Dang it! I pirate these songs from CDs onto MP3s, give them away to my friends, and what do they do? The idiots like the artists and actually go to buy the CDs for themselves! What is with these morons? Do not they get it? I have been trying to hurt the music industry by doing this! I am so frustrated right now. Whatever am I doing wrong? I am going to have to step up my piracy efforts.
Today politics is all "push." That is, it is forced upon people. If you are to be voted upon you have to practically stick that voting lever into the voters hands and then tell them how to use it. There are multimillion dollar TV adds, garbage that litters vacant lots and fences, spreading the name of a particular candidate, and huge town-hall meetings where one person speaks to many many at a time. For the most part, this is the result of a candidate pressing his issues and ideals upon those who should choose their next leader.
Voting is water, and holds no value. Therefore, people do not seek it out. This explains low voter turnout and lack of interest in the political system.
Just imagine how that would radically change if voting in the United States was no longer a granted free right and instead a privilege. So many people would be pushing for the right to vote that it would make current voter turnout numbers appear as sickly as they really are.
Politics is like spam today. No wonder people tune it out. It is everywhere but where you want it, and not with the content that you desire. It is being shoved up my nose because you think that is the only way that I will ever perceive it.
The internet is a pull medium. I know what I want. I have to find out where to get it and how. Then I go and get it. I am not stupid. I will question everything before me. Second hand information will be treated like second hand information, which is almost valueless.
Will finally politics go for a pull distribution method, or are you going to continue shoving stuff up my nose thus offending me in the process?
Unfortunately most of America is still is a rather uneducated and lazy bunch, but there are a lot of us out here who you offend and turn off while trying to appeal to the other audience. When will you start providing real content, direct content, between me and my candidates?
I am a little worried for the person(s) who pulled this off. They have a group of corporations now after their head for what was essentially "parking their truck in front of the doors of the store." And for how long? Two whole hours or so? How much prison time would a person get for that? How much do you think this person or persons will get?
This will be a lot like the DeCSS thing here Jhon Johanson has been jailed for not doing any damage. Kevin just got freed. Let us hope that the U.S. judicial system is picking up on what is really right and wrong really fast.
The only bad things to come out of this is what the government is going to do. The domains which experienced the denial of service attacks really were not damaged that much. I can find little else wrong. We all will now have a better eye on security and our bosses will give us more time and money to concentrate on such.
We needed a little kick in our complacency. It reminds me of a certain Star Trek episode.
I do not see why they would want to name the Mozilla project as the next Netscape Communicator. Netscape, and more specifically AOL, has offended users deeply with their releases over the last year due to instabilities and buggyness. The words "Netscape", "Navigator", and "Communicator" are almost swear words now.
The spit will always, forever, be aimed at AOL and the fools who sold out to them.
Perhaps the logic behind this rename might be wanting to be take away the credit that the open source work gave to the Mozilla project. AOL wants to take that for themselves and the Netscape name. Quite honestly, I do not care about that and do not mind. If Mozilla comes out and becomes my next browser than I will be happy enough, and I will know the truth. But if Mozilla does not cut it, I will be looking though MSIE on the web and old versions of Netscape on the GNU/LINUX system.
The fact that AIM is integrated rather pisses me off in its own. However I am sure that someone will release a version with this cut out in no time at all.
Like many people, I will probably end up compiling my own personal version of Mozilla. Assisting companies and individuals with modifying the program to their own needs could be an incredible rocket for Mozilla. Think of all of the corporate entities that would take Mozilla and modify it for their corporate use. It will not just be ISPs doing it. What about Intranet's that would only work with that specially compiled browser? That is neat.
I do not see why Slashdot needs to continue posting reports on what a bunch of loosers LinuxOne is made up of. Alright, fine, it is a Linux makemoneyquick sceme thing. We all know it. They are going to tarnish the grand Linux name a little, but tough. It will not change what is important.
So, will you report on something worhty of our time?
I doubt that these companies and individuals realize that they are making a really bad name for themselves. They are hurting themselves by the bad publicity that these dumb stunts earn them. Did they ask their techs and admins about this before they even tried it? Problaby not. They would have been laughed at.
