*sigh* It'd be nice if people would read at least the README before bashing something.
Per the installation instruction, you add:
append="console=/dev/tty2 CONSOLE=/dev/tty2"
to your/etc/lilo.conf, which makes the kernel write its messages to the second TTY. So now while it's booting with the pretty splash screen and progress bar, if you notice a warning or failure (yes, the splash screen shows warnings and failures as the appropriate icon), you can hit [ALT]-[F2] and switch to the real startup screen.
Problem solved.
Would doing this:
echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
have any effect on this setting? If it's meant to, it doesn't:(... my kernel doesn't have CONFIG_INET_ECN set.
Smeg. I wish I could think of other troubleshooting steps -- I'm sure "it won't connect to port 80 of www.americanexpress.com or the NNTP port (forgot the number;) at news.giganews.com" doesn't help anybody debug this.
Heh, I suppose I should also mebbe bug the kernel list instead of whining on Slashdot:). Thanks for your suggestions, though!
Offtopic? Hmmm... moderators, could you pass me some of that crack? I need a hit.
I, too, have noticed this piece of extreme oddness, though -- I can't hit certain web sites (nor can I hit news.giganews.com on its NNTP port) from 2.4.0-test10. Weird.
Additionally, the solution listed below ("echo 0 >/proc/blah/blah") didn't work either:(... I've been extremely impressed with 2.4.0's performance and reliability. Takes a bit longer to compile, but damned if it ain't easy to configure:)
Has anyone worked out the network oddness yet?
[Hits "PAUSE", turns to class]
Now, here we see further proof that these "victims" are in fact trolls and otherwise *very* bored people.
That silliness aside, which is it, "we" or "they?" How can you simultaneously expect sympathy and/or support from your fellow slashdot readers and call your adversaries "jerk-offs," thus proving your immaturity?
The clue train is probably just over that next hill if you'd care to run after it and climb back on.
Just because someone does something for free it doesn't give them license to act like assholes
Incorrect. Sorry, but it's always been my impression that if someone's doing something for free that you find useful, you damn well thank them and are appreciative/supportive, or you get your ass away from it and stay out of the way of people who did develop frontal lobes.
BTW, if you were to do something like these logs show happened on anything I run, you'd get kicked, banned, k-lined, etc. very quickly.
Nope, I didn't contradict myself. You're right, that should have read "made up of" instead of "make up of," but you, too, are guilty of committing a typo, since I didn't use "mouthbreakers," instead I used "mouthbreathers."
Try harder next time, buddy!
Why must we endure *repeats* of jokes that were marginally funny the first time?
BTW, the "Slashdot Effect" isn't a Denial of Service attack. Instead it's a "buttload o' people trying to hit the same resource at the same time" attack. They tend to be legitimate requests, not random DoS requests, unless Slashdot's audience is make of up drooling sub-human mouthbreathers who click on anything on the screen that's underlined.
I didn't notice any increase in speed of file accessing
Want to see a real performance difference? Pile something on the order of 100,000 files (size is insignificant) in a single directory on both a ReiserFS filesystem and an ext2fs filesystem.
Do a rm -Rf/path/to/test/directory. If you're doing this to the ext2fs directory, you'd best go get lunch, have a beer, go home for the night, take the rest of the week off, etc.
On the ReiserFS filesystem, you barely have time to pick your nose:)
One of the most dramatic performance improvements in ReiserFS over ext2fs is how fast it can manipulate huge numbers of files. It also handles gigantic files much more quickly than ext2fs can. There are other improvements too, such as quicker access time to a file (slightly-to-moderate in most cases) and SIGNIFICANTLY faster recovery time when the system goes down ungracefully).
If you've got all those hard drives, why not invest a little more cash, go on Ebay and get yourself a cheap RAID controller?
'Cause I'm cheap and those hard drives broke the budget:)
Better yet, why not use RAID-5?
Because unless I'm mistaken (great opportunity for ReiserFS hackers to jump in here) ReiserFS and RAID-5 do not get along at all.
I have a total of 12 9GB disks, all SCSI, and I'm running them as two RAID0 devices. Both of the metadevices run ReiserFS. You won't BELIEVE how frickin' fast things are:)
Our neighborhood sees power failures almost weekly (bastards don't want me to have a good uptime, I guess:), and my box doesn't flinch. Granted, physical power up takes ages (twelve disks don't exactly spin up as fast as one:) but once the Linux kernel starts up, you can't even *tell* it's running the journal replays since it scrolls by so damned fast. It's very reliable (never lost any data), and fast.
