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  1. Re:The Beatles Never Gave the Album Away for Free on Steve Jobs Announces (some) DRM-free iTunes · · Score: 1

    well you are right on your first point,

    and you are also right on your second point.

  2. i told that EVERY time AJAX - 2.0 hype was posted on Web 2.0 Under Siege · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you delegate operations and processes to client side, sooner or later they will be finding more ways to exploit it to an extent that it would be a security risk to offer such client side stuff, making anti-virus, anti-spyware, privacy product manufacturers more agitated about it, and in the end drawing visitors away from your site due to blocks, issues, and fear.

  3. Re:The Beatles Never Gave the Album Away for Free on Steve Jobs Announces (some) DRM-free iTunes · · Score: 1

    still same goes. not publishing online is not something with the "reach all, share all" spirit of 68.

  4. What does that mean for AJAX then ? on Morfik Patents AJAX Compiler · · Score: 1

    What will the reflection of that patent or whatever is going to be on ajax ?

  5. Re:The Beatles Never Gave the Album Away for Free on Steve Jobs Announces (some) DRM-free iTunes · · Score: 1

    Without DRM crap they still will be charging for their music. They just wont be FORCING people to listen to their music only in one device in their home. forcing, is something that is contradictory with 68', btw.

  6. Ehhhh screw beatles then on Steve Jobs Announces (some) DRM-free iTunes · · Score: 0, Troll

    let them be a relic of the past, if they dont get along well with what the current day extensions if "68' revolution" that they have so happily joined, brings.

    and again, kudos to emi, and steve jobs and apple crowd.

  7. Thats why i love EMI on EMI May Remove DRM From Parts of Catalog · · Score: 1

    It has been 4-5 months or so. or maybe 7-8 i dont remember.

    i bought an emi compilation of classic music titles, called "Best of Classics 100", and "Best of Classics 2" (100 again). each of them are 6 cd, total of 12 cd, classic music titles performed by renowned performers/orchestras.

    came home, put these in my 6 cd changer pioneer set. set shuffle play and voila. play on sweet chariot.

    when i am working, sitting, and even sometimes gaming, i play classical music. so it was on the air around 10-14 hours a day with only intermittent pauses.

    but i advise against such incessant playing on a set that dates 1991 - as very soon you would find yourself in my situation - cd changer wont play at all. i dont know how much it would cost me to get it repaired.

    i put the cds one by in my dvd rw at my pc. ripped them off one by one in high quality. all of them. with NO problems.

    acquired an altec lansing fx 6021. i have a creative x-treme music sound card.

    now im playing them incessantly through winamp. or whatever i wish. i made a list from my favorites among them, and its on constant shuffle.

    i wouldnt have that convenience if there was DRM shit.

    so i would like to thank the all people at EMI, who thought that selling music without DRM shit was a good idea.

    thank you.

  8. Ill tell you what their "concern" is on Digital Watchdogs Widen Anti-Piracy War · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They are freaking hell from the fact that they will have to sell "content" for lower prices than the hellishly inflated ones they used to :

    Digital distribution cuts costs to phenomenonally ridiculously low rates per "piece" of content.

    One would think they would adjust their distribution system and prices accordingly, and adapt to the new amenities.

    But they dont want to do this. They want to sell stuff from the prices of the previous decades, where the final price was justly high due to the costs involved in production of the medium carrying the content and distribution of it.

    Hence, they will pocked the 200-400% rate profits per piece sold - old prices, minus the new pathetic cost of distribution.

    This is what they are concerned about. Its not about "piracy" or "content distribution" (heh), "protecting rights" or "intellectual property"

    Its totally about being allowed to screw the public en grande, or not.

    One would think that they would have understood that piracy is going to go on as long as they try to screw people over. But apparently they did not.

    Then piracy will continue.

  9. Head movements are dangerous on WiiHelms Go on Sale · · Score: 2

    Brain is not a muscle. Nor it is tightly fixed to the skull.

