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Well, according to Google images, she could either be a teacher, a photographer, a student, or a 29-year old baby.

Take your pick.

Well, according to Google images, she could either be a teacher, a photographer, a student, or a 29-year old baby.

Take your pick.

Many of us have indeed worn them, you insensitive clod!

p.s. anybody know how to sing?

One flaw in your logic - the rich can afford prophylactic anti-malarial medications and do not get infected if they are taking them. The poor generally do not have access to the same, and that's the point of Mr. Gates' presentation.

Also, the only Dengue Fever anyone will catch in Long Beach is the band. The type of mosquitoes that carry dengue don't live there.

I once found somebody who bothered to write down all the myspace code and actually figure out how to make it look decent. I was so stunned that I felt out of my chair when I viewed a myspace page and no music started playing, nothing flashed, the color scheme was readable, and the page was easy on the eyes. Of course, the guy did it just for the challenge and happens to be Mike Davidson the creator of newsvine. http://www.myspace.com/mikeindustries

So it actually can be done. Just not without spending way too much time trying to figure out what things like this mean and how to change it:

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A bigger effect on the number of users downloading has been the emergence of imeem and Myspace Music which both provide instant on demand access to almost everything ever released. imeem isn't nearly as well known as myspace, but because it allows users to upload their favorite tunes to share it has a larger selection (imeem was founded by a load of ex-napster 1.0 engineers). So between them they've essentially removed a huge number of people who would go to P2P to just find one or two songs. There are a load of other less popular music sites (last.fm, pandora etc) but myspace and imeem are vastly more popular (and legal), so they're having the biggest effect.

I wonder if they can make an adamantium version of this? X-Men Origins Trailer

it's like Myspace. Let's see if the same model works more than once.

A small start-up launched in the UK not too long ago that allows regular folks to "invest" in artists that they like.

It's a pretty interesting alternative to the traditional record-label that lets the artist eat in between tours and releases, and also pays back in the event that the record is successful.

I doubt it'd ever work for mainstream stuff, though the idea is interesting to ponder, nevertheless.

One of my favorite artists is attempting to finance his new album through it. We'll see how that turns out....

I didn't know that [...] only Indians can be named Haji. Aren't you being racist by assuming that names are tied to race?

A) Because of the outsourcing of tech jobs to India, the "cheaper Indian tech worker" is a stereotype - especially in tech circles.

B) Haji is a racial epithet for all people with brown skin or of non-Christian belief. It is a blanket term for "the other" or "them", and is used by US military personnel in Iraq like "gook" was used in Vietnam, "Kraut" in Germany, and the way the "N word" is used in the United States by rednecks: As a way to dehumanize and demoralize.

I will assume you were ignorant of this second fact, but have a hard time believing you didn't know the first.

Manufacturing a fictional cheaper coder named Haji for the sake of discussion may not have been willfully bigoted, but to claim that your fictional Haji was anything other than a person with brown skin insults the intelligence of everyone reading this thread.

Of one thing you are correct: Nationalism and Racism are not (strictly speaking) the same thing. Xenophobia has many shades, but they all divide the world into "us" and "them".

I don't believe there was any malice in your choice of names. If only you said "If Bob next door can write a app and sell it for $1.99 that you want to write and sell for $29.99...", but you didn't. You used a stereotype and an epithet to create a "them" to compare someone to and got called out on it.

Man up and move on. Don't dig any deeper.

There's only one question I want answered by Obama, how much longer will these needless wars for Israel continue? Will it 'change' under Obama? Highly doubtful. Israel already owns Obama after he picked Rahm Emanuel, the son of a terrorist, as Chief of Staff. Obama will probably let Mossad slide on their 9/11 involvement and Obama will continue Middle East wars. So who won the US election? Israel did, as always.

I look forward to Stephen Conroy protecting my internet from unwanted material.
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The gov't is too busy finding fake terrorists and starting wars. It should focus on getting rid of these morons who create viruses. Will Obama be any different? No, he'll continue the absurd War on Terror. After all, Mossad already owns Obama (he picked Rahm Emanuel, the son of a terrorist as Chief of Staff). Obama will probably let Mossad slide on their 9/11 involvement and Obama will continue their wars. So who won? Israel did, as always. Who lost? Everyone else.

