"is this all thanks to Jon Johansen" No. Jon Johansen had nothing to do with creatinf DeCSS, he was only a member of MoRE, the group that created it. A full article can be found here
I've always wanted to go to Comdex, on company dollar of course, if for no other reason than to meet and hangout with a bunch of my fellow geeks in Las Vegas. It also seems like a pretty eclectic event, and a place where windows afficiandos and Linux elitists can get along (provided no one goes by their slashdot handles). Oh well, I'm sure some other event, pre-existing or otherwise, will slide quietly into the gap created by Comdex's absence.
Well I could just take the cdrom and the floppy out. I never said it was an enterprise security solution DARPA should adopt. It's just kinda neat is all:)
Why do you think it has little chance of adoption? Many media types have given greater MB/$ ratios, but people seem to LIKE the size and shape of CD's, which is one reason why DVD was adopted. If you can fit more information into a smaller space it ALWAYS has at least one useful application, even if it is just consolidating all your porn.
The RIAA and MPAA has banded together with researches from Boston to create a "fail safe" copy protection technique. And in yet other news, Media companies sales have dropped 99% as now people can fit 19 times the copyrighted content on cheap media with faulty copy protection.
I have a 128 MB USB keydrive, and it's what I have my/boot partition on. Not incredibly useful, but pretty neat local security, cuz how are you going to boot without a/boot partition or access to the BIOS to change the boot sequence. It's a shame I never turn my computer off or it might have been something I could actually USE. Other than that I just carry around cool video clips and what not to show my friends.
We Americans lose more and more of our rights. I personally think our forefathers would be sick and disgusted at the state of our government as it stands. IIRC, Ol' Tom Jefferson once said "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither...." We have ignorant masses screaming to save their children from potential abuse at the cost of the rights of all. We are forced to choose between dumb and dumber on election day. I know Americans aren't that stupid. For some reason it seem the stupid ones are just more vocal and active. This is why I *URGE* every slashdotter, regardless of nationality to write at least one congress person and tell them how incredibly stupid these legislative measures truly are.
as long as it wasn't a windows box. That could give fatal exception a new meaning. But seriously, with a proper means of protective housing I see no problem with it, and I feel it would be a step in the right direction in easing the reliance on fossil fuels. And for all the posts claiming dropping your laptop will result in a nuclear explosion, it would take one hell of a fall to split atoms.
I've used pringles cans in many situations, and I share my connection with a few of my cooler neighbors with pringles and coffee cans and such, however I only seem to be able to pull a ~.25 mile range with this equipment.
This device seems it would be well suited for Freevo. I hope it can be made functional under Linux or Winblows as well. That would be a huge threat to the existance of commercial DVR's such as Tivo.
As the article stated they used only standard 802.11b gear and 2' high-gain parabolic antennae. The 802.11 WLAN gear you can get from best buy.. the antennae are expensive, but still available, like this one. With a decent telescope a 5 mile link is expensive but not too much to be prohibitive for personal uses..
I had this game for my 386. It came on 5 floppies IIRC. Anyone remember this version and remember what the differences b/w it and the laserdisc version? I seem to remember quality being poorer than in the arcade, but I was a young'n then..
"An eccentric Frenchman who goes by the name of Crazy Eric.." All Frenchmen are eccentric. If this guy goes by the name Crazy Eric, Maybe he's not eccentric but actually crazy.
Antibiotic resistant strains develop all the time, and most likely each and every one of us is a carrier for antibiotic resistant microbes. When you contract a viral infection and are prescribed antibiotcs it is important to take ALL the prescription. Just because you feel better doesn't mean the infection is gone, it just means you've killed enough virii that your body no longer needs to raise it's extra defenses (ie the symptoms). If you do not kill all the microbes, the ones that remain will develop defenses against whatever antibiotic was used against it, just as our bodies develop antibodies to defend against a Virus we've contracted previously..
This may increase the number of apps made to work with Microsoft, but by no means will decrease the apps made for Linux. Microsoft's oppressive EULA's and overpriced licensing fee's simply don't make sense in a country with such a technological seperation of classes. After making such strides to bridge this gap, why would any moral developer commit to widen this gap by developing software that only runs on an operating system a majority of the population can't afford.
I don't really see the purpose behind this. Maybe it's worth a few geek points, but not much, IMHO. The hardware is already outdated, and the nostolgia factor is lost on the fact that it's not an old amiga. I pulled my old amiga out of the attic after almost 7 years and booted up and started the old BBS I used to run, exactly where it had left off, sort of like a freeze frame of time. Going through all the posts and reading messages from friends I haven't heard from in years was an incredibly nostalgiac expeirience.
So if you want a fast amiga, use an emulator on your uber fast gigahertz+ machine. Don't have one? Spend the same amount as the price of these and get one. If you want nostalgia, pull out your old amiga, dust it off, and play with it.
My cable installer didn't know wtf to do. He had never even heard of Linux, and he certainly didn't have any client software that ran under Linux. He demanded to try anyways, so I let him. 5 minutes later he just asks me to sign that he installed it.
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"is this all thanks to Jon Johansen"
No. Jon Johansen had nothing to do with creatinf DeCSS, he was only a member of MoRE, the group that created it. A full article can be found here
My Freevo box is Linux based, and can act as a firewall/gateway/router. Do I get a slashdot article too?
