I hope at least a few people who are slashdotting museumtour.com buy something. Paying SBC might have been cheaper than paying for all the bandwidth that is being consumed as a result of this story. This of course, is not even counting the loss sales if the site crashes from all the hits.
Support them with sales. Buy something off their site to support the cause.
It's not meant to be the end all solution, but I bet it will stop the casual reviewer/pirate. The great thing about ripping cds is that it is SO simple that all it takes is popping the cd in the drive. Sure it can be circumvented, but this will be effective against average person who doesn't want to mess with clipping the wires, or breaking the glue. It's also interesting to note that the price of the cd will undoubtedly include all the free walkmans that are given away.
Was this meant as sarcasm? No new books are being written?
"Reckless sharing of information" ? There is a difference in 'sharing' information and 'duplicating' information. I'd be careful with how the phrase "reckless sharing of information" is used. That sounds like a valid excuse for censorship. Whereas, reckless duplication and distribution is a completely different story.
Whoah, slow down there. let's not start using logic known as slippery slope . The fundamental premise of google's 'censorship' of xenu.net is different than your purported chevy censorship. Google removed links based upon the threat of the DMCA and their interpretation of it.
From what I've read, xenu.net was considered copyright infringement upon the CoS. Unless your 'Chevy Avalanche Review' is reproducing chevy's copyrighted text verbatim (without giving credit), the two issues are entirely different.
hooray, another fine example of poor moderation. Not only is/. notorious for not reading comments, but for only reading the first few sentences of a comment and then choosing to moderate without having a good grasp of what the writer intended.
unfortunately, either the moderator is not familiar with the term 'facetious' or they were just too concerned with using up their moderator points in a non-productive manner.
and how would anyone be able to validate whether the 'review' is real or not? I scanned through it and did not see any strikingly new information. I wonder how difficult it would be to write a fake review.
undoubtedly. Unfortunately, there is not a forum to respond to this type of degradation, other than to post a comment. Which is then perceived as "off topic" and get's modded down, which ends up being a cyclical mess
and people wonder why there are trolls on/.. It's the moderation abuse that turns perfectly able and willing content contributors into disgruntled, bitter trolls.
why would a person waste their moderation points moderating down borderline off topic posts. Use your moderation points more effectively. Have you meta moderated today?
the previous post was on topic. can't you lousy moderators see this?
"to keep this on topic, iPod is neat. Although I wouldn't attempt to use it as a pda considering it's tiny lcd."
I would say that applies to this conversation.
the software is neat, but the screen is too small to make it an effective pda.
moderators, can you see that?
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off topic posts suck. The new ads aren't up yet.
to keep this on topic, iPod is neat. Although I wouldn't attempt to use it as a pda considering it's tiny lcd.
I usually don't reply, but this comment begged for it... I think Microsoft does a excellent job keeping things consistent from an operating system level. I started programming against the WinAPI under windows 3.11. When Win95 came out, many new APIs were included, but almost all the 3.11 APIs were still available for backward compatibility. The apps I wrote for Win95 still work on WinXP today, using the same API calls. As each evolution of an operating system is released, Microsoft adds new API calls, but does not replace the old ones. From a developer standpoint, I applaud Microsoft for their work in keeping things consistent. From a business strategy standpoint, Microsoft must keep their development community pacified. This involves continually making sure that new releases are backward compatible with pervious versions. Knowing this, I can't see.NET changing significantly and not supporting applications written in previous versions.
To reply to your other point about microsoft office, and Word: Microsoft has always provided free tools (on the win32 platform) to view Microsoft Word documents. I don't consider it unreasonable for Microsoft to require consumers to upgrade to author documents in the latest version of a product.
more than likely it was just a HTML email message that was dynamically generated to contain a email address specific link to the poll. ie. [a href="http://linktopost?email=bob@bob.com&subject= Poll"]Weekly ZDNet Poll[/a].
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I hope at least a few people who are slashdotting museumtour.com buy something. Paying SBC might have been cheaper than paying for all the bandwidth that is being consumed as a result of this story. This of course, is not even counting the loss sales if the site crashes from all the hits.
