From the article:
As in earlier tests by BMG and SunnComm, the copy protection on the Velvet Revolver disc can be simply disabled by pushing the "Shift" key on a computer while the CD is loading, which blocks the SunnComm software from being installed.
To copy the CD, all you have to do is friggin' press shift??!? Are they serious? Why should I be worried about this? Am I missing something? Is this really, really that lame?
The article is light on details as to exactly WHAT this CD is. Just a standard music CD with a data track with software that loads upon Window$ reading of autorun.inf?
I guess another, more serious question to ask is: If I press shift and copy the files, have I violated the DMCA? Just wonderin'
Where on earth is child porn legal, such that these sites can't be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law?
In Japan, pornography is defined as the showing of pubic hair, so showing images of young children naked is not considered porn.
Even "abuse" has different definitions. I've seen a (mainstream) Japanese movie where a mother started grabbing her son's privates, after he was running around naked playing a game of tag with her. In the context of the movie it made sense, but the scene was still sexual in nature and it shocked me, and I'm not a prude at all.
The worst part is that manufacturers frequently change the materials and manufacturing methods without notifying users.... This renders the frequently heard advice to buy name-brand discs for maximum longevity fairly moot, he says.
Why? I buy name brand CDRs because I trust Maxell and Sony more than Joe's Blanks and the cost is not that much higher. If I'm wrong about that, fine, but this quote from the article doesn't say anything that would counter that long-held name-brand belief.
Just because manufacturers change their methods, doesn't mean the quality control goes away (again, I'm assuming it's there in the first place). It just means it's harder to test lifetime endurance.
The article - which I read most of - isn't saying that people in the US are getting stupider. It says that people outside of the US is getting smarter...
I wouldn't really read it that way. I would say rather that the people outside the US are no longer seeing the US as the only place to be to get science done. India & China are becoming places to get research done, so the scientists are staying home after university. In other words, the US is no longer THE cool place to be in terms of research, the rest of the world has caught up.
Is this what you meant when you said that people outside the US are "getting smarter"?
Okay - this is ridiculous. The graphs cover 20 years - 1983-2003. Bush has been in office for ~3 years. Explain again how this is his fault...??
It's called politics. Just ignore anything that comes out of politicians' mouths with regards to their opponents, ESPECIALLY during an election year...
Listen instead to the scientists, they have nothing to gain or lose from telling the truth, therefore they are speaking the truth (or at least are a LOT more likely to...)
Instead of missing that knock out punch Koolio could deliver you, and all your friends, beer all night long. You have this luxury 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Find a human to do that.
Not necessarily a valid comparison. There's very few prohibitive costs associated with painting. Maybe a few hundred (if that) on brushes, paints and canvases. A TV show requires a bit more capital...
Not saying that I (dis)agree with the parent, but this comparison isn't valid either. A TV show requires more capital, but there are more people who profit from it. If I paint something and sell it, I'm the only who gets the money.
The pirate is not taking revenue from HBO and it is uncertain whether he/she would purchase HBO were the option to pirate it unavailable.
I know this came from the parent, but I'll throw my two cents here cuz I'm lazy.
I never liked this argument because it only takes into account the direct effect of people's choices./. readers love to point out that just because CD sales are slipping doesn't really mean that it's because of piracy. There's lots of other things to think about as well: declining quality, etc. The same argument goes with piracy. While myself downloading a Friends ep doesn't directly harm NBC, it indirectly does because in the long run they won't get the return on their investment.
Piracy is just one factor in all of this though, as the article shows....
Maybe I'm missing something, but the article never seems to mention anything about changing the SMTP spec itself. It talks about how it's flawed, but then summarizes new ideas to add on top of SMTP (crypto, C/R, etc). It doesn't ever suggest CHANGING the underlying protocol. History, with IPv6, is showing that the industry doesn't change without being prodded. I don't think this would be the case, however, with any new versions of SMTP.
From what I understand, rewritting SMTP to fix most (if not all) of the spam loopholes is no problem (Am I seriously glossing over some big details here?). The trouble is that people want a 100% effective, immediatly pluggable solution. If new email clients support both the old and new smtp protocols, and use the new one as a default, it will be just a matter of time before there's a critical mass of clients and ISPs that are using the new one.
