All those people who got their accounts back. I'm sure that most of them had Metallica MP3s, and I'm willing to bet that a good portion of those MP3s were illegal. Now we get to see if the individuals will get sued... (they DID say, (under penalty of perjury) that they didn't have any illegal Metallica MP3s...)
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The problem with that is there is *no* way to get enough people to stop watching their movies. A good portion of people don't care what the MPAA is doing... they just want to see their movies.
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Err, yeah, good point. Still, though, it's kinda like saying, "HEY! Check this out! Now it's REALLY EASY for you to jump on the bandwagon and ruin Napster!"
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Hello! Isn't this (gasp) considered... a bot? Grouds to get your IP banned? Although, I suppose they wouldn't care about that, seeing as by the time they were found out, they'd have gotten all the info they need.
Also, why is/. reporting this... are they TRYING to give ammo to the RIAA and their goons?
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Well, after falling for this, I checked it out, and it seems like it's just a person who figured out a way to impersonate taco... view the source. A HREF="mailto:malda@slashdot.org">CmdrTaco
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Well, I have to say that's both a good and incredibly stupid idea. It would be nice not to have to read the "F1R57 P057" crap and other stuff like "taco's mom is a wh0re!", but what happens to the people who are sharing information and need to know that it can't be traced back to them?
Will getting rid of AC solve ANYTHING about the situation? People can create a new account rather easily.
When these ideas are brought up, suggestions come in like, "Allow the post to be anon to viewers, but still have/. keep track of which account it is posted from" and "Well, you could always ban IPs if people create a problem..." These are much bigger threats to privacy, though. If you're keeping track of what comments we post anonymously, and also have our IP, what happens when some lawyers come knocking at the door demanding that the information be released? What happens of a court makes you release it?
It seems that the easiest thing to do would be to just leave AC as it is, but modify moderation in a way where the crap could be weeded out while not sacrificing points you could use to moderate the good stuff up. Maybe separate 'up' and 'down' moderation points?
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As it is difficult to defeat a knowledgable citizenry without the use of arms, every government bent on maintaining itself as a parasite on its people will try to regulate (and perhaps eventually, eliminate) access to the Internet.
Eliminate it? I don't know. That's going a little far. I'd think that any country that eliminated access to the Internet would have some serious problems with it's citizens... either mass riots and whatnot, or everyone leaving the country and going to one that allows them access.
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On a side note, your sister must be some kind of a natural... I tried teaching my 10 year old cousin how to play, and he could barely move around, let alone actually kill something...
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P.S. idea for a slash feature... when writing comments in html, wouldn't it be good to be able to write literally and have it pass through the html scanner unchanged. Since there is no tag allowed in slash-html (or regular html for that matter), a moron (or more accurately, a computer program) can always distinguish whether a HTML tag or a smiley is intended.
Or how about showing all 'tags' that aren't part of HTML? Then I wouldn't have to write *grin* or *laugh* anymore:/
And I'm too lazy to throw around the &'s and lt's and gt's:P
The only thing is that I don't think it's/. doing it, but rather the browser getting rid of it.
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You shouldn't have mentioned that key thing, someone's going to go out and make one now.
Anyways, you could probably get into some trouble with something like that. There are lots of keys that aren't allowed to be copied (hotel keys, car rental keys, etc)... how would those be taken care of?
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Can't the same argument be used to say that Microsoft doesn't HAVE to make Netscape run under Windows? Or that they don't HAVE to make any other type of software but MS software run?
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MS has been trying to buy up companies (some rumors include Square)
As if that will ever happen... come on, get real. Microsoft may be one Big Ass Multinational Corporation (TM), but Square is also one Big Ass Multinational Corporation, and they're NOT going to be bought out by MS.
They probably won't be even programming for the X-box seeing as there's already 3 confirmed Square games (that I know of, The Bouncer and FFX and XI) for the PSX2...
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Good point, there could be a whole lot of suing going on back and forth...
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... wasn't it *HER* fault for letting the single get out in the first place?
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All those people who got their accounts back. I'm sure that most of them had Metallica MP3s, and I'm willing to bet that a good portion of those MP3s were illegal. Now we get to see if the individuals will get sued... (they DID say, (under penalty of perjury) that they didn't have any illegal Metallica MP3s...)
-- Dr. Eldarion --
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The problem with that is there is *no* way to get enough people to stop watching their movies. A good portion of people don't care what the MPAA is doing... they just want to see their movies.
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I'd love to see the look on the face of the poor wage slave that got the message, "Touch the box and die" suddenly pop up on their comp...
