Actually, CmdrTaco has always been avoiding words he can't spell. He just replaces anything he can't spell with an acronym. If he ever realizes the brilliance of this system, his slashdot articles will look something like this:
MSD 2 2003
MJ was Amg the CSR who NtT SFi (No I am SFi Dmt) HRT the MxR WBD Ntl the Smr 2003. I'm Bmd, but I'm Wln to w8 2 c the BrW DIR (no way I'm Gna try to STN)
This way, the incomprehensible nature of all Slashdot articles will be preserved, and they will save bandwidth at the same time!
I'd have to say that the RIAA makes some excellent points, but there is one particular part that bothers me. From page 11 of the document:
"In RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc...this court held that "under the plain meaning of the AHRA's definition of digital audio recording devices, computers (and their hard drives) are not digital audio recording devices [and] that MP3 files contained on computer hard drives are not "digital musical recordings".
What is an MP3 then, if not a digital musical recording? To me, it sounds like they still continue to believe MP3s to be inherently evil. I'm not terribly worried about Napster, but it would be disappointing for this case to reaffirm the idea there is something wrong with MP3s.
I apologize for giving you the impression that I am a troll. I also apologize for singling you out of the 20 posts that had the misspelling of libertarian as their only topic. I consider it rather pathetic that this is what Slashdot has been reduced to (not that Slashdot has ever been a great intellectual community).
I will attempt to answer the questions you wrote (but didn't post, and yet still managed to express...). I considered your post ignorant in the sense that you dismiss people you disagree with as stupid and confused.
As for claiming that Slashdot is a way of preventing you from affecting the political situation in the country, that is more a slam of Slashdot. Specifically the frequently observed phenomenon of a story being posted that draws the outrage of ten thousand Slashdot readers in what the editors hope will be a way of igniting true action against some injustice. In reality, Slashdot serves primarily as a way for its readers to let off steam and forget all the myriad terrible ways in which their rights are being taken away and instead focus all of their engery on the minor irritation of the trolls.
Thank you for being so (Informative: +1) and (Insightful: +1). What you fail to realize is that Slashdot is merely nature's way of making sure ignorant people like you don't affect the political state of the country.
I'm sorry, because your post was not one of the first 25, it will not be moderated in any way. You can't be a karma whore unless you are posting on the most recent story.
Anyway, I thank you for your reply. I think you build a strong case for the possibility of industrial use of zero gravity, at least in Earth orbit, if we bring down the cost of getting stuff into space. I thought more of the cost was associated with the expense of chemical rockets, but since it isn't, there is no reason for this not to be possible.
The step that I question is that of mining the asteroids. Under any circumstances it would require an incredible initial investment for what I see as relatively minor benefits. I think it is wishful thinking to believe that any company would take the financial risk involved in mining an asteroid.
I think it is plausible that we turn to the rest of the solar system as a source of fusionable hydrogen, though it will be a while (as we don't even have controlled fusion yet...)
Only when it pays for itself will humans have a permanent presence in space. Trying to rely on the fickle budgets of governments is just folly.
In this lies the problem that, in my opinion, will keep humans confined to Earth permanently: There is precicely zero commercial interest in anything outside geosynchronous orbit. What's on the moon or Mars or anywhere else in the solar system that has any value beyond scientific curiosity? Nothing. Without the pressure of commercial greed or the competition of the cold war, the advance of the space program has been and will continue to be diminished.
I'm a hopeless science ficiton fan, but the reality of the situation is that humans will never make it as far as settling the solar system, let alone traveling the stars.
If you actually believe the world works on merit based promotion, you are truly ignorant.
I'll admit that it is a nice theory that I would like to believe, but it is blatantly false. Otherwise why would we have two mediocre presidential candidtes who have spent their entire lives riding on their fathers' coattails?
Wrong. If what you claim were true, I should be able to find at least one reference to slashdot.com on the main page (in the HTML, that is), but they are all links to pages on slashdot.org. Also, by your logic, the very existence of slapdash.org proves that it is the true site, and the others exist only for compatibility reasons.
I can't see this being a good thing for anyone except Network Solutions and the other registrars. It's just a way to sell every corporation some more domain names so they can "protect" themselves from people who might put up something they don't like.
