Un implementable idea, it's open fucking source, the whole point, or at least a part of it anyway was to prevent bullshit like this. Not to mention the fact, like you said, that it can just be removed.
The real problem with SPAM is that it STEALS OUR BANDWIDTH. By being responsible for 30% of the traffic on the internet, SPAM steals the true potential of the internet from us all. OUR Internet is slowed down 30% because of SPAM
Man pretty long winded, I'd have read the whole thing if you weren't wrong in the first couple of sentences. Even if Spam is responsible for 30% of internet traffic, and I don't know where you got that number or if it's verifiable but the number is unimportant. The internet is not 30% slower because of it. Number one, volume does not relate directly to speed, two your assumming that there is more potential volume than can be currently handled by the internet, since no one knows 1) the volume potential of the net as a whole, or 2) the potential traffic that is held up waiting for a chance to transmit you can't make that claim.
Look at what she was wearing! She deserved to be raped." How does that sound?
It sounds like a horrible analogy here's why: She had something done TO her, based on what whe was wearing, she was passive. The idiots that click on the spam link are commiting active stupidity, if the hypothetical she walked into a sex offenders anonymous meeting wearing nothing but her panties it would be more akin to patronizing spammers.
Of course even the PC cries of outrage over the "look what she's wearing argument" have their problem. Certainly a person's clothing is no excuse to abuse them, howver Dave Chepelle said it best: "Ok you're not a whore, but you're for damn sure wearing a whore's uniform".
I'm not trying to justify spammers, but when people actively do stupid things, I'm not going to feel sorry for them.
Amen brother. But I guess we should face facts. Those with something intelligent, interesting, or funny to say are going to keep posting that way, and those who have nothing to say will continure to post about how they hate slashdot, how it sucks yada yada yada. Of course, the kind of person it takes to behave this way is the exact kind of person whose IQ is so low that they don't realize that if they don't like something they can go somewhere else. Those of us that remember the BBS days might recall a similar phenomena. If was much more rare then but less people were involved, and the sysop would generally just drop their accounts. Thats the way of the world though, anytime you give more people access the intelligence level drops, obviously the more people there are the closer to average things become.
Actually this did get me, I hit perl.com a little while before I saw this story, clicked on CPAN and got a little confused. I figured there actually was a CJAN and someone screwed up some links;). Clicking through though you end up where you're supposed to, heh.
that's a good thing though, I think most of us support ThinkGeek so that using them for this joke works well.
Of course on the other hand... maybe it's a AFD conspiracy, maybe they hatched this scheme knowing that it would drive some sales, and what better way than to hide it as an April Fool's joke. Maybe it's not a joke, maybe it's just a one time deal, Rob and the rest are looking at their brand new windowed cases and neon lights that arrived as payment and cackling. Maybe... ah forget it who cares;)
But a corporation DOES NOT need the privilege of being granted a copyright, the author(s) of the work can own it, but be required by law to give full exclusive rights to it, to the company that employed them in a "work for hire". With provisions that could cause the company to lose those rights. A better system can be worked out that's fair to all, actually I don't care that it's fair to a corporation, in fact I deny that the word fair can even apply to a corporation.
Corporations are legal persons, not citizens. There is a difference. Citizens can vote. Corporations cannot. Citizens can get drivers licenses. Corporations cannot. Citizens can hold public office. Corporations cannot.
Could have fooled me, but I could have sworn that laws are being passed based on stronger voting practices than those granted to the average citizen at the ballots. In fact it appears to me that the only function of citizens is to choose which particular people get the privilege of getting paid to pass the laws that corporations want.
Thank you. Thank you. Protect employees who are work for hire. We need standard labor laws that allow the employee to revoke the license due to unfair treatment by the corporation, for instance termination without compensation, or warning. This cuts both ways, if an employee leaves he/she has no right to revoke the license, but how about protecting the little guy in the industry instead of facilitation corporate dominance.
That's a different story. It may seem like just semantics. However, in the first case, that of a corporation creating something the assumption is that the corporation is the copyright holder. Which is not entirely in line with the idea of a copyright. A corporation is not an author or an inventor, but this assumption grants them that status. If you look at it from the other angle, the actual creator of the work is the owner of the copyright and by participating in a work for hire they are bound by their contract to grant exclusive rights to the company that is paying them, but they still own the rights they should only legally be able to grant that exclusive license. This is more in line with the spirit of this country which should, as I'm sure most will agree, be protecting the individual against the corporations not the other way around.
