What the fuck does it matter if it's for sharing authorized work or not? They are openly advertising for FuthurNET which is a P2P (file-sharing application).
I haven't purchased a single song or gone to a single concert of theirs. I believe I mentioned that Modest Mouse was all for the distribution of their music and it appeared that Secret Machines didn't have a problem with getting their music out there.
Perhaps the mere mention of their name along with the context of the article will get their attention some day.
They promote free music, not just filesharing!
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Within Epitonic's huge roster is at least a song or two from some major-label acts, among them the New York band Secret Machines, the Texas band Sparta and the English bands Radiohead and Spiritualized. But independent bands like Bright Eyes or Godspeed You Black Emperor are every bit as good.
Whenever I see the word "intelligent" included in the summary of an article linked from Slashdot I cringe. This time I was absolutely shocked to see that the article was not only intelligent but insightful and informative. I hadn't been directed to Epitonic before but I am sure I will poke around there some more. I have become a big fan of "alternative" bands that have been making it to the radio scene as of late (Secret Machines, Velvet Revolver, and Modest Mouse to name a few). Modest Mouse allows the taping and distribution of their live performances and it's apparent that the Secret Machines don't have much of a problem with getting their sound out there. Nothing gets me more interested in purchasing tickets to see a show than when the bands distribute their music for free.
The article mentions my all time favorite, FurthurNET, as a viable alternative to other P2P networks which harbor many files that probably shouldn't be there. FurthurNET is great when you are looking for something more "headsy" like DSO, Phish, or the Dead. You might have better luck looking for other stuff on torrent sites out there (like the now seemingly defunct sharingthegroove.org).
Support the bands that support the free distribution of their music. It's already working!
Take for example graduating from college. Did you know that there are no "below average" college graduates? Proof: In order to graduate from college you must have a GPA equating to a C or better. A C is average, therefore there are no below average college graduates.
The average college graduate would be a 3.0 student?
So break up your union, watch half your friends get fired, then bend over and take a 50% paycut.
Do you mean the people I have to deal with on a regular basis that make my job more difficult because they don't do theirs? Your own job depends on theirs and your attempts to educate them and their supervisor about about their refusal to work are ignored. Real nice.
Unions and striking are about standing up to capitalists who have disproportionate power, and unions help prevent the middle class from becoming the lower class.
Unions are about protecting people who don't do their fucking job and making sure they continue to get paid for it. Maybe it's not that way in the Industrialial Unions out there but it certainly is that way in the professional union I belong to.
Maybe you think it would work. It wouldn't. I'm in a Union. It hasn't done shit for me since I joined nearly two years ago. Fuck, the Governor of MN wanted to give us a *PAYCUT* I suppose the Union avoided that...
We don't get raises for another year at least. We had to pay more for our insurance co-pays. We had to have a restructuring of medical facitilies you can attend for certain co-pay levels. We had to pay more in dental... My personal favorite is that I fear striking. You know why? Because when you strike you don't get fucking paid. Perhaps everyone else can afford their mortagage while they are on strike but I couldn't. I have reserves and all that but it wouldn't last long enough for it to be benficial for me to save a couple bucks on a co-pay.
So fuck the Unionization. No one supports you when you go on strike because they are out of work or getting paid shitty. The Union doesn't pay your full salary while you're on strike so bills don't get paid.
Suckas. Over the air radio and TV is still freeee as in look at all the money I didn't spend today.
You are watching ads like a motherfucker. I consider that a shackle myself. You are also watching 8 channels (that's as many as I could get w/the fucking rabbit ears I had for a year and a half before I went w/DirecTV) of snow/infomercials. Hell, two of the eight stations were shopping channels and one was a relgious network. Mmmm, five channels of snow.
Fox and UPN were the only two channels to really come in. They are worth it for ME as I like the shows they carry.
Tivo makes TV really fucking enjoyable. I'm up to 15 seaons passes. I don't even think about watching Live TV anymore unless my Tivo'd shit is all my fiance's stuff and then I am more likely to surf the net or do something outside.
