Did anyone else notice how often they emphasised the fact that Peer to Peer services offered porn without charge? Man, I must have read the words without charge like five or six different times! It really is amazing to them that anybody would give porn away for free, isn't it? I guess most people in the government grew up in an age where anything that had the slightest demand had a patent and a dollar sign slapped on it immediatly.
Maybe i'm just clutching at straws, but I see this as a major cultural difference between us and them.
They could pick out all the high-bandwidth servers' IP addresses on Gnutella and either fine their owners or toss them into jail. It's true that IP addresses can be spoofed, but these people are so desperate that i'm not sure they'd care about that.
What standards are you talking about? I thought we were discussing which applications are bundled with the OS. Things like the web browser or the media player. When you speak of a Windows Distribution strategy destroying standards I get the impression you think this will invoke different versions of TCP/IP, Java VMs, etc. Or do you really design your applications to depend on external applications?
I see what you're saying. But that's what I really like about Slashdot. The editors just say what they think. Have you read the newspaper lately? The writing style they use is CRAP! To me, 'unbiased journalistic integrity' only gets you a really really stale writing style.
Pretty much kaim also has to change our name, but I am so fed up with AOL that I might just pull kaim.
That's probably exactly what AOL wants. Don't other people on power trips control your actions.. just change the name and continue to produce an awesome client.
You and I both know that there is NO WAY a Linux user could possibly confuse Gaim and AIM. I mean, it's not like there are clueless Windows newbies running around going, "GAIM? AIM? Oh, i'm so helpless and confused, what is this strange world that I live in? Which program is which?". Every Linux user knows the difference between the two programs, and we're all that matters, because only we use Gaim (and whatever other *nix's run gaim).
Unfortunately, it's unlikely that a judge would be a *nix user, so there's no way he'd understand that.
I agree with what you said, but I really don't think people are that stupid. Linux is a tool, and it can be used for good OR bad. People don't condemn Microsoft because of software piracy. The only way they could condemn all Linux users would be because of their own idiocy.:)
I think that you're only saying it's not hacking because either it seems very simple to you, or because you don't approve of it. I find that a lot of people think this, but IMHO, hacking is really using technology in a way it wasn't intended to be used, using skills that most people don't have. I think that this qualifies as that. I guess we all have our definitions of the word, tho.
Also, I don't making money is bad. But, for some reason unknown to me, when people amass billions and billions of it, they gain a certain power that they tend to abuse a lot. Power corrupts, as they say.:)
wtf? You were supposed to mod the PARENT comment up....not the comment asking for the parent to be modded up!
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Hmm... I think I agree with you. Even though I believe the person you replied to was only joking. People say some pretty mean stuff to editors sometimes. It really bothers me, because I know that if people said that kinda stuff to me on a regular basis it would really hurt my feelings. I'm from the South, tho, so maybe it's just how i was raised. It's pretty much mandatory to be nice to strangers down here.
My only grip about mozilla is that none of my mimetypes were carried over from netscape 4.7. In fact..i don't think i have any at all. It sure is a pain in the butt to add them all manually. Does anyone know of a script or something that does this?
I'm curious as to how you (or anyone else who would care to comment) separate the wheat from the chaff. What tools/websites/recommendations/etc. do you use to identify the few good groups among all the independent crap?
For me, getting DSL has helped a lot in finding new artists. It makes realaudio and streaming mp3s not annoying (no pauses while playing).
If you go to any particular genre on mp3.com, they have a really neat feature that lets you stream all the songs they have in that genre. So if i'm doing something that's conductive to having background music around (like coding or something), i just click on the link to stream that genre. I think the songs are sorted by number of downloads (not sure tho). If any particular song catches my ear that night, I just go to that artist's web site and d/l all the music they have available. Usually if i really like a song someone's done, then their other songs are good, too. Then, i burn all the good mp3's to cd for use in my
mp3-capable cd-player
, and boom... almost 20 hours of non-interrupted music.:)
I guess you could say this was probably the whole point of mp3.com in the first place. But i tried it when i had my dial-up connection before, and I am just way too impatient for that crap. Very painless with broadband, tho.
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Did anyone else notice how often they emphasised the fact that Peer to Peer services offered porn without charge? Man, I must have read the words without charge like five or six different times! It really is amazing to them that anybody would give porn away for free, isn't it? I guess most people in the government grew up in an age where anything that had the slightest demand had a patent and a dollar sign slapped on it immediatly.
Maybe i'm just clutching at straws, but I see this as a major cultural difference between us and them.
-- juju
They could pick out all the high-bandwidth servers' IP addresses on Gnutella and either fine their owners or toss them into jail. It's true that IP addresses can be spoofed, but these people are so desperate that i'm not sure they'd care about that.
