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Forget suing the companies who make "violent" video games, what I really want to know is who is going to sue the jocks at Columbine? They are just as responsible for the shooting as anyone else in the situation. If the jocks didn't tease, harass, and beat-up the shooters on a daily basis then the they never would have snapped. If you ask me, the jocks are more of a catalyst than the "violent" video games (in this situation). I'm sure there are people here who remember being beaten up in High School, that is way more violent and emotionally damaging than any video game on the market today.
Oh wait, I forgot the jocks are the victims in this situation. Poor defenseless jocks.
Does anyone remember about a week after the shooting when they planted trees for all of the kids that died. Notice how the jocks and preps ripped out the trees planted in memory the shooters. Talk about making me sick. The same self-righteous people who caused the shooters to snap in the first place couldn't even stop picking on them after they were dead.
Thank God high school only lasts four years!
Life as an adult holds the revenge!!!
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I wonder if Sean realizes that he will get his true revenge when he becomes an adult. I (like most other geeks here) had a childhood similar to Sean. I finally realized that all of the teasing and crap that I put up with was worth it when I found out that these same bullies in high school (that were worshiped by teachers and idolized by most other students) turned out to be total losers as adults. One was in jail for rape, the other two never finished college (thrown out or flunked out) and were working for minimum wage. I on the other hand recently finished my masters and now make more money in a month than those losers make all year. I almost went to my ten year reunion just to tell off a few "guidance counselors"; you know the ones who told you that you would never amount to anything because "you spend too much time on the computer".
High school in the USA is a pathetic joke. I hated it when I was a kid and couldn't wait to get out. The best advice I can give is just ignore the morons, get the hell out of Texas, and put everything you have into finishing college. When you're an adult you WILL have the last laugh!
I had to pick up a friend of mine from work in Irving, TX one night and forgot my cell phone. When I couldn't find him waiting where he said he would be I looked for a payphone and could not find one. Apparently the city of Irving sees payphones as being magnets for drug users and got rid of all of them. I can't tell you what a headache it was not having access to a payphone. What should have taken ten minutes turned into a two hour ordeal. I wound up having to drive into the next town over and find a payphone in the bad (i.e. strip-club-section) part of town. Looking back, other than being really annoyed I was fine, but if it was my mother in the same situation then I would be pissed because she would have been in danger.
In summary I think payphones need to be around and cities who rip them out because of potential "drug-abuse" need to be penalized in some way.
As a side note: my friend later told me that Irving's official stance on payphones is that they're dangerous and unnecessary because anyone who belongs in Irving can afford a cell phone.
While the original poster points out a valid observation I have to say that the following sentence really bothers me:
"Perhaps this 'recession'... is what we need to popularize free software."
I have to say that this is without a doubt one of the most self-serving/pompous statements I have ever heard. It is equivalent to saying "Perhaps more people dying in car accidents is what we need to popularize seatbelts". If we want free software and open source to obtain the level of wide-spread respect that it deserves then we should be more careful about how we word things that the public will read.
I think the following statement contains the same message and gets the point across in a more palatable way:
Perhaps a positive side effect of the current 'recession' will be the popularization of free software and the realization of the true value in open source.
At least it does not sound like we are wishing a recession on the entire country just so we can prove our point.
This is a horrible idea! I can't imagine having to move my head around this much. As a test run of how annoying this "innovation" would be try doing this: While you are using your computer don't move your eyes to look at different parts of the screen, move your entire head instead. This is exactly how you would use this device. After about two minutes of trying to do this you'll feel completely nauseous!
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On the brighter side this might be proof that the US economy is getting better: there are people starting to throw VC at just about anything again.
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From the article:
Aimster encrypts everything that is moved around its network, including all files and directories. It is impossible for anyone outside the system to monitor the network without circumventing the security. Breaking the encryption is illegal under the DMCA because the network and its programming code are copyrighted.
This leaves copyright owners such as the music and movie industries unable to access the network to monitor the traffic without first breaking the very law they helped get pushed through Congress in 1998.
So basically they are saying that anyone "monitoring" the network from the "outside" is breaking the law. I assume by "outside the system" they mean searching the contents of someone's share without being invited by the person who owns the share. Big deal, all the RIAA has to do now is have law enforcement pose as a regular user and find people who invite them in and then search their share and *bam* they have the proof they need without breaking Aimster's encryption or the law.
Think about it, the police operate like this all the time when busting people for selling drugs and prostitution. It's called going undercover.
Don't get me wrong. I think it's great that Aimster was able to use the DMCA like this, I just don't see it holding up in court.
