I first heard about this from a column on Opi8.com by a sci-fi/fantasy writer whose works I'm rather fond of, Warren Ellis.
Actually, it's short enough that I can quote it here...
BAD WORLD: Bad Spidergoat
Spidergoat, Spidergoat, does anything a... ah... Spidergoat can...
About a hundred and fifty of them are housed on a former USAF base in Plattsburgh, New York. Eventually, Nexia Biotechnologies will corral around one thousand five hundred of the things there. Spidergoat City.
Can it swing? Listen, bud, it's got radioactive blood!
Well, not quite. The spidergoats have had spidery genes webbed into their goaty genetic structure that allows their uddery bits to spin a spider-unique protein into their milk. The protein is then extracted from the milk to produce the patented BioSteel, which is essentially spider-silk fibre. BioSteel, which possesses "a unique combination of strength and elasticity with an ultra-lightweight fiber," has applications in bulletproof apparel, and aerospace and medical supplies.
Nexia will be using the base's bunkers to house the spidergoats, and will breed them in a facility above ground.
"We feel the site... is a real adequate site and is in a very secure setting," Isabelle Trombley-Summers, Nexia site director of agricultural affairs, told the Plattsburgh Press-Republican. She has evidently assured Plattsburgh that they will maintain excellent environmental standards at Spidergoat City. "There's no problem with that," Codes Enforcement Officer Donald Lee said of environmental and health standards. The Plattsburgh Press-Republican added: "He said there's enough room to spread goat manure, and the goats won't be near the Saranac River or any streams."
Why are they afraid of Spidergoats pissing in the water?
What would happen to the people of Plattsburgh if one thousand five hundred Spidergoats contaminated local fresh water supplies?
You know, it's almost worth cutting big holes in the fence to find out.
Check out some of his other columns while you're at it...
Actually, I have it from good authority (Raymond E Feist) that used book stores are illegal under current copyright law. However, the law is not enforced since they are so much accepted by people. Raymond E Feist is a best-selling author if you were wondering.
I'd love to see some proof of that assertion, please. If you have to explain to us why he could be considered an authority (and I'm sorry, but being a "best-selling author" doesn't make you an expert on copyright law) than I'd like to see some attributable essay or column that can be defended or rebutted.
I'm sure everyone's caught this one, but I've only seen it mentioned once so far; I wonder if it's an error on Wired's part or Mr. Miller's?
"And the recent security problems with Linux, coupled with the lack of key enterprise elements in the new kernel, really call into question whether Linux should be used at all," Miller added.
Now, if you were smart enough to remember that you were reading a web page and not a paper article, you'd find at the other end of the provided link a notice on SecurityFocus... for BIND.
Yes, BIND. Not "Linux", not the kernel; one network service which, AFAIK, has been around a lot longer than Linux has.
I find it funny that the Wired article also links to the article about Microsoft's network outage, due to... wait for it... a problem with their DNS servers! I would love to know if the problem with their DNS was due to a similar bug/exploit as the one Mr. Miller (or Wired) tries to take shots at Linux for.
Other than that amusing tidbit, I just find the article a total non-issue. Gee, a major software vendor claims that it's biggest rival (or some upstart flash-in-the-pan, depending on which side of the PR department you're talking to) isn't all it's cracked up to be. Truly, a moment to be entered into the history books...
2.4.1:
As of 2.4.1, the kernel now conforms to the Open Naming Specification. According to the specification, any or all of the following pronunciations are considered "correct"; feel free to add your own!
LEE-nooks (early Linus' pronunciation)
LYE-nicks (early Americanized pronunication)
LIH-nucks (later American pronunciation)
RED-hat LIH-nucks (pronunication commonly used by newer Linux users)
DEBB-ee-uhn guh-NOO LIH-nucks (pronunication used by GPL zea^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hadvanced Linux users)
WINN-dohs TOO THOW-zand FIVE (pronunication used by Microsoft after the proper "behavior adjustment" and re-education)
The creator of any particular comic owns all rights to it.
Which explains why most of those books that were started by the original "Image Seven" are either no longer in production or drawn and written by people other than the creators? (Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon being the notable exception.)