I was doubly impressed that the kernel patching went so smoothly (linux 2.2.16 + latest (at the time) raidtools + reiserfs). One try, it all worked. Wow, open source is fun sometimes -- ever try adding support for a new filesystem type to an NT box?;)
Uuuuh......./. Anyone?
What is this "/." thing? I read "Slashdot", as the name at top-left shows (those big letters above "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.").
Ding! Someone got it right!
You are correct. If I seek an album, I first try to buy it online from the artist. Only if it can't be obtained legally online in electronic form, I'll go out and try to find the album somewhere on the shiny little disc as inexpensively as possible (i.e. I'm a bad little consumer -- I shop for the best price).
Only in some countries. And even in countries that do honor patents, isn't there some controversy over the validity of the MP3 patent(s)?
Regardless, there's always Ogg Vorbis and plenty of other open standards to avoid that technicality.
Please show where I've advocated piracy. Please. Didn't I just get finished saying I want to pay the artists directly for the music I enjoy? I don't want to pay middlemen, I want to pay the artist.
Metallica can smeg off and die. Given that bootlegging is precisely what set off their career in the first place, the fact that they're now giving the finger to their fans means they're nearly as greedy as the industry they claim to hate. I must also admit a complete lack of concern over what a rapper thinks about it. Rap seems to be a mostly rip-off job as it is anyway (sampling other songs instead of generating new material worth listening to). Mind you, that's opinion, not statement of fact about rap, not that this little disclaimer will stop rabid rap fans from attacking.
It sounds like I'm discounting artists' opinions when they don't match mine, but thankfully the simple matter of their opinion being in the minority helps too. Other artists (Courtney Love comes to mind) have also expressed their opinions about people sharing music.
As an artist, would you prefer people paying you for the MP3s of your latest album, and sharing amongst friends (at least with some chance of earning a profit) or would you rather just piss all your chances of making money away by going to the labels?
I suppose none of this honestly matters. Okay, let's say for a minute the RIAA succeeds and wipes Napster off the face of the earth and kills the MP3 format. Well bugger. The people who want music and don't want to pay for it will still have their music without paying for it. It'll just be another technology. Perhaps we should let the RIAA continue on their crusage against technology and personal freedom. At least it'll bring newer (hopefully better:) technlogy about faster.
Is it civil disobedience when I drive 75 miles per hour on the highway?
Nope, not in Colorado (speed limit is 75MPH:)
Seriously, I disagree that this is hypocracy. Like I've argued a bit already in other threads of this discussion, nobody's asking for a free ride. Well, okay, some probably are, but I'm not one of them. I don't want to steal from an artist. I also don't want to pile more money into middlemen who don't deserve any of it!
Who should get prosecuted? The technology or the individual? NEITHER! Nobody should be arrested for wanting to listen to music without shelling out money to pay for a manager, publicist, ad agency, and other such useless folk.
Something has to change -- it certainly isn't getting any better now.
What the fuck do you want? The RIAA shouldn't go after a service that is a haven for music piracy and they shouldn't go after music pirates? Maybe you'd like them simply to spend millions of dollars producing, promoting and distributing music then give away CDs just like AOL.
No, quite honestly I'd prefer for the RIAA to go away, die completely, and let the actual content producers (read: "artists") take control of their own product back.
Nobody's asking for giveaways. I think most of us are just a bit tired of grabbing our ankles for the sake of RIAA's profit margins.
Rechargable batteries would solve the battery issue (Palm V anyone?). And since 16MB of MP3 data holds a lot of music, why would it skip from being tossed around alot? It streams as much of the data into memory as possible, and plays from memory (it has to anyway to decompress the MP3 data). It reads from CD occasionally once it's filled the buffer up. However much that buffer is, it can easily carry the tune while the CD recovers from a skip.
Conversely, sometimes the only way to communicate properly with big business is for said masses to stand up and extend a collective middle finger.
Note I didn't say "I hope he wins." I just said "I hope this guy fights." When people just roll over and take their licking like good little citizens, nothing changes whatsoever. Whoever's suing/attacking the person gets their victory, gets to pose and dance for the press, and "the masses" get the wrong message.
By fighting this, he stands a chance to raise questions about how the entire thing was handled. Right or not (and I don't think it is), equipment he owns was seized by the government on suspicion of wrong doing. Does this seem a bit wrong to anyone besides me?
