If Zonk an the Slashdot editorial staff want to take offense at Wiki putting some controls in place, they should get rid of moderation and karma. Conceptually both are means of reducing the visibility of trolls and vandals on a web site and promoting useful content. It's hypocritical to think otherwise.
Any president is going to be the target of political activists who wish to defame or mock the opposition party. I'm sure Bill Clinton's profile is guarded just as Bush's.
The fact is nobody wants KKK members editing MLK's profile either.
Suck it up. There's trolls on the internet and Wiki is doing something to control them.
If I had my way, Sony would be held accountable in a similiar manner. While these companies installed spyware, Sony actually installed a backdoor. Sony's actions are a violation of a far greater magnitude.
But is it... "Outta Site!"? Is it "Off the Hook!!!"? Is it "To the Max!!!"? Is it "Total Extreme!!!"? Is it "Rad!"? Is it "Bitchin'!!!"? Is it "Narly!!!"?
I need to sit down, I feel overwhelmed by a case of stupid.
Zonk or whoever titled the story creates the impression at a glance the HP is trying to convince IBM & Sun to go to a closed source lincense. The title is 180 degrees removed from the real storyline - HP is attempting to get IBM & Sun to completely switch to a GPL license.
When executives at Sony BMG needed to drum up support in 2002 for Jennifer Lopez's album "This Is Me... Then," they called the program director of a San Diego radio station and offered her a 32-inch plasma TV in exchange for adding the artist's songs to her play list.
Sony BMG Music Entertainment knew such payola, or "pay-for-play," was improper. Nonetheless, the company asked the programmer to provide a fictitious contest winner's name and Social Security number to cover up her involvement.
The station executive got her TV, and J-Lo got her spins.
The alleged exchange was disclosed in a treasure trove of e-mails, BlackBerry messages and other documents made public Monday by New York Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer. That electronic paper trail led the second-largest music company to a $10-million settlement.
Spitzer said Sony BMG executives offered "outright bribes" to radio programmers to make sure the company's artists got heard. Among the goodies Sony BMG gave employees of stations owned by Infinity Broadcasting Corp., Clear Channel Communications Inc. and others: airplane tickets, cash, vacation packages, PlayStation video game systems, DVD players and laptop computers.
In one e-mail that Spitzer released, a station manager who allegedly accepted gifts joked to Sony BMG executives: "I'm a whore this week. What can I say?"
Sony BMG, home to such artists as Tony Bennett and the Dixie Chicks, promised Monday not to pay radio stations in exchange for airplay. The company issued a formal statement acknowledging that "various employees pursued some radio promotion practices on behalf of the company that were wrong and improper." The company also fired an executive vice president of promotions at one of its labels.
Radio airplay is considered the most powerful promotional tool for record companies. Payola has plagued the music industry since the 1930s, with disc jockeys at times accepting cash, drugs or prostitutes in exchange for airplay.
At the news conference in his Lower Manhattan office, Spitzer said payola today was as widespread and "corrosive" as it was in the 1950s.
"It is omnipresent," Spitzer said. "It is driving the industry. And it is wrong. It reaches to the very top of the industry on the radio side and on the label side."
In 1960, Congress passed an anti-payola law banning broadcasters from taking cash or anything of value in exchange for playing specific songs unless they disclosed the transaction to listeners. Spitzer launched his investigation based on a similar law passed by the New York Legislature.
Spitzer's investigation continues at the other three major record companies -- Universal Music Group, EMI Group and Warner Music Group -- as well as at the country's largest radio corporations. Many industry insiders say the Sony BMG settlement could provide a template for agreements with other companies. Each company said it was cooperating with Spitzer but declined to comment further.
Documents released as part of the Sony BMG settlement depicted the seamier side of the music business, in which under-the-table payments and nudge-and-wink deals were so common that no one even tried to hide them.
"What do I have to do to get Audioslave on WKSS this week?!!?" a Sony BMG employee promoting the Audioslave song "Like a Stone" wrote to a Clear Channel programmer in 2003. "Whatever you can dream up, I can make it happen!!!"
