searching on Paris Hilton after her little slip-up returned hundreds upon hundreds of affiliates all spamming the same site which, in the end, did not actually have the infamous video
The whole story was rather grim... deejays subpoened at clubs for playing illegal bootlegs, police raids into bedrooms and seizing everything
A fairly good friend of mine (who shall remain nameless, for obvious reasons) who is in his final year of high school had the cops come around in the wee hours of the morning and seize his two computers - lock, stock, and peripheral. He wasn't deeply involved, had some brief correspondence with the main characters or helped them with the website or something, but like most of us had a goodly collection of mp3s on his computers. As a result, he lost access to his machines - and the work stored on them - until a few weeks ago.
When anyone gets raided, it's pretty offputting. To have it happen to you in the final year of high school, when you're focussed on getting uni placements that may determine your future, the actions of police came across a little heavy-handed. Luckily he's a bright kid, and it getting on with it.
Charging DJs for playing bootlegs is pretty moronic too, though I'm sure that's been dealt with on/. before.
Come on, you must have picked the wrong category there chum.
Patent laws provide incentives for people to indulge in creative thought by rewarding their investments in any ideas they may come up with.
How do patents do this? Fairly simple, really: 1) You think up a new invention 2) You market this invention (exclusively, thanks to patents) 3) MONEY!!
Seriously, do you think companies would spend a 10th on R&D of what they currently do, if they knew that if they came up with something everyone would be free to duplicate it? Where's the incentive to put in the hard yards there, without patents it would be a case of big firms sitting back, waiting for someone to come up with a good idea, then stealing it.
Patent Laws encourage innovation by giving the inventors enough time to recoup in the investment they make in their ideas. I don't see how they let "the man" do anything.
if a user doesn't like a previewed track, "then the industry and that record would have benefited from [that user's] ignorance."
I'm suprised the record labels let Britney Spears have any time at all in that case - hell, think of the teenage boy market if all they knew was what she looked like *grin*
it seems that a simple and relatively inexpensive measure, which Herron says requires no more than "an intern in a room," might be worth serious consideration on the part of the recording industry.
Further questions about the proposed intern scheme were referred by Stacey Herron to her associate Mr William Clinton, recently put in charge of seeing the 'preferred files replicate and populate'
..anymore than "Dog bites man - while he's at his computer"
There is no way Slashdot would have posted this article if the fire had occurred in any other form of business in china. And trying to pass this off as a human rights/totalitarian government issue is bullshit too.
Maybe the Australian Government should start ordering its military equipment over Ebay - it'll probably get there faster than the choppers they ordered
*grin*
N.B. I'm Australian, so it's hardly trolling or flamebait
Might there be a use for this as a camouflage tool? Have suits made of the stuff with various settings to blend into whatever backround is chosen.
What about advertising: The new Nike tracksuit, sans sown on logo, but instead with scrolling LCD patch on arm with scrolling Nike advertisements (stores may even provide a discount - hell, you're a walking billboard!). Staff Uniforms at Burger King/K-Mart/etc with the latest specials/reductions displayed and constantly updated - how hard would it be to display your own images though, I wonder?
The genius of today's great footballers (Zenidine Zidance, Luis Figo, Rivaldo et al) is their incredible creativity and flair for doing the unexpected. (I'm not offtopic, read on a bit). Often they choose the improbable course of action, which, because it is unexpected by the opposition, yields results.
I will be interested to see whether these robots are able to be programmed with the same creative impulses that a professional footballer posseses, or whether the style of play will remain formulaic and based on high-percentage tactics. It'd certainly suck if all they did was lob the ball forward and try and get a head on it *cough*englishfootball*cough*, but just imagine how pissed off you'd be if you got nutmeged (ball through the legs) by a robot!
D'you rekcon they will eventually manage bicycle/scissor kicks? Just be sure to avoid getting landed on *wince*
Living in Germany and calling back home to my folks in Australia, I can substantially reduce my telephone costs from.80 Euro a minute to.05 Euro a minute simply by dialling a code to use a different operator (OneTel in this case) This is by no means a situation limited to my location, cheap providers of overseas calls exist all around the world. Having experimented with telephone calls over the internet, I found my current option to be far more practical (since I can use it from any landline) and convinient.
