the RIAA is targeting companies that make a point to offer copyrighted music. there is also an interview with hillary rosen on news.com where she specifically says that they are not just randomly suing people.
in short, the assertion that they will be going after google is goddamned stupid.
a search for mettalica mp3z on scour looks like this, whereas one on google gives you this.
you can download the mp3z directly from within the scour 'interface.' that is NOT neutral.
in fact I think his integrity is almost impeccable.
The don't qualify it. Say that you think he's the greatest thing since sliced goatse.cx and get it over with. Why is his integrity 'almost' impeccable?
Its clear you dont know why money has such and influence on elections.
It's equally clear that you're incapable of disassociating yourself from some sort of dogmatic fantasy land where everything happens the way 'it should' because 'that's the way it is.' I won't argue that people should vote, nor will I argue that if every person in America who could vote, did, things might be a little better, but that has nothing to do with WHY money has an effect on the political process - that is more clearly and easily covered by the principal of 'greed.' See also 'graft' and 'corruption.' Money effects politics beacause politicians are people, and, surprise!, people suck. (See comment history)
thats because its *votes* that matter
Some votes count more than others. Voting at the local level has much more of an effect on your day-to-day life than at the national level - but kicking someone in the teeth for dealing crack on your street has even more of an effect than that. It's not a black and white issue.
The rest of your post is just drivel - I can't make any sort of point out of it, so why don't we just let it drop?:P
btw, i would give you the link, but your education is not my problem
Very original, and I will remember to thank god in my evening prayers that it is not.
-- blue, who originally spoke up in the positive for Sn. Hatch.
Therefore, by the law of deduction, it follows that a corporation is not a constituent, and you are, of course, wrong by saying Hatch did the 'M$' for political reasons. Maybe he's just a stand up guy, how about that?
don't play the logic game with me, chief. your "logic" and resulting QED would work great if america were a direct democracy, but it aint. it's a representative democracy. individual voters matter much less than large sums of cash. large groups of voters, as pointed out by the article, do matter, but only when really pissed off. even outside of any strict definition of america's political process, money talks. grow up.
if the RIAA were based out of salt lake and paid $1,000,000 per year in taxes to the great state of utah, do you think captain hatch would be so eager to issue them a spanking?
i would look up the excellent article i read a year or so ago about cappy and the M$ trial, but i'm lazy and your education isn't really my problem.
he is a republican, i am not. he is christian, i am not.
he gets it, so do it.
funny, how little it takes to make a politician look good these days.
don't forget that he's also the man who more-or-less led the charge against M$. he did it, of course, for political reasons - Novell, a constituent of his, got hammered into oblivion by M$, but, whatever. right thing, wrong reasons, yadda yadda.
The real topic in computing is the Cybersphere and the cyberstructures in it, not the computers we use as telescopes and tuners.
I think it's very nice that someone has the time to deliver this sort of speech with a straight face, but, well, fuck off. I am vastly more interested in how and why my computer works than in interacting with the banal masses involved with yon cyber-whatever. All that shit about an online community still involves humans, and the vast bulk of humans will always be less interesting that a nicely done for loop.
DB2 is faster than SQL Server on NT anyway, so you'd be biasing the results before you started.
Pencil, paper, and a floppy disk is faster than SQL Server, but I was trying to cleverly slip it past everyone.:P
I was suggesting Apache because it's what most people use. AOLServer, while a decent product, is in use almost nowhere. I think it suffers greatly from its name.:P
according to the bencmark results, it threads, so it's not apache. (pre 2.0) it says it's not available till august of 2000?
what the hell IS this web server? it looks more like AOL server or Domino (god forbid) than anything. It certainly is not apache.
