Just because that's a perceived maximum doesn't mean you'd be able to determine this unless you sat in front of your monitor with a magnifying glass. These arguments are always being thrown in the loop with CCD's and crap like that.
The human eye can only interpret a certain amount of pixels in the first place so this is extremely obsolete to anyone in the world. While some scientist may beg to differ on end no one would benefit from this whatsoever. Well actually Intel would since they'd be suckering someone into spending 200k on this monitor. I'll pass sirs.
a typical person has a maximum resolution of about 17000 point sources per inch. This doesn't really equate to pixels, but, pixels can be changed into pixels per inch, and that should be close enough.
"Our goal is to enable consumers to legally download and record music to CD in a consumer-friendly manner while fairly compensating copyright owners and creators," Duea said, noting that he hopes to see deployment by year's end.
By that time, it is estimated that up to 5 billion blank CDs will have been shipped in the year in support of an estimated installed base of 100 million CD recorders in personal computers.
So in essence this company thinks that either by offering a program to burn mp3's to cd will halt what they call illegal thievery? I doubt it in fact why would someone who allegedly steals cd's go out and buy this software when they could continue with their normal bypassing ways.
Is it me or does this reak with this notion;
Roxio: "Let's sucker the RIAA into falling for our Overkillware program and make millions if they think people will stop what they think is illegal ripping off of artists."
By creating these so called programs I personally think they sort of force people to go out and rip more since your sort of telling someone USE THIS TO DO THIS. People should have choices, and while I do see the pro's and con's of Napster I also see somebody somewhere along the lines of Roxio, the Artists complaining, RIAA, $INSERT_TARGET_HERE don't have a really good clue yet.
Maybe these people should go and read Bruce Schneier's "The Futility of Digital Copy Prevention" article word for word, and come to a better conclusion instead of thinking some lawsuit, or some program is going to be the answer to people ripping mp3's and doing whatever the heck they want with them.
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Who says Gimp is so restricted and cannot achieve Photoshop like images. FYI I created (12345) some pretty cool graphics over Gimp, and have used Photoshop in the past when I was a graphic designer. Sure it doesn't have all the features as PS, but provided its an Open Source project worked on by those who contribute on their own spare time, I would say it's good enough to get most jobs done.
PGP is the logical solution to use at any cost. Maybe you should try explaining the situation to the other party entirely in order for them to understand the importance of privacy, and how far agencies will go to snoop information on all levels.
Something many people didn't hear about Echelon was the fact that it was being used to snoop against businesses by the US in order to position themselves better in foreign and local markets.
Company: Airbus
Agency: NSA
Date: 1994
What: Information on an order for aircraft concluded between Airbus and the Saudi Arabian national airline
How: Interception of faxes and telephone calls
between the negotiating parties
Action: Forwarding of information to Airbus's American competitors, Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas
Result: The Americans won the contract (US$ 6 bn)
Source: "Antennen gedreht", Wirtschaftswoche Nr.46
Companies turn a blind eye thinking that Encryption is something criminals use because government makes it seem that way. However think about the following scenario: You work for a company who's just discovered an innovation worth millions and you need to keep in touch with others in offices of your company worldwide but do not want anyone capturing your business plans. Whether its government or a competitor, you're going to want to implement security at all costs. What do you use?
Web based services won't cut sending intraoffice mail because the third party (Hushmail) can read it, (see Is hushmail secure?) using PGP is the safest bet by all means.
Maybe what you should do is make people aware of whats really going on, and help them understand the value of importance behind using PGP. And FYI it's simple as all hell to use, my mother is even using PGP (no bullshit either) and she knows squat about computing.
To Simplex, that means shorter wires. By its own estimates, wire length is reduced by 20 percent on average using diagonal interconnects. The result is a 10 percent jump in chip performance, 20 percent reduction in power consumption and 30 percent more chips per wafer, due to the smaller size, according to the company.
I wonder if anyone has looked into using fiber wires instead of copper in a PC. We all know fiber carries more data over networking lines, but I wonder how it would carry on sending light strands of electrical currency from chips to wherever.
I'm sure someone has probably attempted this, but to date I've seen nothing on it, maybe someone would care to share a link or something.
They don't mean compression as in bzip or gzip, they've patented a method to lower the file size of audio which you can play on demand not bunzip or gunzip.
