Custom-build the worker's PC to have only apps that the job requires.
Back when I was in the army, in the computer department, everything was removed but the programming language and the simulator we were working on. And when I say everything, that included things like defrag and scandisk, that people used to use all day long to pretend they had time to go get a cuppa and slack off. Similarly, the secretary only had Office, and email was internal-only for everybody
You do realize that lottery is just a tax on people bad at math, don't you? So higher fines will only work as a detterent to stupid people.
Given the stupid people/smart people ratio, I think the **AAs would be very happy if all stupid people stopped filesharing:-)
And actually, that's really the only thing they're trying to achieve: smart people, or people with lots of computer know-how, would just use obscure under-the-radar P2P apps, or share privately with close circles of friends, but those are a very small minority.
If you make a bomb, chances are you're not going to use it to pioneer a radical new gardening technique in your backyard. Therefore, you are a threat to cause harm.
Making pictures of virtual little boys that don't actually exist should be legal
Well quite, I believe many japanese animes depict all kinds of devious sexual behaviours, but honestly, do you think pedophiles get off off that? Of course not, they get a kick knowing the photographed scene was once real, and besides, I'm not sure even the latest and greatest image generators can recreate such scenes perfectly. Therefore the point is that little boys the world *are* harmed by people having such photos, because they were used to make them.
In the case of the copyrighted bits, unless downloading said bit actually decreases the probability of you or somebody else paying for those bits, then the copyright holder is not harmed in the least -- no harm, no foul.
I'd agree if it was true, but it's not: if I download Schindler's List, I'm not going to go buy the DVD. You know it, I know it, the MPAA knows it, everybody knows it. Personally, I only download things I can't find at the store, or with great difficulty, like foreign TV shows and documentaries: in my case, no harm done, since nobody can argue my watching a RAI-1 documentary here will hurt the RAI-1's bottom line all the way back to Italy. I never download movies.
The only time quantity of punishment will affect the behavior of somebody breaking the law is when it is accompanied by certainty of punishment.
Not at all: that's the very reason people play the lottery: their chances of winning are nearly naught, but millions play everyday because they reckon the enormous bounty is worth the ridicule odds.
Likewise, that's the reason a big drop was observed at the height of **AA-instigated lawsuits last year: chances of losing at the P2P game (not winning this time:-) are very small indeed, but the stiff penalty puts many people off, just in case they end up losing.
Maybe manipulating the magnetic charge of particles on a hard drive platter that I own, or changing the voltage of output pins on a computer that I own SHOULD BE LEGAL.
Well I don't know, let's see: I have nails in my workshop, I have a bottle of butane under the stove, an alarm clock, batteries, a small light bulb and some gunpowder from the many rifle cartridges in my gun rack. I own them all, maybe connecting the batteries to the alarm clock and the light bulb, smashing the bulb's glass, sticking the filament into gunpowder, installing the whole thing next to the gas bottle and wrapping the whole in nails and duct-tape SHOULD BE LEGAL.
Oh, and I also own a camera. Perhaps rearranging the bits of silver on the film to show naked little boys doing naughty things to my dogs (which I own) SHOULD BE LEGAL.
For stealing the DVD you could face no more than up to 1 year imprisonment and up to a $100,000 fine; for downloading the same material you could face statutory damages of up to $3,300,000, costs and attorney's fees
It's a question of risk: if you shoplift, you face a much higher chance of getting caught, thanks to CCTV, security guards at the exit, and the silly square bulge in your pants that doesn't look so natural to the cashier. If you download a movie, there isn't remotely as much risk (remember the last time you had an adrenalin rush when clicking on a.torrent link?).
So therefore, the only way to instill fear in the mind of "internet shoplifters" is to up the possible penalty.
I've been running Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 on my computers since each of those operating systems was released, and none of them have died on me. Say what you will, those are fucking rock-solid.
Yeah I'll second that: I have Windows installed on my PC and it's never failed me ever since I installed Linux on my other partition!
Jesus, have you ever used 95 or 98 for more than 5 minutes? you do realize it's the same stuff, with a slightly different set of bugs, and both about as stable as a one-legged man on a stilleto?
What a bunch of crap: everybody thinks like you and what happens? KDE is orders of magnitude slower than GEM on a good ole Atari ST on anything but the fastest PCs. And I'm not talking about disk usage, that, yes, I'd rather devote to my files, not bloat from the KDE folks.
I'm not saying developers should spent ages tracking down the wasted cycle in 10 lines of code like we used to, but come on... A little good sense, 5 minutes of looking back and reducing memory and CPU usage, and things would run a lot smoother, with very little effort.
"If it's slow, just change XYZ uh uh" is something I keep hearing from developers who can't be bothered to produce acceptable code.
Everyone knows that home wireless networks are insecure, but who would expect a major transportation hub to be vulnerable to the same problems?
Well, would you expect railroad company employees to be any smarter about computer things than your average Joe Blow surfing the innurnet down the street?
I'd be more surprised to find open hubs around, say, Linksys buildings. But then again, only slightly more surprised, mind you.
allows users to use a game server in connection with a messenger server to permit 'buddies' to know when other 'buddies' are playing games online, and easily join such games
Oh you mean, kind of like when you join IRC and you say "hey John, you're there? how about we go on Playsite for a nice game of gin eh?"
