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All concerts (including those that aren't) are promoted and run by Ticketmaster and the recording industry. Just as evil, if not more.. TM has a crazy-ass monopoly.
Well, what we might need to make more clear is that reviews are not what concern us. It's using our logos next to overly foul, abusive, racist, etc. language or art. For example, we would allow our logos to be used on a porn site They -would- allow Duke to be shown having sex with some woman? Or is this a typo?
You seem to think that by not buying a console, we're saving Sony money... Say it costs $200 to make a console, and it's sold at $150.. either they're down $50 or they're down $200... I'm sure they'd prefer the $50.
The frightening thing is that if a vendor can turn you off from a remote location, so can a hacker...
You think that's the frightening thing? The frightening thing isn't having to spend an hour or two reinstall software a cracker *glare* trashed, the scary thing is when a company says "buy this $8 000 000 000 computer or we'll turn off your current computers." The real enemy is in the corporations.
Simple: The FBI will demand that you give them the source code. No judge will stop them from trying to convict terrorists because of some copyright you might have.
Judges, like legislators, are elected: until the public is intelligent, the government will never be.
all the targets are huge corperations that believed they were more powerful than the "hackers" and believe themselves above morality. Isn't it possible that they just attack these sites because of how big they are? I mean, if you want publicity, you don't nuke that kid in school who was mean to you, you crash the sites that are getting a zillion hits a day.
Katz is obviously a major player in our community, and I can understand and even agree with a lot of what he says... but damn, why doesn't he ever shut up?
In what he could say in a paragraph, he says in volumes.
Does anyone else have problems with it? None of the images will load for me ("Document contains no data" lies Netscape) and often I have to click a link twice because Netscape says "document contains no data" the first time...
I'm not sure if this is really a priority.. I used to think that we as a community should be out to beat Microsoft like the media always says we are, but now that I look back over the last couple years.. I don't care what Microsoft does, or how big their market share is.
I was a little bit unclear on this.. I didn't mean, we must crush Microsoft and stop their evil reign of terror. What I did mean was, there's only 100% of the market to go around, and if we don't take from someone else, we don't grow. The most obvious place to take from is Microsoft. So I used them.
This is my main beef with Linux... there's always the latest this and the latest that coming out of the community... why can't some coders take a break from working on the coolest, most bleeding edge stuff, and instead try making stuff a little easier?
If we want to take more of the Microsoft market share, we need more users.. when you compare how I can change my resolution under Windows with a single click, and I've still got X running at 640x480, now -there- is an area that needs work.
This is a huge discouragement for new users. You can't expect that when you say "this video card and modem won't work, and sound is really complicated to set up" they'll just go "oh, good, I have this extra $500 I needed to waste somehow, why dont I replace most of my hardware?"
You obviously don't understand what was said in the article. The article said, basically, that they were exagerating how important the PC was to the Internet. Why couldn't just exagerate this timeline of computing too?
"No, he never lies, he told me so himself." Unles, of course, you were joking;)
This is a nice little essay on why the people who wrote Quake were stupid, but it provides no solutions or even suggestions at where a solution may lie. You can say "So, in future, let's do this instead of this" but that doesn't help the problem at hand. The problem at hand is, idiots are screwing around on Quake.
Linux was, I'm sure, put on the list due to the sudden upsurge of popularity and fame regarding Linux. But, if I were choosing, I'd have had a hard time deciding who's responsible for Linux doing so well. Sure, Linus started it, but without many others, it probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere... The community as whole is self-reliant, and requires the whole of itself to thrive as it does. Linux is not now, nor has it really ever been, a one-person job, so it's hard to credit one person as being more important than others. Too bad it wasn't things to watch. I'd be much happier having seen "The Linux Community" instead of Linus.
Looking at the cracked page, you're definately correct. I have no idea why he would do that... I mean, given that it was all text, simply putting a.html extension on a text file would've worked. Any other ideas on why he might've done this, other than he doesn't know what he's doing?
It's possible that he's a programmer, and still just doesn't know how the WWW works, I guess... perhaps he had front page lying around on his computer, or one nearby, and used it rather than going to a website and checking the HTML to figure out how it works. Also, perhaps he thought it'd be a complicated language, and wasn't about to waste his time trying to learn it... I've never seen COBOL, but I still think it'd be difficult to learn in a short period of time.
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All concerts (including those that aren't) are promoted and run by Ticketmaster and the recording industry. Just as evil, if not more.. TM has a crazy-ass monopoly.
Well, what we might need to make more clear is that reviews are not what concern us. It's using our logos next to overly foul, abusive, racist, etc. language or art. For example, we would allow our logos to be used on a porn site They -would- allow Duke to be shown having sex with some woman? Or is this a typo?
You seem to think that by not buying a console, we're saving Sony money... Say it costs $200 to make a console, and it's sold at $150.. either they're down $50 or they're down $200... I'm sure they'd prefer the $50.
Now that the government has denied people the right to think, it's quite inevitable that Sony will shut these people down.
The frightening thing is that if a vendor can turn you off from a remote location, so can a hacker...
You think that's the frightening thing?
