I ask this becuase the distributed concept needs to be applied to web indexing.
I used to use altavista for all of my searching, but now that the search engines are lagging so far behind in indexing the content, we're forced to try multiple search engines to find what we're looking for. Yes, there are meta-search engines, but that's not what I'm looking for.
If they're letting us at the crawling/indexing code, maybe we can build a distributed indexing system along the lines of seti@home, mprime or one of the distributed.net projects.
Between that and an indexing system along the lines of the Library of Congress indexing code systems, we could jsut tame this beast yet.
heh... sorry, that's one of the dangers of raising your threshhold to 1... it looks like you were replying to my post, not the response to my post, which didn't show up because it was at 0. If I could, I'd hand you some informative points.:]
Are you always so combative? We're not even on opposite sides of the argument, you're going further in-depth on the same point I made, yet "I'm talking bullshit" and the "realise with acute embarassment the idocy of your post" bit is just flat-out abusive.
If you want to make a point, do so. I don't see the reason for personal attacks. We don't need this antagonism on/.
I wasn't stupid enough to install sp6 until it had been in use for a couple of weeks and the problems had shaken out, so I didn't bother to read all of the RFC's. Why should I?
Draw what conclusions you like from this episode, but I'm looking at the facts of particular case:
1) security hole found prior to ship 2) security hole reported to MS on Jan 17th 3) tested patch issued and publicized Jan 28th
That sounds pretty decent to me.
Except that the hotfix breaks functionality... Define "tested."
This is nothing new. Look at SP6, which broke Winsock (how did THAT get out the door?), so SP6a was released... then pulled... then re-released, although it was hard to tell which SP you were getting, since SP6 web pages and downloads were still posted and linked to...
MS has released 6 security fixes so far this year for NT4... That's 1.5 security fixes per week for an operating system that was released how many years ago?
So, they can scream all they want about 128 bit encryption providing their security, but encryption doesn't mean squat if there are holes in the underlying foundation.
So let's do the math... $1/cd for $250k... Now let's see a couple hundred thousand people pulling in the tunes off of napster instead, there goes another $200k. Watch the internet grow, watch the growth rate of Napster, and watch the numbers pile up...
You example fits a lot of record companies, (Geffen almost killed God Street Wine), but there are a lot of smaller labels putting out good music. I've seen a lot of Rhino releases (I mean, they continue to print Zappa, MST3K, all kinds of shit that would never see the light of day otherwise) getting posted all over the place.
I don't work for Rhino, or any other record company, I'm just a musician. Whoever called me a "shill" or whatever this morning couldn't be more wrong. I'm in a similar situation, playing fusion that isn't "commercially viable" either.
I like to give fugazi, mmw, mr bungle and a lot of other bands outside the mainstream money. The most direct way for me to do it is by buying a CD. Downloading the mp3 without paying for it is in no way going to support the band.
If people liked the music, the band should be able to get some concerts.
How often does the Orb tour? Orbital? Boston? King Crimson? I could name hundreds of bands, if I had the time.
Throwing out logic has nothing to do with it. You're just rationalizing not having to buy the music.
You'd think that true artists would care more about their music going around the world than making money selling CD's.
Further rationalization. While the "starving artist" cliche might sell a warehouse full of bad paintings, it's a pretty horrible life to live. Beethoven and other composers had "patrons," or people who commisioned them to compose pieces, often for specific events. The analogy doesn't fit. One patron has been replaced by thousands or million sof individuals, voting for music with their dollars. You're removing those dollars from the equation.
"True artists" need to make a living too. I know a lot of "true artists" who are waiting tables, washing dishes, or having to give up on their art because it's not paying the bills.
I apologize for replying to all the posts in this thread, but this "i want it for free and I'll get it for free" attitude is just plain wrong. I don't agree with the RIAA's reasoning, I know that it's just plain greed, but a lot of musicians are going to get screwed in the process.
If you're not willing to support the musicians, you don't deserve the music. Do you realize that you're bitching that the record execs are robbing the musicians while doing it yourself?
So you don't understand artists or the drive to be one. Fine. Don't be one. We really don't care. You've obviously never felt the drive.
