What? Slashdot has no responsiblity to post anything. They take submissions from people and post the ones they think are the most interesting or important and give people a forum for discussing it. What makes you think they have any "responsiblity" to mirror anything? Where's the link to your mirror of the video? I must've missed it.
I agree people who aren't familiar with computers will be more likely to panic due to their fear of the unknown. However the bigger question is, besides the fact of whether or not they had the right to do this, why was NBC allowed to show their movie? If the FBI was so concerned with the public panicking(?).
Off topic, but I've said it before and I'll say it again. You can have all the single shot, muzzle loading muskets you want. No one needs an assault rifle, no one needs a handgun. The second amendment says nothing about regulating the type of "arms". Would you like your next door neighbor to have a nuclear weapon? I didn't think so. When's the last time you heard of someone successfully protecting his home and family because he had a gun, versus the number of people killed because someone got pissed off, or a child got ahold of a gun? I'm looking forward to the day when I can turn on the news and see a story about some disgruntled Post Office employee going berserk with a baseball bat. No offense to Postal Employees.
That's a good idea. How about starting an organization of people who have the ability to host sites. Call it the FreeNet Coalition, then in cases like this, almost immediately 20, 30, 40 or more mirror sites popup all over the world. There's no way they could shut them all down. I might actually have to start looking into that.
We are the center of the universe, lol. But you have a point, I wonder myself what the hell these people are thinking trying to regulate the internet when they know damn well that it is world wide and anything they try to do won't be enforceable. I get the impression Congress does think they are the center of the universe. I would love to see this site hosted outside the U.S.
My question exactly. The first question I'd have for whoever made this decision is "What about NBC? Why were they allowed to show their movie?" My guess, little guy, easy to shutdown, NBC, major news coverage, major tap dancing, major 'splaining to do. Bottom line is the FBI isn't really concerned with public "safety". Far more people saw the NBC movie than will ever see this guy's website. Most likely someone at the FBI was surfing, saw the site and decided to try and make a name for themselves internally so when performance reviews come around he/she's looking good.
I think the kicker is "find a medium you control". Sure he could put up his own webserver, but then what's to stop the FBI from contacting his ISP to deny him DNS services or disable routing or whatever it takes. I'm not liking this at all. Where was the FBI when NBC showed that lame ass Y2K movie the other night? Many more people were likely to see it than some guys website. Of course going after NBC would've been a national story and a big hassle. On the upside maybe it would've distracted Jesse Jackson from whatever he thinks he's doing in Illinois, but I digress.
Just read an article on Di-Ann Eisnor in FastCompany magazine. She started the first (according to them) offline advertising agency for online brands. Apparently she was able to cause a ruckus for MiningCo changing to About.com so maybe they could do something for PG. No, I don't work for them, I just happened to see the article this evening.
Show don't tell. I think it would be possible to create an accurate portrait of breaking into a system by focusing on the character and their excitement or whatever. If it's important to the character and the audience cares about the character they'll think it's important too. Whether they understand it or not. Without all the blinking monitors and bogus graphics. Although I gotta admit, I have a dream of somehow getting a scene in a movie with a close up of some really cool looking Gnome or KDE desktop that will cause all the Windows users to wonder what it was and then having the actor go on Jay Leno and saying it was a linux desktop and it was downloaded from themes.org and it's only available for linux. But I digress
A) It was coffee B) by definition, coffee is hot C) she spilled it, not McDonald's D) it wasn't McDonald's fault she was clumsy. E) maybe the temperature WAS too hot. If someone had sued because they had burned their tongue I would have a better time with it. Still think you ought to know it's fucking coffee for god's sake, and it's gonna be hot! F) no i didn't read all the court briefs, and no I don't look to Leno to do my thinking for me. I think it was a bullshit lawsuit just on the face of it.
After 3-5 years of non-payment, the credit card company will forgive the debt owed to them by their delinquent customer
Actually in my experience, (don't ask) the credit card company sells the debt to a collector, who then sells it to another who then...etc, etc. After 8 yrs I still got companies calling me about a debt from 1991. (and no, I'm not proud of it)
I think it's more a case of a smart lawyer seeing the possibilities. On the one hand I definitely agree with you. It is a stupid lawsuit, brought by a totally irresponsible woman, guided by a shrewd lawyer. Unfortunately, if it's illegal to offer loans for gambling, and VISA is an option at a gambling site, it's VISA's fault. Legally. This woman got lucky, she's an idiot, but she got lucky. Chances are she'll get herself in hot water again and won't be so lucky next time. And if there is a God, she won't have credit for the rest of her life.
