I think that is the middle finger extended while all other fingers are retracted. Usually used by large corporations towards small consumers when said consumers find out the product they have purchased is shit and have complained to said large corporation... but I guess it'll work just as well in this case.;-)
Sorry to burst your wife's bubble but Lucas has, on a few occassions, hinted that there would be a 7, 8, and 9. He must complete the evil trilogy with a trilogy to complete his slide to the dark side of the farce.. I mean force, yeah, that's the ticket..;-)
This shuold be Google's answer for this suit as well as the judge's who might see the case. I personally would feel a great swell of pride if they would publish it on their front page;-)
And, hopefully, all the hardware manufacturers will realize what they (and we) already understand now - that no one will be buying this overblown hardware system for home/personal use (well, ok, no normal mom-and-pop home user will) _especially_ since Microsoft will be including the "we control all that you see and hear" modules in Longhorn. Why, oh dear God why!?, would I pay $2,000 - $3,000 for a computer system I no longer control? Yeah, I wouldn't and neither will the general public. Both in my professional and personal life, all the people and businesses I quote out and build systems for don't want to pay even $1000 for a desktop system now - unless they are a gamer, cad/cam, graphics designer, or something along those lines.
My greatest hope is that all the top hardware manufacturers see dwindling sales (and dollars) in the future if they adopt Microsoft's specs for Longhorn PCs and collectively tell Microsoft "Fuck you!" That would make my millenium.
[quote]I've never ever heard anyone talk about fair use outside of Slashdot, period. For most people it just isn't a big deal.[/quote]
Well, there is a simple reason you have not heard more people talk about fair use outside of Slashdot - they don't know what it really is or they don't care (the proverbial "not a big deal"). For both of those reasons the cause is simple: they are the uneducated, unwashed masses who are not as well-informed as the crowd on/. is about WHAT fair use is, HOW it affects your listening & viewing habits, and WHY _everyone_ should care about it.
It is, ultimately, up to those who better understand the issues to present to the people we know and meet a well-balanced, non-zealot, informative, reasoned explanation to those questions: What? How? Why? Explain to them that cd mixes are illegal due to the DMCA and show them the relevant part of the "law". Explain to them that fair use grants them the ablity to share a program with family and friends but the DMCA could prevent even that and make it illegal and give them reasons why they should care. Explain some of the onerous parts of the PATRIOT act (what a fucked up piece of shite that name is) and the fact it bypasses what our forefathers thought was very important to uphold - checks and balances within the government TO PREVENT ABUSES OF POWER AGAINST "THE PEOPLE". You know, you and I and my mother, his mother, and her father, and everyone else we know and love.
So, before I get on the zealotry ride or bring up Naziism, it is a very simple thing to do: be informed and inform others. Knowledge is a weapon for the masses. A better informed public is a well-armed public and can fight (and hopefully stop) laws like these. They will be able to see through the bullshit Microsoft and other manufacturers are trying to force on them.
I know, this is a pipedream in some respects due to all the apathy pervading not only America but the world in general. That does not stop those of us who care from trying though - does it?
Errrrrr, yeah, so I guess all those pr0n shops that use Quicktime are all owned by Apple? Holy hell!! No wonder they have a few billion in the bank and are pretty much debt free;-)
So, yeah, let us not forget the driving force behind a lot of the internet expansion does use Quicktime _commerically_ as well as MS products.
Sheesh... I hope these guys never take a look at my site. Of course, that page will be changed if I ever get around to actually doing something _with_ the site:-p
...after Farscape and Firefly went off-air, there wasn't any decent Sci-Fi left to watch on SCIFI.
Why is it that everyone says there is no good sci-fi on SciFi and yet Stargate SG1 is still going strong? Yes, I admit, there has been some off episodes but that happens to almost every series that lasts for as long as SG1 has. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but then neither is Farscape. Don't get me wrong, please, I enjoyed Farscape when it was on but I've rarely found reasons to NOT watch SG1 though I was hoping they would drop their meta-physical kick they were leaning on and get back to sci-fi/exploration. And they did. Plus, with Atlantis about to start they could be making another hit show. We'll just have to wait and see how they play it.
Well, since ghosts are effectively immortal (barring power failure) then I would guess they might not play fair... There can be only one!