Why does everyone think that the entire earth has PCs now? Even more people assume that those people are proficient enough using their new found power to get and support a massive distributed effort at revolution and espionage. Come on people we don't have the whole earth wired and probably never will at the rate we are going.
Extremely valid point, but we're still looking at a growing hemmorhage of income for musicians.
People who are wealthy or self important enough to take high risk ventures are people for the most part are a little batty or are just not thinking about future probabilities.
True, very true. Mozart was a bitch to be around. Liszt was very abusive to the people around him. Artists are often temperamental and a little batty. Doesn't make them or what they produce any less valid.
Wealth and self-importance aren't the basis for becoming an artist. A lot of poor artists exist too. The path of least resistance is not very fulfilling, and frequently leads to depression, or feelings of having wasted your life. If I gave up my instruments, I'd have no reason to live. Apparently in your world-view this would be a good thing.
What a bunch of crock shit. If I am an executive I can hire anyone I want. Suppose a band is removed from a record label. So what I probably can choose any band from at least 1,000 or so in the USA and abroad. The RIAA dosn't care if people die or even worse suffer. They want money so they can be comfortable and never have to wory about anything. This is not altruism it's greed plain and simple. And that dear Watson is the reason why your reasoning is completely baseless.
This is enforcing my point, not arguing against it. Don't forget, my point is about Napster taking away from musician income. In a scenario in which Napster delivers music to 30,000 people who would have otherwise bought the music, the record company sees slumping sales and axes the musicians. The musicians lose out. I'm not defending the record companies, I'm defending the musicians. They have to go through the record companies to make money, that's the system in place right now. If Napster and MP3 transmissions rob their sales, they rob their careers as well.
And that dear Watson is the reason why your reasoning is completely baseless.
That's good for discourse, it shows that you're open to new ideas and that you're actually listening to others./sarcasm
Your argument is a bit naive, and I think you're fully aware of that.
There have always been studio bands that tour extremely rarely. Touring is an extremely grueling process, which can totally tear up the lives of musicians and their families. A lot of bands do not tour, and rely on studio album sales to keep their efforts going. They shouldn't be forced out on the road just so that you can save your $10-15 and listen to the tunes for free.
2. However, what they are really afraid is that artist can get big and earn big bucks without going through a record label. They are scared shit because once artists realize this, the industry will go in for a major overhaul.
I don't see how free, illegal distribution of music gets the artists money without the record companies taking a cut. Artists realize the power of internet distribution, and are trying to capitalize on it. Napster is most definitely not a way for them to do so. Napster is a way for their hard work to proliferate to a million ears without a single penny of income.
Really, the main reason the RIAA and the industry in general is scared of napster, MP3 and digital music in general is that the vast majority of their income comes from your purchase of actual physical media, which becomes obsolete every 4-8 years.
The main reason I worry about it is the artists loss of income. There are a lot of smaller record companies, especially now that pretty much anyone could start one for under $10k, that are getting screwed in the process. A lot of electronic bands are getting ripped off unimaginably, especially since a lot of them rarely, if ever, play live. They're on smaller labels, just getting started, and are losing a lot of income due to things like napster.
At some point, you're taking food out of a musician's mouth. Rationalize that with as much rhetoric as much as you like, it's the basic fact beneath all this.
OK, you're an artist, trying to make a living playing music rather than selling your soul to some subicle-owning master.
You actually get a contract, get a CD out, and try to survive through the first couple of releases until you start making money yourself rather than the record company.
Meanwhile, 5 people buy your CD, rip it, and share it on napster. Eventually a million people have it, and never spent a cent to support the artists. The CD sales are low, so the label drops the band. The band, with no viable source of income, goes back to working day jobs.
Really, it's mighty sad. I mean, we've all seen a startup company go under at some point, I've been part of a couple, and it's a despairing moment. Multiply that by the factor of artistic expression and hopes and dreams of not having to become a mouse jockey to survive, and you've got some really sad shit.
It's no wonder the RIAA is up in arms. I hate the fat record execs as much as anyone else, but I worry about the artists too. Noone seems to even think about that anymore, which is just sad.