The thing is, when it came out to us, it was not a little bit funny. When a telemarketer calls me up I ask what company they represent and what they are trying to sell me. I let them know that I will hold that against the company in the future as bad judgment upon their part. Then I let them talk to the carpet. I will do the same with stupid moves by individuals representing a corporate entity. Spam earns you a bad name. Being stupid earns you a bad name. Dumb companies in the future will just not survive, I hope.
Yes Sir! You bet the first thing that is going to happen when/if this thing was to come out is that someone is going to figure out how to make their friend dizzy and disoriented as heck while they are playing a game. Maybe a magnet to the wire, or yanking the cable out during the game. What sort of bad feedback would that *feel* like?
Get a trackball, set that thing on the lowest resolution possible, and swing your lunch right out! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
"I am Joie Chen, and... This just in, Time Warner anouces that it is selling out to... oh my Diety, AOL! AOL has bough out Time Warner, the parent company of CNN.
... I quit."
I wonder if AOL can get away with pulling another Netscape takeover with Time Warner.
Be afraid. They might try and bring back that Ozzie the Elf fellow, but the rest of Time Warner is pretty much going to be scrapped.
All that they are after is RoadRunner, and maybe a chance to go broadcast.
Phone numbers, fax numbers, eMail addresses, physical location addresses and other means of contact would be nice. I would like to know where I can complain as an induvidual. Ramsey made radio kits for the tech school that I attended here in Phoenix Arizona a few years ago.
I wish that they had made us use actual descrite transistors for the amp instead of using an OpAmp chip, but I forgive them.
I am a SysAdmin, but I code in C, a little Java, HTML, Perl, thisthatwhatever. I like programming for myself and do it at home, making my little apps to make the life easier, but full time programming is not my thing and avoid going at it at work.
I am a falconer (drop the chihuahua!), and often go out on weekends hiking around the mountains in Arizona or the desert. My home is a little small, but I keep the desk clean and my systems look as good as they run. I eat well, but supplement my caffine and sugar intake with Mountain Dew.
Personally, I want to know what company you work for so I can pull the stock if necessary. What sort of stupid did you have to be to have your PCs hit by Y2k?
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Y2K, virus myths, and technological misinformation all belong in the same catigory.
Read the Crypt Newsletter article regarding the Electronic Pearl Harbor scare. Nothing new.
Exactly one week before they "free" Kevin Mitnick?
http://www.freekevin.com/
Has the U.S. court and legal systems learned anything in the past few years?
Personally, I am scared of my government. The DeCSS thing was nice because the origin perpetrators were overseas and there are just too many with DeCSS now to stop it. But if there had been just a few U.S. citizens mirroring this thing, you know what would have happened to them.
What has happened against those who hacked CSS anyway? What do they have to worry about now?
I have heard that there was a problem in Europe with credit card machines that were looking ahead four days in advance for calculations and such. Something or the matter. I would care for more information and FACTS regarding this.
When in line at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club yesterday evening 17:00 - 18:00, the credit card machines in the store went down, they made an accouncement to customers over the intercoms.
While rent is not horrendus here, it is not the best either. There are cheaper places to live. The thing is that pay here is also not great.
Arizona as a whole has a big "middle wages gap" problem. Very rich people, and poor people.
The tech employers here just do not want to pay people what we are worth. I am very seriously considering leaving the area.
There was a recent Phoenix/Valley Arizona poll that went on that said that while most people were generally happy living in Phoenix, they would leave in a second if given good reason. The big complaints of Phoenix is the heat in the summer, the population crowding, and low wages compared to other places in the country.
This is the same thing as what is going on with the GIF, TIFF, BurnAllGIFs thing.
It is about openness on the internet. That is what this whole website is about, LINUX, BSD, UNIX sort of thing. They are being stingy and need to have their hands slapped.
I personally try to not rely on any technology that is closed up. It almost garantees its failure.
It is not odd that Rob here picks up the excitement of the topic by bringing in the fear factor of mass population drugging and surveillance of persons because they might be "suspect."
On just about ever NEWScast that I heard about this was the word "shame," used in reference to the reasoning why people do not seek help when they need it.