Talk about interesting. What would happen if one ghost developed a homicidal instinct and "killed" another ghost? AI-icide? What if it decided its feelings were hurt by a student and then, oh, DoS'ed their university internet connection? Hmmmmm.
although there is the whole "Catcher in the Rye" debate
Catcher in the Rye still makes the top 20 list of challenged books - constantly. Along with many other books that children of all ages read. For crying out loud, Harry Potter has been making the top 20 every year since they appeared on the shelves. No matter what you watch, play, read, or say there will always be someone who thinks that "goes too far" or is "over the line". The problem is, they are using the wrong line to measure with. _I_ determine what is over the line for myself and my children. Just as everyone else should.
IAMAL == I Am Married to A Lawyer? While on the one hand we are happy for you being married and all, on the other hand.. Damn! Did you have to marry a lawyer? Geeks are sometimes desperate but to go fishing with the sharks?;-)
You've seen stuff slip by McAfee? Really? Was it updated correctly? Yeah, I doubt it. I take care of several small companies (under 20 pcs per company) as their network consultant/troubleshooter/hardware dude/whatever and all of them, including the one employing me full-time, have never had a virus slip through McAfee EXCEPT for one dumbass employee who decided their computer wasn't running fast enough and started shutting down programs - including the firewall. Then they checked their e-mail. Yeah, after I charged them around $500 for stopping the virus and cleaning up their system and then telling them WHY they ha the virus, the employee's job was hanging in the balance. I also had an instance of a couple of computers not updating correctly and one of them got a virus but, all in all, I'd trust McAfee as much or more than Norton.
Decent firewall? I want one that _works_. Period. Plus, I want it hardware based and not tied into my OS. Or, conversely, I want a box dedicated to running just a firewall and passing the data on to my main pc. I do NOT want my firewall integrated into my OS and tying up resources needed to run the system - especially the memory hogging Windows. And, please, before you start ranting about memory being cheap - that is a relative state. To you it might be cheap, to me a single stick of DDR333 512Mb RAM could be more than I could afford without saving for two or three months. Not everyone is making $20+ an hour that has a computer and can afford to slap in new memory to increase its capacity. So, back to the firewall and AV, basically I say no to the firewall. Give me hardware that I can flash upgrade as needed and doesn't affect the speed of my computer system by hogging memory and just works. Lots of them on the market for less than the price of 512Mb of RAM and they tend to be much, much, MUCH harder to crack than Microsoft software. Plus, most script kiddies don't have the will to figure out which firewall you run, look for exploits, try them, try them again, etc. But, hey!, you're running Windows Firewall v1.x on WinXP with no service pack 4.x. w00t! This little program right here should let me through....
If their business was based on not turning anything over to the spooks, well, so much for that idea.
Well, that is easy to remedy - DON'T KEEP ANY LOGS. Fuck 'em. If I remember correctly there is no law that says an ISP/hosting company/etc. are supposed to keep logs. Give your customers the same option - clean wipes on the logfiles. Yes, of course, the data stored in customer databases is still fair game but at least you are giving them some privacy options.
That wacky mech game was based entirely on Battletech and, when initially developed and implemented, was completely driven by Amiga 500 computers. They used a network with other PCs to track score if I remember correctly but ALL the in-game graphics (explosions, hits, kills, motion, etc) was rendered by the Amiga 500 boards in the pod. It was 4-vs-4 play and you could hack the other team's comm-channel. How cool is that;-)
Wish we had more games with this style of play at the arcades.
Oh yeah, and I remember that big moment when Dirk the Daring and Princess Daphne hit the scene (in her extremely skimpy outfit no less;-). Dragon's Lair was the shit! I loved playing Tron, Dig Dug, Robotron 2084 (two stable joysticks dammit!), and many others like Satan's Hollow, Gyrus, and Time Pilot. And, yes, the old arcade games would go over today for both price and simplicity to learn. Hmmm, I think I still remember all the patterns for Dragon's Lair:)
Well, call me old school for bringing this up, but the more I read about how the graphics chips/cards as well as (I'm betting) sound and anything else you can plug into the PCI interface becomes more "integrated" with the motherboard to allow faster communication, better memory allotment, etc. it all reminds me of the design of the Amiga. Yes, the Amiga. The Amiga could do the most amazing things with graphics and sound and memory that PCs did not catch up with for many years all due to the design of the Amiga and NOW I see PCs converging towards the Amiga ideal (tighter integration of motherboard/processor/RAM/video/sound) with the added bonus of plug-and-play or hot-swap capability. Am I missing something in what I have read? Or is the PC world evolving into what the Amiga could have been if Commodore hadn't fscked it up?
