This is something that was given away for free, and no mention was ever made that future updates may cost money.
If I order pizza and get a free order of breadsticks should I be allowed to angrily demand another set of fresh breadsticks when they make more? No? Why not?
uh...I can't believe this is modded as "Interesting." The mail server sending the spam will get the 450 error and save the message to try again later, not the mail server of the domain faked in the headers.
jeez, learn the basics of how email works. If all I had to do to DoS your mail server was send it tons of messages and 450 errors don't you think this would be a HUGE problem?
Re:MARIJUANA IN NEVADA!!!
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I haven't read much about it, but I was under the impression that Nevada wasn't legalizing it, but was decriminalizing it. There's a huge difference. Basically, they just won't arrest people for possession anymore. This is definitely a good thing. Long before the endless war on terrorism, we had the war on drugs eroding our civil rights.
Your belief that people will do it anyway is right on the money. So why punish them? It is an actual victimless crime.
Looks like an interesting project. They're building a fully backwards compatible mobo which should support all existing C64/128 software. The best part is the CPU is 20MHZ and the Sid emulation will have 16 voices!
It's all only $200, and will fit into any ATX style case.
Who said anything about accessing these networks? He just scanned for them. If I walked around looking at phone boxes on the sides of buildings, I wouldnt' be guilty of making calls on them. I cant imagine at 2500ft. that he would be in range of one station long enough to even load Slashdot.
I mostly find this interesting just because it is. Ham radio fans still have contests to see who can bounce their signal off the moon, and who can contact the furthest stations. There are a lot of dorks out there, and we need something to entertain us.
A friend of mine used powergloves as part of a research project in college, and he said if you stripped out the sensors and mounted them on a pair of thin leather gloves they're MUCH more responsive. I dunno how accurate that is, but it would make sense that a huge rubber/plastic glove would affect things a bit.
No C64's "die" in the creation of the Sidstation. Elektron bought up every available sidchip on the market awhile ago. They stopped being made years ago, but warehouses still had boxes and boxes of them.
Simply put, these are some of the most innovative and unique electronic artists. Check out some stuff by Karl Stockhausen, for a glimpse at some neat electronic music from long long ago (early 60's and 50's)
Re:Leftist Propaganda **SPOILERS**
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I also love the fact that our precog friends decide to live on a farm at the end where they can read books. Because as every good bleeding heart liberal knows, technology and society are evil. Please.
Well, I took that to mean they wanted to live far away from society, so they wouldn't see any murders. At one point someone makes a reference to a 200 mile radius that precrime works in. So it would make sense to put them far far away with an ocean on one side. Best chance of them getting a good night's sleep.
I can see someone deciding to make all TV shows, as presented by the networks, complete with commercials, as a separate copyrightable object. This would mean that no one could skip the commercials.
While I understand what you mean by this post, it's important to note that making the entire show (including commercials) one copyrighted object would NOT mean you couldn't skip commercials. If I buy a movie and decide a part is boring, I can fast forward through the boring part without violating any copyright laws. Nor does it remove that boring part from the movie itself. If it did that there would be many more "phantom edits" of TPM floating around:)
But seriously, can you imagine the implications of violating copyright law by refusing to view something?
Right, I should have mentioned fflibraries.org isn't the most moderate of sites on the internet. But the article lists some things available at the library which I would not want my child to have access to unless I knew he/she were ready for that exposure. I'm not arguing we should remove things like that from libraries, but that perhaps either closer monitoring by parents or an "Over 18" section of the library is needed. Personally, I favor the closer monitoring by parents.
Yea, I'm gonna give you my email address. Don't think so...Besides, it's obvious from your postings you're trying to stir up discussion on Slashdot about the CWP and Sims, so why can't we discuss here? Because the discussion is with someone who thinks you need to grow up?
But more importantly...You may have expected a level of privacy on the CWP mailing list, but the CWP was (as I said) an informal group. Jim Tyre was not the lawyer for such a group unless he was the lawyer for all parties on the CWP mailing list. Something which I doubt. You can't claim he was the lawyer for a non-profit group that never legally existed.
So in essence, I don't have a crucial fact in error, you made a crucial assumption which was in error.
