Miguel mentioned the GNOME User Interface Improvement Project: Currently GNOME lacks a bit of polishing when it comes to the end desktop because we do not ship a good set of presets for it. Shipping good presets and revamping the user interface (as suggested by our user interface team at http://www.gnome.org/gnome-ui) is a really important task.
The great thing about developing interfaces with GNOME is the libglade architecture. Designing an usable interface is easier if you can rapidly design it in such a program and if you can tweak and revise it at runtime.
As one of the named defendants, I've taken down my files. Thankfully, Judge Elfving has stated that there will be no damages awarded. Ironically, this point probably helped DVD CCA the most.
Not only that, mp3.com has a _lot_ of bandwidth. Inside the m3u is just a plain http:// address. Use wget and get the mp3. Simple as that. Damn, faster than ripping/encoding it.
1) I do not own any DVD related devices. As a result, I cannot pirate anything related to this DVD junk. I just find it humorous to make that assertment.
3) We better have an even better showing on January 14th. If they thought that this was incredible, they should be surprised come the 14th and we have every major media outlet in the nation out there plus 400+ supporters littering the concrete with source code.
Yes, I (named defendant in section 20) would like to personally thank the EFF attorneys who helped represent me in that ominous Santa Clara courtroom.
I don't know what we would have done without the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I am elated with the fact that we have such a fine organization designed to protect the rights of those unable to find representation.
Thanks also goes to the numerous people who spent so much of their time and effort to support the effort. Even though the few of us were specifically named, you many made the effort. (Especially the disks and paper sources)
This comes from me and all of the people named that were unable to represent themselves.
Personally, I hope to make it on the 14th.
David M. Chan, an Individual;
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If they could just record a show today and post it immediately, that would be cool. Especially if they talked about what was going on TODAY. Like the DVD stuff. It doesn't have to be actually live (call-ins and stuff), but at least recent.
My name is splashed over a 20 page legal document stating this and that and that and a whole load of bullshit. DVD cracking will not cause a significant financial burden onto the consortium. They must think these underground crackers have immense resources to market and inform the average consumer of their ability to copy DVDs. Oh wait. People are already doing it anyway. It's called a VHS VCR and an RCA jack. Record -> Play.
What's worse is that since the letter was sent so late (2 days before the legal date!), I was financially unable to travel to Santa Clara, CA to attend said hearing. How the hell am I supposed to get to Santa Clara, CA in 2 DAYS?!!?!? FLy?!? and pay $700 for one-way since it is so close to the day I want to fly??
Second, I never received any hard-copy confirmation of my legal travesty. Hello? Isn't this law somewhere? What if my e-mail account was shut off for the duration of winter vacation? I probably would've had no idea that I might get a TRO against me. They're supposed to send this stuff through the USPS!!!!
Thirdly, I don't know WTF to do! I've removed the files off of my school's site per advice from a friend. And apparently, on the final draft, my name is still on the list of defendants.
Section 2 of DVD CCA vs. McLaughlin, et al. states : "2. The named defendants, and certain Doe defendants, continue their unauthorized posting of proprietary information -- which they either obtained by improper means or knew or should have known was obtained by others by improper means -- despite the fact that cease and desist letters were sent to their web sites demanding that such proprietary information be taken down from their sites..." If this was filed half an hour ago today, and I've had my site down since Tuesday, shouldn't I be exempt from the action?
I don't know what to do. Can someone with a legal background tell me what I _can_ do?
hemos didn't say that zdnet was running it today, that stupid anonymous coward said that they were running it today. hemos was not wrong in this case. he just was kinda lazy to edit the post or add a disclaimer "actually, it's may 6th.." but, in any case, may 6th, 1999 was a long time ago. that probably explains why they were running linux 2.0.35 and not something reasonably current (i.e. 2.2.x).
This is interesting... Slashdot is encouraging citizens of other countries to try to affect decisions in nations not of their immediate concern. Why should a Brazilian representative care about what some fool in New York thinks? Great, the rest of the world supports it, but his constituents just care about getting those damn strip miners out of their backyard.
The CD-R tax story from a couple days ago also comes to mind. Non-canadians are probably signing it with something like "Toronto, Ontario" so that the petition people can say "this many canadians voted for it" and then the officials can reply, "there aren't even that many people in that city."
