...and the denial of it working gives you a chance to build a "new missle defense program" that has the accuracy to hit incoming missles...or pretty much damn near anything we tell it to...pure genius. The small dwarf that lives inside Colon Powell is doing the nation proud. (If you don't believe there is a small dwarf inside Powell, I've devised a quick and easy test: Hit him in the head with a hammer.)
In case you weren't aware...the English language isn't governed by a body like snootier languages such as French...so this allows for much more rapid evolution of language. Just like "Fantastic" or "Naseous" now have new meanings, "virii" is now synonymous with "viruses."
Have a nice day.
Re:You're basically correct, but you have it rever
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Microsoft Comic Chat?
Yes, it's fun for a few minutes if you're drunk or really bored...but loses its appeal shortly after. It's also really annoying because it spams. " (GARBAGE) Text", which is because most of the comic chat users are too dumb/uninformed to turn off the extra information it sends. Leave it to Microsoft to fuck up something that could've been cool. Over. And over. And over...
The oddity is, courts have ruled that if you make a copy of a disc you own, it's OK, but if someone else makes a copy for you -- even of a disc you own! -- it's verbotten.
I'm just wondering, if someone else borrows my cd, copies it, but I get both the copy and the original back, is this legal? (Say, a company you send your cds to, they convert them to mp3s and either send you a cd with the mp3s on them, or you download them online?)
WT News: The early-Bush gets the worm
NYT News: Code Red: Out out, damn spot
WT Ed: Redmond's absinthia: Dropping the ball
NYT Ed: The Worm Farm: Microsoft wallows in the muck, saved at the zero-hour by bait-and-switch government
Especially since even Linux installs work better than that (and have for a while).
I can't speak for anyone but myself here...I've tried to install everything from slack to redhat to debian to suse...and I've gotten pretty far on occasion...But I have never had everything working at once...Either Xwindows doesn't want to work for me, or the internet just doesn't want to configure...or whatever...I've installed Windows since 3.1 without a problem...until Win2k when my cd-r flaked out...it's old, it was bound to happen, but I was *still* able to get it working...So I had to babysit my computer to install Win2k...oh well. At least the babysitting paid off, I have a "fully functional" computer right now...more than I'd be saying if I had tried to install linux again...
I'm not saying I'm anti-linux...I just don't have the time to keep poking at it until it works right now. When I do get a new computer, you can bet this one will be my "lab penguin" though.
-HobophobE
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On the other hand, the ease with which people can find and communicate with people like them could be viewed as a bad thing for society; people are not forced to mix with those that are different to them and some valuable "cross-pollenation" of ideas may be lost
I'm going to have to disagree with this idea...just look at slashdot and the amount of bickering that goes on...do you REALLY think that ANYONE is as similar as you try to make them sound? Everyone has different ideas, if anything the cross polination of ideas (information/memes) is MUCH greater in an environment where geography is unimportant, and certainly will be even MORE widespread in the event that language loses its barrieristic capabilities...Not that the diffusion of information on a large scale is always a good thing, but it is definitely not restricted because of people being the same. As you said at the end, 'just your ideas' which means that any of the huge number of/.ers could jump on here and modify, ridicule, compare, and judge them...and even assimilate them into their own beliefs...The less restrictions placed on information the more "freedom and responsibility" it holds...
I'm sitting here wondering how long it will be before a non-government patent office that actually does its job is created? There's the issue of enforcing patents, but if a non-government patent office existed then I'm sure the patents would still be valid in a court of law (or so it would seem, anyway).
Why use imperfect mechanisms to block childrens' access to "adult content"? Why not use a little old-fashioned thought? You've got one of the most amazing life forms in existence to "protect", so why not make it a responsibility for them to learn? You've got a chance to teach your kids how to think for themselves rather than to blindly obey authority, and that's what you should do. My parents let me make my own mind up as I became a teenager and it's payed off. I'd much rather go to a site, realize it's worthless, and never return than not be allowed to the site at all and never know if the information is worth looking at. Does censor-ware block/.? I hope not, this is certainly a great place to read other peoples' opinions and the reasons for them as well. If you had a choice between covering your childrens' eyes when you walk past an adult bookstore or to explain to them what the place is and why it's not a good place, which do you think would be more helpful when they're walking past it four or five years later with their friends? It boils down to the idea of informed decisions. If you have no prior knowledge or something, how can you be expected to make an informed decision about it? If you know what it is (truly what it is, not some distorted version created through propaganda and nonsense) then you're a lot safer and a lot more aware of your environment.
Can't we? I've been under the impression that if all e-mail had some sort of positive ID then this would all be solved. Anything with an ID would easily be filtered as spam or non-spam, and the rest would just be filtered out of your e-mail...
