That job sounds like a good reason to move to Utah to me...can anyone get in, or is it by invite only? I'm gonna have a hard time concentrating at my normal job after seeing this one
NO ONE can eat SPAM every day for longer than a week...it's just not natural. Then again, maybe spammers aren't natural either. I'll leave that question to the philosophers
Saw this story on NewsForge earlier today, and I'm glad I checked it out. I kept hearing people talk about TuxRacer, but I was never inspired enough to go check out the website before seeing the screenshot (another reason screenshots are important). After seeing it being played, I'm going to have to rethink my strategy of having UT as my only game on linux. If anyone out there can give their thoughts on the game, I'd appreciate it.
I think what a lot of the guys that are proposing these ideas don't realize is that there are easy ways around this stuff (we all know what they are, so I won't bother listing them). They have become so accustomed to the idea "Hey, if it works on TV, it'll work on the web" that they are missing the crucial difference between the two (i.e. we have a LOT more control over the way we browse than what we see on TV). This mindset has to change for web advertising to be successful, because let's face it, most of the time commercials suck. I guess I'll just have to keep waiting to see if anybody in ANY marketing department can come up with a good way to make money from the web.
Actually, the "4159" indicates the bank that issued the card. Only the 4 signifies a Visa. The only card (that I know of) that uses all four digits to show what type of card it is is Discover, because they only have one bank issuing that card, as opposed to Visa/Mastercard, which each have many thousands of bank issuers.
Why do the traditional laws for auction houses suddently not apply to eBay? Its core business is the auctioning of materials from person to person, and as such should be subject to the same kind of scrutiny as any other auction house.
I know people will think this flies in the face of the whole "Information wants to be free" argument prevalent on/., but that's not what I believe this case is about. It's not about the fact that this particular case involves bootleg recordings. As far as any auction house is concerned, it is merely another item to be sold.
The only way I could think of that eBay is exempt from traditional laws is that they never have the actual objects in their possession , but IANAL, so feel free to correct me.
============================================
Personally, for the kinds of things I do (and with bandwidth as unplentiful as it is now, I don't want my applications coming across a pipe--I don't care how big or "reliable" it is.) I would much rather have the applications on my local machine running at insane speeds than have to depend on a connection from some provider.
How many people have not experienced SOME kind of connection outage in the last year? anyone??? Also, as a side bar, if apps are coming across a pipe, why would you need a powerful client? answer: you wouldn't. Do you really think the hardware companies are going to roll over for this one? ============================================
the 'net is like any other TOOL...neither good or bad in and of itself. It all depends on the way the user uses it ============================================
Just another case of lawmakers not understanding the issues they're trying to regulate. This is crazy--they have no idea what hackers (not crackers) are trying to do, and yet they still feel qualified enough to tell them not to do it???
Who is going to enforce this law? Whoever it is, you can bet we're paying for it. Huh, paying for a service we don't want in the first place...wow, that's something new. Pirated software is illegal, too, but unless you do something really obvious with it, you're never going to get caught.
This sounds an awful lot like a throw-in law to me. You know, the kind where if you're already busted for something, and they happen to find this stuff around, it's just one more charge to add against you, but not enough to prosecute on its own ============================================
I hear an awful lot of people saying "Vote Nader, vote Nader", but the last time I checked, he wasn't on the ballots in all states yet, correct?
This is an incredibly personal decision, and what gives ANYONE the right to tell other people who to vote for. If someone wants to vote for Nader, fine...but don't shove it down everyone else's throat. Bush, Gore, Jerry Garcia...pick one, but there's a reason it's a SECRET ballot, folks.I don't care who you're voting for, and neither do most other people...I'm sure everyone has their reasons for choosing "their" candidate
(Note: for those of you just giving information on a candidate's position, please forgive this post)
Mark it as flamebait, I don't care ============================================
Ventura in 2004 is exactly the thing I am hoping for as well. Everyone gets so caught up in the fact that he was once a pro wrestler that they forget that at one point in time he was also a Navy S.E.A.L.
I seem to remember Reagan getting a lot of this same type of bad publicity for having been an actor, and he did an okay job (all right, I admit it, I'm a Republican:)
However, I've heard that Ventura will not even run for the governorship of MN after this term--that he just wanted to shake up politics a little bit. Can anyone confirm or dispute this? =========================================== =
All of these are conflicting comments are pointless. This can be interpreted either way, for Bush or against him, the same way that everything a politician says in public can be. It's their job, people...of course they're going to be good at telling people what they want to hear. My suggestion is to take it with as many grains of salt as necessary and not read too much into it--after all, when was the last time a politician meant everything he said??? ========================================= ===
Slashdot Mirror
That job sounds like a good reason to move to Utah to me...can anyone get in, or is it by invite only? I'm gonna have a hard time concentrating at my normal job after seeing this one
NO ONE can eat SPAM every day for longer than a week...it's just not natural. Then again, maybe spammers aren't natural either. I'll leave that question to the philosophers
When you see hoofprints, you should think of horses, not zebras
Saw this story on NewsForge earlier today, and I'm glad I checked it out. I kept hearing people talk about TuxRacer, but I was never inspired enough to go check out the website before seeing the screenshot (another reason screenshots are important). After seeing it being played, I'm going to have to rethink my strategy of having UT as my only game on linux. If anyone out there can give their thoughts on the game, I'd appreciate it.
