As long as people buy into the modern advertising myth that happiness is found in the neverending pursuit of More Stuff(tm) they will be slaves to the corporate whim.
No bar patron would go to a bar that made them wait while their personal data were entered by hand into a computer system...
Yet millions of people still shop a Radio Shack when they do exactly that. What makes you think they'll hold bars to a higher standard than electronics stores?
But applying this law to proxies in another state is regulation of interstate trade, a power specifically reserved for the federal government. This part (if it is in the law) would probably be declared unconstitutional on appeal.
If the proxy is outside the USA, then the situation gets cloudier. I suppose that the US government could ask for the proxy owner to be extradited to the US.
IANALBILTPOOTI - I am not a lawyer, but I like to play one on the internet.
did you **READ** the part between the parentheses? Yes, it will be applied internationally, just like it was in the DeCSS case. Sad, but true; your government is less powerful than the MPAA. Either choose leaders for your country who will grow a spine, or roll over and allow the DMCA to become de facto international law.
2 The US had a Revolution because of legislation and taxation without representation. "No Taxation without representation" again King George (?)
Yes, that was back when Americans had balls. Now we're too busy watching "Jerry Springer" to care about the loss of a few inalienable rights here and there.
3 The rest of the world has no recourse against stupid laws comming from America
Not as long as you allow your governments to be pushed around by ours.
4 Revolution ??
Hmmm... your average citizen (the one who owns any weapons at all) has a single-shot rifle, or maybe a shotgun; the US government has heavy machineguns, tanks, aircraft, rockets, and The Bomb. It would be a short revolution:(
The *consumers* don't *have* to purchase the PC's. They will if they want to run WindowsZR, Office2008, MacOS XII, the latest version of Photoshop, etc. They'll all be DRM-protected. Or if they want to play HD-DVDs, which will of course require the computer to authenticate itself with MPAA.com to get the the CSS+ key.
someone, somewhere, will buy one just to hack it and summarily post a patch to every known OS Already taken care of, thanks to the DMCA. The patch author will go to jail (yes, even if (s)he lives in a sane country. Norweigan citizenship didn't help the DeCSS guy much, did it), the patch will become contraband,
Plus, they don't have control over the hundreds of millions of PC's that already exist. They don't have to. Intel and Microsoft will make sure they're too obsolete to do anything useful at all in 5-10 years.
Then why doesn't Apple spell it "MacOS 10"? "X" is an "ecks", not a "ten" to us English-speaking folk. If we were discussing a Roman operating system, I might agree with you, but in the US, "X" is a letter, not a number!
I mean, if Apple released an operating system calles "MacOS +" everyone would call is "mac oh ess plus", not "mac oh ess ten" even though "+" is the Japanese character for 10.
I say, as long as it says "OS X" on the box, we can call it "oh ess ecks". The hell with what Steve Jobs calls it, what does he know about Macs anyway;-)
I think the inherent weakness is in the asymmetric bandwidth caps on DSL and cable modems, not a fundamental flaw in TCP/IP. If you have more than one or two people leeching mp3s from you at a time, morpheus be using up all your outgoing bandwidth almost all the time, leaving no room for counterstike packets.
...who doesn't understand the fascination with "themes"?
Ok, I tried to write a theme-defense article, but I didn't think the argument of making computers less butt-ugly to use would sway you, so I'll tyr this approach...
...who doesn't understand this mania for nice-looking cars?
My car is for one purpuse, it gets me from point a to point b in some semblance of safety and comfort. I drive a 20-year-old beige Volvo with one fender spray-painted the wrong shade, and it works just fine! Why should I waste my money on rounded fenders, bumpers that match the body, and leather seats? If I want sculpture, I'll put a statue in my apartment, that way it doesn't get bird shit on it like the car does.
Can someone explain this mania for making cars look like tike something other than steel shoe-boxes please?
The success or failure of open source all depend on companies supporting it.
Bullshit
Open Source existed long before the.com boom and the hype over all things linux. It won't die now because the big corporations start pulling out their funding. You need to realize that the whole OS/FS development is not motivated by money, it's motivated by the desire to make something better that what M$,Apple, and IBM are putting out. I know it's hard for some people to comprehend, but there are other reasons for writing software than immediate financial gain.
