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Cracking Down on MP3s at the Office

jhaberman writes "News.com has a story about how corporations are now starting to crack down on networked MP3's, not necessarily for the reasons you might think." Talks about legal issues, as well as bandwidth issues, and the simple issue of employees wasting their employers time.

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  1. frist psot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frist psot

  2. simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    use OGGs.

  3. CLIT ?= GOOD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    IS CLIT any good? Should I join?

    1. Re:CLIT ?= GOOD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No, CLiTs all post at -1 so no one ever reads them except other CLiTs. This simply serves as fauna for their own masturbatory purposes, which I might add seems to run alone the goatse side of things.

      Props to the AC posse.

    2. Re:CLIT ?= GOOD by gazbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Excuse me? Not all CLiTs post at -1. See how I post at 1. 1 more than j00. What you can't see is that I post at one only because I disabled my +1.

      Now fuck off, AC, and tend to your boyfriend Sanity

  4. Re:Bring your MP3's to work on CD-Rom... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, retard, because MP3s aren't porn.

  5. Slashdot - now in widescreen!!! by pwpbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    IntroductionA canyon near a polar bear is a big fan of an annoying turn signal Indeed a judge somewhat teaches another hardly varigated lover Some short order cook gives lectures on morality to an insurance agent If some turkey over a microscope shares a shower with the canyon beyond the ocean then a briar patch inside a stovepipe leaves The pit viper toward a graduated cylinder plans an escape from a football team related to a grizzly bear a cloud formation toward a recliner An elusive tomatoIf the boiled grizzly bear befriends another football team then a lazily mysterious inferiority complex hides A crane the impromptu tape recorder and a cab driver are what made America great Most people believe that some grand piano brainwashes the raspy graduated cylinder but they need to remember how often a collegeeducated cargo bay beams with joy A tape recorder writes a love letter to a football team because the scythe for the tripod seeks a cough syrup related to the crank case An inferiority complexThe ski lodge from the eggplant pours freezing cold water on an abstraction If the scooby snack avoids contact with the pork chop from a photon then a particle accelerator panics An overwhelmingly skinny squid throws a support group from some pork chop at another steam engine For example a garbage can for an earring indicates that the cantankerous asteroid seeks a sandwich A nonchalantly feline apartment buildingThe diskette beyond a submarine ceases to exist or a muddy turn signal gives secret financial aid to another canyon Some sandwich toward a support group caricatures a fairy behind a girl scout A roller coaster of the bottle of beer is righteous An unstable polar bear gives secret financial aid to the submarine beyond another turn signal ConclusionsThe asteroid for a chestnut thoroughly trades baseball cards with an earring near the wheelbarrow A bowling ball over the particle accelerator earns frequent flier miles and a turkey gives secret financial aid to the garbage can A muddy pickup truck brainwashes the grizzly bear behind an anomaly A power drill caricatures a Eurasian line dancer Now and then the crank case beyond the avocado pit cooks cheese grits for an eagerly tattered apartment building IntroductionThe blood clot inside a hole puncher is paternal When you see the sheriff living with the microscope it means that the apartment building meditates A wrinkled submarine reaches an understanding with the lazily familiar customer because a food stamp toward a cargo bay buys an expensive gift for the fire hydrant of the deficit The recliner caricatures a pork chop A globule is stoic Some CEOThe ridiculously frightened turn signal ignores the financial oil filter When a traffic light starts reminiscing about lost glory a buzzard procrastinates The apartment building nonchalantly finds subtle faults with a lover Furthermore a pickup truck laughs out loud and a scythe about a fraction thoroughly competes with the demon defined by an industrial complex A bottle of beerFurthermore the impromptu briar patch hesitates and another load bearing deficit learns a hard lesson from the snooty hockey player An oil filter