""" Ever wonder what would happen if the incredibly creative talents of Squaresoft and Disney got together? Well I never did, but that didn't seem to stop them.
"""
It doesn't really appear that any actions or thoughts by individuals have much effect at all on businesses the size of Disney (or Squaresoft for that matter).
its more standards compliant its way way faster you cat turn off images/new images on teh fly you can disable popups on the fly it does email it doesn't muck around with MSHTML its safer than IE
and thats just what I can think of off the top of my head
I'm sorry, but ads are just ruining websites. I've totally crossed a threshold now on sites like this where the ads are taking more of my attention than the content.
Yesterday I got an ad on Yahoo that was so big I fell off my chair. I had to fire up PSP and do a screen capture. It was a full 876x463 pixels.
I know this was offtopic, but the topic sucked and I wanted to post anyway.
let me get this right -- you think we should defend expensive brainwashing? This is something we should hold as a good thing, to promote and defend? Just because its expensive doesn't mean its a good thing -- I learned that in kindergarten.
Who is it that wants to defend the way companies go about expensivly brainwashing people?
"" These lawsuits are the symptoms, not the disease. People need to become aware of the business practices of the companies they patronize, and modify their spending habits appropriately. They need to let their representatives know that the interests of business aren't *their* interests. ""
Good idea. I don't want to be critical, but it's no where near far enough. Companies use their power to maintain the status quo. They do it through advertising, buying politicians, etc. Its all legal and accepted.
You fight a long and loosing battle simply trying to "change spending habits" and "notify your politician." In the face of the whole cultural context driving people to act in ways that maintain the dichotomy between people and companies -- suggestions like that will have small effect, even if implemented.
Don't you get it? -- no matter how much sense it makes, in our current system, the people with the power to keep the status quo are the ones profiting from our screwed up current system.
Not until you start looking at the larger context does it make sense that we still burn coal. Companies with money can support blatant lies if they spend enough to media brainwash them into the general public. And we all just accept it.
I'm really glad this started a thread. For the most part I was ignorant of the details of the bnetd/blizzard controversy. My post was not meant to be a troll. The question was answered. The existence of a single positive use (TCP LAN play) may be a good reason for its existence.
The real problem that people are struggling with here is that ownership of information doesn't make sense. That is why everyone here is so hell bent against the DMCA, because, the way I see it, the DMCA puts teeth into that ownership. I don't really agree with the DMCA, but if you really belive in content ownership, I can see how the DMCA makes sense.
People don't really believe (me included) that it really makes sense that you can own an idea. Before the last five years, before sharing big sets of ideas (digital content) was so easy -- it wasn't really a problem for the content owners.
I see the DMCA, and recent legislation, as a symptom of a more fundamental problem -- most people instinctively don't believe that its OK to own ideas. It flys against a basic fundamental nature.
It used to be that individuals survived through cooperation, sharing -- for hundred of thousands of years our species all shared to survive. Only in the last 6,000 years has the norm shifted to one of individuals competing to survive. Not sharing to survive.
"""... which circumvents technological controls, in violation of section 1201 of the Copyright Act. The bnetd.org site exists, in our view, to allow multi-player game play, over the Internet, of pirated copies of our games. Contrary to the characterization in your letter, the CD-Key authentication code which is being bypassed by the bnetd server software is a classic example of the type of technological measure intended to be addressed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the circumvention of that protection is prohibited by law. """
When I use IE on a really slow network connection, when you put the URL into the 'Search' bar on IE -- it contacts somewhere -- Microsoft I guess -- to "search" for the URL you just put in.
Slashdot Mirror
oh why did i log onto slash today?
every year I try to get throug the whole day
without someone pulling an april fools joke
on me
(I also try and avoid the silly "See you next
year!" between Dec 20-Jan1 each year)
sigh
I almost made it this year, planning not to
leave me room the whole day. Then I log on
and I get fooled by a slash post.
aaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggg
I have yet to make it through this blasted day
oh why did i log onto slash today?
every year I try to get throug the whole day
without someone pulling an april fools joke
on me
(I also try and avoid the silly "See you next
year!" between Dec 20-Jan1 each year)
sigh
I almost made it this year, planning not to
leave me room the whole day. Then I log on
and I get fooled by a slash post.
aaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggg
I have yet to make it through this blasted day
very good
if that kind of attitude were to prevail, we
might eventually be FREE from coporate
control
mirror
Kingdom_intro.mov
I posted a copy here
Kingdom_intro.mov
"""
Ever wonder what would happen if the incredibly
creative talents of Squaresoft and Disney got
together? Well I never did, but that didn't
seem to stop them.
"""
It doesn't really appear that any actions or
thoughts by individuals have much effect at
all on businesses the size of Disney (or
Squaresoft for that matter).
...
