I am far from worried about ending piracy. I am, for the most part, worried about it ending freedom of choice, fair use, and free software development and distribution.
You have no idea what will happen. It's a very plausible scenerario based on what has been going on lately (ie. the loose partnership of Phoenix and MS).
Businesses and Academia are the two WORST examples you could have given here.
Hardware distributers have most learning institutions and companies by the balls. They offer deep discounts for bulk purchases *AND* they offer the employees of those institutions rebates as well.
MS is pulling the same bullshit. Offer the software to the schools are extremely low rates and then offer the Office/etc applications for $10 to $20.
You think that schools and businesses are going to give up those deals because they don't like what MS is doing?
Communication between businesses, schools, and the rest of the world is important to those instituions. There's no choice.
HDTV early adopters will just ignore the content that their units can't play back, and broadcasters aren't going to want to limit their potential audience by ruling out everybody but those who have bought certain models of HDTV hardware.
You're kidding right? There is a mandated possibility that everyone will be adopting digital technology. You won't have a choice, if you want to watch the content, but to have a receiver that actually gets the signal and can interpret it.
I am pretty certain that the sheep of the world will run out and buy whatever they need to buy in order to view their precious TV.
The media conglomorates don't have to worry about losing anyone. They have the sheep by the balls.
We are getting closer and closer to the day when NOTHING will work on any electronic device without a conglomerate corporation's device allowing it to go through. We are allowing for a bad precedent to be set here.
Notice the names that are interested: AOL, Dell, Disney. Interesting that these companies not only offer what we traditionally thought they did but they are now also offering TV and music related content along with many other items they shouldn't have been allowed to control.
So here it comes... Dell is going to slowly get into DRM. You are going to see it as a benefit. You can now download a large catalogue of music easily and legally to your computer and portable MP3 playing devices. Woo! Just wait till you want to copy your old collections of CDs to your Dell computer with DRM'd BIOS and OS and then onto your portable. Can you do that? Nope. That's illegal! You aren't proving that you own that CD. What if it was burned and didn't come from the manufacturer. Ok, so let's try the old analog inputs. It's an MP3 afterall and we don't care much about quality...
Error: We notice you are trying to use inputs which are attempting to allow something to pass through our DRM system. We are now blocking access to the ports via hardware.
If you think that by running Linux you are somehow going to escape this you're wrong. The possibilities that computer HARDWARE will only work with DRM enabled BIOS's is coming. Nevermind the fact that if you want to be connected to the rest of the world you will have to have a DRM'd computer with a DRM'd BIOS in order to do so.
...the hoaxes unnerved some residents of the Detroit suburb, which boasts a population in the high four digits.
"It is kind of funny, I'll admit, but this is not the time for these kinds of games," says Keck.
No, it wasn't kind of funny. It was stupid... Really stupid. It wasted a lot of people's time. The bomb threat is one thing. Diverting police cars, forcing evacuations, searching for false bombs, making someone research how to track telephone calls, and having a writer tell a sensationalized story was a huge waste of time.
This had nothing to do with phone phreaking, hacking, or anything. It was a dumbass kid who made a call from a cell phone and someone doing their job and finding Mitnick (who of course was willing to look like the good-guy) to solve the problem.
what helped define the market for me was BitTorrent. There was nothing like being able to download TV shows from the night before while at work, and watch them during the time of day when all that is on are reruns of older shows.
I was able to watch them without interruption, in great quality (as I refuse to subscribe to CATV or buy a double-fucking digital receiver), at my choice of when to watch it.
I really think that it would be an excellent idea for it to be brought here and used by the major networks. I suppose they would never accept it because of the possible loss in ad revenues... Sad really.
Yes, I *know* they can check their customers. I am on ATTBI's existing network. ATTBI would shut people off for worms and viruses all the time. These people would have a note put on their account and they would have to call in to be reenabled...
If ATTBI did it why not Comcast (especially being that I still have a.attbi.com address)?
Look at what I have to block because of constant attempts by infected Comcast jackasses hitting my webserver.
Perhaps Comcast should worry about this more than what MGM is telling them to do. These are attempted intrusions that Comcast lets go without disabling (which they are able to do automatically).
No, I don't think you should use Internet2 for downloading music. It should, for now, remain a research oriented network. Sadly, because of traffic being transparently routed via Internet2 to other schools on the network you wouldn't know you are doing it.
