How come when the music industry talks about piracy they always talk about the starving artists? But when someone points out the totally unethical behaviour on the music industries part towards said artists and exposes the fact that the said music industry is more responsible for those starving artists than any consumer could ever be they get all tough and claim it is their property? Face it the music industry looks out for the artist in exactly the same way that someone buying mp3's off of allofmp3 does. There is no difference.
No, if any American discovers incompetancies in our government, I would consider it their patriotic duty to expose it. All governments run at a certain level of ineffeiciency, it is up to the people to find those ineffeiciencies and point them out so they can be fixed, at least it is suppose to work this way in a free society.
The whole speaking in tongues thing really gets me. Speaking in tongues originally meant that when I praise god everyone understands me, even if they dont speak/understand the language I am speaking in. How did this bastardized gibberish that the evangelicals and Quakers speak get equated to speaking in tongues? Its not its own language, its a symbolism to represent that Gods word is more powerful than our petty language differences.
I might like to own a house someday, and I currently enjoy the ability to rent an apartment -- which you can't do without giving over your SSN so that people can run a credit check on you
Who says you have to own a house to live in it? There are plenty of "no question asked, pay by cash" apartments out there.
I also like having a job
Work for cash. You would be suprised at the number of employers who would hire you at a decent salary for cash just because they then dont have to pay things like taxes and insurance.
driving
If you do nothing to get pulled over who is going to know you are driving without license? I know people who have been driving for their whole lives without licenses.
My point is that it really is not that difficult to live "off of the grid", of course you give up a lot of the social services provided by this country but it is not difficult if you dont mind the inconvenience. Under a system of a single ID it does become easier since now you only have to forge one document and not many documents and you are now essentially legal as far as law enforcement is concerned. This is a very slippery slope we are going down with a single National ID, checkpoints and having to register yourself every time you go somewhere are only the beginning. It always sounds good, but no matter how well intentioned this is I guarantee it will come back a bite us in the ass. And it probably wont be any major conspiracy or any attempted coup in this country it will simply be because we are giving law enforcement too much power and historically law enforcement will abuse any power given them exponentially.
The two most troublesome population demographics in any society are the extremely rich and the extremely poor. Both of those groups of people will take more from society than they will ever give back.
Its more than teaching the engineering skills its the basics our schools need to concentrate on. They need to be less concerned with making the students feel good about themselves and more concerned with working on our childrens cognitive skills. We need to teach our kids to develop their problem solving skills. Math has always been the classic teaching tool for this but we need to start applying it to all fields of study, not just science. The engineering skills would become trivial if our children were able to see problems not as insurmountable obstacles but as challenges that need to be broken down and solved at the component level (the basic principles of problem solving). One of the most disturbing trends in this country with education is corporate sponsered schools, no corporation is responsible enough to teach our (or my) kids. This is where we should be screaming "Think of the children".
I take it you have never been in a situation where someone was shooting at you? Guns never run out of bullets when someone is shooting a you. Your aim goes to hell when you lost count and cant remember if the shooter shot 14 or 15 times and you just want to throw something at the person. Schools rarely have bunkers in the classrooms, trust me desks are not very good at stopping bullets. When the lead starts flying it is usually every person for themselves, it is really difficult to organize a counter offensive when everyone around you is too scared to move. Unless you have been under fire before none of these things are easy. Sure they look easy on TV but when the bullets are flying nothing seems to work right.
Nobody will bother taking the time to raise $500 million when their competitors can spend their time on more worthwhile things, and collect their check at the end of the day.
Someone didnt read the book. A catch-22 is doing something to achieve the opposite result. I.E. (from the book) if you want to fight in a war tell the army you are a pacifist, if you dont want to fight tell them you only joined because you love to kill.
Right, Lisa was a proof-of-concept to test out the new tech that Apple bought from Xerox. It was never meant to be a mass-market consumer product, I know I tried to buy one.
Instead of an XXX domain why not a.kids domain? Wouldnt it be easier to keep undesirable sites out of an existing domain than it would be to try and corral porn to its own domain?
How in the hell did you equate "DRM is a lame-assed approach to copywrite protection", to "its ok to copy"?
Repeat after me, DRM doesnt work, the only solution is for the content producers to produce content that 1) is priced what the market is willing to pay and 2) doesnt suck. What we have now is a bunch of fat assed losers with severe messiah complexes who think their customers are a bunch of idiots who are put on this earth to serve them. So until they wake the fuck up and learn that the customers are what keep them alive they will never be anything other than a bunch of dinosaurs sinking in a tar pit, to stupid to figure out how to crawl out.
are business schools really churning out graduates that are this stupid? Are they actually teaching people that litigation is a valid income generation model? Its free adverstising for gods sake, not lost revenue. Doesnt anyone see the flawed logic in the lost revenue thinking? 1) Its free advertising, my guess is a link on google news actually brings in more revenue and 2) Who the hell would come to your lame ass news site if they werent referenced to it from google? I know I wouldnt go to half the news sites I go to if they werent referenced on google news, because I never would have heard of them. I can understand the *IAA using this kind of flawed logic, snorting coke off of hookers asses all day has to have an detrimental effect on a persons cognitive processes. But this? This is just ridiculous. I hope they go out of business.
Slashdot Mirror
You know its coming, they are trying way too hard to convince everyone they are not going sue anyone.
That's a trillion dollars a year.
It would probably be cheaper than starting a war that is only adding fuel to the fire.
I think the day Novell signed the agreement with MS was the day to stop supporting SUSE.
And how does learning java lead to learning forth anyway?
Its a gateway language.