I won't even get into OTA Radio and what you put up w/RIAA bullshit there.
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Again, if Comcast customers are required to run NAT in order to have multiple machines online, and if I am a Comcast customer, then I am requried to run NAT due to other peoples' ignorance, and I don't like that.
Honestly, I don't give a fuck what YOU don't like. You are not my concern. What I am concerned about are the 1000s of machines that are infected by worms that Comcast allows to spew garbage into the wild.
The IP space is out there and it usable.
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As for the shortages, you think that it's a good idea to have scarcity in the IP market just so people will be encouraged to run NAT? I think its presumptious of you to force conditions on me, personally I'd love to have IPs for each machine in my house, but I can't because IP addresses are hard to come by.
Sysadmins and regular Slashdot readers are in the minority. Personally I'd rather have the Comcast weenies behind a single firewall... Then I wouldn't have to block entire/16's to stop their worms from hammering me.
yet another worthless article about IPv6
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Introduction to IPv6 #1004040... This has been brought up every six months or so for quite some time and I usually post the same shit about how it's not practical at this time period for much other than reverse DNS on IRC. But this "article" is yet another worthless explanation of the same old shit.
Take for example the following IPv6 address: 43FB:0000:0000:0000:0000:BB3F:A0A0:0000 This could be shortened to 43FB::BB3F:A0A0:0 instead. Now you might ask: "What's up with the double colon?" If you thought that, good for you. You've seen something many people would not have seen on their first try. The double colon (aka "::") signifies that we have removed a series of hexadecimal blocks from the address. These will always be contiguous zeros. AKA "0000:0000:0000:0000" can be shortened to just "::". Therefore when you see the double colon in an IPv6 address, it can be automatically assumed that they are all zeros.
Ahh yes, "simplifying IPv6 addresses". No, there is nothing simple about remembering those addresses (haven't there been studies that say 7-10 numbers in a row is about all we can remember?) So here we have 10+ numbers and letters that don't make much sense (yeah some people have gotten vanity IPv6 addresses like ABCD::BEEF::). Nothing is simplified there until you get the DNS up and running for it (not that this is hard or anything but it isn't exactly easy)
It is true that IPv6 is not human friendly; however, in the long run, it will help solve a lot of issues with the current shortage of available IPv4 addresses on the internet.
Yeah, the "shortages"... Just tell the people hoarding all the damn addresses to hand them over. Sorry but MIT, Apple, etc, as much as I respect their contributions to the human race, do not need a Class A. Allow for the redistribution of the IPs and we should be good to go for quite some time.
Be thankful people don't have unlimited IPs in their house. Most people that want to have multiple computers connected to the Internet use a NAT router and at least protect themselves SOMEWHAT from the outside threats. Can you imagine what would happen if all the Comcast retards were straight to the Net with their own IP on each computer?
ISPs make some good money (hell mine gets $5/mo more out of me for an additional IP) selling off static/dynamic IP space. You think Comcast is going to move for a switch when they make $10/mo per extra IP?
The man is in his late 80s. He's been a professor at MIT for ~60 years. He's written the book (now in it's 100000th edition) that is the standard for economics.
Shockingly, michael, people use iPods to backup data! Companies don't want their employees leaving the premises with this data and checking through tens of thousands of bags is time consuming and expensive. Perhaps this would be different if iPods weren't easily able to be used for backing up data but that's just not the case.
According to the article this feature is available in XP SP2. See here for more information.
No, it's not some Microsoft conspiracy to end iTMS and the iPod.
Oh blah. RICO has been overused by lawyers since the late 70s. Anything that says more money should be awarded automatically sets that hampster wheel rolling inside the lawyers' brains...
I don't think this is a matter of "buy patents then make money" as some may argue.
Then you didn't read the article. Altnet tried to sell services to the RIAA and the RIAA ignored them. After waiting it out for a while Altnet decided to sue the RIAA for patent infringement.
Because they weren't making money one way they are going to attempt to make it another.
At least someone is trying to make the RIAA feel the same way that a 14 year old kid does when he/she gets served with a subpoena.
