Or do that thing they did in X-Files with the DOD data tapes. Have entire Navajo nations memorize it and be willing to share it with the whole world if any one of them were to be injured (by the RIAA).
I agree with you completely. THe more they try to tighten their grip, the more people will attempt to slip through their fingers and sabotage the MPAA's efforts. The reason they were created was so the recording artist got credit for what they created. What does having a decent copy of, say, Jurassic Park when HBO broadcasts it digitally and you were not around to see it as it was broadcast have to do with it. I love hypotheticals.
-Adam
That's why I use Odigo on my windows box for connecting to both ICQ and AOL (and yahoo for that matter). I've got to admit, though, since AOL opened it's standards, using AIM through 3rd party software has been MUCH easier...
I truly admire AOL's attempt at trying to make nice with the linux-user community, but to be honest, what right-thinking human will install genuine AOL software on their linux box? I know some people who don't trust AOL enough to install a Netscape release! (OK, M16 it is.) After the debacle (and online debates) about AOL5 and how much it messed up Windows, I would be really, really surprised if any computer-literate individual installed anything with the AOL triangle on their Linux box at this point.
This is just my take, but I'd be interested in seeing why someone would want to use genuine AOL software for connecting to the AIM network, especially when AOL has taken down the barriers to their network.
When the faults of a device are in external modules (e.g. badly-written games) I understand completely! However, with the exception of an actual computer (regretfully), I have vowed never to buy a device that runs on a windows kernel. Windows crashes SO often, and I have never had another device "crash", or at least what I considered to be a crash. My stereo never crashes. My telephone doesn't crash. I don't need a souped-up Microsoft Telephone running a Windows kernel to manage the input of wav files into the computerized voice mail system to ever crash. My bedside clock doesn't crash, and my digital camera doesn't crash. My PalmPilot has never crashed----although I understand that it can, although it is always due to a software issue---but not the OS.
The point is, I'd stay away from anything, regardless how promising it looks, if the word Microsoft is within 10 feet of the packaging.
-Adam
Microsoft will never learn that any product based on a Windows kernel will at one time or another crash. PS has never crashed, Nintendo has never crashed, but XBox most likely will at one point or another. Heart and anethesia monitors never crashed, but I recently read in a NG about a doctor whose devices used Windows, and one day crashed mid-surgery!
Surgery is one thing, but I don't think I can survive if an intense game of kill the space-ships is interrupted by a BSOD. And what's worse--the more games you install, the longer it will take to boot!
Do you think that this bill could be sent to Congress, or would it not make it through alive without being mangled to the point of non-usefulness. Or worse yet, would that spam law/bill that was passed nationally about legalized spamming with opt-out options (regardless of whether the opt-out takes you out or just verifies that someone is actually reading the spam), supercede the new one in Colorado? If the two were to conflict over the definition of spam it would be a hit to computer users everywhere. Why do the bad guys always win?
The site is so busy I'll just have to catch it later on a rerun. Wait, can I use anymore memory-lane type words? I don't know. Nope. One's enough for me.
But the thing that makes this different from spam is that the sender pays. What a wondrous thing!!! The idiot sends out 1000 e-mails and then gets the postmaster general on his tail because he didn't pay a $41 bill for his messages. This is great. Personally, I wouldn't use it -- printouts defeat the purpose. But it could be useful in the longrun. Just don't give out the address to the college you are accepted to. Otherwise, you'll be spammed with 500 online credit-card applications!
If they were bright, they would have gotten some cheap (.3 cents per pageview) advertising on their site through burstnet.com or something, and then they would have been smart. This is some advice for non-profit hoaxers: if you post something cool to a science newsgroup that is original, it WILL appear on/. . Get your act together, and make money from ads. They really aren't that bright.
There is no reason for open source to mean free. The source code can be distributed freely, but an easy way to control licensing is that a required binary is the only "licensed" part of the software. This binary is accessed by the program independent of platform and contains registration information unique to that binary module. This "module" shows up in the program as registration information and should be unique to the program per computer (unique S/N). Very simple way for companies to make profit and track piracy. Who would ever suspect piracy on open source? Well, this would certainly help to curtail any that might occur if a company makes an open-source program and wishes to maintain a hold on licensing.
Well, wireless is certainly not the answer. Stay wired! Use a 500-mile extension cord and 500-mile phone cord. Sure, it may be a flaky connection, but you can't beat the price.
Well, on second thought, such a cord would be expensive, so if cost is important, you're screwed.
Now look at what they've done. Propogating televangelism. I can see it now: sendmoneyto.god or buythehelpof.god I wish they could limit purchases only to non-religious people!
