You're absolutely right! I am a big fan of the Dave Matthews Band, although at one point I absolutely hated them. A friend of mine insisted that you have to see them live. I was reluctant, but I figured what the hell, the ticket was free (he had an extra). Since that show, I have gone to every show to come through Pittsburgh in the last 6 or 7 years now, and they always play 2 consecutive days here in the summer, in an outdoor venue. Both shows are just a brilliant display of musical talent and the show is different every night. Over the years I've recommended seeing these guys live to a few friends (some of whom also did not like DMB) and the same thing happened. We literally have 20+ people at this point at each show every summer at $35 a piece (not including ticketmaster's $7 because-we-can charge, but that's a different rant).
What's more, they let "tapers" in, and I say that in quotes because people bring in digital audio equipment and 20 foot stands for their mics. The recordings that people make are freely redistributable provided you don't charge, and the quality is generally quite good, especially for the more experienced tapers. (Check out antsmarching.org and dreamingtree.org). There are copies of virtually every show they play in a given year. And they still manage to release a handful of live albums and DVD's every year as well (google 'dmb live trax'), many of which I purchase because the quality is brilliant for both audio and DVD. They really do an excellent job of mixing their tracks despite having 6 or more musicians playing different instruments.
Something similar happened to me when Bruce Springsteen played at a venue I worked at a few years back and I essentially got to watch the show for free. I was never really that into Springsteen and what I had heard was his usual overplayed hits. His show was incredible, over 3 hours long. The next day I went out and bought a few of his CD's and I've been a fan ever since, especially of the dozens of great songs that Clearchannel routinely neglects. I'd love to go to another show but the tickets are impossible to get, at least around here.
Anyway, great point about touring and being talented. Although I've never had the pleasure of seeing Zeppelin, that 'How the West Was Won' CD and DVD that was released a couple years ago gives me an idea. And ironically, my original DVD player wouldn't play that particular DVD as well as a Dave Matthews DVD I'd purchased, but both worked in a newer one. I guess thats DRM in action.
How will the traditional virus/spyware/adware/whatever that plagues Windows systems affect KDE on Windows?
I'm not trolling, I'm just curious. I would assume that an IE bug wouldn't affect Konqueror, but the whole idea of KDE on Windows is so foreign to me I can't help but wonder where Windows ends and KDE begins, so to speak.
Right, because the "mafiaa" will just send out a couple of low-lives to get rid of the "problem." People sharing with other people isn't "organized crime" even if the sharing occurs over the internet. Although you bring up an interesting point regarding the record companies: Is bringing civil legal action against a potentially innocent party fair? Especially since reaching an out-of-court settlement is always cheaper than proving your innocence in court.
When guilt is cheaper than innocence the law is at fault, not the actions of the victim.
From the features page:
- Clean all bad cookies. Simply deleting these cookies is not enough. MacSweeper really gets rid of the evidence! I guess it really gets rid of cookies by....um....deleting them?
And they say they'll even clear my "Unniversal Binnaries!"
If this isn't some kind of malware it sure as hell comes off like it.
I can't tell if you really believe all that garbage or if you're just being a persistent troll, but I'll bite.
The Open Office crew had to reverse engineer the spec and you know as well as I do that it's not always perfect. While I feel its perfectly adequate for viewing documents, saving to the.doc format is unreliable, especially for important things like resumes or reports. Put another way, its being forced to pay Microsoft if I want to write something and have someone else read it. If you want the so-called "ease of use" of MS Office and want to buy it then thats your choice. However, its not my choice, but since Microsoft owns the Office market, I am really left with no choice at all. If that isn't having it shoved down my throat I don't know what is. And regardless, absolutely none of this has anything to do with Microsoft making their software compatible with their OS, its about them deliberately making their software incompatible with anything else but their own software. While its usually just fine if someone wants to keep things all closed up, the rules change when you're a convicted monopolist and you use that monopoly (illegally) to leverage a separate market and lock out competitors.
As for the video games, you completely missed the point, although the analogy is imperfect. I was referring to the fact that there is diversity and choice, and that nobody is kept from implementing a given program on any given platform (I know that realistically this is unlikely given the cost involved, but as I said the analogy isn't perfect).
Your rant about running Photoshop or Opera or Safari is irrelevant. Microsoft doesn't have anything to do with that. Also, the fact that they make a Mac version of Office has absolutely nothing to do this either. Shelling out cash to Microsoft in order to accurately and consistently exchange information with other people is what is the issue. This is done intentionally by Microsoft so they don't have to compete. I don't see how you can't understand that.