I think this would be the only real solution because it would put requisites on spamming that would make it easy to filter. The only problem is finding an apropriate way of creating an ID and the security needed to stop forgery of them.
It should be obvious that all those religions you listed WOULD sue for copyright infringement if they held the copyright to the bible,etc. Unfortunately, the copyright JUST ran out.
"pushing for global piracy networks doesn't make sense because it isn't winnable. I'm not saying that there won't always be file trading networks around -- just that they'll be shut down frequently, and that finding them will probably be more trouble than it's worth."
Don't even bother with this line of reasoning, it isn't sound. One file-sharing service being shut down doesn't mean that all will, one hundred file-sharing services being shut down doesn't mean all will. Even if all that changes is the way the RIAA does business, it'll be worth the trouble.
2001-03-13 13:33:13
(MIR will not only hit the water at this hour, it will also mark the beginning of DolphinSpace1's construction. The Dolphins will begin salvaging pieces from MIR in an attempt to get off this planet.)
...is that although this "tragedy" shouldn't have happened, I seriously doubt we are much worse off because of it. Yes, people died, and I'm sure some were fired as well. How often has that happened in the history of the world? I'd bet every single day. So the question remains, what was the point of the post? Was it just to encourage some discussion? Was it to remember? I'm thinking it was to confuse. On a day when most Americans are gearing up for the Superbowl, few will probably even think about this "tragic" topic. They might see a footnote on the news, but that's all it has become to them, a footnote. They don't realize the pain and trauma that one must undergo when an entire online community discusses such a topic. With all of the flaming and rhetoric and emotion and moderation, it's kind of overwhelming at times.
receiving AOL CDs doesn't cost you a penny, whereas receiving spam EMail does cost you.
and you *know* that the costs are passed on to the consumer
Wouldn't the argument you make about the cost being passed to the consumer also cause postal rates to increase (effective Jan. 7 USPS is charging more)?
...the failed technology HDTV. It was short-lived, but the greedmongers got their hands on it, and we all know that when greedmongers have control of anything, it withers and dies.
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...and the denial of it working gives you a chance to build a "new missle defense program" that has the accuracy to hit incoming missles...or pretty much damn near anything we tell it to...pure genius. The small dwarf that lives inside Colon Powell is doing the nation proud. (If you don't believe there is a small dwarf inside Powell, I've devised a quick and easy test: Hit him in the head with a hammer.)
In case you weren't aware...the English language isn't governed by a body like snootier languages such as French...so this allows for much more rapid evolution of language. Just like "Fantastic" or "Naseous" now have new meanings, "virii" is now synonymous with "viruses." Have a nice day.
Microsoft Comic Chat?
Yes, it's fun for a few minutes if you're drunk or really bored...but loses its appeal shortly after. It's also really annoying because it spams. " (GARBAGE) Text", which is because most of the comic chat users are too dumb/uninformed to turn off the extra information it sends. Leave it to Microsoft to fuck up something that could've been cool. Over. And over. And over...
The oddity is, courts have ruled that if you make a copy of a disc you own, it's OK, but if someone else makes a copy for you -- even of a disc you own! -- it's verbotten.
I'm just wondering, if someone else borrows my cd, copies it, but I get both the copy and the original back, is this legal? (Say, a company you send your cds to, they convert them to mp3s and either send you a cd with the mp3s on them, or you download them online?)
WT News: The early-Bush gets the worm
NYT News: Code Red: Out out, damn spot
WT Ed: Redmond's absinthia: Dropping the ball
NYT Ed: The Worm Farm: Microsoft wallows in the muck, saved at the zero-hour by bait-and-switch government
-HobophobE
I can't speak for anyone but myself here...I've tried to install everything from slack to redhat to debian to suse...and I've gotten pretty far on occasion...But I have never had everything working at once...Either Xwindows doesn't want to work for me, or the internet just doesn't want to configure...or whatever...I've installed Windows since 3.1 without a problem...until Win2k when my cd-r flaked out...it's old, it was bound to happen, but I was *still* able to get it working...So I had to babysit my computer to install Win2k...oh well. At least the babysitting paid off, I have a "fully functional" computer right now...more than I'd be saying if I had tried to install linux again...
I'm not saying I'm anti-linux...I just don't have the time to keep poking at it until it works right now. When I do get a new computer, you can bet this one will be my "lab penguin" though.
-HobophobE
I'm going to have to disagree with this idea...just look at slashdot and the amount of bickering that goes on...do you REALLY think that ANYONE is as similar as you try to make them sound? Everyone has different ideas, if anything the cross polination of ideas (information/memes) is MUCH greater in an environment where geography is unimportant, and certainly will be even MORE widespread in the event that language loses its barrieristic capabilities...Not that the diffusion of information on a large scale is always a good thing, but it is definitely not restricted because of people being the same. As you said at the end, 'just your ideas' which means that any of the huge number of /.ers could jump on here and modify, ridicule, compare, and judge them...and even assimilate them into their own beliefs...The less restrictions placed on information the more "freedom and responsibility" it holds...
