""" Actually, I don't think you are. KaZaa is a baltant tool for copyright infringement--a reasonable man could very well find it to be so, and that means a Judge could as well.
An ISP is required to stop copyright infringement that it's formally warned about. Road Runner could be quietly blocking KaZaa as a preventive measure-- they're trying to figure out if the "lost sales" from subscribers leaving will overrule the legal costs of not blocking them. """
several points here:
just because people with lots of money can get laws passed, it doesn't make it 'the right way to live' -- you are cringing behind an absurd and unthinking stance of "it's the law"
these people running the large businesses are being dicks. they are squeezing people every chance they can TO TAKE MORE MONEY. its all about the money, and the ingrained definition of business to take as much as possible while pushing the envelope of human decency. Their dicks, so I'm a dick. fsck 'em I serve 800Kb/s 24/7 of all I can.
at its heart, the REAL ISSUE with copyright is that it DOES NOT MAKE SENSE to OWN information. if you look carefully, without the screwed up context of "business promotion" in which we currently live, then the whole idea of allowing excusivity of information is COMPLETELY ABSURD and UNENFORCEABLE. The only reason big money buys/sets up laws to allow copyright now it to promote businesses (NOTE: not content creators any more) into taking more money than they otherwise could without it.
technology will bring down copyright. maybe not eliminate it, but certainly reign in the ABSURD notion of life +70 years or whatever unbelievable state we have now. These companies "suffering" from copyright infringement are FSCKING DINOSAURS and deserve to be raped by the sting of new technology. I wanted to puke when hollings bitches about our precious multi-billion dollar content industry that is just a short toss from a mass indoctrination engine. tell me one thing Sony pictures or universal pictures has done to innovate, to create something of value for our society. to make their product better. NOTHING. (well, maybe extra scenes on DVDs) The create content/crap. its information with no value other than the artificially created market of scarcity that is now GONE because of technology.
YOU (Planesdragon) ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. pick a problem. (really, any problem) this problem is that some poor sods in austin cant download buffy from last week. look carefully at what is causing the problem. HUMANS are causing it. some executive looked at the RR network and said, "hmm, I can be a dick today and make us more money." this is true of every problem you can name. HUMANS ARE CAUSING THE PROBLEMS.... makes you think twice about the best way to solve the "world's problems"
I have a gifted four year old and know many. None of them are more computer literate than normal adults -- and yes, a four year old WOULD figure out a turntable.
in the past, this has not really bothered me. I've come across several sites that really only worked with IE, but they were sites that I could ignore, or limp by with poor rendering.
on more than one occasion, I've sent letters to the company sale people (not the IT people) saying that they just lost a customer because of their stupid IT / Web people.
I agree the problem has gotten worse. Just yesterday, a site simply did not ALLOW access unless there was an IE tag. It was the AC2 game website. Thankkfully, Opera's "Identify as..." feature got around the server block, but it just as well may not have.
I think it would be great to start a non-profit technology company.... one that had consumer interest in mind. no need to really innovate on NEW products, just make products that do what corporate, money-sucking products do with the consumer interest in mind.
PVR are perfect examples. How hard is it to build a PVR? With technology today, not too hard. How hard would it be to build one that didn't put all these absurd money-grubbing restrictions on it? not hard at all. How many people would chose to buy a product designed to MAKE CONSUMER'S LIVE BETTER instead of MAKING CORPORATE EXECS and BUSINESS OWNERS RICH?
you see... companies are figuring out that it's
way LESS profitable to actually sell you something
compared to makign you licence it, and then controlling how you use it. Software
companies figured this out a while back. People
joke, but if there is more profit in
it, companies will do it. "Please sign
this EULA before you buy this car." Its coming.
this intrigued me too for about an hour. None of the "evidence" that we never made it to the moon is convincing at all. this is despite the fact that there would be NO WAY to pull off such a "vast" conspiracy.
rage away
NB -- parent is already at -1, So I will quote: we never made it to the moon you boob. it was all a vast and deep penetrating conspiracy [dibona.com] with key hitters such as RMS [stallman.org] and the mexican government.
Opera is awesome. I've used Opera since version 3 on both Windows and (lately) Linux. If anyone else out there is sick of MS bullshat, think about trying it. The early Linux versions were OK, but now it is (for me) the
hands-down winner for Linux browser.
I can't help but look at these databases as a too-little, too-late patch to a broken system. My long term average for spam is now 7.2 spams/day -- EVEN with working to try and prevent it. Why should I have to pay some company more to track people who spam?
Can someone please present a way to overhaul the email system so that it works the way it was intended? Call it something else -- something new -- direct, personal, intentional communication. (Cripes, they even have spambots now on IRC and IM too.)
