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Tracking Mafiaboy
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Oh, come on. Did you read the whole article?
"Knesek recalls the wiretap and a portrait of a dysfunctional family. There were padlocks on the doors of the brothers' bedrooms. Mafiaboy "saw a lot, dealt with a lot, took a lot," recalled Knesek."
That, plus the part about the father being prosecuted for hiring a hit man, hints that some pretty freaky shit may have been going down in that house. At the very least, the boys were being raised in an ammoral atmosphere; it may have been worse than that. We'll probably never know what other bits of nastiness the feds got from the wiretaps.
Some years ago, a girl from my high school (years after I graduated) teamed up with a friend and ambushed her parents with a shotgun and an ax. Real messy stuff. Folks went around saying "How could that sweet girl ever do something like that?" It turned out in the trial that, since she could remember, she was abused physically and sexually, shared sexually with other cretins, was the object of homemade porn and was provided with a wide variety of drugs.
I'm not saying that sort of thing was going on in mafiaboy's case, but I've developed a deep [dis]repect for damages that can be done throught the effects of a "dysfunctional" family setting.
Information from the Planetary Society is here
Also, the full text (not PDF) is here
Also Florida Today has something here
There's more, also. Just check Google.
This move, by itself, may not revolutionize wireless net in the UK, but it's certainly a step in the right direction and, perhaps, will turn out to be a critical step toward what will turn out to be a revolution.
Sites like this one show what appears to me to be a continuous stream of similar news. The announcement of publicly accessible Wireless LANs, free, public and private, is on the rise. I believe that this is a trend that will not only continue, but grow. I also believe that just a few years down the road, wireless access (esp. in metropolitan areas, of course) will be the norm, not the exception. However, I think the 'free to the public' efforts will not be the norm; they are financially unsupportable and often of questionable legality (upstream provider TOS stuff).
Hmmm. I think we're on the same page. Our difference appears to be a matter of semantics. In stating "clearest wrong", I was referring to the visibility or recognisability of potential harm from the perspective of the consumer whom, on average, has exhibited a high degree of naivete as well as apathy.
I commend your description of what, it appears, we both agree is the real flaw [purpose?] of the DMCA. Well stated.
Interesting, from the FAQ at aibo.com Windows 2K or XP is require for the SDK, but what's weird is they use gcc.
Look at the SDK download files list:
(OPEN-R SDK tools and documents) OPEN_R_SDK-1.1.3-r1.tar.gz OPEN-R SDK OPEN_R_SDK-sample-1.1.3-r1.tar.gz Sample programs OPEN_R_SDK-doc-1.1.3-r1.tar.gz Documents upgrade-OPEN_R-1.1.3-r1.tar.gz FlashUpdater for ERS-210
(Binaries for cross development tools for Windows 2000/XP) GNU Tools can be downloaded from this WEB site, but they are not included in the OPEN-R SDK. cygwin-packages-1.3.6-bin.exe Cygwin binaries mipsel-devtools-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz MIPS cross-development tools for Cygwin
Actually, my post was factual, expressed a real opinion and, perhaps, a differing view on the topic. It was not in any way a troll, flamebait or off-topic.
As for the nick, what is it they say about "the most sincere form of flattery"?
In fact, having reached the karma cap with only 94 posts under another name, I decided to try again, this time with a self-imposed, specific (presumed) handicap. I do not intend to troll under this nom de plume, but I eagerly anticipate reactions, such as yours, which are targeted not at the content of my posts, but at the nickname alone.
Sorry, I stand corrected. I shouldn't apply the Evelyn Wood's speed reading method to/. posts.
I still think the recording co's are missing the boat where all this new technology is concerned. Yes, p2p and high bandwidth home net connections will shake up their industry, but they need to let go of their established production/distribution systems. They will not, must not succeed in perverting technology useful to their customers by browbeating us with legislation and prosecution. If, instead, they embrace the tech, make it mutually beneficial to the artist, the consumer and the record co, that would be ideal. If I could instantly purchase and receive the music I want at a reasonable price, I would become a consumer of music again.
I'm willing to bet that a quarter per song is more than most artists get if you buy their album at full price. At the very least, it's not much less. The recording industry has got the whole market so tied up that musicians have little rational choice but to sign up take what they're given.
If someone on/. has inside knowledge on how the price of a CD is divvied up, I'd certainly like to be enlightened.
Ahh, but I shouldn't be allowed to get anywhere near the controls for a nuclear weapons system.
As for copy rights, a slightly different approach is needed, but similar. Isolation [from the copyrighted works] won't cut it as it would for weapons systems, so how about a deflection of sorts. Change my priorities. Make it cheap enough and much more convenient to get my music from a legitimate source than from Gnutella. Guarantee the quality, unlike Gnutella.
I agree. That the DMCA was made into law in the first place, is a travesty.
The clearest wrong is the limitations it places on our 'fair use' rights. Fair use, to me, means I *did* pay for the right to use some licensed work, let's say, an album of music. For that price, I expect to be able to listen to it; after all, that's why I paid for it. I would like to be able to listen to it indefinitely. In that case it seems obvious that I should protect the CD by copying it, shelving it, and listening to the copy. With my 3 year old around, the copy will probably be destroyed in short order, but I've still got the original, safely shelved.
