You can share your password for that pay-per-month pr0n site or for giganews too, but pretty soon your account will be disabled when too many IPs try to access it.
As far as DRM for the web, it really doesnt make a difference.
You are all so quick to want to outlaw a technology because it has an application you dont like. But if someone else feels the same about a tech you do like, you all get up in arms over it.
How many think xbox mod chips should be legal, because just because they can be used for piracy, they have other legal uses?
Now, how many think DRM should never be implemented, because it can be used to restrict what you can do with a CD you bought?
To me its the same issue. Technologies arent inherently evil, it's the uses they're put to.
DRM technology with SSL strength security has some good uses.
A content producer can have all his stuff locked tight with DRM while it's still in production, or use it on the screener films he sends to reviewers. If it isnt for sale yet, you have no right to any of it. It's merely protecting a trade secret.
It can also be used to verify the authenticity of footages, lets say the doctored photo in Time magazine yesterday.
It could be used to prove that the footage you see on TV is what was filmed by the digicam.
It can be used in court to prove that the security footage from the 7-11 hasnt been altered in any way.
It can be used to keep your nephew from stumbling across your pr0n collections.
It already exists anyways. Noone stops anyone from streaming a netradio over an SSL tunnel, or archiving their files with a password.
In short, preventing consumers from excersizing legitimate rights to use something they own is bad. DRM is not 'bad', DRM is a technology.
Do you feel the same way about LDAP, PAM or other authentication schemes that prevents me from going into any linux box (like yours) on the 'net? Information wants to be free, after all.
Another Free-as-in-I-dont-wanna-pay scenario.
Re:How can they make this work?
on
Open Source DRM
·
· Score: 1
The same thing that prevents people from changing the OpenSSL source to say "connectto("some guys online bank account")
You can't decrypt anything without the appropriate key to do so. There's nothing you can change in the source to magically disable it.
Nah, Neo Geo Pocket Color. What games that exist for it are pretty cool (Sonic Pocket, Samurai Showdowns and other fighters) and actually in english. I love mine.
A portable NES emulator is still pretty cool, though. It'd be nice to be able to crank up Mike Tyson's Punch Out to alleviate a little bit of aggression when sitting in a traffic jam
>> Posessing a ROM for a cartridge you own, as a backup, is legal. Posessing a ROM for a cartridge you don't own is illegal.
Not so. There is a 'masked rom' protection for catridges that makes a hex dump of a ROM not a backup in the legal sense. Basically it boils down to a chip being a device, and not a pi
This is why SNES/Genesis/GBA copiers are and have always been illegal for sale in the US.
It's the typical free-as-in-im-not-paying attitude.
Here's how to read it.
"Emulates games for $SYSTEM" = YOU DONT PAY FOR THEM.
Just like
"Has OGG support" = YOU DONT PAY FOR MUSIC
or
"Has DivX support" = YOU DONT PAY FOR MOVIES.
See? It's all about piracy, err, excuse me YOUR RIGHTS ONLINE. But noone will ever admit it.
They'll give you the standard "I only legally emulate games I buy" horse crap. But who buys GBA games if they dont own a GBA, just out of some sort of moral obligation to do so?
BTW, all you budding l33t 0-d4y-r0mz kiddies, you can emulate the GBA on your PC if free games is all you're after.
Some of the later capcom titles still have problems (Megaman X2 and X3, Street Fighter Alpha 2) because of the 'C3' custom graphics chip that noone has any info about. There's a kludge to make SFA2 play, but it's not really an emulation because it uses predumped graphics as it cant read the actual graphics from the 'rom'.
Short of that, everything plays now. DSP and SuperFX emulation have been solid for awhile, but SuperFX requires some hefty CPU time, I doubt Super Mario RPG or Yoshi's Island plays very well on the GP32.
they're just simple ports of available open source emulators. just because it runs doesnt mean it runs well, and certainly doesnt mean its playable. Paying for a GP32 for emulation is like those doofuses who keep buying DC, PS2 and XBOX emulators for the PC.
I doubt very highly that GBA emulation works well at all on the GP32. GBA emus are just barely playable on an 800mhz P3. Eventually it'd get better, but even the best emulator is never the same as the real thing.
All in all its a cool little toy, but if you actually want to play the games you'd own both.
The "sbootmgr" floppy image that slackware (and no doubt others) gets around this. It basically boots a software bios that can boot from a CD (like the software bioses for large HDD support on old machines)
Of course, if you have no CD drive at all you're boned. Some of us (like me) put together boxes with no CD drive, my gateway machine was done by hand from the floppy drive.