Jim Lee sold his Image "studio" Wildstorm Productions to DC to concentrate on getting back to creative stuff, but all of the stuff I've seen from him has a DC logo on it. Another of the original seven, Whilce Portacio, sold the rights to his "creator-owned" book Wetworks to Wildstorm just so that it'd see the light of day; it has long since been canceled.
Rob Liefeld has apparently become content to be a has-been in the comics field after leaving Image under acrimonious circumstances -- except for a recent Wolverine stint a few months ago, he hasn't put pen to paper in ages. His line of "Awesome Comics" comes out once in a blue moon, and Liefeld doesn't do anything other than the occasional "collectible" promo cover for those.
Marc Silvestri has a good thing going in Top Cow Comics, his Image "studio". Having J. Michael "Babylon 5" Straczynski writing not one but two comics (Rising Stars and Midnight Nation) for him, with fellow B5 writer Fiona Avery picking up the new title No Honor keeps me interested in the line; Silvestri relegates himself to doing the odd "collectible" cover as well.
Erik Larsen, as I said, writes and draws Savage Dragon, which for me was rather enjoyable until the big "status-quo-altering" #75, where he replaces his whole continuity with a nightmarish parallel universe of sorts; it hasn't been as fun for me to read since.
Jim Valentino has stopped writing and drawing comics so far as I can tell and is the President of Image Central; his focus is the Image "non-line" of books that really are controlled by their creators (as in, the people who actually write and draw them!) Mage, Violent Messiahs, The Red Star, Powers, Warren Ellis' line of "pop comics" (starting with Ministry of Space and Morning Dragons), to name a few.
And Todd McFarlane.. aah, Todd Mcfarlane. It's amazing how someone whose claim to fame was allegedly "the creator should be king" now makes a pile of money off of other people doing his stuff, not to mention licensed products:
Kiss: Psycho Circus
The Crow (based on the TV show which was based off of someone else's comic even!)
a metric fuckton of action figures for Austin Powers, Movie Maniacs, Sleepy Hollow, Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie, Where the Wild Things Are
Spawn? Hasn't been written or drawn by him in quite a while. (I think he's listed as "plotter", which means he probably says something like "Well, in this issue Spawn scowls a lot, stands in shadows so we don't have to draw as much of him, and laments the cruel twist of fate that put him in this position like he has since issue #2. Oh wait, is this issue #100? Oh, well, kill off Angela. What? Yes, I know she's Neil Gaiman's character and he's accusing me of screwing him over on the rights to her, Cogliostro and Medieval Spawn, so this will put an end to part of that problem."
While Image Comics may still be a place where creators can go to have some creative control over their works, it's interesting to note that six of the seven creators are no longer the creators of their own titles.
Jim Lee: Sold Wildstorm to DC, and making people orgasm by doing guest work there; the last title he drew for was Divine Right, a Wildstorm title that is no longer in production.
Rob Liefeld: last comic work was a stint on Wolverine for Marvel. Does not write or draw any of the titles at his own production house that I'm aware of -- when they even come out.
Whilce Portacio: sold his "creator-owned" book to Wildstorm before issue #1 hit the stands. (To be fair, the guy has a serious family crisis or two to deal with in the time before Wetworks #1.) Currently drawing X-Force for Marvel.
Jim Valentino: President of Image Central, and kicking ass by allowing other creators to have a shot or two at the spotlight, as well as providing a home for many formerly-self-published titles. Hasn't drawn a book since Shadowhawk (and hasn't drawn a good book since Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel, IMO).
Marc Silvestri: Busy running Top Cow, does the occasional promo or #1 cover for Top Cow books.
Erik Larsen: Still writes and draws Savage Dragon after all these years -- in fact, he went back and did a replacement for issue #13 of SD that was guest-drawn and -written by Jim Lee so that he could claim an unbroken string of self-produced issues! I guess he's the exception that proves the rule...
It's because of dimwits such as yourself (and the/. editorial (*cough*) board)that I only occasionally read/.
