Has anybody read this page? Wow, it's clearly a hoax just by the language. Here's a bit:
The credibility of the system is definitively established and can be interpreted and demonstrated as being "the practical application of accepted techniques".
There are no stages in the operation of this invention that require any constituent component to perform at anything other than that being, within its capability or in accordance with its specification.
All the parts for this invention are in practical and productive everyday use. The methodology technique is accomplished by the innovative application in logical sequence of specifically selected constituent components whose performance compliment each other and function in co-operation.
This is part of a brief description of the device. It's all like that.
This solution Napster will be offering would be more palatable in my view if we knew the money was going DIRECTLY to the artists, rather than via the "label"...
That's pretty difficult, considering that the actual artists don't usually own the songs. They're created as a "work for hire" (one of the biggest artist-screwing parts of their contracts), which means that the label owns all the rights. When I program something at work, my company owns it - not me. This is the same thing.
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Take a look at the book 1984 where rights of the people were forever taken away by the wool being pulled over the people's eyes by a fictional war that never ends. Sound anything like what is happening today? It should.
It would, except it's not exactly a fictional war.
<conspiratorial>Of course, we would never know, would we?...</conspiratorial>
And I don't know about that state-of-fear thing - I'm not exactly jumping at shadows yet, anyway. We've even got leaders of the country telling us to fly on planes. Gee - sounds like they want to frighten us to death, doesn't it?
<conspiratorial>They just want us to keep the planes populated so the next planned attack will be sufficiently devastating...</conspiratorial>
Looks like you've got the standard ACLU misrepresentations memorized. Got an idea for you: maybe things are exactly as they seem?
I felt that the script was pretty good, the effects were excellent (for the most part), the cinematography was good, but the pacing and editing was so poor.
I won't say anything against the LoTR's (the book's) editing - but I think the movie just about mirrored the book perfectly on pace. It's just awful.
It seemed, after Mr. Tolkien got past page 200 or so, that he figured out how to pace his book. Before that, I got so stinkin' bored reading about the Hobbits' sixth lunch on their journey, or the tenth description of how the trees seemed to close in on them, or whatever.
Or you could call it genius, I suppose. He made you actually feel the long journey to Bree...
To your children, however, the idea will not seem so extreme. To your children's children it will be nothing at all...
That's what religion is for. For example, through the generations, actively religious families have generally been able to keep hold of the idea that sexual intercourse before marriage is wrong. It's difficult to do, admittedly, but the whole faith thing makes it much easier once your kids get the hang of it...
My point? Religion helps keep a constant set of values. As far as I know, it's the best tool for that job.
Fortunately, we wouldn't have to wedge anything in to the religion that seems to dominate so-called "Western" culture. It's in the book of Revelation already as the "mark of the beast."
"Mark" my words: it ain't gonna happen in the USA.
Actually, to pick nits a bit - it was John (the Beloved) who wrote the book of Revelation, not Mark.
But you're entirely right about it not happening in the USA, at least not now. I'm sure the terrorism aspect wouldn't be the main problem, though - it would be the conservatives as a whole that would object. Even if they didn't manage to convince enough people it's a bad idea either though ethical or religious argument, there would be plenty of us who would opt for disobedience of any law requiring its use.
But back to the religious argument: there would be a mighty uproar, with at least 1/4 of the USA's citizens firmly believing that it's the mark of the beast - even if it doesn't go into your right hand or in your forehead.
As the grammar fascist, I have to ask: are you getting "ubiquitous" confused with "unique?" "Ubiquitous" means everywhere, or widespread, which Windows certainly is.
The name is not "Windows" but "Lindows" which gives the impression that it's not Windows but somehow connected to Windows.
That's exactly the point behind the legislation, and I'll have to grudgingly agree with Microsoft on this thing. "Windows" is such a ubiquitous name, and "Lindows" is so phonetically close, that the only thing the Lindows people could be doing with a name like that is riding on their coattails, so to speak. (Whether or not they meant to is not an issue.) This lawsuit is exactly what trademark law is for.
Another issue is that Microsoft doesn't want the tech support calls for Lindows (and you know it would happen). Yet another is that people would automatically associate Windows with Lindows, and that's not something Microsoft wants either. Trademark law is also meant to protect against these two problems.
Whether or not "Windows" is a strong enough mark is a completely different issue. They've got the trademark, and, by law, they can protect it.
NEWS FLASH: Another Microsoft Outlook VMS worm appeared today, leaving thousands of companies stranded network- and Internet-less as their IT departments struggled to contain it.
But this isn't news! It's not-news - and therefore news - because it isn't news anymore! Get it?
(You know, the word "news" starts to sound really, really weird after you say it a bunch.)
Umm no only root can bind to low numbered ports (of which port 25 is a member)
Contrary to popular belief - and it's really, really prevalent on Slashdot nowadays, of all places - you don't need an SMTP server to send an email. You just need a client.
All you need to do is open a connection to port 25 on an existing SMTP server to send an email to an address it assumes is its own, and send off a bunch of commands: HELO, MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, DATA, and QUIT.