Did Sims do anything between 2 years ago and the beginning of the CIPA trial? Because it's not just the duration of your attacks, it's the continual nature of them. On second thought, I don't care if he did do anything to upset you. You should be mature enough to just ignore him. You claim to be 37 years-old, yet can't let something like this drop?
Finally, I'll end this as YOU should end your inane babblings, by dropping it.
What legal trust did he break? You keep claiming that, but I've seen no evidence of this. Jim Tyre posted on a mailing list who "Red" and "AF" were, not Sims. The CWP was not a real entity, only a loose informal collection of individuals. Sims had/has no legal responsibility to keep anything on that mailing list private.
If I were in such a situation I would talk to Sims rationally (not attack him and his employer repeatedly for over 1 year) and if nothing came of it I would LET IT GO. Especially almost 2 years after the fact. At this point the only "attack" I'd use against Sims would be to just say "Don't know who he is" anytime someone mentions his name to me.
Again, grow up and move on. Or as another poster put it:
Hey, Seth. Listen up.
Shh... don't say anything, just listen.
(silence)
Hear that, Seth? That's the sound of everyone who cares.
I believe that 1 1/2 years after these events I would drop it and move on. that is my answer which I don't consider name-calling. Obviously anything I say will be considered preaching by you. Move on. Harrassing former members of the CWP a full 1 1/2 years after the fact does in fact make you seem like a lunatic. I believe the multiple references to you being a "netstalker" and mentally unstable is just given further fuel by your continued attacks at Sims. Move on.
As for defending yourself, perhaps you should compare the site Sims runs with your own anti-Sims site. The facts just don't add up. He has emails documenting things which contradict what you've said on your site. I don't doubt that he made a poor decision by shutting down the CWP site, but I can't claim I wouldn't act the same way after repeated attacks from you.
Move on. Stop attacking Sims. Stop harrassing Slashdot to fire him. Stop being a netstalker and move on with your life. It's over, grow up.
You know, I used to be amazed everytime you told your story about Michael. Maybe because it's so shocking and tantilizing that someone on Slashdot would do something so evil. Then I read this. The more I reread it and see all your posts, the more I believe his version of events to be accurate, and yours to be the result of a raving lunatic.
Just drop it already. It's over and done with. Go back to your life, or at the very least try to start one.
Well d'oh. The point here is that one would generally consider a public library a place where one could let one's children go safely and without supervision instead of worrying about pornography and whatnot.
Perhaps this is a common misconception that needs to change. This article points out there are a lot of things available at a public library that are already regulated in the private sector. Music with explicit lyrics, pornographic stories, not to mention all the religious texts with stories of rape, murder, child sacrifice, and genocide. I was not allowed to go to a library by myself until I was 15 years-old, when my parents were sure I had the knowledge needed to deal with such material (although it was mostly because there were a rash of pedophiles stalking children in libraries.) Would you let your 10 year-old wander the local mall all alone? I would argue anything they encounter there would be far less likely to be offensive. But most people don't allow that, because it doesn't make sense to turn your child loose on the world alone at such a young age.
You shouldn't have to supervise your child every second of their lives, but our jobs as parents is to shelter them as much as possible until they are mature enough to deal with the "real world." An important part of that job is also preparing them for the real world by talking to them. The "sex talk" is one that gets a lot of attention in movies and TV, but we also need to be able to talk to them about pornography, violence, and other offensive things.
My only point in this thread before it rapidly degraded into people calling me a moron, is that in my opinion as a musician, a friend of quite a few talented and innovative musicians, and a collector of music Eminem is tired hiphop beats with poorly written lyrics which would fall apart without the use of "fuck", "cunt", and "fag." His music is nothing new. It's just a slight merging of shockrock and gangsta rap. So in essense, he's the blending of two tried and true marketing tactics.
I wouldn't call him a sell out, because I do not know what he started out to attempt, only that all he attempts now is to sell as many albums to suburban white kids* as possible.
I never said he didn't write his own lyrics, I asked if he wrote the entire songs or just the lyrics. I didn't know, so I thought I'd ask someone who obviously had more knowledge of him than I do. Apparently you misunderstood what I meant when I said "Ok, so did he write the music, or the lyrics?" Perhaps it is you who is babbling and has no reading comprehension.