Documents show that through its labels, which include Epic Records, Columbia Records a
Lawyer will pounce on any grey area. A broad characterization of popup ad could include the "About" information in most legitimate software, or even the graphics commonly displayed at load time. If you want to split hairs in a courtroom, a lawyer could make the case that such information is an ad, and file harassing laysuits against software companies over the inclusion of such information.
Cartoon characters have a far greater public awareness than corporate icons. I bet if you travel the world you would find more people who recognize your favorite newspaper comicstrip character than the AT&T logo.
Can you picture in your head an image of the logo for Ameritrade? How about Dagwood from Blondie? Or Charlie Brown?
Beastie is known on every continent in the world. That's not too shabby. How do you think the new logo can improve on that?
Sometimes programmers should stick to programming. When they attempt to use corporate logos as the yardstick by which good art is measured, they only show that they need to get out more often.
Why should a corporate looking logo have greater value to a FOSS project than a whimsical cartoon? The BSD 'Beastie' logo is recognized worldwide, making it more successful than 99% of the logos that companies paid big money for.
We, as users and developers of FOSS, find much of the corporate attitude distasteful. Yet the FreeBSD group now seeks some official looking sterile abstract icon so they can show everyone their software is "Pro"?
Suddenly it's the FreeBSD 'hippies' that need to take the stick out of their ass. Go take an art class and relax.
As a graphic designer, let me speak from experience - Corporate art sucks.
Many decent schools now require a laptop for all students. My niece is going to study medicine at Creighton University this fall, and they have a standard system with pre-configured software that they want their students to use. If you use their system, you will match the schools requirements for firewall, virus detection, etc... and therefore be a trusted agent on the college Wifi.
Buy someone else's machine, no Creighton network or internet for you!
Slashdot Guy: Why are you even at the installfest? Yeah, the software is free, as in Freedom. Unlike your spyware windows free beer shit. You can download an ISO image, or RPMs, or yum install, or apt-get, or compile from source.
GF: Um, could you explain what some of that means?
Slashdot Guy: (Big sigh) Oh for fsck's sake! Download it and RTFM. (under breath "Dumb bitch")
GF: RTFM? Isn't an installfest where I'm supposed to be able to ask questions?
Slashdot Guy: Yeah. If you're not a windows 'tard.
About a year ago I went to a friend's LAN party and they got a wild hair up their butts and decided to play a few rounds of TIE Fighter. Undeniably a great game, but with very dated graphics. After solving a few DirectX issues, we got the game running and free-for-all combat ensued.
The poor graphics spoiled it. We all bitched about how this game screems for an update. We played a dozen rounds and moved onto something else.
You might not notice anymore when a game has great graphics, but you sure as hell will notice when they suck.
There are 1600 known bogus votes. For everyone who ever called Bush an illegitimate President, look at Gregoire's 129 vote win and "Eat this".
You seriously underestimate the ill will this will create. Washington is about to become the win-at-any-cost state for Republicans in the next cycle. Republicans are pissed enough to hold onto this for 3 years. Bank on it.
When Washington goes Red in 2008, you think of me.
Any cost savings from switching processors is going to be offset by the support nightmares. All of the binaries for OSX based software are compiled to run against PowerPC. Even if OSX can run in the new environment out-of-box, chances are Photoshop, Final-Cut, and titles Mac owners has selled out $$$ for will not run (or at least not without suck-ass emulation)
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And while he's at it, he can patent re-writing 60% of his crappy code.
Sad news and my thouhts to the family.
But the good news is there's still time to buy banner space on his casket!
If Zonk an the Slashdot editorial staff want to take offense at Wiki putting some controls in place, they should get rid of moderation and karma. Conceptually both are means of reducing the visibility of trolls and vandals on a web site and promoting useful content. It's hypocritical to think otherwise.
Any president is going to be the target of political activists who wish to defame or mock the opposition party. I'm sure Bill Clinton's profile is guarded just as Bush's.
The fact is nobody wants KKK members editing MLK's profile either.
Suck it up. There's trolls on the internet and Wiki is doing something to control them.
I'll trust Schrödinger with my cat before Sony any day of the week.