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As long as freeDOS supports his serial ports, it should be fine. There's a very limited amount of i/o sneakiness you can put into a serial device compared to say, a CD-ROM controller.
There are different level of multitaksing.
Cooperative multitasking - each process has to willingly give up the CPU, thus one program can bog down the whole machine. Older MacOS incarnations are like this
Preemptive multitasking - the kernel and high-priority user tasks can preempt userspace tasks, and force them to give up control of the CPU. Linux < 2.5.3 is like this (I believe Win9x and MacOSX are too)
Preemptable kernel - High priority user tasks can preempt the kernel as well as each other. Net result - lower latency I/O, possible reduced throughput due to more CPU overhead. QNX, some other commercial Unices, and WinNT/2k are here
I remember using windows 2.something on a friend's computer. I never had a copy, our PS/2 used a homemade set of DOS menus (written in QuickBasic) until windows 3.0 came out.
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Why hasn't the above post been moderated to +5 insightful?
Because the moderators are all browsing at +2, highest scores first.
As long as people buy into the modern advertising myth that happiness is found in the neverending pursuit of More Stuff(tm) they will be slaves to the corporate whim.
man ssh
and frankly, I'm not all that upset that people can't buy or own powerful weapons.
You will be, once the Aus-DMCA gets passed down there. If guns are outlawed, only the government, Rupert Murdoch, and AOLTimeWarner will have guns...
No bar patron would go to a bar that made them wait while their personal data were entered by hand into a computer system...
Yet millions of people still shop a Radio Shack when they do exactly that. What makes you think they'll hold bars to a higher standard than electronics stores?
But a leaner's permit isn't ID. At least here in Texas, it's just a scrap of paper with you name and date of birth, but no picture.
But applying this law to proxies in another state is regulation of interstate trade, a power specifically reserved for the federal government. This part (if it is in the law) would probably be declared unconstitutional on appeal.
If the proxy is outside the USA, then the situation gets cloudier. I suppose that the US government could ask for the proxy owner to be extradited to the US.
IANALBILTPOOTI - I am not a lawyer, but I like to play one on the internet.
Of course, they *can* grant JonKatz the right to reprint them in a book. hypocrisy? nah..
Actually, the newton is playing mp3s!
See: MAD for the Newton and the corresponding iTunes plugin.
1 US Law is becomming International Law ?
:(
did you **READ** the part between the parentheses? Yes, it will be applied internationally, just like it was in the DeCSS case. Sad, but true; your government is less powerful than the MPAA. Either choose leaders for your country who will grow a spine, or roll over and allow the DMCA to become de facto international law.
2 The US had a Revolution because of legislation and taxation without representation. "No Taxation without representation" again King George (?)
Yes, that was back when Americans had balls. Now we're too busy watching "Jerry Springer" to care about the loss of a few inalienable rights here and there.
3 The rest of the world has no recourse against stupid laws comming from America
Not as long as you allow your governments to be pushed around by ours.
4 Revolution ??
Hmmm... your average citizen (the one who owns any weapons at all) has a single-shot rifle, or maybe a shotgun; the US government has heavy machineguns, tanks, aircraft, rockets, and The Bomb. It would be a short revolution
Why is it the guy with a 50ms ping is always the least skilled?
:-)
That's your ego's security blanket, dialup boy.
It hurts to admit someone's better than you, so you delude yourself that his(her) score is all because of ping time and not mad skillz.
The *consumers* don't *have* to purchase the PC's.
They will if they want to run WindowsZR, Office2008, MacOS XII, the latest version of Photoshop, etc. They'll all be DRM-protected. Or if they want to play HD-DVDs, which will of course require the computer to authenticate itself with MPAA.com to get the the CSS+ key.
someone, somewhere, will buy one just to hack it and summarily post a patch to every known OS
Already taken care of, thanks to the DMCA. The patch author will go to jail (yes, even if (s)he lives in a sane country. Norweigan citizenship didn't help the DeCSS guy much, did it), the patch will become contraband,
Plus, they don't have control over the hundreds of millions of PC's that already exist.
