How long do you think it would take before, in addition to lists of live email addresses, spammers also begin keeping lists of "people wasting our time"? I'd give it a week, if this really caught on suddenly.
Happily, though, we non-spammers have the same veil of anonymity that the spammers do.
As someone who was heavily involved in college radio for all of his undergraduate years, I cannot understand why the RIAA is demanding the payment of these silly royalties by radio stations who want to webcast. My alma mater spends tens of thousands of dollars each year toward radio station maintenance to advertise the RIAA's music at no cost to the RIAA. On top of this they pay things like ASCAP public performance fees. The webcast is of lower quality than the air signal (which is pretty crappy itself by the way), so from the RIAA's perspective it is clearly advertising and not a way for people to get bit-perfect copies of the music. And yet they want people to pay them for the right to advertise for them for free.
The same record labels that demand these royalties will also happily send piles of promo CDs, related swag, free concert tickets, and on occasion an actual breathing representative to try and get college stations to play their albums.
Seems strange to me, but maybe it's just because I'm young and idealistic...
My two-monitor setup has each monitor running a separate X display. This way I can't drag apps back and forth between them, but I can have each monitor displaying a different virtual desktop. I love this setup - I'd never move to one giant desktop.
those 4.0 students MUST work well in groups, else they would be closer to 3.0 or 2.5
I can count the number of group projects I did during college on one hand. Most of my grades were completely derived from midterm and final examinations. Turning those into group projects would get one kicked out of school:)
I'm an MD/PhD student, so I am exposed a fair amount to people involved in biology research. I get the impression that most of them have no idea what the name is from, which makes it really awesome.
Downloading mp3 of music that you do not own is illegal. I taught my son a lesson by destroying his iBook. The lesson is that if you work hard and save your money to buy something, once you break the law with it, it will be taken away. By the time he saves enough to buy another laptop (which will be around two years based on his after school pay check) he will have learned that he was doing something bad and wont do it again.
So it's pretty obvious that you are a troll but you do inadvertently raise a good point about authoritarianism.
Destroying your son's personal property was an immature act. He knows it was a childish thing to do, and it caused him to lose respect for you as an authority figure and role model. You have eroded your ability to make moral judgments that he will respect.
If your child does not respect you, he will not listen to you. Because of the power you wield he will simply give the appearance of respect and obedience, but in reality will go behind your back and do whatever he wants. This is the behavior you are reinforcing. Why would he do any differently?
So in a way you are like the RIAA. The RIAA is destroying any respect the public had for it by suing its own customers for large damages, much like you destroyed your son's iBook. Now even if they had a valid moral position (e.g. sharing music is stealing from artists) people are disinclined to believe it, regardless of its veracity. Music sharing will go on - just behind the RIAA's back.
You and the RIAA both need to act like adults here and build trust by acting maturely. Then maybe you both will get the respect you desire.
Everyone makes minor spelling errors. We're only human. But come on, how do you misspell JRR Tolkien's name - twice in one news post - on Slashdot of all places?
I attended another talk by Ryan Lackey where he spoke briefly about Sealand's defense system. He wasn't too specific, but I got the impression that their defenses are designed to fend off small-scale attacks (i.e. dealing with a few guys on a boat "would be fun") but just to delay a large-scale attack (i.e. British navy) long enough - 30 seconds - to hit the switch that destroys all of the data on the customers' servers. They know they can't hold off any real navy but they are confident they can delay the invading force's entrance into the server rooms for half a minute.
Yeah, I heard that the culture of MS is the polar opposite of the "borg" propaganda so common here. Like it feels like a loosely cohesive group of enthusiastic startups and not a giant monolithic company.
I have heard from MS employees, while talking to them in person, that MS uses Linux internally in certain places. One person stated that his first account there was on a Linux box. Apparently they also use Perl too. (Any MS employees care to comment? Even as AC?)
Um... How exactly would having the broadband adaptor enable piracy? Last time I checked, Dreamcasts didn't include hard drives and CD burners...
Easy. Write a program for the Dreamcast that dumps the contents of a GD-ROM to a host computer. Make any adjustments necessary to get it to fit on a CD, burn to said CD, and you've just committed copyright infringement.
