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And to a Slashbot, it's hysterical

Like At no time did the US lend support to him, or his organization is hysterical?

Like this picture of Saddam Hussein shaking hands with Donald Rumsfeld.

Or maybe this article in the Dallas Morning News of all places: Saddam Hussein: former ally, future defendant

Or this story printed in California, Mossouri, Oklahoma, and Conneticut.

I know this is offtopic but the other discussion is archived.

PS: I can prove Clinton never cheated with Monica. A google search for "Clinton cheated on his wife by getting a bj" turns up zilch.

I just saw the parent poster modded up to 5, then modded down again because some anonymous sibling poster screamed "RTFA! that quote isn't in the article!" Yes, moderators, you should really RTFA ... the quote is in fact in the article. I also found it there at dallasnews.com, which requires registration. You can use the dummy account I just created: login: none-of-your@business.com pwd: 123456. Oh, wait a moment, I guess that's exactly the same article.

Holy shit...check this out:

http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/dn/latestnews/stor ies/012304dnentbennifer.2edfd.html

Man, this shit hurts.

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That's true. The Dallas Morning News is running a Redhat load balanced cluster, and when 9/11 hit they effectively got slashdotted. They have a measley t1 pipe to the outside world and the pipe got full, none of their boxes went down but to the public it looked as though their site was hosed. Part of this was due to the way they have Apache setup...each process has a 10 second wait for the jsp stuff to build. If you know you're headed for a /.'ing the least you can do is throw up a static page that's cached in ram.

reminds me of something IRL

An article opposing the termination of H1-B program. Study: Skilled Foreign Workers Aid U.S.

What sentence would you recommend in the hypothetical case I proposed?

I'm no fan of punishing tree-abusers more strongly than people-abusers. In fact, it really gets me mad when someone gets probation or a light sentence for killing with a car (especially if they're a football player), but someone gets thrown in jail for putting an ostrich to sleep the old-fashioned way.

But as far as determining an "appropriate" sentence... please keep in mind that this happened here in Texas, where justice can be a bit capricious. Heck, if Toby Keith had his way, he's be strung up from the remaining branches of the tall oak tree... for all the people to see...

I think the guy probably considers himself lucky.

Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done
Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree,
Round up all of them bad boys, hang them high in the street
for all the people to see...

Remember an economy that was working?

The one that Clinton nuked and then handed off to Bush as he left office?

You mean I just imagined the National Debt Clock being taken down in 2000 because it started running the wrong way? The clock was put up to dramatize government spending, so it started sending mixed messages in 2000.

Of course, it was actually a reduction in spending, with only intermitent surpluses. I'm sure Bush II has done an excellent job cutting the sur^Wdebt.

Not to toot my own horn too loudly, but as long as we're on the subject... John Carmack was out at SMU here in Dallas on Monday to talk to the first group of students entering SMU's Guildhall game development program. I'm the videogame reporter for The Dallas Morning News, so I went out to SMU and sat in on Carmack's speech and discussion. Here's the article (free reg. required) I put together afterwards, if anyone's interested.

Unfortunately, there are not too many QuickBasic jobs in Dallas. I found this one though.

I know this doesn't pay $80K/year. But, it'll make some QuickBASIC/PDS programmer happy.

A number of suburbs of Dallas, Texas (including Carrollton, where I work) are using computerized magnetic sensors to monitor traffic. They're temporary installations -- a box about 4" x 6" x 1" high is placed in the center of the traffic lane, and covered with a thick sheet of what looks to be asphalt-impregnated duct tape.

When they're done with the traffic survey -- 24 hours, typically -- the city engineers cut out the sensor, leaving the tape that was stuck to the ground. You'll see these squares all over town -- they don't seem to disintegrate for several months, even after heavy traffic driving over them. The busiest intersections have several of these leftovers.

A Dallas Morning News article a year or so ago detailed the city's use of the boxes, and noted that they could derive detailed information about the vehicles by their magnetic signatures. I didn't put 2 and 2 together, though, until Slashdot came to the rescue...

