Inappropriate game content? Is that when they lie about game content for political reasons, or just when they show game footage completely out of context on television?
"Some of my fellow faith-mates do make the rest of us look pretty silly. But the non-religious folks apparently have a knee-jerk reaction that would make Dr. Dobson proud."
Maybe you're confused because we don't follow your tradition of believing everything you hear?
Well, it's not a press release, it's "according to the video game publisher", which really means posting to their webforum the complete text of a newspaper article (http://forum.americasarmy.com/viewtopic.php?t=271086) and the gamer in question also appears to be posting in the thread, so can't we just feel good about this?
I've been running Apache on my Linux box for about five years, and I've never patched my system! How can I tell if I'm infected? I imagine that I am, due to the man lines in my logs where people are trying to access my/scripts/ directory and default.ida, and i can't seem to find these things anywhere on my computer
People coming to Slashdot for help on how to raise their kids? And I thought it was bad when people told me what software to use...
The VNC installed on every computer where I work is usually enough to keep us on our toes, even though it's used for a legitimate purpose other than checking up on employees. I also don't think that installing a keylogger would be too far fetched; putting the computer in the living room doesn't help when no one else is home.
If you can keep your child busy and see that they always have something productive to do, you shouldn't be too woried about what they find on the internet. The trouble come when they're bored and don't have anything to do. The chat room thing is usually only novel for about a week or so (might be different for a young child,) so if you're sticking by for her first week or so of chat room usage it might help. (But, again, if she's in #linux or #2600, I don't see how she'd see too much descructive.)
Uninterupted internet access is the greatest educator in my life. I commited credit card fraud when I was ten to first get on the internet, and my parents didn't know that I was getting on it, or enough about it to know that I would need protection from it. Years of uncensored hardcore porn, bomb making plans, and liberterian ideas have made me the person that I am, though I could never imagine any adult allowing a child to view the things I have.
Sourceforge wasn't made by itself to make money (as well as Freshmeat,) they were made to increase the use of Linux (which they have done quite well,) so that VA can sell more systems.
None of these internet companys are making any money... thousands of examples... but they'll give me a job!
Universities do tons of stuff that is illegal, but they know that the students won't do anything about it. Think about it, you can get in trouble in high school for disobeying authority or disrupting a bad education process (I saw a movie on this once, except it was hard to understand, because it was old and in German). Now we get to college, when're wee supposed to realize that we have to stick up for ourselves?
I know personally that much of my personal mail gets thrown out. I've been late on a few credit card payments because of it (now I always keep a negative CC balance.) I know people who have worked in the mail room, and if they see a magazine in your mailbox that they like, they'll take it. Holiday cards are frequently opened and searched for money. Not to mention the fact that mail is only delivered once or twice a week (I got three Newsweeks in the past three days). Federal law prevents tapering with mail. But no one cares. The Universities aren't going to care at all unless people do anything about it, and I know personally that I'd just wrather sit around and bitch than call a lawer to start a lawsuit.
I think we also should be mindful of the fact that ISP shouldn't be responsible for the way people use thier products (Napster). eBay and Yahoo shouldn't be expected to police everything that goes across their site.
If I'm French and posting or buying Nazi memoirabilia, then I am doing something illegal, not Yahoo or eBay. Same thing if I'm American and I buy some marijuana from Amsterdam. It's a matter of responsiblity.
I think this all comes down to the fact that in the public eye it is more acceptable to attack corporations than individual people. The RIAA and Metallica have both frequently stated that they do not intend to do anything about the indiviual users of Napster. Why is this? Because the users are doing nothing wrong? No. Because once a person is 'attacked', the public realizes that they too could fall victim. Then the heads start rolling.
I'm sure that once the French judge reviews all the technical facts (you can't tell Americans what to do, there's no way to be sure if someone on the internet is not from Frace) he'll come to the correct conclusion. (Unless this is like that Italian judge that ruled that women couldn't be raped while wearing jeans since an attacker obviously counldn't remove a pair of jeans without the woman's help.)