Just as often is it about shame is it about plain old fear. Do you know what they do if someone thinks that you might be crazy or depressed? Your rights are removed from you, you are taken away and put you in an "asylum." Do you know what sort of things come to your mind when you think of the word "asylum?"
What do they do to you when you feel alone and isolated, when you need someone? They take you away from everything that you have and you are placed into a white-padded-walled cell where you can only speak to those who they want you to speak with. You are probably drugged while there.
Here in Phoenix Arizona, a man is currently suing the state because of his treatment when jailed. He was brought in for a fairly minor nonviolent offense and when being interrogated, admitted that at least once in his life he had thought about suicide, but not necessarily at that moment. He was then stripped naked and forced in an isolation cell for 24 hours under surveillance of suicide watch. I am sure that changed his mind.
The treatment of each other here in the US is horrendous. We know darn well that our schooling systems are horrid, that the prison and criminal correction systems simply creates lifelong criminals rather than rehabilitating, and that the mental heath and support systems in this country are terrible. But how much tax money goes towards fixing it? You bitch and whine, but you do nothing about it.
Why would anyone who needs help want to put out their hand to a world like that?
Sounds good to me. The best thing that could come out of this though is some serious patent standards reform. You can only blame Amazon, Yahoo, or IBM so much for taking advantage of a system that is just asking for it.
Do people like run into Kinkos, slap a dollar on all of the Canon copiers to make them shut down and run? This sounds like an awesome prank -- got to try it sometime!
What is this guy's name? I try to remember really stupid people when they do stuff like this so that in the event that I ever meet them someday. I will know what kind of dumb-asses they are.
This is in no way as good as that guy Dion Rayford who got stuck in the Taco Bell drivethrough window. It is good it was his last year in football. You know what they would have said every time he fumbled after that.
I surely thought that the first thing that I would see would be variable window tinting by means of using black and white LCD like windows installed in cars. Just give it a little current, and the windows tint the way that you want them.
You know there is going to be problems in the future of people watching TV and driving at the same time.
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Dang it! I pirate these songs from CDs onto MP3s, give them away to my friends, and what do they do? The idiots like the artists and actually go to buy the CDs for themselves! What is with these morons? Do not they get it? I have been trying to hurt the music industry by doing this! I am so frustrated right now. Whatever am I doing wrong? I am going to have to step up my piracy efforts.
Today politics is all "push." That is, it is forced upon people. If you are to be voted upon you have to practically stick that voting lever into the voters hands and then tell them how to use it. There are multimillion dollar TV adds, garbage that litters vacant lots and fences, spreading the name of a particular candidate, and huge town-hall meetings where one person speaks to many many at a time. For the most part, this is the result of a candidate pressing his issues and ideals upon those who should choose their next leader.
Voting is water, and holds no value. Therefore, people do not seek it out. This explains low voter turnout and lack of interest in the political system.
Just imagine how that would radically change if voting in the United States was no longer a granted free right and instead a privilege. So many people would be pushing for the right to vote that it would make current voter turnout numbers appear as sickly as they really are.
Politics is like spam today. No wonder people tune it out. It is everywhere but where you want it, and not with the content that you desire. It is being shoved up my nose because you think that is the only way that I will ever perceive it.
The internet is a pull medium. I know what I want. I have to find out where to get it and how. Then I go and get it. I am not stupid. I will question everything before me. Second hand information will be treated like second hand information, which is almost valueless.
Will finally politics go for a pull distribution method, or are you going to continue shoving stuff up my nose thus offending me in the process?
Unfortunately most of America is still is a rather uneducated and lazy bunch, but there are a lot of us out here who you offend and turn off while trying to appeal to the other audience. When will you start providing real content, direct content, between me and my candidates?
I am a little worried for the person(s) who pulled this off. They have a group of corporations now after their head for what was essentially "parking their truck in front of the doors of the store." And for how long? Two whole hours or so? How much prison time would a person get for that? How much do you think this person or persons will get?
This will be a lot like the DeCSS thing here Jhon Johanson has been jailed for not doing any damage. Kevin just got freed. Let us hope that the U.S. judicial system is picking up on what is really right and wrong really fast.
