-BING- Spam with M$ signature lands on her desk.
Clippy: You have new mail!
Clippy: En-large UR Peniz! From Bill Gates.
My wife smacks her keyboard.
Clippy keeps reading the message.
Email loads up Gator through midi exploit.
Clippy keeps wagging his finger and spam blinks, but all is quiet while trickler starts to work.
Handheld detects Advert Avoidance flaw, YOU KILLED CLIPPY, you bastard, and slags it's core.
No big deal. My mail client and web browser get the same answer, unlike some software I know of.
I wonder if M$'s new talker will auto load email and blab it out for the user. Assides from the inapropriate nature of most M$N, Hotmail and other spam M$ users suffer under and would NEVER want read aloud, chances are a malicious email would blow the thing up, install keyloggers or what not. That's what happens when you run as root. Go figure why M$ has not learned that yet.
What a buch of arrogant bastards they are for not giving CVS commit access to all those poor saps doing M$ development. Just the fact that they have been doing this difficult work for years should be proof enough of their good intentions.
What? this is not the XFree86-Citrix page? Oh, I'm sorry Bill, let me get back there right away.
Yes master, I love you and all your leet new tools. The best effort since 95. All glory to you for your second release in 10 years. Please don't sell it to China before you let me peek at it. I promise I'll never look at another line of code ever, please, please throw me a bone.
You claim that www.mp3s4free.net operated under bad intent. Do you have anything to back that up? Can you prove to me that they knew they were linking to copyrighted material? I doubt it.
I can equally malign the music industry in this case. First, the search warrent was for content they could have gotten without a raid at all: a website and logs. Instead of just downloading the site, the wrecked a man's house and a place of business. Second, I can speciously claim that all of the copyright violation sites were constructed by the music industry themselves to break a competitor with false accusations. My specious argument has as much weight as yours, more when you consider the thugish nature of the music industry.
If linking to "copyrighted" material is outlawed, the whole web becomes illegal. Everything on the web is a link and the maker of a page can not be responsible for what's at the end of that link. If someone tells me Bob has a nice music collection, I might point to Bob's music collection. I have no idea that Bob has copyrighted material on his site and I'm not about to sift through all 100,000 of his MP3s and compare them to a RIAA catalog. The RIAA has a duty to send Bob a cease and dissist order on behalf of the publishers the RIAA represents. My link was made in good faith. The bad logic of "illegal linking" outlaws my page and any page that links to mine as well.
Others have written infamatory posts about sending people next door to a hitman. Links are nothing like murder and the person making the link has no idea what the person next door really has in his house. The situation is more like fining the phone company for listing a hitman's telephone number. Copying files hurts no one and associating that act with murder is only done to wip people up into a frenzy to do real harm.
The music industry really does hurt people. They really wants to RAID YOUR HOUSE AND PUT YOU IN JAIL. That's physical harm. In this case the search order was for obtaining a copy of the website. How stupid is that? They turned a man's house upside down to obtain something they could have gotten without leaving their offieces. They wanted to put him and his friends in jail and they are going to ruin him finacially as they try to put him there. That's real harm. The music industry has been composed of thugs since Gilbert and Sullivan got publishing your own notes to someone else's song outlawed and their thugs swept London breaking presses and legs.
SCO allegations unenforcable? I have an unspecified copies of unspecified versions of unspecified distributions of Linux... SCO can't enforce anything on me, so their claims are VOID BABY, YEA!
Better than that, if they did enforce their terms on YOU, they would be selectively enforcing them and , and THATS NOT FAIR, THERFORE IT'S VOID BABY, YEA!
The XFree86 guys have been assholes from the start.... I pointed out a bug (and included a fix) in their S3 driver years ago. Every email was ignored. Not so much as an acknowledgment let alone a thank you.
Wooo hooo, you issued a complaint and that makes you an expert on XF86 develpment? Your friends in Redmond would be proud of you.
publcation (net) costs nothing if you make money on what you sell. hence, the cost of publication is basically irrelevant.
