Every war game I know of, lets the player pick a side - you can play as Nazy Germany, Allied forces, USSR or Japan (or any combination of allied forces) in any WWII game. No game tries to protray any side on way or the other. Your moralizing does not have basis in the reality of computer games.
In my opinion, it would be more heroic of you not to spend a second mortgage suing your police department but instead using that money to create awareness of hazardous driving, starting a college fund in her name, donating that money to charity in her name or doing something less destructive with it in her name. Right now, the public's memory of your daughter is for the wrong reasons and you're just exacerbating the situation. Be above that. Change things for the better and remember her fondly, not as a never ending court case.
That.
The only thing that will give some sense to the death of their daughter is if it deters other young men and women from doing the same mistake.
Take a random Joe like myself, who hasn't heard of Nikki Catsouras: now I'm aware of the existence of grisly photos of this unlucky young woman. Some of these random Joes will likely be interested in seeing those photos in spite of the family's wishes. And thus the number of people who saw the pics has increased.
Unfortunately, their only practicaly recourse is just not to look at those pics. I, who has not heard of this woman or her accident before, have not seen the photos, ever, so it is possible to avoid seeing them.
Neither of which are illegal under Swedish law. Under Swedish law, the ONLY people breaking the law are those downloading and uploading the pirated content.
...and those assisting them - "främjar en gärning med råd eller dåd" (for our English readers "furthers an act with advice or deed").
Which is what TPB got done for.
Then also the internet providers should be punished. They assisted the up-and-downloaders. Also the electrical utility company, which provided the electric energy for the computers adn network equipment involved.
...success in the upcoming European Union elections?
This, together with the Pirate Bay's ridicolous conviction and clown-judge, has pretty much assured the Piratepartiet 's(sorry, can't spell Swedish) surprisingly high vote.
My aunt used to say that evil has a tendency to annihilate itself eventually. The RIAA (and the like) are demonstrating this concept spendidly in Europe, and even in the US (though there it will take a bit longer). And I'll be happily dancing and singing (copyrighted songs) on RIAA's grave.
...they'll have to start paying long defunct composers like Beethoven or Scarlatti. I'm all for RIAA execs being sent to meet the the old masters, to give them the good news. For this purpose I suggest bullets in the heads. Many bullets.
Having the judge be a member of copyright protection organizations isn't bias. Copyright is the law, and he's a judge...how is this a story? Hell, he might have been put on this case specifically because he knows copyright law very well. You guys need to accept this--Pirate Bay wasn't just a search engine like Google. It was also hosting the torrent tracker server that tracks the file chunks users were trading with each other. They offer the torrents, and they offer the server connecting the users, and they call themselves PirateBay...and you're defending it? You're surprised they were found guilty in court?
Nobody cares about the "Pirate Party." It's just a bunch of morons who signed up online out of spite and probably will never be heard from again.
Pirates will do whatever it takes to get their free ride back. They do as much as possible to avoid admitting guilt. You're ripping people off. You're the bad guy. You'll talk about the RIAA/MPAA until you're out of breath, you'll invent stupid justifications like piracy is "free advertising" or it's a "new business model," but it's all just a psychological justification to avoid admitting that you're guilty of doing something inethical. You never think about the people you're ripping off--the musicians, software developers, screenwriters, and so on.
The fact that Slashdot has become so militantly pro-piracy in the last decade is really disgusting. It was one thing to defend Napster, but now it's just bleedingly obvious that Slashdot is visited by a ton of selfish leeches who want to spend all day and night running Bittorrent apps, never even dreaming of paying somebody for their work. How would you like it if you were a software developer, and your boss didn't give you a paycheck one month because "information wants to be free," or "you can't 'steal' code," or some other stupid reason that pirates always give?
It's like you guys want to dig for oil forever and expect it to never run out. The piracy issue is finally coming to a head. You know it's illegal and wrong. There's no other reason you do it but that you're selfish like all humans and want something for free without paying money to its creator.
I have seen Slashdot posts of people who have not read TFA. I have also seen very long and articulated Slashdot posts of people who HAVE read TFA.
But I have never before seen such long Slashdot posts by people who have not even bothered to read TFA even passingly.
As far as I understand, purpose of a Netbook is having Windows or Linux with a huge set of software selection/support (thanks to x86) instead of a Smart device.
