I agree. Kent State University followed suit last year when many universities banned the use of Napster on their campus networks. Although many cried foul because of censorship, many people did not realize that with Napster running, any computer on the network can act as a file server, and eat up a lot of bandwidth through multiple file transfers. There is a way around this ban (some students have made their mp3 directories public on the network, and have allowed their friends to directly connect to their computers to swap files).
Go view the auction, and you will see that the auction was cancelled. I'm guessing that too much publicity was created as a result of links from/. and F*cked Company.
that the winner will remember about "Destination Mir"
5: Space station commander saying to the lucky winner: "If one of our cosmonauts breaks something, it's your fault that he broke it."
4: Beer to share with the cosmonauts: $200
Repairing damage done to Mir by smashing the empty beer bottles against it: $25 million
Deploying a Russian spy satellite to snap pictures of your ex-wife/girlfriend sleeping with another man: priceless.
3: Water coming out of water tank is actually vodka that was smuggled on board during your drop-off
2: Heating system on board consists of layers of blankets and Siberian Huskie pelts.
1: Mir Commander: "Welcome aboard space station Mir."
Winner: "Don't you mean 'Deepshit Nine'."
It appears that someone (perhaps the guy who retracted a $10mil bid for F*ckedCompany because of the language on the site) is going to start his own dot-com deadpool game. Just out of curiosity, I typed in www.dotcomdeadpool.com, and found a Network Solutions under-construction page. He may get the people who are offended by the word "f*ck," but won't get the popularity of F*ckedCompany.
And to those of you who hate the word "f*ck": Kiss my f*cking asterisk.
Suppose the game added a few new features (such as Pac Man being able to pass through walls). I feel that these changes would make for a different gaming experience, and would warrant a separate copyright for the new idea. If the style of play hasn't changed, then credit should be given to the original copyright holder for the use of the original idea (for freeware or open source projects), or licenses to use the original idea should be purchased (shareware or commercial software, GPL or no GPL).
I think integrity has gone the way of the dinosaur in general (although there are a few companies who still believe in this). I, myself am opposed to selling of data, and my company will only share personal data if the person agrees to let me do so. I feel that.coms will need to adopt a new business strategy and revise their privacy policies if they expect to finish the 2000-01 fiscal year in the black.
You missed the point. If Kenny Baker appeared in the Star Wars films to date as R2D2, he must have some pleasure in rolling himself around in that costume.
"if someone in your family dies and you inherit their CD collection, you'd better pay up, because you didn't pay for those CDs, your chilling-in-the-dirt relative did."
I don't think so. Those CDs were already paid for by the deceased when they were alive. If the RIAA wants to argue this, then you can tell them to kiss your @$$, since they are asking for money that they already have.
Suppose you have a website, and you have a copy of the DeCSS source in your directory, but you did not grant other users the read permission on your copy of DeCSS. According to this ruling, your site is illegal, yet no physical link to DeCSS exists.
I think this issue has gone on too long. If I was the judge, this case would have been settled a long time ago.
I've spent 3 years at regional campus of Kent State University, and learned my programming on MSVC and Turbo C++. Upon transferring to the Kent campus last year, I got my first taste of programming with g++ and using Unix. In order to enroll into some of the upper-division CS courses, I needed to take an intermediate programming class in C++. What was funny about this was that I already knew about 80% of what was taught in that class, which was the language syntax. The remaining 20% was learning g++, gdb, and learning about the string class.
My point in all of this is that you need to learn how to be adaptable to the various development environments. Upon graduation, I may very well wind up developing with MSVC again.
I'm an Internet business owner, and this is one issue that people take me seriously about. What I tell people is that I do not spam, and I do not sell e-mail addresses to any third parties. I will also ask permission from that person if they don't mind someone else having their e-mail address.
As for what should be collected from websites, this is what should be collected at the most
Name
Shipping Address (where to send the item)
Billing Address (in case the item is a gift to be directly sent to the recipient)
Phone (for calls regarding orders)
E-mail address (only to be used to send receipts, unless user requests updates on promotions)
Credit Card # (for processing the order)
Most sites I've seen have privacy policies posted, stating what they do and do not do with your information.
Other than this, the only other major issue behind privacy and e-commerce is personal integrity, both of the company, and of the employees who handle your information.
I could moderate this discussion, but...
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I feel that I need to chip in my $0.02 to the discussion.
I think as a whole, we have forgotten what truly matters most in society, and that is people. The average person does not care about what we know, unless we can show them how much our knowledge can help them.
I feel that once in awhile, we should leave our computers, and go out and interact with the rest of society.
As for the issues presented, this is how I feel about them..
