Atomic Pop is the label releasing the new Public Enemy CD.
The article (sorry, link didn't take) at Yahoo states that there will be a digital download, but the Atomic Pop site only mentions preorders of the cassettes and CDs.
BTW, didn't Prince (or whatever he's known as now) sell a CD exclusively over the Net a few years ago? The idea isn't new...
I have no idea why NeoPlanet doesn't link user-developed skins. I haven't tried this one. NeoPlanet is not my favorite product, I uninstalled it about 5 minutes after I began to use it.
The clincher here is the "agreement." Sounds like all the hard work of the employees with none of the pay, and not only that you have to act as a corporate mouthpiece too.
Yes, according to the article, there are Serbs sending out pro-Serbian spam. I wish I had the article with me but I was reading the boss's copy (in other words, couldn't cut it out and bring it home to post here.)
Ya know, the least effective way to get someone to agree with you on an issue is to spam them about it...but then again to get the addresses someone probably answered one of those "Millions of Addresses!" spams.:o)
I don't think the Serbian government was mentioned as the spam source, of course youneverknow but I don't really think they would bother with such an inefficient technique.
AFAIK some of the sysadmins at AT&T and Lucent branch offices used to be members of either the CWA or IBEW. What the branch admin at our office mostly did was fix hardware and basic LAN maintenance. Most things ran (and run) from a remotely located frame relay.
So, yes, there are unions that probably docover some sysadmins, or something similar to such. It really depends on what positions at a company are covered by the union contract. The union, as it has been posted later in this thread, covers more a specific company than a job. Exceptions to this may be unions like the IBEW which does solicit independent electricians to join. I'm not that sure about where the technical fields fall in.
I don't know about sysadmins, but I do know that there is a group certifying cable TV technicians. The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers provides training and certification for all those folks who put in your cable.
And of course, there's that MCSE certification ^_^
There used to be the text of the Happy Fun Ball parody somewhere on the Web. Hey, wait, here it is: Happy Fun Ball The guy liked it so much, he named his domain after it.
The Adobe car was a hoot, too-it was made of clay, and it did not run Photoshop:o)
The only difference is in where the victim first met her attacker.
A friend of mine was raped by her boyfriend. No one believed her because, after all, she was in a sexual relationship with him at the time. That doesn't change the fact that she was forced into sexual activity without her consent, regardless of her previous sexual history.
The problem is not in the medium, it's in the way the courts handle rape cases. Your entire sexual history is put up in front of a jury, as if it's your fault that someone usurped your consent. And for all the men (and some of the women) reading this, if you agree, it's time to get involved in changing laws and attitudes about sex crimes.
The whole purpose of I2 is just a testbed for improvements in the regular Internet. Here's the goal, stated on their very web site: "A key goal of this effort is to accelerate the diffusion of advanced Internet technology, in particular into the commercial sector."
What I2 sounds like at this point is what the Internet was before it was opened to civilian use. Some of you liked that; as someone who under that system wouldn't even be allowed to see the computers, I'm not fond of a university-only system. Especially not one that only certain people at a university get to use, even though all students have to pay for the service's existence.
I just hope that IPv6 trickles down quickly. We are needing that soon.
In lieu of biased comments about WIPO and what they do, I'll just point you to their web site: http://www.wipo.org/
Basically, their intent is to get a standardized, more or less, copyright law for all member nations. Since a lot of us users here at/. aren't too fond of the current IP laws, you'll see a lot of angry words against WIPO's work posted here. Others of us don't like the way that American law has been used as a standard for international IP issues, and welcome international cooperative involvement in that matter. Yet others just want a standardized copyright policy.
Disclaimer: I'm no copyright expert, just someone interested in all sides of the issue.
From looking over the rest of his site, the $DATE just lists the date it was last modified, not the post date. He may have been updating links, adding new parts, or fixing grammar/spelling.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that Illiad once mentioned on the User Friendly static page that a site mentioned in the UF Link of the Day had gone down due to the amount of traffic generated by the link.
I have a friend with a well-visited site (no Slashdot or UF, but still getting about 80000 pageviews per week) who puts up links of the week. I've noticed that some of the sites she's listed have become "slashdotted" right after she puts the links up, but in a few hours the servers come right back up (in most cases.)