Actually, that's exactly NOT the purpose of a netbook. A netbook (as its name implies) is suited for browsing the net and doing the occasional wordprocessing and perhaps even spreadsheet. Skype and some IM software, and a few games - but that's it for a netbook. Noone expects more from it. So, the Linux for ARM apps available are more than sufficient for the kind of use-case that a netbook is targeting.
By the way, the Nokia 9300 is a very nice smartphone! I'm a big fan of it - the later devices have, sadly, a bit too many bugs for my taste.
While I won't dismiss this product offhand (the low weight and low power consumption are two very good features), I feel that US$250 is just a bit too much for this product, and will cause it's doom. The only people that I predict will go for it, are the same that bought its predecessor, and only a subset of that group, at that. That's way too few to guarantee the viability of this ARM-based notebook.
I just hope other potential manufacturers of ARM-based notebooks won't be discouraged by the upcoming debacle of this charming but mis-priced little computer.
As crazy as it sounds, it's true: there was an NLM for accessing through X a certain NetWare admin application (whose name now escapes me). So I tried to install Slackware 3.something and succeeded at first try, and off I was.
The whole Slackware experience was so surprisingly easy and consistent, that later RedHat Linux felt very clunky and buggy. Yeah, it kinda worked and tried to be kinda user-friendly, but it has dozens of unpleasant bugs, inconsistencies, and generally, it didn't allow me as much control as Slackware.
..even for an outsider like me, putting "World of Warcraft" and "casual gamers" in the same sentence, seems odd to say the least. I associate WoW with people spending several hours per week, even per day, playing online.
But, if I've been wrong, I am glad: there's this beautiful real world that awaits to be discovered - it would be a pity not to do that, and waste your time playing WoW instead.
Yahoo could make a kind of contest, asking people to vote for their favorite GeoCIties page, and Yahoo could then save them for posterity. Let's say, the top 500 rated pages. This would also mean that those are the most visited pages, so there would be some profit from the ads on them. But most importantly, this would generate a lot of traffic for Yahoo, and a lot of buzz around their services. In general, it would be a good PR move without almost any cost.
What does Yahoo do, instead? Let's knife the whole thing. Yeah, that's smart.
For a while my post was modded "Insightful", but luckily, a last-minute mod tipped the balance to "Informative", which is only fair.
Look, at least this utterly ridicolous topic should get us a few laughs. So yeah, my "Informative" post was one of the lame ones, I guess, too:o) But not as lame as explaining why opting-out of spam is not a good idea. Repeatedly explaining it.
Don't take this personally, 'cause it really isn't - and I know I'll be modded down for this - but I must say this story has the greatest concentration of the lamest "Informative" posts, ever.
I'm thinking that it's maybe just a gigantic troll, and the submitter is LOLling his ass off as I post this. Timothy maybe in on the joke.
And you know what? THIS is the kind of shit that should be submitted on April Fool's Day.
Are the editors in some kind of contest to put up the lamest "Ask Slashdot" story? If so, they can end it right now -- Timothy has definitely won.
Or maybe not. Somebody might ask "why doesn't my computer work when it's not plugged in?"
That's a good one, but I think someone should go for "Ask Slashdot: Should I shove my Eee PC 701 up my own ass or is that a bad idea? What are the technical implication of such a hardware procedure?" Followed by "Ask Slashdot: How do I get this thing out? Urgent question."
True enough. Luckily, Gmail's default is to not download images. And in fact, I think you can't even override that global default - only on a sende-by-sender basis.
I would give him the benefit of the doubt if this was circa 1997. But it's 2009, and even the birds on the trees are singing the tune "who tries to opt-out on spam is a fucking fool and deserves to have his e-mail harvested to hell and back". Or some such tune.
And what I find quite important: it renders text quite well. At least I don't see a big difference between how Foxit renders text vs. Acrobat. But, as I was saying in another post, Sumatra does a very bad job - so much so, that I feel slightly nauseated when reading documents with Sumatra.
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I don't think so: most of the time I can't access BBC videos, although I live in Finland.
Every war game I know of, lets the player pick a side - you can play as Nazy Germany, Allied forces, USSR or Japan (or any combination of allied forces) in any WWII game. No game tries to protray any side on way or the other. Your moralizing does not have basis in the reality of computer games.
