>Why do we need a law/amendment? They have the
>right to lobby, and now that your "guys" are
>whores for money, dont vote for them. Pretty
>simple.
They already don't vote. They also don't
actually foster relationships with their
representatives at State or Federal levels, much
less actively participate in the political parties.
>If you are sharing the files with someone you
>know will buy the disc if they like it and
>delete it if they don't then it seems fair, but
>that may or may not be legal.
If you are sharing the files with someone you know who already OWNS the disc but does not
have the resources to encode an MP3 themselves,
are you obeying or violating the law?
If I defeat the SCMS copy protection on my minidisc or my DAT recorder, in order to make copies of my own music that I compose and perform,
should I go to prison under the DMCA? (This is not a rhetorical question, mind you, I'm actually trying to understand the approximate $10,000 barrier between an amateur and professional recording capability).
>many of the MP3s I created that way had OK >quality.
That is a matter of opinion. Your analog copies sound like crap compared to the digital originals.
Getting anything decent out of the consumer analog circuits is impossible, compared to the
digital quality you get from DAE or from a clocked sp/dif copy. Just because it's better than nothing, doesn't mean it's a solution.
>go out of a device with an S/PDIF output, into
>the S/PDIF input on your Sound Blaster Live.
You're getting there with this suggestion, but not quite; the EMU10K1 on the SBLive is locked at 48Khz, which will give you dithering error copying
a 44.1Khz signal. However, if you substitute something like a MOTU, Layla/Darla/Gina, or an
M-Audio card, you've got it.
The challenge of course, is to find a CD Player that has SP/DIF output which hasn't been crippled by Sony's SCMS protocol. Let me know when you find such a device (DVD, CD, Minidisc, or DAT).
>Get home at 6, watch TV for four hours straight,
>eat dinner, brush your teeth and go to bed.
I still think you're underestimating the norm, or
else the norm where I live is different from where you live.
Get up at 7:00. Watch TV while brushing your teeth and making coffee. Rush to work. Watch tv in the breakroom, in the cafeteria at lunch, get home at 6. Watch TV while eating dinner, and until you pass out at 2:00am. Or if you go out,
watch TV in the bar until it closes. Repeat.
Sleep deprivation, bundled with alcohol addiction and Television. Anyone who DOESN'T indulge in this ritual is splitting from the pack.
>I went through this with a boss at a previous
>company.
I think the real problem is that the people with
the knowledge and open-mindedness that would lead
to a deployment of an alternative system, tend not
to BE the BOSS. They tend to be people in inferior roles, working from a position of inferior empowerment, in a frame where specifying systems and planning IT strategies is not done with a presumption of authority.
By this measure, Linux is a failure. Penguinistas aren't running corporate IT departments. We aren't making the important decisions. You aren't the boss. Why not?
>Corporate execs don't understand how something
>that is free can be worth a damn.
This is a matter of cognitive dissonance.
If you put effort into something, it has greater worth to you. If you spend money on something,
it has greater value. This is one area where
using "common sense" can get you into trouble.
It's what keeps people in bad relationships, it's
what makes people spend more repairing their old
worn-out car than they would in payments on a new car, and it's what makes an expensive software solution more appropriate than a free one.
"Corporate Execs" shouldn't be choosing enterprise server software. Their involvement should probably be no closer than a hiring decision for the person who has a specialized skill set for that task.
>When you pay a cool million bucks for the
>software to run your enterprise, you have
>someone to bitch at (Microsoft) should something
>go horribly wrong.
Where is the list of companies and individuals that have gone against Microsoft in a legal venue, and prevailed?
Has anyone ever sued Microsoft and won?
Doesn't the EULA totally take away the whole "someone to bitch at" theory?
> I'd rather see someone recreate all of the
> material without CRC's involvement.
It's another example of how the Internet is
a vast resource, but not very deep.
Why is there only one resource like this?
Why aren't there dozens, or even thousands of alternatives? There have been far too many
good things that had a single point of failure
(OLGA, Napster, DejaNews...)
>>With the default theme, it's Ficher Price and
>>bubbly.
>And that's exactly what I thought when I first
>saw everyone going ga-ga over Enlightenment.
I wonder what theme you saw in that first view of enlightenment! I would NEVER have thought "fisher price" or "bubbly"
"Tattoo shop", maybe. "Punk rock club" probably.
