ID's are, in a sense, already mandatory. Think about this. How do you open up a bank account? How do you get a job? How do you prove your age? I could ask hundreds of questions... but the answer is always the same:
A Government Issued ID Card
State Driver's License
State Identification Card
Military ID
Military Dependant ID
Passport
I'm sure there are other official forms of ID, but these are the 'mainstream' ones.
At least one of these is necessary 99% of the time as proof of identity or age. You don't need one, but how much can you really do without one?
One think I have learned about any technical conversation is that they kill spell checkers. I set my outlook (I don't choose my software) at work to automatically check for spelling errors before I send it out and initially I found myself adding TONS of new words for spellcheck to ignore. It's been a year, and it's still trying to correct various technical terms, acronyms, abbreviations & such. On slashdot I think it would mostly be a pain in the neck trying to post, unless you could choose to use it or whatever.
I can read past misspellings anyways, 99% of the time. I am not like the grammer trolls who feel it is their duty to give everyone a language lesson, I just say give it a break... no one is perfect and not everyone has a degree in literature.
I agree with the overrated. Also the "Redundant" moderation needs to go. I have only seen this used correctly a few times. Most of the time I will see an informative post that's near the top modded as Reduntant... yet near the bottom, a similar post will be modded as Informative. I think whoever is moderating needs to learn to look at which they have on: Oldest First or Newest First.
Could someone make a sort of quick & dirty java ASCII knockoff of this trailer? I'm at work right now and I don't have the administrative privelages to install the software to view this, so I have to wait until I get home, but that is in 6 hours and I don't know if I can wait that long!!!
I don't know how it is in Japan, but in Korea there are people who will pay up to 10x what an electronic item is worth just to study the design and create knockoffs. Many US Army soldiers are bribed to buy electronics from the PX and sell them to the koreans who do this. I am wondering if this is something similar...
... a search engine that lists every non-banner ad, non pop up, non advertising, free porn site in existance... both of them.
To all the naysayers
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I have so far seen a lot of posts basically saying "Why would someone do this?" and "Nintendo is never going to come out with that". Phooey to you. This is someone's mod! Someone came out with Linux for the dreamcast, he modded an operating system to make it work with a console.... no purpose or function, just a modification. Everyone seemed to think that was cool. This guy really liked his NES, N64 and PSX enough to take them wherever he went to play with them wherever. I think that's cool, he even shows you how he did it in case you like to do it too. Why are people so pessimistic at such an early hour?
I leave my bad feedback. But I don't have the time, money or resources to pursue action like this. In the case of the router, this guy, because he had enough complaints against him had his account cut off. The guy with the monitors, apparently did something because his account was killed before I got a chance to leave my own 2 cents.
In the case of the guy selling me the tooltape, I eventually got a copy of the entire video on the internet for free, and I figure 5 negative feedbacks all in a row for one account is a good sign you have a deadbeat seller.
What goes around comes around, but when I take a gamble (what I consider every ebay transaction) and I lose, I will not waste my life for a small amount of money.
I shop ebay quite often, and though I've had a few bad experiences, I've managed to let them go...
1. From one seller, in 4 different auctions I bought 4 15" monitors for $25 a piece. Shortly after I sent him a money order for the combined total of the 4 auctions, this guy seemed to disappear off the face of the earth. His user account was cancelled, his email address bounced mail, and his phone number was disconnected. eBay didn't do anything for me at all.
2. I bought a Cisco 3000 router that claimed to have 16 MB of RAM and 8 MB of Flash (enough to run IOS 12.0). I receieved the product which had barely enough flash & ram to run IOS 9.0 (worthless nowadays). I contacted the seller, he promised to send me the replacement RAM & Flash, he sent me some bunk chips that didn't even fit in the device. After numerous other emails and phone calls with no answers, I finally gave up. ebay didn't do anything for me on this one either.
3. I won an auction for a bootleg TOOL video. I sent the guy the $14 total, and I never received a product. Apparently this guy screwed over 4 other people bidding on the same item from him, we all left negative feedback. This time the amount was not enough for ebay to care.
