Apple's attempt to quash an effort to help the latest iPods and iPhones
work with non-Apple software such as the Linux operating system is out of
line, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said Tuesday.
1) Apple is asserting that the DMCA prohibits these programmers from even
speaking about
You may want to put on your Christmas list for a copy of Who Moved My
Cheese? this year. You seem to have a problem with MS taking on Google on
Google's turf by pissing and moaning about it removing features that
aren't, oddly enough, removed, just moved.
You mean they are going to be installed
Oh. So, now consumers *can* use something else other than what MS provides?
I could have sworn you told me that they put everyone else out of business
with their free stuff.
You are changing the subject. This was never asserted in this context.
However, Mac sales are up 28 percent in October.
Any advice on creating training podcasts (the material is not the
issue)? There is also a need to be able to track how many people are
listening to them as well as documenting completion of training. Are
there any programs out there that would help? Any and all (useful)
suggestions would be
So I'm supposed to go to some guys blog otherwise I can't complain? I
thought that's why I voted in real elections, not put some topics up on a
blog?
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you put down your marker against the DMCA at
ObamaCTO.org? If
Tom, what are you saying was removed?
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You may want to put on your Christmas list for a copy of Who Moved My
Cheese? this year. You seem to have a problem with MS taking on Google on
Google's turf by pissing and moaning
Just because Apple asserts this is the case doesn't make it the case. It
seems pretty straightforward and the problem lies with the cost of defense
concerning this wiki site. How even if they are 100% in the right, fight a
company with as much money and lawyers as Apple? The truth isn't even
I hate to sound ungrateful on Thanksgiving eve, but my computer is once
again taking forever to load every page. This, with FireFox, including with
creating a new profile. Last time, creating a new profile seemed to help;
now it doesn't. Further, can't even seem to use IE as alternative which
Have you tried using Windows Task Manager (Control, ALT, Delete), to
see what is using up the CPU? Your System Idle Process should be above
90% when you aren't doing anything. For more detailed info, you can
also use Process Explorer, but start with Task Manager if you don't
already have PE.
How did you figure it out?
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Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: Computerguys respond to your Acer 'Beep' problem
Thanks Brian - and everyone else.It was a memory issue. I replaced my
old memory
Hey, had you been paying attention to Tom all along, you would know
this is not just some guy's blog. Barack reads this! I was
thoroughly chastised for having doubted!
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:19 AM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I'm supposed to go to some guys blog otherwise I can't
for once, i agree with tom. i really like my nokia which does
little. if i reviewed a crakbury, iphone or zune, i would say it is
a horrible unusable piece of crap.
while OT with cell phones, the power connector on my beloved Nokia
has gone sour. it is very difficult for me to charge the
I just tried this...CPU usage is going all over the place as I watch it,
from 0 to 72% and in between. Yet the only application showing as running
is Gmail. I will try deleting some processes to see what happens but not
sure what many of them are.
Randall
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:53 AM,
I deleted a few processes which seemed related to AVG (antivirus). CPU
usage did drop from between 0 and 100% to about 5 to 15% and loading speed
seems a little faster. Curious, once page loads the loading icon that spins
is still spinning, for a long, long time. Not sure what this means.
On Nov 26, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
I think there is a better chance of getting Apple to change course
than
there would be for most companies. A lot depends on what the sheeple
do.
I do not have a lot of faith in the sheeple.
Part of the problem with the public, the sheeple
Try uninstalling AVG, turning on MS firewall, rebooting, and see if that
changes things.
That will tell you whether AVG is the source of the problem.
db
Ranbo wrote:
I deleted a few processes which seemed related to AVG (antivirus). CPU
usage did drop from between 0 and 100% to about 5 to
Walmart and Amazon both have significant libraries that are DRM free. The
near monopoly Apple has(d) on digital tunes seems to have angered some of
the record companies and they have struck better deals elsewhere.
Mike
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
I'm trying to find a website that's full of top 10 lists ( not David
Letterman's). Not having any luck with the search engines...
david
David Turk
Manager, Preservation Imaging Services
Indiana Historical Society
Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center
450 W. Ohio St.
Indianapolis,
Walmart and Amazon both have significant libraries that are DRM free.
The
near monopoly Apple has(d) on digital tunes seems to have angered some of
the record companies and they have struck better deals elsewhere.
Walmart is DRM free? Sure. They also edit all the
Not strictly true. They require artists who wish to sell via their
store to provide edited versions. Nothing evil about it, just a
marketing decision that for them works. No one is forced to make an
edit and Walmart is not forced, nor should any store be forced, to
sell what they do not
Actually Walmart doesn't edit anything. They sell the music the artists
edit themselves. Blame the artistsand you can blame them for the DMCA
as well.
