This just in... women hacks her dishwasher. "I just wanted to get more energy savings by increasing the water pressure at the beginning of the cycle, I don't recommend putting your china in it as a result but average dishes stand up well to the pressure." Representatives from Dishwashers R Us gave no comment except: "We must consult our legal team to determine the specific terms of use she violated." The women's local congressman when pressed about it claimed: "The DMCA will apply I'm sure, we must protect industry from its customers who think they actually own what they paid money for." Back to you John... John: "In other news, an elderly man has hacked the speed protection throttle software on his wheelchair saying he just missed the feeling of wind in what little hair he has left..."
Hi Archer,
I've read recently people suggest a separate kernel development be done for desktop use which may speed up their multimedia apps, boot times and other things desktop users like. I don't know enough about kernel dev though to know if that suggestion has actual merit or not.
Actually MMaestro many Linux users are NOT using RTFM as a slang but real advice: http://www.tuxs.org/rtfm.htm there really is a "fine manual". This simple 2 page.pdf (3 counting the title) answers the majority of Linux questions we see over and over again which is why you get answered "RTFM" so much. So seriously, go and Read Tux's Fine Manual.
true but until Vista's fears shortof having your house raided by the Gestapo there really was no way they'd know you did it nor do they really care. What they actually care about is the re-distribution of it which has always been a copyright holders concern long before ripping capabilities were invented.
The problem today is there's so many things in Vista that can be changed before we notice it that could let MSFT or others know what's on our hdd's. The fella in this case was simply not very bright or asking for trouble by posting the information. What's scary though is that information like he provided has become illegal. There's a word we used to use for that - censorship and after it comes fascism.
yea could be except that sometimes my audio does skip. But that could be my soundchip on the mainboard. Under XP the sound driver quits ocassionally forcing a reboot but it does work under Vista with never a crash. Ocassionally I do get the soundskip though if I'm loading a webpage. I only have a small home network so it's not enough to test the articles claim myself as there could be other factors at play I'm unaware of with my issue such as possible multimedia on the website getting loaded in the background.
gawd I hope not. WoW's engine actually scales up or down well based on the system its running on. It runs and still looks purty on my Dell Inspiron 5150 with only a 32 MB video chip without stuttering, on my desktop I have more options turned on obviously due its beefier graphics. Other MMO's are a slideshow or freeze on anything less than a 128MB video.
far from the cheapest mac ever though because first you need a mac to load it from don't you?
It's the most expensive media player out there too because one could slap together a Linux media player to do the same thing. If a person wants to spend a bit more they can get XP MCE '05 and be able to do far more at the same price or just a smidge more than the apple tv.
If Apple really wants to make money they'll contract out a chipset to cable tv dvr makers so that one's cablebox/dvr has the ability built in it. If they don't, they'll turn to Amazon.com like Tivo has and Apple will find themselves priced out of the market again.
didn't Via test this idea a couple years ago? I even remember a plan of Via being talked about in MaximumPC a couple years ago to make a video chip socket on motherboards that's upgradeable instead of a card.
That's absurd. First of all a soldier in Iraq hardly has time to watch 24. Second of all the UCMJ is ALWAYS on an American Fighting Man's mind. Third, interrigation, like any other job in the military is handled by people trained for it.
They don't want to prevent "copyright infringement" at all. That's never been RIAA and MPAA's plan. Their plan has always been for us to own multiple copies of the same thing for every different device. A DVD for watching in the living room (which our children will scratch up), a DRM software version sold separately for use on our computers, a cd for our music at home and separate DRM software versions for our computer. This way they get multiple sales from 1 item.
Screw them, they brought this fight on by attacking their customers. Civil disobedience is the only way to fight because the politicians are owned by them which is how they got the tyrannical DMCA passed.
the fascists are hard at work I see. It seems people were so concerned about things swinging too far left (which ends at socialism) in the 90s that there hasn't been a check in place to keep the boom swinging to the extreme right (which ends at fascism).
Was any of the data he provided wrong?
If it wasn't it reveals how unnecessary it is to hold "credentials."
If his data was wrong it reveals how foolishly trusting we are of those with "credentials." Especially when you consider that all it takes to hold a degree in theology is a church meeting voting you to have them.
you know I have absolutely no love for that whole nutty region of the world anymore but I actually agree with you. If I was a military leader there I'd be arming myself to the teeth too right now.
The problem though is Iran is on record for not wanting to defend itself against the US but to be offensive toward Israel. If they made the comments they've made about Israel to any other country it would be seen as a declaration of war and they'd already be nuked off the planet. But when you remove the racist and religious rhetoric from Iran's claims they are correct. The land was stolen after WW2, declared a Jewish state and the Jews moved there. The babble has been proven wrong countless times, they have zero claim to the land and the Jews have more in common with Gypsies than they do any of the mid-east region.
Unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about it now. Personally I saw screw 'em and get the F out of there. They can keep their oil and just sell to China and the Russians. Maybe then those two countries will be forced to finally have to deal with them instead of letting US spend our money trying to stabilize and babysit the fruitcakes. In the meantime we can take the money saved from being on the offensive by putting up a real defense instead and pour money into R&D, build a working mass transit system nationwide and once and finally create the alternative fuel. And no it won't cause Israel to collapse at all because once the main customer of oil becomes China and Russia they'll be forced to step in and stabilize the area as well and they know it'll look awful if they let Israel fall.
Well, it creates piracy only because the definition of the word has been changed from people gaining material they never paid for to now include (thanks to the DMCA & DRM) people who back-up or decrypt the DRM so they can play their legally purchased media on other computer OS's (such as Mac or Linux).
Let's take the example of Movielink or even iTunes movies. I could go get the same movie from Wal-Mart, which in my town actually sells them for as much as 60% higher than other wal-marts due to their monopoly here, but for me who is a disabled vet college student and stay-at home dad its far easier to just d/load the thing on iTunes or Movielink when my 3 year old wants to watch something new desperately and I really need to keep chugging along on my studies.
The problem is I'm sick of paying Gates' and company exhorbitant prices for their "os" which could be argued actually isn't an OS anyway but rather a collection of 3rd party programs people used to buy seperately. So I have Vista 64 on my big rig (and several Linux's I use in VMWare player, mainly Slax), the other machines run Linux only. But thanks to the DMCA and the industry in bed with MSFT I can't play the movies on my Linux machine unless I violate the DMCA, which makes me a "pirate" under the new definition, by running a program like Tunebite to record the thing without DRM.
It's ludicrous, and this explains why we cannot believe for a second the numbers of so called "piracy" the industry claims. Those numbers are only high because they have changed the definition of the word from its original computer definition (which incidentally started back in the 80s due to a poor software distribution method limited by mail order and not actually because they wanted to "steal").
the 1st amendment historically and quite clearly is about a relationship between the people and the government, not between people. That is why you can be sued for libel, wrongful _x_ and so on.
That being said though I feel common sense should kick in and say that anyone that lets it go so far as to "cause them" to commit suicide had a problem to begin with and the other party does not bear the whole responsibility at all.
There's a simiple solution to so called "cyberbullying" - put the stupid computer in the living room or kitchen NOT in the kids' bedroom so they can be observed, put a more secure OS on the computer and learn to fracking use it parents so you can monitor the computer and even have it automatically filter and/or shut down. STOP pretending your kids are miniature adults, - the psychobabble people are WRONG, kids are children, NOT mini-adults so stop listening to those quacks and do your f-ing jobs parents!
aye, I cry Bullshit on that too. In order to come up with those neighbors they have to be changing the definition of the word piracy again. There's a heck of a lot more stuff on torrents than movies, there's Linux.iso's public domain books, podcasts with Creative Commons attributes encouraging them to be shared, and so on. They're just lumping all kinds of stuff together as usual and declaring it all "piracy".
yea but that wouldn't sell papers now would it? Don't you understand how journalism works? If it's something the status quo considers weird (any activity other than watching Football, or Basketball for recreation for example) then it must always be pissed on by the media because they don't make any money from that.
BS. I've been using the Trial and the so called "compatibility" causes more problems than it's worth. Open Office and Word Perfect remain supreme IMO. And what the hecks up with changing the interface toolbars and not letting us at least set it to any old way? Gawd I'd rather have the old DOS F1-F12 combined with shift-alt-or ctrl to do things anyday over that clunky interface.
BINGO short circuit. What's stupid is that if you view the same image in a library book, museum, or the tv show the OC (which reveals far more minors having sex than the internet) it's called art and protected by free speech. If it flashes up on your computer its somehow illegal.
good point.
More to the point this nonsense of Bush has got to STOP! (And for the record I voted for him twice and typically vote Republican, I could hardly be described as left wing or a liberal). He may have seemingly valid reasons for these actions at the moment but the problem is would it ever be lifted or would it eventually become accepted? As has been said before, all evil needs to flourish is for good men to do nothing. All we have to do is look at the McArthy era to see how something that seemed to be in the interest of the country at the time very rapidly became a powertool and spun out of control.