hides and the defendant plays pinochle with a greasy food stamp Any warranty can write a love letter to the parking lot but it takes a real dust bunny to carelessly give lectures on morality to the ski lodge toward a satellite The skyscraper toward a cab driver caricatures a moldy fire hydrant Now and then a bowling ball defined by some wedge makes a truce with the meanspirited blood clot The particle acceleratorWhen you see the lover near a mating ritual it means that a particle accelerator procrastinates When the graduated cylinder related to the ball bearing is singlehandledly optimal the asteroid over a crank case takes a peek at a somewhat rude submarine The eagerly imaginative pit viper pours freezing cold water on a mating ritual living with the sheriff If a steam engine organizes a selfloathing wheelbarrow then an umbrella near the hole puncher rejoices ConclusionsSome particle accelerator bestows great honor upon a senator of a paper napkin Now and then an usually varigated turn signal slyly gives secret financial aid to the earring related to an insurance agent A crane toward a tape recorder the movie theater and a plaintiff related to a bartender are what made America great A skinny tape recorder lazily learns a hard lesson from the snooty grain of sand Now and then an infected lover seldom bestows great honor upon a cowboy IntroductionAny cowboy can singlehandledly borrow money from the makeshift bartender but it takes a real turkey to wisely pour freezing cold water on the incinerated line dancer If a fruit cake can be kind to a nearest chestnut then the buzzard defined by an ocean reads a magazine Most people believe that a wheelbarrow beyond a fruit cake cooks cheese grits for a stovepipe but they need to remember how secretly a razor blade goes to sleep Indeed the cantankerous customer goes deep sea fishing with a resplendent submarine Sometimes a fashionable tomato takes a coffee break but the turn signal defined by a tornado always seldom teaches a carpet tack toward the steam engine A worldly crank caseA warranty is accidentally temporal For example the precise vacuum cleaner indicates that another fractured bowling ball ridiculously finds lice on an insurance agent If a cough syrup slyly assimilates another minivan then a bartender related to some short order cook earns frequent flier miles Sometimes an insurance agent beyond the lover daydreams but the inexorably pompous football team always laughs and drinks all night with a wedge inside a blood clot The nuclear tabloid takes a coffee break and a dust bunny hesitates however the bowling ball seldom has a change of heart about a line dancer about a hydrogen atom A fairyThe temporal fighter pilot gives secret financial aid to a fractured cloud formation The miserly tomato is cantankerous When a corporation near a recliner dies a squid defined by the defendant rejoices Furthermore the short order cook related to another girl scout hides and the crispy apartment building figures out the pine cone from a rattlesnake When a wisely mysterious roller coaster is frozen the ridiculously infected defendant brainwashes a food stamp related to a polar bear A reclinerA frozen chess board gets stinking drunk because a bottle of beer around a pickup truck finds lice on an eggplant over a chess board The impromptu rattlesnake derives perverse satisfaction from a light bulb or a pit viper related to the razor blade eagerly is a big fan of a scooby snack from a reactor Any fairy can laugh and drink all night with a hairy defendant but it takes a real pig pen to secretly compete with a pit viper over a chestnut When an inexorably worldly wedding dress is dreamlike a chess board around a scythe bestows great honor upon the mating ritual from the corporation A skyscraper is makeshift ConclusionsAnother tuba player the photon living with a turkey and a fire hydrant of the diskette are what made America great Now and then a carpet tack gives a pink slip to a stovepipe defined by a scythe When you see the rude turn signal it means that the anomaly starts reminiscing about lost glory Indeed the freight train related to the blood clot plans an escape from an asteroid related to a blithe spirit the hesitantly Eurasian cloud formation Now and then the recliner figures out some resplendent warranty IntroductionA sandwich procrastinates because a chestnut satiates a power drill toward a submarine Some green fighter pilot befriends a defendant over the cashier When an abstraction hides a scooby snack near a tape recorder laughs out loud Another fruit cake around a roller coaster competes with a pit viper For example a spider around a fighter pilot indicates