It's grossly irresponsible for the modern internet to circulate e-mail without deploying an industry-wide standard spam filtering system. If everybody uses the same spam filtering system, and it was a global standard, then we wouldn't have to worry about unpredictable mail delivery problems. It's just common sense.
While we are at it, it's high time that flying ponies were standardized across all little girl's bedrooms. There is absolutely no reason why some of them should be pink, while others are purple and painted with stars. This reflects economic inequality among these young humans, and we should fix it immediately.
One of these days, I'll probably drop $600 on a decent 32-inch widescreen, but right now I've got a 32-inch analog that accepts nothing better than S-Video. It is IMPOSSIBLE to get a set-top box that handles aspect ratio problems at the moment... They just don't make them. I returned Samsung's nice tuner just today because of this problem.
It sucks, because I really want to get decent reception, and where I live that's nearly impossible with analog. Ghosting, interference, strange problems just don't go away with analog, but if you do get a digital signal (which seems to be much easier), at least it will be clear.
"We were surprised about the size and sophistication," Marcus Cohen (anti-piracy counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America) said, standing in a steady drizzle Saturday afternoon at the chain-link fence that surrounds M&M. "It's something we are going to be paying very close attention to, finding who has a replication machine that shouldn't."
Wait.... There are people how have replication machines that shouldn't? Is there a law against this? Only thy member of thouest recording industries shalt have duplicator machines?
Go jump in a lake, Mr. Cohen. Same goes to the rest of the RIAA.
"Sgt. Paul Wandell, Beaverton police spokesman, said officers seized more than 50,000 items worth about $758,000"
In other words, $15 per item for knock off and counterfeit items, including CDs and DVDs with allegedly unauthorized copyrighted material... Bull. I say alleged because I'm guessing that there were plenty of hip hop mixtapes that are technically illegal but in reality supported by the marketing arms of various record companies, stuff that would never sell for more than a few bucks each. Or maybe illegally imported (but not illegal to own or sell in, say, China) DVDs... Let's face it, the movie studios have certainly perverted justice and the law in order to sell their stuff for $20 a disc in Wal-Mart, so I'm not crying a river for them. It's certainly not a price anyone would pay in a real free market.
Then there's purses, handbags, stereo equipment, all knock-offs... The assumption behind that $758,000 figure is that people would pay so many thousands of dollars for a Gucci bag, whatever that is, and selling a $20 knock off will hurt sales on behalf of Gucci.
Let's revise the statement above.... 50,000 items of merchandise at a value of, say $150,000 in market value might be more realistic. I can't see anyone sticking their neck out to sell that many items at a flea market for less than that.:)
Bill Gates may be chairman of Microsoft, but CEO Balmer is certainly a capable chair-man in his own right.... Please don't let Balmer anywhere near the Chief of Staff position.
I agreed with you up to the end of your first sentence... "... lobbyists will make sure that laws gets passed to protect them."
Those new laws or whatever legistlation won't be protecting us. Rather, I suspect that the government will keep Microsoft out of court in exchange for agreements not to leverage their own patent portfolio against other American companies, leading to an eventual federalization of the patent system. American companies will be able to use american technologies however they wish, and instead of defending it against against foreign interests (a futile proposition in reality), the new PIAA (Patent Industry Association of America) will trade American tech for stuf like common credits and world bank debt. Mark my words, 10 years, max.
Official response? Expect something along the lines of "We are trying to determine if we do indeed host this 'ICQ' service and who would be in charge, but chances are, we either fired them or that quit years ago."
Such a bunch of hot air.... I've done my time in a handful of projects, and would love to get more done and a lot of rough edges squared away in a very specific, visual spot of the desktop. My problem was lack of money... not just the fact that what I was doing had almost no ties to any "open-source money" at all, but the market has been quite a dog, and in my town I took a year away from programming and IT work to try my hand in the production department of a newspaper, in all places. Switching careers like that can kill motivation on an open-source project.
Without getting too personal, all I will say is that the vast majority money invested into open source is anything but... It's invested into companies that have a handful of people working on a handful of high-profile cases, usually doing a 20% job: 20% on open source, and 80% on projects that actually bring in cash.
