"What I don't understand is... why is gambling deemed such a big deal in the USA? You allow people to drink, smoke, carry guns and prostitute themselves (in some states, at least)"
And we have CASINOS... the hypocrisy is amazing, isn't it? However I think it's also the source of the Fed's consternation. The government isn't receiving any taxes from online gambling, whereas they are able to tax indian/reservation casinos/gaming.
Instead of suing the world willy-nilly Hollywood should have seen this as a huge business opportunity. On the other side of this metaphorical coin, companies creating altered revisions of protected work should have worked with the owners' of said copyrighted work to fill this niche.
I imagine there might be a market for the content-conscientious consumer; although as some fark submitter pointed out a 16-minute edition of Pulp Fiction might not be very interesting.
Go install Linux and forget about all this WGA nonsense. I have never used Windows before (in my life) except at $DAYJOB where its use is compulsory and I must say that I have enjoyed living in a world relatively free of malware, DRM and "eat what you're fed" marketing. Of course I'll confess that there have been times when I have lived in a world where I may not have been able to view a website or make use of some proprietary media; but those incidents are becoming far and few between.
I just wish all of these people dedicating resources and energy into getting the "Microsoft Windows" they want would redirect that energy into discovering an alternate operating system (not even necessarily Linux).
Disclaimer: I do not work for Godaddy -- in fact I work for a competing ISP in their same locale.
First off how did this story become okay'd past the slashdot moderators? This story is written with a really biased, bitter, non-neutral point-of-view.
Secondly, you can hardly call it extortion if the Terms of Service explicitly state under what conditions your domain may be suspended or put on hold. I'm constantly surprised how many spammers continue to register their domains with registrars that enforce their AUPs -- luckily there's a "rule" that explains spammers' stupidity.
"I am all for fighting spam, but given how unreliable spam black-lists are such actions simply damage the internet."
Anyone who regularly reads news.admin.net-abuse.email will instantly recognize this as sour grapes from a spammer. Funny how the writer of this story simply wants us to accept that "black-lists are unreliable" and that it's a given fact without any supporting evidence. For me, someone who runs the abuse desk for one of Arizona's oldest ISP's, using the blocking lists works wonderfully and I plan on continuing to use them.
As for Godaddy enforcing the terms of their terms and AUP -- to them I say "good job, keep it up".
"Well, I think there are experts who claim Linux violates our intellectual property. I'm not going to comment. But to the degree that that's the case, of course we owe it to our shareholders to have a strategy. And when there is something interesting to say, you'll be the first to hear it."
For those who never read the speech Courtney Love gave at the Digital Hollywood Online Entertainment Conference a few years ago it's worth a read. Most noteworthy was the position she held that the record labels are the real pirates.
Sony, (once again) continues to make her position tenable.
Everybody knows that a basic rule of economics is that "stuff" costs what the market will bear. If people are willing to pay $250 for Madonna concert tickets then that is what they will charge, p2p sharing or not.
If, on the other hand, she ends up singing to an empty house -- well that too sends a message.
The market takes care of mistakes like this all on its own.
Not to invoke Godwin (well, ok, I'll do it) but at least Wikipedia's moderators aren't a crew of soccer-mom ninnies like fark's content censors. Wikipedia maintains a fairly decent history of page edits and allows discussions on matters where there may be differing views. Slashdot implements a moderation system rather than erasing submitters' posts.
Now fark -- Drew used to have a really great system, but not since his band of nancy-boy sissies took power--those fascist blog barons will ban you (and remove your posts) for any little infraction. He also started bowing to commercial interests and removed any content his "ad affiliates" found offensive.
My solution is... I no longer submit stories, participate in discussions or have anything to do with fark. I also do not participate in TF (their pay-per-use system, which is really a pay-for-porn service).
This leads me to my point... oh yeah, my point: their server, their rules, you don't have to go there.
Imagine a facsimile system with a FAX RBL service:
In FRBL mode, the facsimile system will refuse to accept faxes that originate from dialed nodes that block their CLID, in addition, the dialed number would be queried from a realtime RBL and if known to be a facsimile spammer would also refuse to accept the connection.
I'm just not sure how one would handle ISDN CLID forgeries...
This company sounds like it's being run by a bunch of pre-pubescent teenage kids.