Yeah, but you find enough time to dig through the stories to type up "This is why Slashdot sucks!" posts, don't you?
Which brings me back to the point I was trying to make; you think Slashdot sucks, but you don't have enough presence of mind to stop reading the site. (I mean, good God, if we're all a bunch of clueless dimwits around here, why waste your time reading commentary from people who annoy you and pump up/.'s banner impression rate?) So you've decided to ruin everyone else's fun by dragging the quality of discussion down even further with pointless flaming.
So here's a idea; if you honestly think the story is bogus, exercise some of that journalistic integrity you criticize others for not having and find out their side of the story and write a rebuttal piece.
Healthy skepticism is a virtue; mindless skepticism is not.
It's people like you that have made me just about give up looking for real discussion on Slashdot. But then, I suspect that's probably the reason idiots like you post anymore; too pathetic to stop reading yourselves, so you'd rather drive everyone else away.
An Intereing note, As much as they spout 'Free! Free! Free! Source Code!!', HelixCode's site does not have Any packages in either the SlackWare.tgz format (big deal, most slack users like to compile from source), or Source Packages other than in SRPM format...
I can't speak for Slack users, but I can tell you that you're dead wrong about source packages for Debian.
This directory is full of tarballs and diffs; using "apt-get source [Helix package of choice]" with the appropriate lines in your sources.list file will get you a source tree.
I really hope that by "skinnable" you mean that it will use the widget set that your window manager & desktop environment provides, or at the very least provide that as an option.
That last thing in the world we need are 500 "desktop-ready" applications, each with their own skin format. I already use four different applications that have separate theme formats: XMMS, Nautilus, Mozilla and gkrellm. Combined with GTK and Sawmill, that's 6 different theme formats I have to keep track of. (Well, that's kind of a lie; I have Mozilla installed so I can use Galeon...)
I don't need a themeable package manager, ICQ client, mailreader, image editor, web server, and SETI@Home client. Desktop environments provide those widget sets for a reason...
There's a file you can edit to change this, however I can't quite remember what it is as my Slackware machine doesn't have it.
I think its either
/etc/X11/xdm/serverrc
or
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
probably the first one, I'm pretty sure its xserverrc though
I don't know how different the distros are, but on Debian it's located in/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc. I just tweaked it myself.
If you're only going to use the 75 dpi fonts on Debian, you may want to deinstall the xfonts-100dpi package, and put it on hold so that apt-get doesn't download newer versions of it as well. (This is how I was preventing the 100 dpi fonts from showing up previously...)
An easy way to hold packages in general:
# dpkg --get-selections > installed.txt
This will dump a list of all of the packages and their status (install, deinstall or hold; purged packages don't show up on the list). Edit the list with your favorite text editor, replacing "deinstall" or "install" with "hold" and then:
Anyone who's regularly dist-upgrading the unstable branch for Debian have probably noticed that we're getting the the 4.0.1pre2 release candidate packages. Hopefully we're only a day or two away from having the real 4.0.2.
Kudos to G. Branden Robinson and the X Strike Force for helping us Debian users keep up!
The point is not that the Council wants the Empress' staff, it's that Palpatine -- sorry, Profion -- wants the rod.
He tries making his own, and fails. So he manipulates the Council into trying to strip Amidala -- sorry, Sarvina -- of hers. But when he learns that there's another rod of dragon control out there, he sends Darth Maul -- sorry, Damodar -- to recover it. (But he still wants the other one, to further weaken his opposition...)
For my take on the movie (written at 2 A.M., so I lose steam near the end) go to my K5 diary.
The current IOC board needs to go, and people with a billion times more integrity needs to be put in place.
Well, if you're looking for people with more integrity than the IOC, I know just the guy to spearhead the new committee. And if by some stretch he has a job come January, well, he knows someone who might need a job instead...
Wait, can I make DMCA work for me? Suppose I write a letter to my terrorist friend saying that I will kill the president and how I will do it. And I ROT13 it. Does that mean that if this letter is found it can not possibly be used in court against me because reading it would violate my copyright on it?
