"WTF are you talking about? In order to be able to sell the damned things, they needed to have DRM in place. We don't like it, but that's reality. Their players may only understand their DRM, and other players may not since you'd have to break their DRM to use it. But did you not notice an iPod plays MP3's??? "
Why doesn't Apple license their DRM technolgy to other mp3 player makers? Why doesn't the iPod support WMA, when WMA decoding is built into the technology Apple uses in the iPod? The issue isn't whether or not the file need DRM, but why Apple refuses license their DRM technology. Answer these questions, and quit sidestepping the issue. Apple has gained a monopoly position, and now they're leveraging it, just like MS did with their OS when they reached that position.
Definition of flaimbait on/.: I don't like what you're saying, so I'll suppress your ideas by lowering the score in the hope that no one reads it. Censorship is alive and well at/.
"What an absurd complaint! Thanks to "DVD" Jon Johansen, iTunes-bought songs work just fine on any device capable of playing back AAC."
Anyone designing an mp3 player cannot count on people having access to the DRM stripping software. Apple refuses to license their DRM technology, so that iPod is the only mp3 player that can play their DRMed songs. Standard monopoly practices that MS is accused of all the time.
"Aggregating a huge number of users with Municipal WiFi is far more efficient than having each person have a separate account with an ISP. The ISPs want Municipal and private WiFi to be made illegal so they can make a huge profit doing same thing themselves."
Telcoms will be able to do wireless far more efficiently. That's what these people understand. The fact that govts are even considering muni WiFi just shows how inefficient govt is when WiMax is right around the corner. These local govts. wouldn't understand a link budget if it punched them in the face.
"Oh, you can't do this because it's interfering with somebody's idea of the functioning of the marketplace...a municipality is a democratically run institution. They can make their own decisions. They don't need the Bells. They don't need the Administration, and they don't need me telling them what kind of decision they should be making."
The point of a marketplace is that it provides freedom to choose products and services you want. The Soviet Union was good at showing a govt. controlled economy was not a successful venture. Here is another such example. WiFi is a shitty solution for community wireless networks. WiMAX will be out soon, and is a far better solution for this problem. These Muni WiFi projects are ill conceived and expensive. I know this, but if I'm not in the majority in my community, I'm stuck paying for it. This is not freedom, but tyranny of the majority. I'd rather people voted with their dollars in a marketplace as to what kinds of wireless services they want.
If I make a song a available for download, I am competing directly with legal sellers. These people must consider my service when setting their prices. My service devalues the song. The victim is the copyright holder because his property is worth less now. Simple economics.
The parent's point is that anyone can set up a web site, including someone with an NDA himself. Therefore anyone under NDA can call himself a journalist and post NDA info anaonymously to his own web site without any possibility of finding out who the person is.
" Journalists sources are most definitely NOT protected. Journalists do not have a legal right to obstruct justice.
It's been a long standing tradition, but there is no federal law concerning it. This has all been explained due to the outing of a CIA operative by a republican schill."
" Who, aside from perhaps RMS, is calling MS evil for trying to make money?"/. has a picture of Bill Gates in a Borg costume. I think it's pretty clear what the general attitude at/. is.
$5 for an hour long show is about as expensive per minute as going to see a movie in a theater. $1 for an hour show is competitve with DVD rental prices.
"Does this mean they really are wondering about using this new media, rather then foaming at the mouth and suing twelve year olds?"
The fact that they aren't bothering with this issue means they don't see it as a problem in terms of drawing viewers away from broadcast tv, nor do they see it as a threat to selling DVDs of tv shows, which is a relatively new phenomenon. People sue over things that are worth something to them. Not suing means these internet downloads are not worth their time and money. The conclusion is they have no plans to market such a scheme if they don't even bother to protect against illegal versions of it. They are much more worried about TiVO than this.
"Intel's upcoming Mini PC features all the sleekness and portability (physical, that is) of the Mac mini with none of the Mac benefits. Well, at least it will probably have a faster processor."
If by none of the mac mini benefits, you mean hardware that isn't 3 years old and obsolete, then I say that's a good thing. Feel free to mod me down Apple zealots, because you can't handle the truth and don't want anyone else to know it either.
"I said no. This is a free software project, and the enhancements I make must go back to the community."
