You see, I am the guy who actually clicks through the ads to go to the advertised sites. If it weren't for me, then no traffic would be generated by the ads and hense no advertising revenue.
I think I di this because I really like to screw people over.
Also, I don't use squid or other technologies to block the pop-up ads because doingso would spoil all of my fun.
I also like to drive 45 MPH on the highway during rush hour while I yammer away on my cell phone.
Actually, I am quite relieved. My biggest problem with X was that I could only connect to it from 4 billion different machines. Now, with IPv6, I can connect to it from 16quatrillion machines.
But since I trust all of my users, there is no reason to put it behind the firewall!!!
Their sales probably haven't really dipped, they are just shelling out more dough to lawyers and kazaa users which is cutting into their bottom line.
So, if they set up a honeypot to catch people downloading from THEIR servers, could they do anything? I mean, THEY own the license and THEY are distributing.... and if they hire someone to trap you, aren't you downloading from their licensed distributor?
I mean, it's not like the police catching drug dealers, the police don't sell the drugs, they just ACT like they are.
Seems a much more difficult thing with IP. You would have to outlaw owning digital music to narc people.
Painters know that they can't sell the same painting to thousands of people (since prints are cheaper) so they just sell one painting (or a limited number) for a big chunk of money and then people make copies (prints) and sell them, give them away, whatever.
Let the music companies sell only 500 CDs to the highest bidders assuming that after the first 500 CDs, everything else will be a copy. They make the same money as before (but with a lower volume) and the masses get free/cheap music.
Hell, I can't afford to buy all the music I like now.... and at least prices for CDs wouldn't be set artificially high.
It is that the federal government can do anything it damn well pleases..... The arguments about 'They can't do it' don't hold water.
If it comes down to it, drop the tarrifs for intangible products and raise the corporate tax for companies that make a product where the producers overseas outweigh the consumers overseas. If 95% of your production takes place in foreign development centers but 60% of your sales take place domestically, then you have a trade deficit. It is a pretty simple damn model.
1) More robots use the internet than people anyways
2) They cannot dictate how their site is used, just that it is used in a certain way. For instance, if the protocol is HTTP,and as long as a person or a robot uses HTTP they really don't have that much to say.
They don't have a broke-ass-splintered pirates leg to stand on by saying how to get the information as long as what I do with it after I get it is fair use.
If they want to be profitable, sell fucking memberships and quit bitching. The Internet ain't free (or am I the only person who fucking learned anything since 2000)
For instance, lets say I hit a website... do I care if the other end of the connection is a person responding to a terminal request for content and they drag and drop all of my stuff into a network hole? Or does it matter if it is an apache or an ISS server? It don't matter.... as long as we both follow an agreed upon protocol, they can eat my ass if they think I am going to grab something with a browser when I can have my agent do it.
I say to those Nazi ass sniffers that they can slurpo my dongo before they tell me how to use a computer.
Oh, and just so this comment can get modded higher, Bill Gates and Microsoft can swallow along with Dell and Toyota.
Pull your head out of your ass. Credit histories are common for many companies, especially financial institutions and governemt agencies and people wishing to work for companies that want to get contracts with these.
You are bing asked to be a director... someone responsible for managing money and a budget and the ability to make spending decisions. The company's credit can be adversely affected by your poor decisions. It makes perfect sense to me.
You can't get a security clearance without good credit, you can't work for a stock broker unless you go through full financial disclosure (including providing copies of former tax returns and bank records).
You should be happy you were offered a job because you are obviously a) not that smart and (b) a whiney little prick.
You know what? If this is a technology forum, let's stick to the subject... OK? We don't need to add our $.02 about amnesty international this-and-that to make your point about technology issues.
You don't post everyone's stories so you continually post only one side of any argument..... and that is becoming rapidly unacceptable.
If I had my way, the prisoners in Gitmo would be tortured horribly until we got the information out of them and then we would execute them publicly then send their genreetalia back to their families with a not that said, "Know the wrath of waking a sleeping Giant"
I think we should spank a country back into the stone age every 5 years until world peace is accomplished. If we did, we wouldn't have issues with North Korea, Iraq, Syria or have Saudi Arabia stabbing us in the back every 5 seconds. At the very least, even if a country wanted to wage war, they would be unable.... and peace is peace.