From their website:
DuroSport Urges Customers To Ignore Medialoper Review
We regret to inform our loyal customers that the highly anticipated review of the new Prism 6000 which appears in Medialoper today is full of inaccuracies and misleading information. We urge you to ignore the review and spend the day listening to your Prism DuroSport.
The DuroSport support staff has worked diligently over the past several months to assist the Medialoper review team in understanding the advanced features of the Prism DuroSport 6000. Unfortunately, it is clear from the review that the staffers of the Medialoper Review Labs must have some sort of learning disability. If ever there was an instance of user error, this is it. Over and over again. If anything, the fact that these retards had so much trouble with the Prism DuroSport stands as proof as to just how far ahead of it's time it really is.
If all of this weren't bad enough, the Medialoper team has attempted to return their Prism DuroSport 6000 without first completing an RMA form.
Needless to say, we are consulting our legal advisors and will be taking appropriate action shortly in order to best respond to this scurrilous and defamatory attack on our flagship product.
I'm sure that's what the electronics industry would love for consumers to believe.. that after a period of time your consumer electronics get tired and old. Let the poor things retire, get a brand new HDTV, DVD player, blah blah blah.
This is how (IMHO), new DRM-laden technology will sneak its way into our living rooms one day.
The problem wasn't that your customers are receiving advertisements that weren't blessed by AOL -- it's that they were receiving too much junk mail -- PERIOD. Your clientele are already paying AOL their hard-earned money for connectivity, how does stuffing their $INBOX full of junk mail help them?
Wasn't this one of the things your customers originally whinged about a few years ago?
The good news is that the market will address this issue and correct itself.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't buy Sony products.
(Not flaimbait, I'm quite serious.)
"What I don't understand is... why is gambling deemed such a big deal in the USA? You allow people to drink, smoke, carry guns and prostitute themselves (in some states, at least)"
And we have CASINOS... the hypocrisy is amazing, isn't it? However I think it's also the source of the Fed's consternation. The government isn't receiving any taxes from online gambling, whereas they are able to tax indian/reservation casinos/gaming.
Instead of suing the world willy-nilly Hollywood should have seen this as a huge business opportunity. On the other side of this metaphorical coin, companies creating altered revisions of protected work should have worked with the owners' of said copyrighted work to fill this niche.
I imagine there might be a market for the content-conscientious consumer; although as some fark submitter pointed out a 16-minute edition of Pulp Fiction might not be very interesting.
Go install Linux and forget about all this WGA nonsense. I have never used Windows before (in my life) except at $DAYJOB where its use is compulsory and I must say that I have enjoyed living in a world relatively free of malware, DRM and "eat what you're fed" marketing. Of course I'll confess that there have been times when I have lived in a world where I may not have been able to view a website or make use of some proprietary media; but those incidents are becoming far and few between.
I just wish all of these people dedicating resources and energy into getting the "Microsoft Windows" they want would redirect that energy into discovering an alternate operating system (not even necessarily Linux).
Disclaimer: I do not work for Godaddy -- in fact I work for a competing ISP in their same locale.
First off how did this story become okay'd past the slashdot moderators? This story is written with a really biased, bitter, non-neutral point-of-view.
Secondly, you can hardly call it extortion if the Terms of Service explicitly state under what conditions your domain may be suspended or put on hold. I'm constantly surprised how many spammers continue to register their domains with registrars that enforce their AUPs -- luckily there's a "rule" that explains spammers' stupidity.
"I am all for fighting spam, but given how unreliable spam black-lists are such actions simply damage the internet."
Anyone who regularly reads news.admin.net-abuse.email will instantly recognize this as sour grapes from a spammer. Funny how the writer of this story simply wants us to accept that "black-lists are unreliable" and that it's a given fact without any supporting evidence. For me, someone who runs the abuse desk for one of Arizona's oldest ISP's, using the blocking lists works wonderfully and I plan on continuing to use them.
As for Godaddy enforcing the terms of their terms and AUP -- to them I say "good job, keep it up".
Apple loses round booger someplace ...
*blinks*
We've become a nation of snitches, tattle-tales and ninnies.
It must have chaffed MOG's hyde to print this news. I do have to give her points for writing the facts of the case for once instead of anti-IBM FUD.
As for Wallace, he is a fucking crackpot and now everyone in the IT industry knows it.
"Well, I think there are experts who claim Linux violates our intellectual property. I'm not going to comment. But to the degree that that's the case, of course we owe it to our shareholders to have a strategy. And when there is something interesting to say, you'll be the first to hear it."