It strikes me as ironic that the Slashdot crowd complains about feature bloat on PC software, all the while extolling the virtues of having a gazillion switches for a single command line program
I think you're missing the distinction between flexibility and "bloatware". Software only becomes bloatware when all those additional feature impede the everyday use of the software. Command line switches don't cause this problem, regardless of whether of not it's a command line Unix program or a command line Windows (I know, I know). The reason being that most command line programs use few switches for normal operations. Bloatware is usually a GUI problem. When anything and everything is configurable in a GUI it's easy to design the interface poorly so that it's difficult to do common things without all of the different options getting in the way.
There's also the problem with poor performance in bloatware, but that's more of a problem with poor coding and programmers taking the crap they heard in school "hardware is cheap so you don't need to worry about performance" as scripture. That mentality can apply equally to any software regardless of platform.
And that's just a reflection of the low character of the majority of bands. There are people in the music industry who have come out and told the RIAA to fuck off. Courtney Love, for one, I don't care for her music but I'll support her moral character (ironic isn't it given the public perception of her). Just recently there was a concert in CA for artists rights played by, among others, Social Distortion. I have to say it made me feel even better about my favorite band that they were helping artists to stand up for themselves.
And let's face it, the majority of bands aren't in it becasue of art, they're in it to make money. Because somewhere along the line the public made musicians superstars, so you get hoards of people trying to "make it" as a band because they see it as a way to get rich.
This is not a flame and no offense intended but I'm getting more than a little sick of seeing people spouting that non-sense sentiment. What are we supposed to do, keep buying cd's because either way they'll put a spin on it. Fuck them, of course they're going to try and put a spin on it. If they could they'd pass laws requiring every US citizen to buy a certain number of cd's a year. That way they'd be sure of their prifits even with "rampant piracy". The solution is still the same. Don't buy them. Speak out against them and let them drive themselves out of business.
And there are hundreds of different versions vapires differing in almost every aspect. As far as movie consistency, Blade II wasn't even internally consistent, how could you ever expect it to be consistent with the original?
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Fair enough, perhaps we are differing on the term disregard. I took your use of it to mean more of an ignore, while I feel that even the mistakes of the past need to be used to further technology in the future.
Genuine liberties? As if there were facts that they didn't stick to? This is a fantasy movie about make believe monsters. There are no facts to stick to, therefore no liberties to be taken. In the Blade universe the writers can have vampires capable of dying from whatever method they want.
and asinine comedies catering to the lowest common denominator.
Thank you, Blade II
As opposed to asinine action movies appealing to the lowest common denominator?
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That's ridiculous, you don't disregard them, you build on their work just like every other science, you stand on the shoulders of giants, maybe you become a giant for the next generation, but real progress is NEVER made when you disregard what came before you.
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You're not likely to get very far doing the "buy,open,return" scheme here. The cd is labelled, that's only a protest of un-labelled cd's.
Un implementable idea, it's open fucking source, the whole point, or at least a part of it anyway was to prevent bullshit like this. Not to mention the fact, like you said, that it can just be removed.
Man pretty long winded, I'd have read the whole thing if you weren't wrong in the first couple of sentences. Even if Spam is responsible for 30% of internet traffic, and I don't know where you got that number or if it's verifiable but the number is unimportant. The internet is not 30% slower because of it. Number one, volume does not relate directly to speed, two your assumming that there is more potential volume than can be currently handled by the internet, since no one knows 1) the volume potential of the net as a whole, or 2) the potential traffic that is held up waiting for a chance to transmit you can't make that claim.
Umm the government doesn't own the system, so what right do they have to collect money from spam taxes, or any internet taxes for that matter.
It sounds like a horrible analogy here's why: She had something done TO her, based on what whe was wearing, she was passive. The idiots that click on the spam link are commiting active stupidity, if the hypothetical she walked into a sex offenders anonymous meeting wearing nothing but her panties it would be more akin to patronizing spammers.
Of course even the PC cries of outrage over the "look what she's wearing argument" have their problem. Certainly a person's clothing is no excuse to abuse them, howver Dave Chepelle said it best: "Ok you're not a whore, but you're for damn sure wearing a whore's uniform".
I'm not trying to justify spammers, but when people actively do stupid things, I'm not going to feel sorry for them.
Amen brother. But I guess we should face facts. Those with something intelligent, interesting, or funny to say are going to keep posting that way, and those who have nothing to say will continure to post about how they hate slashdot, how it sucks yada yada yada. Of course, the kind of person it takes to behave this way is the exact kind of person whose IQ is so low that they don't realize that if they don't like something they can go somewhere else. Those of us that remember the BBS days might recall a similar phenomena. If was much more rare then but less people were involved, and the sysop would generally just drop their accounts. Thats the way of the world though, anytime you give more people access the intelligence level drops, obviously the more people there are the closer to average things become.
Just don't call him a monkey.
