Damn some people are pity whores. I'm just sick of all these people who screw up thier business ventures crying about his or that andblamingother people. Is it Microsoft's fault?? I don't know I don't care. I just wish he people in charge of RealNames would just asccept they failed.
It has been argued that the deign of the internet will make large scale streaming media basicly impossible. How can you or any steaming media company expect to survive in this kind of condition? When sucess means connection failer.
i dont like the geek term any more then you do but at least its a positive story on open source. at least it's not a story about how evil linux hackers are terorrsts going to destroy the world wiht thier code that is open to bin ladon.
It seems to me that since the TLD policies are getting ever more elitest the next set of TLDs will end up being along the lines of (.microsoft,.sony,.pepsi) at a cost of 1,000,000 per. This way ICANN can rich, and big business can get off that level ground everyone was started on when the internet became popular.
Many people would be angered about this story because China is screwing it's people and blocking things they don't feel good for thier people. At least in China they aren't bitching about freedom of speech \and at the same time writting crap like DMCA/CIPA/LOL/CPA/PATRIOT. Understand I still don't think this content blocking is good or correct I'm just lossing faith in all governments as of late.
As a whole Linux companies where hit hard when the "tech bubble" burst. Where do you think Linux companies need to head to avoid the fate of a BeOS or OS/Warp?
If you were willing to pay for the abilty to read logs then why don't you jump over to a web hosting comapny that includes logs in thier package deals? The ISP's webspace is never enough and most of the time they don't even allow you to run PHP scripts.
Since Microsoft wants the Government to go away and do business as usual maybe Billy BOy should have his company help pay the national debt oh. 30 billion of it off =]
I don't think you'll have any luck with finding a commercail player that will play the things. We as geeks were lucky enough when normal people(aka tech idiots) were so into mp3s that they demanded players.
I don't see many people in the slashdot community coding or knowning about related project because there is no real need. Personally I think that this is one of them technologies that is being pushed onto a consume market that doesn't want it. Sure your refrigerator telling someone that your out of milk and automatically ordering it is cool. but who would really want it other then having it for the novelty factor?
I don't care how advanced the processing of food gets you'll never replace Ramen noodles. Every geek on Slashdot knows where I'm talking about. If not for them, coffee, and beer most of the people who consider themselves Slashdotters would have died from starvation a long time ago. it's the only food that costs like 10-15 cents a pack =]
Yes IRC is a great tool and sometimes it can be a lot like ebay. I've gotten some good hardware that I can't find anywhere else just by talking to people on IRC.
Of course these people will go to IRC chat rooms all the time, hell like every other type of computer geek on the internet they like to boost. It's natural for a geek to go somewhere and brag about their exploits.
The claim that identity theft is running wild and it's the fault of the hackers is an amazing assumption. While I do believe things like this happen to people around on many occasions. I do not believe it's as large scale as some people would have us believe. I have seen many more cases where identity theft is caused by people in the real world either losing their wallets. or other malicious deeds in which a criminal gets information from a victim.
You should automatically assume your credit card was stolen? Frankly if your not reviewing your credit card transactions you are a fool. But again. there are many more cases of this happening because of a store employee collecting the information some nameless computer hacker who is out to get you.
Why would things like pirated software, child pornography, and stolen information be available on IRC? It's a quicker communication medium. It's easier and faster for people to exchange the information then web pages or e-mail.
People use IRC networks like EFNET, DALNET, GAMESNET, etc. as opposed to AOL or Microsoft because the big business companies consider their users to be morons that don't need more advanced forms of software. When your network blocks out all types of profanity because it's "bad" many people are going to look to communicate where they can speak as they wish.
As for the law enforcement issue it is up to all the irc networks in question to regulate the going on in their own set of servers. I'll use Gamesnet as an example. They are constantly attempting to stop the "warez trade" from happening on their network and have assisted law enforcement when they find out their users are committing crimes.
The FBI gets lucky because like all criminals people who are involved in things like identify theft, child pornography sing like canaries. that's the only reason they get lucky. the boasting of hackers helps the FBI catch hackers
It's simplistic to claim that this argument boils down to Republicans attempting to carve away at our first amendment rights to fit their own morality.
The internet holds a vast amount of pornography that is so crude it can not be placed on news stands. Of that number there is a percentage of this content that is and was illegal well before the popularity of the Internet came acrossed the country.
A large problem for these public places not that normal pornography would be acessable to minors, but that the illegal type would be availble to everyone.
If JohnDoe access child porn from a library and the police arrest him on his way home from the library can the library be sued for letting him access it? Normal people would say of course not. But the court system is fill of libal cases that Slashdot readers think are too stupid to goto trial.. and every case costs money.
Of course this is just my wonderings about the subject.
Ok, so what happens when you live in an apartment in the inner city and one of the neighboring businesses decided that they wish to use this technology to make their restaurant peaceful for the customers?
It would be reasonable for a school system to quickly adopt this technology to keep their students from using cell phones while in school, so happens to the homes that are close these schools?
I like everyone on Slashdot think certain people should have a comet hit them for using their cell phones at the wrong place and wrong time, but I don't know about this.
In the past I would have commented on how communism is stupid and is screwing everything up.
Now I see this article and can't help but think how long before the US government bans computer sales in favor of more controllable set top boxes for everything. =/
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Damn some people are pity whores. I'm just sick of all these people who screw up thier business ventures crying about his or that andblamingother people. Is it Microsoft's fault?? I don't know I don't care. I just wish he people in charge of RealNames would just asccept they failed.
Well this thing makes me sick. I think I should get the phrase "The internet" copyrighted before someone else does. Hey stupider things have happened.
jefferson wanted the rewrite the whole document every couple of years.
