The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently created a plain English guide to several fair use restrictions that major online music services, such as Apple's iTunes, force on their customers via Digital Rights Management (DRM) laden music files and End User License Agreements (EULAs). An excerpt from the guide follows: 'Forget about breaking the DRM to make traditional uses like CD burning and so forth.
Yeah forget about trying to break the DRM in iTunes cos like... uhh. you don't need to, to burn CDs.
...or take them to work. many many it workplaces ban the bringing of usb keys into the premises just as they do cell phones and ipods because of being a security risk.
> Has anyone ever heard of support? Apple may need the > occasional extra lot of processors for years to come to support > their existing support contracts.
That is one possibility. What is annoying is that the slashdot summary says this:
The Mercury News is reporting that Apple is still planning to use PowerPC chips well into 2008 for its low end and portable systems.
when the article actually says this:
Freescale agreed to supply PowerPC microprocessors for orders placed through Dec. 31, 2008 -- a year beyond Apple's planned transition to the Intel chips.
and from apple & freescale itself:
"Freescale (is) to fill any orders Apple places over the next three years. Apple is under no obligation to purchase Freescale microprocessors other than work in progress that was in place at the time the agreement was executed."
So suddenly "freescale is bound to fill any orders apple may or may not need to place over the next 3 years" becomes "Apple will be making G4 laptops until 2008"
Rubbish as spculation gets piled on top of speculation. It stinks something bad when basic reporting gets errors confounded one upon top of another
With the rapid increases in solar and wind and geothermal and hot fractured rock and wave/water energy anyone searching for fusion as a way to provide power is just searching for a solution without a problem. We dont need the dangers of fission OR fusion we have what we already need right here with currence technology
Out of all the features meant to be in vista some since 1992, almost all of them have been dropped. Microsoft a large gigantic corporation couldn't get them in their system working.
What's funny is that every one of those features is available today in a Linux distro near you. Yet still nobody listens and switches to linux in droves, but many wait for vista
after dr atkins of the atkins diet died they claimed to have old photos of an interview taken just weeks before he died. As is known atkins died of extreme obesity weighing almost 300 pounds at the time of death
yet b2 claimed in their pictures they had, showing a thin atkins, that these images were taken just weeks before a death.
I wouldn't trust them as far as I could spit them. Don't be surprised if your ideas are stolen too. And maybe they'll post a retroactive 'interview' with you claiming to be before your death that shows they got the idea from you validly.
I'm with you there. I don't go to movies regularly, I never did. Perhaps 10 times since 2000. In every one of those times I went in multiple people answered cell phones. Some rang, some were obviously vibrate only but it didn't stop people answering and holding a conversation. MANY people texted and the flash of screens as they did so was offputting.
More than a couple of times I've seen people with a laptop open and playing games or otherwise doing something that flashes on the screen.
I thought movie going was meant to be a good experience, but the times I've been lately it just hasn't. Not that I'm the target market as I've been going as much as I ever have which isn't much at all. But I bet it affects regular moviegoers too
I'm disappointed in many of them. It seems to be a great way to give broadcasting to the masses, so just anyone can make a radio show as easily as a large commercial radio station.
Unfortunately as the old cliche goes, this means that just anyone IS making their own radio shows. I'm finding the same stats as you, about 99% are trash, and the ones I've kept listening to are commercial/professional stations who just put their existing radio shows online.
We need a good freely accessible ratings service for podcasts in different categories. help people sort the chaff from the soap.
ok I finished listening to the podcast and I must say it's disappointing this is on the front page of slashdot. If the poor quality mp3 wasn't bad enough, the shrieking and random burping out loud while babbling on like 14 year olds is.
No wonder some of the commercial station podcasts are climbing up the charts as popular if this is what counts for an amateur one.
because there are so many podcasts out there that are crap may as well give some time to the good ones.
assuming they are good. I am still listening to episode 13 of the one in the story but unfortunately their mp3 encoder really sucks and the ringing is terrible on all my mp3 players. pity
Nexus is a magazine devoted to printing what nobody else will publish despite glaring scientific inaccuracies and holes in logic. that is part why they publish what they do.
years ago they were pushing naltrexone for blocking the effects of drugs like opioids and many stories talked of its completely safe use and ability to fix drug users in just days or weeks and prevent any relapses, and was an immune system miracle drug that beat HIV and AIDS.
then after naltrexone was approved nexus printed many articles afterwards talking about the mind control use of naltrexone which was being sneaked in the back door by making drug users use it first because that wouldn't be rejected by society even though there is claimed all evidence to it being unsafe.. claims now are the whole population will be on naltrexone and under mind control within decades.
the position switch might sound like nexus is dual personality but really it just cmoes about because they feel the same information wants to be free as many other people but will work towards that by publishing information nobody else will publish.
whether that information is bollocks matters not it will be published anyway.
the technique mentioned in the article of notching is supposed to do the trick. Unfortunately so far so many bands need to be removed from the BPL to be effectively non-interfering that speed is reduced to below poor quality DSL like 256kbit and there.
