You're behing the times, man. Us early adopters have had tinfoil-shielded wallets for years. Don't you know the government has spy satellites that can read the magnetic stripe on your credit card and track you whereever you go?
/me climbs into tinfoil bodysuit and runs for protection in underground tinfoil bomb shelter
Not an issue unless you're using one of the all-in-one ripppers. The old-fashioned way to do it is copy the decrypted VOBs to your HD and encode them there. Once the VOBs are copied, you don't need the DVD anymore - and copying them sure as hell takes less than 48 hours.
With Gentoo, everything on your system is compiled from source. You have total control over your system and what's installed on it.
Gentoo uses a system called Portage (based on BSD's ports) for downloading and installing software. A program called 'emerge' deals with the Portage tree. You run 'emerge package', and emerge will download the source tarballs (including all dependencies), unpack them, then run./configure, make, and make install for you. The program is compiled using your CFLAGS (options used for optimizing compiled code) and USE flags (Gentoo-specific feature that allows you to specify options for including or excluding features from packages). The local compilation allows for customization not possible in binary-based distros; I can have GCC optimize a compiled program for my P3, as opposed to other distros which usually have their programs only compiled for generic i586.
Emerge has a ton of other features, as well. 'emerge sync' uses rsync to download the latest Portage tree to your system. 'emerge -u world' checks every program you have installed and upgrades any of them with newer versions.
We also have a well-deserved reputation for user support - from the install guide to the Gentoo forums, our IRC channel (#gentoo on irc.freenode.net) and newsgroup (alt.os.linux.gentoo). If you have any other questions, please come by one of these places and someone will be happy to help you.
BTW, according to the FAQ, Gentoo comes from the name of a species of small, fast penguin - a very appropriate name.
(And no, I have no affiliation with Gentoo other than as a very satisfied user)
The Specifications page for the 20GB Zen states it has a built-in rechargable lithium-ion battery, and is powered off DC 5v in. I'd assume the new one uses the same system.
I think the MD5s will be different, but I'm not sure. But my point was that just because you didn't rip the CD yourself doesn't make it illegal. If I own a legal copy of the CD, it is fair use for me to download a copy of that CD from someone else, correct? So I could have a song that 100 other people have, but I still own the CD, which makes my copy legal.
Personally, I'd try to find the most common/popular versions of the files doing the rounds, get the MD5 hashes and find a way of destroying anything on the computer with that hash.
Just because it has an MD5 that matches ones being distributed a lot doesn't make it illegal. If I own the CD, it is fair use for me to have a copy on my computer, whether I ripped it or downloaded it.
At least that's the start of an idea.
The start is about as far as you can take this idea. No matter what, there's always one fundamental flaw with this kind of thing: they have no way to know if I own the CD. Until their software can look around the computer room, into my stereo, in my car, etc., anywhere I might have a legal copy of the CD, they have absolutely zero right to delete songs off my computer.
Illegal for them, the multibillion dollar international corporation? No.
See the "They had a solution to illegality planned." link. The courts already look the other way for them all the time. This bill was just them deciding "We can spend $X bribing a bunch of judges, or we can invest in the long-term solution of spending $Y to get a law that makes it legal for us to do all this."
I have no experience with it personally, but I think it should work fine. The 1.4rc4 liveCD has an option for a SMP-enabled kernel, so boot with that and you can use both CPUs while installing. When you get to the compiling your own kernel point, just select SMP support and it should work fine after you reboot. If it doesn't, stop by the forums, IRC (#gentoo on irc.freenode.net), or alt.os.linux.gentoo and we'll help you.
Buying the advertised product would stop it just for you, but would encourage the spammer further, making it worse for everyone else. Instead, get a free firewall like ZoneAlarm and stop it that way.
what's next, sue all the individual investors because the firm invested in the company?
Then their families. Then the families of all their families, etc, until everyone who has ever been or will ever be born will end up working as a slave their whole life to pay off the RIAA
Even more likely, soon Congress will just announce "If you own a company that begins with D and ends in isney, you are hereby granted full license and copyright to every creative work ever made in perpetuity throughout the universe. If you own a non-Disney company, see your local representative for pricing information on Congresswhores of your own. If you a one of those human things, but not a corporation, please remember to vote. Democracy can't work without you."
