1. Washington Times readers are by nature a paranoid, ultra-conservative group that likes to feel informed of the stories the real media "conveniently ignores."
This says a lot about./ readers (and editors) as well. I'm no longer surprised when I read a hair-raising story like this on Slash, then buried in a comment someone debunks it. I guess even geeks are attracted to sensationalism.
Er, don't buy music from recording labels? The best way to express your disapproval towards any business or group of businesses is to not buy their stuff.
Unfortunately, the people who care about this don't make up the majority of purchasers. You, or for that matter ever/. user not buying CD's (if any of us do) won't put a dent in their revinue.
The best way is to do your own music (if you're capible), promote it online without a major label, sell your music online (you'll probably make just as much cash as popular artists barring the top 100 Madonna/Britney/etc. class).
(And don't gripe and say shit like "oh, but I wanna make it BIG." Here's a concept for you: Music wasn't meant to be big or make anyone big. It's an art form that was slowly turned into a mass commodity by an overzealous music industry over the decades, and without them, you wouldn't be BIG no matter how good your music was)
If you're not a musician (or even if you are), then patronize (I mean in a good way) non-major musicians, and enjourage that non-industry. Browse mp3.com. They have good stuff! And check out local bands, also.
Microsoft should get more props for not going after 'the little guy' as much as *ahem* some other companies. I've never seen Microsoft go after anyone for creating a windows look-and-feel unix theme. Not to mention all the patents they hold in different OS technologies that they've never threatened other (i.e.: open sourced) OS's with.
Also because it is cheap and not as useful as a laptop. I have 3 Dreamcasts that friends gave me without even asking that I wouldn't mind loosing. Laptops are a little harder to part with.
[MP/RIAA]...what more could they want? Our first-born children? Our souls?
They do, but their marketing people haven't figured out exactly how to take our first-born and souls, then license them back to us on a pay-per-view basis.
Good to see that a government will protect a company's rights with criminal prosecution when it comes to intellectual property. I wonder how much money I'd have to have to get someone arrested for violating my individual rights?
Troll? Flainbait? Overrated? For fuck's sake, who made Steve Jobs a moderator?
I think I had a *very* valid point. Pretend an OS is a car engine, the computer is the rest of the car: now, what if Toyota said "ok, we just came out with a new engine. This one has new feature x, y, and z. You'll love it. Ok, it only costs 10% of the cost of your car."
No problem so far. I can take it or leave it.
Now, what if they said "Oh, by the way, we won't be making any more parts for the older engines."
What are you going to do? If you stick with the old engine and something breaks, you're screwed. You're ultimately strong-armed into getting a new one.
So what I'm talking about is a software vender that no longer supports older versions of their OS's (or any software for that matter), and as a result forces their users into buying new versions.
It would be really nice for software licensees to start preasuring companies to modularize their software enough so that individual components could be supported (and possibly even sold) separately.
Regardless, it's $129 for a bunch of features I didn't ask for (which is also a common complaint behind Microsoft). Of course I'm free to not purchase the 'Update,' but how long until 10.[01] is no longer supported? If I don't buy the upgrade, how long will it be until I can't get bugfixes and critical security updates?
So as I figure it, if Apple continues along this path, that's $130/year from each user.
As it was explained to me by a salesman (and please, someone correct me if I'm wrong...), the one thing you cannot do that would seem obvious is copy mp3s from a cd to the harddrive.
Of course the Bush administration will finally have a real reason to blame the Clinton administration for somthing, with Al Gore being the inventor of the Internet and Cyber-everything.
I was born Jewish, broght up athiest, then on my own began following the teachings of Buddha, and yet through all that, "one nation under God" and "in God we trust" never really bothered me.
Would someone please explain, in plain cause-and-effect, end-results, bottom-line, what would happen if kids continued to say that? Can't parent's just tell their children "Well Billy, when you start school today you're going to say the Pledge of Allegiance, and part of it says 'under God,' because the people who wrote that believed something we don't, and they aren't wrong, and we aren't wrong, and..." blah blah blah..
His bill would allow copyright holders to set up decoy files and use other techno-tricks like file-blocking and redirection to throw P2P pirates off the trail, but it would forbid those holders from employing tactics that would damage or destroy pirates' own computer systems.
P2P systems should copyright and copy protect the out-of-band packets (the ones used to search, return search results, etc), then use the DMCA to prevent these types of DoS attacks. At the very least they should also specify in the EULA that intentionally supplying misleading files will result in being banned from the P2P network.
Unfortunately the report fails to mention that many of those alleged abductions were actually made by sheep, who tell tails of being abducted from their pens and rectally probed.
I say we give them what they want -- if users in the Blog/Slashdot/etc communities requested permission from NPR to put a few links on their personal sites, they would be overwhelmed with thousands and thousands of requests. Either they would have to drop requests, or automate permission approvals.
I'm not being facetious, either. One of the things that makes the web what it is today (besides all the porn) is the ease in which you should be able to link not just to sites, but to portions of content within that site.
That said, framing I'm opposed to (barring fair-use reasons). Look at an analogy: linking is like writing a newspaper article, and making a reference to a magazine article (i.e.: "for more information, see Time magazine June 12, p. 34"). On the other hand, framing would be like photocopying that Time magazine article and pasting it into the middle of your own without permission.
One last thought: I wonder if NPR asks for permission when they link to other sites?
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1. Washington Times readers are by nature a paranoid, ultra-conservative group that likes to feel informed of the stories the real media "conveniently ignores."
./ readers (and editors) as well. I'm no longer surprised when I read a hair-raising story like this on Slash, then buried in a comment someone debunks it. I guess even geeks are attracted to sensationalism.
This says a lot about
Er, don't buy music from recording labels? The best way to express your disapproval towards any business or group of businesses is to not buy their stuff.
