Don't buy the CD, if you don't agree with the copyright protection. The RIAA will eventually realize that their sales are dropping because of the copyright protection and they are better off without it.
I think the article synopsis is very misleading. Especially to someone who knows absolutely nothing about Bluetooth. The author of the synopsis seems to be upset about something the article said about devices not being compatible with each other. I can't find anything in the article other than the fact that Bluetooth is not ready for consumer release and large scale manufacturing yet.
Actually, the phone companies are working on getting fiber right up to the curb in front of your house. Problem is, they aren't gonna actually run it in to your house. I'm not quite sure why this is, but I can speculate that it has something to do with competing with DSL. My guess would be that the phone companies are going be ready to put fiber in your house, but are going to keep selling DSL until there is something else to compete with fiber.
Really, spam is no big deal. It's simple, watch who you give your e-mail address to and you'll be fine. I have a several e-mail accounts, one of them is for the specific purpose of handing out to anyone and everyone, just so that it can collect spam. Every now and then I will get something informative in it. Otherwise, I just do a lot of deleting. It is actually kind of interesting to read spam sometimes though. At least some of it gives you a little laugh. On the other hand, spam is not nearly annoying as those forwards you get from net newbies who think they are going to get gift certificates from the gap by sending to 100 people.
Disclaimer: I'm the last person on earth that knows anything about encryption technologies, so I'm just gonna pose a few questions. Talk amongst yourselves, discuss...
Firstly, I'm sure this has been discussed on/. before, but is CSS really encryption? It seems that it's more of just an encoding/compression scheme. There are no public/private keys envolved. The way that I understand encryption is that if I encrypted the phrase, "All your CSS are belong to us!" it would come out different every time depending on the keys used. This is what makes it private. CSS on the otherhand would just encode the phrase the same way, every time so that anyone's DVD player can decode it. So, I could use CSS to encode my homework and send it to my teacher if I wanted to. The teacher, or anyone intercepting that homework could use DeCSS or this script to unencode it assuming they knew how it was encoded in the first place. If I encrypted it, anyone that intercepted my homework, would have no way to decrypt it, and therefore, steal my answers. The teacher couldn't decrypt it either unless he had the key. Therefore, its not really encryption but more of just an encoding scheme, kind of like "zipping" a file with pkzip, winzip or gzip. Am I correct on this, or at least heading in the right direction?
If this is the case, then it seems like CSS is more of a standard practice thing, than a proprietary thing, and the MPAA should just give up. I'm sure that "zip" technology was at one time proprietary, now its pretty much standard. And, if I am correct, this really doesn't hold up to the DMCA, because its not encryption that I am trying to circumvent, rather, I am just decoding what I have rightfully purchased.
If this is the case, I have no problem with the MPAA going after the individuals that are illegally copying DVD's and selling them to their 31337 friends. However, just using the scripts and code to watch a movie on your Linux box is another story entirely, and I have no problem with that.
I spent some time lurking around in stores like GoodWill (a second hand donation store here in PA) and I found that stuff like video games sell for darn cheap. Firstly, the stores don't know the value. Secondly, they usually don't test the cartridges or equipment. So if you can by a pile of cartridges for $10, test them, then offer a place where ppl who are specifically looking for games can go to get them, then you should be in business. Usually, ppl don't go to second hand stores for games, especially if they are looking for specific games. It would just take too long to find what they are looking for.
Actually, I used to use pig latin to write to friends back in high school. It gave us something to do during long study halls. Anyway, we used to just move the first letter to the end and add ay. So "luck" would become "ucklay" which looks a lot different.
Some common/. expressions in pig latin:
1. irstFa ostPa!
2. 13373ay OR 133734y
3. llaay ouryay p3'smay reaay elongba otay suay
Using this method, really short words look very contorted, it doesn't work with long words though: residentpay, usinessbay, etc.
Eventually, we started making up shorter equivalents for commonly used words, then it started becoming very unreadable.
