The only way we are going to get things to change is to tell the artists directly what we think.
We should take the time to contact our favorite artists and let them know that we are not going to buy their music until we can purchase it in a format that we want. Let the artists themselves put some serious pressure on the recording companies.
I personally have not bought a CD since 1996 despite wanting to buy a number of almbums. For me, CD's are simply not worth their current prices. The latest moves by RIAA have just hardened my resolve.
When I can buy high quality MP3's or FLAC encodings online, for a reasonable price, I can easily see myself spending a couple thousand dollars buying the music I want. Until then, I simply don't listen to music. I won't download it because I don't believe that is fair. I will, however, exercise my rights as a consumer not to purchase their music.
1) You cannot be tried for the *same* crime twice, however, prosecutors can amend or change the crimes in which you are being tried for ie: you are no longer tried for the murder of Joe, just maybe a nice inditement of manslaughter.
What are you talking about? Once a person has been aquitted for murder, you can not then charge them with manslaughter. That is a "lesser included crime" and can not be tried seperately.
2)Double Jeopardy doesn't count on appeal. Normally the losing side can appeal if there was a trial error or they want to fight a ruling the judge made on a point in the trial (including evidence that shouldn't have been, allowing a surprise witness - a procedural error).
What legal system are you talking about? Double Jeopardy _ONLY_ applies to an appeal. Otherwise what the hell would the double jeopardy be? Once a person has been aquitted of a crime, there is (almost) no way to retry them for the same crime. The only thing you could do is: if a person is aquitted of murder, you could then try them for something like embezzlement, assuming it was not related to the murder. Not to mention, this does not happen in the US 99.99999% of the time because it would undermind the legal system.
The only way to actually retry a person for the exact same crime, is if for example: the person on trial paid someone to lie during the trial. The only reason this would fail is because you can not "profit from a crime" and the profit would be freedom and the crime would be purjury or bribery. This is almost never used as an excuse to try to get a retrial. 3) Unlike the Movie - you CAN'T be tried and convicted for killing someone (for instance) and then actually kill them. Those are actually TWO separate crimes. Makes for a good movie, but the law isn't paid attention to. That's where you just have to sue the state for negligence, or whatever fancy scheme you can get your lawyer to concoct.
This does not make any sense. It was a movie. Please return to reality.
Actually Jake is a friend of mine and if I know him the site was probably being hosted on a SparcStation 20:) That and the line that it was on were simply not capable of handling Slashdot.
I think Slashdot needs to change its slogan to "News for 12 year old nerds."
That said, I do appreciate the irony of being called a cretin by a child who has not begun to master the English language. Your grammar is atrocious. Your manners boorish.
In truth, the only "fucktard" in that entire thread was you. The poster who you so colorfully called a "Fucktard" stated a simple fact and did so quite politely. It was you who chose to drag the thread into the gutter by childishly calling another poster names. When you grow up I do hope you understand just how childish you were acting:)
It is not 24 fps. Period. 24 fps is what is used in movie theaters. Analog TV is also not 640x480 resolution. The guy who posted this comment does not have a clue about the specifications of analog TV and so his comment should have been shot down.
Also, I do not believe "fucktard" is a word you moron.
/* linux, which is trying as desperately as the gnu folks can to be POSIXLY_CORRECT. I think I'm gonna hurl... */ -- *Hobbit*, taken from the netcat source
Analog and DVI input. Black Case. both inputs can be connected and switched between using a front panel button. Crystal clear output. 1280x1024 resolution. The price? $5867 each. Not bad if you ask me.
Don't get me wrong- Debian is a Linux distro I at least respect. But sensible? No.
dselect was idiotic.
apt aint much better (in my opinion).
The installation process is entirely too drawn out. The idea of selecting a system "type" is poorly implemented.
The fact that Linux still uses BIOS partitions for its disk slices is silly. (Not Debian specific).
I am not exactly sure what your problem is with mergemaster, but it is a pretty simple tool. If you do not like it, though, you can write your own merge utility like I, and may other people, have done. I can not remember the last time I ran mergemaster.
I like having the entire source code for my system on the box. If I want to work on any part of my system, the code is right there and can be built en masse, or piece-meal as I see fit. If BIND breaks (as usual) I can simply jump into the BIND directory and make install the new code without rebuilding the rest of the system.
