Barbara and Ronnie had kids together? Why haven't I read this in the Weekly World News?
Oops. If I were talking of the Kennedys then you'd be wondering if I had *meant* to insinuate strange and devious sexual relations instead of an embarassing typo.:)
It might sound morbid but they should have waited until he was dead.
While he may not be dead, I would certainly not count him among the living. Apparently his Alzheimer's disease is very bad. I read a year ago when someone asked Barbara Bush if she had told him that one of their children had died. She said that she had not because he wouldn't remember it anyway. Such a terrible, hearbreaking disease...
How effective would this in a world striving to move to wireless protocols?!
Wireless is exactly where this technology is making the biggest impact. No one is thinking of charging laptops but powering wireless access points. We have to run Cat5 to our access points anyway - why not run power through that same cable?
I expect that this will be a big topic of discussion at this year's ResNet conference. On the tentative list of programs there are several programs on this topic and I know of at least one BOF on it, too. We've spent a lot of time in previous years discussing this issue. It keeps coming back and getting higher and higher on our list of priorities...like a hydra whose heads grow back in pairs after we cut one off.
I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but it's possible that a SLIMP3 may be the answer. Small, quiet (solid state), open source software, active developer and user communities, etc. I know that I'm not the only happy owner here on/. and that many others will also recommend it.
There are better choices for a definition of evil, like the following that applies to Saddam Hussain:
"kills millions, brutally supresses all opposition and all human rights, hires the worst profesional torturers and rapists in history"
That's a relief. I'm awful glad that he doesn't hire the best professional torturers and rapists in history.
I'm sorry, but you don't have a *right* to make a living. Don't you see that is exactly what some of us are railing against: the use of laws to protect outmoded business models.
Without the full text of the bills we can't know for certain, but it sounds as if these bills are simply meant to ensure that we retain our fair use rights with respect to digital media. Copyright law already protects you if someone makes a copy of your CD and gives it to someone else. These bills appear to be about ensuring that I can make a copy of your CD (which I legally purchased) for my own personal use, even if I have to break some sort of copy protection method to make these personal copies.
Rep. Lofgren even spells this out rather specifically: "This would not authorize someone taking their digital content and sharing it with a million of their best friends."
Absolutely. I got my undergrad degree from teh Univ of Tennessee. The local sunsite there mirrors all of the major Linux distros and a lot of the large open source packages. It took me longer to burn the data to CD-R than it did for me to download it.
Have you tried speaking to someone about the citations you received?
I'm the ResNet Coordinator at my university and I have yet to speak to any students this year about consuming excessive bandwidth. When I do (and I will - the year is young) I am more than happy to grant exceptions to students such as yourself who can show a legitimate need for the bandwidth. Your use of the bandwidth to further your education and learn is the *reason* that we pay for it each month! I wish some students like yourself would get sent to my office so I could copy your Linux & BSD ISOs instead of downloading them myself.:)
But how will those people whose music isn't able to be played live, such as many in the various "electronic" genres, make money from touring? Are we going to just throw away every genre of music that can't be replicated by a group of people on a stage?
But you have to agree that it is in the government's interests to promote economic growth. In general, a stronger economy is better for everyone.
It's in my best interest for everyone in the country to pay me $5. That doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
The government does not exist to promote economic growth. It exists to ensure that my basic rights are well defended. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.
I'm not saying that this bill is a bad one. I haven't given it full consideration yet. But no law should ever be justified with "but businesses need it!" I don't pay taxes to support businesses.
I must say that I'm impressed that Senator Hollings would propose this bill, but I believe he is accurate when he says "Privacy fears are stifling the development and expansion of the Internet as an engine of economic growth."
So? It's not the governments job to make sure that everything that we invent is useful as an engine of economic growth.
That looks a lot like the Soundblaster Extigy I bought the other day. It looks a lot cooler but doesn't have near the inputs or outputs nor does it have a remote control. Any comparison between the two (or any other similar devices) out there?
I was wondering why the metal band Corrosion of Conformity was suing Gates...:)
Kevin
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If I had a product and was reliant upon providing a means for people to meet up for games, and used that as a revenue source, to feed my programmers and staff, and some joe schmoe comes along with a service that bypasses all that, and makes it easier for pirates to hop on, I'd be mighty pissed, and rightly so.
The law doesn't exist to protect your source of income. If your business model sucks, then you need to change your business model. You shouldn't be able to legislate your way to wealth.
Moreover, this discussion is not limited to computer failures resulting from malicious activity. Although any measurement of "safety" of a computer system must take malicious, hostile, and downright stupid or ignorant user activities into account, it is just as concerned with the stability of the algorithms used, the quality of the code, the quality of the hardware on which that code runs, etc. "Safety" can encompass quite a large number of different variables, which is what makes this a somewhat interesting question that has been posed to us.
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I also remember those magic drills with which you could drill a hole in a single sided floppy and magically turn it into a double sided.
Ah, yes, the magic drills. If you're referring to 5.25" disks, we just called them scissors. :)
Kevin
Oops. If I were talking of the Kennedys then you'd be wondering if I had *meant* to insinuate strange and devious sexual relations instead of an embarassing typo. :)
Kevin
While he may not be dead, I would certainly not count him among the living. Apparently his Alzheimer's disease is very bad. I read a year ago when someone asked Barbara Bush if she had told him that one of their children had died. She said that she had not because he wouldn't remember it anyway. Such a terrible, hearbreaking disease...
