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Commerce Dep't to Hold Public Workshop on DRM
ttyp writes: "The United States Department of Commerce Technology Administration (TA) announced a public workshop on digital entertainment and rights management. They're taking public comments here according to the announcement, but they sure have hidden it well. Can anybody find the form? The deadline is July 11!!"
I am a frequent visitor to slashdot and also an avid supporter of anonymous free speech online. However I noticed something VERY ODD regarding slashdot. I use ad-aware on my Windows XP system, and it found the double click cookie. Here is a summery of the doubleclick SPYWARE cookie from pest patrol:
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A spyware cookie. Cookie is used to track unique visitors to many different sites, and their "preferences."
Online ad company DoubleClick used Web bugs that could communicate with cookies from its Web site. The cookies then revealed past online behavior, even home addresses, IP addresses, and phone numbers to the bugs, and the bugs sent that information straight back to DoubleClick.
A company can also use the bugs to tie cookie histories to personal identifying information, such as your phone number and address. In fact, a California woman sued DoubleClick for just that behavior. The company bought another firm, Abacus Direct, which holds detailed consumer profiles on more than 90 percent of U.S. households. DoubleClick cross-referenced its spyware results with that database to compile surprisingly personal profiles
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As one can see double click is a DANGEROUS piece of spyware, which totally removes privacy and hijacks ones computer and all it's information. After I removed the doubleclick TROJAN from my otherwise secure and updated winXP pc I went to slashdot and noticed I WAS LOGGED OUT. Slashdot also uses SECRET 1 pixel gifs in it's advertising system.
The only answer is that slashdot is WORKING WITH DOUBLECLICK's spyware software and selling millions of personal profiles of its users to fund it's OTHERWISE UNPROFITABLE business. I find this to be detestable and immoral behavior especially for a site that claims it supports peoples RIGHTS TO PRIVACY. My only course of action is to use other linux resource sites and to make sure slashdot.org is BLACKLISTED as a spyware-installing site. It is a sad, sad day when you cannot visit a freedom-loving site without having your computer HIJACKED.
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One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Cum Guzzeling AC's community when IDC confirmed that Cum Guzzeling AC's market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all trolls. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Cum Guzzeling AC's have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Cum Guzzeling AC's are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
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Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Chode swallowing AC leader AC states that there are 7000 Chode swallowing ACs. How many ass reaming ACs are there? Let's see. The number of Chode swallowing ACs versus ass reaming AC posts on Slashdot are roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Ass reaming ACs. Ball licking AC posts on Slashdot are about half of the volume of Ass reaming ACs. Therefore there are about 700 Ball licking ACs. A recent article put Chode swallowing ACs at about 80 percent of the Cum Guzzeling AC's market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Chode swallowing ACs. This is consistent with the number of Chode swallowing ACs Slashdot posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Chode swallowing ACs went out of business and was taken over by Shit eating ACs who post more worthless drivel. Now Shit eating ACs is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Cum Guzzeling AC's has steadily declined in market share. Cum Guzzeling AC's are very sick and their long term survival prospects are very dim. If Cum Guzzeling AC's are to survive at all it will be among troll dilettante dabblers. Cum Guzzeling AC's continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save them at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Cum Guzzeling AC's are dead.
Fact: Cum Guzzeling AC's are dying
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Further information relevant to the substantive issues to be addressed by this workshop may be obtained from Chris Israel Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, Technology Administration, (202) 482-5687. Limited seating will be available to members of the general public. It is recommended that persons wishing to become general public attendees arrive early, as seating will be first come, first served.
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Total Comments: 472 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 214 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 2.2056
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.053452 (449:24) (5.0847% noise)
First Post: Anonymous Coward this person got the FP!
- Claimed by an AC. an AC posted and it got modded to -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- iamblades (26 posts 5.5085%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- Asdfghanistan (12 posts 2.5424%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Comments: 244 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 112 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 2.1786
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.1086 (221:24) (9.8361% noise)
First Post: Anonymous Coward this person got the FP!
- Claimed by an AC. an AC posted and it got modded to -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- WetCat (14 posts 5.7377%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- Asdfghanistan (13 posts 5.3279%). stupid filters too few words
Biggest Whore (+5, logged in): who got modded up to +5Report for: Slashdot | The Nokia 7650 Cell Phone w/ Integrated Camera
Total Comments: 143 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 78 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 1.8333
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.082707 (133:11) (7.6923% noise)
First Post: Cryptopotamus this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- SpatchMonkey (10 posts 6.993%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- Cryptopotamus (4 posts 2.7972%). stupid filters too few words
- on by (4 posts 2.7972%). stupid filters too few words
- Asdfghanistan (4 posts 2.7972%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Posters: 363 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 1.7769
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.035256 (624:22) (3.4109% noise)
First Post: balloonhead this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- neuroticia (75 posts 11.628%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- cmdr_shithead (54 posts 8.3721%). stupid filters too few words
Biggest Whore (+5, logged in): who got modded up to +5Report for: Slashdot | Cryogenic Mouse Mod
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Total Posters: 85 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 1.8824
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.15827 (139:22) (13.75% noise)
First Post: on by this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- TheBahxMan (6 posts 3.75%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- TheBahxMan (6 posts 3.75%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Posters: 67 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 2
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.13445 (119:16) (11.94% noise)
First Post: Ferrum this person got the FP!
- Claimed by a dumbass. FP not at -1 at all
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- balloonhead (10 posts 7.4627%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM (4 posts 2.9851%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Comments: 186 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 105 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 1.7714
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.1 (170:17) (9.1398% noise)
First Post: Anonymous Coward this person got the FP!
- Claimed by an AC. an AC posted and it got modded to -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM (10 posts 5.3763%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM (10 posts 5.3763%). stupid filters too few words
Biggest Whore (+5, logged in): who got modded up to +5Report for: Slashdot | Review: Men In Black II
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Total Posters: 228 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 1.9298
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.094293 (403:38) (8.6364% noise)
First Post: Alec_Baldwin this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- rirugrat (21 posts 4.7727%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- News For Turds (9 posts 2.0455%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Comments: 217 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 104 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 2.0865
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.048077 (208:10) (4.6083% noise)
First Post: Sexual Asspussy this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- pthisis (30 posts 13.825%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- Sexual Asspussy (2 posts 0.92166%). stupid filters too few words
- News For Turds (2 posts 0.92166%). stupid filters too few words
- donnacha (2 posts 0.92166%). stupid filters too few words
- SpatchMonkey (2 posts 0.92166%). stupid filters too few words
- Paraplegic Vigilante (2 posts 0.92166%). stupid filters too few words
- xdfgf (2 posts 0.92166%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Posters: 148 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 1.7027
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.032653 (245:8) (3.1746% noise)
First Post: Cubeman this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- Skyshadow (10 posts 3.9683%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- Adolf Hitroll (4 posts 1.5873%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Comments: 370 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 194 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 1.9072
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.036313 (358:13) (3.5135% noise)
First Post: Anonymous Coward this person got the FP!
- Claimed by an AC. an AC posted and it got modded to -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- Penguin (18 posts 4.8649%). lameness sucks junk chars
- SpatchMonkey (18 posts 4.8649%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- TheBahxMan (9 posts 2.4324%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Posters: 53 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 2.5094
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.28846 (104:30) (22.556% noise)
First Post: News For Turds this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- TheBahxMan (8 posts 6.015%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- TheBahxMan (8 posts 6.015%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Comments: 167 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 75 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 2.2267
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.19149 (141:27) (16.168% noise)
First Post: News For Turds this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- News For Turds (5 posts 2.994%). lameness sucks junk chars
- yerricde (5 posts 2.994%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- News For Turds (5 posts 2.994%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Posters: 92 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 2.1196
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.2327 (159:37) (18.974% noise)
First Post: News For Turds this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- News For Turds (16 posts 8.2051%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- News For Turds (16 posts 8.2051%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Comments: 58 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 36 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 1.6111
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.18 (50:9) (15.517% noise)
First Post: handybundler this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- Adolf Hitroll (3 posts 5.1724%). lameness sucks junk chars
- Big Dogs Cock (3 posts 5.1724%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- Adolf Hitroll (3 posts 5.1724%). stupid filters too few words
- Big Dogs Cock (3 posts 5.1724%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Comments: 126 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 69 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 1.8261
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.13393 (112:15) (11.905% noise)
First Post: Anonymous Coward this person got the FP!