    It floats in a fluid in the skull, the attachment it has to the skull are through tiny veins.

    if you use your head to move something in a continuous way, you will be shaking your brain in the skull fluid like in a glass of water. in the long run it will make nausea. in the worst run, tiny veins will pop, causing headache, or in extreme cases more serious results.

    whereas making instant movements with the head is much more dangerous, it instantly pops your tiny veins.

    use your arms. you need the exercise.

  10. Re:Read the article on Does DRM Enable Online Music Innovation? · · Score: 1

    well, after all that stints riaa put out, im irksome about the matter. anything seeming positive just shoots off the red lights.

  11. Wow - score one for the good guys - "thats us" on Private File Sharing To Remain/Become legal In EU · · Score: 2

    And us being "the people".

  12. Dont post such fud on slashdot please on Does DRM Enable Online Music Innovation? · · Score: 1

    It has been discussed and concluded numerous times that drm actually HARMS music industry as a whole.

    and it is well known that the fud spreaders of riaa use "innovation" excuse to push for shit they need to control the market.

    so please dont post no shit, dont post no fud, dont post no shitty fud.

  13. Re:I dont know 'what' now but i know what 'then' on Violated Copyright Law — Now What? · · Score: 1

    well, there are lots of models that can be used, from paid advertising to subscription service, or just selling tracks people actually want one by one (for music), and much more can be invented. we live in an era of possibilities.

  14. Re:I dont know 'what' now but i know what 'then' on Violated Copyright Law — Now What? · · Score: 1

    they gotta adapt to new business models methinks.

  15. Re:Heres the solution for you Americans : on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1

    im totally unable to understand what you, in fact anybody means after doing hours of programming syncing some stuff between 2 servers in two different timezones while pulling the data with remote means.

  16. Re:Heres the solution for you Americans : on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1

    but by then there was a single party - no republican and democrat

  17. Re:Heres the solution for you Americans : on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1

    you still did not got my point.

    what i am saying is, it is just much easier to mold something into the shape you wish it to be when its growing and expanding rather than trying to do it later when its full-blown.

    bush sr might have signed the deal to move internet to civilian sector, however i guess they wouldnt even imagine what we had today, and if they had the slightest clue, the network neutrality war would have lost long before even we would be able to understand what network neutrality was, in the infant stages of the internet.

    republicans wouldnt just let what happened in the internet during clinton adm era go unhampered.

    its not the starting here that counts - its the not-hampering, and not limiting that counts. these are what made internet.

    public demand and interest does not make anything come up roses all by itself. check radio. check television. these were in demand too, and they are just outlets for whomever can afford, and access is controlled to hell, even though they work on radio waves, the easiest propagating carrier known in modern world.

    i am thankful to clinton adm for letting internet be, not hampering with it and therefore allowing it to become what it is today.

  18. Re:Heres the solution for you Americans : on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1

    what i am saying is that had reps been in power than, we wouldnt be enjoying that much of freedom on the internet, and it wouldnt be as big and far-reaching in implications as it is today.

  19. Re:Heres the solution for you Americans : on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1

    well,

    from what i know the executive branch holds much power in u.s. so, congress being republican at that time means that they would just be holding the money, not making the actual policy ? just like the current standoff between bush & congress ?

    as for wars, it is not a matter of who started the war - in korea, north koreans invaded south korea. it was open agression, and not only u.s. but an entire host of united nation nations have gone to fight in there.

    vietnam was slightly different but also similar in scope - but in vietnam, whomever started the war ( i dont think it was kennedy as he was shot in 62 ), the person who lengthened it indefinitely was nixon, probably in order to feed the defense sector.

    boy you are talking about ww2. and going into ww2. ww2 was a war that everyone needed to go into if they had any noticeable power to wage a war - it decided the actual fate of the world. hierarchical fascist regimes or democratic inclination.