Who said anything about shock campaigns? I haven't, the GP hasn't, either.
It's in your head, I presume.
In my opinion, it would be more heroic of you not to spend a second mortgage suing your police department but instead using that money to create awareness of hazardous driving, starting a college fund in her name, donating that money to charity in her name or doing something less destructive with it in her name. Right now, the public's memory of your daughter is for the wrong reasons and you're just exacerbating the situation. Be above that. Change things for the better and remember her fondly, not as a never ending court case.
That.
The only thing that will give some sense to the death of their daughter is if it deters other young men and women from doing the same mistake.
Take a random Joe like myself, who hasn't heard of Nikki Catsouras: now I'm aware of the existence of grisly photos of this unlucky young woman. Some of these random Joes will likely be interested in seeing those photos in spite of the family's wishes. And thus the number of people who saw the pics has increased.
Unfortunately, their only practicaly recourse is just not to look at those pics. I, who has not heard of this woman or her accident before, have not seen the photos, ever, so it is possible to avoid seeing them.
Neither of which are illegal under Swedish law. Under Swedish law, the ONLY people breaking the law are those downloading and uploading the pirated content.
...and those assisting them - "främjar en gärning med råd eller dåd" (for our English readers "furthers an act with advice or deed").
Which is what TPB got done for.
Then also the internet providers should be punished. They assisted the up-and-downloaders. Also the electrical utility company, which provided the electric energy for the computers adn network equipment involved.
...success in the upcoming European Union elections?
This, together with the Pirate Bay's ridicolous conviction and clown-judge, has pretty much assured the Piratepartiet 's(sorry, can't spell Swedish) surprisingly high vote.
My aunt used to say that evil has a tendency to annihilate itself eventually. The RIAA (and the like) are demonstrating this concept spendidly in Europe, and even in the US (though there it will take a bit longer). And I'll be happily dancing and singing (copyrighted songs) on RIAA's grave.
...they'll have to start paying long defunct composers like Beethoven or Scarlatti. I'm all for RIAA execs being sent to meet the the old masters, to give them the good news. For this purpose I suggest bullets in the heads. Many bullets.
What a load of crap.
Having the judge be a member of copyright protection organizations isn't bias. Copyright is the law, and he's a judge...how is this a story? Hell, he might have been put on this case specifically because he knows copyright law very well. You guys need to accept this--Pirate Bay wasn't just a search engine like Google. It was also hosting the torrent tracker server that tracks the file chunks users were trading with each other. They offer the torrents, and they offer the server connecting the users, and they call themselves PirateBay...and you're defending it? You're surprised they were found guilty in court?
Nobody cares about the "Pirate Party." It's just a bunch of morons who signed up online out of spite and probably will never be heard from again.
Pirates will do whatever it takes to get their free ride back. They do as much as possible to avoid admitting guilt. You're ripping people off. You're the bad guy. You'll talk about the RIAA/MPAA until you're out of breath, you'll invent stupid justifications like piracy is "free advertising" or it's a "new business model," but it's all just a psychological justification to avoid admitting that you're guilty of doing something inethical. You never think about the people you're ripping off--the musicians, software developers, screenwriters, and so on.
The fact that Slashdot has become so militantly pro-piracy in the last decade is really disgusting. It was one thing to defend Napster, but now it's just bleedingly obvious that Slashdot is visited by a ton of selfish leeches who want to spend all day and night running Bittorrent apps, never even dreaming of paying somebody for their work. How would you like it if you were a software developer, and your boss didn't give you a paycheck one month because "information wants to be free," or "you can't 'steal' code," or some other stupid reason that pirates always give?
It's like you guys want to dig for oil forever and expect it to never run out. The piracy issue is finally coming to a head. You know it's illegal and wrong. There's no other reason you do it but that you're selfish like all humans and want something for free without paying money to its creator.
I have seen Slashdot posts of people who have not read TFA. I have also seen very long and articulated Slashdot posts of people who HAVE read TFA.
But I have never before seen such long Slashdot posts by people who have not even bothered to read TFA even passingly.
A new low in /.
As far as I understand, purpose of a Netbook is having Windows or Linux with a huge set of software selection/support (thanks to x86) instead of a Smart device.