I've found Privoxy to work much better. Infinitely more configurable (full regex support for specifying which sites you want to block), compared to just checkboxes for blocking ads, pop-ups, cookies, etc in AdSubtract. It's also totally free (beer and freedom) vs. AdSubtract's $30. It runs on Windows, Linux and OS X, and whitens your teeth while you sleep. OK, maybe not, but it does kick ass at blocking web site annoyances.
(no, I'm not affiliated with them, I just used AdSubtract for a while, switched and never looked back)
Absolutely. The Gentoo forums and channel have the best ratio of real help to "read the fscking man page you fscking idiot" that I've seen in any Linux group. Also worth mentioning is alt.os.linux.gentoo.
The Joy of Sect Cletus: [Pointing shotgun] Stranger, you're trespassin' on m'ah dirt farm. Leader: Uh, do you happen to need a messiah? Cletus: No, but I'll take them sacks o' money from ye. Leader: Ohh... I should have stayed with the Promise Keepers.
Hmm, that sounds like a better idea than my one: Make one final heated call to the Helpdesk telling them where they can stick their TOS.
That would be fun, be probably wouldn't help much. Profanity will just get you disconnected and written off as a lone nutcase. An eloquent written discourse on why the executives can all eat shit and die would be much more effective.
Given that they are a large ISP, a lot of people I know are using their service too. Could be a perfect candidate for a letter with a large number of signatories(sp?).
Rather than one long letter signed by a bunch of people, I'd think it'd be more effective to have everyone send their own letter. Then they should start keeping a journal of their experiences with the new ISP. Have them append it to their letter and resend it to Xtra once a week;).
4/6 - Called tech support today. Only 5 minutes on hold. The techs are very friendly.
etc.
Make sure you send a detailed letter (snail mail, not e-mail) to every contact address you can find for them, explaining why you left their service for a competitor and exactly what you find wrong with this change in their policy. Enough people do it, eventually the guy who thought this up will get fired, or at least reprimanded. (or if I had my way, shot)
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"Now three young girls progressing through puberty, that's a different story! I'd sure like to raid their arks!"
Ahh. You think they did 12 seperate auctions or sold the whole jury as one batch?
The patent specifically covers having a fixed price on an auction (ie, the Buy It Now feature). eBay didn't have this until some time after it opened.
The judge's opinion was up for auction, and MercExchange used Buy It Now.
What do you think you're supposed to do with the corpses?
Not an issue unless you're using one of the all-in-one ripppers. The old-fashioned way to do it is copy the decrypted VOBs to your HD and encode them there. Once the VOBs are copied, you don't need the DVD anymore - and copying them sure as hell takes less than 48 hours.
Exactly what I was thinking when I read this. Will it last longer in a low pressure environment like in the mountains?
Gentoo uses a system called Portage (based on BSD's ports) for downloading and installing software. A program called 'emerge' deals with the Portage tree. You run 'emerge package', and emerge will download the source tarballs (including all dependencies), unpack them, then run ./configure, make, and make install for you. The program is compiled using your CFLAGS (options used for optimizing compiled code) and USE flags (Gentoo-specific feature that allows you to specify options for including or excluding features from packages). The local compilation allows for customization not possible in binary-based distros; I can have GCC optimize a compiled program for my P3, as opposed to other distros which usually have their programs only compiled for generic i586.
Emerge has a ton of other features, as well. 'emerge sync' uses rsync to download the latest Portage tree to your system. 'emerge -u world' checks every program you have installed and upgrades any of them with newer versions.
We also have a well-deserved reputation for user support - from the install guide to the Gentoo forums, our IRC channel (#gentoo on irc.freenode.net) and newsgroup (alt.os.linux.gentoo). If you have any other questions, please come by one of these places and someone will be happy to help you.