- Claimed by an AC. an AC posted and it got modded to -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- Alsee (3 posts 2.381%). lameness sucks junk chars
- f00Dave (3 posts 2.381%). lameness sucks junk chars
- mgv (3 posts 2.381%). lameness sucks junk chars
- roybadami (3 posts 2.381%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- anonymous cowfart (2 posts 1.5873%). stupid filters too few words
- Cuckoo Cocoon (2 posts 1.5873%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Comments: 179 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 82 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 2.1829
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.125 (160:20) (11.173% noise)
First Post: Anonymous Coward this person got the FP!
- Claimed by an AC. an AC posted and it got modded to -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- mgkimsal2 (10 posts 5.5866%). lameness sucks junk chars
- redtuxxx (10 posts 5.5866%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- anonymous cowfart (4 posts 2.2346%). stupid filters too few words
Biggest Whore (+5, logged in): who got modded up to +5Report for: Slashdot | 3 Megabit Cable Modems, Anyone?
Total Comments: 301 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 151 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 1.9934
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.14394 (264:38) (12.625% noise)
First Post: on by this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- Fucky the troll (33 posts 10.963%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- Fucky the troll (33 posts 10.963%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Comments: 330 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 122 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 2.7049
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.11448 (297:34) (10.303% noise)
First Post: Anonymous Cowrad this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- Mike Bouma (20 posts 6.0606%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- anonymous cowfart (4 posts 1.2121%). stupid filters too few words
- Big Dogs Cock (4 posts 1.2121%). stupid filters too few words
- xdfgf (4 posts 1.2121%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Comments: 1641 total number of comments posted
Total Posters: 809 total users who posted
Average Posts per user: 2.0284
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.023053 (1605:37) (2.2547% noise)
First Post: Pr0n K1ng this person got the FP!
- Claimed by CLiT. a logged in troll posted and it is at -1
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in): who posted the most comments- CProgrammer98 (110 posts 6.7032%). lameness sucks junk chars
Most Noise (-1, logged in): who posted the most comments that are at -1- Anal Cocks (25 posts 1.5235%). stupid filters too few words
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Total Comments: 6393
Total Posters: 2481
Average Posts per user: 2.5768
Signal:Noise ratio 1:0.075826 (5961:452) (7.0702% noise)
First Posts:
- AC: 6
- CLiT: 13
- Dumbasses: 1
- Victory to the CLiT!
Most Prolific (all scores, logged in):- SpatchMonkey (177 posts 2.7687%).
Most Noise (-1, logged in):- cmdr_shithead (55 posts 0.86032%).
- Fucky the troll (55 posts 0.86032%).
Biggest Whore (+5, logged in):- coyote-san (15 posts 0.23463%).
Top 10 Posters (all scores, logged in):- SpatchMonkey (177 posts 2.7687%).
- CProgrammer98 (110 posts 1.7206%).
- cbr372 (98 posts 1.5329%).
- neuroticia (83 posts 1.2983%).
- scaryman (80 posts 1.2514%).
- os2fan (74 posts 1.1575%).
- mpe (72 posts 1.1262%).
- Malc (69 posts 1.0793%).
- mindstrm (68 posts 1.0637%).
- seeken (64 posts 1.0011%).
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From http://www.ta.doc.gov/Medal/default.htm
The National Medal of Technology is the highest honor bestowed by the President of the United States to America's leading innovators.
Guess who won it in 1992?
http://www.ta.doc.gov/Medal/Recipients.htm#1992William H. Gates, III., Microsoft Corp.
For his early vision of universal computing at home and in the office; for his technical and business management skills in creating a world-wide technology company; and for his contribution to the development of the personal computer industry.
Competition crushing monopolists sure promote innovation.
Phillip
I would think sending an email to Public.Affairs@ta.doc.gov would work also.
i'm ipid banned at the mo - what a pain in the ass...does it stop me? NO! fucking wankers!
How many people who bitch here about DRM will actually send a comment?
here is an email address on that page where the public can send comments. I don't know whether it's the right one, but since that site is collecting comments and has no form you could just try mailing them, if only to ask where the form is.
From the doucment:
"Topics to be addressed at the workshop include:
[rtrif] The effectiveness of efforts to pursue technical standards or solutions that are designed to provide a more predictable and secure environment for digital transmission of copyright material;"
Let's see, so far the efforts that content providers have created to secure content include:
Macrovision - prevents authorized and unauthorized copying of video content, also adds signal detioration--status: hardware cracks exist, may be negated by content providers abandoning it due to its inability to do anything of value
CSS - DVD's digital protection--status: cracked by Norwegian linux users
SDMI - Watermaking/digital music protection--status: cracked by a professor, stalled in deployment by its creators
'secure' cds - prevents pcs from ripping cds, causes macs to expolode--status: cracked, felt tip marker
[rtrif] Major obstacles facing an open commercial exchange of digital content;
The industry itself seems to be the major obstacle.
[rtrif] What a future framework for success might entail;
A lessening of the current insane and ridicuously long copyright laws in the United States; abolition of the music industry in its current form
Or, value added content, or value priced content using a working protection scheme
[rtrif] Current consumer attitude towards online entertainment.
Gimme, gimme, gimme.
You're only as smart as your brain.
The worst thing any of us can do is flood them with comments like "DRM Sucks CowboyNeal's Dirty Toes" and the like. Be professional and curtious, and allow your concerns to be heard. Although I do not support any of today's proposed DRM technologies, I feel it is important to protect the artist's (as opposed to the profit-hungry record company's) interest.
Whatever your stance is, however, Be Sure to Write! Someone probably will read your comment and take it into consideration, as long as you are professional about it. Now that we have the opportunity to be heard, be sure that we are.
--- At my sig, unleash hell.
Having more people show up would be a good way to show that many people really do care about these issues. Even if only some of them are allowed into the session, the masses quietly waiting outside will make a statement.
Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. - Yoda
Protecting the artist's interest.
:) But even there, though most movie stars get a good deal in terms of pay, unless you're one of the 'top celebs', you probably aren't getting paid enough.
;)
In a perfect world, we'd just send artists money directly. All sorts. Musicians, authors, actors, CowboyNeal.. Remember, DRM isn't just about the music industry, though they'll be the biggest proponent behind it. I don't think the publishing and movie industry are that worried about being 'hard hit' by piracy, at least not like the RIAA. Publishers have had to deal with libraries, and box offices have had to deal with Blockbuster.
But they'll be looking into DRM as more authors are willing to risk the snickers of their collegues and start to publish online, and *if* broad pipes ever become a reality to home users, Dreamworks and friends will start looking at distribution of movies over the 'net.
Now, back to artists. Bands get squat from cd sales, and unless they're top 40, they don't even get much advertising from the bloodthirsty corps. Authors? As any good author can tell you, unless you're a marketing gimmick, or have been around for years, you'd best have a day job. Movies, well, there's one thing they've got going for them - a home theatre will never equal a *real* theatre.
Sucks, doesn't it? But think about this: With DRM, we ensure artists get *something*, even if it is a nickel. Without it, there's a much better chance they'll get screwed totally. One can argue that a person who steals (Not pirate. I don't see anyone with eyepatches, damnit!), wouldn't pay for such content anyway, but I'll not argue that anyway.
Why? Because, DRM is coming. We can fight gloriously and lose, or we can cut our losses and give them input on how it should work. Don't let the bloody warcries on the death of the RIAA/MPAA/etc. dissuade you from tossing these guys some input. It could very well make life much more bearable until we do finally get rid of them.
Great. Once again our "elected" officials are fellating the monied interests and giving them exactly what they want, regardless of whether or not it's actually necessary. And I can think of few things less necessary that government-mandated copy protection.
I can't begin to describe how infuriating it is to sit and watch this happen. Every time there's an "open" discussion of the issues surrounding digital copying. there is always an unstated assumption that it is something that must be stopped/controlled/regulated/quashed, and how best that can be accomplished. The very idea that, "The Sky Is Not, In Fact, Falling," is never brought up.