All it takes is some quick research to find out the cheapest provider for your needs (a service a local computer mag kindly provides every fortnight)
True, they would be able to get all the keys they want - but they would still be limited in the data each key can retrieve. It's highly unlikely that the system would allow the FBI to request key allowing them to access ALL emails, or enough restricted-data keys, without there being some oversight by a third body (the judge)
This is an important developement because it looks like striking the right balance between the individuals' right to privacy and the requirements of the government in their quest to protect us. Whether the system will be used to protect us or not is not something programming can change, sadly, that's a matter for the judges et al signing off on the subpoenas/search warrants/what not
However, most people would not have the faintest idea that the little yellow boxes on the side of railway tracks are important enough to be able to majorly disrupt train scheduels. By destroying these boxes (axle counters, they determine whether a section of track is occupied or not), the trains are forced to proceed at a speed allowing visual determination of track occupancy.
All this from a little yellow box - did you know about that before?
As someone who works for a major German telecommunications company, I was directly involved in this, in that my office was responsible for giving the DB a 'heads up' about the site (whether or not we found it I'm not sure). I was asked to take a look at the portion of the site relating to my companies products (which was a guide on how to sabotage them to disrupt train services), and essentially the most elegant intructions given were "Pry the cover off, bash the insides to pieces with a rock, and/or fill it up with dirt/glue/etc".
This was only a few weeks ago too, and this is the first I've heard of any action the DB has taken, but I am quite impressed at the speed at which this has progressed.
(Details have been left vague to give me some semblance of anonyminity, protect my job, etc)
Was there any particular reason for this, or did people just react better to it? I'd be kinda freaked if a 4'8" robot adressed me with a voice like James Earl Jones!
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When I got my phone number, Pi was already taken.
So I asked for it backwards
Speaking from experience, are you?
A fairly good friend of mine (who shall remain nameless, for obvious reasons) who is in his final year of high school had the cops come around in the wee hours of the morning and seize his two computers - lock, stock, and peripheral. He wasn't deeply involved, had some brief correspondence with the main characters or helped them with the website or something, but like most of us had a goodly collection of mp3s on his computers.
As a result, he lost access to his machines - and the work stored on them - until a few weeks ago.
When anyone gets raided, it's pretty offputting. To have it happen to you in the final year of high school, when you're focussed on getting uni placements that may determine your future, the actions of police came across a little heavy-handed.
Luckily he's a bright kid, and it getting on with it.
Charging DJs for playing bootlegs is pretty moronic too, though I'm sure that's been dealt with on
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You must be German. Not only did you just deep link, you also made a point of punctiliously correcting the poster's spelling *grins*
But I found what I think is the article referred to here
Come on, you must have picked the wrong category there chum.
Patent laws provide incentives for people to indulge in creative thought by rewarding their investments in any ideas they may come up with.
How do patents do this? Fairly simple, really:
1) You think up a new invention
2) You market this invention (exclusively, thanks to patents)
3) MONEY!!
Seriously, do you think companies would spend a 10th on R&D of what they currently do, if they knew that if they came up with something everyone would be free to duplicate it? Where's the incentive to put in the hard yards there, without patents it would be a case of big firms sitting back, waiting for someone to come up with a good idea, then stealing it.
Patent Laws encourage innovation by giving the inventors enough time to recoup in the investment they make in their ideas. I don't see how they let "the man" do anything.
No, irony is when that peasant first gets the chance to kill Jack Valenti with the button, who then first gets to kill you.
Now I don't even need a computer to enjoy my pr0n collection ;-)
if a user doesn't like a previewed track, "then the industry and that record would have benefited from [that user's] ignorance."
I'm suprised the record labels let Britney Spears have any time at all in that case - hell, think of the teenage boy market if all they knew was what she looked like *grin*
it seems that a simple and relatively inexpensive measure, which Herron says requires no more than "an intern in a room," might be worth serious consideration on the part of the recording industry.