Once this critical mass is reached, boom, everyone is required to use the new protocol, and any email that uses the old one is immediately dumped way upstream, before it can start hogging bandwidth everywhere.
I'm aware that if my idea is so great, how come it hasn't been implemented?? Feel free to pick holes....
Are that many people really against the GPL? Take a look at all the licenses available. Some examples:
The Wilhelm Svenselius Open Source License
Public Security Interrest[sic]
Open Test License
I might sound ignorant, but I had no idea there were so many different kinds of liceneses to choose from. Is the GPL that mistrusted that we have to create all these other ones?
There's tons of companies that specialize in this stuff. I bought such a chip for my Twin Turbo 300xz. You do have to do a little sautering, but the boost was absolutely incredible. I was blowing by Corvettes with it... ahhh.. the good old days...
I cringe and winge when I read articles such as these (the original FUD article, not the rebuttal). This guy is either an idiot who actually believes this stuff or it's M$ sponsored FUD. I don't know which is worse.....
All the rebuttals are well argued, but unfortunately, most PHB's eyes glaze over when you start making points and talking about "straw men". Their eyes light up though when you start talking about how the evil Open Source will cost you money. The M$ ads right next to the article just show how much bull$hit all this is..
Sorry, I know you've all read this before, but it feels to preach to the/. choir.....
I haven't received a single inquiry into that port on my boxen.
At first I was wondering why my Portsentry wasn't going crazy throwing IPs into my firewall as "-j DROP", but then it occured to me that my ISP (NOOS France) was probably blocking the port way upstream.
Are most other ISPs finally taking the matter into their own hands?
Daniel Grisworld, associate director, Centre for Trade Policy Studies:
"People don't understand what a great opportunity offshoring is for US companies."
We all know how beneficial it will be for COMPANIES, that's the problem!
I'm not going to rant on about outsourcing, it's going to happen whether you like it or not, but this article is nothing but smoke and mirrors to try and distract the US public from the fact that lots and lots of jobs have been moved, and will be moved, to India.
It's a good tactic. You say a lot of feel-good words and phrases and people will accept them, even if the feel-good phrases aren't very feel-good for you....
If you're looking for a way to test your setup with a 2.6 kernel without trashing a current install, this is a good way
This isn't a troll (and perhaps a little off-topic), but I really don't see the fuss with upgrading to 2.6. The APIs are the same, the only thing that I can see that is different is module loading, but there's a tool that takes care of it automagically.
Is it just not trusting a new kernel until it's been fully hammered out in the field?
I loved that computer.. my parents bought it for the family, but I was the only one who went within 10 feet of it, and they couldn't pull me away from it. I convinced my dad to buy an extra 768KB of RAM (sucker!). I even wrote a car racing game for it in BASIC.... Dungeon Master, Bard's Tale III, turning the monitor off quickly so my parents wouldn't catch me. They never caught on that the monitor could be off while the computer was still on.... (Never mind that whiring sound...)
I tried showing them how a golfing game worked on it, but they wouldn't touch it unless I was there with them.
Damn you/.!! I have one glass of wine and read this and now I'm getting all sniffly over old-school sh!t.....
First it was mobile phones in general. Remember way back when you could hear someone talking in public, but there were no answering voices? ("Who the HELL is he talking to???")
Next came handsfree with autoanswering. It scared the crap out of me when the guy in front of me in line, sorta-kinda looking in my direction, would all of a sudden say, "Hello? Hi! How's it going?"
Now people will think you're epiletic or something when they see you waving a phone about crazily. Reading email isn't that bad, but what happens when you install Pacman?
Although maybe it would be good exercise against carpals....
Talking about patches from M$ and how it's monopoly plays in all this:
But the patches often create more security problems than they fix, and there is a fear that Microsoft might use such regular access to desktops to keep rival software-makers away, thus reinforcing the source of the original problem, its monoculture. "If you don't trust us to download our patch, then you shouldn't be running our software," counters Mr Charney [a M$ exec], as if consumers had a real choice.
I almost choked when I read this. Not only at the hubris of the M$ exec, but at the ignorance of the Economist's reponse, "as if consumers had a real choice". Normally the Economist does its research and homework and shows all sides of the story without bias. But whether or not you agree with Linux being able to challenge M$ in the desktop and server space, the choice is undeniably there! Did I misread something from the article?? Shame, shame!