There would still need to be some type of oscillator on board, at least for computers. Otherwise, how would a computer be able to do time sensitive operations, like wait 1 second for instance. Also, how would the computer be able to keep the time? As humans, we think on terms of seconds, minutes, and hours. There would be no way for Outlook to tell me I have a meeting in 5 minutes, not like it can do it correctly even with a CPU clock though.
This might be kind of a "Duh" post, but be sure that the software has the ability to redial or retry the call, if it cannot find a signal. You do not want to be resetting every 5 minutes because you are in a rural area with no coverage. Even areas that claim 100% coverage can have some nasty spots. Just make sure that the software can handle a fully automatic process, without having any human intervention. Test it out by driving around in your car, but when you do the test just turn it on, and let it run, don't touch a thing. Have a friend monitor the website to make sure it is working.
It is interesting how Mozilla is really the only browser that we hear any news about. I really haven't heard much from Netscape and IE recently. Are there going to be other interesting improvements in the browser realm in the not too distant future? I don't know, maybe I just live in a box and don't pay too much attention to these things.
Now, you won't be able to register (or hold) a.org domain unless you are incorporated and non-profit...
I always thought that *most* non-profit organizations are not corporations. In fact, I don't see any point to being a corporation other than to make money. It just costs too much too become a corp in the first place. Also, why would a non-profit need to have stock? That's the way things are here in PA anyway. This isn't meant to be a flame...I just don't understand the reasoning in that statement.
Here in central PA there are some enthusiasts that are trying to break up Verizon (former Bell Atlantic, former Ma Bell). I'm not sure of who, or the specifics, but Verizon is airing a radio ad campaign against (of course) the break-up. Basically, they are saying that it will cost 1 billion dollars, raise our phone bills, cut thousands of jobs, etc. Since I don't know much about this, I'm asking for any thoughts on why a break-up would be a bad (or good) thing. I always thought that it would encourage competition, and therefore, be a good thing.
1. Wait until the spec is approved, and is in production.
2. Become the only company that goes against the spec and actually allows the user some freedom
3. Rake in the cash
Really, I think this could start an interesting split in the computer manufacturing biz...those who do and those who don't.
It's not the ad itself that matters...it's what's behind the ad. What I mean is, what if I clicked on an ad and got an interesting article or something informative, rather than a flashy pop-up ridden webpage that is trying to cram consumerism down my throat. I don't think marketing departments care too much about their customers to take the time and offer something like this. So show me that you care whether or not I click on that ad and I'll click on it. Challenge my mind and I might be more apt to click on your ad.
For example...Thinkgeek could give an article about DVD player, comparisons, etc, then try to sell it too me. Rather than just cram it down my throat.
Soon enough, people will stop buying as many CD's, and the RIAA's sales will plummet.
Well, I have to disagree about that. I think that people will continue to buy CD's for the convience, cover art, and the little feeling that you actually own something. IMHO, harddrive space isn't a problem, bandwidth is though. And there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before portable mp3 players become convenient. Technology does have a ways to go, but I think that any plummet in sales should have shown by now.
So I think CD's will always be around in some form, whether the RIAA controls their sales or not.
Also, why doesn't the RIAA start their own Napster-like service. I'm sure there is a lot less overhead on selling mp3 recordings than selling CD's.
This sounds like a really cool and interesting idea...swipe your card...put in your bet amount... and play away. A lot more fun than games of chance that you have no control over. However, I could never see this happening due to most arcade users being younger than the legal gambling age of 21. At least from my experience anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
How long before a slashdotter writes a script to ping the heck out of it...oh, already happened, sorry.
Don't buy the CD, if you don't agree with the copyright protection. The RIAA will eventually realize that their sales are dropping because of the copyright protection and they are better off without it.
Gotta wonder what the actual cost is on a box like that if they can give away a quarter million of them.
;-)
Nothing for the OS
I think the article synopsis is very misleading. Especially to someone who knows absolutely nothing about Bluetooth. The author of the synopsis seems to be upset about something the article said about devices not being compatible with each other. I can't find anything in the article other than the fact that Bluetooth is not ready for consumer release and large scale manufacturing yet.
