Obviously what he meant was that most modern laptops do not have potentiometers, but software volume controls. But then again, why am I feeding an AC troll?
See this CD you bought? You own it. You can make backups of it. You can lend it to a friend. You can make mix CDs for your car. You can make copies for any MP3 player you buy. If your car/mp3 player/etc./and/or CD gets stolen, you can make another MP3 and you can listen to your backup. If you get sick of it you can sell it to someone else who will appreciate it.
See this Napster/Sony/Microsoft/FooDRM media file you "bought?" You do not own it. You cannot make backups. If your PC/Phone/MP3 player dies, so does your music. You cannot lend it to a friend. You cannot make mix CDs for your car. If you upgrade your MP3 player, you may have to "buy" it again. If your MP3 player/PC/etc. is stolen or dies, you also lose your music. If you get sick of the DRM'd music you "bought" you cannot resell it to someone else who will appreciate it. You "bought" nothing.
As the article notes, you can't really un-ring the bell of publishing something online, which is exactly what HA wanted to do. Obeying robots.txt files is voluntary, after all, and if the company didn't want the information online, they shouldn't have put it there in the first place."
Wrong, wrong, wrong. archive.org explicitly tells you that if you want your content removed from their index, that you should modify your robots.txt and re-submit your site, and when their bot reads your robots.txt and sees the appropriate directives, your content will be dropped from the index. See:
Let's review the text here, just in case someone from archive.org scurries to change it:
Addendum: An Example Implementation of Robots.txt-based Removal Policy at the Internet Archive
To remove a site from the Wayback Machine, place a robots.txt file at the top level of your site (e.g. www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt) and then submit your site below.
The robots.txt file will do two things:
1. It will remove all documents from your domain from the Wayback Machine.
2. It will tell the Internet Archives crawler not to crawl your site in the future.
To exclude the Internet Archive's crawler (and remove documents from the Wayback Machine) while allowing all other robots to crawl your site, your robots.txt file should say:
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /
Robots.txt is the most widely used method for controlling the behavior of automated robots on your site (all major robots, including those of Google, Alta Vista, etc. respect these exclusions). It can be used to block access to the whole domain, or any file or directory within. There are a large number of resources for webmasters and site owners describing this method and how to use it. Here are a few:
The robots.txt file must be placed at the root of your domain (www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt). If you cannot put a robots.txt file up, submit a request to wayback2@archive.org.
By not honoring those directives, are they not engaging in both copyright infringement and fraud?
It just HAS to be a joke. They can't really be considering annoying their users in this way, right?
I suppose the system will REQUIRE the sound file, and it must be a signed/DRMed WMA10 file too, right? And ONLY Microsoft-signed sounds (e.g., Vista Plus! pack or whatever comes out alongside the OS next year) will be "allowed" to replace the default sound?
Meh. I won't be affected. When I have to run Windows (for legacy hardware not supported by Linux) it's Win98SE or Win2K, and I can customize SuSE and kubuntu linux to my heart's content. Fuck Windows Vista and the DRM fest and locked-down GUI that will come with it. Monad, you say? I already have that; it's called bash.
Wonder where you got that quip from. . . oh right, it was my signature (word for word) for several weeks.;)
ANYWAY, on a related note:
Employees were given 30 minutes to clean out their desks and leave the building. Employees were informed that if they had questions, they would be allowed to send their questions in e-mail. (from the wikipedia article)
I guess it's now:
"You've got questions? Send us an email instead. Better yet, don't bother asking us."
Radio Shack had to close a bunch of stores because they alienated their core customer (folks who need electronic components, oddball gadgets, tools, etc.) and tried to become a mini-but-high-proced Circuit City botique carrying only low-end crap components priced at mid-range prices, not even the mid-range components you can get at Circuit City or Best Buy.
I'll never buy a case that comes with it's own power supply unless it is an Antec case.
