But is there any way to access the Disc-drive on the GC yet? Until I can put the NES emulator + every rom ever released onto a single Disc labeled 'NES'.. I'll stick to my Dreamcast for console based emu.
I wasn't attempting to make a canonical list of all of the horrific tyrants we've had in our history. I was only mentioning the two names that appeared in the post I was replying to.
Yes, Stalin was a monster.
So, you think that suing people for downloading music isn't on the level of Stalin's mass genocide. Is it on the level of murder? What do you mean by 'Have you looked around, lately?'?
This is just silly. And me, replying to an AC.
A lot of things these days are very reminiscent of Orwell's 1984 or (for a Soviet example) Zamyatin's We. In the US, our government can search your home for no reason, listen to your phone conversations without a warrant, intercept electronic communications of any kind, invade your country while ignoring that our economy is a pile of shit, etc, etc. The methods that a corporation uses to enforce their IP rights doesn't concern me all that much. Now, DRM.. That's another matter.
As for that, I don't appreciate Jane Fonda being placed in the same sentence with Hitler. People love to associate their petty "Hitler" with the real thing.. and in the end all it does is cheapen what the Holocaust _Was_.
Ya, Jane Fonda could be described as a treasonous propagandist.. I mean, she's no friend of mine. But lets keep it in perspective here.
Up to date as of a couple weeks ago. I haven't had physical access to the machine since then.. and I'm always a little scared to do an apt-get dist-upgrade via ssh.. Cuz who knows if it will come back up happy.
It probably will... But I need that box running.
How recently was it "fixed"?
Wow... Well, I'm just trying to do a (very simple!) print from my Ubuntu machine to an HP Deskjet that is being shared by a Windows XP Pro machine.
(Connected to windows box via parallel). It's not a firewall issue, it still exists with both personal firewalls disabled.
I've tried just filling out the boxes the way they are labelled to be filled out - and I've also filled them in some of the alternative ways that I have read about on blogs.. like for username, you would use achra\WORKGROUP or whatever. I've wrestled with this thing and tried everything. Now, I just copy the file to a thumbdrive and sneakernet.
I'm just praying that they're going to fix my top 3 bugs:
1) KVM switch support. When you switch away from Ubuntu and back - The mouse goes NUTS. This is apparently caused by mouse protocol issues and had workarounds in Breezy Badger & Worked just fine in Hoary.
Nothing seems to work to fix this problem for me. in Dapper.:(
2) Windows network printer support. This simply doesn't work. At all.
3) Windows network fileshare support. This is pretty flakey right now. It seems to work really well if you're looking for a share on a 95/98/ME machine, but NT/2000/XP Not very reliable. I guess the workaround is to setup the share on the Ubuntu machine, but I like to be able to go any direction I need to at the time, you know?
Close.
DVD has a content-protection mechanism. The discs are encrypted (and the key is placed onto the disc) to allow a legit machine to play the disc.. But not to allow some schmuck to copy the files to his HD (At least that was the idea!)
DVD also has a marketing scheme of 'regions', which allow multiple release dates across the world.. Many modern DVD players support a 'regionless' mode, I don't know how legal it is. My Philips DVP/642 does, for example.
HD-DVD Doesn't really have DRM either... But in addition to the above, HD-DVD also has something called ICT. If you don't plug your HD-DVD player into your hi-def television via HDMI cable (encrypted channel), even if it's for the very good reason that your hi-def television doesn't have an HDMI input (quite possible) then the media content provider can/will downgrade the play quality to aprox DVD. Warner has decided not to enforce ICT for the first few releases they've done, but they have said they fully intend to support it.
Blu-Ray DRM is still a lot of speculation afaik.. But ya, the worst case situation would be a box that phones home (probably via standard telephone line) when you put a disc in the player.. It checks to see if there's a license available for that disc ID (perhaps you get a total of 2 or 3 licenses).. and if it doesn't have one yet, grabs one of the available. Then you decide to play it in your bedroom later on, your bedroom player grabs another license. Of course, loaning a movie to a friend is right out.