The original TLD's were probably a pretty good idea once upon a time, but now, everyone knows that things on the Internet starts in www and ends in.com. (barely better than the people who ask if you have a "screen name" rather than an e-mail address). Everything except.edu and.gov are so polluted as to be meaningless. Look where we right now...slashdot.ORG? Why? Or perhaps my college, which has registered not only mit.edu, but also mit.com, mit.net and mit.org
If it weren't for the incredible mess it would create, I would suggest that we abandon TLDs altogether. I always spell.com wrong anyway...
I would really hesitate to call the UN a group with no power. Their power is ultimately limited by the fact that membership is vouluntary, and that members may leave at any time, sort of like what the southern US states thought at the time of the Civil War. Whether or not the nations of the world will ultimately decide to give more independence to the UN is uncertain, though I would consider it a good thing to have a more globally aware government than domination by the self-centered United States.
On a tangent, one of the very good reasons for the UN to not start a war with China is that the People's Republic of China is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and they would, well, have to agree to it first...
This post is a violation of a certain "legally binding terms of use" agreement. Not yet, though. Who's agreement? Apogee's. There. now it is a violation. Why? because I used the posessive. I find restricting grammatical use to be even more stupid than trying to ban negative use of their trademark. Here are a few simple and fun ways to violate this trademark.
1. Apogee (no "(r)") 2. Appogee (misspelling. I can't wait until someone gets sued for spelling something wrong. 3. Apogee sucks. (mark cannot be used in a "derogatory manner") 4. If I have a long line and their mark comes at the end, make sure to hyphenate Apo-   gee, so that their lawyers can come and get you. 5. Don't talk about software made by Apogee, because you are not violating the mark Remeber to use the alternate construction with the posessive, "Apogee's software", which is a clear violation of their trademark.
Also, remember to use the preview button, so that you can maximize the number of trademark violations in each and every post.
I think people who wear ski masks while using Napster should be arrested. They should be made to write "When I download MP3s, I'm downloading communism" 1000 times. If they still do not understand the moral rectitude of our captialist society, they will be sold into slavery and forced to make music that will distributed over Napster. We'll see if they ever pirate music again!
Clearly you do not understand the foundations of "Slashdot Journalism": This is war. Shoot first and ask questions later! You and your rational thinking are going to get us all killed.
Slashdot posts stories like this one in order to capitalize on the knee-jerk reations of readers. When everyone finally realizes that this was a non-issue from the beginning, it is already off the radar (or, more concretely, it has been relegated to "older stuff"). You can't create an army of Linux zealots without convincing them that the entire world is together in a conspiracy to destroy the open source paradigm.
If Slashdot really wants to do something to improve the quality of the discussions, they should do a little bit of research on their own rather than paving the way for readers to jump to conclusions. I truly wish that someone would get a clue on journalistic ethics so that we could have a real discussion of issues rather than the lunatic ravings the current tabloid style promotes.
You are more full of bullshit than the people who tried to "brainwash" you. The Japanese attacked far more than once. Just because you may be so ignorant as to be unaware of any aspects of the Pacific portion of WWII other than Pearl Harbor and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagisaki doesn't mean there wasn't more to the war.
Furthermore, the use of nuclear weapons was perfectly justifible as a means of doing one thing: end the war with the minimum number of US casualties. The US government rightfully had little concern for the loss of Japanese life. They were, after all, the enemy. There are plenty of other, more political, motivations that you are free to disagree with. Specifically, that the people will not long tolerate a war where their country is suffering horrible losses, and that in turn is bad for the political future of that nation's leaders.
I suppose the part you most clearly forgot is expressed well by an author who I have forgotten: "It is good that war is so terrible, or we would become too fond of it."
While I think your interpretation of the ruling is correct, I don't see how this can be construed as a copyright infringment, when copy1 and copy2 are bit-for-bit identical. Seems a bit silly to me to attempt to differentiate between identical things.
Okay, so maybe I should have been more explicit. M15 now has the functionality that when you middle click on a link in the browser window, it is opened in a new window. This is the same functionality that has been in Netscape for quite a while. I was expressing my happiness that Mozilla had finally implemented it.