How come when the music industry talks about piracy they always talk about the starving artists? But when someone points out the totally unethical behaviour on the music industries part towards said artists and exposes the fact that the said music industry is more responsible for those starving artists than any consumer could ever be they get all tough and claim it is their property? Face it the music industry looks out for the artist in exactly the same way that someone buying mp3's off of allofmp3 does. There is no difference.
No, if any American discovers incompetancies in our government, I would consider it their patriotic duty to expose it. All governments run at a certain level of ineffeiciency, it is up to the people to find those ineffeiciencies and point them out so they can be fixed, at least it is suppose to work this way in a free society.
That is true, the only true constant in this universe is that things change.
The whole speaking in tongues thing really gets me. Speaking in tongues originally meant that when I praise god everyone understands me, even if they dont speak/understand the language I am speaking in. How did this bastardized gibberish that the evangelicals and Quakers speak get equated to speaking in tongues? Its not its own language, its a symbolism to represent that Gods word is more powerful than our petty language differences.
I might like to own a house someday, and I currently enjoy the ability to rent an apartment -- which you can't do without giving over your SSN so that people can run a credit check on you
Who says you have to own a house to live in it? There are plenty of "no question asked, pay by cash" apartments out there.
I also like having a job
Work for cash. You would be suprised at the number of employers who would hire you at a decent salary for cash just because they then dont have to pay things like taxes and insurance.
driving
If you do nothing to get pulled over who is going to know you are driving without license? I know people who have been driving for their whole lives without licenses.
My point is that it really is not that difficult to live "off of the grid", of course you give up a lot of the social services provided by this country but it is not difficult if you dont mind the inconvenience. Under a system of a single ID it does become easier since now you only have to forge one document and not many documents and you are now essentially legal as far as law enforcement is concerned. This is a very slippery slope we are going down with a single National ID, checkpoints and having to register yourself every time you go somewhere are only the beginning. It always sounds good, but no matter how well intentioned this is I guarantee it will come back a bite us in the ass. And it probably wont be any major conspiracy or any attempted coup in this country it will simply be because we are giving law enforcement too much power and historically law enforcement will abuse any power given them exponentially.
Because its the humane thing to do dipshit.
The two most troublesome population demographics in any society are the extremely rich and the extremely poor. Both of those groups of people will take more from society than they will ever give back.
Its more than teaching the engineering skills its the basics our schools need to concentrate on. They need to be less concerned with making the students feel good about themselves and more concerned with working on our childrens cognitive skills. We need to teach our kids to develop their problem solving skills. Math has always been the classic teaching tool for this but we need to start applying it to all fields of study, not just science. The engineering skills would become trivial if our children were able to see problems not as insurmountable obstacles but as challenges that need to be broken down and solved at the component level (the basic principles of problem solving). One of the most disturbing trends in this country with education is corporate sponsered schools, no corporation is responsible enough to teach our (or my) kids. This is where we should be screaming "Think of the children".
I know its beginning to resemble professional wrestling around here.
I wonder then, if it might be possible to scan a Word document for stuff that's not needed.
Wont work unless MS either opens up the Word document format or they write the scanners for every emailer out there. Neither seems likely.
I take it you have never been in a situation where someone was shooting at you? Guns never run out of bullets when someone is shooting a you. Your aim goes to hell when you lost count and cant remember if the shooter shot 14 or 15 times and you just want to throw something at the person. Schools rarely have bunkers in the classrooms, trust me desks are not very good at stopping bullets. When the lead starts flying it is usually every person for themselves, it is really difficult to organize a counter offensive when everyone around you is too scared to move. Unless you have been under fire before none of these things are easy. Sure they look easy on TV but when the bullets are flying nothing seems to work right.
Nobody will bother taking the time to raise $500 million when their competitors can spend their time on more worthwhile things, and collect their check at the end of the day.
Thats kind of the idea.
Im not sure but by the wording in the article it seems to be boardering on extortion.
Someone didnt read the book. A catch-22 is doing something to achieve the opposite result. I.E. (from the book) if you want to fight in a war tell the army you are a pacifist, if you dont want to fight tell them you only joined because you love to kill.
Right, Lisa was a proof-of-concept to test out the new tech that Apple bought from Xerox. It was never meant to be a mass-market consumer product, I know I tried to buy one.
Instead of an XXX domain why not a .kids domain? Wouldnt it be easier to keep undesirable sites out of an existing domain than it would be to try and corral porn to its own domain?
or at least a trifecta
microsoft releases a new version of their OS. Let the negotiations begin.
And the DRM wouldn't let them access the content?
No because they didnt go through license activation.
How in the hell did you equate "DRM is a lame-assed approach to copywrite protection", to "its ok to copy"?
Repeat after me, DRM doesnt work, the only solution is for the content producers to produce content that 1) is priced what the market is willing to pay and 2) doesnt suck. What we have now is a bunch of fat assed losers with severe messiah complexes who think their customers are a bunch of idiots who are put on this earth to serve them. So until they wake the fuck up and learn that the customers are what keep them alive they will never be anything other than a bunch of dinosaurs sinking in a tar pit, to stupid to figure out how to crawl out.
are business schools really churning out graduates that are this stupid? Are they actually teaching people that litigation is a valid income generation model? Its free adverstising for gods sake, not lost revenue. Doesnt anyone see the flawed logic in the lost revenue thinking? 1) Its free advertising, my guess is a link on google news actually brings in more revenue and 2) Who the hell would come to your lame ass news site if they werent referenced to it from google? I know I wouldnt go to half the news sites I go to if they werent referenced on google news, because I never would have heard of them. I can understand the *IAA using this kind of flawed logic, snorting coke off of hookers asses all day has to have an detrimental effect on a persons cognitive processes. But this? This is just ridiculous. I hope they go out of business.