Let us be clear: Everyone agrees that artists should be rewarded for their good work. The dissent centers around whether copyright is any longer the best way to provide that reward. I contend that it isn't. First off, it doesn't scale. When there are only a handful of people with a printing press, it is reasonable to expect them to be cognizant of each other's "property" and avoid infringement. However, every computer is the equivalent of a printing press. With hundreds of millions of presses out there, all turning out copyrighted works (by the Berne Convention, everything is copyrighted upon creation), it is mathematically impossible to be aware of and avoid infringement of every other article.
Second, these legislative initiatives are being pushed because the respective industries claim to be losing money to unsanctioned copying (incorrectly referred to as "piracy"). However, these figures are complete fabrications, since they are attempts to measure events that never happened. No independent study of the effects of unsanctioned copying has ever been done. Heck, the industry's own claims have never been subjected to even the most rudimentary critical analysis. And yet these "reports" are being taken as gospel. The story is being repeated so many times, people are starting to believe it's true.
Third, the idea that solution is to "clamp down" is, at best, extremely suspect. Consider the dawn of the automobile, when society had known nothing but the horse and buggy. Automobiles were loud, smelly, and moved far more quickly than their organic counterparts. It is easy to see how the initial reaction would be to "clamp down" on automobiles: To pass laws prohibiting them from travelling faster than 30 miles/hour (somewhat below the top speed of a horse); to mandate that engines have governors to physically prevent them from going faster than 30 MPH; to require radio tamper switches to report if anyone attempts to defeat the governor; and to authorize and provide for police on every street corner to monitor the speed of automobiles, and incarcerate anyone caught exceeding the established limit. Though some would claim it impossible, you could, in fact, incur the financial and social costs and make such a system work.
One of those solutions is much less costly and much less destructive to the social fabric we've struggled to create and grown to enjoy.
We now find ourselves at a similar crossroads, where a new technology is upsetting the old order. "Solutions" are being discussed. And the idea of raising the speed limit is being assiduously kept off the agenda. One is forced to wonder why.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
Ok, so this is going to be a series of moderated meetings between the Commerce Dept. and the "stakeholders". Why do I suspect the only stakeholders included will be the **aa's? I call bullshit.
Who can represent us? There has to be someone the Commerce Dept. rates as a "stakeholder" that doesn't work for Disney. EFF?
Samsung took back my unlocked bootloader because Google wants me to rent movies. They're both evil.
I think that the issue of DRM falls into a much larger debate about society in general. If we can prevent people from breaking the law, should we do it ? This question will become very relevant in the near future, as techologies are inevitably developed which can remove peoples' ability to break the law (be it copyright law or something else).
I believe that it is fundamental aspect of a free society that people can break laws as they see fit and suffer the consequences. After all, this is one of the few remaining options for ordinary people to overturn "bad" laws. Wherever our ability to break the law is removed we will have transfered absolute, nearly unaccountable power to the people and organizations who write the laws. This is particularly disturbing when the people behind such schemes are not even elected, ie: Microsoft and Palladium.
Most slashdot readers probably understand the importance of this principle to democracy, but I wonder how many lawmakers do. We should bring this to their attention, because although we will likely win the war over DRM, there will be numerous other techologies of a similiar nature appearing on the horizon shortly.
As stated, this is strictly a meeting for "relevant stakeholders" in the industry. It is relevant only as pertains to the economy of the United States. The notice does however devote one line to consumers stating (in part): "the proper role for the Government in facilitating solutions that are best for innovation and best for consumers.". /.) is just who is going to dictate what goes where and by what method, and how it will change what you and I call the net.
Strictly speaking, the primary goal of both is to substantially change some fundamental underpinnings of how data is transferred from point A to point B and perhaps back. The problem (as has been discussed to death here on
Many of us are a bit paranoid about it as well we should be. The term "Digital Revolution" may even conjure up a new meaning for a few of us if this keeps up. Please comment in person, in writing, or via email to anybody and everybody you can concerning this because OUR GOVERNMENT HAS SOLD US OUT! It's as simple as that. They even put it in writing. It's a done deal and anyone who thinks differently should really look at what's been happening.
Same old story. It's been gathering steam for quite a while and now it may be rolling too fast to stop.
Secure, Broadband, Economy? Hmmm, sort of sounds like something my t.v. cable company should be scheming with, not the Feds and certainly not in collusion with what they blatantly refer to as the major stakeholders. I don't want to say too much here as it may get misconstrued as a threat to national security (chuckle...), but this is utter bullshit. In theory, you can get your voice heard if you contact your Government representative. Beyond that this may require a MOVEMENT, a SIT-IN, a DEMONSTRATION, or something perhaps even more substantial.
IMHO, we will all see the internet become a place where even the most trivial activity will eventually be monitored, archived, and we will all be operating under an OS with the Federal seal of approval. This is not a good thing.
I specifically said we will all see this happen as it will not take too long in the making if nothing is done to put it in check.
I'm Mad As Hell and I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore!
This is not the first such workshop that has been held.
The previous was held on December 17, 2001: http://www.ta.doc.gov/PRel/MA011214.htm
Participants included all the usual suspects including the MPAA, RIAA, Microsoft, and Intel
Interestingly, one of the participants was Forrester Research who, in their public archives which unfortunatly only has summaries available, include several reports such as:
http://www.forrester.com/ER/Research/Report/Summawhose summaries with punch line conclusions like "Media companies turn into eBusiness network" alone would have been enough to curl the nose hairs of any movie / recording industry executive still stuck in the 90s (1990s that is).
Enron isn't over yet.
Imagine 100 million people asking:
"Why doesn't my VCR/CD/Stereo work anymore?"
Any DRM laws passed will impact immense numbers of
people directly, and every one of them will want to
know exactly who voted for such a stupid idea.
The best way to fight something big is NOT to do it directly. For example, I'm commenting about how my business depends on the ability to make digital video of equipment installations and operating methodologies then use/convert/store/disseminate it in a variety of formats including recordable CDs and DVDs as well as streaming it on demand. Then I comment how hasty, flawed "protection" schemes will hurt American business and cost people their jobs if the "one size fits all" plans of the major media groups are adopted. As it is, we have huge problems shipping our own products into Canada because of how their Customs Agents sometimes treat recordable discs. "It's my music, I can do whatever I want with it" arguments will come across as the rantings of the unwashed masses. Instead, discuss how improper methods will make it difficult to do undeniably legitimate activities will cost American competitiveness and jobs. One of the things that makes America strong is the ability to move information and goods. Draconian DRM will stop American business dead in the water. People who lose their income because of ill-conceived DRM also vote ;)
My criterion for an acceptable DRM system is simple. It must be incapable of removing any rights from the end user. Where any form of copying or other use is legally permissible without the consent of the copyright holder, such as redistributing extracts as part of a criticism or comment, making a copy for personal use on a different device, copying a broadcast for later viewing ("time-shifting"), viewing a work on a player in a different part of the world and so on, the copyright holder must be incapable of using the DRM system to prevent such copying.
If a technical solution to preserving "fair use" is not possible, a legal solution would be acceptable -- legislation would have to require that a copyright holder not use a DRM system in such a way as to prevent fair use, and I suggest that the appropriate penalty for failure to comply would be for them to lose the copyright on the work concerned and have it placed in the public domain for all to copy and resell freely.
You will note that several existing DRM technologies, such as DVD region coding and Macrovision, fail to meet this criterion. This is a serious issue which I suggest you should address at the workshop.
I vote with my pocketbook. I was shopping for a new GPS. I found the Magellan Meridian line use the SD card instead of one of the cheaper more popular cards for map storage. I would like a GPS with removable media for easy changing between topographic and street maps, but I refuse to support that memory format. I refuse to buy products using secure media. This includes SD cards, MMC cards, and the Sony Memory stick. I don't need or want to support 6 diffrent styles of memory card. Products must meet my specifications or it's no sale. So far I only support Compact flash and Smart Media. I have no intention on increasing the spread of non-interchangable parts. When I upgrade my camera, I will drop the Smart Media format.
CD Recordable became popular because it was almost universaly interchangable. Sony MD is much less useful as they have a Data format and a Audio format that is not interchangable. I also voted against this format. I went CDRW in a CD/MP3 player instead. It was worth the wait. CD'r has left Sony MD's in the dust. Compact Flash can do the same thing to the SD card. Be sure to vote!
The truth shall set you free!
RIAA/MPAA are complaining about piracy but are
//Pingo
themselves in the process of a big time theft
of all personal computers in the world.