We have a legal right to make archive copies of the media we purchase. It would seem that this technology is infringing on that right. Say that I purchase a CD, and it gets stolen with the hundreds of others that are stored in my car. Say that I purchase a CD, then it fals off the coffee table and the cat takes off playing with it, scratching it to hell and back. Wouldn't it be great if I had already made a perfectly legal copy of my own media?
I know that a number of lawyers read/. regularly, am I off base on this one?
I've got $5 that in the 80s you were an elite "kiddy" as well.
I know I was. Welcome to aging in cyberspace. Antigravity, yes. Anti-cranky, no.
But it does bring up a valid point. There's no way on God's increasingly less-green earth they're going to stop this code from proliferating. Why waste the court's time? Isn't there enough ludicrous crap floating through right now?
Like this legislation that (i swear to GOD) just passed, as a result of our great friends, the entertainment industry, that TV listings (tv guide, prevue, that kind of stuff) cannot list whether or not a show is a REPEAT.
It's a good thing our court system has been freed up to worry about things like TV repeats, or making it illegal to list on your dairy products that BGH was not used on the cattle, or that some hacker wrote a program that allows the decoding of extremely insecure video formats.
Fuck the video industry. Fuck the record industry. Fuck these billionaires without enough talent to act, sing, play an instrument or write a screenplay, but who know how to slap their fellow white men on the back and say, "Dammit Bob, let's go have martinis at the witless public's expense. Hell, in 4 years DVD will be obsolete and they'll all buy the same crap on some other medium instead."
I've got $5 that in the 80s you were an elite "kiddy" as well.
I know I was. Welcome to aging in cyberspace. Antigravity, yes. Anti-cranky, no.
But it does bring up a valid point. There's no way on God's increasingly less-green earth they're going to stop this code from proliferating. Why waste the court's time? Isn't there enough ludicrous crap floating through right now?
Like this legislation that (i swear to GOD) just passed, as a result of our great friends, the entertainment industry, that TV listings (tv guide, prevue, that kind of stuff) cannot list whether or not a show is a REPEAT.
It's a good thing our court system has been freed up to worry about things like TV repeats, or making it illegal to list on your dairy products that BGH was not used on the cattle, or that some hacker wrote a program that allows the decoding of extremely insecure video formats.
Fuck the video industry. Fuck the record industry. Fuck these billionaires without enough talent to act, sing, play an instrument or write a screenplay, but who know how to slap their fellow white men on the back and say, "Dammit Bob, let's go have martinis at the witless public's expense. Hell, in 4 years DVD will be obsolete and they'll all buy the same crap on some other medium instead."
It seems like they're resorting to scare tactics in retaliation for fear of something they do not understand.
Their first attempt at this injunction totally failed... So their second attempt should bring "immediate imprisonment"?
This is an entirely unconstituional scare tactic. I hope to see DECSS posted on every Geocities site by the end of the day.
They should be countersued for pulling these ludicrously lame tactics again and again. The whole suit is a source of misinformation the likes of which we've never se...
Well, ok, so we see it all the time. Time something should be done about it, to give the victims of ridiculous crap like this some sort of legal recourse.
Encryption keys are great for security only if you can't compromise the system some other way.
MS has already released 2 security bulletins this week alone, and of course, these are publically known exploits.
They release fixes as quickly as they release bulletins, but anyone who installs a hotfix the day it is released is pretty much a masochistic guinea pig. I mean really, how does a service pack that totally borks WINSOCK get released?
It isn't hush-hush, it's just a brand-new piece of equipment. Give them a couple of weeks. They haven't put them out on the shelves yet in a lot of stores because they just haven't had time yet.
Staying on the cutting edge is a lot easier online than it is in retail stores, but CC seems to have the brick and mortar stores as a higher priority than their website. Can't say I blame them.
What'd be _really_ cool is if the psx2 could play mp3 cd's.
There will be an mp3 player out for the PSX2 pretty quickly. Essentially you'll burn a CD with boot info, an mp3 player and a "browser" for your playlist stuff with a disk full of mp3's. It won't be Sony's, but it'll be out there.
There was quite a bit of effort put into something like this for the standard PSX, but the processor isn't powerful enough to handle the decompression. There are a couple of add-on's that you can plug into the expansion port that'll let you do this, tho. Search for "psx" and "mp3 player" to find more info.