DRM in the strict sense is all about enforcing (with technology) the idea that when you buy a piece of content (movie/music cd/whatever) you aren't buying a physical disc with content on it and the rights to do with it as you please. You are, in actuality, buying a (or perhaps a limited number for personal use) license to view/use the content on a strictly limited basis, subject to revocation at any time by the company that you paid your money to.
For a good example of DRM, check out the way that Windows Media Player 'rips' cd's. In my opinion, DRM is a terror.. The consumer electronics people are getting their arms twisted into supporting this junk, because the content providers are all fussing that if they aren't sure that their content is SAFE, they aren't going to release to that platform.. and Until consumers call bullshit and stop buying the junk, they'll get away with it. Of course the content providers will release for whatever platform is popular, regardless of all the arm twisting.
You can always just buy your replacement phone on ebay. My favorite is the Siemens A56/A56i.. Just a phone, great reception.. With an external antenna jack (critical for me). I don't know about other cellphone carriers, but with Cingular you can just have a used phone activated. I've done three that way so far, $10 for a phone on ebay, something like $30 to have it activated... You can even have them activated prepaid!
I live in noplace, TN.. I got sent down a dirt road via mapquest onetime. Eventually, I came out at my destination. The point is, that the map software only sees roads.. Not the quality of the roads. Really, ideally, these kinds of roads wouldn't have made their way into the map database at all.
My first was a C64. I had the tape drive.. Later, the 1541 disk drive was added. My first PC was a "Corona" brand PC-compatible. It had a 4.77mhz 8088, 640k ram.. The motherboard had an onboard text-display adapter. Dual 360k drives! Much later, I scored a 10mb Hardcard.. Then a 1200 baud Hayes Smartmodem. I discovered MUDs and was hooked (No graphics card, remember).. It was a long time before I ended up with that CGA card..
You have just completely disillusioned me, my friend.
You have no idea how long "Well, I can always flee to Canada!" has kept me sane. Now, there is nothing. I weep for the good of mankind.
I think that's an awesome idea. Basically, you're dealing with idiots that love power. They were careful to take all of my "CPU's". (You're taking my CPU's?!? Why? I hope you brought something static sensitive to put them in!)
They didn't take any optical media, they didn't take any thumbdrives, pda, etc. If I were actually going to be perpetrating illegal activity on my machines (and have absolute faith in my transport encryption), I'd use Knoppix and a thumbdrive.. Keep no HD in the machine at all. Wouldn't they feel like doofs when they tried to search the machine and there was nothing there at all!
In this day and age, I'm beginning to think that if you're really going to be serious about working from home, you need to own a laptop and keep it someplace safe. (like the Bank!). What killed me was mostly the loss of so much work, and now I keep a weekly mirror on a hard-drive in my bank's safe deposit box. If anything like that happens again, I'll just toss together another machine, and be ready to go again. (shrug) I wish I had better news for you, but they absolutely don't give a shit. You can hire an attorney for $1500 or so to try and call the right people for you.. But I did that, and it still took 4 months. You could try calling the agent in charge of your case every day, but that will probably just cause you more hassle (he'll be feeling vengeful at that point). Just bend-over and take it, man. If you live in the US, you're a terrorist-suspect. Expect at least one of your machines to be broken on return. I would say definitely power them up in front of witness, take photos of the interior with a film camera, etc.. Especially if you _ever_ plan to sue for damages.
At this point, they figure a PC can be used for anything. Who knows.. Just an excuse to take something, I guess. The first thing I thought afterwards was, "If I was actually going to be doing something illegal on my machine (like selling drugs or something), I'd use Knoppix!"
True. I really need to learn what the statute of limitations on such a suit would be, I'm still trying to dig myself out from the hole that they stuffed me into. I was flat broke by the time I was "left alone".