A crooked world isn't it?
--- Linux or FreeBSD, it's like blondes or brunettes. I like both. ---
Goodbye record companies!
I guess Real musicians with Real talent playing Real music (ok Live if it pleases you techno heads!) to Real audiences in Real theatres will be the only people earning Real money.
Just like the Good old days.
Where exactly is the form I need to respond to? I don't see anything on the second page linked that says "form here" and none of the random links I've clicked get me there. It's all well and good to be clever and say "see, they hid it", but let us know where it is so we can respond!
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
Announce a workshop on the day before (what is for the people who would be most affected by the outcome of the workshop) a four day weekend to virtually guarantee that few, if any, people are going to hear about it or have the time to compose any meaningful input.
Frankly, I'm surprised they didn't publicly announce the workshop until July 12th.
This smacks of the ``let's sneak it through when they're not looking'' tactic that the mayor of Chicago and his political cronies pulled in Illinois when they pushed through a bill to authorize a major airport expansion on Christmas Eve because they knew that few people would catch on.
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Well, gee. Maybe you should only support computer hardware that is built with common multi-sourced parts, like the 7400 series of TTL chips. You sound like a purchasing agent. Are you sure you're not the one blocking us from getting PCs that have USB ports on them? (recently you've been requiring the vendors to put black electrical tape over the connector or receiving refuses to let them off the dock)
Maybe you should only support computer hardware that is built with common multi-sourced parts, like the 7400 series of TTL
You missed the point. The new stuff is a downgrade, not an upgrade. It's memory. For more than the price of a 128 MEG compact flash card, I can get a slower more expensive 64 MEG SD card. In a pinch I can't use the card in my camera because it's a diffrent format. Use the faster cheaper more flexible and compatible format in your product and you have a much better chance of selling me your product. The SD format is not making faster higher capacity memory cards. They are making slower cards at a higher price that do not support all common file formats and will not work in my USB card reader/writer. (which supports 3 of the six formats) In short it cost more, does less, works slower, and is not interchangable. Show me an upgrade in that. If you think that is an upgrade, I will love to sell you my external floppy drive from my old tandy M100. It's single sided, with 2 sectors per track. It will not work with 1.4 meg floppies. If interested in this secure storage solution, drop me a line. Buying a card that will not store an MP3 or JPEG but encodes it into something else is not useful for me. Check out the reviews of the 20 Gig Nomad MP3 Jukebox. Check out it's number one complaint. It takes way too long to upload MP3's into it because it supports DRM and changes the file format. Now if it would just be a USB data drive to the PC without the DRM junk, they could sell a bunch of them because they would be more useful and would be much faster. By not supporting odball formats at higher prices is to encourage manufactures to drop the pricey hard to sell stuff for faster more featured stuff at better prices. Think about it, would you like to upload your data using a common USB card reader/writer, or would you like to have to upload the stuff at 19.2K baud. Think about it next time you download your digital camera. (You have tried to download a RS 232 serial megapixel camera haven't you? I upgraded and gave my old camera away for free. No more 20 minute downloads per 8 MEG for me. Don't even consider a 64 Meg transfer in a slow serial format!)
Don't consider using anything with less capacity and slower speeds at higher prices.
That is why I am not considering those models of GPS. It uses a format I refuse to support for the reasons listed. May the format die a quick death. The sooner it dies, the sooner we can get faster higher capacity compact flash at cheaper prices. There is economy in scale. Fracturing the memory market into 6+ formats makes all the specialty items expensive. I want far away from the market fragmentation.
The truth shall set you free!
I'm curious about something, and hopefully someone will be able to answer. Most of the hardware is made outside the US for US companies. WIll this mean that different hardware will be produced for countries != US? (IE: Canada), where the copyright laws are different?
I'm sure implementing US laws on hardware shipped outside the US probably breaks a few trade agreements (not to mention it enforces US laws [legal or copyright] on other countries). How will this affect us (us being users outside the US)?
It's better to burn out than to fade away
Say what you think. The best thing you can do is to think about what want to say. Dressing up your thoughts in "professional" diction won't conceal ignorance or poor reasoning. The public is invited to comment. You are the public. You don't need to profess anything. Simply say what you think.
What really needs to be done is to prepare a congressional hearing on these issues.
Check out the CV on Chris Israel, the person who is supposed to be collecting comments for his office to work on.
Seems like Jack Valenti has his hands up all the major puppets these days...
"Eustace? Eustace? Are you there? Are you there?" = John Leeming
DRM potentially affects all types of data -- ALL types. So, music, public documents, operating systems, videos (publicly available, etc.), games (i.e. backups of), and potentially even things you, the user, create!
I'm sort of waiting for the day when I get a call from a user who had to rebuild her/his PC, actually had backups(!!), and suddenly can't use the backups because "this is not the system on which these documents were created." Joy.
- The following content is owned by the Me Corporation (hereafter referred to as "Me").
- The content may not be redistributed without the handwritten consent of an officer of Me.
- By reading the content, the reader agrees to allow Me to remove any incompatible software on the reader's computer.
- The reader further agrees to allow Me to install any software Me deems necessary to ensure this ERLA is adhered to.
- The reader is hereby licensed to read the content a maximum of two times. A fee of $5 U.S. will be charged to each credit card number found on the reader's computer for each reading in excess of two.
- The reader agrees to hold harmless Me and its officers for any damages or unintended effects that result from Me's Digital Rights Management.
[reject] [ACCEPT]<ENCRYPTED CONTENT>
I respectfully submit that Digital Rights Management will enable corporations to exert inappropriate control over the consumer's rights and property, and that it will be abused in ways we can only imagine in the persuit of every last penny of profit.
</ENCRYPTED CONTENT>
I have included the text of the message I sent to the e-mail address. Please don't cut/paste/copy the message verbatim if you plan to write your own response though do take / critique your own ideas!
Dear Sir,
As a consumer of digital entertainment that has felt my rights infringed and stolen by big media and software companies in the name of corporate profits, I argue that Digital Rights Management (DRM) software and protocols should not have a place in the future of American society.
Copyright provides a monetary incentive (in the form of a limited monopoly on distribution and performance) for an artist or author to produce creative works. However, copyright also explicitly allows for "fair use", such as for time and space shifting, backup, critique, parody, and educational use. A technological solution via DRM takes away this balance, as the DRM software removes the ability to exercise fair use rights. A right that exists in the law but cannot be exercised by technological means is substansively not a right at all.
The very nature of "fair use" requires that (1) prior consent and approval by the copyright holder is not required, and (2) no artificial barriers be placed upon the user to exercise those rights that are not defined by the law. We live in a world where some lawyers of entertainment companies believe, 'there is no right to fair use, it is only a defense against infringement.' Given such attitudes, it is reasonable to assume that approval shall never be granted by the rights holder even for the important fair uses I have listed above. Furthermore, it is unlikely that a rights holder shall grant permission to use the work if the purpose of the fair use is to criticize the work. If prior consent is required before a fair use, the right to fair use is substansively removed. With respect to the second case ('no artificial barriers...'), I am referring to attempts by some DRM protocols to "give some limited fair use" options to the user by allowing 5 (or some small number) copies to be made. No where in the copyright law does it name the number of fair uses that is legally permissible (why are 5 fair uses legal but 6 are not?) In this respect, DRM software is an attempt to substansively rewrite the effective rights granted to users by copyright law without changing the text of the law. DRM software infringes upon the rights of the user.
I want to emphasize that I am not arguing for the abolishment of copyright, as it is clear that copyright serves a useful purpose in promoting the arts and the sciences. My point is that DRM software allows right holders to unilateraly impose conditions on using the works that a user has legally bought the rights to use, which is a power far greater than what copyright law allows. If DRM was capable of perserving my fair use rights, I will be more supportive of their inclusion: I feel rights holders should be able to protect their work as long as it does not infringe on my rights or cause undue inconvenience. But it is clear that DRM software will certainly infringe on the rights of users.
To illustrate the problem of DRM with an analogy, one way we can stop all the murders in the United States is to place everyone in individual prison cells. Effectively, the rights of many law abiding citizens are removed to stop the few but sigificant number of criminals in society. This is unacceptable. Even though the explicit right to "pursue a life of freedom, safety, and happiness" is not granted or stated anywhere in the law, this right is expected by proud American citizens. DRM would place users into prison cells with the media companies as the wardens-- even though the user has already paid for the rights to use the copyrighted work. The fair use rights of many law abiding citizens are removed to stop the copyright infringement of a few but significant number of users. This is unacceptable, as the right to fair use is expected by American citizens, even if we were to take the self-serving views of some intellectual property lawyers and assume that "fair use" is only a defense and not an explicitly granted right.
