Then what have I been drinking every morning?

When mankind needs a vertical hierarchy to make it strong, it chooses a leader to give it one. When that need is exhausted, if he fails to bow out gracefully, they call him a dictator. But they always choose him. If they need him and he doesn't arrive, the people become archeological remains. The perfect structure will make both transitions smooth and painless. Most people aren't able to see this clearly, and fall in love with one configuration and attack others blindly, without considering the local situation.

Unfortunately, I wouldn't trust the average juror to weigh a head of lettuce.

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The site suggests that this can run on the DE0-Nano Cyclone FPGA Board for $90 or the Altera DE2-115 FPGA Development Board for $600. As someone who doesn't know anything about this type of computing... can anyone explain what the difference is between the two?

Meh. I don't need food. My nerd rage sustains me.

Difference is the "real" ones have beards and wear suspenders.

Hey now, without PayPal there would be no Tesla or Space X.

Perhaps I'm not understanding... but as my PayPal and eBay accounts have different passwords and i have two factor authentication setup using a DigiPass 5 rotating cypher key, I am unable to replicate what is being reported. No mater what, I am prompted for my DigiPass token key and password.

Are you familiar with the debacle where the Gnome Foundation went broke because they blew all the money on their Outreach Program for Women?

Here's coverage if you're unfamiliar, although if you're a queer slashdot reader you probably aren't:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...

The Eich issue showed the world that Mozilla is chock full of the same sentiment. And Mozilla's lost so much market share that they're only a bit player now. When push comes to shove, their "Real Work" is not cutting the mustard.

I've worked on technology projects with people who didn't agree with my views on the issues, and done volunteer work on community projects with people who didn't agree with my views, but everything worked because the projects were focused enough that they became something we could both agree on.

The reason gender issues are screwing up technology projects is because technology projects are extending their mission statements in political directions and it's removing the focus that made it possible for people who disagree on political issues to work together.

Expressed simply, if you stand for one thing, you get half the people agreeing with what you stand for and half of them not agreeing, and 50% of the people give you their support.

If you stand for two things, half the people who were supporting you will no longer feel comfortable supporting you, and they will leave. You shrink your support from 50% to 25%.

It's not that we disagree. It's that I can't actively support organizations that vocally espouse things that I think are nihilistic and therefore immoral, and logic dictates that if I was the only one, there would be no controversy, so therefore, I'm not the only one.

The ability to agree to disagree has been removed, and it's not going to do anything but harm.

It was pushed out as a bug fix update and bundled in with a bunch of others so you wouldn't notice that they're trying to fix a major problem.

I ditched them over the Brendan Eich debacle, myself... haven't missed em. Free software is an important issue, but preserving the place of the traditional nuclear family is a more important issue. The fags and the feminists insinuated them selves, and now the project will die just like gnome project did. At least this time they're killing something people remember... perhaps they'll open a few eyes this time, and people will clue in that, even if you agree with their politics, it's still going to kill the project when gender issues are poaching away resources from real work.

Probably too optimistic... it'll die and few will put together why it really happened, just like gnome.

It's not low level if it's in your own backyard.

"lying bastard" is more or less their job description.

Nope, you misunderstand what the loophole was. It's utterly irrelevant whether or not it's easy to copy the music out.

You need to forget "plain English" and what "makes sense". We're dealing with the law and legalese. You need to think like a computer running into odd code. If a programmer writes "int Two=3;" then you'll get "Two+2=5". You need to obey the definition you're given, even if it clashes with what you think it should mean. You can't just assume Two+2 is supposed to be 4 when the code (or the law) says something different.

This law has a definitions section, and we are concerned with with three key pieces. I'll trim it to the critical bits.

A "digital musical recording" is a material object [...blah blah...]
A "digital musical recording" does not include a material object [...blah blah blah..] in which one or more computer programs are fixed

Therefore, according to the law, MP3 files on a computer hard drive are not "digital musical recordings".

A "digital audio copied recording" is a reproduction in a digital recording format of a digital musical recording [...blah blah...]

Therefore, according to the law, an MP3 player that copies an MP3 off of a computer is not creating a "digital audio copied recording".

A "digital audio recording device" is any machine or device [...blah blah...] making a digital audio copied recording

Therefore an MP3 player copying MP3's off a computer is not a "digital audio recording device".

The law only applies to "digital audio recording devices", therefore nothing in the law applies to MP3 players. Unfortunately this shitty law does seem to apply to a car audio system copying music off of CDs. Unless the judge gets "creative" in interpreting the law, it seems to me that car manufacturers are going to have to pay damages for every unit produced so far, are going to have to implement DRM on these car audio systems (preventing them from loading any song that's flagged as already being a copy), and are going to have to pay royalties to the RIAA for each future unit sold.

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The Audio Home Recording Act makes it illegal to manufacture or sell "Audio Recording Devices" unless they implement the Serial Copy Management System (a form of DRM).

The Audio Home Recording Act has a clause explicitly excluding computers from being "an Audio Recording Device", and excluding computer hard drives from being "Audio Recording Media". So when MP3 players copy music from a computer they basically slide through a loophole in the law. The music industry fought a court case over MP3 players and lost on this exact point. According to that court ruling, MP3 players do NOT fall within the law's explicit definition of "Audio Recording Device". Therefore MP3 players are not required to implement the idiot DRM system.

It looks like the system installed in these cars does fall within the law's definition of Audio Recording Device. It looks like the music industry has a solid case here, unless an "activist" judge sees how stupid this all is and comes up with some creative way to avoid applying this idiot law.

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