Get a million people together (shouldn't be hard if all the torrent sites make note of the campaign) to chip in $1 or $10 each to make a matching offer: "We'll pay you to take this to trial."
Even if the RIAA outbids The Internets, it's still a PR coup -- "Look at what they were willing to do in order to hide stuff..." That's a terrible idea. What does it say about the constancy of Justice? That it can be perverted and sold to the highest bidder?
Throw a bash prompt in front of an MCSE... So just how DO you get a bash prompt to appear on a Windows box?
Comments like this are just plain ignorant. A decent sysadmin (and those are few and far between, the above article notwithstanding) doesn't care what OS a box is running. The actual processes of adminning a system or network are pretty much universal. Whether it's done with a GUI or a command like is just one small detail.
Or, if you still don't get it: The laws have been proposed, not passed. There's still the chance that parliament will figure out the implications and reject the law, in favor of sanity. Oh you mean like how the Australian parliament figured out the implications of the new draconian gun laws and rejected them in favour of sanity?
You chide him for not reading the summary? You clearly don't know who your real enemy is or what he's capable of.
Rachel Mardsen has been accused of harassment in the past.
Not just accused, but found guilty of harassment. Which naturally raises the question of why the founder of an online encyclopaedia wouldn't have the good sense to use the resources at his disposal to check out her bonafides before getting personally involved.
Hitler would have said the same thing. Hitler wouldn't have needed to because he would have been smart enough to steer well clear of that rabbit-boiling rat-bag stalker in the first place.
I was thinking more along the lines of a depth charge style launcher that would roll a bowling ball out the trunk or tailgate when a button was pushed.
The other side of this problem are the assholes who believe the lies they've been sold by car commercials and have been deluded into believing that it is their God given right to travel 30-40 over the limit and fly into hissy fits if anyone dares impinge upon their "right". If I'm in the left lane and I'm a) traveling at or slightly faster than the posted speed limit and b) there is slower moving traffic in the other lane, then you can learn how to exercise a little patience (or pull off and have heart attack or an aneurysm, it makes no difference to me). The highways don't belong to you alone.
people know (downloading copyrighted stuff) it's wrong Some people "know" a different reality...that it's about as wrong as me going over to my friend's place to listen to a CD or watch a DVD movie he's purchased or rented.
In any case it's not the place of the ISPs to impose a (flawed) version of morality on anyone, just like it's not the place of the phone company to monitor my phone conversations for possible illegal or immoral content.
A team of researchers at the University of Alberta claims to have discovered a gene capable of blocking HIV thereby preventing the onset of full blown AIDS. It's called trilevinassalone.
Until relatively recently, some form of slavery existed in every culture around the world. Eliminating it was, however, a big step forward. Oh you think you've eliminated it, have you?
Yeah I know I'd like to still be getting paid for work I did 20 years ago! You're still living in that house aren't you? Well I helped build it, and since you're still using it, I should still be getting paid!
despite its claims that Vista has sold more than 100 million copies How many of these copies were pre-installed on computers, and then deleted when the user gave up on Vista and installed Linux instead? ...and how many of those copies are open/select licenses that have had XP installed in place of Vista as is the right of the license holder? I've bought open Vista licenses, but I've yet to install it one time. Besides, VLK 1.0 is a lot less onerous to deal with than Vista's 2.0! 25 license minimum plus an activation server?!? Fuck that! I got more important things to do than set up servers so that Micro$oft can activate and validate their shit! Are they signing checks with my name on them? I didn't think so...
With the impending departure of Bill Gates, I think a new Microsoft story icon is in order. For that I don't think we need to go much further than the picture at the top of this story...
Must be a slow news day. This is neither "news for nerds" nor "stuff that matters". Sure it is. Now when the jocks beat you up or stuff you in a locker, at least you'll understand a little of the physics behind it.
The system is set up in my county so you MUST have a lawyer to get divorced. If "ignorance of the law is no excuse" then why should anyone require a lawyer?
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Get a million people together (shouldn't be hard if all the torrent sites make note of the campaign) to chip in $1 or $10 each to make a matching offer: "We'll pay you to take this to trial."
Even if the RIAA outbids The Internets, it's still a PR coup -- "Look at what they were willing to do in order to hide stuff..." That's a terrible idea. What does it say about the constancy of Justice? That it can be perverted and sold to the highest bidder?
Where are they pulling the info from? Are they, for example, using the "name" I enter when prompted to while installing Windoze?
"Type your full name and press enter"
OK...y-o-u-r...f-u-l-l...n-a-m-e...
Comments like this are just plain ignorant. A decent sysadmin (and those are few and far between, the above article notwithstanding) doesn't care what OS a box is running. The actual processes of adminning a system or network are pretty much universal. Whether it's done with a GUI or a command like is just one small detail.
(Cue The Weathergirls...)
You chide him for not reading the summary? You clearly don't know who your real enemy is or what he's capable of.
Not just accused, but found guilty of harassment. Which naturally raises the question of why the founder of an online encyclopaedia wouldn't have the good sense to use the resources at his disposal to check out her bonafides before getting personally involved.
Singularity? Did Ballmer finally disappear up his own ass and create one?
I was thinking more along the lines of a depth charge style launcher that would roll a bowling ball out the trunk or tailgate when a button was pushed.
The other side of this problem are the assholes who believe the lies they've been sold by car commercials and have been deluded into believing that it is their God given right to travel 30-40 over the limit and fly into hissy fits if anyone dares impinge upon their "right".
If I'm in the left lane and I'm a) traveling at or slightly faster than the posted speed limit and b) there is slower moving traffic in the other lane, then you can learn how to exercise a little patience (or pull off and have heart attack or an aneurysm, it makes no difference to me). The highways don't belong to you alone.
In any case it's not the place of the ISPs to impose a (flawed) version of morality on anyone, just like it's not the place of the phone company to monitor my phone conversations for possible illegal or immoral content.
Funny you should say "Holy crap"
Isn't messing about with the crap hole what started this nastiness in the first place?
Hopefully he'll remember to turn off the lights.
Yeah I know I'd like to still be getting paid for work I did 20 years ago! You're still living in that house aren't you? Well I helped build it, and since you're still using it, I should still be getting paid!
Fucking creates morons...
I've bought open Vista licenses, but I've yet to install it one time.
Besides, VLK 1.0 is a lot less onerous to deal with than Vista's 2.0! 25 license minimum plus an activation server?!? Fuck that! I got more important things to do than set up servers so that Micro$oft can activate and validate their shit! Are they signing checks with my name on them? I didn't think so...
With the impending departure of Bill Gates, I think a new Microsoft story icon is in order.
For that I don't think we need to go much further than the picture at the top of this story...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/yahoo-bid-bad-news-for-the-net-says-google/2008/02/04/1201973796947.html
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