In conclusion, it is my hope that this workshop shall place the rights of American citizens above the profits of corporations. The discussion should be about the harm DRM software causes to users and whether DRM software should be allowed in future society at all, and not about how much DRM should be 'legally permissible' and tolerated by the users and government regulators.
I think the best way to get peoples attention on this subject is make it apply to them. For instance, you could try to explain how M$'s Palladium would make it difficult (if not impossible) for other platforms to survive. Without Apple, there would be no iPod, and so on. You brought up stifling innovation, but what we are really talking about is the death of technological innovation (or worse yet, putting it in a few peoples hands).
And why are we going through all of this? Because some record exec. thinks he won't be able to buy his third "summer" home in Malibu. Worse yet, if the Record Industry would have just shut their collective yap and let Napster survive, they probably would have made MORE money than they are now.
Although I'm not sure what the answer is to this problem, I am sure that we need a new way of doing things as far as copyright is concerned. We need sensibility, not knee-jerk responses that could endanger the future of all Americans.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those with loaded guns, and those who dig.
As far as I can tell, MOST of the problems caused for consumers by DRM plans involve the **AA's focus on preventing "copying" (indeed, it's even called "COPYright")...despite the fact that the Fair Use doctrine seems to imply that COPYING is not the "cause" of a copyright violation - DISTRIBUTION is.
Theoretically, anything I have a legal right to access, I also have a legal "Fair Use" right to copy, translate, garble, "space shift" to other media, "time shift" to watch later [I assume rented media includes this right, up to the length of the rental agreement, after which I no longer have a right to KEEP a copy], and so on. Where the violation occurs is when I DISTRIBUTE these copies to people who don't have a right to them.
If the focus of DRM would move towards distribution rather than copying, I'd feel a lot less worried about what the **AA were buying from my government. (Not to say that I WANT some sort of monitor chip implanted in every ethernet card, but I would feel less constrained by that than the monitor chip getting in my way every time I try to make a copy for my own personal use...)
Hacker Public Radio is our Friend
We need a well established, open standard where people can just type in a password to authorize payment. Thus saving people the trouble of taking out their credit card and copying down a sixteen digit number. I envision a system were you click a button on a web page which accesses the financial transaction system in your web browser. When you click the link, your web browser pops up a window specifying the size of the transaction. You select a payment method, type in a password to authorize the transaction and the computer does the rest, transfering money, a reciept, and if applicable, the content.
That standard should permit open source implementations, so that the most popular web server in the world can use it, and so that free web browsers can use it.
The standard needs support from banks. The banks would be an excellent place to charge for modest patent royalties.
Keep in mind, the record companies do not want convenient online payment systems. With convenient online payment systems, people could buy music direct from the artists, skipping the record companies all together.
Congress should establish some grants to develop a convenient online payment standard.
(approx $2/MB on-line prices)
Just because Sony and MM-card formats have versions that support DRM does not mean you should boycott all forms of the format. There's plenty of support for the Meridian and the SD-cards in the GPS forums because it gets away from low availability of media and lowers prices for both the manufacturer and the consumer.
And what do these formats mean to you as a camera user? MM, SM, CF, MS are all standard, the only time they become a burden is when you wish to change camera models to one that uses a competing format. I've never seen a camera that enforces DRM on the removable media (and that includes Sony). DRM and secure cards are in the realm of portable music players, especially those by major manufacturers. Heck, even Sony allows non-secure memory sticks to play MP3's in it's MP3-playing Clie palm units, they require Magic Gate only for the ATRAC3-format files.
These various formats exist for reasons other than who is making them or DRM-style screwing-over of consumers, namely size. Standards are great, but we cannot always make do with one-size fits all. Just refuse to support the DRM versions of the cards. Simple enough.
I tried every decent and legal way I could think of to resolve the issue w/the business before I rented the chicken suit
It was a hot summer, a warm afternoon in August.
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...some landed on her nipples.. ... My mother was laughing softly.... I can't find words to describe how erotic her smile was.
As I came home from the school, I shouted " Mommy! I'm home...."
I glanced at the kitchen. But she was not there. So I walked towards garden. And I saw her there. She was in our new pool, swimming.
- "Hi mom!" I said
Mom looked at me and said " Hi honey! How are you?"
- "What a hot day, isn't it?" I asked.
- "Yes hon. But the pool is cool. Why don't you join me?" She said.
I looked at my mom and laughed. "Mommy, I don't have any bathing suit. I can't swim now.
I think I must buy one tomorrow."
At that moment mom did something so erotic that made my cock excited. She suddenly jumped and about 2 seconds her top was above the water level. She said "look at me I don't have any bathing suit either. Why don't you join me? Come on.."
At that moment I saw her jiggling 42 DD tits. They were incredible. Those tremendous breasts. What a sight it was! I felt that my cock was getting bigger and bigger. But one thing I was sure of was that mom didn't mean to seduce me. She wanted to show that she did not have any bathing suit.
- "Come on son. Just take your short off. And jump into the water."
- "But mom.... "
- "Come on honey....I have seen you naked a thousand times. Why are you so shy now? I will turn my face for you. Come on, jump now!"
Then she turned her face. I slowly took off my T-shirt then shorts. I was totally naked now. Watching mom's beautiful back seemed enough to make my cock semi-erect, although only her back could be seen. I ogled her back. She was playing with her soaked hair. It was a very erotic scene the way my mom was touching her hair with her long red finger-nailed hands . I began to play with my cock as I watch her beautiful back. Then I jumped into the pool. After turning her body towards me, she said "at last!".
The situation was really so erotic. Me and mom both were in the same pool and totally naked!. It must have been my lucky day. Then I began to swim towards her.
When she saw my approach she shouted. "Don't come near mister." She was covering her big tits with her hands.
- "You know how big these are and I don't want you to see my breasts."
My eyes was glued at those huge tits that mommy was trying to cover. The sides of her breasts could be seen. That scene made me hard instantly.
She caught my eyes looking at them and She laughed . "You love big breasts. Don't you?" she said.
When I heard these words from her I was shocked with excitement.
"Yes mom..." I stammered. My face was all red.
"How do you know it mom?" I said.
- "The boys at your age really loves tits. I know you like them too because I found some tits-magazines under your bed. You naughty boy! All those magazines were about tits and busty girls."
- "Mommy!!!" I shouted. I was so ashamed.
- "Don't be ashamed darling. Its quite normal for your age."
- "When did you find those mags ?" I said.
- "About a week ago. Hon they were really high-quality magazines. The girls were gorgeous. And I must admit I, myself looked at those magnificent breasts. They were really nice. Although these are bigger than those tits on the mag." She said as she slowly pointed out her tits with her eyes.
I had an instant hard-on when I heard mom saying those words.
After that mom turned back and swam to the end of pool. Oh no... she must have decided to get out of from the pool
Then she shouted "Hey I want to get out honey...the pool is cooler now. But first I want you to close your eyes because you know... I'm totally naked". She was laughing erotically.
- "ok mom. I will close my eyes." I said. Of course I did not wanna miss the view of her ass and pussy from behind when she climbs the pool ladder.
Mom looked at me suspiciously. "Hey mister, don't open your eyes. OK?"
- "Trust me mom." I said.
Then mom started to climb the pool ladder. Of course I opened my eyes and watched the show. Oh what a view it was! I was watching her sexy ass swaying. Ohh my god I saw her pussy from behind. Ohhh the view of her pussy was so beautiful. And her back..... Her naked back seemed so smooth, so feminine. What I want was to spray my cum on her lovely back and watch them ooze down.
After getting out of the pool I could see through my squinted eyes that she was looking at me. She must have understood from the view of my face that I was excited, because she laughed loudly. But she said nothing. She started to walk near the poolside. I opened my eyes. She was walking slowly as she was watching the pool, but she was not looking at me that time. She suddenly stopped. She looked inside the pool and then she dipped her lovely feet inside the pool. Her movements were very erotic. She was touching the water as if she was touching the tip of my cock.