It's the comments like these that make me wonder how biased some people can be when dealing with reality surrounding these cases, so here's a scenario for you:
You create a file folder mechanism to store data. This system takes files and says stores them in the following order (using your login name) h a r d a k e r and by placing them this way saves x amount of space. Now you patent this since it saves space and is innovative. Along comes someone else and takes your entire idea and recreates it word for word except they don't use your name to store the data they use m i c r o s o m e t h i n g...
Is it fair for them to take your work and do this? Sure they could create something similar but by ripping your work word for word without your permission their wrong plain and simply.
It's fun to have a laugh at the expense of others but in a situation like this where everyone is suing everyone else its only a matter of time before things become so full of misplaced regulations, someone will sue you literally saving a file. This is the scenario you want to avoid
That's right effectively immediately I'm going to sue everyone who uses the alphabet to type their letters to submit to the courts.
Ok enough fscking around. Of course someone shouldn't be able to sue for basic things like math, etc., but when someone creates something unique and patents it they should weigh the factors entirely and determine whether or not someone else is going to rip it up and use it on another product. Wait... That's stealing the entire concept isn't it? So what's the big deal about another company trying to protect something they've worked hard to invent.
Don't lose site of the issue by claiming that someone is patenting math because that's not the case so one shouldn't be so biased. If you invented something in a method previously unfound and patent it, you have every right to protect what is yours. If you don't like it, then you should set out to create something on your own without having to rip someone elses work plain and simple.
Too many people want to be legal experts here without looking at the full scope of a case, and often everyone gets it distorted for many reasons. So if you invent someone would it be right if someone infringes on something you worked hard to perfect? Place yourself in the same situation as the company who owns the patent.
Yes patents are meant to innovate ideas not duplicate them and rewrite your name over them.
Couple this with the long hours, the draconian employment contracts, and the insane deadlines, and I begin to wonder if this guy has a serious point.
First off let's get real about the situation, no one is forced to work anywhere, well at least not in the United States. If a company you're working for places you in situations like these, then you are the idiot for staying there at any case. There are jobs out there and anyone who says there aren't is probably under qualified to move along unto another company that is going to treat them better.
As for Draconian contracts, again taking a look back to just two years ago, and even with some companies up to date, one has to stop and give themselves a reality check, scenario: You drive a truck all day breaking your back lifting heavy boxes for 14 hours, salary about 40,000.00. You run around all day trying to catch criminals, average salary for a cop 35,000.00.
Take a look at a typical programmer, Unix admin, network engineer; 50,000 - 150,000.00 without having to break your back, duck bullets, etc. Atop that most companies give you healthy benefits, cool offices, gizmos galore.
Having my fair share of being `around' sometimes I stop and wonder how I even get paid my salary when things have become so easy for me. One thing I always am is humble about the situation since I see how much worse things could be. So to this guy and his write up, I think he took a specific situation overboard without looking at the entire picture.
The Futility of Digital Copy Prevention
Bruce Schneier
Music, videos, books on the Internet! Freely available to anyone without paying! The entertainment industry sees services like Napster as the death of its business, and it's using every technical and legal means possible to prevail against them. They want to implement widespread copy prevention of digital files, so that people can view or listen to content on their computer but can't copy or distribute it.
Abstractly, it is an impossible task. All entertainment media on the Internet (like everything else on the Internet) is just bits: ones and zeros. Bits are inherently copyable, easily and repeatedly. If you have a digital file -- text, music, video, or whatever -- you can make as many copies of that file as you want, do whatever you want with the copies. This is a natural law of the digital world, and makes copying on the Internet different from copying Rolex watches or Louis Vuitton luggage.
What the entertainment industry is trying to do is to use technology to contradict that natural law. They want a practical way to make copying hard enough to save their existing business. But they are doomed to fail.
Now if someone would only use robots for something as useful as teaching Dubya to speak correctly we'd benefit.
Anyways I'd love to see the following 10 robots to be created within the next few years.
TrollBot -- monitors the ip addresses of/. trolls then sends pissed off bots to their houses to teach em all a lesson
FairUseBot -- monitors bogus patent claims then visits the companies with bogus lawsuits and teaches them a lesson
VCBot -- cons more VC companies into dumping money as they did in the mid - late 90's.