A lot of these temps were working for MS at a time when their stock was lower, and before it climbed to its peak. It's sure to drop somewhat over the next couple of years, so they're kinda screwed now even though they've got the ability to purchase it cheaper.
Maybe they should get refunds on any purchases they made previously.
You're talking about television, a medium which is: a) almost entirely owned by a handful of individuals and corporations b) entirely biased to the agenda of whatever corporation is represented, which can chage at a moment's notice c) so entirely filtered for content and reality by the time it gets to us that the vast majority of its meaning is already lost.
We're not just watching what's happening, we're being told what's happening, and we're seeing it through the eyes of the controlling corporation and the individual they've sent out to report back to us what is happening.
There is so much crap on TV these days approaching TV *with* a critically thinking mind is almost too much work for the minor bits of usefulness you can glean out of all of the marketing and bullshit.
The question for the 21st Century should not be "What is art?" but "What is news?" Welcome to newsertainment, the opiate of the future.
I'm wondering when the turning point came when people started to believe that Linux could make money. What was your first exposure to it, and what made you decide to pursue it for profit?
Were there any other "execs" you may have butted heads with along the way who have "signed on" now that things have changed?
1) Lucas doesn't owe you anything for being a devoted fan.
2) He's got a known level of greediness.
This isn't entirely surprising. VHS tapes can be much more readily copied than DVDs can, so I seriously doubt that piracy is the issue.
There is also a third possibility, which I think is pretty likely -- the extra content being put together for the DVD will take quite some time to get together and polish, and maybe he's planning on doing something special with it, which will take extra time.
The Christmas special notwithstanding, Lucas' past releases have all been very well-polished, classy affairs. Maybe they're just taking the time to make sure that the DVD release will be something very cool.
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I ask this becuase the distributed concept needs to be applied to web indexing.
I used to use altavista for all of my searching, but now that the search engines are lagging so far behind in indexing the content, we're forced to try multiple search engines to find what we're looking for. Yes, there are meta-search engines, but that's not what I'm looking for.
If they're letting us at the crawling/indexing code, maybe we can build a distributed indexing system along the lines of seti@home, mprime or one of the distributed.net projects.
Between that and an indexing system along the lines of the Library of Congress indexing code systems, we could jsut tame this beast yet.
heh... sorry, that's one of the dangers of raising your threshhold to 1... it looks like you were replying to my post, not the response to my post, which didn't show up because it was at 0. If I could, I'd hand you some informative points. :]
Are you always so combative? We're not even on opposite sides of the argument, you're going further in-depth on the same point I made, yet "I'm talking bullshit" and the "realise with acute embarassment the idocy of your post" bit is just flat-out abusive.
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If you want to make a point, do so. I don't see the reason for personal attacks. We don't need this antagonism on
I wasn't stupid enough to install sp6 until it had been in use for a couple of weeks and the problems had shaken out, so I didn't bother to read all of the RFC's. Why should I?
Take a fucking Valium and relax.
Draw what conclusions you like from this episode, but I'm looking at the facts of particular case:
1) security hole found prior to ship
2) security hole reported to MS on Jan 17th
3) tested patch issued and publicized Jan 28th
That sounds pretty decent to me.
Except that the hotfix breaks functionality... Define "tested."
This is nothing new. Look at SP6, which broke Winsock (how did THAT get out the door?), so SP6a was released... then pulled... then re-released, although it was hard to tell which SP you were getting, since SP6 web pages and downloads were still posted and linked to...
MS has released 6 security fixes so far this year for NT4... That's 1.5 security fixes per week for an operating system that was released how many years ago?
So, they can scream all they want about 128 bit encryption providing their security, but encryption doesn't mean squat if there are holes in the underlying foundation.
So let's do the math... $1/cd for $250k... Now let's see a couple hundred thousand people pulling in the tunes off of napster instead, there goes another $200k. Watch the internet grow, watch the growth rate of Napster, and watch the numbers pile up...
You example fits a lot of record companies, (Geffen almost killed God Street Wine), but there are a lot of smaller labels putting out good music. I've seen a lot of Rhino releases (I mean, they continue to print Zappa, MST3K, all kinds of shit that would never see the light of day otherwise) getting posted all over the place.