They probably mostly grabbed the PC's because they were hoping they could end up in a "Seized Property Auction" and then bid on the items themselves.. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10350334/
In Inuit legend the narwhal was created when a woman holding onto a harpoon had been pulled into the ocean and twisted around the harpoon. The submerged woman was wrapped around a Beluga whale on the other end of the harpoon, and that is how the narwhal was created. --Wikipedia
At this point, I really think that "The government is running amok".
About 5 months ago, I had a knock on my door by the "Drug TaskForce". They informed me that they had a warrant to search my house, and had been given an anonymous tip. I was a "Black-tar heroin dealer", they claimed. They had about 20 people, they searched my place end to end, brought the dog through, looking clearly dissapointed (I don't even drink).. and in the end, they said, "Well, we have to take your computers to look for activity on there". I work from home. When they seized my machines, my company lost 2 weeks of work right there.. I had to hire an attorney to get my PC's back, and in the end it was 4 months before I had my machines returned to me. I took them directly to the local computer shop so I would have a witness when I powered them on, and sure enough, one of them was completely hosed. They'd probably plugged in their diagnostic machine backwards or some crap.. The motherboard needed replacing. When I informed them that they broke my machine, they started threatening that they found a couple mp3's on my machine.. If I shutup about the whole ordeal, they wouldn't come after me for the mp3's. I said, um, those mp3's were ripped from a CD I own.. That's perfectly legal, and not even a circumvention of the DMCA. Well, I got the shaft. Unless you're willing to sue the government in a 1983 suit, you're totally out of luck.
Holy smokes!
So, NAFTA was a bad idea for Mexico also?
There are vast swathes of the US, like ghost towns now because of the crummy thing. NAFTA come in, take all of the primary jobs / shutdown all the factories.. Walmart come through, finish the town off.. All that's left is tumbleweeds.
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But is there any way to access the Disc-drive on the GC yet? Until I can put the NES emulator + every rom ever released onto a single Disc labeled 'NES'.. I'll stick to my Dreamcast for console based emu.
I wasn't attempting to make a canonical list of all of the horrific tyrants we've had in our history. I was only mentioning the two names that appeared in the post I was replying to. Yes, Stalin was a monster. So, you think that suing people for downloading music isn't on the level of Stalin's mass genocide. Is it on the level of murder? What do you mean by 'Have you looked around, lately?'? This is just silly. And me, replying to an AC. A lot of things these days are very reminiscent of Orwell's 1984 or (for a Soviet example) Zamyatin's We. In the US, our government can search your home for no reason, listen to your phone conversations without a warrant, intercept electronic communications of any kind, invade your country while ignoring that our economy is a pile of shit, etc, etc. The methods that a corporation uses to enforce their IP rights doesn't concern me all that much. Now, DRM.. That's another matter.
As for that, I don't appreciate Jane Fonda being placed in the same sentence with Hitler. People love to associate their petty "Hitler" with the real thing.. and in the end all it does is cheapen what the Holocaust _Was_. Ya, Jane Fonda could be described as a treasonous propagandist.. I mean, she's no friend of mine. But lets keep it in perspective here.
That's all well and good, but I want to hear about how the Current head of the RIAA believes these things.
I've tried Xandros a few times.. I was never able to get it to install on any hardware that I've owned. Enough said.
Up to date as of a couple weeks ago. I haven't had physical access to the machine since then.. and I'm always a little scared to do an apt-get dist-upgrade via ssh.. Cuz who knows if it will come back up happy. It probably will... But I need that box running. How recently was it "fixed"?
Wow... Well, I'm just trying to do a (very simple!) print from my Ubuntu machine to an HP Deskjet that is being shared by a Windows XP Pro machine. (Connected to windows box via parallel). It's not a firewall issue, it still exists with both personal firewalls disabled. I've tried just filling out the boxes the way they are labelled to be filled out - and I've also filled them in some of the alternative ways that I have read about on blogs.. like for username, you would use achra\WORKGROUP or whatever. I've wrestled with this thing and tried everything. Now, I just copy the file to a thumbdrive and sneakernet.