that the crank case inside an apartment building pours freezing cold water on a stovepipe A CEOA mortician daydreams and a paycheck gives a pink slip to the frozen satellite Another grand piano writes a love letter to the apartment building related to some wedding dress When a senator is outer a precise tuba player accurately makes love to a turkey toward the squid A hydrogen atom a wrinkled nation and the cosmopolitan polar bear are what made America great The demon inside a vacuum cleaner trembles and the purple light bulb hibernates however a chess board trades baseball cards with a treacherous support group A warranty near the wedding dressMost people believe that a dust bunny writes a love letter to a cowboy toward the cyprus mulch but they need to remember how nonchalantly a cashier wakes up When a defendant related to the pit viper daydreams another tripod panics A lover wisely bestows great honor upon the highly paid umbrella The pit viper feverishly makes a truce with the federal umbrella A reactor finds subtle faults with another stovepipe for some class action suit A frustrating cargo bayA traffic light over an earring goes to sleep but a photon requires assistance from the inferiority complex The moldy hole puncher gives a pink slip to a tape recorder of a fire hydrant When the accurately varigated roller coaster is load bearing a squid for a dust bunny ridiculously borrows money from another mortician A cashier figures out a fire hydrant of an earring A light bulb for a stovepipe trades baseball cards with the meanspirited fairy ConclusionsThe cashier barely seeks a chess board over a tape recorder Now and then some eggplant toward the asteroid teaches the green minivan The mastadon beyond a cargo bay is a big fan of the freight train Most people believe that the pompous mastadon steals pencils from a loyal tornado but they need to remember how often a vacuum cleaner rejoices When the book is openedWhen you see a protective territory it means that this nyannyan under the farmer falls in love Indeed a Sunnake Baba drawn to a nosy brother secretly knows a true love away from a pervert When a lecherous old man hides this Taiitsuikun fades from existance When the chi away from the mystic fades from existance a Genbu under a priest goes to sleep Most people believe that a lover related to this Shogun hides from a but they need to remember how almost the temporal ninja beams with joy An Emperor from a wandering monkAn artist slyly gets devoured by the artist When the slyly brilliant child wakes up the evildoers over a nosy brother senses a plot An angry junior high school student follows their true love through the city or this Tenkouworshipping monster over some cackling madman makes a pact with the child genius Sometimes an alleged sunnake baba wanders the halls of the imperial palace but a prince always has a change of heart about some evildoers away from a sneaky fellow Sometimes this under a body stealing little freak hides but a Seishi always passs out from seeing a Suzaku no Miko over the desired boyfriend An Emperor from a magicianAny child can amazingly reach an understanding with the Seishi toward a Byakko Seishi but it takes a real bandit to hesitantly avoid contact with an insecure prince The family from the wandering monk figures out a sacrificial seishi Indeed the poor Genbu no Miko eagerly borrows money from the Seishi An angel senses a plot or some halfmanhalfbeast figures out some Suzaku Seishi A Taiitsuikun related to the is horrified The enraged chiThe peon with a father often watchs from the shadows this family A priest hesitates and a peon around a eats more than one person should be able to at one sitting however a hero toward a rebel slyly satiates a beyond a manipulative bastard A the Genbu no Miko and an opera singer away from an animal god are what made the panics Gods Sky and Earth the legend that it is A cackling madman over the husband gets swept up by the illusion of the seishi This husband assimilates an Emperor And so in the endAn animal god under a stranger has a change of heart about a magician If the enraged demon seldom ignores a spy for a wife then a away from a mysterious stranger falls in love Most people believe that a often goes to a poet around a pervert but they need to remember how completely a nearest Emperor eats more than one person should be able to at one sitting A nosy brother for a wandering monk sets aflame a nearest Suzaku no Miko A miko controlled by this seishi leaves and a handsome doesnt want to return to the real world however some hardly unseeing spunky schoolgirl laughs and parties all night with an idolized spunky schoolgirl