NT
If I had my way, Sony would be held accountable in a similiar manner. While these companies installed spyware, Sony actually installed a backdoor. Sony's actions are a violation of a far greater magnitude.
But is it... "Outta Site!"?
Is it "Off the Hook!!!"?
Is it "To the Max!!!"?
Is it "Total Extreme!!!"?
Is it "Rad!"?
Is it "Bitchin'!!!"?
Is it "Narly!!!"?
I need to sit down, I feel overwhelmed by a case of stupid.
Zonk or whoever titled the story creates the impression at a glance the HP is trying to convince IBM & Sun to go to a closed source lincense. The title is 180 degrees removed from the real storyline - HP is attempting to get IBM & Sun to completely switch to a GPL license.
Sony settles a payolla scandle....
... Then," they called the program director of a San Diego radio station and offered her a 32-inch plasma TV in exchange for adding the artist's songs to her play list.
If you ever wanted to know why most music on the radio and TV sucks, look no further.
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Paying a Price
# Sony BMG reaches a $10-million settlement of allegations it bribed stations to get its songs on the air
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-payola26jul2 6,0,5609660.story?coll=la-home-headlines
When executives at Sony BMG needed to drum up support in 2002 for Jennifer Lopez's album "This Is Me
Sony BMG Music Entertainment knew such payola, or "pay-for-play," was improper. Nonetheless, the company asked the programmer to provide a fictitious contest winner's name and Social Security number to cover up her involvement.
The station executive got her TV, and J-Lo got her spins.
The alleged exchange was disclosed in a treasure trove of e-mails, BlackBerry messages and other documents made public Monday by New York Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer. That electronic paper trail led the second-largest music company to a $10-million settlement.
Spitzer said Sony BMG executives offered "outright bribes" to radio programmers to make sure the company's artists got heard. Among the goodies Sony BMG gave employees of stations owned by Infinity Broadcasting Corp., Clear Channel Communications Inc. and others: airplane tickets, cash, vacation packages, PlayStation video game systems, DVD players and laptop computers.
In one e-mail that Spitzer released, a station manager who allegedly accepted gifts joked to Sony BMG executives: "I'm a whore this week. What can I say?"
Sony BMG, home to such artists as Tony Bennett and the Dixie Chicks, promised Monday not to pay radio stations in exchange for airplay. The company issued a formal statement acknowledging that "various employees pursued some radio promotion practices on behalf of the company that were wrong and improper." The company also fired an executive vice president of promotions at one of its labels.
Radio airplay is considered the most powerful promotional tool for record companies. Payola has plagued the music industry since the 1930s, with disc jockeys at times accepting cash, drugs or prostitutes in exchange for airplay.
At the news conference in his Lower Manhattan office, Spitzer said payola today was as widespread and "corrosive" as it was in the 1950s.
"It is omnipresent," Spitzer said. "It is driving the industry. And it is wrong. It reaches to the very top of the industry on the radio side and on the label side."
In 1960, Congress passed an anti-payola law banning broadcasters from taking cash or anything of value in exchange for playing specific songs unless they disclosed the transaction to listeners. Spitzer launched his investigation based on a similar law passed by the New York Legislature.
Spitzer's investigation continues at the other three major record companies -- Universal Music Group, EMI Group and Warner Music Group -- as well as at the country's largest radio corporations. Many industry insiders say the Sony BMG settlement could provide a template for agreements with other companies. Each company said it was cooperating with Spitzer but declined to comment further.
Documents released as part of the Sony BMG settlement depicted the seamier side of the music business, in which under-the-table payments and nudge-and-wink deals were so common that no one even tried to hide them.
"What do I have to do to get Audioslave on WKSS this week?!!?" a Sony BMG employee promoting the Audioslave song "Like a Stone" wrote to a Clear Channel programmer in 2003. "Whatever you can dream up, I can make it happen!!!"
Documents show that through its labels, which include Epic Records, Columbia Records a
Amiga Faithful: We're closin' for lunch.
Common sense: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this computer what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Amiga Faithful: Oh yes, the, uh, the AmigaOneG3-SE...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?
Common sense: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
Amiga Faithful: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's gathering his resourses and making plans for a comeback!