I think it's a bit different when a huge conglomorate gets sued by a small corporation with 550k in cash than when a 14 year old has to explain to his parents why they are going to double their debt because he wanted to listen to Eminem for free.
In the summer of 2003, it announced that it had purchased patent rights to the process of identifying files on a peer-to-peer network using a "hash," or digital fingerprint based on the contents of the file.
Altnet and Brilliant Digital Entertainment are joint venture partners with Sharman Networks, the Australian company that owns the Kazaa software.
So a network that is well known for trading files that probably shouldn't be traded for free buys a patent and tries to sell the services to a group that wants nothing to do with P2P. Then when the group that wants nothing to do with them ignores them they turn around and sue them. Sounds like another company that has been in tech-news recently.
It would be different if you weren't opening their bandwith to possible outsiders. If you were running your own damn internal network on your own WiFi completely seperate from the network they own then no, they couldn't stop you.
But because you are opening their network to traffic that is possibly not sanctioned by the University they are well within their rights to stop you from doing so.
Not too earth shattering, and just in time to catch a declining IE.
Sorry but I don't exactly think it's all that important of a feature. It surely isn't anyting but bloat. Don't we normally complain about that with other pieces of software?
Somehow when we talk about Mozilla/Firefox features that IE doesn't have it's never unnecessary.
Anytime I use decent search terms Google generally finds exactly what I am looking for within the first three links.
Honestly I don't know how well "I'm Feeling Lucky" will work for most users. Hell, most people I know have to wade through their search results b/c they never know the right way to word their search terms.
All those random people that have single lines in software changelogs... Take this for example. There's a project that helped get support for a popular USB camera out into the wild.
Look all the way at the bottom. There's one guy there that did a TON for the community;-) I hear he's really sexy too!
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I still fail to see how FurtherNET isn't a filesharing network.
What the fuck does it matter if it's for sharing authorized work or not? They are openly advertising for FuthurNET which is a P2P (file-sharing application).
Yeah it does promote it as they do recommend FurthurNET.org (which is a Java P2P application).
I haven't purchased a single song or gone to a single concert of theirs. I believe I mentioned that Modest Mouse was all for the distribution of their music and it appeared that Secret Machines didn't have a problem with getting their music out there.
Perhaps the mere mention of their name along with the context of the article will get their attention some day.
Within Epitonic's huge roster is at least a song or two from some major-label acts, among them the New York band Secret Machines, the Texas band Sparta and the English bands Radiohead and Spiritualized. But independent bands like Bright Eyes or Godspeed You Black Emperor are every bit as good.
Whenever I see the word "intelligent" included in the summary of an article linked from Slashdot I cringe. This time I was absolutely shocked to see that the article was not only intelligent but insightful and informative. I hadn't been directed to Epitonic before but I am sure I will poke around there some more. I have become a big fan of "alternative" bands that have been making it to the radio scene as of late (Secret Machines, Velvet Revolver, and Modest Mouse to name a few). Modest Mouse allows the taping and distribution of their live performances and it's apparent that the Secret Machines don't have much of a problem with getting their sound out there. Nothing gets me more interested in purchasing tickets to see a show than when the bands distribute their music for free.
The article mentions my all time favorite, FurthurNET, as a viable alternative to other P2P networks which harbor many files that probably shouldn't be there. FurthurNET is great when you are looking for something more "headsy" like DSO, Phish, or the Dead. You might have better luck looking for other stuff on torrent sites out there (like the now seemingly defunct sharingthegroove.org).
Support the bands that support the free distribution of their music. It's already working!
Take for example graduating from college. Did you know that there are no "below average" college graduates? Proof: In order to graduate from college you must have a GPA equating to a C or better. A C is average, therefore there are no below average college graduates.
The average college graduate would be a 3.0 student?
I estimate that I would end up somewhere in the middle.
So break up your union, watch half your friends get fired, then bend over and take a 50% paycut.