Oh well. So the premier of Night of the Assisted Living BSD has been delayed.
Re:Two things (in case you're missing the point):
on
BSA IDC FUD
·
· Score: 1
Apple?
What are they some bankrupt.com startup or something?
/. to the rescue!!!
on
BSA IDC FUD
·
· Score: 0, Flamebait
Quick!
Everyone talk out of their ass, make up numbers, and tell spurious specific-to-general arguments about how everyone with different views is wrong!
'cuz we all know that not getting paid for your work is the best way to encourage growth in the tech sector, right.
It's illegal in some states because of the danger. Self serve gas stations are a huge cash saver for the big oil companies, not just because they save the minimum wages for the attendent, but because they transfer liability to the consumers.
Saying "dont be stupid when refueling" is useless, because people are stupid and cavalier about it.
When I had a boat and would pull up to a marina, they wouldnt start fueling until everyone was out of the craft, and had some sensible but rigorously enforced safety rules. If you take your BBQ propane tank to get refilled, there will be procedures and protocols to follow. But at the local mobil, there's no more than a no-smoking sign.
Some people are simply oblivious to the fact that gasoline is extremely flammable. It sounds stupid, but its true.
I believe their defense had to do with the color tones not transferring to the presses accurately. Everything on the glossy magazine covers always looks darker, with sharper contrast.
IMO, it could have been deliberate, it could have been a coincidence, but in the end, the tempest in a teapot over it was just another extension of the race card being used as a defense in court.
The times 'reporting' of the conflict thus far has been completely one sided, they dont seem to have any problem whatsoever blending editorial pages and news headlines. Day after day of tripe about how terrible the war effort is going, and how 'fierce' the resistance is. Their motives are painfully obvious - the outcome of the war isnt in doubt, but they want to make sure Bush looks bad come election time.
If the altered photo made the coalition look bad, I'm positive they wouldnt have fired the guy.
I don't care if your for or against the war. If I come to you as a news orginization, I'm coming for facts and information, and not your politics or opinions. That's what the Op ed page is for.
>> seriously - why should we care? does the code allow me to do what I want? yes.
Because J3EE could complete deprecate what you just wrote, and now you have to completely rewrite all of your applications to keep up.
That's why business/government cares about standards. They dont give a rats ass about open sources or free as in unpaid software.
They want to know that the x thousand manhours writing custom code for their outfit wont be 'obsolete' because some academic propellerhead decides its obsolete. Look how much COBOL, FORTRAN, and ADA is still in use.
Spoken like a MS hater who isn't familiar with the products.
The.NET framework has been available for Win 2k and XP for some time, and VS.net has been advertised right here on slashdot forever..NET server was renamed Windows 2003 because it was confusing people like you.
A language is not an operating system. Saying.NET only works on Win 2003 is like saying Java only works on Solaris.
>> When you're fueling you car, the gasonline doesn't spontaneously ignite with the oxygen in the air, right? Add heat and you've got a fire, though
Sometimes it does, and it doesnt require heat so much as a source of ignition, which could (and has) come from something as innocuous as a cell phone or PDA. Granted, there's heat produced in the spark, but my point is people seem to think you need an open flame to ignite gasoline.
Refueling fires are something that's going to become more and more of a problem, as self-serve gas stations are now ubiquitous, and few motorists understand or practice even the most basic safety procedures.
Noone should be in the vehicle while fueling, it should be off (that means all electrical systems like stereos and video games and turn signals) and there should be no source of ignition in the vicinity.
And yet, just today while gassing up, I saw some tool filling his tank with a lit cigarette in his mouth, and two young kids in the back seat (right over the tank).
Slashdot Mirror
You can share your password for that pay-per-month pr0n site or for giganews too, but pretty soon your account will be disabled when too many IPs try to access it.
As far as DRM for the web, it really doesnt make a difference.
Share your key? No more service for you.
You are all so quick to want to outlaw a technology because it has an application you dont like. But if someone else feels the same about a tech you do like, you all get up in arms over it.
How many think xbox mod chips should be legal, because just because they can be used for piracy, they have other legal uses?
Now, how many think DRM should never be implemented, because it can be used to restrict what you can do with a CD you bought?
To me its the same issue. Technologies arent inherently evil, it's the uses they're put to.
