Actually, it could be argued that they did not copy the music - they merely provided tools to enable the end user to do so.
How could this possibly be argued?
MP3.com took all their CDs and ripped them. They provided me a tool that took some checksums from random parts of my major-label CD. Since enough of them passed, MP3.com gave me the ability to listen to their MP3s of that CD. I never encoded my CD into a listenable format. (Well, actually I did, but not with their tools.)
MP3.com copied and distributed the music. They can't legally do that. Now they're paying the price. End of story.
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"skubalon writes "Mainsoft confirmed today that they are indeed porting Microsoft's apps to Linux." Only one product(MSIE) was confirmed as being ported to *nix from the Press release. Not the multiple products the above quote misleads you into thinking. There's a possibility for others to be ported, but nothing is confirmed from that Press Release.
You can use the following command from the CLI to Start X up.
startx -- -nolisten tcp That should stop the various ports X uses from from listening to outside connections.
P.S. A good Firewall, worth it's weight, should block any connection attempts from everyone but the localhost to begin with.
Here's some Firewall info I've referred to many times.
Check out the Trinity OS Paper . It gives some excellent advice on Securing your Linux System. This paper also comes with various IPCHAINS Rule-Sets you can use. Don't try to print it out though. It's atleast 1,400 pages long and growing.
This Firewall Site allows you to configure an excellent firewall Script just by answering some simple questions. I know of many people who have used this site to configure their firewalls.
"If you really want to see Microsoft eat dust, you had better stop trashing Time-Warner/AOL and get behind this!" I think I'll pass. I dislike Microsoft because of their shady business practices, and monopolistic attitiude. So why would I choose to support a company that's well on their way to becoming Micorsoft#2?
Two wrongs don't make a right, and supporting Time Warner/AOL to get back at Microsoft will do nothing but create another yet monster.
I see it as a Double Edged Sword.
AOL, with 20+ million subscribers, does hold alot of weight within the industry.
If this weight can be used to get Hardware and Software Companies to provide more Drivers or Compatible Programs for an OS like Linux. I say more power to them. I've signed more "Linux Driver Petitions" than I care to count. It's a shame that we don't have some of the great programs Windows does(ie: Macromedia Products). That's why part of me doesn't mind AOL porting to Linux so much.
On the other hand, I have the part of me that wants to keep this OS of ours out of the mainstream as much as possible. To keep it the leet O/S it is, before we loose anymore of it to Big Greedy Corporations.
(For those who don't know, the popular image of Santa Claus we enjoy today was created by the marketing folks at the Coca Cola Corporation. That's why he is dressed in red and white)
It's been obvious for quite a while that *you* are nothng more than a troll, but I never knew you guys were running an ORGANISED campaign to attack & disrupt slashdot like that.
Look again. There's nothing organized about it. Just a relative handful of people sharing stories, having fun, and doing what people tend to do in an online community. Just some good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm....
If you remember your newsgroups, the inchfan is the alt.religion.kibology of Slashdot, not the alt.syntax.technical. Good-spirited, not malicious, often funny as all get-out. These aren't the people that make Slashdot a pain to read at -1.
While on the subject of trolls, a quick quiz -- what's the difference between "unitedstatesian" and "Micro$oft"? One of them is an intentional slam directed towards a group that's as hated as it is powerful. The other is a overly literal translation of a Spanish adjective.
I personally haven't noticed plural dropping in the southeastern US. Do you have any other examples? "Antelope" has been used as a plural for quite a while on this side of the pond:
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day
-- a popular poem/folk song from 1873 (it's clear from the context of the song that they're referring to multiple antelope)
To be honest, though, I'm a believer in letting someone speak however they want as long as their message is conveyed. (Uh-oh! I used "they" as a 3rd person singular neuter pronoun! Call the grammar police!) I won't begrudge you your "antelopes" and "haikus". They just aren't what people (apparently) commonly use.
How about "I caught two fish"? Or "I sheared two sheep"? I don't think there's anything horribly wrong with the singular and plural of a word in English being the same. Uncommon, yes, but not bad.