There are other good brands. On the high end side, there is SuperMicro. On the low, low end side, Foxconn isn't all that bad. If you need an inexpensive-but-not-totally-crappy power supply, Enhanced is okay. I wouldn't try running 500W (average draw) worth of equipment off of one of their 500W power supplies, but it's not going to be like MGE power supplies (and cases equipped with power supplies) which FRY if you try running 450W worth of equipment off of a 550W power supply, when the previous power supply was an old, tired Sparkle 250W power supply which stood up to the abuse for several years before finally flaking out.
These are the ONLY brand ATX or EPS power supplies I buy any more:
- Antec
- Mad Dog (yep, that CompUSA brand)
- SuperMicro
- Sparkle
- Enhance
Here is a rule of thumb: the heavier the power supply, the better quality it is. When the MGE power supplies started dying, I removed them and was shocked at how light they are. Opened them up, and there's fewer than half as many transistors as you'd find in other power supplies, and those are clamped to undersized heatsinks. No wonder they cook themselves - they are either a) engaging in fraud by lying about power ratings b) running the components at or over spec, or c) all of the above. Note that quality is not based on the weight, but on the design of the circuit, but in general if you have better transformers, more transistors, larger heat sinks, etc. the unit will be heavier.
Dunno about that, when my Abit VP6 gave up the ghost (sent it back for RMA once for bad caps, they put the same fugging brand back in as replacements!) not only did it take out the power supply with it, but it put on a fantastic light show as well. Yep, it was arcing like mad, and by the time I managed to pull the machine out from under the desk and open up the case, the motherboard had caught fire. Surprisingly, all the other components (video cards, SCSI card, all the drives, sound card, etc.) all survived, and only minor corruption on the/home HDD, and reiserFSCK came to the rescue on that.
Why the hell is obvious humor in the form of irony modded down as troll? That should be either +5 Funny or +5 Insightful (depending on whether you view it as a joke, or view it as Exhibit A as to why simply having an account does not deter misbehaving)
Stop wasting mod points. Every time you spend a mod point modding a post down, God kills a kitten. Or something.
Trust Digital found no evidence thieves or corporate spies are routinely buying used phones to mine them for secrets, Magliato said. "I don't think the bad guys have figured this out yet."
Uh, an AP news release on CNN.com. Did you think this wouldn't make it out at the time of the interview? Idiot. Expect prices on used phones to spike a bit on feeBay over the next few days. The bad guys, even the technophobic lazy slobs, all know now, thanks to you. Thanks, guys!
If I take a piece of code, make it better, return that change to the OSS community, I still can't use it in my software without make it GPL as well. So now that leaves ME at a disadvantage because there is no proportionality to the give and take.
Really!
If you were to take OpenOffice, make some changes to it, call it "FooWare XP" and charge $325/seat for it after having maybe fixed a couple of bugs, you'd resent contributing those changes back to the original project? You say that "lacks proportionality?" It seems to me that if you were to do exactly that, a minimum of several million dollars worth of development time has been GIVEN to you for free, and your bug fixes might be worth several hundred dollars worth of development time. Actually, I agree with that statement; your not wanting to play by the rules results in a lack of proportionality; you are not contributing your fair share back in exchange for millions of dollars worth of work. Shame on you.
Doesn't the interoperability clause in the DMCA allow for bypassing DRM for the express purpose of interoperability? Hmm, let's take a look:
[...]
The six additional exceptions are as follows:
[...]
2. Reverse engineering (section 1201(f)). This exception permits circumvention, and the development of technological means for such circumvention, by a person who has lawfully obtained a right to use a copy of a computer program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing elements of the program necessary to achieve interoperability with other programs, to the extent that such acts are permitted under copyright law.
[...]
