Uh, do you know who the author actually is? He's the guy writing an alternative scheduler to make Linux more responsive. I think he does know a fair amount about setting the kernel to be responsive.
Capitol records have to pay Ms Foster money. The legal entity known as the RIAA does not owe anyone a dime.
Please can we stop allowing the record companies to hide behind the RIAA? The RIAAs job is to shield record companies from bad publicity and keep their names out of messes like this.
Why are all of you helping the RIAA? Why do you hate freedom and democracy so much ? Puppy killers!
What is the fascination with a drop of blood ? If you shone that fancy CSI light in the front passenger seat of my car, you'd find loads of blood, both mine and my wife's. But I haven't killed her.
See, we use the car to go to the hospital sometimes. Like when we're bleeding. So far I've had one trip with my wife for stitches in her hand after she put her hand through a glass pane while helping me fit a door. Then there was the time I rode in that seat while bleeding out of my head after an egress from the loft went a little wrong. So there you have it - both of our blood, mixed, in my car. God help me if I wash it because then I _must_ have killed my wife, right?
The same goes for in the house. You'll find bits of our blood all over the place. The kitchen, from little nicks and cuts while cooking. The lounge from the big DIY project to refit the room. The office, from slicing ourselves on cheap assed computer cases and dripping on the floor before we realised we were bleeding.
So without enough blood to show someone died by exsanguination, what the hell does a drop of blood here or there show? That might be enough for a warrant, but surely not enough for charges.
You might be joking, but my wife only has 9. She lost part of her thumb in a boating accident about 2 years ago.
As it was, we went to the US on business then (my last trip because of how the officials treated her), and despite her having lost a digit, the dumbass pricks still insisted that she mangle her bandages to get her index finger out for scanning.
Then they gave her loads of extra security checks including swabbing her bandages and running the swap through some form of chemical analyser. And the bitch doing the swabbing would NOT listen, and swabbed right over the point where my had recently had an amputation.
So yeah, fuck US travel. I'll spend the £20k per year that I used to spend in the US in other countries now. So far the stupid sadists have lost £60k (over $100,000) that I would have normally put into their economy.
Jeez - I've been reading your thread, and I'm blown away by how many people just don't get it.
I _HAVE_ to pay my TV license because there is a TV sitting in my house. But for the next 6 months, I will not be on the same continent as my house. Or my TV.
The BBC are making the content available on-line, but they ARE locking me out, even though I'm paying and can't watch the initial screening. Their reason for doing so is not technical. There are no technical obstacles to making the content available to me. Their reasons are business based.
What's more, is that they are choosing to support and enrich a convicted monopolist who is STILL arguing with the EU over remedies. Should a government funded outfit really be allowed to encourage this behaviour?
Emigrate to America and spread that attitude around a bit. They won't let me in to live and I stopped vacationing and doing business there when they wanted my fingerprints, so I can't do it myself:D
Seriously, that is the only way to defeat terrorism - by not changing or letting them turn you into a sheeple!
I live in London. I went to work by tube on 7/7. I was back on the tubes by 9/7 (That's 9 July, 2 days after the bombs, just for those of you who write dates the wrong way around;)) I still ride the tube every day.
And to ride the tube, I don't have to have silly 'extra security checks' or TSA bullshit that I do when flying. Why is that I wonder?
I'm not scared of terrorists. I'm scared of fascist governments, which mine is fast becoming.
I was merely trying to make the point that it was another inaccurate headline and story intro.
While I understand NYCL's challenge with the headline, he keeps doing the record companies a favour by distancing themselves from this by letting them hide behind the RIAA.
I would have simply changed the headline to read 'Woman sues RIAA Record Companies for costs'
I would have also made it very clear in the body of the message that she is suing the record companies, not some lobby organisation.
We have to stop letting the record companies hide behind the RIAA. That is exactly what they want, so it's exactly what we have to stop!
There's a MASSIVE difference between the RIAA and those companies, and people like you really need to stop letting those companies hide behind the public face of the RIAA. You're doing exactly what they want you to.
Is this woman _REALLY_ suing the RIAA? That seems pretty retarded to me.
If I were her, I would be suing Interscope Records, Capitol Records, SONY BMG, Atlantic Recording, BMG Music, and Virgin Records, the people who sued me, rather than some organisation who represents them for some purposes.
Yeah, but... Azureus has one awesome thing going for it. I can have it running on my server at home, and using a widget on my mac, I can kick off a new torrent. So I have all the happiness of my mac, but my machine at home is doing the downloading, and next time I'm in the world, I can pick the stuff up.
If I didn't have that, my link would be REALLY busy one week in 4, and totally idle the rest of the time.
I'm also prepared to live with Azureus because it offers me a feature neither ktorrent nor utorrent offered last time I looked - the ability to open multiple torrent files at once instead of having to open each one individually.
Being the second fattest girl in the bar does NOT make you skinny.
Just because there are people that are worse than you, does not make your country and its government good.
I remember a time when being 'just good enough' wasn't enough for Americans. That's the time that your country was respected and admired by people outside its borders.
