Just taking a quick look, i have over 450MB of microsoft.dlls. Does this mean now that I can delete them all...I could definately use the space. Hey, and as a little aftereffect, I won't have to worry about new backdoors! What a deal!
no, I disagree completely. _Every_ large (and even some small) companies lobby. Microsoft is no different. Now that their existence (well, not really) is threatened, obviously they are going to spend quite a bit to do whatever they can do to stop or at least lessen the pain. Who wouldn't? Im just suprised they just started now...i mean, they could have shortly after the suit was filed instead of after they were found guilty!
Heck...I guess Ill just have to add this to my wishlist along with those 500 Gigabit/inch disks...but, as said in that discussion: When can _I_ get it? Its nice to know the IT industry is still on its toes looking at new ideas, but until I can buy this 9 billion Mhz computer, I frankly don't care.
Its great that the suit was dropped, but the thing is, some damage has already been done. id already had to pay quite a bit of $$$ for lawyers. The case started at least 6 months ago, right? Thats six months of paying for a lawyer through that time. There are TONS of other ways this money could have been spent that would be much more productive for id. Hell-throwing it in their furnaces would have been better. _That_ is what is wrong with the judicial system today...anyone with money can sue anyone else whenever they want to and cut them out of a few grand. Im sure whoever was sueing them had all kinds of groups behind them(Mothers against Games or some such crap like that)...
Its great that the robber was caught, but what happened to the machine? The article said that it had not been recovered. Frankly I would think that Slashdot would wait until the machine is recoved to post this news. To the Slashdot community, I think the _machine_ is more important than those who stole it and whether or not they got caught or not. Sure...it will likely be recovered soon, but I really think Slashdot should have waited. Then at least we wouldn't have 1 out of 5 news items for the next week be about the enigma machine with reposts of the exact same information in all of them.
I doubt it was because of Microsoft's drop in stocks. It usually takes a good month (at least) of just negotiating before something like this would happen. I suppose he could have seen it coming and prepared for it, though... 2nd reason why its unrelated to MS stock: Come on, this guy has to have quite a bit of $$$ lying around...Sure, he is probably loosing 100s of thousands (or more), but unless hes been blowing it all, I would think he would be fine.
I am very interested in why you would use the name W.A.V.E. Obviously, you wouldn't have named it that if you had heard of the movie "The Wave" beforehand. The movie (for those that don't know) basically gives the exact reasons why your program _shouldn't_ be initiated. Didn't someone come up to you during the developmental progress of this program and tell you? I am a junior in high school and just this year we watched the movie after reading "1984". While, yes, "The Wave" isn't exactly the most popular movie, from the discussion here on Slashdot, many people recognized it. When during the process of creating this did someone bring the movie to your attention and why in the world didn't you change the name right then?
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I could do this same thing a month ago. At my local Best Buy you can get $200 off anything if you sign up for MSN internet. Now whether MSN or whatever DC is using is better...who knows. It is probably smart of them for doing this, though...but as someone had said before: too little too late.
Ah, yes...the good old english FF V rom. Unfortunately, the translations weren't always that great, so it kinda lost a little bit of the FF edge as far as dialogue, but of course much better than taking out my japanese to english dictionary and pausing every time somone said something...:)
This would be easy to fix, build an authentication system into gnutella which says "I've got good shit from this guy." A chain of trust would lead back to yourself, so you would know it was cool stuff.
That would be a very good idea. An eBayish rating system.
Actually, it would make the Gnutella network stronger since you could use the authentication system to refuse to give shit to people who did not contribute anything. Leeches who do not run their servers 24/7 are the biggest problem with Gnutella today.
Whoa there...ok-if you have cable this might apply, but obviously Mr. 56k down the block can't have it on All the time. Nor would I care if he were. Who wants to download at 56k anymore? Heck, even people at 28.8 try to download from cable, t1, t3 people...56k only gets gets a couple downloads every once and awhile: it wouldn't be worth it for the downloader or the server.
They can kill the Napster or Gnutella community, but there are software solutions to software attacks. This means the RIAA will lose an arms race since Gnutella has zero development cost. I hope they try.. I'd like to see them spend billions.. only to improve the file sharing software technology.
Exactly - there would be a huge battle. Someone, somewhere will eventually come up all kinds of checks for crap mp3s, etc. Heck, someone would probably find out the RIAA was doing it...
But it _does_ have merit when pertaining to computer software. Yes, if you try to apply it to other things, it doesn't work. But computer software is easily duplicated. Cars take quite a few thousand dollars worth of steel, etc. Computer mp3s are only a bunch of 1s and 0s. All I have to do is type Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V and all of a sudden I have 2 _exact_ copies of the same mp3! Downloading it from someone on the internet is the same thing. I now have an exact copy of what they have. Besides internet cost, there was really no cost to me or the person on the other side. I didn't steal it like you would have to do with cars: I just duplicated the file.