It's a useless technology looking for another place to shit on people's existing use of the airwaves.
I think its sad that its come to the point where we have to assume everything is untrustworthy and to have to keep a guard up 24/7.
No I don't think I can think of a time when it ever was that you could trust everyone who asked for your credit card details and financial info and login passwords. If ever there was a time when you felt it was safe to give anyone that info you need to go back to school.
what you have to remember is the people who are copying music like this are music lovers and are all more likely to be buying music than other people who dont. so cracking down on them will lower revenues for RIAA.
They always miss this logic. Its obvious to anyone who listens.
what it patents is if there is data in a document that should be brought attention to, microsoft has patented the idea of giving it a standout attribute like putting a box around it or underlining it or boldening it or making it a brighter color.
so if you have a document with an underlined word in it now you are infringing on microsofts patent. you better pay them your $699 or they will come after you.
Here is the thing. it does not all come down to one price number vs another directly. purchase price is only part of the equation.
If you have a $300 package that does the job, it is cheaper than a free package that does not do the job. the latter is the same as not doing the job at all.
the latter is not an option, so the $300 package is the only option therefore it is cheapest way to actually do the work.
Slashdot Mirror
Welcome to the future of law.
Get pulled over for driving while intoxicated and fined? sue the court that fined you.
Lose that case? sue that court too
etc ad nauseum
> Isn't Mac OS X basically Linux?
It's based on linux but now it's so far removed from what you or I would call linux that its incompatible
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently created a plain English guide to several fair use restrictions that major online music services, such as Apple's iTunes, force on their customers via Digital Rights Management (DRM) laden music files and End User License Agreements (EULAs). An excerpt from the guide follows: 'Forget about breaking the DRM to make traditional uses like CD burning and so forth.
Yeah forget about trying to break the DRM in iTunes cos like... uhh. you don't need to, to burn CDs.
...or take them to work. many many it workplaces ban the bringing of usb keys into the premises just as they do cell phones and ipods because of being a security risk.
so you can't drive this car to work people
> Has anyone ever heard of support? Apple may need the
> occasional extra lot of processors for years to come to support
> their existing support contracts.
That is one possibility. What is annoying is that the slashdot summary says this:
The Mercury News is reporting that Apple is still planning to use PowerPC chips well into 2008 for its low end and portable systems.
when the article actually says this:
Freescale agreed to supply PowerPC microprocessors for orders placed through Dec. 31, 2008 -- a year beyond Apple's planned transition to the Intel chips.
and from apple & freescale itself:
"Freescale (is) to fill any orders Apple places over the next three years. Apple is under no obligation to purchase Freescale microprocessors other than work in progress that was in place at the time the agreement was executed."
So suddenly "freescale is bound to fill any orders apple may or may not need to place over the next 3 years" becomes "Apple will be making G4 laptops until 2008"
Rubbish as spculation gets piled on top of speculation. It stinks something bad when basic reporting gets errors confounded one upon top of another
With the rapid increases in solar and wind and geothermal and hot fractured rock and wave/water energy anyone searching for fusion as a way to provide power is just searching for a solution without a problem. We dont need the dangers of fission OR fusion we have what we already need right here with currence technology
If only we'd use it
Out of all the features meant to be in vista some since 1992, almost all of them have been dropped. Microsoft a large gigantic corporation couldn't get them in their system working.
What's funny is that every one of those features is available today in a Linux distro near you. Yet still nobody listens and switches to linux in droves, but many wait for vista
I think sometimes everyone is a sheep
I wouldn't trust b2 with any of these ideas.
after dr atkins of the atkins diet died they claimed to have old photos of an interview taken just weeks before he died. As is known atkins died of extreme obesity weighing almost 300 pounds at the time of death
yet b2 claimed in their pictures they had, showing a thin atkins, that these images were taken just weeks before a death.
I wouldn't trust them as far as I could spit them. Don't be surprised if your ideas are stolen too. And maybe they'll post a retroactive 'interview' with you claiming to be before your death that shows they got the idea from you validly.
liars and cheats
I hate microsoft with a passion. They suck. I irrationally loathe the company, their products, and everything they stand for.
and even *I* can see that this is a bullshit article, a beatup of ridiculous proportions. Stupidest. Slashdot. Article. Ever.
