This is just the tip of the iceberg. I've already applied for a patent on "Forward bipedal motion synchronized with the processing of bubble gum." I'll hit everyone up for royalties. Except, it seems, those employed by the patent office. I wonder, what is the weather like up their asses?
And on the sixth day, He made Slashdot. And it was good. And on the seventh day, He is widely reported to have rested; in reality he was trying to bring the net back up, for He had not expected the Slashdot effect.
Since I first downloaded Mosaic. Back in the day when the most useful thing on the net was online library card catalogs. Every few months I'll do something with the web that'll just stop me in my tracks with wonder. When I was a kid, we had 2 sets of encyclopedias and lots of other references. Reports were a snap.
Now everybody has more than that. I don't know anyone with an encyclopedia anymore, and I can't remember the last time I saw an atlas. Information is so available that we don't think about it, and with google, you don't even need any research skills. Things just get better.
Eazel does not equal Nautilus. Separate them. If today (oops- yesterday)'s news is solid, then Eazel is dead. Most of the geeks were laid off the day 1.0 was released, and now the rest are gone. A bad company (not in any objective value sense, but in the business sense) is gone. Their source is out there. Nautilus can live.
If you really liked Nautilus, stop using the word Eazel. If they are remembered 5 years (hell, even 3) from now, it will be as a joke, an illustration of the overvalued stock market from the '90s, the VC/IPO craze and the retards who E-Traded their retirement (or kids' college) savings into the shitter. Nautilus is something you like. I've never tried it, but that's my problem. It's the product you like, not the company. The company is nothing but a bad joke now.
Some time ago Eazel sent two guys on tour, and they came and spoke at our LUG, gave out a few Eazel tote bags, etc. I didn't get it. I really felt like an idiot. I don't work with computers, I've just been playing with them at home forever. I'm not really a part of the culture, and the first I had heard of Eazel or Nautilus was when I walked in the door and read the sign announcing the speakers.
Everyone was excited that they had come to us, so I figured they were something big and I was just some dolt living in a cave or something. I listened raptly and watched while they navigated and tweaked on the overhead, looking for what I was missing. I understood that the browser was free, and what they were selling was a subscription sercice. The only problem is that I don't need another browser (although I do like my file manager and web browser to be different apps) and I can't see Linux types being suckered into a subscription service.
I walked out of the meeting very confused. Everyone was happy with the presentation and I couldn't see through the hype. Rather I thought I was failing to see through the hype. It didn't occur to me that there was nothing to see beyond it. Open Source types (even the.com flops that give the movement a bad name in the business world) not being on my list of people to whom I bear ill will, I'm still relieved to see Eazel go. I feel sorry for the workers, I even kind of feel sorry for the founders. I don't feel sorry for the funders. What I really feel is closure. I can say no, it's not just me. Good luck in all your future endeavors, guys, but please think them through.
It looks like "real" bankers can be just as easily snookered by the dot com craze. If they had just told more people "no," a lot of this could have been avoided. Damn, I guess I forgot about Charles Keating!
The big problem in Florida last year (and therefore everywhere this year) was that the dipshits don't make a habit of voting. The one time an election came around that they cared about, the state government didn't represent them. The Gov was W's brother and the Sec. O'State had been W's campaign manager. The people, who never bothered to vote in the past, got (deservedly) fucked.
Look into the people running for office. Vote for someone sensible, not just for an irresponsible tax cut. Hell, try voting for a responsible tax cut for a change. You only get the government you deserve. Why vote for one that intrudes on you?
It's goung to be very interesting to see what the US does about this. We have gotten into major pissing contests with the EU on trade issues, and when our favorite religion whined about Germany, the State Department jumped. What with US law coming down on the RIAA's side, we're going to see some kind of a negative response.
Not being a big consumer of Danish goods, I'll be able to watch interestedly, worrying only about the free speech issues. No big difference there- it's been worrying me for a while. This just adds fuel to the fire.
Is no way to go through life, but it's a great way to live in China.
Give it up, G. Nobody here has been supporting censorware, and I doubt any of us support the war on drugs. The main difference between our Nazis' censorware and their Nazis' censorware is that "ours" "protects" children on publicly funded computers from porn, sites opposing censorship and (probably) sites belonging to commercial rivals of censorware companies' parent companies, while their's censors CNN (like Turner isn't further left than Deng Xiaoping) and the like.
Adults here who don't log in through public libraries have freedom. Those same adults don't even have the freedom to fly in a well marked, unarmed plane in international airspace. I'll take Nazis like Ashcroft (or Reno) any day.
