Start gathering old (or at least current) hardware now.
Not necessary. You can simply switch off TCPA. Then of course you won't be allowed to download movies from MPAA-approved-moviesite.com, but that's no different from using old hardware.
The TREAD (Transportation, Recall, Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation) Act requires tire makers to track all of their tires in case they need to recall them.
Ok. Fine. Then give me a document with the serial no. of my tires when i buy them!
I want the option to keep my vote a secret. Imagine all the trouble you would get for voting for someone most people loathed. You would become an outcast.
If we want the legislators to represent the opinions of the people, we can't have exposed voting.
Of course we need to know how our legislators vote in their office, but that's another matter entirely.
Secure Harddisk Eraser is a Linux floppy that overwrites the HD several times with different patterns. Just boot from the floppy, wait 60 seconds and the harddisk will start to erase.
When I can't comment publicly on a product openly advertised and sold in thousands of copies I certainly think it is excessively rigorous. Assuming the EULA was held valid, a violation could very well be punished with a long, expensive and time-consuming trial and the payment of a non-trivial damage. That, in my eyes, is severe. Please note that I haven't even mentioned the associated chilling effects on free speech...
Once the machine is in this state, Fritz can certify it to third parties: for example, he will do an authentication protocol with Disney to prove that his machine is a suitable recipient of `Snow White'. This will mean certifying that the PC is currently running an authorised application program - MediaPlayer, DisneyPlayer, whatever. The Disney server then sends encrypted data, with a key that Fritz will use to unseal it.
If you have no Fritz on your Mobo you can't certify with Disney. (Remember that Fritz needs to authenticate with Disney using a secret key buried somewhere deep down in the silicon)
"I analyzed the RIAA's market data, in particular, the 2001 year-end statistics...First off, unit shipments and revenue were both down. What a focus on total revenue hides is that the per unit revenue rose almost 7%...That puts in familiar economic territory, where a price increase leads to a decline in quantity purchased."
So can you turn TCPA *off* and *on* like a switch, like a jumper, or bios setting? And can you run Windows, Linux, etc. the same way you always did once TCPA bios's becomes the norm?
Yes, you can. The trick is that in a few years no one is going to let you download anything for money, unless the Microsoft-signed Fritz chip on your mobo attests that your system will enforce the limitations they set. Neither will anyone let you do online banking, recieve confidential email or process company documents. Paranoia
This of course means you have to turn TCPA *on*.
It also means you will not be allowed to transfer the MP3 you bought to your portable player without paying extra. (And of course your portable should be "well behaved" as well)
now i'm sure suzzie has worked hard for her digitally remastered films, but just because they were grandpa's films doesn't mean they're hers.
I completely agree that the extended term of copyright is completely ridiculous. In fact, it was ridiculous even before the extension.
However, I see no problem in somebody reversioning a work getting copyright on that version. It's ok with me if Lloyd has some sort of copyright on the remastered films. What's critical is that her right to the remastered version shouldn't stop me from remastering the original work and distributing that.
what you need to do is overwrite the whole harddisk several times with different patterns. Peter Gutmann recomends 35 passes with different patterns. The DoD 5220.22-M NISPOM recomends 3 passes.
Secure Harddisk Eraser implements these 35 or 3 passes on a single floppy. Just boot from the floppy, wait 60 seconds and the harddisk will start to erase.
what you need to do is overwrite the whole harddisk several times with different patterns. Peter Gutmann recomends 35 passes with different patterns. The DoD 5220.22-M NISPOM recomends 3 passes.
Secure Harddisk Eraser implements these 35 or 3 passes on a single floppy. Just boot from the floppy, wait 60 seconds and the harddisk will start to erase.
They must be rich if they can afford to have 80gigs worth of legal copies of their music...
Actually I just checked hard drive prices:
Cheapest available 40GB drive: $93.30
Cheapest available 40GB drive: $120.51
(Note that these prices are converted from DKK)
Since this is a $400 product, I wouldn't halve the storage space just to save 30 bucks.
