I quite agree. Lighten up everyone! Slashdot has become so PC. Has it been taken over by the religious right? I was just thinking we need more fundamentalists. No-one has a sense of humor about kiddie porn. Sure, for the record, it's evil stuff, but it doesn't mean we can't laugh about it. Sheesh. Or is it that the FBI is going to have the US puppet government we have here kick down my door and arrest me for saying "kiddie porn" followed by a cavity search and a beating?
...downloading heaps of kiddie porn onto their hard drives always gets a laugh. I could barely keep a straight face when they were dragged off roughly by the police. Hilarious!
A little bounce after a big drop is normal. Some people will be looking to trade the bounce (almost any observation/theory can become a self-fulfilling prophecy in the market), others are buying at that point from the point of view that the stock just got much cheaper. If you are bullish on the stock then it represents a buying opportunity. If you're holding the stock you might buy some more stock to make the average purchase price of your stake lower (a risky strategy). Someone who is short on the stock might look to take profits after the fall, creating the bounce.
Well, we'll never know if these people broke the law, will we? It's never been tested in court. They can't afford justice. The RIAA are judge, jury and executioner.
We really need to get back to the good ol' days of McCarthyism: you're a communist, end of story, or better still, the Salem witch trials. You'd like that, wouldn't you? Becuase you know they are guilty. I'm mean they have a computer and an internet connection - what else could they possibly be doing?
If the RIAA says it's true who needs proof? It's not like they make mistakes..
I think the game should be renamed "greedy oligopolist". You get to illegally fix prices, strongarm artists and sue poor people who can't afford to defend themselves in court.
The winner is the person with the most manufactured artists with the most manufactured music.
Yes, pedophiles are everywhere, preying on your children. Shutting down chatrooms isn't enough. As long as we have any sort of communication, your children are unsafe. Disconnect the phone and your network connection. Board up the windows, because pedophiles walk around the suburbs looking for victims. Don't let your children go to school, because teachers are often pedophiles. Best to lock them in a cupboard, because the man who comes to fix your sink might be a pedophile. But they're still not safe. Pedophiles can still "groom" your children while you're not watching, so best to poke out their eyes and ears, that way pedophiles can't talk them into doing things they don't want to do.
One (relatively minor) annoyance about Apple updates is they each seem to choose a different system setting to reset. When I installed 10.2.8 on my Dual G4 867 Mirror Door it reset all my screen resolution and position settings. An update on my laptop reset my UI settings. What happened to the Mac attention to detail? All lost in the Unix weenies trying to get the quoting right so they don't erase you hard disk, I imagine.
Yes, bandwidth costs money, but there is no cost to the seller, which is the whole point.
Here's a little model of how it might work so you don't have to tax your imagination:
- Record companies release compressed (using some asymmetrical, lossless, compression scheme), DRM'ed movies, albums and songs. These can be freely copied and distributed by anyone (eg using p2p)
- In order to read the file, you have to pay, say, less than 50c US per song, and $2 per movie. The file gets uncompressed to it's full size and to a non-DRM'ed, standard format that can be burnt to CD or DVD and played normally.
- Offer your entire catalog, back catalog and currently releases, priced accordingly.
- Go after anyone who shares the unencrypted file, but warn the sharer first and prosecute repeat or very large scale offenders to the full extent of the law.
Now if you say this won't work, why does the iTunes store works so well? It's only a little different to this. Why would people use this method? Because they are guaranteed quality and they're doing it legally. I don't think the vast majority of people want things for free, they just want to be able to afford lots of it without paying an arm and a leg.
This is what mystifies me. Software, including anything that can be encoded such as music or movies, is absolutely made for the Internet and p2p. The cost of distribution is zero. The marginal cost per unit is zero. All these stupid corporations need to do is work out that they're sitting on a gold mine and increase their profits exponentially. They ought to figure out that 1000 times the sales at one tenth of the price is still 100 times the revenue, or something in that order.
But, as all monopolies and oligopolies inevitably do, they have become fat and lazy and will eventually alienate or destroy (through overpricing) their market. Technology is just helping that process along. One day's they'll wake up and make a mint.
Meanwhile p2p and such tech will grow and flourish.
At least you get a vote. I live in a country that just follows the US like a lost puppy and adopts their policies blindly.
Anyway, you shouldn't be so surprised by these turn of events. The practical definition of a terrorist to the current US government is "anyone who disagrees with us".
I think the verdict is a wonderful thing. I think plugins are broken by design. Getting rid of them will result in more consistent and integrated and less buggy web browsers. Maybe now we can move to XML based markup (XHTML + SVG, etc) instead of having to interpret endless proprietry formats.
