At the top of the screen, there will be a Fox ticker that can never be shut off, that reminds users to:
"Watch the best season yet of the same old American Idol, tonight on FOX!" "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader tonight on FOX!" "See House yet again solve a medical mystery, tonight on FOX!" "Our best ripoff of a movie yet: Terminator, tonight on FOX!" "Yet Another Stupid Gameshow/Reality TV/Lame Scripted Show, tonight on FOX" "See House reruns every day of the week so we don't have to make up new TV shows, tonight on FOX!" "24 is back and more generic than ever, tonight on FOX!" "Will they escape from yet another prison? Find out on Prison Break, tonight on FOX!"
Then Fox will set Yahoo's Internet search algorithms to block any website that criticizes President Bush, the War in Iraq, or any other issue someone pays them money to censor (most likely that would include/.)
Any search for a CBS show would be blocked. When a user attempts to search for a CBS show, Stewie from the Family Guy will pop up on the screen and taunt the user for not watching Fox's stupid reality TV and explain to the user why the only shows on Fox are "reality" shows.
Any political Yahoo Groups will be disbanded immediately unless they agree to listen to Fox.
Any searches for "(the name of a fox show) + torrent download" will flag you and your address will be sent to the FBI for arrest.
Any blogs that criticize Fox News will be removed from Yahoo's cache.
What a horrible thought. The media conglomerates own TV to keep everyone preoccupied will the sick money obsessed people set up New World Order...
Those idiot lobbyists and corporate CEOs think ANYONE that uses BitTorrent is a pirate. But are they? Let's see, here's what I (at least attempt to because I have Comcast) use BitTorrent for:
1. Downloading large Linux install DVD images 2. Download legal, open-source programs 3. Download legally free files
The problem with this is that I bet NO ONE will actually sit there and read all the traffic logs. A computer will just flag customers who even so much as transfer a packet through a BitTorrent port as a 'persistent pirate' and cancel their service.
A computer can only say YES this person is using BitTorrent or NO he's not. The computer CAN NOT find out exactly what someone is downloading, and weather it's legal.
So if the UK wants to fall behind everyone in the Internet age and cancel EVERYONE out of the Internet, not much we can do but hope it doesn't happen.
This might sound silly, but exactly what does PhysX do? And what would I benefit from having PhysX support on my new card? I know a few games I might want to get that use PhysX (Unreal Tournament 3), would that make those games run faster?
I haven't been able to download Linux distros from BitTorrent on my Comcast line. I've been getting tired of this disgraceful excuse for censorship ever since this shit began a year ago.
This censorship will NEVER work because to a computer, a download, no matter if it's a legal download (eg open-source software or nonprofit films and movies), or illegal to download, that DOES NOT MATTER! The filter DOES NOT SEE what they're downloading. All that matters if it's using BitTorrent. Anything using BitTorrent is blocked.
In the past few weeks, the telecom companies are now protected from infringing our privacy, and are allowed to CENSOR the Internet? This has to stop now.
If no one stops this now, what will stop the telecom companies from taking this to the next level: turning the Internet into what TV, radio, and newspapers have become, a censored, regulated, and controlled medium of information control.
The second Verizon becomes available in my area, I'm canceling the "Internet" Comcast provides and getting Verizon!
I guess they're pissed that only United States citizens can be sued for millions of dollars just for downloading stuff...
I bet they want Canadian Internet providers to start CENSORING the Internet. Please Canada, don't let those bullshit "intellectual" copyright laws mess it up.
These lobbyists don't have any power! They are not politicians or lawmakers, so why should they push entire countries around?
I've been noticing an increasing trend with the government advertising for the Army and armed services: recruit geeks.
From ads on websites geeks would browse to TV ads specifically targeted on shows and channels geeks would watch, they're trying to lure computer geeks into the armed services.
Why is the government now labeling us as geeks and targeting us for advertising? And I bet, if you are lured into the armed services as a geek, you could still be put in the front lines...
Amazing how much dirty politics can destroy our civil liberties. I watched the Senate talk about the FISA act on C-SPAN, and when Sen. Dodd's speech got them to pause the voting, I thought that would push the bill far behind to the point that it couldn't be voted on.
I was wrong...
So now every thing we do online and everything we say on the telephone will be recorded by the NSA, and, if we say 1 thing wrong, could find the FBI at our door...
What will this do to the Internet? The government now has the power to spy on the Internet, so who's to say they can't censor the Internet like China does?
