Mod the parent up. As a system becomes ridiculous, it will be more and more ignored... the way people are already treating copyright.
Copyright and the people who try to enforce copyright have become so comical that most normal people ignore it. They copy freely and to their hearts' content.
"Surely that law only applies to criminals, and I'm no criminal!"
"Oh, yes, it certainly does apply to you!" the RIAA says. "We'll sue you if you think differently."
"You'll sue *everyone*?!"
And thus the RIAA files thousands and thousands of lawsuits and haven't managed to dent any amount of infringement. It's ridiculous, and people are ignoring it.
Now replace the RIAA with PTO in everything above. Pretty soon, people are going to start ignoring patents too.
Monsato company better look out! How many Mexican share-croppers do you have time to arrest!
Nemesis, also known as the 'Black Moon', home to those who were exiled from Crystal Tokyo. They are led by the prophet Wiseman, who is one and the same with the dark planet.
I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the 1st world zombies originate on 'White Label' broadband. The aforementioned Comcast, Cox, SWB DSL... things like that. AOL has the most of any ISP, but I bet the conglomerate of the top 5 cable and dsl bandwidth providers easily dwarfs them.
They're the 'cheap' local providers, not the 'evil' big boys like AOL, so they're what your grandmother will subscribe to when your idiot nephew convinces her she needs an 'Always On' connection to listen to NPR or check her email every five minutes.
Yeah, this *looks* like it's just the industry's problem, but it's not. It's mine and yours. Every time you or I answer 'Well, I need a computer and a cable modem to check my email, right?' with just a 'yeah sure', we're adding to it.
Go buy Grandma that $39.99 firewall from Best Buy, configure it for her, and tell her that she doesn't need to worry about it. It's like the extra deadbolt on her front door. It helps keeps the bad-guys out.
It should be noted that Ms. Delio is not being accused of wholesale fabrication as a certain writer for the NYT was found out having done.
What has apparently happened is an accountability problem. She's taken too much second-hand information and reported it as first hand in a double handful of articles. A journalism prof and several grad students were able to confirm the vast majority of her quotes and attributions.
This amounts to sloppiness, carelessness and unprofesionalism rather than blatant deception or malicious intent.
It'll probably still end her writing career, however.
This makes me so angry, and more than a little sad.
"We're all afraid to change, and willing to fight against it. We don't want to have to admit that there are things we don't or can't understand. We need to be able to say 'This is absolutely true' if we're going to sleep at night."
This is why MS's brand of 'innovation' is bad and real competition is good. Remember when they halted development on IE6 because all the other browsers were 'finally dead'? Now that Firefox is pissing in their hard-won territory, they're actively hunting again. This isn't just good for Microsoft, but it's good for Firefox and good for us too.
Despite the fact that both states have elected Bushes as governor, we've never done anything quite as pointless and unenforceable as trying to outlaw internet porn.
Thank you, Utah, for boldy diving head first into the shallow end of the pool to prove how stupid it is for the rest of us.
I heard some time ago that the OO.o project had decided to drop support entirely for OSX.
Which makes me beat my head against the wall. I'm stuck with using Abiword for when I need to open Word documents, or...GASP... opening them on my PC with Office2k.
I feel like I need to go to a free clinic every time I have to open an O2k app just out of sheer risk of Microsofection.
"Yes, doctor, I installed all the patches. Yes, I leave automatic updates on. Yes I have SP2 installed. No, I didn't notice that rash before I installed sp2."
Six hamsters against the world... They knew they'd be stars, but how long could the glory and fame last? Find out the true story behind this rodent story of music and glamor next... on VH1's Behind the Music.
"Joel had a habit of coming into the studio with his cheeks stuffed totally full of seed and corn. You think you can make music like that? He was out of control. Worse, he was bringing the rest of us down. That's when we decided to have an intervention."
I even used irc heavily at that time without knowing it.
Which is how many 'DDOS zombie' worms work today.
Seriously, WebTV was, at the time, a very good thing. Sadly, it now provides all of the risks of computer web use with out any of that pesky protection.
I've never once gone up to a car guy and said, "I can fix this. I just need you to show me where it is."
I also obey posted traffic laws and keep my car within state requirements. If there's a problem with my car revealed by a scheduled state inspection, I *do* fix it if I know how to, or pay someone else to do it for me.
Now I have gone to a car shop and said 'I hear a certain sound coming from underneath my car from what sounds like the left rear wheel. Would you please check in that area for problems?'
He'll come back to me and say he can't locate a problem, or that I have a problem with my bearings and charge me $180 an hour to fix them. At which point I'm on my own to try to decide if I trust him or not.
Mod this guy up. He's not trolling. Most of the people who left Star Wars Galaxies before the last expansion did so because of Koster's decisions to try to preserve 'fun'.
This guy is associated with fun like Dick Cheyney is associated with gay and lesbian tolerance... only by indirect association and then as a bad example.
I have nothing but condolences in my heart for those poor devs and designers who just found out with these announcements that they're going to be pulling double or even triple duty for the next year in order to back up the salesmen's promises.