I'm suing InTouch under my patent on frivolous patent lawsuits (US Patent #5612081) and my patent for poetic justice (US Patent #5752996). I'm can no longer tolerate my clearly innovative and non-trivial work being stolen with blatant disregard for the law. It is an affront to the most honorable efforts of the diligent employees of the United States Patent & Trademark Office. I will not let this injustice stand!
Okay, you can overclock it, but what I want to know is, does it make the Internet faster, like the PIII? I'm not going to buy a new computer based on "benchmarks" unless they are backed up by a solid advertising campaign.
Um, Judge Jackson wrote the findings of fact. And he also wrote the yet-to-be-released findings of law. Based on the findings of fact, I don't think there is any question that his findings of law are going to be very much against Microsoft.
Also don't forget that this trial has yet another part, where a remedy is chosen. After the findings of law are released, there won't be much room for Microsoft to negotiate. This is the time for them to settle, if it is going to happen.
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MSD 2 2003
MJ was Amg the CSR who NtT SFi (No I am SFi Dmt) HRT the MxR WBD Ntl the Smr 2003. I'm Bmd, but I'm Wln to w8 2 c the BrW DIR (no way I'm Gna try to STN)
This way, the incomprehensible nature of all Slashdot articles will be preserved, and they will save bandwidth at the same time!
Power = Work / Time
Substituting the first two equations, we get:
Money = Work / Knowledge
Thus proving that the less you know, the more you will make.
"In RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc...this court held that "under the plain meaning of the AHRA's definition of digital audio recording devices, computers (and their hard drives) are not digital audio recording devices [and] that MP3 files contained on computer hard drives are not "digital musical recordings".
What is an MP3 then, if not a digital musical recording? To me, it sounds like they still continue to believe MP3s to be inherently evil. I'm not terribly worried about Napster, but it would be disappointing for this case to reaffirm the idea there is something wrong with MP3s.
I will attempt to answer the questions you wrote (but didn't post, and yet still managed to express...). I considered your post ignorant in the sense that you dismiss people you disagree with as stupid and confused.
As for claiming that Slashdot is a way of preventing you from affecting the political situation in the country, that is more a slam of Slashdot. Specifically the frequently observed phenomenon of a story being posted that draws the outrage of ten thousand Slashdot readers in what the editors hope will be a way of igniting true action against some injustice. In reality, Slashdot serves primarily as a way for its readers to let off steam and forget all the myriad terrible ways in which their rights are being taken away and instead focus all of their engery on the minor irritation of the trolls.
Thank you for being so (Informative: +1) and (Insightful: +1). What you fail to realize is that Slashdot is merely nature's way of making sure ignorant people like you don't affect the political state of the country.
Anyway, I thank you for your reply. I think you build a strong case for the possibility of industrial use of zero gravity, at least in Earth orbit, if we bring down the cost of getting stuff into space. I thought more of the cost was associated with the expense of chemical rockets, but since it isn't, there is no reason for this not to be possible.
The step that I question is that of mining the asteroids. Under any circumstances it would require an incredible initial investment for what I see as relatively minor benefits. I think it is wishful thinking to believe that any company would take the financial risk involved in mining an asteroid.
I think it is plausible that we turn to the rest of the solar system as a source of fusionable hydrogen, though it will be a while (as we don't even have controlled fusion yet...)
In this lies the problem that, in my opinion, will keep humans confined to Earth permanently: There is precicely zero commercial interest in anything outside geosynchronous orbit. What's on the moon or Mars or anywhere else in the solar system that has any value beyond scientific curiosity? Nothing. Without the pressure of commercial greed or the competition of the cold war, the advance of the space program has been and will continue to be diminished.
I'm a hopeless science ficiton fan, but the reality of the situation is that humans will never make it as far as settling the solar system, let alone traveling the stars.
I'll admit that it is a nice theory that I would like to believe, but it is blatantly false. Otherwise why would we have two mediocre presidential candidtes who have spent their entire lives riding on their fathers' coattails?
Wrong. If what you claim were true, I should be able to find at least one reference to slashdot.com on the main page (in the HTML, that is), but they are all links to pages on slashdot.org. Also, by your logic, the very existence of slapdash.org proves that it is the true site, and the others exist only for compatibility reasons.