Dallas is one of the most insanely vehicle-as-status-symbol regions of the country (according to friends who have lived elsewhere). I thought that Carrollton was simply doing a traffic survey no different than the pneumatic roll-over count... but if you can tell a '82 Chevette from a brand-new Cadillac SUV, it adds a whole new dimension.

Anyone want to bet against the cities prioritizing road repairs based on relative driver income, as opposed to mere number of vehicles?

At least this case of deeping linking threat turned out better. But they still have problems with pinheads running the place at Belo, as the policy is still there for their flagship newspaper.

Be afraid when your company owns your brain ... The scary part is he was under court order to drive 160 miles to and from work everyday to work for 8 hours a day without pay to finish a program that he may not even eventually own and told he must finish it and show Alcatel how it works. He worked for 12 years on this program before coming to Alcatel. His big mistake was trusting those vultures and telling them about it. He should have waited until he wasn't working for them anymore, then developed it. Alcatel is suing everyone: Intel, Cisco, this guy. They've found a new way to make money.... litigation.
Alcatel: Where we litigate, not innovate.
More info: here, here,and here.

Deep linking is forbidden here.

Better still... Here is the article... Thus no deep linking issue at all.

Game programmers survive the Storm

Former ION studio executives to teach classes at UTD 07/06/2002
By VICTOR GODINEZ / The Dallas Morning News

The spectacular rise and fiery crash of Dallas-based computer game development studio ION Storm were landmark events in the game industry.

Now, the two men who piloted ION Storm, John Romero and Tom Hall, have resurfaced in the most unlikely of jobs: college professors.

Starting in the fall semester, Mr. Romero, 34, and Mr. Hall, 37, will be instructing computer science majors at the University of Texas at Dallas on the finer points of game programming and design.

"We're really excited to teach because we love to teach what we know, and this is the perfect place to do it," Mr. Romero said.

During ION's brief reign atop the gaming world, Mr. Romero almost single-handedly transformed the image of the nerdy game programmer, and he was known as much for his long hair, fast cars and reportedly standoffish attitude as he was for his programming flair.

On a recent afternoon on the UTD campus, Mr. Romero seemed jovial and comfortable as he and Mr. Hall talked about life after ION and their ventures into academia. Mr. Romero's rock star mane of hair was gone, replaced by a more conservative coiffure and slight stubble.

The UTD campus is a short drive from the Dallas penthouse suite in the Chase Tower where the two worked from 1996 to 2001.

But it's light-years away from the rarified air of the multibillion dollar computer game industry that Mr. Romero and Mr. Hall pioneered and rode to fame.

ION Storm was created in 1996, largely on the reputation of Mr. Romero, who helped found id Software in Mesquite, the computer game development firm responsible for mega-hits Doom and Quake.

At ION, Mr. Romero, Mr. Hall and more than 20 other programmers toiled on a game called Daikatana, which was supposed to revolutionize the world of computer games and compete with id's best offerings.

Instead, Daikatana was plagued by delays, internal disagreements documented in the industry press and disputes with publisher and financial backer Eidos, which poured millions of dollars into ION.

When Daikatana finally hit store shelves in April of 2000, it was panned by reviewers.

ION Storm did release one more game, Anachronox, that was well received critically, but the writing was already on the wall and the Dallas office shut down last year, imploding under the weight of its own publicity for Daikatana.

An ION Storm office in Austin did survive the Dallas closure, and released the blockbuster title Deus Ex, but neither Mr. Romero nor Mr. Hall were involved with the Austin location.

Scaling back
Mr. Romero and Mr. Hall did create a small game company shortly after leaving ION Storm called Monkeystone Games.

But Monkeystone's focus is on games for handheld computers, cellphones and portable consoles like Nintendo's GameBoy Advance.

"It's a very big attempt at not taking three to four years to make a game and to get something done really fast and actually get more back into
what we like to do," Mr. Romero said. "At ION we were mainly working in management, managing people, but not able to do what we really wanted to do, and we were kind of torn between it."

"ION was just too big, and now we're back to a nice, small company where we can actually do hands-on work on everything," he added.

Mr. Hall says that while Monkeystone isn't focusing on the big-budget computer game market, that doesn't mean he and Mr. Romero have thrown in the towel.