I hate to draw this comparison (and the fire that will come with it) but this reminds me of the Salem witch hunts. Just accusing a woman of being a witch was usually enough to get her burned at the stake. Now, simply accusing someone of pirating music is enough to get property seized? In the 20th century? Come on, folks, isn't it about time to put down the torches?
And of course then there's intent. Yes, the guy might have intended to give music away for free, but does that mean he set out to screw the RIAA or the artists it "represents?"
I'd honestly prefer examples be made differently. Executing people for murder hasn't stopped others from murdering, has it? My point is that this group of record companies has lots of balls going after the "little people"... individual consumers. That's just the wrong approach.
It might have worked five years ago, but with people so easily able to at least become aware of every viewpoint instead of relying solely on what their "Action News at 9!(tm)" tells them, this is going to cause one hell of a backlash sooner or later. I personally can't wait:)
Quite simple. I never said I don't want to pay for the artist's work, I just don't want to pay for managers, advertising, and other such middle-men. How much money do the artists really see out of the (minimum of) $15 one shells out for a new CD? A few cents?
Smeg that. I'd pay something reasonable for an album, perhaps a few dollars, but only if it goes straight into the artist's pocket. Is that clear enough for you to grasp or do I need to get out the crayons?
And as far as asking the RIAA to set an example, you're damned right I still insist they do it. Shouldn't be tossing rocks when they live in a shiny glass house. Can you honestly say you believe that everybody who works for the RIAA, including the very same people pushing all this litigation, are totally innocent and have never copied a CD?
To phrase it a different way, do you really think the owners of the major record labels have to pay for the albums their companies produce? Didn't think so.
For one, Mp3's are still "illegal."
Bzzzzt! Just a few points here:
Compressing audio with the MP3 algorithm, storing such files, and playing them back is certainly not illegal.
Like most media (game cartridges, software), if I purchase some sort of media I am entitled to duplicate it for archival purposes, in the event of a media failure. The law's such a bitch, ain't it? There's not a thing the RIAA can do to me for wanting to protect my investment.
Yes, distribution of said archives is illegal (just like "oh here, I'll just copy this new Metallica CD for you!" is illegal).
Honestly, though, I hope this guy fights back like a sunuvabitch and hits as hard as he can. Illegal or not, I absolutely can't stand some big nasty company (or gov't agency) strongarming someone just to "make an example" out of him/her.
You want to make an example, RIAA? Fucking set one. Let's see you get sworn affidavits from each and every employee on your rosters stating they've never copied a cassette or CD. Let's see a drop in CD prices. Let's have an honest answer to the nearly-constant charge that record labels royally screw artists.
Does anyone remember back when compact disc technology was new and still-not-accepted yet? Remember the promises? "Oh, CDs are just expensive now because they're new. Before long, they'll be cheaper than cassettes!" Remember the last time you took two copies of an album, one on cassette, and one on CD, then compared the price tags? Hope you've still got your tape decks, folks, because that "archaic" technology just happens to have cheaper media available for it.
For that consumer screw right there, I have never, and never will, feel any sympathy for the record industry whatsoever. Artists? Certainly feel bad for their situation -- they produce good tunes for us to enjoy, and get raped in return. But the record industry? Fuck 'em. With Napster, etc., I can frankly do just fine without them.
Oh, and obviously I live in Europe.
Heh. I must admit I'm jealous.:) I don't think I could get away with reading a Penthouse or Hustler on the bus ride to/from work every morning, or sitting on a park bench browsing a Jock Sturges book here in America.
Rather, I probably could for a little while, but then some freak would notice (gasp) a nipple and try to have me arrested for something ludicrous like "public indecency." I really wonder how easily I could defend myself legally against something like that.
I like a lot of things about America, but its astounding intolerance of sexuality and nudity is really starting to bug me.
Yes, but the CD player he referred to, er, reads CDs loaded up with MP3s. 650MB is much more reasonable storage than 32MB. And they work like a normal CD player too. About the same size.
As far as ease of transfer, you've got your choice of CD-writing tools. Have at it.:)
Well lovely, you've dismissed an interesting idea with a one-liner. Wow. I wish we had more naysayers like you around to keep those damned foolish "idiot" inventor types in line.</sarcasm>
Okay then, you just keep hiding under your rock and let us get on with the cool shit. "Inertial forces" might be a problem now (*might*), but you, nor anyone else, knows what our building materials will be like 50 years from now. You can either whine about potential problems, or fix them. Your choice. I bet I can guess what *you've* chosen.:)
Well, the thing is they're not the authors of DeCSS. They're linking to something they didn't write that they're actively suing to prevent people linking to. Wow. That sentence hurts my brain.:)
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*sigh* It'd be nice if people would read at least the README before bashing something. Per the installation instruction, you add: append="console=/dev/tty2 CONSOLE=/dev/tty2" to your /etc/lilo.conf, which makes the kernel write its messages to the second TTY. So now while it's booting with the pretty splash screen and progress bar, if you notice a warning or failure (yes, the splash screen shows warnings and failures as the appropriate icon), you can hit [ALT]-[F2] and switch to the real startup screen.