ScriptKiddieBot -- monitors h4x0rs then reveals their entire life's information including SS, Addresses, etc, so webmasters can find the luzers and beat them
SourcePurgeBot -- monitors Source Forge for incomplete programs people started and never finished, tracks the (l)user and teaches them a lesson
JerrySpringerBot -- monitors the TV show and teaches all of those retards a lesson
RIAABot -- greps the Internet for the word Napster and threatens to sue everyone forcing a showdown between RIAABot and FairUseBot which can be televised
EmbedBot -- searches every single web page on the ner with embedded midi audio files in the source then tracks them and smacks em all silly
ScientologyBot -- continously posts on every forum around the world maintaining the lie that Scientology is not a cult, and John Travolta is a good actor. This bot also gets into showdowns with FairUseBot, but is the funniest bot to watch
Slashbot -- visits a site prior to being posted on/. and makes a mirror of an article to reduce the/. effect
"authorities were deluged with complaints from Lineage gamers-tells of a 14-year-old runaway"
"A number of the 16-year-old's gang sport the close-cropped haircuts"
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Blame the game makers, movie makers, music makers, blame em all. However don't you dare say a fscking thing about the good parents who teach kids right from wrong.
Don't talk about the types of families these kids are coming from because that's just downright insulting of any media outlet. You wouldn't want to read a farily written informative article now would you? Shame on you
Look when game makers, movie makers, etc., do their thing, they aren't in their right minds. We need more Disney to teach kids morals, not some more violent material from these scumbag corporations flooding the market and forcing our kids to be killers, thugs, etc.
For crying out loud we're parents, and we don't need the task of teaching kids right from wrong, morals and ethics. Thats the job of others god damnit.
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Well I have my own Cisco based [123] information which sums up networking to a tee. Security Focus, Packet Storm, SpyKing, and Cryptome all cover the other areas for information when I need it. Is it me or in the past 2 years did everyone jump on the "Hacker" bandwagon writing books on information that's already a point and click away? Not taking anything away from the book, but Information Security Management Handbook 2001, Cisco's Routing TCP/IP, and other security books in my library have done me justice. Makes I guess a nice intro for newer users, but personally I don't like books with "Hacker" in them, they tend to be geared for those with little clues, and who are often too lazy or dumb to find information and study it on their own.
People sometimes only hear what they want to, never taking the time to look at facts. Logically no one can dispute what I'm saying here because no one can come to my house and see my PC is mp3 free, and my cd racks are full of songs.
It's solely the petty non informative idiots who add comments without actually having a clue. Funniest thing though is when it's done anonymously since it goes to show their lack of actually having any fruitful input, and adds a stable level of "It's hard to believe some people are just so fscking stupid it hurts" to the world.
Just to let you know I'm far from homophobic so if the word gay offends you then maybe you should think about how you read things. I've got plenty of gay friends and I could care a rats ass about their sexuality as long as their comfortable with themselves. So if you took it that way sorry to burst your bubble but your wrong, I'm not a homophobe.
Im from New York City where when we say words like nigga we don't mean a degrading term for blacks. Like when we say "That's my bitch" we're not saying a particular girl is a slut or demeaning woman, its just the way I talk. Don't like it pass it by.
How many songs do you know with the same titles in them? I know of plenty and when I want to find a song and am unsure of the name, Napster helps my ass out royally making sure not only its the right song, but right person too.
Now how about a twist on this. Say your an American in Europe or vice versa and have little access to the songs you favored in your home town. Why shouldn't you be able to find it on mp3 for your own enjoyment? No one on Napster is making money off anything any way you want to slice the pie.
Now as for the finality to my follow up,, don't tell me how I use Napster since I'm the one who's using it. I make a hefty salary and can afford to buy cd's at will, however I do enjoy being able to look up a song, perhaps preview the entire cd before I buy it. I've never used Napster to record onto cd because it's just plain tacky and gay.
Its easy for anyone to point the fingers at Napster when this situation comes into play since news media outlets always depict a single sided view of a Napster user. It seems every single story the refer to users, those interviewed are almost always some sort of unemployed type (mainly young user). As I've stated before, when I use Napster I use it to find a name of a song that I'm unsure before I buy it, or a song someone else mentioned to me, etc., and almost always if I find something I want I purchase it. Look I'm sure there are thousands more who use it with similar intentions, and it's those users you never see interviewed, not because it doesn't exist, but because it doesn't make a juicy story as compared to someone who they pass of as a thief.
Now taking a look at the entire scenario going down, one could also say music sales are down because tech jobs are down, and many people are trying to save in a slumping economy as opposed to spending dot-com-like dollars on music.