According to the GPL, which is one of the most restrictive free software licenses, You only need to release source code if you are distributing binaries. If the software was only for internal use, only the employees need to be able to access the source code to fulfill the GPL
Yes, suddenly it's stealing when it's your data someone is copying, like personal information. I don't think anyone argues here that identity theft isn't theft. But when your stealing a record label's information, it isn't theft anymore, because most people believe it's not really wrong (as long as you compensate the actual artist, and bypass the investor in the artist, anyway) and don't like the connotation the word stealing brings with it. .
"Has anyone ever stolen an MP3? I mean, it is possible to have something that meets the definition of theft (copy the original against someone's wishes and then delete the original to meet the "Taking" part of the definition of theft), but it has to be really really rare in practice."
So when you steal an idea, do you actually erase that idea for the original creator's head.
" Get off your high horse. I am certain that you've jaywalked at some point in your life, a crime about as bad as personal copyright infringement. Hell, there are a lot of laws out there, I would stake money on the fact that you've certainly broken your fair share of them, you sick bastard.:P"
When you jaywalk, you're not really violating anyone's right, just jeopardizing your own safety (unless they have to break for you, and maybe you mess up their bumper if they actually hit you). I'd argue that stealing someone else's music is a violation of their rights, so on a moral scale much worse than jaywalking.
"Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner or login and improve your posting . If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org with your MD5'd IPID and SubnetID, which are "/. apparently uses their moderation system to censor anonyymous comments they find incorrect. And they track them by IP address. All the things people complain about here in regard to censorship and privacy are happening on this very site.
That's exactly what's happening. When a buffer overflow is executed, the processors throws up a red flag saying, this is suspicious, you're trying to execute code sitting in the data cache instead of the instruction cache.
Apple could make an x86 version that supports a limited set of x86 hardware. They choose not to because hardware profit margins are huge but software profit margins are marginal. It comes down to dollars, and nothing else.
"Some issues (the girls) brought up included fears that their friends will think (working in IT) is a geeky thing to do, and that IT work is not very social...They were concerned that there were limitations for women in this area of technology, and they felt there is a stigma associated with IT in terms of it not being a very exciting place to work."
Not surprised to find out it was Microsoft behind these lies.
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"Paying Apple employees to break an agreement with Apple and leak Apple's trade secrets isn't a manifestation of "love"."
What evidence do you have that the Apple employee was paid for the information?
"WTF are you talking about? In order to be able to sell the damned things, they needed to have DRM in place. We don't like it, but that's reality. Their players may only understand their DRM, and other players may not since you'd have to break their DRM to use it. But did you not notice an iPod plays MP3's???
"
Why doesn't Apple license their DRM technolgy to other mp3 player makers? Why doesn't the iPod support WMA, when WMA decoding is built into the technology Apple uses in the iPod? The issue isn't whether or not the file need DRM, but why Apple refuses license their DRM technology. Answer these questions, and quit sidestepping the issue. Apple has gained a monopoly position, and now they're leveraging it, just like MS did with their OS when they reached that position.
Over 90% share of mp3 players sales and very large percentage of online music sales.
Definition of flaimbait on /.: I don't like what you're saying, so I'll suppress your ideas by lowering the score in the hope that no one reads it. Censorship is alive and well at /.
"What an absurd complaint! Thanks to "DVD" Jon Johansen, iTunes-bought songs work just fine on any device capable of playing back AAC."
Anyone designing an mp3 player cannot count on people having access to the DRM stripping software. Apple refuses to license their DRM technology, so that iPod is the only mp3 player that can play their DRMed songs. Standard monopoly practices that MS is accused of all the time.
Just license the the mp3 player design (iPod) from a company that can design products rather than try any innovation at hp.
"Aggregating a huge number of users with Municipal WiFi is far more efficient than having each person have a separate account with an ISP. The ISPs want Municipal and private WiFi to be made illegal so they can make a huge profit doing same thing themselves."
Telcoms will be able to do wireless far more efficiently. That's what these people understand. The fact that govts are even considering muni WiFi just shows how inefficient govt is when WiMax is right around the corner. These local govts. wouldn't understand a link budget if it punched them in the face.
"Oh, you can't do this because it's interfering with somebody's idea of the functioning of the marketplace...a municipality is a democratically run institution. They can make their own decisions. They don't need the Bells. They don't need the Administration, and they don't need me telling them what kind of decision they should be making."
The point of a marketplace is that it provides freedom to choose products and services you want. The Soviet Union was good at showing a govt. controlled economy was not a successful venture. Here is another such example. WiFi is a shitty solution for community wireless networks. WiMAX will be out soon, and is a far better solution for this problem. These Muni WiFi projects are ill conceived and expensive. I know this, but if I'm not in the majority in my community, I'm stuck paying for it. This is not freedom, but tyranny of the majority. I'd rather people voted with their dollars in a marketplace as to what kinds of wireless services they want.