Sir Mix-A-Lot's song Beepers has Skytel SkyPager's number in it: 1-800-759-7243. They bleep it out in the video, radio, and some later versions but it is there. And yes, I also know this isn't a portable cell phone number but it is famous.;-)
Ummm, exactly how much friggin McDonald's cooking oil waste do you think it would take to run a farm? I guarantee we have _way_ more than enough to power most of the farms in the US on bio-diesel or a bio-diesel/diesel mix. Then, let's add in the Wendys, Krystals, Burger Kings, Jack-in-the-Boxes, etc., etc. and how much refuse biomass do we have? Hundred thousand or so gallons? On a weekly basis? Yeah, we don't have enough biomass to run the farms we could also run a lot of givernmental vehicles, department of transportation road crews, demolition crews, mining trucks, etc. I know of several colleges/universities using bio-diesel to power their truck fleets and heavy equipment - like NCSU.
Yes, they are just using a 20/80 mix now but that can be increased to a higher ratio.
So, basically, I call bullshit on not having enough biomass to run the farm equipment. Actually converting farms over is another story.
As an parent of two children - if you don't like it - pull the plug.
Amen!!! I cannot for the life of me (and everyone else involved) understand why the majority of people who freak out over porn on the net (or a breast on tv, or someone saying shit, et. al.) can't figure out this basic concept:
If you don't like the concept, the program, the language, the whatever - then TURN THE DAMN THING OFF! Unplug it. Don't watch it, or go to that site, or search for those things, or listen to that music, etc. Watch where your children go on the 'net and teach them YOUR VALUES so that they will act as you want them. BUT DO NOT force your values on me, or him, or her, or those folks over there, or you get the gist. If you want control, fine... take control over your children, yourself, and your actions. Leave me to mine since _I_ am the final arbiter of what is and is not right for me.
As for regulating the network - that is utter BS. If the internet didn't have porn on it there would be no world wide web (well, not to the vast extent it has grown to). Period. Yes, it is in some ways sad to say that but the truth is the truth. Adult entertainment is the primary driving force behind the WWW. From the adult entertainment industry a LOT of innovations for how to do business and drive revenue has sprung onto the scene. Banner exchange, link exchange, and many others. Yes, some of the things that came out of adult entertainment innovation suck ass (no pun intended:) but for the most part they have had a positive, reinforcing, and driving (as in expanding) effect on the WWW.
Basically, each person has the choice of how to use the internet and for what. No other person or entity is in any way qualified to make that decision FOR ME. I don't care who or what they are.
Slashdot Mirror
Errrr, you've been reading your feedback on eBay again haven't you?
That's just Shannen Doherty you're thinking about. With the end result being the same - feeling dirty ;-)
I think that is the middle finger extended while all other fingers are retracted. Usually used by large corporations towards small consumers when said consumers find out the product they have purchased is shit and have complained to said large corporation... but I guess it'll work just as well in this case. ;-)
Sorry to burst your wife's bubble but Lucas has, on a few occassions, hinted that there would be a 7, 8, and 9. He must complete the evil trilogy with a trilogy to complete his slide to the dark side of the farce.. I mean force, yeah, that's the ticket.. ;-)
for a 10^100 money-grubbing bitch:
;-)
FUCK YOU.
This shuold be Google's answer for this suit as well as the judge's who might see the case. I personally would feel a great swell of pride if they would publish it on their front page
And, hopefully, all the hardware manufacturers will realize what they (and we) already understand now - that no one will be buying this overblown hardware system for home/personal use (well, ok, no normal mom-and-pop home user will) _especially_ since Microsoft will be including the "we control all that you see and hear" modules in Longhorn. Why, oh dear God why!?, would I pay $2,000 - $3,000 for a computer system I no longer control? Yeah, I wouldn't and neither will the general public. Both in my professional and personal life, all the people and businesses I quote out and build systems for don't want to pay even $1000 for a desktop system now - unless they are a gamer, cad/cam, graphics designer, or something along those lines.
My greatest hope is that all the top hardware manufacturers see dwindling sales (and dollars) in the future if they adopt Microsoft's specs for Longhorn PCs and collectively tell Microsoft "Fuck you!" That would make my millenium.
[quote]I've never ever heard anyone talk about fair use outside of Slashdot, period. For most people it just isn't a big deal.[/quote]
/. is about WHAT fair use is, HOW it affects your listening & viewing habits, and WHY _everyone_ should care about it.