I also prefer the ports tree to apt. That is a personal preference. The ports tree is a simple and logically laid out method for installing software. The make files are easy to read and understand, and you can figure out what they are doing. apt, well, just is not as simple in my opinion.
I ran Debian on all of my computers for about a year and a half back in the 2.0.x days (before apt really caught on) and it was just too much work. I try to go back to it about once a year or so and just can not do it. Nothing in the system is laid out the way I expect it to be laid out, and to this day, kernel configuration and compiles are a pain in the ass (again a personal opinion).
When all is said and done, Linux can't offer me a good reason to switch back yet. Saying it is "as good" as FreeBSD is hardly a compelling reason. My FreeBSD boxes are so stable I forget they are running sometimes. A Redhat box that I installed about a month ago kept crashing due to a problem with journald (usually at about 4am). I installed FreeBSD on the box, went home, and slept very soundly.
"make buildworld && make installworld && make buildkernel KERNCONF=kernel && make installkernel KERNCONF=kernel" is just too easy.
I was afraid I was the only person who felt FreeBSD was laid out in a completely logical manner. Every program is where I expect it to be. Every library is where I would put it. System start up and shutdown is simple and logical.
About once a year I get it into my head to go back and try Linux again. Every year I regret my decision. That's not to say Linux isn't powerful or flexible. It certainly is. But trying to deal with the different ways each system handles file system layout, packages, system startup, etc. drives me crazy./etc/sysconfig, for example, is a $%$@% nightmare.
When I have to use Linux I still prefer slackware. A nice basic system with BSD style startup scripts. For a more powerful system I prefer Debian, but deselect and apt still leave a lot to be desired. One of these days I will have to try Gentoo and see if they finally got Linux right.
Hard to use? Jesus. The reason I use FreeBSD is because it is EASY to use. Linux drives me fucking batty every time I try to use it. Get some sort of bloody standard for system upgrades and I might use Linux. Get some sort of standard package system and I might use Linux. Get some sort of standard startup scripts and I might use Linux.
Frankly, if you had a hard time using FreeBSD, then noone showed you how to use the system and that is a shame. If you spent more than a few days with a working FreeBSD system and understood how it worked, I doubt you would ever go back to Linux.
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A helicopter can auto-rotate and land safely.
Performing an autorotation consists of:
1. Reversing the pitch on the main rotor blades. This causes them to build up speed and continues to provide drag to slow the helicopter down. It also causes a forward motion in the helicopter which helps to provide control and allows you to get to a safe landing space.
2. At the last second, the pilot will pull the control yoke backwards arresting the forward motion of the helicopter and adding more momentum to the spinning blades. At the same time, the pilot will reverse the pitch on main rotor blades again. The momentum of the blades will cause them to keep spinning forward, and the now positive angle of attack on the blades will generate significant lift arresting the downward motion.
In fact, the biggest problem is making sure that you do not over correct otherwise you can actually jump back into the air with no momentum left in the blades to stop you the second time.
Until a large percentage of the public gets screwed royally by a security hole, people are not going to take notice and start auditing their code as they should.
As a side note: I am rather sick and tired of reading about the latest MS IE/OE/Outlook exploit on Bugtraq. There needs to a be seperate versions of Bugtraq for: Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Enough already), and Non-OS elated holes in MS software (We already have Bugtraq-NT).
Not to disrespect Linux, but faster development does not necessarily mean better or desirable. For example, Linux vrrpd was a terribly piece of software in comparison to freevrrpd. They are both standalone VRRP implementations but one works and one does not. Unfortunately this has been my experience with a lot of Linux software.
Don't get me wrong, I have seen some truly bizarre stuff happen on FreeBSD systems, just never as often as I see it on my Linux boxes.
I think the arrogant jerks that violate the rules of internet RFCs should be outed or blacklisted.
You are absolutely right. Everyone using PPPoE should be banned from using the Internet. PPPoE is a _COMPLETELY_ broken protocol. If enough sites refuse to service people using such a cracked protocol, then maybe it will go away. In fact, I am going to go misconfigure the sites that I administer to make sure that they do not work with PPPoE.