The only bad things to come out of this is what the government is going to do. The domains which experienced the denial of service attacks really were not damaged that much. I can find little else wrong. We all will now have a better eye on security and our bosses will give us more time and money to concentrate on such.
We needed a little kick in our complacency. It reminds me of a certain Star Trek episode.
I do not see why they would want to name the Mozilla project as the next Netscape Communicator. Netscape, and more specifically AOL, has offended users deeply with their releases over the last year due to instabilities and buggyness. The words "Netscape", "Navigator", and "Communicator" are almost swear words now.
The spit will always, forever, be aimed at AOL and the fools who sold out to them.
Perhaps the logic behind this rename might be wanting to be take away the credit that the open source work gave to the Mozilla project. AOL wants to take that for themselves and the Netscape name. Quite honestly, I do not care about that and do not mind. If Mozilla comes out and becomes my next browser than I will be happy enough, and I will know the truth. But if Mozilla does not cut it, I will be looking though MSIE on the web and old versions of Netscape on the GNU/LINUX system.
The fact that AIM is integrated rather pisses me off in its own. However I am sure that someone will release a version with this cut out in no time at all.
Like many people, I will probably end up compiling my own personal version of Mozilla. Assisting companies and individuals with modifying the program to their own needs could be an incredible rocket for Mozilla. Think of all of the corporate entities that would take Mozilla and modify it for their corporate use. It will not just be ISPs doing it. What about Intranet's that would only work with that specially compiled browser? That is neat.
So, will you report on something worhty of our time?
I doubt that these companies and individuals realize that they are making a really bad name for themselves. They are hurting themselves by the bad publicity that these dumb stunts earn them. Did they ask their techs and admins about this before they even tried it? Problaby not. They would have been laughed at.
The thing is, when it came out to us, it was not a little bit funny. When a telemarketer calls me up I ask what company they represent and what they are trying to sell me. I let them know that I will hold that against the company in the future as bad judgment upon their part. Then I let them talk to the carpet. I will do the same with stupid moves by individuals representing a corporate entity. Spam earns you a bad name. Being stupid earns you a bad name. Dumb companies in the future will just not survive, I hope.
Jump the cluetrain, on NPR last week!
Yes Sir! You bet the first thing that is going to happen when/if this thing was to come out is that someone is going to figure out how to make their friend dizzy and disoriented as heck while they are playing a game. Maybe a magnet to the wire, or yanking the cable out during the game. What sort of bad feedback would that *feel* like?
Get a trackball, set that thing on the lowest resolution possible, and swing your lunch right out! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
"I am Joie Chen, and... This just in, Time Warner anouces that it is selling out to... oh my Diety, AOL! AOL has bough out Time Warner, the parent company of CNN.
... I quit."
I wonder if AOL can get away with pulling another Netscape takeover with Time Warner.
Be afraid. They might try and bring back that Ozzie the Elf fellow, but the rest of Time Warner is pretty much going to be scrapped.
All that they are after is RoadRunner, and maybe a chance to go broadcast.
That Backorifice thing really is scarry now, isn't it?
Actually, my workload consists of about half of each day coding shell scripts, C code, and cisco router configs.
Daily output it probably ten whole lines of code, and the rest is reading and trying to figure out what the hell broke the script in the first place.
I wish that they had made us use actual descrite transistors for the amp instead of using an OpAmp chip, but I forgive them.
I am a SysAdmin, but I code in C, a little Java, HTML, Perl, thisthatwhatever. I like programming for myself and do it at home, making my little apps to make the life easier, but full time programming is not my thing and avoid going at it at work.
I am a falconer (drop the chihuahua!), and often go out on weekends hiking around the mountains in Arizona or the desert. My home is a little small, but I keep the desk clean and my systems look as good as they run. I eat well, but supplement my caffine and sugar intake with Mountain Dew.
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Personally, I want to know what company you work for so I can pull the stock if necessary. What sort of stupid did you have to be to have your PCs hit by Y2k?