Another idea for stopping it (which i read somewhere else...can't remember where) was for all these recording companies to each pitch in to buy a few servers each to just serve all kinds of the most popular songs at the time. The thing is, make all the songs sound like crap...garble them, add random high-pitched shreaking, etc. (or have a sound of a constipated old man). There would be no way (if they were smart) for anyone to find out what they were doing. Eventually, the gnutella community would fall apart with the lack of trust people would place on each other. Who wants to send other people mp3s when all you are getting is an old man moaning when you think you are really getting a real song you want?
Why are these programs suddenly causing such stirs even though MP3s have been around forever(ok, quite a while)? Ok, sure you can point out that Hard drives are increasing in size, faster internet connections more abundant, etc. The biggest reason, though, is because even Mr. Joe Smith can use it. He doesn't need to copy anything, all he has to do is click on a little button that says search, type the song he wants, and click find. Thats all. No trying to log on to IRC, figuring out all kinds of commands, and figuring out fservers. Why isn't mIRC being sued and Napster is? For the same reasons stated above. I have friends that didn't even know what an MP3 was a few months ago. Now you are a loozer if you don't have Napster on your computer and have at least 20 mp3s. Amazing, huh? The recording companies are scared now because EVERYONE is able to go download whatever they want whenever they want and they don't need to know anything about computers other than how to turn them on. It is this simplicity that scares them. Frankly, myself would, in a way, don't care if i see napster go down. I can always go to my favorite mp3 channels and get my mp3s there. Yeah, yeah, you are all saying...another bum who can't afford CD's...well, i admit it: I can. The thing is, I have never bought a CD in my life, NEVER (even before Mp3s), and I never intend to get one. Its not that I am not into music, its just that I can turn the radio on and listen to all I want without paying for a CD that only has 2 out of the 20 songs that I like. Ok, so MP3s come along. Now i can listen to my favorite songs whenever I want, no commercials. No: the recording companies aren't loosing money from me downloading mp3s - I wouldn't have bought any cds anyway and I don't distribute. I don't see anything wrong with this whatsoever.
I live about 30 miles from Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. For the last hour there has been a noise coming from their direction. It kinda sounds like a whimpering dog...Gates? I'm sure he is happy, though, he got out of the spotlight by giving up his job now. Has that already taken place? (his he the software design psychic yet?) Does anyone know?
Xing did get their licence revoked. It will probably be only temporary, though... You gotta kinda feel sorry for them, loosing that business and all, and hey - every other company who the work with has to be a little aprehensive when dealing with them now, too.
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Just taking a quick look, i have over 450MB of microsoft .dlls. Does this mean now that I can delete them all...I could definately use the space. Hey, and as a little aftereffect, I won't have to worry about new backdoors! What a deal!
no, I disagree completely. _Every_ large (and even some small) companies lobby. Microsoft is no different. Now that their existence (well, not really) is threatened, obviously they are going to spend quite a bit to do whatever they can do to stop or at least lessen the pain. Who wouldn't? Im just suprised they just started now...i mean, they could have shortly after the suit was filed instead of after they were found guilty!
Heck...I guess Ill just have to add this to my wishlist along with those 500 Gigabit/inch disks...but, as said in that discussion: When can _I_ get it? Its nice to know the IT industry is still on its toes looking at new ideas, but until I can buy this 9 billion Mhz computer, I frankly don't care.
Its great that the suit was dropped, but the thing is, some damage has already been done. id already had to pay quite a bit of $$$ for lawyers. The case started at least 6 months ago, right? Thats six months of paying for a lawyer through that time. There are TONS of other ways this money could have been spent that would be much more productive for id. Hell-throwing it in their furnaces would have been better. _That_ is what is wrong with the judicial system today...anyone with money can sue anyone else whenever they want to and cut them out of a few grand. Im sure whoever was sueing them had all kinds of groups behind them(Mothers against Games or some such crap like that)...
Its great that the robber was caught, but what happened to the machine? The article said that it had not been recovered. Frankly I would think that Slashdot would wait until the machine is recoved to post this news. To the Slashdot community, I think the _machine_ is more important than those who stole it and whether or not they got caught or not. Sure...it will likely be recovered soon, but I really think Slashdot should have waited. Then at least we wouldn't have 1 out of 5 news items for the next week be about the enigma machine with reposts of the exact same information in all of them.
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I doubt it was because of Microsoft's drop in stocks. It usually takes a good month (at least) of just negotiating before something like this would happen. I suppose he could have seen it coming and prepared for it, though... 2nd reason why its unrelated to MS stock: Come on, this guy has to have quite a bit of $$$ lying around...Sure, he is probably loosing 100s of thousands (or more), but unless hes been blowing it all, I would think he would be fine.
