Ok, just RTFA, so before my fanclub jumps up and down eager to flame me, I'll correct myself.
He crazy glued a firewire hub and a bunch of idefirewire converters into some snazzy looking box. So essentially the PC sees 6 200gig firewire drives, not one big one. So case-mod wise he gets points, but nothing new tech-wise.
A linux patch to make all its drives look like one big firewire drive via the firewire port would be cool. I think "mods" should address both hardware and software.
I like my idea better. What's the partition size limit, anyways? Does firewire do LBA48 or what?
You get an old mobo, stick a bunch of drives in it, install linux, perhaps on a CF card, install a firewire card, and let software munge the whole thing into a big firewire drive.
I guess if I could see it I might be impressed case-mod wise, but technically it sounds like any other fileserver, just using firewire instead of network.
You do realize that the industry is under no obligation whatsoever to package the music in the format you want, nor to make ripping mp3s easy.
This sense of entitlement confuses me. If you dont like the product, you dont buy it, but it doesnt give you the right to steal it (yeah its copyrite infringement not theft blah blah).
Theres possibly some ASPI hoops to jump through, depending on what other software you've installed.
Aside; Getting it to work under linux was actually much harder for me (device links and dummy scsi drivers, modules, wrappers and whatever other jibber jabber).. It still won't burn a CD-RW for some retarded reason that I'm sure only Linus knows.
You can record radio, keep, burn, take with you, and hear it any time you want.
It is the same thing. EXCEPT royalties go to the copyright holder. It doesnt solve the RIAAs problem which is "we're just a bunch of middlemen who are used to making a lot of money".
X$/song is fine, let the artists decide what their stuff is worth. If Celine Dion wants $20 a song, let her go ahead and try to sell it for $20 a song.
I'm just saying that under the law (as I understand it, and IANAL), $0.07 is all they're entitled to.
Why doesn't anyone realize that "freedom of speech" does not obligate people to listen.
If someones in my house ranting on about something I don't want to hear, I can boot his ass out. He can excercise his "freedom of speech" somewhere else.
And it's also not "freedom of action". Dialing the phone is an action. Like flicking peanuts at passersby on the street. "Oh officer, I was just trying to get them to listen to my freedom of speech!"
I agree that it should block all unsolicited calls, for any reason, but I fail to see how it has ANYTHING to do with free speech.
It's not speech, its action. Dialing my number and making my phone ring is an ACTION. Just like knocking on my front door. Noone has spoken or expressed anything yet.
Ignore the "no soliciting" sign on my door, face trespassing charges. Ignore the "no soliciting" sign (aka DNC list) on my phone, same thing.
If you say dialing the phone is "speech", then why isn't poking people with sticks "free speech"?
Commercial speech should have the same protection as individual speeh.
This is NOT about speech. I'm not pissed because some guy wants to talk about low interest rates. He has every right to talk about whatever he wants. He has no right to intrude upon my personal life to get me to listen.
Freedom of speech != Freedom of ACTION. Dialing my phone number and making the phone ring while I'm in the middle of dinner is an ACTION, not speech.
Thats what radio pays per listener, per play. Even satellite radio and direcTVs music channels pay that same royalty, and they dish out CD-quality digital music.
With the amount of P2P traffic, even under all the FUD, that's billions upon billions of easy profit.
What they're trying to do through iTunes and Rhapsody is "embrace" the technology, while at the same time jacking up the cost. It's never just about protecting profits, but about increasing them. They want a buck to listen to a song, but it only costs your local clearchannel affiliate 7 friggin cents.
Sure but you could find out that the little league players didnt break the window at all, but that 66 year old did, because 66 year old people can be crazy assholes.
Sure you can drop the case, but why would you go to the length and extra expense of barring yourself from ever being able to refile?
Of course, you'd probably sue the league itself as an entity, or maybe the city or whoever keeps the ball park if, for example, you found the batting cage wasnt there or not sufficiently high to block foul balls, and not the individual players. Thats why analogies suck.
