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Dear Slashdot: what about this idea..
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For obvious light hearted trollbait stories like this, which I am not against at all, can you disable moderation, or not count moderation in these areas against posters? One wouldn't want to lose their karma points because they let their hair down here and their remark came across as flamebait instead of funny.:)
I'd just flag this kind of article as "un moderateable" so while people can moderate here, it won't count in general because of the nature of the story....
"but all the 1337357 know that all the REAL moderation is done within the first 5 minutes or so."
Compare this to http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml:
Post early: If an article has over a certain number of posts on it already yours is less likely to be moderated. This is, less likely both statistically (there are more to choose from) and due to positioning (as a moderator I have to actually find your post waaay at the end of a long list.)
Sometimes the truth is best told in jest.....
(And no I am *not* advocating the stuff they say on that page....lol I read all the way to the bottom and my soul will NOT go to AOL!!)
Thanks for clearing things up... I seriously feared that you might become a victim of corporate execs who will see people like you and then try to wipe you out and monopolize access to their content.
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC), a has obtained an injunction against Ontario, Canada-based iCraveTV, in Canadian court, which forces a temporary end to iCraveTV's practice of rebroadcasting ABC television feeds.
In addition, ABC Networks is suing iCrateTV for $400 million in damages, calculated by the estimated loss in profits caused by millions of users viewing ABC Network broadcasts over the Internet for free. iABC, the video-over-ip service inaugurated in June 2000 by ABC, charges $25 per month for accounts by which registered viewers can watch video feeds online.
The damage estimate may in fact be raised, as ABC Networks has issued a subpoena for iCraveTV's access logs, which are said to indicate that at least 10 million people were using their service, per month, by August.
NBC and CBS are also following suit against iCraveTV, but the whole issue may already be moot. iCraveTV's network has been overwhelmed by the vast numbers of users attempting to connect to their network for free. The cost of providing the video-over-ip service has exceeded the profits gained by over 100 advertisers, and with the legal action from ABC Networks, iCraveTV's stock has lost $12 3/4 shares, down from $23 3/4 to $11 per share as of Tuesday.
With the apparent fall of iCraveTV, ABC Networks says iABC has secured the right to sole distribution of ABC content over the internet. The decision against iCraveTV is also being hailed as the fall of the last barrier to phasing out dependency upon some local TV stations.
Also, the fee increase for iABC accounts, from $25 to $35, originally announced in December, will take effect in February.
I mean, he says he has no idea how his credit card was really stolen, picks the most unlikely suspect in the world (cookies), and then turns right around and markets his own 'alternative' to cookies.
Frankly speaking I don't care if the WTO declares war on sweatshops, taxes of all sorts, and the killing of sea turtles (and I am definitely in favor of laws protecting them; who's it gonna hurt to protect endangered turtles??).
I still don't want any organization violating a nation's sovereignty with their one-size-fits-all trade laws.
Do you think the WTO protects the interests of small nations against the bullying power of the big ones? Bull puckey. All the small countries are getting their tails kicked.
(FYI the WTO overrode the US, which until then protected sea turtles - see the Dec. 3 LA Times, page A1)
If this is their rule, the WTO will sanction nations who charge taxes for internet sales. But what right does the WTO have to tell a nation what to do with their own taxes? I mean isn't that what tariffs are about? If France imposes a 5% tax on internet sales then people will buy from elsewhere.
There's your net tax ban right there. Screw the WTO.
But don't worry about it right now. You'll understand exactly what I mean in 5 years.:)
charging for everything over 250 megs?! Come on man. You can't do anything online that has anything to do with multimedia (which is where the web is headed en masse, and it's already there with Real Audio) with that kind of limit.
Much less provide your own content.
The ability to provide one's own content is the one thing that everyone in power is afraid of, and which Australia is well on its way towards defeating.
The problem is in order to download the mass media approved b.s. you still have to break the download limits. When ever they fix that people will be going back to anarchy mode.
What most people don't take into account in counting Windows NT servers versus unix servers, especially on the web, is that it only takes one unix machine, from Sun/Solaris to PC/Linux, to do the task that would require 2 or 3 NT machines.
So when you're counting these machines remember that while Linux hauls workloads like a train, and only one such engine is needed for the task, using Windows NT/IIS for the same task is like taking the same load and putting it on an entire fleet of Volkswagen Beetles.
So naturally the Beetles are going to outnumber the locomotives!
This is the first time I've heard of this term, but the concept is quite old. At my old university I first suggested that binaries and config files be put on a cdrom, and user space be put on a hard disk.
Literally speaking, it would be easy to link a ton of files in/etc to/cdrom/etc and link/usr to/cdrom/usr. When upgrades happen, do the upgrades on another machine, copy it all to a new upgraded CDROM, and mount it.