OK, now I'm pissed off - you can't even buy a dell 6400 with linux on it, TUX doesn't exist.. Anyone have an answer, here?
there is no mention of it ANYWHERE on dell's site, and nothing relevant on red hat's.
so, here's my guess: you'll be seeing a product announcemnt for Red Hat's new web server here on slashdot in a month, and a lot of pissed off apache developers, since this is exactly the direction apache is heading.
unless these crazy bastards are using apache 2.0 alpha, and whipping 2k's ass left and right with it. that would be superbly funny.
actually, for it to be a REAL e-commerce test, you'd want one or two web servers and then a database server behind it. no one puts web and dbase on the same box, and the latency involved with network database access is very relevant in e-commerce speccing.
of course, what a nightmare that would be to configure for benchmarking.. i guess you'd have to use oracle on NT and on Linux, but it's a DOG on NT, and, as much as i hate windows, it just wouldn't be fair.
maybe SQL Server + IIS on the NT boxen and Oracle + Apache on the leenuchs boxens.
i can download a 2.4 kernel. i cannot buy an x-box.
speaking of which, who's up for porting DX8 to linux as soon as it becomes available, so we can put linux on cheap-ass Xboxen and run those nice games?:P
And the existence of trolls is a great big funny joke. If you like your forums sanitized for your protection, there's www.kuro5hin.org, tell 'em I sent you.
I made and then erased a mournful comment about k5n.. I don't want my posts santizied, I read at -1. i think you completely misinterpreted my reasoning - read on...
What are you, some christian religious freak who believes that everything in life needs some praise/punishment system, as if we're some base animals?
I have no issue at all with the existence of trolls, and I'm not going to bother explaining what a troll really is and why 'feeding' a troll is the opposite of what you do with them. Go hang out on usenet for a while.
Everyone else 'got it.' Maybe you should re-read.
I'm doing this because I'm very afraid of what slashdot has become, in wake of the OSM controversy. I fear that we have made a monster by encouraging Rob to develop a system that divides slashdot into 'posters' and 'trolls.' Things have obviously gotten out of hand. He is a good person, but persecuting someone for posting parody borders on heresy.
We have to stand up for OSM's, and our, rights. If we don't the slashdot that we all know and love will come to a disgusting, corporate end.
Please take the time to email rob and tell him how you feel about this.
no offense to jim, who was just posting some random and sort of mildly humorous comment, but this has to be the absolute most poorly moderated article i have ever seen.
come on, rob, emmet, tim, i know some of you READ this site on occasion - help us out here. can people who get meta-moderated down, give out fewer mod points, and take a more active role in the site.
or get rid of moderation. trolls do it for the attention - it's a little thrill, getting moderated down. it's gotten to the point where moderation, instead of being some sort of reward or punishment, is a great big funny joke.
i have a story about trying to build a usenet server out of those (hey, 6GB was massive when they came out) on an IDE raid on linux 2.3.. wanna guess how much it SUCKED?
ssh provides, by default, exactly the same amount of access to other user's data as telnet, as does sftp. they both just use unix permissions.
if they want to avoid letting people see other's data, they should do some root jail magic, and use a chrootable FTP server, like NCFTPd, which is free to universities.
the person who put together this review, if it is what the/. article says it is, should be sued for incompetence.
I still believe that the two extreme fundamentalists (from Arkansas, no less) are caricatures and stereotypes rather than genuine religious extremists.
The really great thing about most of the fundies I've met is that they ARE charicatures of an Xtian fundamentalist.
Being a fundamentalist Xtian, in the cases I'm familiar with, involves adherance to doctrine - and the sterotype of a fundie is someone who blindly obeys said doctrines.
I haven't read the book, but I don't see any problems at all with that particular characterization.
Being a somewhat liberal evangelical Christian, I personally know quite a few people who can be fairly characterized as religious extremists -- and they definitely would not take the actions that the book's characters take. So the subplot concerning them is weak.
Heh.. this just makes me giggle.
-- blue, slashdotting for spirituality without religion.
how many people were in attendance, in total, during the linux-oriented keynote? 144 might actually be a lot, if the total attendance was only 1000 people at that time.
and, i would like to see Kurzweil as well, probably more than John Hall, unless it's John S Hall, of course.
etc are now a mature software area, and with today's hardware we're almost at the point where brute forcing it will be a "good enough" programming strategy.