I was doing that (or some version of that, before Playsite was around) for at least a decade. Which leads to the following questions:
Does is look like prior art or what?
Since I'm not particularly bright for having "invented" that method, and everybody and their dogs has been doing it forever because it's freaking obvious, does this patent look like yet another something-that-I-may-sue-someone-over-in-the-futur e patent application?
Shouldn't they replace the monkeys at the USPTO by humans at some point?
After wtaching his significant other's Windows PC drown in a sea of viruses and worms after only 4 minutes on her new DSL connection
Hello, we at the NAFC would like to know more about the Windows and DSL connection products, as this could greatly increase our supply of worms. Thank you very much in advance Slashdot!
The EFF filed a FOIA request yesterday with the FBI and other offices of the US DOJ regarding expanded powers granted by the USA PATRIOT Act. Dear EFF,
With regard to your surv^H^H^H^Hcustomer service (ref: EFF-KEYLGGR-SECRTRY), we're happy to preempt your request.
The automated reply to your inquiry is:
NO MATCH FOUND
We sincerely hope your request has been fulfilled. We stay at your disposition for further inquiry.
You Sir is a moron. If Taco didn't take money for Microsoft and other such numbnuts, the website you happily rant on about it would have ceased to exist long ago. And besides, you should enjoy the irony of Microsoft paying to appear on a (mostly-)Microsoft-bashing website, where, as a bonus, it's fairly obvious that nobody looks at the ads anyway.
Taking money from Microsoft is okay. Taking money from SCO is okay too. It's taking money from criminals, pedophiles and other genocidal neo-nazis that's not. Don't be one of these idiot F/OSS jihadist and adjust your sense of morality to a reasonable level.
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Custom-build the worker's PC to have only apps that the job requires.
Back when I was in the army, in the computer department, everything was removed but the programming language and the simulator we were working on. And when I say everything, that included things like defrag and scandisk, that people used to use all day long to pretend they had time to go get a cuppa and slack off. Similarly, the secretary only had Office, and email was internal-only for everybody
You do realize that lottery is just a tax on people bad at math, don't you? So higher fines will only work as a detterent to stupid people.
:-)
Given the stupid people/smart people ratio, I think the **AAs would be very happy if all stupid people stopped filesharing
And actually, that's really the only thing they're trying to achieve: smart people, or people with lots of computer know-how, would just use obscure under-the-radar P2P apps, or share privately with close circles of friends, but those are a very small minority.
Yes, a threat to cause harm is also harm.
If you make a bomb, chances are you're not going to use it to pioneer a radical new gardening technique in your backyard. Therefore, you are a threat to cause harm.
Making pictures of virtual little boys that don't actually exist should be legal
Well quite, I believe many japanese animes depict all kinds of devious sexual behaviours, but honestly, do you think pedophiles get off off that? Of course not, they get a kick knowing the photographed scene was once real, and besides, I'm not sure even the latest and greatest image generators can recreate such scenes perfectly. Therefore the point is that little boys the world *are* harmed by people having such photos, because they were used to make them.
In the case of the copyrighted bits, unless downloading said bit actually decreases the probability of you or somebody else paying for those bits, then the copyright holder is not harmed in the least -- no harm, no foul.
I'd agree if it was true, but it's not: if I download Schindler's List, I'm not going to go buy the DVD. You know it, I know it, the MPAA knows it, everybody knows it. Personally, I only download things I can't find at the store, or with great difficulty, like foreign TV shows and documentaries: in my case, no harm done, since nobody can argue my watching a RAI-1 documentary here will hurt the RAI-1's bottom line all the way back to Italy. I never download movies.
The only time quantity of punishment will affect the behavior of somebody breaking the law is when it is accompanied by certainty of punishment.
:-) are very small indeed, but the stiff penalty puts many people off, just in case they end up losing.
Not at all: that's the very reason people play the lottery: their chances of winning are nearly naught, but millions play everyday because they reckon the enormous bounty is worth the ridicule odds.
Likewise, that's the reason a big drop was observed at the height of **AA-instigated lawsuits last year: chances of losing at the P2P game (not winning this time
Maybe manipulating the magnetic charge of particles on a hard drive platter that I own, or changing the voltage of output pins on a computer that I own SHOULD BE LEGAL.
Well I don't know, let's see: I have nails in my workshop, I have a bottle of butane under the stove, an alarm clock, batteries, a small light bulb and some gunpowder from the many rifle cartridges in my gun rack. I own them all, maybe connecting the batteries to the alarm clock and the light bulb, smashing the bulb's glass, sticking the filament into gunpowder, installing the whole thing next to the gas bottle and wrapping the whole in nails and duct-tape SHOULD BE LEGAL.
Oh, and I also own a camera. Perhaps rearranging the bits of silver on the film to show naked little boys doing naughty things to my dogs (which I own) SHOULD BE LEGAL.
IT SHOULD BE ALL LEGAL DANGIT!
