All I'm saying that it's important that one realizes the true value of certain products
This is exactly what Copyright is all about. It is pointing out that the value of some [digital] data is more than the value of the media it's printed on.
Your point is utterly anti-copyright, if you really think a piece of music is worth only the CD it's burned on. Because this is only true for pirates.
Almost got it right! There is loss. Loss in seeing the value of the movie being diluted because some cretin put it on the internet for free.
Same thing as when the American Government prints some more green ones. You still have the same amount of dollars int your bank account, but every one of these dollars is now worth a little less.
You didn't loose, but you end up being a little less rich. Oh wait, that's the definition of loosing.
You are both cretins;-) It is not about being productive or aestethic. It is about finding the right balance for you, like it is for everything else in life: Finding the right balance. Also, I tend to favor the aesthetic part of things when I am at home, and the productivity when I am at work.
aesthetic is good, but it has to leave room to some productivity as well. I wouldn't live in an extremely beautiful and pleasant home if it didn't have any shelf to store my books for example.
Extremes are bad. It's all about balance. And the point of balance is different for everyone of us.
Obviously the phone number of the guy is some personal informations, or else I don't know your definition of "personal information". You are mistaken between personal and private here. Personal information can be public.
What I don't like is saying: "This people XYZ is responsible for all your pain, please DoS and spam him". XYZ may be some infos that are already public, but encouraging spam and DoS by such a statement is basically making justice yourself. Of course, internet legislations aren't cathing up quite as fast as this kind of stupidity, so I guess it is not illegal. But it should be punished.
I guess that since no big corp is backing that up, it'll get turned into a law in a while, as opposed to all the MPAA/RIAA crap. Even though pirating a couple of CDs might do less harm to the economy than encouraging to spam random people.
Actually SPAM is illegal now, right? So encouraging spam should be illegal too, no?
There are very few countries (if any) where people die of hunger for a lack of money. In my own experience, if you give blindly to the first charity that supposedly will feed small africans, your money could very well end up in the deep pocket of some president of some sort.
On the other hand, even if your $20 are wisely used, they will probably not save people from dying of hunger. It maybe will add some butter on some child's bread (which is a noble cause, don't get me wrong), but in the neighbor country people will continue to die for stupid political reasons.
Not to say charities are worthless, but you have very few chances of saving a life by donating $20. Although you will most likely make some poor kid a little happier.
Whether or not the info used to register the site is bogus... that's another story
Well, either way, the point still stands. Posting personal infos to generate a DDoS on a Fax, mail regular phone or website is IMO something pretty stupid to do. At best you set up yourself as stupid as the virus writer himself: Mindless blind destruction.
The fact that you didn't make a mistake doesn't excuse your posting of some personal infos you don't know anything about. Or let's say that you vaguely suspect something.
And anyways, if this guy's being joe jobbed, this is the wakeup call he needs.
So not only you are being irresponsible, but you just don't care. Way to go.
Well, ok, my mistake. But still, do you have any way of validating these names? They might just be bogus names that the domain owner typed in for his registration.
In that case, you are still one of them, DDoSing ome poor guy that has nothing to do with it.
Which demonstrate that a stupid guy (just dumb, not malicious) can very well become one of the spammers on a stupid mistake. (He actually typed in the wrong domain name, look here)
This is the very reason why I think that posting these informations on a popular website such as slashdot should be punishable under the same laws as the spammers are.
This guy (Theatetus (521747)) deserved to be punished. He has become one of them by his own stupidity.
The worst part is, both his posts are modded "Informative" or "Insightful". I call for a new mod: -1, Criminal
No, I don't think the point remains,/. must have fixed something, because all looks well to me
My apologies. If all looks well to you, this must mean the bug is gone.
Again, I sincerely apologize for misleading you into thinking that something that is a bug in the Mozilla database that has been reported in 2003 and - even though it is marked as fixed - hasn't been included in Firefox 0.9 is actually not a bug for you. Maybe you are running nightly builds.
Their market shares doesn't stop at a vague percentage. Their market share is much more than 2% in three domains: 1. Editing 2. Digital imaging studios 3. Medical imaging
And incidently, those are markets where people (or companies) are likely to spend $3500 in big screens.
It looks like M. Jobs is not that stupid after all. It looks like it's a good think he is leading Apple and not you.
1. I have Firefox installed on 7 machines, they all do it. Linuxes and Windozes. 2. I also would not call that "choking" I do. The main page is unreadable. Granted there are plenty of workaround (such as increase the font size and decrease it), but it is still very annoying. 3. is mostly due to bad HTML from/. If all the websites out there were written in perfect HTML, we wouldn't have browser problems today.
In your original post, you say: Opera is not even close to being as standards compliant as Moz/Firefox (or even IE for that matter). I have used both extensively and Opera just chokes on too many sites
And you just overlook the fact that choking on many websites doesn't have anything to do with being "standard compliant". It is actually the opposite: To not choke on these websites, your browser needs to be able to render correctly incorrect HTML.
