No they could not. ICAAN does not own the dutch hostmaster. The Netherlands have no reason to remove their own domain. In fact i doubt anyone outside the US would remove.nl. People inside the US might have to use a nameserver located outside the US if they want to keep.nl.
If is different than Ads in newspapers and TV. On TV at most 80% percent or so is ads. In newspapers you can easily skip ads. And yes if there is to many I will not buy the newspaper.
Ads on web pages are often much more annoying. Eg:
* They make sounds, newspapers don't do that. * There are ads that pop up, slide down and covers the text that you are trying to read. Newspapers do not to that. * They are usually just play ugly. * Pages takes longer to load. * It takes more toner/ink to print them (here I also use "remove this object").
And I do not want to see ads on web sites where I am a paying custumer, eg. my bank, phone company, or stores where I shop.
I use pdftotext to convert PDF. My Yopy do have a PDF-viewer but plain text is much better on a PDA.
> Well, ebooks are MUCH easier to keep than paper books. Yes, I hate bringing a book when travelling, reading it when getting stuck in an airport the first day, and then having to drag it around.
1. To make you control the player with the car controls. 2. To get digital input 3. USB can charge your USB-device so the batteries does not run flat.
A lot more practical than the cigarette outlet. 4. If it does mount as a generic USB Mass Storage Device it does not even need to be a music player. You can use any $10 USB stick. Or a 60GByte disk in a USB-adaptor. Or put music on your digial camera and have the camera charged at the same time.
It is not really cracking. It is legal. Even if they had some way of stopping you from downloading the tracks, anyone could legally distribute their tracks on P2P networks because the MP3's are under a creative commons license.
Instead they play nice and hope you do the same. I.e. they let you stream full traks for free, and ask you not to distribute them on P2P networks even if is legal.
I did download some traks. I bought some albums. They mailed me a gift certifiate for an extra album. I deleted the email and downloaded some tracks from playlists. I do not really need FLAC/Wav quality.
>Very good, asuming that >a)The person wants to give up their paid for/bundled MS Office app that works as they want and has worldwide compatilibility or b)
The person does not have to give anything up. The person can install both office apps. I do not mind receiving OASIS docs even if I prefer to write in LaTeX. (unless it a simple email that should be simple text). The person can even open documents in OO, save as.doc and open and edit in MSWORD.
Besides I can use OO on linux and read and write both OASIS and doc formats. MSOffice users should just demand that MS makes Word read OASIS.
>They have the know how to download a file, unzip the contents to a folder, find the setup executable and run it,
I did install OO on a windows computer on a friends computer last year. I just clicked on the link. Then Winzip opened, I pressed "install" (or something like that") and OO was installed.
> or c) They're on dialup so it takes them 2 days to download an > application to open a single document.
If they are on dialup they do not want to receive MSWord documents anyway. PDF would also be better. But they can just get an OO CD: http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
It was a present from me but I use it sometimes. It's the v.1 less slick model.
What it really needs is a tiny browser to accept the splash page on free AP's (e.g. Panera bread). Or just a function that retrieves a random webpage and "presses" any OK/I_Agree/Accept buttons.
On a few occations I have brought a laptop, changed the MAC address to match the phone, started a browser, accepted the terms of use, turned the laptop off, and turned the phone on. Then it works.
== The Industry talks about piracy they always bandy about numbers like (from TFA), three billion dollars per year in lost revenue. I would really love to see their methodology. ==
They probably have a more creative definition of piracy that you and me. I.e. some of the three billion dollars is the loss of you breaking the DMCA and ripping your DVD's to the harddisk instead of buying the same movies on blueray.
Yes, that is the problem. It is what makes patents different from copyright. The chance of me writing a Harry Potter book indepently of Rowlings is zero. But the chance of someone having a patent on ideas I get for making software is very real. There is even a good chance that someone will get the idea just after me and get the patent (since I can't afford to apply for patents for all my innovations).
The end result is that others can prevent me from using my own origianl innovations.
Therefore we should all stop using "Intellectual Property" for patents and copyright. It is not property and copyright and patents are not similar.
No Stallman thinks that ideas and thoughts are not property.
Let _me_ clarify:
Person A makes a cupcake. Person A wants to share it with Person B. But Person C makes the policeman stop this because although Person A came up with the recipie, Person C got a patent on using eggs in cupcakes.
I use the danish musimi.dk for interfacing POTS's. I can call my own number from a cell phone, get a dialtone, and call another SIP-phone for free (except the cell phone charge) or make a 3c/minute international call.
