I thought the DMCA supported reverse-engineering for interoperabillity?
Considering how many times I've seen programs that do just that being struck down by the DMCA because they "steal intellectual property," (DeCSS, StreamBox, etc) it's obvious that it is a meaningless piece of law. It's so much lipservice, just like the claims of Hollywood that they support fair use, while at the same time doing everything in their power to destroy it.
This is really starting to piss me off. How many times have I seen company whine that someone or something is "stealing" their intellectual property (which is quite impossible to do anyway), just because we are trying to find out how it fucking works and nothing more. If learning is a crime, then we are headed straight for another Dark Ages. </rant>
My biggest gripe about consoles, and the reason that I do not own one, is that when you buy a game for one that is all you get. Many PC games have huge modding communities with independantly-created models, characters, and even add-on games--not to mention the mods. To what extent will the Indrema support mods for those few games with Linux support, if at all?
Because Joe Windows-user isn't going to be able to set up an MTA on his home box, even if there is one available for Windows... I dunno. Let them pay money for a program to do this. Ignorance is expensive.
I have some problems with the Red Hat installer. Have you ever tried choosing individual packages? MY GOD is that a pain--you have to double click every single package. And when you tell it to choose packages, it leaves out a lot of important ones deselected by default--like, oh, egcs! Whenever I find myself installing RedHat, I just tell it to use the textmode installer, never had any complaints about that one.
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Yep. Dear old ESR took a document created by the freely shared contribution of a lot of people on the net and managed to sell it and put his name in BIG TYPE on the cover.
Last I checked, http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/ isn't charging admission. Books are simply far more useful to some people. I think compiling and maintaining this thing is more difficult than you give it credit for. And anyway, ESR has certainly made the File far more accessible than JARGON.TXT ever was. Is that bad?
And, funny thing, the location for downloading it for free doesn't seem to be on the cover either. ESR pissed off a LOT of people when he did that.
Y'know, I think those people would be pissed off at him no matter what he does. I don't get it, but they seem to like picking on him for some reason.
By the way, I think your "really big monitors set
really high facing the door" idea has a serious flaw: what if someone pulled up goatse.cx and walked off, in order to intentionally cause trouble? That could be a problem.
The best way to prevent rampant porn viewing in the library (which I believe is a bit disgraceful) is to have really big monitors set
really high facing the door.
But it's not rampant! That's another point against censorware in libraries; I believe in Jamie's previous writings on this, he pointed out that there have been six cases--ever--of someone being asked to leave based on their web browsing, and only one of those involved porn. I think censorware advocates should prove that it's a freaking problem before they lobby damaging laws to combat it.
You want to impose your rights on your children (and incidently on ours).
This is not exactly true. We want the right to raise our children according to our religion without interference. You are equally as free to teach your children however you may wish. At its core, the Christian religion does not force anybody to do anything, it is completely voluntary. That is the point. However, every now and then someone or a group of people get a bit overzealous and try to push their beliefs on others. This is not unique to Christians for sure. I can't remember how many textbooks I've seen that teach Evolution as fact, and make no mention of Creation. Millions of school children are taught under these principals without any regard as to whether they (or their parents for that matter) agree. Personally, I don't think either should be taught as fact, merely presented as different views and it should be up to the child which one they believe in if any. The same goes for gay agenda--they specificially target children so that they grow up thinking being gay is fine. There is immense pressure to go along with this. I don't agree, and I shouldn't have this view pushed on me or my (hypothetical:) children. It is a matter of opinion. Or rather, you are free to have you're own opinion.
The pro-filter crowd *wants* to make you think it's about protecting the kids from smut, when really it about filtering
"objectionable" ideas. The "Save the Children" cry is their emotionally-charged door opener.
The pro-filter crowd are not a bunch of consiratorial censors trying to take away freedom of information; they're simply a bunch of concerned parents who have been misguided by the hollow claims of filter companies. The filter companies are the real problem--they make all these wild claims about blocking "99.9%" of all porn on the net, when that is obviously untrue. The parents just don't know any better.
I think Jamie's first stint in Holland proves this--when he held a meeting and actually educated people about censoreware, they ended up voting it out of the libaries.
Now, don't go blaming Christians as a whole about this. Every group of people falls into this at some point. In fact, conservative sites have fallen victim just as much as gay sites have to this sort of thing.
Okay, so some people let their conservative natures go just a bit too far. But you can hardly claim the entire Christian religion is based on hating the body, which is what your post certainly seemed to claim.