Look, it's just a cycle all musical genres go through (and all genres in all art forms, for that matter.) Something becomes popular (hiphop in the late 80's), record execs latch onto it (early 90's) and within 5 years they've drained the pool of any decent artists in said genre. Then they continue to pump out mediocre versions of the original, until something new comes along. The early/mid-90's craze of "alternative" bands is another great area to look to for this. Nirvana hits big, suddenly every band in Seattle with a heroin problem and long hair gets signed to a major. Not that some of them weren't good, but by 97/98 that pool was drained. Now we have the current crop of alternacrap.
God, I've had this "discussion" so many times in the past few months. It seems everytime the subject comes up some highstrung fan of bad nu-hiphop jumps on my case because I'm stating my opinion (shared by many) that hiphop had it's last original breath of fresh air in the early 90's. I'm not trying to step on your creative toes, or insult you in any way. I'm just saying that musically "that ship has sailed." Not that you can't enjoy it, or millions can't buy new hiphop CDs, just that MUSICALLY the genre is very very tired. All the beats are the same, the subject matter varies VERY slightly, and the bottom line in the whole genre seems to be "write songs about offensive stuff, you'll sell more."
*: I used to live in a rather large city, and I rarely heard any new hiphop. Now that I live in a suburbs I can't go 20 minutes without a white kid driving by blasting the latest boring hiphop.
Do you really think Stan was a pop song? It was played on pop radio true, but I don't recall the last time J Lo or Ms. Aguilera (christ, even Limp Bizkit) performed a song about an obsessive fan who kills his wife and child in order to emulate his hero, let alone a song about the above performed in a tight narrative that weaves between the artist and the fan.
Yes, I do think it was a pop song. In my opinion anything he puts out is a pop song, because it is so obviously marketed from the ground up to sell sell sell. The fact that it was played on the radio even shows that the record industry (who pays the radio stations, and tells them what to play) thought it was a pop song.
It is very easy to see if he writes his own songs. Look at the liner notes, and see if M. Mathers appears under the written by credit. I believe it does.
Ok, so did he write the music, or the lyrics? Perhaps I am cynical, but it's not hard to believe the studio execs would buy off some songwriters to hold up M. Mathers as a genius. Sara Mclachlan is a perfect example of this. The studio hired a musician to "help" her learn to write songs. He ended up writing most of her first album, but the studio wanted to present her as a female musical genius, so payed him off to keep him quiet. I know the musician involved, and believe him 100%. In fact, he ended up suing her and the record company because they never did pay him.
As to your second point, many musicians have, as you so callously put it, "just held a microphone on stage". Are opera singers musicians? Are gospel singers musicans? I believe that your argument just insulted hundreds of artists, perhaps even some that you hold in a high regard
You stated he performed his own songs, which I took to mean he played an instrument. My mistake. But again, Madonna performs her own songs, but she didn't write any of them. I would argue that someone who just sings is not a musician, but a vocalist. If they play an instrument, or write music, then they're a musician. Not that being a vocalist is any lesser than a musician, just a distinction I make.
Finally, if you would like to dismiss Eminem out-of-hand for the content of his songs, then pass Go and collect $200. It's very easy to dismiss artists that put society's collective taboos and psychoses on display.
My whole point is that he isn't putting anything on display for any reason other than to shock people and make more money. Which is what makes him fall squarely in the "shockrock" category (perhaps "shockrap" would be a better term.) The entire current crop of rap and hiphop artists are just tired rehashed of the mid-90's crap. Someone realized it makes money, so they market market market.
I realize how pointless it is to argue with someone so obviously blind to what pop music is. Because that's exactly what Eminem is, POP music. No better or worse than Britney or the latest boy bands. You think his content makes him more thoughtful and intelligent? His content is obviously poorly written stories loosely strung together by words designed to get people upset (bitch, cunt, fag, slut, etc.) He's a marketing gimic.
but I think we can agree that a.) Eminem writes his own songs, b.) Eminem performs his own songs, and c.) Eminem has a command of the English language [his ryhming schemes, on a poetically-analyzed level, are very complex].