I'm just praying that they're going to fix my top 3 bugs: 1) KVM switch support. When you switch away from Ubuntu and back - The mouse goes NUTS. This is apparently caused by mouse protocol issues and had workarounds in Breezy Badger & Worked just fine in Hoary. Nothing seems to work to fix this problem for me. in Dapper. :(
2) Windows network printer support. This simply doesn't work. At all.
3) Windows network fileshare support. This is pretty flakey right now. It seems to work really well if you're looking for a share on a 95/98/ME machine, but NT/2000/XP Not very reliable. I guess the workaround is to setup the share on the Ubuntu machine, but I like to be able to go any direction I need to at the time, you know?
Close. DVD has a content-protection mechanism. The discs are encrypted (and the key is placed onto the disc) to allow a legit machine to play the disc.. But not to allow some schmuck to copy the files to his HD (At least that was the idea!) DVD also has a marketing scheme of 'regions', which allow multiple release dates across the world.. Many modern DVD players support a 'regionless' mode, I don't know how legal it is. My Philips DVP/642 does, for example. HD-DVD Doesn't really have DRM either... But in addition to the above, HD-DVD also has something called ICT. If you don't plug your HD-DVD player into your hi-def television via HDMI cable (encrypted channel), even if it's for the very good reason that your hi-def television doesn't have an HDMI input (quite possible) then the media content provider can/will downgrade the play quality to aprox DVD. Warner has decided not to enforce ICT for the first few releases they've done, but they have said they fully intend to support it. Blu-Ray DRM is still a lot of speculation afaik.. But ya, the worst case situation would be a box that phones home (probably via standard telephone line) when you put a disc in the player.. It checks to see if there's a license available for that disc ID (perhaps you get a total of 2 or 3 licenses).. and if it doesn't have one yet, grabs one of the available. Then you decide to play it in your bedroom later on, your bedroom player grabs another license. Of course, loaning a movie to a friend is right out. DRM in the strict sense is all about enforcing (with technology) the idea that when you buy a piece of content (movie/music cd/whatever) you aren't buying a physical disc with content on it and the rights to do with it as you please. You are, in actuality, buying a (or perhaps a limited number for personal use) license to view/use the content on a strictly limited basis, subject to revocation at any time by the company that you paid your money to. For a good example of DRM, check out the way that Windows Media Player 'rips' cd's. In my opinion, DRM is a terror.. The consumer electronics people are getting their arms twisted into supporting this junk, because the content providers are all fussing that if they aren't sure that their content is SAFE, they aren't going to release to that platform.. and Until consumers call bullshit and stop buying the junk, they'll get away with it. Of course the content providers will release for whatever platform is popular, regardless of all the arm twisting.
You can always just buy your replacement phone on ebay. My favorite is the Siemens A56/A56i.. Just a phone, great reception.. With an external antenna jack (critical for me). I don't know about other cellphone carriers, but with Cingular you can just have a used phone activated. I've done three that way so far, $10 for a phone on ebay, something like $30 to have it activated... You can even have them activated prepaid!
I live in noplace, TN.. I got sent down a dirt road via mapquest onetime. Eventually, I came out at my destination. The point is, that the map software only sees roads.. Not the quality of the roads. Really, ideally, these kinds of roads wouldn't have made their way into the map database at all.
My first was a C64. I had the tape drive.. Later, the 1541 disk drive was added. My first PC was a "Corona" brand PC-compatible. It had a 4.77mhz 8088, 640k ram.. The motherboard had an onboard text-display adapter. Dual 360k drives! Much later, I scored a 10mb Hardcard.. Then a 1200 baud Hayes Smartmodem. I discovered MUDs and was hooked (No graphics card, remember).. It was a long time before I ended up with that CGA card..
Mod parent +1 Terrifying!
Ah, right. It's all coming back now.
Wow, you must be a lot old-sk00ler than me, we used to use ^H^H^H. :)
What is W? Delete?
You have just completely disillusioned me, my friend.