When you're in charge of Slashdot, you get to pick what is and isn't relevant. Just what exactly is your perception of a "proper" Slashdot story? Considering you didn't start Slashdot, you don't run Slashdot, you don't do anything except read it and post responses, you have no right to question anything they feel is appropriate. If they are wrong, the number of hits starts to go down. That simple. Personally I feel CdrTaco, Hemos, Roblimo et.al. do a good job. Occasionally there is a story I'm not interested in, so I don't read it. I don't however, question their judgement in posting it. Excuse the rant, but your comment struck me the wrong way. Now for MY response to the story. Reminds me a little of the lady who sued McDonald's because she spilled a cup of coffee in her lap and burned herself. And she won!! Just another example of people not taking responsibility for themselves and the judicial system letting them do it. Almost makes me want to go to law school just so I can be a judge and throw these kinds of cases out of court. You think Judge Judy can go off on someone, you ain't seen nothin'!
How many people who have ripped MP3's would show up if say, Sony, agreed to give you a CD if you came in and gave them all copies of your MP3's? Not that there'd be any way to be sure they got all copies, but theoretically. Yah, I know off topic, but just occurred to me.
I'd have to say I fall into category 3 also. I am a systems engineer. I work for a MS Solution Provider, I also have burned copies of most of MS stuff to take out to clients. Now as a company, we don't install software for clients unless they have a license. However, some of this software has found it's way to my home machine. Do I feel bad? No. I can rationalize it as a "learning" experience. If I'm out there supporting MS software I shouldn't have to pay to have my own copy. I also have a "pirated" copy of Photoshop. I don't think GIMP is there quite yet and I'm more comfortable with PS. But the price is the main issue. If it was $200 bucks, I'd buy it. For $600 or so bucks, I'm pirating. Not sure what the point of this is, I know I had one though.
I just decided to leave Earthlink, here's why: I just had ADSL installed on Tuesday, Earthlink is my ISP and PacBell takes care of the DSL equipment. First problem is that Earthlink does not offer static IP's for DSL. They use dynamic addressing and some sort of proprietary software to set up your connection so what it amounts to is basically "dial up" DSL. When you want on you bring up the dialog box and click Connect, when you're done you Disconnect. Second problem, for me anyway, is that their install software is not available (dons flameproof suit) for NT. Not for 2 to 3 months, so you must be running Win95 or 98 (possibly Mac also but not sure). As for Linux support, don't even think about it. I'm not sure if the merger with Mindspring will change this policy or not, but for now Earthlink is out.
Personally I've found Earthlink's news feed to be extremely poor. Rarely do all parts of a post show up at the same time and more often than not parts never show up. Just last week I replied to an article that was itself a reply to an article that showed up 3 days after I posted my reply to the reply.
This article was in the LA Times today. Apparently some company has "patented" the idea of renting and selling movies over the internet. Mainly talks about the big boys, Disney, WB et al and the potential problems they face but it seems as though just about anything is patentable these days. Now if only I had patented the idea of selling naked pictures of "teens" I'd be "almost" as rich as BG.
My question might be more suited to a different Ask Slashdot but as far as getting experience goes is contracting better or employee? Right now I'm a systems engineer for a large systems integrator. The problem is, we have no projects, no opportunity to learn new skills, no nuttin. I'm either sitting in the office (ahem, reading Slashdot) or out at a client troubleshooting a tape backup problem. For most of the last year I've been involved in various desktop projects for a large (5,000 or so desktops) bio-tech firm. Sounds ok until you realize the "project" consists of point-click-wait, repeat. Bottom line, I'm bored out of my skull. I've pretty much decided that my future with this company is zero. The main question is, if you've made it this far, should I be looking at contract jobs or just look for a company that has more going on?
Slashdot Mirror
Hey he apologized for that, give 'em a break.
Well, the only problem I see is that Congress didn't make a law doing any of those things. The FBI was the one taking action.
