I have a gigantic penis. None of this means you wont see some notable improvements from multiple cores and HT3, but as you know, that's down to the software.
I dunno, given that this will be useful for embedded applications I'd say it's your firmware that's in question.
Well, even assuming that true piracy (i.e., illegal copies of copyrighted materials being sold for profit) is being used to fund terrorism, what on Earth does that have to do with a thirteen-year-old downloading a song? To answer my own rhetorical question... nothing whatsoever. It does have to do with stemming the tide of illegal downloading, and it is disingenous at best to smear P2P users en-masse as being supporters of terrorism. Incredible. Just incredible. And what's more incredible, I know people (otherwise intelligent people) that are swallowing it hook, line, and sinker. It just makes me want to cry. If there's one thing to remember when dealing with this Administration it is this: when their lips move they are lying.
Why do terrorists do what they do? Well, presumably there are many reasons, but one of them is to change the way the target population thinks, feels and behaves, and they do it by using fear as a strategic weapon. Now, the RIAA/MPAA crowd is also attempting to change the way people behave by using fear (and if you think that legal action doesn't terrify many people as much or more than the threat of being blown up by a terrorist weapon you're wrong.)
I don't know for sure whether actual terrorists use the sale of pirated media to make money, and frankly I don't trust anything this Administration says on the subject. On the other hand, what is certain is that the sale of legitimate copies of music and movies most certainly does fund terrorism. Keep that in mind when you plunk down your hard-earned cash for the latest CD... you're contributing to a terrorist organization. Sure, they don't blow things up, but they deliberately and with malice aforethought threaten, intimidate, terrify and financially ruin people on the slimmest of evidence for political and financial gain. For that reason alone, I'll never buy another CD from any member of the RIAA.
And if you think I'm being outrageous in comparing a quasi-legal corporate entity to bonafide terrorists, remember this: that's precisely what is being done to anyone with a computer and peer-to-peer software.
Regardless, this has simply gone too far. I can't believe that that Gonzales character has the huevos to stand up and make such claims with an apparently straight face.
This is ridiculous. Modems have have had fall back and fall forward for years, by "intelligently" sensing line conditions and adjusting automatically for maximum throughput. This is hardly "novel". Has anyone actually seen a truly novel patent recently? I'd just like to know that people are still filing them.
Quite, although the truth of the matter is that the big boys have already picked the MPAA. That choice was cast in stone the moment PC makers decided get into the media business, and is demonstrated by their repeated disrepect for their customers. The only remaining issue is how, by some combination of marketing, lying and flashy but mediocre technology they can convince us to accept whatever restrictions the media outfits want. Doesn't matter to me (or anyone else in this thread, apparently) but I feel sorry for the rest of the folks that won't get capabilities anywhere close to what the technology truly offers. Remember, the studios aren't interested in giving us a sophisticiated networked multimedia experience: they're interested in selling shiny plastic discs for as much money as they can get away with. If there was a magic button that, when pressed, would instantly eliminate all personal video recording technology, local area networking and the Internet, those guys would fall all over themselves fighting to be the first one to push it. Short of that, they do their best to suppress any technology or manufacturer that doesn't toe their very restrictive line. In my view, that makes them dangerous anachronisms that need to be made to go away.
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No, I understand that Intel's Viiv version is going to be called the "V" chip. Actually, it's the second generation "V" chip. The first one allowed parents to control what their children see on TV, the new one allows rightsholders to control what the parents see on TV.
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As a consumer, I already know what I want, that's why I transformed my living room some time ago. I'm in no rush for Intel's (or Microsoft's, or Sony's) vision of home entertainment. They'll get it all wrong anyway, because they'll make a bunch of assumptions that they will attempt to force on their customers.
It can be made illegal for anonymous anything to be run on American soil. The irony of this is that law-abiding Americans who simply don't want their government snooping on them will have to turn to solutions hosted in other nations.
I appreciate the attempt to provide numbers with a reference, but I think you know the response that a citation like that would get from a supporter of these new regulations.
I appreciate his efforts as well, since he is apparently doing more to understand the validity of the government's claims than the government is doing. I also agree with you about the likely response from government supporters in this matter. But that only means that there is a major problem with those supporters and their belief systems, and probably an even bigger problem with the regulations.
The difference between page rendering and page definition. The problem I've noticed is that corporate/marketing types tend to want a level of control over rendering that the Web was never designed to provide.
Yes, but devoting police resources to finding criminals is one thing, but requiring Internet Service Providers to log everything everyone does for the convenience of law enforcement is something entirely different. One is simple resource allocation, the other is invasive and dangerous. Put it this way, everyone has something to hide, no matter how insignificant it may seem. Most of us perceive the Web to be a relatively anonymous medium in which to find information. It's not really, but we treat it that way and we don't worry to much about governnment busybodies watching our online activities. That's about to change, and when it does you'd better be very, very careful about what you do online. Indefinite data retention in the hands of any government should make said government's citizens justifiably nervous.