It also seems to me that English loanwords try to preserve spelling first and worry about pronunciation later; also, more recent loanwords are pronounced closer to their foreign pronunciation.* This leads to haiku/haiku, at least for the time being. Once a loanword's been in common use for a while, the English plural appears. Then, the -s becomes preferred. Finally, the foreign plural is dropped in English. Some examples from m-w.com:
Foreign only: haiku, alumnus
Foreign then English: radix, cactus, stylus, ninja
English then foreign: index, appendix
English only: soprano
With that being said, however, you'll be right in the long run. Some dictionaries (American Heritage, for one) already have "haikus".
I personally have no problem with "haikus" -- actually, I was going to use "haikus" in post 54 until I remembered that Spanish adjectives reflect number. I was just going for the (+1, Funny) in my "Because!" post -- that song cracked me up, for some reason.
Enough rambling for now.:^) --Kimble
* At least Standard American English does. Your kilometrage may vary. For example, SAE speakers rhyme "Paris" with "ferrous", but rhyme "Versailles" with the first two syllables of "bursitis" (i.e. "the French way, or close enough").
Everything else goes to the apps company. From the Final Judgment (CNN's copy, anyway):
7.c. "Applications Business" means all businesses carried on by Microsoft Corporation on the effective date of this Final Judgment except the Operating Systems Business. Applications Business includes but is not limited to the development, licensing, promotion, and support of client and server applications and Middleware (e.g., Office, BackOffice, Internet Information Server, SQL Server, etc.), Internet Explorer, Mobile Explorer and other web browsers, Streaming Audio and Video client and server software, transaction server software, SNA server software, indexing server software, XML servers and parsers, Microsoft Management Server, Java virtual machines, Frontpage Express (and other web authoring tools), Outlook Express (and other e-mail clients), Media player, voice recognition software, Net Meeting (and other collaboration software), developer tools, hardware, MSN, MSNBC, Slate, Expedia, and all investments owned by Microsoft in partners or joint venturers, or in ISVs, IHVs, OEMs or other distributors, developers, and promoters of Microsoft products, or in other information technology or communications businesses.
-- New empires...began ebbing and flowing all over the place like Moon Pies on a hot sidewalk.
Sorry, but "different" has functioned as both an adjective and an adverb for over a quarter millennium. That battle was lost a long time ago. Check out the second meaning of "different" at Merriam-Webster.
If you don't buy that, you can go for the implied "of things that are" in the slogan. Apple would want you to think in the same way, but of different things (like, say, a sealed chunk of amorphous plastic with an embedded monitor, a "keyboard," and a "mouse").
Hope this helps! -- New empires...began ebbing and flowing all over the place like Moon Pies on a hot sidewalk.
Butbutbut didn't all the fallout from Discovery cause a huge setback in personal technology? I think I remember a scene in the movie 2010 where Dr. Floyd sat outside, typing something into...
...an Apple IIc with a squished, monochrome LCD monitor. Was this scene actually there? Or was I on drugs when I (thought I) saw this? -- New empires...began ebbing and flowing all over the place like Moon Pies on a hot sidewalk.
...exactly what pod says above. However, since I started this before I saw his/her reply, I'll go ahead and post this as well.;^) Go to the/. search box at the bottom of this page and type:
[script]alert("Hi mom!")[/script]
except use angle brackets instead of square brackets.
Since search.pl echoes what you type in "Searching blahblahblah" without stripping the JavaScript, you'll get an alertbox when you view the page.
drwiii's page works like that. That page redirects to something like this URL:
(Actually, the "+" and perhaps the ";" would need to be changed to "%2B" and "%3B" in the URL.) EvilSite's CGI script receives/.'s cookie (in easy-to-parse, semicolon-separated name=value pairs) because the script was actually run from a/. page. (I truly don't mean to say that drwiii is evil in any way.)