If people don't realize how twisted media distorts issues here's my example. About 3 weeks ago some guy emailed me from Yahoo Magazine wanting to do a story about the China/US hax0r war between script kiddies that was overfabricated. Well I was more than happy to speak to him when I saw it, however when I received the phone call the entire interview seemed to go the route of "Well give me some juicy examples of h4x0rs" not the truth about the entire situation. It sort of left a bad taste in my mouth to see that all media really wants to do is sensationalize the issues.
So is Napster to blame here? No. When TDK, Maxell, Sony came out with cassettes companies most likely expressed the same gripes, and as time has shown nothing big came out of it. Now I know not all Napster users are angels in fact I know some do rip and burn mp3's however I would never settle for the quality of an MP3 versus buying a CD since I get the case with information, it sounds clearer, and if I were an artist I would hope someone would extend the same courtesy to me and buy the cd.
That he's possibly using this as a test to see what people want in order to give him ideas to capitalize when he writes his next book then. Smart idea. FYI I did go browse the site, maybe I'm just biased since I don't do the whole role playing, fantasy land gigs. Like I said I don't want to take anything away from anyone since I'd like to sincerely see things work out, however as a book, or even an interactive website book, it still doesn't impress me. I had more fun with those older books I had in elementary where you had to choose the page for the story to continue.
Nothing fancy or high tech, but I would rather read a dozen of those and dish out money for them than someone's website. And especially since I'm ultra suspicious of security regarding distributing a credit card number over the net.
Sorry to sound like a pessimist here, but online books in my opinion are not that much to look forward to, well at least if I were an author I wouldn't look to creating an online book for simple reasons.
We've grown into reading books not an entire online book so its sort of second nature to pick up a nice soft cover or hard cover to read. When you go to work on the morning for those who commute via say buses, trains, etc., your going to want to read a book, not turn on a laptop to finish up on a chapter you didn't finish or start a new one.
When your going to lunch on a nice sunny day in the park, why would you want to lug around a laptop to read the book, when you could again grab a softcover or hardcover and enjoy the day without the added overhaul. This doesn't include having a network connection to connect to the site unless your going to fetch/wget the entire book beforehand.
Also, how much real money can you make before people start sharing account information (username/passwords) and your thoughts of making money suddenly get shot down the tubes by some moron with a w4r3z page?
What would be nice is a combination book with access to the online version so when you are at work and can't afford to be seen reading a book you could download a chapter, or maybe if your sitting behind your pc bored you could open it up, however an e-book I think will fail.
Also note that recent studies have shown that online magazines and newspapers don't fare as well as `old fashioned' purchases of the original. People want true content some times not just packets. And finally, that shit'd hurt my eyes reading an entire book online. I tried with "The Big Breach" finally ended up printing the darn thing to read it as if it were a real book.
Well good luck to the site, I hope its entertaining but you won't catch me there any time in this life.
"The days are very long and you have to keep yourself busy," said Jose Maria Casado, who used to install cellular antennas.
One can sympathize with the protesters, but they have to understand, that's business, and over here in the US it does happen regularly (people getting laid off without pay) and shamelessly by many in the technology industry [see FuckedCompany] however most people here simply move on to other jobs.
Are things that bad in Spain where they have to protest in such fashion because there are no jobs or something? Personally I would get another job and move on with life. Perhaps after I got another job I would use my own money to take them to court in an appropriate fashion as opposed to sitting around waiting for someone to listen.
Yes I know protesting for a cause is semi politically correct, but being without work isn't going to pay my bills, and I'll be damned if I forcefully made myself live in a camp town when I could do as I said, make money then take them to court. They're lucky Spain doesn't have FEMA over there or that shit'd be over quickly
I have a friend who uses a Cisco 7000 as a coffee table (I'll see if I can have him snag a digital image and repost it later when he's online) and the bitch is, the router is fully functional... another who uses an old Performa with a slot cut for a tunnel attached to an Adam for his hamsters playground, and recently seen a Mac Classic at Tekserve being used as a goldfish tank before.
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Well at least Dell contributed some of their laptops to be used for firemen training courses </smartass>
To be fair, he actually makes a few pretty good points.
To quote an above posting, the article was rather bland and could have been written up by someone who didn't even ask Dennis questions, being that only 3 or 4 sentences were quoting him.
Now for my rants on the redundancies, most of the work is pre-determined for most astronauts before they go to space, so on most missions such as the one to attach an arm to the shuttle, it should be common sense to all that nothing more needs to be done, or is going to be done, once their initial tasks are complete.