Except it doesn't make sense. Designing things to work together is one thing, but doing so while intentionally making it impossible for anyone else to do the same is what this is all about. The video game analogy is false because although an xbox can't play wii games, you can certainly buy the same title for both consoles (not in all cases, but the fact that it is even possible is what is relevant). Microsoft controls the OS and Office market and leverages this monopoly to deliberately lock out competitors. For instance, I am forced to keep a virtual machine running XP with Office installed to do something as trivial as read a document. Since Microsoft has leveraged their monopoly to make.doc the de-facto standard and then prevented competitors from freely implementing that standard, they are likely violating antitrust laws. Additionally, they recently took it one step further with their attempt to hijack the ISO process and force their "open" standard on everyone in an effort to legitimize the aforementioned behavior.
Lets not forget about the cost of acquiring Windows and Office in order to read a document. Would you consider it fair if you had to pay Microsoft a few hundred dollars to read your morning newspaper?
Maybe you should learn something about what you're talking about before reaching a conclusion.
Additionally, its kind of a pain in the ass to continue ensuring that level of security on your own home LAN. I have a sort of "sandboxed" LAN within a LAN at my home that I use to mess around with different network services, servers, etc., and for signal strength reasons I have my wireless router on this subnet. I'm sure as hell not going through the trouble of locking down every machine and worrying about the security of each machine whenever I feel like screwing around with mysql or apache or whatever else I happen to be interested in that day. And even this so-called "secure" subnet isn't terribly secure, I just keep it separated for convenience mostly. (Plus it gave me the chance to use an old machine as a router, which was yet another unnecessary but interesting thing to do that I don't want to obsess about the security of).
If containers of fluids are dangerous, why are they just thrown away next to the security lines?
I was heading toward the boarding area at LaGuardia with my cousin. We had each just purchased an iced tea at an airport shop just outside of a different area with a bunch of security people with rather large guns. We weren't allowed to pass this point with the 2 bottles of tea we had just purchased 30 feet away. Instead we had to drink them before we could pass.
Why can't anyone is charge see just how utterly useless this whole charade is? I had to drink a bottle of tea or else the Evil Terrorists will get me? They really need to offer half a million dollars to have this pointed out? The worst part is that virtually no one sees a problem with this. Its disgusting.
And responding to my own comment is lame, but I believe I explained that it was only 2 women who were assholes, and they were dealt with. So how is that in any way representative of people who live in the northeastern USA?
Um ok ass, I was just sharing a story that I found mildly amusing. If you want to make a crusade out of it I guess that's your right, but I really think you need to find a better way to spend your time.
That's the real problem. Once you manage to win against a given agency, there's three or four others doing the same thing and by that time its perfectly legal.
That's exactly how my uncle managed to get his hands on a Wii this season. He asked the store (I can't remember exactly which one) what day they had a new shipment come in, and he showed up before the store opened to grab one. A funny thing happened, though. It was a somewhat chilly morning in this part of the northeast and one moronic duo of ladies spent the hour before the store opened in their car. A few minutes before the store opened, they decided to go straight to the front of the line since they were there "first." Naturally those that had been waiting were not pleased and informed the manager, who was in the process of passing out special tickets guaranteeing those who had waited their Wii. Somehow these women made such a scene that a police car showed up and finally convinced these two that they had to move to the end of the line, ruining their shot at getting a Wii. So as they are finally heading to the back, the cop looks up and notices that they had been parked and waiting in a handicapped spot, at which time he promptly fined the driver $300.
There aren't too many times that I'm happy with the police or management of anything, but that left a smile on my face.
For what its worth, there are ways to make your own ringtones that are simply not advertised or explained by a given cell provider simply because they are also selling ringtones. I have a verizon phone and a quick google search of "make verizon ringtones" turned this up. Its obviously windows-centric but the information is generally accurate for linux too. I'd never used audacity personally before and I was able to make a quick ringtone with minimal fuss. No cost except the normal charge of sending a text/pix/whatever message to your phone.
Mel would be alive now. Fuck you for supporting the fuckers who killed her.
She killed herself. Is Jack Daniels responsible for alcohol related deaths? Didn't think so. Maybe people should *gasp* take responsibility for their own stupidity and let the rest of us who enjoy safe and responsible recreational drug use the fuck alone.
Funny thing, my mom actually won a wii at a church carnival over the summer (it was a decent package too, 3 controllers + nunchuk, wii sports and wii play). If it wasn't for me and my dad it would probably still be in the box. Then a funny thing happened, they came out with the Wii Carnival game which includes ski-ball, my mom's favorite.
So basically, she won it at a carnival, and now only uses it because it has a carnival game.