But anyways, the French haven't revolted for awhile, maybe they just need a good reason.
I mean, come on, they had the artists locked down good, why would they give this up?
It's fairly obvious that most normal people absolutely hate the RIAA for one reason or another (higher CD prices, taking away Napster, not paying the artists enough,) so this could just be a scam to get some good PR.
But why would the RIAA need good PR?
When I look at the obfuscated Perl code, I get the same sort of feeling when I look at my own Perl code.
You know, that, "Yes, this is definately Perl" feeling.
Will the day come when there are just three major online news sources -- AOL.com, News.com, and MSN.com -- and all the rest (including Slashdot) are just barking dogs chasing their wheels?
Of course not. There will always be sites like The Register, The Onion, and The Drudge Report out there simply because they have good news and they are willing to take chances that the 'biggies' won't.
Also, this is America. We're always going to need a news source to point out every time AOL, MSN, or News.com does something stupid.
Also, most people don't even know that they really did find life on mars. In one of the first experiments that sent a robot to mars, it mixed some of the soil with a liquid (oxygen or water or something) which released a chemical that signified life. The experiment was dismissed because they didn't think enough of the gas was released to prove life. We we say life on mars, we mean microbes and littlie microscopic critter thingies. Also, the pervious post about life existing without water is right on. NASA and the US govenrment are just trying to create a lot of PR, trying to show that they're actually doing something
Funny, but most true MP3 'piraters' think that Napster sucks, mainly for the reason that people can do this. In the IRC invronment, you can go into a channel and trust that you're really going to be downloading legit MP3's, and you can actually talk to people and are more likely to find rare concerts and bootlegs. I also can't imagine that there will someday be enough people using the DOS-type attacks that they will even account for 10% of the Napster traffic. I usually download a song twice, anyways, just in case.
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Inappropriate game content? Is that when they lie about game content for political reasons, or just when they show game footage completely out of context on television?
"Some of my fellow faith-mates do make the rest of us look pretty silly. But the non-religious folks apparently have a knee-jerk reaction that would make Dr. Dobson proud."
Maybe you're confused because we don't follow your tradition of believing everything you hear?
Yeah, next thing you know people are going to have to both purchase an automobile AND pay for gas.
This only says things about your productivity; maybe his employees aren't morons?
Hopefully you sit closer to your MacBook than your 40" television???
Well, it's not a press release, it's "according to the video game publisher", which really means posting to their webforum the complete text of a newspaper article (http://forum.americasarmy.com/viewtopic.php?t=271086) and the gamer in question also appears to be posting in the thread, so can't we just feel good about this?
I think it's save to say that as long as places like CMU stick up for themselves privacy will not die.
But are they going to know the three laws?
Sure, some people will boycott. But now thousands of people will see it mentioned on the front page of Slashdot...
I've been running Apache on my Linux box for about five years, and I've never patched my system! How can I tell if I'm infected? I imagine that I am, due to the man lines in my logs where people are trying to access my /scripts/ directory and default.ida, and i can't seem to find these things anywhere on my computer
Please advise
People coming to Slashdot for help on how to raise their kids? And I thought it was bad when people told me what software to use...
The VNC installed on every computer where I work is usually enough to keep us on our toes, even though it's used for a legitimate purpose other than checking up on employees. I also don't think that installing a keylogger would be too far fetched; putting the computer in the living room doesn't help when no one else is home.
If you can keep your child busy and see that they always have something productive to do, you shouldn't be too woried about what they find on the internet. The trouble come when they're bored and don't have anything to do. The chat room thing is usually only novel for about a week or so (might be different for a young child,) so if you're sticking by for her first week or so of chat room usage it might help. (But, again, if she's in #linux or #2600, I don't see how she'd see too much descructive.)