Placing man on the space station is a costly job for NASA, and it's surprising no one raises a stinker about how much of it is actually overkill. NASA should stop beating around the bush, it seems one of the main reasons they likely didn't want Tito up there is because they kno(e)w he would raise questions about the lack of actual science NASA is doing. Meaning if he showed them up, on how much wasteless money they're spending, they'd likely go through budget cuts or something.
Personally I'm glad he went through the Russians since it boosts their economy when needed. Jealousy is a bitch and NASA it seems is nothing more than a jealous bunch of kids angered by the facts that they can't be the sole space travelers.
So what do you do when you can get away with it? Simple send an astronaut to the moon at the rate of a couple million, ask for more money and pocket it. If the government is too lack to notice the overblown amount of money being budgeted for these programs then that's their problem, however I wish they'd find a way to halt from using my tax dollars on such bullshit.
Its about time the USA stopped funding NASA and Astrology altogether.
He thinks this program was created by Miss Cleo who (according to him) was reading her tarot cards and predicted to him "Duh fayte of dee planitz iz inna yore handz tell dem at slashdot.org to call me now for my free psychic readin"
Slashdot Mirror
Just because that's a perceived maximum doesn't mean you'd be able to determine this unless you sat in front of your monitor with a magnifying glass. These arguments are always being thrown in the loop with CCD's and crap like that.
The human eye can only interpret a certain amount of pixels in the first place so this is extremely obsolete to anyone in the world. While some scientist may beg to differ on end no one would benefit from this whatsoever. Well actually Intel would since they'd be suckering someone into spending 200k on this monitor. I'll pass sirs.
The Joy of Visual Perception
So in essence this company thinks that either by offering a program to burn mp3's to cd will halt what they call illegal thievery? I doubt it in fact why would someone who allegedly steals cd's go out and buy this software when they could continue with their normal bypassing ways.
Is it me or does this reak with this notion;
By creating these so called programs I personally think they sort of force people to go out and rip more since your sort of telling someone USE THIS TO DO THIS. People should have choices, and while I do see the pro's and con's of Napster I also see somebody somewhere along the lines of Roxio, the Artists complaining, RIAA, $INSERT_TARGET_HERE don't have a really good clue yet.
Maybe these people should go and read Bruce Schneier's "The Futility of Digital Copy Prevention" article word for word, and come to a better conclusion instead of thinking some lawsuit, or some program is going to be the answer to people ripping mp3's and doing whatever the heck they want with them.
Who says Gimp is so restricted and cannot achieve Photoshop like images. FYI I created (1 2 3 4 5) some pretty cool graphics over Gimp, and have used Photoshop in the past when I was a graphic designer. Sure it doesn't have all the features as PS, but provided its an Open Source project worked on by those who contribute on their own spare time, I would say it's good enough to get most jobs done.
PGP is the logical solution to use at any cost. Maybe you should try explaining the situation to the other party entirely in order for them to understand the importance of privacy, and how far agencies will go to snoop information on all levels.
Something many people didn't hear about Echelon was the fact that it was being used to snoop against businesses by the US in order to position themselves better in foreign and local markets.
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Companies turn a blind eye thinking that Encryption is something criminals use because government makes it seem that way. However think about the following scenario: You work for a company who's just discovered an innovation worth millions and you need to keep in touch with others in offices of your company worldwide but do not want anyone capturing your business plans. Whether its government or a competitor, you're going to want to implement security at all costs. What do you use?
Web based services won't cut sending intraoffice mail because the third party (Hushmail) can read it, (see Is hushmail secure?) using PGP is the safest bet by all means.
Maybe what you should do is make people aware of whats really going on, and help them understand the value of importance behind using PGP. And FYI it's simple as all hell to use, my mother is even using PGP (no bullshit either) and she knows squat about computing.
To Simplex, that means shorter wires. By its own estimates, wire length is reduced by 20 percent on average using diagonal interconnects. The result is a 10 percent jump in chip performance, 20 percent reduction in power consumption and 30 percent more chips per wafer, due to the smaller size, according to the company.
I wonder if anyone has looked into using fiber wires instead of copper in a PC. We all know fiber carries more data over networking lines, but I wonder how it would carry on sending light strands of electrical currency from chips to wherever.
I'm sure someone has probably attempted this, but to date I've seen nothing on it, maybe someone would care to share a link or something.
They don't mean compression as in bzip or gzip, they've patented a method to lower the file size of audio which you can play on demand not bunzip or gunzip.
