You can buy glue in a store, that helps you glue things together; but you can also take a nice deep sniff of it, and float quietly away, mmmKay?
Great. Next there will be stickers on S/W packages that read: "Use of this software inconsistant with it's labeled instructions prohibited by federal law."
Throw the same fallatious arguments back at them. Anyone who wants to install censorware is obviously a fascist. You aren't for fascism in America, now, are you?
The government could just as easilly pull funding for those computers and connections entirely, and nothing in the constitution would stop them.
That's actually a great idea. No, REALLY. If it comes down to the old "As long as you're under my roof..." type situation, I say tell the Federal Govt. to Fsck off, and seek sponsorship. A small brass plate on the top of the monitor saying "This computer courtesy of X-corp", and a sign in front saying "Internet access courtesy of SBC" wouldn't be too offensive. Companies like the one I'm working at are getting rid of older computers all the time (A bunch of 166's are just fine for browsing/research) and the Govt. would be powerless to say anything about how these are used. Just a thought.
Aside from the anonymous filesharing for always-on internet connections, and perhps freenet, I haven't seen any truly "Litigation-proof" solutions. How many here will continue to use napster-type software? Now, how many here will continue to use it once a few high profile cases come about where houses are raided, computers seized and private citizens being turned into common criminals over copyright infringement?
I say everyone burn all the mp3's you have to CD now, and we can all swp buddy to buddy in meatspace, it's going to be safer that way real soon now.
That used to be true, from what I understand they removed all restrictions on the use of your SSN. Sad really, considering the fact that it was legislated originally so that the SSN would *not* be a universal-national ID number, yet they found it to be such a perfect one they went ahead and let folks start doing it. Ever apply for credit without giving your SSN? What really suckles is that a number of Universities(including the one I'm sitting at) use the full SSN as part of your username/defaultpassword combo.
All that advertising on their [discover] section? More VC, loss of value to it's investors, payroll, bookeeping, paying someone to dust off the servers once a week and make sure they don't get silverfish while this languishes in court.
Why wouldn't the little fscker simply turn off their machine, get a new IP from their DHCP or dialup provider and then get back on to wreak more havoc? And pity to poor Joe AOL/Sixpack who gets online with that IP.
My own opinion is that if you want to orchestrate a DDoS attack on the people responsible, do it right. Post a mailto: link to their ISP's abuse dept, and a form letter to cut/paste. Even this is pushing the bounds of good taste a little, but at the very least is a more gentlemanly approach.
Think/. with about 1/10th the traffic (if that) a slightly different moderation system (you can moderate stories as well)...
and of course they delete posts containing offensive, wildly offtopic and flaming remarks. I think this was actually to their disadvantage as the amount of policing to be done would *never* diminish, and it's only a matter of time before the people who rain down the cut/paste comments get bored with this site and move to others.
I'm still holding out for Qpong. TF isn't the only thing being ignored by the community. And the three servers I'm able to ping among the Q2 servers are down more often than up.
Smell a week-long frag-fest coming up in my basement.
Lime. Put Lime on the bodies. Kitty-Litter if nothing else is available. The cheap stuff won't cover the odour as well, but oh well.
Why not? And to fuel this, has anyone else had a problem with Some versions of napster cutting off the last few seconds of a song? Is it possible to configure, say a linux client where you have the source to play with, to do this automatically. Just for kicks look up some popular song, then sort by length.
Granted there are probably different rips at work, some people add or delete silence at the beginning and end (Please folks don't delete the 1-2 seconds you normally get between CD's, it's tacky), however nothing is more annoying than getting almost all the way through a song and the last few notes get cut off before they fade. It's worse than those damn cuckoos. It's like being lulled to sleep by a sweet lullaby, then interrupted with a salvation-army band. And then there are 128 encodings (the 56k editions as I call them). Ick.
I say you're absolutely right. They're beating napster users to the store with mediocre copies. That's what this survey shows. But hey, whatever works.
That may be true, however if they wanted to they would be well within their rights. If the site name or content involves use of trademarked materials then they can license that site to use them, or pursue them for infringement, at their discretion.
AOL doesn't care. They're probably going to keep doing what they are, if they think it has a chance at all of biting into MS's current domination. Personally I think it's time to just admit MS the winner of the browser wars, let netscape finally fucking die already, and get on with our lives. For the *nix users; simply reverse implement the IE-specific features into Konqueror and start from scratch on getting our own web-bells&whistles in there. It's about time there was something (decent-don't tell me about lynx or arena) to use other than the heckle&jeckle of the web browsing world.