Each time I filled out one of ebay's fraud reports, and never EVER got a response. Since these losses weren't too important, they were all things I never really needed, just impulse buys that would have ended up sitting in a corner taking space, I don't really fret over it. Plus, if you believe that the grand scheme of things fits together in one huge orchestrated puzzle that meshes together... they'll get what's coming to them.
CALIFORNIA (AP) - Casio announced its release of their new campaign to advertise their digital watch technology.
"We will have pop-up ads on every major website, with supporting banner ad's built into applications supporting this" says Jack Jacobson, a spokesperson for Casio, Inc.
With the new advent of using pop-up internet advertisements on major websites, Casio has chosen not to miss out on what they consider a 'breakthrough oppurtunity'. The public should expect to see our new campaign hitting major websites the beggining of November.
As far as I understand, when you purchase a CD (or other form of music media) you are purchasing the 'right' to listen to that CD as well as reproduce the content of that CD for personal use. A perfect example of this would be converting my CD collection into mp3 format, to then transfer onto a single CD, to then play in my Car MP3 player. In this case, I own the CD's, but I am listening to the content of those CD's in a different format.
If that is considered fair-use, my question to you is: Why are CD's now coming out that are unconvertable to any other format? I was always under the consideration that when you bought a CD you bought the right to listen to the music in any format you choose. With the new so-called "anti-piracy" features added to CD's that are now being manufactured, I can no longer easily turn the CD tracks into mp3 format to play in my car stereo.
Now, I can understand your point. With P2P file sharing applications running rampant, and the "free" mp3's available left and right, you need a way to combat that issue. However, I personally spent a lot of money to buy a car stereo that has the capability of playing mp3s that were burned onto a CDR. I love this feature, I can listen to hours upon hours of music without having to change a disc. It makes long road trips a lot easier.
With this new technology, in order to utilize my own right to listen to the CD that I purchased legally from an authorized distributor, I am forced to seek illegal means to circumvent your technology. I personally do not know anything about reverse-engineering, but I do sometimes rely on members of the underground hacking community to release ways to do this for me.
Another problem I have with the CD copy protection technology:
In my opinion, CD's are horrible technology. Personally, I think digital will never be able to compete with the sound quality of Analog. Besides that, my major problem with CDs (also DVD's) is the fragile nature of the actual physical media. They have to be handled with extreme care, one slight mistake and the media is rendered useless. To combat this problem, every CD that I purchase, I make a copy of it. I put the original back in the case, and I listen to my copy. If the copy gets scratched, big deal, I'll make another one. Using this method, I never have to worry about having to purchase another copy of a CD that technically, I already own the rights to listen to.
Finishing up, am I abiding by copyright laws using CDs in the manner that I do? When I purchase a CD, am I purchasing the right to listen to the media contained within the CD in any format I choose? or am I purchasing the right to listen to the CD in the CD format only?
One last question: If I own a vinly copy of an album, but do not have a record player, and I download an mp3 from that album for my listening pleasure, am I correct in doing so?
I read through about half the posts, and I'm surprised I haven't seen this already....
Keep them on the phone!
First of all, I live with my parents, I do not control any of the bills. When a telemarketer calls trying to get me to switch to their phone service, I listen to them, I ask questions, I prod, I get as much information as I can. I've kept telemarketers on the phone for so long that they've hung up on ME. Now, before you assume that I have no life... I am usually doing this while working on some odd project on my computer... So i'm not actually wasting time, just doing 2 things at once. Next time you get a call from a telemarketer, keep them on the phone for as long as you possibly can... eventually they will hang up on YOU!
I noticed a post of yours a few weeks ago on one of the star trek: enterprise stories and was sorta surprised. I'd never thought I'd see a post by a celebrity on slashdot, or at least a celebrity that identified themself. I didn't think it was real, until I went to your webpage and saw that you were a fellow geek. I read quite a bit of your site and found a lot of it interesting. I'd have to say, you have great taste in music.
