Maybe by using those lamo "read receipt" messages that outlook sends. Unfortunately for lawyers, (and for non-tech-savvy people) most geeks turn them off.
...that here in the uk, if a 16 year old schoolgirl wants to have sex with me, she can, but if I video the event (even with her permission, and for my own use only) then I am breaking the law as I own child porn.
Or look at it this way. If I had a large collection of child porn which consisted of 16 year old girls, this would be against the law, but if that collection encouraged me to go out and have sex with 16 year old girls then (as long as it was with their consent), I wouldn't be breaking the law.
In my opinion it is wrong to have a different age for consent and for what constitutes child pornography. Essentially what the law is saying (since in the UK you become an adult at 18) is that:
To own pornography of 16 year old children is illegal.
To actually have sex with 16 year old children is legal.
I know I have stated the same thing 3 times, but it is worth repeating so that the senselessness of it is driven home.
graspee
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"This is an opportunity to punish stupidity, allowing darwinism to work it's magic."
You might want to take that apostrophe out of the word "its" before you too disappear.
But then you didn't log in, so why should I think you care ?
And before someone points out that going from 70wpm to 70wpm is no improvement, what am I? some kind of dvorak posing freeeeeeek, then let me tell you that I used to get RSI, and now I don't. At all.
I use dvorak. I went from 70wpm non-touch-typing qwerty to using dvorak and touch-typing. I didn't use any sort of guide or instruction, I just set my keyboard to dvorak, refused to look at the keyboard anymore and never went back.
(Yes, the first 2 weeks were a nightmare of being slowed down to a complete crawl).
Now I'm back to about 70 wpm and I have sprayed my Trust ergonomic (split) keyboard all black, just for the 'leetness factor and to confuse guests. (They are doomed whether they touch-type or not unless they know how to change the keyboard layout back to qwerty, since the keytops are blank...).
On a more on-topic note, I could imagine having to take 2 pennies with blu-tak on the back of them everywhere I went with this keyboard, so I could put them where the home keys went...
This is on +5 as I speak- just wait and it will get editor bitch-slapped down. Or are they afraid to since it got to 5 first and more people will notice?
graspee
p.s. I liked the way the post used the concept of tooling people into a frenzy and still made +5. Way to innuendo.
Well- it's been nice chatting with you in this ignored forum, since we can have a discussion without constantly getting modded down for being offtopic.
By the way, I think that in my example of owning the vhs and then downloading the divx, this is still borderline, since they expect you to buy the dvd if you own the vhs, they don't give it away free, or allow you to copy it...
I just run a p2p software client in the background all the time with a lot of stuff queued up on it and leave my computer on all the time, like most people. It may take a few days or even a week to download a film if it isn't widely-shared, or if all the people sharing it are on modems, but it gets there. If I put things on the list every so often then every day *something* finishes downloading.
Yes, if I had to sit there and watch it download, I wouldn't bother, but you don't have to do that.
Using "she" instead of "he" is just as sexist, just the other way round, to make a point.
I don't think that/. is a good place to use "she" like that because most people will assume you're female (and fantasize about your orifices) or a "girly man" (and write crude and disturbing things about you).
That's not rephrasing, that's re-specifying. Your original post talked about availability of API documentation, now you've switched the example to software packages.
I agree with your point in general- I was just responding to the exact example you originally used.
Also note that I said MSDN or other documentation... (This added to respond to those people who chose to take part of my reference and then jump on an anti-MS bandwagon).
"What happens when I need to look for API documentation?"
You have MSDN (or whatever the documentation is for your API) installed on your hard drive.
Yes, I sometimes look up Win32 API calls on the internet, but usually when I am out doing a contract somewhere and haven't got MSDN docs installed anywhere.
"Microsoft -- Nine states waging a landmark antitrust battle against Microsoft Corp. are preparing to venture into territory that has been barely visible during the past years of legal slogging: the future."
So this is kind of like Terminator, except the other way round ?
Slashdot Mirror
5:55 am gmt and /. is back after a few minutes of downtime.
/. /. ?
Scientologists
Or did they attempt to "set it up the bomb" ?
graspee
"So every day I see the sign: free IQ test & analysis"
Yeah, pretty accurate test.
If you walk in to enquire...
...you failed!
graspee
"Then if someone searches for Scientology Xenu would appear first ...."
Cool- maybe I can get all the eps on divx...
Xenu- her courage will change the world.
graspee
I think "OT" is a joke, it stands for "off-topic". Obviously OTIII is "Offtopic: -3".
graspee
"What about religions with no centralized structure to distribute money or to wield any power?"
Yay for p2p religions!
(That's when everyone you talk to seems to be slower than you and it takes a long time to get the message across).
graspee
Maybe by using those lamo "read receipt" messages that outlook sends. Unfortunately for lawyers, (and for non-tech-savvy people) most geeks turn them off.
graspee
...that here in the uk, if a 16 year old schoolgirl wants to have sex with me, she can, but if I video the event (even with her permission, and for my own use only) then I am breaking the law as I own child porn.