That is the entire issue here. So while the slashcode might have some responsibility over there (Although I doubt it, as this bug is not specific to slashdot), the real problem is that the browser war force them to render correctly incorrect HTML, hence encouraging html writers to write non-compliant stuff.
The point remains: The slashdot main pages renders correctly in all browsers except the Mozilla family.
Simple. The main part of the page (Where the stories are) overlaps with the left part (Sections, Help,...). To reproduce, you just go to "http://www.slashdot.org", and you hit refresh until you see the bug. No more than 10 times have ever been necessary for me.
The fact that the guy always chooses highly mediatised and lost causes doesn't make him bad. To show that there is malpractice you would have to prove that he did something wrong purposefully. The fact that he lost all his (known) cases doesn't prove shit. Wake up.
Finally Java 3D has been released It's been years. Where were you?
I've long been a critic of Java, largely due to its "2D" nature "2D" nature? What in the name of god do you mean by that? Oh... I get it: Since you were not aware of Java3D all these years, you just assumed Java was 2D only.
I'm very glad to see Java finally go 3D Hmmm. See first comment.
especially since Open Source rocks Well, sure. Britney rocks too.
Sun sucks, particularly since they did a deal with Microsoft So getting a big fat check from MS automatically makes you suck. Ok, sure, why not...
Maybe C++ and Pascal will go 3D now Honestly, I want some of the stuff you're smoking. Seriously, it looks like you're totally out the real world. Where have you been in the past 15 years?
I know we're on slashdot, but a little brain helps from time to time, combined with the preview button.
Slashdot Mirror
All I'm saying that it's important that one realizes the true value of certain products
This is exactly what Copyright is all about. It is pointing out that the value of some [digital] data is more than the value of the media it's printed on.
Your point is utterly anti-copyright, if you really think a piece of music is worth only the CD it's burned on. Because this is only true for pirates.
There is no physical damage or loss here
Almost got it right! There is loss. Loss in seeing the value of the movie being diluted because some cretin put it on the internet for free.
Same thing as when the American Government prints some more green ones. You still have the same amount of dollars int your bank account, but every one of these dollars is now worth a little less.
You didn't loose, but you end up being a little less rich. Oh wait, that's the definition of loosing.
No: You're right. As in "You are right".
"your right" would refer to the guy's right to do something.
Have a nice day.
You are both cretins ;-) It is not about being productive or aestethic. It is about finding the right balance for you, like it is for everything else in life: Finding the right balance. Also, I tend to favor the aesthetic part of things when I am at home, and the productivity when I am at work.
aesthetic is good, but it has to leave room to some productivity as well. I wouldn't live in an extremely beautiful and pleasant home if it didn't have any shelf to store my books for example.
Extremes are bad. It's all about balance. And the point of balance is different for everyone of us.
Obviously the phone number of the guy is some personal informations, or else I don't know your definition of "personal information". You are mistaken between personal and private here. Personal information can be public.
What I don't like is saying: "This people XYZ is responsible for all your pain, please DoS and spam him". XYZ may be some infos that are already public, but encouraging spam and DoS by such a statement is basically making justice yourself. Of course, internet legislations aren't cathing up quite as fast as this kind of stupidity, so I guess it is not illegal. But it should be punished.
I guess that since no big corp is backing that up, it'll get turned into a law in a while, as opposed to all the MPAA/RIAA crap. Even though pirating a couple of CDs might do less harm to the economy than encouraging to spam random people.
Actually SPAM is illegal now, right? So encouraging spam should be illegal too, no?
There are very few countries (if any) where people die of hunger for a lack of money. In my own experience, if you give blindly to the first charity that supposedly will feed small africans, your money could very well end up in the deep pocket of some president of some sort.
On the other hand, even if your $20 are wisely used, they will probably not save people from dying of hunger. It maybe will add some butter on some child's bread (which is a noble cause, don't get me wrong), but in the neighbor country people will continue to die for stupid political reasons.
Not to say charities are worthless, but you have very few chances of saving a life by donating $20. Although you will most likely make some poor kid a little happier.
Whether or not the info used to register the site is bogus... that's another story
Well, either way, the point still stands. Posting personal infos to generate a DDoS on a Fax, mail regular phone or website is IMO something pretty stupid to do. At best you set up yourself as stupid as the virus writer himself: Mindless blind destruction.
The fact that you didn't make a mistake doesn't excuse your posting of some personal infos you don't know anything about. Or let's say that you vaguely suspect something.
And anyways, if this guy's being joe jobbed, this is the wakeup call he needs.
So not only you are being irresponsible, but you just don't care. Way to go.
Well, ok, my mistake. But still, do you have any way of validating these names? They might just be bogus names that the domain owner typed in for his registration.