Hmmm, I'm not sure I can trust a domain register if they can't even get their Terms of Service correct. "three (5) times", "twenty (30) page", and "three (5) times" confuses me. What are the trying to say?
It's obvious to me that NameZero (losers) decided to modify their TOS (retroactively screw over existing customers) to take into account real-world necessities of the usage of their service (we made up some numbers, they didn't work, so we made up some more numbers); in the process they neglected to fact-check the document before posting it (can't afford a proofreader).
(Another example of cultural difference is obvious these days with the US presidential election: in Europe, it would be a great scandal to see the candidates go to court to win the election. Everybody would scorn the winner; in America, it's perfectly legitimate.)
What makes you think the U.S. election is not a scandal, or that the (eventual) winner will not be scorned?
I'm horrified by what's happening; so much so that I'm telling my friends and associates to look into "third parties" for the '04 games. I'm done with the two-party system, and the only way they're going to get the message is if there exists a credible challenge (or lots of smaller challenges). I would love to see the combined "third party" vote get, like, 30% of the popular vote in 2004.
Everyone should be forced, at gunpoint (OK, not really at gunpoint) to watch the archived news coverage of the 2000 election when the political ads start running in 2003...
You can even vote for your favorite "kid model" site! I swear, this is just some kind of crypto-anarchist pedophile ring site or something... ick ick ick...)
Hey, since when have anarchism and pedophilia gone together? Anarchism is about class struggle, pedophilia is a deviant sexual behaviour. Totally unrelated...
So you can't have a pedophile who is also an anarchist? (Or crypto-anarchist, which is not the same thing...)
Educate yourself before you create crazy terms like that.
I created this term? Interesting; you should Timothy C. May (the guy who wrote this manifesto) that I made him up...
But this Child Supermodels site is just flat-out creepy. I swear to god, you can replace all of the pictures of little girls with clothes with adult(?) women without clothes and you've got yet another porn site.
"Working with young girls is both a pleasure and a privilege for me." I'll bet it is, ya sick freak!
"Thousends of pictures all exclusive teen models. click and find out why we are the best!" Sounds like a pull quote off of any of a thousand porn sites.
*shudder* I agree with the other poster; I don't care how cute my kids end up being, there is no way in hell that I would ever inflict this kind of life or publicity upon them.
Jay (=
(You can even vote for your favorite "kid model" site! I swear, this is just some kind of crypto-anarchist pedophile ring site or something... ick ick ick...)
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, it's short enough that I can quote it here...
Check out some of his other columns while you're at it...
Jay (=
Actually, I have it from good authority (Raymond E Feist) that used book stores are illegal under current copyright law. However, the law is not enforced since they are so much accepted by people. Raymond E Feist is a best-selling author if you were wondering.
I'd love to see some proof of that assertion, please. If you have to explain to us why he could be considered an authority (and I'm sorry, but being a "best-selling author" doesn't make you an expert on copyright law) than I'd like to see some attributable essay or column that can be defended or rebutted.
Jay (=
Now, if you were smart enough to remember that you were reading a web page and not a paper article, you'd find at the other end of the provided link a notice on SecurityFocus... for BIND.
Yes, BIND. Not "Linux", not the kernel; one network service which, AFAIK, has been around a lot longer than Linux has.
I find it funny that the Wired article also links to the article about Microsoft's network outage, due to... wait for it... a problem with their DNS servers! I would love to know if the problem with their DNS was due to a similar bug/exploit as the one Mr. Miller (or Wired) tries to take shots at Linux for.
Other than that amusing tidbit, I just find the article a total non-issue. Gee, a major software vendor claims that it's biggest rival (or some upstart flash-in-the-pan, depending on which side of the PR department you're talking to) isn't all it's cracked up to be. Truly, a moment to be entered into the history books...
Jay (=
2.4.1:
As of 2.4.1, the kernel now conforms to the Open Naming Specification. According to the specification, any or all of the following pronunciations are considered "correct"; feel free to add your own!
I hope this helps.
Jay (=
Which explains why most of those books that were started by the original "Image Seven" are either no longer in production or drawn and written by people other than the creators? (Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon being the notable exception.)
