did anyone else notice the url ended with sue-bastards2.html? not that we're resorting to childish name calling or anything of the sort... but... well, i guess we are.
oh well.
--
Don't worry, it's pirate proof!
on
Books on Demand
·
· Score: 3
Salon... they're usually pretty good about tech stuff:
"Piracy, for example, goes away almost magically, since the network is closed and files are designated for printing, not for viewing on a handheld device or PC."
Don't worry guys, since the files are designated ONLY for printing, we know they'll never be pirated... because they're designated after all. How long do you think that will last?
A while ago there was a program which allowed users to add commentary to webpages however they saw fit (was it called Gooey? I can't recall the name of the program). A bunch of foolish webmasters didn't like the idea of there being content associated with their page that they didn't write themselves and started complaining. We all sided with the people using the program because it didn't alter the original webpage in any way except for people choosing to use the program, and then only added content on top of it. People wishing to see the original were more than free to do see, simply by not using the plugin. That program has since stopped production as I recall.
This is the same thing, only it's being produced by microsoft. An outside company is adding content to a webpage without the permission of the designer and you know what? It's fine. If you don't want to see additional content that wasn't originally designed with the page, then either get another browser or disable the feature within explorer 6. I'm very sorry that you might lose some business, but this is a feature for the consumers and to tell them that they may not use it is just as bad as if Microsoft told then that they must... there are options besides Internet Explorer, if you don't like IE, then get another browser... don't tell other people, however, what browser they should use or what features they wish to have in their own browser.
If I want to change a font size for a webpage, I can with my browser. If I want to disable images, I can with my browser. If I want to set up a filter to block ads, or rewrite tables, I can do so using a proxy and my browser. My browser has the power to display webpages however I want, please don't tell me that I shouldn't have the ability to do so. It's fair use, deal with it.
If you're really curious how I felt about it at the time that I ceased to run it, goto RumorsDaily.com and look at the source code.
The short answer is, yes, if you can make a site that's succesful and incorporates both news and opinion it's definately worth it. I got to know a lot of people who I otherwise would not have and it gave me access to the school, and the ability to raise issues that never would have been done otherwise. The downside, and what you have to find a way to avoid, is the awful spiral that occured when the site became too popular. When the main thrust of the users shifted from the campus intelligentsia to the campus riff-raff, the signal to noise ratio fell dramatically. It became an intolerant bastion for insults and gay jokes... something which you can brush off for a while, but eventually became too grating for me to handle every day.
It's got tremendous upsides and tremendous downsides. I would suggest you do it, because no matter what else, it will always be an experience to have... I can't tell you what it's like to be awakened on Sunday morning by the Secret Service, but I wouldn't give up that experience for anything today.
If you're really curious how I felt about it at the time that I ceased to run it, goto RumorsDaily.com and look at the source code.
The short answer is, yes, if you can make a site that's succesful and incorporates both news and opinion it's definately worth it. I got to know a lot of people who I otherwise would not have and it gave me access to the school, and the ability to raise issues that never would have been done otherwise. The downside, and what you have to find a way to avoid, is the awful spiral that occured when the site became too popular. When the main thrust of the users shifted from the campus intelligentsia to the campus riff-raff, the signal to noise ratio fell dramatically. It became an intolerant bastion for insults and gay jokes... something which you can brush off for a while, but eventually became too grating for me to handle every day.
It's got tremendous upsides and tremendous downsides. I would suggest you do it, because no matter what else, it will always be an experience to have... I can't tell you what it's like to be awakened on Sunday morning by the Secret Service, but I wouldn't give up that experience for anything today.
I once ran a similar site at RumorsDaily.com (it's since been disbanded due to my graduation). It started as a sort of underground news source, mainly focusing on Student Government and later on expanded to all sorts of student opinion and online discussion at Tufts University.
I was personally threatened with lawsuits from students twice, and was personally visited by the Secret Service once (someone threatened Al Gore's life). The school was very unhappy about the whole concept of open student opinion and once or twice made veiled criticisms. The school's Daily paper made some low level threats at a lawsuit as well.