Sure, they're tools. If you have a room full of random tools and a boardroom that keeps spitting out different requirements, what do you do with those tools? You play with them. Fiddle with them. Find new ways to do the same old jobs while accomplishing new ones. Learn everything that you can do with them so you can simply do what the company needs to get done.
Or you can take your approach and pretend that well paid professionals are cogs in a wheel and don't have the brains that they got hired to use. Fire them all and hire a services company to do your IT work. Your geeks will still play, but you'll feel better because a middleman takes his cut out of your money before it gets to them. It doesn't make sense to me.
As the "freedom of religion" part of Amendment I is paired with the "freedom from religion," shouldn't the "freedom of speech" be paired with "freedom from speech?"
Where is that copy of the constitution when I need it?
As your right to speak ends at my ears, spammers' rights end at my inbox. Your right to speak does not include the right to crash my mail (except when dma.org gets flooded with forwarded spam, heh) or waste a chunk of my day.
There are ways to e-mail anonymously, so there is no legitimate reason to spoof it. Any spoofed e-mail can not be protected as a commercial activity or free speech, but should be attacked. I don't want to see them in jail; we have too many laws and too many people in jail for dumb reasons.
The ISPs can stop it and ought to be already. Aren't they the biggest victims of spam? I've dumped unreliable ISPs before. The one I have now is good. Hell, sometimes I have trouble sending mail because my ISP shuts down SMTP when it sees too much outgoing mail. So I wait a bit and send again later, thanking them inside for the fact that I don't get spam- and that they do their part to avoid sending it.
Caller ID? *67 or *69, whichever it is, I don't know. Low level harassment can be met by low level harassment. There is a phone number, a contact. Bounce the faxes- call them back, fax them back. Unless you have an attack lawyer (who'll say go for it- he bills hourly) I can't think of anything else.
2) That's what I mean. How can you talk anyone this side of a compulsive gambler into funding this? Scratch tickets are a smarter investment. At least when you don't get any money from them you can use them to heat your house.
Okay, Napster made downloading music mainstream. I haven't gotten any in a few months, mainly because Napster isn't as convenient as it used to be. Cable modems are coming to my area soon, and once I have some bandwidth to play with, I'll start looking for what I can use in its place.
Two questions- What is the problem with Gnutella (someone told me it couldn't scale to replace Napster), and before they thought of the subscriptions, what the hell was their business model? How did they get their money?
What if they are on their own block lists? Maybe we should tell them personally. rweintzen, presiden, customerservice and privacy, at the very least, should be told just how people feel about it. If we slashdotted their mail, they wouldn't laugh off the "minority" that hates spam.
On the internet, there is no "law." Anyone who tries to get anything done, therefore, is a vigilante. Even just bouncing spam back lets you call yourself one. There's no official body to protect you, so you need to do it yourself or depend on these guys. It's only a bad word when people get killed without benefit of a trial. Losing your ISP because you (or your ISP) are an asshole is funny. "Waaah! They're being assholes back to me!"
Kilborn was great, I loved him. Stewart's brand of humor is different, not less professional. He has a much more direct (my wife can't stand him) style; he isn't the prettyboy that Craig was.
How do you define a legitimate news show? I get my news from CNN and/. and spend a lot of effort filtering all of it. Ted Turner has his agenda, and sometimes that shows on Headline News. Slashdot has its agenda too, but I like it more. Is Fox news legitimate? They were the ones who called the election in the wee hous of Wednesday morning for Dubya. Because they had hired one of Dubya's boys for the coverage. Are the other networks legitimate? They followed suit simply because they didn't know either. They couldn't make their own calls, so they repeated what Fox said.
Donaldson and Blitzer were on. Donaldson was laughing with Stewart about Sawyer interviewing a sock puppet (legitimate journalism? Disney owned her and pets.com) and Blitzer referred to TDS as "the most important television program, ever." You didn't mention that Bob Dole was their political analyst throughout the campaign. He was obviously enjoying himself, and provided a good counterpoint to Stewart and TDS' writers.
Jennings, Brokaw and Rather should not be incredulous, but ashamed of themselves for being irresponsible journalists fronting for corporate inretests. "WHYYYYYYY?!?!" do I have to depend on AOL/Time-Warner as my most *reliable* news source?/. is just too niche to depend on entirely.
I'm just waiting for people to stop punting with the NYT. I'm registered here, how many more places do I need to register with in order to read/.?
I know a lot of folks just have to be the first to submit a story (hey, at least it's more constructive than the first post race), but come on, if you're going to link, stop asking me to register. As annoying as Wired News' format is to me, at least I can get the information from it.