Read the Crypt Newsletter article regarding the Electronic Pearl Harbor scare. Nothing new.
http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~crypt/
Guess who gets the blame most -- the media! I smell backlash, or at least a well deserved one.
It was like we were supposed to cheer or something when NBC reported, "...no major airlines disasters due to Y2K."
These people can not even tell you when the new millennium starts!
Exactly one week before they "free" Kevin Mitnick?
http://www.freekevin.com/
Has the U.S. court and legal systems learned anything in the past few years?
Personally, I am scared of my government. The DeCSS thing was nice because the origin perpetrators were overseas and there are just too many with DeCSS now to stop it. But if there had been just a few U.S. citizens mirroring this thing, you know what would have happened to them.
What has happened against those who hacked CSS anyway? What do they have to worry about now?
Apparently it already came.
I have heard that there was a problem in Europe with credit card machines that were looking ahead four days in advance for calculations and such. Something or the matter. I would care for more information and FACTS regarding this.
When in line at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club yesterday evening 17:00 - 18:00, the credit card machines in the store went down, they made an accouncement to customers over the intercoms.
I am a Phoenix Arizona resident.
While rent is not horrendus here, it is not the best either. There are cheaper places to live. The thing is that pay here is also not great.
Arizona as a whole has a big "middle wages gap" problem. Very rich people, and poor people.
The tech employers here just do not want to pay people what we are worth. I am very seriously considering leaving the area.
There was a recent Phoenix/Valley Arizona poll that went on that said that while most people were generally happy living in Phoenix, they would leave in a second if given good reason. The big complaints of Phoenix is the heat in the summer, the population crowding, and low wages compared to other places in the country.
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US058 96132__
This is the same thing as what is going on with the GIF, TIFF, BurnAllGIFs thing.
It is about openness on the internet. That is what this whole website is about, LINUX, BSD, UNIX sort of thing. They are being stingy and need to have their hands slapped.
I personally try to not rely on any technology that is closed up. It almost garantees its failure.
It is not odd that Rob here picks up the excitement of the topic by bringing in the fear factor of mass population drugging and surveillance of persons because they might be "suspect."
On just about ever NEWScast that I heard about this was the word "shame," used in reference to the reasoning why people do not seek help when they need it.
Just as often is it about shame is it about plain old fear. Do you know what they do if someone thinks that you might be crazy or depressed? Your rights are removed from you, you are taken away and put you in an "asylum." Do you know what sort of things come to your mind when you think of the word "asylum?"
What do they do to you when you feel alone and isolated, when you need someone? They take you away from everything that you have and you are placed into a white-padded-walled cell where you can only speak to those who they want you to speak with. You are probably drugged while there.
Here in Phoenix Arizona, a man is currently suing the state because of his treatment when jailed. He was brought in for a fairly minor nonviolent offense and when being interrogated, admitted that at least once in his life he had thought about suicide, but not necessarily at that moment. He was then stripped naked and forced in an isolation cell for 24 hours under surveillance of suicide watch. I am sure that changed his mind.
The treatment of each other here in the US is horrendous. We know darn well that our schooling systems are horrid, that the prison and criminal correction systems simply creates lifelong criminals rather than rehabilitating, and that the mental heath and support systems in this country are terrible. But how much tax money goes towards fixing it? You bitch and whine, but you do nothing about it.
Why would anyone who needs help want to put out their hand to a world like that?
That is my rant, but it was not undeserved.
Sounds good to me. The best thing that could come out of this though is some serious patent standards reform. You can only blame Amazon, Yahoo, or IBM so much for taking advantage of a system that is just asking for it.
Do people like run into Kinkos, slap a dollar on all of the Canon copiers to make them shut down and run? This sounds like an awesome prank -- got to try it sometime!
This is in no way as good as that guy Dion Rayford who got stuck in the Taco Bell drivethrough window. It is good it was his last year in football. You know what they would have said every time he fumbled after that.
http://www.salon.com/people/wire/1999/11/18 /chalupa/index.html
You know there is going to be problems in the future of people watching TV and driving at the same time.
All of the same, I would much much rather them release a late product then a lame product. Reference what is going to happen to Win2K -- late and bad.