I'm groping here -- but what are the real steps we can take so that end users don't need to spend the money/time to defend against unwanted commercial mail?
I'm thinking along the lines of new rfps for the way mail servers transport and authenticate mail / requiring digital signatures from your ISP / elimination of mail from spoofed IPs / elimination of all anonymous mail, even...
where is the hangup in making (i.e. forcing technologically, not leagally) spam nonexistant?
HEAD http://www.flightship.net/products/ 403 Access Forbidden Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 00:28:51 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Content-Length: 3419 Content-Type: text/html Client-Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 00:26:59 GMT Client-Peer: 168.144.186.234:80
... pretty much every page on their site says:
Please be patient and try again in a few seconds.
The web site you are
trying to access is experiencing an extremely high volume of traffic. Please try the following: Click the Refresh button, or try again later. If the situation persists, you may want to contact the webmaster of this
site and advise them to upgrade to a dedicated hosting plan.
*sigh*
HINT: reloading 50 times in quick succession will get you the page!
they should strap cameras on the backs of penguins with wireless remote connections.
Give them a combination of solar power and a little propeller that spins when the penguin swims to generate electricity. It would have to be waterproof, but you could get lots of different pics from real penguin colonies....
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, I don't think you are. KaZaa is a baltant tool for copyright infringement--a reasonable man could very well find it to be so, and that means a Judge could as well.
An ISP is required to stop copyright infringement that it's formally warned about. Road Runner could be quietly blocking KaZaa as a preventive measure-- they're trying to figure out if the "lost sales" from subscribers leaving will overrule the legal costs of not blocking them.
"""
several points here:
just because people with lots of money can get laws passed, it doesn't make it 'the right way to live' -- you are cringing behind an absurd and unthinking stance of "it's the law"
these people running the large businesses are being dicks. they are squeezing people every chance they can TO TAKE MORE MONEY. its all about the money, and the ingrained definition of business to take as much as possible while pushing the envelope of human decency. Their dicks, so I'm a dick. fsck 'em I serve 800Kb/s 24/7 of all I can.
at its heart, the REAL ISSUE with copyright is that it DOES NOT MAKE SENSE to OWN information. if you look carefully, without the screwed up context of "business promotion" in which we currently live, then the whole idea of allowing excusivity of information is COMPLETELY ABSURD and
UNENFORCEABLE. The only reason big money buys/sets up laws to allow copyright now it to promote businesses (NOTE: not content creators any more) into taking more money than they otherwise could without it.
technology will bring down copyright. maybe not eliminate it, but certainly reign in the ABSURD notion of life +70 years or whatever unbelievable state we have now. These companies "suffering" from copyright infringement are FSCKING DINOSAURS and deserve to be raped by the sting of new technology. I wanted to puke when hollings bitches about our precious multi-billion dollar content industry that is just a short toss from a mass indoctrination engine. tell me one thing Sony pictures or universal pictures has done to innovate, to create something of value for our society. to make their product better. NOTHING. (well, maybe extra scenes on DVDs) The create content/crap. its information with no value other than the artificially created market of scarcity that is now GONE because of technology.
YOU (Planesdragon) ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. pick a problem. (really, any problem) this problem is that some poor sods in austin cant download buffy from last week. look carefully at what is causing the problem. HUMANS are causing it. some executive looked at the RR network and said, "hmm, I can be a dick today and make us more money." this is true of every problem you can name. HUMANS ARE CAUSING THE PROBLEMS. ... makes you think twice about the best way to solve the "world's problems"
actually -- you're wrong.
I have a gifted four year old and know many. None of them are more computer literate than normal adults -- and yes, a four year old WOULD figure out a turntable.
that said -- it WAS a funny comment.
in the past, this has not really bothered me. I've come across several sites that really only worked with IE, but they were sites that I could ignore, or limp by with poor rendering.
on more than one occasion, I've sent letters to the company sale people (not the IT people) saying that they just lost a customer because of their stupid IT / Web people.
I agree the problem has gotten worse. Just yesterday, a site simply did not ALLOW access unless there was an IE tag. It was the AC2 game website. Thankkfully, Opera's "Identify as..." feature got around the server block, but it just as well may not have.
1 pack >= pa+lat chest??
can someone give a reference on this?
just wait until people wake up to the fact their lives suck and could be so much better.
that's when the shit'll really hit it.
I've been thinking on this a bit. I want input.
... one that had consumer interest in mind. no need to really innovate on NEW products, just make products that do what corporate, money-sucking products do with the consumer interest in mind.
I think it would be great to start a non-profit technology company.
PVR are perfect examples. How hard is it to build a PVR? With technology today, not too hard. How hard would it be to build one that didn't put all these absurd money-grubbing restrictions on it? not hard at all. How many people would chose to buy a product designed to MAKE CONSUMER'S LIVE BETTER instead of MAKING CORPORATE EXECS and BUSINESS OWNERS RICH?