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Err, yeah, good point. Still, though, it's kinda like saying, "HEY! Check this out! Now it's REALLY EASY for you to jump on the bandwagon and ruin Napster!"
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Hello! Isn't this (gasp) considered... a bot? Grouds to get your IP banned? Although, I suppose they wouldn't care about that, seeing as by the time they were found out, they'd have gotten all the info they need.
/. reporting this... are they TRYING to give ammo to the RIAA and their goons?
Also, why is
-- Dr. Eldarion --
It's not what it is, it's something else.
Well, after falling for this, I checked it out, and it seems like it's just a person who figured out a way to impersonate taco... view the source.
A HREF="mailto:malda@slashdot.org">CmdrTaco
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Well, I have to say that's both a good and incredibly stupid idea. It would be nice not to have to read the "F1R57 P057" crap and other stuff like "taco's mom is a wh0re!", but what happens to the people who are sharing information and need to know that it can't be traced back to them?
/. keep track of which account it is posted from" and "Well, you could always ban IPs if people create a problem..." These are much bigger threats to privacy, though. If you're keeping track of what comments we post anonymously, and also have our IP, what happens when some lawyers come knocking at the door demanding that the information be released? What happens of a court makes you release it?
Will getting rid of AC solve ANYTHING about the situation? People can create a new account rather easily.
When these ideas are brought up, suggestions come in like, "Allow the post to be anon to viewers, but still have
It seems that the easiest thing to do would be to just leave AC as it is, but modify moderation in a way where the crap could be weeded out while not sacrificing points you could use to moderate the good stuff up. Maybe separate 'up' and 'down' moderation points?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
It's not what it is, it's something else.
As it is difficult to defeat a knowledgable citizenry without the use of arms, every government bent on maintaining itself as a parasite on its people will try to regulate (and perhaps eventually, eliminate) access to the Internet.
Eliminate it? I don't know. That's going a little far. I'd think that any country that eliminated access to the Internet would have some serious problems with it's citizens... either mass riots and whatnot, or everyone leaving the country and going to one that allows them access.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
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Man, that's really really pathetic ;)
On a side note, your sister must be some kind of a natural... I tried teaching my 10 year old cousin how to play, and he could barely move around, let alone actually kill something...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
It's not what it is, it's something else.
P.S. idea for a slash feature... when writing comments in html, wouldn't it be good to be able to write literally and have it pass through the html scanner unchanged. Since there is no tag allowed in slash-html (or regular html for that matter), a moron (or more accurately, a computer program) can always distinguish whether a HTML tag or a smiley is intended.
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/. doing it, but rather the browser getting rid of it.
Or how about showing all 'tags' that aren't part of HTML? Then I wouldn't have to write *grin* or *laugh* anymore
And I'm too lazy to throw around the &'s and lt's and gt's
The only thing is that I don't think it's
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This is great... But will it be the same Doom that we all know and love? Or will it be Quake in a Doom setting?
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Err, we already have an incredibly large number of great carbon dioxide->oxygen converters... they're called plants.
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One more thing... what use can be made of the carbon byproduct?
Pencils. Lots and lots of pencils.
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It's too bad it's not open source beer... I'd like to see all the "free as in beer?" people get screwed over by that ;)
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yeah, but there isn't anywhere where you can do it yourself.
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You shouldn't have mentioned that key thing, someone's going to go out and make one now.
Anyways, you could probably get into some trouble with something like that. There are lots of keys that aren't allowed to be copied (hotel keys, car rental keys, etc)... how would those be taken care of?
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Can't the same argument be used to say that Microsoft doesn't HAVE to make Netscape run under Windows? Or that they don't HAVE to make any other type of software but MS software run?
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Nothing short of a miracle would allow the X-Box to play PSX2 software. Do you have any clue how different the architectures of the two systems are?
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MS has been trying to buy up companies (some rumors include Square)
As if that will ever happen... come on, get real. Microsoft may be one Big Ass Multinational Corporation (TM), but Square is also one Big Ass Multinational Corporation, and they're NOT going to be bought out by MS.
They probably won't be even programming for the X-box seeing as there's already 3 confirmed Square games (that I know of, The Bouncer and FFX and XI) for the PSX2...
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Even so, once people figure out how the hell to program for the Playstation 2, it's going to blow the hell outta the x-box.
The P3 doesn't even begin to compare to the Emotion Engine
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Yeah? Well I'm going to patent a method of air intake and expulsion into and out of the lungs by contraction and relaxation of an abdominal muscle.
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I just checked it out on ebay... my search turned up quite a lot of MS products...
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I'd set up the site, but the site would probably die within 5 minutes from the /. effect ;)
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