I'm all for the ideals behind the story, but I'm curious as to what influence a non-national has over a delegatory representative...
I was thinking of one of those red drinking birds that dip their beaks in water and are not-quite-perpetual motion machines. either that or a large stone wheel with a patent number inscribed in it.
this utility is probably not illegal in many countries, but cnet.com is definetely posed with civil legal action by the MPAA or some other lawyers. (even more so, now that it's been posted on hackernews and slashdot) it's obvious that DeCSS, the Livid stuff, and articles explaining how it was done will live forever. the question is: will the MPAA give up and just forget about it? or will the MPAA go on a 30 year hunt to try to discourage all DVD pirating and ultimately destroy itself and the format well before a more viable solution comes along? or will they come up with a different format and screw everyone over?
ibm 2.5" drives are HIGHLY durable and stable. the player will have a huge memory buffer since it claims that it will only spin the hard drive up once every 10 minutes.
these files are not authorized by the university of minnesota, duluth or by the state of minnesota.
i accept full responsibility for the hosting of these files.
i downloaded these from several mirrors and compared sizes and md5sums just in case someone was trying to pull something. here are the md5sums that i derived. be sure to check these against others, just in case.
uhm, the point of this article is not the forking of the kernel. most of the uses that people will build into the kernel for their embedded use will STAY IN THEIR OWN SYSTEM. they obviously have to distribute the changes to whomever recieves the end result, but there is little to no chance that most of these specialized changes will make it into the stock kernel.
another example of another irrational (ignorant?) fear.
We already know all this, I would have expected a little more worthy article from Upside (which has been fairly interesting).
Articles like this one have been posted before... to sum it up:
Linux has freely available code -> modified to your embedded system's use.
Linux has networking support built in.
Linux also is a very generalized kernel, so things have to be whittled away, no problem, see point #1.
The only thing that was interesting about this article is that they start to mention WinCE and Microsoft, but then never follow up on comparing Linux vs WinCE.
excellent, except the desk metaphor could be simplified into a mere surface. you rest your arms, etc. but i originally agreed with the virtual keyboard, but then i realized that that was subverting the whole thing. solution: write. since we're so wishfully thinking, we should have accurate handwriting recognition to facilitate this, or significant brainwave analyses (whee!!!) to determine the thoughts to be expressed.
i wasn't talking about literally imitating real life, i was talking about metaphors. now you're taking stereotypes of implementations and just saying they won't work because former implementations were poor.
the point is that you don't actually productively use cubes in information processing (visual, thoughts, etc.). what the hell do you expect to do with it? it doesn't make sense. books are NOT six sided things with text on every side. cubes are idiotic. you don't read on the sides of your car, it is inefficient, wasteful, and awkward.
i'm talking about a virtually empty environment, you HOLD the windows, you can move them around, but in realistically physicalities.
i'm NOT TALKING ABOUT MICROSOFT BOB. you completely mistook my entire idea!!!
i agree that replicating physical objects in virtual space is stupid. i wasn't talking about imitating it. just using the metaphor of papers. the double sidedness (and our familiarity with the ANALOGUE) and an ubiquitous stylus as an interface (pseudo-cursor?). you don't have to go any farther and i regret encouraging that you should (because it obviously came across incorrectly).
all i'm saying is that windows don't have to be floating in midair, being all wacky and "virtual". that mindset is wishful, awe-shocked, and impractical. it'd be amusing for a while, but you wouldn't actually get any work done.
cubes? why must we come up with new paradigms in working in a 3d enviroment? when is the last time you used a cube while working in real life?
what medium do we work best with (and have been for centuries) and are the most comfortable with?
paper, more specifically pages.
i've read many a post criticizing gloves as they envision a world with goggles on, constantly waving their arms a foot off of the desk. how about a paradigm that reflects our own world and how we usually interact with it.