Let me rephrase that. AMD is looking out for it's non-overclocking customer base by trying o prevent this. It's good that you've had this success (I imagine most modern chips would probably yeild about 100mhz, however it's been argued that there's a reason that buffer is there, anyway grats on the OC), and I'll assume that if you had fried something trying to overclock that you'd be stand-up about it and not try returning the chip. However I've known several people who would buy quite a few of these, and then return the one's whose electrons migrated south. Likewise the unscrupulous resellers (remember the story where they went to the trouble to repackage athlons as higher rated chips). The CPU manufacturers have a serious problem with this.
I have my own solution. They should come up with something like the slot1 and put a non-reversable hardware switch, or a punch out on the board, something that you have to physically do to OC your board, is painfully obvious that you've done it, and then let people do what they want. Hell, I might even try to build my own screamer-in-the-beer-fridge with one of those.
Either way, I'm saying that the Hardware companies, however they may be artificially inflating prices, don't want help from a few DIYers who don't feel like eating their own losses.
Athlon basically shouldn't be overclocked as they they usually are running at their highest stable speeds when they come in the box. I think AMD is probably looking out for its customer's best interests by discourging the often system-damaging practice of overclocking.
Isn't the Weekly World that actually uses real news stories from other sources, publishes doctored photos, and incites rumormongering, all without fact checking? I think that would be a better analogy, if only slapdash had a page 5 girl.
First off, he had the domain first. There are lots of domains to go around. In fact they should have been squabbling over.org if you want to be entirely pedantic over the whole thing. Anyway, I feel there ought to be a list set up just like MAPS RBL that includes the following criteria-
-Has brought suit over a domain name rather than seek another domain name. -Has brought suit over the right to link. -Has been shown to repeatedly use the threat of legal action to coerce those in a weaker position, when there is no reasonable chance the smaller group has a chance of withstanding the costs of a court battle. -Add your own here.
This list would be replicated and appended to concerned web citizen's web pages, along with reasons why they are named there. We should encourage anyone and everyone to refrain from doing business with those organizations, relaying their mail, block their pages on the router level and provide snail-mail+phone contact information so that other concerned web citizens may let them know how they feel.
" I don't have to allow email from address@evilspammer.com "
Actually, you should make that "anyuser@yesmail.com", then email them stating the reason, and encourage every other mail administrator out there to do the same. Then the folks at MAPS can simply remove them from the list, and inform them that dealing with the individual ISPs is yesmail's problem, and to HAND. And Yesmail thought they had problems before?
That will never take off, due to the fact that most (at least most of the more popular) viruses rely on end-user action to work. This is not the case here, however once someone with half a brain sits and explains to these insurance companies that they will be insuring god-only-knows what is on people's systems, in case that person is stupid enough to click on "A special message from %S"...
He does have a decent idea (that should go to Moderation BTW:-), and your point is a good one. How 'bout a compromise (apologies if this is what either of you meant and I'm just being obvious).
You get your moderator access and would be able to use it, but if you are reading at anything >0 and hit the "moderate" button you get one of those patented, trite slashmessages saying "Whoa there, kemosabe, why not try looking at some of those poor underrated AC posts while you're at it?" and a dynamically generated link to reopen the page, setting the threshold to -1 and resetting the moderation forms.
""$145 billion judgement against the tobacco companies. (just announced) ""
Christ. I already pay a nut and a half for my cigarettes. Of course this could have all been avoided if Phillip Morris had just added the iron lung to their "Marlboro Miles" catalog.
Interesting. It's almost as if (with the exception of IE 3.2 giving that warning, which you could override) Netscape was never available for download. At least the way you make it sound. If people cared enough to use Netscape (and if recent versions were actually near as nice, they would, regardless of any one-time download inconvenience) then the folks writing webpages would *have* to stick to standards, due to the sheer volume of hate-mail from Netscape users.
I understand what your saying with IE trying to leverage it's customers, but in practice there were always (and still are) at least 1 other option available to anyone who wants one. You can't blame people's apathy (laziness?) about getting that other option on Microsoft.
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You can buy glue in a store, that helps you glue things together; but you can also take a nice deep sniff of it, and float quietly away, mmmKay?
Great. Next there will be stickers on S/W packages that read: "Use of this software inconsistant with it's labeled instructions prohibited by federal law."