I suppose it's just as much the fault of those that setup the network as it is of the students that are using it.
You know why "Internet2" is faster than the "commodity Internet" on college campuses? People weren't typically using "Internet2" for downloading movies and music. Just because the "Internet2" connections are less expensive, because they are funded through research grants, does not mean that students should be blowing large amounts of pointless traffic through it. The funding can get shut off just as "easily" as it came in.
Officials at the central Internet2 project said they had no theoretical objection to the students' action, at least from the strictly technological side. The network was developed to spur innovation wherever it arises, much as users of the original academic networks developed e-mail and chat features, a representative for the project said.
Yes, I think that P2P programs can be considered research and should even be developed on fast networks like this. I just don't think that students should take advantage of the *currently* open nature of the network just because they can.
Don't ruin it for everyone else like *we* did back in the late 1990s just because you want free music. Instead of fighting with the RIAA by downloading their music shut them off by not listening to it at all. Please support bands that allow the free taping and distribution of their music (see link in my signature below).
this is true. Problem is that SOMEONE is paying for this. Apple loses out, the RIAA loses out, the consumers lose out, and the rest of us lose out too.
Look... We get to have downloads, supposedly what everyone wanted (speedy, somewhat of a selection, etc). What do we do? We break it, in minutes (as predicted), and we look like a bunch of fucks. "We gave them what they wanted and they break in anyway." They are just going to make it harder and harder.
This process takes time and money from all sides. We are all going to continue to pay out the ass in the end.
Support free music (see link below). Do NOT support bands that demand their music is paid for. Do NOT support bands that are run by the RIAA.
what the country was founded on and what *we* have let it become are two different things.
Remember. The powerful always want to become more powerful. We are sitting idly by while the government "restructures" itself around the terrorist threat. All in the name of flag waving rights waiving.
Remember that when you and your 5 out of 10 fellow Americans vote.
Kids in HS have tons more work to do than I did even in the 1990s. Calculators are tools they are not crutches. Why should you *need* to know how to do stuff manually when there is a tool to do it for you?
Great, so we are forced into another ice age, we lose parts of the population, we lose parts of cities...
It's part of Earth's cycle. We sped it up, sure, we could have prevented it, possibly...
Yes, this will be modded as a troll or overrated but the cycle will go on with or w/o us. We are an insignificant part of the history of our planet and although we are intelligent enough to continue to be here I don't think that the earth cares one way or the other.
Once that's the opinion of everyone we will be a lot better off.
Centralized control enables city officials to adjust rates on the fly, for example raising the rates during sporting events, concerts, or other times of high parking demand.
as if meters aren't expensive enough... We really needed someone to come up w/the bright idea to allow dynamic changes to parking meters.
The last parking meter I parked at was 25 cents for 10 minutes. That's just nuts. This will just enable them to have meters that take credit cards forcing even higher rates.
Want a way to stop people from coming downtown? Raise the rates on the meters even higher.
for the most part, the web is pull content. I am not having content forced down my throat.
TV watching has no social interaction while actively doing it. At least there ARE places on the Internet that you can be social and actively participate in the content you are seeing (ahem,/.)
I have wireless net access just about everywhere now. I couldn't live w/o a net connection anymore. I certainly have been able to live w/o TV.
I guess I am just of a different breed.
I have been loving not watching as much TV...
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I don't watch nearly the amount of TV that everyone else seems to. When I moved to Minnesota in November of 2002 I didn't get cable. Comcast gets enough of my money being that they are the only broadband ISP that is economically feasible... Without watching TV for 80% of my daily free time I have found that:
1. I enjoy the outside more than ever. I even have become accustomed to Minnesota winters and don't really mind when it is -10 or warmer.
2. I have a lot more free time to keep my apartment clean, cook better and more interesting dinners, and enjoy the company of REAL PEOPLE. Remember, Fahrenheit 451 is getting closer and closer every day with the advent of more and more time/brain sucking material on the TV.
3. I have found a lot of other interests that I normally wouldn't have. Currently those include reading, geocaching, and drinking. I think I get more out of those activities than listening to terrible singers make terrible renditions of terrible songs.
4. I have $50/month more to spend on other things that I enjoy to do (i.e. food, drinking, girlfriend, etc).
5. The knowledge that I am not wasting away, in my apartment, for five hours a night being fed with push content by large conglomerates that have only the size of their pockets to worry about.