I will not let anyone I know use PPPoE. I have advised every single one of them to get cable modems with DHCP instead.
The telephone companies are the only ones pushing PPPoE. Do we really want a bunch of morons who can't run an analog phone network dictate how the Internet operates? Just about everyone in my family has worked for a Telco, and frankly, I would not let any of them near a computer even if my life depended on it.
PPPoe is here and now and growing EVERY DAY, as people lose the ability and right to have static IP or long DHCP leases.
The "right" to have a static IP? I do not even know what that means. As for long DHCP leases, how about this for an idea, short DHCP leases!
PPPoE is a hack and it should die a horrible death. If you want to use the Internet, get a real internet connection or go back to using AOL.
Ok they did not go through a LOT of trouble, but they did make it a lot more difficult than it had to be to filter. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is open for debate.
It is a big deal because AOL went through a LOT of trouble to make AOL a pain in the ass to filter with a firewall.
Now they come up with a solution designed to do exactly that? That bothers me.
(You can block access to AOL's login servers, or configure a proxy to block it, but that is not easy when they keep changing the protocol and servers. The fact that AIM operates over port 80 makes it even more difficult to block. MSN and ICQ are worse though because there are more servers to block and they can use almost any port.)
The advantadge that SYS V style startup scripts give third party vendors is already available in *BSD though. FreeBSD maintains a directory called/usr/local/etc/rc.d which works exactly like/etc/rc.d/rcX.d on SYS V boxes. You simply put an executable script into the directory and it runs at boot time.
The real advantadge to SYS V style scripts is that it is easier to restart a complex service by typing./script restart than it is to do it manually. FreeBSD gets around this by keeping the system started utilities simple and sensible. Restarting them usually requires no more than a -HUP so there is no confusion. The/usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts should always accept restart as an argument and thus gives you the best of both worlds (ideally).
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The only way we are going to get things to change is to tell the artists directly what we think.
We should take the time to contact our favorite artists and let them know that we are not going to buy their music until we can purchase it in a format that we want. Let the artists themselves put some serious pressure on the recording companies.
I personally have not bought a CD since 1996 despite wanting to buy a number of almbums. For me, CD's are simply not worth their current prices. The latest moves by RIAA have just hardened my resolve.
When I can buy high quality MP3's or FLAC encodings online, for a reasonable price, I can easily see myself spending a couple thousand dollars buying the music I want. Until then, I simply don't listen to music. I won't download it because I don't believe that is fair. I will, however, exercise my rights as a consumer not to purchase their music.
-sirket
Last I checked, assembly also had "call" "jne" etc. These are very different from GOTO.
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1) You cannot be tried for the *same* crime twice, however, prosecutors can amend or change the crimes in which you are being tried for ie: you are no longer tried for the murder of Joe, just maybe a nice inditement of manslaughter.
What are you talking about? Once a person has been aquitted for murder, you can not then charge them with manslaughter. That is a "lesser included crime" and can not be tried seperately.
2)Double Jeopardy doesn't count on appeal. Normally the losing side can appeal if there was a trial error or they want to fight a ruling the judge made on a point in the trial (including evidence that shouldn't have been, allowing a surprise witness - a procedural error).
What legal system are you talking about? Double Jeopardy _ONLY_ applies to an appeal. Otherwise what the hell would the double jeopardy be? Once a person has been aquitted of a crime, there is (almost) no way to retry them for the same crime. The only thing you could do is: if a person is aquitted of murder, you could then try them for something like embezzlement, assuming it was not related to the murder. Not to mention, this does not happen in the US 99.99999% of the time because it would undermind the legal system.
The only way to actually retry a person for the exact same crime, is if for example:
the person on trial paid someone to lie during the trial. The only reason this would fail is because you can not "profit from a crime" and the profit would be freedom and the crime would be purjury or bribery. This is almost never used as an excuse to try to get a retrial.
3) Unlike the Movie - you CAN'T be tried and convicted for killing someone (for instance) and then actually kill them. Those are actually TWO separate crimes. Makes for a good movie, but the law isn't paid attention to. That's where you just have to sue the state for negligence, or whatever fancy scheme you can get your lawyer to concoct.
This does not make any sense. It was a movie. Please return to reality.