I won't agree that he writes his own songs. Were you with him when he wrote them? I think most people would be amazed at how little most pop musicians contribute to the actual music on an album. Madonna doesn't write any of her music, and never has. As for performing his songs, I wasn't aware he played any instruments. I thought he just held a microphone on stage, and occasionally performed goofy antics like dressing up as Jason Vorhees. Just look at the credits for his last album Doesn't appear he played any instruments. "primary artist" is a very vague term, one I would be willing to bet was invented by a studio exec.
His command of the English language is a very subjective thing, and at that point we're getting more into the content of his songs, not the actual music talent involved.
Bottom line, he's the current Marilyn Manson. Shockrock has been around forever, and has been very tired and dull for at least 30 years.
I don't think Eminem's message is scary, but his tired attempt at making really bad whiteboy hip-hop is. His lack of talent and musical skills is what scares me.
It's the difference between Jerry Springer and a decent show on A&E or the Discovery Channel. One is an example of "look! Freaks! You can't stop watching the freaks!" while the other is an example of serious analysis of a situation with real in-depth thought put into it.
I'm not sure why you think MacOS (and especially OSX) can't support cutting edge games. I have yet to see any Windows game that couldn't work on MacOS if the developers would choose the OpenGL standard instead of that DirectX mess. What specific feature of cutting edge games do you think MacOS can't support?
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My father is a "Joe Sixpack." He can barely handle unzipping files or hooking up his digital camera.
He can no longer buy 3rd party cartridges for his printer. This is affecting him.
Of course, I took the time to explain why to him. He wrote his congressmen last week
If I order pizza and get a free order of breadsticks should I be allowed to angrily demand another set of fresh breadsticks when they make more? No? Why not?
uh...I can't believe this is modded as "Interesting." The mail server sending the spam will get the 450 error and save the message to try again later, not the mail server of the domain faked in the headers.
jeez, learn the basics of how email works. If all I had to do to DoS your mail server was send it tons of messages and 450 errors don't you think this would be a HUGE problem?
Your belief that people will do it anyway is right on the money. So why punish them? It is an actual victimless crime.
http://www.go64.de/english/frames/frame.htm
Looks like an interesting project. They're building a fully backwards compatible mobo which should support all existing C64/128 software. The best part is the CPU is 20MHZ and the Sid emulation will have 16 voices!
It's all only $200, and will fit into any ATX style case.
Who said anything about accessing these networks? He just scanned for them. If I walked around looking at phone boxes on the sides of buildings, I wouldnt' be guilty of making calls on them. I cant imagine at 2500ft. that he would be in range of one station long enough to even load Slashdot.
I mostly find this interesting just because it is. Ham radio fans still have contests to see who can bounce their signal off the moon, and who can contact the furthest stations. There are a lot of dorks out there, and we need something to entertain us.
$75,000 x every intel PC purchased in the last year = ouch.
A friend of mine used powergloves as part of a research project in college, and he said if you stripped out the sensors and mounted them on a pair of thin leather gloves they're MUCH more responsive. I dunno how accurate that is, but it would make sense that a huge rubber/plastic glove would affect things a bit.
No C64's "die" in the creation of the Sidstation. Elektron bought up every available sidchip on the market awhile ago. They stopped being made years ago, but warehouses still had boxes and boxes of them.
Aphex Twin
Autechre
Squarepusher
Mouse on Mars
Simply put, these are some of the most innovative and unique electronic artists. Check out some stuff by Karl Stockhausen, for a glimpse at some neat electronic music from long long ago (early 60's and 50's)
Well, I took that to mean they wanted to live far away from society, so they wouldn't see any murders. At one point someone makes a reference to a 200 mile radius that precrime works in. So it would make sense to put them far far away with an ocean on one side. Best chance of them getting a good night's sleep.
I wish all I got was a blank movie. I spent 10 hours downloading AotC, only to discover it was a copy of Corky Romano!
While I understand what you mean by this post, it's important to note that making the entire show (including commercials) one copyrighted object would NOT mean you couldn't skip commercials. If I buy a movie and decide a part is boring, I can fast forward through the boring part without violating any copyright laws. Nor does it remove that boring part from the movie itself. If it did that there would be many more "phantom edits" of TPM floating around
But seriously, can you imagine the implications of violating copyright law by refusing to view something?