As I have mentioned before, my favorite part of TV is that the government has mandated (with our tax dollars) HDTV to be used. Forcing it to be placed into sets in the future so that we can all double pay for it. Now they realize that we are all fat because we sit on our dead, dying, asses and watch TV. So get out and do something but make sure you pay more taxes to support better TV signals!
I am looking forward to advocating that others I know do this. Perhaps, if we try, we can get rid of the Reality TV non-sense and promote a healthier lifestyle (physically, mentally, and socially). It's unlikely but at least we can try.
but remember, we just had a recent article about how a 4 year old could use KDE. Because that wasn't interesting news (as most of the/.'ers probably could use a computer prior to the age of 3) we needed to counter that w/Grandma using GNOME.
what if you become airborne with your foot still on the pedal? The tire speed will quickly accelerate and could be reporting false numbers before the sensor detects the crash.
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I am far from worried about ending piracy. I am, for the most part, worried about it ending freedom of choice, fair use, and free software development and distribution.
You have no idea what will happen. It's a very plausible scenerario based on what has been going on lately (ie. the loose partnership of Phoenix and MS).
I seriously hope you are joking...
Businesses and Academia are the two WORST examples you could have given here.
Hardware distributers have most learning institutions and companies by the balls. They offer deep discounts for bulk purchases *AND* they offer the employees of those institutions rebates as well.
MS is pulling the same bullshit. Offer the software to the schools are extremely low rates and then offer the Office/etc applications for $10 to $20.
You think that schools and businesses are going to give up those deals because they don't like what MS is doing?
Communication between businesses, schools, and the rest of the world is important to those instituions. There's no choice.
HDTV early adopters will just ignore the content that their units can't play back, and broadcasters aren't going to want to limit their potential audience by ruling out everybody but those who have bought certain models of HDTV hardware.
You're kidding right? There is a mandated possibility that everyone will be adopting digital technology. You won't have a choice, if you want to watch the content, but to have a receiver that actually gets the signal and can interpret it.
I am pretty certain that the sheep of the world will run out and buy whatever they need to buy in order to view their precious TV.
The media conglomorates don't have to worry about losing anyone. They have the sheep by the balls.
We are getting closer and closer to the day when NOTHING will work on any electronic device without a conglomerate corporation's device allowing it to go through. We are allowing for a bad precedent to be set here.
Notice the names that are interested: AOL, Dell, Disney. Interesting that these companies not only offer what we traditionally thought they did but they are now also offering TV and music related content along with many other items they shouldn't have been allowed to control.
So here it comes... Dell is going to slowly get into DRM. You are going to see it as a benefit. You can now download a large catalogue of music easily and legally to your computer and portable MP3 playing devices. Woo! Just wait till you want to copy your old collections of CDs to your Dell computer with DRM'd BIOS and OS and then onto your portable. Can you do that? Nope. That's illegal! You aren't proving that you own that CD. What if it was burned and didn't come from the manufacturer. Ok, so let's try the old analog inputs. It's an MP3 afterall and we don't care much about quality...
Error: We notice you are trying to use inputs which are attempting to allow something to pass through our DRM system. We are now blocking access to the ports via hardware.
If you think that by running Linux you are somehow going to escape this you're wrong. The possibilities that computer HARDWARE will only work with DRM enabled BIOS's is coming. Nevermind the fact that if you want to be connected to the rest of the world you will have to have a DRM'd computer with a DRM'd BIOS in order to do so.
"Welcome to hell boys!"
Uhh, the fine isn't what is important. What is important is the fact that he (or his advisors) made this mistake in the first place.
$800k is $800k. Worth only $40 billion at this point it is a larger chunk than when he was valued at twice that much.
...the hoaxes unnerved some residents of the Detroit suburb, which boasts a population in the high four digits.
"It is kind of funny, I'll admit, but this is not the time for these kinds of games," says Keck.
No, it wasn't kind of funny. It was stupid... Really stupid. It wasted a lot of people's time. The bomb threat is one thing. Diverting police cars, forcing evacuations, searching for false bombs, making someone research how to track telephone calls, and having a writer tell a sensationalized story was a huge waste of time.