I don't work for Rhino, or any other record company, I'm just a musician. Whoever called me a "shill" or whatever this morning couldn't be more wrong. I'm in a similar situation, playing fusion that isn't "commercially viable" either.
I like to give fugazi, mmw, mr bungle and a lot of other bands outside the mainstream money. The most direct way for me to do it is by buying a CD. Downloading the mp3 without paying for it is in no way going to support the band.
If people liked the music, the band should be able to get some concerts.
How often does the Orb tour? Orbital? Boston? King Crimson? I could name hundreds of bands, if I had the time.
Throwing out logic has nothing to do with it. You're just rationalizing not having to buy the music.
You'd think that true artists would care more about their music going around the world than making money selling CD's.
Further rationalization. While the "starving artist" cliche might sell a warehouse full of bad paintings, it's a pretty horrible life to live. Beethoven and other composers had "patrons," or people who commisioned them to compose pieces, often for specific events. The analogy doesn't fit. One patron has been replaced by thousands or million sof individuals, voting for music with their dollars. You're removing those dollars from the equation.
"True artists" need to make a living too. I know a lot of "true artists" who are waiting tables, washing dishes, or having to give up on their art because it's not paying the bills.
I apologize for replying to all the posts in this thread, but this "i want it for free and I'll get it for free" attitude is just plain wrong. I don't agree with the RIAA's reasoning, I know that it's just plain greed, but a lot of musicians are going to get screwed in the process.
If you're not willing to support the musicians, you don't deserve the music. Do you realize that you're bitching that the record execs are robbing the musicians while doing it yourself?
"subcle" was a typo. It should be "cubicle."
/sarcasm
So you don't understand artists or the drive to be one. Fine. Don't be one. We really don't care. You've obviously never felt the drive.
Why does everyone think that the entire earth has PCs now? Even more people assume that those people are proficient enough using their new found power to get and support a massive distributed effort at revolution and espionage. Come on people we don't have the whole earth wired and probably never will at the rate we are going.
Extremely valid point, but we're still looking at a growing hemmorhage of income for musicians.
People who are wealthy or self important enough to take high risk ventures are people for the most part are a little batty or are just not thinking about future probabilities.
True, very true. Mozart was a bitch to be around. Liszt was very abusive to the people around him. Artists are often temperamental and a little batty. Doesn't make them or what they produce any less valid.
Wealth and self-importance aren't the basis for becoming an artist. A lot of poor artists exist too. The path of least resistance is not very fulfilling, and frequently leads to depression, or feelings of having wasted your life. If I gave up my instruments, I'd have no reason to live. Apparently in your world-view this would be a good thing.
What a bunch of crock shit. If I am an executive I can hire anyone I want. Suppose a band is removed from a record label. So what I probably can choose any band from at least 1,000 or so in the USA and abroad. The RIAA dosn't care if people die or even worse suffer. They want money so they can be comfortable and never have to wory about anything. This is not altruism it's greed plain and simple. And that dear Watson is the reason why your reasoning is completely baseless.
This is enforcing my point, not arguing against it. Don't forget, my point is about Napster taking away from musician income. In a scenario in which Napster delivers music to 30,000 people who would have otherwise bought the music, the record company sees slumping sales and axes the musicians. The musicians lose out. I'm not defending the record companies, I'm defending the musicians. They have to go through the record companies to make money, that's the system in place right now. If Napster and MP3 transmissions rob their sales, they rob their careers as well.
And that dear Watson is the reason why your reasoning is completely baseless.
That's good for discourse, it shows that you're open to new ideas and that you're actually listening to others.
Your argument is a bit naive, and I think you're fully aware of that.
There have always been studio bands that tour extremely rarely. Touring is an extremely grueling process, which can totally tear up the lives of musicians and their families. A lot of bands do not tour, and rely on studio album sales to keep their efforts going. They shouldn't be forced out on the road just so that you can save your $10-15 and listen to the tunes for free.
2. However, what they are really afraid is that artist can get big and earn big bucks without going through a record label. They are scared shit because once artists realize this, the industry will go in for a major overhaul.
