it appears it only applies to "copyrighted"
works (I really with slashdot would've included
this in their comment above). But still, the
potential for abuse by spammers is high, and
who says someone couldn't nessecarly copyright
the code in a worm? The very idea of the law
itself is stupid. If the big heads don't
want their material to be forwarded DON'T SEND
THE DAMN THINGS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
--
Why can't fellow countrymen get along instead
of jailing eachother?
What if you are forwarding spam to an abuse
e-mail address? Could the spammer sic the
legal attack dogs on you? Or what if you got one
of those "i love you" e-mails with a worm in it,
and it forwarded e-mails without your knowledge?
Could the virus creator sue everyone who got the
worm and unwittingly passed it to other people?!??
More braindead "ideas" from politicians.
It seems they forgot about the 1st amendment
(sady so did other people in high up places
here:(.
Prison/jail is not a joke, and with the
horrors that goes on in prisons around the
nation daily (rape,
beatings among other things), this person
they arrested could wind up becomming scarred
for life, or worse. And all for posting something
that they considered "obscene". Even worse, it
seems harder and harder everyday for people
to stay out of these man made hell holes.
I just hope these rolling blackouts won't
be done in So-Cal. I'ts been near freezing here
for the past couple nights, and cold and rainy
during the day.
ZZT was one of the few shareware games of
it's time that included a built in editor/scripting language (the shareware
version has it too). Thousands of ZZT games
were created and released over the years
by players of this game. ZZT is an Ansi
adventure game, and though I am not a big RPG
fan, this game has me hooked. I've even started on
a level myself.
That was the first online multi-player game I've played. I ran it on 286 (with a hurcules
monochrome card. I had to use Simcga for it),
with a 2400 baud modem and 512conventional/512k
upper memory:). It crashed alot, and I didn't
play it for long, most of the time I didn't
have a clue on what I was suposed to do
(I'm not a real big RPG player, but I do,
play adventure games and rpgs from time to time)
but it was awesome.
These old CGA dos games in some ways actualy
give a better RPG experience/feeling better
than the 3d - hyper accelerated - 16mb 3d card required games of today.
I'm a console fanatic myself. I still use the
Dos dos comamnd line, for most of my
computing tasks, and still telnet into a t
ext only BBS:).
I miss my old Unix shell account.
December 4, 2003 WASHINGTON(AP) - The
United States government has officialy declared today that it will turn a large part of the
western United States into an
Ultramax prison, and send all of it's citizens
there until they can prove they are innocent.
"We believe this is the right thing to do, because everyone is a potential criminal.
Prevention is the best medicine.". Congresswoman
Cecelia T. Steinway commented in an interview.
Citing an example of the huge rise in crime,
and that criminals of all ages, races, and walks of life are lurking everywhere, she says that
organisations such as the MPAA have been furiously
urging hard drive, VCR, and even toy manufactures
who create toys able to record and playback
sound to install copy protection chips.
Even though the companies complied, people are
still using these devices to record copywrited
material. "And that is just the tip of the
iceburg of our out of control crime problem!"
Steinway snapped. Even though the government
has not yet released any information on exactly
how someone would prove them selves innocent,
the wall has already started going up. When
completed. The wall will stretch up the
eastern border of California, completley
encircle Origon, down the Californa coastline
(but go aound Hollywood on the east side), and
parallel to the border between the United States
and Mexico. The first batch of prisoners will
be sent in shortly after the wall is completed in
2012. The first prisoners will most likelty
be from the federal prison system, which
hit 4 million in Feburary. Those already
living in the areas designated to become
the new Ultramax prison are forbidden to
leave, and a temporary wall of concertina wire
which is guarded by armed troops and land mines was completed last week.
"I think this is a step in the right direction.
The crime problem is sure to drop" Steinway concluded.
[note: This is a completely fictional news story
(atleast for now). Any resemblance to
people living or dead is purely coincidential).
OK, this policing, everyoe's guilty until proven
innocent, lock down crap has got to stop.
They have no roight to force any copy protection
crap on Hard drives, cable boxes, Digital VCR;sm,
etc. I am sick and tired of seeing one right
after another being lost in this country
(this so-called Land of the Free we call
the USA is the worlds largest master
jailer). This bull shit has
to stop. I refuse to buy any product that
has this crap built in (I won't be needing
30+gb for a while, and an older hard drive
will suit me fine). I really think it's
time to "clean house", and throw certain people's
buts out of office and other high places.
The telephone companies have no right to
charge for data sent through an ISP.