Actually, the phone companies are working on getting fiber right up to the curb in front of your house. Problem is, they aren't gonna actually run it in to your house. I'm not quite sure why this is, but I can speculate that it has something to do with competing with DSL. My guess would be that the phone companies are going be ready to put fiber in your house, but are going to keep selling DSL until there is something else to compete with fiber.
Really, spam is no big deal. It's simple, watch who you give your e-mail address to and you'll be fine. I have a several e-mail accounts, one of them is for the specific purpose of handing out to anyone and everyone, just so that it can collect spam. Every now and then I will get something informative in it. Otherwise, I just do a lot of deleting. It is actually kind of interesting to read spam sometimes though. At least some of it gives you a little laugh. On the other hand, spam is not nearly annoying as those forwards you get from net newbies who think they are going to get gift certificates from the gap by sending to 100 people.
"But Iridium Satellite LLC, a new private corporation..."
LLC? Corporation? Which is it? In PA, and probably most states, they are very different. An LLC is not a corporation.
Sorry, that was just bugging me.
Also, you are forgetting that the moth's will apparantly completely destroy the corps in the wild. In the lab, they can be fed controlably.
Disclaimer: I'm the last person on earth that knows anything about encryption technologies, so I'm just gonna pose a few questions. Talk amongst yourselves, discuss...
/. before, but is CSS really encryption? It seems that it's more of just an encoding/compression scheme. There are no public/private keys envolved. The way that I understand encryption is that if I encrypted the phrase, "All your CSS are belong to us!" it would come out different every time depending on the keys used. This is what makes it private. CSS on the otherhand would just encode the phrase the same way, every time so that anyone's DVD player can decode it. So, I could use CSS to encode my homework and send it to my teacher if I wanted to. The teacher, or anyone intercepting that homework could use DeCSS or this script to unencode it assuming they knew how it was encoded in the first place. If I encrypted it, anyone that intercepted my homework, would have no way to decrypt it, and therefore, steal my answers. The teacher couldn't decrypt it either unless he had the key. Therefore, its not really encryption but more of just an encoding scheme, kind of like "zipping" a file with pkzip, winzip or gzip. Am I correct on this, or at least heading in the right direction?
Firstly, I'm sure this has been discussed on
If this is the case, then it seems like CSS is more of a standard practice thing, than a proprietary thing, and the MPAA should just give up. I'm sure that "zip" technology was at one time proprietary, now its pretty much standard. And, if I am correct, this really doesn't hold up to the DMCA, because its not encryption that I am trying to circumvent, rather, I am just decoding what I have rightfully purchased.
If this is the case, I have no problem with the MPAA going after the individuals that are illegally copying DVD's and selling them to their 31337 friends. However, just using the scripts and code to watch a movie on your Linux box is another story entirely, and I have no problem with that.
Thoughts, comments, bitching???
I spent some time lurking around in stores like GoodWill (a second hand donation store here in PA) and I found that stuff like video games sell for darn cheap. Firstly, the stores don't know the value. Secondly, they usually don't test the cartridges or equipment. So if you can by a pile of cartridges for $10, test them, then offer a place where ppl who are specifically looking for games can go to get them, then you should be in business. Usually, ppl don't go to second hand stores for games, especially if they are looking for specific games. It would just take too long to find what they are looking for.
Yes, that makes more sense for speaking, but I always moved the first letter only, regardless of whether it was a vowel or not, for writing that is.
I guess everyone has their own way of doing it.
Actually, I used to use pig latin to write to friends back in high school. It gave us something to do during long study halls. Anyway, we used to just move the first letter to the end and add ay. So "luck" would become "ucklay" which looks a lot different.
/. expressions in pig latin:
Some common
1. irstFa ostPa!
2. 13373ay OR 133734y
3. llaay ouryay p3'smay reaay elongba otay suay
Using this method, really short words look very contorted, it doesn't work with long words though: residentpay, usinessbay, etc.
Eventually, we started making up shorter equivalents for commonly used words, then it started becoming very unreadable.