Now, back to the article, those links support anything but what the/. post is talking about. Nagios being abused, and commercializtion of software itself killing open source... Taking open source projects and investing in project that build on top of that foundation.
No, I'm simply saying that people should consider their environment before they take action, rather than pretending that they live in a perfect world where a choice they make would be of no consquence to others around them.
High school kids should certainly be savvy enough to know better, to know what they are getting into whenever they turn in essays like that. These essays are often labeled as a "cry for help" because very, very few students would be so naive to think that there wouldn't be consquences for that... My fear is that high school students are indeed becoming more naive, so yeah, you might have a point... It's been well over a decade since I've been in school.:)
Well, that a problem with my POV, I can't help but think that anyone who recklessly flies in the face of Darwinism and Murphy's law generally deserve what's coming to them. When I said that those kids deserve incarceration, I seriously only meant that in a "They should definitely know better" way, not a laws in the "Land of the Free" way.:)
And, yeah, I'd say the Saudi Arabian woman would deserve it, unless she really did not know the law of the land or was simply unable to cope with the standard of living imposed on women over there (entirely plausible, but far from the norm it seems), but that's another topic.:)
I'm also just saying that the kids writing these essays are completely out of their element most of the time and don't realize how good (or bad) they've got it.
We certainly shouldn't be surprised when an ill-adjusted high school kid gets arrested for being stupid (turning in an essay that scares a public school teacher, no matter what the teacher _said_, is 100% stupid)... And yet, I think "Shaun of the Dead", a great movie that says more about life than any other zombie move I've ever seen, is the perfect vehicle for what I'm driving at. We aren't really all that darned different and special, even when we are undead, and there's nothing terribly bad about being rather ordinary. Just enjoy life while you can.... and don't completely trust your teacher.
No, but they are what a student should expect if they suffer from self pity and bad writing. A student should not completely trust public school teachers in the US, nor should they place so much importance on what they think nor the value of their thoughts. Most US students these days would benefit from a bit of manual labor and poverty to put things in perspctive... They are writing from a position that is almost completely artificial when you consider the history of the world. The works of those like Edgar Allen Poe should come from those who have actually lived a hard life, not namby-pamby suburban pansies.:)
I'm not advocating anything except that kids know what they are getting into whenever they do an essay like this and turn it in to a public school teacher... I'm not saying it's right at all. I am saying that they'd better get smart and realize that the "You are a special ray of sunshine" line is nothing but a lie in their eyes, and that they will get called on for being "different".
How exactly does that make me a stain on society? I truly value freedom, and think that anyone dumb enough to turn in a paper like that shouldn't be such a wuss and go crying to the media when they get arrested. It shows how intellectually pathetic they are. If anything, they should wear those charges like a badge of honor, knowing that they took a stand for and got arrested because of what they believe in.
I'm just arguing that kids take the blinders off and realize that when a teacher asks for unlimited creativity, they are only trying to motivate... They dont' really want what they are asking for, but it'll work 99% of the time.
"Pent up rage has never resulted in anything detrimental."
It usually doesn't... Emotions fade, including rage. It gets worse if one is actively determined to make it worse.
If someone can't see that their hatred for others is dangerous and needs to be kept in check, perhaps they need to relax with TV and a beer. Somewhere along the way, hopefully they'll realize that no matter how painfully conformist it seems, they really aren't all that different than everybody else.
Kids, listen up... Sure, early on, your teachers taught you when you were young that few things are more precious and valuable than your thoughts and the ability to speak out. However, they neglected to tell you one thing: Nobody trusts you, and trust and respect must be earned.
When you grow up to be a strapping young high school student, and you decide to show up to class decked out in black from head to toe, just remember that when it comes time to right that essay about killing your classmates by assaulting them with dead crows, know this: They will lock you up and start treating you for mental illness. Guess what... you would deserve it. Unless you have a whopping body of literary work that shows how well you understand everything about life and soceity and the need to put your righteous misanthrope tendencies in check in deference to self-preservation, you have two choices: Keep it to yourself, eat pizza and get over it... Or go ahead and release your unreadable junk. Hopefully, someone will be appaled enough to take the steps that lead to treatment and recovery, where you realize that just because everybody else stinks doesn't mean that you have to punish them for it. Sometimes, unfortunately, that doesn't work, and you'll take silence for acceptance and escalate, like the idiot at Virignia Tech did.