Mike
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:31 PM, b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Walmart and Amazon both have significant libraries that are DRM
Not strictly true. They require artists who wish to sell via their
store to provide edited versions. Nothing evil about it, just a
marketing decision that for them works. No one is forced to make an
edit and Walmart is not forced, nor should any store be forced, to
sell what they do not
what would a good choice be for battery backup of my new voip ...would need
to cover modem (Motorola SB5010), router (Linksys WRT150N), and ATA
(Grandstream HandyTone 502) all of which have quite low power consumption
...however, I came upon a blog that states: A UPS operates as an inverter:
Are the edited versions indicated as such or are they passed off as
the real and original recording? If the edited versions are being
passed off as original, then that is deception.
Richard P.
Not strictly true. They require artists who wish to sell via their store to
provide edited
When Windows 7 comes out, it won't include Windows Mail, Windows Photo
Gallery and Windows Movie Maker, which are some of Vista's most useful
applications.
Ed Bott explains this better @ http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=582:
Judging by the comments I've read and heard, many people mistakenly
And they'll be free. Weren't you just complaining about MS adding stuff in
like AV because of anti competitiveness? You aren't making any sense in
multiple threads from one email to the next.
You have a HUGE blind spot. I see that in your eyes anything MS wants to
do is double plus good.
MS
How often do you fly?
Did you know that airlines regularly edit movies that get shown on airplanes?
One of the reasons is that their customer base is really wide.
Some stuff is just not appropriate for certain people.
If that is what their customer base wants let them sell it. Does
that
Do you have any urls about the matter?
www.google.com/search?hl=enq=DMCA+prohibits+speech+about+circumvention
Yet, efforts to exercise those rights increasingly are being threatened
by section 1201 of the DMCA, which created the new crime of
circumvention. Section 1201 (a)(1), for example,
I think the radical left has it mixed up. 50 Cent could have said [EMAIL
PROTECTED] you
to walmart and not edited his album. Period.
Not sure why I threw in the radical left, but then I'm not sure why you
brought up the radical right. I'm starting to think with the sense you are
making
Walmart and Amazon both have significant libraries that are DRM free.
The near monopoly Apple has(d) on digital tunes seems to have angered some
of the record companies and they have struck better deals elsewhere.
What I don't understand is why anyone would buy Apple's crippled music in
the
I think you mix up freedom for people vs freedom for corporations. I
think one of the biggest mistakes of the radical right is the belief
that corporations should have the same rights as individuals. It leads to
individual rights getting trampled because the powers of corporations
are so much
My shooting a gun is not a problem. My shooting the gun while pointing
it at you is a problem, because you will end up dead. The problem is not
the gun shooting, it is you becomming dead. That is why there are laws
about this.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at such a poor understanding
I'll admit, I've found Amazon to be great and is now my default for
buying just about everything online. I've found beating the prices on
Amazon difficult, unless I waste my time (which is money) to do so.
Jeff M
On Nov 26, 2008, at 9:46 AM, mike wrote:
Walmart and Amazon both have
The problem is, the wiki site wasn't circumventing DRM. Apple sent a lawyer
swat team over holding briefcases of lies so they could strong arm a site to
do their bidding. I'm not arguing the right or wrong of the DMCA, but the
fact that this doesn't even fall under the DMCA. The wiki site
if you just want to buy big and dumb, go to sams or costco. for some reason,
they will have large units at half the price of any where else. they carry
brand names recall trip and apc. look around they probably have an out of box
unit for half of that.
At 03:31 PM 11/26/2008, you wrote:
The way I've heard and read about this bit of history is the night
club owners started buy screwing the artists out of pay. This
continued with the record labels screwing the artists out of
royalties, then the artists screwing the labels back, who passed the
love on to the vendors, who of
Maybe this will change as so many demagogic grafters have been
voted out of office.
Do you mean the bill signed into law by the last Democratic administration,
which the current one seems to be intent on stuffing his administration full
of its leftovers? Have faith, brother, have faith.
One
I uninstalled AVG, CPU usage dropped to around 2%, yet loading is still slow.
Re. DNS settings, think I have them at what the ISP originally set
them at or said to set them at. Still can't use IE, which used to be
fast when had this problem with FF before. Guess I should re-install
AVG? But
It could be a DNS matter but Yes ... try the ISP support.
They deal with these specific problems all the time.
db
Ranbo wrote:
I uninstalled AVG, CPU usage dropped to around 2%, yet loading is still slow.
Re. DNS settings, think I have them at what the ISP originally set
them at or said to
Not strictly true. They require artists who wish to sell via their
store to provide edited versions. Nothing evil about it, just a
marketing decision that for them works. No one is forced to make an
edit and Walmart is not forced, nor should any store be forced, to
sell what they do not wish
On Nov 26, 2008, at 2:48 PM, mike wrote:
Actually Walmart doesn't edit anything. They sell the music the
artists
edit themselves. Blame the artistsand you can blame them for
the DMCA
as well.
I have to essentially disagree with that last sentence. Most
musical artists are
Re. DNS settings, think I have them at what the ISP originally set
them at or said to set them at. Still can't use IE, which used to be
fast when had this problem with FF before. Guess I should re-install
AVG? But what else can I do or try? Call the ISP tech support, which
means not getting
The problem is, the wiki site wasn't circumventing DRM.