Right, I should have mentioned fflibraries.org isn't the most moderate of sites on the internet. But the article lists some things available at the library which I would not want my child to have access to unless I knew he/she were ready for that exposure. I'm not arguing we should remove things like that from libraries, but that perhaps either closer monitoring by parents or an "Over 18" section of the library is needed. Personally, I favor the closer monitoring by parents.
But more importantly...You may have expected a level of privacy on the CWP mailing list, but the CWP was (as I said) an informal group. Jim Tyre was not the lawyer for such a group unless he was the lawyer for all parties on the CWP mailing list. Something which I doubt. You can't claim he was the lawyer for a non-profit group that never legally existed.
So in essence, I don't have a crucial fact in error, you made a crucial assumption which was in error.
Did Sims do anything between 2 years ago and the beginning of the CIPA trial? Because it's not just the duration of your attacks, it's the continual nature of them. On second thought, I don't care if he did do anything to upset you. You should be mature enough to just ignore him. You claim to be 37 years-old, yet can't let something like this drop?
Finally, I'll end this as YOU should end your inane babblings, by dropping it.
If I were in such a situation I would talk to Sims rationally (not attack him and his employer repeatedly for over 1 year) and if nothing came of it I would LET IT GO. Especially almost 2 years after the fact. At this point the only "attack" I'd use against Sims would be to just say "Don't know who he is" anytime someone mentions his name to me.
Again, grow up and move on. Or as another poster put it:
Hey, Seth. Listen up.
Shh... don't say anything, just listen.
(silence)
Hear that, Seth? That's the sound of everyone who cares.
As for defending yourself, perhaps you should compare the site Sims runs with your own anti-Sims site. The facts just don't add up. He has emails documenting things which contradict what you've said on your site. I don't doubt that he made a poor decision by shutting down the CWP site, but I can't claim I wouldn't act the same way after repeated attacks from you.
Move on. Stop attacking Sims. Stop harrassing Slashdot to fire him. Stop being a netstalker and move on with your life. It's over, grow up.
Just drop it already. It's over and done with. Go back to your life, or at the very least try to start one.
Perhaps this is a common misconception that needs to change. This article points out there are a lot of things available at a public library that are already regulated in the private sector. Music with explicit lyrics, pornographic stories, not to mention all the religious texts with stories of rape, murder, child sacrifice, and genocide. I was not allowed to go to a library by myself until I was 15 years-old, when my parents were sure I had the knowledge needed to deal with such material (although it was mostly because there were a rash of pedophiles stalking children in libraries.) Would you let your 10 year-old wander the local mall all alone? I would argue anything they encounter there would be far less likely to be offensive. But most people don't allow that, because it doesn't make sense to turn your child loose on the world alone at such a young age.
You shouldn't have to supervise your child every second of their lives, but our jobs as parents is to shelter them as much as possible until they are mature enough to deal with the "real world." An important part of that job is also preparing them for the real world by talking to them. The "sex talk" is one that gets a lot of attention in movies and TV, but we also need to be able to talk to them about pornography, violence, and other offensive things.
I wouldn't call him a sell out, because I do not know what he started out to attempt, only that all he attempts now is to sell as many albums to suburban white kids* as possible.
I never said he didn't write his own lyrics, I asked if he wrote the entire songs or just the lyrics. I didn't know, so I thought I'd ask someone who obviously had more knowledge of him than I do. Apparently you misunderstood what I meant when I said "Ok, so did he write the music, or the lyrics?" Perhaps it is you who is babbling and has no reading comprehension.
Look, it's just a cycle all musical genres go through (and all genres in all art forms, for that matter.) Something becomes popular (hiphop in the late 80's), record execs latch onto it (early 90's) and within 5 years they've drained the pool of any decent artists in said genre. Then they continue to pump out mediocre versions of the original, until something new comes along. The early/mid-90's craze of "alternative" bands is another great area to look to for this. Nirvana hits big, suddenly every band in Seattle with a heroin problem and long hair gets signed to a major. Not that some of them weren't good, but by 97/98 that pool was drained. Now we have the current crop of alternacrap.