My question to you is:
How often have you gotten first post?
Are you the gloating first poster, or just the simple "first post, 'nuff said" kinda first poster?
So I can open up my own line of Microsoft Windows ? Not computer applications, however doublepaned weatherproof storm windows. They are cheap, easily installed and will shave pennies off the dollar on heating bills. Available at better hardware stores nation wide!
The guy mentions getting a 24 port 10/100 switch. Is this guy made out of money? I've been to god knows how many lan parties, and there are some pretty pathetic gaming rigs people have scraped up the little money they have to build a box with. How does he expect someone to just pull a damn switch out of their a$$? and DHCP? Why? If you use windows and tell it to automatically select an IP address (w/o a DHCP server present) it will automatically choose a random IP address out of the 169.254.0.0/16 range. a DHCP server is a lot of hassle for less than 20 people. This guy goes way too much into depth on holding lan parties. See, if this is how it is going to be in the future, I guess i'm going to be the old fart reminiscing on how "lan parties used to be simple, back when we just brought computers over to our friends house with an 8 port hub and played quake, no planning, no charging, no designated break areas, no sponsorships...".
We have lan parties typically every weekend. They consist of 10-20 people at any given time. It is extremely simple... some of us in our group work for the city and have access to one of their buildings (hookups are great). We hold our lan parties in a big room, have tables & chairs there for our use. We pitched in $5 each (one time fee) and bought a 24 port 10/100 hub. There are no designated break areas. People go on their own food runs if they're hungry, and we don't charge or have sponsors. Just a bunch of guys (and one girl) who get together and play counterstrike for hours up on hours upon hours.....Dick
When's the one gonna hit that's gonna kill us all? Or at least damage us? Does anyone else agree that in the aftermath of this WTC/Pentagon crap the whole _WORLD_ needs something that they have to pull together to work on? A common enemy (or whatever you choose to call it) that we as human beings have to pull together to fend against? I think that a sort of massive global threat would pull this world together and end all the political bullsh*t going on right now... for at least a little while
Ya. Little miniature planes that are remote controlled. They have them at the army base that I work at. We are very close to a border of a certain neighboring country with a certain drug trafficking problem, and the planes are used to monitor this particular border.
The targets specified in this article were obviously computer illiterate run of the mill folk living the average life. The kind of person that actually reads the help files that come with microsoft products. Also, the kind of person that can't read anything without a physical reference point, i.e. a mouse cursor. For people like myself... who don't hold on to the mouse unless the intention is on clicking what is being looked it... it wouldn't work. And I dont' shove my cursor off to the right, It's not that big, it does fine right where it's at.
A man walks into a bar, we'll call him Joe. (stop me if you've heard this one).
He has a seat at the bar. He orders a drink and start's shootin' the wind with the gentleman next to them. Jokes are exchanged and finally the guy says.. " i have the funniest joke for you"
Other man:
"oh yeah? Let's hear it"
Joe:
"Alright, but I wanna make sure that you aren't offended by Polish jokes"
a cross look appears on the other guy's face, his tone changes and he says to Joe:
"Lookie here mister, I'm polish and I'm proud of it. Also, you should know, the bartender? He's polish too. And the bouncer over there? He too is polish... So do you still wanna tell your joke??"
Joe thinks about it, then replies:
"Nah, on second though I better not, I wouldn't want to explain it three times"
As far as my logs showed, no, nothing was downloaded from the user 'Ineedcaffeine'. Which is sort of messed up, could conceivably be faught in court if I could afford the lawyers to fight the battle, but I didn't bother since I have no chance against them.
After suing mp3.com, it is their patriotic obligation to sue the CD manufacturers for producing the music in a format that was translatable into mp3 format. After that, they must sue themselves as artists, for producing the audio itself that was to be recorded, put in cd format to then be put in mp3 format.