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I wonder if SCO intends all this publicity and open source community reply to do their work for them.
I think you've hit on something there: McBride is actually the biggest Slshodot troll of all time! Well done Darl.
Does this mean I have to remove all the blank lines from all my code to avoid being sued by SCO?
No, you have to add the lines into your code and pay the license fee in order to not get sued. The code you are writing right now is probably SCO's IP.
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However, as I am not burdened with morals myself, I would like to take this opportunity to tell SCO to kiss my ass. You probably don't know how hard I laughed while reading "SCO declares GPL invalid". Isn't having an entire company full of people smoking crack in violation of the law? All your base are belong to SCO!
No, you're narrowing down your point until it becomes meaningless. They know that they would end up suing a broad range of people, including 12 year olds. The whole point is that they're being indiscriminate. They could target the professional pirates who make thousands bootlegging CDs, but they chose to attack everyday people, young and old. They knew that they probably would sue a 12 year old and they didn't care. They are targeting 12 year old girls because their criteria doesn't consider age or gender.
While I agree that it's not very smart and makes them look bad (go media) it's not entirely their fault. Do you expect them to stake-out the house first and watch with binoculars who is using Kazaa?
Let's see. They know they're taking legal action against individuals who do not do what they're doing for profit. They know they're taking legal action against individuals who do not have the resources to fight any sort of legal action. They have said publicly that this is a fund raiser for more suits.
So, they're raising money from, and making examples of, people who will not get their day in court (becuase they can't afford to) in order to support their (often corrupt, as shown in price fixing court cases) businesses.
You don't need glasses to work it out. Maybe you could go and explain how the record companies are really trying to do the right thing to some poor, scared 12 year old they're bullying.
So you're cheap, or poor. Congrats. If you really wanted to save money you could buy a transistor radio and listen to tracks really cheap. Or for free if you just rember the tune and hum them to yourself.
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I quite agree. Lighten up everyone! Slashdot has become so PC. Has it been taken over by the religious right? I was just thinking we need more fundamentalists. No-one has a sense of humor about kiddie porn. Sure, for the record, it's evil stuff, but it doesn't mean we can't laugh about it. Sheesh. Or is it that the FBI is going to have the US puppet government we have here kick down my door and arrest me for saying "kiddie porn" followed by a cavity search and a beating?
Informative? How is this informative?
Most people wouldn't have thought it up themselves. Slashdot is the market place of ideas!
...downloading heaps of kiddie porn onto their hard drives always gets a laugh. I could barely keep a straight face when they were dragged off roughly by the police. Hilarious!
What's an "ARPA", and why wont Network Solutions let me register one!?!?!
It's the network SCO has copyright for and that the Internet was illegally based on. Networks Solutions are just trying to avoid a $3Bil suit.
A little bounce after a big drop is normal. Some people will be looking to trade the bounce (almost any observation/theory can become a self-fulfilling prophecy in the market), others are buying at that point from the point of view that the stock just got much cheaper. If you are bullish on the stock then it represents a buying opportunity. If you're holding the stock you might buy some more stock to make the average purchase price of your stake lower (a risky strategy). Someone who is short on the stock might look to take profits after the fall, creating the bounce.
These a just a few reasons stocks bounce.
"the prototype loaded data at nearly twice the speed of a retail Xbox."
And then played the game at twice the speed, making it altogether unplayable...
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Well, we'll never know if these people broke the law, will we? It's never been tested in court. They can't afford justice. The RIAA are judge, jury and executioner.
We really need to get back to the good ol' days of McCarthyism: you're a communist, end of story, or better still, the Salem witch trials. You'd like that, wouldn't you? Becuase you know they are guilty. I'm mean they have a computer and an internet connection - what else could they possibly be doing?
If the RIAA says it's true who needs proof? It's not like they make mistakes..
I think the game should be renamed "greedy oligopolist". You get to illegally fix prices, strongarm artists and sue poor people who can't afford to defend themselves in court.
The winner is the person with the most manufactured artists with the most manufactured music.
Yes, pedophiles are everywhere, preying on your children. Shutting down chatrooms isn't enough. As long as we have any sort of communication, your children are unsafe. Disconnect the phone and your network connection. Board up the windows, because pedophiles walk around the suburbs looking for victims. Don't let your children go to school, because teachers are often pedophiles. Best to lock them in a cupboard, because the man who comes to fix your sink might be a pedophile. But they're still not safe. Pedophiles can still "groom" your children while you're not watching, so best to poke out their eyes and ears, that way pedophiles can't talk them into doing things they don't want to do.
Look for the Dingo with an enormous penis.
An analog watch would be right twice a day. Unless it's a 24-hour watch, which are pretty rare.