Stanley Feinbaum, professional journalist and master debater!
Snippets:
Jobs said the browser was "based on standards", "works with any Web site", has much-improved performance over IE (page-loading speed is "three times faster", JavaScript performs twice as fast and it launches "40% faster" - comparisons to Netscape 7.0 shows similar performance gains on the Macintosh platform)
Apple [...] has today sent all changes, along with a detailed changelog, to the KHTML developers.
The interesting thing is that SCO have themselves distributed Linux. This means that if the patents were not "free-for-all" they have infringed on the copyright of the kernel hackers. After all, if they don't obey the GPL they have no right to redistribute. If they really push this I could see a copyright suit coming from the kernel hackers - notably Alan Cox. I don't think SCO would want that...
I've been managing my email at home now for three years, running an SMTP server with a domain pointing at it. I do not have a spam problem, because I know how to manage my own email. Companies I deal with get their own address to contact me by, USENET postings get an email address that expires one week after its been posted.
This is seriously off-topic, but I've been considering putting up at similar system for myself for some time, so I'd like to know a little about your setup.
Is the server at your home or at a hosting company?
How does the process of adding new addresses work?
Can you do this when you're not at home as well?
Have you integrated some of these features into your MUA, or do you login to run scripts whenever you're adding/blocking addresses?
What systems are you using? What would you recommend?
What are your experiences in general - what's cool and what would you have done differently?
If you'd like to share your wisdom we could discuss it on/. (journal comments, whatever) or just drop me a mail adress. (Needs only be valid for 24 hrs.) I could post mine here too, but, you know, spam...;-)
I just think the error shouldn't be allowed to propagate. Besides, I woke up this morning and found out I had mutated into a spelling nazi. I just hate it when that happens...
you'll be unable to have children, because under the DCMA you'll be infringing upon the rights your partner has to her DNA...
Two cases:
1. She uses p-pills. He wants a kid. He neutralizes her pills in some way.
2. He uses condoms. She wants a kid. She punches a hole in his condom.
If this toner thing goes through I can't see anything stopping a DMCA suit in these cases.
It's quite ok with me, if stuff like that is illegal, but under copyright law?!?
(we *did* kick ass in afganistan, _but_ with the help of the Birts and Canadians)
I don't know much about the Afghani war, but I think you forget to mention the Northern Alliance. After all they had been fighting the Taleban for years and were the ones who did most of the (dangerous) groundwork. The Taleban would have lasted a lot longer without an experienced up-and-running enemy ready to channel US support.
You should also mention how many Taleban supporting warlords were probably pretty easily bought off during the conflict. After all, their odds got a lot worse when the US joined the conflict.
What the hell do you think the solution is to keeping these technologies open while a clearly hostile law like the DMCA is on the books?
Oh yeah, now I see, you were right all along:
You can help by...writing to your congressman...Let them know that SMP may make or break whether you can efficiently deploy OpenBSD on your workstations and servers.
Yeah, that's what I oughta do. That'll surely teach'em. On the other hand they might just think I'm trolling...
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Start gathering old (or at least current) hardware now.
Not necessary. You can simply switch off TCPA. Then of course you won't be allowed to download movies from MPAA-approved-moviesite.com, but that's no different from using old hardware.
TCPA technical analysis
The TREAD (Transportation, Recall, Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation) Act requires tire makers to track all of their tires in case they need to recall them.
Ok. Fine. Then give me a document with the serial no. of my tires when i buy them!
The act mandates that car makers closely track tires
What's wrong with bar codes?
I want the option to keep my vote a secret. Imagine all the trouble you would get for voting for someone most people loathed. You would become an outcast.
If we want the legislators to represent the opinions of the people, we can't have exposed voting.
Of course we need to know how our legislators vote in their office, but that's another matter entirely.