Whoever it is as Copyright Czar, we can rest assured it will be a zioni$t. Mossad already owns Obama (he picked Rahm Emanuel, the son of a terrorist as Chief of Staff). Obama will probably let Mossad slide on their 9/11 involvement ,protect their Hollywood garbage with over-reaching copyrights and continue their wars. So who won? Israel did, as always.

According to the outcome of this case, violating a web site's terms of service is a crime, not just a contract issue.

The MySpace Terms of Service prohibit harassing other users. They also require accurate contact information.

If a website operator can put you in jail for TOS violations as opposed to just closing your account, then as long as they can get a prosecutor to play along, they can put you in jail for signing up with bogus information.

>This has to do with psychological stalking and trauma. Please pull your head out of your ass. I'm sure it's hard to breathe up there.

"The Los Angeles federal court jury on Wednesday rejected felony charges of accessing a computer without authorization to inflict emotional distress on young Megan Meier."

Do your own recording. Put it on bittorrent. Ask your fans to see your preformances and buy/donate - but don't force them and don't blame them for anything.

That's what my band, Darkfold, does. Problem is, it's tough to get many people to show up at a gig for a band they've never heard of. We try to do some local promotion (flyers, notifying local mags, myspace updates, facebook events, etc.) but there's a lot of noise out there. Why should they listen to us? The big issue, I believe, is that the major labels still control radio, which is still the main way people find out about new music. Radio offers familiarity and repetition, both of which are vectors for catchy songs.

The playing field isn't level yet. I'd prefer some sort of radio-sponsored version of thesixtyone.com or cherrypeel.com -- tailored to suit their audiences' tastes. The songs that rank high would get played on the air in regular rotation for awhile. The ones that cause excitement on the air get to stick around longer. As is, indie artists are mostly shut out of the most powerful medium for discovering new music and that means the labels have a built-in advantage that is multiplied by their huge promotional budgets, industry contacts/credibility and experience.

Long story short; indie artists still can't compete with the label juggernauts. There are a lotta great bands out there that just need a chance.

BTW, we are on BitTorrent. Now there's a kickass distribution channel -- we just need a way to let people know about us.

But seriously there are a lot of ways that the E.U. is less free than America ..... and overall just a more-restrictive society.

Depends on your viewpoint actually... I find Europe to be much more free than the US with regards to the culture, even if the law is technically a little more restrictive (in many, but not all, ways).

First, where you're right: It's true that if I walk down the street here in Germany doing my best Hitler impression I could technically be arrested (although I don't know if they would do so in practice - I'm not game to find out), and it's also true that even in the case of self defence against criminals, one must be careful to avoid injuring the criminal beyond what is necessary to stop them committing the crime (it's NOT true you can't defend yourself though! AND violent crime is pretty rare, so it's less of an issue)...
It's also true that taxes here are very high - I pay nearly 50% of my income in taxes, plus reasonably high taxes on things I buy, especially petrol. I accept this though, because I can see the benefits of these taxes in the society around me (clean cities, no homeless people begging on the streets for change, low crime, excellent public transport, and much more)

HOWEVER, as I said, there's the cultural/social side to consider. For example, here in Europe:

• You can say "fuck" on TV without people getting offended or the word being "bleeped"
• Prostitution is legal (in most of Europe, but not all)
• There's no such thing as "indecent exposure"
• People are tolerant/accepting of "non mainstream" lifestyles (even if they don't agree with them or like them) - I'd feel distinctly unsafe walking through most places in the US wearing a cravat shirt and gothic makeup, whereas here in Europe I'll hardly get a second glance (no matter how weird they think I am, they'll leave me alone)
• Due to not being paranoid about everyone and crime rates being pretty low, it's okay to leave your child unattended or with a stranger for a minute while you go do something
• If I get caught with an illegal narcotic, I will NOT go to prison (unless it's an excessive amount, or I'm trying to take it over a border or something)
• I can drive as fast as I like on the Autobahn

If none of these things interest you (or even if you're actively against these things), fine... but we like it the way we have it, so you shouldn't think even for a second that we're all oppressed and struggling under authoritarian regimes on this side of the pond!