Lawyers simply dont like when potential litigation doors are closed to them by judges, and it's doubtful they'd close those doors voluntarily, even if they knew there was nothing on the other side.
The RIAA withdrew its complaint (while reserving the right to refile. Nice guys).
Of course they'll reserve their right to refile. What if they find out tomorrow that they just got fed a line of bullshit, and the ladies been running Kazaa under virtual PC.
I dont agree with the lawsuits but it makes perfect sense.
To continue your analogy, I sue you for breaking my window, you come and tell me "hey, I couldnt have done it because I throw like a girl because of my carpal tunnel syndrome". I say OK and drop the suit. A week later I see you as the starting pitcher for your companies baseball team, so hell yeah I'd refile if I found out you're lying.
Knowingly responding to a subpeona with false information would get them so deep in shit their great grandchildren would be shovelling, so no, I doubt it.
Regardless of whether you or I approve of the way the subpeona's are, it's still a legal order.
Most likely the RIAAs timestamps were off. Comcast uses DHCP, the lease times aren't all that long, a few months or so. My IP has changed three times in the year I've been with them.
This isn't as big a deal as slashbots make it out to be, and won't change their strategy, and doesn't make it safe to put your Eminem collection back online.
You didnt read what I said, or perhaps I wasn't clear enough.
There's no mention of the virus being on the CLASS system itself.
If you have your corporate payroll running on some uber unix megasystem, I don't have to get a virus on it, just one of the Win2000 laptops that your beancounters use.
The server itself is irrelevant, probably some big iron machine running custom code.
If any client with access to it was compromised, then that client could be used to access all of the data. So they shut the network off to audit it for viruses and trojans.
With all the press they've gotten, it makes absolute sense./. and some left leaning papers spin this into some sort of "windows is helping terrorists!" article. The only mention of windows is in the form of a memo from a completely different facility.
If they all ran linux or OpenBSD, they'd have done the same thing to ensure the latest round of ssh and other "security products" have been patched.
The news here? "This just in, network admins at state department do their job!"
Most government facilities I've been to use Windows on desktops, and big iron unix servers in the back rooms. Big mainframes that have been there since the early 80s.
There's no way this system with close to 30 million names runs on SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL or any other mid-classed database system.
They shut off the network to make sure it was clean, because one infected terminal could potentially leak a whole lot of information to the wrong people.
CLASS isn't an access database running on a windows server. It's running on big iron, probably Oracle, or perhaps not even a RDBMS at all, but a custom data store solution.
Anyhow, the virus didnt take the system down. They took the system down to inspect the network.
If one box on the network got r00t3d, then a r337 h4x0r could use it to query the system.
This is just a bit of better-safe-than-sorry administration. It really has nothing to do with Windows, except a line about a completely unrelated memo that refers to a totally seperate facility.
Perhaps they all run linux and are worried about the flurry of flaws found in "secure" open source. The result would be exactly the same.
And firewalls dont prevent someone from brining a virus in with their laptop or the floppy with the hilarious flash based game that one clerk wants to show her friends.
The combined intelligence from the INS, CIA, FBI, NSA and intelligence agencies from other countries like Britain, Russis, Israel, France, etc, etc.. (Yeah they might protest the war in Iraq but they share intelligence and have for years).
How do you know it just didnt fail because the janitor tripped over the power cord, or because of a design flaw, and this is just par-for-the-course beurocratic finger-pointing?
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Ok, just RTFA, so before my fanclub jumps up and down eager to flame me, I'll correct myself.
He crazy glued a firewire hub and a bunch of idefirewire converters into some snazzy looking box. So essentially the PC sees 6 200gig firewire drives, not one big one. So case-mod wise he gets points, but nothing new tech-wise.
A linux patch to make all its drives look like one big firewire drive via the firewire port would be cool. I think "mods" should address both hardware and software.
I like my idea better. What's the partition size limit, anyways? Does firewire do LBA48 or what?
You get an old mobo, stick a bunch of drives in it, install linux, perhaps on a CF card, install a firewire card, and let software munge the whole thing into a big firewire drive.