Problem solved.
How do you figure? It doesn't seem to have helped you any.
Would doing this: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
have any effect on this setting? If it's meant to, it doesn't :( ... my kernel doesn't have CONFIG_INET_ECN set.
Smeg. I wish I could think of other troubleshooting steps -- I'm sure "it won't connect to port 80 of www.americanexpress.com or the NNTP port (forgot the number ;) at news.giganews.com" doesn't help anybody debug this.
Heh, I suppose I should also mebbe bug the kernel list instead of whining on Slashdot :). Thanks for your suggestions, though!
Offtopic? Hmmm... moderators, could you pass me some of that crack? I need a hit. I, too, have noticed this piece of extreme oddness, though -- I can't hit certain web sites (nor can I hit news.giganews.com on its NNTP port) from 2.4.0-test10. Weird. Additionally, the solution listed below ("echo 0 > /proc/blah/blah") didn't work either :( ... I've been extremely impressed with 2.4.0's performance and reliability. Takes a bit longer to compile, but damned if it ain't easy to configure :)
Has anyone worked out the network oddness yet?
[Hits "PAUSE", turns to class] Now, here we see further proof that these "victims" are in fact trolls and otherwise *very* bored people. That silliness aside, which is it, "we" or "they?" How can you simultaneously expect sympathy and/or support from your fellow slashdot readers and call your adversaries "jerk-offs," thus proving your immaturity? The clue train is probably just over that next hill if you'd care to run after it and climb back on.
Just because someone does something for free it doesn't give them license to act like assholes Incorrect. Sorry, but it's always been my impression that if someone's doing something for free that you find useful, you damn well thank them and are appreciative/supportive, or you get your ass away from it and stay out of the way of people who did develop frontal lobes. BTW, if you were to do something like these logs show happened on anything I run, you'd get kicked, banned, k-lined, etc. very quickly.
Nope, I didn't contradict myself. You're right, that should have read "made up of" instead of "make up of," but you, too, are guilty of committing a typo, since I didn't use "mouthbreakers," instead I used "mouthbreathers." Try harder next time, buddy!
Why must we endure *repeats* of jokes that were marginally funny the first time? BTW, the "Slashdot Effect" isn't a Denial of Service attack. Instead it's a "buttload o' people trying to hit the same resource at the same time" attack. They tend to be legitimate requests, not random DoS requests, unless Slashdot's audience is make of up drooling sub-human mouthbreathers who click on anything on the screen that's underlined.
I didn't notice any increase in speed of file accessing Want to see a real performance difference? Pile something on the order of 100,000 files (size is insignificant) in a single directory on both a ReiserFS filesystem and an ext2fs filesystem. Do a rm -Rf /path/to/test/directory. If you're doing this to the ext2fs directory, you'd best go get lunch, have a beer, go home for the night, take the rest of the week off, etc.
On the ReiserFS filesystem, you barely have time to pick your nose :)
One of the most dramatic performance improvements in ReiserFS over ext2fs is how fast it can manipulate huge numbers of files. It also handles gigantic files much more quickly than ext2fs can. There are other improvements too, such as quicker access time to a file (slightly-to-moderate in most cases) and SIGNIFICANTLY faster recovery time when the system goes down ungracefully).
If you've got all those hard drives, why not invest a little more cash, go on Ebay and get yourself a cheap RAID controller? 'Cause I'm cheap and those hard drives broke the budget :)
Better yet, why not use RAID-5?
Because unless I'm mistaken (great opportunity for ReiserFS hackers to jump in here) ReiserFS and RAID-5 do not get along at all.
I have a total of 12 9GB disks, all SCSI, and I'm running them as two RAID0 devices. Both of the metadevices run ReiserFS. You won't BELIEVE how frickin' fast things are :)
Our neighborhood sees power failures almost weekly (bastards don't want me to have a good uptime, I guess :), and my box doesn't flinch. Granted, physical power up takes ages (twelve disks don't exactly spin up as fast as one :) but once the Linux kernel starts up, you can't even *tell* it's running the journal replays since it scrolls by so damned fast. It's very reliable (never lost any data), and fast.