/. user not buying CD's (if any of us do) won't put a dent in their revinue.
Unfortunately, the people who care about this don't make up the majority of purchasers. You, or for that matter ever
The best way is to do your own music (if you're capible), promote it online without a major label, sell your music online (you'll probably make just as much cash as popular artists barring the top 100 Madonna/Britney/etc. class).
(And don't gripe and say shit like "oh, but I wanna make it BIG." Here's a concept for you: Music wasn't meant to be big or make anyone big. It's an art form that was slowly turned into a mass commodity by an overzealous music industry over the decades, and without them, you wouldn't be BIG no matter how good your music was)
If you're not a musician (or even if you are), then patronize (I mean in a good way) non-major musicians, and enjourage that non-industry. Browse mp3.com. They have good stuff! And check out local bands, also.
...power company for supplying the electricity that started a house fire....
nah, the power company will sue UPS for delivering solar panels to your house (you electricty thief!)
Will somebody please register satanzilla.com before I do? I need another domain like I need another hole in my head.
Microsoft should get more props for not going after 'the little guy' as much as *ahem* some other companies. I've never seen Microsoft go after anyone for creating a windows look-and-feel unix theme. Not to mention all the patents they hold in different OS technologies that they've never threatened other (i.e.: open sourced) OS's with.
I know I don't speak for everyone on Slashdot (I imagine it's pretty diverse crowd), but I don't think I'd enjoy The Crying Game in IMAX. :)
Also because it is cheap and not as useful as a laptop. I have 3 Dreamcasts that friends gave me without even asking that I wouldn't mind loosing. Laptops are a little harder to part with.
[MP/RIAA]...what more could they want? Our first-born children? Our souls?
They do, but their marketing people haven't figured out exactly how to take our first-born and souls, then license them back to us on a pay-per-view basis.
From everything I've read, you sound like a very busy person. How do you manage your time? Do you have any time management tips or advice?
Good to see that a government will protect a company's rights with criminal prosecution when it comes to intellectual property. I wonder how much money I'd have to have to get someone arrested for violating my individual rights?
Troll? Flainbait? Overrated? For fuck's sake, who made Steve Jobs a moderator?
I think I had a *very* valid point. Pretend an OS is a car engine, the computer is the rest of the car: now, what if Toyota said "ok, we just came out with a new engine. This one has new feature x, y, and z. You'll love it. Ok, it only costs 10% of the cost of your car."
No problem so far. I can take it or leave it.
Now, what if they said "Oh, by the way, we won't be making any more parts for the older engines."
What are you going to do? If you stick with the old engine and something breaks, you're screwed. You're ultimately strong-armed into getting a new one.
So what I'm talking about is a software vender that no longer supports older versions of their OS's (or any software for that matter), and as a result forces their users into buying new versions.
It would be really nice for software licensees to start preasuring companies to modularize their software enough so that individual components could be supported (and possibly even sold) separately.
Regardless, it's $129 for a bunch of features I didn't ask for (which is also a common complaint behind Microsoft). Of course I'm free to not purchase the 'Update,' but how long until 10.[01] is no longer supported? If I don't buy the upgrade, how long will it be until I can't get bugfixes and critical security updates?
So as I figure it, if Apple continues along this path, that's $130/year from each user.
You want NT without Win32? It's called VMS :)
As it was explained to me by a salesman (and please, someone correct me if I'm wrong...), the one thing you cannot do that would seem obvious is copy mp3s from a cd to the harddrive.
The 13 month calendar is one of the cooler calendar reform movements.
Star Wars EP. III: Apples
Lord of the Rings Part II: Oranges
Of course the Bush administration will finally have a real reason to blame the Clinton administration for somthing, with Al Gore being the inventor of the Internet and Cyber-everything.
I was born Jewish, broght up athiest, then on my own began following the teachings of Buddha, and yet through all that, "one nation under God" and "in God we trust" never really bothered me.
Would someone please explain, in plain cause-and-effect, end-results, bottom-line, what would happen if kids continued to say that? Can't parent's just tell their children "Well Billy, when you start school today you're going to say the Pledge of Allegiance, and part of it says 'under God,' because the people who wrote that believed something we don't, and they aren't wrong, and we aren't wrong, and..." blah blah blah..
His bill would allow copyright holders to set up decoy files and use other techno-tricks like file-blocking and redirection to throw P2P pirates off the trail, but it would forbid those holders from employing tactics that would damage or destroy pirates' own computer systems.
P2P systems should copyright and copy protect the out-of-band packets (the ones used to search, return search results, etc), then use the DMCA to prevent these types of DoS attacks. At the very least they should also specify in the EULA that intentionally supplying misleading files will result in being banned from the P2P network.
LOL!
I suck at the spelling.
:)
That was on purpose
Ok, and before anyone busts my balls about my spelling, I'll do it first:
I suck at the spelling.
Unfortunately the report fails to mention that many of those alleged abductions were actually made by sheep, who tell tails of being abducted from their pens and rectally probed.
I say we give them what they want -- if users in the Blog/Slashdot/etc communities requested permission from NPR to put a few links on their personal sites, they would be overwhelmed with thousands and thousands of requests. Either they would have to drop requests, or automate permission approvals.
I'm not being facetious, either. One of the things that makes the web what it is today (besides all the porn) is the ease in which you should be able to link not just to sites, but to portions of content within that site.
That said, framing I'm opposed to (barring fair-use reasons). Look at an analogy: linking is like writing a newspaper article, and making a reference to a magazine article (i.e.: "for more information, see Time magazine June 12, p. 34"). On the other hand, framing would be like photocopying that Time magazine article and pasting it into the middle of your own without permission.
One last thought: I wonder if NPR asks for permission when they link to other sites?
You are my hero.