Let's keep slashdot a technology forum or at least present both sides of the argument.
Look, I saw an ad for roomba once here already and while I thought it was cool, it wasn't cool enough to buy (c'mon...)
Anyway, the platform of choice is definately the Evolution ER1-K (www.evolution.com) which can be configured more like their co-worker bot. It is fully automated, configurable, has collision detection, a gripper arm and you can control it remotely. (I even added tank-tracks and a bicycle safety flag to mine).
The robot is programmable through python and they are releasing their C++ API later this month (rounding to January here).
If you are going to re-post stuff... at least post it to the interesting products.
I think we are all forgetting that if we can bring an animal back from extinction, they could repeal the endangered species laws.... Think of all the kewl killin...
tigers, lions, bald eagles, condors, hippos, elephants, siverback gorillas.... I could make my den look like it aughtta look and take down all my Franklin Mint crap!
I got a can of campbells soup and when I opened it, it just happened to have just the right amount of letters to make the DeCSS code.... Campbel's soup is distributing cans of DeCSS anagrams!!!! I hope that the MPAA doesn't find out, I RELY on that alphabet soup to distribut pirated code!
Today, I have attached a device, which I call a "laser" to the Internet. This "laser" is pointed directly at Redmon Washington. Unless I receive..... One Hundred Trillion dollars, I will issue the following "command"
I mean, one threat to security has always been PHYSICAL SECURITY, right? putting it in spcae is a way to virtually ASSURE that noone can PHYSICALLY get to your box. Imagine a place where logging in on your console didn't require a password. Well, since it is government, they probably have some sort of biometric device tacked onto the damn thing. Disregard the previous statement.
Hmmm... linux? too obvious Apache? sounds like a recent april fool'j joke A QUICKCAM hanging from the parallel port? oh baby! MP3 Server? Definately! Gives a whole new opening to interesting services
open source is the quickest way to put together new and exciting software, or to get a good rep. Depending on your strategy, you can use it to make money (though indirectly). So the obvious saying is, why NOT opensource...
I just got it and installed it. Looks just like mozilla, and unfortunately, that is why I don't like it. Yes, mozilla is a great product, but it has some user interface flaws.
First of all, some of the hot keys that I am used to changed, (^N only des files, ^L fr a new web site). Isn't that what killed word perfect (the first time at least). You have to follow user interface design standards (which, unfortunately, MS set the par on and we all have to live with (hence, shoot me).
Next, too much advertising and stuff like that. It may be an OO design, but the screen is too busy and the side bar (which you can ALMOST totally get rid of) takes away from valuable web page real estate. Rule of thumb, assume grandma is using a 21 inch monitor set on 640x480 so that she can see your whole page... you just too away 1/3 of her eyesight. The interface is difficult to use from grandma's standpoint.
So, to wrap it all up, it is a OPEN SOURCE MARVEL, but like Linux (which I use) I do not think that it is the right answer for the masses.
Before you hate me, I use Linux, apache, mysql and star office, along with linux... but for PHB's, Grandmothers, Janitors, and other people that are not heavy into computers, I recommend Easy to use, albeit substandard programs.
Afterall, the BEST way to get to LA from new york is to fly, but not everyone is a pilot.
a G4 is as fast as an old cray (duh, I know) beowulf clusters running on alpha processors and IBM SP's are the supercomputers now.... I was just curious, if you used a bunch of G4's and yellow dog linux optimized as a beowulf cluster...what would you call it? A G-cluster, a G-spot, or a G-string? You are a geek if your network interface is in promiscuous mode more than you are. SP1
Because so many american companies own so many others (I can't remember which one owns RCA) is there a DVD maker out there which manufactures a player with a hack that is OWNED by one of the companies in the MPAA???? I don't know, but I bet there is and guess what, if there is, there goes any defense. IMHO...
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You see, I am the guy who actually clicks through the ads to go to the advertised sites. If it weren't for me, then no traffic would be generated by the ads and hense no advertising revenue.
I think I di this because I really like to screw people over.
Also, I don't use squid or other technologies to block the pop-up ads because doingso would spoil all of my fun.
I also like to drive 45 MPH on the highway during rush hour while I yammer away on my cell phone.