And yes, I still live with my parents, ergo I got a free Wii (at least until I move out *cough* never *cough*).
OK, I'm going to just suck it up and be a n00b: What vulnerabilities exist to warrant blocking javascript? I only ask because I'm no web developer, but I have used javascript to make site building a little easier. I used one script to handle the common layout (essentially the so called "title" and "sidebar"), which left an html file consisting of a tag or two and the rest being solely content that is unique to a particular page.
The only alternative in this particular, albeit amateur, situation is to manually copy the static content to each file and then manually update each file when changes are made as opposed to editing a single.js file.
Could someone explain why this is a stupid way to do things?
You do realize that the only way to give up privacy is to also give up a handful of rights and freedoms, right?
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This is all I could come up with after 5 seconds of searching...
They sue to get prayer removed from public schools because its unconstitutional. There's a time and a place for religion, neither of which are public schools or sporting events. Additionally, references to the Bible are out of place only when they're used to preach, not to teach. In other words, it is possible to learn about the Crusades without giving yourself to Jesus or whatever it is Christians do. Christians don't like the notion that the Bible might indeed be fallible so they come up with asinine ideas like "intelligent" design.
People so easily forget that the ACLU protects everyone's rights, not just whoever you happen to dislike. If you went to a high school in a predominantly Muslim area, would you enjoy being told you have to bow to Mecca five times a day? The knife cuts both ways.
Also, the page you linked to is ridiculously biased. I mean they go out of there way to mention *Evil Communists*. The fact is that social welfare is generally a pretty popular idea (see universal health care). Also, every citizen of the United States has constitutional rights that need to be protected, even pedophiles. I'm not in any way condoning that sick behavior, but in American its all or nothing (at least in theory). Everyone has the same rights whether you like it or not. The denial of basic rights always starts at the bottom and works its way up, which is why even the lowest of the low need to have their rights defended.
When you deny rights to those with whom you disagree, its only a matter of time before your own rights are denied.
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You're absolutely right! I am a big fan of the Dave Matthews Band, although at one point I absolutely hated them. A friend of mine insisted that you have to see them live. I was reluctant, but I figured what the hell, the ticket was free (he had an extra). Since that show, I have gone to every show to come through Pittsburgh in the last 6 or 7 years now, and they always play 2 consecutive days here in the summer, in an outdoor venue. Both shows are just a brilliant display of musical talent and the show is different every night. Over the years I've recommended seeing these guys live to a few friends (some of whom also did not like DMB) and the same thing happened. We literally have 20+ people at this point at each show every summer at $35 a piece (not including ticketmaster's $7 because-we-can charge, but that's a different rant).
What's more, they let "tapers" in, and I say that in quotes because people bring in digital audio equipment and 20 foot stands for their mics. The recordings that people make are freely redistributable provided you don't charge, and the quality is generally quite good, especially for the more experienced tapers. (Check out antsmarching.org and dreamingtree.org). There are copies of virtually every show they play in a given year. And they still manage to release a handful of live albums and DVD's every year as well (google 'dmb live trax'), many of which I purchase because the quality is brilliant for both audio and DVD. They really do an excellent job of mixing their tracks despite having 6 or more musicians playing different instruments.
Something similar happened to me when Bruce Springsteen played at a venue I worked at a few years back and I essentially got to watch the show for free. I was never really that into Springsteen and what I had heard was his usual overplayed hits. His show was incredible, over 3 hours long. The next day I went out and bought a few of his CD's and I've been a fan ever since, especially of the dozens of great songs that Clearchannel routinely neglects. I'd love to go to another show but the tickets are impossible to get, at least around here.
Anyway, great point about touring and being talented. Although I've never had the pleasure of seeing Zeppelin, that 'How the West Was Won' CD and DVD that was released a couple years ago gives me an idea. And ironically, my original DVD player wouldn't play that particular DVD as well as a Dave Matthews DVD I'd purchased, but both worked in a newer one. I guess thats DRM in action.
How will the traditional virus/spyware/adware/whatever that plagues Windows systems affect KDE on Windows?
I'm not trolling, I'm just curious. I would assume that an IE bug wouldn't affect Konqueror, but the whole idea of KDE on Windows is so foreign to me I can't help but wonder where Windows ends and KDE begins, so to speak.
Maybe I'll do some VMWare experimenting...
I'm pretty sure that "yOUR" creator isn't a terribly intelligent one.
Or put AnOtHeR way:
yOUR postt doesn't/can't/shouldn't make any corporate nazi/evile sense hallowed by thy kingDUMB come, etc..etcc,. sOOper death SUNNNN RAY AHHHH
Sorry got carried away at the end.