I think what a lot of the guys that are proposing these ideas don't realize is that there are easy ways around this stuff (we all know what they are, so I won't bother listing them). They have become so accustomed to the idea "Hey, if it works on TV, it'll work on the web" that they are missing the crucial difference between the two (i.e. we have a LOT more control over the way we browse than what we see on TV). This mindset has to change for web advertising to be successful, because let's face it, most of the time commercials suck. I guess I'll just have to keep waiting to see if anybody in ANY marketing department can come up with a good way to make money from the web.
Just think of how much longer you're going to have to spend at work, because you know the retirement age is going to go up if this happens.
Bummer
Actually, the "4159" indicates the bank that issued the card. Only the 4 signifies a Visa. The only card (that I know of) that uses all four digits to show what type of card it is is Discover, because they only have one bank issuing that card, as opposed to Visa/Mastercard, which each have many thousands of bank issuers.
Why do the traditional laws for auction houses suddently not apply to eBay? Its core business is the auctioning of materials from person to person, and as such should be subject to the same kind of scrutiny as any other auction house.
/., but that's not what I believe this case is about. It's not about the fact that this particular case involves bootleg recordings. As far as any auction house is concerned, it is merely another item to be sold.
I know people will think this flies in the face of the whole "Information wants to be free" argument prevalent on
The only way I could think of that eBay is exempt from traditional laws is that they never have the actual objects in their possession , but IANAL, so feel free to correct me.
============================================
...it's if people want it
=
Personally, for the kinds of things I do (and with bandwidth as unplentiful as it is now, I don't want my applications coming across a pipe--I don't care how big or "reliable" it is.) I would much rather have the applications on my local machine running at insane speeds than have to depend on a connection from some provider.
How many people have not experienced SOME kind of connection outage in the last year? anyone??? Also, as a side bar, if apps are coming across a pipe, why would you need a powerful client? answer: you wouldn't. Do you really think the hardware companies are going to roll over for this one?
===========================================
the 'net is like any other TOOL...neither good or bad in and of itself. It all depends on the way the user uses it
============================================
Just another case of lawmakers not understanding the issues they're trying to regulate. This is crazy--they have no idea what hackers (not crackers) are trying to do, and yet they still feel qualified enough to tell them not to do it???
Who is going to enforce this law? Whoever it is, you can bet we're paying for it. Huh, paying for a service we don't want in the first place...wow, that's something new. Pirated software is illegal, too, but unless you do something really obvious with it, you're never going to get caught.
This sounds an awful lot like a throw-in law to me. You know, the kind where if you're already busted for something, and they happen to find this stuff around, it's just one more charge to add against you, but not enough to prosecute on its own
============================================
I can just see it now...
keyword: the Borg is watching you
============================================
I hear an awful lot of people saying "Vote Nader, vote Nader", but the last time I checked, he wasn't on the ballots in all states yet, correct?
=
This is an incredibly personal decision, and what gives ANYONE the right to tell other people who to vote for. If someone wants to vote for Nader, fine...but don't shove it down everyone else's throat. Bush, Gore, Jerry Garcia...pick one, but there's a reason it's a SECRET ballot, folks.I don't care who you're voting for, and neither do most other people...I'm sure everyone has their reasons for choosing "their" candidate
(Note: for those of you just giving information on a candidate's position, please forgive this post)
Mark it as flamebait, I don't care
===========================================
Ack, now I can't listen to music or watch TV!
============================================
Ventura in 2004 is exactly the thing I am hoping for as well. Everyone gets so caught up in the fact that he was once a pro wrestler that they forget that at one point in time he was also a Navy S.E.A.L. I seem to remember Reagan getting a lot of this same type of bad publicity for having been an actor, and he did an okay job (all right, I admit it, I'm a Republican :)
However, I've heard that Ventura will not even run for the governorship of MN after this term--that he just wanted to shake up politics a little bit. Can anyone confirm or dispute this?= =
==========================================
All of these are conflicting comments are pointless. This can be interpreted either way, for Bush or against him, the same way that everything a politician says in public can be. It's their job, people...of course they're going to be good at telling people what they want to hear. My suggestion is to take it with as many grains of salt as necessary and not read too much into it--after all, when was the last time a politician meant everything he said???= ===
========================================