if i'd want to do work in this world, i wouldn't want to play with a cube, touch something and having weird "virtual" things happen, like hitting a window and having it float off frictionlessly into space. some people have been watching too many "virtual reality" movies. tron, the lawnmower man, uhm, any other cheesy "look-i-have-goggles-and-gloves-and-i-work-in-a-bl ack-and-red-wire-frame-environment"
the point of a 3d interface is to have something relatable to real life, which is undoubtably pretty 3d. my solution? use windows as pages. we all have desks with large amounts of pages in binders, we shuffle them around, stack them, move others away so we can focus on a particular one or hold two together to compare them as such. this is how we work with windows as well. so why not just move it in the other dimension? use real life as a metaphor. you're sitting at a desk shuffling windows around. of course you can affect physics to act as real life and lay them down on a table (bend them (cool)) throw them in a pile, etc. you could elaborate on this metaphor endlessly. how would you simulate a cursor? a stylus. how would you copy and paste? like a highlighter. highlight what you want and place it elsewhere.
and the best thing about windows as pages? there are two sides. incredible, eh? save space, my friend. netscape could have one site open on one side and another open on the other. the possibilities are incredible.
as such, you're actually interacting with your windows instead of having them on a cube, which is a wholly incomplete idea. who thought of this in the first place? cubes are pretty damned inefficient uses of space. we have no natural relation to them, and since we're all conditioned to use paper/pages anyway, why not use an analogue that we're completely effienient with anyway?
slackware has an excellent, elegant package management system. and best of all? it's industry standard. the last time i looked, everybody had tar and gunzip installed.
slackware keeps track of the packages installed, etc. of course, there isn't a large package repository.
simplicity is the key.
and
use the source.
"...who's using slackware?" "whoever was using it 4 years ago."
in fact, there has been a significant increase in slackware use recently, and it is expected to increase with the release of slackware-7.0 that is complete with glibc2.1.2, xfre86 3.3.5, october gnome, kde 1.1.2, netscape 4.7, and linux 2.2.12.
Mutual Assured Destruction has kept the world safe for the past 50 years. with anti-missile technology, one side COULD win. since we have it, i desperately hope no one is stupid enough on our side to destroy the world...
the really useful part of this is the fact that attacks from these smaller states like India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq could be well detered. this assures that only the big guys: Russia, China, U.S (uk, france, north korea, etc.) could destroy the world. hmmm
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
Slashdot Mirror
Currently GNOME lacks a bit of polishing when it comes to the end desktop because we do not ship a good set of presets for it. Shipping good presets and revamping the user interface (as suggested by our user interface team at http://www.gnome.org/gnome-ui) is a really important task.
The real URL is at http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-ui.
The great thing about developing interfaces with GNOME is the libglade architecture. Designing an usable interface is easier if you can rapidly design it in such a program and if you can tweak and revise it at runtime.
This was taken off of drwii's page
As one of the named defendants, I've taken down my files. Thankfully, Judge Elfving has stated that there will be no damages awarded. Ironically, this point probably helped DVD CCA the most.
Time isn't an issue. You pop in the CD and hit one button. It takes 2 seconds. -- Done.
Not only that, mp3.com has a _lot_ of bandwidth.
Inside the m3u is just a plain http:// address. Use wget and get the mp3. Simple as that. Damn, faster than ripping/encoding it.
1) I do not own any DVD related devices. As a result, I cannot pirate anything related to this DVD junk. I just find it humorous to make that assertment.
2) I have put the files back up at http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/. The Weil guys got it wrong in section 20. (heh)
3) We better have an even better showing on January 14th. If they thought that this was incredible, they should be surprised come the 14th and we have every major media outlet in the nation out there plus 400+ supporters littering the concrete with source code.
"David M. Chan, an Individual;"
I don't know what we would have done without the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I am elated with the fact that we have such a fine organization designed to protect the rights of those unable to find representation.
Thanks also goes to the numerous people who spent so much of their time and effort to support the effort. Even though the few of us were specifically named, you many made the effort. (Especially the disks and paper sources)
This comes from me and all of the people named that were unable to represent themselves.
Personally, I hope to make it on the 14th.
David M. Chan, an Individual;
If they could just record a show today and post it immediately, that would be cool. Especially if they talked about what was going on TODAY. Like the DVD stuff. It doesn't have to be actually live (call-ins and stuff), but at least recent.
Alright, I'm pissed.
My name is splashed over a 20 page legal document stating this and that and that and a whole load of bullshit. DVD cracking will not cause a significant financial burden onto the consortium. They must think these underground crackers have immense resources to market and inform the average consumer of their ability to copy DVDs. Oh wait. People are already doing it anyway. It's called a VHS VCR and an RCA jack. Record -> Play.