On the other hand, what you or I or {insert Justice Department official here} believe is and should be irrelevant when it comes to public policy. Way too much defective public policy is formulated by people that "believe" something is true. Might as well just simplify matters by eliminating all rational discourse and return to the days of the Inquisition.
I doubt you'll find anyone that is supportive of the abuse of children in any form, much less the abuse of children for profit. But any decision to eliminate civil liberties for a cause, any cause, must be weighed in the light of the greater good. And when it comes to our current Administration, and the unelected, appointed officials that are in charge of the Justice Department, I see little effective debate in this matter. Just a large steamroller with "Property of the United States Federal Government" stenciled all over it. Remember this: children eventually become adults. If you were a small child now, would you really want to grow up in the kind of country that America is fast becoming? Would you want to know that the freedoms you should have been able to enjoy, as part of your American birthright, were stolen by people that used the threat of harm to you to justify their actions?
Just another group of sue happy lawyers (which are not necessarily bad/nor good)
No, I'd say that groups of sue happy lawyers are pretty much uniformly bad. Matter of fact, that's what makes lawyers (and other creatures, such as dogs and piranha) so dangerous. They relatively easy to defend against one-on-one, but when they get together in packs...
Oh chill out. Nobody's perfect. I go there once a year, if that, and put most of my money where my mouth is by spending it at local businesses instead of Wal-Mart or Target (the two big ones around here.) My conscience is pretty clear on that score. I also haven't bought a new CD since 1983 so I haven't been supporting that bunch of assholes either. Can you say the same thing?
So how many seals do we have left before all Hell breaks loose? And can we replace the broken seals (which are obviously in short supply) with a similar part? Say, an otter?
Slashdot Mirror
Too late ... cat got it already.
Scientists Probe the Use of the Tongue
While the rest of us use the tongue as a probe.
I have a gigantic penis. None of this means you wont see some notable improvements from multiple cores and HT3, but as you know, that's down to the software.
I dunno, given that this will be useful for embedded applications I'd say it's your firmware that's in question.
No, because flying glips are becoming rather common, believe it or not.
I guess that would make Michael Robertson the "Freedow Bandeedow".
No, later generation modems have fall-forward, it will bump the speed up if line conditions improve. That's been the case for a long time, actually.
Well, even assuming that true piracy (i.e., illegal copies of copyrighted materials being sold for profit) is being used to fund terrorism, what on Earth does that have to do with a thirteen-year-old downloading a song? To answer my own rhetorical question ... nothing whatsoever. It does have to do with stemming the tide of illegal downloading, and it is disingenous at best to smear P2P users en-masse as being supporters of terrorism. Incredible. Just incredible. And what's more incredible, I know people (otherwise intelligent people) that are swallowing it hook, line, and sinker. It just makes me want to cry. If there's one thing to remember when dealing with this Administration it is this: when their lips move they are lying.
... you're contributing to a terrorist organization. Sure, they don't blow things up, but they deliberately and with malice aforethought threaten, intimidate, terrify and financially ruin people on the slimmest of evidence for political and financial gain. For that reason alone, I'll never buy another CD from any member of the RIAA.
Why do terrorists do what they do? Well, presumably there are many reasons, but one of them is to change the way the target population thinks, feels and behaves, and they do it by using fear as a strategic weapon. Now, the RIAA/MPAA crowd is also attempting to change the way people behave by using fear (and if you think that legal action doesn't terrify many people as much or more than the threat of being blown up by a terrorist weapon you're wrong.)
I don't know for sure whether actual terrorists use the sale of pirated media to make money, and frankly I don't trust anything this Administration says on the subject. On the other hand, what is certain is that the sale of legitimate copies of music and movies most certainly does fund terrorism. Keep that in mind when you plunk down your hard-earned cash for the latest CD
And if you think I'm being outrageous in comparing a quasi-legal corporate entity to bonafide terrorists, remember this: that's precisely what is being done to anyone with a computer and peer-to-peer software.
Regardless, this has simply gone too far. I can't believe that that Gonzales character has the huevos to stand up and make such claims with an apparently straight face.
This is ridiculous. Modems have have had fall back and fall forward for years, by "intelligently" sensing line conditions and adjusting automatically for maximum throughput. This is hardly "novel". Has anyone actually seen a truly novel patent recently? I'd just like to know that people are still filing them.
Well, it's too bad more people don't think the same way you do. Life might be a little more perfect and there might be few less Wal-Marts.