What? Slashdot has no responsiblity to post anything. They take submissions from people and post the ones they think are the most interesting or important and give people a forum for discussing it. What makes you think they have any "responsiblity" to mirror anything? Where's the link to your mirror of the video? I must've missed it.
I agree people who aren't familiar with computers will be more likely to panic due to their fear of the unknown. However the bigger question is, besides the fact of whether or not they had the right to do this, why was NBC allowed to show their movie? If the FBI was so concerned with the public panicking(?).
Off topic, but I've said it before and I'll say it again. You can have all the single shot, muzzle loading muskets you want. No one needs an assault rifle, no one needs a handgun. The second amendment says nothing about regulating the type of "arms". Would you like your next door neighbor to have a nuclear weapon? I didn't think so.
When's the last time you heard of someone successfully protecting his home and family because he had a gun, versus the number of people killed because someone got pissed off, or a child got ahold of a gun?
I'm looking forward to the day when I can turn on the news and see a story about some disgruntled Post Office employee going berserk with a baseball bat. No offense to Postal Employees.
That's a good idea. How about starting an organization of people who have the ability to host sites. Call it the FreeNet Coalition, then in cases like this, almost immediately 20, 30, 40 or more mirror sites popup all over the world. There's no way they could shut them all down.
I might actually have to start looking into that.
We are the center of the universe, lol.
But you have a point, I wonder myself what the hell these people are thinking trying to regulate the internet when they know damn well that it is world wide and anything they try to do won't be enforceable. I get the impression Congress does think they are the center of the universe. I would love to see this site hosted outside the U.S.
My question exactly. The first question I'd have for whoever made this decision is "What about NBC? Why were they allowed to show their movie?"
My guess, little guy, easy to shutdown, NBC, major news coverage, major tap dancing, major 'splaining to do.
Bottom line is the FBI isn't really concerned with public "safety". Far more people saw the NBC movie than will ever see this guy's website. Most likely someone at the FBI was surfing, saw the site and decided to try and make a name for themselves internally so when performance reviews come around he/she's looking good.
I think the kicker is "find a medium you control". Sure he could put up his own webserver, but then what's to stop the FBI from contacting his ISP to deny him DNS services or disable routing or whatever it takes. I'm not liking this at all.
Where was the FBI when NBC showed that lame ass Y2K movie the other night? Many more people were likely to see it than some guys website. Of course going after NBC would've been a national story and a big hassle. On the upside maybe it would've distracted Jesse Jackson from whatever he thinks he's doing in Illinois, but I digress.
Just read an article on Di-Ann Eisnor in FastCompany magazine. She started the first (according to them) offline advertising agency for online brands. Apparently she was able to cause a ruckus for MiningCo changing to About.com so maybe they could do something for PG. No, I don't work for them, I just happened to see the article this evening.
lol. Teach Yourself Jackshit in 2 Seconds. I love that title. Yep I know, I'm going down.
Also there's an article in the Oct '99 issue of GQ magazine that discusses Celebration and the two books about it.
Show don't tell. I think it would be possible to create an accurate portrait of breaking into a system by focusing on the character and their excitement or whatever. If it's important to the character and the audience cares about the character they'll think it's important too. Whether they understand it or not. Without all the blinking monitors and bogus graphics.
Although I gotta admit, I have a dream of somehow getting a scene in a movie with a close up of some really cool looking Gnome or KDE desktop that will cause all the Windows users to wonder what it was and then having the actor go on Jay Leno and saying it was a linux desktop and it was downloaded from themes.org and it's only available for linux.
But I digress
All my CD's say Unauthorized duplication is illegal. Nothing about whether you are going to distribute or not.
A) It was coffee
B) by definition, coffee is hot
C) she spilled it, not McDonald's
D) it wasn't McDonald's fault she was clumsy.
E) maybe the temperature WAS too hot. If someone had sued because they had burned their tongue I would have a better time with it. Still think you ought to know it's fucking coffee for god's sake, and it's gonna be hot!
F) no i didn't read all the court briefs, and no I don't look to Leno to do my thinking for me. I think it was a bullshit lawsuit just on the face of it.
Actually in my experience, (don't ask) the credit card company sells the debt to a collector, who then sells it to another who then...etc, etc. After 8 yrs I still got companies calling me about a debt from 1991. (and no, I'm not proud of it)
I think it's more a case of a smart lawyer seeing the possibilities. On the one hand I definitely agree with you. It is a stupid lawsuit, brought by a totally irresponsible woman, guided by a shrewd lawyer.