Try it sometime. Telnet to a mail server on port 25, and type the following commands, without using the backspace key:
HELO heaven.gov
MAIL FROM: god@heaven.gov
RCPT TO: <actual email address>
DATA
I've been watching you. Your fly is down.
.
QUIT
Make sure the email address domain is one that the mail server will answer for, otherwise you'll get an error saying it won't relay for you. (Usually.) And make sure the user is a valid user on that domain. If those two requirements are met, you've sent an email - without needing an SMTP server, I might add.
So if you don't need a server, you don't need to bind a port, and a worm like this could spread through Linux systems the way it spreads through Windows systems.
From this definition, I can only assume that by "cow orker" you mean "a cow from Orkney Island, Scotland."
What have they got you working with "coos" for? How does a hoofed beast use the mouse? Do you have problems with those long hairs getting stuck in the keyboard? How do you clean up after their back ends?
Their music to no longer be classified as a "work for hire," aka a pointless industrial design owned by the system...
A "work for hire" example the average Slashdotter will understand: if you're a code or web monkey, everything you write while on company time is a "work for hire." (Some will even try to screw you out of stuff you work on in your own time, too.)
As such, you have no control. The company owns everything, automatically. There was no transfer of copyrights at all, and thus no power in your hands over any of it. That's fine if you're coding for someone, but it doesn't make much sense if you're a musician.
Did it occur to anybody that Elton John is just an empolyee? That's basically the deal they get.
Anyway, if these works were licensed to the record company, or certain rights were assigned, instead of everything being "work for hire" (a concept which was invented not for music, but for things like blueprints and diagrams), the artists themselves would get to decide what people can and can't legally do with their music.
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Has anybody read this page? Wow, it's clearly a hoax just by the language. Here's a bit:
The credibility of the system is definitively established and can be interpreted and demonstrated as being "the practical application of accepted techniques".
There are no stages in the operation of this invention that require any constituent component to perform at anything other than that being, within its capability or in accordance with its specification.
All the parts for this invention are in practical and productive everyday use. The methodology technique is accomplished by the innovative application in logical sequence of specifically selected constituent components whose performance compliment each other and function in co-operation.
This is part of a brief description of the device. It's all like that.
Also, given the popularity of episodes I and III vs II, I would look for the key artifact to be something in the Judaeo-Christian tradition again.
I wonder what lost, legendary artifact they can come up with this time? They're kind of running out...oh! Got it!
Indiana Jones and the Head of John the Baptist.
Obviously, his son will call himself "Alabama," after the cat. Alabama Jones.
What - you LIKE Microsoft?
I'd love to see an XP urinal puck. I'd love to use one.
For example, if a user decides that they want to use MS Word as their file manager, and it crashes, is that the developers fault?
Along those same lines: if a driver decides he wants to use his Volkwagen Beetle as an off-road vehicle and it crashes, is it the engineer's fault?
Just one fan?
He's gonna have to buy a whole lot of those if Apple is planning on making a profit...
Why do I now feel slighted now?
Actually, I was thinking of the nice "squish squish" sound they'd make as you banged them together.
and that whole "Pod Race To Sell Toys" scene in Episode I. :)
Hey - don't knock the pod race. It was the best part. It didn't have any acting.
Aw, come ON. Like we need more of THOSE.
This solution Napster will be offering would be more palatable in my view if we knew the money was going DIRECTLY to the artists, rather than via the "label"...
That's pretty difficult, considering that the actual artists don't usually own the songs. They're created as a "work for hire" (one of the biggest artist-screwing parts of their contracts), which means that the label owns all the rights. When I program something at work, my company owns it - not me. This is the same thing.
Wow. Everything is SO clear now.
Take a look at the book 1984 where rights of the people were forever taken away by the wool being pulled over the people's eyes by a fictional war that never ends. Sound anything like what is happening today? It should.
It would, except it's not exactly a fictional war.
<conspiratorial>Of course, we would never know, would we?...</conspiratorial>
And I don't know about that state-of-fear thing - I'm not exactly jumping at shadows yet, anyway. We've even got leaders of the country telling us to fly on planes. Gee - sounds like they want to frighten us to death, doesn't it?
<conspiratorial>They just want us to keep the planes populated so the next planned attack will be sufficiently devastating...</conspiratorial>
Looks like you've got the standard ACLU misrepresentations memorized. Got an idea for you: maybe things are exactly as they seem?
I felt that the script was pretty good, the effects were excellent (for the most part), the cinematography was good, but the pacing and editing was so poor.
I won't say anything against the LoTR's (the book's) editing - but I think the movie just about mirrored the book perfectly on pace. It's just awful.
It seemed, after Mr. Tolkien got past page 200 or so, that he figured out how to pace his book. Before that, I got so stinkin' bored reading about the Hobbits' sixth lunch on their journey, or the tenth description of how the trees seemed to close in on them, or whatever.
Or you could call it genius, I suppose. He made you actually feel the long journey to Bree...
