Oh, the list is *very* long. I boycot copy controlled CD's since 2003 or so. Some of my friends do so, too. It's mostly EMI who is the bad guy, here in The Netherlands. Sony/BMG dropped copy control here last year, but apparently they want to lose money again.
To give an idea, on the top of my head:
Athlete - Vehicles and Animals Audio Bullys - Ego War Ben Kweller - On My Way Chemical Brothers - Singles 93-03 Chemical Brothers - Push the Button The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends Doves - Lost Sides Doves - Some Cities Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere Ed Harcourt - Strangers Fischerspooner - Odyssey Gisli - How About That? Goldfrapp - Supernature Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc (single) Idlewild - Warnings / Promises Kraftwerk - Minimum-Maximum LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem Mando Diao - Bring 'em in Mando Diao - Hurricane Bar Phoenix - Live! Thirty Days Ago Placebo - Once More With Feeling Royksopp - Sparks (single) Royksopp - The Understanding Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow Supergrass - Road To Rouen The Ark - In Lust We Trust The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers Thrills - So Much For The City Thrills - Let's Bottle Bohemia Zero 7 - When it falls Zoot Woman - Grey Day
Those are the ones I *know*. In a record store, I don't even look further when I see the copy control logo, and I curse the record company.
I even contacted a representative of EMI once, offering him real money for ANY kind of way in which he could have me play The Doves' newest record on my Sun Ultra 5. It has a cd-player which refuses copy controlled CD's, and of course it doesn't play WMA either. His final mail told me that EMI would "improve" the copy control in the future, but not lose it. I was deeply disappointed.
However, it seems that EMI doesn't add copy control to CD's with extra content (for example a video clip). They are real CD's. Some festival samplers aren't protected either. In those ways, I've been able to pay for at least some normal EMI content. I let my money vote.
I am sure there is still a market for CD's which were previously released under copy control. But I wonder who will re-release all those music that I wanted to have in these last years.
What the newsposter describes as 'christian', is actually 'radically conservative christian', but that seems another US-ism... (how should you describe it otherwise?) In Europe - I live in the Netherlands - blood and gore in videogames is much less an issue. Of course bishops don't really like it and Rome will always be conservative, but at least the churches I know don't push their own 'christian-only' separated media.
If Richard Stallman does not want 'his' GNU-projects to mention non-free software, then I wouldn't bring my own projects to GNU either. You shouldn't act like commercial software doesn't exist or can't coexist, or force people to do so. I consider this a ridiculous restriction and bad politics.
May I quote a GNU page: "Distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds for development. Don't waste it!" Thanks Richard, for just wasting it.
Interesting story. Maybe a dumb question, but why is certificate revocation off by default in IE? Wouldn't enabling it be more secure, even though it prevented a disaster this time?
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I see.. Pity. It plays RealAudio using my Linux RealPlayer8.so's.
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Real DRM
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Quicktime does not exist for Linux. RealPlayer/RealOne does. Am I an idiot for just using what's available? Until a few weeks ago I didn't even know that MPlayer now supports RealAudio/Video 9 natively.
This is exactly what Liquid Audio always has been: some stupid closed-source wrapper around AAC files. Has anyone seen Liquid innovating on top of that? But they are supported by the content industry. As a result, they have even more cash than they'll ever make themselves! If I were Real, I would be stupid if I didn't want to compete with them this way - money is always welcome...
From the Shutdown FAQ, in my own words: "We feel that most of the other DOS products will not have sufficient demand to successfully support an open-source project." Well, Borland already released the Turbo Pascal 5.5 binaries. I have used those to teach children programming on their own DOS boxes. Turbo Power had great library releases for every Turbo Pascal DOS version, wouldn't those be interesting for people who are still working with these?
I honestly have to admit that - in spite of my fandom for all Turbo Pascal DOS stuff - I have no idea, is GNU Pascal or Free Pascal under Unix any good? I have succesfully got RHIDE working after some compiling hassles, but not really tried it with lots of code. How portable is my old DOS stuff? Can I use FreePascal to let children play with it under Linux in my place, and under DOS at their home?
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Thanks! That link was what I was waiting for, what Coolvibe refers to and what Slashdot still should have linked to. I deserved a slap for not having checked www.freebsd.org myself first.