The practicalities are actually irrelevant. The goal here is to get the school board to stand up and say "This is bad. It is a detriment to our goals of education." Then the ball is in their court. they can either fix the problem at their level, take up the mantle of agitation themselves to the next level- after all, they are now on record as being against it- or continue in their statement, "But we are whores. Funding that cripples the purpose is better than paying ourselves, and bad internet access is better than, well, bad internet access."
This is your government (though I know you're not a voter); you have to make it work.
Definitely go to the district first. Bring as many parents (taxpayers, more importantly, voters) as you can. After you show that the software is ineffective & counterproductive, ask that they drop it. In lieu of freeing the web, insist on an explanation of:
1. What they are trying to accomplish.
2. Why they use software that does not achieve that goal.
3. What they are trying to accomplish (needs re-asking in the face of the bullshit "it's all we've got" argument that they'll give to #2.
4. Whether their half-measures are worth banning legitimate sites.
Keep it open, keep it public, keep a record. Bring a camcorder to the meetings. Petty bureaucrats are less willing to be their usual moronic selves on film. Again, the taxpaying, voting parents are important to have on hand; they get very indignant at stupidity and waste in their local government, espesially when it hurts their kids. They might even go along simply because you guys are willing to take a stand. Good luck.
Your willingness to donate is not only noble, I think it's normal. The problem here is theft. In the case named, a doctor studied the patient's cells without his knowledge, patented a naturally occurring compound and sold the patent for "millions of dollars."
The resentment here isn't about being locked out of those millions (but as long as they're there, Moore deserved a large cut), but about the system patenting a naturally occurring compound to restrict its use to generate profits.
The doctor did not develop anything, the patient did. I'm just guessing here, but the compound has to have been incredibly rare, if not unique; otherwise it would have been spotted elsewhere. That shows that Moore himself had a lot more to do with developing it than the doctor did.
It's a shame that the Companies can buy the law away from its job of protecting us, especially when we vote for the lawmakers. You've got to hand it to them, though. They care more than the electorate. If actual people cared more, the Undecideds wouldn't have won in November.
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I can't stand these people. Copyrighted trade secrets? What a bunch of assholes. Let's just nuke Clearwater. Oh, shit! That just made me a terrorist!
Now everybody has more than that. I don't know anyone with an encyclopedia anymore, and I can't remember the last time I saw an atlas. Information is so available that we don't think about it, and with google, you don't even need any research skills. Things just get better.
If you really liked Nautilus, stop using the word Eazel. If they are remembered 5 years (hell, even 3) from now, it will be as a joke, an illustration of the overvalued stock market from the '90s, the VC/IPO craze and the retards who E-Traded their retirement (or kids' college) savings into the shitter. Nautilus is something you like. I've never tried it, but that's my problem. It's the product you like, not the company. The company is nothing but a bad joke now.
Everyone was excited that they had come to us, so I figured they were something big and I was just some dolt living in a cave or something. I listened raptly and watched while they navigated and tweaked on the overhead, looking for what I was missing. I understood that the browser was free, and what they were selling was a subscription sercice. The only problem is that I don't need another browser (although I do like my file manager and web browser to be different apps) and I can't see Linux types being suckered into a subscription service.
I walked out of the meeting very confused. Everyone was happy with the presentation and I couldn't see through the hype. Rather I thought I was failing to see through the hype. It didn't occur to me that there was nothing to see beyond it. Open Source types (even the .com flops that give the movement a bad name in the business world) not being on my list of people to whom I bear ill will, I'm still relieved to see Eazel go. I feel sorry for the workers, I even kind of feel sorry for the founders. I don't feel sorry for the funders. What I really feel is closure. I can say no, it's not just me. Good luck in all your future endeavors, guys, but please think them through.
The big problem in Florida last year (and therefore everywhere this year) was that the dipshits don't make a habit of voting. The one time an election came around that they cared about, the state government didn't represent them. The Gov was W's brother and the Sec. O'State had been W's campaign manager. The people, who never bothered to vote in the past, got (deservedly) fucked.
Look into the people running for office. Vote for someone sensible, not just for an irresponsible tax cut. Hell, try voting for a responsible tax cut for a change. You only get the government you deserve. Why vote for one that intrudes on you?
Not being a big consumer of Danish goods, I'll be able to watch interestedly, worrying only about the free speech issues. No big difference there- it's been worrying me for a while. This just adds fuel to the fire.
