California: The state that brought you Napster, and the RIAA.
Shawn Fanning was born and grew up in Brockton, Massachutsetts, and wrote Napster while attending Northeastern University in Boston. California is just where his investors moved him to, long after Napster hit its prime.
Before i buy a book, i read some of it in the bookstore. Sometimes that makes me not buy the book.
Before i go see a movie, i'll see what the critics say. Sometimes that makes me not see the movie.
Before i buy a band's music, i'll download some of it and see if i like it. Sometimes i won't like it, so i won't buy the music.
There have been plenty of bands who i discovered by "stealing" music. Because i "stole" their music, i've bought their albums, seen their shows, and introduced my friends to them -- oh, i'm sorry, i mean i let my friends "steal" their music from me.
Had i not "stolen" their music, they'd be poorer and i'd have a smaller music collection.
Therefore, downloading music off the internet makes the world a better place for everyone.
I'd love a service that lets you share music without making infringing duplicates. I legitmately own thousands of songs. I've got stacks of CDs in my closet. I haven't touched them in months.
I think it would be terrific to have a system where i can share my music with the world. Even if only one person could listen to each of my songs at a time, there's still a lot of music.
In return, when someone else has an album they're not listening to at the moment, i'd like them to share it with me.
I still don't understand where this entitlement to digital media - to what is essentially someone else's property, comes from. I'm open to explanations, though (and please...it would be much appreciated if the the self-aggrandizing rationalization were kept to a minimum).
Let's say book publishers started shutting down libraries. Then you started complaining. Then someone came up to you and said, "I still don't understand where this entitlement to media - to what is essentially someone else's property, comes from." What would you tell them?
What exactly does this story have to do with VeriSign?
If we're going to start working slams against companies we don't like into unrelated stories, we should at least cover all the bases by saying something tangential about Microsoft or an RIAA member while we're at it.
This helps track websites that "lie" about reselling your e-mail address.
Even honest companies are a problem -- i do the same trick you do, and about a year ago, i started getting porn spam to the address i used only at 1800flowers.com. They swore they didn't give it to anyone, and i believe them.
What i'm sure happened is this: Some DBA, or some temp, or whatever, did a one-line SQL query to pull out every email address in their database, and then sold that list.
So even if you trust the company to not sell your address, it just takes one bad employee to screw you over.
Of course, their database also has my credit card, so the same DBA could have run off with that. So far, i haven't had any fraudulent charges. But that's what you gotta read over every single charge on your credit card bill, every single money.
If I got a quarter for each piece of junkmail in my inbox, it would cover having a pizza delivered to my house every day, and still have enough left over to get a few comics to read each day while I ate!
Taco bitches about all his spam every time he posts a story.. "Ooh, i'm an internet old-timer, i'm tough enough to handle thousands of pieces of spam in my inbox every day."
Install SpamAssassin. I did, a few months ago, and all my spam is dropped in a special folder. False negatives are very rare, and i've never gotten a false positive.
In fact, on that page, King George is not refered to as King George, but rather as "George, King of England."
Actually, it said, "George II, King of England". The harvester program ignored the "of England" part, and decided that "George II, King" looked a lot like "Smith, John". Just like it turns that into "John Smith", it got "King George II"
The original ending of the film included a scene in which the World Trade Center towers opened up, releasing a swarm of UFOs into the air. Following the towers' destruction the ending was re-shot and now takes place at the Chrysler Building.
No it doesn't. Anyone know what the story is with this? Did the script or storyboard for this scene ever leak?
NEThics? Oh, you mean Net Hicks. As in, "If you're reading this using a working computer that's sitting on top of a non-working computer, you just might be a Net Hick."
Funny, i missed the ad where Burger King calls the Big Mac an unamerican cancer which puts national security at risk and violates its intellectual property rights.
I'll try not to lone gunman the thing, but you've been warned.
Had ChrisD written the article, he would have just come right out and made the headline, "Luke's dad, a.k.a. Darth Vader, kills the Emperor, then some Ewoks dance around"
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On the other hand, it is certainly theft to break into the network, no matter how rudimentary the security.
Well, it's not theft, but it's something.
California: The state that brought you Napster, and the RIAA.
Shawn Fanning was born and grew up in Brockton, Massachutsetts, and wrote Napster while attending Northeastern University in Boston. California is just where his investors moved him to, long after Napster hit its prime.
Try joking about a fire in a crowded theater, or joking about killing the president. Let me know how it goes.
Give me a break. You neglect to mention that they "joked" about commiting an act of mass destruction.
If you were meeting the president, and you said, "Hey, i'm going to kill you!" they would lock you up faster than you could say, "Just kidding!"
I don't blame the waitress. What these three did was really, really stupid.