(Got an Ethernet interface? Must be a criminal...)
Interoperability with legacy systems is the problem here. I can still use a rotary phone made before I was born to call your modern cellphone. Good luck getting the PSTN to switch to your buddy list system.
Then again, instant messaging services already have voice chat. With the average amount of bandwidth going into the average person's home increasing, using IM with a high-quality voice stream would be preferable to a landline phone.
Also, I would definitely be interested in a buddy list kind of thing for my cell phone, especially if I had the option of blocking people like I can on IM.
Actually, there are lots of non-nerd reasons to leave your box on at night if you are a college student. Here are a few that come to mind.
- AIM/ICQ etc. Non-nerds like collecting messages from people at night. - File sharing. - Falling asleep to music.
What really surprises me is that this guy has such a quiet dorm...
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I go to Washington University right now. We Wash U people are used to this. Anytime we talk to family they say things like "Seattle is pretty rainy isn't it?" You'd think more people would have heard of a major research university with billions of dollars in its endowment. Sadly this is not the case. No love lost, we understand:)
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Now this is a well-written troll!
(Don't believe me? Think about how this almost, but not quite makes sense. Look at his comment history, at all the jobs he claims to have.)
Apple fixes, but RIAA says game over.
Big whoop. Try listening to some music that hasn't been enslaved by the RIAA.
How long do you think it would take before, in addition to lists of live email addresses, spammers also begin keeping lists of "people wasting our time"? I'd give it a week, if this really caught on suddenly.
Happily, though, we non-spammers have the same veil of anonymity that the spammers do.
As someone who was heavily involved in college radio for all of his undergraduate years, I cannot understand why the RIAA is demanding the payment of these silly royalties by radio stations who want to webcast. My alma mater spends tens of thousands of dollars each year toward radio station maintenance to advertise the RIAA's music at no cost to the RIAA. On top of this they pay things like ASCAP public performance fees. The webcast is of lower quality than the air signal (which is pretty crappy itself by the way), so from the RIAA's perspective it is clearly advertising and not a way for people to get bit-perfect copies of the music. And yet they want people to pay them for the right to advertise for them for free.
The same record labels that demand these royalties will also happily send piles of promo CDs, related swag, free concert tickets, and on occasion an actual breathing representative to try and get college stations to play their albums.
Seems strange to me, but maybe it's just because I'm young and idealistic...
My two-monitor setup has each monitor running a separate X display. This way I can't drag apps back and forth between them, but I can have each monitor displaying a different virtual desktop. I love this setup - I'd never move to one giant desktop.
those 4.0 students MUST work well in groups, else they would be closer to 3.0 or 2.5
:)
I can count the number of group projects I did during college on one hand. Most of my grades were completely derived from midterm and final examinations. Turning those into group projects would get one kicked out of school
I'm an MD/PhD student, so I am exposed a fair amount to people involved in biology research. I get the impression that most of them have no idea what the name is from, which makes it really awesome.
Downloading mp3 of music that you do not own is illegal. I taught my son a lesson by destroying his iBook. The lesson is that if you work hard and save your money to buy something, once you break the law with it, it will be taken away. By the time he saves enough to buy another laptop (which will be around two years based on his after school pay check) he will have learned that he was doing something bad and wont do it again.
So it's pretty obvious that you are a troll but you do inadvertently raise a good point about authoritarianism.
Destroying your son's personal property was an immature act. He knows it was a childish thing to do, and it caused him to lose respect for you as an authority figure and role model. You have eroded your ability to make moral judgments that he will respect.
If your child does not respect you, he will not listen to you. Because of the power you wield he will simply give the appearance of respect and obedience, but in reality will go behind your back and do whatever he wants. This is the behavior you are reinforcing. Why would he do any differently?
So in a way you are like the RIAA. The RIAA is destroying any respect the public had for it by suing its own customers for large damages, much like you destroyed your son's iBook. Now even if they had a valid moral position (e.g. sharing music is stealing from artists) people are disinclined to believe it, regardless of its veracity. Music sharing will go on - just behind the RIAA's back.