Heh, like you I was expecting to see Chinese Democracy mentioned in the GP joke. Actually listening to Chinese Democracy is almost, if not quite, as shocking as playing DNF.

Stores will have it in a few days, but you can listen to it here right now. I am pleasantly surprised, actually - was expecting a complete disgrace after all this time. But it sounds good, after an initial listening (my final opinion will wait for it to sink in).

Looks like Mossad already owns Obama (he picked Rahm Emanuel, the son of a terrorist). Obama will probably let Mossad slide on their 9/11 involvement and Obama will continue their wars. So who won? Israel did, as always.

Looks like Mossad already owns Obama (he picked Rahm Emanuel, the son of a terrorist). Obama will probably let Mossad slide on their 9/11 involvement and Obama will continue their wars. So who won? Israel did, as always.

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Seems to me that the *really* smart thing to do would be to recruit more kinds of smart people than just scientists. Out here in Portland some of the smartest people I know doing some of the most innovative work are working at cafes and creating new vegan food that actually tastes good, doing funky little magazines, and otherwise finding ways to make all sorts of work intellectually challenging and fun.

I've been in some of the most famous concentrations of smart people in the world and I see no reasons to believe that a "city of smart people" would also need to have some sizable population of dimwits. If anything, if living expenses were cheap, healthcare provided, and "low status" jobs were normally flextime and twenty hours a week or less, plenty of smart folks would flock there for a chance to live in a way that they could pay their bills and still be able to pursue their other projects. Not only could you fill all of your janitor jobs with smart people who would respect the job and be able to talk to the other people there, you would have to bloody near barricade the walls to keep too many people for applying.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=9103162

Some more fun with butter

I do not see the big deal here. Everthing that this label needs is on their MySpace page and they are doing everything a band can do on their own anyway. http://www.myspace.com/quoteunquoterecords Did the website in question actually host any music?

You're exactly right. I often have people ask me why I don't post all of the pics I post to my personal website on myspace or facebook. My short answer is - I *pay* for jcrouse.com, the hosting of my data, etc. and it is [essentially] my little spot on the `net. When I put it on Faceboook, there is an always changing EULA and the fact that I have no control over their servers, their policies, or *anything* that they do with my data. I don't even know if I even 'own' the pictures I post on those websites anymore. Since I make the EULA on what is posted on my website, I have a better feeling I own them.

This of course is not withstanding the EULA I have with my hosting provider. I know some, like godaddy have some weird things going on, and I am not trying to get into that discussion with this post (I don't use godaddy for that specific reason) - my point is, posting your [presumably] valuable information on something like Yahoo or Facebook could be problematic. You *don't* own the domain, you *don't* pay for the server space. You have no recourse if they delete, modify, censor, or otherwise (in your mind) misuse your data.

unbelievably hilarious this is milliones of dollars down the tubes the song!!!!!! and it's in arabic too!!! http://www.myspace.com/toumanidiabate TAPHA NIANG!! CLICK IT

Personally, I watched the first two presidential debates and the vp debate streaming live from MySpace. I don't use MySpace for anything else. Quality was OK. I like that I get the feed from before & after commercial TV picks it up. More like being in the audience.

There are a few old TV shows' episodes that are shorted to like 5-6 minutes long on MySpace and YouTube.

I totally agree - the only CD I've bought in the last few months was Angela Brown's 'In a Dangerous Mood'

She's awesome live, and I got the CD at a gig in the West End Centre.

Check her out at her myspace page - she's one hell of a blues singer.

Go out and see music live, and buy the CDs directly from the artist - it's their living, not some shyster RIAA bastards.

I got my PS3 originally for the BlueRay ... and the fact that it had be eons since I had had a game console (that SuperNintendo is currently gathering dust in a closet right now). My first two games were "Ratchet and Clank Future" and "Resistance: Fall of Man".

I liked the "story" of Resistance, but hated the gameplay (and FPS style, since it was story driven ... the "maps" were very linear in order to make sure you went the right way). FPSs are so much better with a keyboard and mouse.

