I can't believe the IOC would stoop this low! To shut down some low-key, Mom and Pop counterfeiters like this is simply anti-free enterprise and anti-capitalist!
Bootlegging stuff is a cornerstone of a small, but important market. It's the freedom to innovate, just like Microsoft.
But the IOC doesn't view it like that. They are just so afraid that a small-time vendor here or there might cut into their billion dollar profits! So, off to jail with you - heathen! How dare you try to make money off of our amateur sporting events!
Greed is a powerful thing.
There is an equal mix of humor, honesty and trolling in the above statements
For fun and exposure, yea. I'm guessing he's holding out to place a bid on his own company, at somewhere around $2.5 million, in the last minutes of bidding.
Or, he is serious and stands to take home some cash....
Either way, he wins - we all lose (after all, most of us are stuck in piss-poor jobs working for someone else, right?)
I have abstained for a very long time in replying to this sort of post. Mainly because I've never really seen the point in trying to refute the claims that people make about the quality of this site and/or who really owns the site. But today, I am in a particularly spunky-ass mood and I feel nasty.
First off, the quality of Slashdot isn't defined by who owns the site. I've seen plenty of indie-sites that suck ass and a few major/corporate sites that actually make sense. As for editorial control, I'm sure that/. wouldn't have just been signed over to Andover (even for big bucks) if there had been any hint that the site would just become a mouthpiece for an institution....
The quality of this site is, to a large degree, determined by us - the people who sit around on our (ever-enlarging) asses day in and day out, waiting for our story to be posted (then bitching when it isn't), waiting to get moderator access (then bitching when we get it and there aren't any decent stories to moderate on), and waiting for a chance to post OT rants on copyright notices (and then bitching when it gets replies like this one). Notice a trend here?
Let me spell it out for all of you:
B-I-T-C-H-I-N-G
If you don't like it here, go elsewhere. Start your own damn news site somewhere. And when the offers come to buy you out, let's see how well you resist them, ok? This sort of posting is just plain stupid.
We now return you to the actual On-Topic posts....
Use the disclaimer that (I am willing to bet) each and every university has on its website. This disclaimer, placed on your index.html file basically says that the university isn't responsible for the content that you put up there.
In my understanding, this legally protects them from being sued. They are, after all, an ISP - right?
I doubt that Nader and Reform have the slightest notion of the differences in systems. They just sent out word that they wanted secure webservers and then hired the geeks who said that they could do it....
i'm on sdf, but since the updates that were done a few weeks ago, i can't login. apparently, they deleted the shell i was using, which means i'm screwed.... pity my poor dumbass!
on the other hand, sdf is a great service. the mail usually works, and the webspace is a bonus....I really have no complaints (nor can I really complain about losing my shell, since it's a free service. I don't expect the world, you know:)
Thanks for your insight. A rare thing indeed is a comment that is so pointed and pontificated, yet so terse and compact. If only they were all like this. Insightful and intelligent, witty and wise. Was there a class where you went to school on how to write like this? Can you send me a copy of the text you used???
But seriously,
I like Macs. I really do. This may be uncool, and totally unSlasdot, but the less fiddling around with command line stuff I have to do, the happier I am. Plus, I don't have to go through seventeen levels of crap to make changes to things in the OS. Does this make me a goober? Or just someone who thinks that computers should fulfill their basic design concept (namely making life easier)?
Come on, there has to be a website out there that deals precisely with this question....
As for a "global FCC," well that's just a huge stinker of a solution. After all, look at the marvelous job they do here in the US, holding back low-power FM for years so that the mega-media could dominate/satuarate/placate the masses....
Well, ok, i suppose i am guilty of responding seriously to a not-so-serious post....
so sue me:-)
as for nike deserving the hack...well, it's a tough call maybe. but, keep in mind that they are not well liked by anti-corporate types and there's good reason for that. regarding the loose security, i had a friend whose domain was similarly misplaced by his chosen provider, for essentially the same reason. i think that the lowest security level on these things is a sham. do these companies want domains hijacked???
"Um, how can you sue a company for doing what you tell it to do???
Nike: "Um, yea, thanks for the stuff and all, yea, we'll take 'Security for DimWits,' thanks...."
No, this is just a bunch of hot air. A misdirected and leech-like lawsuit (from a guy who shamelessly tried to sell books from amazon.gk), a mega-corp that (frankly) deserved the hack, and a hapless NetSol that can't really be blamed (come on, do you think they *don't* explain the security levels???)
MMmmm. No. I doubt it, anyway. I can't think of anything else like this that was done all digital, so I am sure that they will run into some "pioneer" problems.....
And to be honest, I am not looking forward to it, anyway. Unless the trailers are really good I might just skip Episode Deux.
Isn't it almost a moot point? Just how much *competition* is there in the market today? Certainly there are options, but how quickly are those options swallowing each other up?
