Until the 3rd everything is correct. 4 and 5 do not exist. Believe me, there is no such thing as blocking out traffic from the EU. I dont' know if you are a citizen of the EU- well I am. Where would you start the blockade? Which countries would agree? who would not? Even if we are all members of the EU, we are still COUNTRIES not states.
It takes AGES for the government of the EU to pass a law or something, because each and every country must first accept it, but most do not...
They are way too busy to get their own shit in check than blocking of sites which do not comply.
The next thing why blocking pages would be impossible is because there is no "top level IP organisiation" or whatever you might call them wihtin the EU. Every provider is on it's own.
So, why would Providers shut a path to a site down when other do not, thus creating an advance for them?
I think your vision might work in the states, but here in the EU the structure between the parts (states, countries whatever) is to loose to get into this. Well let's be happy about that;)
Hmm... This is not about some tinkering. It's about taking apart things that were together for more than 4 years, making it completely modular on a kernel level, taking out vital parts, let others reunite them and take the risk of producing a completely torn apart system.
So what's better? Let the less profitable Home applications die and focus on server business or have some dudes screwing with the work of your life? what would you do if you were billy boy?
Get all the biased thoughts, now matter how they are biased, out of your mind, look at the situation as a whole, from an upper point of view.
In court Bill Gates said that he would have to cancel the entire Windows product palette if he has to meet the discussed requirements. (source: http://futurezone.orf.at, use fish)
Now, think about Windows not existing.
First: What would the broad mass do? What would Mr/Mrs NormalUser do? would he/she install Linux? No. They would just drop out, or(this leads to the second point):
Second: People would use another OS. Which one? Well, it should be easy to install, easy to configure, have a nice webbrowser, a nice email client, and some kind of word processor. Now, RedHat or Suse Linux come to my mind, but hey, who just bought RedHat? Hmm and why does Suse get more expensive as the version number advances? Five years later the situation would be the same as before, now with Linux in place instead of Microsoft. And I'm afraid the GPL won't help us here, because as Microsoft is free to deliver Windows with the IE, as free is DistributorX to distribute OSBLah with Browserl33t.
Would he get sued?
Why don't we just let everybody do his/her thing? Let's co-exist, it can't be that hard.
For me, opensource should include free mind, for everybody.
But I think this is something like the chicken and egg problem. The more users you have the better the content gets. So we should not talk about the gnutella folks, but use gnutella, go online and share high quality content.
We have to start somewhere, we have to start sometime. Why not here, why not now? (Rage Against the Machine always inspired me;))
Face it people, name it Morpheus, name it Kazaa, name it something else.
What shuts such network down? It's the money, always.
Who is pissed off in the end? The user, always.
So, what is the solution to all this? Gnutella, always.
I know, my post sounds something like a troll, but please, think about it. Let's all migrate to gnutella, fire up you favourite client and let's start sharing. We will se how gnutella scales, how it evolves. I think if we all pull over to the only true p2p architecture, we will shut out the MPAA the RIAA and all other stuff that bothers us.
Yes, maybe people with 56k modems won't be very happy with this. But to speak in the words of a modern time, the collateral damage is everywhere. And as time goes on, everybody is going to be on a better connection.
So, let's shape up, put your middle finger in the air and use gnutella...
Just my 0.02
now I know where all the funny headlines come from
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I once accidentially connected the internal PC speaker to the HDD led pin on the mobo... well it was some kind of "Harddrive Speaker"... more or less;)
This neat piece DOES hardware RAID5, so you don't need a fast cpu&mobo, less RAM, and since it can only manage up to 6 drives you can even have 2 as pseudo hot spare...
The only drawback is the ability of "only" storing 800GB which is nice at this even cheaper price...
I could imagine that an american court ruled like this.
Why? Well here in Europe the majority of software/hardware producers go by the good spirit of "If you buy it's yours, if you modify/brake it it's your problem"
What is a PS/2 good for if can't modify it to my needs?
If enough people think like this Sony just cut it's own flesh...
So, just in case if they get sued by apple for the name "iMass" they can just convert to "Furby-server". (And then get sued by tiger elctronics, but this sure is another story;))
So, what do you think could happen if you put more than one of those in a network.
do they recognize each other?
are they able to do some basic kind of load balancing (one does mail/ftp/NAT, the other one user homes/printer/etc)?
what if business grows bigger, so that you need more than one server?
I like such pseudo turnkey systems, but where is the scalability?
I've noticed the usful features:useless crap ratio go up as icq became IM
So, sending SMS via ICQ is useless crap?
the ads are obnoxious, true, but the base install of icq makes it look as ugly as the original icq webpage
They just show all the features (Ok, I hate some of them too) But you can strip it down to whatever you like...
as for winamp, as soon as aol took it over, there was an immediate decrease in stability and increase in stupidass features. the install went from a couple hundred k to a few megs(or maybe I'm thinking of ICQ on that point.)
decrease in stability? winamp plays my 1200+ songs playlist without a hick. I have winamp lite which is 500k in size.
Hmmm....
