"Due to security reasons we do not allow nor do we have a feature to remove Microsoft Internet Explorer from your computer. The security reasons being that we need multiple backdoors into your computer. Rest assured that if you do not use Internet Explorer, ever, the backdoors will still work. And probably better, since you won't have updated IE."
I like the comment from Ted Nugent at the bottom of the page:
Rock guitarist and radio talk show host Ted Nugent, an outspoken critic of Napster, said, "It seems to me that logic, common sense, and common decency would dictate that - if you have a product in your left hand, you'd better have a receipt in your right hand."
Great insight, Ted.
Anyone ever heard the Goldfinger song "Ted Nugent?"
The single most important fact about a person a journalist can report is his/her/its age. For example, when you hear about a car accident, you don't read: "Four men were involved in a car accident." Instead, it'll say: "Four teenagers, ages 16, 17, 21, and 15, were involved in a car accident with a woman, 43, of Lake City last night." It is unlikely that the media will say "Jeff Guy, a scientist involved with the human genome project and 'A' student, was driving the car. Neighbors and friends said he was an incredibly generous man who volunteered often in the community and was friendly to everyone he met." Simply saying the age tends to create a negative connotaion, which is often what is intended.
Here's a really crazy idea, and no one will probably see it jumping into the discussion this late . . . but if you think about it, it might make sense.
Get rid of top level domains (.com,.net,.us,.jp,.etc).
Okay. How many "microsoft" companies are there that we need a.net,.org and a.com registered to it? How many websites actually correspond witht their appropriate TLD, ie net services.net and commerical.com? What ends up happening more often than not is a company, individual, or organization ends up having to registering all three because people don't remember which one it is. Even I don't always remember which it is. This costs more money for small-time hobbyists.
When you register a domain, you should get it. For example, if I were to register "cool-domain" then set up a server, it would be accessed at:
Here's a question of equal [significance, importance, uselessness]: Does client to server suck?
What you see here is that there really is no argument about this issue; it's over before you've begun. P2P is so vastly differnet among it's applications that it really depends on which one you're debating. And when you connect to the internet, you're probably using an isp. That means that all your talking is with that isp, and its routers. That is "peer to peer." Basically the term is worthless.
Copyright is a lie. You didn't invent the English language, you didn't invent electromagnetic waves (sound, light), you didn't invent music. You didn't invent paper, pens, sentences or phrases. You took matter that existed before humans ever existed and arranged it. I could write a computer program that takes every word, every letter, and infinitely creates combinations of them. In theory I would "write" every orignal work, so if you came up with something, I could simply say, "Too bad, my computer wrote it first, therefore it's not oringial." I could do the same with sound: generate random sound until I've created every musical composition every to be invented. I could generate everything covered under copyright law.
It wasn't until the early 1990s, when GOPHER appeared, that the internet actaully lost usage. My theory is that when gopher made the internet look incredibly ugly, the general public watched more television, people actually started reading books, and engineers began socializing. Creativity thrived. We could have had a renaissance; unfortunately, the web was invented shortly thereafter, and now we have websites like goatse.cx, if you like windows click here, and slashdot, where people are trying to sell their signature space to advertisers.
It's really tough to change all this metadata if you working with a lot of files.
It's kind of like the registry in Windows NT where every key may have a multitude of permissions and policies. When you have over 100,000 keys in the registry, it becomes extremely tedious to go in there and change permissions, ownerships, access privledges, etc.
The UNIX permission scheme work well for 99% of applications. It follows the KISS (keep it simple, stupid) principle. You don't really need Access Control Lists or metadata for standard UNIX files.
Corel was forced to sell it's Linux Distribution Arm, because RedHat kept inserting *.corel.com into its "FTP DENY" list.
A top-ranking development engineer from Corel was quoted as saying, "It was baffling. How could they [the management] expect us to build our distribution without access to RedHat's RPMS? I mean, seriously! We can't make a distribution without those files! [sic]" He then returned to his game of computer solitaire, which he lost. Eleven times.