Further questions about the proposed intern scheme were referred by Stacey Herron to her associate Mr William Clinton, recently put in charge of seeing the 'preferred files replicate and populate'
..anymore than "Dog bites man - while he's at his computer"
There is no way Slashdot would have posted this article if the fire had occurred in any other form of business in china. And trying to pass this off as a human rights/totalitarian government issue is bullshit too.
this is something to get upset about
This is a government going nuts
But this story, is standard practice worldwide. Illegal operations lead to loss of life, crack-down ensues. How much more commonplace can it be?
Maybe the Australian Government should start ordering its military equipment over Ebay - it'll probably get there faster than the choppers they ordered *grin* N.B. I'm Australian, so it's hardly trolling or flamebait
Hey, maybe this guy should start posting to the Weekly Standard... seems awfully alike *grin*
the Karma Whore
Might there be a use for this as a camouflage tool? Have suits made of the stuff with various settings to blend into whatever backround is chosen.
What about advertising: The new Nike tracksuit, sans sown on logo, but instead with scrolling LCD patch on arm with scrolling Nike advertisements (stores may even provide a discount - hell, you're a walking billboard!). Staff Uniforms at Burger King/K-Mart/etc with the latest specials/reductions displayed and constantly updated - how hard would it be to display your own images though, I wonder?
The genius of today's great footballers (Zenidine Zidance, Luis Figo, Rivaldo et al) is their incredible creativity and flair for doing the unexpected. (I'm not offtopic, read on a bit). Often they choose the improbable course of action, which, because it is unexpected by the opposition, yields results.
I will be interested to see whether these robots are able to be programmed with the same creative impulses that a professional footballer posseses, or whether the style of play will remain formulaic and based on high-percentage tactics. It'd certainly suck if all they did was lob the ball forward and try and get a head on it *cough*englishfootball*cough*, but just imagine how pissed off you'd be if you got nutmeged (ball through the legs) by a robot!
D'you rekcon they will eventually manage bicycle/scissor kicks? Just be sure to avoid getting landed on *wince*
Living in Germany and calling back home to my folks in Australia, I can substantially reduce my telephone costs from .80 Euro a minute to .05 Euro a minute simply by dialling a code to use a different operator (OneTel in this case)
This is by no means a situation limited to my location, cheap providers of overseas calls exist all around the world. Having experimented with telephone calls over the internet, I found my current option to be far more practical (since I can use it from any landline) and convinient.
All it takes is some quick research to find out the cheapest provider for your needs (a service a local computer mag kindly provides every fortnight)
True, they would be able to get all the keys they want - but they would still be limited in the data each key can retrieve. It's highly unlikely that the system would allow the FBI to request key allowing them to access ALL emails, or enough restricted-data keys, without there being some oversight by a third body (the judge)
This is an important developement because it looks like striking the right balance between the individuals' right to privacy and the requirements of the government in their quest to protect us. Whether the system will be used to protect us or not is not something programming can change, sadly, that's a matter for the judges et al signing off on the subpoenas/search warrants/what not
However, most people would not have the faintest idea that the little yellow boxes on the side of railway tracks are important enough to be able to majorly disrupt train scheduels. By destroying these boxes (axle counters, they determine whether a section of track is occupied or not), the trains are forced to proceed at a speed allowing visual determination of track occupancy.
All this from a little yellow box - did you know about that before?
As someone who works for a major German telecommunications company, I was directly involved in this, in that my office was responsible for giving the DB a 'heads up' about the site (whether or not we found it I'm not sure).
I was asked to take a look at the portion of the site relating to my companies products (which was a guide on how to sabotage them to disrupt train services), and essentially the most elegant intructions given were "Pry the cover off, bash the insides to pieces with a rock, and/or fill it up with dirt/glue/etc".
This was only a few weeks ago too, and this is the first I've heard of any action the DB has taken, but I am quite impressed at the speed at which this has progressed.
(Details have been left vague to give me some semblance of anonyminity, protect my job, etc)
I'll have to try that position some time. I've been swinging for a while now and never come across a partner who.. oh wait ;-)
"I think this is the least coherent thing i've ever read on slashdot"
Does 'Jon Katz' ring any bells?
Was there any particular reason for this, or did people just react better to it? I'd be kinda freaked if a 4'8" robot adressed me with a voice like James Earl Jones!