Slashdot hype linkdumping at your service
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1. Find a panicky-looking bug report in your Slashdot submit queue 2. Post the link immediately with a stupid CVS link, without waiting for the official FreeBSD security advisory, without having even a simple fix for -STABLE. Pine's advisory has not even reached Bugtraq yet! We can be lucky that Pine does indeed not release exploits! What kind of editors are you? Yes you were first with this story, and Pine offers it, so it's officially out. But who can do anything right now? Yesterday we already read that royal screwup about IE's correct HTTP1.1-compliance. Another example of worthy news-editing..
To hell with an euphemism like 'pushing conservative science'. What the NYT describes seems plain censorship and degradation of science to me. So much again for your Land of the Free.
Would DOSEMU run all those old great tiny.asm demo's? They're unportable and converting them to 10MB.divx'es would just remove the magic..:/ (Looking at that Microsoft page, their definition of a 'Millennium Edition' is less than 4 years. Now that's devaluating IT)
First, the Debian community is not an 'elite'. Instead, you are welcome to join. But my point is that Fedora seems waste of efforts to me. Anyone can help Debian, OpenPKG, the freebsd-ports team, the Fink team for MacOSX or even Gentoo with packaging already. That makes sense - users need it and will use it. Playing 'man in the middle' for these pays off, you will learn a lot, and you do help other distributions as well. I don't mean 'there's no point in another community' - there is, just start, and that the best may win. That's what open source works like. But RedHat is a commercial distribution, package management for RedHat seems not that fun to me. Compare it to starting a 'Fink 2' that will never be the default. You will depend on their mistakes, on their decisions. There is one 'man in the middle' too much. Even better, you try to help RedHat, but it's RedHat's choice to let you pay for updates using the RedHat Network. Would they like you? Still, let the best win. I hope to hear something from Fedora soon.
Still no S/MIME plugins. Thank you, move along
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A quick search on the changelog reveals nothing improved about the years-old problems with Pine and S/MIME. It simply can't invoke plugins for GPG to check or generate messages that have the GPG signature as an attachment. Which means that 80% of the GPG-signed email that I get is useless and that Pine still does not handle the S/MIME RFC. (The other 20% is handled by patches or stopgaps.) Sigh. I know Mutt is better, but I still use Pine 4.44. I just don't trust those scripts that add Pine keybindings to Mutt..:)
Your reply is indeed off-topic (just like this one) and may even be a troll. The text is inconsistent and even flamebait - why would schools not teach knowledge? But I find this one of the most beautiful -1-rated comments I have seen in time. Thanks.
Hmz. Didn't that get translated? There are no casualties and there are full backups (from last weekend, anyway) from all the student and research servers. For the rest, I don't know - probably not. The damage has roughly been estimated on 23 million euro for the building and 17 million euro for everything that was inside. But the building is still smoking - it's only 6.5 hours ago that the fire started.
Hey, I posted that to debian-devel. Scary to see it get Slashdot headlines, since this posting from Wichert Akkerman himself is more 'official'. He's now probably busy setting up klecker.debian.org as the next security.debian.org host. Don't get yourself trojaned, please people, don't panic and just wait for the official Debian announcement that everything has been fixed again. Or play around with inofficial mirrors likethese, and there are more. But I feel a bit stupid myself, because - unlike Wichert - I have done nothing myself except forwarding the news and act like a karma whore.
You can watch movies over remote login to another box, too, though the sound will come out of the host computer, not the client..
Can't this be fixed once and for all, by adding some sound channel to X? I'm just forgetting all the legal DRM implications for ease. Technically it's possible, just like videoconferencing in proprietary formats like Real.
BMG has already done some experiments with crippled 'protected' CD's. This decision just means that sales of those discs did not that much decline, so BMG is going to risk the jump. And that means that we are wasting our time here on Slashdot. Not only geeks should care about this! Make this headline TV news! It sounds ridiculous, but from now on, even your grandmother should be aware not to buy those fake discs by BMG, Virgin, V2 and its evil sublabels! Our rights as customers are more than ever going to be violated. Discs we legally pay for (in Europe, a full price album is 22 euro) will not be valid in many CD drives. Boycot them!
Journalism at its best!
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ECCp-109 Solved
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Sigh. Insert obligatory sulky comment about tired Slashdot editors who were again too lazy to do any homework and include a description or background on ECCp-109. Instead, "What is it!?" screaming readers all over the place. Well, thanks. You want that Slashdot effect to happen to them, don't you?
Nice laws. But since the government wants all this overhead, who should pay for this 'security' that consumers don't want? The providers themselves? Don't think so. I think the politicians should eat their own dogfood, and cough up those euros.. and even then, I can imagine better IT investments..:)
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Oh, the list is *very* long. I boycot copy controlled CD's since 2003 or so. Some of my friends do so, too. It's mostly EMI who is the bad guy, here in The Netherlands. Sony/BMG dropped copy control here last year, but apparently they want to lose money again.
