It does not take too much more than followers, as can be seen from Scientology and Mormanism.
It's funny how athiests think they are so clever. If they could stop worshiping themselves for a moment, get away from a computer, or get a life they might see some grandure in the world and imagine a creator. Religion might then make sense to them. Dimmer bulbs seem to always be blinded by their own light.
try replacing Bible Clubs with Gay and Lesbian Student Aliance:
The arguments aren't whether kids are allowed to form Gay and Lesbian Student Aliances, but whether allowing the clubs to use school property constitutes state support of homosexuality. My own view is that it does not, but reasonable people may differ on this point.
Kinda falls on it's face when you apply it to someone else's pet group, don't it?
Don't forget to recomend government restrictions on gun ownership because "militias" no longer serve a useful purpose now that constitutionally banned standing armies exist. Also, you might argue that the government should be alowed to billet those troops in your house because only criminals have things to hide. Reasonable people can differ, right?
The NSA says, "We feel much more secure when you use SE Linux."
Why are you people always moaning when some big company supports GNU/Linux ?
That's what *you* want, ne c'est pas ?
Nope, I could care less. I want people to be free to use their computers as they see fit. I'm not happy to see people surrender those freedoms to another big company, much less the Federal Government, using some basterdized version of a free OS. The NSA has a history of recomending weak secruity, backdoors and nice stuff like Carnivore.
The trolls will go away when they realize their battle is lost and the financial incentive dissapears. Poof, like a dot com shit bomb. All gone, and the media will be left to people who care to use it. Joe Sixpacks will go back to cable TV as that gave him what he wanted to begin with.
That cost is not so bad for a high density area. If you split it out between 100 people over ethernet, you would do very well. I'd like to see neighborhood nets like this grow up. Heck, 100 people is a reasonable sized net on it's own.
That's not wasteful at all. How can not using something be wasteful ?
That's easy. Nothing lasts for ever. If you don't ever use it, you wasted your resources to build it or foolishly saved it till it died on it's own. Nothing is more depressing than cleaning out unused things from a dead family friend's house. It makes you wish they had enjoyed the things they owned, or shared them with people who would. That cable behind your house is much easier to share than other possesions. We are all better off when we can have what we want when we want it, than we would be hoarding what we could share.
Me, I'm still working on serving. Sharing of cycles and bandwith will come later with more experience.
What's wasting is the wire. It's going away every day the sun shines on it, used or not. It would be better to use it. If I can't, why not my neighbor who's walked outside the range of their transmitter? By the same token, I'm better off if my neighbor is doing the same thing when I wonder out of my range.
an AUP prohibiting redistribution of service, account sharing, or wasteful behavior...
What could be more wasteful than letting that connection sit all day doing nothing? Oh I forgot, it would be OK if it were sucking up addverts all day.
No, there is nothing the cable company can do if you are using NAT or masq. They will have to ban wireless, and I doubt they have the nuts to do that anymore than they could force Windoze on their users.
- Your favorite team makes an incredible play, but you miss the game. So you hop onto IRC and someone mails you a 60-second clip
Does this thing do clips, or do you have to mail the whole freaking game? One day, the whole game might be the better choice. You know, you just had to be there...
Video over the net does not make me happy yet. This stuff is going to clog up the world. Imagine your email having to compete against a sea of this shit. It's bad enough that the warez crowd hoggs up the net swaping around comercial movies, songs, M$ software and other trash. Encouraging Everyone to do this is irresponsible. Keep broadcast junk where it belongs. Leave the net to original content until it can handle much more.
If you absolutly must share that golden clip with your friend, host it on a web site! Email the link and let your friends decide on their own if they want to look at it. Cramming this into email is just rude.
a souped-up DVR that could store as much as 320 hours of TV programming and send programs by email to other DVRs.
If you thought it was bad that people mail Power Point presentations around, just wait till they start clicking the send to so they can share their favorite sit com. ARGH! What kind of jerk would encourage this sort of thing?! No no no no!
there is no point to a web server on wince, as scripting, pipes and other useful things violate M$'s busine$$ model. We'll see that company in chapeter 11 before we see it punished by the feds.