DRM technology with SSL strength security has some good uses.
A content producer can have all his stuff locked tight with DRM while it's still in production, or use it on the screener films he sends to reviewers. If it isnt for sale yet, you have no right to any of it. It's merely protecting a trade secret.
It can also be used to verify the authenticity of footages, lets say the doctored photo in Time magazine yesterday.
It could be used to prove that the footage you see on TV is what was filmed by the digicam.
It can be used in court to prove that the security footage from the 7-11 hasnt been altered in any way.
It can be used to keep your nephew from stumbling across your pr0n collections.
It already exists anyways. Noone stops anyone from streaming a netradio over an SSL tunnel, or archiving their files with a password.
In short, preventing consumers from excersizing legitimate rights to use something they own is bad. DRM is not 'bad', DRM is a technology.
Libre Software stands for Gratis Music?
Do you feel the same way about LDAP, PAM or other authentication schemes that prevents me from going into any linux box (like yours) on the 'net? Information wants to be free, after all.
Another Free-as-in-I-dont-wanna-pay scenario.
The same thing that prevents people from changing the OpenSSL source to say "connectto("some guys online bank account")
You can't decrypt anything without the appropriate key to do so. There's nothing you can change in the source to magically disable it.
>> try the defunct Wonderswan color
Nah, Neo Geo Pocket Color. What games that exist for it are pretty cool (Sonic Pocket, Samurai Showdowns and other fighters) and actually in english. I love mine.
A portable NES emulator is still pretty cool, though. It'd be nice to be able to crank up Mike Tyson's Punch Out to alleviate a little bit of aggression when sitting in a traffic jam
So it's a portable NES you want, is it?
Pick up one of those (and dont forget a JAP->US adapter while you're at it). I got one, and it's really pretty damn cool for a 'bootleg' famicom.
(aside)PunchOut is one of those screwy titles to emulate. There are weird glitches with it in pretty much every emu I've used (/aside)
>> Posessing a ROM for a cartridge you own, as a backup, is legal. Posessing a ROM for a cartridge you don't own is illegal.
Not so. There is a 'masked rom' protection for catridges that makes a hex dump of a ROM not a backup in the legal sense. Basically it boils down to a chip being a device, and not a pi
This is why SNES/Genesis/GBA copiers are and have always been illegal for sale in the US.
You can argue it should be legal, but it isnt.
No you didnt read the submitter correctly.
It's the typical free-as-in-im-not-paying attitude.
Here's how to read it.
"Emulates games for $SYSTEM" = YOU DONT PAY FOR THEM.
Just like
"Has OGG support" = YOU DONT PAY FOR MUSIC
or
"Has DivX support" = YOU DONT PAY FOR MOVIES.
See? It's all about piracy, err, excuse me YOUR RIGHTS ONLINE. But noone will ever admit it.
They'll give you the standard "I only legally emulate games I buy" horse crap. But who buys GBA games if they dont own a GBA, just out of some sort of moral obligation to do so?
BTW, all you budding l33t 0-d4y-r0mz kiddies, you can emulate the GBA on your PC if free games is all you're after.
Some of the later capcom titles still have problems (Megaman X2 and X3, Street Fighter Alpha 2) because of the 'C3' custom graphics chip that noone has any info about. There's a kludge to make SFA2 play, but it's not really an emulation because it uses predumped graphics as it cant read the actual graphics from the 'rom'.
Short of that, everything plays now. DSP and SuperFX emulation have been solid for awhile, but SuperFX requires some hefty CPU time, I doubt Super Mario RPG or Yoshi's Island plays very well on the GP32.
they're just simple ports of available open source emulators. just because it runs doesnt mean it runs well, and certainly doesnt mean its playable. Paying for a GP32 for emulation is like those doofuses who keep buying DC, PS2 and XBOX emulators for the PC.
I doubt very highly that GBA emulation works well at all on the GP32. GBA emus are just barely playable on an 800mhz P3. Eventually it'd get better, but even the best emulator is never the same as the real thing.
All in all its a cool little toy, but if you actually want to play the games you'd own both.
post some inciteful articles
Most of what they post is inciteful. They even add snide little comments to make sure it'll incite zealots to hop on their soapboxes and spout off.
Now if they could just figure out how to post insightful articles....
/. is open sources worst enemy.
Very few of these projects have the funding to run a webserver that can withstand a slashdotting.
Yes, it is possible, and quite common.