Jim Lee sold his Image "studio" Wildstorm Productions to DC to concentrate on getting back to creative stuff, but all of the stuff I've seen from him has a DC logo on it. Another of the original seven, Whilce Portacio, sold the rights to his "creator-owned" book Wetworks to Wildstorm just so that it'd see the light of day; it has long since been canceled.
Rob Liefeld has apparently become content to be a has-been in the comics field after leaving Image under acrimonious circumstances -- except for a recent Wolverine stint a few months ago, he hasn't put pen to paper in ages. His line of "Awesome Comics" comes out once in a blue moon, and Liefeld doesn't do anything other than the occasional "collectible" promo cover for those.
Marc Silvestri has a good thing going in Top Cow Comics, his Image "studio". Having J. Michael "Babylon 5" Straczynski writing not one but two comics (Rising Stars and Midnight Nation) for him, with fellow B5 writer Fiona Avery picking up the new title No Honor keeps me interested in the line; Silvestri relegates himself to doing the odd "collectible" cover as well.
Erik Larsen, as I said, writes and draws Savage Dragon, which for me was rather enjoyable until the big "status-quo-altering" #75, where he replaces his whole continuity with a nightmarish parallel universe of sorts; it hasn't been as fun for me to read since.
Jim Valentino has stopped writing and drawing comics so far as I can tell and is the President of Image Central; his focus is the Image "non-line" of books that really are controlled by their creators (as in, the people who actually write and draw them!) Mage, Violent Messiahs, The Red Star, Powers, Warren Ellis' line of "pop comics" (starting with Ministry of Space and Morning Dragons), to name a few.
And Todd McFarlane.. aah, Todd Mcfarlane. It's amazing how someone whose claim to fame was allegedly "the creator should be king" now makes a pile of money off of other people doing his stuff, not to mention licensed products:
Spawn? Hasn't been written or drawn by him in quite a while. (I think he's listed as "plotter", which means he probably says something like "Well, in this issue Spawn scowls a lot, stands in shadows so we don't have to draw as much of him, and laments the cruel twist of fate that put him in this position like he has since issue #2. Oh wait, is this issue #100? Oh, well, kill off Angela. What? Yes, I know she's Neil Gaiman's character and he's accusing me of screwing him over on the rights to her, Cogliostro and Medieval Spawn, so this will put an end to part of that problem."
While Image Comics may still be a place where creators can go to have some creative control over their works, it's interesting to note that six of the seven creators are no longer the creators of their own titles.
Jim Lee: Sold Wildstorm to DC, and making people orgasm by doing guest work there; the last title he drew for was Divine Right, a Wildstorm title that is no longer in production.
Rob Liefeld: last comic work was a stint on Wolverine for Marvel. Does not write or draw any of the titles at his own production house that I'm aware of -- when they even come out.
Whilce Portacio: sold his "creator-owned" book to Wildstorm before issue #1 hit the stands. (To be fair, the guy has a serious family crisis or two to deal with in the time before Wetworks #1.) Currently drawing X-Force for Marvel.
Jim Valentino: President of Image Central, and kicking ass by allowing other creators to have a shot or two at the spotlight, as well as providing a home for many formerly-self-published titles. Hasn't drawn a book since Shadowhawk (and hasn't drawn a good book since Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel, IMO).
Marc Silvestri: Busy running Top Cow, does the occasional promo or #1 cover for Top Cow books.
Todd McFarlane: Hasn't drawn a regular book in ages; makes lots of money off of other people's work. In fact, Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada publicly challenged McFarlane to team up with Quesada in drawing a Spawn/Spider-Man crossover written by Kevin "View Askew" Smith.
Erik Larsen: Still writes and draws Savage Dragon after all these years -- in fact, he went back and did a replacement for issue #13 of SD that was guest-drawn and -written by Jim Lee so that he could claim an unbroken string of self-produced issues! I guess he's the exception that proves the rule...
Jay (=
It's because of dimwits such as yourself (and the /. editorial (*cough*) board)that I only occasionally read /.