What if they wanted to charge extra for IRC
(perhaps charge an extra fee for conferencing?),
usenet posts, e-mail, Instant messages, or
even web pages/ files, and how would they
keep track of all of this? Why should anyone give
money to the Telcos for services they don't
provide? (this kind of reminds me of that
"US Postal service is going to start
charging money for each e-mail sent from
any ISP" hoax a while back, except this
Telco/ISP business is for real, atleast in
the Phillipines:(
How come we arn't seeing American companies
producing and building their own robots of
this type? What ever happened to being
competitive? And where is that big robot
everyone is supposed to have that does all of the (hard labor) house work?
Shouldn't they be also able to tax pens and
paper, because people can use them to manualy
copy books/magazines. Or how 'bout the human
mind? After all, it does retain a copy
of the media you read (We caught you humming a
tune from an album we've just released, and
now other people have it in their heads! You
better pay up or else!!!!)
The lack of a console is one of the worst
part of a PDA. I am a command line fanatic, and
I cant stand using an OS without a built in
console. I wanted to get an old Hewlet Pakard
Dos based palmtop because of this.
BTW: Are there any shareware console interfaces
available for Win CE (if anyone is still
writing for it), Palm (doubtful), or even,
say, some of the Nokia phones?
Its 15 years later scince I first wanted an
OmniBot 2000 for Christmas, and I still don't
have one:( . I would be really impressed if
someone took the old Tomy robots, and
re-released them (then I can finaly have a *new*
OmniBot 2000 rather than having to get one
through Ebay:).
Oh..eh... This robot Sony built is cool too:)
I don't like "Carnivore" because it can be misused easly. The US gov't has had a
long history of abuses (maybe not as bad as
Soviet russia or China, but it still happens),
and I don't trust them with this system. Also,
the very fact that such a sysrem like this exists
shows that the additude of society as a whole
(not just the gov't) is just getting harsher, moore suspicious, and very paranoid of the fellow
man, and it must stop.
Don't forget: The US gov't is supposed to be
FOR the PEOPLE, OF the PEOPLE, BY the PEOPLE.
I don't think that we should allow permanently
attached "witetap" systems like Carnivore to be
used in this country. (though I do favor setting up a TEMPORARY wire tap (which is physicaly
removed afterwards) if there is reason to
believe someone is using the net for
terrorism/ sex crimes/other major crimes, and
they have a legit warrent. A "neutral"
non-gov't party should also be monitoring the
operations to check for and prevent abuses.
Slashdot Mirror
it appears it only applies to "copyrighted" works (I really with slashdot would've included this in their comment above). But still, the potential for abuse by spammers is high, and who says someone couldn't nessecarly copyright the code in a worm? The very idea of the law itself is stupid. If the big heads don't want their material to be forwarded DON'T SEND THE DAMN THINGS IN THE FIRST PLACE! -- Why can't fellow countrymen get along instead of jailing eachother?
What if you are forwarding spam to an abuse e-mail address? Could the spammer sic the legal attack dogs on you? Or what if you got one of those "i love you" e-mails with a worm in it, and it forwarded e-mails without your knowledge? Could the virus creator sue everyone who got the worm and unwittingly passed it to other people?!?? More braindead "ideas" from politicians.
A large part of humanity can't even get over prejudice of skin color, how do you think they will treat clones?
It seems they forgot about the 1st amendment (sady so did other people in high up places here :(.
Prison/jail is not a joke, and with the
horrors that goes on in prisons around the
nation daily (rape,
beatings among other things), this person
they arrested could wind up becomming scarred
for life, or worse. And all for posting something
that they considered "obscene". Even worse, it
seems harder and harder everyday for people
to stay out of these man made hell holes.
I just hope these rolling blackouts won't be done in So-Cal. I'ts been near freezing here for the past couple nights, and cold and rainy during the day.
ZZT was one of the few shareware games of it's time that included a built in editor/scripting language (the shareware version has it too). Thousands of ZZT games were created and released over the years by players of this game. ZZT is an Ansi adventure game, and though I am not a big RPG fan, this game has me hooked. I've even started on a level myself.
That was the first online multi-player game I've played. I ran it on 286 (with a hurcules monochrome card. I had to use Simcga for it), with a 2400 baud modem and 512conventional/512k upper memory :). It crashed alot, and I didn't
play it for long, most of the time I didn't
have a clue on what I was suposed to do
(I'm not a real big RPG player, but I do,
play adventure games and rpgs from time to time)
but it was awesome.
These old CGA dos games in some ways actualy
give a better RPG experience/feeling better
than the 3d - hyper accelerated - 16mb 3d card required games of today.
I'm a console fanatic myself. I still use the Dos dos comamnd line, for most of my computing tasks, and still telnet into a t ext only BBS :).