-- juju
What standards are you talking about? I thought we were discussing which applications are bundled with the OS. Things like the web browser or the media player. When you speak of a Windows Distribution strategy destroying standards I get the impression you think this will invoke different versions of TCP/IP, Java VMs, etc. Or do you really design your applications to depend on external applications?
-- juju
And then, of course, reboot your computer. You cannot solve any Microsoft problem without rebooting your computer.
-- juju
Their voice chat rooms are very cool, I think. It'd be awesome to have it on Linux.
-- juju
There is no possibility of confusion, because Gaim does not run on Windows.
lol.... hey i was only joking. Don't take things so seriously..
-- juju
It's low-RAM prejudice is what it is!!! :)
Maybe you could just change your user-agent to fool the bank's website into thinking you're running Netscape?
-- juju
I see what you're saying. But that's what I really like about Slashdot. The editors just say what they think. Have you read the newspaper lately? The writing style they use is CRAP! To me, 'unbiased journalistic integrity' only gets you a really really stale writing style.
-- juju
Pretty much kaim also has to change our name, but I am so fed up with AOL that I might just pull kaim.
That's probably exactly what AOL wants. Don't other people on power trips control your actions.. just change the name and continue to produce an awesome client.
-- juju
You and I both know that there is NO WAY a Linux user could possibly confuse Gaim and AIM. I mean, it's not like there are clueless Windows newbies running around going, "GAIM? AIM? Oh, i'm so helpless and confused, what is this strange world that I live in? Which program is which?". Every Linux user knows the difference between the two programs, and we're all that matters, because only we use Gaim (and whatever other *nix's run gaim).
Unfortunately, it's unlikely that a judge would be a *nix user, so there's no way he'd understand that.
-- juju
Huh? I'm confused....aren't NBC and ABC the same station?? After all, their names are similar!
Goddamit.... if only i had the U.S. Courts so that I could protect myself from my own idiocy....
-- juju
Slashdot is simply informing you that this exploit exists. News is news. It's not a morality judement. That's for you to decide.
I agree that stealing is wrong, but is censorship really going to change reality?
-- juju
Should slashdot only post happy warm-fuzzy stories? By that logic, perhaps CNN should stop broadcasting war coverage.
-- juju
I agree with what you said, but I really don't think people are that stupid. Linux is a tool, and it can be used for good OR bad. People don't condemn Microsoft because of software piracy. The only way they could condemn all Linux users would be because of their own idiocy.
-- juju
I think that you're only saying it's not hacking because either it seems very simple to you, or because you don't approve of it. I find that a lot of people think this, but IMHO, hacking is really using technology in a way it wasn't intended to be used, using skills that most people don't have. I think that this qualifies as that. I guess we all have our definitions of the word, tho.
Also, I don't making money is bad. But, for some reason unknown to me, when people amass billions and billions of it, they gain a certain power that they tend to abuse a lot. Power corrupts, as they say.
-- juju
It may be unlawful, but it's still REALLY cool.
-- juju
wtf? You were supposed to mod the PARENT comment up....not the comment asking for the parent to be modded up!
-- juju
Hmm... I think I agree with you. Even though I believe the person you replied to was only joking. People say some pretty mean stuff to editors sometimes. It really bothers me, because I know that if people said that kinda stuff to me on a regular basis it would really hurt my feelings. I'm from the South, tho, so maybe it's just how i was raised. It's pretty much mandatory to be nice to strangers down here.
-- juju
I thought it was pretty interesting. Did you actually read the linked article?
-- juju
My only grip about mozilla is that none of my mimetypes were carried over from netscape 4.7. In fact..i don't think i have any at all. It sure is a pain in the butt to add them all manually. Does anyone know of a script or something that does this?
-- juju
Do you really think it's that good that people who gets paid with tax money can rip off and release for free products that makes businesses die?
Competition is good.
I'm curious as to how you (or anyone else who would care to comment) separate the wheat from the chaff. What tools/websites/recommendations/etc. do you use to identify the few good groups among all the independent crap?
:)
For me, getting DSL has helped a lot in finding new artists. It makes realaudio and streaming mp3s not annoying (no pauses while playing).
If you go to any particular genre on mp3.com, they have a really neat feature that lets you stream all the songs they have in that genre. So if i'm doing something that's conductive to having background music around (like coding or something), i just click on the link to stream that genre. I think the songs are sorted by number of downloads (not sure tho). If any particular song catches my ear that night, I just go to that artist's web site and d/l all the music they have available. Usually if i really like a song someone's done, then their other songs are good, too. Then, i burn all the good mp3's to cd for use in my mp3-capable cd-player , and boom... almost 20 hours of non-interrupted music.
I guess you could say this was probably the whole point of mp3.com in the first place. But i tried it when i had my dial-up connection before, and I am just way too impatient for that crap. Very painless with broadband, tho.
-- juju
I would like to see someone try to port a copy of XP over to a PS1
:)
Hahahahahahah.... man that's a good one.
-- juju