Basically, what I'm saying is that it's a very treacherous ground you tread upon when you start giving people in real world community the ability to attack each other anonymously in an online community. I eventually set up a list of posting guidelines which is very loosely enforced... my rule eventually became, if the person is not a public figure, don't talk about them. If they are a public figure, you can talk about whatever you like, just don't threaten or impersonate them. (I always felt dirty the few times that I removed posts, but I just didn't want to deal with the hassle of a lawsuit that I assumed I would lose).
I'm not really sure why I chimed in, but I wanted to support anyone else who's tried to run this sort of site. You get a lot of flak and you spend a lot of time to make something that people enjoy using, and then you get beaten upon, criticized and eventually shut down, all because people fail to get along. It's really a shame. My site grew to about 1000 hits a day before I removed it from the public discourse, I know what it's like.
I however, early on made the decision to get my site OFF the University's equipment and onto my own server offsite. This way the school had no grounds for officially shutting down the site, or making off with the server. They had no control over a site operating off school grounds, Acceptable Use Policy or no.
So I guess that's my ultimate suggestion, if you're going to do something like this
A: Be prepared for a lot of crap and a lot of threats.
B: Get yourself off servers or services that aren't being paid for directly by you, otherwise you'll never have the control or authority that you need.
Good luck in the future to anyone who tries this... I personally found it very rewarding, but it took a lot of suffering.
You do see it, of course, through lower taxes. Sure, whenever the government makes money, you don't feel like you've gained anything... but try to consider, for a moment, how high your taxes would be if the government had no income? In your mind it's easy to write off one or two of these sorts of things, but when you consider how much money the government brings in through NON-TAX income, you then might begin to consider the quantity of funds you've been saving by not being taxed for an equivalent amount.
Why do people always put up such a big fight over PBS? "Hey, it's public broadcasting and it must be supported!" I just don't understand.
It's a channel that not enough people watch to justify it's existence on television. If it could run without federal funding, it would do so (nobody likes to beg in order to do their work). There simply is not a large enough audience to make public television in this country work, in its current state, because it's not interesting. I watch public television sometimes. I think NOVA is a good show... but it's not good enough to pay for. I would rather watch a channel which is free to me than pay for a channel with third rate documentaries.
Unless PBS is willing to get sponsorship in the form of commercials and become financially independant of the government (or gain additional funding from some outside source) it has no business taking up space on the dial. It doesn't provide a service, it doesn't provide value... all it does is give a few people jobs and placate the left who can then say they're at least attempting to culture us unwashed masses.
In the end, our tax dollars should not be going to such an endevour... it doesn't add anything to our society that couldn't be done just as well and at a lower cost by private citizens running private business. We need to stop supporting these failing ideas just because we think that they may be "good" for us. If they don't work, let's try something else. Public television has accomplished very little... it's time to try something else.
I've been poking around that site and I'm having trouble figuring out how to get to any photographs on scanned images. It seemed at first like it would be easy, but I seem to be failing miserably. Anyone have any success finding anything graphical?
--
Re:Advertising gone too far
on
AI Movie Promo
·
· Score: 2
But there's nothing WRONG with advertising... especially not advertising that is as fun as this is. Once you start tracking through the bits and pieces you get caught up in them. It's tremendously entertaining. Start calling the phone numbers, start visiting the webpages. Not that gaurentees a good movie, but it does assure that they're heart is in the right place (meaning that there's a much better chance for a good movie).
The last time I was this excited about the ads for a movie before it came out and before I knew anything about the film was The Matrix. Just a thought.
--
Re:A list of phone numbers to call:
on
AI Movie Promo
·
· Score: 3
Sorry, here are there codes:
(212) 502 1177 (type in laia)
(919) 425 2310 (type in chan)
--
A list of phone numbers to call:
on
AI Movie Promo
·
· Score: 4
here are all the secret phone numbers you can call to get more steps into the story... if you so desire:
503 321 5122 (weird ass woman... # from trailer call first)
212 502 1177 (evan chan's distraught wife)
919 425 2310 (nancy re: the funeral)
212 613 1680 (living homes designs)
Ok, so usually the point of April Fools jokes is to have a JOKE. There's usually a trick whereby somebody is fooled into believing something something that's not true.
But this is just boring. For some reason Slashdot has decided to flood us with inane crap all day. Not funny inane crap, just inane. Is anybody amused or laughing yet?