I've always wanted to go to Comdex, on company dollar of course, if for no other reason than to meet and hangout with a bunch of my fellow geeks in Las Vegas. It also seems like a pretty eclectic event, and a place where windows afficiandos and Linux elitists can get along (provided no one goes by their slashdot handles). Oh well, I'm sure some other event, pre-existing or otherwise, will slide quietly into the gap created by Comdex's absence.
Well I could just take the cdrom and the floppy out. I never said it was an enterprise security solution DARPA should adopt. It's just kinda neat is all :)
Why do you think it has little chance of adoption? Many media types have given greater MB/$ ratios, but people seem to LIKE the size and shape of CD's, which is one reason why DVD was adopted. If you can fit more information into a smaller space it ALWAYS has at least one useful application, even if it is just consolidating all your porn.
The RIAA and MPAA has banded together with researches from Boston to create a "fail safe" copy protection technique. And in yet other news, Media companies sales have dropped 99% as now people can fit 19 times the copyrighted content on cheap media with faulty copy protection.
I have a 128 MB USB keydrive, and it's what I have my /boot partition on. Not incredibly useful, but pretty neat local security, cuz how are you going to boot without a /boot partition or access to the BIOS to change the boot sequence. It's a shame I never turn my computer off or it might have been something I could actually USE. Other than that I just carry around cool video clips and what not to show my friends.
It's obvious Bill Wyman is going to win this case.
Finding and asking these guys for it.
We Americans lose more and more of our rights. I personally think our forefathers would be sick and disgusted at the state of our government as it stands. IIRC, Ol' Tom Jefferson once said "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither...." We have ignorant masses screaming to save their children from potential abuse at the cost of the rights of all. We are forced to choose between dumb and dumber on election day. I know Americans aren't that stupid. For some reason it seem the stupid ones are just more vocal and active. This is why I *URGE* every slashdotter, regardless of nationality to write at least one congress person and tell them how incredibly stupid these legislative measures truly are.
byt my mom told me never to look directly at the sun. Guess I'll just have to run by the pool with scissors instead.
as long as it wasn't a windows box. That could give fatal exception a new meaning. But seriously, with a proper means of protective housing I see no problem with it, and I feel it would be a step in the right direction in easing the reliance on fossil fuels. And for all the posts claiming dropping your laptop will result in a nuclear explosion, it would take one hell of a fall to split atoms.
I've used pringles cans in many situations, and I share my connection with a few of my cooler neighbors with pringles and coffee cans and such, however I only seem to be able to pull a ~.25 mile range with this equipment.
This device seems it would be well suited for Freevo. I hope it can be made functional under Linux or Winblows as well. That would be a huge threat to the existance of commercial DVR's such as Tivo.
As the article stated they used only standard 802.11b gear and 2' high-gain parabolic antennae. The 802.11 WLAN gear you can get from best buy.. the antennae are expensive, but still available, like this one. With a decent telescope a 5 mile link is expensive but not too much to be prohibitive for personal uses..
as much as we are all enraged at spammers that SPAM is in fact a tasty treat.
I had this game for my 386. It came on 5 floppies IIRC. Anyone remember this version and remember what the differences b/w it and the laserdisc version? I seem to remember quality being poorer than in the arcade, but I was a young'n then..
"An eccentric Frenchman who goes by the name of Crazy Eric.." All Frenchmen are eccentric. If this guy goes by the name Crazy Eric, Maybe he's not eccentric but actually crazy.
Antibiotic resistant strains develop all the time, and most likely each and every one of us is a carrier for antibiotic resistant microbes. When you contract a viral infection and are prescribed antibiotcs it is important to take ALL the prescription. Just because you feel better doesn't mean the infection is gone, it just means you've killed enough virii that your body no longer needs to raise it's extra defenses (ie the symptoms). If you do not kill all the microbes, the ones that remain will develop defenses against whatever antibiotic was used against it, just as our bodies develop antibodies to defend against a Virus we've contracted previously..
but at least it's not antibiotic resistant west nile.
This may increase the number of apps made to work with Microsoft, but by no means will decrease the apps made for Linux. Microsoft's oppressive EULA's and overpriced licensing fee's simply don't make sense in a country with such a technological seperation of classes. After making such strides to bridge this gap, why would any moral developer commit to widen this gap by developing software that only runs on an operating system a majority of the population can't afford.
I don't really see the purpose behind this. Maybe it's worth a few geek points, but not much, IMHO. The hardware is already outdated, and the nostolgia factor is lost on the fact that it's not an old amiga. I pulled my old amiga out of the attic after almost 7 years and booted up and started the old BBS I used to run, exactly where it had left off, sort of like a freeze frame of time. Going through all the posts and reading messages from friends I haven't heard from in years was an incredibly nostalgiac expeirience.
So if you want a fast amiga, use an emulator on your uber fast gigahertz+ machine. Don't have one? Spend the same amount as the price of these and get one. If you want nostalgia, pull out your old amiga, dust it off, and play with it.
Slashdot has made an unauthorized copy of a previous post. The RIAA will prosecute to the fullest extent the DMCA provides...
My cable installer didn't know wtf to do. He had never even heard of Linux, and he certainly didn't have any client software that ran under Linux. He demanded to try anyways, so I let him. 5 minutes later he just asks me to sign that he installed it.
Yeah, but hopefully we won't have to restart everytime we change a setting.
"Windows has rebooted. You must reboot for the settings to take place."