Nobody truly invents anything. Remember that matter is never created nor destroyed: Apple didn't "invent" the colors they used in their logo; they took pre-existing color and rearranged it. Why should they have a "right" to keep me from using colors that no person invented?
And also, just because something is a "business" doesn't me that we have to keep it in business by giving it special rights and privledges! For example, when Intel had competition with AMD, we didn't make a new law saying that you had to buy a Pentium in addition to AMD's processor so that poor Intel could stay in business.
And as for copyrighted material, you didn't invent the English language, you didn't invent electromagnetic waves (sound, light), you didn't invent music. You didn't invent paper, pens, sentences or phrases. You took matter that existed before humans existed and arranged it. I could write a computer program that takes every word, every letter, and infinitely creates combinations of them. In theory I would "write" every orignal work, so if you came up with something, I could simply say, "Too bad, my computer wrote it first, therefore it's not oringial." I could do the same with sound: Generate random sound until I've created every musical composition every to be invented.
The guy who invented hockey spend a lot of time and money doing research to come up with the design for the hockey puck. Now how can Apple just come along to steal his idea and use it in their iMac mouse?
I think apple should comply with my request to remove all hockey puck mice from existance. It is unethical to allow people to buy these mice.
(Quick, post them on freenet, and while you're at it, put up these themes!)
In Golden Eye for Nintendo 64 you can configure your control setup so that you can play the game with two joysticks. One joystick controls your head: changing your view of the world; the other joystick moves you forward, back, left and right (strafing, not turning). You get much more control when playing this way.
I always thought it would be useful to do this on a computer, but I doubt that X will support multiple mouse pointers or keyboards anytime soon.
Did you read the article? Jason Garon, 46, allegedly sent millions of unsolicited e-mails, better known as "spam" messages, to America Online subscribers.
The government should be congratulating him, not imprisoning him!
Entertainment content complementary to a musical recording is delivered to a user's computer by means of a computer network link.
Hey, I don't find lists of song and album titles very "entertaining." Besides, there's prior art to this -- those little closed captions you see on television. Not to mention Music Videos and streaming MP3's with the web frame telling you what song is playing (an example being http://www.fatfreeradio.com)
The user employs a browser to access the computer network. A plug-in for the browser is able to control an audio CD or other device for playing the musical recording. A script stored on the remote computer accessed over the network is downloaded. The script synchronizes the delivery of the complementary entertainment content with the play of the musical recording.
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"Due to security reasons we do not allow nor do we have a feature to remove Microsoft Internet Explorer from your computer. The security reasons being that we need multiple backdoors into your computer. Rest assured that if you do not use Internet Explorer, ever, the backdoors will still work. And probably better, since you won't have updated IE."
The single most important fact about a person a journalist can report is his/her/its age. For example, when you hear about a car accident, you don't read: "Four men were involved in a car accident." Instead, it'll say: "Four teenagers, ages 16, 17, 21, and 15, were involved in a car accident with a woman, 43, of Lake City last night." It is unlikely that the media will say "Jeff Guy, a scientist involved with the human genome project and 'A' student, was driving the car. Neighbors and friends said he was an incredibly generous man who volunteered often in the community and was friendly to everyone he met." Simply saying the age tends to create a negative connotaion, which is often what is intended.
Park entrance sign: "How are you gentlemen !!"
Techie Nerd 1: "What happen?"
Techie Nerd 2: "Someone set up us the gigabit."
Get rid of top level domains (.com, .net, .us, .jp, .etc).
Okay. How many "microsoft" companies are there that we need a .net, .org and a .com registered to it? How many websites actually correspond witht their appropriate TLD, ie net services .net and commerical .com? What ends up happening more often than not is a company, individual, or organization ends up having to registering all three because people don't remember which one it is. Even I don't always remember which it is. This costs more money for small-time hobbyists.