Of course the problem is there was no cd writer that we knew of, back then, and then the cd is mounted after the init process, so there was a problem. Now that I come to think of it I am going to go home tonight and work on a 'stiff linux' solution myself.....hmmmmmmm......!
Well I'm not kidding. The FBI and the CIA can screw themselves. If I had EMP equipment I would disassemble it in the US, have it sent over in pieces, or have someone build it there, fly over, bring the machine to within effective range, have some people go ahead for distractive effect, and activate it and obliterate their database.
Screw the cops. Screw the feds. Ever heard of the Boston Tea Party?
If you included it in the EULA you would be able to tell anyone who bitches about it, "It's in the EULA, folks." There wouldn't be the appearance of impropriety, at least not one that could be upheld for long.
I also wish that I knew about the details of what you were doing before the game was released. I assume that games don't send all that information about my computer, to someone else's machine. I actually never even imagined it! I was shocked to see this. I keep up on Quake 3 related things and I did not hear about this before. I think that if you are going to embark on such a potentially controversial move, you should put it out in the open ahead of time. (If you have, in fact, been discussing this with the fans I would like to know where.)
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1337 == 31337 == the hacker spelling for eleet or leet which is the slang version of "elite" or "damned cool as hell". (ooh fear the contradiction there hehe)
First. Check out the web page http://x86.strikenet.at/q3/pic/q3.gif where the picture of the UDP packet transmission analysis was posted.
Notice that the outgoing packet is monster.idsoftware.com. This is where the data is being sent!
Go to your/etc/hosts file and add monster.idsoftware.com as ip address 127.0.0.1.
BOOM! Those packets no longer go to id! They are stopped dead in their tracks. Problem solved, end of discussion, battle over, your privacy is (in this case) secure.
Second. Isn't the US Code a criminal law issue? Why take this to civil court? File criminal charges against them. The complacent sheep can argue and flame all day, but they can't stop the law. The law has more money than id. id will back down if they are prosecuted criminally for this behavior, in fact if they even receive an official warning they'll back down and send out a patch to either warn the customer or take out that 'reporting' feature. Then, after the conviction or the backpedal, you sue in civil court with the criminal proceedings to back up your case.
If you are looking to take legal action and you sue id first, they can drown you with legal defense money. Never try and sue a company in civil court first, if you can press criminal charges.
And in case you wondered, I am a long time id software fan. However I am also extremely impartial. It's nothing personal; they not only violated people's privacy, but they also did not inform anyone they were doing it. I am holding off on buying Quake 3 until I know they've patched this and apologized about it.
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For obvious light hearted trollbait stories like this, which I am not against at all, can you disable moderation, or not count moderation in these areas against posters? One wouldn't want to lose their karma points because they let their hair down here and their remark came across as flamebait instead of funny.
I'd just flag this kind of article as "un moderateable" so while people can moderate here, it won't count in general because of the nature of the story....
Thanks!
"but all the 1337357 know that all the REAL moderation is done within the first 5 minutes or so."
Compare this to http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml:
Post early:
If an article has over a certain number of posts on it already yours is less likely to be moderated. This is, less likely both statistically (there are more to choose from) and due to positioning (as a moderator I have to actually find your post waaay at the end of a long list.)
Sometimes the truth is best told in jest.....
(And no I am *not* advocating the stuff they say on that page....lol I read all the way to the bottom and my soul will NOT go to AOL!!)
Thanks for clearing things up ... I seriously feared that you might become a victim of corporate execs who will see people like you and then try to wipe you out and monopolize access to their content.
It's actually very easy to do...
did they move the link?
[Note: this is speculative fiction]
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC), a has obtained an injunction against Ontario, Canada-based iCraveTV, in Canadian court, which forces a temporary end to iCraveTV's practice of rebroadcasting ABC television feeds.
In addition, ABC Networks is suing iCrateTV for $400 million in damages, calculated by the estimated loss in profits caused by millions of users viewing ABC Network broadcasts over the Internet for free. iABC, the video-over-ip service inaugurated in June 2000 by ABC, charges $25 per month for accounts by which registered viewers can watch video feeds online.
The damage estimate may in fact be raised, as ABC Networks has issued a subpoena for iCraveTV's access logs, which are said to indicate that at least 10 million people were using their service, per month, by August.
NBC and CBS are also following suit against iCraveTV, but the whole issue may already be moot. iCraveTV's network has been overwhelmed by the vast numbers of users attempting to connect to their network for free. The cost of providing the video-over-ip service has exceeded the profits gained by over 100 advertisers, and with the legal action from ABC Networks, iCraveTV's stock has lost $12 3/4 shares, down from $23 3/4 to $11 per share as of Tuesday.
With the apparent fall of iCraveTV, ABC Networks says iABC has secured the right to sole distribution of ABC content over the internet. The decision against iCraveTV is also being hailed as the fall of the last barrier to phasing out dependency upon some local TV stations.