Support them with sales. Buy something off their site to support the cause.
It's not meant to be the end all solution, but I bet it will stop the casual reviewer/pirate. The great thing about ripping cds is that it is SO simple that all it takes is popping the cd in the drive. Sure it can be circumvented, but this will be effective against average person who doesn't want to mess with clipping the wires, or breaking the glue. It's also interesting to note that the price of the cd will undoubtedly include all the free walkmans that are given away.
Unless my math is off, and it very well could be
5mb -> 1gb = 204.8x growth
1gb -> 200gb = 200x growth.
By your example, the development appears to have slowed.
Yup, I remember WOPR. Free shell and background process - great while it was free.
In Australia? Do they have any authority or persuasive power down under?
Was this meant as sarcasm? No new books are being written?
"Reckless sharing of information" ? There is a difference in 'sharing' information and 'duplicating' information. I'd be careful with how the phrase "reckless sharing of information" is used. That sounds like a valid excuse for censorship. Whereas, reckless duplication and distribution is a completely different story.
Whoah, slow down there. let's not start using logic known as slippery slope . The fundamental premise of google's 'censorship' of xenu.net is different than your purported chevy censorship. Google removed links based upon the threat of the DMCA and their interpretation of it.
From what I've read, xenu.net was considered copyright infringement upon the CoS. Unless your 'Chevy Avalanche Review' is reproducing chevy's copyrighted text verbatim (without giving credit), the two issues are entirely different.
hooray, another fine example of poor moderation. Not only is /. notorious for not reading comments, but for only reading the first few sentences of a comment and then choosing to moderate without having a good grasp of what the writer intended.
unfortunately, either the moderator is not familiar with the term 'facetious' or they were just too concerned with using up their moderator points in a non-productive manner.
and how would anyone be able to validate whether the 'review' is real or not? I scanned through it and did not see any strikingly new information. I wonder how difficult it would be to write a fake review.
undoubtedly. Unfortunately, there is not a forum to respond to this type of degradation, other than to post a comment. Which is then perceived as "off topic" and get's modded down, which ends up being a cyclical mess
and people wonder why there are trolls on /.. It's the moderation abuse that turns perfectly able and willing content contributors into disgruntled, bitter trolls.
why would a person waste their moderation points moderating down borderline off topic posts. Use your moderation points more effectively. Have you meta moderated today?
the previous post was on topic. can't you lousy moderators see this? "to keep this on topic, iPod is neat. Although I wouldn't attempt to use it as a pda considering it's tiny lcd."
I would say that applies to this conversation.
the software is neat, but the screen is too small to make it an effective pda.
moderators, can you see that?
off topic posts suck. The new ads aren't up yet.
to keep this on topic, iPod is neat. Although I wouldn't attempt to use it as a pda considering it's tiny lcd.
I usually don't reply, but this comment begged for it... I think Microsoft does a excellent job keeping things consistent from an operating system level. I started programming against the WinAPI under windows 3.11. When Win95 came out, many new APIs were included, but almost all the 3.11 APIs were still available for backward compatibility. The apps I wrote for Win95 still work on WinXP today, using the same API calls. As each evolution of an operating system is released, Microsoft adds new API calls, but does not replace the old ones. From a developer standpoint, I applaud Microsoft for their work in keeping things consistent. From a business strategy standpoint, Microsoft must keep their development community pacified. This involves continually making sure that new releases are backward compatible with pervious versions. Knowing this, I can't see .NET changing significantly and not supporting applications written in previous versions.
To reply to your other point about microsoft office, and Word: Microsoft has always provided free tools (on the win32 platform) to view Microsoft Word documents. I don't consider it unreasonable for Microsoft to require consumers to upgrade to author documents in the latest version of a product.
more than likely it was just a HTML email message that was dynamically generated to contain a email address specific link to the poll. ie. [a href="http://linktopost?email=bob@bob.com&subject= Poll"]Weekly ZDNet Poll[/a].