Since the USA started their silly abuses of foreign visitors, I have personally been responsible for a loss of $20,000 per year to the US economy. So far, at three years, I've taken $20,000 that I would have normally spent in the US and redistributed to Spain, France and South Africa.
The remaining $40,000 was business travel and input, and that has just been diverted to other business funds.
A lot of that money was spent with big nameless corporations (airlines for the most part) but a significant sum was spent in less well off towns with locally owned businesses. These are the real people suffering for your immigration policies - small restaurants, bed and breakfast accommodation, niche hardware and service suppliers.
Developers that write REAL apps want this SDK. Will Shipley of Delicious Monster fame already has stunning, useful ideas for it. Imagine being able to take your delicious library with you to the video store, or the book store. Or just have it on your phone so that work colleagues can browse it and request items for borrowing ?
What about just using it to replace the iSight (that you can't get anymore without buying a whole new machine) to scan books, dvds and games around the house ?
That's just one developer and a couple of ideas he pulled out of his ass in no time at all. Other people will come up with even cooler things.... maybe...
Just because YOU can't think of anything worthwhile doesn't mean it's worthless.
They should stop saying RIAA because the RIAA WANT people to blame them. They have one role - represent the record companies.
If instead of saying 'RIAA sued blah' we said 'Atlantic records, who distribute music by the following bands... sued blah' then the record companies start to take a public beating.
At the moment, the record companies are committing vile acts and hiding behind the RIAA. If they started to take some public flak for their actions, they might think twice before committing them.
Hell, all for going a step further. I'm all for mentioning and blaming the BANDS that are financing these actions. I'd rather see "The Record company that represents Funeral for a Friend, Led Zepplin and Gnarls Barkley have spent two years suing a disabled women and making the life of a 10 year old child miserable."
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Uh, please send a cheque for a new keyboard... I just spewed water all over this one.
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The scotchguard thing is absolutely priceless! I wouldn't want to piss your missus off
Uh, do you know who the author actually is? He's the guy writing an alternative scheduler to make Linux more responsive. I think he does know a fair amount about setting the kernel to be responsive.
Unless I've just been *whooshed*
Capitol records have to pay Ms Foster money. The legal entity known as the RIAA does not owe anyone a dime.
Please can we stop allowing the record companies to hide behind the RIAA? The RIAAs job is to shield record companies from bad publicity and keep their names out of messes like this.
Why are all of you helping the RIAA? Why do you hate freedom and democracy so much ? Puppy killers!
What is the fascination with a drop of blood ? If you shone that fancy CSI light in the front passenger seat of my car, you'd find loads of blood, both mine and my wife's. But I haven't killed her.
See, we use the car to go to the hospital sometimes. Like when we're bleeding. So far I've had one trip with my wife for stitches in her hand after she put her hand through a glass pane while helping me fit a door. Then there was the time I rode in that seat while bleeding out of my head after an egress from the loft went a little wrong. So there you have it - both of our blood, mixed, in my car. God help me if I wash it because then I _must_ have killed my wife, right?
The same goes for in the house. You'll find bits of our blood all over the place. The kitchen, from little nicks and cuts while cooking. The lounge from the big DIY project to refit the room. The office, from slicing ourselves on cheap assed computer cases and dripping on the floor before we realised we were bleeding.
So without enough blood to show someone died by exsanguination, what the hell does a drop of blood here or there show? That might be enough for a warrant, but surely not enough for charges.
I for one wouldn't take Hans Reisers advice on anything not even file systems serious.
;)
:D
There - fixed that for you
You've obviously never had a trashed Reiser 3 filesystem with no decent tools to recover it other than last night's backups
You might be joking, but my wife only has 9. She lost part of her thumb in a boating accident about 2 years ago.
As it was, we went to the US on business then (my last trip because of how the officials treated her), and despite her having lost a digit, the dumbass pricks still insisted that she mangle her bandages to get her index finger out for scanning.
Then they gave her loads of extra security checks including swabbing her bandages and running the swap through some form of chemical analyser. And the bitch doing the swabbing would NOT listen, and swabbed right over the point where my had recently had an amputation.
So yeah, fuck US travel. I'll spend the £20k per year that I used to spend in the US in other countries now. So far the stupid sadists have lost £60k (over $100,000) that I would have normally put into their economy.
Jeez - I've been reading your thread, and I'm blown away by how many people just don't get it.
I _HAVE_ to pay my TV license because there is a TV sitting in my house. But for the next 6 months, I will not be on the same continent as my house. Or my TV.
The BBC are making the content available on-line, but they ARE locking me out, even though I'm paying and can't watch the initial screening. Their reason for doing so is not technical. There are no technical obstacles to making the content available to me. Their reasons are business based.
What's more, is that they are choosing to support and enrich a convicted monopolist who is STILL arguing with the EU over remedies. Should a government funded outfit really be allowed to encourage this behaviour?
Excellent! It's an honour to meet you then - nice to see someone working to dispel the stereotype :)
See?! This is why I keep ranting about these stories about the RIAA - they aren't about the bloody RIAA at all.