Wrong. Copying graphics to the screen one pixel at a time will _always_ suck.
And artists are, for the most part, a greedy and opportunistic breed....
... suddenly, i feel as though i'm being trolled.
well, reading it again, he wasn't saying that OSS can't produce the code to do the low level stuff, but, since i bothered to paste those links, i'm leaving them in.:P
one, because i've never actually seen any media site, linux-centric or otherwise, state those opinions. two, because it is often the case that people will post things like that to slashdot, thereby re-enforcing the incorrect opinion of people like yourself that the people who actually build/report on linux think those things. three, because god called the little " a quote character for a reason. it is designed to designate quotes, not generalizations.
i bothered to post because i don't want people like you representing your false opinions with the word 'we' sprinkled all over and further confusing people who may just be getting into linux into thinking that things are other than as they are. i did it because i care.
For the last year the linux-centric media (here included) have been blaring that linux is "ready for the desktop", "set for primetime" and "friendly enough for my dad"
Three quotes, zero sources. Give us links or jump out a window.
We are fighting a war.
Define "we." I just like being able to tell my computers what to do, and have them do it without umpteen billion goddamn confirmation boxes getting in my way.
I chose the analogy only to cover up my complete lack of understanding about sports:)
Slashdot Mirror
oh, MPAA, not RIAA. in any case, the rest of what i said, stands.
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blue
the RIAA is targeting companies that make a point to offer copyrighted music. there is also an interview with hillary rosen on news.com where she specifically says that they are not just randomly suing people.
in short, the assertion that they will be going after google is goddamned stupid.
a search for mettalica mp3z on scour looks like this, whereas one on google gives you this.
you can download the mp3z directly from within the scour 'interface.' that is NOT neutral.
have a nice day.
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blue
so there's no chance i will ever spend any money to put an nvidia card in any of my computers.
shrug. i mean, really, does anyone who USES linux REALLY give a damn?
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blue
you need this
there is a news.com article right now talking about just that.
click/a>
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blue
i'm with you on that one.. and, re: Carter - didn't he stop having anything to do with the X files like 3 years ago?
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blue
or is someone asserting that writers won't say bad things about free software because the publisher might give them... free copies of the software?
...
no, really.. come on..
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blue, who is obviously too stupid to grok zdnet.
quake III @ 4 frames/second with 4 matroxes driving it.
whee!
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blue
in fact I think his integrity is almost impeccable.
:P
The don't qualify it. Say that you think he's the greatest thing since sliced goatse.cx and get it over with. Why is his integrity 'almost' impeccable?
Its clear you dont know why money has such and influence on elections.
It's equally clear that you're incapable of disassociating yourself from some sort of dogmatic fantasy land where everything happens the way 'it should' because 'that's the way it is.' I won't argue that people should vote, nor will I argue that if every person in America who could vote, did, things might be a little better, but that has nothing to do with WHY money has an effect on the political process - that is more clearly and easily covered by the principal of 'greed.' See also 'graft' and 'corruption.' Money effects politics beacause politicians are people, and, surprise!, people suck. (See comment history)
thats because its *votes* that matter
Some votes count more than others. Voting at the local level has much more of an effect on your day-to-day life than at the national level - but kicking someone in the teeth for dealing crack on your street has even more of an effect than that. It's not a black and white issue.
The rest of your post is just drivel - I can't make any sort of point out of it, so why don't we just let it drop?
btw, i would give you the link, but your education is not my problem
Very original, and I will remember to thank god in my evening prayers that it is not.
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blue, who originally spoke up in the positive for Sn. Hatch.