When you register a domain, you should get it. For example, if I were to register "cool-domain" then set up a server, it would be accessed at:
http://www.cool-domain
for the web.
What you see here is that there really is no argument about this issue; it's over before you've begun. P2P is so vastly differnet among it's applications that it really depends on which one you're debating. And when you connect to the internet, you're probably using an isp. That means that all your talking is with that isp, and its routers. That is "peer to peer." Basically the term is worthless.
Check out
freenet:CHK@qANifG8baVSFWd-ZsW5kvFVjcwcOAwE,ZXRUsp PkxMFRzwRsJdrpqg
freenet:KSK@nautilus-redhat7-i386-rpms.txt
Here are the direct key links:
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control-center-1.3.90-0_plain_0.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@RgbVw1SmnWDvcpn~cl-btTtO6VMOAwE,W5qYPv khGmpHroAqw~TMPA
control-center-devel-1.3.90-0_plain_0.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@cKPcQ8QvwSH2E5xhYqBnU-lUbQYOAwE,e~8RpI kDbO8cJVyoI-vScg
freetype-2.0.1-4.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@TcWNe-Yr41giV7~ff5K4XAzv8jYOAwE,8u8JQD wpYc3x7vGJzbnOkg
gdk-pixbuf-0.10.0-0_plain_0.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@ADveeR7JRz8iiTIqEhtncRp-HOwOAwE,CazfdL eTbJlZDa0Akqj-ew
gdk-pixbuf-devel-0.10.0-0_plain_0.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@8Qhxjke~3mFlwDPi4O-DKPEqMI8OAwE,isdFBt SKUkuuq1GN1r30hQ
gnome-user-docs-1.3.0-1.noarch.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@BwUcfEOeDQpmphuJQHPPxBMd21gOAwE,6vcjYz XsEWvhBPhIcKJHSg
gnome-vfs-1.0-1_eazel_1.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@m6MjzR8euUazO6gDSDoP5mrKbg4OAwE,jNhZsc xH9Lrs10ocM2ux5A
medusa-0.5.0-1_eazel_1.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@qTOt6PBsiZjZdShnNcqd~WfNGVwOAwE,mj38w3 ZzMF7c9c3~VninMw
mozilla-0.8-2.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@~99Yq7pv7Cp8MCOTGnPYowWc7cwQAwE,H3x0h2 bn43oJXRXjnrodjw
mozilla-mail-0.8-2.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@9UxOWz571QiotsV6oKaX3wkQNQIOAwE,aaYGfB A-RICKwFyiJ1RrVQ
mozilla-psm-0.8-2.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@IioO3cW1kS94D2qUC9~b81t2V20OAwE,NbhXq8 I5~BFT7WGGhqHZYQ
nautilus-1.0-1_eazel_3.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@~CqJgQmUt4OI5OCZLU2qPo~QaasQAwE,y06WhI wVJ~72UWbLzEE2sA
nautilus-extras-1.0-1_eazel_3.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@aPPc4S-ErW5LDbERMf770TB2HNILAwE,O5qFTT fQ7UMHC7uWREDZQQ
nautilus-mozilla-1.0-1_eazel_3.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@LOPsj50fV7dfvtqG1~lxFnz4H1MOAwE,f5a4iD W5v~G6mz9bXFJTbg
nautilus-suggested-1.0-1_eazel_3.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@skiCs4KUgLCcguK1K0G1NZc-BG4MAwE,U2lZoC r0Krdrp6rVh38nXA
nautilus-trilobite-1.0-1_eazel_3.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@JNYyTVlKeAc2jVNTzIy4KsckIO8OAwE,60RKk7 Gf6nd2qBw0y6W-Mg
oaf-0.6.5-0_plain_0.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@lnr4XdTJFXupmrEmNigaAfIMBHgOAwE,NCR-WE AU8sykC~dvUdiMMw
scrollkeeper-0.1.4-1.i386.rpm Inserted Key : freenet:CHK@s4PbJL4iZPGkJPeygluVVYMt-dUOAwE,-VyyY8 CKJpuQp5CYvESaRQ
Or are you actually creating something out of something?