I don't see how free, illegal distribution of music gets the artists money without the record companies taking a cut. Artists realize the power of internet distribution, and are trying to capitalize on it. Napster is most definitely not a way for them to do so. Napster is a way for their hard work to proliferate to a million ears without a single penny of income.
Really, the main reason the RIAA and the industry in general is scared of napster, MP3 and digital music in general is that the vast majority of their income comes from your purchase of actual physical media, which becomes obsolete every 4-8 years.
The main reason I worry about it is the artists loss of income. There are a lot of smaller record companies, especially now that pretty much anyone could start one for under $10k, that are getting screwed in the process. A lot of electronic bands are getting ripped off unimaginably, especially since a lot of them rarely, if ever, play live. They're on smaller labels, just getting started, and are losing a lot of income due to things like napster.
At some point, you're taking food out of a musician's mouth. Rationalize that with as much rhetoric as much as you like, it's the basic fact beneath all this.
OK, you're an artist, trying to make a living playing music rather than selling your soul to some subicle-owning master.
You actually get a contract, get a CD out, and try to survive through the first couple of releases until you start making money yourself rather than the record company.
Meanwhile, 5 people buy your CD, rip it, and share it on napster. Eventually a million people have it, and never spent a cent to support the artists. The CD sales are low, so the label drops the band. The band, with no viable source of income, goes back to working day jobs.
Really, it's mighty sad. I mean, we've all seen a startup company go under at some point, I've been part of a couple, and it's a despairing moment. Multiply that by the factor of artistic expression and hopes and dreams of not having to become a mouse jockey to survive, and you've got some really sad shit.
It's no wonder the RIAA is up in arms. I hate the fat record execs as much as anyone else, but I worry about the artists too. Noone seems to even think about that anymore, which is just sad.
We have a legal right to make archive copies of the media we purchase. It would seem that this technology is infringing on that right. Say that I purchase a CD, and it gets stolen with the hundreds of others that are stored in my car. Say that I purchase a CD, then it fals off the coffee table and the cat takes off playing with it, scratching it to hell and back. Wouldn't it be great if I had already made a perfectly legal copy of my own media?
/. regularly, am I off base on this one?
I know that a number of lawyers read
The /. newsbit has "100kbps+" in the title, but I can't find anything about data transfer rates in the article...
yeah, good idea, let's keep a centralized list of all the sites posting it, they'll never find them all...
/. for a list of "victims"...
God knows they'd never check
I've got $5 that in the 80s you were an elite "kiddy" as well.
I know I was. Welcome to aging in cyberspace. Antigravity, yes. Anti-cranky, no.
But it does bring up a valid point. There's no way on God's increasingly less-green earth they're going to stop this code from proliferating. Why waste the court's time? Isn't there enough ludicrous crap floating through right now?
Like this legislation that (i swear to GOD) just passed, as a result of our great friends, the entertainment industry, that TV listings (tv guide, prevue, that kind of stuff) cannot list whether or not a show is a REPEAT.
It's a good thing our court system has been freed up to worry about things like TV repeats, or making it illegal to list on your dairy products that BGH was not used on the cattle, or that some hacker wrote a program that allows the decoding of extremely insecure video formats.
Fuck the video industry. Fuck the record industry. Fuck these billionaires without enough talent to act, sing, play an instrument or write a screenplay, but who know how to slap their fellow white men on the back and say, "Dammit Bob, let's go have martinis at the witless public's expense. Hell, in 4 years DVD will be obsolete and they'll all buy the same crap on some other medium instead."
Can you say "leeches?"
I've got $5 that in the 80s you were an elite "kiddy" as well.
I know I was. Welcome to aging in cyberspace. Antigravity, yes. Anti-cranky, no.
But it does bring up a valid point. There's no way on God's increasingly less-green earth they're going to stop this code from proliferating. Why waste the court's time? Isn't there enough ludicrous crap floating through right now?
Like this legislation that (i swear to GOD) just passed, as a result of our great friends, the entertainment industry, that TV listings (tv guide, prevue, that kind of stuff) cannot list whether or not a show is a REPEAT.
It's a good thing our court system has been freed up to worry about things like TV repeats, or making it illegal to list on your dairy products that BGH was not used on the cattle, or that some hacker wrote a program that allows the decoding of extremely insecure video formats.