Therefore, by the law of deduction, it follows that a corporation is not a constituent, and you are, of course, wrong by saying Hatch did the 'M$' for political reasons. Maybe he's just a stand up guy, how about that?
don't play the logic game with me, chief. your "logic" and resulting QED would work great if america were a direct democracy, but it aint. it's a representative democracy. individual voters matter much less than large sums of cash. large groups of voters, as pointed out by the article, do matter, but only when really pissed off. even outside of any strict definition of america's political process, money talks. grow up.
if the RIAA were based out of salt lake and paid $1,000,000 per year in taxes to the great state of utah, do you think captain hatch would be so eager to issue them a spanking?
i would look up the excellent article i read a year or so ago about cappy and the M$ trial, but i'm lazy and your education isn't really my problem.
thanks, and have a nice day,
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blue
orrin hatch for president.
he is a republican, i am not.
he is christian, i am not.
he gets it, so do it.
funny, how little it takes to make a politician look good these days.
don't forget that he's also the man who more-or-less led the charge against M$. he did it, of course, for political reasons - Novell, a constituent of his, got hammered into oblivion by M$, but, whatever. right thing, wrong reasons, yadda yadda.
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blue
The real topic in computing is the Cybersphere and the cyberstructures in it, not the computers we use as telescopes and tuners.
I think it's very nice that someone has the time to deliver this sort of speech with a straight face, but, well, fuck off. I am vastly more interested in how and why my computer works than in interacting with the banal masses involved with yon cyber-whatever. All that shit about an online community still involves humans, and the vast bulk of humans will always be less interesting that a nicely done for loop.
DB2 is faster than SQL Server on NT anyway, so you'd be biasing the results before you started.
:P
:P
Pencil, paper, and a floppy disk is faster than SQL Server, but I was trying to cleverly slip it past everyone.
I was suggesting Apache because it's what most people use. AOLServer, while a decent product, is in use almost nowhere. I think it suffers greatly from its name.
i'm curious about this tux 1.0, too.
according to the bencmark results, it threads, so it's not apache. (pre 2.0) it says it's not available till august of 2000?
what the hell IS this web server? it looks more like AOL server or Domino (god forbid) than anything. It certainly is not apache.
OK, now I'm pissed off - you can't even buy a dell 6400 with linux on it, TUX doesn't exist.. Anyone have an answer, here?
there is no mention of it ANYWHERE on dell's site, and nothing relevant on red hat's.
so, here's my guess: you'll be seeing a product announcemnt for Red Hat's new web server here on slashdot in a month, and a lot of pissed off apache developers, since this is exactly the direction apache is heading.
unless these crazy bastards are using apache 2.0 alpha, and whipping 2k's ass left and right with it. that would be superbly funny.
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you know you want soccerchix, dammit
actually, for it to be a REAL e-commerce test, you'd want one or two web servers and then a database server behind it. no one puts web and dbase on the same box, and the latency involved with network database access is very relevant in e-commerce speccing.
of course, what a nightmare that would be to configure for benchmarking.. i guess you'd have to use oracle on NT and on Linux, but it's a DOG on NT, and, as much as i hate windows, it just wouldn't be fair.
maybe SQL Server + IIS on the NT boxen and Oracle + Apache on the leenuchs boxens.
i can download a 2.4 kernel. i cannot buy an x-box.
:P
speaking of which, who's up for porting DX8 to linux as soon as it becomes available, so we can put linux on cheap-ass Xboxen and run those nice games?
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blue, slashdotting for SOCCERCHIX!
And the existence of trolls is a great big funny joke. If you like your forums sanitized for your protection, there's www.kuro5hin.org, tell 'em I sent you.
I made and then erased a mournful comment about k5n.. I don't want my posts santizied, I read at -1. i think you completely misinterpreted my reasoning - read on...
What are you, some christian religious freak who believes that everything in life needs some praise/punishment system, as if we're some base animals?
I have no issue at all with the existence of trolls, and I'm not going to bother explaining what a troll really is and why 'feeding' a troll is the opposite of what you do with them. Go hang out on usenet for a while.
Everyone else 'got it.' Maybe you should re-read.
I'm doing this because I'm very afraid of what slashdot has become, in wake of the OSM controversy. I fear that we have made a monster by encouraging Rob to develop a system that divides slashdot into 'posters' and 'trolls.' Things have obviously gotten out of hand. He is a good person, but persecuting someone for posting parody borders on heresy.
We have to stand up for OSM's, and our, rights. If we don't the slashdot that we all know and love will come to a disgusting, corporate end.