What is less obviously (to the common folk) a wrong and, infinitely more sinister, is that the DMCA has made it illegal to produce a 'circumvention technology'. And as poor Dmitry has discovered, it's very real. I take serious exception to the idea that a software technology should be deemed illegal. Certainly a person can do illegal things with software, but so can they with a small rock. Without exception, it is *not the tool* that commits the crime.
...strike me as a bit, hmmm, useless. Unless, of course, it's for something necessary, like piping cooling water (or liquid N) for cooling. Sure, some of the blinking/neon lights are kinda cool to impress the friends and all, but my techno friends are generally more impressed by cool hardware/software implementations (real hacking) and generally consider the other trappings to be a bit frilly.
The most impressive 'case mod' I've ever done was to actually install all the panels and properly close up the case on my wife's computer so it looked presentable. My own computers, on the other hand... hell, I can't even find the side panels, musta thrown'm out. I've got too much external hardware, ribbon cables, protoboards, etc, dandling out of most of them that I couldn't possibly even button up the case, let alone fancy it up with super-cool visual effects.
oh, well, too each their own.
... is Chinese, living in Beijing. He claims that his internet access is not blocked in any way (he's got a computer at home, so doesn't use Internet Cafe's, and he doesn't drink so doesn't go to 'bars'). I think he is probably very niave. He pretty much sucks up the party line; to him, Falong Gong is a subversive, dangerous mob, just like the boss wants him to think.
I haven't conversed with him about the crack-down on non-complying internet cafe's yet, but I suspect he think's their, at best, in the wrong and, at worst, criminals. Hey, he's been steeped in this stuff all his life, I'd be kinda surprized if he took an opposing [the government] view. It's taken quite a number of years to get my wife to see her old government's policies as anything other than benevolent.
I've always thought that ink jet (and laser) printer manufacturers were sticking it to us on refills/new carts. The bloody replacement cartridges for my HP printer cost about 1/4 of the original price of the printer. I think that's excessive and I doubt that the cart's must be that expensive.
It's like Kodak of oh, so many years ago; I their case, it was give you the film, the rape you for developing it (I said, the olden days). They would hire people to go into independent film developers places of business and loudly complain about their poor photo-finishing, service, etc.
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Oh, come on. Did you read the whole article?
"Knesek recalls the wiretap and a portrait of a dysfunctional family. There were padlocks on the doors of the brothers' bedrooms. Mafiaboy "saw a lot, dealt with a lot, took a lot," recalled Knesek."
That, plus the part about the father being prosecuted for hiring a hit man, hints that some pretty freaky shit may have been going down in that house. At the very least, the boys were being raised in an ammoral atmosphere; it may have been worse than that. We'll probably never know what other bits of nastiness the feds got from the wiretaps.
Some years ago, a girl from my high school (years after I graduated) teamed up with a friend and ambushed her parents with a shotgun and an ax. Real messy stuff. Folks went around saying "How could that sweet girl ever do something like that?" It turned out in the trial that, since she could remember, she was abused physically and sexually, shared sexually with other cretins, was the object of homemade porn and was provided with a wide variety of drugs.
I'm not saying that sort of thing was going on in mafiaboy's case, but I've developed a deep [dis]repect for damages that can be done throught the effects of a "dysfunctional" family setting.
Information from the Planetary Society is here Also, the full text (not PDF) is here Also Florida Today has something here There's more, also. Just check Google.
This move, by itself, may not revolutionize wireless net in the UK, but it's certainly a step in the right direction and, perhaps, will turn out to be a critical step toward what will turn out to be a revolution.
Sites like this one show what appears to me to be a continuous stream of similar news. The announcement of publicly accessible Wireless LANs, free, public and private, is on the rise. I believe that this is a trend that will not only continue, but grow. I also believe that just a few years down the road, wireless access (esp. in metropolitan areas, of course) will be the norm, not the exception. However, I think the 'free to the public' efforts will not be the norm; they are financially unsupportable and often of questionable legality (upstream provider TOS stuff).
Hmmm. I think we're on the same page. Our difference appears to be a matter of semantics. In stating "clearest wrong", I was referring to the visibility or recognisability of potential harm from the perspective of the consumer whom, on average, has exhibited a high degree of naivete as well as apathy.
I commend your description of what, it appears, we both agree is the real flaw [purpose?] of the DMCA. Well stated.
Interesting, from the FAQ at aibo.com Windows 2K or XP is require for the SDK, but what's weird is they use gcc.