/. stories... grrr :(
Let's try and be a bit more responsible and at least report on who is suing who. The RIAA haven't sued anyone. No-one has countersued the RIAA.
Bloody
Could I ask you a favour please?
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Emigrate to America and spread that attitude around a bit. They won't let me in to live and I stopped vacationing and doing business there when they wanted my fingerprints, so I can't do it myself
Seriously, that is the only way to defeat terrorism - by not changing or letting them turn you into a sheeple!
I live in London. I went to work by tube on 7/7. I was back on the tubes by 9/7 (That's 9 July, 2 days after the bombs, just for those of you who write dates the wrong way around ;)) I still ride the tube every day.
And to ride the tube, I don't have to have silly 'extra security checks' or TSA bullshit that I do when flying. Why is that I wonder?
I'm not scared of terrorists. I'm scared of fascist governments, which mine is fast becoming.
I was merely trying to make the point that it was another inaccurate headline and story intro.
While I understand NYCL's challenge with the headline, he keeps doing the record companies a favour by distancing themselves from this by letting them hide behind the RIAA.
I would have simply changed the headline to read 'Woman sues RIAA Record Companies for costs'
I would have also made it very clear in the body of the message that she is suing the record companies, not some lobby organisation.
We have to stop letting the record companies hide behind the RIAA. That is exactly what they want, so it's exactly what we have to stop!
There's a MASSIVE difference between the RIAA and those companies, and people like you really need to stop letting those companies hide behind the public face of the RIAA. You're doing exactly what they want you to.
Is this woman _REALLY_ suing the RIAA? That seems pretty retarded to me.
If I were her, I would be suing Interscope Records, Capitol Records, SONY BMG, Atlantic Recording, BMG Music, and Virgin Records, the people who sued me, rather than some organisation who represents them for some purposes.
Yeah, but... Azureus has one awesome thing going for it. I can have it running on my server at home, and using a widget on my mac, I can kick off a new torrent. So I have all the happiness of my mac, but my machine at home is doing the downloading, and next time I'm in the world, I can pick the stuff up.
If I didn't have that, my link would be REALLY busy one week in 4, and totally idle the rest of the time.
I'm also prepared to live with Azureus because it offers me a feature neither ktorrent nor utorrent offered last time I looked - the ability to open multiple torrent files at once instead of having to open each one individually.
Being the second fattest girl in the bar does NOT make you skinny.
Just because there are people that are worse than you, does not make your country and its government good.
I remember a time when being 'just good enough' wasn't enough for Americans. That's the time that your country was respected and admired by people outside its borders.
What about their closed source software (RHN Satellite and proxy)?
What about their use of a proprietary database for their closed source software (Oracle)?
Since the USA started their silly abuses of foreign visitors, I have personally been responsible for a loss of $20,000 per year to the US economy. So far, at three years, I've taken $20,000 that I would have normally spent in the US and redistributed to Spain, France and South Africa.
The remaining $40,000 was business travel and input, and that has just been diverted to other business funds.
A lot of that money was spent with big nameless corporations (airlines for the most part) but a significant sum was spent in less well off towns with locally owned businesses. These are the real people suffering for your immigration policies - small restaurants, bed and breakfast accommodation, niche hardware and service suppliers.
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I did a straw poll in the office and asked who was suing who, and all anyone came back with was 'The RIAA'.
So from a sample of 50 people, the record companies are coming out of this smelling like roses, when they should be smelling like shit.
Cohesion? Were you maybe going for coercion?
Developers that write REAL apps want this SDK. Will Shipley of Delicious Monster fame already has stunning, useful ideas for it. Imagine being able to take your delicious library with you to the video store, or the book store. Or just have it on your phone so that work colleagues can browse it and request items for borrowing ?
What about just using it to replace the iSight (that you can't get anymore without buying a whole new machine) to scan books, dvds and games around the house ?
That's just one developer and a couple of ideas he pulled out of his ass in no time at all. Other people will come up with even cooler things.... maybe...
Just because YOU can't think of anything worthwhile doesn't mean it's worthless.
Oh gods how I wish I had mod points... But you still owe me a new keyboard!
I'm sure you mean well with your analysis of this announcement, but damn, what an uneducated git!
I mean, really...
burn his houses, rape his cattle, and ride off on his women.
We rape the horses! Cattle are for eating, not raping!
They should stop saying RIAA because the RIAA WANT people to blame them. They have one role - represent the record companies.
... sued blah' then the record companies start to take a public beating.
If instead of saying 'RIAA sued blah' we said 'Atlantic records, who distribute music by the following bands
At the moment, the record companies are committing vile acts and hiding behind the RIAA. If they started to take some public flak for their actions, they might think twice before committing them.
Hell, all for going a step further. I'm all for mentioning and blaming the BANDS that are financing these actions. I'd rather see
"The Record company that represents Funeral for a Friend, Led Zepplin and Gnarls Barkley have spent two years suing a disabled women and making the life of a 10 year old child miserable."
I have a much simpler method - I just hate everyone equally :D