The only reason the lawyer would be apologizing for calling on saturday is that he probably bills 2X when working hours on Saturdays. It was probably intentional for him to call on Saturday. When you truly live the rock-n-roll lifestyle that Metallica does, everyday is saturday, so it wasn't any sweat for the band.
But as far as them caring about whether they lose royalties over this or not... I am betting they are desperate for every penny they get. Since the labels take the lion's share of that $14.99 per CD and the bands will make at most 7 to 10 cents, the band has to sell a LOT of albums to maintain their rich lifestyle. If a corporate greedhead calls up the band to say that their sales are being affected by this new, dangerous technology, I'm sure they leapt at the opportunity to defend their measely pittance earned by record sales. Mind you, I am also betting that while the record company is taking a massive percentage of the profits from record sales, the cost of these legal procedings are probably being carried by the band.
Who's the master of puppets now, you dumb fscking sellout of a band!
I can see how you interpreted that part of my post as me saying I thought it was their first album. What I meant was that it was the first of their series of crap albums. All the stuff prior to 'Justice' was great work.
Kill 'em All and Master of Puppets are among my favorite records of all time. That's why it was distressing for me to see them take a turn for the worse with 'Justice' (musically weak)and venture into the music video realm (weak in principle). I also remember that stance they used to have on not ever releasing a video. Probably not quite so prominent were stances they took like "I'll never cut my hair, wear mascara, pierce my nipples, or write songs about 'Jessie's bitch'." I guess all those things have gone out the window as well! After "Justice", though, none of the rest of this stuff even surprises me.
To quote Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs: "After that Poppa-Don't-Preach-faze, I tuned out."
Normally, I don't weigh in on the Katz-bashing, but this is perhaps his least informed peice he has ever posted to slashdot.
A. This is not a list of downloaders. This is a list of people who are offering copyrighted works for illicit download.
B. This is not a threat to children feeling free on the internet. This is a reminder that there are consequences to breaking the law over the internet.
C. >People can remain "superficially" anonymous but Napster can track individual users to their computers.
This list alone will not allow anyone to track anyone to any computer. It is a list that at most can be cross-referenced to an e-mail address that may or may not be valid. Presumably the list will be used to close the Napster accounts of users violating copyright law. These users will be free to create new accounts.
D. >One of the miraculous things about the Net is that it has opened up all kinds of information to people who were previously denied access.
This includes child pornography enthusiasts. By Katz's logic here, if people were using IRC or AOL chat rooms to exchange kiddy porn, it would be a 'bone-headed move' by the police to try to prosecute these criminals.
E. >Many people online will now feel justifiably intimidated about moving about freely on the Net for fearing that someone is watching and planning a court action or lawsuit.
Those people need to wake up and realize the consequences to breaking the law via the internet. They need to recognize! Hopefully it will result in these hundreds of thousands of people turning to more anonymous / protected means of 'moving about freely on the net' such as PGP and the like.
F. >There is simply no justification for a band to go after hundreds of thousands of its own fans, mostly kids, for the purpose of intimidation.
This is what Napster asked for-- the names of offenders. Napster purported that if it were given the names of users violating copyright law, then it would close their accounts on the system. In light of the massive number of copyright violators using Napster, the lawyers are simply saying, "Put up or shut up" by providing this list of users. I predict that the lawyers will continue to provide these lists to Napster and that pretty soon, Napster will admit that it's not feasible for them to police the system. As far as their legal defense goes, they should never have volunteered to do this in the first place. The burden needs to be placed on the lawyers to contact the ISP's of the pirates just as they would have to do if the person was running an FTP or web server offering copyrighted content. Napster needs to position itself as a provider of a protocol and nothing more. Same as hotline, ftp, IRC (client software makers), Carracho, etc.
I also agree with the earlier post that it is ludicrous for Slashdot to be interviewing Metallica. It is unlikely that the members of this (past its prime) band will shed any insight on this issue. At most, these musicians simply signed off on something that was bugging their record label and other skimmers of profit.
Ironic, isn't it, that the first of Metallica's crummy albums is Justice For All.
Great work, Yarldey! I can read and write a little Japanese, so I'm going to send an e-mail to the Treasure Tracing Club to find out if they have any update link to that Apple][e conversion project. I'll let you know what they say.
Where's the URL to the page documenting that hack? I have been looking for it for a while and can't find it. I remember that it was in Japanese, but that's about it. Please mail me the URL if you know it...
I have been searching for that web page for a while now. It was a japanese web page, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to relocate it. I agree with you. That hardware transformation represented a much greater technological daredevil leap than this one. Especially considering the expense (at the time) of the 9600/300 the guy was sacrificing for the project. If anyone knows of the URL to
THAT page, please forward it to me.