This had nothing to do with phone phreaking, hacking, or anything. It was a dumbass kid who made a call from a cell phone and someone doing their job and finding Mitnick (who of course was willing to look like the good-guy) to solve the problem.
For once I don't recommend that you RTFA.
what helped define the market for me was BitTorrent. There was nothing like being able to download TV shows from the night before while at work, and watch them during the time of day when all that is on are reruns of older shows.
I was able to watch them without interruption, in great quality (as I refuse to subscribe to CATV or buy a double-fucking digital receiver), at my choice of when to watch it.
I really think that it would be an excellent idea for it to be brought here and used by the major networks. I suppose they would never accept it because of the possible loss in ad revenues... Sad really.
Yes, I *know* they can check their customers. I am on ATTBI's existing network. ATTBI would shut people off for worms and viruses all the time. These people would have a note put on their account and they would have to call in to be reenabled...
.attbi.com address)?
If ATTBI did it why not Comcast (especially being that I still have a
Yup!
Look at what I have to block because of constant attempts by infected Comcast jackasses hitting my webserver.
Perhaps Comcast should worry about this more than what MGM is telling them to do. These are attempted intrusions that Comcast lets go without disabling (which they are able to do automatically).
66.130.171.0/24>80 66.189.242.0/24>80 66.41.0.0/16>80 66.131.84.0/24>80
66.171.26.0/24>80 24.118.53.0/24>80 66.131.98.0/24>80 66.44.125.0/24>80
66.229.130.0/24>80 66.69.155.0/24>80 66.130.145.0/24>80 66.171.148.0/24>80
66.130.128.0/24>80 66.130.102.0/24>80 66.63.82.0/24>80 66.171.201.0/24>80
24.118.11.0/24>80 66.65.30.0/24>80 66.131.138.0/24>80 66.120.58.0/24>80
66.131.241.0/24>80 66.176.82.0/24>80 66.130.20.0/24>80 66.131.183.0/24>80
66.130.178.0/24>80 66.130.20.0/24>80 66.44.252.0/24>80 66.130.252.0/24>80
66.130.55.0/24>80 66.130.66.0/24>80 66.178.17.0/24>80 66.48.151.0/24>80
66.131.101.0/24>80 66.233.252.0/24>80
I guess that is confusing...
No, I don't think you should use Internet2 for downloading music. It should, for now, remain a research oriented network. Sadly, because of traffic being transparently routed via Internet2 to other schools on the network you wouldn't know you are doing it.
I suppose it's just as much the fault of those that setup the network as it is of the students that are using it.
You know why "Internet2" is faster than the "commodity Internet" on college campuses? People weren't typically using "Internet2" for downloading movies and music. Just because the "Internet2" connections are less expensive, because they are funded through research grants, does not mean that students should be blowing large amounts of pointless traffic through it. The funding can get shut off just as "easily" as it came in.
Officials at the central Internet2 project said they had no theoretical objection to the students' action, at least from the strictly technological side. The network was developed to spur innovation wherever it arises, much as users of the original academic networks developed e-mail and chat features, a representative for the project said.
Yes, I think that P2P programs can be considered research and should even be developed on fast networks like this. I just don't think that students should take advantage of the *currently* open nature of the network just because they can.
Don't ruin it for everyone else like *we* did back in the late 1990s just because you want free music. Instead of fighting with the RIAA by downloading their music shut them off by not listening to it at all. Please support bands that allow the free taping and distribution of their music (see link in my signature below).
this is true. Problem is that SOMEONE is paying for this. Apple loses out, the RIAA loses out, the consumers lose out, and the rest of us lose out too.
Look... We get to have downloads, supposedly what everyone wanted (speedy, somewhat of a selection, etc). What do we do? We break it, in minutes (as predicted), and we look like a bunch of fucks. "We gave them what they wanted and they break in anyway." They are just going to make it harder and harder.
This process takes time and money from all sides. We are all going to continue to pay out the ass in the end.
Support free music (see link below). Do NOT support bands that demand their music is paid for. Do NOT support bands that are run by the RIAA.
what the country was founded on and what *we* have let it become are two different things.
Remember. The powerful always want to become more powerful. We are sitting idly by while the government "restructures" itself around the terrorist threat. All in the name of flag waving rights waiving.
Remember that when you and your 5 out of 10 fellow Americans vote.