Actually, I am quite relieved. My biggest problem with X was that I could only connect to it from 4 billion different machines. Now, with IPv6, I can connect to it from 16quatrillion machines.
But since I trust all of my users, there is no reason to put it behind the firewall!!!
I would be more interested in the application with the longest uptime.... that is a GOOD application.
I aint rebooted that thar database in pert-near 15 years
I am the Griffith's house, bring me a toolshed for I am hungry!!!
Their sales probably haven't really dipped, they are just shelling out more dough to lawyers and kazaa users which is cutting into their bottom line.
So, if they set up a honeypot to catch people downloading from THEIR servers, could they do anything? I mean, THEY own the license and THEY are distributing.... and if they hire someone to trap you, aren't you downloading from their licensed distributor?
I mean, it's not like the police catching drug dealers, the police don't sell the drugs, they just ACT like they are.
Seems a much more difficult thing with IP. You would have to outlaw owning digital music to narc people.
Ogres have layers, onions have layers.
Ogres are not like cake.
Painters know that they can't sell the same painting to thousands of people (since prints are cheaper) so they just sell one painting (or a limited number) for a big chunk of money and then people make copies (prints) and sell them, give them away, whatever.
Let the music companies sell only 500 CDs to the highest bidders assuming that after the first 500 CDs, everything else will be a copy. They make the same money as before (but with a lower volume) and the masses get free/cheap music.
Hell, I can't afford to buy all the music I like now.... and at least prices for CDs wouldn't be set artificially high.
It is that the federal government can do anything it damn well pleases..... The arguments about 'They can't do it' don't hold water.
If it comes down to it, drop the tarrifs for intangible products and raise the corporate tax for companies that make a product where the producers overseas outweigh the consumers overseas. If 95% of your production takes place in foreign development centers but 60% of your sales take place domestically, then you have a trade deficit. It is a pretty simple damn model.
If you want speed, but to not look like a dinosaur, use CVS... then when people can't connect, then treat them like they are idiots.
But FTP is faster.
Technologists should realize that:
1) More robots use the internet than people anyways
2) They cannot dictate how their site is used, just that it is used in a certain way. For instance, if the protocol is HTTP,and as long as a person or a robot uses HTTP they really don't have that much to say.
They don't have a broke-ass-splintered pirates leg to stand on by saying how to get the information as long as what I do with it after I get it is fair use.
If they want to be profitable, sell fucking memberships and quit bitching. The Internet ain't free (or am I the only person who fucking learned anything since 2000)
For instance, lets say I hit a website... do I care if the other end of the connection is a person responding to a terminal request for content and they drag and drop all of my stuff into a network hole? Or does it matter if it is an apache or an ISS server? It don't matter.... as long as we both follow an agreed upon protocol, they can eat my ass if they think I am going to grab something with a browser when I can have my agent do it.
I say to those Nazi ass sniffers that they can slurpo my dongo before they tell me how to use a computer.
Oh, and just so this comment can get modded higher, Bill Gates and Microsoft can swallow along with Dell and Toyota.
Pull your head out of your ass. Credit histories are common for many companies, especially financial institutions and governemt agencies and people wishing to work for companies that want to get contracts with these.
You are bing asked to be a director... someone responsible for managing money and a budget and the ability to make spending decisions. The company's credit can be adversely affected by your poor decisions. It makes perfect sense to me.
You can't get a security clearance without good credit, you can't work for a stock broker unless you go through full financial disclosure (including providing copies of former tax returns and bank records).
You should be happy you were offered a job because you are obviously a) not that smart and (b) a whiney little prick.
You know what? If this is a technology forum, let's stick to the subject... OK? We don't need to add our $.02 about amnesty international this-and-that to make your point about technology issues.
You don't post everyone's stories so you continually post only one side of any argument..... and that is becoming rapidly unacceptable.
If I had my way, the prisoners in Gitmo would be tortured horribly until we got the information out of them and then we would execute them publicly then send their genreetalia back to their families with a not that said, "Know the wrath of waking a sleeping Giant"
I think we should spank a country back into the stone age every 5 years until world peace is accomplished. If we did, we wouldn't have issues with North Korea, Iraq, Syria or have Saudi Arabia stabbing us in the back every 5 seconds. At the very least, even if a country wanted to wage war, they would be unable.... and peace is peace.
