it depends on joe sixpack. i would offer the idea that the average 'joe sixpack' wouldn't read the note. and even assuming the note was big and bold and could not be missed, i would offer that he would not read it. and even if he read it, he probably would ignore it. and even if he didn't ignore it, he probably wouldn't understand the ramifications of it. and even if he understood all that, more than likely he wouldn't care. he just wants the stereo to listen to his MPAA and RIAA productions.
you seem to be missing the point. you are licensing the software, not buying it. it is a strange world, when you pay someone money and they ship you a physical thing, yet you do not own that thing, you own a license to use that thing.
i was going to ask 'imagine if computer hardware was the same way' and then i immediately realised we are definately moving in that direction. ditto for televisions, etc, anything which can access digital media.
zero-cost duplication is a beautiful thing. too bad it would destroy most 'modern' companies ability to function.
remember when 'modern' meant something like 'forward-thinking'? now it seems to mean the opposite. the modern age is over. something else is here, and it may be a dark age of information if these 'modern' companies are able to hold onto the past as well as they are trying to.
if you mean security through obscurity, that is more an invitation for black hat cracking by far than an open source security system. i think we've all seen how well security through obscurity works, and i for one do not want my identity published^H^H^H^H^H^H^H protected by such means.
yay, capitalism! all this is a reaction to the millions of shareholders' rights in this society. the shareholders can demand that the company not bleed out during a recession - and the company can only comply by firing half the workers.
Tech workers, many of whom came of age in an era of growth and full employment, are learning the lessons of the real world quickly.
exactly. welcome to the real world. this kind of thing goes on all the time, has gone on all the time, and will go on, and on. recently, the tech workers have been exempt from this.
it all reminds me of the quote by Martin Niemöller:
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out -- because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out -- because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me --
and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.
maybe we should have been paying more attention to the real world while we basked in our stock options and complimentary sports cars.
45 kg (100 lbs) dry mass including payload
200 kg (440 lbs) fueled.
over 75% of the launch mass is fuel. why haven't any companies looked to interesting technology such as high-altitude magnetic rail launches, etc, instead of our low altitude (read: heavy atmosphere) extended burn launches?
communism: a theory advocating elimination of private property.
totalitarianism: A totalitarian political system is dominated by a monopolistic political party suffused with the ambition to transform society, gripped by a single chiliastic and 'totalistic' ideology which pulverizes all rival and local belief systems, and which uses organized terror systematically to crush its opponents, maintains a monopoly of the mass media of communications, subordinates the legal system to political imperatives, presides over a centrally controlled economy, and is territorially expansionist.
should be fine. after all, it's not like there is a browser monopoly or anything... why shouldn't 99% of the people get their information gently sanitized by either MSIE or AOL?
i actually remembered that old password. but all my comments since 1999 are on THIS account... and i am pretty psychotic about checking for replies to my posts:)
great reply. it's people like you and the anonymous 'goatse.cx' poster (if indeed those are separate beings) who are ruining the web for the rest of us. not that i have a problem with any of it, and of course this place is as much your place to post 'you big fag' as it is anybody else's place to post whatever THEY want... but maybe it's time to grow up and become part of the solution, not the problem? eh? obviously you are smart enough to figure out the slashdot journal system, you could probably do about whatever you set your mind to do. so maybe instead of posting 'you big fag' you could do something worthwhile and add something of value to this planet.
but i guess 'you big fag' posts get some people off, or whatever, so they have value too. nevermind.
the point is there should be opportunity for other services. if 30 million hits are coming, that's 30 million opportunities to offer your services to somebody. the VA Linux umbrella supposedly has a ton of services, many of which are supposedly very needed by the very people who are generating those 30 million hits.
i guess my point is that they have the opportunity to do something more.
uh... hate to break it to you, but polls definitely run the country. from election to gallup to nielson to this latest - the thing about polls is that people listen to them.
at least, politicians who value re-election over doing the right thing listen to polls.
Slashdot Mirror
those of us who live in EST don't have to worry about DST :)
-sam
from the article it is clear that the 1 AM Eastern Time Friday is the correct time. And what is ET, GMT - 5, right? So it will be 6 AM GMT.
-sam
it depends on joe sixpack. i would offer the idea that the average 'joe sixpack' wouldn't read the note. and even assuming the note was big and bold and could not be missed, i would offer that he would not read it. and even if he read it, he probably would ignore it. and even if he didn't ignore it, he probably wouldn't understand the ramifications of it. and even if he understood all that, more than likely he wouldn't care. he just wants the stereo to listen to his MPAA and RIAA productions.