/.'s banner impression rate?) So you've decided to ruin everyone else's fun by dragging the quality of discussion down even further with pointless flaming.
Yeah, but you find enough time to dig through the stories to type up "This is why Slashdot sucks!" posts, don't you?
Which brings me back to the point I was trying to make; you think Slashdot sucks, but you don't have enough presence of mind to stop reading the site. (I mean, good God, if we're all a bunch of clueless dimwits around here, why waste your time reading commentary from people who annoy you and pump up
So here's a idea; if you honestly think the story is bogus, exercise some of that journalistic integrity you criticize others for not having and find out their side of the story and write a rebuttal piece.
Healthy skepticism is a virtue; mindless skepticism is not.
Jay (=
Given the sorry record the boys at /. have for accurate reporting, a better question would be: Is this even true?
Ah, this would be a person who is flaming Taco about not reading the linked article in a given story yet doesn't check the linked article himself. Very funny.
It's people like you that have made me just about give up looking for real discussion on Slashdot. But then, I suspect that's probably the reason idiots like you post anymore; too pathetic to stop reading yourselves, so you'd rather drive everyone else away.
Jay (=
An Intereing note, As much as they spout 'Free! Free! Free! Source Code!!', HelixCode's site does not have Any packages in either the SlackWare .tgz format (big deal, most slack users like to compile from source), or Source Packages other than in SRPM format...
I can't speak for Slack users, but I can tell you that you're dead wrong about source packages for Debian.
This directory is full of tarballs and diffs; using "apt-get source [Helix package of choice]" with the appropriate lines in your sources.list file will get you a source tree.
Jay (=
What makes the Authors' Guild believe that its members are somehow sacrosanct in that they must profit from every transaction between two entities?
He's right! That's the government's job!
(I know, I know, it was so obvious, but I couldn't help myself...)
Jay (=
"If there are any marketing or advertising people in the audience... kill yourselves."
Jay (=
It will be skinnable in newer versions
I really hope that by "skinnable" you mean that it will use the widget set that your window manager & desktop environment provides, or at the very least provide that as an option.
That last thing in the world we need are 500 "desktop-ready" applications, each with their own skin format. I already use four different applications that have separate theme formats: XMMS, Nautilus, Mozilla and gkrellm. Combined with GTK and Sawmill, that's 6 different theme formats I have to keep track of. (Well, that's kind of a lie; I have Mozilla installed so I can use Galeon...)
I don't need a themeable package manager, ICQ client, mailreader, image editor, web server, and SETI@Home client. Desktop environments provide those widget sets for a reason...
Jay (=
There's a file you can edit to change this, however I can't quite remember what it is as my Slackware machine doesn't have it.
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc. I just tweaked it myself.
I think its either
/etc/X11/xdm/serverrc
or
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
probably the first one, I'm pretty sure its xserverrc though
I don't know how different the distros are, but on Debian it's located in
If you're only going to use the 75 dpi fonts on Debian, you may want to deinstall the xfonts-100dpi package, and put it on hold so that apt-get doesn't download newer versions of it as well. (This is how I was preventing the 100 dpi fonts from showing up previously...)
An easy way to hold packages in general:
# dpkg --get-selections > installed.txt
This will dump a list of all of the packages and their status (install, deinstall or hold; purged packages don't show up on the list). Edit the list with your favorite text editor, replacing "deinstall" or "install" with "hold" and then:
# dpkg --set-selections < installed.txt
Jay (=
Anyone who's regularly dist-upgrading the unstable branch for Debian have probably noticed that we're getting the the 4.0.1pre2 release candidate packages. Hopefully we're only a day or two away from having the real 4.0.2.
Kudos to G. Branden Robinson and the X Strike Force for helping us Debian users keep up!
Jay (=
The point is not that the Council wants the Empress' staff, it's that Palpatine -- sorry, Profion -- wants the rod.
He tries making his own, and fails. So he manipulates the Council into trying to strip Amidala -- sorry, Sarvina -- of hers. But when he learns that there's another rod of dragon control out there, he sends Darth Maul -- sorry, Damodar -- to recover it. (But he still wants the other one, to further weaken his opposition...)