I was doubly impressed that the kernel patching went so smoothly (linux 2.2.16 + latest (at the time) raidtools + reiserfs). One try, it all worked. Wow, open source is fun sometimes -- ever try adding support for a new filesystem type to an NT box? ;)
Uuuuh....... /. Anyone?
What is this "/." thing? I read "Slashdot", as the name at top-left shows (those big letters above "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.").
Ding! Someone got it right! You are correct. If I seek an album, I first try to buy it online from the artist. Only if it can't be obtained legally online in electronic form, I'll go out and try to find the album somewhere on the shiny little disc as inexpensively as possible (i.e. I'm a bad little consumer -- I shop for the best price).
Only in some countries. And even in countries that do honor patents, isn't there some controversy over the validity of the MP3 patent(s)? Regardless, there's always Ogg Vorbis and plenty of other open standards to avoid that technicality.
Please show where I've advocated piracy. Please. Didn't I just get finished saying I want to pay the artists directly for the music I enjoy? I don't want to pay middlemen, I want to pay the artist. Metallica can smeg off and die. Given that bootlegging is precisely what set off their career in the first place, the fact that they're now giving the finger to their fans means they're nearly as greedy as the industry they claim to hate. I must also admit a complete lack of concern over what a rapper thinks about it. Rap seems to be a mostly rip-off job as it is anyway (sampling other songs instead of generating new material worth listening to). Mind you, that's opinion, not statement of fact about rap, not that this little disclaimer will stop rabid rap fans from attacking. It sounds like I'm discounting artists' opinions when they don't match mine, but thankfully the simple matter of their opinion being in the minority helps too. Other artists (Courtney Love comes to mind) have also expressed their opinions about people sharing music. As an artist, would you prefer people paying you for the MP3s of your latest album, and sharing amongst friends (at least with some chance of earning a profit) or would you rather just piss all your chances of making money away by going to the labels? I suppose none of this honestly matters. Okay, let's say for a minute the RIAA succeeds and wipes Napster off the face of the earth and kills the MP3 format. Well bugger. The people who want music and don't want to pay for it will still have their music without paying for it. It'll just be another technology. Perhaps we should let the RIAA continue on their crusage against technology and personal freedom. At least it'll bring newer (hopefully better :) technlogy about faster.
Is it civil disobedience when I drive 75 miles per hour on the highway? Nope, not in Colorado (speed limit is 75MPH :)
Seriously, I disagree that this is hypocracy. Like I've argued a bit already in other threads of this discussion, nobody's asking for a free ride. Well, okay, some probably are, but I'm not one of them. I don't want to steal from an artist. I also don't want to pile more money into middlemen who don't deserve any of it!
Who should get prosecuted? The technology or the individual? NEITHER! Nobody should be arrested for wanting to listen to music without shelling out money to pay for a manager, publicist, ad agency, and other such useless folk.
Something has to change -- it certainly isn't getting any better now.
What the fuck do you want? The RIAA shouldn't go after a service that is a haven for music piracy and they shouldn't go after music pirates? Maybe you'd like them simply to spend millions of dollars producing, promoting and distributing music then give away CDs just like AOL. No, quite honestly I'd prefer for the RIAA to go away, die completely, and let the actual content producers (read: "artists") take control of their own product back. Nobody's asking for giveaways. I think most of us are just a bit tired of grabbing our ankles for the sake of RIAA's profit margins.
Rechargable batteries would solve the battery issue (Palm V anyone?). And since 16MB of MP3 data holds a lot of music, why would it skip from being tossed around alot? It streams as much of the data into memory as possible, and plays from memory (it has to anyway to decompress the MP3 data). It reads from CD occasionally once it's filled the buffer up. However much that buffer is, it can easily carry the tune while the CD recovers from a skip.
Conversely, sometimes the only way to communicate properly with big business is for said masses to stand up and extend a collective middle finger. Note I didn't say "I hope he wins." I just said "I hope this guy fights." When people just roll over and take their licking like good little citizens, nothing changes whatsoever. Whoever's suing/attacking the person gets their victory, gets to pose and dance for the press, and "the masses" get the wrong message. By fighting this, he stands a chance to raise questions about how the entire thing was handled. Right or not (and I don't think it is), equipment he owns was seized by the government on suspicion of wrong doing. Does this seem a bit wrong to anyone besides me? I hate to draw this comparison (and the fire that will come with it) but this reminds me of the Salem witch hunts. Just accusing a woman of being a witch was usually enough to get her burned at the stake. Now, simply accusing someone of pirating music is enough to get property seized? In the 20th century? Come on, folks, isn't it about time to put down the torches? And of course then there's intent. Yes, the guy might have intended to give music away for free, but does that mean he set out to screw the RIAA or the artists it "represents?" I'd honestly prefer examples be made differently. Executing people for murder hasn't stopped others from murdering, has it? My point is that this group of record companies has lots of balls going after the "little people" ... individual consumers. That's just the wrong approach.