What is offensive is a very subjective thing. It's also largely cultural. I'm sure you're example is a good one. The problem is though, that although there is nothing wrong with nudity per se, the Western culture closely associates nudity with sexuality. I think that is why so many people are perhaps a bit rediculous about nudity. It's not the nudity itself, it's the association.
And in other situations, it probably is hypocrasy. Or bad judgment. Or misinformation. Nobody's perfect, and Christians are certainly no exception.
Unfortunately, the Christian groups, and the government are trying very hard to strip parents of their responsibilities (because it's
'good for you'). Until more parents stand up and say, "I know what's best for my children" it's going to keep getting worse.
Not at all. Christians are some of the firmest advocates of parental rights. You're right about government, and Christians are some of the first targets they hassle. Recently the government tried to separate a girl from her parents simply because they were trying to give her a Christian upbringing. This is an extreme example, but it won't be any rarer as time goes by. Social workers have all sorts of ideas on how you should be raising your own children.
What the hell are you talking about? No Christian will ever tell you that the human body, God's creation, is inheritly sinful. We're not talking about tasteful protrayals of the human body, we're talking about hardcore porn. Big difference.
Interesting thought, but I think you have to at least intend to sell something in order to get hosted by them. What would be cooler is if they used Napster to distribute GiS. Rob actually brought this up last episode; Napster would be a great form of distribution. What do you say, guys? Prove there's a legitimate use for filesharing!
Of course we want a free version. LinDVD will likely make a lot of money by serving the same niche commercial software always does--to tide us over until the free version is ready.
The NetStream2000 is a high-end MPEG streaming card, not something most people will be able to afford. Also, it is labeled a "corporate or institutional product only," in other words, regular consumers are out of luck even if they do have the money. They released Linux drivers because this card is for server streaming and stuff like that. Besides, a lot of us already have cards and are not about to shell out more money for another one.
It's not a user error. My bios apparently has developed a problem--Linux doesn't care, because I think it loads it's own bios, but it has almost crippled Window's ability to set up hardware. It took me an eternity just to get it working well enough to play a game in Windows. Plus, my mainboard is not made anymore so I'm screwed.
With DeCSS, everything happens behind the scenes. But with css-auth, you get to see what really happens. The first step is to use tstdvd to get the disk key and title keys. The keys are then used to unlock the disk before you actually transfer data from the dvd. The actual decryption is done from another program, css-cat.
I don't have a dxr2. And a lot of other people don't either. We need a dvd player that will run on a variety of hardware. OMS will do this, but it has a long way to go.
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Considering how many times I've seen programs that do just that being struck down by the DMCA because they "steal intellectual property," (DeCSS, StreamBox, etc) it's obvious that it is a meaningless piece of law. It's so much lipservice, just like the claims of Hollywood that they support fair use, while at the same time doing everything in their power to destroy it.
This is really starting to piss me off. How many times have I seen company whine that someone or something is "stealing" their intellectual property (which is quite impossible to do anyway), just because we are trying to find out how it fucking works and nothing more. If learning is a crime, then we are headed straight for another Dark Ages. </rant>
That's really sad, considering all it takes is the ability to count! :)
My biggest gripe about consoles, and the reason that I do not own one, is that when you buy a game for one that is all you get. Many PC games have huge modding communities with independantly-created models, characters, and even add-on games--not to mention the mods. To what extent will the Indrema support mods for those few games with Linux support, if at all?
Because Joe Windows-user isn't going to be able to set up an MTA on his home box, even if there is one available for Windows... I dunno. Let them pay money for a program to do this. Ignorance is expensive.
So use GPG instead, it isn't susceptible to the PGP hack. And create a 4096-bit key if you're really paranoid.
I have some problems with the Red Hat installer. Have you ever tried choosing individual packages? MY GOD is that a pain--you have to double click every single package. And when you tell it to choose packages, it leaves out a lot of important ones deselected by default--like, oh, egcs! Whenever I find myself installing RedHat, I just tell it to use the textmode installer, never had any complaints about that one.
Last I checked, http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/ isn't charging admission. Books are simply far more useful to some people. I think compiling and maintaining this thing is more difficult than you give it credit for. And anyway, ESR has certainly made the File far more accessible than JARGON.TXT ever was. Is that bad?
And, funny thing, the location for downloading it for free doesn't seem to be on the cover either. ESR pissed off a LOT of people when he did that.
Y'know, I think those people would be pissed off at him no matter what he does. I don't get it, but they seem to like picking on him for some reason.
That has already been done, and it's called serpent. You can find more information about it here.