Denmark do not have local calls (or you could say that all calls are local, but no PSTN calls are free), so there is no reason to waste money on your own PSTN line.
You can also have PSTN-numbers in different countries for the same SIP-phone. I.e. I have a free US number with ipkall.com, so if any of you north americans wants to call my danish phone you do not need to make an international call.
>You know... as much as it sucks, you have to admit that if people >weren't pirating things, there'd be no need for DRM.
I have heard people from the media industri say they need DRM to stop us from taping a movie on TV a saturday night and watching it the sunday afternoon, thereby forcing us to buy the DVD or pay for a stream.
In fact most western governsments are fighting anonomous access to the internet. The EU are introducing data retention laws right now. This could mean the end of "arnarchy"
>1. On physical size, US is bigger then any country in europe (excluding >Russia, they're huge). And the combine landmass of Europe by itself is >roughly the same as the entire United States. So size isn't the problem
Well, if that is the criteria, lets have Russia or Canada run the DNS.
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No they could not. ICAAN does not own the dutch hostmaster. The Netherlands have no reason to remove their own domain. In fact i doubt anyone outside the US would remove .nl. People inside the US might have to use a nameserver located outside the US if they want to keep .nl.
It has sort of happened. Go to ORSN, www.orsn.net
/. so all is good.
Set their nameserver in you resolv.conf or your DHCP-server: http://european.nl.orsn.net/tech-switch-linux.php
It takes less than one minute and now you are ICANN-free. The internet still works, I can still post to
Just shows that this is much ado about nothing. There is no big threat and no taking control of DNS.
> 1. Scan a picture, create a new document and write something about the picture.
I just include them in LaTeX. But most people would just start the scanner from OpenOffice.
> 2. Move the pictures of your camera to the place where you save your pictures in the computer.
I use digiKam for this, as do my parents. digiKam can also make CD's and upload pictures to a gallery server.
> 3. Engage in a multimedia chat with some friend (micrphone+webcam+text)
I used speakfreely and an Apache module about 6 years ago. I have used vrvs a few times.
I use Firefox adblock, flashblock, and noscript.
If is different than Ads in newspapers and TV. On TV at most 80% percent or so is ads.
In newspapers you can easily skip ads. And yes if there is to many I will not buy the newspaper.
Ads on web pages are often much more annoying. Eg:
* They make sounds, newspapers don't do that.
* There are ads that pop up, slide down and covers the text that you are trying to read. Newspapers do not to that.
* They are usually just play ugly.
* Pages takes longer to load.
* It takes more toner/ink to print them (here I also use "remove this object").
And I do not want to see ads on web sites where I am a paying custumer, eg. my bank, phone company, or stores where I shop.
And there are already good options to edit your documents and keep them not local, but on you own server.
Several content management system (e.g. Plone) have a decent java or javascript WYSIWYG editor.
I prefer to SSH to my server and edit my LaTeX documents in Emacs.
Probably because they use more cheap general-purpose hardware in POS terminals.
With Linux they have drivers for more hardware like printers, scanners, displays, network cards, flash disks, etc.
And it is simpler to develop applications for a general purpuse OS.
Yes, however KWord can import PDF's.
How about 3D graphics?
Maybe if a few more countries follow Peru, we will get Free NVidia and ATI 3D drivers.
Is thousands of files with fake Creative Commons licence-tags floating the internet.
> except for idiotic PDF
I use pdftotext to convert PDF. My Yopy do have a PDF-viewer but plain text is much better on a PDA.
> Well, ebooks are MUCH easier to keep than paper books.
Yes, I hate bringing a book when travelling, reading it when getting stuck in an airport the first day, and then having to drag it around.
1. To make you control the player with the car controls.
2. To get digital input
3. USB can charge your USB-device so the batteries does not run flat.
A lot more practical than the cigarette outlet.
4. If it does mount as a generic USB Mass Storage Device it does not even need to be a music player. You can use any $10 USB stick. Or a 60GByte disk in a USB-adaptor. Or put music on your digial camera and have the camera charged at the same time.
It is not really cracking. It is legal. Even if they had some way of stopping you from downloading the tracks, anyone could legally distribute their tracks on P2P networks because the MP3's are under a creative commons license.
Instead they play nice and hope you do the same. I.e. they let you stream full traks for free, and ask you not to distribute them on P2P networks even if is legal.
I did download some traks. I bought some albums. They mailed me a gift certifiate for an extra album. I deleted the email and downloaded some tracks from playlists. I do not really need FLAC/Wav quality.
>Oh but you can get it for free!!!
.doc and open and edit in MSWORD.