Fuck the video industry. Fuck the record industry. Fuck these billionaires without enough talent to act, sing, play an instrument or write a screenplay, but who know how to slap their fellow white men on the back and say, "Dammit Bob, let's go have martinis at the witless public's expense. Hell, in 4 years DVD will be obsolete and they'll all buy the same crap on some other medium instead."
Can you say "leeches?"
It seems like they're resorting to scare tactics in retaliation for fear of something they do not understand.
Their first attempt at this injunction totally failed... So their second attempt should bring "immediate imprisonment"?
This is an entirely unconstituional scare tactic. I hope to see DECSS posted on every Geocities site by the end of the day.
They should be countersued for pulling these ludicrously lame tactics again and again. The whole suit is a source of misinformation the likes of which we've never se...
Well, ok, so we see it all the time. Time something should be done about it, to give the victims of ridiculous crap like this some sort of legal recourse.
Encryption keys are great for security only if you can't compromise the system some other way.
MS has already released 2 security bulletins this week alone, and of course, these are publically known exploits.
They release fixes as quickly as they release bulletins, but anyone who installs a hotfix the day it is released is pretty much a masochistic guinea pig. I mean really, how does a service pack that totally borks WINSOCK get released?
briiiiing me the SAMPO
It isn't hush-hush, it's just a brand-new piece of equipment. Give them a couple of weeks. They haven't put them out on the shelves yet in a lot of stores because they just haven't had time yet.
Staying on the cutting edge is a lot easier online than it is in retail stores, but CC seems to have the brick and mortar stores as a higher priority than their website. Can't say I blame them.
What'd be _really_ cool is if the psx2 could play mp3 cd's.
There will be an mp3 player out for the PSX2 pretty quickly. Essentially you'll burn a CD with boot info, an mp3 player and a "browser" for your playlist stuff with a disk full of mp3's. It won't be Sony's, but it'll be out there.
There was quite a bit of effort put into something like this for the standard PSX, but the processor isn't powerful enough to handle the decompression. There are a couple of add-on's that you can plug into the expansion port that'll let you do this, tho. Search for "psx" and "mp3 player" to find more info.
A lot of these temps were working for MS at a time when their stock was lower, and before it climbed to its peak. It's sure to drop somewhat over the next couple of years, so they're kinda screwed now even though they've got the ability to purchase it cheaper.
Maybe they should get refunds on any purchases they made previously.
You're talking about television, a medium which is:
a) almost entirely owned by a handful of individuals and corporations
b) entirely biased to the agenda of whatever corporation is represented, which can chage at a moment's notice
c) so entirely filtered for content and reality by the time it gets to us that the vast majority of its meaning is already lost.
We're not just watching what's happening, we're being told what's happening, and we're seeing it through the eyes of the controlling corporation and the individual they've sent out to report back to us what is happening.
There is so much crap on TV these days approaching TV *with* a critically thinking mind is almost too much work for the minor bits of usefulness you can glean out of all of the marketing and bullshit.
The question for the 21st Century should not be "What is art?" but "What is news?" Welcome to newsertainment, the opiate of the future.
I'm wondering when the turning point came when people started to believe that Linux could make money. What was your first exposure to it, and what made you decide to pursue it for profit?
Were there any other "execs" you may have butted heads with along the way who have "signed on" now that things have changed?
Very interesting article, very interesting insights.
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I don't, however, see what he's doing with a karaoke machine. Well, let me rephrase that... I'd love to know what he's doing with it
1) Lucas doesn't owe you anything for being a devoted fan.
2) He's got a known level of greediness.
This isn't entirely surprising. VHS tapes can be much more readily copied than DVDs can, so I seriously doubt that piracy is the issue.
There is also a third possibility, which I think is pretty likely -- the extra content being put together for the DVD will take quite some time to get together and polish, and maybe he's planning on doing something special with it, which will take extra time.
The Christmas special notwithstanding, Lucas' past releases have all been very well-polished, classy affairs. Maybe they're just taking the time to make sure that the DVD release will be something very cool.
Ah, see, it's called "hyberbole" -- using exageration for effect.
It's usually used, as is the case here, for humorous effect.