Also, the fee increase for iABC accounts, from $25 to $35, originally announced in December, will take effect in February.
and double nay!
I mean, he says he has no idea how his credit card was really stolen, picks the most unlikely suspect in the world (cookies), and then turns right around and markets his own 'alternative' to cookies.
Sup wid dat man?
That's the two words you were looking for
Frankly speaking I don't care if the WTO declares war on sweatshops, taxes of all sorts, and the killing of sea turtles (and I am definitely in favor of laws protecting them; who's it gonna hurt to protect endangered turtles??).
I still don't want any organization violating a nation's sovereignty with their one-size-fits-all trade laws.
Do you think the WTO protects the interests of small nations against the bullying power of the big ones? Bull puckey. All the small countries are getting their tails kicked.
(FYI the WTO overrode the US, which until then protected sea turtles - see the Dec. 3 LA Times, page A1)
If this is their rule, the WTO will sanction nations who charge taxes for internet sales. But what right does the WTO have to tell a nation what to do with their own taxes? I mean isn't that what tariffs are about? If France imposes a 5% tax on internet sales then people will buy from elsewhere.
There's your net tax ban right there. Screw the WTO.
But don't worry about it right now. You'll understand exactly what I mean in 5 years.
I'm not sitting there trying to see what issue I can take with the quality of the music (considering it is CD quality).
What quality do you think the sound at theaters is?
and guess what you get?
and the matrix has you.
charging for everything over 250 megs?! Come on man. You can't do anything online that has anything to do with multimedia (which is where the web is headed en masse, and it's already there with Real Audio) with that kind of limit.
Much less provide your own content.
The ability to provide one's own content is the one thing that everyone in power is afraid of, and which Australia is well on its way towards defeating.
The problem is in order to download the mass media approved b.s. you still have to break the download limits. When ever they fix that people will be going back to anarchy mode.
Right?
Yippee! No more X-clusion for the open source X!
Now if only they would serve free beer and offer free limo service...man that would be X-cellent!
What most people don't take into account in counting Windows NT servers versus unix servers, especially on the web, is that it only takes one unix machine, from Sun/Solaris to PC/Linux, to do the task that would require 2 or 3 NT machines.
So when you're counting these machines remember that while Linux hauls workloads like a train, and only one such engine is needed for the task, using Windows NT/IIS for the same task is like taking the same load and putting it on an entire fleet of Volkswagen Beetles.
So naturally the Beetles are going to outnumber the locomotives!
This is the first time I've heard of this term, but the concept is quite old. At my old university I first suggested that binaries and config files be put on a cdrom, and user space be put on a hard disk.
Literally speaking, it would be easy to link a ton of files in
Of course the problem is there was no cd writer that we knew of, back then, and then the cd is mounted after the init process, so there was a problem. Now that I come to think of it I am going to go home tonight and work on a 'stiff linux' solution myself.....hmmmmmmm......!
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Slashdot without the politics is like a burrito without the peppers. borrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiingggggggggg.....
Whatsamatta son, can't handle a little jalapeno in your life??
Slashdot is ya wake up call! Stop hitting the snooze button and get up!
Well I'm not kidding. The FBI and the CIA can screw themselves. If I had EMP equipment I would disassemble it in the US, have it sent over in pieces, or have someone build it there, fly over, bring the machine to within effective range, have some people go ahead for distractive effect, and activate it and obliterate their database.
Screw the cops. Screw the feds. Ever heard of the Boston Tea Party?
What price will you pay for freedom?
John:
If you included it in the EULA you would be able to tell anyone who bitches about it, "It's in the EULA, folks." There wouldn't be the appearance of impropriety, at least not one that could be upheld for long.
I also wish that I knew about the details of what you were doing before the game was released. I assume that games don't send all that information about my computer, to someone else's machine. I actually never even imagined it! I was shocked to see this. I keep up on Quake 3 related things and I did not hear about this before. I think that if you are going to embark on such a potentially controversial move, you should put it out in the open ahead of time. (If you have, in fact, been discussing this with the fans I would like to know where.)
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1983.
1337 == 31337 == the hacker spelling for eleet or leet which is the slang version of "elite" or "damned cool as hell". (ooh fear the contradiction there hehe)
BOOM! Those packets no longer go to id! They are stopped dead in their tracks. Problem solved, end of discussion, battle over, your privacy is (in this case) secure.
If you are looking to take legal action and you sue id first, they can drown you with legal defense money. Never try and sue a company in civil court first, if you can press criminal charges.
And in case you wondered, I am a long time id software fan. However I am also extremely impartial. It's nothing personal; they not only violated people's privacy, but they also did not inform anyone they were doing it. I am holding off on buying Quake 3 until I know they've patched this and apologized about it.