Ah, but morons like you think the purpose of copyright law is to assure publishers a proffit as an end rather than as a means to the spread of ideas. As the costs of publishing goes down, the need for such "protection" goes down proportionally, even under your own twisted logic. Get it yet? It's hard to be more clear.
Now that copying is easier / cheaper, it is understandable that terms are longer.. sheesh.. at least keep your logic straight.
Ah yes, that's what idiots like you keep telling me, but you have it backward. If the point of copyright it to encourage publication, the cheaper publication is the less encouragement it needs and the weaker copyright law can be. Get it yet? If the internet had existed in 1776 the US would have no copyright laws at all.
The internet and related technologies are MASSIVE enablers of self-publishing on a level never seen before. Want to reach potentially billions of listeners? you can do it from your bedroom with zero third party support-...the intermediaries survive. how can this be?
That's easy, your first statement is not true. The intermediaries are buying ISPs so that you can't really publish from your bedroom. My ISP, like many others, has a "no servers" clause despite a glut of bandwith. It's not a conspiracy, it's simple anti competitive practices . When the big dumb publishers get finished screwing up the internet we know, someone will make a new one.
If you think the conversion from biomass to milage is bad, just try the conversion solar to biomass. Can you imagine how many billions of gigawatts the sun has to produce, just to grow a stinking weed? I shrink to think of how much hydrogen that takes.
OK, I can't do much better than the week yet. When I die, I doubt I'll even make good petrol. If only I had my own little fusion reactor, I could do much better before I rot. Let's see a plant do that.
The RIAA will step right in with current law. They will call the DJ a "Napster" just like the NYT did. "You can order up 80 minutes without adverts to record? Surely thats like killing people", they will say.
What they will do is make is suck like other comercial broadcasts. They do this so they can shovel a small selection songs they wish to sell at you. Once they have it under control, they will leave it alone, but the loss of control will not be tollerated.
here's a really obvious sign of when the spirit of copyright is broken--i call it the "extrapolation" argument. basically, somebody takes an existing interpretation and tries to "scale it up":
Brilliant. This is why a system of laws that was supposed to enlarge the public domain with excellent works now serves the intersts of the worlds large publishers. We have gone from 28 year copyrights to perpetual copyrights in less than 100 years. If you think things are right, you are a slave and will take any old shit shoveled your way.
The result is that big publishers have all the power. They don't have pay artists, authors, scientists or anyone. That's because they control the channels of distribution and can force any old junk they feel like. Is it reasonable to you that 30 year old music dominates the airwaves of this country? Is it reasonable to you that scientist do all the editorial work for magazines without compensation and then pay to have their work published? Is it reasonable to you that those scientific publications are so expensive that even major universities can't aford them? The extrapolation to digital media is even worse.
The students at MIT can share 3,500 RIAA records, great fucking big deal. They are shafted because the world is much larger than those few songs or even the RIAA. Good luck trying to get original work onto that network, it's not going to happen. The students of MIT will only get more RIAA dog food out of this new network.
What you don't get is that the whole basis of copyright law is broken. When the founding fathers of this country made 14 year copyrights, they did so because publishing was expensive and they felt it needed to be encouraged in the vast wilderness that was the US at the time. These conditions are obviously untrue today. Publishing is cheap and the protections needed are proportionatly lower. The public domain can and will grow better if copyright law is scrapped alltogether.
It's over already, really. Scientists have gone out of their way to publish their own peer reviewed journals because it's cheaper to them. Others will follow and leave the RIAA and other rapists like that in the same dustbin that Edison's Phonograph patents are sitting.
The God given truth is that information sharing is good and moraly correct. Things that get in the way are evil. Greed heads like the RIAA are a particularly evil bunch of pimps.
Imagine some goatse slashdot troll were to hack your glasses.