That's exactly what the govt. wants-- to increase the potential missle threat to the US so it will fuel support for the Missle Defence Program. At present, the only people clamoring for this stupid thing is the arms contractors lobbying our representatives on this issue. And we're actually going to renig on the START treaty in order to provide pork for these politicians' constituencies. Sheesh. Welcome to the 1980s all over again.
Everything presented by Karzan is painfully on-target.
The republicans are actually the ones pushing for ABM research and deployment. Clinton is trying to walk the fence on this and finish up his term in office by revising the ABM treaty to allow some kind of ABM implementation (beyond the current allowance which is that the capitol of each country can be defended by ABM's), which I think is to placate the forces in the US that are clamoring for an ABM system.
What is going on here? I think that my country of citizenship (America) is trying to leverage its current economic superiority to cement its influence / control over the rest of the world. Perhaps it's perceived by some that one remaining chink in its armor would be that the country is susceptible to a nuclear strike by a rogue nation with nuclear missle technology (don't forget that Pakistan and India recently joined this elite community). At least that's the public argument these US lobbyists and lawmakers are presenting. I think the real interest is to:
A. Provide pork for these representatives' home states. B. Enable America to become a real rude sob and not have to worry about retaliation.
Before any more money is spent on this boondogle, I wish voters were made explicitly aware of the hundreds of scientists criticizing ABM systems as being implausible.
If you're claiming there's no way sound can travel through space, then that would mean the whole purpose of the Sputnik project was misguided. Do you
really think the russians would have gone to all the trouble of building and launching that shiny aluminum ball into orbit if no one would ever be able to hear its menacing beeps?
On the other side of this issue, Apple's restrictions are providing a single OS for developers to tune their code for (or ignore) rather than porting half-assed versions to three different OS's sitting on the same hardware. I would hardly call NeXT dead. Check out OS X to see its second wind.
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Aren't they just 'pushing buttons'? I suppose when it comes to trolls, though, that they're just 'pushing buttons' to try to
push other people's buttons.
The great thing about all that MUD talk in the club is that it's unlikely you'll pass your nerd genes on to future generations. Enjoy your blip on the evolutionary timeline while it lasts....
Will someone please prevent Emmitt from posting role playing game crap!?! I mean seriously. Just when we were getting chicks to take notice of us for our flashy cars and slick portable mp3 players at the gym, Emmitt has to go out and ruin it all by promoting the notion that we're all into rolling 20-sided dice.
Seriously. I am not going to talk publicly about hit points and clerics until I see a playboy centerfold list AD&D as her hobby, which hasn't happened thus far.
QUESTION: How can AD&D be considered 'Advanced' when there doesn't really seem to be a 'non-advanced' anymore.
This is not flamebait, so don't moderate it down like the last time I complained about Emmitt posting the Final Fantisy XIXV stuff.
I don't believe that going to an electronic format necessarily saves trees. I can't count how many times I've walked by a photocopier at my company to see someone printing 10 copies of a 200 page manual that is doubtlessly going to get flipped through once or twice and then tossed in the dumpster.
I find that when we get a hardcopy manual, it usually is kept in a community bookshelf and shared among multiple employees rather than each employee feeling compelled to print up their own copy. Since few printers can duplex (print on front and back), it also uses up more paper to print these manuals from pdf than if a publisher were to print them.
This GPS jammer can only affect those who have built a dependence on high-tech cartography. Most people will have a backup map available for such an occaision. That's where the Blair Witch's powers are superior. Let's just hope Saddam Hussein doesn't enlist her or our troops will be crying about how "It's not the same log... it's not the same log. Fsck!
It IS the same log!"
When a missle is travelling hundreds of miles an hour towards its target, it DOES need pinpoint accuracy in order to guide itself. Small variations multiply up as it is travelling thousands of miles and attempting to maintain its trajectory.
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Who's the master of puppets now, you dumb fscking sellout of a band!
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Ironic, isn't it, that the first of Metallica's crummy albums is Justice For All.
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Where's the URL to the page documenting that hack? I have been looking for it for a while and can't find it. I remember that it was in Japanese, but that's about it. Please mail me the URL if you know it...
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QUESTION: How can AD&D be considered 'Advanced' when there doesn't really seem to be a 'non-advanced' anymore.
This is not flamebait, so don't moderate it down like the last time I complained about Emmitt posting the Final Fantisy XIXV stuff.
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This server probably won't be able to handle a full slashdot effect, so be patient...
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