"R&CF:ToD" was very fun. But the real fun began with "Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga". There's just something to be said for being able to run around with a lightsaber and slashing Storm Troopers. And the puzzles were okay.

"Lego Indiana Jones" was kinda cool. The puzzles were a little more involved, but there was something lacking in the game ... something about the feel that just wasn't right.

"Lego Batman" has been great so far. I like the fact that you play both Batman through "Story"s as well as the "Villans".

My biggest issue with all of the "Lego" games has been the "Story" and "Free Play" options. You really can't do all of the "Free Play" stuff until you've gone through enough of the "Story"s to unlock key characters (or in the case of Batman, special Batsuits) (IE, in "Star Wars", there are things you just can't do in the first three movies - six stories each - until you've come across Tie Fighters in "A New Hope). It's kind of a "forced delayed replayability" thing. But once you have those extra characters, it's very cool.

All PS3 games so far have been able to play 720P. However, the game animation quality of "The Simpsons" just flat out sucked (cutscenes were cool, but there was some "blockiness" to the edges of characters during the game). There are reviews on my MySpace blog for most of the games I've played.

However, it takes a great deal more work to set up than a simple sniffer, because you have to either capture/block/proxy/rewrite packets so that each side thinks it's speaking with the other, or spoof the DNS somehow.

The "Default Gateway" IP address allows your computer to send an ARP for your gateway (i.e. 192.168.0.1) and get its MAC address; to send a packet to be routed, it determines that the destination IP isn't on this subnet and so sets the MAC address for the frame to the MAC of the default gateway (hardware drops any frames destined for anything beyond its own MAC or broadcast), which looks at the IP address and uses that to route, setting the MAC to the next hop. There is no encapsulation of packets to route them or anything; they're sent bare, with the MAC address always pointing at the next hop (which, on the subnet of the destination address, is that computer's MAC; otherwise, it's the next router's MAC).

Send an ARP response across the network (broadcast MAC or target the next hop router towards the SSL server), and anything listening to it will update its ARP tables automatically. Update the IP of the router with your MAC and you'll receive all packets outbound through that router. If you do nothing, you just broke the network; packets won't route out that way anymore.

Now that you have packets, route them; simply change the MAC to the router's MAC and resend them, and they'll route properly.

When you see something interesting like an SSL session with a self-signed cert, stop it. Do the handshake, construct and answer back with a self-signed cert on the fly (doesn't have to be cryptographically secure, so don't use awesome entropy; use random()), and proxy.

Ettercap does just that. If you're at a coffee shop with a wireless access point, you can do nasty things to everyone. You can even rewrite bank certs to be self-signed, so the users go "Huh what's this? I dunno. *yes*" and you have their bank stuff now. MySpace doesn't even use a cert; but if you coerce it into using https://secure.myspace.com/ instead of http, it uses a self-signed cert and you win anyway.

The process isn't as simple as eavesdropping, technically. It's not, however, as difficult as hacking into The Pentagon or something; you won't find, every day or every new network you touch, that the problem is completely different and you need to expend hours of human intervention thinking and searching and investigating. It's like cracking DVD encryption: you do it once, then distribute the program and it works on everything.

I think that a lot of this has got to do with the general decline of the quality of pop music. People now expect to hear rubbishy 3 minute bubblegum crap on the radio that has the emotional impact of a wet lettuce. As a result, our general experience of music has been relegated to "background sounds".

The latest game that I remember with great music was Doom. Those tracks rocked. (Mainly because they were based on classic heavy metal tracks. ) But then when I eventually moved onto newer games (Tomb Raider, Deus Ex) the soundtrack was just a bit of a yawn. I can't even remember if Doom 3 had any music and what it was like.

As any experienced gamer can tell you, great music can make a really big difference to a game. But generally it's regarded as something to slot into the game at the last minute. There are notable exceptions of course - a new Wii game called De Blob was designed ground up with the music in mind. It'll make a big difference.

BTW - if you really want some good rockin' music for your game, get in contact with me :) (Some of my music is up here and here. And I've done some music for the Angry Nintendo Nerd so some of you guys might have already heard my stuff without even knowing :)

AnchondO. Great local band in Omaha. They tour the entire midwest pretty constantly, have a great following, I believe make a living playing the music they love, and have never had a record contract.

http://www.myspace.com/anchondo

Make a difference!