Also, you could never get a computer program to simulate every song ever to be created. That goes against infinity and Goedl's theroum.
Calculus is based on reaching infinity. PI goes to infinity. A quantum computer could theoretically come up with every possiblity at once.
Copyright is a lie. You didn't invent the English language, you didn't invent electromagnetic waves (sound, light), you didn't invent music. You didn't invent paper, pens, sentences or phrases. You took matter that existed before humans ever existed and arranged it. I could write a computer program that takes every word, every letter, and infinitely creates combinations of them. In theory I would "write" every orignal work, so if you came up with something, I could simply say, "Too bad, my computer wrote it first, therefore it's not oringial." I could do the same with sound: generate random sound until I've created every musical composition every to be invented. I could generate everything covered under copyright law.
It wasn't until the early 1990s, when GOPHER appeared, that the internet actaully lost usage. My theory is that when gopher made the internet look incredibly ugly, the general public watched more television, people actually started reading books, and engineers began socializing. Creativity thrived. We could have had a renaissance; unfortunately, the web was invented shortly thereafter, and now we have websites like goatse.cx, if you like windows click here, and slashdot, where people are trying to sell their signature space to advertisers.
It's kind of like the registry in Windows NT where every key may have a multitude of permissions and policies. When you have over 100,000 keys in the registry, it becomes extremely tedious to go in there and change permissions, ownerships, access privledges, etc.
The UNIX permission scheme work well for 99% of applications. It follows the KISS (keep it simple, stupid) principle. You don't really need Access Control Lists or metadata for standard UNIX files.
A top-ranking development engineer from Corel was quoted as saying, "It was baffling. How could they [the management] expect us to build our distribution without access to RedHat's RPMS? I mean, seriously! We can't make a distribution without those files! [sic]" He then returned to his game of computer solitaire, which he lost. Eleven times.
RedHat declined to comment.
Hitler wanted to kill the things he didn't like.
Any Questions?
And also, just because something is a "business" doesn't me that we have to keep it in business by giving it special rights and privledges! For example, when Intel had competition with AMD, we didn't make a new law saying that you had to buy a Pentium in addition to AMD's processor so that poor Intel could stay in business.
And as for copyrighted material, you didn't invent the English language, you didn't invent electromagnetic waves (sound, light), you didn't invent music. You didn't invent paper, pens, sentences or phrases. You took matter that existed before humans existed and arranged it. I could write a computer program that takes every word, every letter, and infinitely creates combinations of them. In theory I would "write" every orignal work, so if you came up with something, I could simply say, "Too bad, my computer wrote it first, therefore it's not oringial." I could do the same with sound: Generate random sound until I've created every musical composition every to be invented.
I think apple should comply with my request to remove all hockey puck mice from existance. It is unethical to allow people to buy these mice.
(Quick, post them on freenet, and while you're at it, put up these themes!)
Yeah, check your wallet. If your wallet is present, breathe a sign of relief, they didn't haXor your pants.
I always thought it would be useful to do this on a computer, but I doubt that X will support multiple mouse pointers or keyboards anytime soon.
Test 12 is released -- on 12/12/00!
The government should be congratulating him, not imprisoning him!
freenetproject.org
Don't worry -- I patented that.
Hey, I don't find lists of song and album titles very "entertaining." Besides, there's prior art to this -- those little closed captions you see on television. Not to mention Music Videos and streaming MP3's with the web frame telling you what song is playing (an example being http://www.fatfreeradio.com)
The user employs a browser to access the computer network. A plug-in for the browser is able to control an audio CD or other device for playing the musical recording. A script stored on the remote computer accessed over the network is downloaded. The script synchronizes the delivery of the complementary entertainment content with the play of the musical recording.
You spelled 'employer' wrong.