If you ever get a chance to try linux one day, try typing 'man fdformat'.
Because everyone is not you.
There are a lot of headless 'nix based gateway boxes around with a floppy, and no CD-ROM.
I love the "i dont need it so therefore noone possibly could" attitude slashbots have.
The "sbootmgr" floppy image that slackware (and no doubt others) gets around this. It basically boots a software bios that can boot from a CD (like the software bioses for large HDD support on old machines)
Of course, if you have no CD drive at all you're boned. Some of us (like me) put together boxes with no CD drive, my gateway machine was done by hand from the floppy drive.
Oh well. So the premier of Night of the Assisted Living BSD has been delayed.
Apple?
.com startup or something?
What are they some bankrupt
Quick!
Everyone talk out of their ass, make up numbers, and tell spurious specific-to-general arguments about how everyone with different views is wrong!
'cuz we all know that not getting paid for your work is the best way to encourage growth in the tech sector, right.
OLD:
/usr/src/ton_of_shit/* > mozilla
cat
NEW:
tail mozilla > new_mozilla
THE FUTURE:
void main(int argc, char **argv)
{
system("iexplore.exe");
}
It's illegal in some states because of the danger. Self serve gas stations are a huge cash saver for the big oil companies, not just because they save the minimum wages for the attendent, but because they transfer liability to the consumers.
Saying "dont be stupid when refueling" is useless, because people are stupid and cavalier about it.
When I had a boat and would pull up to a marina, they wouldnt start fueling until everyone was out of the craft, and had some sensible but rigorously enforced safety rules. If you take your BBQ propane tank to get refilled, there will be procedures and protocols to follow. But at the local mobil, there's no more than a no-smoking sign.
Some people are simply oblivious to the fact that gasoline is extremely flammable. It sounds stupid, but its true.
I believe their defense had to do with the color tones not transferring to the presses accurately. Everything on the glossy magazine covers always looks darker, with sharper contrast.
IMO, it could have been deliberate, it could have been a coincidence, but in the end, the tempest in a teapot over it was just another extension of the race card being used as a defense in court.
The times 'reporting' of the conflict thus far has been completely one sided, they dont seem to have any problem whatsoever blending editorial pages and news headlines. Day after day of tripe about how terrible the war effort is going, and how 'fierce' the resistance is. Their motives are painfully obvious - the outcome of the war isnt in doubt, but they want to make sure Bush looks bad come election time.
If the altered photo made the coalition look bad, I'm positive they wouldnt have fired the guy.
I don't care if your for or against the war. If I come to you as a news orginization, I'm coming for facts and information, and not your politics or opinions. That's what the Op ed page is for.
>> seriously - why should we care? does the code allow me to do what I want? yes.
Because J3EE could complete deprecate what you just wrote, and now you have to completely rewrite all of your applications to keep up.
That's why business/government cares about standards. They dont give a rats ass about open sources or free as in unpaid software.
They want to know that the x thousand manhours writing custom code for their outfit wont be 'obsolete' because some academic propellerhead decides its obsolete. Look how much COBOL, FORTRAN, and ADA is still in use.
Spoken like a MS hater who isn't familiar with the products.
.NET framework has been available for Win 2k and XP for some time, and VS.net has been advertised right here on slashdot forever. .NET server was renamed Windows 2003 because it was confusing people like you.
.NET only works on Win 2003 is like saying Java only works on Solaris.
The
A language is not an operating system. Saying
We all know that microsoft is inherently bad and sun is inherently good.
This is the stupidest April 1st post yet! And a day late!
I like C# more than I like Java though. Hopefully actual-factual standards will push it's adoption forward.
>> When you're fueling you car, the gasonline doesn't spontaneously ignite with the oxygen in the air, right? Add heat and you've got a fire, though
Sometimes it does, and it doesnt require heat so much as a source of ignition, which could (and has) come from something as innocuous as a cell phone or PDA. Granted, there's heat produced
in the spark, but my point is people seem to think you need an open flame to ignite gasoline.
Refueling fires are something that's going to become more and more of a problem, as self-serve gas stations are now ubiquitous, and few motorists understand or practice even the most basic safety procedures.
Noone should be in the vehicle while fueling, it should be off (that means all electrical systems like stereos and video games and turn signals) and there should be no source of ignition in the vicinity.
And yet, just today while gassing up, I saw some tool filling his tank with a lit cigarette in his mouth, and two young kids in the back seat (right over the tank).
end of rant.