To give an idea, on the top of my head:
Athlete - Vehicles and Animals
Audio Bullys - Ego War
Ben Kweller - On My Way
Chemical Brothers - Singles 93-03
Chemical Brothers - Push the Button
The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
Doves - Lost Sides
Doves - Some Cities
Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere
Ed Harcourt - Strangers
Fischerspooner - Odyssey
Gisli - How About That?
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc (single)
Idlewild - Warnings / Promises
Kraftwerk - Minimum-Maximum
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Mando Diao - Bring 'em in
Mando Diao - Hurricane Bar
Phoenix - Live! Thirty Days Ago
Placebo - Once More With Feeling
Royksopp - Sparks (single)
Royksopp - The Understanding
Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow
Supergrass - Road To Rouen
The Ark - In Lust We Trust
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
Thrills - So Much For The City
Thrills - Let's Bottle Bohemia
Zero 7 - When it falls
Zoot Woman - Grey Day
Those are the ones I *know*. In a record store, I don't even look further when I see the copy control logo, and I curse the record company.
I even contacted a representative of EMI once, offering him real money for ANY kind of way in which he could have me play The Doves' newest record on my Sun Ultra 5. It has a cd-player which refuses copy controlled CD's, and of course it doesn't play WMA either. His final mail told me that EMI would "improve" the copy control in the future, but not lose it. I was deeply disappointed.
However, it seems that EMI doesn't add copy control to CD's with extra content (for example a video clip). They are real CD's. Some festival samplers aren't protected either. In those ways, I've been able to pay for at least some normal EMI content. I let my money vote.
I am sure there is still a market for CD's which were previously released under copy control. But I wonder who will re-release all those music that I wanted to have in these last years.
What the newsposter describes as 'christian', is actually 'radically conservative christian', but that seems another US-ism... (how should you describe it otherwise?) In Europe - I live in the Netherlands - blood and gore in videogames is much less an issue. Of course bishops don't really like it and Rome will always be conservative, but at least the churches I know don't push their own 'christian-only' separated media.
If Richard Stallman does not want 'his' GNU-projects to mention non-free software, then I wouldn't bring my own projects to GNU either. You shouldn't act like commercial software doesn't exist or can't coexist, or force people to do so. I consider this a ridiculous restriction and bad politics.
May I quote a GNU page: "Distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds for development. Don't waste it!"
Thanks Richard, for just wasting it.
Hmm. You could easily whitelist people with GnuPG's Ring of Trust-idea. I hope that one catches on.
Interesting story. Maybe a dumb question, but why is certificate revocation off by default in IE? Wouldn't enabling it be more secure, even though it prevented a disaster this time?
I see.. Pity. It plays RealAudio using my Linux RealPlayer8 .so's.
Quicktime does not exist for Linux. RealPlayer/RealOne does. Am I an idiot for just using what's available? Until a few weeks ago I didn't even know that MPlayer now supports RealAudio/Video 9 natively.
This is exactly what Liquid Audio always has been: some stupid closed-source wrapper around AAC files. Has anyone seen Liquid innovating on top of that? But they are supported by the content industry. As a result, they have even more cash than they'll ever make themselves! If I were Real, I would be stupid if I didn't want to compete with them this way - money is always welcome...
From the Shutdown FAQ, in my own words: "We feel that most of the other DOS products will not have sufficient demand to successfully support an open-source project."
Well, Borland already released the Turbo Pascal 5.5 binaries. I have used those to teach children programming on their own DOS boxes. Turbo Power had great library releases for every Turbo Pascal DOS version, wouldn't those be interesting for people who are still working with these?
I honestly have to admit that - in spite of my fandom for all Turbo Pascal DOS stuff - I have no idea, is GNU Pascal or Free Pascal under Unix any good? I have succesfully got RHIDE working after some compiling hassles, but not really tried it with lots of code. How portable is my old DOS stuff? Can I use FreePascal to let children play with it under Linux in my place, and under DOS at their home?
Thanks! That link was what I was waiting for, what Coolvibe refers to and what Slashdot still should have linked to. I deserved a slap for not having checked www.freebsd.org myself first.
1. Find a panicky-looking bug report in your Slashdot submit queue
2. Post the link immediately with a stupid CVS link, without waiting for the official FreeBSD security advisory, without having even a simple fix for -STABLE. Pine's advisory has not even reached Bugtraq yet! We can be lucky that Pine does indeed not release exploits!