Take Responsibility!

I challenge all of you to listen to this and help make a change!

Hear this kid's song "if you (have a voice)"...the Best New wake up call for America and the world we affect!

We need everyone to make this happen. Do your part.

Surely you're joking, would they have turned away someone like Richard Feynman? for things like this:

I went to a beer party in the Nassau Tavern in Princeton. There was a gentleman, newly arrived from Europe (Herbert Jehle) who came and sat next to me. Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party. So, he sat by me and asked, "what are you doing" and so on, and I said, "I'm drinking beer." -- Nobel Prize lecture, 1965

For all of you who don't know Mal Webb, a fabulous musician:

Waterbear song

Speaking of dumping and red rings of death....one day, our other guitar player ate an entire jar of that really spicy Thai hot sauce. Do I need to say more?

Dang. There are actually net-savvy kids out there now who never lived in a world without Google. Think about that!

I wouldn't put much stock in that if I were you. The majority of these 'net-savvy' kids are the same ones posting to Myspace and fucking Bebo for christs sakes. Sure they think themselves net-savvy but they're all deluded.

I think that posted to the wrong site. I think here is where you wanted to post. LOL OMG!!!!!11onehundredandone!

But if you allow too much ability to override the designer's font/layout mandates, how will Autechre update their MySpace?!

I don't know what alternatives you have for access there (IE, who you're currently using), but here in Tampa it's basically Verizon FIOS and Bright House. While there may be something to say for FIOS's network speed, Bright House wasn't too bad when I used it, and their current HD TV line up and general cable service have some strong points over Verizon's. Enough to where I'm tempted to switch back, at least until Verizon's HD channels start matching up with Bright House's.

Ummm, I have a MySpace page and Pokemon Diamond was one of the most enjoyable games I've played. Sorry if my non-Slashdot hobbies aren't as purely geeky as you might have hoped.

Now excuse me while I take my son out skateboarding, then later tonight to a tractor pull.

I could say the exact same thing about music CDs. Tool's 10,000 Days did just that. The CD has some awesome artwork in the form of a booklet filled with stereograms, complete with glasses.

I do pirate music, but I tend to buy it if I feel it's worth my money. I stumbled upon Japanese post-rock band Mono a few years ago, and pirated their music.
After listening to it for a while, I decided that it was worth a buy, so I went and bougth almost all of their CDs.
They played in Copenhagen last year, and a few weeks before, I introduced their music to some of my friends to try to get them to tag along to the concert. I was successful in just that, and I brought 5 friends to their show.
To sum it all up, my act of piracy actually got them a lot of new fans. I bought almost all their albums, will buy their newest when I have some money to spare, and I brougth 5 people to their concert -- all because of piracy.

If you're interested in hearing what they sound like, I suggest going to their MySpace. Wikipedia has an article about them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(Japanese_band).

Shellac is alive and well in the music industry.

This is a GNAA advisory council memorandum!
The GNAA respect the rights of others, and we issue this to certify that: unless you want to be buggered by a non-classified 100-year-old Vietnamese female Divorced Bi-sexual 7' 11" / Body builder Scientologist who is Smoking and Drinking daily after reading a horrorscope as an Aquarius having Post Grad while finishing up a cup of Hot Coffee before engauging in the $250,000 and Higher income-earning business of Prostitute, then DO NOT visit her MYSPACE PAGE...

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=197904807

remember folks! Internet is Serious

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Yesterday I heard that some ITT employees claimed to have the first industrial safety rap song. Maybe you'll like it, but I was not impressed.

SHe was talking to right winger who was "educated" (told) by a talk radio host that global warming is a myth created by anti-capitalist environmental whackjobs.

Did "SHe" happen to be talking to Penn and Teller?

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=8917946

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=35123165

Seriously...if I'm gonna wish to get laid by a star, I want someone like Adriana Lima the Victoria Secrets model...Much easier on the eyes....and less weight if she is on top.

Sorry for the myspace link...but, it had the best pics I could find on a quick 30 sec search...