Speaking of that, I noticed a mini-/. effect after my first post here. Just 300 more, but still-that's nice. I got the same effect after Yahoo fixed my link though.
Because, well, youneverknow. What's there now is a personal site, but I was planning on doing some Web design work at the time the domain was registered. It was commercial in intent, thus the.com. I respect the original method of TLD distinctions.
'Course, I am in no way EVER going to do Web design, I know a lot of the coding but if you take a look at my site, I'm not exactly living on the bleeding edge here. I can't draw worth a darn either. Neither can a lot of so-called Web designers, but that didn't stop them!
Honestly, "Death Star" was a nick for the logo among AT&T employees too. They had all sorts of nicknames for various logos. BTW, the incorrect logo mentioned in the Jargon File was on a lot of quasi-official AT&T stuff, mainly because a lot of the copiers at local offices were on the fritz:o)
I'd put some of the uncomplimentary names for the Lucent Technologies logo up, but I don't want to get sued. We did call the company "Aunt Lucy" however-the spinster engineer sister of Ma Bell.
BTW, does anyone know of a page listing Bell System-specific jargon? Darn there is a lot of old jargon out there, much of it still being used...
For example, the Network Solutions thread above-Mr. Miyamoto makes good points about technology and design working hand in hand to produce a good, enjoyable, and useable product. They should have read this speech before designing that site.
I love what he says about Nintendo: Accordingly, in our company, all designers must go through technical training. If only all companies were that intelligent (and maybe gave the techies some design training too!)
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First off, they changed it on a Saturday when no one was looking, except people like me who get assigned to a spam-hunter task. (Some idiot spammed our help mailbox at work.)
Secondly, it's too hard to find what one is looking for, even for newbies who the new redesign is presumably aimed at.
I do have to correct the previous poster-if you enter slashdot.org, for example, you get this:
Registrant: Rob Malda (SLASHDOT2-DOM) etc. just like the old whois. (I picked Slashdot because, well, everyone knows who owns the domain name:o) )
So that part of the whois is working. The whois itself has moved to http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois. Not as easy as rs.internic.net, but it's still there. The link to it is buried pretty deep.
In short, whoever designed the UI for NSI should be taken out back and shot. I much prefer the IANA setup...
I work for an ISP. Our employee email addresses end in.com. Our customers' email adddresses end in.net. So I get this call from a newbie customer that he was mailing his wife from work and she wasn't getting the mails but they weren't bouncing. As it turns out her username was the same as one of our employees in an international location-his address, however, ended in the.com which our newbie thought had to be at the end of every domain.
Now we in tech support are told to be very loud with the.NET at the end of subs' email addresses.:o)
Joe Blow reads ZDNet. If Joe Blow sees FUD without a response, Joe believes the FUD. If we post to ZDNet to dispel FUD, Joe is less likely to believe it.
Sometimes we need the mirror of the mainstream to reflect our community/attitude/personal ethics system so we can see what others see, and work some PR magic to make the mainstream come over to Our Side.
~BTW, the grammar in the title was intentional, folks. Nothing to see here, move along~
I remember watching it on good ol' channel 23
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Yup, I'm from Minneapolis:o) And ya know, that's the only time I even watched the show until I went to college. Argh. Now I don't have time to watch it.
I used to run one of those silly free Web graphics sites. I tried to put PNGs on it instead of GIF but all the sillies didn't like it because they didn't know what a PNG was. I also tried to release my graphics under the GPL (I know, it's for software, but what the hey) and I got flame mail from those copyright-nut artists. Argh, I guess I can't win.
Let's say I own a trademark for something in the United States, but not in another country. How does this get settled then, especially if the domain name I'm using is in the.com,.net,.org, or especially in the.us domain? (if.us ever gets used for things other than state and local governments-which I doubt, but should really be done.)
I suppose that's what WIPO is for but they've never done anything for the small-time trademark owner...
Slashdot Mirror
Atomic Pop is the label releasing the new Public Enemy CD.
The article (sorry, link didn't take) at Yahoo states that there will be a digital download, but the Atomic Pop site only mentions preorders of the cassettes and CDs.