The frightening thing isn't having to spend an hour or two reinstall software a cracker *glare* trashed, the scary thing is when a company says "buy this $8 000 000 000 computer or we'll turn off your current computers."
The real enemy is in the corporations.
Moderators != censorship, idiot.
You are never deleted. Posts can always be read by anyone who chooses.
Moderation just lets users find the most relevant responses to the article.
That's the idea. They're still rich, so obviously all this stuff about us evil internet criminals is just propaganda. Pay attention.
Maybe all this nonsense will finally prompt the gov't to get it's act together with regards to patents and copyrights.
Get real - America is run by corporations. It took a hell of a lot to get them to act on Microsoft.
Remember that old discussion regarding what to do about open sourcing games, given what happened with Quake?
What came about from that?
Was there any solution, or was it decided that that was a challenge that we couldn't over come without a closed-source solution?
Everytime Katz posts, a bunch of people rush to post about how much they hate him.
We've all heard it, and we don't care any more. You've made your points. Stop talking about him, and start talking about what he's saying.
Simple: The FBI will demand that you give them the source code. No judge will stop them from trying to convict terrorists because of some copyright you might have.
Judges, like legislators, are elected: until the public is intelligent, the government will never be.
They suck. Plain and simple.
Not that I could make better tiles: I couldn't.
Not that I dont appreciate the work: I do.
But they're just swirled colours that happen to tile! Why is that worthy of a Slashdot article??
Did I miss something?
What on earth does "meme" mean??
Was there a slashdot article I missed explaining it, or are we just expected to know?
all the targets are huge corperations that believed they were more powerful than the "hackers" and believe themselves above morality. Isn't it possible that they just attack these sites because of how big they are? I mean, if you want publicity, you don't nuke that kid in school who was mean to you, you crash the sites that are getting a zillion hits a day.
Katz is obviously a major player in our community, and I can understand and even agree with a lot of what he says... but damn, why doesn't he ever shut up?
In what he could say in a paragraph, he says in volumes.
...of being honest, I don't think I'll just
assume that the FBI is being friendly, and
really cares if my computer if on or not.
Does anyone else have problems with it? None of the images will load for me ("Document contains no data" lies Netscape) and often I have to click a link twice because Netscape says "document contains no data" the first time...
"more adults" ?
Can't think of anthing to say, but screw you.
Age doesn't change the quality (whether high or low) of my posts.
I'm not sure if this is really a priority.. I used to think that we as a community should be out to beat Microsoft like the media always says we are, but now that I look back over the last couple years.. I don't care what Microsoft does, or how big their market share is.
I was a little bit unclear on this.. I didn't mean, we must crush Microsoft and stop their evil reign of terror. What I did mean was, there's only 100% of the market to go around, and if we don't take from someone else, we don't grow. The most obvious place to take from is Microsoft. So I used them.
This is my main beef with Linux... there's always the latest this and the latest that coming out of the community... why can't some coders take a break from working on the coolest, most bleeding edge stuff, and instead try making stuff a little easier?
If we want to take more of the Microsoft market share, we need more users.. when you compare how I can change my resolution under Windows with a single click, and I've still got X running at 640x480, now -there- is an area that needs work.
This is a huge discouragement for new users. You can't expect that when you say "this video card and modem won't work, and sound is really complicated to set up" they'll just go "oh, good, I have this extra $500 I needed to waste somehow, why dont I replace most of my hardware?"
No, the point being was that, of course they didn't. Just like the PC didn't matter as much as the article claims it did. You follow?
You obviously don't understand what was said in the article. The article said, basically, that they were exagerating how important the PC was to the Internet. Why couldn't just exagerate this timeline of computing too?
;)
"No, he never lies, he told me so himself."
Unles, of course, you were joking
This is a nice little essay on why the people who wrote Quake were stupid, but it provides no solutions or even suggestions at where a solution may lie. You can say "So, in future, let's do this instead of this" but that doesn't help the problem at hand. The problem at hand is, idiots are screwing around on Quake.
Linux was, I'm sure, put on the list due to the sudden upsurge of popularity and fame regarding Linux. But, if I were choosing, I'd have had a hard time deciding who's responsible for Linux doing so well. Sure, Linus started it, but without many others, it probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere... The community as whole is self-reliant, and requires the whole of itself to thrive as it does. Linux is not now, nor has it really ever been, a one-person job, so it's hard to credit one person as being more important than others. Too bad it wasn't things to watch. I'd be much happier having seen "The Linux Community" instead of Linus.
But good for him, nonetheless.
Looking at the cracked page, you're definately correct. I have no idea why he would do that... I mean, given that it was all text, simply putting a .html extension on a text file would've worked. Any other ideas on why he might've done this, other than he doesn't know what he's doing?
It's possible that he's a programmer, and still just doesn't know how the WWW works, I guess... perhaps he had front page lying around on his computer, or one nearby, and used it rather than going to a website and checking the HTML to figure out how it works. Also, perhaps he thought it'd be a complicated language, and wasn't about to waste his time trying to learn it... I've never seen COBOL, but I still think it'd be difficult to learn in a short period of time.