My term for it was "endarkenment" because all the early themes looked like they were trying to be in bladerunner.
Toys for 4 year olds didn't enter into my perception... Skinny Puppy, more like.
I think if you tried this in Phoenix AZ,
you would be talking to the police about being
put under a "tresspass warrant", before you left
the parking lot. Basically what that means is
that the business has decided to exercise their
right to refuse service to you, and there is a process by which they can make it a criminal matter if you return. You don't have to break the law to get this treatment, you just have to have an angry shopkeeper. It's 30-90 days in jail if you violate it.
> We once had a Constitutional
> republic, a government of laws not of men.
>Now we have a tyranny of
> lawyer-politicians.
THIS is the dormant stage of the Constitutional Republic. Give it time. It may take centuries to come around. Revolution would cost much more than
comfort-stricken Americans are prepared to pay.
Let's run out of oil, and be the target of attacks time and time again, instead of just "911". Things will have to get a whole hell of a lot worse before America gets up off its ass and whips itself into shape.
What the hell was so significant about September?
It stands as one of the many national tragedies that the USA has suffered in its long history, in some ways unique, but time will heal even this wound. It started a little desert-storm type of war against an even sillier enemy which is even less capable of fighting a modern war than Iraq was. What else? Did it trigger Great Depression II? Did it start WWIII?
September 11th was neither "unthinkable" or unpredictable (in a general sense). There are
plenty of far more tragic scenarios that would
case more harm and are even more "unthinkable",
but they aren't happening.
Things have to get pretty bad before military men take up arms together with their leadership against the lawful authority of their nation.
Things are not that bad yet. Period. It's even
possible that we are not heading there!!
I bought a musical instrument for $400
on an ebay deal, and the seller
was local. So I went to the seller's house
to pick it up and pay. He mentioned that
he was still considering selling it to
someone else, but that since I was saving him
the trouble of shipping, that I could buy it.
WTF? I got the merchandise, so I wasn't
too upset, but what the seller didn't realize
is that I passed on MANY auctions for similar
items while waiting for this auction to end.
My opportunity cost was supposed to be balanced by his obligation to sell. On reflection, I still feel I should have reported this.
Everyone is saying they're glad the RIAA didn't go through with this, but I'm wondering if I'm a bit disappointed.
I am in the "it needs to get a whole lot worse before it can get better" camp.
We need something to happen that exposes to the common man just how unmanageable our government has become. Currently, it appears only a few people are outraged and the rest are blissfully happy with the status quo. We need truly intolerable laws passed, instead of the merely annoying ones we have today. Only then will there be an impulse for change. Change at the business end of farm implements, for example. You think Middle Eastern terrorism is ugly? You haven't seen what pissed off Americans can do if given a
strong enough cause.
But we are nowhere near the point of outrage.
So far we are only approaching "inconvenience for
the literate". Perhaps if there were a few hundred thousand done like Skylarov. Perhaps not.
A million political prisoners in the drug war and the attendant outrage hasn't brought down the ability of the government to operate. It would take something bigger than that. We have a long way to go before the average American is upset enough to withhold his support of the government.
A very, very long way. Copyright law isn't ever going to rise to this level, not even if we reach the "right to read" problems.
Take away TV, raise the price of crude oil to, oh, $600.00 a barrel, and prohibit alcohol and tobacco, and you might have a revolution on your hands. Anything less, and we'll probably roll over and take it.
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>Why do we need a law/amendment? They have the
>right to lobby, and now that your "guys" are
>whores for money, dont vote for them. Pretty
>simple.
They already don't vote. They also don't
actually foster relationships with their
representatives at State or Federal levels, much
less actively participate in the political parties.
>If you are sharing the files with someone you
>know will buy the disc if they like it and
>delete it if they don't then it seems fair, but
>that may or may not be legal.
If you are sharing the files with someone you know who already OWNS the disc but does not
have the resources to encode an MP3 themselves,
are you obeying or violating the law?
If I defeat the SCMS copy protection on my minidisc or my DAT recorder, in order to make copies of my own music that I compose and perform,
should I go to prison under the DMCA? (This is not a rhetorical question, mind you, I'm actually trying to understand the approximate $10,000 barrier between an amateur and professional recording capability).
>many of the MP3s I created that way had OK >quality.