-sirket
Actually Jake is a friend of mine and if I know him the site was probably being hosted on a SparcStation 20 :) That and the line that it was on were simply not capable of handling Slashdot.
-sirket
I think Slashdot needs to change its slogan to "News for 12 year old nerds."
:)
That said, I do appreciate the irony of being called a cretin by a child who has not begun to master the English language. Your grammar is atrocious. Your manners boorish.
In truth, the only "fucktard" in that entire thread was you. The poster who you so colorfully called a "Fucktard" stated a simple fact and did so quite politely. It was you who chose to drag the thread into the gutter by childishly calling another poster names. When you grow up I do hope you understand just how childish you were acting
-sirket
Perhaps the number one failing should be spelling.
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It is not 24 fps. Period. 24 fps is what is used in movie theaters. Analog TV is also not 640x480 resolution. The guy who posted this comment does not have a clue about the specifications of analog TV and so his comment should have been shot down.
Also, I do not believe "fucktard" is a word you moron.
-sirket
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
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Isn't it "Give me liberty of give me death?"
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
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Wow, that should have read $587 each :)
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Ahh found the exact line:
/* linux, which is trying as desperately as the gnu folks can to be POSIXLY_CORRECT. I think I'm gonna hurl... */ -- *Hobbit*, taken from the netcat source
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In the netcat source code, Hobbit had a comment in the Linux define section that was pretty funny. It went something like:
"Linux, which is trying so hard to be posixly correct, I think I'm gonna hurl"
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Erm...
I just bought three Viewsonic VG171b's.
Analog and DVI input. Black Case. both inputs can be connected and switched between using a front panel button. Crystal clear output. 1280x1024 resolution. The price? $5867 each. Not bad if you ask me.
-sirket
I am not exactly sure what your problem is with mergemaster, but it is a pretty simple tool. If you do not like it, though, you can write your own merge utility like I, and may other people, have done. I can not remember the last time I ran mergemaster.
I like having the entire source code for my system on the box. If I want to work on any part of my system, the code is right there and can be built en masse, or piece-meal as I see fit. If BIND breaks (as usual) I can simply jump into the BIND directory and make install the new code without rebuilding the rest of the system.
I also prefer the ports tree to apt. That is a personal preference. The ports tree is a simple and logically laid out method for installing software. The make files are easy to read and understand, and you can figure out what they are doing. apt, well, just is not as simple in my opinion.
I ran Debian on all of my computers for about a year and a half back in the 2.0.x days (before apt really caught on) and it was just too much work. I try to go back to it about once a year or so and just can not do it. Nothing in the system is laid out the way I expect it to be laid out, and to this day, kernel configuration and compiles are a pain in the ass (again a personal opinion).
When all is said and done, Linux can't offer me a good reason to switch back yet. Saying it is "as good" as FreeBSD is hardly a compelling reason. My FreeBSD boxes are so stable I forget they are running sometimes. A Redhat box that I installed about a month ago kept crashing due to a problem with journald (usually at about 4am). I installed FreeBSD on the box, went home, and slept very soundly.
"make buildworld && make installworld && make buildkernel KERNCONF=kernel && make installkernel KERNCONF=kernel" is just too easy.
-sirket
Thank you.
/etc/sysconfig, for example, is a $%$@% nightmare.
I was afraid I was the only person who felt FreeBSD was laid out in a completely logical manner. Every program is where I expect it to be. Every library is where I would put it. System start up and shutdown is simple and logical.
About once a year I get it into my head to go back and try Linux again. Every year I regret my decision. That's not to say Linux isn't powerful or flexible. It certainly is. But trying to deal with the different ways each system handles file system layout, packages, system startup, etc. drives me crazy.
When I have to use Linux I still prefer slackware. A nice basic system with BSD style startup scripts. For a more powerful system I prefer Debian, but deselect and apt still leave a lot to be desired. One of these days I will have to try Gentoo and see if they finally got Linux right.
-sirket
Hard to use? Jesus. The reason I use FreeBSD is because it is EASY to use. Linux drives me fucking batty every time I try to use it. Get some sort of bloody standard for system upgrades and I might use Linux. Get some sort of standard package system and I might use Linux. Get some sort of standard startup scripts and I might use Linux.