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He died.
http://www.snopes2.com/spoons/noose/balloon.htm
ID's are, in a sense, already mandatory. Think about this. How do you open up a bank account? How do you get a job? How do you prove your age? I could ask hundreds of questions... but the answer is always the same:
A Government Issued ID Card
State Driver's License
State Identification Card
Military ID
Military Dependant ID
Passport
I'm sure there are other official forms of ID, but these are the 'mainstream' ones.
At least one of these is necessary 99% of the time as proof of identity or age. You don't need one, but how much can you really do without one?
this can be found on adcritic.com... I saw what he is talking about... it's hilarious
One think I have learned about any technical conversation is that they kill spell checkers. I set my outlook (I don't choose my software) at work to automatically check for spelling errors before I send it out and initially I found myself adding TONS of new words for spellcheck to ignore. It's been a year, and it's still trying to correct various technical terms, acronyms, abbreviations & such. On slashdot I think it would mostly be a pain in the neck trying to post, unless you could choose to use it or whatever.
I can read past misspellings anyways, 99% of the time. I am not like the grammer trolls who feel it is their duty to give everyone a language lesson, I just say give it a break... no one is perfect and not everyone has a degree in literature.
I agree with the overrated. Also the "Redundant" moderation needs to go. I have only seen this used correctly a few times. Most of the time I will see an informative post that's near the top modded as Reduntant... yet near the bottom, a similar post will be modded as Informative. I think whoever is moderating needs to learn to look at which they have on: Oldest First or Newest First.
Could someone make a sort of quick & dirty java ASCII knockoff of this trailer? I'm at work right now and I don't have the administrative privelages to install the software to view this, so I have to wait until I get home, but that is in 6 hours and I don't know if I can wait that long!!!
*desperately awaiting new star wars footage*
Oliver from Bloom County. He is the original cartoon hacker.
I don't know how it is in Japan, but in Korea there are people who will pay up to 10x what an electronic item is worth just to study the design and create knockoffs. Many US Army soldiers are bribed to buy electronics from the PX and sell them to the koreans who do this. I am wondering if this is something similar...
... a search engine that lists every non-banner ad, non pop up, non advertising, free porn site in existance... both of them.
I have so far seen a lot of posts basically saying "Why would someone do this?" and "Nintendo is never going to come out with that". Phooey to you. This is someone's mod! Someone came out with Linux for the dreamcast, he modded an operating system to make it work with a console.... no purpose or function, just a modification. Everyone seemed to think that was cool. This guy really liked his NES, N64 and PSX enough to take them wherever he went to play with them wherever. I think that's cool, he even shows you how he did it in case you like to do it too. Why are people so pessimistic at such an early hour?
I leave my bad feedback. But I don't have the time, money or resources to pursue action like this. In the case of the router, this guy, because he had enough complaints against him had his account cut off. The guy with the monitors, apparently did something because his account was killed before I got a chance to leave my own 2 cents.
In the case of the guy selling me the tooltape, I eventually got a copy of the entire video on the internet for free, and I figure 5 negative feedbacks all in a row for one account is a good sign you have a deadbeat seller.
What goes around comes around, but when I take a gamble (what I consider every ebay transaction) and I lose, I will not waste my life for a small amount of money.
I shop ebay quite often, and though I've had a few bad experiences, I've managed to let them go...
1. From one seller, in 4 different auctions I bought 4 15" monitors for $25 a piece. Shortly after I sent him a money order for the combined total of the 4 auctions, this guy seemed to disappear off the face of the earth. His user account was cancelled, his email address bounced mail, and his phone number was disconnected. eBay didn't do anything for me at all.
2. I bought a Cisco 3000 router that claimed to have 16 MB of RAM and 8 MB of Flash (enough to run IOS 12.0). I receieved the product which had barely enough flash & ram to run IOS 9.0 (worthless nowadays). I contacted the seller, he promised to send me the replacement RAM & Flash, he sent me some bunk chips that didn't even fit in the device. After numerous other emails and phone calls with no answers, I finally gave up. ebay didn't do anything for me on this one either.
3. I won an auction for a bootleg TOOL video. I sent the guy the $14 total, and I never received a product. Apparently this guy screwed over 4 other people bidding on the same item from him, we all left negative feedback. This time the amount was not enough for ebay to care.