That is a matter of opinion. Your analog copies sound like crap compared to the digital originals.
Getting anything decent out of the consumer analog circuits is impossible, compared to the
digital quality you get from DAE or from a clocked sp/dif copy. Just because it's better than nothing, doesn't mean it's a solution.
>go out of a device with an S/PDIF output, into
>the S/PDIF input on your Sound Blaster Live.
You're getting there with this suggestion, but not quite; the EMU10K1 on the SBLive is locked at 48Khz, which will give you dithering error copying
a 44.1Khz signal. However, if you substitute something like a MOTU, Layla/Darla/Gina, or an
M-Audio card, you've got it.
The challenge of course, is to find a CD Player that has SP/DIF output which hasn't been crippled by Sony's SCMS protocol. Let me know when you find such a device (DVD, CD, Minidisc, or DAT).
>RCA to stero microplug.
Your solution is to go back to the sound quality of the 1970's then?
The difference between analog and digital sound is far too significant to dismiss that way.
>Time to put the second amendment to good use
>before they get rid of that, too.
We don't have the guts or it would have been done already.
Why is there only ONE ACLU? Why aren't there hundreds of such organizations?
>Get home at 6, watch TV for four hours straight,
>eat dinner, brush your teeth and go to bed.
I still think you're underestimating the norm, or
else the norm where I live is different from where you live.
Get up at 7:00. Watch TV while brushing your teeth and making coffee. Rush to work. Watch tv in the breakroom, in the cafeteria at lunch, get home at 6. Watch TV while eating dinner, and until you pass out at 2:00am. Or if you go out,
watch TV in the bar until it closes. Repeat.
Sleep deprivation, bundled with alcohol addiction and Television. Anyone who DOESN'T indulge in this ritual is splitting from the pack.
>I went through this with a boss at a previous
>company.
I think the real problem is that the people with
the knowledge and open-mindedness that would lead
to a deployment of an alternative system, tend not
to BE the BOSS. They tend to be people in inferior roles, working from a position of inferior empowerment, in a frame where specifying systems and planning IT strategies is not done with a presumption of authority.
By this measure, Linux is a failure. Penguinistas aren't running corporate IT departments. We aren't making the important decisions. You aren't the boss. Why not?
>Corporate execs don't understand how something
>that is free can be worth a damn.
This is a matter of cognitive dissonance.
If you put effort into something, it has greater worth to you. If you spend money on something,
it has greater value. This is one area where
using "common sense" can get you into trouble.
It's what keeps people in bad relationships, it's
what makes people spend more repairing their old
worn-out car than they would in payments on a new car, and it's what makes an expensive software solution more appropriate than a free one.
"Corporate Execs" shouldn't be choosing enterprise server software. Their involvement should probably be no closer than a hiring decision for the person who has a specialized skill set for that task.
>When you pay a cool million bucks for the
>software to run your enterprise, you have
>someone to bitch at (Microsoft) should something
>go horribly wrong.
Where is the list of companies and individuals that have gone against Microsoft in a legal venue, and prevailed?
Has anyone ever sued Microsoft and won?
Doesn't the EULA totally take away the whole "someone to bitch at" theory?
> I'd rather see someone recreate all of the
> material without CRC's involvement.
It's another example of how the Internet is
a vast resource, but not very deep.
Why is there only one resource like this?
Why aren't there dozens, or even thousands of alternatives? There have been far too many
good things that had a single point of failure
(OLGA, Napster, DejaNews...)
>up to 4 hours in a given day!
"Up to" four hours?
I'd say that's average, not maximum.
Depends on where you live, I suppose.
Don't watch broadcast TV.
Fixed the problem for me.
>a friend of mine once showed me how he was
>running Mac OS on top of Windows 2000 with
>VMWare (eww windows, haha don't worry it's for
>linux too)
This isn't really a credible claim.
There may be a MacOS emulator that
can run on Windows 2000, but it is
not VMWare.
HOAX?
>And, if it is gone, does anyone know of a free
>scripting language that would perform like DOS
>Batch files?
If you get cygwin, you can write bash shell scripts, for instance...
>...they couldn't all be arrested. A few would,
>then everybody would just decide it's not worth
>it, charges would be dropped...
In a society where there is a profit motive for building and populating prisons, it is not inconceivable that they *could* all be arrested.