Throw the same fallatious arguments back at them. Anyone who wants to install censorware is obviously a fascist. You aren't for fascism in America, now, are you?
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The government could just as easilly pull funding for those computers and connections entirely, and nothing in the constitution would stop them.
That's actually a great idea. No, REALLY. If it comes down to the old "As long as you're under my roof..." type situation, I say tell the Federal Govt. to Fsck off, and seek sponsorship. A small brass plate on the top of the monitor saying "This computer courtesy of X-corp", and a sign in front saying "Internet access courtesy of SBC" wouldn't be too offensive. Companies like the one I'm working at are getting rid of older computers all the time (A bunch of 166's are just fine for browsing/research) and the Govt. would be powerless to say anything about how these are used. Just a thought.
time to use that Mosaic emulator! At any rate Someone ought to put this one feature into mosaic:block any images below certain size.
Problem is, the RIAA will say you're doing something wrong if you do anything that involves mp3's. And who has more money for lawyers?
Aside from the anonymous filesharing for always-on internet connections, and perhps freenet, I haven't seen any truly "Litigation-proof" solutions. How many here will continue to use napster-type software? Now, how many here will continue to use it once a few high profile cases come about where houses are raided, computers seized and private citizens being turned into common criminals over copyright infringement?
I say everyone burn all the mp3's you have to CD now, and we can all swp buddy to buddy in meatspace, it's going to be safer that way real soon now.
That used to be true, from what I understand they removed all restrictions on the use of your SSN. Sad really, considering the fact that it was legislated originally so that the SSN would *not* be a universal-national ID number, yet they found it to be such a perfect one they went ahead and let folks start doing it. Ever apply for credit without giving your SSN? What really suckles is that a number of Universities(including the one I'm sitting at) use the full SSN as part of your username/defaultpassword combo.
I think some guy named Major Domo runs it while not off fighting scientlogy.
All that advertising on their [discover] section? More VC, loss of value to it's investors, payroll, bookeeping, paying someone to dust off the servers once a week and make sure they don't get silverfish while this languishes in court.
Why wouldn't the little fscker simply turn off their machine, get a new IP from their DHCP or dialup provider and then get back on to wreak more havoc? And pity to poor Joe AOL/Sixpack who gets online with that IP.
My own opinion is that if you want to orchestrate a DDoS attack on the people responsible, do it right. Post a mailto: link to their ISP's abuse dept, and a form letter to cut/paste. Even this is pushing the bounds of good taste a little, but at the very least is a more gentlemanly approach.
Think /. with about 1/10th the traffic (if that) a slightly different moderation system (you can moderate stories as well)...
and of course they delete posts containing offensive, wildly offtopic and flaming remarks. I think this was actually to their disadvantage as the amount of policing to be done would *never* diminish, and it's only a matter of time before the people who rain down the cut/paste comments get bored with this site and move to others.
What about requiem?
I'm still holding out for Qpong. TF isn't the only thing being ignored by the community. And the three servers I'm able to ping among the Q2 servers are down more often than up.
Smell a week-long frag-fest coming up in my basement.
Lime. Put Lime on the bodies. Kitty-Litter if nothing else is available. The cheap stuff won't cover the odour as well, but oh well.
Why not? And to fuel this, has anyone else had a problem with Some versions of napster cutting off the last few seconds of a song? Is it possible to configure, say a linux client where you have the source to play with, to do this automatically. Just for kicks look up some popular song, then sort by length.
Granted there are probably different rips at work, some people add or delete silence at the beginning and end (Please folks don't delete the 1-2 seconds you normally get between CD's, it's tacky), however nothing is more annoying than getting almost all the way through a song and the last few notes get cut off before they fade. It's worse than those damn cuckoos. It's like being lulled to sleep by a sweet lullaby, then interrupted with a salvation-army band. And then there are 128 encodings (the 56k editions as I call them). Ick.
I say you're absolutely right. They're beating napster users to the store with mediocre copies. That's what this survey shows. But hey, whatever works.
That may be true, however if they wanted to they would be well within their rights. If the site name or content involves use of trademarked materials then they can license that site to use them, or pursue them for infringement, at their discretion.
AOL doesn't care. They're probably going to keep doing what they are, if they think it has a chance at all of biting into MS's current domination. Personally I think it's time to just admit MS the winner of the browser wars, let netscape finally fucking die already, and get on with our lives. For the *nix users; simply reverse implement the IE-specific features into Konqueror and start from scratch on getting our own web-bells&whistles in there. It's about time there was something (decent-don't tell me about lynx or arena) to use other than the heckle&jeckle of the web browsing world.