SocialTech. would you choose it?
you see... companies are figuring out that it's
way LESS profitable to actually sell you something
compared to makign you licence it, and
then controlling how you use it. Software
companies figured this out a while back. People
joke, but if there is more profit in
it, companies will do it. "Please sign
this EULA before you buy this car." Its coming.
I'll bet I know how they figured out there was a problem:
[modal window]
Drive C:/ is Full.
[/modal window]
followed quickly with a blue screen of death.
www.time.com/time/covers/1101020603/memo.html
you've got to read it to believe it.
I use doxygen++ for C++; it's great
about 1/4 of my lines are comments -- most all of which are incorporated into doxygen descriptions -- and the rest only appear in the sourse listings
see http://www.doxygen.org/
please.
this intrigued me too for about an hour. None of the "evidence" that we never made it to the moon is convincing at all. this is despite the fact that there would be NO WAY to pull off such a "vast" conspiracy.
rage away
NB -- parent is already at -1, So I will quote:
we never made it to the moon you boob. it was all a vast and deep penetrating conspiracy [dibona.com] with key hitters such as RMS [stallman.org] and the mexican government.
I think we need flying cars before we should take Mars exploration seriously.
no really. flying cars. everyone knows the future is upon us when we all have flying cars.
when I saw Spaceref.com, I first thought it
must be Spacefarce.com. Damn slysdexia.
I mean jesus, MARS? we can;t even get back
to the moon.
< PLUG >
/PLUG >
Opera is awesome. I've used Opera since version
3 on both Windows and (lately) Linux. If
anyone else out there is sick of MS bullshat,
think about trying it. The early Linux
versions were OK, but now it is (for me) the
hands-down winner for Linux browser.
<
Does anyone have the link to the online Science post of 4/25 mentioned in the article?
the normal online archive at sciencemag.com lists 4/26 as the date of the weekly (print) publication.
something must be wrong. this has been up all of 4 minutes and no posts!
(0) large company 1 merges with large comany 2 to become super-large company, LargeCo.
(1) things are cut and tweaked for months
(2)LargeCo takes as much money as it can from the general populace, exactly as it was designed to do.
(3) in 2 years everyone looks back and says, "gee, we shouldn't have merged. Oh well, we're still good at taking people's money!"
In a bid to help European online sales, the EU is planning to tax online transactions
quick post here -- but how exactly will TAXING online transaction HELP online sales?
seems like a real nonstarter, or simply a mistake
read my sig. consumers are slaves in our world.
I can't help but look at these databases as a
too-little, too-late patch to a broken
system. My long term average for spam is now 7.2
spams/day -- EVEN with working to try and
prevent it. Why should I have to pay some
company more to track people who spam?
Can someone please present a way to overhaul
the email system so that it works the way it
was intended? Call it something else --
something new -- direct, personal, intentional
communication. (Cripes, they even have
spambots now on IRC and IM too.)
I'm groping here -- but what are the real
steps we can take so that end users
don't need to spend the money/time to defend
against unwanted commercial mail?
I'm thinking along the lines of new rfps for
the way mail servers transport and
authenticate mail / requiring digital signatures
from your ISP / elimination of mail from
spoofed IPs / elimination of all anonymous mail,
even...
where is the hangup in making (i.e. forcing
technologically, not leagally) spam
nonexistant?
so much for MICROSOFT IIS
HEAD http://www.flightship.net/products/
403 Access Forbidden
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 00:28:51 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Content-Length: 3419
Content-Type: text/html
Client-Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 00:26:59 GMT
Client-Peer: 168.144.186.234:80
...
pretty much every page on their site says:
Please be patient and try again in a few seconds.
The web site you are
trying to access is experiencing an extremely high volume of traffic.
Please try the following:
Click the Refresh button, or try again later.
If the situation persists, you may want to contact the webmaster of this
site and advise them to upgrade to a dedicated hosting plan.
*sigh*
HINT: reloading 50 times in quick succession will get you the page!
get a real web server, please.
wasn't just a recent /. story about trash in orbit?
they should strap cameras on the backs of
penguins with wireless remote connections.
Give them a combination of solar power and a
little propeller that spins when the penguin
swims to generate electricity. It would
have to be waterproof, but you could get
lots of different pics from real penguin
colonies....
It's great the images have the temperatures on them
on THIS ONE the temp got up to a blistering
20.5 F -- but most are around 8-15 degrees.
I wonder how long the hardware will last in extremes like that.
A year? two?
a bit easier on Unix:
cat setup.exe | sed -e 's/I agree/I do not agree/ig' > setup2.exe
mv setup2.exe setup.exe