However, much like the Fair Use clause in copyright law, the proponents of DMCA invariably choose to overlook this clause in the DMCA. DVD Jon is in the clear when it comes to the DMCA because of this clause, only it seems that no cases have been defended citing this clause. I do not worry at ALL about ripping DVDs for use on my PocketPC and posting about it on here because that clause specifically allows me to use DeCSS to bypass DRM for the purpose of interoperability with other software (Windows media Player on PocketPC 2000), and it allows me to use DeCSS (and derivatives) to view DRMed video on alternate software such as Linux. Note that it does NOT allow me to bypass DRM for the purpose of violating copyright law, but making backups and transcoding and/or timeshifting (e.g., bypassing HDCP when I buy an HDTV) are all specifically excepted from liability/prosecution under the DMCA.
You're obviously not a Futurama fan, and as such, we suspect you are also not a fan of Monty Python. Sir, we require that you turn in your/. membership card, since you are obviously not a geek. May I suggest you google for "coed naked mud wrestling" or something else which will provide you with entertainment more to your taste?
Agreed; the only things really deserving modding down are obfuscated goatse links and racist pricks, but even then, isn't the mod point better spent modding up a great post elsewhere?
Whoosh. That was the whole point of my post (the government looking at citizens as their subjects rather than considering themselves to be servants of the people), but it went right over your head.;)
Think about it though; if, in your target market, 10% of users are Linux and OS X users, and over the lifetime of your product you expect that the market will support $300mil worth of your wiz-bang widgets, isn't it worth that $30mil to make the product cross-platform to begin with? Why cut out 10% of the market? For legacy products, sure, I can see logistic issues in porting code (introducing new defects, etc.) but where many of Adobe's products were born on Unix or were ported to Unix back in 1.x versions, and the bulk of the code as a result is not platform-dependent, why not retain or attract that 10% of the market?
Just keep hounding Adobe with requests for Linux versions of all of their products. They will eventually realize it's wise to cater to a growing market. If they continue to ignore Linux, they risk being rendered irrelevant, especially with Xara, Inkscape, krita, and the gimp all quickly maturing. I'm sure that alternatives to Adobe's flash player aren't far off if Adobe continues to drop the ball. I've read that the so-called "lead engineer behind Adobe's upcoming Flash Player 9 for Linux" is the ONLY engineer assigned to the upcoming Flash Player 9 for Linux - I have NO idea if it's true (but the thing is so late I suspect it is) but if it is, that's pretty sad. We'll end up getting the Flash Player 9 for Linux right around the time that Flash 10 for everything else has alreaqdy shipped.
If citzens can't access it, you know, the PEOPLE in the government of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE, cannot access it, then the people should not have to pay for it. Please either make it accessible to all citizens, DROP it from the budget and CUT taxes accordingly, or risk citizens' waking up to the importance of voting based on character and principles rather than "gee, he's so cute" or "I'm a Democrat/Republican/etc. so that is how I vote."
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How do I answer it? The way that Philips answered that: It is not a CD and should not be advertised/labeled/promoted as such.
More likely (by then): OpenOffice.org Impress.
Obviously what he meant was that most modern laptops do not have potentiometers, but software volume controls. But then again, why am I feeding an AC troll?
See this CD you bought? You own it. You can make backups of it. You can lend it to a friend. You can make mix CDs for your car. You can make copies for any MP3 player you buy. If your car/mp3 player/etc./and/or CD gets stolen, you can make another MP3 and you can listen to your backup. If you get sick of it you can sell it to someone else who will appreciate it.
See this Napster/Sony/Microsoft/FooDRM media file you "bought?" You do not own it. You cannot make backups. If your PC/Phone/MP3 player dies, so does your music. You cannot lend it to a friend. You cannot make mix CDs for your car. If you upgrade your MP3 player, you may have to "buy" it again. If your MP3 player/PC/etc. is stolen or dies, you also lose your music. If you get sick of the DRM'd music you "bought" you cannot resell it to someone else who will appreciate it. You "bought" nothing.
Some people still use only two-button mice (and many OS X users still use one-button mice). You insensitive clod.