I'm amazed the United States continues to go downhill, closer and closer to a communist country where the government controls everything...
It works.:( The first time I ran it I got a segmentation fault. The 2nd time I ran it, X crashed. When I ran it for a 3rd time in a bash session, I was sucessfully logged in as root just by running the program.
I'm running Fedora 7, with the kernel version I said above.
Or even a few hours. The few significant holes in OSS operating systems and programs are always patched so quickly. However, Microsoft takes months, even years to patch the thousands of holes in Windows...
*checks kernel version* 2.6.23.8-34... wow I'm out of date:) Is my kernel version effected?
Good thing I just read this, I was in the middle of downloading that version:0
What we can count on is that this bug will be fixed in a few days... maybe even hours, unlike all those Microsoft vulnerabilities that have taken months to fix:)
You can bet Microsoft will be pretty pissed at Yahoo for not allowing them to turn Yahoo into a horribly designed, ad ridden, pro-Microsoft, Windows only, Silverlight only "website". I bet m$ will buy out Yahoo hostilely...
So the MPAA lied and said 44% of damages from illegal movie downloading is caused by collage kids, says that for 2 years, then tells everyone due to "human error", it's more like 15%.
Now they pass this bullshit legislation that will, yet again, destroy the rights and civil liberities of collage kids.
Will someone get these dreaded 4 letter industry lobbyist organizations out of the picture?
Seriously, I think Fox was a huge reason writers went on strike, because they got tired of Fox canceling every new show they come up with...
With the writers strike over, we can finally get rid of this cheap "reality" TV and get back to the prime-time dramas and crime shows... but Fox will keep doing American Idol and 5 ripoffs of American Idol...
Our taxes are being spent so the government can spy on everyone in the United States online, on the telephone, now even through fingerprints! No wonder the United States is trillions of dollars in debt.
What about education? Public schools need that money, but the government would rather spend it paying the National Security Agency to read every single thing people write online, now even track us through fingerprints.
They think their protecting us and preventing "terrorism", but they're just depriving us of our civil liberties.
Declaring EVERY SINGLE person in the United States as a criminal is NOT the way to protect us! When will they learn? They wiretap telephones, but if someone really wanted to get around that, they could, so it's a waste of time...
Took SCO that long to go bye bye? I can't wait until they go completely broke.
SCO thought that, since they bought Unix from AT&T in the 1990s, that they should own Linux as well and sued everyone. About time they fell as a result of that!
Rest in Pieces, SCO:)
Why should the lobbyist organization for the music industry that does absolutely nothing but sue innocent consumers, get money from songwriters? They're robbing these people of money the songwriters deserve. Aren't they getting enough money by suing tens of thousands of innoncent consumers?
I can see the next step: charging royalties for amateurs as well. So the YouTube generation might soon need to pay to make a song?
The RIAA's disgraceful business practices are getting very annoying...
This is why network neutrality is needed. Time Warner probably was paid by another digital media agency to block iTunes so customers would be forced to another service.
And this is coming from the _same_ company that wants to use the tiered Internet buisness model! They just love pissing their customers off!
Seriously, I'm predicting about 6-7 months before they crash and burn (we need time for this to get all over the news, lawsuits to begin piling at the CEOs door, dissatisfied customers switching to other carriers, etc). This is really something I would have suspected Comcast of doing...
I use Yahoo, it's not my favorite search engine, but I have an e-mail address there. I know exactly what m$ would do when they get their hands on Yahoo:
1. Rewrite Yahoo to use Microsoft Silverlight as much as possible
2. Redesign Yahoo Mail to look like this
3. Convert everyone's existing Yahoo Mail accounts to Windows Live accounts (which would cause lots of problems anyway)
4. Charge extra for using Microsoft Outlook, Evolution, or other mail clients (IMAP access)
5. Limit the space you have to a very small size
I've seen a lot of government conspiracies, but this one is so odvous. We all know our government LOVES to spy, so what would stop the NSA from deciding it's legal to watch everything everyone else is doing?
I still believe the NSA broke the cable when they pulled up in their subs to drill into the cable and watch all the data going through
Was that "ship" that allegedly broke the cable ever named? No? So how does anyone confirm that the ship really did it? It's the government's fault!
Slashdot Mirror
The site's running very slow, guess it fell victim to the infamous Slashdot Effect :)
So once the AI are made, will they blow up when a bug like the 2038 UNIX time bug hit?