It's called subliminal advertising and the good folks on Madison avenue and elswhere have been putting images like that in your face for more than 60 years. Try laid by the best as a very old example. Images like that fill cartoony comercial art and more hideous images can be hidden in photographs. Computers have been very helpful at putting pornography right in your face many times a day.
The more advertising you are exposed to the worse off you are. It is agitating and more anoying than you think it is.
you will think sex. At least if Pepsi has it's way, you associate sex with thier Taco Bell icons. The same thing applies to all other big companies. The two strongest urges are sex and death. Alcohol companies push themselves through self destruction, just about everyone else pushes you through sex.
The overall efect of this overstimulation is evident in divorce and suicide rates. If you have not noticed, both of those rates are at historic highs. It's sort of like bodybuilders and steroids, it's never existed before because it's not natural. You are profoundly agitated on a daily basis and it's having a very negative effect on society.
The non free version of these glasses would personalize the message. With RFID's advertisers would know exactly who you are. I can imagine them acting like sunglasses in places like the mall because 90 shops at once will want your 1/180 of a second blip-vert. We'd be better off if this would make people's head explode.
Maybe if everyone had these, it would lead to smarter intersections.
Ye Gods, NO! It's taken city planners decades to install and tweak centrally controled lights so that traffic flows. Now assholes will come along and make EVERYONE wait when they disrupt a flow that's been synchronized to minimize group time spent. You might as well request additional traffic accidents. People here are polite compared to other places and wait their turn when the lights go out, yet the delay is awful. Things were just starting to work where I lived. Polling systems that simply count cars won't work. It would take enourmous computing power to adjust the flow programs bassed on traffic. That's worth persuing, but boxes that flip the switch should earn the user a heafty ticket. I can just imagine the kinds of nimrods who will use this. Uhg, we have set up a system of privalidge (that's Frech for privat law, Gus) that will be abused. I hate it.
I have to admire your smoothness. You detail Microsoft's obvious lack of competitiveness and then try to hang the same problems on free software. The transition was well done, though your overall point is FUD. You claim:
OSS has the same problem when picking up new features....
I don't think you can name one free software "feature" that has ever been dropped. Free software never dies if anyone has any interest in it and I've never seen a piece of free software become unavailable. Even closed source junk ported to free software, such as Word Perfect 8, is still available and can be run. With just a few old libs, I've made that package run on Debian Woody. Try getting office 97 and before to run on XP for a fair compairison. I'm unaware of any free window manager, editor, or utility going away. Free software doees not suffer "upgrades", it just gets better or is replaced by a far superior free alternative.
While I think SCO are a bunch of weasels who have probably not been specific as to lines of code. I do think that this particular objection to IBM discovery requests is quite reasonable and understandable.
If it thinks like a weasel, it is a weasel. "isn't my name" is a weasel.
Try SCO is not being reasonable to ask IBM to tell them everyone who's worked on "infinging" code without first identifying infringing code. THERE IS NO INFRINGING CODE, you weasel.
Is there a reason why DRM shouldn't be labeled "real technology" besides the fact that you don't like it?
That's so easy, I wonder if you mean it.
Technology is a tool that does something useful.
DRM is nothing but a trade seceret that keeps people seperated from their information to one degree or another. It seeks, in its basest form, to impose the physical restrictions of older media on electronic media. They are using standard techniques and technologies that were worked out for legitimate purposes. No new ground is being covered and even the application is old. DRM companies no more deserve seed capital than a startup ball and chain company that thinks it has a new application for balls, chains and digital data.
The real lesson of the "dot-com bubble", if such a thing existed, is that analyists and newspaper reporters can't tell the difference between greed-hype-fraud and service-technology-winner. The collapse of the telco industry was mostly the result of anti-competive behavior on the part of incumbents. The failure of businesses that depended on cheap and available bandwith was to be expected when the bandwith did not happen. The few silly business plans that are cited as the "bubble" happen all the time anyway and have nothing to do with the magnitude of the ongoing dissaster that started in 1999 or so. DRM is the latest fraud, being impossible in a free society. If the author thinks DRM is a real technology a service or anything new and usefull, well, there you go.
