OT Re:History proves this type of thing wrong
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A Letter from 2020
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What the Japanese did to the people's of Asia pales the inconveniences that Japanese-Americans had to suffer in America. It was war and in every war ugly things happen.
Nowadays you always hear stories in the media about the Japanese suffering in internment camps during WWII and about the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but there are never stories about say, the Nanking Massacre, Pearl Harbor and the Bataan death march to put the Japanese people's suffering in those camps in perspective. It almosts makes the Japanese seem victims of WWII like the jews were, whilst in fact they were the agressors.
All I want to know is that when I click The Internet I can browse the web and I don't care what a saddo like you has to holler about technical shite that no-one but a bunch of socially inept geeks such as yourself cares about.
Right, why doesn't the mouse listen to my commands. Better call Microsoft techsupport...
Yes, I remember when there even was no web. And you could download stuff from a gopherserver very quickly. I remember downloading texts about hacking from gopher.well.sf.ca.us (which doesn't exist anymore). You could even download Bruce Sterling's book about hackers as a text file! So Stephen King shouldn't think he's the first author to offer his book on the net.
I remember seeing Mosaic at an university open day for the first time and I thought it was slow because the graphics were reloaded each time you requested a page. I also remember using Netscape 1.0N and seeing the graphics cached made a huge improvement. Nowadays you just take that for granted but it was radical in those days.
And I remember spam free newsgroups with interesting discussions and a high signal to noise ratio and best of all no AOLamers!
Yes, Marc Andreesen was a tremendous inspiration for the team that invented TCP/IP.
Remember when you had to use NetBEUI? You had to hook your machine up to the server physically. Visiting a site in Tokyo would require you to unhook your machine, fit it in a flightbag, book a flight, go to the airport, spend 2 hours explaining to the customs man that your PC wasn't a bomb, another hour or so waiting for the delayed plane and then spending 8 hours in a plane to Japan. And when you got there you had to ask for directions in Japansese and if you were lucky within 3 hours you would arrive at the address where the webserver stood. Only to discover that they use different voltage in Japan.
No, you got to have to hand it to Marc Andreesen, he started the revolution that gave us TCP/IP and The Internet. Of course nowadays The Internet is made by Microsoft, but we still have to give Mr. Andreesen the credit that he so richly deserves.
I think the day when it changed was when AOL went on the internet in 1994. The net was much less commercial before then and we still downloaded files from ftp sites and nobody gave a toss about copyright back then.
This article is written by a communist. If you read carefully you will see that he is against all property and wants to make everyone equal and have creative people work for a measly salary so that non-creative people can benefit and claim ownership without reimbursing the creator.
You are still using their electrical power. Or do you have a gas run generator standing next to your desk (in which case your co-workers could complain about fumes)?
RMS would have us believe that property in any form other than the tangible cannot be owned. Not the expression of an idea. Not the idea itself. What ever you create becomes the property of humanity. (Or sentient beings, if you're from another planet.)
IE: ALL PROPERTY IS THEFT and should be owned by the People and be controlled for the People by a small group of wise men.
A fringe group of idealistic creators who labor for the masses.)
Or how about "From Each According To Ability To Each According To Need"?
If Stallman wants to give his own software to "the People" then I have no bother with that. But he wants ALL software to be "for the People".
Well he has a point, whilst you can't use DeCSS economically to make DVD copies it is fairly easy to make VideoCD's with it.
There are numerous sites on the net that explain how to do this.
And those VideoCD's get traded like crazy on schoolyards, etc. OK the quality is maybe not as good as a DVD, but it still looks sharper than a VHS cassette and it looks quite sharp on a computer screen.
Well there is good news for you Lino-heads as there is a DVD player for Linux on the market. The bad news is though that you must PAY for it. AI! There is a limit to all the freebees you have got.
DNS was originally set up to let companies (.com), organisations (.org) and netwerk providers (.net) have an easy to remember address which is independant of IP numbers.
However cybersquatters and namehoggers (people who use their domain name for personal use) have thwarted this system, making it damn near impossible for ligitimate entities to claim their own name.
So I'm all in favour of having an international organisation in charge of domain disputes, so small companies don't have to bankrupt themselves by suing someone who regged their name in another country.
You accuse WIPO of being unfair, but please then explain this case where a company with a trademark lost against an individual who only used his domain name for e-mail and ftp.
Malda uses it to house his Natalie Portman .MPEGs
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80 Gigs that fits about 8 Natalie Portman movies. He will rent these from the videostore and copy them using DeCSS.
And it might just leave room for Malda's favourite movie of all time, Sergei Eisenstein's October (about the communist uprising in Russia), as it is a silent movie.