It was discussing it. Under DMCA merely doing that is a crime.
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As Matthew already explained, quite clearly I thought, Wal-Mart is free to
make any demand it wants regarding the products and services it sells.
Providers of said products and services are free to agree or tell Wal-Mart
to take stick it in a sunless repository.
There you go. Thank you for
What I don't understand is why anyone would buy Apple's crippled music in
the first place. I never did. I would buy CDs, most often used, and rip
them instead of using iTunes.
Yep. I have Apple Store gift cards that sit unused because the terms are
so unappealing. If I want music I buy a
Not sure why I threw in the radical left, but then I'm not sure why you
brought up the radical right. I'm starting to think with the sense you are
making lately, that you are actually Keith Olbermann in Tom Piwowar's body.
Can't respond with logic so just make a personal attack.
I respond in kind with you Mr. Piwowar, you are the king of personal attacks
on this list. I bow to the master.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not sure why I threw in the radical left, but then I'm not sure why you
brought up the radical right. I'm
No, it wasn't. This is what I was talking about, you simply buy what Apple's
lawyers are selling. The site said they were going after the itunes library
file, not anything to do with the DRM. Does your mac fan boi baaa sound
anything like the WFB baaa? I would suspect so, both tools for the
I would have considered that a compliment, not an attack.
Jeff M
On Nov 26, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Not sure why I threw in the radical left, but then I'm not sure why
you
brought up the radical right. I'm starting to think with the sense
you are
making lately, that
It was discussing it. Under DMCA merely doing that is a crime.
I don't think so. They weren't trying to crack the DRM, just the library
database. In other words, they weren't trying to get at the tunes, just the
-list- of tunes. I admit to not having read the DMCA in its entirety, but
I'd be
okay, I went to the site below; how do you change the DNS setting?
Thanks
Randall
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re. DNS settings, think I have them at what the ISP originally set
them at or said to set them at. Still can't use IE, which used to be
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i am about 20 months into my contract, so phone is out of warrantee, and 4
months from free replacement.
So your phone is old enough that it is probably not selling for top
dollar any more. Maybe you can find a new one on
No, it wasn't. This is what I was talking about, you simply buy what Apple's
lawyers are selling...
The List's policy in this regard has been around for years. Find my write
up at cguys.org. If anything Apple is following me. Baa baa.
What are you talking about? You just keep buying...I've seen enough sheep
to known when I see one, Tom...baabaa. Keep backing up that DMCA, keep
spreading your FUD.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, it wasn't. This is what I was talking about, you
There you go. Thank you for proving my point.
Your point was...that you don't have one other than tin-foil hattery?
You live in lalaland.
What aisle is that on at Target? I think I saw it for sale on Amazon once,
but they didn't have free shipping, so I passed.
Knowledge--not censorship--leads to freedom.
Knowledge leads to more knowledge. It might lead to servitude if the wrong
parties gain access to the wrong knowledge. Knowledge without a moral or
ethical code to guide it is just data.
Self-important and self-appointed meddlers keeping their
If you have cable or DSL, you need to change DNS settings in either your
router, if you have one, or their modem.
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okay, I went to the site below; how do you change the DNS setting?
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After all the stores in the community were put out of business by
WalMart? Sure.
You should notify the Department of Buggy Whips and Candle Makers about such
things.
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Did you know that airlines regularly edit movies that get shown on airplanes?
Yes some people do object to such editing. I think this is an example of
something that is right on the edge of wrong or right. Airlines are not
in the business of selling movies to passengers (at least not yet). You
I don't think so. They weren't trying to crack the DRM, just the library
database. In other words, they weren't trying to get at the tunes, just the
-list- of tunes. I admit to not having read the DMCA in its entirety, but
I'd be pretty surprised if this was covered.
Then be surprised.
Actually you are not. In many communities WalMart is the only option.
WalMart drove everybody else out of business.
I would argue that these communities already had one foot on the commerce
banana peel if this is all it took.
Ted Stevens can tell you about this series of tubes that is driving
okay, I went to the site below; how do you change the DNS setting?
Press F1 to get to the Windows Help Center. Search on DNS. Click the link
for configuring TCP/IP settings. Read and obey.
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I changed on of the DNS settings (not the alternate). Maybe made a slight
difference in loading. Trying to reach tech support.
Randall
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
okay, I went to the site below; how do you change the DNS setting?
Press F1 to get to
Called RCN tech support. Tech said not to mess with DNS settings and had me
restore to detect automatically. Either way, doesn't seem to make loading
much quicker. He said download speed (5 mb) was okay so he couldn't help
beyond that. I'm about to give up. Have had this problem recurrently
Knowledge leads to more knowledge. It might lead to servitude if the wrong
parties gain access to the wrong knowledge. Knowledge without a moral or
ethical code to guide it is just data.
Self-important and self-appointed meddlers keeping their noses out of other
people's consensual
There is no DRM on the library, try again, Tom.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think so. They weren't trying to crack the DRM, just the library
database. In other words, they weren't trying to get at the tunes, just
the
-list- of tunes. I admit
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