BTW, didn't Prince (or whatever he's known as now) sell a CD exclusively over the Net a few years ago? The idea isn't new...
fairy theme
I have no idea why NeoPlanet doesn't link user-developed skins. I haven't tried this one. NeoPlanet is not my favorite product, I uninstalled it about 5 minutes after I began to use it.
The clincher here is the "agreement." Sounds like all the hard work of the employees with none of the pay, and not only that you have to act as a corporate mouthpiece too.
No thank you...
Yes, according to the article, there are Serbs sending out pro-Serbian spam. I wish I had the article with me but I was reading the boss's copy (in other words, couldn't cut it out and bring it home to post here.)
:o)
Ya know, the least effective way to get someone to agree with you on an issue is to spam them about it...but then again to get the addresses someone probably answered one of those "Millions of Addresses!" spams.
I don't think the Serbian government was mentioned as the spam source, of course youneverknow but I don't really think they would bother with such an inefficient technique.
AFAIK some of the sysadmins at AT&T and Lucent branch offices used to be members of either the CWA or IBEW. What the branch admin at our office mostly did was fix hardware and basic LAN maintenance. Most things ran (and run) from a remotely located frame relay.
So, yes, there are unions that probably docover some sysadmins, or something similar to such. It really depends on what positions at a company are covered by the union contract. The union, as it has been posted later in this thread, covers more a specific company than a job. Exceptions to this may be unions like the IBEW which does solicit independent electricians to join. I'm not that sure about where the technical fields fall in.
I don't know about sysadmins, but I do know that there is a group certifying cable TV technicians. The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers provides training and certification for all those folks who put in your cable.
And of course, there's that MCSE certification ^_^
The guy liked it so much, he named his domain after it.
The Adobe car was a hoot, too-it was made of clay, and it did not run Photoshop :o)
The only difference is in where the victim first met her attacker.
A friend of mine was raped by her boyfriend. No one believed her because, after all, she was in a sexual relationship with him at the time. That doesn't change the fact that she was forced into sexual activity without her consent, regardless of her previous sexual history.
The problem is not in the medium, it's in the way the courts handle rape cases. Your entire sexual history is put up in front of a jury, as if it's your fault that someone usurped your consent. And for all the men (and some of the women) reading this, if you agree, it's time to get involved in changing laws and attitudes about sex crimes.
The whole purpose of I2 is just a testbed for improvements in the regular Internet. Here's the goal, stated on their very web site:
"A key goal of this effort is to accelerate the diffusion of advanced Internet technology, in particular into the commercial sector."
What I2 sounds like at this point is what the Internet was before it was opened to civilian use. Some of you liked that; as someone who under that system wouldn't even be allowed to see the computers, I'm not fond of a university-only system. Especially not one that only certain people at a university get to use, even though all students have to pay for the service's existence.
I just hope that IPv6 trickles down quickly. We are needing that soon.
In lieu of biased comments about WIPO and what they do, I'll just point you to their web site:
/. aren't too fond of the current IP laws, you'll see a lot of angry words against WIPO's work posted here. Others of us don't like the way that American law has been used as a standard for international IP issues, and welcome international cooperative involvement in that matter. Yet others just want a standardized copyright policy.
http://www.wipo.org/
Basically, their intent is to get a standardized, more or less, copyright law for all member nations. Since a lot of us users here at
Disclaimer: I'm no copyright expert, just someone interested in all sides of the issue.
From looking over the rest of his site, the $DATE just lists the date it was last modified, not the post date. He may have been updating links, adding new parts, or fixing grammar/spelling.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that Illiad once mentioned on the User Friendly static page that a site mentioned in the UF Link of the Day had gone down due to the amount of traffic generated by the link.
I have a friend with a well-visited site (no Slashdot or UF, but still getting about 80000 pageviews per week) who puts up links of the week. I've noticed that some of the sites she's listed have become "slashdotted" right after she puts the links up, but in a few hours the servers come right back up (in most cases.)
Speaking of that, I noticed a mini-/. effect after my first post here. Just 300 more, but still-that's nice. I got the same effect after Yahoo fixed my link though.