It's the comments like these that make me wonder how biased some people can be when dealing with reality surrounding these cases, so here's a scenario for you:
You create a file folder mechanism to store data. This system takes files and says stores them in the following order (using your login name) h a r d a k e r and by placing them this way saves x amount of space. Now you patent this since it saves space and is innovative. Along comes someone else and takes your entire idea and recreates it word for word except they don't use your name to store the data they use m i c r o s o m e t h i n g
Is it fair for them to take your work and do this? Sure they could create something similar but by ripping your work word for word without your permission their wrong plain and simply.
It's fun to have a laugh at the expense of others but in a situation like this where everyone is suing everyone else its only a matter of time before things become so full of misplaced regulations, someone will sue you literally saving a file. This is the scenario you want to avoid
That's right effectively immediately I'm going to sue everyone who uses the alphabet to type their letters to submit to the courts.
Ok enough fscking around. Of course someone shouldn't be able to sue for basic things like math, etc., but when someone creates something unique and patents it they should weigh the factors entirely and determine whether or not someone else is going to rip it up and use it on another product. Wait... That's stealing the entire concept isn't it? So what's the big deal about another company trying to protect something they've worked hard to invent.
Don't lose site of the issue by claiming that someone is patenting math because that's not the case so one shouldn't be so biased. If you invented something in a method previously unfound and patent it, you have every right to protect what is yours. If you don't like it, then you should set out to create something on your own without having to rip someone elses work plain and simple.
Too many people want to be legal experts here without looking at the full scope of a case, and often everyone gets it distorted for many reasons. So if you invent someone would it be right if someone infringes on something you worked hard to perfect? Place yourself in the same situation as the company who owns the patent.
Yes patents are meant to innovate ideas not duplicate them and rewrite your name over them.
Couple this with the long hours, the draconian employment contracts, and the insane deadlines, and I begin to wonder if this guy has a serious point.
First off let's get real about the situation, no one is forced to work anywhere, well at least not in the United States. If a company you're working for places you in situations like these, then you are the idiot for staying there at any case. There are jobs out there and anyone who says there aren't is probably under qualified to move along unto another company that is going to treat them better.
As for Draconian contracts, again taking a look back to just two years ago, and even with some companies up to date, one has to stop and give themselves a reality check, scenario: You drive a truck all day breaking your back lifting heavy boxes for 14 hours, salary about 40,000.00. You run around all day trying to catch criminals, average salary for a cop 35,000.00.
Take a look at a typical programmer, Unix admin, network engineer; 50,000 - 150,000.00 without having to break your back, duck bullets, etc. Atop that most companies give you healthy benefits, cool offices, gizmos galore.
Having my fair share of being `around' sometimes I stop and wonder how I even get paid my salary when things have become so easy for me. One thing I always am is humble about the situation since I see how much worse things could be. So to this guy and his write up, I think he took a specific situation overboard without looking at the entire picture.
The Futility of Digital Copy Prevention
Bruce Schneier
Music, videos, books on the Internet! Freely available to anyone without paying! The entertainment industry sees services like Napster as the death of its business, and it's using every technical and legal means possible to prevail against them. They want to implement widespread copy prevention of digital files, so that people can view or listen to content on their computer but can't copy or distribute it.
Abstractly, it is an impossible task. All entertainment media on the Internet (like everything else on the Internet) is just bits: ones and zeros. Bits are inherently copyable, easily and repeatedly. If you have a digital file -- text, music, video, or whatever -- you can make as many copies of that file as you want, do whatever you want with the copies. This is a natural law of the digital world, and makes copying on the Internet different from copying Rolex watches or Louis Vuitton luggage.
What the entertainment industry is trying to do is to use technology to contradict that natural law. They want a practical way to make copying hard enough to save their existing business. But they are doomed to fail.
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Anyways I'd love to see the following 10 robots to be created within the next few years.
"authorities were deluged with complaints from Lineage gamers-tells of a 14-year-old runaway"
"A number of the 16-year-old's gang sport the close-cropped haircuts"
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Blame the game makers, movie makers, music makers, blame em all. However don't you dare say a fscking thing about the good parents who teach kids right from wrong.
Don't talk about the types of families these kids are coming from because that's just downright insulting of any media outlet. You wouldn't want to read a farily written informative article now would you? Shame on you
Look when game makers, movie makers, etc., do their thing, they aren't in their right minds. We need more Disney to teach kids morals, not some more violent material from these scumbag corporations flooding the market and forcing our kids to be killers, thugs, etc.