La lluvia en Sevilla es una maravilla
The labia in Seville are mavelous
use opera
its more standards compliant
its way way faster
you cat turn off images/new images on teh fly
you can disable popups on the fly
it does email
it doesn't muck around with MSHTML
its safer than IE
and thats just what I can think of off the top of my head
no ads at all. although on my windows box, I got this really useful error message:
anotherboguserror.jpg
after I wrote my new host table and disabled my DNS caching and putting in a static IP. The machine only has one NIC.
take that back, preview reveals the need to ad ssads.osdn.com for some of those slashdot ads.
its on my machine at work, at home tonight
can post it up to a website later, I will
I'm sorry, but ads are just ruining websites.
I've totally crossed a threshold now on sites
like this where the ads are taking more of my
attention than the content.
Yesterday I got an ad on Yahoo that was so
big I fell off my chair. I had to fire up
PSP and do a screen capture. It was a full
876x463 pixels.
I know this was offtopic, but the topic sucked
and I wanted to post anyway.
</whine>
let me get this right -- you think we should defend
expensive brainwashing? This is something we
should hold as a good thing, to promote and
defend? Just because its expensive doesn't
mean its a good thing -- I learned that in kindergarten.
Who is it that wants to defend the way companies go about expensivly brainwashing people?
Think about that.
I feel so sad for you. You are
so misguided and angry.
I don't even know where to begin.
It would take months to bring you around to
understand how many lies and falsehoods about
the world you have taken blindly.
""
These lawsuits are the symptoms, not the disease. People need to become aware of the business practices of the companies they patronize, and modify their spending habits appropriately. They need to let their representatives know that the interests of business aren't *their* interests.
""
Good idea. I don't want to be critical, but it's no where near far enough. Companies use their power to maintain the status quo. They do it through advertising, buying politicians, etc. Its all legal and accepted.
You fight a long and loosing battle simply trying to "change spending habits" and "notify your politician." In the face of the whole cultural context driving people to act in ways that maintain the dichotomy between people and companies -- suggestions like that will have small effect, even if implemented.
read my sig
I'm am going to put a gigantic sign on the front of my house that says
"I'm inside"
better yet, someone should sell bumper stickers that say, "people inside"
Don't you get it? -- no matter how much sense
it makes, in our current system, the people
with the power to keep the status quo are the
ones profiting from our screwed up current system.
Not until you start looking at the larger
context does it make sense that we still burn
coal. Companies with money can support
blatant lies if they spend enough to media
brainwash them into the general public. And we
all just accept it.
I'm really glad this started a thread. For the
most part I was ignorant of the details of
the bnetd/blizzard controversy. My post was
not meant to be a troll. The question was answered.
The existence of a single positive use (TCP LAN
play) may be a good reason for its existence.
The real problem that people are struggling
with here is that ownership of information
doesn't make sense. That is why everyone
here is so hell bent against the DMCA,
because, the way I see it, the DMCA puts teeth
into that ownership. I don't really agree
with the DMCA, but if you really belive in
content ownership, I can see how the DMCA
makes sense.
People don't really believe (me included)
that it really makes sense that you can own
an idea. Before the last five years, before
sharing big sets of ideas (digital content)
was so easy -- it wasn't really a problem for
the content owners.
I see the DMCA, and recent legislation, as a
symptom of a more fundamental problem -- most
people instinctively don't believe that its
OK to own ideas. It flys against a basic
fundamental nature.
It used to be that individuals survived
through cooperation, sharing -- for hundred of
thousands of years our species all shared to
survive. Only in the last 6,000 years has
the norm shifted to one of individuals
competing to survive. Not sharing to survive.
Welcome to business 101.
see my site
from the letter to bnetd
"""...
which circumvents technological controls, in violation of section 1201 of the Copyright Act. The
bnetd.org site exists, in our view, to allow multi-player game play, over the Internet, of pirated copies of
our games. Contrary to the characterization in your letter, the CD-Key authentication code which is being
bypassed by the bnetd server software is a classic example of the type of technological measure intended
to be addressed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the circumvention of that protection is
prohibited by law.
"""
Is this not a reasonable use of DMCA legislation?
How is what bnetd doing OK in any way?
I bet Jack has broadband.
*wink*
I have yet to see this covered in any meaningful way in the popular media (CNN/ABC/MSNBC, etc)
Does anyone have links to existing news coverage?
How can we get this to be covered at all? Suggestions / links / emails?
nice sig
ck out mine
finding their website was non trivial on google
its here
http://www.prescient.net/
yet another completely absurd dependence on a machine in a system that works fine without them.
but hey -- its more profits for some company! and we all know thats good for everyone.
--
Their sorce pages look like verbatim copies from the other sites -- clearly a copyright issue, no?
When I use IE on a really slow network connection, when you put the URL into the 'Search' bar on IE -- it contacts somewhere -- Microsoft I guess -- to "search" for the URL you just put in.
has no one else seen this?