Napster/RIAA -- Napster should be allowed to continue to operate.
DeCSS -- I would say that the US government is to blame, by not allowing stronger encryption to be exported. If the courts are going to issue subpoenas to people/sites distributing the DeCSS source code, they might as well subpoena the whole Internet, as they could not stop the distribution that happened after the original sites were asked to cease distribution. It's hard to stop a wildfire once it starts spreading.
Enforcing existing laws on the Internet -- I would have to say that as a community, we should voice our opinions to the government, and have them either revise the old laws, or write new laws with everyone's interest in mind. We may not have the lobbying power that the corporations have, but we do have our voices, and they need to be heard.
On what's to come in the future -- I have read a book by an author who believes the next depression will be in 2010, when the baby boomers cash in their investments and head into retirement. In the US in 2010, I could see an excess supply of cash as a result of all of the investments being cashed in, a working class working like mad to pay for Social Security, and the corporations losing profits to match what the employees pay, living expenses going up due to the excess supply of cash and increased production costs to cover rising expenses. If the US economy is in this bad of a shape, just imagine the ripple effect on the rest of the world. Better to prepare now, or pay dearly later.
After I read the article that was linked to this topic, I feel that in order for a.com to survive, the owners will have to sit down and come up with a new strategy. Many.coms today are going under because the owners did not have a business plan to back up their ideas and turn them into a profit.
Last year, the rules of e-commerce were to spend money and get hits. Today, the rules are to spend less, and retain customers. The way that this problem can be solved is to offer incentives to people who shop at a website, or to improve customer service.
I'm an addict myself. I have a bunch of quotes memorized from many games. What's even better is the fact that I have set high scores on 10+ different games.
Think of it this way: What if this fundraiser got the attention of the local media? If the public saw you in formal attire, don't you think that they would take you a little more seriously? Heck, I would. I know this from the experience of being in business for myself. I do a lot of traveling to seminars and conventions, and a professional look is expected of me at each one of these meetings.
There is one thing that you will need in order to be successful in your business, and that is common sense. I was told that I could know everything there is to know in the world, but without common sense, I would be nothing.
If you are into reading, then I strongly recommend that you read the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. This book does contain some useful insight on using what you have to make money.
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I agree. Kent State University followed suit last year when many universities banned the use of Napster on their campus networks. Although many cried foul because of censorship, many people did not realize that with Napster running, any computer on the network can act as a file server, and eat up a lot of bandwidth through multiple file transfers. There is a way around this ban (some students have made their mp3 directories public on the network, and have allowed their friends to directly connect to their computers to swap files).
Go view the auction, and you will see that the auction was cancelled. I'm guessing that too much publicity was created as a result of links from /. and F*cked Company.
that the winner will remember about "Destination Mir"
5: Space station commander saying to the lucky winner: "If one of our cosmonauts breaks something, it's your fault that he broke it."
4: Beer to share with the cosmonauts: $200
Repairing damage done to Mir by smashing the empty beer bottles against it: $25 million
Deploying a Russian spy satellite to snap pictures of your ex-wife/girlfriend sleeping with another man: priceless.
3: Water coming out of water tank is actually vodka that was smuggled on board during your drop-off
2: Heating system on board consists of layers of blankets and Siberian Huskie pelts.
1: Mir Commander: "Welcome aboard space station Mir."
Winner: "Don't you mean 'Deepshit Nine'."
It appears that someone (perhaps the guy who retracted a $10mil bid for F*ckedCompany because of the language on the site) is going to start his own dot-com deadpool game. Just out of curiosity, I typed in www.dotcomdeadpool.com, and found a Network Solutions under-construction page. He may get the people who are offended by the word "f*ck," but won't get the popularity of F*ckedCompany.
And to those of you who hate the word "f*ck": Kiss my f*cking asterisk.
No it's still at 9.33mil. As for the guy who bid 10mil, he can kiss my f*cking asterisk.
Suppose the game added a few new features (such as Pac Man being able to pass through walls). I feel that these changes would make for a different gaming experience, and would warrant a separate copyright for the new idea. If the style of play hasn't changed, then credit should be given to the original copyright holder for the use of the original idea (for freeware or open source projects), or licenses to use the original idea should be purchased (shareware or commercial software, GPL or no GPL).
I think integrity has gone the way of the dinosaur in general (although there are a few companies who still believe in this). I, myself am opposed to selling of data, and my company will only share personal data if the person agrees to let me do so. I feel that .coms will need to adopt a new business strategy and revise their privacy policies if they expect to finish the 2000-01 fiscal year in the black.
You missed the point. If Kenny Baker appeared in the Star Wars films to date as R2D2, he must have some pleasure in rolling himself around in that costume.