What's worse is that since the letter was sent so late (2 days before the legal date!), I was financially unable to travel to Santa Clara, CA to attend said hearing. How the hell am I supposed to get to Santa Clara, CA in 2 DAYS?!!?!? FLy?!? and pay $700 for one-way since it is so close to the day I want to fly??
Second, I never received any hard-copy confirmation of my legal travesty. Hello? Isn't this law somewhere? What if my e-mail account was shut off for the duration of winter vacation? I probably would've had no idea that I might get a TRO against me. They're supposed to send this stuff through the USPS!!!!
Thirdly, I don't know WTF to do! I've removed the files off of my school's site per advice from a friend. And apparently, on the final draft, my name is still on the list of defendants.
Section 2 of DVD CCA vs. McLaughlin, et al. states : "2. The named defendants, and certain Doe defendants, continue their unauthorized posting of proprietary information -- which they either obtained by improper means or knew or should have known was obtained by others by improper means -- despite the fact that cease and desist letters were sent to their web sites demanding that such proprietary information be taken down from their sites..." If this was filed half an hour ago today, and I've had my site down since Tuesday, shouldn't I be exempt from the action?
I don't know what to do. Can someone with a legal background tell me what I _can_ do?
there is. look at that code link on the left side.
hemos didn't say that zdnet was running it today, that stupid anonymous coward said that they were running it today. hemos was not wrong in this case. he just was kinda lazy to edit the post or add a disclaimer "actually, it's may 6th.." but, in any case, may 6th, 1999 was a long time ago. that probably explains why they were running linux 2.0.35 and not something reasonably current (i.e. 2.2.x).
This is interesting... Slashdot is encouraging citizens of other countries to try to affect decisions in nations not of their immediate concern. Why should a Brazilian representative care about what some fool in New York thinks? Great, the rest of the world supports it, but his constituents just care about getting those damn strip miners out of their backyard.
The CD-R tax story from a couple days ago also comes to mind. Non-canadians are probably signing it with something like "Toronto, Ontario" so that the petition people can say "this many canadians voted for it" and then the officials can reply, "there aren't even that many people in that city."
I'm all for the ideals behind the story, but I'm curious as to what influence a non-national has over a delegatory representative...
hmmm, second idea: square wheel :P
I was thinking of one of those red drinking birds that dip their beaks in water and are not-quite-perpetual motion machines. either that or a large stone wheel with a patent number inscribed in it.
this utility is probably not illegal in many countries, but cnet.com is definetely posed with civil legal action by the MPAA or some other lawyers. (even more so, now that it's been posted on hackernews and slashdot) it's obvious that DeCSS, the Livid stuff, and articles explaining how it was done will live forever. the question is: will the MPAA give up and just forget about it? or will the MPAA go on a 30 year hunt to try to discourage all DVD pirating and ultimately destroy itself and the format well before a more viable solution comes along? or will they come up with a different format and screw everyone over?
ibm 2.5" drives are HIGHLY durable and stable. the player will have a huge memory buffer since it claims that it will only spin the hard drive up once every 10 minutes.
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
these files are not authorized by the university
of minnesota, duluth or by the state of minnesota.
i accept full responsibility for the hosting of
these files.
i downloaded these from several mirrors and compared
sizes and md5sums just in case someone was trying to
pull something. here are the md5sums that i derived.
be sure to check these against others, just in case.
b815dfc23185d44ba327319030cd6237 *css-auth.tar.gz
549f4fe6488d6eec4f66b7c7c1a4db9d *cssdvd.zip
d0aff684327a5c7bf110951e42ec3cae *decss.zip
another example of another irrational (ignorant?) fear.
Articles like this one have been posted before... to sum it up:
- Linux has freely available code -> modified to your embedded system's use.
- Linux has networking support built in.
- Linux also is a very generalized kernel, so things have to be whittled away, no problem, see point #1.
