"because their albums sounded better than the crappy copies"
You just have to love the RIAA's arguments. Remember the anti piracy bit they had on the beginnning of video movies. In Australia it went like this:
"Have you ever owned or rented a movie that wasn't quite right... poor sound and picture quality... " (I can't remember the rest).
They argued against copying back then because the quality was reduced and would "harm" their reputation as the viewers enjoyment was reduced.
Nowdays, they argue against copying because they quality is the same as the original (in theory).
They can't argue thay you can't make copies because it reduces the quality and argue that you can't make copies because the copy is as good (in theory)
Couldn't they just process images of street signs? Or why not have the person who is lost to SMS the street name(s) they are at (perferrably a corner) and get an SMS back with directions?
1. Go to the hardware shop and pick up some masking tape. 2. Cut a piece sufficiently large to cover the offending LED 3. Place the tape over the LED 4. Repeat from step 2 until the LED is sufficiently dim.
Part 2 - Blocking
1. Go to the hardware shop and pick up a nice hammer drill and a drill bit of similar diameter as the LED
2. Turn the device with the LED off. 3. Drill the shit out of the LED*
*Or, drill the shit out of your eyes. Therefore, removing the need to block any other blue LEDS that you may have on your "look at me I am a techy" gadgets.
On some of highways between Sydney and Wollongong they have those amber billboards that will advice speeding motorists of the correct speed limit if it detects a speeding car. It will also flash an arrow indicating the lane in which the car is travelling. The interesting thing is that the speed limit is 110 Km/h but the signs don't react until you are travelling above 120 Km/h.
Most drivers will speed up when a light changes from green to orange, as it is not illegal to go through a orange light but it is illegal to go through a red light. So wouldn't this cause the speeding motorist to speed even more?
Being from Australia, yes, we do read the information backwards. And it is stored in memory backwards. For example, lets say I have the number 0x2244 it is written on the disk as 0x4422. And, even more amazing is if we look at the number 0xffff, it can sometimes be read backwards, forwards, or randomly, giving the values: 0xffff, 0xffff, and 0xffff. But, we get no errors.
(Hear are some replys for you consideration:
- Isn't Australia part of New Zealand?
- Isn't New Zealand part of Australia?
- That is the lamest piece of shit I have ever
read.
Has anyone else noticed the similarities between the stargate series and the writings of Brian Lumley?
For example:
1. Necroscope series -
- People can travel between worlds using "grey holes", Much like the stargate.
- Vampires are in fact leeches that infect a host body and increase the hosts strengths, senses etc. They also increase the ability to heal. Sound familiar?
2. The house of doors -
- In this novel, a large white mansion appears on a hill side. Inside is an alien called Seth. Does anyone here remember the episode of stargate where there was a cult in a large white mansion that was run by a man called Seth?
Hmmm, maybe that is why I like stargate and Brian Lumley books, as they have similar undertones.
Sorry for being synical, but what does the RIAA get from the sale of 1 CD? If this guy had pruchased more than 1 CD in his life, the RIAA is still ahead.
If it was determined that the price of CDs were too expensive I would like to receive a check for EVERY CD I have purchased over the years.
"While the schema or format of the file used to encompass the scripts of a computer system is described herein in terms of XML, it is understood that other file schemas or formats, such as HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) or the like or any combination thereof may be used as described herein. "
PS. How the fsck is this considered an "invention"
Sounds to me that this patent covers scripting in ANY markup language. I wonder if that little thing called the world wide web with all its scripting in a markup language format (javascript in a html document) would be considered prior art.
I've been hearing this crap all day on the radio how it is better for Australia, Australians and the farmers. But behalf of all the Australians who know what it will be like with this agreement, I say FUCK YOU MR JOHN HOWARD, soon to be ex prime minister of Australia.
Thankyou slashdot for allowing me to vent my frustration.
I thought by forcing a user to agree to an agreement that could not have been viewed before agreement would cause the agreement to be void.
In this case it states "Click on any LINK or image to indicate "I ACCEPT" the USER Agreement." Where User Agreement is in fact a link. Hence, you have agreed to an agreement which you were unable to view before agreement.
This is the same as placing stickers on CD/DVD roms stating "by opening this packet you agree to the enclosed User Agreement". The user agreement then would go on to say "...You are to sacrifice a virgin on every full moon (or in the case of/. users, themself on the first full moon)"
Real Networks have decided to follow Microsoft's lead, and instead of fixing the security flaw (see Microsoft and passwords in http headers) Real Networks have have removed the offending feature.
The next version of Real Player will have the ability of plaing *.rma and *.rmv files removed to protect end users from the evil internet.
All users of Real Player are urged to update their player. An email virus^H^H^H^H^H^H will be sent to every registered user containing a patch to be executed as the Administrator user.
Slashdot Mirror
Shouldn't every reply to this subject be flamebait?
What about the Iraq government using this to investigate Bush, Blair, and Howard for crimes committed against their country. How ironic.
"because their albums sounded better than the crappy copies"
You just have to love the RIAA's arguments. Remember the anti piracy bit they had on the beginnning of video movies. In Australia it went like this:
"Have you ever owned or rented a movie that wasn't quite right... poor sound and picture quality... " (I can't remember the rest).
They argued against copying back then because the quality was reduced and would "harm" their reputation as the viewers enjoyment was reduced.
Nowdays, they argue against copying because they quality is the same as the original (in theory).
They can't argue thay you can't make copies because it reduces the quality and argue that you can't make copies because the copy is as good (in theory)
Well, I guess that this guy is maybe Microsoft Office, because there is quite a bit of bloat in there :)
No offence though, looks pretty cool
/.: ??? Slashdot's colon, is that where all the shit comes from?