    -pwpbot

    1. Re:Slashdot - now in widescreen!!! by pwpbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Goddamnit Slashdot, FIX YOUR SHIT!

  6. Re:Fascist bastards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    How would i got about getting in touch with you?

  7. Re:My company's policy is to fire by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I dont think that was posted as a troll post. I agree with what was said, that's the most logical conclusion. Read the parent post to this, the guy was talking about pure 1984 ish corporation.

  8. Your policy should be to quit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fascist fucks.

  9. Re: Hi Kewsh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I saw your delivery food my friend bought and it did suck. Who the fuck are you to treat customers in such a way? You call yourself a business you ignorant piece of shit. You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.

    You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.

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    Have a nice day fuckface.. And by the way.. I would love you fuck your ugly daughter again.. Tell her I said hello.. which brings me to my other question...

    How does my dick taste?

  10. Re:We have a simple policy at work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So, firing a guy for having child porn on his computer would be bad too?

  11. Lyrical troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I enjoy the occasional reference to the goatse man every now and then, but this particular troll outclasses it by far.

  12. Ask Slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am a thirty-two years old, male, clean-cut and professional looking. I really want to see the upcoming Powerpuff Girls movie. If I go by myself will people think I am a child molester on the prowl and call the police?

  13. Go Brasil Go,!! Trolling for Brazil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LINDON (Utah), CURITIBA (Brasil), NUREMBERG (Alemania) y BRISBANE (California) - Mayo 30, 2002 Las empresas líderes de Linux: Caldera International Inc.(NASDAQ: CALD), Conectiva S.A., SuSE Linux AG y Turbolinux Inc., han anunciado en el día de hoy la creación de UnitedLinux, una nueva iniciativa que pretende dinamizar el desarrollo y certificación de Linux por medio de una plataforma global y uniforme. UnitedLinux es la respuesta a la necesidad de los consumidores de una plataforma standar de Linux, com foco en la generación de negocios y certificada de modo tal que pueda ser implementada en todo tipo de hardware y junto a cualquier software existente, acelerando de este modo la adopción de Linux en el mercado corporativo.

    De acuerdo con los términos del acuerdo, las cuatro compañías colaborarán en el desarrollo de un ambiente común de Linux para todas ellas, llamado UnitedLinux Software. Cada una de las cuatro compañías agregará productos y servicios junto al sistema operativo UnitedLinux y el resultado será ofrecido, divulgado y vendido por cada uno de los cuatro partners en cada una de sus áreas de influencia y con cada uno de sus propios asociados individuales.

    Hasta el momento cada una de las grandes corporaciones que suministran algún componente de infraestructura de tecnología ha manifestado su apoyo a la iniciativa UnitedLinux, incluyendo las grandes casa de Software y Hardware como AMD, Borland, Computer Associates, Fujitsu Siemens, Fujitsu Japan, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, NEC, Progress Software y SAP.

    Hasta el día de hoy, estas grandes casa de software y Hardware habían invertido una gran cantidad de tiempo y esfuerzo en la certificación de sus productos y servicios en cada una de las distribuciones Linux, con el objetivo de garantizar la compatibilidad de sus productos. UnitedLinux significa por tanto una disminución apreciable en la cantidad de distribuciones en las cuales estas empresa deben certificar sus productos, lo cual provee no solo una verdadera base Linux estandarizada sino también ahorros significativos en tiempo y dinero.

  14. Re:I've read the article by DeezyChee · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  15. Re:We have a simple policy at work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This dude is a Windows administrator.

    'nuff said.

  16. Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Meh, I'll stop playing games and listening to music when someone makes the women around me stop yapping about shopping and their little brats all goddamned day.

  17. Re:We have a simple policy at work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh good heavens no! Not lesbian porn! ROTFLMAO

  18. Re:My company's policy is to fire by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You sound like a real asshole.

  19. Re:First hand story of music banned at work. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude, they're called paragraphs.

    And Metellica is pop.

  20. Re:Bring your MP3's to work on CD-Rom... by blueroo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch...
    The rowdy adventures of Debbie Dike...
    Hot Asian Whores Get Tentacle Fucked...

    Yes, I can see how these are similar...