The only thing that was interesting about this article is that they start to mention WinCE and Microsoft, but then never follow up on comparing Linux vs WinCE.excellent, except the desk metaphor could be simplified into a mere surface. you rest your arms, etc. but i originally agreed with the virtual keyboard, but then i realized that that was subverting the whole thing. solution: write. since we're so wishfully thinking, we should have accurate handwriting recognition to facilitate this, or significant brainwave analyses (whee!!!) to determine the thoughts to be expressed.
i wasn't talking about literally imitating real life, i was talking about metaphors. now you're taking stereotypes of implementations and just saying they won't work because former implementations were poor.
the point is that you don't actually productively use cubes in information processing (visual, thoughts, etc.). what the hell do you expect to do with it? it doesn't make sense. books are NOT six sided things with text on every side. cubes are idiotic. you don't read on the sides of your car, it is inefficient, wasteful, and awkward.
i'm talking about a virtually empty environment, you HOLD the windows, you can move them around, but in realistically physicalities.
i'm NOT TALKING ABOUT MICROSOFT BOB. you completely mistook my entire idea!!!
i agree that replicating physical objects in virtual space is stupid. i wasn't talking about imitating it. just using the metaphor of papers. the double sidedness (and our familiarity with the ANALOGUE) and an ubiquitous stylus as an interface (pseudo-cursor?). you don't have to go any farther and i regret encouraging that you should (because it obviously came across incorrectly).
all i'm saying is that windows don't have to be floating in midair, being all wacky and "virtual". that mindset is wishful, awe-shocked, and impractical. it'd be amusing for a while, but you wouldn't actually get any work done.
cubes? why must we come up with new paradigms in working in a 3d enviroment? when is the last time you used a cube while working in real life?
l ack-and-red-wire-frame-environment"
what medium do we work best with (and have been for centuries) and are the most comfortable with?
paper, more specifically pages.
i've read many a post criticizing gloves as they envision a world with goggles on, constantly waving their arms a foot off of the desk. how about a paradigm that reflects our own world and how we usually interact with it.
if i'd want to do work in this world, i wouldn't want to play with a cube, touch something and having weird "virtual" things happen, like hitting a window and having it float off frictionlessly into space. some people have been watching too many "virtual reality" movies. tron, the lawnmower man, uhm, any other cheesy "look-i-have-goggles-and-gloves-and-i-work-in-a-b
the point of a 3d interface is to have something relatable to real life, which is undoubtably pretty 3d. my solution? use windows as pages. we all have desks with large amounts of pages in binders, we shuffle them around, stack them, move others away so we can focus on a particular one or hold two together to compare them as such. this is how we work with windows as well. so why not just move it in the other dimension? use real life as a metaphor. you're sitting at a desk shuffling windows around. of course you can affect physics to act as real life and lay them down on a table (bend them (cool)) throw them in a pile, etc. you could elaborate on this metaphor endlessly. how would you simulate a cursor? a stylus. how would you copy and paste? like a highlighter. highlight what you want and place it elsewhere.
and the best thing about windows as pages? there are two sides. incredible, eh? save space, my friend. netscape could have one site open on one side and another open on the other. the possibilities are incredible.
as such, you're actually interacting with your windows instead of having them on a cube, which is a wholly incomplete idea. who thought of this in the first place? cubes are pretty damned inefficient uses of space. we have no natural relation to them, and since we're all conditioned to use paper/pages anyway, why not use an analogue that we're completely effienient with anyway?
"...package management is for the weak..."
slackware has an excellent, elegant package management system. and best of all? it's industry standard. the last time i looked, everybody had tar and gunzip installed.
slackware keeps track of the packages installed, etc. of course, there isn't a large package repository.
simplicity is the key.
and
use the source.
"...who's using slackware?" "whoever was using it 4 years ago."
in fact, there has been a significant increase in slackware use recently, and it is expected to increase with the release of slackware-7.0 that is complete with glibc2.1.2, xfre86 3.3.5, october gnome, kde 1.1.2, netscape 4.7, and linux 2.2.12.
finally! i've been going through withdrawl since the end of september.
the russians have a point in this article:
Mutual Assured Destruction has kept the world safe for the past 50 years. with anti-missile technology, one side COULD win. since we have it, i desperately hope no one is stupid enough on our side to destroy the world...
the really useful part of this is the fact that attacks from these smaller states like India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq could be well detered. this assures that only the big guys: Russia, China, U.S (uk, france, north korea, etc.) could destroy the world. hmmm
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
-- Albert Einstein
sigh, he was right...