He called on Carmack to prohibit the sale and distribution of all video games rated for mature audiences to children under 17 - and to do it by April 30.
Perhaps parents should watch what junior does with the allowance $ they give him because they're too busy doing one or more of the following:
Status climbing
Corporate ladder climbing
Comparing their Mercedes with the Jones' BMW
Complaining about how "difficult" it is to parent today
Just because you dropped the cash (that you earned while working ridiculous hours and ignoring your children) on a nice house near a nice school district does not mean that you are entitled to a high school/babysitting service/parenting device! Raise your f*cking children! Perhaps, PERHAPS, the problem is not violent video games, but that these parents^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbreeders live in a community where many adults care about every thing/house/car/possession except for their own children.
I saw the "Peace, Love, Linux" logo sprayed in black on the sidewalk near Times Square last night (44th & 8 Av. I think), and I thought WTF? Is this the work of some local Linux group? Surely IBM didn't do this...but they have been doing things differently as of late. Personally, I would like to see a huge Tux attached to the Empire State Building, but perhaps that is wishful thinking?
Here is a simple Bill of Rights for boxes and their users.
What a user does with his/her computer is the user's business, unless 2...
Under 1, the user does something to another user's computer that that user doesn't consent to/like.
You get the picture. Now, I understand that the MPAA is concerned about its "IP." Actually, when I go to the movies, I pay for the privelege just like every good little American should. But when it comes to the movie industry's digital adventures, I really don't give a shit. What I do with my box is my business, what you do with yours is yours.
Perhaps if the Movie Studios^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCartels didn't want people to share "perfect digital copies" of movies, they shouldn't have made such copies of movies (i.e. DVDs) in the first place. No one twisted their arms and told them to digitize their "intellectual property." In search of a perfect distribution format, they got EXACTLY what they wished for...
Read this story on CNN that helps to clarify which party is at fault. Although this is the Pentagon's analysis, it seems much more credible than China's "US plane made a sudden course change" story.
On the road, if you rear-end someone, you are at fault!
...Umm, yeah, judge... I was speeding and following too closely, but, umm..., he made a sudden motion, and... See, what had happened was...
We have seen the light. We have been producing buggy, unoriginal software ever since we bought DOS for $50K. These practices, as of this moment, will cease. We are now an open source company. At the end of this year we will release Windows 2001 in three "innovative" versions:
Free.NET
Open.NET
Net.NET
We understand that we have had run-ins with you, the Open Source Community, for a number of years now--but hey, at least we are Scientologists! To make of for all the trouble and restarts we've caused you, we invite you to use and enjoy the three flavors (described above) of the new Windows platform. We ask you to remember two things as you do this:
I think Baldur's Gate II is one of the greatest RPGs ever made for the computer (if not the greatest). It surely is an instant "classic." To bad that, pursuant to Hasbro's purchase of WoTC, Black Isle (developer of BG, BG2, Icewind, NN) no longer has the license to develop DandD games.
Hasbro, with its ineptitude, will probably kill the genre... I guess I'll have to play the Black Isle/Bioware series' forever...
When marketing gets involved, everything else goes out the window...
"No ISP should be displaying obviously morally-wrong material."
Perhaps it's not the material that is wrong but the actions (i.e. photographing naked children) that led up to the production of the material.
If you think that viewing material==pictures, text, etc. is wrong, then you're implying that certain types of thoughts are wrong. I don't think I need to go into the matter of how dangerous this idea is...
I am sick and tired of this bullsh*t!
Note to lawyers: Napster is nothing but a database of URLs and a nice GUI front end!
Send in the lawyers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hclowns...
I would suggest a boycott, but soon there will be a Digital Media Profit Guarantee Act...
</rant>
Facts about Linux:
1. The majority of kiddie-pr0ners use Linux.
2. The majority of terrorists use Linux.
3. Like Napster, Linux can be used to "steal IP"
</FUD>
Miller also said there is already definite evidence of Microsoft's predicted slowdown in the Linux marketplace, with Corel getting out of Linux, (and) VA Linux not meeting the expectations. For a so-called exploding market, this should not happen. Sales of actual products are relatively flat.
Of course, this evidence has nothing to do with Microsoft's recent stock acquisitions...
I guess when Linux "goes down" all my Debian CDs will be vaporized...:)
Recently I was working on a Java project involving XML and servlets. My programs weren't communicating with each other in the way that I had hoped (I learned Java about a month ago). What did I do? Looked at the source for the Java classes. What a wonderful thing it is, having the source... you can easily discern what kinds of problems you have in your code, and solve them (I failed to cast an object appropriately in a method call). If I didn't have the source, I could have spent a few days wondering what the hell went wrong, as opposed to a few minutes.
This brings me to the issue of BIND and the security problems with Linux. Funning thing is, I'm sure any number of people in the commmunity have the technical ability to solve the problem, and will, because they have the source. How many programmers that don't work for Microsoft will be fixing IIS security holes? Zero.
Better yet, who wants to depend on Microsoft to fix these holes? Which Service Pack will they be in?
Actually the Supreme Court didn't overturn the verdict so much as they told the Florida Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling. The Court didn't seem to buy the Bush team's conviction that the case even belonged in Federal court. Why isn't this a win for Bush? The USSC has given authority on the matter to the Flordia Courts, which have been anything but for Bush. Read the relevant details on CNN's web site
--/. never has inflamatory, inaccurate headlines! wait a second...