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Forget suing the companies who make "violent" video games, what I really want to know is who is going to sue the jocks at Columbine? They are just as responsible for the shooting as anyone else in the situation. If the jocks didn't tease, harass, and beat-up the shooters on a daily basis then the they never would have snapped. If you ask me, the jocks are more of a catalyst than the "violent" video games (in this situation). I'm sure there are people here who remember being beaten up in High School, that is way more violent and emotionally damaging than any video game on the market today.
Oh wait, I forgot the jocks are the victims in this situation. Poor defenseless jocks.
Does anyone remember about a week after the shooting when they planted trees for all of the kids that died. Notice how the jocks and preps ripped out the trees planted in memory the shooters. Talk about making me sick. The same self-righteous people who caused the shooters to snap in the first place couldn't even stop picking on them after they were dead.
Thank God high school only lasts four years!
I wonder if Sean realizes that he will get his true revenge when he becomes an adult. I (like most other geeks here) had a childhood similar to Sean. I finally realized that all of the teasing and crap that I put up with was worth it when I found out that these same bullies in high school (that were worshiped by teachers and idolized by most other students) turned out to be total losers as adults. One was in jail for rape, the other two never finished college (thrown out or flunked out) and were working for minimum wage. I on the other hand recently finished my masters and now make more money in a month than those losers make all year. I almost went to my ten year reunion just to tell off a few "guidance counselors"; you know the ones who told you that you would never amount to anything because "you spend too much time on the computer".
High school in the USA is a pathetic joke. I hated it when I was a kid and couldn't wait to get out. The best advice I can give is just ignore the morons, get the hell out of Texas, and put everything you have into finishing college. When you're an adult you WILL have the last laugh!
I had to pick up a friend of mine from work in Irving, TX one night and forgot my cell phone. When I couldn't find him waiting where he said he would be I looked for a payphone and could not find one. Apparently the city of Irving sees payphones as being magnets for drug users and got rid of all of them. I can't tell you what a headache it was not having access to a payphone. What should have taken ten minutes turned into a two hour ordeal. I wound up having to drive into the next town over and find a payphone in the bad (i.e. strip-club-section) part of town. Looking back, other than being really annoyed I was fine, but if it was my mother in the same situation then I would be pissed because she would have been in danger.
In summary I think payphones need to be around and cities who rip them out because of potential "drug-abuse" need to be penalized in some way.
As a side note: my friend later told me that Irving's official stance on payphones is that they're dangerous and unnecessary because anyone who belongs in Irving can afford a cell phone.
While the original poster points out a valid observation I have to say that the following sentence really bothers me:
... is what we need to popularize free software."
"Perhaps this 'recession'
I have to say that this is without a doubt one of the most self-serving/pompous statements I have ever heard. It is equivalent to saying "Perhaps more people dying in car accidents is what we need to popularize seatbelts". If we want free software and open source to obtain the level of wide-spread respect that it deserves then we should be more careful about how we word things that the public will read.
I think the following statement contains the same message and gets the point across in a more palatable way:
Perhaps a positive side effect of the current 'recession' will be the popularization of free software and the realization of the true value in open source.
At least it does not sound like we are wishing a recession on the entire country just so we can prove our point.
This is a horrible idea! I can't imagine having to move my head around this much. As a test run of how annoying this "innovation" would be try doing this: While you are using your computer don't move your eyes to look at different parts of the screen, move your entire head instead. This is exactly how you would use this device. After about two minutes of trying to do this you'll feel completely nauseous!
<HUMOR quality="bad">
On the brighter side this might be proof that the US economy is getting better: there are people starting to throw VC at just about anything again.
</HUMOR>
From the article:
Aimster encrypts everything that is moved around its network, including all files and directories. It is impossible for anyone outside the system to monitor the network without circumventing the security. Breaking the encryption is illegal under the DMCA because the network and its programming code are copyrighted.
This leaves copyright owners such as the music and movie industries unable to access the network to monitor the traffic without first breaking the very law they helped get pushed through Congress in 1998.
So basically they are saying that anyone "monitoring" the network from the "outside" is breaking the law. I assume by "outside the system" they mean searching the contents of someone's share without being invited by the person who owns the share. Big deal, all the RIAA has to do now is have law enforcement pose as a regular user and find people who invite them in and then search their share and *bam* they have the proof they need without breaking Aimster's encryption or the law.
Think about it, the police operate like this all the time when busting people for selling drugs and prostitution. It's called going undercover.
Don't get me wrong. I think it's great that Aimster was able to use the DMCA like this, I just don't see it holding up in court.