Well, there is a simple reason you have not heard more people talk about fair use outside of Slashdot - they don't know what it really is or they don't care (the proverbial "not a big deal"). For both of those reasons the cause is simple: they are the uneducated, unwashed masses who are not as well-informed as the crowd on
It is, ultimately, up to those who better understand the issues to present to the people we know and meet a well-balanced, non-zealot, informative, reasoned explanation to those questions: What? How? Why? Explain to them that cd mixes are illegal due to the DMCA and show them the relevant part of the "law". Explain to them that fair use grants them the ablity to share a program with family and friends but the DMCA could prevent even that and make it illegal and give them reasons why they should care. Explain some of the onerous parts of the PATRIOT act (what a fucked up piece of shite that name is) and the fact it bypasses what our forefathers thought was very important to uphold - checks and balances within the government TO PREVENT ABUSES OF POWER AGAINST "THE PEOPLE". You know, you and I and my mother, his mother, and her father, and everyone else we know and love.
So, before I get on the zealotry ride or bring up Naziism, it is a very simple thing to do: be informed and inform others. Knowledge is a weapon for the masses. A better informed public is a well-armed public and can fight (and hopefully stop) laws like these. They will be able to see through the bullshit Microsoft and other manufacturers are trying to force on them.
I know, this is a pipedream in some respects due to all the apathy pervading not only America but the world in general. That does not stop those of us who care from trying though - does it?
Errrrrr, yeah, so I guess all those pr0n shops that use Quicktime are all owned by Apple? Holy hell!! No wonder they have a few billion in the bank and are pretty much debt free ;-)
So, yeah, let us not forget the driving force behind a lot of the internet expansion does use Quicktime _commerically_ as well as MS products.
Sheesh... I hope these guys never take a look at my site. Of course, that page will be changed if I ever get around to actually doing something _with_ the site :-p
Why is it that everyone says there is no good sci-fi on SciFi and yet Stargate SG1 is still going strong? Yes, I admit, there has been some off episodes but that happens to almost every series that lasts for as long as SG1 has. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but then neither is Farscape. Don't get me wrong, please, I enjoyed Farscape when it was on but I've rarely found reasons to NOT watch SG1 though I was hoping they would drop their meta-physical kick they were leaning on and get back to sci-fi/exploration. And they did. Plus, with Atlantis about to start they could be making another hit show. We'll just have to wait and see how they play it.
Talk about interesting. What would happen if one ghost developed a homicidal instinct and "killed" another ghost? AI-icide? What if it decided its feelings were hurt by a student and then, oh, DoS'ed their university internet connection? Hmmmmm.
*Yes, I mean a _female_ Danish.
Catcher in the Rye still makes the top 20 list of challenged books - constantly. Along with many other books that children of all ages read. For crying out loud, Harry Potter has been making the top 20 every year since they appeared on the shelves. No matter what you watch, play, read, or say there will always be someone who thinks that "goes too far" or is "over the line". The problem is, they are using the wrong line to measure with. _I_ determine what is over the line for myself and my children. Just as everyone else should.
IAMAL == I Am Married to A Lawyer? While on the one hand we are happy for you being married and all, on the other hand .. Damn! Did you have to marry a lawyer? Geeks are sometimes desperate but to go fishing with the sharks? ;-)
You've seen stuff slip by McAfee? Really? Was it updated correctly? Yeah, I doubt it. I take care of several small companies (under 20 pcs per company) as their network consultant/troubleshooter/hardware dude/whatever and all of them, including the one employing me full-time, have never had a virus slip through McAfee EXCEPT for one dumbass employee who decided their computer wasn't running fast enough and started shutting down programs - including the firewall. Then they checked their e-mail. Yeah, after I charged them around $500 for stopping the virus and cleaning up their system and then telling them WHY they ha the virus, the employee's job was hanging in the balance. I also had an instance of a couple of computers not updating correctly and one of them got a virus but, all in all, I'd trust McAfee as much or more than Norton.