Couldn't they just process images of street signs? Or why not have the person who is lost to SMS the street name(s) they are at (perferrably a corner) and get an SMS back with directions?
The Blue LED howto:
Part 1 - dimming.
1. Go to the hardware shop and pick up some masking tape.
2. Cut a piece sufficiently large to cover the offending LED
3. Place the tape over the LED
4. Repeat from step 2 until the LED is sufficiently dim.
Part 2 - Blocking
1. Go to the hardware shop and pick up a nice hammer drill and a drill bit of similar diameter as the LED
2. Turn the device with the LED off.
3. Drill the shit out of the LED*
*Or, drill the shit out of your eyes. Therefore, removing the need to block any other blue LEDS that you may have on your "look at me I am a techy" gadgets.
On some of highways between Sydney and Wollongong they have those amber billboards that will advice speeding motorists of the correct speed limit if it detects a speeding car. It will also flash an arrow indicating the lane in which the car is travelling. The interesting thing is that the speed limit is 110 Km/h but the signs don't react until you are travelling above 120 Km/h.
Most drivers will speed up when a light changes from green to orange, as it is not illegal to go through a orange light but it is illegal to go through a red light. So wouldn't this cause the speeding motorist to speed even more?
... but is it compatible with the GPL, if not, we cannot support it.
Why not just slap a GPS unit in your pack and leave this brick at home. I've never heard of a GPS unit using batteries in 5 hours.
(And yes I do know what a GPS system is *ducks*)
--
this is not my sig
Ahh, but don't forget:
Double Density floppy : 720k
Quad Density floppy : 1.44M
High Density floopy : 2.88M
Most floppy disks are high density. I don't know why, they just are.
Being from Australia, yes, we do read the information backwards. And it is stored in memory backwards. For example, lets say I have the number 0x2244 it is written on the disk as 0x4422. And, even more amazing is if we look at the number 0xffff, it can sometimes be read backwards, forwards, or randomly, giving the values:
0xffff, 0xffff, and 0xffff. But, we get no errors.
(Hear are some replys for you consideration:
- Isn't Australia part of New Zealand?
- Isn't New Zealand part of Australia?
- That is the lamest piece of shit I have ever
read.
I get all my COLA from Coke, and my IP address is no where near SCO's IP address.
Dr. Frasier didn't die, he is just doing the voice of Sideshow Bob full time now.
Wha?... Oh sorry, wrong Dr Frasier. My Bad
Has anyone else noticed the similarities between the stargate series and the writings of Brian Lumley?
For example:
1. Necroscope series -
- People can travel between worlds using "grey holes", Much like the stargate.
- Vampires are in fact leeches that infect a host body and increase the hosts strengths, senses etc. They also increase the ability to heal. Sound familiar?
2. The house of doors -
- In this novel, a large white mansion appears on a hill side. Inside is an alien called Seth. Does anyone here remember the episode of stargate where there was a cult in a large white mansion that was run by a man called Seth?
Hmmm, maybe that is why I like stargate and Brian Lumley books, as they have similar undertones.
Sorry for being synical, but what does the RIAA get from the sale of 1 CD? If this guy had pruchased more than 1 CD in his life, the RIAA is still ahead.
If it was determined that the price of CDs were too expensive I would like to receive a check for EVERY CD I have purchased over the years.
I had a go of the first prototype, but it made me nauseous
score: -1 pun
So, in other words, if it works you could have slept in anyway.
From the patent:
"While the schema or format of the file used to encompass the scripts of a computer system is described herein in terms of XML, it is understood that other file schemas or formats, such as HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) or the like or any combination thereof may be used as described herein. "
PS. How the fsck is this considered an "invention"
Sounds to me that this patent covers scripting in ANY markup language. I wonder if that little thing called the world wide web with all its scripting in a markup language format (javascript in a html document) would be considered prior art.
*Language warning*
I don't care about karma at the moment.
I've been hearing this crap all day on the radio how it is better for Australia, Australians and the farmers. But behalf of all the Australians who know what it will be like with this agreement, I say FUCK YOU MR JOHN HOWARD, soon to be ex prime minister of Australia.
Thankyou slashdot for allowing me to vent my frustration.
Ah yes, but in SCO's case we have a single line (2054) begin equated to lines 30-33 (3 lines) AND lines 609-616 (7 lines).
BTW, lines 30-33 of init/main.c are #includes
I thought by forcing a user to agree to an agreement that could not have been viewed before agreement would cause the agreement to be void.
/. users, themself on the first full moon)"
In this case it states "Click on any LINK or image to indicate "I ACCEPT" the USER Agreement." Where User Agreement is in fact a link. Hence, you have agreed to an agreement which you were unable to view before agreement.
This is the same as placing stickers on CD/DVD roms stating "by opening this packet you agree to the enclosed User Agreement". The user agreement then would go on to say "...You are to sacrifice a virgin on every full moon (or in the case of
From Table D:
Dynix Line #s Linux Line #s
kernel/i386/trap.c 2054 init/main.c 30-33,609-616
How could a single line from Dynix (number 2054) occur at lines 30-33 and
609-616?
I thought if you were cutting and pasting lines from one file to another you
would get the same number of lines.
Real Networks have decided to follow Microsoft's lead, and instead of fixing the security flaw (see Microsoft and passwords in http headers) Real Networks have have removed the offending feature.
The next version of Real Player will have the ability of plaing *.rma and *.rmv files removed to protect end users from the evil internet.
All users of Real Player are urged to update their player. An email virus^H^H^H^H^H^H will be sent to every registered user containing a patch to be executed as the Administrator user.
From Boris Badenoff
Real Networks Russia