On request, I tossed together Google Notes for my brother, who maintains it and gets all of the hate mail whenever my server happens to go down. It was a simple app to do, all in Ruby on Rails, but once upon a time the site broken for no reason at all. As it turns out, google changed something in the request string, adding a useless "&&" on... This absolutely killed something in Rails, as splitting on "&" means you can't split one of those into a key/value. I've not yet seen if Rails fixed this yet, but honestly.... This is just a silly story about an ig experience.
Okay, now, come on. These are really large circuit boards with a whole lot of LEDs soldered on to them. Nothing more, unless there are some other really messed up packages out there that haven't been reported on. Those officials sound like they have features consistent with smart police officers, in that they breathe and eat, but the similarities probably end there.
Anybody who manages to get themselves targetted and bullied online deserves to have their internet user license revoked, their AOL CDs smashed, and forced to take a defensive surfing class taught by Bobo the circus ape.
From Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you. Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum. Panama Hat: So do you.
I haven't looked into it yet (my daughter just got her DS for Christmas, and it's hard enough resisting the urge to pop in Advance Wars whenever it's unused), but looking here and elsewhere, I can't help but think that the bootloading equipment might be more convient but not exactly necessary... Downloading a homebrew through your laptop's wireless into your DS seems less seedy.
To the grandparent, official development isn't even a possibilty on your own unless you've got 20,000 and a decent portfolio of some sort.:)
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It's grossly irresponsible for the modern internet to circulate e-mail without deploying an industry-wide standard spam filtering system. If everybody uses the same spam filtering system, and it was a global standard, then we wouldn't have to worry about unpredictable mail delivery problems. It's just common sense.
While we are at it, it's high time that flying ponies were standardized across all little girl's bedrooms. There is absolutely no reason why some of them should be pink, while others are purple and painted with stars. This reflects economic inequality among these young humans, and we should fix it immediately.
One of these days, I'll probably drop $600 on a decent 32-inch widescreen, but right now I've got a 32-inch analog that accepts nothing better than S-Video. It is IMPOSSIBLE to get a set-top box that handles aspect ratio problems at the moment... They just don't make them. I returned Samsung's nice tuner just today because of this problem.
It sucks, because I really want to get decent reception, and where I live that's nearly impossible with analog. Ghosting, interference, strange problems just don't go away with analog, but if you do get a digital signal (which seems to be much easier), at least it will be clear.
Somebody call a whaaaambulance
"We were surprised about the size and sophistication," Marcus Cohen (anti-piracy counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America) said, standing in a steady drizzle Saturday afternoon at the chain-link fence that surrounds M&M. "It's something we are going to be paying very close attention to, finding who has a replication machine that shouldn't."
Wait.... There are people how have replication machines that shouldn't? Is there a law against this? Only thy member of thouest recording industries shalt have duplicator machines?
Go jump in a lake, Mr. Cohen. Same goes to the rest of the RIAA.
"Sgt. Paul Wandell, Beaverton police spokesman, said officers seized more than 50,000 items worth about $758,000"
:)
In other words, $15 per item for knock off and counterfeit items, including CDs and DVDs with allegedly unauthorized copyrighted material... Bull. I say alleged because I'm guessing that there were plenty of hip hop mixtapes that are technically illegal but in reality supported by the marketing arms of various record companies, stuff that would never sell for more than a few bucks each. Or maybe illegally imported (but not illegal to own or sell in, say, China) DVDs... Let's face it, the movie studios have certainly perverted justice and the law in order to sell their stuff for $20 a disc in Wal-Mart, so I'm not crying a river for them. It's certainly not a price anyone would pay in a real free market.
Then there's purses, handbags, stereo equipment, all knock-offs... The assumption behind that $758,000 figure is that people would pay so many thousands of dollars for a Gucci bag, whatever that is, and selling a $20 knock off will hurt sales on behalf of Gucci.
Let's revise the statement above.... 50,000 items of merchandise at a value of, say $150,000 in market value might be more realistic. I can't see anyone sticking their neck out to sell that many items at a flea market for less than that.