Then....she turned and began to walk towards to home. Oh nooo!!!.. I have swum with my naked mom in the pool but I could not managed touch her breasts. No, I must do something. Then in seconds I made my plan. I quickly got out of the pool. That time I saw that my mom was just trying to wear a towel on her back. She was about to enter our house. I suddenly began to shout "Auggghhh mom help me pleeeease!!".
This was my plan. I was pretending that I hit my groin. I was covering my groin with both hands and shouting as if I was in great pain. "Mom help me please...!." As my mom heard me she suddenly ran towards me after threwing her towel aside. Although it was hard for me, I managed not to look at her as she was running towards me naked.
Mom was very anxious. "Oh son are you all right? What happened honey?" Her voice was worried.
I was still looking at the floor. I felt very excited because both of us were wearing nothing!
"Oh mom I hit my groin to the top of the pool ladder. It really hurts me !" I said
In the mean time mom brought a chair for me to sit down.
"Does it hurt honey ?" Mom asked anxiously. "Darling let me see your groin."
She slowly took my hands aside which were covering my cock and balls. That time she must have noticed my semi-erect cock. Then with one hand she pulled my cock up and and with the other she touched my balls. She was touching gently with the tip of her fingers. Then She cupped my balls and she began massaging slowly. Ohhh She was massaging my balls! I could not believe it!
"My poor little son, I hope this massage will help to ease your pain honey" She said. She continued massaging. Sometimes she was scratching my balls with red long fingernails".
Then with courage I looked at mom. Ohhhh it was the most erotic sight I have ever seen in my life. Her lovely 42 DD breasts. Ohh those tits were jiggling sexily from side to side as she was massaging my balls. Her big nipples seemed they were begging to be sucked. Ohhh those breasts were so lovely. What I wanted that time was to play with them for hours and give them a nice tit-fuck.
In the meantime mom noticed that my cock was getting bigger and bigger! She looked at my eyes. She saw I was looking at her breasts. She laughed loudly. "What do we have here?" she said As she saw my rock-hard cock. Then she touched the top of my cock with her index finger and pulled it down and then let it free. My cock began to sway. Up and down, up and down.
She was watching my swaying cock. She gave my balls as soft squeeze again with her fingers as she jiggled her sexy breasts in front of my eyes.
"It seems that my little son is enjoying the breast show." She said. She was laughing loudly.
Oh it was too much. My mom was totally naked, her tremendous tits were jiggling sexily, and besides she was touching my balls.
Ohh I was so excited by the view of my mom's lovely breasts that I began to cum.. Oh yesss I cum... My cum landed on her breasts
It seemed that my cumming was never gonna end. I cum cum and cum on her breasts...and the last drops of my cum landed near her lips.
She watched them all. She licked the cum on her lips with her tongue. Then she touched her tits which were shiny with my hot cum. She said.. "Hmm it seems that my little son has got really excited about the view of his mom's breasts... right honey?"
I could not say anything. I was still ogling my mother's enormous knockers. I was mesmerized by the view. Suddenly I took out my hand and dared to hold those lovely huge breasts with both hands. Then I began playing. Ohhh they were so soft and lovely. It was a very erotic situation.
Mom stopped me and said "All right mister, the breast show is over now. I know that you really enjoyed the show very much... I can see it by looking at your hard cock, and cum. Oh honey so much cum! I did not know that you like my breasts so much. But...it must be over. I can't let you play with my breasts.... After all you are my little son.
"But mom...." I said. "Mom I'm in love with your breasts. They are so big and soft."
She smiled but said nothing. She hold my cock once more then she cleaned the cum left on the tip of my cock with her fingers. Then With her hand she cupped my balls and squeezed them gently again. Then She stood up and turned her back and walked towards to our home door. I began to jack my hard cock again as I ogled her naked swaying ass..
Before reaching our house door she turned her face to me and looked for the last time.. She saw I was jerking off wildly. She laughed again. She bent over a little and jiggled them once more. "You naughty boy" said mommy again, before disappearing in front of our door.
Ask the panel is they have a home video of their grandchildrens birthday party. Did the party sing "Happy Birthday"? If so, that tape is in violation of copyright law as "Happy Birthday" is copyrighted (1936) and ASCAP registered. Copyright doesn't expire until around 2021. Tell them their children who made the home video/movies must be arrested and fined. Furthermore, they, as receipients of illegal goods, may also face charges if they play the videos. Those videos must be destroyed or turned over to ASCAP.
Actually, the first half of this post is serious and true (to my knowledge).
I ended up with a TV with a built-in VCR. The built-in VCR broke. It's much cheaper to buy a new VCR. The TV is obeying Macrovision damage so I can't watch many movies properly. Well, I couldn't if I didn't know how to fix the stupidity, which I do.
Just refuse to support the DRM versions of the cards. Simple enough.
Umm.. That is what I am doing. Check the specs on the SD card. It's a multimedia card that is slightly thicker with an added layer of SDMI protection. A multimedia card will fit into a SD card slot. The SD card is a Multimedia card with and extra layer of protection built in. It has handshaking encryption as an added layer. Magellan says zero, nada, zip about the ability of using a multimedia card in their GPS. I think it is because it refuses to work with less secure media that will fit the slot. Reading between the lines tells me they are using the card for the extra level of DRM features and that is why I am boycotting this beast. This feature of the device drives up the cost of the memory cards while reducing the speed and flexibility of the card and raising the price. My answer to this consumer unfriendly choice is NO THANKS! Would you buy CDR's at $5 each that formatted into a drive specific (by bios serial number) format? One that will only work on the PC that formatted it and your one camera/music player/GPS, etc.? Why buy a memory card with the same restriction? I wish to knock the wind out of this format and fast. It's consumer unfriendly at a severe performance and cost hit.
The truth shall set you free!
...and it was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard". (Apologies to DNA).
Mr. Chris Israel:
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I was reading Slashdot (http://www.Slashdot.org, a great geek / technical site) and found a story about someone there at the Dept. of Commerce Technology Administration soliciting input on Digital Rights Management (DRM). There was much to-do on this Slashdot report about the fact that your office was soliciting comments by July 11th, 2002, but that it was impossible to figure out how to do so via your website. This might possibly be interpreted as being disingenuous.
I'd like to suggest that you put more email addresses on your web page, as well as having a link about where to submit comments about specific topics. There are many technically literate and astute observers of technical trends and complex issues that read slashdot.
If you have issues about which you'd like technical people to vote, you can always ask slashdot to run the poll for you, or put it on your own website and mention it on TomsHardware.com, Slashdot.org, Arstechnica.com, etc. and they'll get you people with a range of technically well-considered opinions.
Please feel free to visit slashdot (it's a very widely read site) and post a message about where to find this DRM comment-solicitation link, be it a web-submit form or an email address. Or, respond to me, and I'll post the link there.
I guarantee once you have a valid link available, you'll find lots of people willing to provide constructive input.
thanks for your time,
Cordially yours,
-- Kevin Rice
Buffalo grove, Illinois
http://www.Justanyone.com
kevin@justan
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These people seem to make it as hard as possible, Contact us: Public.Affairs@ta.doc.gov which is of course linked to Public_Affairs@ta.doc.gov not Public.Affairs@ta.doc.gov. I am sure they do this knowing full well that most people would copy-and-paste this into an e-mail and not click a mailto: link and expect it to bring up certain web-based e-mails Yahoo (the patch to fix this is only for IE), hushmail, etc . Or for some linux users, they don't have the browser set-up to work with their e-mail client... Anyways, the contact address is Public_Affairs@ta.doc.gov and not Public.Affairs@ta.doc.gov
I touch computers in naughty places
After a little google research I found that regular multimedia cards work. Another thread states that MM cards are not as fast as SD cards and are not recommended. What seems implied is that the Magellan does NOT use the DRM features of the card, only the added speed.
I tried every decent and legal way I could think of to resolve the issue w/the business before I rented the chicken suit
Dear TA Workshop administrators,
Your announcement inviting public comment on this issue is not well served by the lack of a form to do so. If you truly want the public's input it would help if there was a clear means for doing so. I offer this observation in the hope that future meetings of this type will have such forms available to aid the public in commenting effectively.