I'm kind of wondering if this is perhaps building to something. Maybe this is all part of a larger joke, a bigger better joke just waiting to burst from the seems of this site.
But I don't think so, I think they just think this is funny. It's not.
Now I know that we all love to use this phrase, but I've gotten annoyed as of late by it's misuse. Go back and watch the movie and you'll see quite clearly that it's:
"Someone set UP US the bomb."
The fact that everyone has been getting the "up" and the "us" in the wrong order is just frustrating. You may now all go back to your trolling, but please, in the future, troll with the proper word order.
Remarkable. I was about the make reference to that episode of the STTNG when I saw the name of your post, not realizing that you were ACTUALLY refrencing it.
I don't remember there being a "U.S. Supreme Court decision against Napster" so if the RIAA's letter really did refrence it, there's some interesting legal points to be analyzed.
More likely this guy just confused that Circuit court that made the Napster ruling with the Supreme Court.
Not true, those aren't NEWS sources. Those are hard core entertainment. Even thought it has news in the title, if you read a story in the Weekly World News do you believe it as a news source? Of course not. If the New York Times ran the same story as the Weekly World News, you would probably believe the Times, but not the WWN.
One of them has achieved journalistic respect from the masses, the other has received entertainment respect.
Slashdot Mirror
did anyone else notice the url ended with sue-bastards2.html? not that we're resorting to childish name calling or anything of the sort... but... well, i guess we are.
oh well.
--
"Piracy, for example, goes away almost magically, since the network is closed and files are designated for printing, not for viewing on a handheld device or PC."
Don't worry guys, since the files are designated ONLY for printing, we know they'll never be pirated... because they're designated after all. How long do you think that will last?
--
--
This is the same thing, only it's being produced by microsoft. An outside company is adding content to a webpage without the permission of the designer and you know what? It's fine. If you don't want to see additional content that wasn't originally designed with the page, then either get another browser or disable the feature within explorer 6. I'm very sorry that you might lose some business, but this is a feature for the consumers and to tell them that they may not use it is just as bad as if Microsoft told then that they must... there are options besides Internet Explorer, if you don't like IE, then get another browser... don't tell other people, however, what browser they should use or what features they wish to have in their own browser.
If I want to change a font size for a webpage, I can with my browser. If I want to disable images, I can with my browser. If I want to set up a filter to block ads, or rewrite tables, I can do so using a proxy and my browser. My browser has the power to display webpages however I want, please don't tell me that I shouldn't have the ability to do so. It's fair use, deal with it.
--
If you're really curious how I felt about it at the time that I ceased to run it, goto RumorsDaily.com and look at the source code.
The short answer is, yes, if you can make a site that's succesful and incorporates both news and opinion it's definately worth it. I got to know a lot of people who I otherwise would not have and it gave me access to the school, and the ability to raise issues that never would have been done otherwise. The downside, and what you have to find a way to avoid, is the awful spiral that occured when the site became too popular. When the main thrust of the users shifted from the campus intelligentsia to the campus riff-raff, the signal to noise ratio fell dramatically. It became an intolerant bastion for insults and gay jokes... something which you can brush off for a while, but eventually became too grating for me to handle every day.
It's got tremendous upsides and tremendous downsides. I would suggest you do it, because no matter what else, it will always be an experience to have... I can't tell you what it's like to be awakened on Sunday morning by the Secret Service, but I wouldn't give up that experience for anything today.
--
If you're really curious how I felt about it at the time that I ceased to run it, goto RumorsDaily.com and look at the source code.
The short answer is, yes, if you can make a site that's succesful and incorporates both news and opinion it's definately worth it. I got to know a lot of people who I otherwise would not have and it gave me access to the school, and the ability to raise issues that never would have been done otherwise. The downside, and what you have to find a way to avoid, is the awful spiral that occured when the site became too popular. When the main thrust of the users shifted from the campus intelligentsia to the campus riff-raff, the signal to noise ratio fell dramatically. It became an intolerant bastion for insults and gay jokes... something which you can brush off for a while, but eventually became too grating for me to handle every day.