In soviet russia, middle button clicks you. or something.
It'll be nice to be able to dump explorer.exe in favor of kwin for Win2K and WinXP.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. archive.org explicitly tells you that if you want your content removed from their index, that you should modify your robots.txt and re-submit your site, and when their bot reads your robots.txt and sees the appropriate directives, your content will be dropped from the index. See:
http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#2
http://web.archive.org/web/20050305142910/http://
Let's review the text here, just in case someone from archive.org scurries to change it:
Addendum: An Example Implementation of Robots.txt-based Removal Policy at the Internet Archive
By not honoring those directives, are they not engaging in both copyright infringement and fraud?
It just HAS to be a joke. They can't really be considering annoying their users in this way, right?
I suppose the system will REQUIRE the sound file, and it must be a signed/DRMed WMA10 file too, right? And ONLY Microsoft-signed sounds (e.g., Vista Plus! pack or whatever comes out alongside the OS next year) will be "allowed" to replace the default sound?
Meh. I won't be affected. When I have to run Windows (for legacy hardware not supported by Linux) it's Win98SE or Win2K, and I can customize SuSE and kubuntu linux to my heart's content. Fuck Windows Vista and the DRM fest and locked-down GUI that will come with it. Monad, you say? I already have that; it's called bash.
ANYWAY, on a related note:
I guess it's now:
"You've got questions? Send us an email instead. Better yet, don't bother asking us."
No.
Radio Shack had to close a bunch of stores because they alienated their core customer (folks who need electronic components, oddball gadgets, tools, etc.) and tried to become a mini-but-high-proced Circuit City botique carrying only low-end crap components priced at mid-range prices, not even the mid-range components you can get at Circuit City or Best Buy.
There are other good brands. On the high end side, there is SuperMicro. On the low, low end side, Foxconn isn't all that bad. If you need an inexpensive-but-not-totally-crappy power supply, Enhanced is okay. I wouldn't try running 500W (average draw) worth of equipment off of one of their 500W power supplies, but it's not going to be like MGE power supplies (and cases equipped with power supplies) which FRY if you try running 450W worth of equipment off of a 550W power supply, when the previous power supply was an old, tired Sparkle 250W power supply which stood up to the abuse for several years before finally flaking out.
These are the ONLY brand ATX or EPS power supplies I buy any more:
- Antec
- Mad Dog (yep, that CompUSA brand)
- SuperMicro
- Sparkle
- Enhance
Here is a rule of thumb: the heavier the power supply, the better quality it is. When the MGE power supplies started dying, I removed them and was shocked at how light they are. Opened them up, and there's fewer than half as many transistors as you'd find in other power supplies, and those are clamped to undersized heatsinks. No wonder they cook themselves - they are either a) engaging in fraud by lying about power ratings b) running the components at or over spec, or c) all of the above. Note that quality is not based on the weight, but on the design of the circuit, but in general if you have better transformers, more transistors, larger heat sinks, etc. the unit will be heavier.
Dunno about that, when my Abit VP6 gave up the ghost (sent it back for RMA once for bad caps, they put the same fugging brand back in as replacements!) not only did it take out the power supply with it, but it put on a fantastic light show as well. Yep, it was arcing like mad, and by the time I managed to pull the machine out from under the desk and open up the case, the motherboard had caught fire. Surprisingly, all the other components (video cards, SCSI card, all the drives, sound card, etc.) all survived, and only minor corruption on the /home HDD, and reiserFSCK came to the rescue on that.
Why, did the manatees finally quit?
Why the hell is obvious humor in the form of irony modded down as troll? That should be either +5 Funny or +5 Insightful (depending on whether you view it as a joke, or view it as Exhibit A as to why simply having an account does not deter misbehaving)
Stop wasting mod points. Every time you spend a mod point modding a post down, God kills a kitten. Or something.