Each time I filled out one of ebay's fraud reports, and never EVER got a response. Since these losses weren't too important, they were all things I never really needed, just impulse buys that would have ended up sitting in a corner taking space, I don't really fret over it. Plus, if you believe that the grand scheme of things fits together in one huge orchestrated puzzle that meshes together... they'll get what's coming to them.
CALIFORNIA (AP) - Casio announced its release of their new campaign to advertise their digital watch technology.
"We will have pop-up ads on every major website, with supporting banner ad's built into applications supporting this" says Jack Jacobson, a spokesperson for Casio, Inc.
With the new advent of using pop-up internet advertisements on major websites, Casio has chosen not to miss out on what they consider a 'breakthrough oppurtunity'. The public should expect to see our new campaign hitting major websites the beggining of November.
As far as I understand, when you purchase a CD (or other form of music media) you are purchasing the 'right' to listen to that CD as well as reproduce the content of that CD for personal use. A perfect example of this would be converting my CD collection into mp3 format, to then transfer onto a single CD, to then play in my Car MP3 player. In this case, I own the CD's, but I am listening to the content of those CD's in a different format.
If that is considered fair-use, my question to you is: Why are CD's now coming out that are unconvertable to any other format? I was always under the consideration that when you bought a CD you bought the right to listen to the music in any format you choose. With the new so-called "anti-piracy" features added to CD's that are now being manufactured, I can no longer easily turn the CD tracks into mp3 format to play in my car stereo.
Now, I can understand your point. With P2P file sharing applications running rampant, and the "free" mp3's available left and right, you need a way to combat that issue. However, I personally spent a lot of money to buy a car stereo that has the capability of playing mp3s that were burned onto a CDR. I love this feature, I can listen to hours upon hours of music without having to change a disc. It makes long road trips a lot easier.
With this new technology, in order to utilize my own right to listen to the CD that I purchased legally from an authorized distributor, I am forced to seek illegal means to circumvent your technology. I personally do not know anything about reverse-engineering, but I do sometimes rely on members of the underground hacking community to release ways to do this for me.
Another problem I have with the CD copy protection technology:
In my opinion, CD's are horrible technology. Personally, I think digital will never be able to compete with the sound quality of Analog. Besides that, my major problem with CDs (also DVD's) is the fragile nature of the actual physical media. They have to be handled with extreme care, one slight mistake and the media is rendered useless. To combat this problem, every CD that I purchase, I make a copy of it. I put the original back in the case, and I listen to my copy. If the copy gets scratched, big deal, I'll make another one. Using this method, I never have to worry about having to purchase another copy of a CD that technically, I already own the rights to listen to.
Finishing up, am I abiding by copyright laws using CDs in the manner that I do? When I purchase a CD, am I purchasing the right to listen to the media contained within the CD in any format I choose? or am I purchasing the right to listen to the CD in the CD format only?
One last question: If I own a vinly copy of an album, but do not have a record player, and I download an mp3 from that album for my listening pleasure, am I correct in doing so?
I read through about half the posts, and I'm surprised I haven't seen this already....
Keep them on the phone!
First of all, I live with my parents, I do not control any of the bills. When a telemarketer calls trying to get me to switch to their phone service, I listen to them, I ask questions, I prod, I get as much information as I can. I've kept telemarketers on the phone for so long that they've hung up on ME. Now, before you assume that I have no life... I am usually doing this while working on some odd project on my computer... So i'm not actually wasting time, just doing 2 things at once. Next time you get a call from a telemarketer, keep them on the phone for as long as you possibly can... eventually they will hang up on YOU!
I noticed a post of yours a few weeks ago on one of the star trek: enterprise stories and was sorta surprised. I'd never thought I'd see a post by a celebrity on slashdot, or at least a celebrity that identified themself. I didn't think it was real, until I went to your webpage and saw that you were a fellow geek. I read quite a bit of your site and found a lot of it interesting. I'd have to say, you have great taste in music.
