the comments they simply click on the link in the article.
Not only is it known about but there are ways around it. You can buy special archiving cd's that last much longer. Look for "gold" cd's to last longer. The problem is that organic ink just wont last forever but that doesn't mean you hafta use discs that die quickly.
Plenty of people like to masterbate to all kinds of sick shit like animated porn and porn where people dress up like animals.
Oh yah well i remember when back in the day... our computers had to computer uphill both ways... and computers didn't teh exist!
The only time i can see someone wanting access to a database such as this would be to steal my identity. This isn't going to make my life safer by helping law enforcement do a better job, its going to put me at risk of being spyed on and if the database is broken into my identity heisted.
Nobody is going to do the extra work to invade youir privacy untill they have a good reason your right. The problem with this is that the only time theyn have a good reason is a reason thats not in your best interests. Im afriad that whoever "IS" willing to do the extra work is probably trying to rip me off or persecute me in some false way.
As soon as it is discovered that someone who was wanted for murder and was previously scanned (but the records were destroyed) drives through town and kills someone everyone will freak and say that if they extend it to a year it could have saved a life. Nobody will complain when the time limit is extended bit by bit untill the records are permanent.
two examples of linux anti virus follow/;
http://www.centralcommand.com/linux_products.html
http://www.drweb-online.com/en/index.asp
(included in some distros such as mandrake 9.2)
Japanese has an alphabet. I dont see why people think asian languadges are so difficult. They are often structured much better and are far easier to learn. Personally i found japanese to be far easier to learn than spanish. Oh and for anyone who thinks that its hard to memorize a word that uses symbols nto letters think of it this way. Every work in english has a certain way to spell it. When you see a word on paper you take the letters and turn it into a meaningful word in your head. Its the same with asain languadges. Instead of letters they use slashes and in some languages circles. You to remember how to spell each word you read in order to read it just like asains must remember what each symbol means to read.
Your recomendations lead me to believe you dont understand how internet traffic works. Becuase of the nature of traffic that real academic work uses (basically all ports/protocols/speeds are needed) you cant simply block it all to webpages.
Limits are reached and worked around all the time. Old styles of making CPU's has reached its limit already and been passed by. As CPU's used to exist at the speeds of today they wouldn't work. The basic architecture of CPU's from years ago would not handle speeds of a few GHZ. Thats why we have new improvements to cpus that you dont even think about. L1/L2/L3 cacheing is one example. Cpu's could never work at 3ghz without any cache by the simple fact that the speed of electricity isn't fast enough to supply to cpu with data from the ram at that speed. The CPU has to intelligantly cache date in a quicker around to not slow the machine down. Limits like this used to be worried about when people imagined going into GHZ cpu's a long time ago. They didn't know how they could run their cpu's assuming they managed to shrink the parts of a cpu to get it to run at GHZ levels. They thought that once we got so far we could no go any further becuase of this or that thing and yet we have gone far past what many predicted to be the limit. People will always work around whatever limit is put inhead of them, some people are just driven to do things like that and jsut wont quit.