Unfortunately, if it's illegal to offer loans for gambling, and VISA is an option at a gambling site, it's VISA's fault. Legally.
This woman got lucky, she's an idiot, but she got lucky. Chances are she'll get herself in hot water again and won't be so lucky next time. And if there is a God, she won't have credit for the rest of her life.
Let me guess it says............
When you're in charge of Slashdot, you get to pick what is and isn't relevant. Just what exactly is your perception of a "proper" Slashdot story? Considering you didn't start Slashdot, you don't run Slashdot, you don't do anything except read it and post responses, you have no right to question anything they feel is appropriate. If they are wrong, the number of hits starts to go down. That simple.
Personally I feel CdrTaco, Hemos, Roblimo et.al. do a good job. Occasionally there is a story I'm not interested in, so I don't read it. I don't however, question their judgement in posting it.
Excuse the rant, but your comment struck me the wrong way.
Now for MY response to the story. Reminds me a little of the lady who sued McDonald's because she spilled a cup of coffee in her lap and burned herself. And she won!! Just another example of people not taking responsibility for themselves and the judicial system letting them do it. Almost makes me want to go to law school just so I can be a judge and throw these kinds of cases out of court. You think Judge Judy can go off on someone, you ain't seen nothin'!
How many people who have ripped MP3's would show up if say, Sony, agreed to give you a CD if you came in and gave them all copies of your MP3's? Not that there'd be any way to be sure they got all copies, but theoretically.
Yah, I know off topic, but just occurred to me.
I'd have to say I fall into category 3 also. I am a systems engineer. I work for a MS Solution Provider, I also have burned copies of most of MS stuff to take out to clients. Now as a company, we don't install software for clients unless they have a license. However, some of this software has found it's way to my home machine. Do I feel bad? No. I can rationalize it as a "learning" experience. If I'm out there supporting MS software I shouldn't have to pay to have my own copy.
I also have a "pirated" copy of Photoshop. I don't think GIMP is there quite yet and I'm more comfortable with PS. But the price is the main issue. If it was $200 bucks, I'd buy it. For $600 or so bucks, I'm pirating.
Not sure what the point of this is, I know I had one though.
I just decided to leave Earthlink, here's why:
I just had ADSL installed on Tuesday, Earthlink is my ISP and PacBell takes care of the DSL equipment.
First problem is that Earthlink does not offer static IP's for DSL. They use dynamic addressing and some sort of proprietary software to set up your connection so what it amounts to is basically "dial up" DSL. When you want on you bring up the dialog box and click Connect, when you're done you Disconnect.
Second problem, for me anyway, is that their install software is not available (dons flameproof suit) for NT. Not for 2 to 3 months, so you must be running Win95 or 98 (possibly Mac also but not sure). As for Linux support, don't even think about it.
I'm not sure if the merger with Mindspring will change this policy or not, but for now Earthlink is out.
Personally I've found Earthlink's news feed to be extremely poor. Rarely do all parts of a post show up at the same time and more often than not parts never show up.
Just last week I replied to an article that was itself a reply to an article that showed up 3 days after I posted my reply to the reply.
This article was in the LA Times today. Apparently some company has "patented" the idea of renting and selling movies over the internet. Mainly talks about the big boys, Disney, WB et al and the potential problems they face but it seems as though just about anything is patentable these days. Now if only I had patented the idea of selling naked pictures of "teens" I'd be "almost" as rich as BG.
My question might be more suited to a different Ask Slashdot but as far as getting experience goes is contracting better or employee? Right now I'm a systems engineer for a large systems integrator. The problem is, we have no projects, no opportunity to learn new skills, no nuttin. I'm either sitting in the office (ahem, reading Slashdot) or out at a client troubleshooting a tape backup problem. For most of the last year I've been involved in various desktop projects for a large (5,000 or so desktops) bio-tech firm. Sounds ok until you realize the "project" consists of point-click-wait, repeat. Bottom line, I'm bored out of my skull. I've pretty much decided that my future with this company is zero. The main question is, if you've made it this far, should I be looking at contract jobs or just look for a company that has more going on?