I guess if I could see it I might be impressed case-mod wise, but technically it sounds like any other fileserver, just using firewire instead of network.
Am i missing something?
They are required by law (at least in Canada and in the U.S.) to accept it for a full refund.
What law is this, exactly?
They'll refund/replace because it's just good business, not because of the "appeasing lunix whiners act of 1998"
You do realize that the industry is under no obligation whatsoever to package the music in the format you want, nor to make ripping mp3s easy.
This sense of entitlement confuses me. If you dont like the product, you dont buy it, but it doesnt give you the right to steal it (yeah its copyrite infringement not theft blah blah).
RIAA music is not a necessity.
What's so tricky about offering a bootable ISO?
Why should you have to jump through hoops to burn anything for the PC these days?
Yes, I have.
And in true OSS style, RTFM j00 fuck1n l00s3r!
Theres possibly some ASPI hoops to jump through, depending on what other software you've installed.
Aside; Getting it to work under linux was actually much harder for me (device links and dummy scsi drivers, modules, wrappers and whatever other jibber jabber).. It still won't burn a CD-RW for some retarded reason that I'm sure only Linus knows.
You can record radio, keep, burn, take with you, and hear it any time you want.
It is the same thing. EXCEPT royalties go to the copyright holder. It doesnt solve the RIAAs problem which is "we're just a bunch of middlemen who are used to making a lot of money".
X$/song is fine, let the artists decide what their stuff is worth. If Celine Dion wants $20 a song, let her go ahead and try to sell it for $20 a song.
I'm just saying that under the law (as I understand it, and IANAL), $0.07 is all they're entitled to.
Why doesn't anyone realize that "freedom of speech" does not obligate people to listen.
If someones in my house ranting on about something I don't want to hear, I can boot his ass out. He can excercise his "freedom of speech" somewhere else.
And it's also not "freedom of action". Dialing the phone is an action. Like flicking peanuts at passersby on the street. "Oh officer, I was just trying to get them to listen to my freedom of speech!"
I agree that it should block all unsolicited calls, for any reason, but I fail to see how it has ANYTHING to do with free speech.
It's not speech, its action. Dialing my number and making my phone ring is an ACTION. Just like knocking on my front door. Noone has spoken or expressed anything yet.
Ignore the "no soliciting" sign on my door, face trespassing charges. Ignore the "no soliciting" sign (aka DNC list) on my phone, same thing.
If you say dialing the phone is "speech", then why isn't poking people with sticks "free speech"?
Yeah, I'd like to tack a rider onto that Do Not Call List Bill, giving 100 million taxpayer dollars to the perverted arts.
Motion denied!
This guy must be competing with the Calif 9th circuit for the coveted "The Law is an Ass" awards.
Judges who try to litigate from their appointed positions need to be reined in.
Commercial speech should have the same protection as individual speeh.
This is NOT about speech. I'm not pissed because some guy wants to talk about low interest rates. He has every right to talk about whatever he wants. He has no right to intrude upon my personal life to get me to listen.
Freedom of speech != Freedom of ACTION. Dialing my phone number and making the phone ring while I'm in the middle of dinner is an ACTION, not speech.
Easy solution:
7 cents per download.
Thats what radio pays per listener, per play. Even satellite radio and direcTVs music channels pay that same royalty, and they dish out CD-quality digital music.
With the amount of P2P traffic, even under all the FUD, that's billions upon billions of easy profit.
What they're trying to do through iTunes and Rhapsody is "embrace" the technology, while at the same time jacking up the cost. It's never just about protecting profits, but about increasing them. They want a buck to listen to a song, but it only costs your local clearchannel affiliate 7 friggin cents.
Sure but you could find out that the little league players didnt break the window at all, but that 66 year old did, because 66 year old people can be crazy assholes.
Sure you can drop the case, but why would you go to the length and extra expense of barring yourself from ever being able to refile?
Of course, you'd probably sue the league itself as an entity, or maybe the city or whoever keeps the ball park if, for example, you found the batting cage wasnt there or not sufficiently high to block foul balls, and not the individual players. Thats why analogies suck.