It might have worked five years ago, but with people so easily able to at least become aware of every viewpoint instead of relying solely on what their "Action News at 9!(tm)" tells them, this is going to cause one hell of a backlash sooner or later. I personally can't wait :)
Quite simple. I never said I don't want to pay for the artist's work, I just don't want to pay for managers, advertising, and other such middle-men. How much money do the artists really see out of the (minimum of) $15 one shells out for a new CD? A few cents? Smeg that. I'd pay something reasonable for an album, perhaps a few dollars, but only if it goes straight into the artist's pocket. Is that clear enough for you to grasp or do I need to get out the crayons? And as far as asking the RIAA to set an example, you're damned right I still insist they do it. Shouldn't be tossing rocks when they live in a shiny glass house. Can you honestly say you believe that everybody who works for the RIAA, including the very same people pushing all this litigation, are totally innocent and have never copied a CD? To phrase it a different way, do you really think the owners of the major record labels have to pay for the albums their companies produce? Didn't think so.
- Compressing audio with the MP3 algorithm, storing such files, and playing them back is certainly not illegal.
- Like most media (game cartridges, software), if I purchase some sort of media I am entitled to duplicate it for archival purposes, in the event of a media failure. The law's such a bitch, ain't it? There's not a thing the RIAA can do to me for wanting to protect my investment.
Yes, distribution of said archives is illegal (just like "oh here, I'll just copy this new Metallica CD for you!" is illegal). Honestly, though, I hope this guy fights back like a sunuvabitch and hits as hard as he can. Illegal or not, I absolutely can't stand some big nasty company (or gov't agency) strongarming someone just to "make an example" out of him/her. You want to make an example, RIAA? Fucking set one. Let's see you get sworn affidavits from each and every employee on your rosters stating they've never copied a cassette or CD. Let's see a drop in CD prices. Let's have an honest answer to the nearly-constant charge that record labels royally screw artists. Does anyone remember back when compact disc technology was new and still-not-accepted yet? Remember the promises? "Oh, CDs are just expensive now because they're new. Before long, they'll be cheaper than cassettes!" Remember the last time you took two copies of an album, one on cassette, and one on CD, then compared the price tags? Hope you've still got your tape decks, folks, because that "archaic" technology just happens to have cheaper media available for it. For that consumer screw right there, I have never, and never will, feel any sympathy for the record industry whatsoever. Artists? Certainly feel bad for their situation -- they produce good tunes for us to enjoy, and get raped in return. But the record industry? Fuck 'em. With Napster, etc., I can frankly do just fine without them.Oh, and obviously I live in Europe. Heh. I must admit I'm jealous. :) I don't think I could get away with reading a Penthouse or Hustler on the bus ride to/from work every morning, or sitting on a park bench browsing a Jock Sturges book here in America.
Rather, I probably could for a little while, but then some freak would notice (gasp) a nipple and try to have me arrested for something ludicrous like "public indecency." I really wonder how easily I could defend myself legally against something like that.
I like a lot of things about America, but its astounding intolerance of sexuality and nudity is really starting to bug me.
Yes, but the CD player he referred to, er, reads CDs loaded up with MP3s. 650MB is much more reasonable storage than 32MB. And they work like a normal CD player too. About the same size. As far as ease of transfer, you've got your choice of CD-writing tools. Have at it. :)
Well lovely, you've dismissed an interesting idea with a one-liner. Wow. I wish we had more naysayers like you around to keep those damned foolish "idiot" inventor types in line.</sarcasm> Okay then, you just keep hiding under your rock and let us get on with the cool shit. "Inertial forces" might be a problem now (*might*), but you, nor anyone else, knows what our building materials will be like 50 years from now. You can either whine about potential problems, or fix them. Your choice. I bet I can guess what *you've* chosen. :)
Well, the thing is they're not the authors of DeCSS. They're linking to something they didn't write that they're actively suing to prevent people linking to. Wow. That sentence hurts my brain. :)