Not to put words into his mouth, but maybe he doesn't want to work for AOL/TW because they're pushing for all the laws/technical solutions to not allow people to do what they want with their data and equipment (DMCA, SSSCA, SDMI, etc...)
Show me how they could implement that into an opensource os...
That and the fact that AOL is nothing but dorks. I mean, ya gotta have some self respect.
Yes, they might be dorks. But you can't buy food/house/car with self respect, neither send your kids to colledge...
AOL bought ICQ, AOL bought Winamp.
Did anyone notice that one of those products did really change to the worse (besides the ads in ICQ, which is ok I guess because they are not that annoying)?
No, no one noticed, because they didn't.
But what changed is that the coders of ICQ and Winamp got nice paychecks.
So, Alan where is your problem?
Don't like opensource OS coders who dare to make money?
... but it looks like the Sony incompatibility mafia did it again.
Only compatible with Sony headphones, Sony memory stick, Sony software etc etc.
So, when looking at the contents:
Sony CLIÉ Handheld
Headphones
Audio Remote Controller
USB HotSync® Cradle
Detachable AC Adapter
Memory Stick (8MB)
Stylus
Sony CLIÉ Installation CD-ROM
Read This First
Registration Notice
Add-on Application Guide
Graffiti Sticker
Protective Cover
you can be sure that even if only the stylus brakes you're going to pay lots for a new one.
To imagine what a new cradle or AC adapter costs is left to the reader...
Sure they look cool, have a sleek design, but are not compatible with your favourite headphones / removalble media etc...
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Until the 3rd everything is correct. 4 and 5 do not exist. Believe me, there is no such thing as blocking out traffic from the EU.
;)
I dont' know if you are a citizen of the EU- well I am.
Where would you start the blockade? Which countries would agree? who would not? Even if we are all members of the EU, we are still COUNTRIES not states.
It takes AGES for the government of the EU to pass a law or something, because each and every country must first accept it, but most do not...
They are way too busy to get their own shit in check than blocking of sites which do not comply.
The next thing why blocking pages would be impossible is because there is no "top level IP organisiation" or whatever you might call them wihtin the EU. Every provider is on it's own.
So, why would Providers shut a path to a site down when other do not, thus creating an advance for them?
I think your vision might work in the states, but here in the EU the structure between the parts (states, countries whatever) is to loose to get into this. Well let's be happy about that
Hmm... This is not about some tinkering. It's about taking apart things that were together for more than 4 years, making it completely modular on a kernel level, taking out vital parts, let others reunite them and take the risk of producing a completely torn apart system.
So what's better? Let the less profitable Home applications die and focus on server business or have some dudes screwing with the work of your life? what would you do if you were billy boy?
Yes, please think. Really, try to start to THINK!
Get all the biased thoughts, now matter how they are biased, out of your mind, look at the situation as a whole, from an upper point of view.
In court Bill Gates said that he would have to cancel the entire Windows product palette if he has to meet the discussed requirements. (source: http://futurezone.orf.at, use fish)
Now, think about Windows not existing.
First: What would the broad mass do? What would Mr/Mrs NormalUser do? would he/she install Linux? No. They would just drop out, or(this leads to the second point):
Second: People would use another OS.
Which one?
Well, it should be easy to install, easy to configure, have a nice webbrowser, a nice email client, and some kind of word processor.
Now, RedHat or Suse Linux come to my mind, but hey, who just bought RedHat? Hmm and why does Suse get more expensive as the version number advances?
Five years later the situation would be the same as before, now with Linux in place instead of Microsoft.
And I'm afraid the GPL won't help us here, because as Microsoft is free to deliver Windows with the IE, as free is DistributorX to distribute OSBLah with Browserl33t.
Would he get sued?
Why don't we just let everybody do his/her thing? Let's co-exist, it can't be that hard.
For me, opensource should include free mind, for everybody.
Eva, is the German name for Eve.
This should be a pointer towards Adam, the first Angel, which the EVAs originated from.
Like the most other things (Seele = soul, etcetc) this is a germanism.
The Evangelion in NGE refers to something like
"The book of the new Beginning", which makes more sense after all.
"Hey, asdasd!
Do you want to get rid of all those spammers? You can earn BIG MONEY by suing them.. bla bla bla...
Just click here to buy the unique 'How to sue the bad guys' whitepaper for just 9.99!
This is a one time opportunity! Request it now and get instant access to our pr0n affiliates for free!"
Hmm, good point.
;))
But I think this is something like the chicken and egg problem.
The more users you have the better the content gets. So we should not talk about the gnutella folks, but use gnutella, go online and share high quality content.
We have to start somewhere, we have to start sometime. Why not here, why not now? (Rage Against the Machine always inspired me
Face it people, name it Morpheus, name it Kazaa, name it something else.
What shuts such network down?
It's the money, always.
Who is pissed off in the end?
The user, always.
So, what is the solution to all this?
Gnutella, always.
I know, my post sounds something like a troll, but please, think about it.
Let's all migrate to gnutella, fire up you favourite client and let's start sharing.