It's got tremendous upsides and tremendous downsides. I would suggest you do it, because no matter what else, it will always be an experience to have... I can't tell you what it's like to be awakened on Sunday morning by the Secret Service, but I wouldn't give up that experience for anything today.
--
I once ran a similar site at RumorsDaily.com (it's since been disbanded due to my graduation). It started as a sort of underground news source, mainly focusing on Student Government and later on expanded to all sorts of student opinion and online discussion at Tufts University.
I was personally threatened with lawsuits from students twice, and was personally visited by the Secret Service once (someone threatened Al Gore's life). The school was very unhappy about the whole concept of open student opinion and once or twice made veiled criticisms. The school's Daily paper made some low level threats at a lawsuit as well.
Basically, what I'm saying is that it's a very treacherous ground you tread upon when you start giving people in real world community the ability to attack each other anonymously in an online community. I eventually set up a list of posting guidelines which is very loosely enforced... my rule eventually became, if the person is not a public figure, don't talk about them. If they are a public figure, you can talk about whatever you like, just don't threaten or impersonate them. (I always felt dirty the few times that I removed posts, but I just didn't want to deal with the hassle of a lawsuit that I assumed I would lose).
I'm not really sure why I chimed in, but I wanted to support anyone else who's tried to run this sort of site. You get a lot of flak and you spend a lot of time to make something that people enjoy using, and then you get beaten upon, criticized and eventually shut down, all because people fail to get along. It's really a shame. My site grew to about 1000 hits a day before I removed it from the public discourse, I know what it's like.
I however, early on made the decision to get my site OFF the University's equipment and onto my own server offsite. This way the school had no grounds for officially shutting down the site, or making off with the server. They had no control over a site operating off school grounds, Acceptable Use Policy or no.
So I guess that's my ultimate suggestion, if you're going to do something like this
Good luck in the future to anyone who tries this... I personally found it very rewarding, but it took a lot of suffering.
--
Just a note.
--
It's a channel that not enough people watch to justify it's existence on television. If it could run without federal funding, it would do so (nobody likes to beg in order to do their work). There simply is not a large enough audience to make public television in this country work, in its current state, because it's not interesting. I watch public television sometimes. I think NOVA is a good show... but it's not good enough to pay for. I would rather watch a channel which is free to me than pay for a channel with third rate documentaries.
Unless PBS is willing to get sponsorship in the form of commercials and become financially independant of the government (or gain additional funding from some outside source) it has no business taking up space on the dial. It doesn't provide a service, it doesn't provide value... all it does is give a few people jobs and placate the left who can then say they're at least attempting to culture us unwashed masses.
In the end, our tax dollars should not be going to such an endevour... it doesn't add anything to our society that couldn't be done just as well and at a lower cost by private citizens running private business. We need to stop supporting these failing ideas just because we think that they may be "good" for us. If they don't work, let's try something else. Public television has accomplished very little... it's time to try something else.
--
--
goatsex link.
--
--
--
--
The last time I was this excited about the ads for a movie before it came out and before I knew anything about the film was The Matrix. Just a thought.
--
(212) 502 1177 (type in laia)
(919) 425 2310 (type in chan)
--
503 321 5122 (weird ass woman... # from trailer call first)
212 502 1177 (evan chan's distraught wife)
919 425 2310 (nancy re: the funeral)
212 613 1680 (living homes designs)
--
http://www.stileproject.com/pic/?page=pic.html&pi
--
But this is just boring. For some reason Slashdot has decided to flood us with inane crap all day. Not funny inane crap, just inane. Is anybody amused or laughing yet?
I'm kind of wondering if this is perhaps building to something. Maybe this is all part of a larger joke, a bigger better joke just waiting to burst from the seems of this site.
But I don't think so, I think they just think this is funny. It's not.
--
--
--
The fact that everyone has been getting the "up" and the "us" in the wrong order is just frustrating. You may now all go back to your trolling, but please, in the future, troll with the proper word order.
--
That's one weird troll.
Good episode though.
--
I don't remember there being a "U.S. Supreme Court decision against Napster" so if the RIAA's letter really did refrence it, there's some interesting legal points to be analyzed.
More likely this guy just confused that Circuit court that made the Napster ruling with the Supreme Court.
--
One of them has achieved journalistic respect from the masses, the other has received entertainment respect.
--