It might be useful on an Agenda, if it had a cellphone or wireless to a local net. Information from rounds, sales calls, what not, could be formated and displayed as HTML to those interested. A webcam might also be interesting. Why not? Also useful would be SMTA. Breaking that last mile looks like fun that way.
If Joe Sixpacks learns that he's going to have to remember another stupid four didgit number, he's never ever going to use it. If that's all there is to this, I don't want it either. Thank you for clearing the fog created by all those negative computer fraud comercials.
If the goofey thing would store an image of authorized users that the cashier would have to press to continue the transaction, it might be worth something. You could make the program fun by displaying several unauthorized users as well, say ten of them. Think a crook can remember your face that well?
The media (radio, TV, newspapers, etc.) and the content providers (RIAA, MPAA, etc.) are quickly converging on being a single corporate entity.
True
The result of which has been a complete homoginization of all things creative and interesting about music.
Not true. Comercial music is homoginized and dull. People still make, and always will make interesting music. The RIAA may not chose to publish it, prefering the boring and "proven" results of market tests in large metropolitian areas. Ask yourelf, was any of the "great" comerical music of the past really great or just familiar, hyped and associated with great moments in your life? Now go to MP3.com, a local music club or the garage. It's pathetically easy to record music these days. Creating has always been difficult, but people will always do it.
I'll bet even the children of the RIAA demons do it.
That would be a very small, even complimentary, exploitation next to what their parents do. You don't think those folks take their work home with them and listen to all that awful junk they push all day, do you?
you don't need this garbage, and it's providers are powerless when you quit demanding it.
Ehh....Are we talking about Slashdot now? or Spykids?
Oh my God! I never considered the power that I'd given Slashdot. What would I ever do if Taco decided to hate Twitter? No, it's much worse than denied email, extingushed publication, raids and jail. It would be the Slashdot death penalty. I'd have to get another ISP and start again. Ahhh! Karma death, say it ain't so.
The MPAA looks for people who are distributing movies in any form that they are not authorized to. It uses Ranger Online's software to monitor multiple areas of the Internet, including IRC, Gnutella, Usenet, Web sites, auction sites and ftp sites. It does this on an international basis. When it finds a location that is distributing copyrighted material, it identifies the owner and the host of the material. Citing the DMCA, it sends a letter and notifies the alleged perpetrators that they are infringing on a copyright.
When I asked exactly how they find an instance of piracy (for instance, what search parameters they use), Nigam told me the methods were proprietary information.
Heh, judging from the results they must be using MS Access to keep their records! Nice work. Just a few minutes ago, I was talking to a looser who likes to traffic in warez and movies. While bragging of getting "Spy Kids" two weeks before opening, he was no more worried about getting caught than my grandmother. GET A CLUE, MPAA!
GET A LIFE, PEOPLE! Run your own ftp/http site and provide original content. Get movies from a theater, if you must, or rent them. Geazer! A whole week of bandwith consumption for something dumb like "Spy Kids"? And that crap is competing with me for Slashdot? GRRRR! You don't need this garbage, and it's providers are powerless when you quit demanding it. Sigh of relief.
I wonder what kind of cyber brains are looking for child porn. Loosing email is one thing, having your house raided and all your stuff broken/confiscated is another.
State officials said they won't be swayed by the effort, and Hatch responded with his own mailings to the senders, explaining his position.
Some recipients wrote back by hand, apologizing for passing along the Microsoft-inspired letters. "I sure was misled," one wrote.
But to really show up what was going on here, in case you missed it earlier, consider this:
Some residents who fielded ATL's calls believed the states themselves were soliciting their views, according to the attorneys general of Minnesota, Illinois and Utah.
When a caller started asking Minnesotan Nancy Brown questions about Microsoft, she thought she was going to get help figuring out what was wrong with her computer.
Instead, the caller wanted to know whether she agreed that federal and state antitrust prosecutors had better things to do than attack the leader of the high-tech economy.