Actually I do code for a living, and you do compare Java to Perl, how the hell else are you supposed to pick the right tool for the job ;)
Actually this did get me, I hit perl.com a little while before I saw this story, clicked on CPAN and got a little confused. I figured there actually was a CJAN and someone screwed up some links ;). Clicking through though you end up where you're supposed to, heh.
Of course on the other hand... maybe it's a AFD conspiracy, maybe they hatched this scheme knowing that it would drive some sales, and what better way than to hide it as an April Fool's joke. Maybe it's not a joke, maybe it's just a one time deal, Rob and the rest are looking at their brand new windowed cases and neon lights that arrived as payment and cackling. Maybe... ah forget it who cares
I forget how much fun it is every year to see newbies post outrageously on the April Fools articles.
But a corporation DOES NOT need the privilege of being granted a copyright, the author(s) of the work can own it, but be required by law to give full exclusive rights to it, to the company that employed them in a "work for hire". With provisions that could cause the company to lose those rights. A better system can be worked out that's fair to all, actually I don't care that it's fair to a corporation, in fact I deny that the word fair can even apply to a corporation.
Corporations are legal persons, not citizens. There is a difference. Citizens can vote. Corporations cannot. Citizens can get drivers licenses. Corporations cannot. Citizens can hold public office. Corporations cannot.
Could have fooled me, but I could have sworn that laws are being passed based on stronger voting practices than those granted to the average citizen at the ballots. In fact it appears to me that the only function of citizens is to choose which particular people get the privilege of getting paid to pass the laws that corporations want.
Thank you. Thank you. Protect employees who are work for hire. We need standard labor laws that allow the employee to revoke the license due to unfair treatment by the corporation, for instance termination without compensation, or warning. This cuts both ways, if an employee leaves he/she has no right to revoke the license, but how about protecting the little guy in the industry instead of facilitation corporate dominance.
That's a different story. It may seem like just semantics. However, in the first case, that of a corporation creating something the assumption is that the corporation is the copyright holder. Which is not entirely in line with the idea of a copyright. A corporation is not an author or an inventor, but this assumption grants them that status. If you look at it from the other angle, the actual creator of the work is the owner of the copyright and by participating in a work for hire they are bound by their contract to grant exclusive rights to the company that is paying them, but they still own the rights they should only legally be able to grant that exclusive license. This is more in line with the spirit of this country which should, as I'm sure most will agree, be protecting the individual against the corporations not the other way around.
True enough, I tend to categorize that under the "hardware is cheap" mindset, MS being a particular abuser of that notion.
I think you're missing the distinction between flexibility and "bloatware". Software only becomes bloatware when all those additional feature impede the everyday use of the software. Command line switches don't cause this problem, regardless of whether of not it's a command line Unix program or a command line Windows (I know, I know). The reason being that most command line programs use few switches for normal operations. Bloatware is usually a GUI problem. When anything and everything is configurable in a GUI it's easy to design the interface poorly so that it's difficult to do common things without all of the different options getting in the way.
There's also the problem with poor performance in bloatware, but that's more of a problem with poor coding and programmers taking the crap they heard in school "hardware is cheap so you don't need to worry about performance" as scripture. That mentality can apply equally to any software regardless of platform.
And let's face it, the majority of bands aren't in it becasue of art, they're in it to make money. Because somewhere along the line the public made musicians superstars, so you get hoards of people trying to "make it" as a band because they see it as a way to get rich.
This is not a flame and no offense intended but I'm getting more than a little sick of seeing people spouting that non-sense sentiment. What are we supposed to do, keep buying cd's because either way they'll put a spin on it. Fuck them, of course they're going to try and put a spin on it. If they could they'd pass laws requiring every US citizen to buy a certain number of cd's a year. That way they'd be sure of their prifits even with "rampant piracy". The solution is still the same. Don't buy them. Speak out against them and let them drive themselves out of business.
And there are hundreds of different versions vapires differing in almost every aspect. As far as movie consistency, Blade II wasn't even internally consistent, how could you ever expect it to be consistent with the original?
Fair enough, perhaps we are differing on the term disregard. I took your use of it to mean more of an ignore, while I feel that even the mistakes of the past need to be used to further technology in the future.
Genuine liberties? As if there were facts that they didn't stick to? This is a fantasy movie about make believe monsters. There are no facts to stick to, therefore no liberties to be taken. In the Blade universe the writers can have vampires capable of dying from whatever method they want.
Maybe he made his leather gloves from vampire hide, not too bright eh?
Thank you, Blade II
As opposed to asinine action movies appealing to the lowest common denominator?
That's ridiculous, you don't disregard them, you build on their work just like every other science, you stand on the shoulders of giants, maybe you become a giant for the next generation, but real progress is NEVER made when you disregard what came before you.