Because, well, youneverknow. What's there now is a personal site, but I was planning on doing some Web design work at the time the domain was registered. It was commercial in intent, thus the .com. I respect the original method of TLD distinctions.
'Course, I am in no way EVER going to do Web design, I know a lot of the coding but if you take a look at my site, I'm not exactly living on the bleeding edge here. I can't draw worth a darn either. Neither can a lot of so-called Web designers, but that didn't stop them!
E-commerce? Whazzat?
Honestly, "Death Star" was a nick for the logo among AT&T employees too. They had all sorts of nicknames for various logos. BTW, the incorrect logo mentioned in the Jargon File was on a lot of quasi-official AT&T stuff, mainly because a lot of the copiers at local offices were on the fritz :o)
I'd put some of the uncomplimentary names for the Lucent Technologies logo up, but I don't want to get sued. We did call the company "Aunt Lucy" however-the spinster engineer sister of Ma Bell.
BTW, does anyone know of a page listing Bell System-specific jargon? Darn there is a lot of old jargon out there, much of it still being used...
"We paid HOW MUCH for a big red 0?"
For example, the Network Solutions thread above-Mr. Miyamoto makes good points about technology and design working hand in hand to produce a good, enjoyable, and useable product. They should have read this speech before designing that site.
I love what he says about Nintendo:
Accordingly, in our company, all designers must go through technical training.
If only all companies were that intelligent (and maybe gave the techies some design training too!)
First off, they changed it on a Saturday when no one was looking, except people like me who get assigned to a spam-hunter task. (Some idiot spammed our help mailbox at work.)
:o) )
/cgi-bin/whois/whois. Not as easy as rs.internic.net, but it's still there. The link to it is buried pretty deep.
Secondly, it's too hard to find what one is looking for, even for newbies who the new redesign is presumably aimed at.
I do have to correct the previous poster-if you enter slashdot.org, for example, you get this:
Registrant:
Rob Malda (SLASHDOT2-DOM)
etc. just like the old whois.
(I picked Slashdot because, well, everyone knows who owns the domain name
So that part of the whois is working. The whois itself has moved to http://www.networksolutions.com
In short, whoever designed the UI for NSI should be taken out back and shot. I much prefer the IANA setup...
I work for an ISP. Our employee email addresses end in .com. Our customers' email adddresses end in .net. So I get this call from a newbie customer that he was mailing his wife from work and she wasn't getting the mails but they weren't bouncing. As it turns out her username was the same as one of our employees in an international location-his address, however, ended in the .com which our newbie thought had to be at the end of every domain.
.NET at the end of subs' email addresses. :o)
Now we in tech support are told to be very loud with the
Joe Blow reads ZDNet. If Joe Blow sees FUD without a response, Joe believes the FUD. If we post to ZDNet to dispel FUD, Joe is less likely to believe it.
Sometimes we need the mirror of the mainstream to reflect our community/attitude/personal ethics system so we can see what others see, and work some PR magic to make the mainstream come over to Our Side.
~BTW, the grammar in the title was intentional, folks. Nothing to see here, move along~
Yup, I'm from Minneapolis :o) And ya know, that's the only time I even watched the show until I went to college. Argh. Now I don't have time to watch it.
I used to run one of those silly free Web graphics sites. I tried to put PNGs on it instead of GIF but all the sillies didn't like it because they didn't know what a PNG was. I also tried to release my graphics under the GPL (I know, it's for software, but what the hey) and I got flame mail from those copyright-nut artists. Argh, I guess I can't win.
Except now it's how to have fun at Wal-mart. It's being forwarded by users who weren't alive in 1987. Eeek.
BTW, I used to have a 2400bps connection in 1996. That's when I decided that the Web has too many graphics for its own good.
there was something similar in the User Friendly strip already. All funny though.
Let's say I own a trademark for something in the United States, but not in another country. How does this get settled then, especially if the domain name I'm using is in the .com, .net, .org, or especially in the .us domain? (if .us ever gets used for things other than state and local governments-which I doubt, but should really be done.)
I suppose that's what WIPO is for but they've never done anything for the small-time trademark owner...