Kevin
Wireless is exactly where this technology is making the biggest impact. No one is thinking of charging laptops but powering wireless access points. We have to run Cat5 to our access points anyway - why not run power through that same cable?
Kevin
I expect that this will be a big topic of discussion at this year's ResNet conference. On the tentative list of programs there are several programs on this topic and I know of at least one BOF on it, too. We've spent a lot of time in previous years discussing this issue. It keeps coming back and getting higher and higher on our list of priorities...like a hydra whose heads grow back in pairs after we cut one off.
Kevin
I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but it's possible that a SLIMP3 may be the answer. Small, quiet (solid state), open source software, active developer and user communities, etc. I know that I'm not the only happy owner here on /. and that many others will also recommend it.
Kevin
Shit, I should go change my root password now.
Don't worry, I already did it for you.
There are better choices for a definition of evil, like the following that applies to Saddam Hussain: "kills millions, brutally supresses all opposition and all human rights, hires the worst profesional torturers and rapists in history"
That's a relief. I'm awful glad that he doesn't hire the best professional torturers and rapists in history.
Somwhere, an English teacher cries out in pain and wonders why...
Size doesn't matter.
Only in southern Florida. Unless it's an election day, then you can get away with anything.
I'm sorry, but you don't have a *right* to make a living. Don't you see that is exactly what some of us are railing against: the use of laws to protect outmoded business models.
Without the full text of the bills we can't know for certain, but it sounds as if these bills are simply meant to ensure that we retain our fair use rights with respect to digital media. Copyright law already protects you if someone makes a copy of your CD and gives it to someone else. These bills appear to be about ensuring that I can make a copy of your CD (which I legally purchased) for my own personal use, even if I have to break some sort of copy protection method to make these personal copies.
Rep. Lofgren even spells this out rather specifically: "This would not authorize someone taking their digital content and sharing it with a million of their best friends."
Kevin
Absolutely. I got my undergrad degree from teh Univ of Tennessee. The local sunsite there mirrors all of the major Linux distros and a lot of the large open source packages. It took me longer to burn the data to CD-R than it did for me to download it.
Have you tried speaking to someone about the citations you received?
:)
I'm the ResNet Coordinator at my university and I have yet to speak to any students this year about consuming excessive bandwidth. When I do (and I will - the year is young) I am more than happy to grant exceptions to students such as yourself who can show a legitimate need for the bandwidth. Your use of the bandwidth to further your education and learn is the *reason* that we pay for it each month! I wish some students like yourself would get sent to my office so I could copy your Linux & BSD ISOs instead of downloading them myself.
You *are* aware that people from UWF (other than students) read Slashdot too, right? :)
Kevin Guidry
UWF ResNet Coordinator
I agree! Get rid of all of that filth. Send it all to me - I selflessly volunteer to take care of this terrible problem!
Not to be anal, but it was a Navy plane and not an Air Force plane.
But how will those people whose music isn't able to be played live, such as many in the various "electronic" genres, make money from touring? Are we going to just throw away every genre of music that can't be replicated by a group of people on a stage?
Kevin
But you have to agree that it is in the government's interests to promote economic growth. In general, a stronger economy is better for everyone.
It's in my best interest for everyone in the country to pay me $5. That doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
The government does not exist to promote economic growth. It exists to ensure that my basic rights are well defended. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.
I'm not saying that this bill is a bad one. I haven't given it full consideration yet. But no law should ever be justified with "but businesses need it!" I don't pay taxes to support businesses.
Kevin
I must say that I'm impressed that Senator Hollings would propose this bill, but I believe he is accurate when he says "Privacy fears are stifling the development and expansion of the Internet as an engine of economic growth."
So? It's not the governments job to make sure that everything that we invent is useful as an engine of economic growth.
Kevin
It's in beta, so that means that they don't have to release the source, right?
Kevin
That looks a lot like the Soundblaster Extigy I bought the other day. It looks a lot cooler but doesn't have near the inputs or outputs nor does it have a remote control. Any comparison between the two (or any other similar devices) out there?
Kevin
oops - that should have been CoS
:)
I was wondering why the metal band Corrosion of Conformity was suing Gates...
Kevin
If I had a product and was reliant upon providing a means for people to meet up for games, and used that as a revenue source, to feed my programmers and staff, and some joe schmoe comes along with a service that bypasses all that, and makes it easier for pirates to hop on, I'd be mighty pissed, and rightly so.
The law doesn't exist to protect your source of income. If your business model sucks, then you need to change your business model. You shouldn't be able to legislate your way to wealth.
Kevin
Moreover, this discussion is not limited to computer failures resulting from malicious activity. Although any measurement of "safety" of a computer system must take malicious, hostile, and downright stupid or ignorant user activities into account, it is just as concerned with the stability of the algorithms used, the quality of the code, the quality of the hardware on which that code runs, etc. "Safety" can encompass quite a large number of different variables, which is what makes this a somewhat interesting question that has been posed to us.
Kevin