Right, because the "mafiaa" will just send out a couple of low-lives to get rid of the "problem." People sharing with other people isn't "organized crime" even if the sharing occurs over the internet. Although you bring up an interesting point regarding the record companies: Is bringing civil legal action against a potentially innocent party fair? Especially since reaching an out-of-court settlement is always cheaper than proving your innocence in court.
When guilt is cheaper than innocence the law is at fault, not the actions of the victim.
- Clean all bad cookies. Simply deleting these cookies is not enough. MacSweeper really gets rid of the evidence! I guess it really gets rid of cookies by....um....deleting them?
And they say they'll even clear my "Unniversal Binnaries!"
If this isn't some kind of malware it sure as hell comes off like it.
I can't tell if you really believe all that garbage or if you're just being a persistent troll, but I'll bite.
.doc format is unreliable, especially for important things like resumes or reports. Put another way, its being forced to pay Microsoft if I want to write something and have someone else read it. If you want the so-called "ease of use" of MS Office and want to buy it then thats your choice. However, its not my choice, but since Microsoft owns the Office market, I am really left with no choice at all. If that isn't having it shoved down my throat I don't know what is. And regardless, absolutely none of this has anything to do with Microsoft making their software compatible with their OS, its about them deliberately making their software incompatible with anything else but their own software. While its usually just fine if someone wants to keep things all closed up, the rules change when you're a convicted monopolist and you use that monopoly (illegally) to leverage a separate market and lock out competitors.
The Open Office crew had to reverse engineer the spec and you know as well as I do that it's not always perfect. While I feel its perfectly adequate for viewing documents, saving to the
As for the video games, you completely missed the point, although the analogy is imperfect. I was referring to the fact that there is diversity and choice, and that nobody is kept from implementing a given program on any given platform (I know that realistically this is unlikely given the cost involved, but as I said the analogy isn't perfect).
Your rant about running Photoshop or Opera or Safari is irrelevant. Microsoft doesn't have anything to do with that. Also, the fact that they make a Mac version of Office has absolutely nothing to do this either. Shelling out cash to Microsoft in order to accurately and consistently exchange information with other people is what is the issue. This is done intentionally by Microsoft so they don't have to compete. I don't see how you can't understand that.
Except it doesn't make sense. Designing things to work together is one thing, but doing so while intentionally making it impossible for anyone else to do the same is what this is all about. The video game analogy is false because although an xbox can't play wii games, you can certainly buy the same title for both consoles (not in all cases, but the fact that it is even possible is what is relevant). Microsoft controls the OS and Office market and leverages this monopoly to deliberately lock out competitors. For instance, I am forced to keep a virtual machine running XP with Office installed to do something as trivial as read a document. Since Microsoft has leveraged their monopoly to make .doc the de-facto standard and then prevented competitors from freely implementing that standard, they are likely violating antitrust laws. Additionally, they recently took it one step further with their attempt to hijack the ISO process and force their "open" standard on everyone in an effort to legitimize the aforementioned behavior.
Lets not forget about the cost of acquiring Windows and Office in order to read a document. Would you consider it fair if you had to pay Microsoft a few hundred dollars to read your morning newspaper?
Maybe you should learn something about what you're talking about before reaching a conclusion.
Additionally, its kind of a pain in the ass to continue ensuring that level of security on your own home LAN. I have a sort of "sandboxed" LAN within a LAN at my home that I use to mess around with different network services, servers, etc., and for signal strength reasons I have my wireless router on this subnet. I'm sure as hell not going through the trouble of locking down every machine and worrying about the security of each machine whenever I feel like screwing around with mysql or apache or whatever else I happen to be interested in that day. And even this so-called "secure" subnet isn't terribly secure, I just keep it separated for convenience mostly. (Plus it gave me the chance to use an old machine as a router, which was yet another unnecessary but interesting thing to do that I don't want to obsess about the security of).
I was heading toward the boarding area at LaGuardia with my cousin. We had each just purchased an iced tea at an airport shop just outside of a different area with a bunch of security people with rather large guns. We weren't allowed to pass this point with the 2 bottles of tea we had just purchased 30 feet away. Instead we had to drink them before we could pass.
Why can't anyone is charge see just how utterly useless this whole charade is? I had to drink a bottle of tea or else the Evil Terrorists will get me? They really need to offer half a million dollars to have this pointed out? The worst part is that virtually no one sees a problem with this. Its disgusting.
You must have some really good shit.
WSATFFWWYCDTTYWP? (Why stop at the first four words when you can do this to your whole post?)
And responding to my own comment is lame, but I believe I explained that it was only 2 women who were assholes, and they were dealt with. So how is that in any way representative of people who live in the northeastern USA?