What kind of editors are you? Yes you were first with this story, and Pine offers it, so it's officially out. But who can do anything right now? Yesterday we already read that royal screwup about IE's correct HTTP1.1-compliance. Another example of worthy news-editing..
To hell with an euphemism like 'pushing conservative science'. What the NYT describes seems plain censorship and degradation of science to me. So much again for your Land of the Free.
Strange, false and off-topic for such a FAQ, indeed. Mod the parent up.
Which is exactly like the book. What did you expect?
(The guy is named Boromir.)
Would DOSEMU run all those old great tiny .asm demo's? They're unportable and converting them to 10MB .divx'es would just remove the magic.. :/
(Looking at that Microsoft page, their definition of a 'Millennium Edition' is less than 4 years. Now that's devaluating IT)
First, the Debian community is not an 'elite'. Instead, you are welcome to join. But my point is that Fedora seems waste of efforts to me. Anyone can help Debian, OpenPKG, the freebsd-ports team, the Fink team for MacOSX or even Gentoo with packaging already. That makes sense - users need it and will use it. Playing 'man in the middle' for these pays off, you will learn a lot, and you do help other distributions as well. I don't mean 'there's no point in another community' - there is, just start, and that the best may win. That's what open source works like. But RedHat is a commercial distribution, package management for RedHat seems not that fun to me. Compare it to starting a 'Fink 2' that will never be the default. You will depend on their mistakes, on their decisions. There is one 'man in the middle' too much. Even better, you try to help RedHat, but it's RedHat's choice to let you pay for updates using the RedHat Network. Would they like you?
Still, let the best win. I hope to hear something from Fedora soon.
A quick search on the changelog reveals nothing improved about the years-old problems with Pine and S/MIME. It simply can't invoke plugins for GPG to check or generate messages that have the GPG signature as an attachment. Which means that 80% of the GPG-signed email that I get is useless and that Pine still does not handle the S/MIME RFC. (The other 20% is handled by patches or stopgaps.) :)
Sigh. I know Mutt is better, but I still use Pine 4.44. I just don't trust those scripts that add Pine keybindings to Mutt..
Your reply is indeed off-topic (just like this one) and may even be a troll. The text is inconsistent and even flamebait - why would schools not teach knowledge? But I find this one of the most beautiful -1-rated comments I have seen in time.
Thanks.
Hmz. Didn't that get translated? There are no casualties and there are full backups (from last weekend, anyway) from all the student and research servers. For the rest, I don't know - probably not. The damage has roughly been estimated on 23 million euro for the building and 17 million euro for everything that was inside. But the building is still smoking - it's only 6.5 hours ago that the fire started.
Hey, I posted that to debian-devel. Scary to see it get Slashdot headlines, since this posting from Wichert Akkerman himself is more 'official'.
He's now probably busy setting up klecker.debian.org as the next security.debian.org host. Don't get yourself trojaned, please people, don't panic and just wait for the official Debian announcement that everything has been fixed again. Or play around with inofficial mirrors like these, and there are more. But I feel a bit stupid myself, because - unlike Wichert - I have done nothing myself except forwarding the news and act like a karma whore.
The delay "is a response to what our customers are asking for."
I want to have customers like that..
You can watch movies over remote login to another box, too, though the sound will come out of the host computer, not the client..
Can't this be fixed once and for all, by adding some sound channel to X? I'm just forgetting all the legal DRM implications for ease. Technically it's possible, just like videoconferencing in proprietary formats like Real.
BMG has already done some experiments with crippled 'protected' CD's. This decision just means that sales of those discs did not that much decline, so BMG is going to risk the jump. And that means that we are wasting our time here on Slashdot. Not only geeks should care about this! Make this headline TV news! It sounds ridiculous, but from now on, even your grandmother should be aware not to buy those fake discs by BMG, Virgin, V2 and its evil sublabels! Our rights as customers are more than ever going to be violated. Discs we legally pay for (in Europe, a full price album is 22 euro) will not be valid in many CD drives. Boycot them!
Sigh. Insert obligatory sulky comment about tired Slashdot editors who were again too lazy to do any homework and include a description or background on ECCp-109. Instead, "What is it!?" screaming readers all over the place. Well, thanks. You want that Slashdot effect to happen to them, don't you?
Nice laws. But since the government wants all this overhead, who should pay for this 'security' that consumers don't want? The providers themselves? Don't think so. I think the politicians should eat their own dogfood, and cough up those euros.. and even then, I can imagine better IT investments.. :)