Bill Gates may be chairman of Microsoft, but CEO Balmer is certainly a capable chair-man in his own right.... Please don't let Balmer anywhere near the Chief of Staff position.
FWIW, I meant "Carbon Credits", not "common credits"
I agreed with you up to the end of your first sentence... "... lobbyists will make sure that laws gets passed to protect them."
Those new laws or whatever legistlation won't be protecting us. Rather, I suspect that the government will keep Microsoft out of court in exchange for agreements not to leverage their own patent portfolio against other American companies, leading to an eventual federalization of the patent system. American companies will be able to use american technologies however they wish, and instead of defending it against against foreign interests (a futile proposition in reality), the new PIAA (Patent Industry Association of America) will trade American tech for stuf like common credits and world bank debt. Mark my words, 10 years, max.
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Another user rings "I said what I wanted was more space on my account, *please*"
"Sure, hang on"
I hear him gasp his relief even though he'd covered the mouthpeice.
"There, you've got *plenty* of space now!"
"How much have I got?" he simps
"Well, let's see, you have 4 Meg available"
"Wow! Eight Meg in total, thanks!" he says, pleased with his bargaining power
"No" I interrupt, savouring this like a fine red at room temperature, with steak, extra rare, to follow; "4 Meg in total.."
"Huh? I'd used 4 Meg already, How could I have 4 Meg Available?"
I say nothing. It'll come to him.
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Official response? Expect something along the lines of "We are trying to determine if we do indeed host this 'ICQ' service and who would be in charge, but chances are, we either fired them or that quit years ago."
Such a bunch of hot air.... I've done my time in a handful of projects, and would love to get more done and a lot of rough edges squared away in a very specific, visual spot of the desktop. My problem was lack of money... not just the fact that what I was doing had almost no ties to any "open-source money" at all, but the market has been quite a dog, and in my town I took a year away from programming and IT work to try my hand in the production department of a newspaper, in all places. Switching careers like that can kill motivation on an open-source project.
/. post is talking about. Nagios being abused, and commercializtion of software itself killing open source... Taking open source projects and investing in project that build on top of that foundation.
Without getting too personal, all I will say is that the vast majority money invested into open source is anything but... It's invested into companies that have a handful of people working on a handful of high-profile cases, usually doing a 20% job: 20% on open source, and 80% on projects that actually bring in cash.
Now, back to the article, those links support anything but what the
No, I'm simply saying that people should consider their environment before they take action, rather than pretending that they live in a perfect world where a choice they make would be of no consquence to others around them.
High school kids should certainly be savvy enough to know better, to know what they are getting into whenever they turn in essays like that. These essays are often labeled as a "cry for help" because very, very few students would be so naive to think that there wouldn't be consquences for that... My fear is that high school students are indeed becoming more naive, so yeah, you might have a point... It's been well over a decade since I've been in school. :)
Well, that a problem with my POV, I can't help but think that anyone who recklessly flies in the face of Darwinism and Murphy's law generally deserve what's coming to them. When I said that those kids deserve incarceration, I seriously only meant that in a "They should definitely know better" way, not a laws in the "Land of the Free" way. :)
:)
And, yeah, I'd say the Saudi Arabian woman would deserve it, unless she really did not know the law of the land or was simply unable to cope with the standard of living imposed on women over there (entirely plausible, but far from the norm it seems), but that's another topic.
I'm also just saying that the kids writing these essays are completely out of their element most of the time and don't realize how good (or bad) they've got it.
We certainly shouldn't be surprised when an ill-adjusted high school kid gets arrested for being stupid (turning in an essay that scares a public school teacher, no matter what the teacher _said_, is 100% stupid)... And yet, I think "Shaun of the Dead", a great movie that says more about life than any other zombie move I've ever seen, is the perfect vehicle for what I'm driving at. We aren't really all that darned different and special, even when we are undead, and there's nothing terribly bad about being rather ordinary. Just enjoy life while you can.... and don't completely trust your teacher.