One (relatively minor) annoyance about Apple updates is they each seem to choose a different system setting to reset. When I installed 10.2.8 on my Dual G4 867 Mirror Door it reset all my screen resolution and position settings. An update on my laptop reset my UI settings. What happened to the Mac attention to detail? All lost in the Unix weenies trying to get the quoting right so they don't erase you hard disk, I imagine.
Yes, bandwidth costs money, but there is no cost to the seller, which is the whole point.
Here's a little model of how it might work so you don't have to tax your imagination:
- Record companies release compressed (using some asymmetrical, lossless, compression scheme), DRM'ed movies, albums and songs. These can be freely copied and distributed by anyone (eg using p2p)
- In order to read the file, you have to pay, say, less than 50c US per song, and $2 per movie. The file gets uncompressed to it's full size and to a non-DRM'ed, standard format that can be burnt to CD or DVD and played normally.
- Offer your entire catalog, back catalog and currently releases, priced accordingly.
- Go after anyone who shares the unencrypted file, but warn the sharer first and prosecute repeat or very large scale offenders to the full extent of the law.
Now if you say this won't work, why does the iTunes store works so well? It's only a little different to this. Why would people use this method? Because they are guaranteed quality and they're doing it legally. I don't think the vast majority of people want things for free, they just want to be able to afford lots of it without paying an arm and a leg.
This is what mystifies me. Software, including anything that can be encoded such as music or movies, is absolutely made for the Internet and p2p. The cost of distribution is zero. The marginal cost per unit is zero. All these stupid corporations need to do is work out that they're sitting on a gold mine and increase their profits exponentially. They ought to figure out that 1000 times the sales at one tenth of the price is still 100 times the revenue, or something in that order.
But, as all monopolies and oligopolies inevitably do, they have become fat and lazy and will eventually alienate or destroy (through overpricing) their market. Technology is just helping that process along. One day's they'll wake up and make a mint.
Meanwhile p2p and such tech will grow and flourish.
At least you get a vote. I live in a country that just follows the US like a lost puppy and adopts their policies blindly.
Anyway, you shouldn't be so surprised by these turn of events. The practical definition of a terrorist to the current US government is "anyone who disagrees with us".
I think the verdict is a wonderful thing. I think plugins are broken by design. Getting rid of them will result in more consistent and integrated and less buggy web browsers. Maybe now we can move to XML based markup (XHTML + SVG, etc) instead of having to interpret endless proprietry formats.
I wonder if SCO intends all this publicity and open source community reply to do their work for them.
I think you've hit on something there: McBride is actually the biggest Slshodot troll of all time! Well done Darl.
Does this mean I have to remove all the blank lines from all my code to avoid being sued by SCO?
No, you have to add the lines into your code and pay the license fee in order to not get sued. The code you are writing right now is probably SCO's IP.
However, as I am not burdened with morals myself, I would like to take this opportunity to tell SCO to kiss my ass. You probably don't know how hard I laughed while reading "SCO declares GPL invalid". Isn't having an entire company full of people smoking crack in violation of the law? All your base are belong to SCO!
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Damn! I knew the bes way to get rich was go on welfare. You've opened my eyes!
With women a distant last on that list...
They're far too difficult to configure...
No, you're narrowing down your point until it becomes meaningless. They know that they would end up suing a broad range of people, including 12 year olds. The whole point is that they're being indiscriminate. They could target the professional pirates who make thousands bootlegging CDs, but they chose to attack everyday people, young and old. They knew that they probably would sue a 12 year old and they didn't care. They are targeting 12 year old girls because their criteria doesn't consider age or gender.
While I agree that it's not very smart and makes them look bad (go media) it's not entirely their fault. Do you expect them to stake-out the house first and watch with binoculars who is using Kazaa?
Let's see. They know they're taking legal action against individuals who do not do what they're doing for profit. They know they're taking legal action against individuals who do not have the resources to fight any sort of legal action. They have said publicly that this is a fund raiser for more suits.
So, they're raising money from, and making examples of, people who will not get their day in court (becuase they can't afford to) in order to support their (often corrupt, as shown in price fixing court cases) businesses.
You don't need glasses to work it out. Maybe you could go and explain how the record companies are really trying to do the right thing to some poor, scared 12 year old they're bullying.
Get a clue, man.
She's stealing music. She deserves everyting she gets. She should be tried as an adult and the death penalty shuld not be ruled out.
If the piracy continues the recording industry may we wiped out, then would would all those poor executives do? The can't all join SCO.
So you're cheap, or poor. Congrats. If you really wanted to save money you could buy a transistor radio and listen to tracks really cheap. Or for free if you just rember the tune and hum them to yourself.