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voidmain:
Yesterday I was flipping through the channels and normally I flip right past TechTV but to my surprise  who did I see? RMS himself! Too bad the segment was just ending and I didn't get to hear him talk. They were just wrapping up and Leo was showing his book. Maybe I should flip through the channels more often just in case they have something interesting on there again.

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How wierd, just after typing this, I flip to TechTV and they are rerunning the RMS segment. This time I caught the last 90 seconds. Damn! I think that propeller hat would look good on him.

See:
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtell/story/0,24330,3404291,00.html
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[ October 22, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

MacUser3of5:
Is THAT picture Stallman?

Wow, Ballmer might get competition for the next 'Ugliest Techie Alive' contest. Well, at least Stallman isn't a monkey...  ;)

Calum:

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There are proposals already for U.S. laws that would require all computers to support treacherous computing, and to prohibit connecting old computers to the Internet. The CBDTPA (we call it the Consume But Don't Try Programming Act) is one of them. But even if they don't legally force you to switch to treacherous computing, the pressure to accept it may be enormous. Today people often use Word format for communication, although this causes several sorts of problems (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html). If only a treacherous computing machine can read the latest Word documents, many people will switch to it, if they view the situation only in terms of individual action (take it or leave it). To oppose treacherous computing, we must join together and confront the situation as a collective choice.

For further information about treacherous computing, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html.

To block treacherous computing will require large numbers of citizens to organize. We need your help! The Electronic Frontier Foundation ( www.eff.org ) and Public Knowledge ( www.publicknowledge.org ) are campaigning against treacherous computing, and so is the FSF-sponsored Digital Speech Project ( www.digitalspeech.org ). Please visit these Web sites so you can sign up to support their work.

You can also help by writing to the public affairs offices of Intel, IBM, HP/Compaq, or anyone you have bought a computer from, explaining that you don't want to be pressured to buy "trusted" computing systems so you don't want them to produce any. This can bring consumer power to bear. If you do this on your own, please send copies of your letters to the organizations above.

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this i think is the important bit. at long last, i can put my name in with other people who feel the same way.

sign up and do something.

[ October 22, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

Kintaro:
Having a knoledge in electronics, computer science and how pc's work, I take it I would be able to remove there fritz chip. Unless it is put inside the Computer. People could make there own hardware that is put on the Network which would contain there own chip in front of the Fritz Chip, and nor TCPA Servers or the Chip itself would know. Then that chip could emulate calls to the Fritz Chip and the Servers which could say "Yes the MP3 isnt illegal" and not say a word to TCPA servers at all. So if another chip controlling the CPU/Fritz Chip could be established then you could fix the problem even if the Fritz Chip is in the CPU. And what about people who are not on the Internet. Or people like me who play the same MP3's on there player as there PC. TCPA Microsoft and Intel will all fail at this. Nobody will like it. Lets just watch them commit suiside.

I will crack the "Fritz" Chip and trade my ideas with other users of Non-Fritz Appliances. I will not stand for this unless we can elect who is in charge of TCPA. But I will crack it when I get my hands on one.

Calum:
i am sickened.
i just went to read the stallman article again, so i could print it, and guess what was right in the middle of the page? this:



how fucking offensive.
pathetic.

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