"This is to look really furiously! They are wrong something! I am really furious at you! They suck! German looks already annoyed, but this call points form it view more annoyed! They push! Stupidly! They are a fool! They are a decaying blood ulcer on humanity! They smell! Mute head!"
Ihre Mutter ist ein swinehound! Stoppen Sie, Deutsches auf Slashdot zu sprechen! Dieses ist ein amerikanischer Aufstellungsort. (übersetzt auf Babelfish. Entschuldigen Sie den defekten Deutschen.)
So what exactly are the ip ranges of the government, the RIAA, and the MPAA? More importantly, would blocking these IP ranges prevent you from being detected on BitTorrent by the **AA?
"If they were allowed to use not-in-your-country as a legal defence, some enterprising soul would have set up shop in a small country with a ten-year duration of copyright and would now be legally selling the Beatles back-catalogue for a couple of pennies per track.
Um, yes, that would be legal. Ever heard of national soverinty? In other words, if they did do that, who's gonna tell them otherwise? The US can't do anything, and it's not illegal in the local government. In fact, what you described sounds awfly similar to AllOfMP3.
I just set up a free account on no-ip.com, and I remember reading something there about them having a free service to get around port 80 blocking. Just fyi.
Well, I'm in Houston, and pretty soon Fusion well offer 100mbps fiber. But seriously, a few people have 100mbps fiber. They may pay thousands of dollars for it, you may be able to count them all on one hand, but they still fall under the "a few people" category.
Windows doesn't come with DVD software either. You have to get it from the hardware manufacturer or a third party such as WinDVD. Not that you stated otherwise, just thought you should know.
"Thing is that I don't think that Linux will be a popular and viable OS in the future if people have to _knowingly_ break the law just to make it do the most basic of things: run it."
Umm, no. Last time I checked, it's still legal to run linux without the ability to play DVD's. Still, I really do think that someone big like Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu Foundation, IBM, etc. should just pay the half million or whatever to the people who own DVD and then give it away free, similar to what that one Linux media player app (can't remember the name) did with MP3's.
Oh, sorry to reply to myself, but I just saw this jem in the article.
Another embodiment of the proposed technology specifically envisions an ad-supported operating system, without free hardware. "For example, an operating system may be provided by an operating system developer for free," the patent application says. "Users may then receive advertisements for use of the free operating system. User who do not wish to view advertisements may purchase a full license. Users willing to receive ads but desire less obtrusive advertising delivery, may opt to purchase a limited license or subscription for the operating system."
What is Microsoft thinking? This will completely kill their desktop monopoly, because if a user is gonna spend that much money, they're probably gonna do some comparison shopping. On the plus side (for us), this will put an end to the M$ tax.
Remember seeing "Free PCs" in PC Magazine's "Worst tech products of all time"? I can't see this having much more success?
Also, what measures are there to stop someone from just reformatting and installing Linux? Trusted computing? License agreements and armies of lawyers? I can't imagine someone not finding a hack. Come to think of it, I hope M$ does this. I mean, they're sure to screw up the security somehow, and when they do, I just got myself a free linux box!
Resell the previous movie, but make the film reel out of green and blue plastic instead of grey metal. Don't forget to delay the launch date by a few years.
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Babelfish says:
"This is to look really furiously! They are wrong something! I am really furious at you! They suck! German looks already annoyed, but this call points form it view more annoyed! They push! Stupidly! They are a fool! They are a decaying blood ulcer on humanity! They smell! Mute head!"
Makes perfect sense to me.
Ihre Mutter ist ein swinehound! Stoppen Sie, Deutsches auf Slashdot zu sprechen! Dieses ist ein amerikanischer Aufstellungsort. (übersetzt auf Babelfish. Entschuldigen Sie den defekten Deutschen.)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things!
My mom won't let me watch the video... she says it's rated Arrrrrrrrr.
Did your big brother install a program on your computer that automatically follows all nouns with "as fuck" or "as shit"?
So what exactly are the ip ranges of the government, the RIAA, and the MPAA? More importantly, would blocking these IP ranges prevent you from being detected on BitTorrent by the **AA?
Do you realize the manpower it will take?
If there's one thing China has plenty of, it's manpower.
So in other words, he forgot Poland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_forgot_poland
Umm, IIRC, Linux is at least 30% of the server marketshare, if not more.
Please also learn to capitalize the first letters of sentances.
"If they were allowed to use not-in-your-country as a legal defence, some enterprising soul would have set up shop in a small country with a ten-year duration of copyright and would now be legally selling the Beatles back-catalogue for a couple of pennies per track.
Um, yes, that would be legal. Ever heard of national soverinty? In other words, if they did do that, who's gonna tell them otherwise? The US can't do anything, and it's not illegal in the local government. In fact, what you described sounds awfly similar to AllOfMP3.
I just set up a free account on no-ip.com, and I remember reading something there about them having a free service to get around port 80 blocking. Just fyi.
My bad, it's called Fision.
Most companies provide cell phones to employees, presumably they could just get cell phones that all use the same technology.
Well, I'm in Houston, and pretty soon Fusion well offer 100mbps fiber. But seriously, a few people have 100mbps fiber. They may pay thousands of dollars for it, you may be able to count them all on one hand, but they still fall under the "a few people" category.
...welcome our new cloned beef overlords.
Yes, but at least source makes it physically possible for someone, somewhere to (legally/practically) port it to a different platform.
Windows doesn't come with DVD software either. You have to get it from the hardware manufacturer or a third party such as WinDVD. Not that you stated otherwise, just thought you should know.
"Thing is that I don't think that Linux will be a popular and viable OS in the future if people have to _knowingly_ break the law just to make it do the most basic of things: run it."
Umm, no. Last time I checked, it's still legal to run linux without the ability to play DVD's. Still, I really do think that someone big like Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu Foundation, IBM, etc. should just pay the half million or whatever to the people who own DVD and then give it away free, similar to what that one Linux media player app (can't remember the name) did with MP3's.
Oh really?
Yes, there are lots of ways to do it that are illegal, but you state the only way an Xbox can run Linux is if you break the law. This is just FUD.
Oh, sorry to reply to myself, but I just saw this jem in the article. Another embodiment of the proposed technology specifically envisions an ad-supported operating system, without free hardware. "For example, an operating system may be provided by an operating system developer for free," the patent application says. "Users may then receive advertisements for use of the free operating system. User who do not wish to view advertisements may purchase a full license. Users willing to receive ads but desire less obtrusive advertising delivery, may opt to purchase a limited license or subscription for the operating system." What is Microsoft thinking? This will completely kill their desktop monopoly, because if a user is gonna spend that much money, they're probably gonna do some comparison shopping. On the plus side (for us), this will put an end to the M$ tax.
Remember seeing "Free PCs" in PC Magazine's "Worst tech products of all time"? I can't see this having much more success?
Also, what measures are there to stop someone from just reformatting and installing Linux? Trusted computing? License agreements and armies of lawyers? I can't imagine someone not finding a hack. Come to think of it, I hope M$ does this. I mean, they're sure to screw up the security somehow, and when they do, I just got myself a free linux box!
Resell the previous movie, but make the film reel out of green and blue plastic instead of grey metal. Don't forget to delay the launch date by a few years.
How about "wiki it!"? Rolls of the tounge a lot easier.
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