At the top of the screen, there will be a Fox ticker that can never be shut off, that reminds users to:
/.)
"Watch the best season yet of the same old American Idol, tonight on FOX!"
"Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader tonight on FOX!"
"See House yet again solve a medical mystery, tonight on FOX!"
"Our best ripoff of a movie yet: Terminator, tonight on FOX!"
"Yet Another Stupid Gameshow/Reality TV/Lame Scripted Show, tonight on FOX"
"See House reruns every day of the week so we don't have to make up new TV shows, tonight on FOX!"
"24 is back and more generic than ever, tonight on FOX!"
"Will they escape from yet another prison? Find out on Prison Break, tonight on FOX!"
Then Fox will set Yahoo's Internet search algorithms to block any website that criticizes President Bush, the War in Iraq, or any other issue someone pays them money to censor (most likely that would include
Any search for a CBS show would be blocked. When a user attempts to search for a CBS show, Stewie from the Family Guy will pop up on the screen and taunt the user for not watching Fox's stupid reality TV and explain to the user why the only shows on Fox are "reality" shows.
Any political Yahoo Groups will be disbanded immediately unless they agree to listen to Fox.
Any searches for "(the name of a fox show) + torrent download" will flag you and your address will be sent to the FBI for arrest.
Any blogs that criticize Fox News will be removed from Yahoo's cache.
What a horrible thought. The media conglomerates own TV to keep everyone preoccupied will the sick money obsessed people set up New World Order...
Those idiot lobbyists and corporate CEOs think ANYONE that uses BitTorrent is a pirate. But are they? Let's see, here's what I (at least attempt to because I have Comcast) use BitTorrent for:
1. Downloading large Linux install DVD images
2. Download legal, open-source programs
3. Download legally free files
The problem with this is that I bet NO ONE will actually sit there and read all the traffic logs. A computer will just flag customers who even so much as transfer a packet through a BitTorrent port as a 'persistent pirate' and cancel their service.
A computer can only say YES this person is using BitTorrent or NO he's not. The computer CAN NOT find out exactly what someone is downloading, and weather it's legal.
So if the UK wants to fall behind everyone in the Internet age and cancel EVERYONE out of the Internet, not much we can do but hope it doesn't happen.
This might sound silly, but exactly what does PhysX do? And what would I benefit from having PhysX support on my new card? I know a few games I might want to get that use PhysX (Unreal Tournament 3), would that make those games run faster?
I haven't been able to download Linux distros from BitTorrent on my Comcast line. I've been getting tired of this disgraceful excuse for censorship ever since this shit began a year ago. This censorship will NEVER work because to a computer, a download, no matter if it's a legal download (eg open-source software or nonprofit films and movies), or illegal to download, that DOES NOT MATTER! The filter DOES NOT SEE what they're downloading. All that matters if it's using BitTorrent. Anything using BitTorrent is blocked. In the past few weeks, the telecom companies are now protected from infringing our privacy, and are allowed to CENSOR the Internet? This has to stop now. If no one stops this now, what will stop the telecom companies from taking this to the next level: turning the Internet into what TV, radio, and newspapers have become, a censored, regulated, and controlled medium of information control. The second Verizon becomes available in my area, I'm canceling the "Internet" Comcast provides and getting Verizon!
I guess they're pissed that only United States citizens can be sued for millions of dollars just for downloading stuff...
I bet they want Canadian Internet providers to start CENSORING the Internet. Please Canada, don't let those bullshit "intellectual" copyright laws mess it up.
These lobbyists don't have any power! They are not politicians or lawmakers, so why should they push entire countries around?
I've been noticing an increasing trend with the government advertising for the Army and armed services: recruit geeks.
From ads on websites geeks would browse to TV ads specifically targeted on shows and channels geeks would watch, they're trying to lure computer geeks into the armed services.
Why is the government now labeling us as geeks and targeting us for advertising? And I bet, if you are lured into the armed services as a geek, you could still be put in the front lines...
Amazing how much dirty politics can destroy our civil liberties. I watched the Senate talk about the FISA act on C-SPAN, and when Sen. Dodd's speech got them to pause the voting, I thought that would push the bill far behind to the point that it couldn't be voted on.
I was wrong...
So now every thing we do online and everything we say on the telephone will be recorded by the NSA, and, if we say 1 thing wrong, could find the FBI at our door...
What will this do to the Internet? The government now has the power to spy on the Internet, so who's to say they can't censor the Internet like China does?