This is a difficult war yes but no more than any of them have been since the end of World War 2. But the measures this presidency has been taking that are flat out against the Constitution in the name of "fighting the war" are absurd. If they have some suspicious mail flag it and set it aside and have the Postal Police get a warrent to open it like they always have, it's not difficult at all they do it all the time already and the judges are paid to be woke up in the middle of the night for it.
Yea I used to think the same way too - just give in and fix whatever the companies want in Linux so that we can have the legal codecs. - But that was until I started running Windows Media Center 2005 and discovered how much of a mess prop. codecs and formats really are! -- The list of software one has to buy to be able to convert your media into the various formats you'd rather use is just endless, and then if they change one of them its another round of re-buying the versions! dvr-ms for example - MSFTs mpeg container format is just stuuuupid. Oh sure I can burn the movies as a huge dvr-ms data file or as a movie dvd file and fit a max. of 2 hours on a single dvd, but I'd rather they had just used standard mpeg then I could convert it to.divx and put several files on a single disk!
Bottom line - prop. codecs and forrmats are created to restrict us so that they can tell us what we can and can't do with our machines and time.
Incidently for the WindowsXP user that's been thinking about "upgrading to MCE" for the convenience - if you want a retail type of pvr software so you don't configure a ton of things and probably screw your computer up like happens with the windows open-source media center programs then get SageTV's media center - records in mpeg and will even encode to mp4, psp, divx avi etc... and they make their own media center extender so you won't be stuck with the choice of either getting WinVISTA or an XBOX 360 as the only ways to "media extend" (due to MSFT pulling the original extenders - yea they know how to force you to "upgrade"). PLUS, SageTV also has a Linux version that ships with Gentoo so it sets up a complete Gentoo Linux rig for you too if you want to go Linux route. -- Yea yea I know there's mythTV, and lots of other "free" linux solutions but let's face it the idea behind a "Media Center" package is ease of use and setting those up are anything BUT easy.
there's also playbypost which makes your game more of an interactive story such as available at www.playbyweb.com and rpol.net. If you still wish to keep the advanced combat rules ie miniatures you'll need to combine it with a mapping or drawing program and post on a website screenshots of the action. I used autorealm for a game to do that with but have since found it much easier to simply use my miniatures on a hexgrid and my digital camera.
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This just in... women hacks her dishwasher. "I just wanted to get more energy savings by increasing the water pressure at the beginning of the cycle, I don't recommend putting your china in it as a result but average dishes stand up well to the pressure." Representatives from Dishwashers R Us gave no comment except: "We must consult our legal team to determine the specific terms of use she violated." The women's local congressman when pressed about it claimed: "The DMCA will apply I'm sure, we must protect industry from its customers who think they actually own what they paid money for." Back to you John... John: "In other news, an elderly man has hacked the speed protection throttle software on his wheelchair saying he just missed the feeling of wind in what little hair he has left..."
Hi Archer, I've read recently people suggest a separate kernel development be done for desktop use which may speed up their multimedia apps, boot times and other things desktop users like. I don't know enough about kernel dev though to know if that suggestion has actual merit or not.
Actually MMaestro many Linux users are NOT using RTFM as a slang but real advice: http://www.tuxs.org/rtfm.htm there really is a "fine manual". This simple 2 page .pdf (3 counting the title) answers the majority of Linux questions we see over and over again which is why you get answered "RTFM" so much. So seriously, go and Read Tux's Fine Manual.
true but until Vista's fears shortof having your house raided by the Gestapo there really was no way they'd know you did it nor do they really care. What they actually care about is the re-distribution of it which has always been a copyright holders concern long before ripping capabilities were invented. The problem today is there's so many things in Vista that can be changed before we notice it that could let MSFT or others know what's on our hdd's. The fella in this case was simply not very bright or asking for trouble by posting the information. What's scary though is that information like he provided has become illegal. There's a word we used to use for that - censorship and after it comes fascism.
yea could be except that sometimes my audio does skip. But that could be my soundchip on the mainboard. Under XP the sound driver quits ocassionally forcing a reboot but it does work under Vista with never a crash. Ocassionally I do get the soundskip though if I'm loading a webpage. I only have a small home network so it's not enough to test the articles claim myself as there could be other factors at play I'm unaware of with my issue such as possible multimedia on the website getting loaded in the background.
gawd I hope not. WoW's engine actually scales up or down well based on the system its running on. It runs and still looks purty on my Dell Inspiron 5150 with only a 32 MB video chip without stuttering, on my desktop I have more options turned on obviously due its beefier graphics. Other MMO's are a slideshow or freeze on anything less than a 128MB video.
far from the cheapest mac ever though because first you need a mac to load it from don't you?
