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Online Newshour Tackling Digital Copyright
dmabram writes "The online version of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is tackling copyright in the digital age. They are sponsoring a forum where Lawrence Lessig will square off against RIAA executive Matt Oppenheim. Anyone can submit questions, and the best questions or comments will be posted to Lessig and Oppenheim for debate and discussion. I know that the producers understand the importance of this debate, and would love insightful questions." Looks worth tuning in for.
ha ha ! I am the master!
The KDE project is famous for its funded and organised trolling of
weblogs and message board associated with Linux and Free software/open
source. Outrageous newbie impressing claims are made for the software
and huge quanities of FUD are spread to destroy competitors. If this
sounds familiar, then you are correct, most of these tactics were
lifted straight from Microsoft's arsenal of dirty tricks. The Windows
look and feel is not the only thing the KDE project has copied! In
this short article I will address some of the lies and FUD spread by
the KDE trolling teams. It is my hope that this, in some small way,
will redress the balance and re-introduce two things almost eradicated
by the KDE project: Honesty and facts.
Myth #1 - KDE is more integrated than GNOME
The oft-heard cry of the noisiest KDE advocates. No explanation is
given, the reader is expected to simply grok the wholesomeness of KDE
and the lack of this mystical quality in GNOME. It is nonsense of
course. Neither desktop is particularly "integrated" compared to
Windows XP, and certainly not compared any version of the Apple Mac.
Whatever "integrated" actually means.
Myth #2 - KDE is easier to use
Again, such nebulous arguments are never explained, and the reader is
expected to simply understand the truth of the zealots statement. Both
KDE and GNOME have user-interface irritations (all systems do), but
"ease of use" is not a simple thing to measure. KDE has never been
subjected to detailed user testing, unlike GNOME [gnome.org]
[gnome.org], and the claims of user-friendliness are from crazed
supporters and not average users. Furthermore, the KDE faithful rarely
look beyond simple-minded copying of Windows, and forget that
administering a desktop system is just as important as having widgets
in the correct place on the toolbar. For example: What about
application installation and removal? GNOME has the excellent
RedCarpet by Ximian [ximian.com] [ximian.com], which makes the
installation, removal and updating of applications trivial. KDE users
are expected to fend for themselves with brutal command line driven
systems. GNOME also has the excellent Ximian setup tools to handle
various tricky cross-platform and potentially risky system
configuration operations. KDE offers none of this, only a few small
half-assed Linux-only tools, which make no attempt at check-pointing
to return to known working configurations.
Myth #3 - KDE is more popular
In what sense? Arguably more people use KDE, but it is a close run
thing. Most KDE zealots use the results of online polls as proof of
their superior userbase - which is, quite frankly, complete and utter
nonsense. Online polls are the joke of the century; it doesn't even
require a motivated script kiddie to render then worthless. A single
post alerting the faithful on a zealot-ridden site can skew the result
so much it makes American presidential elections look fair and well
organised. Popularity is also difficult to measure when *both* GNOME
and KDE are frequently installed on the same system. The systems can
co-exist and even run at the same time, except for certain
applications such as panels. Many KDE users actually run GNOME
applications for their superior features and stability, not realising
that by doing so they are barely running KDE at all.
One of the few solid measures of popularity is commercial use of a
desktop, and here, GNOME is far ahead with both Hewlett Packard and
Sun committing to using GNOME as the desktop for their Unix systems.
This also ties in with the previously mentioned ease of use. Sun's
major contribution to the GNOME project is in the areas of
user/developer documentation, testing, accessiblity and user-testing.
Three of the less glamourous parts of desktop development. The arrival
of the GNOME 2.x series will see these contributions reach fruitition
and allow GNOME to make a quantum
I'm not Seth.
who doesn't even have anything to say.
Love it.
The alarm next to the bed went off precisely at 7 a.m., and Latex Slave Lola fumbled it to silence with some difficulty in the semidark chamber that had been "her" bedroom for the last five days. She sat up and pushed back the bedcovers with a yawn, stretching luxuriously in the gloom of her sleeping chamber.
The week of her servitude had gone by with astonishing swiftness and she had been surprised to find that she had enjoyed every moment of it without reservation. In fact, under the stern tutelage of the Amazon - whom she had been allowed to address only as "Mistress" - she had spent every waking moment as an abject servant, waiting hand and foot on the powerful woman who had taken her prisoner late Christmas Eve.
She had cooked and served meals for her rubber-clad captor, brought her tea in the afternoons and a glass of port each evening, dusted, mopped and vacuumed the house repeatedly, and crouched on her hands and knees licking her mistress's shiny black patent boots sparkling clean several times each day. What's more, she had done it all without a murmur of protest - and with an admiration and sexual desire for the dominatrix that grew strongly with each passing day. She had submerged herself so completely in her servile role that she had stopped thinking of herself as Santa Claus entirely. She was totally absorbed with her new identity as her captor's latex sex toy and handmaiden, Lola.
The slave rose and walked quickly to the closet across her room, where she had hung her work outfit before retiring the night before. She had long ago mastered walking in her ridiculously high-heeled shoes with a sinuous feminine stride, her hips swinging with an attractive grace with each stride. She had been forced to sleep in the shoes, her rubber face and gloves and her tightly laced latex corset every night - she had no choice, since the garments were literally locked onto her body with the Amazon's small but strong padlocks. At first she found the outfit uncomfortable, but as the week had progressed, she had come to glory in its cruel constriction. She had grown particularly pleased with the utterly feminine image that peered back at her from every mirror in the Amazon's house, and had gradually adapted her walk, speech and movements to a perfect counterfeit of femininity. No casual observer would ever guess that underneath her rubber costume, the buxom and sexy woman who served the dominatrix was Father Christmas, himself, a chubby, aging - and decidedly masculine -- elf.
Lola wriggled into the shiny black and white PVC maid's dress her mistress had ordered her to wear during her waking hours, zipped the back up snugly and fastened the little vinyl maid's cap to her long curly auburn hair with bobby pins. She then fluffed her ringlets out so they framed her gorgeous rubber face like a perfect halo of femininity. After a last glance in the mirror to make sure she looked just right, she click-clicked out of the room and down the hall to the kitchen to prepare the Mistress's breakfast.
By 7:45 a.m., she had prepared a soft-boiled egg, dry toast, tea and a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice and arranged the items on a serving tray with a small vase that contained a single, blood-red rose. She carried the tray to the Amazon's bedroom and tapped gently on the door.
"You may enter, slut," a low female voice ordered from inside the room. Lola allowed herself a moment's smile at her mistress's smoky soprano, a voice she had grown to both fear and love, then opened the door and entered with the Amazon's morning meal.
"Good morning, Mistress," the latex maid murmured in the passably female contralto that the Amazon had forced her to adopt. "I hope you slept well last night."
The Amazon was propped up in bed, already smoking one of her long filter-tipped cigarettes in her plastic holder. She smoothed the imperial purple satin bedclothes to allow Lola to place the tray on her lap and looked at her maid imperiously as she crossed the room with small, min
Yes, that's right.
Bonehead.
Confucious says: Man who runs behind car gets exhausted.
// jeku.com
Excuse me, sir, but are you aware you doing way too many paragraphs in a 4-paragraph zone? May I see your troll license please?
Please tell me when this airs!!!
I watch the NewsHour on occasion but never really bothered with the site.
If I knew that you wouldn't wreck my site with hits (as I'm looking for work)I'd reciprocate by showing you something I did on copyright. It is a little picture story.