Secure Harddisk Eraser is a Linux floppy that overwrites the HD several times with different patterns. Just boot from the floppy, wait 60 seconds and the harddisk will start to erase.
The homepage
Oh yes, I've posted on this before, but that doesn't seem to matter...
When I can't comment publicly on a product openly advertised and sold in thousands of copies I certainly think it is excessively rigorous. Assuming the EULA was held valid, a violation could very well be punished with a long, expensive and time-consuming trial and the payment of a non-trivial damage. That, in my eyes, is severe. Please note that I haven't even mentioned the associated chilling effects on free speech...
If my gut feeling is true, the TCPA enabled apps will probably detect prior-to-TCPA mobo's as *off*.
Yes, of course. From the FAQ:
Once the machine is in this state, Fritz can certify it to third parties: for example, he will do an authentication protocol with Disney to prove that his machine is a suitable recipient of `Snow White'. This will mean certifying that the PC is currently running an authorised application program - MediaPlayer, DisneyPlayer, whatever. The Disney server then sends encrypted data, with a key that Fritz will use to unseal it.
If you have no Fritz on your Mobo you can't certify with Disney. (Remember that Fritz needs to authenticate with Disney using a secret key buried somewhere deep down in the silicon)
here
"I analyzed the RIAA's market data, in particular, the 2001 year-end statistics...First off, unit shipments and revenue were both down. What a focus on total revenue hides is that the per unit revenue rose almost 7%...That puts in familiar economic territory, where a price increase leads to a decline in quantity purchased."
So can you turn TCPA *off* and *on* like a switch, like a jumper, or bios setting? And can you run Windows, Linux, etc. the same way you always did once TCPA bios's becomes the norm?
Yes, you can. The trick is that in a few years no one is going to let you download anything for money, unless the Microsoft-signed Fritz chip on your mobo attests that your system will enforce the limitations they set. Neither will anyone let you do online banking, recieve confidential email or process company documents. Paranoia
This of course means you have to turn TCPA *on*.
It also means you will not be allowed to transfer the MP3 you bought to your portable player without paying extra. (And of course your portable should be "well behaved" as well)
now i'm sure suzzie has worked hard for her digitally remastered films, but just because they were grandpa's films doesn't mean they're hers.
I completely agree that the extended term of copyright is completely ridiculous. In fact, it was ridiculous even before the extension.
However, I see no problem in somebody reversioning a work getting copyright on that version. It's ok with me if Lloyd has some sort of copyright on the remastered films. What's critical is that her right to the remastered version shouldn't stop me from remastering the original work and distributing that.
the service will cost between 30 (US$32) and 35 per flight
So how do I get on the network without paying?
(Yeah, I know immoral, possibly illegal, but a cool project...)
what you need to do is overwrite the whole harddisk several times with different patterns. Peter Gutmann recomends 35 passes with different patterns. The DoD 5220.22-M NISPOM recomends 3 passes.
Secure Harddisk Eraser implements these 35 or 3 passes on a single floppy. Just boot from the floppy, wait 60 seconds and the harddisk will start to erase.
The homepage
what you need to do is overwrite the whole harddisk several times with different patterns. Peter Gutmann recomends 35 passes with different patterns. The DoD 5220.22-M NISPOM recomends 3 passes.
Secure Harddisk Eraser implements these 35 or 3 passes on a single floppy. Just boot from the floppy, wait 60 seconds and the harddisk will start to erase.
The homepage
They must be rich if they can afford to have 80gigs worth of legal copies of their music...
Actually I just checked hard drive prices:
Cheapest available 40GB drive: $93.30
Cheapest available 40GB drive: $120.51
(Note that these prices are converted from DKK)
Since this is a $400 product, I wouldn't halve the storage space just to save 30 bucks.
Stanley Feinbaum, professional journalist and master debater!
You've come to the wrong place...