Unfortunately, the NIC can still introduce errors and whatnot onto the segment
Not if you use a one-way ethernet cable.
Before i buy a book, i read some of it in the bookstore. Sometimes that makes me not buy the book.
Before i go see a movie, i'll see what the critics say. Sometimes that makes me not see the movie.
Before i buy a band's music, i'll download some of it and see if i like it. Sometimes i won't like it, so i won't buy the music.
There have been plenty of bands who i discovered by "stealing" music. Because i "stole" their music, i've bought their albums, seen their shows, and introduced my friends to them -- oh, i'm sorry, i mean i let my friends "steal" their music from me.
Had i not "stolen" their music, they'd be poorer and i'd have a smaller music collection.
Therefore, downloading music off the internet makes the world a better place for everyone.
I'd love a service that lets you share music without making infringing duplicates. I legitmately own thousands of songs. I've got stacks of CDs in my closet. I haven't touched them in months.
I think it would be terrific to have a system where i can share my music with the world. Even if only one person could listen to each of my songs at a time, there's still a lot of music.
In return, when someone else has an album they're not listening to at the moment, i'd like them to share it with me.
I still don't understand where this entitlement to digital media - to what is essentially someone else's property, comes from. I'm open to explanations, though (and please...it would be much appreciated if the the self-aggrandizing rationalization were kept to a minimum).
Let's say book publishers started shutting down libraries. Then you started complaining. Then someone came up to you and said, "I still don't understand where this entitlement to media - to what is essentially someone else's property, comes from." What would you tell them?
So, um, where do you work, and are they hiring? :)
Yeah, um, i'm looking to sell my car. Can i get a story on Slashdot too?
I don't get it.
What exactly does this story have to do with VeriSign?
If we're going to start working slams against companies we don't like into unrelated stories, we should at least cover all the bases by saying something tangential about Microsoft or an RIAA member while we're at it.
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This helps track websites that "lie" about reselling your e-mail address.
Even honest companies are a problem -- i do the same trick you do, and about a year ago, i started getting porn spam to the address i used only at 1800flowers.com. They swore they didn't give it to anyone, and i believe them.
What i'm sure happened is this: Some DBA, or some temp, or whatever, did a one-line SQL query to pull out every email address in their database, and then sold that list.
So even if you trust the company to not sell your address, it just takes one bad employee to screw you over.
Of course, their database also has my credit card, so the same DBA could have run off with that. So far, i haven't had any fraudulent charges. But that's what you gotta read over every single charge on your credit card bill, every single money.
This (the -o) changes the rules order to Pass:Alert:Log killing home network normal activity before alert processing.
I've read that sentence about six times and i still can't parse the end.
If I got a quarter for each piece of junkmail in my inbox, it would cover having a pizza delivered to my house every day, and still have enough left over to get a few comics to read each day while I ate!
Taco bitches about all his spam every time he posts a story.. "Ooh, i'm an internet old-timer, i'm tough enough to handle thousands of pieces of spam in my inbox every day."
Install SpamAssassin. I did, a few months ago, and all my spam is dropped in a special folder. False negatives are very rare, and i've never gotten a false positive.
It's kind of hard to imagine anybody but Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel
Well, I guess they could just put kryptonite in every scene.
In fact, on that page, King George is not refered to as King George, but rather as "George, King of England."
Actually, it said, "George II, King of England". The harvester program ignored the "of England" part, and decided that "George II, King" looked a lot like "Smith, John". Just like it turns that into "John Smith", it got "King George II"
Spoiler.
According to IMDB:
The original ending of the film included a scene in which the World Trade Center towers opened up, releasing a swarm of UFOs into the air. Following the towers' destruction the ending was re-shot and now takes place at the Chrysler Building.
No it doesn't. Anyone know what the story is with this? Did the script or storyboard for this scene ever leak?
NEThics? Oh, you mean Net Hicks. As in, "If you're reading this using a working computer that's sitting on top of a non-working computer, you just might be a Net Hick."
Well, i could invoke Godwin's Law here, but i won't... Instead:
Yeah, and how about those slimy companies that made the socks worn by the Nazis? What a bunch of scumbags!
And the farmers who grew the corn they ate!
And the people who made the shirts the farmers wore!
Funny, i missed the ad where Burger King calls the Big Mac an unamerican cancer which puts national security at risk and violates its intellectual property rights.
You're talking to the crowd that thinks it's funny to have "Cowboy Neal" at the end of every poll.
That's not Windows Update; i own your box and have been busy setting it up the way i like it.
I'll try not to lone gunman the thing, but you've been warned.
Had ChrisD written the article, he would have just come right out and made the headline, "Luke's dad, a.k.a. Darth Vader, kills the Emperor, then some Ewoks dance around"