I miss my old Unix shell account.
December 4, 2003 WASHINGTON(AP) - The United States government has officialy declared today that it will turn a large part of the western United States into an Ultramax prison, and send all of it's citizens there until they can prove they are innocent. "We believe this is the right thing to do, because everyone is a potential criminal. Prevention is the best medicine.". Congresswoman Cecelia T. Steinway commented in an interview. Citing an example of the huge rise in crime, and that criminals of all ages, races, and walks of life are lurking everywhere, she says that organisations such as the MPAA have been furiously urging hard drive, VCR, and even toy manufactures who create toys able to record and playback sound to install copy protection chips. Even though the companies complied, people are still using these devices to record copywrited material. "And that is just the tip of the iceburg of our out of control crime problem!" Steinway snapped. Even though the government has not yet released any information on exactly how someone would prove them selves innocent, the wall has already started going up. When completed. The wall will stretch up the eastern border of California, completley encircle Origon, down the Californa coastline (but go aound Hollywood on the east side), and parallel to the border between the United States and Mexico. The first batch of prisoners will be sent in shortly after the wall is completed in 2012. The first prisoners will most likelty be from the federal prison system, which hit 4 million in Feburary. Those already living in the areas designated to become the new Ultramax prison are forbidden to leave, and a temporary wall of concertina wire which is guarded by armed troops and land mines was completed last week. "I think this is a step in the right direction. The crime problem is sure to drop" Steinway concluded. [note: This is a completely fictional news story (atleast for now). Any resemblance to people living or dead is purely coincidential).
OK, this policing, everyoe's guilty until proven innocent, lock down crap has got to stop. They have no roight to force any copy protection crap on Hard drives, cable boxes, Digital VCR;sm, etc. I am sick and tired of seeing one right after another being lost in this country (this so-called Land of the Free we call the USA is the worlds largest master jailer). This bull shit has to stop. I refuse to buy any product that has this crap built in (I won't be needing 30+gb for a while, and an older hard drive will suit me fine). I really think it's time to "clean house", and throw certain people's buts out of office and other high places.
The telephone companies have no right to charge for data sent through an ISP. What if they wanted to charge extra for IRC (perhaps charge an extra fee for conferencing?), usenet posts, e-mail, Instant messages, or even web pages/ files, and how would they keep track of all of this? Why should anyone give money to the Telcos for services they don't provide? (this kind of reminds me of that "US Postal service is going to start charging money for each e-mail sent from any ISP" hoax a while back, except this Telco/ISP business is for real, atleast in the Phillipines :(
They make a cool game system, and then they have to go and lock it up (%$# $$$ concerns)! I hate it when companies do this :\
How come we arn't seeing American companies producing and building their own robots of this type? What ever happened to being competitive? And where is that big robot everyone is supposed to have that does all of the (hard labor) house work?
Shouldn't they be also able to tax pens and paper, because people can use them to manualy copy books/magazines. Or how 'bout the human mind? After all, it does retain a copy of the media you read (We caught you humming a tune from an album we've just released, and now other people have it in their heads! You better pay up or else!!!!)
The lack of a console is one of the worst part of a PDA. I am a command line fanatic, and I cant stand using an OS without a built in console. I wanted to get an old Hewlet Pakard Dos based palmtop because of this. BTW: Are there any shareware console interfaces available for Win CE (if anyone is still writing for it), Palm (doubtful), or even, say, some of the Nokia phones?
Its 15 years later scince I first wanted an OmniBot 2000 for Christmas, and I still don't have one :( . I would be really impressed if
someone took the old Tomy robots, and
re-released them (then I can finaly have a *new*
OmniBot 2000 rather than having to get one
through Ebay :).
Oh..eh... This robot Sony built is cool too :)
I don't like "Carnivore" because it can be misused easly. The US gov't has had a long history of abuses (maybe not as bad as Soviet russia or China, but it still happens), and I don't trust them with this system. Also, the very fact that such a sysrem like this exists shows that the additude of society as a whole (not just the gov't) is just getting harsher, moore suspicious, and very paranoid of the fellow man, and it must stop. Don't forget: The US gov't is supposed to be FOR the PEOPLE, OF the PEOPLE, BY the PEOPLE. I don't think that we should allow permanently attached "witetap" systems like Carnivore to be used in this country. (though I do favor setting up a TEMPORARY wire tap (which is physicaly removed afterwards) if there is reason to believe someone is using the net for terrorism/ sex crimes/other major crimes, and they have a legit warrent. A "neutral" non-gov't party should also be monitoring the operations to check for and prevent abuses.