Let me rephrase that. AMD is looking out for it's non-overclocking customer base by trying o prevent this. It's good that you've had this success (I imagine most modern chips would probably yeild about 100mhz, however it's been argued that there's a reason that buffer is there, anyway grats on the OC), and I'll assume that if you had fried something trying to overclock that you'd be stand-up about it and not try returning the chip. However I've known several people who would buy quite a few of these, and then return the one's whose electrons migrated south. Likewise the unscrupulous resellers (remember the story where they went to the trouble to repackage athlons as higher rated chips). The CPU manufacturers have a serious problem with this.
I have my own solution. They should come up with something like the slot1 and put a non-reversable hardware switch, or a punch out on the board, something that you have to physically do to OC your board, is painfully obvious that you've done it, and then let people do what they want. Hell, I might even try to build my own screamer-in-the-beer-fridge with one of those.
Either way, I'm saying that the Hardware companies, however they may be artificially inflating prices, don't want help from a few DIYers who don't feel like eating their own losses.
Athlon basically shouldn't be overclocked as they they usually are running at their highest stable speeds when they come in the box. I think AMD is probably looking out for its customer's best interests by discourging the often system-damaging practice of overclocking.
Isn't the Weekly World that actually uses real news stories from other sources, publishes doctored photos, and incites rumormongering, all without fact checking? I think that would be a better analogy, if only slapdash had a page 5 girl.
First off, he had the domain first. There are lots of domains to go around. In fact they should have been squabbling over .org if you want to be entirely pedantic over the whole thing. Anyway, I feel there ought to be a list set up just like MAPS RBL that includes the following criteria-
-Has brought suit over a domain name rather than seek another domain name.
-Has brought suit over the right to link.
-Has been shown to repeatedly use the threat of legal action to coerce those in a weaker position, when there is no reasonable chance the smaller group has a chance of withstanding the costs of a court battle.
-Add your own here.
This list would be replicated and appended to concerned web citizen's web pages, along with reasons why they are named there. We should encourage anyone and everyone to refrain from doing business with those organizations, relaying their mail, block their pages on the router level and provide snail-mail+phone contact information so that other concerned web citizens may let them know how they feel.
Just my opinion.
" I don't have to allow email from address@evilspammer.com "
Actually, you should make that "anyuser@yesmail.com", then email them stating the reason, and encourage every other mail administrator out there to do the same. Then the folks at MAPS can simply remove them from the list, and inform them that dealing with the individual ISPs is yesmail's problem, and to HAND. And Yesmail thought they had problems before?
That will never take off, due to the fact that most (at least most of the more popular) viruses rely on end-user action to work. This is not the case here, however once someone with half a brain sits and explains to these insurance companies that they will be insuring god-only-knows what is on people's systems, in case that person is stupid enough to click on "A special message from %S"...
He does have a decent idea (that should go to Moderation BTW :-), and your point is a good one. How 'bout a compromise (apologies if this is what either of you meant and I'm just being obvious).
You get your moderator access and would be able to use it, but if you are reading at anything >0 and hit the "moderate" button you get one of those patented, trite slashmessages saying "Whoa there, kemosabe, why not try looking at some of those poor underrated AC posts while you're at it?" and a dynamically generated link to reopen the page, setting the threshold to -1 and resetting the moderation forms.
Gratis instead of Libre, you mean. Free is such a confusing term. Is that free as in software or free as in "Free P.C.!!!"?
""$145 billion judgement against the tobacco companies. (just announced) ""
Christ. I already pay a nut and a half for my cigarettes. Of course this could have all been avoided if Phillip Morris had just added the iron lung to their "Marlboro Miles" catalog.
Interesting. It's almost as if (with the exception of IE 3.2 giving that warning, which you could override) Netscape was never available for download. At least the way you make it sound. If people cared enough to use Netscape (and if recent versions were actually near as nice, they would, regardless of any one-time download inconvenience) then the folks writing webpages would *have* to stick to standards, due to the sheer volume of hate-mail from Netscape users.
I understand what your saying with IE trying to leverage it's customers, but in practice there were always (and still are) at least 1 other option available to anyone who wants one. You can't blame people's apathy (laziness?) about getting that other option on Microsoft.