Um ok ass, I was just sharing a story that I found mildly amusing. If you want to make a crusade out of it I guess that's your right, but I really think you need to find a better way to spend your time.
That's the real problem. Once you manage to win against a given agency, there's three or four others doing the same thing and by that time its perfectly legal.
I refer you to the official site of the United States Intelligence Community.
Good luck taking on that list.
That's exactly how my uncle managed to get his hands on a Wii this season. He asked the store (I can't remember exactly which one) what day they had a new shipment come in, and he showed up before the store opened to grab one. A funny thing happened, though. It was a somewhat chilly morning in this part of the northeast and one moronic duo of ladies spent the hour before the store opened in their car. A few minutes before the store opened, they decided to go straight to the front of the line since they were there "first." Naturally those that had been waiting were not pleased and informed the manager, who was in the process of passing out special tickets guaranteeing those who had waited their Wii. Somehow these women made such a scene that a police car showed up and finally convinced these two that they had to move to the end of the line, ruining their shot at getting a Wii. So as they are finally heading to the back, the cop looks up and notices that they had been parked and waiting in a handicapped spot, at which time he promptly fined the driver $300.
There aren't too many times that I'm happy with the police or management of anything, but that left a smile on my face.
For what its worth, there are ways to make your own ringtones that are simply not advertised or explained by a given cell provider simply because they are also selling ringtones. I have a verizon phone and a quick google search of "make verizon ringtones" turned this up. Its obviously windows-centric but the information is generally accurate for linux too. I'd never used audacity personally before and I was able to make a quick ringtone with minimal fuss. No cost except the normal charge of sending a text/pix/whatever message to your phone.
This is the first time I have ever heard of anyone actually liking Nickelback! Nickelback!
What's that like???
Although I understand your point, I think you're a little off here considering the program you're looking for is called "display".
She killed herself. Is Jack Daniels responsible for alcohol related deaths? Didn't think so. Maybe people should *gasp* take responsibility for their own stupidity and let the rest of us who enjoy safe and responsible recreational drug use the fuck alone.
Funny thing, my mom actually won a wii at a church carnival over the summer (it was a decent package too, 3 controllers + nunchuk, wii sports and wii play). If it wasn't for me and my dad it would probably still be in the box. Then a funny thing happened, they came out with the Wii Carnival game which includes ski-ball, my mom's favorite.
So basically, she won it at a carnival, and now only uses it because it has a carnival game.
And yes, I still live with my parents, ergo I got a free Wii (at least until I move out *cough* never *cough*).
OK, I'm going to just suck it up and be a n00b: What vulnerabilities exist to warrant blocking javascript? I only ask because I'm no web developer, but I have used javascript to make site building a little easier. I used one script to handle the common layout (essentially the so called "title" and "sidebar"), which left an html file consisting of a tag or two and the rest being solely content that is unique to a particular page.
.js file.
The only alternative in this particular, albeit amateur, situation is to manually copy the static content to each file and then manually update each file when changes are made as opposed to editing a single
Could someone explain why this is a stupid way to do things?
You do realize that the only way to give up privacy is to also give up a handful of rights and freedoms, right?
Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This is all I could come up with after 5 seconds of searching...
Thats not modern hardware, thats brand new shiny expensive hardware. Modern hardware is the hardware that everyone *without* Vista is using.
Wasn't the band they were singing about called "Willie and the Poor Boys"?
They sue to get prayer removed from public schools because its unconstitutional. There's a time and a place for religion, neither of which are public schools or sporting events. Additionally, references to the Bible are out of place only when they're used to preach, not to teach. In other words, it is possible to learn about the Crusades without giving yourself to Jesus or whatever it is Christians do. Christians don't like the notion that the Bible might indeed be fallible so they come up with asinine ideas like "intelligent" design.
People so easily forget that the ACLU protects everyone's rights, not just whoever you happen to dislike. If you went to a high school in a predominantly Muslim area, would you enjoy being told you have to bow to Mecca five times a day? The knife cuts both ways.
Also, the page you linked to is ridiculously biased. I mean they go out of there way to mention *Evil Communists*. The fact is that social welfare is generally a pretty popular idea (see universal health care). Also, every citizen of the United States has constitutional rights that need to be protected, even pedophiles. I'm not in any way condoning that sick behavior, but in American its all or nothing (at least in theory). Everyone has the same rights whether you like it or not. The denial of basic rights always starts at the bottom and works its way up, which is why even the lowest of the low need to have their rights defended.
When you deny rights to those with whom you disagree, its only a matter of time before your own rights are denied.