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WiFi Hotspots Elude RIAA Dragnet
mblase writes "A CNET News article discusses a problem the RIAA is having with its copyright enforcement strategy: public wireless hot spots. Normally, the RIAA notifies the ISP when a user is found to be violating their copyrights, but in this case, the ISP is powerless to do anything. Key quote: '...unless the administrator keeps detailed logs of everybody's account use - which is not required by law - she may well not know who was swapping files.' I wonder how long it will be before those detailed logs ARE required by law?"
Torrentse.cx is gone due to a cease and desist letter. Very sad. ByteMonsoon is down too!
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I have no idea what it is, but I get some sort of relief coming to this site and just typing in some mindless drivel.
On the other hand, I get disappointed when I come to site after an absence and it's like I'm reading the same stories. And I don't mean dupes, I mean literally the same topics over and over and over again, just with a few different words and people involved.
And it doesn't matter how long I've been away... ack.
Why do people use "she" instead of the proper "he" when referring to others of unkown gender? Just because the administrator could be female, the proper pronoun to use is still "he". It isn't any more politically correct to use "she" instead of "he". If you really want to be PC and not use appropriate words, use "he/she" or "s/he".
Looking at the definition of "he":
2 -- used in a generic sense or when the sex of the person is unspecified
Just downloaded the new version which is supposed to hide IP address. Does anyone know if it works ?
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This is offtopic, but I have noticed the increased use of the 'she' pronoun to describe positions that are in all honesty dominated by males. Is this a form of Grammatical Gender Affirmitive Action?
I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it does sound funny to my ears, and distracts from whatever the actual object of the sentence is.
I remember there was a good post on Kuroshin a while back advocating the creation of a gender neutral pronoun. I think they (ha!) promoted the idea of using 'They' which is often used (incorrectly) in place of he/she.
I am in favor of the creation of a new word to avoid the confusion between third person singular and plural.
The word I propose is 'e'. It takes the common portion of 'she' and 'he'.
The possesive pronouns are a bit more difficult as they only have 'h' in common, and as it is a consonant, it is impossible to pronounce.
For the gender neutral possesive pronoun, I suggest 'hiers' which is a nice blending
of 'hers' and 'his'. For 'Her' and 'Him', similarly I suggest 'Hierm'
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sorry for OT question but where can you buy a prepaid debit card that works like a visa/etc with any supplied name? - honest Q
How dare you attack our President. He has taken a stand against real threats to our country, unlike the weasels France and Germany and the rest of the UN. We have darn good evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime aspired to possess nuclear weapons, the most destructive weapons ever developed.
Thanks for making them available, but I would be more impressed if you were offering Free downloads rather than free downloads.
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It's the Borg.