Common sense: Look, matey, I know a dead computer platform when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Amiga Faithful: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable computer, the Amiga, idn'it, ay? Beautiful 4092 color graphics!
... it might be fun to play again.
Cop #1: "Hey, did you see that guy on a bike rushing towards that crowd with wires hanging out of his backpack?"
*POP*
Cop #2: "Got 'im"
Lawyer will pounce on any grey area. A broad characterization of popup ad could include the "About" information in most legitimate software, or even the graphics commonly displayed at load time. If you want to split hairs in a courtroom, a lawyer could make the case that such information is an ad, and file harassing laysuits against software companies over the inclusion of such information.
Or how about this one: http://www.metlife.com/
Cartoon characters have a far greater public awareness than corporate icons. I bet if you travel the world you would find more people who recognize your favorite newspaper comicstrip character than the AT&T logo.
Can you picture in your head an image of the logo for Ameritrade? How about Dagwood from Blondie? Or Charlie Brown?
Beastie is known on every continent in the world. That's not too shabby. How do you think the new logo can improve on that?
Sometimes programmers should stick to programming. When they attempt to use corporate logos as the yardstick by which good art is measured, they only show that they need to get out more often.
Why should a corporate looking logo have greater value to a FOSS project than a whimsical cartoon? The BSD 'Beastie' logo is recognized worldwide, making it more successful than 99% of the logos that companies paid big money for.
We, as users and developers of FOSS, find much of the corporate attitude distasteful. Yet the FreeBSD group now seeks some official looking sterile abstract icon so they can show everyone their software is "Pro"?
Suddenly it's the FreeBSD 'hippies' that need to take the stick out of their ass. Go take an art class and relax.
As a graphic designer, let me speak from experience - Corporate art sucks.
Many decent schools now require a laptop for all students. My niece is going to study medicine at Creighton University this fall, and they have a standard system with pre-configured software that they want their students to use. If you use their system, you will match the schools requirements for firewall, virus detection, etc... and therefore be a trusted agent on the college Wifi.
Buy someone else's machine, no Creighton network or internet for you!
Whoever wrote this just needs to spinkle a few "cockmunchers" into the dialogue and it would be an ep.of RvsB
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GF: All of the software is free?
Slashdot Guy: Why are you even at the installfest? Yeah, the software is free, as in Freedom. Unlike your spyware windows free beer shit. You can download an ISO image, or RPMs, or yum install, or apt-get, or compile from source.
GF: Um, could you explain what some of that means?
Slashdot Guy: (Big sigh) Oh for fsck's sake! Download it and RTFM. (under breath "Dumb bitch")
GF: RTFM? Isn't an installfest where I'm supposed to be able to ask questions?
Slashdot Guy: Yeah. If you're not a windows 'tard.
About a year ago I went to a friend's LAN party and they got a wild hair up their butts and decided to play a few rounds of TIE Fighter. Undeniably a great game, but with very dated graphics. After solving a few DirectX issues, we got the game running and free-for-all combat ensued.
The poor graphics spoiled it. We all bitched about how this game screems for an update. We played a dozen rounds and moved onto something else.
You might not notice anymore when a game has great graphics, but you sure as hell will notice when they suck.
There are 1600 known bogus votes. For everyone who ever called Bush an illegitimate President, look at Gregoire's 129 vote win and "Eat this".
You seriously underestimate the ill will this will create. Washington is about to become the win-at-any-cost state for Republicans in the next cycle. Republicans are pissed enough to hold onto this for 3 years. Bank on it.
When Washington goes Red in 2008, you think of me.
Enjoy the short victory.
You have just motivated the Republican voters in Washington to the point you will never see that state go blue again.
Ha Ha yourself.
http://www.overclockers.com.au/~bluesmurf/
I really don't want to see Linus in this video.
Aside from the sex, those huge black eyes were creepy as hell. Chubby killer.
Any cost savings from switching processors is going to be offset by the support nightmares. All of the binaries for OSX based software are compiled to run against PowerPC. Even if OSX can run in the new environment out-of-box, chances are Photoshop, Final-Cut, and titles Mac owners has selled out $$$ for will not run (or at least not without suck-ass emulation)