When was the last time you saw someone going door to door, turning each knob to see if it was unlocked? Doesn't happen to much; you might say that for 99% of your life, it is not useful to lock your door, and is actually detrimental: Maybe you'll lose your keys and be locked out. Maybe your friend will have left something at your place and will have to wait for you to get back instead of just opening the door.
Do you (or your parents if you're young) have life insurance? When was the last time you died? While life insurance may be useful at some point in one's life, it is in fact detrimental the rest of the time, as you must pay for it. --
I have read the posts, it just echoes how deeply entrenched the gun culture in America is. If you really ARE law-abiding, why do you need a gun?
One of my uncles lives in the Poconos, deep in the woods. The nearest grocery store is 30-45 minutes away. If he called the police, they'd take about that long to arrive. He can't rely on them. My cousins live in the suburbs of Miami. In one of the hurricanes five or so years ago, a lot of houses in their neighborhood were torn apart. Their house lost 3/4 of its roof and an exterior wall, for example. The destruction was like that all over the state. Looters -were- running around. A few people on their street, including their father, watched the street in shifts 24 hours a day. When someone would come down the street, they'd ask them what their business was. They didn't have weapons drawn or anything, but they were armed. Once things got back to normal, well, things got back to normal. But police are not omnipotent or omnipresent. You can't just snap your fingers and have them appear. Saying, "You don't need a gun; just rely on the police" is like saying, "You don't need to develop your own encryption algorithms; just use this black box one that we -promise- works."
To protect myself, I hear you say? Why? Because everyone *ELSE* is carrying one!
No, my relatives weren't afraid of guns, they were afraid of people. Even if guns were banned, the aforementioned scenarios would still be terrifying. --
I don't mean this as flamebait, but we're all aware that there are other, subjectively better registrars out there, so we don't need any more posts telling us this. --
When i first discovered B.S., i became an immediate fan because the style of humor struck a chord with me. Then i became more of a fan when i saw the quality Perl work, and then the quality Photoshop work. Now i think i'm ready to propose marriage.
It's nice to see you're not a hypocrite regarding your Metallica feature. And i completely understand the last part of your post - i've put out a lot of humor in various mediums (123) and it's often taken quite a bit of my time and effort to do so. But even though i can't name any benefit i get from it, i just feel i have to. I mean, once an idea comes to me, it's like an obligation to develop and release it.
It's the exact same reason people work on Open Source - while the Cathedral and the Bazaar suggested reasons like peer admiration and utility, i think my feeling of duty is the real reason. That "labor of love" feeling produces the purest kind of art, be it humor or code or music.
One last point of irony - when i go to Brunching on a weekday and see no new feature, i feel robbed, as in, "Hey! I downloaded a banner ad and i didn't get any content in return!"
Uh, on that note, everyone should click the link in my sig, sign up, and make me some money.:) --
Who here remembers when a cracker was someone who broke copy protection? That's what i think of whenever i see a reference to "crackers." Well, either that or the round salty snacks. --
If you were offered the opportunity to sell your songs online, where listeners could pay $1 - $2 per song (and NOT have to but the entire album), and have the ability to preview them, and this was all done in a way that prevented unauthorized sharing, would you accept? How about an online jukebox, where fans could pay, say, 25 cents to hear a song once? --
This could be a sign of Corel's plans to establish an OS beachhead - forget about using Linux as an internet appliance OS. Instead, put Linux's power to use as a graphics workstation OS. Macs are still used in one major business area, and that's the graphics/multimedia sector. Management said, "Screw what everyone else is doing, this system works better and we're going to use it." Build a better system, and they might switch over. --
One of the criteria the judge specified is that deep links must not mislead the user to the point where they don't understand what site they are at. I think that directly linking to a ZIP like that crosses the line. --
What protection is there against someone poisoning the system with malicious data? For example, let's say MPAASoftRIAAOL Corp. sets up a system of computers all over the place with wildly different IPs, and they feed either random or specially crafted bogus data into the system.
This is sort of analogous to renaming Barry_Manilow.mp3 to DaveMatthewsBand.mp3 and putting it on Napster. How do we prevent it? Some sort of decentralized, everyone-is-created-equal moderation system? --
I can't believe i'm the first to suggest this, but i'd like to see IBM run 40,000 virtual machines on one server and then link them all together in a Beowulf cluster. --
As long as we're plugging events that are only of interest to the small fraction of Slashdot readers who live in or near a particular city, i'd like to announce that
I know you're joking, but just in case anyone wants to know what would really happen, it's all about depreciation. If i borrow your socks and go running in them and return them all worn out and smelly, they're the same socks but worth less. Electrons at a low potential are worth less than electrons at high potential. --
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, and what's the cost of transferring a domain like this?
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When was the last time you saw someone going door to door, turning each knob to see if it was unlocked? Doesn't happen to much; you might say that for 99% of your life, it is not useful to lock your door, and is actually detrimental: Maybe you'll lose your keys and be locked out. Maybe your friend will have left something at your place and will have to wait for you to get back instead of just opening the door.
Do you (or your parents if you're young) have life insurance? When was the last time you died? While life insurance may be useful at some point in one's life, it is in fact detrimental the rest of the time, as you must pay for it.
