Freenet can't get donations through Paypal anymore. So... less money to spend towards development/bandwidth, assuming that's what their using the donations for.
Little Snitch is good for preventing anything from phoning home. Does have slightly annoying behavior unless it's registered, however. Anyone know of an OSS program to do this?
This sounds similar to the recent trojan horse proof-of-concept.
Not really, no. The point of that was that it was a application that looked like an mp3. This is just a application with a misleading name/icon. Anyone write code that erases a users home folder and call it Microsoft Word.
Of course you do, as long as that player is an iPod--just like it outlines in the iTunes Music Store contract you agreed to. What... you wanted to use your non-iPod player? Then why did you AGREE to the contract?
Because I knew I could break the encryption and use it in my non-iPod player.
If you want to buy music and listen to it on my non-iPod player, no one's stopping you--there's plenty of stores where you can buy CDs to rip. The iTMS is a service, not a God-given right, and if you don't agree to the terms of the contract, nobody's forcing you to use it.
Guess what, if I want to buy music from iTMS, crack it, and listen to it on my non-iPod player, no one's stopping me then ether. No, it isn't a God-given right but we have government given rights over certain uses of things we've purchased.
Now, I don't know for sure if, legally, this kind of format shifting would fall under fair use but I believe that it should. I think practically, no one's going to care and ethically, it's fine.
Oh, your right. I missed that part. Apple has said that a considerable percentage of their profits go straight to the RIAA. Plus with DRM, and the talk of hiking up the price and bundling more songs, this could be a huge advantage for Sony. Well, here's hoping they have the testicular fortitude to take advantage of it.
Uh, you make it sound like they have a choice. The secret is, the restrictions are there because of the RIAA, not Sony, Apple etc. Sure what you suggested would be very nice, but the RIAA would never go for it and without their massive catalog your music store isn't going to do well at all.
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I have NO idea how that space got in there...
Not your fault. Slashcode does that itself whenever there's a long enough unbroken string of characters, to stop page-widening posts.
OGG isn't "where it's at" because everybody is too afraid to "innovate" and blaze a new path by taking a chance on an unknown, even a higher-quality, less expensive one. You'd think Apple would try this, but they are heading towards DRM, rather than away from it. But there's no reason iTunes and the iPod can't support BOTH. You can have DRM for songs you buy from iTMS, and no DRM on your own CDs you burn.
Sorry to be argumentative, but you have no idea what you're talking about. OGG vs AAC has nothing to do with DRM. Apple adds a FairPlay DRM wrapper around AAC, they could certainly have done that with OGGs. You're right that they could and should allow the iPod to play OGG, but AACs can just as easily be non-drm. The cds you rip yourself into AAC won't have DRM. And you can even burn your own CDs with music you buy from the iTMS.
Dear lord, I've been modded up for mistakenly repeating something from the post. Well, as long I have this chance I'd like a pony too. I'll name her princess and I'll ride her every day!
I've read both of these books and (nominally) enjoyed them as far as the story was concerned, but on the whole, both of them left a bad taste in my mouth because of Stephenson's inability to tell a story without injecting his own political viewpoint into it. Take for example heterosexuality. Both books feature sympathetic and heroic characters (Jack Shaftoe and Bobby Shaftoe) that are heterosexuals. However, their heterosexuality has nothing to do with the story. Why mention it at all? I mean, Bobby sleeps with two different women in the book! Stephenson is obviously hitting out over the head with his pro-heterosexual agenda. Why can't we just have good old fashion books about upstanding Christians of undisclosed sexuality?
Didn't see it mentioned so, The Metaweb is Stephenson's wiki about Quicksilver (presumably information on the rest of the trilogy will be added). It's very interesting, has all kinds of information on the people and ideas in the book. Especially the annotations, add a lot of interesting background and details.
Actually, 90% of Mac users wouldn't be able to do that since the root account isn't even accessible by default and Apple purposefully makes it hard to login as root. My family members who use MacOSX don't even know what "root" is.
Well, root isn't enabled by default, but if you're using an administrator account the system can just pop up a dialog box asking you for your (not the root) password and execute using sudo. And more apps than really should ask for this on install.
Well to be about the eighth person to chime in with my opinion: It sounds like correlation implies causation (or cum hoc ergo propter hoc). The fact that high usability is found with low security and low usability is found with high security doesn't necessarily mean that one causes the other.
Well, the same could easily be said about 'repurposing' crowbars to break into homes. Most tools can be used for evil to some degree. Unless I'm missing your point.