I am very interested in why you would use the name W.A.V.E. Obviously, you wouldn't have named it that if you had heard of the movie "The Wave" beforehand. The movie (for those that don't know) basically gives the exact reasons why your program _shouldn't_ be initiated. Didn't someone come up to you during the developmental progress of this program and tell you? I am a junior in high school and just this year we watched the movie after reading "1984". While, yes, "The Wave" isn't exactly the most popular movie, from the discussion here on Slashdot, many people recognized it. When during the process of creating this did someone bring the movie to your attention and why in the world didn't you change the name right then?
I could do this same thing a month ago. At my local Best Buy you can get $200 off anything if you sign up for MSN internet. Now whether MSN or whatever DC is using is better...who knows. It is probably smart of them for doing this, though...but as someone had said before: too little too late.
Ah, yes...the good old english FF V rom. Unfortunately, the translations weren't always that great, so it kinda lost a little bit of the FF edge as far as dialogue, but of course much better than taking out my japanese to english dictionary and pausing every time somone said something... :)
That would be a very good idea. An eBayish rating system.
Actually, it would make the Gnutella network stronger since you could use the authentication system to refuse to give shit to people who did not contribute anything. Leeches who do not run their servers 24/7 are the biggest problem with Gnutella today.
Whoa there...ok-if you have cable this might apply, but obviously Mr. 56k down the block can't have it on All the time. Nor would I care if he were. Who wants to download at 56k anymore? Heck, even people at 28.8 try to download from cable, t1, t3 people...56k only gets gets a couple downloads every once and awhile: it wouldn't be worth it for the downloader or the server.
They can kill the Napster or Gnutella community, but there are software solutions to software attacks. This means the RIAA will lose an arms race since Gnutella has zero development cost. I hope they try.. I'd like to see them spend billions.. only to improve the file sharing software technology.
Exactly - there would be a huge battle. Someone, somewhere will eventually come up all kinds of checks for crap mp3s, etc. Heck, someone would probably find out the RIAA was doing it...
But it _does_ have merit when pertaining to computer software. Yes, if you try to apply it to other things, it doesn't work. But computer software is easily duplicated. Cars take quite a few thousand dollars worth of steel, etc. Computer mp3s are only a bunch of 1s and 0s. All I have to do is type Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V and all of a sudden I have 2 _exact_ copies of the same mp3! Downloading it from someone on the internet is the same thing. I now have an exact copy of what they have. Besides internet cost, there was really no cost to me or the person on the other side. I didn't steal it like you would have to do with cars: I just duplicated the file.
Another idea for stopping it (which i read somewhere else...can't remember where) was for all these recording companies to each pitch in to buy a few servers each to just serve all kinds of the most popular songs at the time. The thing is, make all the songs sound like crap...garble them, add random high-pitched shreaking, etc. (or have a sound of a constipated old man). There would be no way (if they were smart) for anyone to find out what they were doing. Eventually, the gnutella community would fall apart with the lack of trust people would place on each other. Who wants to send other people mp3s when all you are getting is an old man moaning when you think you are really getting a real song you want?
Why are these programs suddenly causing such stirs even though MP3s have been around forever(ok, quite a while)? Ok, sure you can point out that Hard drives are increasing in size, faster internet connections more abundant, etc. The biggest reason, though, is because even Mr. Joe Smith can use it. He doesn't need to copy anything, all he has to do is click on a little button that says search, type the song he wants, and click find. Thats all. No trying to log on to IRC, figuring out all kinds of commands, and figuring out fservers. Why isn't mIRC being sued and Napster is? For the same reasons stated above. I have friends that didn't even know what an MP3 was a few months ago. Now you are a loozer if you don't have Napster on your computer and have at least 20 mp3s. Amazing, huh? The recording companies are scared now because EVERYONE is able to go download whatever they want whenever they want and they don't need to know anything about computers other than how to turn them on. It is this simplicity that scares them. Frankly, myself would, in a way, don't care if i see napster go down. I can always go to my favorite mp3 channels and get my mp3s there. Yeah, yeah, you are all saying...another bum who can't afford CD's...well, i admit it: I can. The thing is, I have never bought a CD in my life, NEVER (even before Mp3s), and I never intend to get one. Its not that I am not into music, its just that I can turn the radio on and listen to all I want without paying for a CD that only has 2 out of the 20 songs that I like. Ok, so MP3s come along. Now i can listen to my favorite songs whenever I want, no commercials. No: the recording companies aren't loosing money from me downloading mp3s - I wouldn't have bought any cds anyway and I don't distribute. I don't see anything wrong with this whatsoever.
I live about 30 miles from Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. For the last hour there has been a noise coming from their direction. It kinda sounds like a whimpering dog...Gates? I'm sure he is happy, though, he got out of the spotlight by giving up his job now. Has that already taken place? (his he the software design psychic yet?) Does anyone know?
Xing did get their licence revoked. It will probably be only temporary, though... You gotta kinda feel sorry for them, loosing that business and all, and hey - every other company who the work with has to be a little aprehensive when dealing with them now, too.