For my take on the movie (written at 2 A.M., so I lose steam near the end) go to my K5 diary.
Jay (=
kali nailed it on the head...
Jay (=
I think the olympic commitee is just a bunch of whores and they enflame me to no end.
Um, y'know, they have a cream or a shot or something for that now...
Jay (=
The current IOC board needs to go, and people with a billion times more integrity needs to be put in place.
Well, if you're looking for people with more integrity than the IOC, I know just the guy to spearhead the new committee. And if by some stretch he has a job come January, well, he knows someone who might need a job instead...
Jay (=
... my latency on Counter-Strike is awesome!
I'll teach them razzafrazzit LPBs...
Jay (=
...and from blatantly for-profit sites registering under .org!
I don't suppose it'd be worth the effort to point out that when Slashdot started is was a non-profit site, run by Taco and Hemos for kicks?
Jay (=
Wait, can I make DMCA work for me? Suppose I write a letter to my terrorist friend saying that I will kill the president and how I will do it. And I ROT13 it. Does that mean that if this letter is found it can not possibly be used in court against me because reading it would violate my copyright on it?
No, because law enforcement isn't hampered by the DMCA.
You think they would've let that one get by them?
Jay (=
Hmmm, I'm not sure I can trust a domain register if they can't even get their Terms of Service correct. "three (5) times", "twenty (30) page", and "three (5) times" confuses me. What are the trying to say?
It's obvious to me that NameZero (losers) decided to modify their TOS (retroactively screw over existing customers) to take into account real-world necessities of the usage of their service (we made up some numbers, they didn't work, so we made up some more numbers); in the process they neglected to fact-check the document before posting it (can't afford a proofreader).
Jay (= (karma whore looking for "Funny" points)
...who has to troll using someone else's high-karma account.
I'm not losing any sleep.
(Another example of cultural difference is obvious these days with the US presidential election: in Europe, it would be a great scandal to see the candidates go to court to win the election. Everybody would scorn the winner; in America, it's perfectly legitimate.)
What makes you think the U.S. election is not a scandal, or that the (eventual) winner will not be scorned?
I'm horrified by what's happening; so much so that I'm telling my friends and associates to look into "third parties" for the '04 games. I'm done with the two-party system, and the only way they're going to get the message is if there exists a credible challenge (or lots of smaller challenges). I would love to see the combined "third party" vote get, like, 30% of the popular vote in 2004.
Everyone should be forced, at gunpoint (OK, not really at gunpoint) to watch the archived news coverage of the 2000 election when the political ads start running in 2003...
Jay (=
You can even vote for your favorite "kid model" site! I swear, this is just some kind of crypto-anarchist pedophile ring site or something... ick ick ick...)
Hey, since when have anarchism and pedophilia gone together? Anarchism is about class struggle, pedophilia is a deviant sexual behaviour. Totally unrelated...
So you can't have a pedophile who is also an anarchist? (Or crypto-anarchist, which is not the same thing...)
Educate yourself before you create crazy terms like that.
I created this term? Interesting; you should Timothy C. May (the guy who wrote this manifesto) that I made him up...
Why don't you educate yourself?
Jay (=
How about Child Supermodels which seems to be another creep out site?
Okay, I have to say that I've seen disturbing stuff on the net.
Some of it is just downright vile.
But this Child Supermodels site is just flat-out creepy. I swear to god, you can replace all of the pictures of little girls with clothes with adult(?) women without clothes and you've got yet another porn site.
Look at some of these banners!
And the comments?
"Working with young girls is both a pleasure and a privilege for me." I'll bet it is, ya sick freak!
"Thousends of pictures all exclusive teen models. click and find out why we are the best!" Sounds like a pull quote off of any of a thousand porn sites.
*shudder* I agree with the other poster; I don't care how cute my kids end up being, there is no way in hell that I would ever inflict this kind of life or publicity upon them.
Jay (=
(You can even vote for your favorite "kid model" site! I swear, this is just some kind of crypto-anarchist pedophile ring site or something... ick ick ick...)