The average/.er thinks that big ass companies who have shitloads of money should abide by the law and that a lone individual who may even be unemployed should be allowed to break it.
People who rip off music, films, books, games etc. over p2p are taking away a tiny bit of potential profit from huge corporations with lots of money, whereas riaa suing some dude takes a large amount of money away from somebody who doesn't have much.
The slashdot mentality is that the seriousness of the crime is directly proportional to the percentage of a person's worth that the crime affects.
I have an 18-year-old daughter and trying to protect her from the cuss-words on TV, video and DVD is a neverending nightmare!
How can film-makers be so irresponsible as to include words like d*mn, a** and b*tt in their movies?
Luckily I discovered a solution, and I hope it helps other slashdot readers too.
At www.perspexkids.com you will find a really friendly, home-run company who can encase your children in perspex, thus not only preventing them from picking up cuss-words from TV, but also protecting them against persecution on the basis of religion and injury by mean-minded little kids with plastic cutlery.
From their faq:
Q: If I encase my kid in perspex, won't he/she die?
A: Probably. But wouldn't you rather your child was with Baby Jesus in Heaven than exposed to all the negative influences of today's society?
Well, I don't know about coffee naturally grown to have no or little caffeine, but normal decaff (which has been put through a process to get rid of the caffeine) tastes like shit compared to real coffee.
Now it says that tea in its raw form, pound for pound, contains more caffeine than coffee, but because you use less of it to make a cup of tea, and the tea leaves aren't consumed, you end up with a cup of tea having 1/3 to 1/2 of the caffeine in it compared to a cup of coffee.
I read somewhere on the internet (so it must be true) that ordinary (black) tea has more caffeine in it than coffee. I think it said that in its raw form tea had less caffeine than coffee, but when prepared, it had more.
Mozilla Firebird does have multiple user accounts. At least the last version to have Phoenix as the name had them, so unless they've taken them out of MozFB then they're still there.
I don't know how you configure them- I only used to run into them because I'd try and launch a link from an email in Outlook and it would bring up the user profile selector for phoenix.
IE for pr0n? Are you crazy, man? Going to a pr0n site with IE is like saying "I am crazy mister person who likes pop-ups! Please to pop-up many windows!"
"Oh a pop-up! I kiss you!"
"Oh another pop-up! I kiss you again!"
"Oh, a pop-up that launches 8 pop-ups when you close it! Many times do I kiss you, oh pop-up provider!"
I know we're not supposed to bitch about rejected story submissions, but this story mocks us, and twists us, and makes us say "Why?", and put on our black leather trenchcoats and sit gloomily in the corners of dingy internet cafes with a grimace on our face, typing to slashdot about how unfair life is.
'"We have made progress with Microsoft," one official said, adding that the department is following up on complaints from other firms. "We have gotten them to make changes."'
This just shows how scared the DOJ is of MS. I mean if I got taken to court for not paying back a loan and the court ordered me to pay £x back per month and I only paid a fraction of it back per month do you think they would say "We have made progress with graspee. We have gotten him to pay back some of the money he owes." ???
Lots of people have mentioned the problem of the computer reading out your spam when you come in, and that was my first thought too, however isn't it bad enough that when you bring someone else round it starts reading out all your personal email?
Even if you have no secrets at all from your wife or SO, what if you have kids? Now no-one can send you email with vulgar language in...
You're right about the terms I used, I should have said "You can't seriously compare the crime of downloading music with the crime of killing someone with a knife".
And now you have followed it up by saying that most music downloaders are "simply being thuggish".
"Thuggish?" These people aren't thugs! What do they do, wait in dark alleys for some poor unsuspecting mp3 to walk past, then beat it unconscious with a big stick and forcibly copy it?
Even with replication of physical objects being possible, there is still an apportunity for profit by companies that make physical things.
For example what could happen is that all devices could come with something that wirelessly tapped into the internet and broadcast a unique key (unique to each copy of for example a food blender).
Now I can borrow your food blender and copy it, or download the data from the internet, but because I haven't got a unique key, I'm out of luck.
Then of course you will get people developing keygens for food blenders, and when that stops working they will just disassemble the food blender, hack out the controlling key parts, and put the design back on the p2p networks.
(Heh, can you imagine it: "I downloaded a food processor from the internet and there was a turd in it!")
Anyway, this is how, even with freely-copyable physical objects, companies can still make money. Of course people would find ways round it, but last I heard the RIAA and MPAA are still making lots of money...
Normally it happens because each releaser changes the format of the files and wants to add their own.nfo or whatever.
So like a file may be 25.rars from a newsgroup, and then someone may zip the rars up in one zip with an.nfo, then someone may later split that big release into smaller 5 meg parts, adding their own info file etc. etc.
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It's all about money.
/.er thinks that big ass companies who have shitloads of money should abide by the law and that a lone individual who may even be unemployed should be allowed to break it.
The average
People who rip off music, films, books, games etc. over p2p are taking away a tiny bit of potential profit from huge corporations with lots of money, whereas riaa suing some dude takes a large amount of money away from somebody who doesn't have much.
The slashdot mentality is that the seriousness of the crime is directly proportional to the percentage of a person's worth that the crime affects.
I agree.
graspee
I totally agree.
I have an 18-year-old daughter and trying to protect her from the cuss-words on TV, video and DVD is a neverending nightmare!
How can film-makers be so irresponsible as to include words like d*mn, a** and b*tt in their movies?
Luckily I discovered a solution, and I hope it helps other slashdot readers too.
At www.perspexkids.com you will find a really friendly, home-run company who can encase your children in perspex, thus not only preventing them from picking up cuss-words from TV, but also protecting them against persecution on the basis of religion and injury by mean-minded little kids with plastic cutlery.