Lawyers simply dont like when potential litigation doors are closed to them by judges, and it's doubtful they'd close those doors voluntarily, even if they knew there was nothing on the other side.
The RIAA withdrew its complaint (while reserving the right to refile. Nice guys).
Of course they'll reserve their right to refile. What if they find out tomorrow that they just got fed a line of bullshit, and the ladies been running Kazaa under virtual PC.
I dont agree with the lawsuits but it makes perfect sense.
To continue your analogy, I sue you for breaking my window, you come and tell me "hey, I couldnt have done it because I throw like a girl because of my carpal tunnel syndrome". I say OK and drop the suit. A week later I see you as the starting pitcher for your companies baseball team, so hell yeah I'd refile if I found out you're lying.
Knowingly responding to a subpeona with false information would get them so deep in shit their great grandchildren would be shovelling, so no, I doubt it.
Regardless of whether you or I approve of the way the subpeona's are, it's still a legal order.
Most likely the RIAAs timestamps were off. Comcast uses DHCP, the lease times aren't all that long, a few months or so. My IP has changed three times in the year I've been with them.
This isn't as big a deal as slashbots make it out to be, and won't change their strategy, and doesn't make it safe to put your Eminem collection back online.
You didnt read what I said, or perhaps I wasn't clear enough.
There's no mention of the virus being on the CLASS system itself.
If you have your corporate payroll running on some uber unix megasystem, I don't have to get a virus on it, just one of the Win2000 laptops that your beancounters use.
The server itself is irrelevant, probably some big iron machine running custom code.
/. and some left leaning papers spin this into some sort of "windows is helping terrorists!" article. The only mention of windows is in the form of a memo from a completely different facility.
If any client with access to it was compromised, then that client could be used to access all of the data. So they shut the network off to audit it for viruses and trojans.
With all the press they've gotten, it makes absolute sense.
If they all ran linux or OpenBSD, they'd have done the same thing to ensure the latest round of ssh and other "security products" have been patched.
The news here? "This just in, network admins at state department do their job!"
They dont.
Most government facilities I've been to use Windows on desktops, and big iron unix servers in the back rooms. Big mainframes that have been there since the early 80s.
There's no way this system with close to 30 million names runs on SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL or any other mid-classed database system.
They shut off the network to make sure it was clean, because one infected terminal could potentially leak a whole lot of information to the wrong people.
You're a dope.
CLASS isn't an access database running on a windows server. It's running on big iron, probably Oracle, or perhaps not even a RDBMS at all, but a custom data store solution.
Anyhow, the virus didnt take the system down. They took the system down to inspect the network.
If one box on the network got r00t3d, then a r337 h4x0r could use it to query the system.
This is just a bit of better-safe-than-sorry administration. It really has nothing to do with Windows, except a line about a completely unrelated memo that refers to a totally seperate facility.
Perhaps they all run linux and are worried about the flurry of flaws found in "secure" open source. The result would be exactly the same.
And firewalls dont prevent someone from brining a virus in with their laptop or the floppy with the hilarious flash based game that one clerk wants to show her friends.
Actually, after looking at the state depts website, I found this.
Seems that when someone applies for a visa, gets checked out and denied, they get added to CLASS.
The combined intelligence from the INS, CIA, FBI, NSA and intelligence agencies from other countries like Britain, Russis, Israel, France, etc, etc.. (Yeah they might protest the war in Iraq but they share intelligence and have for years).
How do you know they didn't, you dope?
How do you know it just didnt fail because the janitor tripped over the power cord, or because of a design flaw, and this is just par-for-the-course beurocratic finger-pointing?
Does that count as solicited or unsolicited?
Did you ask him to send you an email? Nope? Then its unsolicited.
But he got the address off your web page, just like the spammers. So if that makes his solicited, then so are theirs.
The potential for abuse with this loony law is enormous.
Keep laws off the internet, use technology to fix technology.
A good admin can eliminate most spam. A lawyer cant.