Episode VI THE RETURN OF THE HYPE Money! Lucas' Fanbase is crumbling under the onslaught of bad film after bad film. Theree are people camping out for Episode III, but everyone thinks they are just kinda sad.
In a predictable move, Lucas Arts has announced dozens of new action figures and marketing tie-ins. Ronald McDonald has been Kidnapped and is being replaced by Yoda, C-3P0, and Chewbacca.
As the general geek community attempts to brace for another soul-crushing dissapointment, Jar Jar Binks threatens to taint yet another gasping breath of a dying franchise...
The problem I see here is that the Bells have been playing the 'We have a legal right to profit off the masses' game for even longer than the record industry. They see people taking advantage of this and you're going to start getting people hammered with 'unreasonable usage' fees like customers of some of the less scrupulous ISPs. They're going to start hammering lobbiests and bribes into whatever niches they can find on federal, state, and local levels.
The makers have even invited comparison to 'Illegal' forms of P2P by adding 'Ster' onto the end of their name.
Orgasmic vaginal contractions are rather easy to feel. Even if you can't feel it when you're doing the deed with your wang, you should be able to feel it if you're using your fingers or your tongue.
(Wait. I'm on Slashdot. 99% of geeks here have never gotten that far.)
Many women become hyper-sensitive to clitoral stimulation immediately prior and after orgasm. Meaning that the intensity is not comfortable, or even painful.
If she's enjoying clitoral stimulation and then stops enjoying it very suddenly and urgently, you can be pretty sure she had an orgasm.
If you guys can't grasp this, then seriously, turn off the computer, put away the porn, and go find a girlfriend. Seriously.
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Mod the parent up. As a system becomes ridiculous, it will be more and more ignored... the way people are already treating copyright.
Copyright and the people who try to enforce copyright have become so comical that most normal people ignore it. They copy freely and to their hearts' content.
"Surely that law only applies to criminals, and I'm no criminal!"
"Oh, yes, it certainly does apply to you!" the RIAA says. "We'll sue you if you think differently."
"You'll sue *everyone*?!"
And thus the RIAA files thousands and thousands of lawsuits and haven't managed to dent any amount of infringement. It's ridiculous, and people are ignoring it.
Now replace the RIAA with PTO in everything above. Pretty soon, people are going to start ignoring patents too.
Monsato company better look out! How many Mexican share-croppers do you have time to arrest!
No such thing as too much Sailor Moon. /Only 200 episodes away from Nirvana.
Nemesis, also known as the 'Black Moon', home to those who were exiled from Crystal Tokyo. They are led by the prophet Wiseman, who is one and the same with the dark planet.
I must suck since I don't use IM.
Strangely, I still seem to be able to get laid whenever I want.
Hmm... Seems that my Geek Card is expired. Not sure I'm going to renew.
I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the 1st world zombies originate on 'White Label' broadband. The aforementioned Comcast, Cox, SWB DSL... things like that. AOL has the most of any ISP, but I bet the conglomerate of the top 5 cable and dsl bandwidth providers easily dwarfs them.
They're the 'cheap' local providers, not the 'evil' big boys like AOL, so they're what your grandmother will subscribe to when your idiot nephew convinces her she needs an 'Always On' connection to listen to NPR or check her email every five minutes.
Yeah, this *looks* like it's just the industry's problem, but it's not. It's mine and yours. Every time you or I answer 'Well, I need a computer and a cable modem to check my email, right?' with just a 'yeah sure', we're adding to it.
Go buy Grandma that $39.99 firewall from Best Buy, configure it for her, and tell her that she doesn't need to worry about it. It's like the extra deadbolt on her front door. It helps keeps the bad-guys out.
Woot is correct when spelled with letter Os and not Zer0es. Adding Zeroes is a l33t-ization of the word, which was adopted from the MMORPG acronym.
"Uber sword of Gnoll-slaying! It's got plus 8 bane damage to gnolls!"
"Woot!" (Want One Of Those)
It should be noted that Ms. Delio is not being accused of wholesale fabrication as a certain writer for the NYT was found out having done.
What has apparently happened is an accountability problem. She's taken too much second-hand information and reported it as first hand in a double handful of articles. A journalism prof and several grad students were able to confirm the vast majority of her quotes and attributions.
This amounts to sloppiness, carelessness and unprofesionalism rather than blatant deception or malicious intent.
It'll probably still end her writing career, however.
Yeah, that's a good PR move.
What happened to MS naming their releases after cities?
Next OS is going to be 'Red Skull', but with none of the anti-semitism that so many would like to accuse MS of.
After that, look forward to 'Kingpin' OS, with plenty of features to make sure that Microsoft stays at the top of the heap, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
The 'Juggernaut' OS will mark MS's return to using the X-Men's enemies as code names, but will also describe the install footprint.
'Apocalypse' OS will be release immediately after Billy G. has been declared world dictator for life, forever and ever amen.
This makes me so angry, and more than a little sad.