By the way, I think your "really big monitors set really high facing the door" idea has a serious flaw: what if someone pulled up goatse.cx and walked off, in order to intentionally cause trouble? That could be a problem.
But it's not rampant! That's another point against censorware in libraries; I believe in Jamie's previous writings on this, he pointed out that there have been six cases--ever--of someone being asked to leave based on their web browsing, and only one of those involved porn. I think censorware advocates should prove that it's a freaking problem before they lobby damaging laws to combat it.
This is not exactly true. We want the right to raise our children according to our religion without interference. You are equally as free to teach your children however you may wish. At its core, the Christian religion does not force anybody to do anything, it is completely voluntary. That is the point. However, every now and then someone or a group of people get a bit overzealous and try to push their beliefs on others. This is not unique to Christians for sure. I can't remember how many textbooks I've seen that teach Evolution as fact, and make no mention of Creation. Millions of school children are taught under these principals without any regard as to whether they (or their parents for that matter) agree. Personally, I don't think either should be taught as fact, merely presented as different views and it should be up to the child which one they believe in if any. The same goes for gay agenda--they specificially target children so that they grow up thinking being gay is fine. There is immense pressure to go along with this. I don't agree, and I shouldn't have this view pushed on me or my (hypothetical :) children. It is a matter of opinion. Or rather, you are free to have you're own opinion.
The pro-filter crowd are not a bunch of consiratorial censors trying to take away freedom of information; they're simply a bunch of concerned parents who have been misguided by the hollow claims of filter companies. The filter companies are the real problem--they make all these wild claims about blocking "99.9%" of all porn on the net, when that is obviously untrue. The parents just don't know any better.
I think Jamie's first stint in Holland proves this--when he held a meeting and actually educated people about censoreware, they ended up voting it out of the libaries.
Now, don't go blaming Christians as a whole about this. Every group of people falls into this at some point. In fact, conservative sites have fallen victim just as much as gay sites have to this sort of thing.
You're putting "Heather has two mommies" in the same category as "Huckleberry Finn" and "Fahenheit 451"?
What is offensive is a very subjective thing. It's also largely cultural. I'm sure you're example is a good one. The problem is though, that although there is nothing wrong with nudity per se, the Western culture closely associates nudity with sexuality. I think that is why so many people are perhaps a bit rediculous about nudity. It's not the nudity itself, it's the association.
And in other situations, it probably is hypocrasy. Or bad judgment. Or misinformation. Nobody's perfect, and Christians are certainly no exception.
Not at all. Christians are some of the firmest advocates of parental rights. You're right about government, and Christians are some of the first targets they hassle. Recently the government tried to separate a girl from her parents simply because they were trying to give her a Christian upbringing. This is an extreme example, but it won't be any rarer as time goes by. Social workers have all sorts of ideas on how you should be raising your own children.
This little "blob of flesh" has a beating heart and functioning brain. Tell me, at what point does it magically become a person?
What the hell are you talking about? No Christian will ever tell you that the human body, God's creation, is inheritly sinful. We're not talking about tasteful protrayals of the human body, we're talking about hardcore porn. Big difference.
Interesting thought, but I think you have to at least intend to sell something in order to get hosted by them. What would be cooler is if they used Napster to distribute GiS. Rob actually brought this up last episode; Napster would be a great form of distribution. What do you say, guys? Prove there's a legitimate use for filesharing!
Hmm... utilizing zcat perhaps? This would be a cool weekend project. Too bad I don't know how to code for zlib...
Of course we want a free version. LinDVD will likely make a lot of money by serving the same niche commercial software always does--to tide us over until the free version is ready.
The NetStream2000 is a high-end MPEG streaming card, not something most people will be able to afford. Also, it is labeled a "corporate or institutional product only," in other words, regular consumers are out of luck even if they do have the money. They released Linux drivers because this card is for server streaming and stuff like that. Besides, a lot of us already have cards and are not about to shell out more money for another one.
It's not a user error. My bios apparently has developed a problem--Linux doesn't care, because I think it loads it's own bios, but it has almost crippled Window's ability to set up hardware. It took me an eternity just to get it working well enough to play a game in Windows. Plus, my mainboard is not made anymore so I'm screwed.
With DeCSS, everything happens behind the scenes. But with css-auth, you get to see what really happens. The first step is to use tstdvd to get the disk key and title keys. The keys are then used to unlock the disk before you actually transfer data from the dvd. The actual decryption is done from another program, css-cat.
I don't have a dxr2. And a lot of other people don't either. We need a dvd player that will run on a variety of hardware. OMS will do this, but it has a long way to go.