In contrast, should Linux ever be used for DRMs, which have, as far as I know, not killed anyone, most people here would be up in arms, if the recent story on GPL and the DRM is to be taken as a guide.
Linux is a hardware operating system. DRM is a hardware disabling system.
So you sign up for a month or 2 every year and download everything you can get...
I thought about that too, until I remembered this was Time Warner, of AOL fame (or shame). They'll require some long, multiyear contract that's impossible to cancel.
If you think that the step directly above you is doing something foolish, you have the right to call that person's boss.
Hmm, you mean like notifying the NASA officials from the Marshall Space Flight Center who were higher in the chain of command than the engineers' direct managers? Furthermore, there was no way for the engineers to know that "more senior NASA managers responsible for the launch commit decision" weren't told of their objections to the launch after the objections had been raised with the previously mentioned NASA Marshall Space Flight Center officials.
The "more senior" managers would have been informed if the chain of command had been properly followed -- the breakdown did not occur at the engineers' level. Again, the engineers had no reason to believe their objections had not been sent further up the chain of command after NASA officials higher in authority than their direct managers had been informed. In other words, the boss was called.
It's obvious that some Anonymous Cowards not only don't understand engineering, they don't understand a chain of command either. Further comment on this issue would just feed the shrill comments of the ignorant.
Obviously this wasn't a big enough motivation and it should be a wake up call for anyone who trusts that a contractor or engineer will tell you that there is something wrong with a product on their own.
Spoken like a true non-engineer. It was at the urging of Nasa officials that the launch was approved to take place. Here's a quote from the Nasa website relating the facts that you have conveniently overlooked in your rush to condemn engineers and manufacturers:
However, in a closed meeting at the Kennedy Space Center on February 14, Commission members were "visibly disturbed" to learn that engineers from the firm that manufactured the SRM, Morton Thiokol Inc., had the night before recommended against launching Challenger in the cold temperatures predicted for the next morning; that their managers, at the apparent urging of NASA officials from the Marshall Space Flight Center, had overruled their recommendation; and that more senior NASA managers responsible for the launch commit decision were unaware of this contentious interaction. --bold added
There's nothing insightful about the parent post, except for the insight gained into the readiness of some to unfairly accuse an entire profession they know nothing about of what basically amounts to murder. I'd like to know what the parent poster's motivations are, other than to try to sound cool on slashdot.
Except they weren't proud of their culture, they were proud of the American culture they are adopting. How many of these people are devout Orthodox, listen to traditional music, wear appropriate clothing, and spurn Western influences? Not very many.
Wow. Change the word Orthodox to Muslim and you sound just like Osama.
I live here and we have our share of stupid and retarted politicians that have no clue about the real world!
That makes me think of Senator Bob Dole, who was running for President of the United States in 1996. He had never seen a barcode scanner before, and was amazed at the technology when he made some campaign photo-op purchases at a supermarket trying to show how in-touch he was with ordinary folk.
Until they can prevent sound from moving through air in compressions and rarefactions (is that right?), there will always be a way to get a copy- though perhaps not an exact copy.
This method would just become illegal. One would face more jail-time by doing this than if they committed armed robbery.
you're not going to be able to enjoy your independent music in the ways you'd like to
Also, you won't be able to enjoy any personal recordings the way you'd like to. The hardware will only play the content if the content is tagged with explicit permissions, even if the permission is "unrestricted." So if I record something on my own equipment, much of it home-built from the chip-component level, I will have to include special "DRM" code if I want to play the recording back on ANY commercial device. And you can be assured that the "DRM" code will require a non-free license.
This legislation would allow record companies to receive money on ALL digital content and playback devices, whether they produce (via their phony "artists") or distribute it or not.
Further, if the "DRM" scheme requires periodically checking in with a remote database to verify a digital key, the entity in charge of the database could UNIVERSALLY disable any content they deem "inappropriate" any time they wish. The legislation may not explicitly state that, but in order for a scheme like this to work, these adjunct capabilities would have to be present. This legislation goes way beyond copy-protection.
But I think sending people back to the moon for a photo op is vastly less interesting than strapping a tiny rover atop of a small booster and sending it to look for life on Mars.
Maybe, but what if we launched the rover from the moon, like the Chinese will be doing by the time the New Horizons spacecraft reaches Pluto? It would be interesting to see how big a payload an Atlas launched from the lunar surface could carry.
Supersonic flow in a nozzle develops very quickly, and there's no real benefit to running it for long periods of time.
Out of curiousity, because this is not my field, what about the thermal effects of the flow on airframe materials? Is 8 seconds long enough to gain useful information in this regard?
And you can't tell me discoverying a 0day affecting any MS platform doesn't require skill. There are tens of thousands of researchers out there right now who can't. --bold added
...the method you describe would pretty much result in a near total stop in the number of works being produced.
So let it stop! I don't want to wake up tomorrow and find out that my freedoms have been given away for a song. If the big content companies can't live with technological freedom, then it's time for them (or at least their old business model) to pass into history.
And the artists? F*ck the corporate-tit-sucking artists. They are the biggest bunch of hypocrites around. "Freedom of speech!" and "artistic freedom," they continually scream. But when it comes to a buck, it's "F*ck you, pay me," without regards to the rights of anyone else. It's time to call it like it is, that these "artists" are just as ignoble and self-serving as most of the things they criticise.
If the recording/motion picture industry and their canned "artists" can't handle the digital heat, they should get out of the digital kitchen and go back to their horses and buggies without forcing me to go with them.
Content protection through legislated technology squashes opportunities for new forms of art while stifling personal freedoms, free exchange of ideas, technological innovation, and free thought. No true artist would support this.