Do you mean the people I have to deal with on a regular basis that make my job more difficult because they don't do theirs? Your own job depends on theirs and your attempts to educate them and their supervisor about about their refusal to work are ignored. Real nice.
Unions and striking are about standing up to capitalists who have disproportionate power, and unions help prevent the middle class from becoming the lower class.
Unions are about protecting people who don't do their fucking job and making sure they continue to get paid for it. Maybe it's not that way in the Industrialial Unions out there but it certainly is that way in the professional union I belong to.
Maybe you think it would work. It wouldn't. I'm in a Union. It hasn't done shit for me since I joined nearly two years ago. Fuck, the Governor of MN wanted to give us a *PAYCUT* I suppose the Union avoided that...
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We don't get raises for another year at least. We had to pay more for our insurance co-pays. We had to have a restructuring of medical facitilies you can attend for certain co-pay levels. We had to pay more in dental... My personal favorite is that I fear striking. You know why? Because when you strike you don't get fucking paid. Perhaps everyone else can afford their mortagage while they are on strike but I couldn't. I have reserves and all that but it wouldn't last long enough for it to be benficial for me to save a couple bucks on a co-pay.
So fuck the Unionization. No one supports you when you go on strike because they are out of work or getting paid shitty. The Union doesn't pay your full salary while you're on strike so bills don't get paid.
That's my
Suckas. Over the air radio and TV is still freeee as in look at all the money I didn't spend today.
You are watching ads like a motherfucker. I consider that a shackle myself. You are also watching 8 channels (that's as many as I could get w/the fucking rabbit ears I had for a year and a half before I went w/DirecTV) of snow/infomercials. Hell, two of the eight stations were shopping channels and one was a relgious network. Mmmm, five channels of snow.
Fox and UPN were the only two channels to really come in. They are worth it for ME as I like the shows they carry.
Tivo makes TV really fucking enjoyable. I'm up to 15 seaons passes. I don't even think about watching Live TV anymore unless my Tivo'd shit is all my fiance's stuff and then I am more likely to surf the net or do something outside.
I won't even get into OTA Radio and what you put up w/RIAA bullshit there.
Again, if Comcast customers are required to run NAT in order to have multiple machines online, and if I am a Comcast customer, then I am requried to run NAT due to other peoples' ignorance, and I don't like that.
Honestly, I don't give a fuck what YOU don't like. You are not my concern. What I am concerned about are the 1000s of machines that are infected by worms that Comcast allows to spew garbage into the wild.
The IP space is out there and it usable.
As for the shortages, you think that it's a good idea to have scarcity in the IP market just so people will be encouraged to run NAT? I think its presumptious of you to force conditions on me, personally I'd love to have IPs for each machine in my house, but I can't because IP addresses are hard to come by.
/16's to stop their worms from hammering me.
Sysadmins and regular Slashdot readers are in the minority. Personally I'd rather have the Comcast weenies behind a single firewall... Then I wouldn't have to block entire
Introduction to IPv6 #1004040... This has been brought up every six months or so for quite some time and I usually post the same shit about how it's not practical at this time period for much other than reverse DNS on IRC. But this "article" is yet another worthless explanation of the same old shit.
Take for example the following IPv6 address: 43FB:0000:0000:0000:0000:BB3F:A0A0:0000 This could be shortened to 43FB::BB3F:A0A0:0 instead. Now you might ask: "What's up with the double colon?" If you thought that, good for you. You've seen something many people would not have seen on their first try. The double colon (aka "::") signifies that we have removed a series of hexadecimal blocks from the address. These will always be contiguous zeros. AKA "0000:0000:0000:0000" can be shortened to just "::". Therefore when you see the double colon in an IPv6 address, it can be automatically assumed that they are all zeros.
Ahh yes, "simplifying IPv6 addresses". No, there is nothing simple about remembering those addresses (haven't there been studies that say 7-10 numbers in a row is about all we can remember?) So here we have 10+ numbers and letters that don't make much sense (yeah some people have gotten vanity IPv6 addresses like ABCD::BEEF::). Nothing is simplified there until you get the DNS up and running for it (not that this is hard or anything but it isn't exactly easy)
It is true that IPv6 is not human friendly; however, in the long run, it will help solve a lot of issues with the current shortage of available IPv4 addresses on the internet.