To your children, however, the idea will not seem so extreme. To your children's children it will be nothing at all...
That's what religion is for. For example, through the generations, actively religious families have generally been able to keep hold of the idea that sexual intercourse before marriage is wrong. It's difficult to do, admittedly, but the whole faith thing makes it much easier once your kids get the hang of it...
My point? Religion helps keep a constant set of values. As far as I know, it's the best tool for that job.
Fortunately, we wouldn't have to wedge anything in to the religion that seems to dominate so-called "Western" culture. It's in the book of Revelation already as the "mark of the beast."
"Mark" my words: it ain't gonna happen in the USA.
Actually, to pick nits a bit - it was John (the Beloved) who wrote the book of Revelation, not Mark.
But you're entirely right about it not happening in the USA, at least not now. I'm sure the terrorism aspect wouldn't be the main problem, though - it would be the conservatives as a whole that would object. Even if they didn't manage to convince enough people it's a bad idea either though ethical or religious argument, there would be plenty of us who would opt for disobedience of any law requiring its use.
But back to the religious argument: there would be a mighty uproar, with at least 1/4 of the USA's citizens firmly believing that it's the mark of the beast - even if it doesn't go into your right hand or in your forehead.
Too right. As an example: "Xian" == "Christan," and it has for a very long time.
As the grammar fascist, I have to ask: are you getting "ubiquitous" confused with "unique?" "Ubiquitous" means everywhere, or widespread, which Windows certainly is.
OK, but then Winux would be offensive as well.
If you said it, would it make the common computer user think of Windows?
The soft "L" sound is so phonetically close to the soft "W" sound that you could mistake one for the other over the telephone.
Besides, it doesn't matter. It's close enough that, by the "reasonable man" standard, it's nearly exact.
The name is not "Windows" but "Lindows" which gives the impression that it's not Windows but somehow connected to Windows.
That's exactly the point behind the legislation, and I'll have to grudgingly agree with Microsoft on this thing. "Windows" is such a ubiquitous name, and "Lindows" is so phonetically close, that the only thing the Lindows people could be doing with a name like that is riding on their coattails, so to speak. (Whether or not they meant to is not an issue.) This lawsuit is exactly what trademark law is for.
Another issue is that Microsoft doesn't want the tech support calls for Lindows (and you know it would happen). Yet another is that people would automatically associate Windows with Lindows, and that's not something Microsoft wants either. Trademark law is also meant to protect against these two problems.
Whether or not "Windows" is a strong enough mark is a completely different issue. They've got the trademark, and, by law, they can protect it.
NEWS FLASH: Another Microsoft Outlook VMS worm appeared today, leaving thousands of companies stranded network- and Internet-less as their IT departments struggled to contain it.
But this isn't news! It's not-news - and therefore news - because it isn't news anymore! Get it?
(You know, the word "news" starts to sound really, really weird after you say it a bunch.)
Umm no only root can bind to low numbered ports (of which port 25 is a member)
Contrary to popular belief - and it's really, really prevalent on Slashdot nowadays, of all places - you don't need an SMTP server to send an email. You just need a client.
All you need to do is open a connection to port 25 on an existing SMTP server to send an email to an address it assumes is its own, and send off a bunch of commands: HELO, MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, DATA, and QUIT.
Try it sometime. Telnet to a mail server on port 25, and type the following commands, without using the backspace key:
HELO heaven.gov
MAIL FROM: god@heaven.gov
RCPT TO: <actual email address>
DATA
I've been watching you. Your fly is down.
.
QUIT
Make sure the email address domain is one that the mail server will answer for, otherwise you'll get an error saying it won't relay for you. (Usually.) And make sure the user is a valid user on that domain. If those two requirements are met, you've sent an email - without needing an SMTP server, I might add.
So if you don't need a server, you don't need to bind a port, and a worm like this could spread through Linux systems the way it spreads through Windows systems.
Cow orker said...
...from other cow orkers
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "ork" thusly:
Main Entry: Ork
Function: abbreviation
Orkney
From this definition, I can only assume that by "cow orker" you mean "a cow from Orkney Island, Scotland."
What have they got you working with "coos" for? How does a hoofed beast use the mouse? Do you have problems with those long hairs getting stuck in the keyboard? How do you clean up after their back ends?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Their music to no longer be classified as a "work for hire," aka a pointless industrial design owned by the system...
A "work for hire" example the average Slashdotter will understand: if you're a code or web monkey, everything you write while on company time is a "work for hire." (Some will even try to screw you out of stuff you work on in your own time, too.)
As such, you have no control. The company owns everything, automatically. There was no transfer of copyrights at all, and thus no power in your hands over any of it. That's fine if you're coding for someone, but it doesn't make much sense if you're a musician.
Did it occur to anybody that Elton John is just an empolyee? That's basically the deal they get.
Anyway, if these works were licensed to the record company, or certain rights were assigned, instead of everything being "work for hire" (a concept which was invented not for music, but for things like blueprints and diagrams), the artists themselves would get to decide what people can and can't legally do with their music.