I saw that post too and thought it was pure bullshit. Someone noticed a change to the kernel and blamed the problem on it. They might as well have blamed the phase of the moon or anything else that's constantly changing.
You want to blame the kernel for frying a CDROM? Why? Only a subset of crappy LG DVDs burn up and any hardware that fries from software was poorly designed. Next you want to tell me the Mandrake install puts in a firmware update?
There's entierly too much BS and FUD in that mail thread and here.
That should keep the evil Mandrakes from destroying them.
Is that going to keep the average user from losing this DVD rewriter when they make their first collection of photos? Chances are, Mandrake people are simply the first to discover what a piece of junk Wyntech has made under the LG label. I know for sure that I'll avoid it. You can get a Sony DVD, does every format, for less than $200.
TRY the Amazon search feature) and you will see that they DO let you see full pages from the books.
No, you are shitting me! How could this be that a virtual bookstore would be like a real one, where I could sit down and read whole books if I felt like it? Sacre blue! this will be the end of starving artist status for writers as they will no longer simply starve on publisher's returns. It will KILL the industry and no one in the world is thinking about the artists. Did I mention Libraries? Those filthy places purchase a single copy of many books and make them available for weeks at a time to anyone with a valid "I love big brother tatoo". We should all march down to our local libraries with pitchforks and torches, by God, and save the publisher's profits.
It's horrible, I tell you. Next thing you know, people will start reading and learning or something.
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I can see clippy trying to read my wife's email.
-BING- Spam with M$ signature lands on her desk.
Clippy: You have new mail!
Clippy: En-large UR Peniz! From Bill Gates.
My wife smacks her keyboard.
Clippy keeps reading the message.
Email loads up Gator through midi exploit.
Clippy keeps wagging his finger and spam blinks, but all is quiet while trickler starts to work.
Handheld detects Advert Avoidance flaw, YOU KILLED CLIPPY, you bastard, and slags it's core.
I'm glad my wife and I don't run M$ garbage.
rm: `/': Permission denied
No big deal. My mail client and web browser get the same answer, unlike some software I know of.
I wonder if M$'s new talker will auto load email and blab it out for the user. Assides from the inapropriate nature of most M$N, Hotmail and other spam M$ users suffer under and would NEVER want read aloud, chances are a malicious email would blow the thing up, install keyloggers or what not. That's what happens when you run as root. Go figure why M$ has not learned that yet.
What a buch of arrogant bastards they are for not giving CVS commit access to all those poor saps doing M$ development. Just the fact that they have been doing this difficult work for years should be proof enough of their good intentions.
What? this is not the XFree86-Citrix page? Oh, I'm sorry Bill, let me get back there right away.
Yes master, I love you and all your leet new tools. The best effort since 95. All glory to you for your second release in 10 years. Please don't sell it to China before you let me peek at it. I promise I'll never look at another line of code ever, please, please throw me a bone.
I can equally malign the music industry in this case. First, the search warrent was for content they could have gotten without a raid at all: a website and logs. Instead of just downloading the site, the wrecked a man's house and a place of business. Second, I can speciously claim that all of the copyright violation sites were constructed by the music industry themselves to break a competitor with false accusations. My specious argument has as much weight as yours, more when you consider the thugish nature of the music industry.
Others have written infamatory posts about sending people next door to a hitman. Links are nothing like murder and the person making the link has no idea what the person next door really has in his house. The situation is more like fining the phone company for listing a hitman's telephone number. Copying files hurts no one and associating that act with murder is only done to wip people up into a frenzy to do real harm.
The music industry really does hurt people. They really wants to RAID YOUR HOUSE AND PUT YOU IN JAIL. That's physical harm. In this case the search order was for obtaining a copy of the website. How stupid is that? They turned a man's house upside down to obtain something they could have gotten without leaving their offieces. They wanted to put him and his friends in jail and they are going to ruin him finacially as they try to put him there. That's real harm. The music industry has been composed of thugs since Gilbert and Sullivan got publishing your own notes to someone else's song outlawed and their thugs swept London breaking presses and legs.