My question to you is:
How often have you gotten first post?
Are you the gloating first poster, or just the simple "first post, 'nuff said" kinda first poster?
So I can open up my own line of Microsoft Windows ? Not computer applications, however doublepaned weatherproof storm windows. They are cheap, easily installed and will shave pennies off the dollar on heating bills. Available at better hardware stores nation wide!
The guy mentions getting a 24 port 10/100 switch. Is this guy made out of money? I've been to god knows how many lan parties, and there are some pretty pathetic gaming rigs people have scraped up the little money they have to build a box with. How does he expect someone to just pull a damn switch out of their a$$? and DHCP? Why? If you use windows and tell it to automatically select an IP address (w/o a DHCP server present) it will automatically choose a random IP address out of the 169.254.0.0/16 range. a DHCP server is a lot of hassle for less than 20 people. This guy goes way too much into depth on holding lan parties. See, if this is how it is going to be in the future, I guess i'm going to be the old fart reminiscing on how "lan parties used to be simple, back when we just brought computers over to our friends house with an 8 port hub and played quake, no planning, no charging, no designated break areas, no sponsorships...".
We have lan parties typically every weekend. They consist of 10-20 people at any given time. It is extremely simple... some of us in our group work for the city and have access to one of their buildings (hookups are great). We hold our lan parties in a big room, have tables & chairs there for our use. We pitched in $5 each (one time fee) and bought a 24 port 10/100 hub. There are no designated break areas. People go on their own food runs if they're hungry, and we don't charge or have sponsors. Just a bunch of guys (and one girl) who get together and play counterstrike for hours up on hours upon hours.....Dick
When's the one gonna hit that's gonna kill us all? Or at least damage us? Does anyone else agree that in the aftermath of this WTC/Pentagon crap the whole _WORLD_ needs something that they have to pull together to work on? A common enemy (or whatever you choose to call it) that we as human beings have to pull together to fend against? I think that a sort of massive global threat would pull this world together and end all the political bullsh*t going on right now... for at least a little while
Ya. Little miniature planes that are remote controlled. They have them at the army base that I work at. We are very close to a border of a certain neighboring country with a certain drug trafficking problem, and the planes are used to monitor this particular border.
Government price support on drugs, pretty much.
The targets specified in this article were obviously computer illiterate run of the mill folk living the average life. The kind of person that actually reads the help files that come with microsoft products. Also, the kind of person that can't read anything without a physical reference point, i.e. a mouse cursor. For people like myself... who don't hold on to the mouse unless the intention is on clicking what is being looked it... it wouldn't work. And I dont' shove my cursor off to the right, It's not that big, it does fine right where it's at.
A man walks into a bar, we'll call him Joe. (stop me if you've heard this one).
He has a seat at the bar. He orders a drink and start's shootin' the wind with the gentleman next to them. Jokes are exchanged and finally the guy says.. " i have the funniest joke for you"
Other man:
"oh yeah? Let's hear it"
Joe:
"Alright, but I wanna make sure that you aren't offended by Polish jokes"
a cross look appears on the other guy's face, his tone changes and he says to Joe:
"Lookie here mister, I'm polish and I'm proud of it. Also, you should know, the bartender? He's polish too. And the bouncer over there? He too is polish... So do you still wanna tell your joke??"
Joe thinks about it, then replies:
"Nah, on second though I better not, I wouldn't want to explain it three times"
As far as my logs showed, no, nothing was downloaded from the user 'Ineedcaffeine'. Which is sort of messed up, could conceivably be faught in court if I could afford the lawyers to fight the battle, but I didn't bother since I have no chance against them.
...look like this.
My DSL was shut off for about a week because of it. Yes, I was sort of breaking copyright law, and I never argued it... at least I got my DSL back.
After suing mp3.com, it is their patriotic obligation to sue the CD manufacturers for producing the music in a format that was translatable into mp3 format. After that, they must sue themselves as artists, for producing the audio itself that was to be recorded, put in cd format to then be put in mp3 format.
Using their logic, of course.