Originally, drwiii's script used/.'s 404 page, which was optimized for people who accidentally made links like this. That loophole got closed after the server move. -- New empires...began ebbing and flowing all over the place like Moon Pies on a hot sidewalk.
OK, Rob. This is obviously not a troll -- it's a statement of fact. hotgrits.org does use PHP. Will this unfortunate moderator get bloganed? Or is Mr. Palczewski not "elite" enough to get that kind of respect from the "elders" of Slashdot? -- New empires...began ebbing and flowing all over the place like Moon Pies on a hot sidewalk.
Take my father. Very bright guy -- scored around 1550 on his SAT, wrote programs in assembly on punch cards in the 60s, eventual fine arts major, very well-read, does cryptograms in his head.
AOL user.
Why? The only thing he uses his computer for is to receive and distribute email, with the occassional scanned-in JPEG of his granddaughter. I have no doubt he could set up an ISP account, but he'd rather be reading or coaching youth soccer or gardening or so on. For his purposes, AOL is just fine. (So is Windows, but that's another can of worms.)
Moral of the story: Usage of AOL does not imply a lack of intelligence -- just a lack of energy used in getting online. --
Selfoss is in Iceland. As in, "Iceland has 10% of the population of metro San Diego." San Diego is the 112th largest city in the world, according to http://www.citypopulation.de/.
Obligatory on-topic comment: Maybe I should change my signature. Of course, that would imply I didn't agree with what Metallica said... --
News 13 coverage of hoax #2 ...
on
Hoax-a-go-go!
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· Score: 1
change the cabinet from 2-screen upright to cocktail (except you have to stand)
make it 2-player only
make the rules more realistic
change the perspective to overhead
remove a player from each side
strip the playbooks to 4 plays total
replace the players with Xs and Os
use a black and white monitor
That should give you an idea.:^) (All of this was really impressive in 1978, of course.)
Back to the point, Atari Football used a trackball for a controller. A much larger and heavier trackball -- the same size as the one in Missile Command. What made it really hurt, though, was that basically all you did in the game was roll the ball as fast as you could. None of this precision "aim and fire" "gameplay" found in Centipede and Missile Command.:^)
(Question: Anyone know what the last major b/w video game was? Asteroids Deluxe? Space Invaders II? Something I've forgotten?) --
I'd never seen the subtitle of "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" abbreviated before. If you've read the book, its significance is obvious; if not, I'll sound silly trying to explain it.
This is kinda like when I actually visited the Empire State Building -- I finally realized it was a building in the Empire State!
I haven't been in the market for technical books recently, so I just picked the first 5 that I could think of from work:
1. "Winning Ways, Vol. 2" by John Conway et al. 2. "How to Solve It" by George Pólya 3. "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter 4. "Artificial Minds" by Stan Franklin 5. "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell
Amazon had 1, 4, 85, 4, and 43 reviews of each book, respectively. Fatbrain had 0, 0, 0, 0, and 4.
What can we conclude? Not much.
1. Amazon has more traffic than Fatbrain. Therefore, more reviews. Not very insightful. 2. I shouldn't have moderated the original post in this thread to +2. This should fix that.:^) 3. I don't know enough technical books to do an extensive survey; maybe they've got more depth in other fields besides math and theoretical comp-sci.
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How could this possibly be argued?
MP3.com took all their CDs and ripped them. They provided me a tool that took some checksums from random parts of my major-label CD. Since enough of them passed, MP3.com gave me the ability to listen to their MP3s of that CD. I never encoded my CD into a listenable format. (Well, actually I did, but not with their tools.)
MP3.com copied and distributed the music. They can't legally do that. Now they're paying the price. End of story.
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"skubalon writes "Mainsoft confirmed today that they are indeed porting Microsoft's apps to Linux."
Only one product(MSIE) was confirmed as being ported to *nix from the Press release. Not the multiple products the above quote misleads you into thinking. There's a possibility for others to be ported, but nothing is confirmed from that Press Release.
You can use the following command from the CLI to Start X up.
startx -- -nolisten tcp
That should stop the various ports X uses from from listening to outside connections.