Please take the time to email rob and tell him how you feel about this.
thanks,
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blue, outed.
no offense to jim, who was just posting some random and sort of mildly humorous comment, but this has to be the absolute most poorly moderated article i have ever seen.
come on, rob, emmet, tim, i know some of you READ this site on occasion - help us out here. can people who get meta-moderated down, give out fewer mod points, and take a more active role in the site.
or get rid of moderation. trolls do it for the attention - it's a little thrill, getting moderated down. it's gotten to the point where moderation, instead of being some sort of reward or punishment, is a great big funny joke.
quantum... bigfoot... aaaaaaugh..
i have a story about trying to build a usenet server out of those (hey, 6GB was massive when they came out) on an IDE raid on linux 2.3.. wanna guess how much it SUCKED?
yes, exactly that much.
ssh provides, by default, exactly the same amount of access to other user's data as telnet, as does sftp. they both just use unix permissions.
/. article says it is, should be sued for incompetence.
if they want to avoid letting people see other's data, they should do some root jail magic, and use a chrootable FTP server, like NCFTPd, which is free to universities.
the person who put together this review, if it is what the
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blue
I still believe that the two extreme fundamentalists (from Arkansas, no less) are
caricatures and stereotypes rather than genuine
religious extremists.
The really great thing about most of the fundies I've met is that they ARE charicatures of an Xtian fundamentalist.
Being a fundamentalist Xtian, in the cases I'm familiar with, involves adherance to doctrine - and the sterotype of a fundie is someone who blindly obeys said doctrines.
I haven't read the book, but I don't see any problems at all with that particular characterization.
Being a somewhat liberal evangelical Christian, I personally know quite a few people who can be fairly characterized as religious extremists -- and they definitely would not take the actions that the book's characters take. So the subplot concerning them is weak.
Heh.. this just makes me giggle.
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blue, slashdotting for spirituality without religion.
how many people were in attendance, in total, during the linux-oriented keynote? 144 might actually be a lot, if the total attendance was only 1000 people at that time.
and, i would like to see Kurzweil as well, probably more than John Hall, unless it's John S Hall, of course.
most of those muds, by far, are based on one of two code bases, DIKU or lp.
all it will take are a couple of good modifiable FPS's and 2D adventure games to hit the 'net and it wil be off to the races, just like with muds.
IMO Games are one area where the GNU/Open Source Model is unlikely to work.
:P
Wrong.
Game engines
http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/
3D graphics
http://crystal.linuxgames.com/
http://www.mesa3d.org
etc are now a mature software area, and
with today's hardware we're almost at the point where brute forcing it will be a "good enough" programming strategy.
Wrong. Copying graphics to the screen one pixel at a time will _always_ suck.
And artists are, for the most part, a greedy and opportunistic breed....
... suddenly, i feel as though i'm being trolled.
well, reading it again, he wasn't saying that OSS can't produce the code to do the low level stuff, but, since i bothered to paste those links, i'm leaving them in.
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blue
one, because i've never actually seen any media site, linux-centric or otherwise, state those opinions. two, because it is often the case that people will post things like that to slashdot, thereby re-enforcing the incorrect opinion of people like yourself that the people who actually build/report on linux think those things. three, because god called the little " a quote character for a reason. it is designed to designate quotes, not generalizations.
i bothered to post because i don't want people like you representing your false opinions with the word 'we' sprinkled all over and further confusing people who may just be getting into linux into thinking that things are other than as they are. i did it because i care.
i even care about you!
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rita, in place of binkie, in place of blue.
For the last year the linux-centric media (here included) have been blaring that linux is "ready for the desktop", "set for primetime" and "friendly enough for my dad"
:)
:)
Three quotes, zero sources. Give us links or jump out a window.
We are fighting a war.
Define "we." I just like being able to tell my computers what to do, and have them do it without umpteen billion goddamn confirmation boxes getting in my way.
I chose the analogy only to cover up my complete lack of understanding about sports
And the average linux user.
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more of binkie, posting for blue.