Frankly, if you had a hard time using FreeBSD, then noone showed you how to use the system and that is a shame. If you spent more than a few days with a working FreeBSD system and understood how it worked, I doubt you would ever go back to Linux.
-sirket
A helicopter can auto-rotate and land safely.
Performing an autorotation consists of:
1. Reversing the pitch on the main rotor blades. This causes them to build up speed and continues to provide drag to slow the helicopter down. It also causes a forward motion in the helicopter which helps to provide control and allows you to get to a safe landing space.
2. At the last second, the pilot will pull the control yoke backwards arresting the forward motion of the helicopter and adding more momentum to the spinning blades. At the same time, the pilot will reverse the pitch on main rotor blades again. The momentum of the blades will cause them to keep spinning forward, and the now positive angle of attack on the blades will generate significant lift arresting the downward motion.
In fact, the biggest problem is making sure that you do not over correct otherwise you can actually jump back into the air with no momentum left in the blades to stop you the second time.
Hope that helps.
-sirket
Until a large percentage of the public gets screwed royally by a security hole, people are not going to take notice and start auditing their code as they should.
As a side note: I am rather sick and tired of reading about the latest MS IE/OE/Outlook exploit on Bugtraq. There needs to a be seperate versions of Bugtraq for: Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Enough already), and Non-OS elated holes in MS software (We already have Bugtraq-NT).
-sirket
Not to disrespect Linux, but faster development does not necessarily mean better or desirable. For example, Linux vrrpd was a terribly piece of software in comparison to freevrrpd. They are both standalone VRRP implementations but one works and one does not. Unfortunately this has been my experience with a lot of Linux software.
Don't get me wrong, I have seen some truly bizarre stuff happen on FreeBSD systems, just never as often as I see it on my Linux boxes.
-sirket
I think the arrogant jerks that violate the rules of internet RFCs should be outed or blacklisted.
You are absolutely right. Everyone using PPPoE should be banned from using the Internet. PPPoE is a _COMPLETELY_ broken protocol. If enough sites refuse to service people using such a cracked protocol, then maybe it will go away. In fact, I am going to go misconfigure the sites that I administer to make sure that they do not work with PPPoE.
I will not let anyone I know use PPPoE. I have advised every single one of them to get cable modems with DHCP instead.
The telephone companies are the only ones pushing PPPoE. Do we really want a bunch of morons who can't run an analog phone network dictate how the Internet operates? Just about everyone in my family has worked for a Telco, and frankly, I would not let any of them near a computer even if my life depended on it.
PPPoe is here and now and growing EVERY DAY, as people lose the ability and right to have static IP or long DHCP leases.
The "right" to have a static IP? I do not even know what that means. As for long DHCP leases, how about this for an idea, short DHCP leases!
PPPoE is a hack and it should die a horrible death. If you want to use the Internet, get a real internet connection or go back to using AOL.
-sirket
Actually, it runs over any port it wants to. It starts out on 5190. It will then switch to any other port to try to get out.
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Ok they did not go through a LOT of trouble, but they did make it a lot more difficult than it had to be to filter. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is open for debate.
It is a big deal because AOL went through a LOT of trouble to make AOL a pain in the ass to filter with a firewall.
Now they come up with a solution designed to do exactly that? That bothers me.
(You can block access to AOL's login servers, or configure a proxy to block it, but that is not easy when they keep changing the protocol and servers. The fact that AIM operates over port 80 makes it even more difficult to block. MSN and ICQ are worse though because there are more servers to block and they can use almost any port.)
Fair enough.
/usr/local/etc/rc.d which works exactly like /etc/rc.d/rcX.d on SYS V boxes. You simply put an executable script into the directory and it runs at boot time.
./script restart than it is to do it manually. FreeBSD gets around this by keeping the system started utilities simple and sensible. Restarting them usually requires no more than a -HUP so there is no confusion. The /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts should always accept restart as an argument and thus gives you the best of both worlds (ideally).
The advantadge that SYS V style startup scripts give third party vendors is already available in *BSD though. FreeBSD maintains a directory called
The real advantadge to SYS V style scripts is that it is easier to restart a complex service by typing
-sirket