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps parents should watch what junior does with the allowance $ they give him because they're too busy doing one or more of the following:
Just because you dropped the cash (that you earned while working ridiculous hours and ignoring your children) on a nice house near a nice school district does not mean that you are entitled to a high school/babysitting service/parenting device! Raise your f*cking children! Perhaps, PERHAPS, the problem is not violent video games, but that these parents^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbreeders live in a community where many adults care about every thing/house/car/possession except for their own children.
end rant.
...perhaps they should sue the Internet too!
Send in lawyers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hclowns
I saw the "Peace, Love, Linux" logo sprayed in black on the sidewalk near Times Square last night (44th & 8 Av. I think), and I thought WTF? Is this the work of some local Linux group? Surely IBM didn't do this...but they have been doing things differently as of late. Personally, I would like to see a huge Tux attached to the Empire State Building, but perhaps that is wishful thinking?
- What a user does with his/her computer is the user's business, unless 2...
- Under 1, the user does something to another user's computer that that user doesn't consent to/like.
You get the picture. Now, I understand that the MPAA is concerned about its "IP." Actually, when I go to the movies, I pay for the privelege just like every good little American should. But when it comes to the movie industry's digital adventures, I really don't give a shit. What I do with my box is my business, what you do with yours is yours.Perhaps if the Movie Studios^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCartels didn't want people to share "perfect digital copies" of movies, they shouldn't have made such copies of movies (i.e. DVDs) in the first place. No one twisted their arms and told them to digitize their "intellectual property." In search of a perfect distribution format, they got EXACTLY what they wished for...
This might increase demand some sort of hardware-based MP3 ripping/playing device...
Read this story on CNN that helps to clarify which party is at fault. Although this is the Pentagon's analysis, it seems much more credible than China's "US plane made a sudden course change" story.
On the road, if you rear-end someone, you are at fault!
...Umm, yeah, judge... I was speeding and following too closely, but, umm..., he made a sudden motion, and... See, what had happened was...
So can /. be sued when a site gets /.ed?
We have seen the light. We have been producing buggy, unoriginal software ever since we bought DOS for $50K. These practices, as of this moment, will cease. We are now an open source company. At the end of this year we will release Windows 2001 in three "innovative" versions:
We understand that we have had run-ins with you, the Open Source Community, for a number of years now--but hey, at least we are Scientologists! To make of for all the trouble and restarts we've caused you, we invite you to use and enjoy the three flavors (described above) of the new Windows platform. We ask you to remember two things as you do this:
Sincerely,
$1US Gates
All your hard disk are belong to us.
I think Baldur's Gate II is one of the greatest RPGs ever made for the computer (if not the greatest). It surely is an instant "classic." To bad that, pursuant to Hasbro's purchase of WoTC, Black Isle (developer of BG, BG2, Icewind, NN) no longer has the license to develop DandD games.
Hasbro, with its ineptitude, will probably kill the genre... I guess I'll have to play the Black Isle/Bioware series' forever...
When marketing gets involved, everything else goes out the window...
Yes, but scientologists have incredible mental fortitude. They all managed to sit through and enjoy Battlefield Earth.
happiness
Soon everything you buy will have an EULA attached to it. See, even my pillow has one...
"No ISP should be displaying obviously morally-wrong material."
Perhaps it's not the material that is wrong but the actions (i.e. photographing naked children) that led up to the production of the material.
If you think that viewing material==pictures, text, etc. is wrong, then you're implying that certain types of thoughts are wrong. I don't think I need to go into the matter of how dangerous this idea is...
Andrew Leonard has this to say about Allchin's surreal comments...
I am sick and tired of this bullsh*t!
Note to lawyers: Napster is nothing but a database of URLs and a nice GUI front end!
Send in the lawyers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hclowns...
I would suggest a boycott, but soon there will be a Digital Media Profit Guarantee Act...
</rant>
Facts about Linux:
1. The majority of kiddie-pr0ners use Linux.
2. The majority of terrorists use Linux.
3. Like Napster, Linux can be used to "steal IP"
</FUD>
Just wait...
Linux. Both the user/haXor and the kernel win!
--rot13 twice for clarityMiller also said there is already definite evidence of Microsoft's predicted slowdown in the Linux marketplace, with Corel getting out of Linux, (and) VA Linux not meeting the expectations. For a so-called exploding market, this should not happen. Sales of actual products are relatively flat.
Of course, this evidence has nothing to do with Microsoft's recent stock acquisitions...
I guess when Linux "goes down" all my Debian CDs will be vaporized... :)
Recently I was working on a Java project involving XML and servlets. My programs weren't communicating with each other in the way that I had hoped (I learned Java about a month ago). What did I do? Looked at the source for the Java classes. What a wonderful thing it is, having the source... you can easily discern what kinds of problems you have in your code, and solve them (I failed to cast an object appropriately in a method call). If I didn't have the source, I could have spent a few days wondering what the hell went wrong, as opposed to a few minutes.
This brings me to the issue of BIND and the security problems with Linux. Funning thing is, I'm sure any number of people in the commmunity have the technical ability to solve the problem, and will, because they have the source. How many programmers that don't work for Microsoft will be fixing IIS security holes? Zero.
Better yet, who wants to depend on Microsoft to fix these holes? Which Service Pack will they be in?
AOL+TimeWarner to world:
.sig=me
Get ready, bend over...
If you see, hear, or read anything, we make money!
License:
.sig=me
This sentence cannot be read, only obeyed.
Actually the Supreme Court didn't overturn the verdict so much as they told the Florida Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling. The Court didn't seem to buy the Bush team's conviction that the case even belonged in Federal court. Why isn't this a win for Bush? The USSC has given authority on the matter to the Flordia Courts, which have been anything but for Bush. Read the relevant details on CNN's web site
/. never has inflamatory, inaccurate headlines! wait a second...
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