In that case, you are still one of them, DDoSing ome poor guy that has nothing to do with it.
Which demonstrate that a stupid guy (just dumb, not malicious) can very well become one of the spammers on a stupid mistake. (He actually typed in the wrong domain name, look here)
This is the very reason why I think that posting these informations on a popular website such as slashdot should be punishable under the same laws as the spammers are.
This guy (Theatetus (521747)) deserved to be punished. He has become one of them by his own stupidity.
The worst part is, both his posts are modded "Informative" or "Insightful". I call for a new mod: -1, Criminal
So you're basically saying all these people send mail and call that guy for nothing? Way to go man. You just became one of them.
your firefox .9 won't render it.
No, I don't think the point remains, /. must have fixed something, because all looks well to me
My apologies. If all looks well to you, this must mean the bug is gone.
Again, I sincerely apologize for misleading you into thinking that something that is a bug in the Mozilla database that has been reported in 2003 and - even though it is marked as fixed - hasn't been included in Firefox 0.9 is actually not a bug for you. Maybe you are running nightly builds.
--pierre
If you think winzip of gzip will save more than 3% on your pictures, that is because you saved your pictures in the wring format.
gzip or winzip will not compress GIF or JPG files by any more than 5%. And that's a best case.
Their market shares doesn't stop at a vague percentage. Their market share is much more than 2% in three domains:
1. Editing
2. Digital imaging studios
3. Medical imaging
And incidently, those are markets where people (or companies) are likely to spend $3500 in big screens.
It looks like M. Jobs is not that stupid after all. It looks like it's a good think he is leading Apple and not you.
1. I have Firefox installed on 7 machines, they all do it. Linuxes and Windozes. /. If all the websites out there were written in perfect HTML, we wouldn't have browser problems today.
2. I also would not call that "choking" I do. The main page is unreadable. Granted there are plenty of workaround (such as increase the font size and decrease it), but it is still very annoying.
3. is mostly due to bad HTML from
In your original post, you say:
Opera is not even close to being as standards compliant as Moz/Firefox (or even IE for that matter). I have used both extensively and Opera just chokes on too many sites
And you just overlook the fact that choking on many websites doesn't have anything to do with being "standard compliant". It is actually the opposite: To not choke on these websites, your browser needs to be able to render correctly incorrect HTML.
That is the entire issue here. So while the slashcode might have some responsibility over there (Although I doubt it, as this bug is not specific to slashdot), the real problem is that the browser war force them to render correctly incorrect HTML, hence encouraging html writers to write non-compliant stuff.
The point remains: The slashdot main pages renders correctly in all browsers except the Mozilla family.
If you really thing only 2 people will buy a $3500 display, then you obviously don't know much about business and even less about Apple's marketshare.
Simple. The main part of the page (Where the stories are) overlaps with the left part (Sections, Help, ...). To reproduce, you just go to "http://www.slashdot.org", and you hit refresh until you see the bug. No more than 10 times have ever been necessary for me.
Screenshot
I'm not even mentionning the ads which shows up with scrollbars most of the times. Only in Mozilla/Firefox of course.
charged with malpractice
The fact that the guy always chooses highly mediatised and lost causes doesn't make him bad. To show that there is malpractice you would have to prove that he did something wrong purposefully. The fact that he lost all his (known) cases doesn't prove shit. Wake up.
Of course, you just ignored the fact that all known versions of Firefox/Mozilla/Firebird/Phoenix/Camino choke on slashdot.
Cheers.
With the notable difference that Explorer is an actual word that describe what it is doing, mor or less accurately.
The fact that the Opera's userbase is thin doesn't mean it's a bad browser. It's my browser of choice.
Every FF/Moz release I download them and I use them for awhile. I am typing this comment in FF0.9. And once again I am ready to switch back to Opera.
Note that this time Fire Fox is closest than ever to be my browser of choice.
Cheers.
Nope, why?
Finally Java 3D has been released
It's been years. Where were you?
I've long been a critic of Java, largely due to its "2D" nature
"2D" nature? What in the name of god do you mean by that? Oh... I get it: Since you were not aware of Java3D all these years, you just assumed Java was 2D only.
I'm very glad to see Java finally go 3D
Hmmm. See first comment.
especially since Open Source rocks
Well, sure. Britney rocks too.
Sun sucks, particularly since they did a deal with Microsoft
So getting a big fat check from MS automatically makes you suck. Ok, sure, why not...
Maybe C++ and Pascal will go 3D now
Honestly, I want some of the stuff you're smoking. Seriously, it looks like you're totally out the real world. Where have you been in the past 15 years?
I know we're on slashdot, but a little brain helps from time to time, combined with the preview button.
Trust me, I've had some BSOD with Win2k. And no, I didn't change any parameters to my machine.
Maybe that was the default option on some Win2k...