"They were trying to get me to say the government had no business interfering with Microsoft," Brown said. "I said I didn't agree with that."
Recap! This organization, under pay from MS, called up people in at least three states under false pretenses and harrassed them with this kind of bull. They then lied about mailing their victims forms to rubberstamp and mail back, and pretended all the letters were spontanious. False addresses and dead people make it look like they lied about all of it, and cast doubt on the authenticity of any of the letters. Shoddy work, poorly executed and compounded with dishonesty.
Let's see here, Satai or is that Overturf, or who knows what else? Why would anyone be suspisious? From the LA Times article:
Regulators became suspicious of the ruse after noticing that the same sentences appear in the letters and that some return addresses appear invalid.
Hard to send out spam to invalid addresses, no?
As for that "other" group or two on the MS payroll:
Microsoft referred questions about the new campaign to the group running it, Americans for Technology Leadership, which gets some money from Microsoft but won't say how much. ATL was founded in 1999 as a spinoff of the Assn. for Competitive Technology, another pro-Microsoft group.
Asked about the relationship between the telephone calls to citizens and the subsequent letters, ATL Executive Director Jim Prendergast initially said those who agreed the prosecution was misguided merely were given suggestions about what to use in drafting their own letters. "We gave them a few bullet points, but that's about the extent of it," he said. Asked why some phrases were identical, Prendergast then conceded the letters were written by his operation. "We'd write the letter and then send it to them," he said. "That's fairly common practice."
Hmmmm. MS is not getting good value here, but I suppose it's cutting edge, the best lobby ever TM! Must be using MS Loby, cuz it's transparent and sucks:
"It's an obvious corporate attempt to manipulate citizen input," said Rick Cantrell, community relations director for the Utah attorney general.
"You can just tell these were engineered. When there's a real groundswell, people walk in, they fax, they call. We get handwritten letters."
Yawn, another second rate offering from MS.
Kissing two points of Karma goodbye! Mr. Overturf is sure to blast this one to -1 flamebait. Eat me!
Me, I'm an imposter. The pap smear, with out viruses, comes from the film, "Slackers". A truly ispired exchange has a couple of the characters debating the worth of a small glass container with "Madona's pap smear" in it.
so, does this make any mp3 generating software liable for "viral" infringment? abcde is about as viras as Madona's pap smear. how about more comercial offerings? how about my trusty tape recorder?
If cities can sue handgun makers for the costs associated with innercity crime, I suppose this is a valid suit. I'm still waiting for them to sue kitchen knife makers, then charity hospitals for makeing bad people. It's obvious that those people have no other use than murder and mayhem and the cost to us is astounding. Give me all your money. Barf.
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It's funny how athiests think they are so clever. If they could stop worshiping themselves for a moment, get away from a computer, or get a life they might see some grandure in the world and imagine a creator. Religion might then make sense to them. Dimmer bulbs seem to always be blinded by their own light.
Oh well, the cerimony ended with castration.
The arguments aren't whether kids are allowed to form Gay and Lesbian Student Aliances, but whether allowing the clubs to use school property constitutes state support of homosexuality. My own view is that it does not, but reasonable people may differ on this point.
Kinda falls on it's face when you apply it to someone else's pet group, don't it?
Don't forget to recomend government restrictions on gun ownership because "militias" no longer serve a useful purpose now that constitutionally banned standing armies exist. Also, you might argue that the government should be alowed to billet those troops in your house because only criminals have things to hide. Reasonable people can differ, right?
Why are you people always moaning when some big company supports GNU/Linux ?
That's what *you* want, ne c'est pas ?
Nope, I could care less. I want people to be free to use their computers as they see fit. I'm not happy to see people surrender those freedoms to another big company, much less the Federal Government, using some basterdized version of a free OS. The NSA has a history of recomending weak secruity, backdoors and nice stuff like Carnivore.
You're not doing the stuff yourself, so be happy.
Backdoors are not a do it yourself job.
The trolls will go away when they realize their battle is lost and the financial incentive dissapears. Poof, like a dot com shit bomb. All gone, and the media will be left to people who care to use it. Joe Sixpacks will go back to cable TV as that gave him what he wanted to begin with.