From their faq:
Q: If I encase my kid in perspex, won't he/she die?
A: Probably. But wouldn't you rather your child was with Baby Jesus in Heaven than exposed to all the negative influences of today's society?
graspee
Well, I don't know about coffee naturally grown to have no or little caffeine, but normal decaff (which has been put through a process to get rid of the caffeine) tastes like shit compared to real coffee.
graspee
I checked again- the internet has changed!!!
Now it says that tea in its raw form, pound for pound, contains more caffeine than coffee, but because you use less of it to make a cup of tea, and the tea leaves aren't consumed, you end up with a cup of tea having 1/3 to 1/2 of the caffeine in it compared to a cup of coffee.
graspee
I read somewhere on the internet (so it must be true) that ordinary (black) tea has more caffeine in it than coffee. I think it said that in its raw form tea had less caffeine than coffee, but when prepared, it had more.
graspee
Yak, Yak, Yak.
Get a Job!
graspee
Trinity College Dublin.
WTF is up with this? I thought it was bad enough when people called every machine on their LAN after a Matrix character!
You can bet your ass my kids won't be going to Neo College, Dublin or Morpheus College, Dublin.
graspee
Mozilla Firebird does have multiple user accounts. At least the last version to have Phoenix as the name had them, so unless they've taken them out of MozFB then they're still there.
I don't know how you configure them- I only used to run into them because I'd try and launch a link from an email in Outlook and it would bring up the user profile selector for phoenix.
graspee
IE for pr0n? Are you crazy, man? Going to a pr0n site with IE is like saying "I am crazy mister person who likes pop-ups! Please to pop-up many windows!"
"Oh a pop-up! I kiss you!"
"Oh another pop-up! I kiss you again!"
"Oh, a pop-up that launches 8 pop-ups when you close it! Many times do I kiss you, oh pop-up provider!"
graspee
FYI the plural of gaijin is gaijin. HAND.
graspee
You're right of course. They can either make a movie about a product they want to sell, or make a movie then make products based on it.
Either way, we buy goods.
graspee
I know we're not supposed to bitch about rejected story submissions, but this story mocks us, and twists us, and makes us say "Why?", and put on our black leather trenchcoats and sit gloomily in the corners of dingy internet cafes with a grimace on our face, typing to slashdot about how unfair life is.
graspee
I love this sort of stuff and am thinking of buying the book now.
Stuff written in this sort of style really draws you into the stories a lot better than dry reports on msnbcnn.
I loved "Inside Intel" too, and "Hackers" by Steven Levy.
The best bit in the article is right at the start, with the rabbis praying for stock to rise.
graspee
" Try being 51"
I intend to, one day.
graspee
Ah, youth. Dinosaurs, pirates and space rockets...
graspee
'"We have made progress with Microsoft," one official said, adding that the department is following up on complaints from other firms. "We have gotten them to make changes."'
This just shows how scared the DOJ is of MS. I mean if I got taken to court for not paying back a loan and the court ordered me to pay £x back per month and I only paid a fraction of it back per month do you think they would say "We have made progress with graspee. We have gotten him to pay back some of the money he owes." ???
graspee
Lots of people have mentioned the problem of the computer reading out your spam when you come in, and that was my first thought too, however isn't it bad enough that when you bring someone else round it starts reading out all your personal email?
Even if you have no secrets at all from your wife or SO, what if you have kids? Now no-one can send you email with vulgar language in...
graspee
You're right about the terms I used, I should have said "You can't seriously compare the crime of downloading music with the crime of killing someone with a knife".
And now you have followed it up by saying that most music downloaders are "simply being thuggish".
"Thuggish?" These people aren't thugs! What do they do, wait in dark alleys for some poor unsuspecting mp3 to walk past, then beat it unconscious with a big stick and forcibly copy it?
graspee
"(Sorry if that was a spoiler)."
Nah, a spoiler is like "Sauron is Frodo's real father".
Join me, and together we can rule Middle Earth as father and son!
graspee
" You know, the rest of the world, unlike America, has no serious high-tech unemployment problems.."
Wrong, here in the UK we have similarly bad IT unemployment problems.
graspee
You can't seriously compare the civil disobedience of downloading music with killing someone with a knife.
graspee
Even with replication of physical objects being possible, there is still an apportunity for profit by companies that make physical things.
For example what could happen is that all devices could come with something that wirelessly tapped into the internet and broadcast a unique key (unique to each copy of for example a food blender).
Now I can borrow your food blender and copy it, or download the data from the internet, but because I haven't got a unique key, I'm out of luck.
Then of course you will get people developing keygens for food blenders, and when that stops working they will just disassemble the food blender, hack out the controlling key parts, and put the design back on the p2p networks.
(Heh, can you imagine it: "I downloaded a food processor from the internet and there was a turd in it!")
Anyway, this is how, even with freely-copyable physical objects, companies can still make money. Of course people would find ways round it, but last I heard the RIAA and MPAA are still making lots of money...
graspee
In my religion the messiah is a 16 year old Tokyo Schoolgirl called Usagi and there really is a Holy Grail.
graspee
Normally it happens because each releaser changes the format of the files and wants to add their own .nfo or whatever.
.rars from a newsgroup, and then someone may zip the rars up in one zip with an .nfo, then someone may later split that big release into smaller 5 meg parts, adding their own info file etc. etc.
So like a file may be 25
graspee
Thank you for the information- everything makes sense now and I am no longer confused.
How lucky I am to have such clever people to clear up my misunderstandings!
P.S. How did you guess that I suck dicks? That was also very clever of you.
You should become a detective or something!
graspee