Decent firewall? I want one that _works_. Period. Plus, I want it hardware based and not tied into my OS. Or, conversely, I want a box dedicated to running just a firewall and passing the data on to my main pc. I do NOT want my firewall integrated into my OS and tying up resources needed to run the system - especially the memory hogging Windows. And, please, before you start ranting about memory being cheap - that is a relative state. To you it might be cheap, to me a single stick of DDR333 512Mb RAM could be more than I could afford without saving for two or three months. Not everyone is making $20+ an hour that has a computer and can afford to slap in new memory to increase its capacity. So, back to the firewall and AV, basically I say no to the firewall. Give me hardware that I can flash upgrade as needed and doesn't affect the speed of my computer system by hogging memory and just works. Lots of them on the market for less than the price of 512Mb of RAM and they tend to be much, much, MUCH harder to crack than Microsoft software. Plus, most script kiddies don't have the will to figure out which firewall you run, look for exploits, try them, try them again, etc. But, hey!, you're running Windows Firewall v1.x on WinXP with no service pack 4.x. w00t! This little program right here should let me through....
Well, that is easy to remedy - DON'T KEEP ANY LOGS. Fuck 'em. If I remember correctly there is no law that says an ISP/hosting company/etc. are supposed to keep logs. Give your customers the same option - clean wipes on the logfiles. Yes, of course, the data stored in customer databases is still fair game but at least you are giving them some privacy options.
That wacky mech game was based entirely on Battletech and, when initially developed and implemented, was completely driven by Amiga 500 computers. They used a network with other PCs to track score if I remember correctly but ALL the in-game graphics (explosions, hits, kills, motion, etc) was rendered by the Amiga 500 boards in the pod. It was 4-vs-4 play and you could hack the other team's comm-channel. How cool is that ;-)
Wish we had more games with this style of play at the arcades.
Oh yeah, and I remember that big moment when Dirk the Daring and Princess Daphne hit the scene (in her extremely skimpy outfit no less ;-). Dragon's Lair was the shit! I loved playing Tron, Dig Dug, Robotron 2084 (two stable joysticks dammit!), and many others like Satan's Hollow, Gyrus, and Time Pilot. And, yes, the old arcade games would go over today for both price and simplicity to learn. Hmmm, I think I still remember all the patterns for Dragon's Lair :)
Well, summer is easy - Barbecue!!!! Large one at that. Quick too ;-)
Well, call me old school for bringing this up, but the more I read about how the graphics chips/cards as well as (I'm betting) sound and anything else you can plug into the PCI interface becomes more "integrated" with the motherboard to allow faster communication, better memory allotment, etc. it all reminds me of the design of the Amiga. Yes, the Amiga. The Amiga could do the most amazing things with graphics and sound and memory that PCs did not catch up with for many years all due to the design of the Amiga and NOW I see PCs converging towards the Amiga ideal (tighter integration of motherboard/processor/RAM/video/sound) with the added bonus of plug-and-play or hot-swap capability. Am I missing something in what I have read? Or is the PC world evolving into what the Amiga could have been if Commodore hadn't fscked it up?
Sir Mix-A-Lot's song Beepers has Skytel SkyPager's number in it: 1-800-759-7243. They bleep it out in the video, radio, and some later versions but it is there. And yes, I also know this isn't a portable cell phone number but it is famous. ;-)
So, basically, I call bullshit on not having enough biomass to run the farm equipment. Actually converting farms over is another story.
Show us the money shot!
NOT!! For the love of all that is holy (or unholy - take your pick) please do not show us the money shot... I was kidding. Seriously.
Amen!!! I cannot for the life of me (and everyone else involved) understand why the majority of people who freak out over porn on the net (or a breast on tv, or someone saying shit, et. al.) can't figure out this basic concept:
If you don't like the concept, the program, the language, the whatever - then TURN THE DAMN THING OFF! Unplug it. Don't watch it, or go to that site, or search for those things, or listen to that music, etc. Watch where your children go on the 'net and teach them YOUR VALUES so that they will act as you want them. BUT DO NOT force your values on me, or him, or her, or those folks over there, or you get the gist. If you want control, fine... take control over your children, yourself, and your actions. Leave me to mine since _I_ am the final arbiter of what is and is not right for me.
As for regulating the network - that is utter BS. If the internet didn't have porn on it there would be no world wide web (well, not to the vast extent it has grown to). Period. Yes, it is in some ways sad to say that but the truth is the truth. Adult entertainment is the primary driving force behind the WWW. From the adult entertainment industry a LOT of innovations for how to do business and drive revenue has sprung onto the scene. Banner exchange, link exchange, and many others. Yes, some of the things that came out of adult entertainment innovation suck ass (no pun intended :) but for the most part they have had a positive, reinforcing, and driving (as in expanding) effect on the WWW.
Basically, each person has the choice of how to use the internet and for what. No other person or entity is in any way qualified to make that decision FOR ME. I don't care who or what they are.