So, will he store these on his 80 gig beast?
Anywhere But Here (1999)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Developing (1995)
Heat (1995)
Léon (1994)
Expect Malda to cut back on his./ posting as he pours some hot grits down his pants imagining he is Natalie Portman's jeans.
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Nowadays you always hear stories in the media about the Japanese suffering in internment camps during WWII and about the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but there are never stories about say, the Nanking Massacre, Pearl Harbor and the Bataan death march to put the Japanese people's suffering in those camps in perspective. It almosts makes the Japanese seem victims of WWII like the jews were, whilst in fact they were the agressors.
Ask de homeys from da hood! De only good cracker be a dead cracker!
All I want to know is that when I click The Internet I can browse the web and I don't care what a saddo like you has to holler about technical shite that no-one but a bunch of socially inept geeks such as yourself cares about.
Right, why doesn't the mouse listen to my commands. Better call Microsoft techsupport...
I remember seeing Mosaic at an university open day for the first time and I thought it was slow because the graphics were reloaded each time you requested a page. I also remember using Netscape 1.0N and seeing the graphics cached made a huge improvement. Nowadays you just take that for granted but it was radical in those days.
And I remember spam free newsgroups with interesting discussions and a high signal to noise ratio and best of all no AOLamers!
Does anyone remember what the URL was?
Remember when you had to use NetBEUI? You had to hook your machine up to the server physically. Visiting a site in Tokyo would require you to unhook your machine, fit it in a flightbag, book a flight, go to the airport, spend 2 hours explaining to the customs man that your PC wasn't a bomb, another hour or so waiting for the delayed plane and then spending 8 hours in a plane to Japan. And when you got there you had to ask for directions in Japansese and if you were lucky within 3 hours you would arrive at the address where the webserver stood. Only to discover that they use different voltage in Japan.
No, you got to have to hand it to Marc Andreesen, he started the revolution that gave us TCP/IP and The Internet. Of course nowadays The Internet is made by Microsoft, but we still have to give Mr. Andreesen the credit that he so richly deserves.
Maybe they mean judge Jackson of the Neuremburg trials.
Ready with your 5 minute hate yet? Or do I have to send the thought police after you, prole!
(c) A character from "Hackers", the best film ever made about hackers and the information age!
No, record companies often PAY the radio stations to play their stuff. They do this through middlemen so it doesn't seem too obvious.
Offcourse, that is why you don't read HTTP://slashdot.org, because that's for sissies, right?
I think the day when it changed was when AOL went on the internet in 1994. The net was much less commercial before then and we still downloaded files from ftp sites and nobody gave a toss about copyright back then.
This article is written by a communist. If you read carefully you will see that he is against all property and wants to make everyone equal and have creative people work for a measly salary so that non-creative people can benefit and claim ownership without reimbursing the creator.
It is topical to mention the two parent companies of MSNBC.
Slagdog censorship again?
You are still using their electrical power. Or do you have a gas run generator standing next to your desk (in which case your co-workers could complain about fumes)?
Hitler and Stalin were geniuses as well, but that doesn't make them good guys.
IE: ALL PROPERTY IS THEFT and should be owned by the People and be controlled for the People by a small group of wise men.
Or how about "From Each According To Ability To Each According To Need"?If Stallman wants to give his own software to "the People" then I have no bother with that. But he wants ALL software to be "for the People".
I'm beginning to smell a big fat commie rat!
There are numerous sites on the net that explain how to do this.
And those VideoCD's get traded like crazy on schoolyards, etc. OK the quality is maybe not as good as a DVD, but it still looks sharper than a VHS cassette and it looks quite sharp on a computer screen.
Well there is good news for you Lino-heads as there is a DVD player for Linux on the market. The bad news is though that you must PAY for it. AI! There is a limit to all the freebees you have got.
Even those of Britney Spears.
However cybersquatters and namehoggers (people who use their domain name for personal use) have thwarted this system, making it damn near impossible for ligitimate entities to claim their own name.
So I'm all in favour of having an international organisation in charge of domain disputes, so small companies don't have to bankrupt themselves by suing someone who regged their name in another country.
Well Slashdot believe in Marx' "Religion is an opiate for the people" so what do you expect?
"Confusingly similar" ring any bells?
Zero International Holding GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft v. Beyonet Services and Stephen Urich
And it might just leave room for Malda's favourite movie of all time, Sergei Eisenstein's October (about the communist uprising in Russia), as it is a silent movie.
So, will he store these on his 80 gig beast?
Expect Malda to cut back on his ./ posting as he pours some hot grits down his pants imagining he is Natalie Portman's jeans.