Look at the SDK download files list:
(OPEN-R SDK tools and documents)
OPEN_R_SDK-1.1.3-r1.tar.gz OPEN-R SDK
OPEN_R_SDK-sample-1.1.3-r1.tar.gz Sample programs
OPEN_R_SDK-doc-1.1.3-r1.tar.gz Documents
upgrade-OPEN_R-1.1.3-r1.tar.gz FlashUpdater for ERS-210
(Binaries for cross development tools for Windows 2000/XP)
GNU Tools can be downloaded from this WEB site, but they are not
included in the OPEN-R SDK.
cygwin-packages-1.3.6-bin.exe Cygwin binaries
mipsel-devtools-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz MIPS cross-development tools for Cygwin
(Source files for cross development tools)
cygwin-packages-1.3.6-src.tar.gz Cygwin source files
gcc-3.0.4.tar.gz gcc source files
binutils-2.11.2.tar.gz binutils source files
newlib-1.9.0.tar.gz newlib source files
(Other Tools)
build-devtools-3.0.4.sh Shell script for building cross
development tools
Looks real Linux/Gnu-ish to me.
Actually, my post was factual, expressed a real opinion and, perhaps, a differing view on the topic. It was not in any way a troll, flamebait or off-topic.
As for the nick, what is it they say about "the most sincere form of flattery"?
In fact, having reached the karma cap with only 94 posts under another name, I decided to try again, this time with a self-imposed, specific (presumed) handicap. I do not intend to troll under this nom de plume, but I eagerly anticipate reactions, such as yours, which are targeted not at the content of my posts, but at the nickname alone.
Sorry, I stand corrected. I shouldn't apply the Evelyn Wood's speed reading method to /. posts.
I still think the recording co's are missing the boat where all this new technology is concerned. Yes, p2p and high bandwidth home net connections will shake up their industry, but they need to let go of their established production/distribution systems. They will not, must not succeed in perverting technology useful to their customers by browbeating us with legislation and prosecution. If, instead, they embrace the tech, make it mutually beneficial to the artist, the consumer and the record co, that would be ideal. If I could instantly purchase and receive the music I want at a reasonable price, I would become a consumer of music again.
I'm willing to bet that a quarter per song is more than most artists get if you buy their album at full price. At the very least, it's not much less. The recording industry has got the whole market so tied up that musicians have little rational choice but to sign up take what they're given.
/. has inside knowledge on how the price of a CD is divvied up, I'd certainly like to be enlightened.
If someone on
Ahh, but I shouldn't be allowed to get anywhere near the controls for a nuclear weapons system.
As for copy rights, a slightly different approach is needed, but similar. Isolation [from the copyrighted works] won't cut it as it would for weapons systems, so how about a deflection of sorts. Change my priorities. Make it cheap enough and much more convenient to get my music from a legitimate source than from Gnutella. Guarantee the quality, unlike Gnutella.
I agree. That the DMCA was made into law in the first place, is a travesty.
The clearest wrong is the limitations it places on our 'fair use' rights. Fair use, to me, means I *did* pay for the right to use some licensed work, let's say, an album of music. For that price, I expect to be able to listen to it; after all, that's why I paid for it. I would like to be able to listen to it indefinitely. In that case it seems obvious that I should protect the CD by copying it, shelving it, and listening to the copy. With my 3 year old around, the copy will probably be destroyed in short order, but I've still got the original, safely shelved.
What is less obviously (to the common folk) a wrong and, infinitely more sinister, is that the DMCA has made it illegal to produce a 'circumvention technology'. And as poor Dmitry has discovered, it's very real. I take serious exception to the idea that a software technology should be deemed illegal. Certainly a person can do illegal things with software, but so can they with a small rock. Without exception, it is *not the tool* that commits the crime.
...strike me as a bit, hmmm, useless. Unless, of course, it's for something necessary, like piping cooling water (or liquid N) for cooling. Sure, some of the blinking/neon lights are kinda cool to impress the friends and all, but my techno friends are generally more impressed by cool hardware/software implementations (real hacking) and generally consider the other trappings to be a bit frilly. The most impressive 'case mod' I've ever done was to actually install all the panels and properly close up the case on my wife's computer so it looked presentable. My own computers, on the other hand... hell, I can't even find the side panels, musta thrown'm out. I've got too much external hardware, ribbon cables, protoboards, etc, dandling out of most of them that I couldn't possibly even button up the case, let alone fancy it up with super-cool visual effects. oh, well, too each their own.
... is Chinese, living in Beijing. He claims that his internet access is not blocked in any way (he's got a computer at home, so doesn't use Internet Cafe's, and he doesn't drink so doesn't go to 'bars'). I think he is probably very niave. He pretty much sucks up the party line; to him, Falong Gong is a subversive, dangerous mob, just like the boss wants him to think. I haven't conversed with him about the crack-down on non-complying internet cafe's yet, but I suspect he think's their, at best, in the wrong and, at worst, criminals. Hey, he's been steeped in this stuff all his life, I'd be kinda surprized if he took an opposing [the government] view. It's taken quite a number of years to get my wife to see her old government's policies as anything other than benevolent.
I've always thought that ink jet (and laser) printer manufacturers were sticking it to us on refills/new carts. The bloody replacement cartridges for my HP printer cost about 1/4 of the original price of the printer. I think that's excessive and I doubt that the cart's must be that expensive. It's like Kodak of oh, so many years ago; I their case, it was give you the film, the rape you for developing it (I said, the olden days). They would hire people to go into independent film developers places of business and loudly complain about their poor photo-finishing, service, etc.