You have no idea how long "Well, I can always flee to Canada!" has kept me sane. Now, there is nothing. I weep for the good of mankind.
Well, quite possibly because "Not taking it" would be Revolution.
and then the Gallows for being a Traitor! Nah, I'll just emigrate to Canada.
I think that's an awesome idea. Basically, you're dealing with idiots that love power. They were careful to take all of my "CPU's". (You're taking my CPU's?!? Why? I hope you brought something static sensitive to put them in!)
They didn't take any optical media, they didn't take any thumbdrives, pda, etc. If I were actually going to be perpetrating illegal activity on my machines (and have absolute faith in my transport encryption), I'd use Knoppix and a thumbdrive.. Keep no HD in the machine at all. Wouldn't they feel like doofs when they tried to search the machine and there was nothing there at all!
In this day and age, I'm beginning to think that if you're really going to be serious about working from home, you need to own a laptop and keep it someplace safe. (like the Bank!). What killed me was mostly the loss of so much work, and now I keep a weekly mirror on a hard-drive in my bank's safe deposit box. If anything like that happens again, I'll just toss together another machine, and be ready to go again. (shrug) I wish I had better news for you, but they absolutely don't give a shit. You can hire an attorney for $1500 or so to try and call the right people for you.. But I did that, and it still took 4 months. You could try calling the agent in charge of your case every day, but that will probably just cause you more hassle (he'll be feeling vengeful at that point). Just bend-over and take it, man. If you live in the US, you're a terrorist-suspect. Expect at least one of your machines to be broken on return. I would say definitely power them up in front of witness, take photos of the interior with a film camera, etc.. Especially if you _ever_ plan to sue for damages.
At this point, they figure a PC can be used for anything. Who knows.. Just an excuse to take something, I guess. The first thing I thought afterwards was,
"If I was actually going to be doing something illegal on my machine (like selling drugs or something), I'd use Knoppix!"
True. I really need to learn what the statute of limitations on such a suit would be, I'm still trying to dig myself out from the hole that they stuffed me into. I was flat broke by the time I was "left alone".
They probably mostly grabbed the PC's because they were hoping they could end up in a "Seized Property Auction" and then bid on the items themselves..
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10350334/
You're very right. I even live in Tennessee, the site of the infamous Dog Shooting..
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http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/01/27
Was she Inuit?
In Inuit legend the narwhal was created when a woman holding onto a harpoon had been pulled into the ocean and twisted around the harpoon. The submerged woman was wrapped around a Beluga whale on the other end of the harpoon, and that is how the narwhal was created. --Wikipedia
At this point, I really think that "The government is running amok".
About 5 months ago, I had a knock on my door by the "Drug TaskForce". They informed me that they had a warrant to search my house, and had been given an anonymous tip. I was a "Black-tar heroin dealer", they claimed. They had about 20 people, they searched my place end to end, brought the dog through, looking clearly dissapointed (I don't even drink).. and in the end, they said, "Well, we have to take your computers to look for activity on there". I work from home. When they seized my machines, my company lost 2 weeks of work right there.. I had to hire an attorney to get my PC's back, and in the end it was 4 months before I had my machines returned to me. I took them directly to the local computer shop so I would have a witness when I powered them on, and sure enough, one of them was completely hosed. They'd probably plugged in their diagnostic machine backwards or some crap.. The motherboard needed replacing. When I informed them that they broke my machine, they started threatening that they found a couple mp3's on my machine.. If I shutup about the whole ordeal, they wouldn't come after me for the mp3's. I said, um, those mp3's were ripped from a CD I own.. That's perfectly legal, and not even a circumvention of the DMCA. Well, I got the shaft. Unless you're willing to sue the government in a 1983 suit, you're totally out of luck.
Holy smokes! So, NAFTA was a bad idea for Mexico also?
There are vast swathes of the US, like ghost towns now because of the crummy thing. NAFTA come in, take all of the primary jobs / shutdown all the factories.. Walmart come through, finish the town off.. All that's left is tumbleweeds.