If I make a song a available for download, I am competing directly with legal sellers. These people must consider my service when setting their prices. My service devalues the song. The victim is the copyright holder because his property is worth less now. Simple economics.
The parent's point is that anyone can set up a web site, including someone with an NDA himself. Therefore anyone under NDA can call himself a journalist and post NDA info anaonymously to his own web site without any possibility of finding out who the person is.
But Apple is against the EFF this time. My /. group think is conflicted. Who do I side with?
" Journalists sources are most definitely NOT protected. Journalists do not have a legal right to obstruct justice.
It's been a long standing tradition, but there is no federal law concerning it. This has all been explained due to the outing of a CIA operative by a republican schill."
This is not a federal court. It is a state court.
" Who, aside from perhaps RMS, is calling MS evil for trying to make money?" /. has a picture of Bill Gates in a Borg costume. I think it's pretty clear what the general attitude at /. is.
$5 for an hour long show is about as expensive per minute as going to see a movie in a theater. $1 for an hour show is competitve with DVD rental prices.
"Does this mean they really are wondering about using this new media, rather then foaming at the mouth and suing twelve year olds?"
The fact that they aren't bothering with this issue means they don't see it as a problem in terms of drawing viewers away from broadcast tv, nor do they see it as a threat to selling DVDs of tv shows, which is a relatively new phenomenon. People sue over things that are worth something to them. Not suing means these internet downloads are not worth their time and money. The conclusion is they have no plans to market such a scheme if they don't even bother to protect against illegal versions of it. They are much more worried about TiVO than this.
"Intel's upcoming Mini PC features all the sleekness and portability (physical, that is) of the Mac mini with none of the Mac benefits. Well, at least it will probably have a faster processor."
If by none of the mac mini benefits, you mean hardware that isn't 3 years old and obsolete, then I say that's a good thing. Feel free to mod me down Apple zealots, because you can't handle the truth and don't want anyone else to know it either.
"I said no. This is a free software project, and the enhancements I make must go back to the community."
According to the GPL, which is one of the most restrictive free software licenses, You only need to release source code if you are distributing binaries. If the software was only for internal use, only the employees need to be able to access the source code to fulfill the GPL
Yes, suddenly it's stealing when it's your data someone is copying, like personal information. I don't think anyone argues here that identity theft isn't theft. But when your stealing a record label's information, it isn't theft anymore, because most people believe it's not really wrong (as long as you compensate the actual artist, and bypass the investor in the artist, anyway) and don't like the connotation the word stealing brings with it. .
"Has anyone ever stolen an MP3? I mean, it is possible to have something that meets the definition of theft (copy the original against someone's wishes and then delete the original to meet the "Taking" part of the definition of theft), but it has to be really really rare in practice."
So when you steal an idea, do you actually erase that idea for the original creator's head.
" Get off your high horse. I am certain that you've jaywalked at some point in your life, a crime about as bad as personal copyright infringement. Hell, there are a lot of laws out there, I would stake money on the fact that you've certainly broken your fair share of them, you sick bastard. :P"
When you jaywalk, you're not really violating anyone's right, just jeopardizing your own safety (unless they have to break for you, and maybe you mess up their bumper if they actually hit you). I'd argue that stealing someone else's music is a violation of their rights, so on a moral scale much worse than jaywalking.
"Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner or login and improve your posting . If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org with your MD5'd IPID and SubnetID, which are " /. apparently uses their moderation system to censor anonyymous comments they find incorrect. And they track them by IP address. All the things people complain about here in regard to censorship and privacy are happening on this very site.
That's exactly what's happening. When a buffer overflow is executed, the processors throws up a red flag saying, this is suspicious, you're trying to execute code sitting in the data cache instead of the instruction cache.
I agree. A paper ballot recount should only be necessary is there is evidence the electronic data has been compromised.
Apple could make an x86 version that supports a limited set of x86 hardware. They choose not to because hardware profit margins are huge but software profit margins are marginal. It comes down to dollars, and nothing else.
"Some issues (the girls) brought up included fears that their friends will think (working in IT) is a geeky thing to do, and that IT work is not very social...They were concerned that there were limitations for women in this area of technology, and they felt there is a stigma associated with IT in terms of it not being a very exciting place to work."
Not surprised to find out it was Microsoft behind these lies.