Read all the gory details
Basically the guy (Jizzbug) "traded" a wacom tablet down from ~USD475 to ~USD100. His legal counsel tells him it's ok...
here
Snippets:
Jobs said the browser was "based on standards", "works with any Web site", has much-improved performance over IE (page-loading speed is "three times faster", JavaScript performs twice as fast and it launches "40% faster" - comparisons to Netscape 7.0 shows similar performance gains on the Macintosh platform)
Apple [...] has today sent all changes, along with a detailed changelog, to the KHTML developers.
Also:
Mail from Safari team to KHTML devs
and Dirk Muellers response
-- With more than 200 comments this is apparently a big thing to the KDE community
The interesting thing is that SCO have themselves distributed Linux. This means that if the patents were not "free-for-all" they have infringed on the copyright of the kernel hackers. After all, if they don't obey the GPL they have no right to redistribute. If they really push this I could see a copyright suit coming from the kernel hackers - notably Alan Cox. I don't think SCO would want that...
the scheme, [...] isn't engraved in stone but an undated weeks-old draft
Sounds like we can still influence the decision. How do we make SCO an example to the world that this is a very bad idea?
Of course, if you live in the EU you still have time to stop software patents altogether.
I've been managing my email at home now for three years, running an SMTP server with a domain pointing at it. I do not have a spam problem, because I know how to manage my own email. Companies I deal with get their own address to contact me by, USENET postings get an email address that expires one week after its been posted.
/. (journal comments, whatever) or just drop me a mail adress. (Needs only be valid for 24 hrs.) I could post mine here too, but, you know, spam... ;-)
This is seriously off-topic, but I've been considering putting up at similar system for myself for some time, so I'd like to know a little about your setup.
Is the server at your home or at a hosting company?
How does the process of adding new addresses work?
Can you do this when you're not at home as well?
Have you integrated some of these features into your MUA, or do you login to run scripts whenever you're adding/blocking addresses?
What systems are you using? What would you recommend?
What are your experiences in general - what's cool and what would you have done differently?
If you'd like to share your wisdom we could discuss it on
Both the linked article and the /. story has it wrong.
If you doubt me compare this with this.
I just think the error shouldn't be allowed to propagate.
Besides, I woke up this morning and found out I had mutated into a spelling nazi. I just hate it when that happens...
you'll be unable to have children, because under the DCMA you'll be infringing upon the rights your partner has to her DNA...
Two cases:
1. She uses p-pills. He wants a kid. He neutralizes her pills in some way.
2. He uses condoms. She wants a kid. She punches a hole in his condom.
If this toner thing goes through I can't see anything stopping a DMCA suit in these cases.
It's quite ok with me, if stuff like that is illegal, but under copyright law?!?
(we *did* kick ass in afganistan, _but_ with the help of the Birts and Canadians)
I don't know much about the Afghani war, but I think you forget to mention the Northern Alliance. After all they had been fighting the Taleban for years and were the ones who did most of the (dangerous) groundwork. The Taleban would have lasted a lot longer without an experienced up-and-running enemy ready to channel US support.
You should also mention how many Taleban supporting warlords were probably pretty easily bought off during the conflict. After all, their odds got a lot worse when the US joined the conflict.
you SHOULD be writing to these people.
Yeah, but about openBSD SMP? I don't think so.
Btw, i have been talking to my legislators on the danish DMCA. Face to face. In a scheduled meeting. What have you done?
What the hell do you think the solution is to keeping these technologies open while a clearly hostile law like the DMCA is on the books?
Oh yeah, now I see, you were right all along:
You can help by...writing to your congressman...Let them know that SMP may make or break whether you can efficiently deploy OpenBSD on your workstations and servers.
Yeah, that's what I oughta do. That'll surely teach'em. On the other hand they might just think I'm trolling...
This is the 2nd time karmawarrior posts this
The last part about "getting off your rear" has been used numerous times in his comments.
Not a stupid opinion, just troll.