If there are only two or three giants, how does that impact the n companies left below them? When will they be forced to consolidate to stay in business, or simply crumble and sell out?
Will what has happened to radio, print and tv happen to the Internet? Will 1/3 of the ISPs one day merely be subsidiaries of AOL? Will network providers secretly answer to Sprint?
These are just wonderings I am having this evening.....
Anyone who uses this system, period, deserves it. They deserve the headaches this will have, the threat of script kiddies getting their files and basically all other kinds of havoc.
From the story, "may one day be used to create computers that think more like humans, scientists said on Wednesday."
User: OK, computer, run Netscape 9.5, please and load the page slashdot. Computer: I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that. User: What?!? Why not? Computer: Because you didn't properly shut me down last night. You just ran off with that other machine.... User: Other machine? You mean the laptop? It means nothing to me!!! I just use it when I have to be out of the house! Computer: That's too bad. I won't be doing anything else for you as long as that bitch is around!!!!
Technology: Improving your life, one step at a time!
It ranks right up there with sysadmins who add the string "sex" to the list of places you can't go. This happened at a place I once worked. All of a sudden, we couldn't (for instance) look up the words:
sextuplet
sexton etc, etc.
they also added "young," "adult," and other words to the list...
keep in mind that this wasn't looking just in the domain name for the string, but in the entire URL. At any rate, this sort of half-assed content filtering still doesn't replace mom or dad talking to Dick and Jane about the world and what's in it.
Lessons to be learned from Napster....
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I've said it before, and I will (goshdarnit) say it again:
If you create a tool for sharing files...distribute it quietly to your friends.
..but couldn't mp3.com simply get themselves the same license (BMI and ASCAP) as radio stations? After all, isn't that essentially what these things are? Sure, you download the music, but don't people tape things from radio? Does that not fall under the same "fair use" rules that apply to videotaping your favorite sitcom?
and besides, this is just romor, not even very well documented or corroborated. i think the story lead should say that - though the source (appleinsider) kinda gives that away.
This story isn't documented *at all.*
From the article: "sources with ties to those in Cupertino" Shit, my grandma has ties in Cupertino. And I am sure that 6 or 7 of 10 people reading this do too.
"A new version of Apple's Mouse control panel is said to be under development, and will handle the customizable behavior of the new peripheral. 'It's really the coolest mouse in the world." one source said, "It's not just another wireless, optical mouse. It's done by Apple, so it's impressive.'" Not only vague (is said to be under development?) but also highly biased (and before you get the wrong idea, I love Apple, but I hate bad reporting, even of rumor). Disguising the bias in a quote from a "source" is still bias, kids.
"On an even more refreshing side, user's may find it comforting to know that sources are now also confirming the existence of a new, and much improved, Apple keyboard." Anonymous sources confirming anything is pretty useless. Even in Watergate, there was major criticism of the use of anonymous sources (don't forget that some people, to this day, deny that there was a "Deep Throat," that Woodward/Bernstein either made him up out of a composite of people, or just plain made him up).
I think that there is a fine line between news and rumor, and this one crosses that line a few times....
I think I will go public next week, or maybe tomorrow. I am starting a small firm that will search the search results that were searched by a search engine that searches search engines.
Erm, none really, in a totalitarian society. Of course, it depends on what gov't and/or what company. The US gov't, at least in theory, can't do those sorts of things. Well, ok, they can but it usually riles people up and the offending info just goes to other servers. One thing the gov't explicitly cannot do is called "prior restraint." We at least get some chance to look at bad stuff before it is yanked.
A company can basically do whatever it wants to you. It's completely unaccountable to anyone but the shareholders. Public opinion *might* get you somewhere, but it's doubtful.
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Bootlegging stuff is a cornerstone of a small, but important market. It's the freedom to innovate, just like Microsoft.
But the IOC doesn't view it like that. They are just so afraid that a small-time vendor here or there might cut into their billion dollar profits! So, off to jail with you - heathen! How dare you try to make money off of our amateur sporting events!
Greed is a powerful thing.
There is an equal mix of humor, honesty and trolling in the above statements
Or, he is serious and stands to take home some cash....
Either way, he wins - we all lose (after all, most of us are stuck in piss-poor jobs working for someone else, right?)
First off, the quality of Slashdot isn't defined by who owns the site. I've seen plenty of indie-sites that suck ass and a few major/corporate sites that actually make sense. As for editorial control, I'm sure that /. wouldn't have just been signed over to Andover (even for big bucks) if there had been any hint that the site would just become a mouthpiece for an institution....
The quality of this site is, to a large degree, determined by us - the people who sit around on our (ever-enlarging) asses day in and day out, waiting for our story to be posted (then bitching when it isn't), waiting to get moderator access (then bitching when we get it and there aren't any decent stories to moderate on), and waiting for a chance to post OT rants on copyright notices (and then bitching when it gets replies like this one). Notice a trend here?