Yeah, the "shortages"... Just tell the people hoarding all the damn addresses to hand them over. Sorry but MIT, Apple, etc, as much as I respect their contributions to the human race, do not need a Class A. Allow for the redistribution of the IPs and we should be good to go for quite some time.
Be thankful people don't have unlimited IPs in their house. Most people that want to have multiple computers connected to the Internet use a NAT router and at least protect themselves SOMEWHAT from the outside threats. Can you imagine what would happen if all the Comcast retards were straight to the Net with their own IP on each computer?
ISPs make some good money (hell mine gets $5/mo more out of me for an additional IP) selling off static/dynamic IP space. You think Comcast is going to move for a switch when they make $10/mo per extra IP?
Wow, that's unbiased right there.
The man is in his late 80s. He's been a professor at MIT for ~60 years. He's written the book (now in it's 100000th edition) that is the standard for economics.
Of course the man is biased.
To put things in simplified terms... He doesn't believe in a globalized economy and honestly he should be someone that we listen to.
and - shockingly! - iPods.
Shockingly, michael, people use iPods to backup data! Companies don't want their employees leaving the premises with this data and checking through tens of thousands of bags is time consuming and expensive. Perhaps this would be different if iPods weren't easily able to be used for backing up data but that's just not the case.
According to the article this feature is available in XP SP2. See here for more information.
No, it's not some Microsoft conspiracy to end iTMS and the iPod.
Oh blah. RICO has been overused by lawyers since the late 70s. Anything that says more money should be awarded automatically sets that hampster wheel rolling inside the lawyers' brains...
I don't think this is a matter of "buy patents then make money" as some may argue.
Then you didn't read the article. Altnet tried to sell services to the RIAA and the RIAA ignored them. After waiting it out for a while Altnet decided to sue the RIAA for patent infringement.
Because they weren't making money one way they are going to attempt to make it another.
At least someone is trying to make the RIAA feel the same way that a 14 year old kid does when he/she gets served with a subpoena.
I think it's a bit different when a huge conglomorate gets sued by a small corporation with 550k in cash than when a 14 year old has to explain to his parents why they are going to double their debt because he wanted to listen to Eminem for free.
In the summer of 2003, it announced that it had purchased patent rights to the process of identifying files on a peer-to-peer network using a "hash," or digital fingerprint based on the contents of the file.
Altnet and Brilliant Digital Entertainment are joint venture partners with Sharman Networks, the Australian company that owns the Kazaa software.
So a network that is well known for trading files that probably shouldn't be traded for free buys a patent and tries to sell the services to a group that wants nothing to do with P2P. Then when the group that wants nothing to do with them ignores them they turn around and sue them. Sounds like another company that has been in tech-news recently.
It would be different if you weren't opening their bandwith to possible outsiders. If you were running your own damn internal network on your own WiFi completely seperate from the network they own then no, they couldn't stop you.
But because you are opening their network to traffic that is possibly not sanctioned by the University they are well within their rights to stop you from doing so.
Personally I thought Kit would be reading ads for remote car starters, security systems, and NO2 setups.
Not too earth shattering, and just in time to catch a declining IE.
Sorry but I don't exactly think it's all that important of a feature. It surely isn't anyting but bloat. Don't we normally complain about that with other pieces of software?
Somehow when we talk about Mozilla/Firefox features that IE doesn't have it's never unnecessary.
Anytime I use decent search terms Google generally finds exactly what I am looking for within the first three links.
Honestly I don't know how well "I'm Feeling Lucky" will work for most users. Hell, most people I know have to wade through their search results b/c they never know the right way to word their search terms.
All those random people that have single lines in software changelogs... Take this for example. There's a project that helped get support for a popular USB camera out into the wild.
;-) I hear he's really sexy too!
Look all the way at the bottom. There's one guy there that did a TON for the community