Kids in HS have tons more work to do than I did even in the 1990s. Calculators are tools they are not crutches. Why should you *need* to know how to do stuff manually when there is a tool to do it for you?
Great, so we are forced into another ice age, we lose parts of the population, we lose parts of cities...
It's part of Earth's cycle. We sped it up, sure, we could have prevented it, possibly...
Yes, this will be modded as a troll or overrated but the cycle will go on with or w/o us. We are an insignificant part of the history of our planet and although we are intelligent enough to continue to be here I don't think that the earth cares one way or the other.
Once that's the opinion of everyone we will be a lot better off.
no. In fact, when I was working for ATTBI a while back, people would get broadband just so that they could use AOL over it...
AOL email is currently accessable via the web and their client (either dialup or broadband).
Centralized control enables city officials to adjust rates on the fly, for example raising the rates during sporting events, concerts, or other times of high parking demand.
as if meters aren't expensive enough... We really needed someone to come up w/the bright idea to allow dynamic changes to parking meters.
The last parking meter I parked at was 25 cents for 10 minutes. That's just nuts. This will just enable them to have meters that take credit cards forcing even higher rates.
Want a way to stop people from coming downtown? Raise the rates on the meters even higher.
no but we have already seen that Apple has decided that what they did to Xerox in the past won't happen to them now...
They don't allow their UI to go anywhere except their machines (being that they forced an X theme out of existence.
I assume that's what they are talking about here.
It's just as much of a fork as AC patches are. He was doing backporting (IIRC), merging in his own little fixes here and there, etc.
I never considered it a "fork". I considered it stuff that was released that was better than what I could find at kernel.org.
I see no difference here.
for the most part, the web is pull content. I am not having content forced down my throat.
/.)
TV watching has no social interaction while actively doing it. At least there ARE places on the Internet that you can be social and actively participate in the content you are seeing (ahem,
I have wireless net access just about everywhere now. I couldn't live w/o a net connection anymore. I certainly have been able to live w/o TV.
I guess I am just of a different breed.
I don't watch nearly the amount of TV that everyone else seems to. When I moved to Minnesota in November of 2002 I didn't get cable. Comcast gets enough of my money being that they are the only broadband ISP that is economically feasible... Without watching TV for 80% of my daily free time I have found that:
1. I enjoy the outside more than ever. I even have become accustomed to Minnesota winters and don't really mind when it is -10 or warmer.
2. I have a lot more free time to keep my apartment clean, cook better and more interesting dinners, and enjoy the company of REAL PEOPLE. Remember, Fahrenheit 451 is getting closer and closer every day with the advent of more and more time/brain sucking material on the TV.
3. I have found a lot of other interests that I normally wouldn't have. Currently those include reading, geocaching, and drinking. I think I get more out of those activities than listening to terrible singers make terrible renditions of terrible songs.
4. I have $50/month more to spend on other things that I enjoy to do (i.e. food, drinking, girlfriend, etc).
5. The knowledge that I am not wasting away, in my apartment, for five hours a night being fed with push content by large conglomerates that have only the size of their pockets to worry about.
As I have mentioned before, my favorite part of TV is that the government has mandated (with our tax dollars) HDTV to be used. Forcing it to be placed into sets in the future so that we can all double pay for it. Now they realize that we are all fat because we sit on our dead, dying, asses and watch TV. So get out and do something but make sure you pay more taxes to support better TV signals!
I am looking forward to advocating that others I know do this. Perhaps, if we try, we can get rid of the Reality TV non-sense and promote a healthier lifestyle (physically, mentally, and socially). It's unlikely but at least we can try.
but remember, we just had a recent article about how a 4 year old could use KDE. Because that wasn't interesting news (as most of the /.'ers probably could use a computer prior to the age of 3) we needed to counter that w/Grandma using GNOME.
Since a paper disc can be cut by scissors easily, it is simple to preserve data security when disposing of the disc".
Since the disc is made out of paper, and the current number of optical discs is about 20 billion per year, it is easy to use even more trees.
Since a paper disc can be cut by anything easily, it is simple to destroy data when handling the disc.
what if you become airborne with your foot still on the pedal? The tire speed will quickly accelerate and could be reporting false numbers before the sensor detects the crash.
copyright infringement is not theft
But bringing a movie camera into the theatre is, at least in CA.
I wasn't clear enough in my comment. I was talking about general theft, not the movie itself.