Good point
>Very good, asuming that
>a)The person wants to give up their paid for/bundled MS Office app that works as they want and has worldwide compatilibility or b)
The person does not have to give anything up. The person can install both office apps. I do not mind receiving OASIS docs even if I prefer to write in LaTeX. (unless it a simple email that should be simple text).
The person can even open documents in OO, save as
Besides I can use OO on linux and read and write both OASIS and doc formats. MSOffice users should just demand that MS makes Word read OASIS.
>They have the know how to download a file, unzip the contents to a folder, find the setup executable and run it,
I did install OO on a windows computer on a friends computer last year. I just clicked on the link. Then Winzip opened, I pressed "install" (or something like that") and OO was installed.
> or c) They're on dialup so it takes them 2 days to download an
> application to open a single document.
If they are on dialup they do not want to receive MSWord documents anyway. PDF would also be better.
But they can just get an OO CD: http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
Like we all pay extra to email providers so they can pay for the infrastructure?
VoIP is just one service among others on the internet, not even a very demanding one.
And SIP-phones handles it using STUN. You need a STUN-server, but you do not need to trust it and it is not an intermediary during a call.
It was a present from me but I use it sometimes. It's the v.1 less slick model.
What it really needs is a tiny browser to accept the splash page on free AP's (e.g. Panera bread). Or just a function that retrieves a random webpage and "presses" any OK/I_Agree/Accept buttons.
On a few occations I have brought a laptop, changed the MAC address to match the phone, started a browser, accepted the terms of use, turned the laptop off, and turned the phone on. Then it works.
What it really needs is an open source firmware.
Not if you only go by file suffix. But there are ways to handle it
/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Logout_3.ogg /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Logout_3.ogg: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 44100 Hz, ~128000 bps, created by: Xiph.Org libVorbis I (1.0)
mycomputer:~$ file
==
The Industry talks about piracy they always bandy about numbers like (from TFA), three billion dollars per year in lost revenue. I would really love to see their methodology.
==
They probably have a more creative definition of piracy that you and me. I.e. some of the three billion dollars is the loss of you breaking the DMCA and ripping your DVD's to the harddisk instead of buying the same movies on blueray.
Yes, that is the problem. It is what makes patents different from copyright. The chance of me writing a Harry Potter book indepently of Rowlings is zero. But the chance of someone having a patent on ideas I get for making software is very real. There is even a good chance that someone will get the idea just after me and get the patent (since I can't afford to apply for patents for all my innovations).
The end result is that others can prevent me from using my own origianl innovations.
Therefore we should all stop using "Intellectual Property" for patents and copyright. It is not property and copyright and patents are not similar.
No Stallman thinks that ideas and thoughts are not property.
Let _me_ clarify:
Person A makes a cupcake. Person A wants to share it with Person B. But Person C makes the policeman stop this because although Person A came up with the recipie, Person C got a patent on using eggs in cupcakes.
Property law has nothing to do with software.
As others has said we have SIP.
I use the danish musimi.dk for interfacing POTS's. I can call my own number from a cell phone, get a dialtone, and call another SIP-phone for free (except the cell phone charge) or make a 3c/minute international call.
Denmark do not have local calls (or you could say that all calls are local, but no PSTN calls are free), so there is no reason to waste money on your own PSTN line.
You can also have PSTN-numbers in different countries for the same SIP-phone. I.e. I have a free US number with ipkall.com, so if any of you north americans wants to call my danish phone you do not need to make an international call.
>You know... as much as it sucks, you have to admit that if people
>weren't pirating things, there'd be no need for DRM.
I have heard people from the media industri say they need DRM to stop us from taping a movie on TV a saturday night and watching it the sunday afternoon, thereby forcing us to buy the DVD or pay for a stream.
The article almost implies the US encourage wireless access anarchy.3 51258&tid=123&tid=193&tid=158
This just a few days after: "Florida Man Charged For Stealing Wi-Fi"
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/07/1
so much for anarchy.
In fact most western governsments are fighting anonomous access to the internet. The EU are introducing data retention laws right now.
This could mean the end of "arnarchy"
I am running an open anonomous AP http://www.agol.dk/elgaard/torap/
but for how long can I do that?
How about we all switch to ipv6 to fight chinese internet filtering. :-)
That will show them!
I want ipv6 and this is woth a try.
>1. On physical size, US is bigger then any country in europe (excluding
>Russia, they're huge). And the combine landmass of Europe by itself is
>roughly the same as the entire United States. So size isn't the problem
Well, if that is the criteria, lets have Russia or Canada run the DNS.