Ahhh, nothing like it on a cold day. Direct warming of the flesh by radar. It's also good for global population control. Try one today.
That cost is not so bad for a high density area. If you split it out between 100 people over ethernet, you would do very well. I'd like to see neighborhood nets like this grow up. Heck, 100 people is a reasonable sized net on it's own.
That's easy. Nothing lasts for ever. If you don't ever use it, you wasted your resources to build it or foolishly saved it till it died on it's own. Nothing is more depressing than cleaning out unused things from a dead family friend's house. It makes you wish they had enjoyed the things they owned, or shared them with people who would. That cable behind your house is much easier to share than other possesions. We are all better off when we can have what we want when we want it, than we would be hoarding what we could share.
Me, I'm still working on serving. Sharing of cycles and bandwith will come later with more experience.
What's wasting is the wire. It's going away every day the sun shines on it, used or not. It would be better to use it. If I can't, why not my neighbor who's walked outside the range of their transmitter? By the same token, I'm better off if my neighbor is doing the same thing when I wonder out of my range.
What could be more wasteful than letting that connection sit all day doing nothing? Oh I forgot, it would be OK if it were sucking up addverts all day.
No, there is nothing the cable company can do if you are using NAT or masq. They will have to ban wireless, and I doubt they have the nuts to do that anymore than they could force Windoze on their users.
Does this thing do clips, or do you have to mail the whole freaking game? One day, the whole game might be the better choice. You know, you just had to be there...
Video over the net does not make me happy yet. This stuff is going to clog up the world. Imagine your email having to compete against a sea of this shit. It's bad enough that the warez crowd hoggs up the net swaping around comercial movies, songs, M$ software and other trash. Encouraging Everyone to do this is irresponsible. Keep broadcast junk where it belongs. Leave the net to original content until it can handle much more.
If you absolutly must share that golden clip with your friend, host it on a web site! Email the link and let your friends decide on their own if they want to look at it. Cramming this into email is just rude.
You've got spam!
a souped-up DVR that could store as much as 320 hours of TV programming and send programs by email to other DVRs.
If you thought it was bad that people mail Power Point presentations around, just wait till they start clicking the send to so they can share their favorite sit com. ARGH! What kind of jerk would encourage this sort of thing?! No no no no!
It might be useful on an Agenda, if it had a cellphone or wireless to a local net. Information from rounds, sales calls, what not, could be formated and displayed as HTML to those interested. A webcam might also be interesting. Why not? Also useful would be SMTA. Breaking that last mile looks like fun that way.
If the goofey thing would store an image of authorized users that the cashier would have to press to continue the transaction, it might be worth something. You could make the program fun by displaying several unauthorized users as well, say ten of them. Think a crook can remember your face that well?
True
The result of which has been a complete homoginization of all things creative and interesting about music.
Not true. Comercial music is homoginized and dull. People still make, and always will make interesting music. The RIAA may not chose to publish it, prefering the boring and "proven" results of market tests in large metropolitian areas. Ask yourelf, was any of the "great" comerical music of the past really great or just familiar, hyped and associated with great moments in your life? Now go to MP3.com, a local music club or the garage. It's pathetically easy to record music these days. Creating has always been difficult, but people will always do it.
That would be a very small, even complimentary, exploitation next to what their parents do. You don't think those folks take their work home with them and listen to all that awful junk they push all day, do you?
Ehh....Are we talking about Slashdot now? or Spykids?
Oh my God! I never considered the power that I'd given Slashdot. What would I ever do if Taco decided to hate Twitter? No, it's much worse than denied email, extingushed publication, raids and jail. It would be the Slashdot death penalty. I'd have to get another ISP and start again. Ahhh! Karma death, say it ain't so.
When I asked exactly how they find an instance of piracy (for instance, what search parameters they use), Nigam told me the methods were proprietary information.
Heh, judging from the results they must be using MS Access to keep their records! Nice work. Just a few minutes ago, I was talking to a looser who likes to traffic in warez and movies. While bragging of getting "Spy Kids" two weeks before opening, he was no more worried about getting caught than my grandmother. GET A CLUE, MPAA!