You and the RIAA both need to act like adults here and build trust by acting maturely. Then maybe you both will get the respect you desire.
Time for me to plug the mirror I'm affiliated with...
Wuarchive's kernel.org mirror
Yes. But that won't get you 90%. Maybe 40%.
:)
Then again, people who obfuscate their email addresses certainly won't respond to spam to start with, so I guess the point is moot
Actually, I don't obfuscate my email address at all.
My mistake, I forgot about Slashdot's auto-obfuscator.
15 minutes?
Try this: s/[A-Z]//g
A large number of "spamproofed" email addresses I see have the part to remove in all caps, including yours.
SCO is going on a tour to various US cities. How could you NOT register and attend this event, and ask them to explain their position in person?
http://www.sco.com/partners/city_to_city/oct2003/
Everyone makes minor spelling errors. We're only human. But come on, how do you misspell JRR Tolkien's name - twice in one news post - on Slashdot of all places?
(Yeah, yeah, I must be new here. Ha ha.)
So, one could theoretically spam them like so:Of course I am not advocating that anyone do this. Especially anyone with scads of bandwidth. That would be terrible. Oh, the humanity.
Then came Conqueror 1086[...]
You know, it feels really strange to read the word "conqueror" when it isn't spelled inkorrectly.
I attended another talk by Ryan Lackey where he spoke briefly about Sealand's defense system. He wasn't too specific, but I got the impression that their defenses are designed to fend off small-scale attacks (i.e. dealing with a few guys on a boat "would be fun") but just to delay a large-scale attack (i.e. British navy) long enough - 30 seconds - to hit the switch that destroys all of the data on the customers' servers. They know they can't hold off any real navy but they are confident they can delay the invading force's entrance into the server rooms for half a minute.
Yeah, I heard that the culture of MS is the polar opposite of the "borg" propaganda so common here. Like it feels like a loosely cohesive group of enthusiastic startups and not a giant monolithic company.
Thanks for your replies!
For example, what happens if you stick HTML files on a samba share, and point IIS at it and tell it to serve those files?
Wow! That's cool. Call it Slashdot bias if you want, but I never would have expected MS to make sure their products work well with Samba and Linux.
The other reason that people set up linux boxes is because they are GEEKS, and like to mess around with stuff.
So there isn't a general company push (perhaps from management) to not let people do that?
I know this is no big secret, but...
I have heard from MS employees, while talking to them in person, that MS uses Linux internally in certain places. One person stated that his first account there was on a Linux box. Apparently they also use Perl too. (Any MS employees care to comment? Even as AC?)
Which makes this story that much funnier.
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/users/tom/mirrors/hu
is a mirror of the full JPEG - about 5M. Enjoy.
Um... How exactly would having the broadband adaptor enable piracy? Last time I checked, Dreamcasts didn't include hard drives and CD burners...
Easy. Write a program for the Dreamcast that dumps the contents of a GD-ROM to a host computer. Make any adjustments necessary to get it to fit on a CD, burn to said CD, and you've just committed copyright infringement.
(Got an Ethernet interface? Must be a criminal...)
Interoperability with legacy systems is the problem here. I can still use a rotary phone made before I was born to call your modern cellphone. Good luck getting the PSTN to switch to your buddy list system.
Then again, instant messaging services already have voice chat. With the average amount of bandwidth going into the average person's home increasing, using IM with a high-quality voice stream would be preferable to a landline phone.
Also, I would definitely be interested in a buddy list kind of thing for my cell phone, especially if I had the option of blocking people like I can on IM.
Well, there is a conspiracy theory that says Disney is actually a secret purveyor of porn...
Actually, there are lots of non-nerd reasons to leave your box on at night if you are a college student. Here are a few that come to mind.
- AIM/ICQ etc. Non-nerds like collecting messages from people at night.
- File sharing.
- Falling asleep to music.
What really surprises me is that this guy has such a quiet dorm...
I go to Washington University right now. We Wash U people are used to this. Anytime we talk to family they say things like "Seattle is pretty rainy isn't it?" You'd think more people would have heard of a major research university with billions of dollars in its endowment. Sadly this is not the case. No love lost, we understand :)