Uninterupted internet access is the greatest educator in my life. I commited credit card fraud when I was ten to first get on the internet, and my parents didn't know that I was getting on it, or enough about it to know that I would need protection from it. Years of uncensored hardcore porn, bomb making plans, and liberterian ideas have made me the person that I am, though I could never imagine any adult allowing a child to view the things I have.
None of these internet companys are making any money... thousands of examples... but they'll give me a job!
Universities do tons of stuff that is illegal, but they know that the students won't do anything about it. Think about it, you can get in trouble in high school for disobeying authority or disrupting a bad education process (I saw a movie on this once, except it was hard to understand, because it was old and in German). Now we get to college, when're wee supposed to realize that we have to stick up for ourselves?
I know personally that much of my personal mail gets thrown out. I've been late on a few credit card payments because of it (now I always keep a negative CC balance.) I know people who have worked in the mail room, and if they see a magazine in your mailbox that they like, they'll take it. Holiday cards are frequently opened and searched for money. Not to mention the fact that mail is only delivered once or twice a week (I got three Newsweeks in the past three days). Federal law prevents tapering with mail. But no one cares. The Universities aren't going to care at all unless people do anything about it, and I know personally that I'd just wrather sit around and bitch than call a lawer to start a lawsuit.
I think we also should be mindful of the fact that ISP shouldn't be responsible for the way people use thier products (Napster). eBay and Yahoo shouldn't be expected to police everything that goes across their site. If I'm French and posting or buying Nazi memoirabilia, then I am doing something illegal, not Yahoo or eBay. Same thing if I'm American and I buy some marijuana from Amsterdam. It's a matter of responsiblity. I think this all comes down to the fact that in the public eye it is more acceptable to attack corporations than individual people. The RIAA and Metallica have both frequently stated that they do not intend to do anything about the indiviual users of Napster. Why is this? Because the users are doing nothing wrong? No. Because once a person is 'attacked', the public realizes that they too could fall victim. Then the heads start rolling. I'm sure that once the French judge reviews all the technical facts (you can't tell Americans what to do, there's no way to be sure if someone on the internet is not from Frace) he'll come to the correct conclusion. (Unless this is like that Italian judge that ruled that women couldn't be raped while wearing jeans since an attacker obviously counldn't remove a pair of jeans without the woman's help.) But anyways, the French haven't revolted for awhile, maybe they just need a good reason.
I mean, come on, they had the artists locked down good, why would they give this up? It's fairly obvious that most normal people absolutely hate the RIAA for one reason or another (higher CD prices, taking away Napster, not paying the artists enough,) so this could just be a scam to get some good PR. But why would the RIAA need good PR?
When I look at the obfuscated Perl code, I get the same sort of feeling when I look at my own Perl code. You know, that, "Yes, this is definately Perl" feeling.
Of course not. There will always be sites like The Register, The Onion, and The Drudge Report out there simply because they have good news and they are willing to take chances that the 'biggies' won't.
Also, this is America. We're always going to need a news source to point out every time AOL, MSN, or News.com does something stupid.
Also, most people don't even know that they really did find life on mars. In one of the first experiments that sent a robot to mars, it mixed some of the soil with a liquid (oxygen or water or something) which released a chemical that signified life. The experiment was dismissed because they didn't think enough of the gas was released to prove life. We we say life on mars, we mean microbes and littlie microscopic critter thingies. Also, the pervious post about life existing without water is right on. NASA and the US govenrment are just trying to create a lot of PR, trying to show that they're actually doing something
Funny, but most true MP3 'piraters' think that Napster sucks, mainly for the reason that people can do this. In the IRC invronment, you can go into a channel and trust that you're really going to be downloading legit MP3's, and you can actually talk to people and are more likely to find rare concerts and bootlegs. I also can't imagine that there will someday be enough people using the DOS-type attacks that they will even account for 10% of the Napster traffic. I usually download a song twice, anyways, just in case.
Shouldn't we be able to do something, like write letters to Hatch telling him that we agree with him, among lots of other people?