It's the most expensive media player out there too because one could slap together a Linux media player to do the same thing. If a person wants to spend a bit more they can get XP MCE '05 and be able to do far more at the same price or just a smidge more than the apple tv.
If Apple really wants to make money they'll contract out a chipset to cable tv dvr makers so that one's cablebox/dvr has the ability built in it. If they don't, they'll turn to Amazon.com like Tivo has and Apple will find themselves priced out of the market again.
we've long known MSFT was a spyware company; now it's official.
didn't Via test this idea a couple years ago? I even remember a plan of Via being talked about in MaximumPC a couple years ago to make a video chip socket on motherboards that's upgradeable instead of a card.
That's absurd. First of all a soldier in Iraq hardly has time to watch 24. Second of all the UCMJ is ALWAYS on an American Fighting Man's mind. Third, interrigation, like any other job in the military is handled by people trained for it.
You're the one watching too much TV me thinks.
They don't want to prevent "copyright infringement" at all. That's never been RIAA and MPAA's plan. Their plan has always been for us to own multiple copies of the same thing for every different device. A DVD for watching in the living room (which our children will scratch up), a DRM software version sold separately for use on our computers, a cd for our music at home and separate DRM software versions for our computer. This way they get multiple sales from 1 item.
Screw them, they brought this fight on by attacking their customers. Civil disobedience is the only way to fight because the politicians are owned by them which is how they got the tyrannical DMCA passed.
the fascists are hard at work I see. It seems people were so concerned about things swinging too far left (which ends at socialism) in the 90s that there hasn't been a check in place to keep the boom swinging to the extreme right (which ends at fascism).
Was any of the data he provided wrong? If it wasn't it reveals how unnecessary it is to hold "credentials." If his data was wrong it reveals how foolishly trusting we are of those with "credentials." Especially when you consider that all it takes to hold a degree in theology is a church meeting voting you to have them.
you know I have absolutely no love for that whole nutty region of the world anymore but I actually agree with you. If I was a military leader there I'd be arming myself to the teeth too right now. The problem though is Iran is on record for not wanting to defend itself against the US but to be offensive toward Israel. If they made the comments they've made about Israel to any other country it would be seen as a declaration of war and they'd already be nuked off the planet. But when you remove the racist and religious rhetoric from Iran's claims they are correct. The land was stolen after WW2, declared a Jewish state and the Jews moved there. The babble has been proven wrong countless times, they have zero claim to the land and the Jews have more in common with Gypsies than they do any of the mid-east region. Unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about it now. Personally I saw screw 'em and get the F out of there. They can keep their oil and just sell to China and the Russians. Maybe then those two countries will be forced to finally have to deal with them instead of letting US spend our money trying to stabilize and babysit the fruitcakes. In the meantime we can take the money saved from being on the offensive by putting up a real defense instead and pour money into R&D, build a working mass transit system nationwide and once and finally create the alternative fuel. And no it won't cause Israel to collapse at all because once the main customer of oil becomes China and Russia they'll be forced to step in and stabilize the area as well and they know it'll look awful if they let Israel fall.
Well, it creates piracy only because the definition of the word has been changed from people gaining material they never paid for to now include (thanks to the DMCA & DRM) people who back-up or decrypt the DRM so they can play their legally purchased media on other computer OS's (such as Mac or Linux).
Let's take the example of Movielink or even iTunes movies. I could go get the same movie from Wal-Mart, which in my town actually sells them for as much as 60% higher than other wal-marts due to their monopoly here, but for me who is a disabled vet college student and stay-at home dad its far easier to just d/load the thing on iTunes or Movielink when my 3 year old wants to watch something new desperately and I really need to keep chugging along on my studies.
The problem is I'm sick of paying Gates' and company exhorbitant prices for their "os" which could be argued actually isn't an OS anyway but rather a collection of 3rd party programs people used to buy seperately. So I have Vista 64 on my big rig (and several Linux's I use in VMWare player, mainly Slax), the other machines run Linux only. But thanks to the DMCA and the industry in bed with MSFT I can't play the movies on my Linux machine unless I violate the DMCA, which makes me a "pirate" under the new definition, by running a program like Tunebite to record the thing without DRM.
It's ludicrous, and this explains why we cannot believe for a second the numbers of so called "piracy" the industry claims. Those numbers are only high because they have changed the definition of the word from its original computer definition (which incidentally started back in the 80s due to a poor software distribution method limited by mail order and not actually because they wanted to "steal").
the 1st amendment historically and quite clearly is about a relationship between the people and the government, not between people. That is why you can be sued for libel, wrongful _x_ and so on.