I'm with you there. I don't go to movies regularly, I never did. Perhaps 10 times since 2000. In every one of those times I went in multiple people answered cell phones. Some rang, some were obviously vibrate only but it didn't stop people answering and holding a conversation. MANY people texted and the flash of screens as they did so was offputting.
More than a couple of times I've seen people with a laptop open and playing games or otherwise doing something that flashes on the screen.
I thought movie going was meant to be a good experience, but the times I've been lately it just hasn't. Not that I'm the target market as I've been going as much as I ever have which isn't much at all. But I bet it affects regular moviegoers too
I'm disappointed in many of them. It seems to be a great way to give broadcasting to the masses, so just anyone can make a radio show as easily as a large commercial radio station.
Unfortunately as the old cliche goes, this means that just anyone IS making their own radio shows. I'm finding the same stats as you, about 99% are trash, and the ones I've kept listening to are commercial/professional stations who just put their existing radio shows online.
We need a good freely accessible ratings service for podcasts in different categories. help people sort the chaff from the soap.
ok I finished listening to the podcast and I must say it's disappointing this is on the front page of slashdot. If the poor quality mp3 wasn't bad enough, the shrieking and random burping out loud while babbling on like 14 year olds is.
No wonder some of the commercial station podcasts are climbing up the charts as popular if this is what counts for an amateur one.
because there are so many podcasts out there that are crap may as well give some time to the good ones.
assuming they are good. I am still listening to episode 13 of the one in the story but unfortunately their mp3 encoder really sucks and the ringing is terrible on all my mp3 players. pity
Who else is waiting for the next slashdot story
"ex-IBM Engineer sued for violating non compete agreement"
Nexus is a magazine devoted to printing what nobody else will publish despite glaring scientific inaccuracies and holes in logic. that is part why they publish what they do.
years ago they were pushing naltrexone for blocking the effects of drugs like opioids and many stories talked of its completely safe use and ability to fix drug users in just days or weeks and prevent any relapses, and was an immune system miracle drug that beat HIV and AIDS.
then after naltrexone was approved nexus printed many articles afterwards talking about the mind control use of naltrexone which was being sneaked in the back door by making drug users use it first because that wouldn't be rejected by society even though there is claimed all evidence to it being unsafe.. claims now are the whole population will be on naltrexone and under mind control within decades.
the position switch might sound like nexus is dual personality but really it just cmoes about because they feel the same information wants to be free as many other people but will work towards that by publishing information nobody else will publish.
whether that information is bollocks matters not it will be published anyway.
the technique mentioned in the article of notching is supposed to do the trick. Unfortunately so far so many bands need to be removed from the BPL to be effectively non-interfering that speed is reduced to below poor quality DSL like 256kbit and there.
It's a useless technology looking for another place to shit on people's existing use of the airwaves.
I think its sad that its come to the point where we have to assume everything is untrustworthy and to have to keep a guard up 24/7.
No I don't think I can think of a time when it ever was that you could trust everyone who asked for your credit card details and financial info and login passwords. If ever there was a time when you felt it was safe to give anyone that info you need to go back to school.
I bet it attracts attention from SCO. No open source project related to IBM will be safe until they are put underground.
what you have to remember is the people who are copying music like this are music lovers and are all more likely to be buying music than other people who dont. so cracking down on them will lower revenues for RIAA.
They always miss this logic. Its obvious to anyone who listens.
says what the advertising people all refuse to hear.
So does anyone have one or more good reasons why this kind of intrusive abuse of advertising should not be banned right now?
really it's just Podcasting with Video. Which I guess it needs a name may as well take the worst one.
what it patents is if there is data in a document that should be brought attention to, microsoft has patented the idea of giving it a standout attribute
like putting a box around it or underlining it or boldening it or making it a brighter color.
so if you have a document with an underlined word in it now you are infringing on microsofts patent. you better pay them your $699 or they will come after you.
Here is the thing. it does not all come down to one price number vs another directly. purchase price is only part of the equation.
If you have a $300 package that does the job, it is cheaper than a free package that does not do the job. the latter is the same as not doing the job at all.
the latter is not an option, so the $300 package is the only option therefore it is cheapest way to actually do the work.
isn't the main thing about podcasting that it is a subscription based service and not just an mp3?
this looks just like a downloadable mp3 that has had the name podcast attached to it because well because podcasting is the meme of the month