"We're all afraid to change, and willing to fight against it. We don't want to have to admit that there are things we don't or can't understand. We need to be able to say 'This is absolutely true' if we're going to sleep at night."
This is why MS's brand of 'innovation' is bad and real competition is good. Remember when they halted development on IE6 because all the other browsers were 'finally dead'? Now that Firefox is pissing in their hard-won territory, they're actively hunting again. This isn't just good for Microsoft, but it's good for Firefox and good for us too.
Despite the fact that both states have elected Bushes as governor, we've never done anything quite as pointless and unenforceable as trying to outlaw internet porn.
Thank you, Utah, for boldy diving head first into the shallow end of the pool to prove how stupid it is for the rest of us.
"I'm sorry. You can't run this site since it hosts material deemed illegal by our hate-speech laws."
Free speech ain't always pretty.
But with 95% less ethics!
I heard some time ago that the OO.o project had decided to drop support entirely for OSX.
...GASP... opening them on my PC with Office2k.
Which makes me beat my head against the wall. I'm stuck with using Abiword for when I need to open Word documents, or
I feel like I need to go to a free clinic every time I have to open an O2k app just out of sheer risk of Microsofection.
"Yes, doctor, I installed all the patches. Yes, I leave automatic updates on. Yes I have SP2 installed. No, I didn't notice that rash before I installed sp2."
Six hamsters against the world... They knew they'd be stars, but how long could the glory and fame last? Find out the true story behind this rodent story of music and glamor next... on VH1's Behind the Music.
"Joel had a habit of coming into the studio with his cheeks stuffed totally full of seed and corn. You think you can make music like that? He was out of control. Worse, he was bringing the rest of us down. That's when we decided to have an intervention."
Which is how many 'DDOS zombie' worms work today.
Seriously, WebTV was, at the time, a very good thing. Sadly, it now provides all of the risks of computer web use with out any of that pesky protection.
I've never once gone up to a car guy and said, "I can fix this. I just need you to show me where it is."
I also obey posted traffic laws and keep my car within state requirements. If there's a problem with my car revealed by a scheduled state inspection, I *do* fix it if I know how to, or pay someone else to do it for me.
Now I have gone to a car shop and said 'I hear a certain sound coming from underneath my car from what sounds like the left rear wheel. Would you please check in that area for problems?'
He'll come back to me and say he can't locate a problem, or that I have a problem with my bearings and charge me $180 an hour to fix them. At which point I'm on my own to try to decide if I trust him or not.
... That only a WebTV user would be naive enough to open an attachment like that.
Sadly, I've found that the great majority of people I know apparently have the intelligence of a WebTV user.
This either means that even rudimentary computer security is far too complex for the average person, or that I need to get some new friends.
Mod this guy up. He's not trolling. Most of the people who left Star Wars Galaxies before the last expansion did so because of Koster's decisions to try to preserve 'fun'.
This guy is associated with fun like Dick Cheyney is associated with gay and lesbian tolerance... only by indirect association and then as a bad example.
If Raph Koster is an expert on anything, as many Star Wars Galaxies players can attest to, it's making a game NOT fun.
Seriously, who makes any kind of security device with only a 30-bit key any more?
I have nothing but condolences in my heart for those poor devs and designers who just found out with these announcements that they're going to be pulling double or even triple duty for the next year in order to back up the salesmen's promises.
Episode VI
THE RETURN OF THE HYPE
Money! Lucas' Fanbase is crumbling under
the onslaught of bad film after bad film.
Theree are people camping out for Episode
III, but everyone thinks they are just
kinda sad.
In a predictable move, Lucas Arts has
announced dozens of new action figures
and marketing tie-ins. Ronald McDonald has
been Kidnapped and is being replaced by
Yoda, C-3P0, and Chewbacca.
As the general geek community attempts
to brace for another soul-crushing
dissapointment, Jar Jar Binks threatens
to taint yet another gasping breath of
a dying franchise...
The problem I see here is that the Bells have been playing the 'We have a legal right to profit off the masses' game for even longer than the record industry. They see people taking advantage of this and you're going to start getting people hammered with 'unreasonable usage' fees like customers of some of the less scrupulous ISPs. They're going to start hammering lobbiests and bribes into whatever niches they can find on federal, state, and local levels.
The makers have even invited comparison to 'Illegal' forms of P2P by adding 'Ster' onto the end of their name.
Bellster.
Seriously. It's just ASKing for a lawsuit.
Uhm...
Orgasmic vaginal contractions are rather easy to feel. Even if you can't feel it when you're doing the deed with your wang, you should be able to feel it if you're using your fingers or your tongue.
(Wait. I'm on Slashdot. 99% of geeks here have never gotten that far.)
Many women become hyper-sensitive to clitoral stimulation immediately prior and after orgasm. Meaning that the intensity is not comfortable, or even painful.
If she's enjoying clitoral stimulation and then stops enjoying it very suddenly and urgently, you can be pretty sure she had an orgasm.
If you guys can't grasp this, then seriously, turn off the computer, put away the porn, and go find a girlfriend. Seriously.