There was another issue, where someone argued that pirating stuff prevents the global warming by decreasing the production of CDs, DVDs, plastic boxes etc., which I confused FSM with. Clearly, you haven't seen that before.
I know some kids who are extremely bright, curious, and for lack of a better description, "like to experiment". (...) I actually think (and hope) this kid's imagination and curiosity somehow gets channeled rather than squashed.
A Polish article, contrary to what is written in the one to which Slashdot links, mentions that:
14 y.o. Adam had already posed educational (forming) problems before the accident; he was playing truant frequently and had a juvenile probation officer over him.
According to the same article, Adam will be put for 3 months in a juvenile hall. After that period, psychologists will issue an opinion on him and his behaviour. It will affect the court's decision on the kid's future. I don't live in Lodz myself, so I cannot do anything more then just translating articles which appear in central newspapers and portals.
PS: Also, the city's name is not Lodz - see it on Wikipedia. Slashdot should really adopt Unicode.
This is precisely the idea behind i-names - sort of OpenIDs, but relying on an external database and not the DNS.
However, the business i-name for google hasn't been even registered yet... So I believe that the chances of i-names widespread adoption are pretty low.
Normal Internet users tend to rely on things that just work for them and find it too troublesome to set up complicated things like i-names (what's perfectly understandable). Unless any global IT corporation or government implements i-names and so forces their clients/citizens to use it, we won't probably see any of those utopian systems like i-names in action...
It's funny because I would personally choose HD DVD if I were to judge by names. It gives the impression of being just another rock solid format like CD-R or DVD-RW.
Blu-ray, on the other hand, sounds like just another marketing invention, without any serious consideration of the implications of its widespread usage, etc.
Actually... aren't music tunes, which can be expressed as nothing more than a number, copyrighted too?
Moreover, since the invention and advance of computers, everything you can see on the screen (not only 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0) is just a number. (This is precisely why I do not believe in Imaginary Property.)
This sort of practice makes me think that Slashdot could employ some measures of retrieving the end server of the posted URL (i.e. after all the redirects).
The trouble is that spammers would quickly avoid using popular and easy to see through (i.e. preview the end URL) services like tinyurl.com and instead use their own, more complicated, solutions. Would making the Slashdot engine follow the link and determine the end server, just as browsers do, be too CPU and bandwidth consuming? Especially that some redirecting services could link to an innocent and on-topic website for the first couple of minutes after posting the comment, just to fool/., and then start redirecting to a Web page like the Fohootvil thing.
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There was another issue, where someone argued that pirating stuff prevents the global warming by decreasing the production of CDs, DVDs, plastic boxes etc., which I confused FSM with. Clearly, you haven't seen that before.
A Polish article, contrary to what is written in the one to which Slashdot links, mentions that:
According to the same article, Adam will be put for 3 months in a juvenile hall. After that period, psychologists will issue an opinion on him and his behaviour. It will affect the court's decision on the kid's future. I don't live in Lodz myself, so I cannot do anything more then just translating articles which appear in central newspapers and portals.
PS: Also, the city's name is not Lodz - see it on Wikipedia. Slashdot should really adopt Unicode.
This is precisely the idea behind i-names - sort of OpenIDs, but relying on an external database and not the DNS.
However, the business i-name for google hasn't been even registered yet... So I believe that the chances of i-names widespread adoption are pretty low.
Normal Internet users tend to rely on things that just work for them and find it too troublesome to set up complicated things like i-names (what's perfectly understandable). Unless any global IT corporation or government implements i-names and so forces their clients/citizens to use it, we won't probably see any of those utopian systems like i-names in action...
It's funny because I would personally choose HD DVD if I were to judge by names. It gives the impression of being just another rock solid format like CD-R or DVD-RW.
Blu-ray, on the other hand, sounds like just another marketing invention, without any serious consideration of the implications of its widespread usage, etc.
Actually... aren't music tunes, which can be expressed as nothing more than a number, copyrighted too?
Moreover, since the invention and advance of computers, everything you can see on the screen (not only 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0) is just a number. (This is precisely why I do not believe in Imaginary Property.)
Fohootvil doesn't exist.
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This sort of practice makes me think that Slashdot could employ some measures of retrieving the end server of the posted URL (i.e. after all the redirects).
The trouble is that spammers would quickly avoid using popular and easy to see through (i.e. preview the end URL) services like tinyurl.com and instead use their own, more complicated, solutions. Would making the Slashdot engine follow the link and determine the end server, just as browsers do, be too CPU and bandwidth consuming? Especially that some redirecting services could link to an innocent and on-topic website for the first couple of minutes after posting the comment, just to fool /., and then start redirecting to a Web page like the Fohootvil thing.