"Handheld devices are emerging and diverging and swirling around as the exciting new place to be," he said. "Everybody has cellphones and PDAs."

Mr. Romero and Mr. Hall say that working at Monkeystone is less time-consuming than ION Storm, giving them the time to embark on outside projects, such as their courses at UTD.

Learning curve
While Mr. Romero and Mr. Hall will each only be teaching one class next semester, they both say they're already drafting syllabi.

"The overall class for programming is going to be designing a game engine, and all the components that go into the game engine; the networking, the drawing subsystem, the input system, all the major components," Mr. Romero said.

Then students will learn to paste graphics on to the frame they've built and create a small game.

Mr. Hall said he's going to focus more on the design side.

"My class is more studying the whys and wherefores of game design, what you actually do, how you reward the players, the elements that make games fun," he said. "There are a lot of things that you learn, painfully, by experience that I guess these people will get a shortcut to."

"It's kind of fun to step back and analyze your craft and maybe learn some things as well," he added.

Mr. Romero said he hopes to eventually create an entire degree program at UTD in game development and design.

"If it turns out pretty good, we can maybe talk to some of our friends that are here in Dallas that are working at game companies to maybe help out with some new classes, maybe set up some kind of a degree," he said.

"There are a lot of game degrees that are popping up all over the place," Mr. Romero said. "I actually talked to a person at Collin County Community College back when we started ION Storm about doing a degree. But since we had just started ION, we had no time to do that."

Mr. Romero said he and Mr. Hall will probably sprinkle some of the business insights they learned over the years into their classes, but he said they'll mostly stay away from formal instruction on how to create and run a game development company.

"We're not doing a business class, because that's an entire class on its own," Mr. Romero said.

"A business class will knock all the illusions out of their head," Mr. Hall added with a wry grin.

E-mail vgodinez@dallasnews.com

And no I am not karma whoring... Make me a funny.

But to be on the safe side, the company's lawyer advises that "while we encourage links to the Dallas Morning News site, we must request that they all go to the homepage of the site, and not directly to any interior content. If needed, you can provide with your link info on how to find the specific article of interest once they are on the homepage. We trust that this clarifies our position."

I suppose that's not too unreasonable a request.

Today Dallas Morning News is running a fascinationg article on [fascinating topic]. The article can be reached from their home page by pasting the following URL into your location field...

The reason "deep" linking should not be illegal is because there is no fundamental difference between a deep link and a regular link. We should quit playing the game by using this term to distinguish "deep" links from others.

You can't come up with a clear, unambiguous definition of deep links without having a special database or extension to the DNS database (!) to indicate what a site considers to be deep links on a case-by-case basis. In otherwords, the only clear and concise definition of a "deep" link is "a page on the website of Somebody Powerful that that Somebody doesn't want me to link to."

You can't just say, "A deep link is a link that goes somewhere besides the top of a site." For example, this is a deep link (to a website that has tried to force people not to link to them, I might add), while this is not. Both are links to something other than just ahost.domain.com, but the second is the top page of a site.

The real problem is web newbies (big media companies) think every website should have one entry point, but the web wasn't designed that way. We should quit helping these people persist in their misunderstanding of reality by using the term "deep link."

Wired News has a similar interesting article about a cease and desist letter sent to an independant news site by Belo, corporate parent of The Dallas Morning News, forbidding them from linking to individual stories within the site. They claim that the author can only link to the site's homepage, and attempting to link to stories within the site violates their copyright.

Wired News has a similar interesting article about a cease and desist letter sent to an independant news site by Belo, corporate parent of The Dallas Morning News, forbidding them from linking to individual stories within the site. They claim that the author can only link to the site's homepage, and attempting to link to stories within the site violates their copyright.

When I went to this page on the dallas news website and clicked on the link titled "Movies" I was taken to a "deep link" on the GuideLive.com website (well it ain't the front page).

Guess what -- it looks as if GuideLive.com doesn't want the Dallas News liking to that page -- "The page you requested could not be found."

Ha bloody ha!