BTW, according to the FAQ, Gentoo comes from the name of a species of small, fast penguin - a very appropriate name.
(And no, I have no affiliation with Gentoo other than as a very satisfied user)
The Specifications page for the 20GB Zen states it has a built-in rechargable lithium-ion battery, and is powered off DC 5v in. I'd assume the new one uses the same system.
I think the MD5s will be different, but I'm not sure. But my point was that just because you didn't rip the CD yourself doesn't make it illegal. If I own a legal copy of the CD, it is fair use for me to download a copy of that CD from someone else, correct? So I could have a song that 100 other people have, but I still own the CD, which makes my copy legal.
Just because it has an MD5 that matches ones being distributed a lot doesn't make it illegal. If I own the CD, it is fair use for me to have a copy on my computer, whether I ripped it or downloaded it.
At least that's the start of an idea.
The start is about as far as you can take this idea. No matter what, there's always one fundamental flaw with this kind of thing: they have no way to know if I own the CD. Until their software can look around the computer room, into my stereo, in my car, etc., anywhere I might have a legal copy of the CD, they have absolutely zero right to delete songs off my computer.
Illegal for them, the multibillion dollar international corporation? No.
See the "They had a solution to illegality planned." link. The courts already look the other way for them all the time. This bill was just them deciding "We can spend $X bribing a bunch of judges, or we can invest in the long-term solution of spending $Y to get a law that makes it legal for us to do all this."
I have no experience with it personally, but I think it should work fine. The 1.4rc4 liveCD has an option for a SMP-enabled kernel, so boot with that and you can use both CPUs while installing. When you get to the compiling your own kernel point, just select SMP support and it should work fine after you reboot. If it doesn't, stop by the forums, IRC (#gentoo on irc.freenode.net), or alt.os.linux.gentoo and we'll help you.
Buying the advertised product would stop it just for you, but would encourage the spammer further, making it worse for everyone else. Instead, get a free firewall like ZoneAlarm and stop it that way.
You can still download them; just don't bother reading them.
Then their families. Then the families of all their families, etc, until everyone who has ever been or will ever be born will end up working as a slave their whole life to pay off the RIAA
Even more likely, soon Congress will just announce "If you own a company that begins with D and ends in isney, you are hereby granted full license and copyright to every creative work ever made in perpetuity throughout the universe. If you own a non-Disney company, see your local representative for pricing information on Congresswhores of your own. If you a one of those human things, but not a corporation, please remember to vote. Democracy can't work without you."
(no, I'm not affiliated with them, I just used AdSubtract for a while, switched and never looked back)
You can't even talk about useless knowledge with mentioning everything2.
Absolutely. The Gentoo forums and channel have the best ratio of real help to "read the fscking man page you fscking idiot" that I've seen in any Linux group. Also worth mentioning is alt.os.linux.gentoo.
Reality check: you drive a Civic, not a race car.
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The Joy of Sect
Cletus: [Pointing shotgun] Stranger, you're trespassin' on m'ah dirt farm.
Leader: Uh, do you happen to need a messiah?
Cletus: No, but I'll take them sacks o' money from ye.
Leader: Ohh... I should have stayed with the Promise Keepers.
That would be fun, be probably wouldn't help much. Profanity will just get you disconnected and written off as a lone nutcase. An eloquent written discourse on why the executives can all eat shit and die would be much more effective.
Given that they are a large ISP, a lot of people I know are using their service too. Could be a perfect candidate for a letter with a large number of signatories(sp?).
Rather than one long letter signed by a bunch of people, I'd think it'd be more effective to have everyone send their own letter. Then they should start keeping a journal of their experiences with the new ISP. Have them append it to their letter and resend it to Xtra once a week ;).
4/6 - Called tech support today. Only 5 minutes on hold. The techs are very friendly.
etc.
Make sure you send a detailed letter (snail mail, not e-mail) to every contact address you can find for them, explaining why you left their service for a competitor and exactly what you find wrong with this change in their policy. Enough people do it, eventually the guy who thought this up will get fired, or at least reprimanded. (or if I had my way, shot)