Well, drugs most definitely are illegal in Germany. By your reasoning, Germany's murder rate should be the same as in the US?

All of it is done by the VM. However these days AVM2 in the flash player is decent enough to have a complete bytecode based Vorbis decoder. It's most likely too slow for Theora though.

On the other hand, there's Cortado - a java applet able to play Theora. Good enough?

To play H.264 content you also need to install extra software (on Windows). Installing a Theora codec in addition to a H.264 codec isn't really a big deal is it?

I think the fundamental issue is that the DMCA and DRM allows the "industry" to write their own laws.

With the DMCA and the anti-circumvention provisions, the restriction code has the power of law - circumventing it is illegal.

So they can ignore whatever fair use privilege we used to enjoy, because fair use privileges aren't guaranteed rights: if you can't make use of it for whatever reason - tough; they're not required to provide you with tools or systems to give you what you want, even if it could be legal.

So this all boils down to the fact that we've lost all fair use in copyright law (maybe not in theory, but definitely in practice), and as such, copyright has become completely unbalanced in favour of the copyright owners.

The tradeoff was: a temporary monopoly on distribution with some fair use exceptions, in return for a rich public domain later on.

Not only have we lost fair use, we've also lost the public domain part later on. Because the DRM on copyrighted works that end up in the public domain isn't going to magically disappear.

All we're left with is "a monopoly on distribution" - that's not what copyright was supposed to be.

wow - I've been using nc/mc since forever, but I'm still discovering cool features.

thanks

Maybe not exactly the answer you're looking for, seeing as Samba4 is not out yet; however samba4 includes, among other things:

* Internal LDAP server, with AD semantics
* Internal Kerberos server, including PAC support

You can, but don't have to hook it up to an external LDAP server. You can use MMC consoles to manage it. They're even building real Outlook compatible Exchange functionality on top of it (see openchange.org). Not that I'd ever want to run Outlook though.

Really? How hard is the following:

# apt-get install nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 nvidia-glx nvidia-settings ... or if you really must recompile your kernel module yourself:

# apt-get install module-assistant
# m-a a-i nvidia
# apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings

Trying to find drivers on some website, and running some installer hoping it won't clobber over files managed by apt/dpkg is not my idea of family fun.