I will unfortunately not be able to attend the workshop as a public citizen, but I would like to submit this comment:
DRM is a flawed concept at base, since it treats all users of a technology as potential criminals. Furthermore, it will be difficult to the point of impossibility to implement DRM in any way which will not infringe on legal fair uses such as making backups, producing legal derivative works such as parodies and criticism, and reverse engineering for use on alternative platforms.
I am therefore opposed to legal support for DRM implementation. Such support would be a disservice to the public, stifling legal innovations, raising the prices of consumer devices without any concomitant benefit to said consumer, and benefitting only entrenched oligopolies such as the RIAA and MPAA by protecting outdated business models.
No other reaction from the US Government is necessary or appropriate. Absent legislation to force this flawed concept upon the public, I believe that DRM will die a well-deserved death at the hands of the free market.
Thank you for your attention,
Brian T. Murtagh
I was under the assumption they simply would not work in the GPS because the GPS would not write to unsecure media. Now the big why--- How can they encrypt a data stream and write it to memory faster than just writing to memory? How can they read and decrypt data with 2 way handshaking the data faster than just reading the data. How can they add a onboard processor to handle the DRM and use less precious battery power than just reading the memory. It is true the SD card has a couple extra pins over the multimedia card, but I think it's for the bidirectional handshaking. I think I am being lied to. I have found no speed and power requirement comparison between this format and any of the various formats and speeds of Compact Flash. Compact Flash cards are avaliable in several speeds for faster photography (less cycle time between shots) Show me the numbers!
After a little google research [google.com] I found that regular multimedia cards work. Another thread [google.com] states that MM cards are not as fast as SD cards and are not recommended
I checked your links. The first link does not state the specific GPS functions properly using a MMC, only that some products may work at slower speeds and left the question unanswered. The second link indicates the magellan does not work properly with a MMC. It randomly crashes. I think the speed issue is a PR ploy. I think it crashes because it does not DRM handshake. MMC is fast enough for digital photography but not fast enough for a vector map. Wanna bet when faster MMC cards come out, they also will have crashing problems? Compact Flash cards are avaliable in several speeds, how about fast MMC cards? Rememer MMC is also encumbered by DRM Features. SD cards have the level 2 of MMC and adds an encryption layer for level 3 SDMI rights management. Anybody have speed and power comparisons between CF and MMC? How about MMC and SD? I have seen the claims that SD is faster than MM cards. My car is faster than my kid on a bicycle. I haven't seen claims that SD is faster than CF or Smart Media cards. I want to compare it to the other fast media. Hmm somthing seems wrong here...... I think it is a ploy to have SD replace MMC as a SDMI memory device.
The truth shall set you free!
Here is some size and speeds of some of the compact flash cards. I'm still hunting for SD card data. Anybody think a MMC or SD card is an upgrade?o mpare/
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http://www.dpreview.com/articles/mediac
This link shows CF comparisons only at the slower speeds and is the first refrence I found comparing CF to other formats. It does show the SD running about 4X faster than the competion. It does not show the faster CF which is popular with photographers in the comparison.
http://www.asusemag.com.tw/latest/ch13/ch13-1.h
I would like to use the 512 Meg CF card for my maps instead of the 64 meg SD for my GPS.
I would like to upload to it via my USB card reader instad of at 9600 baud RS232.
The truth shall set you free!
Gee , I thought this would turn into a "I hate monopolistic bastards" discussion
Excuse me if this has already been posted (I checked but may have missed it).
In response to the query for the locationto submit comments the URL is:
http://www.ta.doc.gov/comments/comments.htm
To whom it may concern: As a citizen of the United States and as a consumer, I am opposed to any legislation which restricts my Fair Use Rights. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a technology which will greatly restrict my Fair Use Rights by: 1) assuming untrusted software is guilty until proven innocent 2) limting my rights to produce my own music, movies, and software 3) limiting my product choices 4) centralizing control of DRM rights into the hands of a few at the expense of many In conclusion, I see Digital Rights Managements as the RIAA's and MPAA's declaration of war on the consumer.
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To the Conference,
Copyright in America is demonstrably not a public concern.
Fritz Hollings says "over 10 million people" are "stealing" copyrighted works. Well, usually that would be called a riot, and that nobody is treating is such is telling.
Copying a digital file is not stealing. Robbing somebody of a physical object is.
Before you sit to consider the benefits of better copyright protection, please first ensure the validity of the current concept of copyright.
When I explain Disney's very long copyright on Mickey Mouse to people in my family, and then proceed to explain Disney's use of the Grimm Brother fairy-tales to make their business, it is clear to everyone that Disney isn't playing fair. Why should we then ensure Disney's ability to lock-down our use of "their" material?
Why should a music and film industry with increasingly less art and increasingly more commerce be "protected"?
Make copyright 7 years, decommercialize the arts and seed the public domain for good.
Then you should enforce copyright all you want.
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'
As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'
Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?
We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering together their postings and publishing them en masse to further his twisted and manipulative journalistic agenda.
Sick, disgusting antichristian perverts, the lot of them.
In addition, many of the Linux distributions (a 'distribution' is the most common way to spread the faggots' wares) are run by faggot groups. The Slackware distro is named after the 'Slack-wear' fags wear to allow easy access to the anus for sexual purposes. Furthermore, Slackware is a close anagram of claw arse, a reference to the homosexual practise of anal fisting. The Mandrake product is run by a group of French faggot satanists, and is named after the faggot nickname for the vibrator. It was also chosen because it is an anagram for dark amen and ram naked, which is what they do.
Another 'distro,' (abbrieviated as such because it sounds a bit like 'Disco,' which is where homosexuals preyed on young boys in the 1970s), is Debian, an anagram of in a bed, which could be considered innocent enough (after all, a bed is both where we sleep and pray), until we realise what other names Debian uses to describe their foul wares. 'Woody' is obvious enough, being a term for the erect male penis, glistening with pre-cum. But far sicker is the phrase 'Frozen Potato' that they use. This filthy term, again found in the secret homosexual 'Sauce Code,' refers to the solo homosexual practice of defecating into a clear polythene bag, shaping the turd into a crude approximation of the male phallus, then leaving it in the freezer overnight until it becomes solid. The practitioner then proceeds to push the frozen 'potato' up his own rectum, squeezing it in and out until his tight young balls erupt in a screaming orgasm.
And Red Hat is secret homo slang for the tip of a penis that is soaked in blood from a freshly violated underage ringpiece.
The fags have even invented special tools to aid their faggotry! For example, the 'supermount' tool was devised to allow deeper penetration, which is good for fags because it gives more pressure on the prostate gland. 'Automount' is used, on the other hand, because Linux users are all fat and gay, and need to mount each other automatically.
The depths of their depravity can be seen in their use of 'mount points.' These are, plainly speaking, the different points of penetration. The main one is obviously
More evidence is in the fact that Linux users say how much they love `man`, even going so far as to say that all new Linux users (who are in fact just innocent heterosexuals indoctrinated by the gay propaganda) should try out `man`. In no other system do users boast of their frequent recourse to a man.
Other areas of the system also show Linux's inherit gayness. For example, people are often told of the 'FAQ,' but how many innocent heterosexual Windows users know what this actually means. The answer is shocking: Faggot Anal Quest: the voyage of discovery for newly converted fags!
Even the title 'Slashdot' originally referred to a homosexual practice. Slashdot of course refers to the popular gay practice of blood-letting. The Slashbots, of course are those super-zealous homosexuals who take this perversion to its extreme by ripping open their anuses, as seen on the site most popular with Slashdot users, the depraved work of Satan, http://www.eff.org/.
The editors of Slashdot also have homosexual names: 'Hemos' is obvious in itself, being one vowel away from 'Homos.' But even more sickening is 'Commander Taco' which sounds a bit like 'Commode in Taco,' filthy gay slang for a pair of spreadeagled buttocks that are caked with excrement. (The best form of lubrication, they insist.) Sometimes, these 'Taco Commodes' have special 'Salsa Sauce' (blood from a ruptured rectum) and 'Cheese' (rancid flakes of penis discharge) toppings. And to make it even worse, Slashdot runs on Apache!
The Apache server, whose use among fags is as prevalent as AIDS, is named after homosexual activity -- as everyone knows, popular faggot band, the Village People, featured an Apache Indian, and it is for him that this gay program is named.
And that's not forgetting the use of patches in the Linux fag world -- patches are used to make the anus accessible for repeated anal sex even after its rupture by a session of fisting.