P.S. A good Firewall, worth it's weight, should block any connection attempts from everyone but the localhost to begin with.
Here's some Firewall info I've referred to many times.
Check out the Trinity OS Paper . It gives some excellent advice on Securing your Linux System. This paper also comes with various IPCHAINS Rule-Sets you can use. Don't try to print it out though. It's atleast 1,400 pages long and growing.
This Firewall Site allows you to configure an excellent firewall Script just by answering some simple questions. I know of many people who have used this site to configure their firewalls.
"If you really want to see Microsoft eat dust, you had better stop trashing Time-Warner/AOL and get behind this!"
I think I'll pass. I dislike Microsoft because of their shady business practices, and monopolistic attitiude. So why would I choose to support a company that's well on their way to becoming Micorsoft#2?
Two wrongs don't make a right, and supporting Time Warner/AOL to get back at Microsoft will do nothing but create another yet monster.
I see it as a Double Edged Sword.
AOL, with 20+ million subscribers, does hold alot of weight within the industry.
If this weight can be used to get Hardware and Software Companies to provide more Drivers or Compatible Programs for an OS like Linux. I say more power to them. I've signed more "Linux Driver Petitions" than I care to count. It's a shame that we don't have some of the great programs Windows does(ie: Macromedia Products). That's why part of me doesn't mind AOL porting to Linux so much.
On the other hand, I have the part of me that wants to keep this OS of ours out of the mainstream as much as possible. To keep it the leet O/S it is, before we loose anymore of it to Big Greedy Corporations.
That would be an urban legend.
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Look again. There's nothing organized about it. Just a relative handful of people sharing stories, having fun, and doing what people tend to do in an online community. Just some good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm....
If you remember your newsgroups, the inchfan is the alt.religion.kibology of Slashdot, not the alt.syntax.technical. Good-spirited, not malicious, often funny as all get-out. These aren't the people that make Slashdot a pain to read at -1.
While on the subject of trolls, a quick quiz -- what's the difference between "unitedstatesian" and "Micro$oft"? One of them is an intentional slam directed towards a group that's as hated as it is powerful. The other is a overly literal translation of a Spanish adjective.
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To be honest, though, I'm a believer in letting someone speak however they want as long as their message is conveyed. (Uh-oh! I used "they" as a 3rd person singular neuter pronoun! Call the grammar police!) I won't begrudge you your "antelopes" and "haikus". They just aren't what people (apparently) commonly use.
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It also seems to me that English loanwords try to preserve spelling first and worry about pronunciation later; also, more recent loanwords are pronounced closer to their foreign pronunciation.* This leads to haiku/haiku, at least for the time being. Once a loanword's been in common use for a while, the English plural appears. Then, the -s becomes preferred. Finally, the foreign plural is dropped in English. Some examples from m-w.com:
- Foreign only: haiku, alumnus
- Foreign then English: radix, cactus, stylus, ninja
- English then foreign: index, appendix
- English only: soprano
With that being said, however, you'll be right in the long run. Some dictionaries (American Heritage, for one) already have "haikus".I personally have no problem with "haikus" -- actually, I was going to use "haikus" in post 54 until I remembered that Spanish adjectives reflect number. I was just going for the (+1, Funny) in my "Because!" post -- that song cracked me up, for some reason.
Enough rambling for now. :^)
--Kimble
* At least Standard American English does. Your kilometrage may vary. For example, SAE speakers rhyme "Paris" with "ferrous", but rhyme "Versailles" with the first two syllables of "bursitis" (i.e. "the French way, or close enough").
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Because!
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New empires...began ebbing and flowing all over the place like Moon Pies on a hot sidewalk.
If you don't buy that, you can go for the implied "of things that are" in the slogan. Apple would want you to think in the same way, but of different things (like, say, a sealed chunk of amorphous plastic with an embedded monitor, a "keyboard," and a "mouse").
Hope this helps!
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New empires...began ebbing and flowing all over the place like Moon Pies on a hot sidewalk.