For crying out loud we're parents, and we don't need the task of teaching kids right from wrong, morals and ethics. Thats the job of others god damnit.
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Well I have my own Cisco based [1 2 3] information which sums up networking to a tee. Security Focus, Packet Storm, SpyKing, and Cryptome all cover the other areas for information when I need it. Is it me or in the past 2 years did everyone jump on the "Hacker" bandwagon writing books on information that's already a point and click away? Not taking anything away from the book, but Information Security Management Handbook 2001, Cisco's Routing TCP/IP, and other security books in my library have done me justice. Makes I guess a nice intro for newer users, but personally I don't like books with "Hacker" in them, they tend to be geared for those with little clues, and who are often too lazy or dumb to find information and study it on their own.
People sometimes only hear what they want to, never taking the time to look at facts. Logically no one can dispute what I'm saying here because no one can come to my house and see my PC is mp3 free, and my cd racks are full of songs.
It's solely the petty non informative idiots who add comments without actually having a clue. Funniest thing though is when it's done anonymously since it goes to show their lack of actually having any fruitful input, and adds a stable level of "It's hard to believe some people are just so fscking stupid it hurts" to the world.
Just to let you know I'm far from homophobic so if the word gay offends you then maybe you should think about how you read things. I've got plenty of gay friends and I could care a rats ass about their sexuality as long as their comfortable with themselves. So if you took it that way sorry to burst your bubble but your wrong, I'm not a homophobe.
Im from New York City where when we say words like nigga we don't mean a degrading term for blacks. Like when we say "That's my bitch" we're not saying a particular girl is a slut or demeaning woman, its just the way I talk. Don't like it pass it by.
How many songs do you know with the same titles in them? I know of plenty and when I want to find a song and am unsure of the name, Napster helps my ass out royally making sure not only its the right song, but right person too.
Now how about a twist on this. Say your an American in Europe or vice versa and have little access to the songs you favored in your home town. Why shouldn't you be able to find it on mp3 for your own enjoyment? No one on Napster is making money off anything any way you want to slice the pie.
Now as for the finality to my follow up,, don't tell me how I use Napster since I'm the one who's using it. I make a hefty salary and can afford to buy cd's at will, however I do enjoy being able to look up a song, perhaps preview the entire cd before I buy it. I've never used Napster to record onto cd because it's just plain tacky and gay.
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Its easy for anyone to point the fingers at Napster when this situation comes into play since news media outlets always depict a single sided view of a Napster user. It seems every single story the refer to users, those interviewed are almost always some sort of unemployed type (mainly young user). As I've stated before, when I use Napster I use it to find a name of a song that I'm unsure before I buy it, or a song someone else mentioned to me, etc., and almost always if I find something I want I purchase it. Look I'm sure there are thousands more who use it with similar intentions, and it's those users you never see interviewed, not because it doesn't exist, but because it doesn't make a juicy story as compared to someone who they pass of as a thief.
Now taking a look at the entire scenario going down, one could also say music sales are down because tech jobs are down, and many people are trying to save in a slumping economy as opposed to spending dot-com-like dollars on music.
If people don't realize how twisted media distorts issues here's my example. About 3 weeks ago some guy emailed me from Yahoo Magazine wanting to do a story about the China/US hax0r war between script kiddies that was overfabricated. Well I was more than happy to speak to him when I saw it, however when I received the phone call the entire interview seemed to go the route of "Well give me some juicy examples of h4x0rs" not the truth about the entire situation. It sort of left a bad taste in my mouth to see that all media really wants to do is sensationalize the issues.
So is Napster to blame here? No. When TDK, Maxell, Sony came out with cassettes companies most likely expressed the same gripes, and as time has shown nothing big came out of it. Now I know not all Napster users are angels in fact I know some do rip and burn mp3's however I would never settle for the quality of an MP3 versus buying a CD since I get the case with information, it sounds clearer, and if I were an artist I would hope someone would extend the same courtesy to me and buy the cd.
Fuck the media
That he's possibly using this as a test to see what people want in order to give him ideas to capitalize when he writes his next book then. Smart idea. FYI I did go browse the site, maybe I'm just biased since I don't do the whole role playing, fantasy land gigs. Like I said I don't want to take anything away from anyone since I'd like to sincerely see things work out, however as a book, or even an interactive website book, it still doesn't impress me. I had more fun with those older books I had in elementary where you had to choose the page for the story to continue.