>>With the default theme, it's Ficher Price and
>>bubbly.
>And that's exactly what I thought when I first
>saw everyone going ga-ga over Enlightenment.
I wonder what theme you saw in that first view of enlightenment! I would NEVER have thought "fisher price" or "bubbly"
"Tattoo shop", maybe. "Punk rock club" probably.
My term for it was "endarkenment" because all the early themes looked like they were trying to be in bladerunner.
Toys for 4 year olds didn't enter into my perception... Skinny Puppy, more like.
I think if you tried this in Phoenix AZ,
you would be talking to the police about being
put under a "tresspass warrant", before you left
the parking lot. Basically what that means is
that the business has decided to exercise their
right to refuse service to you, and there is a process by which they can make it a criminal matter if you return. You don't have to break the law to get this treatment, you just have to have an angry shopkeeper. It's 30-90 days in jail if you violate it.
There are boxes in my shop with uptimes of years.
Mainframe admins strive for DECADES of uptime.
I am PISSED off, and I can do the quarter mile in under 12, and oh yeah, I'm PAID FOR.
> We once had a Constitutional
> republic, a government of laws not of men.
>Now we have a tyranny of
> lawyer-politicians.
THIS is the dormant stage of the Constitutional Republic. Give it time. It may take centuries to come around. Revolution would cost much more than
comfort-stricken Americans are prepared to pay.
Let's run out of oil, and be the target of attacks time and time again, instead of just "911". Things will have to get a whole hell of a lot worse before America gets up off its ass and whips itself into shape.
What the hell was so significant about September?
It stands as one of the many national tragedies that the USA has suffered in its long history, in some ways unique, but time will heal even this wound. It started a little desert-storm type of war against an even sillier enemy which is even less capable of fighting a modern war than Iraq was. What else? Did it trigger Great Depression II? Did it start WWIII?
September 11th was neither "unthinkable" or unpredictable (in a general sense). There are
plenty of far more tragic scenarios that would
case more harm and are even more "unthinkable",
but they aren't happening.
Things have to get pretty bad before military men take up arms together with their leadership against the lawful authority of their nation.
Things are not that bad yet. Period. It's even
possible that we are not heading there!!
I bought a musical instrument for $400
on an ebay deal, and the seller
was local. So I went to the seller's house
to pick it up and pay. He mentioned that
he was still considering selling it to
someone else, but that since I was saving him
the trouble of shipping, that I could buy it.
WTF? I got the merchandise, so I wasn't
too upset, but what the seller didn't realize
is that I passed on MANY auctions for similar
items while waiting for this auction to end.
My opportunity cost was supposed to be balanced by his obligation to sell. On reflection, I still feel I should have reported this.
Everyone is saying they're glad the RIAA didn't go through with this, but I'm wondering if I'm a bit disappointed.
I am in the "it needs to get a whole lot worse before it can get better" camp.
We need something to happen that exposes to the common man just how unmanageable our government has become. Currently, it appears only a few people are outraged and the rest are blissfully happy with the status quo. We need truly intolerable laws passed, instead of the merely annoying ones we have today. Only then will there be an impulse for change. Change at the business end of farm implements, for example. You think Middle Eastern terrorism is ugly? You haven't seen what pissed off Americans can do if given a
strong enough cause.
But we are nowhere near the point of outrage.
So far we are only approaching "inconvenience for
the literate". Perhaps if there were a few hundred thousand done like Skylarov. Perhaps not.
A million political prisoners in the drug war and the attendant outrage hasn't brought down the ability of the government to operate. It would take something bigger than that. We have a long way to go before the average American is upset enough to withhold his support of the government.
A very, very long way. Copyright law isn't ever going to rise to this level, not even if we reach the "right to read" problems.
Take away TV, raise the price of crude oil to, oh, $600.00 a barrel, and prohibit alcohol and tobacco, and you might have a revolution on your hands. Anything less, and we'll probably roll over and take it.
> it would probably take a few million
> dollars to spend on lobbyists.
Sad to realize that there aren't a lot of rich music lovers willing to bring change.
Why don't people with money ever do anything for the common good?
>"Identifying"
>such servers is now considered terrorism, and is
>no longer permissible.
It's Terrorism if YOU do it. It's Protecting Domestic Security if Big Business does it.