1. Ask Slashdot what sort of spyware is the worst. 2. Make this sort of spyware. 3. Profit!
How about this instead:
A business plan can and should do good things for your customers.
Great, so my printer and modem drivers which are not signed won't run? Wonder if I can run a Linux Loader? Pththth-fit! What junk.
How about a better answer, like removing that steaming pile of excriment known as XP from your computer and using something without a designed to be rooted and sold architecture?
Better than that, if they did enforce their terms on YOU, they would be selectively enforcing them and , and THATS NOT FAIR, THERFORE IT'S VOID BABY, YEA!
So on crack, they are.
Wooo hooo, you issued a complaint and that makes you an expert on XF86 develpment? Your friends in Redmond would be proud of you.
Ah, but morons like you think the purpose of copyright law is to assure publishers a proffit as an end rather than as a means to the spread of ideas. As the costs of publishing goes down, the need for such "protection" goes down proportionally, even under your own twisted logic. Get it yet? It's hard to be more clear.
Ah yes, that's what idiots like you keep telling me, but you have it backward. If the point of copyright it to encourage publication, the cheaper publication is the less encouragement it needs and the weaker copyright law can be. Get it yet? If the internet had existed in 1776 the US would have no copyright laws at all.
The internet and related technologies are MASSIVE enablers of self-publishing on a level never seen before. Want to reach potentially billions of listeners? you can do it from your bedroom with zero third party support-...the intermediaries survive. how can this be?
That's easy, your first statement is not true. The intermediaries are buying ISPs so that you can't really publish from your bedroom. My ISP, like many others, has a "no servers" clause despite a glut of bandwith. It's not a conspiracy, it's simple anti competitive practices . When the big dumb publishers get finished screwing up the internet we know, someone will make a new one.
OK, I can't do much better than the week yet. When I die, I doubt I'll even make good petrol. If only I had my own little fusion reactor, I could do much better before I rot. Let's see a plant do that.
What they will do is make is suck like other comercial broadcasts. They do this so they can shovel a small selection songs they wish to sell at you. Once they have it under control, they will leave it alone, but the loss of control will not be tollerated.
Back to work, slaves!
Brilliant. This is why a system of laws that was supposed to enlarge the public domain with excellent works now serves the intersts of the worlds large publishers. We have gone from 28 year copyrights to perpetual copyrights in less than 100 years. If you think things are right, you are a slave and will take any old shit shoveled your way.
The result is that big publishers have all the power. They don't have pay artists, authors, scientists or anyone. That's because they control the channels of distribution and can force any old junk they feel like. Is it reasonable to you that 30 year old music dominates the airwaves of this country? Is it reasonable to you that scientist do all the editorial work for magazines without compensation and then pay to have their work published? Is it reasonable to you that those scientific publications are so expensive that even major universities can't aford them? The extrapolation to digital media is even worse.
The students at MIT can share 3,500 RIAA records, great fucking big deal. They are shafted because the world is much larger than those few songs or even the RIAA. Good luck trying to get original work onto that network, it's not going to happen. The students of MIT will only get more RIAA dog food out of this new network.
What you don't get is that the whole basis of copyright law is broken. When the founding fathers of this country made 14 year copyrights, they did so because publishing was expensive and they felt it needed to be encouraged in the vast wilderness that was the US at the time. These conditions are obviously untrue today. Publishing is cheap and the protections needed are proportionatly lower. The public domain can and will grow better if copyright law is scrapped alltogether.
It's over already, really. Scientists have gone out of their way to publish their own peer reviewed journals because it's cheaper to them. Others will follow and leave the RIAA and other rapists like that in the same dustbin that Edison's Phonograph patents are sitting.
The God given truth is that information sharing is good and moraly correct. Things that get in the way are evil. Greed heads like the RIAA are a particularly evil bunch of pimps.