Or look at it this way. If I had a large collection of child porn which consisted of 16 year old girls, this would be against the law, but if that collection encouraged me to go out and have sex with 16 year old girls then (as long as it was with their consent), I wouldn't be breaking the law.
In my opinion it is wrong to have a different age for consent and for what constitutes child pornography. Essentially what the law is saying (since in the UK you become an adult at 18) is that:
To own pornography of 16 year old children is illegal.
To actually have sex with 16 year old children is legal.
I know I have stated the same thing 3 times, but it is worth repeating so that the senselessness of it is driven home.
graspee
"This is an opportunity to punish stupidity, allowing darwinism to work it's magic."
You might want to take that apostrophe out of the word "its" before you too disappear.
But then you didn't log in, so why should I think you care ?
graspee
And before someone points out that going from 70wpm to 70wpm is no improvement, what am I? some kind of dvorak posing freeeeeeek, then let me tell you that I used to get RSI, and now I don't. At all.
graspee
I use dvorak. I went from 70wpm non-touch-typing qwerty to using dvorak and touch-typing. I didn't use any sort of guide or instruction, I just set my keyboard to dvorak, refused to look at the keyboard anymore and never went back.
(Yes, the first 2 weeks were a nightmare of being slowed down to a complete crawl).
Now I'm back to about 70 wpm and I have sprayed my Trust ergonomic (split) keyboard all black, just for the 'leetness factor and to confuse guests. (They are doomed whether they touch-type or not unless they know how to change the keyboard layout back to qwerty, since the keytops are blank...).
On a more on-topic note, I could imagine having to take 2 pennies with blu-tak on the back of them everywhere I went with this keyboard, so I could put them where the home keys went...
graspee
"witch by the way will have a date with my packet sniffer one day"
Hey, this is slashdot. Lots of people have dates with packet-sniffers. Hell, lots of the readership *are* packet-sniffers.
graspee
A web browser or an ftp client allow you to steal music and porn. Blank paper and a pen allows you to steal sheet music, books etc.
There is nothing illegal or wrong about p2p software, it's just another way of transferring information.
graspee
This is on +5 as I speak- just wait and it will get editor bitch-slapped down. Or are they afraid to since it got to 5 first and more people will notice?
graspee
p.s. I liked the way the post used the concept of tooling people into a frenzy and still made +5. Way to innuendo.
Well- it's been nice chatting with you in this ignored forum, since we can have a discussion without constantly getting modded down for being offtopic.
By the way, I think that in my example of owning the vhs and then downloading the divx, this is still borderline, since they expect you to buy the dvd if you own the vhs, they don't give it away free, or allow you to copy it...
graspee
The Matrox Mystique was curiously absent from the list of cards in the article.
I remember how much I thought it sucked as soon as I got my voodoo 1 because the Mystique couldn't do texture-smoothing.
graspee
"I'm broadband and I still wouldn't bother waiting for a movie to download; if it was 10 times faster I might."
;)
So does that make you an impatient thief ?
graspee
If I own the VHS video of a film I download, am I still a thief ?
If I own the dvd of a film I download, but the dvd got damaged and won't play, am I still a thief?
If the film I am downloading is not available to buy in my country, then am I still a thief ?
graspee
I just run a p2p software client in the background all the time with a lot of stuff queued up on it and leave my computer on all the time, like most people. It may take a few days or even a week to download a film if it isn't widely-shared, or if all the people sharing it are on modems, but it gets there. If I put things on the list every so often then every day *something* finishes downloading.
Yes, if I had to sit there and watch it download, I wouldn't bother, but you don't have to do that.
graspee
"one day it will be possible to easily download full movies without paying for them and then there will be a problem."
Are you on such a slow net connection that you hit "Submit" in 1997 ?
Hmmm. divx.
Hmmm.
graspee
Tao Master Graspee says:
"The sarcasm of a man with 2 identical sigs falls on deaf ears."
graspee
Using "she" instead of "he" is just as sexist, just the other way round, to make a point.
/. is a good place to use "she" like that because most people will assume you're female (and fantasize about your orifices) or a "girly man" (and write crude and disturbing things about you).
I don't think that
graspee
"Did if ever enter your mind that frequently the suits are actually smarter than the geeks because the suits are the one's giving the orders?"
There is no apostrophe in the word "ones" in this context, Mr. Oh-so-smart Suit.
graspee
That's not rephrasing, that's re-specifying. Your original post talked about availability of API documentation, now you've switched the example to software packages.
I agree with your point in general- I was just responding to the exact example you originally used.
Also note that I said MSDN or other documentation... (This added to respond to those people who chose to take part of my reference and then jump on an anti-MS bandwagon).
graspee
"What happens when I need to look for API documentation?"
You have MSDN (or whatever the documentation is for your API) installed on your hard drive.
Yes, I sometimes look up Win32 API calls on the internet, but usually when I am out doing a contract somewhere and haven't got MSDN docs installed anywhere.
graspee
"Microsoft -- Nine states waging a landmark antitrust battle against Microsoft Corp. are preparing to venture into territory that has been barely visible during the past years of legal slogging: the future."
So this is kind of like Terminator, except the other way round ?
They split up Microsoft- but it reformed!
Bill Gates: "I'll be back"
graspee