I don't know if this has been mentioned previously, I don't have the time to read through 377 comments ; ) but Belo's websites have some of the shoddiest methods of checking if you are registered to read their content. Just try these two (Belo likes to ask you to sign in to read local news): dallasnews.com and texas cable news All you have to do is turn off JavaScript and you can bypass all of their mechanisms to deny unregistered readers. This proves quite helpful, since their registration form is even more onerous than the NY Times. Their reg form wants your first and last name and even your address! The numbskulls who run their sites must not realize this, because I've been using this method for months.

I also notice that the Dallas Morning News has no robots.txt. That guarantees that search engines will deep link to their site. Again, the plaintiff failed to mitigate.

http://www.dallasnews.com/registration/cs_form.htm l

Everyone should inform the technical staff at the Dallas Newspaper of alternative solutions.

Belo says that those links "can result in a viewer not understanding that the content is on our client's site"

Yeah right. The link on barkingdog says Dallas Morning News - Dallas businesses assess damage (early edition)

Yeah, that's certainly very confusing, what with the way he hid the actual origin of the content and stuck it in a frame to make it look like it came from his own site. </sarcasm>

Here is a link to a Dallas Morning News article. Notice how it clearly displays the "Dallas Morning News" logo at the top left of the screen? And how there's advertising on it that's presumably earning revenue for the DMN? No, this is nothing like your analogy.

Also, I notice that some of the paper's pages require a registration to view. So presumably this newspaper has the technological capability to intercept readers coming into their site and determine what content to serve them.

Link this, you bunch of lamers:

Impeach Dick Cheney

420 Lewis!!!!!!

that this is a really crappy article. Do not read this article!

that this is a really crappy article. Do not read this article!

that this is a really crappy article. Do not read this article!

that this is a really crappy article. Do not read this article!

What's wrong with linking ?

What's wrong with linking ?

What's wrong with linking ?

What's wrong with linking ?

What's wrong with linking ?

Don't tell us! Tell the Dallas News (via their contact form) and their parent company, Belo.

good golly somebody stop me please!

good golly somebody stop me please!

good golly somebody stop me please!

good golly somebody stop me please!

good golly somebody stop me please!

good golly somebody stop me please!

as far as the Court is concerned between:

This
and
This: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/topstories/storie s/050102dnspomavsbrite.1b9f8.html ?

As far as I can tell people only complain when you actually embed a hyperlink in the source, rather than just display it as plain text. A difference of 15 characters.

Perhaps we could simply argue that we are just writing down the address of the story, it's the damn user's browser that is turning it into a highly-illegal hyperlink!

Here's a "deep" link for you - the feedback form. Please fill in all Name, Email, etc. fields bogusly and tell them their policy is idiotic. I classified mine as

According to the Belo lawyer:

"By providing any direct links to content within the site, you allow visitors to avoid the homepage, which:

* can result in a viewer not understanding that the content is on our client's site; and

* allows the viewer to avoid the advertising, etc., on the homepage (which places our client in a bad position with respect to its advertisers, etc.)."

IANAL, but it sure sounds like this lawyer doesn't have a legal leg to stand on.

crap i did it again

oops

i think i just broke (c) law. aaaah!

Actually they all ready have come out with a service that matches it here in Dallas.

click here

While it shouldn't be inherently illegal to decode and copy discs for legitimate purposes, that's not how DeCSS is being used, the majority of the time. It sucks, but it's true.

Also, look how guns are being used:
http://www.police.nashville.org/news/media/1998/no vember/111298.htm
http://www.co.ramsey.mn.us/attorney/pr_thao.html
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/arlington/arlingto n_news/STORY.ea7fa58a63.b0.af.0.a4.33ca3.html
http://woub.org/news/Stories/2001/January/010109-0 4.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/43950_murder24 .shtml

<sarcasm>Looks like it's time to go after those gun manufacturers. After all, their products are clearly being used to break the law with disastrous results for society.</sarcasm>

In our society, people are supposed to be held responsible for their *own* misdeeds, NOT the potential misdeeds of others. That was the heart of the Betamax decision, and it seems like the same standard should be applied here. DeCSS is not required for copying, and can be used for significant non-infringing purposes. PERIOD!