Quite, although the truth of the matter is that the big boys have already picked the MPAA. That choice was cast in stone the moment PC makers decided get into the media business, and is demonstrated by their repeated disrepect for their customers. The only remaining issue is how, by some combination of marketing, lying and flashy but mediocre technology they can convince us to accept whatever restrictions the media outfits want. Doesn't matter to me (or anyone else in this thread, apparently) but I feel sorry for the rest of the folks that won't get capabilities anywhere close to what the technology truly offers. Remember, the studios aren't interested in giving us a sophisticiated networked multimedia experience: they're interested in selling shiny plastic discs for as much money as they can get away with. If there was a magic button that, when pressed, would instantly eliminate all personal video recording technology, local area networking and the Internet, those guys would fall all over themselves fighting to be the first one to push it. Short of that, they do their best to suppress any technology or manufacturer that doesn't toe their very restrictive line. In my view, that makes them dangerous anachronisms that need to be made to go away.
No, I understand that Intel's Viiv version is going to be called the "V" chip. Actually, it's the second generation "V" chip. The first one allowed parents to control what their children see on TV, the new one allows rightsholders to control what the parents see on TV.
As a consumer, I already know what I want, that's why I transformed my living room some time ago. I'm in no rush for Intel's (or Microsoft's, or Sony's) vision of home entertainment. They'll get it all wrong anyway, because they'll make a bunch of assumptions that they will attempt to force on their customers.
sobaticles
Wasn't he a contemporary of Socrates? As I remember, he was known for taking a lot of time off from work.
Did you say cRAPpy music?
It can be made illegal for anonymous anything to be run on American soil. The irony of this is that law-abiding Americans who simply don't want their government snooping on them will have to turn to solutions hosted in other nations.
I appreciate the attempt to provide numbers with a reference, but I think you know the response that a citation like that would get from a supporter of these new regulations.
I appreciate his efforts as well, since he is apparently doing more to understand the validity of the government's claims than the government is doing. I also agree with you about the likely response from government supporters in this matter. But that only means that there is a major problem with those supporters and their belief systems, and probably an even bigger problem with the regulations.
What, it would bother you if your children were born with long, green tendrils coming out of their foreheads?
The difference between page rendering and page definition. The problem I've noticed is that corporate/marketing types tend to want a level of control over rendering that the Web was never designed to provide.
Yes, but devoting police resources to finding criminals is one thing, but requiring Internet Service Providers to log everything everyone does for the convenience of law enforcement is something entirely different. One is simple resource allocation, the other is invasive and dangerous. Put it this way, everyone has something to hide, no matter how insignificant it may seem. Most of us perceive the Web to be a relatively anonymous medium in which to find information. It's not really, but we treat it that way and we don't worry to much about governnment busybodies watching our online activities. That's about to change, and when it does you'd better be very, very careful about what you do online. Indefinite data retention in the hands of any government should make said government's citizens justifiably nervous.
On the other hand, what you or I or {insert Justice Department official here} believe is and should be irrelevant when it comes to public policy. Way too much defective public policy is formulated by people that "believe" something is true. Might as well just simplify matters by eliminating all rational discourse and return to the days of the Inquisition.
I doubt you'll find anyone that is supportive of the abuse of children in any form, much less the abuse of children for profit. But any decision to eliminate civil liberties for a cause, any cause, must be weighed in the light of the greater good. And when it comes to our current Administration, and the unelected, appointed officials that are in charge of the Justice Department, I see little effective debate in this matter. Just a large steamroller with "Property of the United States Federal Government" stenciled all over it. Remember this: children eventually become adults. If you were a small child now, would you really want to grow up in the kind of country that America is fast becoming? Would you want to know that the freedoms you should have been able to enjoy, as part of your American birthright, were stolen by people that used the threat of harm to you to justify their actions?
Just another group of sue happy lawyers (which are not necessarily bad/nor good)
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No, I'd say that groups of sue happy lawyers are pretty much uniformly bad. Matter of fact, that's what makes lawyers (and other creatures, such as dogs and piranha) so dangerous. They relatively easy to defend against one-on-one, but when they get together in packs
And as soon as Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T/Cingular, etc. notifies them of that fact I bet the law gets amended in a hurry.
"How do you know when {insert political/corporate leader here} is lying?"
"His lips move."
Oh chill out. Nobody's perfect. I go there once a year, if that, and put most of my money where my mouth is by spending it at local businesses instead of Wal-Mart or Target (the two big ones around here.) My conscience is pretty clear on that score. I also haven't bought a new CD since 1983 so I haven't been supporting that bunch of assholes either. Can you say the same thing?
So how many seals do we have left before all Hell breaks loose? And can we replace the broken seals (which are obviously in short supply) with a similar part? Say, an otter?