-- Steve Balmer on Linux and patents.
There's definately caffeine in coffee.
(still no cure for cancer)
perl -le 'print qq|Happy birthday $_| for (q|to you!|, q|CmdrTaco,|)[0,0,1,0]'
For those who never read the speech Courtney Love gave at the Digital Hollywood Online Entertainment Conference a few years ago it's worth a read. Most noteworthy was the position she held that the record labels are the real pirates.
l ove/
Sony, (once again) continues to make her position tenable.
Courtney Love does the math:
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/
Linux does not nag you ;-)
Everybody knows that a basic rule of economics is that "stuff" costs what the market will bear. If people are willing to pay $250 for Madonna concert tickets then that is what they will charge, p2p sharing or not.
If, on the other hand, she ends up singing to an empty house -- well that too sends a message.
The market takes care of mistakes like this all on its own.
Not to invoke Godwin (well, ok, I'll do it) but at least Wikipedia's moderators aren't a crew of soccer-mom ninnies like fark's content censors. Wikipedia maintains a fairly decent history of page edits and allows discussions on matters where there may be differing views. Slashdot implements a moderation system rather than erasing submitters' posts.
Now fark -- Drew used to have a really great system, but not since his band of nancy-boy sissies took power--those fascist blog barons will ban you (and remove your posts) for any little infraction. He also started bowing to commercial interests and removed any content his "ad affiliates" found offensive.
My solution is... I no longer submit stories, participate in discussions or have anything to do with fark. I also do not participate in TF (their pay-per-use system, which is really a pay-for-porn service).
This leads me to my point... oh yeah, my point: their server, their rules, you don't have to go there.
Imagine a facsimile system with a FAX RBL service:
In FRBL mode, the facsimile system will refuse to accept faxes that originate from dialed nodes that block their CLID, in addition, the dialed number would be queried from a realtime RBL and if known to be a facsimile spammer would also refuse to accept the connection.
I'm just not sure how one would handle ISDN CLID forgeries...
PC resellers could just offer to bundle with Linux or *BSD -- which would make Microsoft's argument completely untenable.
It would be nice to drink that beer without worrying about my liver -- I guess that's why God gave us two of them.
... for netcraft to confirm this.
This company sounds like it's being run by a bunch of pre-pubescent teenage kids.
m ers-to-ignore-medialoper-review.html
From their website:
DuroSport Urges Customers To Ignore Medialoper Review
We regret to inform our loyal customers that the highly anticipated review of the new Prism 6000 which appears in Medialoper today is full of inaccuracies and misleading information. We urge you to ignore the review and spend the day listening to your Prism DuroSport.
The DuroSport support staff has worked diligently over the past several months to assist the Medialoper review team in understanding the advanced features of the Prism DuroSport 6000. Unfortunately, it is clear from the review that the staffers of the Medialoper Review Labs must have some sort of learning disability. If ever there was an instance of user error, this is it. Over and over again. If anything, the fact that these retards had so much trouble with the Prism DuroSport stands as proof as to just how far ahead of it's time it really is.
If all of this weren't bad enough, the Medialoper team has attempted to return their Prism DuroSport 6000 without first completing an RMA form.
Needless to say, we are consulting our legal advisors and will be taking appropriate action shortly in order to best respond to this scurrilous and defamatory attack on our flagship product.
www.prismdurosport.com/news/durosport-urges-custo
*giggle*
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I'm sure that's what the electronics industry would love for consumers to believe.. that after a period of time your consumer electronics get tired and old. Let the poor things retire, get a brand new HDTV, DVD player, blah blah blah.
This is how (IMHO), new DRM-laden technology will sneak its way into our living rooms one day.
it's going to be free software
And what freedoms would you be referring to? Will we have the freedom to examine, modify and redistribute the source code? Just wondering.
HOW DOES THIS HELP YOUR CUSTOMERS?
The problem wasn't that your customers are receiving advertisements that weren't blessed by AOL -- it's that they were receiving too much junk mail -- PERIOD. Your clientele are already paying AOL their hard-earned money for connectivity, how does stuffing their $INBOX full of junk mail help them?
Wasn't this one of the things your customers originally whinged about a few years ago?
The good news is that the market will address this issue and correct itself.
As an act of defiance against the pale face I have placed the tribal feather on your website!
(plays tribal music for effect -- slot machines)