GET A LIFE, PEOPLE! Run your own ftp/http site and provide original content. Get movies from a theater, if you must, or rent them. Geazer! A whole week of bandwith consumption for something dumb like "Spy Kids"? And that crap is competing with me for Slashdot? GRRRR! You don't need this garbage, and it's providers are powerless when you quit demanding it. Sigh of relief.
I wonder what kind of cyber brains are looking for child porn. Loosing email is one thing, having your house raided and all your stuff broken/confiscated is another.
State officials said they won't be swayed by the effort, and Hatch responded with his own mailings to the senders, explaining his position.
Some recipients wrote back by hand, apologizing for passing along the Microsoft-inspired letters. "I sure was misled," one wrote.
But to really show up what was going on here, in case you missed it earlier, consider this:
Some residents who fielded ATL's calls believed the states themselves were soliciting their views, according to the attorneys general of Minnesota, Illinois and Utah.
When a caller started asking Minnesotan Nancy Brown questions about Microsoft, she thought she was going to get help figuring out what was wrong with her computer.
Instead, the caller wanted to know whether she agreed that federal and state antitrust prosecutors had better things to do than attack the leader of the high-tech economy.
"They were trying to get me to say the government had no business interfering with Microsoft," Brown said. "I said I didn't agree with that."
Recap! This organization, under pay from MS, called up people in at least three states under false pretenses and harrassed them with this kind of bull. They then lied about mailing their victims forms to rubberstamp and mail back, and pretended all the letters were spontanious. False addresses and dead people make it look like they lied about all of it, and cast doubt on the authenticity of any of the letters. Shoddy work, poorly executed and compounded with dishonesty.
Nothing new here, par for the MS course.
Regulators became suspicious of the ruse after noticing that the same sentences appear in the letters and that some return addresses appear invalid.
Hard to send out spam to invalid addresses, no?
As for that "other" group or two on the MS payroll:
Microsoft referred questions about the new campaign to the group running it, Americans for Technology Leadership, which gets some money from Microsoft but won't say how much. ATL was founded in 1999 as a spinoff of the Assn. for Competitive Technology, another pro-Microsoft group.
Asked about the relationship between the telephone calls to citizens and the subsequent letters, ATL Executive Director Jim Prendergast initially said those who agreed the prosecution was misguided merely were given suggestions about what to use in drafting their own letters. "We gave them a few bullet points, but that's about the extent of it," he said. Asked why some phrases were identical, Prendergast then conceded the letters were written by his operation. "We'd write the letter and then send it to them," he said. "That's fairly common practice."
Hmmmm. MS is not getting good value here, but I suppose it's cutting edge, the best lobby ever TM! Must be using MS Loby, cuz it's transparent and sucks:
"It's an obvious corporate attempt to manipulate citizen input," said Rick Cantrell, community relations director for the Utah attorney general.
"You can just tell these were engineered. When there's a real groundswell, people walk in, they fax, they call. We get handwritten letters."
Yawn, another second rate offering from MS.
Kissing two points of Karma goodbye! Mr. Overturf is sure to blast this one to -1 flamebait. Eat me!
they've been astroturfing this place for years with bogus "I love MSIE, w2k, VB, and all other MSTD" posts. It's nice to see them busted.
Me, I'm an imposter. The pap smear, with out viruses, comes from the film, "Slackers". A truly ispired exchange has a couple of the characters debating the worth of a small glass container with "Madona's pap smear" in it.
Awsome. Too bad all public schools can't be like that!
so, does this make any mp3 generating software liable for "viral" infringment? abcde is about as viras as Madona's pap smear. how about more comercial offerings? how about my trusty tape recorder?
If cities can sue handgun makers for the costs associated with innercity crime, I suppose this is a valid suit. I'm still waiting for them to sue kitchen knife makers, then charity hospitals for makeing bad people. It's obvious that those people have no other use than murder and mayhem and the cost to us is astounding. Give me all your money. Barf.