Makes sense that the Konfabulator people would be making a move about now, given Vista's desktop architecture is going to have "gadget" capabilities built in.
People have already been talking in the desktop customization community that gadgets are going to destroy widget apps.
Why Yahoo! would pick this time to invest in a technology that MS is going to "absorb" is a bit confusing, though. Probably another Sonique-style, short-attention-span acquisition.
Not only did uninstalling kazaa not remove the program in question, when i found it (nice that they install it in the windows directory) and used their uninstall, it was actually running as a browser plugin and told me to close the browser. Very sad indeed. I suppose all the k1dd13s need to do is put a User Agreement on their wormy email and magically transform from dork to corporate partner. I think the alternate should be true; this should be made illegal and harshly punished. I shudder to think of the network stolen processor and network use at some education institutions when they turn this 'zombie maker' on.
a) ever tape off a movie or copy a cassette? To equate stealing a non-renewable object with information that can be copied unlimited times is avioding the issue. I steal a bmw, there's one less bmw, i deplete nothing by using napster. Lars himself stated this is an issue of pronciple and that the losses invilved are so miniscule they would never have noticed it. Go ask a bmw dealer how losing a z8 and not getting reimbursed would effect his overhead. b)There are no police chasing anyone. If you want you analogy to be correct, imagine BMW lawyers enforcing their own interpretation of the law, shutting down dealerships that people steal cars from because they allow people to test drive. Napster is a inanimate thing. if people abuse it, let the authorities handle it. If they don't then maybe it isn't as big of a deal as the bullies let on.
To me, the real issue is one of authority. If the justice system of this or any other country wants to pursue Napster or its users, so be it. The crime, in my opinion, is that in an area of very questionable and untested law, the indistry is being allowed to enforce what it believes to be the law, simply because they have an enourmous pool of resources for CIVIL suits. IF this is piracy, where is the justice department, where is the FBI kicking down dorm room doors and seizing OpenNap servers? With the exeption of a few notable cases in the DVD area of this fight, there has been little or no movement officially. It seems that cyber-law is decided more often by who has the legal resources to stay in the fight longest. If anyone was aghast at the Etoys thing, or the questionable tactics Microsoft used consistantly, then I would suggest using the same critical eye with this situation. More is being resolved with threats, and to me that is never healthy, no matter which side is right. This software is about intimidation, a big, ugly script kiddie with tons of money to play with.
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Come on... folks... when you get this quick to outrage it just makes YOU look silly...
Props to the great apes, they continue to impress... as do the author's of Slashdot article titles.
Not that I would download a newsgroup post with this title, or anything...
Makes sense that the Konfabulator people would be making a move about now, given Vista's desktop architecture is going to have "gadget" capabilities built in.
People have already been talking in the desktop customization community that gadgets are going to destroy widget apps.
Why Yahoo! would pick this time to invest in a technology that MS is going to "absorb" is a bit confusing, though. Probably another Sonique-style, short-attention-span acquisition.
Or could this have been a partial success, because it was partially a test of a system to autonomously seek and destroy satillites?
It was a pentagon satillite, after all...
Not only did uninstalling kazaa not remove the program in question, when i found it (nice that they install it in the windows directory) and used their uninstall, it was actually running as a browser plugin and told me to close the browser. Very sad indeed. I suppose all the k1dd13s need to do is put a User Agreement on their wormy email and magically transform from dork to corporate partner. I think the alternate should be true; this should be made illegal and harshly punished. I shudder to think of the network stolen processor and network use at some education institutions when they turn this 'zombie maker' on.
a) ever tape off a movie or copy a cassette? To equate stealing a non-renewable object with information that can be copied unlimited times is avioding the issue. I steal a bmw, there's one less bmw, i deplete nothing by using napster. Lars himself stated this is an issue of pronciple and that the losses invilved are so miniscule they would never have noticed it. Go ask a bmw dealer how losing a z8 and not getting reimbursed would effect his overhead. b)There are no police chasing anyone. If you want you analogy to be correct, imagine BMW lawyers enforcing their own interpretation of the law, shutting down dealerships that people steal cars from because they allow people to test drive. Napster is a inanimate thing. if people abuse it, let the authorities handle it. If they don't then maybe it isn't as big of a deal as the bullies let on.
To me, the real issue is one of authority. If the justice system of this or any other country wants to pursue Napster or its users, so be it. The crime, in my opinion, is that in an area of very questionable and untested law, the indistry is being allowed to enforce what it believes to be the law, simply because they have an enourmous pool of resources for CIVIL suits. IF this is piracy, where is the justice department, where is the FBI kicking down dorm room doors and seizing OpenNap servers? With the exeption of a few notable cases in the DVD area of this fight, there has been little or no movement officially. It seems that cyber-law is decided more often by who has the legal resources to stay in the fight longest. If anyone was aghast at the Etoys thing, or the questionable tactics Microsoft used consistantly, then I would suggest using the same critical eye with this situation. More is being resolved with threats, and to me that is never healthy, no matter which side is right. This software is about intimidation, a big, ugly script kiddie with tons of money to play with.
you could apply filters to email to catagorize by smell...your trash bin could stink to tell you it is time to empty it...