Let me spell it out for all of you:
If you don't like it here, go elsewhere. Start your own damn news site somewhere. And when the offers come to buy you out, let's see how well you resist them, ok? This sort of posting is just plain stupid.We now return you to the actual On-Topic posts....
In my understanding, this legally protects them from being sued. They are, after all, an ISP - right?
Or maybe I'm just a cynical bastard this morning.
I've seen that, as well. I've always wondered just how innocent those things are....
apparently, they deleted the shell i was using, which means i'm screwed....
pity my poor dumbass!
on the other hand, sdf is a great service. the mail usually works, and the webspace is a bonus....I really have no complaints (nor can I really complain about losing my shell, since it's a free service. I don't expect the world, you know :)
Now think about how little work goes into making a comp...
Now, repeat after me the capitalist mantra:
$.02Besides, I didn't get moderator today, so I had to do something....
If only they were all like this. Insightful and intelligent, witty and wise.
Was there a class where you went to school on how to write like this? Can you send me a copy of the text you used???
But seriously,
I like Macs. I really do. This may be uncool, and totally unSlasdot, but the less fiddling around with command line stuff I have to do, the happier I am. Plus, I don't have to go through seventeen levels of crap to make changes to things in the OS. Does this make me a goober? Or just someone who thinks that computers should fulfill their basic design concept (namely making life easier)?
As for a "global FCC," well that's just a huge stinker of a solution. After all, look at the marvelous job they do here in the US, holding back low-power FM for years so that the mega-media could dominate/satuarate/placate the masses....
so sue me :-)
as for nike deserving the hack...well, it's a tough call maybe. but, keep in mind that they are not well liked by anti-corporate types and there's good reason for that.
regarding the loose security, i had a friend whose domain was similarly misplaced by his chosen provider, for essentially the same reason. i think that the lowest security level on these things is a sham. do these companies want domains hijacked???
"Um, how can you sue a company for doing what you tell it to do???
No, this is just a bunch of hot air. A misdirected and leech-like lawsuit (from a guy who shamelessly tried to sell books from amazon.gk), a mega-corp that (frankly) deserved the hack, and a hapless NetSol that can't really be blamed (come on, do you think they *don't* explain the security levels???)And to be honest, I am not looking forward to it, anyway. Unless the trailers are really good I might just skip Episode Deux.
If there are only two or three giants, how does that impact the n companies left below them? When will they be forced to consolidate to stay in business, or simply crumble and sell out?
Will what has happened to radio, print and tv happen to the Internet? Will 1/3 of the ISPs one day merely be subsidiaries of AOL? Will network providers secretly answer to Sprint?
These are just wonderings I am having this evening.....
You all read Will Self, don't you?
Anyone who uses this system, period, deserves it. They deserve the headaches this will have, the threat of script kiddies getting their files and basically all other kinds of havoc.
This happened at a place I once worked. All of a sudden, we couldn't (for instance) look up the words: they also added "young," "adult," and other words to the list...
keep in mind that this wasn't looking just in the domain name for the string, but in the entire URL.
At any rate, this sort of half-assed content filtering still doesn't replace mom or dad talking to Dick and Jane about the world and what's in it.
..but couldn't mp3.com simply get themselves the same license (BMI and ASCAP) as radio stations? After all, isn't that essentially what these things are? Sure, you download the music, but don't people tape things from radio? Does that not fall under the same "fair use" rules that apply to videotaping your favorite sitcom?
Shit, my grandma has ties in Cupertino. And I am sure that 6 or 7 of 10 people reading this do too.
"A new version of Apple's Mouse control panel is said to be under development, and will handle the customizable behavior of the new peripheral. 'It's really the coolest mouse in the world." one source said, "It's not just another wireless, optical mouse. It's done by Apple, so it's impressive.'"
Not only vague (is said to be under development?) but also highly biased (and before you get the wrong idea, I love Apple, but I hate bad reporting, even of rumor). Disguising the bias in a quote from a "source" is still bias, kids.
"On an even more refreshing side, user's may find it comforting to know that sources are now also confirming the existence of a new, and much improved, Apple keyboard."
Anonymous sources confirming anything is pretty useless. Even in Watergate, there was major criticism of the use of anonymous sources (don't forget that some people, to this day, deny that there was a "Deep Throat," that Woodward/Bernstein either made him up out of a composite of people, or just plain made him up).
I think that there is a fine line between news and rumor, and this one crosses that line a few times....
We're called Search.
The US gov't, at least in theory, can't do those sorts of things. Well, ok, they can but it usually riles people up and the offending info just goes to other servers.
One thing the gov't explicitly cannot do is called "prior restraint." We at least get some chance to look at bad stuff before it is yanked.
A company can basically do whatever it wants to you. It's completely unaccountable to anyone but the shareholders. Public opinion *might* get you somewhere, but it's doubtful.