For stealing the DVD you could face no more than up to 1 year imprisonment and up to a $100,000 fine; for downloading the same material you could face statutory damages of up to $3,300,000, costs and attorney's fees
.torrent link?).
It's a question of risk: if you shoplift, you face a much higher chance of getting caught, thanks to CCTV, security guards at the exit, and the silly square bulge in your pants that doesn't look so natural to the cashier. If you download a movie, there isn't remotely as much risk (remember the last time you had an adrenalin rush when clicking on a
So therefore, the only way to instill fear in the mind of "internet shoplifters" is to up the possible penalty.
I've been running Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 on my computers since each of those operating systems was released, and none of them have died on me. Say what you will, those are fucking rock-solid.
Yeah I'll second that: I have Windows installed on my PC and it's never failed me ever since I installed Linux on my other partition!
Hmmm... I'm not sure where in my posting I took a position on pro-/anti-optimization.
:-)
In the title: "Nobody gives a fig about optimizing". If you're pro-, then not everybody doesn't give a fig eh
I use windows 98 because 95 wasn't stable.
"I drive a Yugo because my Skoda sucked"
Jesus, have you ever used 95 or 98 for more than 5 minutes? you do realize it's the same stuff, with a slightly different set of bugs, and both about as stable as a one-legged man on a stilleto?
What a bunch of crap: everybody thinks like you and what happens? KDE is orders of magnitude slower than GEM on a good ole Atari ST on anything but the fastest PCs. And I'm not talking about disk usage, that, yes, I'd rather devote to my files, not bloat from the KDE folks.
I'm not saying developers should spent ages tracking down the wasted cycle in 10 lines of code like we used to, but come on... A little good sense, 5 minutes of looking back and reducing memory and CPU usage, and things would run a lot smoother, with very little effort.
"If it's slow, just change XYZ uh uh" is something I keep hearing from developers who can't be bothered to produce acceptable code.
I can see it now..."Bugs deserve rights too!"
Well, ask the original bug at NSWC if it enjoys being taped to a cardboard note since 1947...
He may as well tell us before the funny-looking folks in the white Crown Vics parked in his street come to invite him for a friendly chat...
Everyone knows that home wireless networks are insecure, but who would expect a major transportation hub to be vulnerable to the same problems?
Well, would you expect railroad company employees to be any smarter about computer things than your average Joe Blow surfing the innurnet down the street?
I'd be more surprised to find open hubs around, say, Linksys buildings. But then again, only slightly more surprised, mind you.
Oh you mean, kind of like when you join IRC and you say "hey John, you're there? how about we go on Playsite for a nice game of gin eh?"
I was doing that (or some version of that, before Playsite was around) for at least a decade. Which leads to the following questions:
Does is look like prior art or what?
Since I'm not particularly bright for having "invented" that method, and everybody and their dogs has been doing it forever because it's freaking obvious, does this patent look like yet another something-that-I-may-sue-someone-over-in-the-futur e patent application?
Shouldn't they replace the monkeys at the USPTO by humans at some point?
Do you have to patch your brakes, or update your steering defintions on your car just to make it safe to use?
You don't drive a Ford I take it...
After wtaching his significant other's Windows PC drown in a sea of viruses and worms after only 4 minutes on her new DSL connection
Hello, we at the NAFC would like to know more about the Windows and DSL connection products, as this could greatly increase our supply of worms. Thank you very much in advance Slashdot!
A good oppurtunity for slashdot virgins too btw
I don't think there's that many female robots on earth really...
Great, now I have to watch out for my dishwasher humping my leg.
Do you wear a prosthesis?
I for one cannot stand that horrid rampant humanophilia all over the net. It's only for pervbots and it's disgusting.
Regards,
Cmdr Data
Apparently the entire online catalog is Slashdotted.
The EFF filed a FOIA request yesterday with the FBI and other offices of the US DOJ regarding expanded powers granted by the USA PATRIOT Act.
Dear EFF,
With regard to your surv^H^H^H^Hcustomer service (ref: EFF-KEYLGGR-SECRTRY), we're happy to preempt your request.
The automated reply to your inquiry is:
NO MATCH FOUND
We sincerely hope your request has been fulfilled. We stay at your disposition for further inquiry.
Regards,
Joe Snoop, Dept. of Homeland Security.
and not to mention, causation != causality. That's how unrelated those two facts about spam are!
You Sir is a moron. If Taco didn't take money for Microsoft and other such numbnuts, the website you happily rant on about it would have ceased to exist long ago. And besides, you should enjoy the irony of Microsoft paying to appear on a (mostly-)Microsoft-bashing website, where, as a bonus, it's fairly obvious that nobody looks at the ads anyway.
Taking money from Microsoft is okay. Taking money from SCO is okay too. It's taking money from criminals, pedophiles and other genocidal neo-nazis that's not. Don't be one of these idiot F/OSS jihadist and adjust your sense of morality to a reasonable level.
I've not watched the stream because I'm not installing realplayer, there's a lesson for Bill there as well.
I think he's learned your lesson: I hear Microsoft has dropped RealPlayer from its product line...
How can he say that after Apples recent enormous success?
Newsflash: Pepsi says Coke tastes like shit. News at 11...