Isn't there already an internet-based language? Granted, it uses Roman characters and English expressions, but the now-becoming-archaic LOL, ROTFL, , etc., not to mention the internationally-recognized:-), B-(,;-P, etc., are already an internet language. We could get more specific with HTML, Perl, etc., but wouldn't an Internet language that uses hard-to-understand symbols for emotions and English expressions serve us well in the 21st century?
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I'm pretty sure this site is official, but check out muppets.com. Does anyone know what the Swedish chef is actually saying?!
If you still have a copy of the page in your cache from before they password protected the site, perhaps you could upload and mirror it for those who have not already seen it (and maybe get some good slashdot karma...)? Thanks.
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DNA Replication = mass production of software?
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If they are actually able to get an RNA-based computer to perform computational skills based simply on sequences, then what is stopping them from creating sequencing machines that hook up to your computer, and the next time you buy some software it comes in a vial. You pour your little vial into your computer and up pops a new piece of intelligent software!
But then there is the issue of replication. Mass replication of the RNA would involve enzymes that are quite messy; 1 error per 20000 base-pairs. The term of burning software would evolve into replicating strands! Oh, what fun!
This is probably quite premature, but the possiblities of a molecular computer running on genetic code could also be the makings of a half-machine/half-genetic semi-artificial intelligence. Neat! What do you think?
Even if the gov. approves digital signatures, what will the standard be? PGP, which I've used for a very long time, has gone commercial with McAfee, and Verisign digital signatures also cost money. And don't tell me we have to learn how to write our names by moving a mouse either!
Seriously, there has to be a free option for personal online security, and someone should do something fast about it too! The fluorishing online economy does not need 14 conflicting standards all vieing (sp?) for the foremost usage in net commerce.
I don't necessarily agree with you. Although it could just be a backlog of background checks, for some reason I believe that it is more than that. I'm not a paranoid fool who thinks that the US government doesn't want the threat of competition to US companies. No. I think that it has more to do with the US's general approach towards application to citizenship/visa rights. I'm not really an expert on this issue, but if there is a general backlog for all applicants, obviously some people are hurt by it. However, those in the public eye, such as our Linux friend, may take offense that his application is booted to the top of the pile due to his celebrity status. He may claim that the US is doing this personally against him, or he may be just fed up with the whole system at all. Not to sound too holier-than-thou, but stand in line! You're not the only one having these issues, Linus! =======all i have to say=======
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Or do that thing they did in X-Files with the DOD data tapes. Have entire Navajo nations memorize it and be willing to share it with the whole world if any one of them were to be injured (by the RIAA).
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How about if someone just hacks the RIAA public relations web page and post it on there?
I agree with you completely. THe more they try to tighten their grip, the more people will attempt to slip through their fingers and sabotage the MPAA's efforts. The reason they were created was so the recording artist got credit for what they created. What does having a decent copy of, say, Jurassic Park when HBO broadcasts it digitally and you were not around to see it as it was broadcast have to do with it. I love hypotheticals. -Adam
That's why I use Odigo on my windows box for connecting to both ICQ and AOL (and yahoo for that matter). I've got to admit, though, since AOL opened it's standards, using AIM through 3rd party software has been MUCH easier...
I truly admire AOL's attempt at trying to make nice with the linux-user community, but to be honest, what right-thinking human will install genuine AOL software on their linux box? I know some people who don't trust AOL enough to install a Netscape release! (OK, M16 it is.) After the debacle (and online debates) about AOL5 and how much it messed up Windows, I would be really, really surprised if any computer-literate individual installed anything with the AOL triangle on their Linux box at this point.
This is just my take, but I'd be interested in seeing why someone would want to use genuine AOL software for connecting to the AIM network, especially when AOL has taken down the barriers to their network.
If anyone is interested in purchasing his autobiography, I just found it at Amazon: click here.
When the faults of a device are in external modules (e.g. badly-written games) I understand completely! However, with the exception of an actual computer (regretfully), I have vowed never to buy a device that runs on a windows kernel. Windows crashes SO often, and I have never had another device "crash", or at least what I considered to be a crash. My stereo never crashes. My telephone doesn't crash. I don't need a souped-up Microsoft Telephone running a Windows kernel to manage the input of wav files into the computerized voice mail system to ever crash. My bedside clock doesn't crash, and my digital camera doesn't crash. My PalmPilot has never crashed----although I understand that it can, although it is always due to a software issue---but not the OS. The point is, I'd stay away from anything, regardless how promising it looks, if the word Microsoft is within 10 feet of the packaging. -Adam
Microsoft will never learn that any product based on a Windows kernel will at one time or another crash. PS has never crashed, Nintendo has never crashed, but XBox most likely will at one point or another. Heart and anethesia monitors never crashed, but I recently read in a NG about a doctor whose devices used Windows, and one day crashed mid-surgery!