Actually, that's exactly NOT the purpose of a netbook. A netbook (as its name implies) is suited for browsing the net and doing the occasional wordprocessing and perhaps even spreadsheet. Skype and some IM software, and a few games - but that's it for a netbook. Noone expects more from it. So, the Linux for ARM apps available are more than sufficient for the kind of use-case that a netbook is targeting.
By the way, the Nokia 9300 is a very nice smartphone! I'm a big fan of it - the later devices have, sadly, a bit too many bugs for my taste.
I love the trackpoint (AKA "clit"). One of the most practical inventions in computer input devices.
Also, I'm quite fond of clits, as well, to be honest.
While I won't dismiss this product offhand (the low weight and low power consumption are two very good features), I feel that US$250 is just a bit too much for this product, and will cause it's doom. The only people that I predict will go for it, are the same that bought its predecessor, and only a subset of that group, at that. That's way too few to guarantee the viability of this ARM-based notebook.
I just hope other potential manufacturers of ARM-based notebooks won't be discouraged by the upcoming debacle of this charming but mis-priced little computer.
As crazy as it sounds, it's true: there was an NLM for accessing through X a certain NetWare admin application (whose name now escapes me). So I tried to install Slackware 3.something and succeeded at first try, and off I was.
The whole Slackware experience was so surprisingly easy and consistent, that later RedHat Linux felt very clunky and buggy. Yeah, it kinda worked and tried to be kinda user-friendly, but it has dozens of unpleasant bugs, inconsistencies, and generally, it didn't allow me as much control as Slackware.
I live in Finland.
Where do you live? Sounds like a dangerous place.
..even for an outsider like me, putting "World of Warcraft" and "casual gamers" in the same sentence, seems odd to say the least. I associate WoW with people spending several hours per week, even per day, playing online.
But, if I've been wrong, I am glad: there's this beautiful real world that awaits to be discovered - it would be a pity not to do that, and waste your time playing WoW instead.
Yahoo could make a kind of contest, asking people to vote for their favorite GeoCIties page, and Yahoo could then save them for posterity. Let's say, the top 500 rated pages. This would also mean that those are the most visited pages, so there would be some profit from the ads on them. But most importantly, this would generate a lot of traffic for Yahoo, and a lot of buzz around their services. In general, it would be a good PR move without almost any cost.
What does Yahoo do, instead? Let's knife the whole thing. Yeah, that's smart.
For a while my post was modded "Insightful", but luckily, a last-minute mod tipped the balance to "Informative", which is only fair.
Look, at least this utterly ridicolous topic should get us a few laughs. So yeah, my "Informative" post was one of the lame ones, I guess, too :o) But not as lame as explaining why opting-out of spam is not a good idea. Repeatedly explaining it.
Don't take this personally, 'cause it really isn't - and I know I'll be modded down for this - but I must say this story has the greatest concentration of the lamest "Informative" posts, ever.
I'm thinking that it's maybe just a gigantic troll, and the submitter is LOLling his ass off as I post this. Timothy maybe in on the joke.
And you know what? THIS is the kind of shit that should be submitted on April Fool's Day.
Are the editors in some kind of contest to put up the lamest "Ask Slashdot" story? If so, they can end it right now -- Timothy has definitely won.
Or maybe not. Somebody might ask "why doesn't my computer work when it's not plugged in?"
That's a good one, but I think someone should go for "Ask Slashdot: Should I shove my Eee PC 701 up my own ass or is that a bad idea? What are the technical implication of such a hardware procedure?" Followed by "Ask Slashdot: How do I get this thing out? Urgent question."
True enough. Luckily, Gmail's default is to not download images. And in fact, I think you can't even override that global default - only on a sende-by-sender basis.
Which is great.
Is this guy serious?
I would give him the benefit of the doubt if this was circa 1997. But it's 2009, and even the birds on the trees are singing the tune "who tries to opt-out on spam is a fucking fool and deserves to have his e-mail harvested to hell and back". Or some such tune.
Corruption, corruption, corruption.
Am I agreeing or disagreeing? YES.
I knew it!
And what I find quite important: it renders text quite well. At least I don't see a big difference between how Foxit renders text vs. Acrobat. But, as I was saying in another post, Sumatra does a very bad job - so much so, that I feel slightly nauseated when reading documents with Sumatra.
You know what? I have no friggin' idea how HP gets away with those monstruous drivers. It's nuts.