I'd suggest you go to the people who are relevant to this discussion ( the people offering you payment ) and telling them your desires and fears over how to arrange this, ask them their own desires and fears; and then see if you can come to an agreement up front as to how best meet those desires and alleviating those fears.
Are you nuts? This company is not your friend, nor your counselor. They're out to get the best deal they can. I'm not saying they'll screw you out of everything (they might!), but they certainly will take advantage of the situation.
To the student, I think you must present as much confidence as possible (email is great for this, don't have to look anyone in the eye). Tell them what YOU want as if it's required, not for discussion (always be polite and respectful!). You'll get a lot more respect from this than by going up to them saying you're scared and what should you do, etc.
Let/. be your counselors, not the company you're doing business with.
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To copy the CD, all you have to do is friggin' press shift??!? Are they serious? Why should I be worried about this? Am I missing something? Is this really, really that lame?
The article is light on details as to exactly WHAT this CD is. Just a standard music CD with a data track with software that loads upon Window$ reading of autorun.inf?
I guess another, more serious question to ask is: If I press shift and copy the files, have I violated the DMCA? Just wonderin'
In Japan, pornography is defined as the showing of pubic hair, so showing images of young children naked is not considered porn.
Even "abuse" has different definitions. I've seen a (mainstream) Japanese movie where a mother started grabbing her son's privates, after he was running around naked playing a game of tag with her. In the context of the movie it made sense, but the scene was still sexual in nature and it shocked me, and I'm not a prude at all.
Don't you have warm fuzzys all over?
I don't know about the 3com one, but I've been using the forceDeth driver since 2.6.4 with absolutely no problems.
Why? I buy name brand CDRs because I trust Maxell and Sony more than Joe's Blanks and the cost is not that much higher. If I'm wrong about that, fine, but this quote from the article doesn't say anything that would counter that long-held name-brand belief.
Just because manufacturers change their methods, doesn't mean the quality control goes away (again, I'm assuming it's there in the first place). It just means it's harder to test lifetime endurance.
I wouldn't really read it that way. I would say rather that the people outside the US are no longer seeing the US as the only place to be to get science done. India & China are becoming places to get research done, so the scientists are staying home after university. In other words, the US is no longer THE cool place to be in terms of research, the rest of the world has caught up.
Is this what you meant when you said that people outside the US are "getting smarter"?
It's called politics. Just ignore anything that comes out of politicians' mouths with regards to their opponents, ESPECIALLY during an election year...
Listen instead to the scientists, they have nothing to gain or lose from telling the truth, therefore they are speaking the truth (or at least are a LOT more likely to...)
I did, they're called "kids"....
Not saying that I (dis)agree with the parent, but this comparison isn't valid either. A TV show requires more capital, but there are more people who profit from it. If I paint something and sell it, I'm the only who gets the money.
The pirate is not taking revenue from HBO and it is uncertain whether he/she would purchase HBO were the option to pirate it unavailable.
I know this came from the parent, but I'll throw my two cents here cuz I'm lazy.
I never liked this argument because it only takes into account the direct effect of people's choices. /. readers love to point out that just because CD sales are slipping doesn't really mean that it's because of piracy. There's lots of other things to think about as well: declining quality, etc. The same argument goes with piracy. While myself downloading a Friends ep doesn't directly harm NBC, it indirectly does because in the long run they won't get the return on their investment.
Piracy is just one factor in all of this though, as the article shows....
Here's the BBC's take on it:
From what I understand, rewritting SMTP to fix most (if not all) of the spam loopholes is no problem (Am I seriously glossing over some big details here?). The trouble is that people want a 100% effective, immediatly pluggable solution. If new email clients support both the old and new smtp protocols, and use the new one as a default, it will be just a matter of time before there's a critical mass of clients and ISPs that are using the new one.
Once this critical mass is reached, boom, everyone is required to use the new protocol, and any email that uses the old one is immediately dumped way upstream, before it can start hogging bandwidth everywhere.
I'm aware that if my idea is so great, how come it hasn't been implemented?? Feel free to pick holes....
All you need to do is post a copy of the page or just list what the page says. There's no need to give them any more excuses for creating FUD...