The original TLD's were probably a pretty good idea once upon a time, but now, everyone knows that things on the Internet starts in www and ends in .com. (barely better than the people who ask if you have a "screen name" rather than an e-mail address). Everything except .edu and .gov are so polluted as to be meaningless. Look where we right now...slashdot.ORG? Why? Or perhaps my college, which has registered not only mit.edu, but also mit.com, mit.net and mit.org
If it weren't for the incredible mess it would create, I would suggest that we abandon TLDs altogether. I always spell .com wrong anyway...
On a tangent, one of the very good reasons for the UN to not start a war with China is that the People's Republic of China is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and they would, well, have to agree to it first...
1. Apogee (no "(r)")
2. Appogee (misspelling. I can't wait until someone gets sued for spelling something wrong.
3. Apogee sucks. (mark cannot be used in a "derogatory manner")
4. If I have a long line and their mark comes at the end, make sure to hyphenate Apo-
  gee, so that their lawyers can come and get you.
5. Don't talk about software made by Apogee, because you are not violating the mark Remeber to use the alternate construction with the posessive, "Apogee's software", which is a clear violation of their trademark.
Also, remember to use the preview button, so that you can maximize the number of trademark violations in each and every post.
I think people who wear ski masks while using Napster should be arrested. They should be made to write "When I download MP3s, I'm downloading communism" 1000 times. If they still do not understand the moral rectitude of our captialist society, they will be sold into slavery and forced to make music that will distributed over Napster. We'll see if they ever pirate music again!
Slashdot posts stories like this one in order to capitalize on the knee-jerk reations of readers. When everyone finally realizes that this was a non-issue from the beginning, it is already off the radar (or, more concretely, it has been relegated to "older stuff"). You can't create an army of Linux zealots without convincing them that the entire world is together in a conspiracy to destroy the open source paradigm.
If Slashdot really wants to do something to improve the quality of the discussions, they should do a little bit of research on their own rather than paving the way for readers to jump to conclusions. I truly wish that someone would get a clue on journalistic ethics so that we could have a real discussion of issues rather than the lunatic ravings the current tabloid style promotes.
Furthermore, the use of nuclear weapons was perfectly justifible as a means of doing one thing: end the war with the minimum number of US casualties. The US government rightfully had little concern for the loss of Japanese life. They were, after all, the enemy. There are plenty of other, more political, motivations that you are free to disagree with. Specifically, that the people will not long tolerate a war where their country is suffering horrible losses, and that in turn is bad for the political future of that nation's leaders.
I suppose the part you most clearly forgot is expressed well by an author who I have forgotten: "It is good that war is so terrible, or we would become too fond of it."
While I think your interpretation of the ruling is correct, I don't see how this can be construed as a copyright infringment, when copy1 and copy2 are bit-for-bit identical. Seems a bit silly to me to attempt to differentiate between identical things.
These aren't the rumors you're looking for.
Okay, so maybe I should have been more explicit. M15 now has the functionality that when you middle click on a link in the browser window, it is opened in a new window. This is the same functionality that has been in Netscape for quite a while. I was expressing my happiness that Mozilla had finally implemented it.
Any new features? At least one that I had been waiting for: Middle click means "open in new window". Yippee!
Don't try to fix the bug, for that is impossible. You must realize the truth: there is no bug.
I read it on Slashdot. It must be true!
I'm suing InTouch under my patent on frivolous patent lawsuits (US Patent #5612081) and my patent for poetic justice (US Patent #5752996). I'm can no longer tolerate my clearly innovative and non-trivial work being stolen with blatant disregard for the law. It is an affront to the most honorable efforts of the diligent employees of the United States Patent & Trademark Office. I will not let this injustice stand!
Okay, you can overclock it, but what I want to know is, does it make the Internet faster, like the PIII? I'm not going to buy a new computer based on "benchmarks" unless they are backed up by a solid advertising campaign.
Technically, reading a book involves copying it (temporarily) to the retina, which may be covered by copyright.
Also don't forget that this trial has yet another part, where a remedy is chosen. After the findings of law are released, there won't be much room for Microsoft to negotiate. This is the time for them to settle, if it is going to happen.