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Having just revolted from under a tyranical government, I personally believe...
You just revolted from under a tyrannical government? Cool!
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I have read the posts, it just echoes how deeply entrenched the gun culture in America is. If you really ARE law-abiding, why do you need a gun?
One of my uncles lives in the Poconos, deep in the woods. The nearest grocery store is 30-45 minutes away. If he called the police, they'd take about that long to arrive. He can't rely on them. My cousins live in the suburbs of Miami. In one of the hurricanes five or so years ago, a lot of houses in their neighborhood were torn apart. Their house lost 3/4 of its roof and an exterior wall, for example. The destruction was like that all over the state. Looters -were- running around. A few people on their street, including their father, watched the street in shifts 24 hours a day. When someone would come down the street, they'd ask them what their business was. They didn't have weapons drawn or anything, but they were armed. Once things got back to normal, well, things got back to normal. But police are not omnipotent or omnipresent. You can't just snap your fingers and have them appear. Saying, "You don't need a gun; just rely on the police" is like saying, "You don't need to develop your own encryption algorithms; just use this black box one that we -promise- works."
To protect myself, I hear you say? Why? Because everyone *ELSE* is carrying one!
No, my relatives weren't afraid of guns, they were afraid of people. Even if guns were banned, the aforementioned scenarios would still be terrifying.
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I didn't see anything in there about seven digits .. what happens when they use up the 10,000,000 "phone numbers"?
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I don't mean this as flamebait, but we're all aware that there are other, subjectively better registrars out there, so we don't need any more posts telling us this.
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When i first discovered B.S., i became an immediate fan because the style of humor struck a chord with me. Then i became more of a fan when i saw the quality Perl work, and then the quality Photoshop work. Now i think i'm ready to propose marriage.
:)
It's nice to see you're not a hypocrite regarding your Metallica feature. And i completely understand the last part of your post - i've put out a lot of humor in various mediums (1 2 3) and it's often taken quite a bit of my time and effort to do so. But even though i can't name any benefit i get from it, i just feel i have to. I mean, once an idea comes to me, it's like an obligation to develop and release it.
It's the exact same reason people work on Open Source - while the Cathedral and the Bazaar suggested reasons like peer admiration and utility, i think my feeling of duty is the real reason. That "labor of love" feeling produces the purest kind of art, be it humor or code or music.
One last point of irony - when i go to Brunching on a weekday and see no new feature, i feel robbed, as in, "Hey! I downloaded a banner ad and i didn't get any content in return!"
Uh, on that note, everyone should click the link in my sig, sign up, and make me some money.
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Aww, people explained that it was a different DivX before any really good flames could develop...
Party poopers.
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"We've got 5000 users, each with a computer, locked in a room. They want to talk to you about this script to Hamlet they've worked out."
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Who here remembers when a cracker was someone who broke copy protection? That's what i think of whenever i see a reference to "crackers." Well, either that or the round salty snacks.
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If you were offered the opportunity to sell your songs online, where listeners could pay $1 - $2 per song (and NOT have to but the entire album), and have the ability to preview them, and this was all done in a way that prevented unauthorized sharing, would you accept? How about an online jukebox, where fans could pay, say, 25 cents to hear a song once?
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I don't get it.. can someone explain why this is funny?
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When's the IPO?
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This could be a sign of Corel's plans to establish an OS beachhead - forget about using Linux as an internet appliance OS. Instead, put Linux's power to use as a graphics workstation OS. Macs are still used in one major business area, and that's the graphics/multimedia sector. Management said, "Screw what everyone else is doing, this system works better and we're going to use it." Build a better system, and they might switch over.
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One of the criteria the judge specified is that deep links must not mislead the user to the point where they don't understand what site they are at. I think that directly linking to a ZIP like that crosses the line.
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What protection is there against someone poisoning the system with malicious data? For example, let's say MPAASoftRIAAOL Corp. sets up a system of computers all over the place with wildly different IPs, and they feed either random or specially crafted bogus data into the system.
This is sort of analogous to renaming Barry_Manilow.mp3 to DaveMatthewsBand.mp3 and putting it on Napster. How do we prevent it? Some sort of decentralized, everyone-is-created-equal moderation system?
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That was the best first post ever.
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...can be found here. There are a bunch of other cool pieces there, too.
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I can't believe i'm the first to suggest this, but i'd like to see IBM run 40,000 virtual machines on one server and then link them all together in a Beowulf cluster.
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It's not stealing. It's wrong, and it's rightfully illegal, but it's not stealing.
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As long as we're plugging events that are only of interest to the small fraction of Slashdot readers who live in or near a particular city, i'd like to announce that
Richard Stallman will be speaking in NYC next Monday.
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The difference is that the power tools are not included in your shelf, but the GNU tools are included in every Linux distribution.
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I know you're joking, but just in case anyone wants to know what would really happen, it's all about depreciation. If i borrow your socks and go running in them and return them all worn out and smelly, they're the same socks but worth less. Electrons at a low potential are worth less than electrons at high potential.
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He posted his message first.
:) I'm glad someone saw it. At the low rating it's at. Moderators, i'm looking in your direction. :)
But mine is funnier.
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