IRC
Isn't this the way it always used to be done? If you're hooked on Napster, just learn to use mIRC and you'll be raking in the tunes in no time.
There would still need to be some type of oscillator on board, at least for computers. Otherwise, how would a computer be able to do time sensitive operations, like wait 1 second for instance. Also, how would the computer be able to keep the time? As humans, we think on terms of seconds, minutes, and hours. There would be no way for Outlook to tell me I have a meeting in 5 minutes, not like it can do it correctly even with a CPU clock though.
This might be kind of a "Duh" post, but be sure that the software has the ability to redial or retry the call, if it cannot find a signal. You do not want to be resetting every 5 minutes because you are in a rural area with no coverage. Even areas that claim 100% coverage can have some nasty spots. Just make sure that the software can handle a fully automatic process, without having any human intervention. Test it out by driving around in your car, but when you do the test just turn it on, and let it run, don't touch a thing. Have a friend monitor the website to make sure it is working.
It is interesting how Mozilla is really the only browser that we hear any news about. I really haven't heard much from Netscape and IE recently. Are there going to be other interesting improvements in the browser realm in the not too distant future? I don't know, maybe I just live in a box and don't pay too much attention to these things.
yes, but your view would not be continuous unless you did a little surgery and removed some of the hardware and framing from the monitors.
I always thought that *most* non-profit organizations are not corporations. In fact, I don't see any point to being a corporation other than to make money. It just costs too much too become a corp in the first place. Also, why would a non-profit need to have stock? That's the way things are here in PA anyway. This isn't meant to be a flame...I just don't understand the reasoning in that statement.
Here in central PA there are some enthusiasts that are trying to break up Verizon (former Bell Atlantic, former Ma Bell). I'm not sure of who, or the specifics, but Verizon is airing a radio ad campaign against (of course) the break-up. Basically, they are saying that it will cost 1 billion dollars, raise our phone bills, cut thousands of jobs, etc. Since I don't know much about this, I'm asking for any thoughts on why a break-up would be a bad (or good) thing. I always thought that it would encourage competition, and therefore, be a good thing.
1. Wait until the spec is approved, and is in production.
2. Become the only company that goes against the spec and actually allows the user some freedom
3. Rake in the cash
Really, I think this could start an interesting split in the computer manufacturing biz...those who do and those who don't.
It's not the ad itself that matters...it's what's behind the ad. What I mean is, what if I clicked on an ad and got an interesting article or something informative, rather than a flashy pop-up ridden webpage that is trying to cram consumerism down my throat. I don't think marketing departments care too much about their customers to take the time and offer something like this. So show me that you care whether or not I click on that ad and I'll click on it. Challenge my mind and I might be more apt to click on your ad.
For example...Thinkgeek could give an article about DVD player, comparisons, etc, then try to sell it too me. Rather than just cram it down my throat.
Soon enough, people will stop buying as many CD's, and the RIAA's sales will plummet.
Well, I have to disagree about that. I think that people will continue to buy CD's for the convience, cover art, and the little feeling that you actually own something. IMHO, harddrive space isn't a problem, bandwidth is though. And there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before portable mp3 players become convenient. Technology does have a ways to go, but I think that any plummet in sales should have shown by now.
So I think CD's will always be around in some form, whether the RIAA controls their sales or not.
Also, why doesn't the RIAA start their own Napster-like service. I'm sure there is a lot less overhead on selling mp3 recordings than selling CD's.
8. Slashdotted: The site you've been trying to reach keeps timing out. So, you post the goatse.cx link somewhere out of pure anger.
I think I'm definately in the Karma Whore state, so moderators, please mod this +1 funny just to humor me.
No, but I bet whatever OS they do use is open source. I'd like to get a copy of AlienUX for my box at home.
This sounds like a really cool and interesting idea...swipe your card...put in your bet amount... and play away. A lot more fun than games of chance that you have no control over. However, I could never see this happening due to most arcade users being younger than the legal gambling age of 21. At least from my experience anyway.