God, I've had this "discussion" so many times in the past few months. It seems everytime the subject comes up some highstrung fan of bad nu-hiphop jumps on my case because I'm stating my opinion (shared by many) that hiphop had it's last original breath of fresh air in the early 90's. I'm not trying to step on your creative toes, or insult you in any way. I'm just saying that musically "that ship has sailed." Not that you can't enjoy it, or millions can't buy new hiphop CDs, just that MUSICALLY the genre is very very tired. All the beats are the same, the subject matter varies VERY slightly, and the bottom line in the whole genre seems to be "write songs about offensive stuff, you'll sell more."
*: I used to live in a rather large city, and I rarely heard any new hiphop. Now that I live in a suburbs I can't go 20 minutes without a white kid driving by blasting the latest boring hiphop.
Yes, I do think it was a pop song. In my opinion anything he puts out is a pop song, because it is so obviously marketed from the ground up to sell sell sell. The fact that it was played on the radio even shows that the record industry (who pays the radio stations, and tells them what to play) thought it was a pop song.
Ok, so did he write the music, or the lyrics? Perhaps I am cynical, but it's not hard to believe the studio execs would buy off some songwriters to hold up M. Mathers as a genius. Sara Mclachlan is a perfect example of this. The studio hired a musician to "help" her learn to write songs. He ended up writing most of her first album, but the studio wanted to present her as a female musical genius, so payed him off to keep him quiet. I know the musician involved, and believe him 100%. In fact, he ended up suing her and the record company because they never did pay him.
As to your second point, many musicians have, as you so callously put it, "just held a microphone on stage". Are opera singers musicians? Are gospel singers musicans? I believe that your argument just insulted hundreds of artists, perhaps even some that you hold in a high regard
You stated he performed his own songs, which I took to mean he played an instrument. My mistake. But again, Madonna performs her own songs, but she didn't write any of them. I would argue that someone who just sings is not a musician, but a vocalist. If they play an instrument, or write music, then they're a musician. Not that being a vocalist is any lesser than a musician, just a distinction I make.
Finally, if you would like to dismiss Eminem out-of-hand for the content of his songs, then pass Go and collect $200. It's very easy to dismiss artists that put society's collective taboos and psychoses on display.
My whole point is that he isn't putting anything on display for any reason other than to shock people and make more money. Which is what makes him fall squarely in the "shockrock" category (perhaps "shockrap" would be a better term.) The entire current crop of rap and hiphop artists are just tired rehashed of the mid-90's crap. Someone realized it makes money, so they market market market.
I realize how pointless it is to argue with someone so obviously blind to what pop music is. Because that's exactly what Eminem is, POP music. No better or worse than Britney or the latest boy bands. You think his content makes him more thoughtful and intelligent? His content is obviously poorly written stories loosely strung together by words designed to get people upset (bitch, cunt, fag, slut, etc.) He's a marketing gimic.
I won't agree that he writes his own songs. Were you with him when he wrote them? I think most people would be amazed at how little most pop musicians contribute to the actual music on an album. Madonna doesn't write any of her music, and never has. As for performing his songs, I wasn't aware he played any instruments. I thought he just held a microphone on stage, and occasionally performed goofy antics like dressing up as Jason Vorhees. Just look at the credits for his last album Doesn't appear he played any instruments. "primary artist" is a very vague term, one I would be willing to bet was invented by a studio exec.
His command of the English language is a very subjective thing, and at that point we're getting more into the content of his songs, not the actual music talent involved.
Bottom line, he's the current Marilyn Manson. Shockrock has been around forever, and has been very tired and dull for at least 30 years.
It's the difference between Jerry Springer and a decent show on A&E or the Discovery Channel. One is an example of "look! Freaks! You can't stop watching the freaks!" while the other is an example of serious analysis of a situation with real in-depth thought put into it.
I'm not sure why you think MacOS (and especially OSX) can't support cutting edge games. I have yet to see any Windows game that couldn't work on MacOS if the developers would choose the OpenGL standard instead of that DirectX mess. What specific feature of cutting edge games do you think MacOS can't support?