Surgery is one thing, but I don't think I can survive if an intense game of kill the space-ships is interrupted by a BSOD. And what's worse--the more games you install, the longer it will take to boot!
Do you think that this bill could be sent to Congress, or would it not make it through alive without being mangled to the point of non-usefulness. Or worse yet, would that spam law/bill that was passed nationally about legalized spamming with opt-out options (regardless of whether the opt-out takes you out or just verifies that someone is actually reading the spam), supercede the new one in Colorado? If the two were to conflict over the definition of spam it would be a hit to computer users everywhere. Why do the bad guys always win?
The site is so busy I'll just have to catch it later on a rerun. Wait, can I use anymore memory-lane type words? I don't know. Nope. One's enough for me.
or wine!
But the thing that makes this different from spam is that the sender pays. What a wondrous thing!!! The idiot sends out 1000 e-mails and then gets the postmaster general on his tail because he didn't pay a $41 bill for his messages. This is great. Personally, I wouldn't use it -- printouts defeat the purpose. But it could be useful in the longrun. Just don't give out the address to the college you are accepted to. Otherwise, you'll be spammed with 500 online credit-card applications!
If they were bright, they would have gotten some cheap (.3 cents per pageview) advertising on their site through burstnet.com or something, and then they would have been smart. This is some advice for non-profit hoaxers: if you post something cool to a science newsgroup that is original, it WILL appear on /. . Get your act together, and make money from ads. They really aren't that bright.
Who is for starting a petition to get this judge disbarred?
There is no reason for open source to mean free. The source code can be distributed freely, but an easy way to control licensing is that a required binary is the only "licensed" part of the software. This binary is accessed by the program independent of platform and contains registration information unique to that binary module. This "module" shows up in the program as registration information and should be unique to the program per computer (unique S/N). Very simple way for companies to make profit and track piracy. Who would ever suspect piracy on open source? Well, this would certainly help to curtail any that might occur if a company makes an open-source program and wishes to maintain a hold on licensing.
Well, wireless is certainly not the answer. Stay wired! Use a 500-mile extension cord and 500-mile phone cord. Sure, it may be a flaky connection, but you can't beat the price.
Well, on second thought, such a cord would be expensive, so if cost is important, you're screwed.
Now look at what they've done. Propogating televangelism. I can see it now: sendmoneyto.god or buythehelpof.god I wish they could limit purchases only to non-religious people!
Why doesn't the next slashdot poll deal with this issue, rather than having the andover folks wade through 1000's of posts on the topic?
Isn't there already an internet-based language? Granted, it uses Roman characters and English expressions, but the now-becoming-archaic LOL, ROTFL, , etc., not to mention the internationally-recognized :-), B-(, ;-P, etc., are already an internet language. We could get more specific with HTML, Perl, etc., but wouldn't an Internet language that uses hard-to-understand symbols for emotions and English expressions serve us well in the 21st century?
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I'm pretty sure this site is official, but check out muppets.com. Does anyone know what the Swedish chef is actually saying?!
Moderators: please raise the level on this posting for maximum visibility in the hopes that someone could actually post it! Thanks!
But then there is the issue of replication. Mass replication of the RNA would involve enzymes that are quite messy; 1 error per 20000 base-pairs. The term of burning software would evolve into replicating strands! Oh, what fun!
This is probably quite premature, but the possiblities of a molecular computer running on genetic code could also be the makings of a half-machine/half-genetic semi-artificial intelligence. Neat! What do you think?
Seriously, there has to be a free option for personal online security, and someone should do something fast about it too! The fluorishing online economy does not need 14 conflicting standards all vieing (sp?) for the foremost usage in net commerce.
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I don't necessarily agree with you. Although it could just be a backlog of background checks, for some reason I believe that it is more than that. I'm not a paranoid fool who thinks that the US government doesn't want the threat of competition to US companies. No. I think that it has more to do with the US's general approach towards application to citizenship/visa rights. I'm not really an expert on this issue, but if there is a general backlog for all applicants, obviously some people are hurt by it. However, those in the public eye, such as our Linux friend, may take offense that his application is booted to the top of the pile due to his celebrity status. He may claim that the US is doing this personally against him, or he may be just fed up with the whole system at all. Not to sound too holier-than-thou, but stand in line! You're not the only one having these issues, Linus! =======all i have to say=======