To summarise: Linux is gay. 'Slash -- Dot' is the graphical description of the space between a young boy's scrotum and anus. And BeOS is for hermaphrodites and disabled 'stumpers.'
FEEDBACK
Well, the only reason I know all about this is because I had the misfortune to read the Linux 'Sauce code' once. Although publicised as the computer code needed to get Linux up and running on a computer (and haven't you always been worried about the phrase 'Monolithic Kernel'?), this foul document is actually a detailed and graphic description of every conceivable degrading perversion known to the human race, as well as a few of the major animal species. It has shocked and disturbed me, to the point of needing to shock and disturb the common man to warn them of the impending homo-calypse which threatens to engulf our planet.
Doesn't it give you a hard-on to imagine your thick strong poker ramming it's way up my most sacred of sphincters? You're beyond help, my friend, as the only thing you can imagine is the foul penetrative violation of another man. Are you sure you're not Eric Raymond? The government, being populated by limp-wristed liberals, could never stem the sickening tide of homosexual child molesting Linux advocacy. Hell, they've given NAMBLA free reign for years!
Thank you for your kind words of support. However, this document shall only ever be posted anonymously. This is because the 'Open Sauce' movement is a sham, proposing homoerotic cults of hero worshipping in the name of freedom. I speak for the common man. For any man who prefers the warm, enveloping velvet folds of a woman's vagina to the tight puckered ringpiece of a child. These men, being common, decent folk, don't have a say in the political hypocrisy that is Slashdot culture. I am the unknown liberator.
We shouldn't hate them, we should pity them for the misguided fools they are... Fanatical Linux zeal-outs need to be herded into camps for re-education and subsequent rehabilitation into normal heterosexual society. This re-education shall be achieved by forcing them to watch repeats of Baywatch until the very mention of Pamela Anderson causes them to fill their pants with healthy heterosexual jism.
Well, it just goes to show that even the holy Linux 'sauce code' is riddled with bugs that need fixing. (The irony of Jon Katz not even being able to inflate his scrotum correctly has not been lost on me.) The Linux pervert elite already acknowledge this, with their queer slogan: 'Given enough arms, all rectums are shallow.' And anyway, the PS2 sucks major cock and isn't worth the money. Intellivision forever!
For one thing, whilst Linux is a cavalcade of queer propaganda masquerading as the future of computing, NT is used by people who think nothing better of encasing their genitals in quick setting plaster then going to see a really dirty porno film, enjoying the restriction enforced onto them. Remember, a wasted arousal is a sin in the eyes of the Catholic church. Clearly, the only god-fearing Christian operating system in existence is CP/M -- The Christian Program Monitor. All computer users should immediately ask their local pastor to install this fine OS onto their systems. It is the only route to salvation.
Secondly, this message is for every man. Computers know no colour. Not only that, but one of the finest websites in the world is maintained by a Black Man . Now fuck off you racist donkey felcher.
Although there is nothing unholy about the fine heterosexual act of ejaculating between a woman's breasts, squirting one's load up towards her neck and chin area, it should be noted that Perl (standing for Pansies Entering Rectums Locally) is also close to 'Pearl Monocle,' 'Pearl Nosering,' and the ubiquitous 'Pearl Enema.'
One scary thing about Perl is that it contains hidden homosexual messages. Take the following code: LWP::Simple -- It looks innocuous enough, doesn't it? But look at the line closely: There are two colons next to each other! As Larry 'Balls to the' Wall would openly admit in the Perl Documentation, Perl was designed from the ground up to indoctrinate it's programmers into performing unnatural sexual acts -- having two colons so closely together is clearly a reference to the perverse sickening act of 'colon kissing,' whereby two homosexual queers spread their buttocks wide, pressing their filthy torn sphincters together. They then share small round objects like marbles or golfballs by passing them from one rectum to another using muscle contraction alone. This is also referred to in programming 'circles' as 'Parameter Passing.'
And PHP stands for Perverted Homosexual Penetration. Didn't you know?
Well, I don't know about terraforming Mars, but I do know that homosexual Linux Advocates have been probing Uranus for years.
*sniff* That brings a tear to my eye. Thank you once more for your kind support. I have taken faith in the knowledge that I am doing the Good Lord's work, but it is encouraging to know that I am helping out the common man here.
However, I should be cautious about revealing your name 'Cerberus' on such a filthy den of depravity as Slashdot. It is a well known fact that the 'Kerberos' documentation from Microsoft is a detailed manual describing, in intimate, exacting detail, how to sexually penetrate a variety of unwilling canine animals; be they domesticated, wild, or mythical. Slashdot posters have taken great pleasure in illegally spreading this documentation far and wide, treating it as an 'extension' to the Linux 'Sauce Code,' for the sake of 'interoperability.' (The slang term they use for nonconsensual intercourse -- their favourite kind.)
In fact, sick twisted Linux deviants are known to have LAN parties, (Love of Anal Naughtiness, needless to say.), wherein they entice a stray dog, known as the 'Samba Mount,' into their homes. Up to four of these filth-sodden blasphemers against nature take turns to plunge their erect, throbbing, uncircumcised members, conkers-deep, into the rectum, mouth, and other fleshy orifices of the poor animal. Eventually, the 'Samba Mount' collapses due to 'overload,' and needs to be 'rebooted.' (i.e., kicked out into the street, and left to fend for itself.) Many Linux users boast about their 'uptime' in such situations.
If only indeed. You can help our brave cause by moderating this message up as often as possible. I recommend '+1, Underrated,' as that will protect your precious Karma in Metamoderation. Only then can we break through the glass ceiling of Homosexual Slashdot Culture. Is it any wonder that the new version of Slashcode has been christened 'Bender'???
If we can get just one of these postings up to at least '+1,' then it will be archived forever! Others will learn of our struggle, and join with us in our battle for freedom!
I am compelled to document the foulness and carnal depravity that is Linux, in order that we may prepare ourselves for the great holy war that is to follow. It is my solemn duty to peel back the foreskin of ignorance and apply the wire brush of enlightenment.
I could make an arrogant, childish comment along the lines of 'Every time someone asks for 2.0, I won't release it for another 24 hours,' but the truth of the matter is that I'm quite nervous of releasing a 'number two,' as I can guarantee some filthy shit-slurping Linux pervert would want to suck it straight out of my anus before I've even had chance to wipe.
I sincerely hope you're Natalie Portman.
What the fuck?
Well bugger me!
Fuck right off!
IMPORTANT: This message needs to be heard (Not HURD, which is an acronym for 'Huge Unclean Rectal Dilator') across the whole community, so it has been released into the Public Domain. You know, that licence that we all had before those homoerotic crypto-fascists came out with the GPL (Gay Penetration License) that is no more than an excuse to see who's got the biggest feces-encrusted cock. I would have put this up on Freshmeat, but that name is known to be a euphemism for the tight rump of a young boy.
Come to think of it, the whole concept of 'Source Control' unnerves me, because it sounds a bit like 'Sauce Control,' which is a description of the homosexual practice of holding the base of the cock shaft tightly upon the point of ejaculation, thus causing a build up of semenal fluid that is only released upon entry into an incision made into the base of the receiver's scrotum. And 'Open Sauce' is the act of ejaculating into another mans face or perhaps a biscuit to be shared later. Obviously, 'Closed Sauce' is the only Christian thing to do, as evidenced by the fact that it is what Cathedrals are all about.
Contributors: (although not to the eternal game of 'soggy biscuit' that open 'sauce' development has become) Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, phee, Anonymous Coward, mighty jebus, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, double_h, Anonymous Coward, Eimernase, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward. Further contributions are welcome.
Current changes: This version sent to FreeWIPO by 'Bring BackATV' as plain text. Reformatted everything, added all links back in (that we could match from the previous version), many new ones (Slashbot bait links). Even more spelling fixed. Who wrote this thing, CmdrTaco himself?
Previous changes: Yet more changes added. Spelling fixed. Feedback added. Explanation of 'distro' system. 'Mount Point' syntax described. More filth regarding `man` and Slashdot. Yet more fucking spelling fixed. 'Fetchmail' uncovered further. More Slashbot baiting. Apache exposed. Distribution licence at foot of document.
Trolling
I like poop!
Amusingly enough, the submission script doesn't work....
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