They don't have to. Intel and Microsoft will make sure they're too obsolete to do anything useful at all in 5-10 years.
Microsoft considered them a contender, they even said so in court! And you know MS lawyers would never lie to a judge :-)
I think the only people who ever said Be was a serious competitor to Windows were the ones trying to prove Windows wasn't a monopoly.
No, according to a lot of posters on Mac messageboards it's OS X 10.1 or 10.1.1 (never seen that on anything official, but people do say it)
:)
Now I wonder how the hell my post got modded insightful. Funny I could understand maybe, but it's really not insightful.
Current polymers for microfilm last for 500 years under appropriate storage conditions; nothing else even comes close.
what about paper?
The origial Domesday book was written in 1088 and is still legible. That's quite a bit longer than 500 years.
Then why doesn't Apple spell it "MacOS 10"?
;-)
"X" is an "ecks", not a "ten" to us English-speaking folk. If we were discussing a Roman operating system, I might agree with you, but in the US, "X" is a letter, not a number!
I mean, if Apple released an operating system calles "MacOS +" everyone would call is "mac oh ess plus", not "mac oh ess ten" even though "+" is the Japanese character for 10.
I say, as long as it says "OS X" on the box, we can call it "oh ess ecks". The hell with what Steve Jobs calls it, what does he know about Macs anyway
Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist..."he that is not with me is against me." - George Orwell
I wonder if Orwell appreciated the irony of trying to transmute a political opinion to fact by putting the word "objectively" in it.
I think the inherent weakness is in the asymmetric bandwidth caps on DSL and cable modems, not a fundamental flaw in TCP/IP. If you have more than one or two people leeching mp3s from you at a time, morpheus be using up all your outgoing bandwidth almost all the time, leaving no room for counterstike packets.
People bitch about the DMCA but if Blizzard comes out with a must have game, will you go out and buy it anyway ?
No.
Warcraft3 looks like a "must have game", but I just sent Blizzard a nasty email promising not to buy it. I intend to stand by that.
...who doesn't understand the fascination with "themes"?
Ok, I tried to write a theme-defense article, but I didn't think the argument of making computers less butt-ugly to use would sway you, so I'll tyr this approach...
...who doesn't understand this mania for nice-looking cars?
My car is for one purpuse, it gets me from point a to point b in some semblance of safety and comfort. I drive a 20-year-old beige Volvo with one fender spray-painted the wrong shade, and it works just fine! Why should I waste my money on rounded fenders, bumpers that match the body, and leather seats? If I want sculpture, I'll put a statue in my apartment, that way it doesn't get bird shit on it like the car does.
Can someone explain this mania for making cars look like tike something other than steel shoe-boxes please?
The success or failure of open source all depend on companies supporting it. Bullshit Open Source existed long before the .com boom and the hype over all things linux. It won't die now because the big corporations start pulling out their funding. You need to realize that the whole OS/FS development is not motivated by money, it's motivated by the desire to make something better that what M$,Apple, and IBM are putting out. I know it's hard for some people to comprehend, but there are other reasons for writing software than immediate financial gain.
As long as freeDOS supports his serial ports, it should be fine. There's a very limited amount of i/o sneakiness you can put into a serial device compared to say, a CD-ROM controller.
There are different level of multitaksing.
Cooperative multitasking - each process has to willingly give up the CPU, thus one program can bog down the whole machine. Older MacOS incarnations are like this
Preemptive multitasking - the kernel and high-priority user tasks can preempt userspace tasks, and force them to give up control of the CPU. Linux < 2.5.3 is like this (I believe Win9x and MacOSX are too)
Preemptable kernel - High priority user tasks can preempt the kernel as well as each other. Net result - lower latency I/O, possible reduced throughput due to more CPU overhead. QNX, some other commercial Unices, and WinNT/2k are here
I remember using windows 2.something on a friend's computer. I never had a copy, our PS/2 used a homemade set of DOS menus (written in QuickBasic) until windows 3.0 came out.
"Creates jobs" implies that jobs wouldn't exist without someone owning something.
That's simply not true, although it is fundamental to the capitalist faith.
umm... Proof please?
Can you give an example situation where it would benefit a person to work if he could not own the fruits of that labor?