Give it up, G. Nobody here has been supporting censorware, and I doubt any of us support the war on drugs. The main difference between our Nazis' censorware and their Nazis' censorware is that "ours" "protects" children on publicly funded computers from porn, sites opposing censorship and (probably) sites belonging to commercial rivals of censorware companies' parent companies, while their's censors CNN (like Turner isn't further left than Deng Xiaoping) and the like.
Adults here who don't log in through public libraries have freedom. Those same adults don't even have the freedom to fly in a well marked, unarmed plane in international airspace. I'll take Nazis like Ashcroft (or Reno) any day.
Or you can take your approach and pretend that well paid professionals are cogs in a wheel and don't have the brains that they got hired to use. Fire them all and hire a services company to do your IT work. Your geeks will still play, but you'll feel better because a middleman takes his cut out of your money before it gets to them. It doesn't make sense to me.
Where is that copy of the constitution when I need it?
As your right to speak ends at my ears, spammers' rights end at my inbox. Your right to speak does not include the right to crash my mail (except when dma.org gets flooded with forwarded spam, heh) or waste a chunk of my day.
There are ways to e-mail anonymously, so there is no legitimate reason to spoof it. Any spoofed e-mail can not be protected as a commercial activity or free speech, but should be attacked. I don't want to see them in jail; we have too many laws and too many people in jail for dumb reasons. The ISPs can stop it and ought to be already. Aren't they the biggest victims of spam? I've dumped unreliable ISPs before. The one I have now is good. Hell, sometimes I have trouble sending mail because my ISP shuts down SMTP when it sees too much outgoing mail. So I wait a bit and send again later, thanking them inside for the fact that I don't get spam- and that they do their part to avoid sending it.
Really, thanks though. I think Audiogalaxy looks good, but naturally if they get too big, they'll be stopped.
2) That's what I mean. How can you talk anyone this side of a compulsive gambler into funding this? Scratch tickets are a smarter investment. At least when you don't get any money from them you can use them to heat your house.
Two questions- What is the problem with Gnutella (someone told me it couldn't scale to replace Napster), and before they thought of the subscriptions, what the hell was their business model? How did they get their money?
How do you define a legitimate news show? I get my news from CNN and /. and spend a lot of effort filtering all of it. Ted Turner has his agenda, and sometimes that shows on Headline News. Slashdot has its agenda too, but I like it more. Is Fox news legitimate? They were the ones who called the election in the wee hous of Wednesday morning for Dubya. Because they had hired one of Dubya's boys for the coverage. Are the other networks legitimate? They followed suit simply because they didn't know either. They couldn't make their own calls, so they repeated what Fox said.
Donaldson and Blitzer were on. Donaldson was laughing with Stewart about Sawyer interviewing a sock puppet (legitimate journalism? Disney owned her and pets.com) and Blitzer referred to TDS as "the most important television program, ever." You didn't mention that Bob Dole was their political analyst throughout the campaign. He was obviously enjoying himself, and provided a good counterpoint to Stewart and TDS' writers.
Jennings, Brokaw and Rather should not be incredulous, but ashamed of themselves for being irresponsible journalists fronting for corporate inretests. "WHYYYYYYY?!?!" do I have to depend on AOL/Time-Warner as my most *reliable* news source? /. is just too niche to depend on entirely.
I know a lot of folks just have to be the first to submit a story (hey, at least it's more constructive than the first post race), but come on, if you're going to link, stop asking me to register. As annoying as Wired News' format is to me, at least I can get the information from it.
This is your government (though I know you're not a voter); you have to make it work.
1. What they are trying to accomplish.
2. Why they use software that does not achieve that goal.
3. What they are trying to accomplish (needs re-asking in the face of the bullshit "it's all we've got" argument that they'll give to #2.
4. Whether their half-measures are worth banning legitimate sites.
Keep it open, keep it public, keep a record. Bring a camcorder to the meetings. Petty bureaucrats are less willing to be their usual moronic selves on film. Again, the taxpaying, voting parents are important to have on hand; they get very indignant at stupidity and waste in their local government, espesially when it hurts their kids. They might even go along simply because you guys are willing to take a stand. Good luck.
The resentment here isn't about being locked out of those millions (but as long as they're there, Moore deserved a large cut), but about the system patenting a naturally occurring compound to restrict its use to generate profits.
The doctor did not develop anything, the patient did. I'm just guessing here, but the compound has to have been incredibly rare, if not unique; otherwise it would have been spotted elsewhere. That shows that Moore himself had a lot more to do with developing it than the doctor did.
It's a shame that the Companies can buy the law away from its job of protecting us, especially when we vote for the lawmakers. You've got to hand it to them, though. They care more than the electorate. If actual people cared more, the Undecideds wouldn't have won in November.