  20. Re:Heres the solution for you Americans : on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 2

    no. plain old no.

    research was initiate LOONG ago indeed, yes, and the concept of a network come to fruition at the clinton presidency.

    but if it was not clinton adm. that was in office back then, internet would be shaped to be and remain a governmental, inter-university, or at most big-buck (you know, at&t, time warner and the like) playing ground just like tv and radios were made to be.

    it was very fortunate that at that point democrats were in power, and clinton appointed that black guy (i forgot his name) to the related functions in regulating the predecessor of internet.

  21. Re:Jimmy Carter vs Reagan on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1

    yea. some post that is CERTAIN to be buried with mod points from hawks, and on main account too !!

    actually it is a brave attempt to spill out a long held belief.

  22. Re:Heres the solution for you Americans : on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1

    no exagerration or bullshit here - posts like these make me smile with glee.

  23. Re:Heres the solution for you Americans : on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1

    Very sordid misperceptions there, sir.

    M Kemal, the persona in picture there, is the person who turned the ottoman sultan's state into a modern republic by all means, at least in a jacobenite style, from top-down.

    and the 'lawyer' in question there, who is speaking of blabberscrap about 'western imperialism, external threats, they want to tear us down' etc and etc, is what radical parties do and have always blurted out - never internal circles are accused in turkey, due to tradition.

    the flag there, and the picture of that persona there, wherever you see them in conjunction and without anything else, it is generally the sign of a western style (more jacobenite actually) democratic inclination here in turkey.

    you are speaking of progress in the last 3 years - you are TOTALLY wrong.

    in last 3 years we went back. what seems as "democratic" changes with this islamic party are in fact preparation for a much-longed for islamic rule, as the current prime minister states that with his own words ; "I get on the democracy train whenever i want, and i get off of it whenever i want".

    What actually they are doing is to fulfill the state bureucracy with islamic inclined people, from the close circles to their own party, and police too.

    the ONLY thing stands in their way is the army. Contrary to any other western nation, army in turkey is fashioned to protect 3 principles - democratic rule, single-state concept (no federation) and secularism.

    ruling party HATES the army. army has a long heritage of protecting these ideals, they have a very strict upbringing and education in their instutitions, and despite whatever the islamic foundations and circles did, they were not able to infiltrate the military training schools with young islamist. all other government branches and bureucracy, from judgment to police, they were able to do that, but army, still did not succeed.

    this is what all the fuss about.

    the day you wouldnt see the chief of staff making remarks about the secularity of turkish republic would be the day islamic rule sets off here.

    believe me, you wouldnt want that to happen thinking the geopolitical circumstances around turkey.

    so i would back turkish military with all my heart if i were a westerner - contrary to the situation in western hemisphere, it is the only thing that stands truly between a bloody islamic revolution and a modern turkey.

    as for a 'turk' teaching an american how to govern his country, it is not a matter of nationality or geography - we are all citizens, even though of different countries, and we are all fighting similar issues in our own countries. variations occur, but the major backdrop is always the same - radical circles ( hawks in your case) grabbing power with exploitation of nationwide critical issues, big buck corporations over-affecting the election and decision& lawmaking process, shitload of taxes on citizens' backs and so on.

    and curious though, how you feel secure with republicans, with all the tax going to rebuilding iraq, WITHOUT accountability, and the reconstruction work there being awarded to HAliburton, WITHOUT bidding, and just near the end of bush jr's term and when congress turned democrat, they are relocating their headquarters to bahrain ?

  24. Re:Heres the solution for you Americans : on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1

    please elaborate on how they changed.

  25. Heres the solution for you Americans : on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Vote republicans DOWN from power.

    whenever democrats get the power, you go forward, and do some astonishing things, like internet. Whenever republicans come, you go into some sort of small scale war, your budget deficit increases and there is turmoil in your economy.

    This is broad as daylight even when we look from here, Turkey, tens of thousands of miles away. It is curious that you are not able to see the picture while you are living in it.