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Conversely, life is too short to spend part of it working so you can buy a Laptop, iPod, cell phone and have them stolen.
Well, equilibrium rips off everything from Fahrenheit 451 to 1984 to The Matrix. Still an entertaining movie though.
Just FYI, you don't have to do the thing with copying a playlist. You can just choose Open Stream from the advanced menu and put in the URL.
Dang, you should've registered Paypalsuckssucks.com :) (And if someone disagrees with you, they can just get Paypalsuckssucksalsosucks.com)
Freenet can't get donations through Paypal anymore. So... less money to spend towards development/bandwidth, assuming that's what their using the donations for.
Or Apple for that matter. :-)
Exactly, that makes no sense. They must mean they couldn't rip it... oh wait
Little Snitch is good for preventing anything from phoning home. Does have slightly annoying behavior unless it's registered, however. Anyone know of an OSS program to do this?
Yep, it comes with strings. You have to go to the terminal to use it however, which most people aren't going to do.
Not really, no. The point of that was that it was a application that looked like an mp3. This is just a application with a misleading name/icon. Anyone write code that erases a users home folder and call it Microsoft Word.
Because I knew I could break the encryption and use it in my non-iPod player.
If you want to buy music and listen to it on my non-iPod player, no one's stopping you--there's plenty of stores where you can buy CDs to rip. The iTMS is a service, not a God-given right, and if you don't agree to the terms of the contract, nobody's forcing you to use it.
Guess what, if I want to buy music from iTMS, crack it, and listen to it on my non-iPod player, no one's stopping me then ether. No, it isn't a God-given right but we have government given rights over certain uses of things we've purchased.
Now, I don't know for sure if, legally, this kind of format shifting would fall under fair use but I believe that it should. I think practically, no one's going to care and ethically, it's fine.
Oh, your right. I missed that part. Apple has said that a considerable percentage of their profits go straight to the RIAA. Plus with DRM, and the talk of hiking up the price and bundling more songs, this could be a huge advantage for Sony. Well, here's hoping they have the testicular fortitude to take advantage of it.
Uh, you make it sound like they have a choice. The secret is, the restrictions are there because of the RIAA, not Sony, Apple etc. Sure what you suggested would be very nice, but the RIAA would never go for it and without their massive catalog your music store isn't going to do well at all.
Not your fault. Slashcode does that itself whenever there's a long enough unbroken string of characters, to stop page-widening posts.
Sorry to be argumentative, but you have no idea what you're talking about. OGG vs AAC has nothing to do with DRM. Apple adds a FairPlay DRM wrapper around AAC, they could certainly have done that with OGGs. You're right that they could and should allow the iPod to play OGG, but AACs can just as easily be non-drm. The cds you rip yourself into AAC won't have DRM. And you can even burn your own CDs with music you buy from the iTMS.
The SecuriKey might do what you're talking about. Uses USB.
I see you've discovered the second Slashdot Karma secret :-)
Dear lord, I've been modded up for mistakenly repeating something from the post. Well, as long I have this chance I'd like a pony too. I'll name her princess and I'll ride her every day!
I've read both of these books and (nominally) enjoyed them as far as the story was concerned, but on the whole, both of them left a bad taste in my mouth because of Stephenson's inability to tell a story without injecting his own political viewpoint into it. Take for example heterosexuality. Both books feature sympathetic and heroic characters (Jack Shaftoe and Bobby Shaftoe) that are heterosexuals. However, their heterosexuality has nothing to do with the story. Why mention it at all? I mean, Bobby sleeps with two different women in the book! Stephenson is obviously hitting out over the head with his pro-heterosexual agenda. Why can't we just have good old fashion books about upstanding Christians of undisclosed sexuality?
Crap, ignore the above, I seem to be blind today.
Didn't see it mentioned so, The Metaweb is Stephenson's wiki about Quicksilver (presumably information on the rest of the trilogy will be added). It's very interesting, has all kinds of information on the people and ideas in the book. Especially the annotations, add a lot of interesting background and details.
Well, root isn't enabled by default, but if you're using an administrator account the system can just pop up a dialog box asking you for your (not the root) password and execute using sudo. And more apps than really should ask for this on install.
Well to be about the eighth person to chime in with my opinion: It sounds like correlation implies causation (or cum hoc ergo propter hoc). The fact that high usability is found with low security and low usability is found with high security doesn't necessarily mean that one causes the other.
Dude, that would be a perfect name for a band.
Well, the same could easily be said about 'repurposing' crowbars to break into homes. Most tools can be used for evil to some degree. Unless I'm missing your point.