Yes, Conyers is very consistent. He wants to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and censor every American.
Question: what gives the motion picture and recording industries' a right to survive in a changing consumer environment without having to change their business model? Answer: Congressmen like John Conyers.
If the MA state law says you must declare XYZ then you must.
Big IF there. Even the Globe doesn't know if Quinn needed to or in fact DID declare anything necessary, because they don't even know what, if anything, it would be necessary for him to disclose. They just ran a Thanksgiving smear on the guy without even knowing what the rules are that they wrote on page one he's being "inquired" about. Kind of like that "XYZ" bullshit you mentioned.
The Boston Globe method was to 1) ask what the disclosure rules are because they didn't know, and then 2) print an article on the front page that says the Governor's administration has launched an inquiry into possible ethics violation by Quinn. Note that the big pile of #2 the Globe put on page one came before they knew what the rules are, or without giving Quinn a chance to respond because they couldn't reach him on THANKSGIVING DAY.
If you can't smell this smear job, you should see a doctor and let him count the holes in your head. It's not about what "side" anyone is on, it's about ethics, and the Boston Globe has demonstrated that they have none.
I don't have a million dollars. I don't know what kind of music the "Barenaked Ladies" plays, or even if there's a lady (naked or not) in the band.
I do want one of these audio drives.
The music isn't important in this. The important thing is this drive will be a major collector's item if this method of distribution catches on, as I think it will. So what if afficianados don't like the sampling rate because they claim to hear better than a bloodhound can smell. Future releases in this medium can use larger capacity flash chips to sample high enough to hear a gnat fart five rows back.
This is just the start. I'm not worth million dollars, but a thumbdrive music collection that includes this particular "Barenaked" stick might be worth close to that in the future. Honus Wagner anyone?
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And UGV is a people disabling system.
No, UGV is a navigation system.
I just bought my copy. Anything anti-PC on my PC is good for me.
If you think that the step directly above you is doing something foolish, you have the right to call that person's boss.
Hmm, you mean like notifying the NASA officials from the Marshall Space Flight Center who were higher in the chain of command than the engineers' direct managers? Furthermore, there was no way for the engineers to know that "more senior NASA managers responsible for the launch commit decision" weren't told of their objections to the launch after the objections had been raised with the previously mentioned NASA Marshall Space Flight Center officials.
The "more senior" managers would have been informed if the chain of command had been properly followed -- the breakdown did not occur at the engineers' level. Again, the engineers had no reason to believe their objections had not been sent further up the chain of command after NASA officials higher in authority than their direct managers had been informed. In other words, the boss was called.
It's obvious that some Anonymous Cowards not only don't understand engineering, they don't understand a chain of command either. Further comment on this issue would just feed the shrill comments of the ignorant.
This legislation would allow record companies to receive money on ALL digital content and playback devices, whether they produce (via their phony "artists") or distribute it or not.
Further, if the "DRM" scheme requires periodically checking in with a remote database to verify a digital key, the entity in charge of the database could UNIVERSALLY disable any content they deem "inappropriate" any time they wish. The legislation may not explicitly state that, but in order for a scheme like this to work, these adjunct capabilities would have to be present. This legislation goes way beyond copy-protection.
Obiously you don't know about the gravity well.
Supersonic flow in a nozzle develops very quickly, and there's no real benefit to running it for long periods of time.
Out of curiousity, because this is not my field, what about the thermal effects of the flow on airframe materials? Is 8 seconds long enough to gain useful information in this regard?
Love him or hate him, the man's got a unique way with words. I wonder if his daughters transferbangle?
And the artists? F*ck the corporate-tit-sucking artists. They are the biggest bunch of hypocrites around. "Freedom of speech!" and "artistic freedom," they continually scream. But when it comes to a buck, it's "F*ck you, pay me," without regards to the rights of anyone else. It's time to call it like it is, that these "artists" are just as ignoble and self-serving as most of the things they criticise.
If the recording/motion picture industry and their canned "artists" can't handle the digital heat, they should get out of the digital kitchen and go back to their horses and buggies without forcing me to go with them.
Content protection through legislated technology squashes opportunities for new forms of art while stifling personal freedoms, free exchange of ideas, technological innovation, and free thought. No true artist would support this.
Yes, Conyers is very consistent. He wants to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and censor every American.
Question: what gives the motion picture and recording industries' a right to survive in a changing consumer environment without having to change their business model? Answer: Congressmen like John Conyers.
What a Hollywood party hack.
The Boston Globe method was to 1) ask what the disclosure rules are because they didn't know, and then 2) print an article on the front page that says the Governor's administration has launched an inquiry into possible ethics violation by Quinn. Note that the big pile of #2 the Globe put on page one came before they knew what the rules are, or without giving Quinn a chance to respond because they couldn't reach him on THANKSGIVING DAY.
If you can't smell this smear job, you should see a doctor and let him count the holes in your head. It's not about what "side" anyone is on, it's about ethics, and the Boston Globe has demonstrated that they have none.
I don't have a million dollars. I don't know what kind of music the "Barenaked Ladies" plays, or even if there's a lady (naked or not) in the band.
I do want one of these audio drives.
The music isn't important in this. The important thing is this drive will be a major collector's item if this method of distribution catches on, as I think it will. So what if afficianados don't like the sampling rate because they claim to hear better than a bloodhound can smell. Future releases in this medium can use larger capacity flash chips to sample high enough to hear a gnat fart five rows back.
This is just the start. I'm not worth million dollars, but a thumbdrive music collection that includes this particular "Barenaked" stick might be worth close to that in the future. Honus Wagner anyone?