Nothing fancy or high tech, but I would rather read a dozen of those and dish out money for them than someone's website. And especially since I'm ultra suspicious of security regarding distributing a credit card number over the net.
Sorry to sound like a pessimist here, but online books in my opinion are not that much to look forward to, well at least if I were an author I wouldn't look to creating an online book for simple reasons.
We've grown into reading books not an entire online book so its sort of second nature to pick up a nice soft cover or hard cover to read. When you go to work on the morning for those who commute via say buses, trains, etc., your going to want to read a book, not turn on a laptop to finish up on a chapter you didn't finish or start a new one.
When your going to lunch on a nice sunny day in the park, why would you want to lug around a laptop to read the book, when you could again grab a softcover or hardcover and enjoy the day without the added overhaul. This doesn't include having a network connection to connect to the site unless your going to fetch/wget the entire book beforehand.
Also, how much real money can you make before people start sharing account information (username/passwords) and your thoughts of making money suddenly get shot down the tubes by some moron with a w4r3z page?
What would be nice is a combination book with access to the online version so when you are at work and can't afford to be seen reading a book you could download a chapter, or maybe if your sitting behind your pc bored you could open it up, however an e-book I think will fail.
Also note that recent studies have shown that online magazines and newspapers don't fare as well as `old fashioned' purchases of the original. People want true content some times not just packets. And finally, that shit'd hurt my eyes reading an entire book online. I tried with "The Big Breach" finally ended up printing the darn thing to read it as if it were a real book.
Well good luck to the site, I hope its entertaining but you won't catch me there any time in this life.
"The days are very long and you have to keep yourself busy," said Jose Maria Casado, who used to install cellular antennas.
One can sympathize with the protesters, but they have to understand, that's business, and over here in the US it does happen regularly (people getting laid off without pay) and shamelessly by many in the technology industry [see FuckedCompany] however most people here simply move on to other jobs.
Are things that bad in Spain where they have to protest in such fashion because there are no jobs or something? Personally I would get another job and move on with life. Perhaps after I got another job I would use my own money to take them to court in an appropriate fashion as opposed to sitting around waiting for someone to listen.
Yes I know protesting for a cause is semi politically correct, but being without work isn't going to pay my bills, and I'll be damned if I forcefully made myself live in a camp town when I could do as I said, make money then take them to court. They're lucky Spain doesn't have FEMA over there or that shit'd be over quickly
I have a friend who uses a Cisco 7000 as a coffee table (I'll see if I can have him snag a digital image and repost it later when he's online) and the bitch is, the router is fully functional... another who uses an old Performa with a slot cut for a tunnel attached to an Adam for his hamsters playground, and recently seen a Mac Classic at Tekserve being used as a goldfish tank before.
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Well at least Dell contributed some of their laptops to be used for firemen training courses
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To be fair, he actually makes a few pretty good points.
To quote an above posting, the article was rather bland and could have been written up by someone who didn't even ask Dennis questions, being that only 3 or 4 sentences were quoting him.
Now for my rants on the redundancies, most of the work is pre-determined for most astronauts before they go to space, so on most missions such as the one to attach an arm to the shuttle, it should be common sense to all that nothing more needs to be done, or is going to be done, once their initial tasks are complete.
Placing man on the space station is a costly job for NASA, and it's surprising no one raises a stinker about how much of it is actually overkill. NASA should stop beating around the bush, it seems one of the main reasons they likely didn't want Tito up there is because they kno(e)w he would raise questions about the lack of actual science NASA is doing. Meaning if he showed them up, on how much wasteless money they're spending, they'd likely go through budget cuts or something.
Personally I'm glad he went through the Russians since it boosts their economy when needed. Jealousy is a bitch and NASA it seems is nothing more than a jealous bunch of kids angered by the facts that they can't be the sole space travelers.
So what do you do when you can get away with it? Simple send an astronaut to the moon at the rate of a couple million, ask for more money and pocket it. If the government is too lack to notice the overblown amount of money being budgeted for these programs then that's their problem, however I wish they'd find a way to halt from using my tax dollars on such bullshit.
Its about time the USA stopped funding NASA and Astrology altogether.
He thinks this program was created by Miss Cleo who (according to him) was reading her tarot cards and predicted to him "Duh fayte of dee planitz iz inna yore handz tell dem at slashdot.org to call me now for my free psychic readin"