That being said though I feel common sense should kick in and say that anyone that lets it go so far as to "cause them" to commit suicide had a problem to begin with and the other party does not bear the whole responsibility at all.
There's a simiple solution to so called "cyberbullying" - put the stupid computer in the living room or kitchen NOT in the kids' bedroom so they can be observed, put a more secure OS on the computer and learn to fracking use it parents so you can monitor the computer and even have it automatically filter and/or shut down. STOP pretending your kids are miniature adults, - the psychobabble people are WRONG, kids are children, NOT mini-adults so stop listening to those quacks and do your f-ing jobs parents!
aye, I cry Bullshit on that too. In order to come up with those neighbors they have to be changing the definition of the word piracy again. There's a heck of a lot more stuff on torrents than movies, there's Linux.iso's public domain books, podcasts with Creative Commons attributes encouraging them to be shared, and so on. They're just lumping all kinds of stuff together as usual and declaring it all "piracy".
You don't know that. Prove that claim that he hasn't been research active.
yea but that wouldn't sell papers now would it? Don't you understand how journalism works? If it's something the status quo considers weird (any activity other than watching Football, or Basketball for recreation for example) then it must always be pissed on by the media because they don't make any money from that.
BS. I've been using the Trial and the so called "compatibility" causes more problems than it's worth. Open Office and Word Perfect remain supreme IMO. And what the hecks up with changing the interface toolbars and not letting us at least set it to any old way? Gawd I'd rather have the old DOS F1-F12 combined with shift-alt-or ctrl to do things anyday over that clunky interface.
BINGO short circuit. What's stupid is that if you view the same image in a library book, museum, or the tv show the OC (which reveals far more minors having sex than the internet) it's called art and protected by free speech. If it flashes up on your computer its somehow illegal.
yea, tell that to my sister and the 60 other people from her plant that lost their jobs when it went to China and some of it to the prison system.
good point. More to the point this nonsense of Bush has got to STOP! (And for the record I voted for him twice and typically vote Republican, I could hardly be described as left wing or a liberal). He may have seemingly valid reasons for these actions at the moment but the problem is would it ever be lifted or would it eventually become accepted? As has been said before, all evil needs to flourish is for good men to do nothing. All we have to do is look at the McArthy era to see how something that seemed to be in the interest of the country at the time very rapidly became a powertool and spun out of control. This is a difficult war yes but no more than any of them have been since the end of World War 2. But the measures this presidency has been taking that are flat out against the Constitution in the name of "fighting the war" are absurd. If they have some suspicious mail flag it and set it aside and have the Postal Police get a warrent to open it like they always have, it's not difficult at all they do it all the time already and the judges are paid to be woke up in the middle of the night for it.
Yea I used to think the same way too - just give in and fix whatever the companies want in Linux so that we can have the legal codecs. - But that was until I started running Windows Media Center 2005 and discovered how much of a mess prop. codecs and formats really are! -- The list of software one has to buy to be able to convert your media into the various formats you'd rather use is just endless, and then if they change one of them its another round of re-buying the versions! dvr-ms for example - MSFTs mpeg container format is just stuuuupid. Oh sure I can burn the movies as a huge dvr-ms data file or as a movie dvd file and fit a max. of 2 hours on a single dvd, but I'd rather they had just used standard mpeg then I could convert it to .divx and put several files on a single disk!
Bottom line - prop. codecs and forrmats are created to restrict us so that they can tell us what we can and can't do with our machines and time.
Incidently for the WindowsXP user that's been thinking about "upgrading to MCE" for the convenience - if you want a retail type of pvr software so you don't configure a ton of things and probably screw your computer up like happens with the windows open-source media center programs then get SageTV's media center - records in mpeg and will even encode to mp4, psp, divx avi etc... and they make their own media center extender so you won't be stuck with the choice of either getting WinVISTA or an XBOX 360 as the only ways to "media extend" (due to MSFT pulling the original extenders - yea they know how to force you to "upgrade"). PLUS, SageTV also has a Linux version that ships with Gentoo so it sets up a complete Gentoo Linux rig for you too if you want to go Linux route. -- Yea yea I know there's mythTV, and lots of other "free" linux solutions but let's face it the idea behind a "Media Center" package is ease of use and setting those up are anything BUT easy.
there's also playbypost which makes your game more of an interactive story such as available at www.playbyweb.com and rpol.net. If you still wish to keep the advanced combat rules ie miniatures you'll need to combine it with a mapping or drawing program and post on a website screenshots of the action. I used autorealm for a game to do that with but have since found it much easier to simply use my miniatures on a hexgrid and my digital camera.