Let's keep slashdot a technology forum or at least present both sides of the argument.
Look, I saw an ad for roomba once here already and while I thought it was cool, it wasn't cool enough to buy (c'mon...)
Anyway, the platform of choice is definately the Evolution ER1-K (www.evolution.com) which can be configured more like their co-worker bot. It is fully automated, configurable, has collision detection, a gripper arm and you can control it remotely. (I even added tank-tracks and a bicycle safety flag to mine).
The robot is programmable through python and they are releasing their C++ API later this month (rounding to January here).
If you are going to re-post stuff... at least post it to the interesting products.
Thanks
I think we are all forgetting that if we can bring an animal back from extinction, they could repeal the endangered species laws.... Think of all the kewl killin...
tigers, lions, bald eagles, condors, hippos, elephants, siverback gorillas.... I could make my den look like it aughtta look and take down all my Franklin Mint crap!
I got a can of campbells soup and when I opened it, it just happened to have just the right amount of letters to make the DeCSS code.... Campbel's soup is distributing cans of DeCSS anagrams!!!! I hope that the MPAA doesn't find out, I RELY on that alphabet soup to distribut pirated code!
Today, I have attached a device, which I call a "laser" to the Internet. This "laser" is pointed directly at Redmon Washington. Unless I receive..... One Hundred Trillion dollars, I will issue the following "command"
/usr/local/bin/fire /dev/"laser"
# ssh alanparsons.project.moon -ldr-evil \
screw the webcam, how about a Jennycam for all the female astronauts... OOOooh baby... that spacesuit turns me on.
I mean, one threat to security has always been PHYSICAL SECURITY, right? putting it in spcae is a way to virtually ASSURE that noone can PHYSICALLY get to your box. Imagine a place where logging in on your console didn't require a password. Well, since it is government, they probably have some sort of biometric device tacked onto the damn thing. Disregard the previous statement.
Hmmm... linux? too obvious
Apache? sounds like a recent april fool'j joke
A QUICKCAM hanging from the parallel port? oh baby!
MP3 Server? Definately! Gives a whole new opening to interesting services
Guess what, the license agreement is also part of the document, open the spec and you are bound by it. Damn, my eyes...
open source is the quickest way to put together new and exciting software, or to get a good rep. Depending on your strategy, you can use it to make money (though indirectly). So the obvious saying is, why NOT opensource...
I just got it and installed it. Looks just like mozilla, and unfortunately, that is why I don't like it. Yes, mozilla is a great product, but it has some user interface flaws.
First of all, some of the hot keys that I am used to changed, (^N only des files, ^L fr a new web site). Isn't that what killed word perfect (the first time at least). You have to follow user interface design standards (which, unfortunately, MS set the par on and we all have to live with (hence, shoot me).
Next, too much advertising and stuff like that. It may be an OO design, but the screen is too busy and the side bar (which you can ALMOST totally get rid of) takes away from valuable web page real estate. Rule of thumb, assume grandma is using a 21 inch monitor set on 640x480 so that she can see your whole page... you just too away 1/3 of her eyesight. The interface is difficult to use from grandma's standpoint.
So, to wrap it all up, it is a OPEN SOURCE MARVEL, but like Linux (which I use) I do not think that it is the right answer for the masses.
Before you hate me, I use Linux, apache, mysql and star office, along with linux... but for PHB's, Grandmothers, Janitors, and other people that are not heavy into computers, I recommend Easy to use, albeit substandard programs.
Afterall, the BEST way to get to LA from new york is to fly, but not everyone is a pilot.
a G4 is as fast as an old cray (duh, I know) beowulf clusters running on alpha processors and IBM SP's are the supercomputers now.... I was just curious, if you used a bunch of G4's and yellow dog linux optimized as a beowulf cluster...what would you call it? A G-cluster, a G-spot, or a G-string? You are a geek if your network interface is in promiscuous mode more than you are. SP1
play a DVD on a computer in full screen and use snappy or some other NTSC out device to capture to VHS...
Because so many american companies own so many others (I can't remember which one owns RCA) is there a DVD maker out there which manufactures a player with a hack that is OWNED by one of the companies in the MPAA???? I don't know, but I bet there is and guess what, if there is, there goes any defense. IMHO...