I'm amazed the United States continues to go downhill, closer and closer to a communist country where the government controls everything...
Most people hate Vista and would never buy it, let alone illegally download it...
So could it be run on computers with public shell access (connected via SSH)?
It works. :( The first time I ran it I got a segmentation fault. The 2nd time I ran it, X crashed. When I ran it for a 3rd time in a bash session, I was sucessfully logged in as root just by running the program.
I'm running Fedora 7, with the kernel version I said above.
Or even a few hours. The few significant holes in OSS operating systems and programs are always patched so quickly. However, Microsoft takes months, even years to patch the thousands of holes in Windows...
:) Is my kernel version effected?
*checks kernel version* 2.6.23.8-34... wow I'm out of date
Good thing I just read this, I was in the middle of downloading that version :0
:)
What we can count on is that this bug will be fixed in a few days... maybe even hours, unlike all those Microsoft vulnerabilities that have taken months to fix
First post :
You can bet Microsoft will be pretty pissed at Yahoo for not allowing them to turn Yahoo into a horribly designed, ad ridden, pro-Microsoft, Windows only, Silverlight only "website". I bet m$ will buy out Yahoo hostilely...
So the MPAA lied and said 44% of damages from illegal movie downloading is caused by collage kids, says that for 2 years, then tells everyone due to "human error", it's more like 15%. Now they pass this bullshit legislation that will, yet again, destroy the rights and civil liberities of collage kids. Will someone get these dreaded 4 letter industry lobbyist organizations out of the picture?
Seriously, I think Fox was a huge reason writers went on strike, because they got tired of Fox canceling every new show they come up with...
With the writers strike over, we can finally get rid of this cheap "reality" TV and get back to the prime-time dramas and crime shows... but Fox will keep doing American Idol and 5 ripoffs of American Idol...
Our taxes are being spent so the government can spy on everyone in the United States online, on the telephone, now even through fingerprints! No wonder the United States is trillions of dollars in debt.
What about education? Public schools need that money, but the government would rather spend it paying the National Security Agency to read every single thing people write online, now even track us through fingerprints.
They think their protecting us and preventing "terrorism", but they're just depriving us of our civil liberties.
Declaring EVERY SINGLE person in the United States as a criminal is NOT the way to protect us! When will they learn? They wiretap telephones, but if someone really wanted to get around that, they could, so it's a waste of time...
Took SCO that long to go bye bye? I can't wait until they go completely broke. SCO thought that, since they bought Unix from AT&T in the 1990s, that they should own Linux as well and sued everyone. About time they fell as a result of that! Rest in Pieces, SCO :)
Why should the lobbyist organization for the music industry that does absolutely nothing but sue innocent consumers, get money from songwriters? They're robbing these people of money the songwriters deserve. Aren't they getting enough money by suing tens of thousands of innoncent consumers?
I can see the next step: charging royalties for amateurs as well. So the YouTube generation might soon need to pay to make a song?
The RIAA's disgraceful business practices are getting very annoying...
This is why network neutrality is needed. Time Warner probably was paid by another digital media agency to block iTunes so customers would be forced to another service.
And this is coming from the _same_ company that wants to use the tiered Internet buisness model! They just love pissing their customers off!
Seriously, I'm predicting about 6-7 months before they crash and burn (we need time for this to get all over the news, lawsuits to begin piling at the CEOs door, dissatisfied customers switching to other carriers, etc). This is really something I would have suspected Comcast of doing...
I use Yahoo, it's not my favorite search engine, but I have an e-mail address there. I know exactly what m$ would do when they get their hands on Yahoo:
1. Rewrite Yahoo to use Microsoft Silverlight as much as possible
2. Redesign Yahoo Mail to look like this
3. Convert everyone's existing Yahoo Mail accounts to Windows Live accounts (which would cause lots of problems anyway)
4. Charge extra for using Microsoft Outlook, Evolution, or other mail clients (IMAP access)
5. Limit the space you have to a very small size
I've seen a lot of government conspiracies, but this one is so odvous. We all know our government LOVES to spy, so what would stop the NSA from deciding it's legal to watch everything everyone else is doing?
I still believe the NSA broke the cable when they pulled up in their subs to drill into the cable and watch all the data going through
Was that "ship" that allegedly broke the cable ever named? No? So how does anyone confirm that the ship really did it? It's the government's fault!
What could happen to Yahoo --
Is it suspicious that the ship is never named?