-sam
you seem to be missing the point. you are licensing the software, not buying it. it is a strange world, when you pay someone money and they ship you a physical thing, yet you do not own that thing, you own a license to use that thing.
i was going to ask 'imagine if computer hardware was the same way' and then i immediately realised we are definately moving in that direction. ditto for televisions, etc, anything which can access digital media.
zero-cost duplication is a beautiful thing. too bad it would destroy most 'modern' companies ability to function.
remember when 'modern' meant something like 'forward-thinking'? now it seems to mean the opposite. the modern age is over. something else is here, and it may be a dark age of information if these 'modern' companies are able to hold onto the past as well as they are trying to.
-sam
if you mean security through obscurity, that is more an invitation for black hat cracking by far than an open source security system. i think we've all seen how well security through obscurity works, and i for one do not want my identity published^H^H^H^H^H^H^H protected by such means.
-samsure sounds like *ALL* to me... but hey, AFAIK all the BSD code is used correctly in Windows.
-samyay, capitalism! all this is a reaction to the millions of shareholders' rights in this society. the shareholders can demand that the company not bleed out during a recession - and the company can only comply by firing half the workers.
exactly. welcome to the real world. this kind of thing goes on all the time, has gone on all the time, and will go on, and on. recently, the tech workers have been exempt from this.
it all reminds me of the quote by Martin Niemöller:maybe we should have been paying more attention to the real world while we basked in our stock options and complimentary sports cars.
-samgood point! i'd also add that you can also have a low IQ and still be smart in the ways that count.
-sam
as long as you are talking about becoming a perl monk, that's cool :)
-samif we outlawed cash, only criminals would be carrying.
a few of my friends actually ask for paypal money - strange people.
-samfrom transorbital's web page:
45 kg (100 lbs) dry mass including payload
200 kg (440 lbs) fueled.
over 75% of the launch mass is fuel. why haven't any companies looked to interesting technology such as high-altitude magnetic rail launches, etc, instead of our low altitude (read: heavy atmosphere) extended burn launches?
-sam
I have to admit I have never heard about this SSSCA thing before.
you must have missed this story on slashdot then.
-sam
let's see,
canada has roughly the population of california (around 32 million).
the us has roughly 285 million inhabitants.
quick bit of math gives that to be about 1 in 9.
-sam
uh...
communism: a theory advocating elimination of private property.
totalitarianism: A totalitarian political system is dominated by a monopolistic political party suffused with the ambition to transform society, gripped by a single chiliastic and 'totalistic' ideology which pulverizes all rival and local belief systems, and which uses organized terror systematically to crush its opponents, maintains a monopoly of the mass media of communications, subordinates the legal system to political imperatives, presides over a centrally controlled economy, and is territorially expansionist.
they don't look very similar to me...
let's see...
nazism, fascism, and totalitarianism...
well, i don't see any of those having any effect on 'communist philosophy', so no, the FSF HQ should not worry about being bombed (at least by GWB).
should be fine. after all, it's not like there is a browser monopoly or anything... why shouldn't 99% of the people get their information gently sanitized by either MSIE or AOL?
-sam
too bad the democratic party is also one of big business' bitches. but i think that was your point.
reminds me of indecision 2000:
gore: 'like bush, but towards the middle'
bush: 'like gore, but towards the middle'
-sam
i actually remembered that old password. but all my comments since 1999 are on THIS account... and i am pretty psychotic about checking for replies to my posts :)
thanks though!
-sam
great reply. it's people like you and the anonymous 'goatse.cx' poster (if indeed those are separate beings) who are ruining the web for the rest of us. not that i have a problem with any of it, and of course this place is as much your place to post 'you big fag' as it is anybody else's place to post whatever THEY want... but maybe it's time to grow up and become part of the solution, not the problem? eh? obviously you are smart enough to figure out the slashdot journal system, you could probably do about whatever you set your mind to do. so maybe instead of posting 'you big fag' you could do something worthwhile and add something of value to this planet.
but i guess 'you big fag' posts get some people off, or whatever, so they have value too. nevermind.
-sam
do NOT click on the cleverly hidden goatse.cx link.
especially if you are in a cubicle environment...
-sam
the point is there should be opportunity for other services. if 30 million hits are coming, that's 30 million opportunities to offer your services to somebody. the VA Linux umbrella supposedly has a ton of services, many of which are supposedly very needed by the very people who are generating those 30 million hits.
i guess my point is that they have the opportunity to do something more.
how can a company with a site which hosts 30 million hits per month not be worth anything?
-sam
Good thing polls don't run the country.
uh... hate to break it to you, but polls definitely run the country. from election to gallup to nielson to this latest - the thing about polls is that people listen to them.
at least, politicians who value re-election over doing the right thing listen to polls.
-sam