The Wilhelm Svenselius Open Source License
Public Security Interrest[sic]
Open Test License
I might sound ignorant, but I had no idea there were so many different kinds of liceneses to choose from. Is the GPL that mistrusted that we have to create all these other ones?
There's tons of companies that specialize in this stuff. I bought such a chip for my Twin Turbo 300xz. You do have to do a little sautering, but the boost was absolutely incredible. I was blowing by Corvettes with it... ahhh.. the good old days...
Click here.
I cringe and winge when I read articles such as these (the original FUD article, not the rebuttal). This guy is either an idiot who actually believes this stuff or it's M$ sponsored FUD. I don't know which is worse.....
All the rebuttals are well argued, but unfortunately, most PHB's eyes glaze over when you start making points and talking about "straw men". Their eyes light up though when you start talking about how the evil Open Source will cost you money. The M$ ads right next to the article just show how much bull$hit all this is..
Sorry, I know you've all read this before, but it feels to preach to the /. choir.....
At first I was wondering why my Portsentry wasn't going crazy throwing IPs into my firewall as "-j DROP", but then it occured to me that my ISP (NOOS France) was probably blocking the port way upstream.
Are most other ISPs finally taking the matter into their own hands?
"People don't understand what a great opportunity offshoring is for US companies."
We all know how beneficial it will be for COMPANIES, that's the problem!
I'm not going to rant on about outsourcing, it's going to happen whether you like it or not, but this article is nothing but smoke and mirrors to try and distract the US public from the fact that lots and lots of jobs have been moved, and will be moved, to India.
It's a good tactic. You say a lot of feel-good words and phrases and people will accept them, even if the feel-good phrases aren't very feel-good for you....
This isn't a troll (and perhaps a little off-topic), but I really don't see the fuss with upgrading to 2.6. The APIs are the same, the only thing that I can see that is different is module loading, but there's a tool that takes care of it automagically.
Is it just not trusting a new kernel until it's been fully hammered out in the field?
I tried showing them how a golfing game worked on it, but they wouldn't touch it unless I was there with them.
Damn you /.!! I have one glass of wine and read this and now I'm getting all sniffly over old-school sh!t.....
Next came handsfree with autoanswering. It scared the crap out of me when the guy in front of me in line, sorta-kinda looking in my direction, would all of a sudden say, "Hello? Hi! How's it going?"
Now people will think you're epiletic or something when they see you waving a phone about crazily. Reading email isn't that bad, but what happens when you install Pacman?
Although maybe it would be good exercise against carpals....
But the patches often create more security problems than they fix, and there is a fear that Microsoft might use such regular access to desktops to keep rival software-makers away, thus reinforcing the source of the original problem, its monoculture. "If you don't trust us to download our patch, then you shouldn't be running our software," counters Mr Charney [a M$ exec], as if consumers had a real choice.
I almost choked when I read this. Not only at the hubris of the M$ exec, but at the ignorance of the Economist's reponse, "as if consumers had a real choice". Normally the Economist does its research and homework and shows all sides of the story without bias. But whether or not you agree with Linux being able to challenge M$ in the desktop and server space, the choice is undeniably there! Did I misread something from the article?? Shame, shame!
For Christ's Sake, I just ate lunch..... Is that webpage really needed??? Are you studying this???
At least include a warning for us people who don't know what the word "Chunder" is....
Ugg....
I think I now might be able to contribute to your page.... let me get my digital and set it on timer.... Do you accept movies?
"It says that's bad for technology companies and bad for taxpayers, who may get stuck paying for inferior, more expensive products."
Isn't this our line??? Isn't this what we say when we say that everyone should consider Linux?
RTFA. Icarus just scans open ports on students' computers looking for any kind of servers, or viruii/trojans that are acting as servers.
Are you nuts? This company is not your friend, nor your counselor. They're out to get the best deal they can. I'm not saying they'll screw you out of everything (they might!), but they certainly will take advantage of the situation.
To the student, I think you must present as much confidence as possible (email is great for this, don't have to look anyone in the eye). Tell them what YOU want as if it's required, not for discussion (always be polite and respectful!). You'll get a lot more respect from this than by going up to them saying you're scared and what should you do, etc.
Let /. be your counselors, not the company you're doing business with.