No, but they are what a student should expect if they suffer from self pity and bad writing. A student should not completely trust public school teachers in the US, nor should they place so much importance on what they think nor the value of their thoughts. Most US students these days would benefit from a bit of manual labor and poverty to put things in perspctive... They are writing from a position that is almost completely artificial when you consider the history of the world. The works of those like Edgar Allen Poe should come from those who have actually lived a hard life, not namby-pamby suburban pansies. :)
I'm not advocating anything except that kids know what they are getting into whenever they do an essay like this and turn it in to a public school teacher... I'm not saying it's right at all. I am saying that they'd better get smart and realize that the "You are a special ray of sunshine" line is nothing but a lie in their eyes, and that they will get called on for being "different".
How exactly does that make me a stain on society? I truly value freedom, and think that anyone dumb enough to turn in a paper like that shouldn't be such a wuss and go crying to the media when they get arrested. It shows how intellectually pathetic they are. If anything, they should wear those charges like a badge of honor, knowing that they took a stand for and got arrested because of what they believe in.
I'm just arguing that kids take the blinders off and realize that when a teacher asks for unlimited creativity, they are only trying to motivate... They dont' really want what they are asking for, but it'll work 99% of the time.
"Pent up rage has never resulted in anything detrimental."
It usually doesn't... Emotions fade, including rage. It gets worse if one is actively determined to make it worse.
If someone can't see that their hatred for others is dangerous and needs to be kept in check, perhaps they need to relax with TV and a beer. Somewhere along the way, hopefully they'll realize that no matter how painfully conformist it seems, they really aren't all that different than everybody else.
Kids, listen up... Sure, early on, your teachers taught you when you were young that few things are more precious and valuable than your thoughts and the ability to speak out. However, they neglected to tell you one thing: Nobody trusts you, and trust and respect must be earned.
When you grow up to be a strapping young high school student, and you decide to show up to class decked out in black from head to toe, just remember that when it comes time to right that essay about killing your classmates by assaulting them with dead crows, know this: They will lock you up and start treating you for mental illness. Guess what... you would deserve it. Unless you have a whopping body of literary work that shows how well you understand everything about life and soceity and the need to put your righteous misanthrope tendencies in check in deference to self-preservation, you have two choices: Keep it to yourself, eat pizza and get over it... Or go ahead and release your unreadable junk. Hopefully, someone will be appaled enough to take the steps that lead to treatment and recovery, where you realize that just because everybody else stinks doesn't mean that you have to punish them for it. Sometimes, unfortunately, that doesn't work, and you'll take silence for acceptance and escalate, like the idiot at Virignia Tech did.
On request, I tossed together Google Notes for my brother, who maintains it and gets all of the hate mail whenever my server happens to go down. It was a simple app to do, all in Ruby on Rails, but once upon a time the site broken for no reason at all. As it turns out, google changed something in the request string, adding a useless "&&" on... This absolutely killed something in Rails, as splitting on "&" means you can't split one of those into a key/value. I've not yet seen if Rails fixed this yet, but honestly.... This is just a silly story about an ig experience.
Blah.
'In 2000 after picketing a Scientology complex, he was arrested as a threat because of a joke Usenet post about "Tom Cruise Missiles."'
I thought people only read Usenet for the pictures.
One of the articles I read said:
'Officials said it contained an electronic circuit board with some components that were "consistent with an improvised explosive device,"'
Okay, now, come on. These are really large circuit boards with a whole lot of LEDs soldered on to them. Nothing more, unless there are some other really messed up packages out there that haven't been reported on. Those officials sound like they have features consistent with smart police officers, in that they breathe and eat, but the similarities probably end there.
Anybody who manages to get themselves targetted and bullied online deserves to have their internet user license revoked, their AOL CDs smashed, and forced to take a defensive surfing class taught by Bobo the circus ape.
From Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.
Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum.
Panama Hat: So do you.
I haven't looked into it yet (my daughter just got her DS for Christmas, and it's hard enough resisting the urge to pop in Advance Wars whenever it's unused), but looking here and elsewhere, I can't help but think that the bootloading equipment might be more convient but not exactly necessary... Downloading a homebrew through your laptop's wireless into your DS seems less seedy.
:)
To the grandparent, official development isn't even a possibilty on your own unless you've got 20,000 and a decent portfolio of some sort.