-HobophobE
Thank you. My earbacks are much cleaner now and I've found god too.
-HobophobE
"It's sad becase myself and others are working 80hr weeks [and getting paid] to share as much information as possible with our developers."
-HobophobE
I'm sitting here wondering how long it will be before a non-government patent office that actually does its job is created? There's the issue of enforcing patents, but if a non-government patent office existed then I'm sure the patents would still be valid in a court of law (or so it would seem, anyway).
-HobophobE
"Why not...?" Greed.
-HobophobE
The joke part of it comes later when all the stories are updated as true...or not.
-HobophobE
Why use imperfect mechanisms to block childrens' access to "adult content"? Why not use a little old-fashioned thought? You've got one of the most amazing life forms in existence to "protect", so why not make it a responsibility for them to learn? You've got a chance to teach your kids how to think for themselves rather than to blindly obey authority, and that's what you should do. My parents let me make my own mind up as I became a teenager and it's payed off. I'd much rather go to a site, realize it's worthless, and never return than not be allowed to the site at all and never know if the information is worth looking at. Does censor-ware block /.? I hope not, this is certainly a great place to read other peoples' opinions and the reasons for them as well. If you had a choice between covering your childrens' eyes when you walk past an adult bookstore or to explain to them what the place is and why it's not a good place, which do you think would be more helpful when they're walking past it four or five years later with their friends? It boils down to the idea of informed decisions. If you have no prior knowledge or something, how can you be expected to make an informed decision about it? If you know what it is (truly what it is, not some distorted version created through propaganda and nonsense) then you're a lot safer and a lot more aware of your environment.
-HobophobE
The problem is the only folks the RIAA believe are entitled to the royalties is the RIAA.
-HobophobE
Can't we? I've been under the impression that if all e-mail had some sort of positive ID then this would all be solved. Anything with an ID would easily be filtered as spam or non-spam, and the rest would just be filtered out of your e-mail... I think this would be the only real solution because it would put requisites on spamming that would make it easy to filter. The only problem is finding an apropriate way of creating an ID and the security needed to stop forgery of them.
-HobophobE
I once wrote pong in the form of a mIRC script. I'll do it again if you keep bringing it up...
-HobophobE
It should be obvious that all those religions you listed WOULD sue for copyright infringement if they held the copyright to the bible,etc. Unfortunately, the copyright JUST ran out.
-HobophobE
"pushing for global piracy networks doesn't make sense because it isn't winnable. I'm not saying that there won't always be file trading networks around -- just that they'll be shut down frequently, and that finding them will probably be more trouble than it's worth."
Don't even bother with this line of reasoning, it isn't sound. One file-sharing service being shut down doesn't mean that all will, one hundred file-sharing services being shut down doesn't mean all will. Even if all that changes is the way the RIAA does business, it'll be worth the trouble.
-HobophobE
2001-03-13 13:33:13
(MIR will not only hit the water at this hour, it will also mark the beginning of DolphinSpace1's construction. The Dolphins will begin salvaging pieces from MIR in an attempt to get off this planet.)
-HobophobE
According to this, the gateway/stepping stone theory has been shown as false.
-HobophobE
...is that although this "tragedy" shouldn't have happened, I seriously doubt we are much worse off because of it. Yes, people died, and I'm sure some were fired as well. How often has that happened in the history of the world? I'd bet every single day. So the question remains, what was the point of the post? Was it just to encourage some discussion? Was it to remember? I'm thinking it was to confuse. On a day when most Americans are gearing up for the Superbowl, few will probably even think about this "tragic" topic. They might see a footnote on the news, but that's all it has become to them, a footnote. They don't realize the pain and trauma that one must undergo when an entire online community discusses such a topic. With all of the flaming and rhetoric and emotion and moderation, it's kind of overwhelming at times.
-HobophobE
One of the actors was in Trainspotting...
-HobophobE
receiving AOL CDs doesn't cost you a penny, whereas receiving spam EMail does cost you.
and you *know* that the costs are passed on to the consumer
Wouldn't the argument you make about the cost being passed to the consumer also cause postal rates to increase (effective Jan. 7 USPS is charging more)?-HobophobE
...because it's the one night everyone is supposed to be carefree, but everyone talks about the same damn things anyway.
-HobophobE
...the failed technology HDTV. It was short-lived, but the greedmongers got their hands on it, and we all know that when greedmongers have control of anything, it withers and dies.
-HobophobE