...an Apple IIc with a squished, monochrome LCD monitor. Was this scene actually there? Or was I on drugs when I (thought I) saw this?
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New empires...began ebbing and flowing all over the place like Moon Pies on a hot sidewalk.
Since search.pl echoes what you type in "Searching blahblahblah" without stripping the JavaScript, you'll get an alertbox when you view the page.
drwiii's page works like that. That page redirects to something like this URL:
(Actually, the "+" and perhaps the ";" would need to be changed to "%2B" and "%3B" in the URL.) EvilSite's CGI script receivesOriginally, drwiii's script used /.'s 404 page, which was optimized for people who accidentally made links like this. That loophole got closed after the server move.
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New empires...began ebbing and flowing all over the place like Moon Pies on a hot sidewalk.
OK, Rob. This is obviously not a troll -- it's a statement of fact. hotgrits.org does use PHP. Will this unfortunate moderator get bloganed? Or is Mr. Palczewski not "elite" enough to get that kind of respect from the "elders" of Slashdot?
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New empires...began ebbing and flowing all over the place like Moon Pies on a hot sidewalk.
Slashdot: Learn what you know. Share what you don't.
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New empires...began ebbing and flowing all over the place like Moon Pies on a hot sidewalk.
Take my father. Very bright guy -- scored around 1550 on his SAT, wrote programs in assembly on punch cards in the 60s, eventual fine arts major, very well-read, does cryptograms in his head.
AOL user.
Why? The only thing he uses his computer for is to receive and distribute email, with the occassional scanned-in JPEG of his granddaughter. I have no doubt he could set up an ISP account, but he'd rather be reading or coaching youth soccer or gardening or so on. For his purposes, AOL is just fine. (So is Windows, but that's another can of worms.)
Moral of the story: Usage of AOL does not imply a lack of intelligence -- just a lack of energy used in getting online.
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Obligatory on-topic comment: Maybe I should change my signature. Of course, that would imply I didn't agree with what Metallica said...
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Here's a direct link to the RealVideo.
I laughed. I cried. It was better than Cats.
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mod this down! i tried --
instead, hit "underrated" --
not used to mouse wheels
(clicked "troll" on the menu,
kept my pointer over it,
wheeled down -- voila!)
the true point of this
is to post a message that
clears my errant mod
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First, picture Cyberball. Now, do the following:
That should give you an idea. :^) (All of this was really impressive in 1978, of course.)
Back to the point, Atari Football used a trackball for a controller. A much larger and heavier trackball -- the same size as the one in Missile Command. What made it really hurt, though, was that basically all you did in the game was roll the ball as fast as you could. None of this precision "aim and fire" "gameplay" found in Centipede and Missile Command. :^)
(Question: Anyone know what the last major b/w video game was? Asteroids Deluxe? Space Invaders II? Something I've forgotten?)
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I'd never seen the subtitle of "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" abbreviated before. If you've read the book, its significance is obvious; if not, I'll sound silly trying to explain it.
This is kinda like when I actually visited the Empire State Building -- I finally realized it was a building in the Empire State!
I'll go back to sleep now...
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I haven't been in the market for technical books recently, so I just picked the first 5 that I could think of from work:
:^)
1. "Winning Ways, Vol. 2" by John Conway et al.
2. "How to Solve It" by George Pólya
3. "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter
4. "Artificial Minds" by Stan Franklin
5. "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell
Amazon had 1, 4, 85, 4, and 43 reviews of each book, respectively.
Fatbrain had 0, 0, 0, 0, and 4.
What can we conclude? Not much.
1. Amazon has more traffic than Fatbrain. Therefore, more reviews. Not very insightful.
2. I shouldn't have moderated the original post in this thread to +2. This should fix that.
3. I don't know enough technical books to do an extensive survey; maybe they've got more depth in other fields besides math and theoretical comp-sci.
--K
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(free reg. required, of course)
Also has a link to the full text so far. Pretty interesting....
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Ce qui est n'est pas clos, du point de vue le plus essentiel.