No matter the good the bad or the ugly of this move I can say only one thing.... I fear change.
It has been argued that the deign of the internet will make large scale streaming media basicly impossible. How can you or any steaming media company expect to survive in this kind of condition? When sucess means connection failer.
Just call Star Wars a news program and it can have all the violence it wants and no rating.
or better yet it's a scared strait program. this way kidswon't become evil overlords looking to take over the galexy
i dont like the geek term any more then you do but at least its a positive story on open source. at least it's not a story about how evil linux hackers are terorrsts going to destroy the world wiht thier code that is open to bin ladon.
story changing constantly without making note of it... sounds hella like 1984 to me.
did you look into your local Linux user group for local people??
http://www.balug.org/
It seems to me that since the TLD policies are getting ever more elitest the next set of TLDs will end up being along the lines of (.microsoft, .sony, .pepsi) at a cost of 1,000,000 per. This way ICANN can rich, and big business can get off that level ground everyone was started on when the internet became popular.
It's not a help. I'm simply venting.
Many people would be angered about this story because China is screwing it's people and blocking things they don't feel good for thier people. At least in China they aren't bitching about freedom of speech \and at the same time writting crap like DMCA/CIPA/LOL/CPA/PATRIOT. Understand I still don't think this content blocking is good or correct I'm just lossing faith in all governments as of late.
As a whole Linux companies where hit hard when the "tech bubble" burst. Where do you think Linux companies need to head to avoid the fate of a BeOS or OS/Warp?
What are your feelings on something like GeekPAC?
If you were willing to pay for the abilty to read logs then why don't you jump over to a web hosting comapny that includes logs in thier package deals? The ISP's webspace is never enough and most of the time they don't even allow you to run PHP scripts.
Since Microsoft wants the Government to go away and do business as usual maybe Billy BOy should have his company help pay the national debt oh. 30 billion of it off =]
I don't think you'll have any luck with finding a commercail player that will play the things. We as geeks were lucky enough when normal people(aka tech idiots) were so into mp3s that they demanded players.
Ah it's a good day to be a Linux/Apple lover. =]
I don't see many people in the slashdot community coding or knowning about related project because there is no real need. Personally I think that this is one of them technologies that is being pushed onto a consume market that doesn't want it. Sure your refrigerator telling someone that your out of milk and automatically ordering it is cool. but who would really want it other then having it for the novelty factor?
I don't care how advanced the processing of food gets you'll never replace Ramen noodles. Every geek on Slashdot knows where I'm talking about. If not for them, coffee, and beer most of the people who consider themselves Slashdotters would have died from starvation a long time ago. it's the only food that costs like 10-15 cents a pack =]
Yes IRC is a great tool and sometimes it can be a lot like ebay. I've gotten some good hardware that I can't find anywhere else just by talking to people on IRC.
Of course these people will go to IRC chat rooms all the time, hell like every other type of computer geek on the internet they like to boost. It's natural for a geek to go somewhere and brag about their exploits.
The claim that identity theft is running wild and it's the fault of the hackers is an amazing assumption. While I do believe things like this happen to people around on many occasions. I do not believe it's as large scale as some people would have us believe. I have seen many more cases where identity theft is caused by people in the real world either losing their wallets. or other malicious deeds in which a criminal gets information from a victim.
You should automatically assume your credit card was stolen? Frankly if your not reviewing your credit card transactions you are a fool. But again. there are many more cases of this happening because of a store employee collecting the information some nameless computer hacker who is out to get you.
Why would things like pirated software, child pornography, and stolen information be available on IRC? It's a quicker communication medium. It's easier and faster for people to exchange the information then web pages or e-mail.
People use IRC networks like EFNET, DALNET, GAMESNET, etc. as opposed to AOL or Microsoft because the big business companies consider their users to be morons that don't need more advanced forms of software. When your network blocks out all types of profanity because it's "bad" many people are going to look to communicate where they can speak as they wish.
As for the law enforcement issue it is up to all the irc networks in question to regulate the going on in their own set of servers. I'll use Gamesnet as an example. They are constantly attempting to stop the "warez trade" from happening on their network and have assisted law enforcement when they find out their users are committing crimes.
The FBI gets lucky because like all criminals people who are involved in things like identify theft, child pornography sing like canaries. that's the only reason they get lucky. the boasting of hackers helps the FBI catch hackers
The Wild west of IRC... BANG BANG! do what does that make IRCops?
It's simplistic to claim that this argument boils down to Republicans attempting to carve away at our first amendment rights to fit their own morality.
The internet holds a vast amount of pornography that is so crude it can not be placed on news stands. Of that number there is a percentage of this content that is and was illegal well before the popularity of the Internet came acrossed the country.
A large problem for these public places not that normal pornography would be acessable to minors, but that the illegal type would be availble to everyone.
If JohnDoe access child porn from a library and the police arrest him on his way home from the library can the library be sued for letting him access it? Normal people would say of course not. But the court system is fill of libal cases that Slashdot readers think are too stupid to goto trial.. and every case costs money.
Of course this is just my wonderings about the subject.
Ok, so what happens when you live in an apartment in the inner city and one of the neighboring businesses decided that they wish to use this technology to make their restaurant peaceful for the customers?
It would be reasonable for a school system to quickly adopt this technology to keep their students from using cell phones while in school, so happens to the homes that are close these schools?
I like everyone on Slashdot think certain people should have a comet hit them for using their cell phones at the wrong place and wrong time, but I don't know about this.
In the past I would have commented on how communism is stupid and is screwing everything up.
Now I see this article and can't help but think how long before the US government bans computer sales in favor of more controllable set top boxes for everything. =/