"if someone in your family dies and you inherit their CD collection, you'd better pay up, because you didn't pay for those CDs, your chilling-in-the-dirt relative did."
I don't think so. Those CDs were already paid for by the deceased when they were alive. If the RIAA wants to argue this, then you can tell them to kiss your @$$, since they are asking for money that they already have.
What about this scenario?
Suppose you have a website, and you have a copy of the DeCSS source in your directory, but you did not grant other users the read permission on your copy of DeCSS. According to this ruling, your site is illegal, yet no physical link to DeCSS exists.
I think this issue has gone on too long. If I was the judge, this case would have been settled a long time ago.
I've spent 3 years at regional campus of Kent State University, and learned my programming on MSVC and Turbo C++. Upon transferring to the Kent campus last year, I got my first taste of programming with g++ and using Unix. In order to enroll into some of the upper-division CS courses, I needed to take an intermediate programming class in C++. What was funny about this was that I already knew about 80% of what was taught in that class, which was the language syntax. The remaining 20% was learning g++, gdb, and learning about the string class.
My point in all of this is that you need to learn how to be adaptable to the various development environments. Upon graduation, I may very well wind up developing with MSVC again.
What's your definition of a real OS?
To elaborate on this a bit further, telecommuters can deduct expenses incurred through their jobs/businesses as a tax writeoff.
I'm an Internet business owner, and this is one issue that people take me seriously about. What I tell people is that I do not spam, and I do not sell e-mail addresses to any third parties. I will also ask permission from that person if they don't mind someone else having their e-mail address.
As for what should be collected from websites, this is what should be collected at the most
Name
Shipping Address (where to send the item)
Billing Address (in case the item is a gift to be directly sent to the recipient)
Phone (for calls regarding orders)
E-mail address (only to be used to send receipts, unless user requests updates on promotions)
Credit Card # (for processing the order)
Most sites I've seen have privacy policies posted, stating what they do and do not do with your information.
Other than this, the only other major issue behind privacy and e-commerce is personal integrity, both of the company, and of the employees who handle your information.
I feel that I need to chip in my $0.02 to the discussion.
I think as a whole, we have forgotten what truly matters most in society, and that is people. The average person does not care about what we know, unless we can show them how much our knowledge can help them.
I feel that once in awhile, we should leave our computers, and go out and interact with the rest of society.
As for the issues presented, this is how I feel about them..
Napster/RIAA -- Napster should be allowed to continue to operate.
DeCSS -- I would say that the US government is to blame, by not allowing stronger encryption to be exported. If the courts are going to issue subpoenas to people/sites distributing the DeCSS source code, they might as well subpoena the whole Internet, as they could not stop the distribution that happened after the original sites were asked to cease distribution. It's hard to stop a wildfire once it starts spreading.
Enforcing existing laws on the Internet -- I would have to say that as a community, we should voice our opinions to the government, and have them either revise the old laws, or write new laws with everyone's interest in mind. We may not have the lobbying power that the corporations have, but we do have our voices, and they need to be heard.
On what's to come in the future -- I have read a book by an author who believes the next depression will be in 2010, when the baby boomers cash in their investments and head into retirement. In the US in 2010, I could see an excess supply of cash as a result of all of the investments being cashed in, a working class working like mad to pay for Social Security, and the corporations losing profits to match what the employees pay, living expenses going up due to the excess supply of cash and increased production costs to cover rising expenses. If the US economy is in this bad of a shape, just imagine the ripple effect on the rest of the world. Better to prepare now, or pay dearly later.
After I read the article that was linked to this topic, I feel that in order for a .com to survive, the owners will have to sit down and come up with a new strategy. Many .coms today are going under because the owners did not have a business plan to back up their ideas and turn them into a profit.
Last year, the rules of e-commerce were to spend money and get hits. Today, the rules are to spend less, and retain customers. The way that this problem can be solved is to offer incentives to people who shop at a website, or to improve customer service.
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I'm an addict myself. I have a bunch of quotes memorized from many games. What's even better is the fact that I have set high scores on 10+ different games.
Think of it this way: What if this fundraiser got the attention of the local media? If the public saw you in formal attire, don't you think that they would take you a little more seriously? Heck, I would. I know this from the experience of being in business for myself. I do a lot of traveling to seminars and conventions, and a professional look is expected of me at each one of these meetings.
There is one thing that you will need in order to be successful in your business, and that is common sense. I was told that I could know everything there is to know in the world, but without common sense, I would be nothing.
If you are into reading, then I strongly recommend that you read the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. This book does contain some useful insight on using what you have to make money.