We will se how gnutella scales, how it evolves. I think if we all pull over to the only true p2p architecture, we will shut out the MPAA the RIAA and all other stuff that bothers us.
Yes, maybe people with 56k modems won't be very happy with this. But to speak in the words of a modern time, the collateral damage is everywhere.
And as time goes on, everybody is going to be on a better connection.
So, let's shape up, put your middle finger in the air and use gnutella...
Just my 0.02
right from here: The new economy bullshit generator
;)
Computer and video-device companies need to sit at the table with the movie industry.
This costs more money than various lawsuits, so Jacky our little gangster won't see this happen.
Together, in good-faith talks, they must agree on the ingredients for creating strong protection for copyrighted films...
see above
and then swiftly implement that agreement to make it an Internet reality.
Swiftly implement? I will swiftly implement my foot in your ass to make you come down from your trip... Jack, did you forget to take your pills again?
damn this guy is a dreamer...
well.. kinda...
;)
I once accidentially connected the internal PC speaker to the HDD led pin on the mobo... well it was some kind of "Harddrive Speaker"... more or less
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maybe it's your definition of redundancy, but if one drive fails in a RAID5 array nothing breaks. Isn't that some kind of redundancy?
Read the article. it sais "RAID5". Do you know what RAID5 is?
Why not snap in a Promise SX6000 for like $250?
This neat piece DOES hardware RAID5, so you don't need a fast cpu&mobo, less RAM, and since it can only manage up to 6 drives you can even have 2 as pseudo hot spare...
The only drawback is the ability of "only" storing 800GB which is nice at this even cheaper price...
but how do i take it to lanparties? ;)
Hmmm strange that this happens in the UK.
I could imagine that an american court ruled like this.
Why? Well here in Europe the majority of software/hardware producers go by the good spirit of "If you buy it's yours, if you modify/brake it it's your problem"
What is a PS/2 good for if can't modify it to my needs?
If enough people think like this Sony just cut it's own flesh...
hmm you seem to be a bit ignorant.
Did you never see a business grow?
What if a starup company uses this server, and their human resources double? who is going to migrate this stuff?
Dammit you idiots, think before you post!
Thy shall not throw stone while sitting in glass house...
So, just in case if they get sued by apple for the name "iMass" they can just convert to "Furby-server". (And then get sued by tiger elctronics, but this sure is another story ;))
a beowulf cluster of those!
no, don't mod me down now! I really mean it!
So, what do you think could happen if you put more than one of those in a network.
do they recognize each other?
are they able to do some basic kind of load balancing (one does mail/ftp/NAT, the other one user homes/printer/etc)?
what if business grows bigger, so that you need more than one server?
I like such pseudo turnkey systems, but where is the scalability?
ok, accepted.
;)
time to rLax
In between, we are forced to give up little bits of it in order to survive.
That's what I said...
like you said, it's off topic.
;)
but heck I guess everyone should choose the IM he/she prefers.
Point is, ICQ is sluggish.
Don't make jokes about my nickname!
I've noticed the usful features:useless crap ratio go up as icq became IM
So, sending SMS via ICQ is useless crap?
the ads are obnoxious, true, but the base install of icq makes it look as ugly as the original icq webpage
They just show all the features (Ok, I hate some of them too) But you can strip it down to whatever you like...
as for winamp, as soon as aol took it over, there was an immediate decrease in stability and increase in stupidass features. the install went from a couple hundred k to a few megs(or maybe I'm thinking of ICQ on that point.)
decrease in stability? winamp plays my 1200+ songs playlist without a hick. I have winamp lite which is 500k in size.
Hmmm....
Not to put words into his mouth, but maybe he doesn't want to work for AOL/TW because they're pushing for all the laws/technical solutions to not allow people to do what they want with their data and equipment (DMCA, SSSCA, SDMI, etc...)
Show me how they could implement that into an opensource os...
That and the fact that AOL is nothing but dorks. I mean, ya gotta have some self respect.
Yes, they might be dorks. But you can't buy food/house/car with self respect, neither send your kids to colledge...
but you forgot to give a reason.
AOL bought ICQ, AOL bought Winamp.
Did anyone notice that one of those products did really change to the worse (besides the ads in ICQ, which is ok I guess because they are not that annoying)?
No, no one noticed, because they didn't.
But what changed is that the coders of ICQ and Winamp got nice paychecks.
So, Alan where is your problem?
Don't like opensource OS coders who dare to make money?
... but it looks like the Sony incompatibility mafia did it again.
Only compatible with Sony headphones, Sony memory stick, Sony software etc etc.
So, when looking at the contents:
Sony CLIÉ Handheld
Headphones
Audio Remote Controller
USB HotSync® Cradle
Detachable AC Adapter
Memory Stick (8MB)
Stylus
Sony CLIÉ Installation CD-ROM
Read This First
Registration Notice
Add-on Application Guide
Graffiti Sticker
Protective Cover
you can be sure that even if only the stylus brakes you're going to pay lots for a new one.
To imagine what a new cradle or AC adapter costs is left to the reader...
Sure they look cool, have a sleek design, but are not compatible with your favourite headphones / removalble media etc...