The patent that was supposedly infringed was "US5876324: Penile stimulator device using turbulent water flow and method of use"
Is this something hemos uses while working on slashdot to keep himself occupied? If it is, hemos, it's not fair to stop other people from using them. Also, is it any good? Cause I am thinking about getting one!
windows programs are mostly closed source. they have things like built-in copy protection.
but as anyone who pirated software before he discoverd linux knows, there are people out there called crackers who use HEX EDITORS and change the copy protection.
so basically, i expect someone with a hex editor will get around the region encoding REAL qick. then they will realease what we windows warez people called a crack.
so we start our OWN NET. seriously, the hacker/geek philosophy will live on. if the internet becomes some heavily controlled corperate bitch, we will start a new one. oh, and we will make it REALLY complicated, so that the free exchange of ideas and information can still exist but grandma won't be buying denture-bond on it.
ever heard of BBS? we could always to back to some form of that, even. that is where there was FREEDOM!
I have a solution to the language barrier! We develop a thought-language in which ideas are represented. This way each browser or whatever can take the thought-language words and replace them with the right phrases for the user's particular language! You wouldn't have to worry about silly little grammar rules in the thought-language, because it would be IDEAS.
The answer is simple. It would be more expensive to build a completely remote-controlled droid, and human life is cheap. The military would much rather lose a human than a $2M droid.
Seriously, we all have very similar viewpoints, we could get tons of funds from IPO rich geeks and from bank crackers, we know how to use the new media to get our message out, and we could have
hey check this out! i was trying to type "cd" on my slack box, but i missed the "c" and only hit "d [ENTER]".
so what happened? i got the same output i would get if i typed "ls". LS-D, get it? i think ol' patrik has some drug problems and this is his call for help.
"the top five Linux distributors--Caldera, Corel, Red Hat, SuSE and TurboLinux"
it makes me sick to see comments like this. when people talk about "market share" and think a distribution of linux is the most popular just because it has the most SALES.
that is total crap! most people i know DOWNLOAD linux. debian and slackware are very popular, but these writers think they aren't popular because they don't have as many SALES. i am going to go throw up.
what the fsck? did something slip by me when i wasn't paying attention? i have never seen anything with a score higher than 5 before. i thought it was the limit. so where'd the 6 come from???
They can block access to all the countries they want, but all the people in blocked countries would ahve to do is go through a proxy server in an allowed country! It is futile to censor the internet.
In the article, he keeps talking about using Napster "to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files." This sounded like a good idea to me, but I couldn't think of any other type of file Napster would be good for. One idea would be program files, but if Napster ever started trading software, this could be a HUGE problem (with trojans, backdoors and such) because anybody could easily share malicious code on the Napster network. What else would the Napster design be used for?
What's the point? I have no privacy if someone can sue one of my friends and read all of my email! So the govt. says telling companies what kind of products I like to buy is bad but letting people read all of my email is ok?!?! BAH!
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The patent that was supposedly infringed was "US5876324: Penile stimulator device using turbulent water flow and method of use"
Is this something hemos uses while working on slashdot to keep himself occupied?
If it is, hemos, it's not fair to stop other people from using them. Also, is it any good? Cause I am thinking about getting one!
about the region crap...
windows programs are mostly closed source. they have things like built-in copy protection.
but as anyone who pirated software before he discoverd linux knows, there are people out there called crackers who use HEX EDITORS and change the copy protection.
so basically, i expect someone with a hex editor will get around the region encoding REAL qick. then they will realease what we windows warez people called a crack.
and boom. no region encoding.
so we start our OWN NET.
seriously, the hacker/geek philosophy will live on. if the internet becomes some heavily controlled corperate bitch, we will start a new one. oh, and we will make it REALLY complicated, so that the free exchange of ideas and information can still exist but grandma won't be buying denture-bond on it.
ever heard of BBS?
we could always to back to some form of that, even. that is where there was FREEDOM!
I have a solution to the language barrier! We develop a thought-language in which ideas are represented. This way each browser or whatever can take the thought-language words and replace them with the right phrases for the user's particular language! You wouldn't have to worry about silly little grammar rules in the thought-language, because it would be IDEAS.
The answer is simple. It would be more expensive to build a completely remote-controlled droid, and human life is cheap. The military would much rather lose a human than a $2M droid.
Well here's one we have in the US that they don't have:
freedom of speech.
And I like that one more than a digital fish bowl.
political party! We could call it...
The Slashdot Party!
Seriously, we all have very similar viewpoints, we could get tons of funds from IPO rich geeks and from bank crackers, we know how to use the new media to get our message out, and we could have
HEMOS FOR PREZ!!!!!!!
hey check this out! i was trying to type "cd" on my slack box, but i missed the "c" and only hit "d [ENTER]".
so what happened? i got the same output i would get if i typed "ls". LS-D, get it? i think ol' patrik has some drug problems and this is his call for help.
"the top five Linux distributors--Caldera, Corel, Red Hat, SuSE and TurboLinux"
it makes me sick to see comments like this. when people talk about "market share" and think a distribution of linux is the most popular just because it has the most SALES.
that is total crap! most people i know DOWNLOAD linux. debian and slackware are very popular, but these writers think they aren't popular because they don't have as many SALES. i am going to go throw up.
What your web browser would do is connect to slashdot.org's port 80 and send:
GET / HTTP/1.1\n\n
oops, well, I guess that was pretty picky.
"Mirror for program (Score:6, Informative)"
what the fsck? did something slip by me when i wasn't paying attention? i have never seen anything with a score higher than 5 before. i thought it was the limit. so where'd the 6 come from???
You are forgetting something.
They can block access to all the countries they want, but all the people in blocked countries would ahve to do is go through a proxy server in an allowed country! It is futile to censor the internet.
Here's the link to download the book from Barnes & Noble. Have fun, guys!
t ion=free&ordersource=bnfree&bookid=ISBN:07 43204670
http://server1.glassbook.com/fulfill/ebx.etd?ac
In the article, he keeps talking about using Napster "to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files." This sounded like a good idea to me, but I couldn't think of any other type of file Napster would be good for. One idea would be program files, but if Napster ever started trading software, this could be a HUGE problem (with trojans, backdoors and such) because anybody could easily share malicious code on the Napster network. What else would the Napster design be used for?
What's the point? I have no privacy if someone can sue one of my friends and read all of my email! So the govt. says telling companies what kind of products I like to buy is bad but letting people read all of my email is ok?!?! BAH!
Yeah, but can you geat AIBO to chase it? That would be way past nifty.