Uh, an AP news release on CNN.com. Did you think this wouldn't make it out at the time of the interview? Idiot. Expect prices on used phones to spike a bit on feeBay over the next few days. The bad guys, even the technophobic lazy slobs, all know now, thanks to you. Thanks, guys!
They need a lawyer and a judge who bothered to actually READ the DMCA.
Really!
If you were to take OpenOffice, make some changes to it, call it "FooWare XP" and charge $325/seat for it after having maybe fixed a couple of bugs, you'd resent contributing those changes back to the original project? You say that "lacks proportionality?" It seems to me that if you were to do exactly that, a minimum of several million dollars worth of development time has been GIVEN to you for free, and your bug fixes might be worth several hundred dollars worth of development time. Actually, I agree with that statement; your not wanting to play by the rules results in a lack of proportionality; you are not contributing your fair share back in exchange for millions of dollars worth of work. Shame on you.
However, much like the Fair Use clause in copyright law, the proponents of DMCA invariably choose to overlook this clause in the DMCA. DVD Jon is in the clear when it comes to the DMCA because of this clause, only it seems that no cases have been defended citing this clause. I do not worry at ALL about ripping DVDs for use on my PocketPC and posting about it on here because that clause specifically allows me to use DeCSS to bypass DRM for the purpose of interoperability with other software (Windows media Player on PocketPC 2000), and it allows me to use DeCSS (and derivatives) to view DRMed video on alternate software such as Linux. Note that it does NOT allow me to bypass DRM for the purpose of violating copyright law, but making backups and transcoding and/or timeshifting (e.g., bypassing HDCP when I buy an HDTV) are all specifically excepted from liability/prosecution under the DMCA.
Oh, so you must be familiar with this one as well?
I'm sorry, it had to be done.
You're obviously not a Futurama fan, and as such, we suspect you are also not a fan of Monty Python. Sir, we require that you turn in your /. membership card, since you are obviously not a geek. May I suggest you google for "coed naked mud wrestling" or something else which will provide you with entertainment more to your taste?
Agreed; the only things really deserving modding down are obfuscated goatse links and racist pricks, but even then, isn't the mod point better spent modding up a great post elsewhere?
Whoosh. That was the whole point of my post (the government looking at citizens as their subjects rather than considering themselves to be servants of the people), but it went right over your head. ;)
Think about it though; if, in your target market, 10% of users are Linux and OS X users, and over the lifetime of your product you expect that the market will support $300mil worth of your wiz-bang widgets, isn't it worth that $30mil to make the product cross-platform to begin with? Why cut out 10% of the market? For legacy products, sure, I can see logistic issues in porting code (introducing new defects, etc.) but where many of Adobe's products were born on Unix or were ported to Unix back in 1.x versions, and the bulk of the code as a result is not platform-dependent, why not retain or attract that 10% of the market?
Just keep hounding Adobe with requests for Linux versions of all of their products. They will eventually realize it's wise to cater to a growing market. If they continue to ignore Linux, they risk being rendered irrelevant, especially with Xara, Inkscape, krita, and the gimp all quickly maturing. I'm sure that alternatives to Adobe's flash player aren't far off if Adobe continues to drop the ball. I've read that the so-called "lead engineer behind Adobe's upcoming Flash Player 9 for Linux" is the ONLY engineer assigned to the upcoming Flash Player 9 for Linux - I have NO idea if it's true (but the thing is so late I suspect it is) but if it is, that's pretty sad. We'll end up getting the Flash Player 9 for Linux right around the time that Flash 10 for everything else has alreaqdy shipped.
If citzens can't access it, you know, the PEOPLE in the government of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE, cannot access it, then the people should not have to pay for it. Please either make it accessible to all citizens, DROP it from the budget and CUT taxes accordingly, or risk citizens' waking up to the importance of voting based on character and principles rather than "gee, he's so cute" or "I'm a Democrat/Republican/etc. so that is how I vote."