It's called subliminal advertising and the good folks on Madison avenue and elswhere have been putting images like that in your face for more than 60 years. Try laid by the best as a very old example. Images like that fill cartoony comercial art and more hideous images can be hidden in photographs. Computers have been very helpful at putting pornography right in your face many times a day.
The more advertising you are exposed to the worse off you are. It is agitating and more anoying than you think it is.
The overall efect of this overstimulation is evident in divorce and suicide rates. If you have not noticed, both of those rates are at historic highs. It's sort of like bodybuilders and steroids, it's never existed before because it's not natural. You are profoundly agitated on a daily basis and it's having a very negative effect on society.
The non free version of these glasses would personalize the message. With RFID's advertisers would know exactly who you are. I can imagine them acting like sunglasses in places like the mall because 90 shops at once will want your 1/180 of a second blip-vert. We'd be better off if this would make people's head explode.
Ye Gods, NO! It's taken city planners decades to install and tweak centrally controled lights so that traffic flows. Now assholes will come along and make EVERYONE wait when they disrupt a flow that's been synchronized to minimize group time spent. You might as well request additional traffic accidents. People here are polite compared to other places and wait their turn when the lights go out, yet the delay is awful. Things were just starting to work where I lived. Polling systems that simply count cars won't work. It would take enourmous computing power to adjust the flow programs bassed on traffic. That's worth persuing, but boxes that flip the switch should earn the user a heafty ticket. I can just imagine the kinds of nimrods who will use this. Uhg, we have set up a system of privalidge (that's Frech for privat law, Gus) that will be abused. I hate it.
OSS has the same problem when picking up new features ... .
I don't think you can name one free software "feature" that has ever been dropped. Free software never dies if anyone has any interest in it and I've never seen a piece of free software become unavailable. Even closed source junk ported to free software, such as Word Perfect 8, is still available and can be run. With just a few old libs, I've made that package run on Debian Woody. Try getting office 97 and before to run on XP for a fair compairison. I'm unaware of any free window manager, editor, or utility going away. Free software doees not suffer "upgrades", it just gets better or is replaced by a far superior free alternative.
If it thinks like a weasel, it is a weasel. "isn't my name" is a weasel.
Try SCO is not being reasonable to ask IBM to tell them everyone who's worked on "infinging" code without first identifying infringing code. THERE IS NO INFRINGING CODE, you weasel.
That's so easy, I wonder if you mean it.
Technology is a tool that does something useful.
DRM is nothing but a trade seceret that keeps people seperated from their information to one degree or another. It seeks, in its basest form, to impose the physical restrictions of older media on electronic media. They are using standard techniques and technologies that were worked out for legitimate purposes. No new ground is being covered and even the application is old. DRM companies no more deserve seed capital than a startup ball and chain company that thinks it has a new application for balls, chains and digital data.
You want to blame the kernel for frying a CDROM? Why? Only a subset of crappy LG DVDs burn up and any hardware that fries from software was poorly designed. Next you want to tell me the Mandrake install puts in a firmware update?
There's entierly too much BS and FUD in that mail thread and here.
Is that going to keep the average user from losing this DVD rewriter when they make their first collection of photos? Chances are, Mandrake people are simply the first to discover what a piece of junk Wyntech has made under the LG label. I know for sure that I'll avoid it. You can get a Sony DVD, does every format, for less than $200.
No, you are shitting me! How could this be that a virtual bookstore would be like a real one, where I could sit down and read whole books if I felt like it? Sacre blue! this will be the end of starving artist status for writers as they will no longer simply starve on publisher's returns. It will KILL the industry and no one in the world is thinking about the artists. Did I mention Libraries? Those filthy places purchase a single copy of many books and make them available for weeks at a time to anyone with a valid "I love big brother tatoo". We should all march down to our local libraries with pitchforks and torches, by God, and save the publisher's profits.
It's horrible, I tell you. Next thing you know, people will start reading and learning or something.