It costs less to make a CD than a casette tape. So why do CDs and DVDs cost more than tapes? Because it's what 'they' think the market will bear... wankers.
Sure, the medium has changed, but fascists were burning books well before the Internet came along. All of this talk of being so aghast that censorship is happening of the Web should really be taken with some historical perspective.
Bnetd isn't the least of Blizzard's problems right now. If you haven't been following the Diablo saga, here's a short history.
Diablo I was quickly prone to excessive hacks because all character information was stored client-side.
Diablo II was released under the premise that character data was unhackable under a secure server. However, packet sending programs became capable of producing duplicates of godly items, and more recently hack into item properties, and bring characters up to essentially infinite skill levels. Essentially, Diablo I all over again (a big reason for this IMO is that Blizzard does not disallow the selling of game items and characters on ebay, as do the makers of Ultima Online and EverQuest).
After the most recent wave of hacks (typically a new hack is produced, and its use becomes so widespread that Blizzard has to patch it to get it's servers running again), Blizzard announced that it had deleted accounts found sending bogus packets.
Up to WarCraft III all Blizzard products have been free to play on Battle.Net. If they can't be more proactive in securing their servers, the prospects for World of WarCraft, their monthly payment MMORPG under development, does not instill one with confidence.
.... from a guy talking to a class about 15 years ago. His general theme was that although the technology had been around for a long time, certain political barriers were delaying it's release. But, he added, in just a few short years, it will replace conventional television.
You just have to know the address, then you can get in through the free registration method. Although Google follows the nytimes.com robots.txt, enough people link to articles that the search engine has records for the URLs.
"...I think it takes more guts to propose in front of all the flamers..."
I would hope that User #1 is pretty flame-proof by now. I doubt there's anything a troll could say to really get under his skin. The only possible flames could have come from you. Fortunately, I've yet to see an outlandish proposal (billboard displays, newspaper ads, etc.) fail, and this was no exception.
And I wouldn't really call it guts. There's a certain personality type that will propose in public - or even in as massively public of a manner possible - and there's a certain type that will do it in a more intimate manner. It's more a question of style.
I'm not criticizing it (but like I said, it's irrelevent if anyone but you would) - in this case, using a public forum that is a big part of your life to propose I found kinda cute - even if it is on Valentine's Day.:p
And so have many others - this thread is up to over 1,000 posts, a good contender for the hall of fame.
The confidentiality of library records (like what books you've checked out) is one of the most staunchly defended rights in the recent history of librarianship (anther being freedom to access library materials, such as the Satanic-inducing Harry Potter or Internet sans censorware).
It goes back to the MaCarthy era inquisitions of practices such as FBI requests of who had "dangerous" materials checked out. Thankfully we now have 48 states with laws prohibiting the disclosure of library records.
In most cases, nobody - not your parents, police, or spouse - can access your circulation record without a specific court order. Remember that Florida librarian who phoned the police to say she recognized the hijacking terrorists as library users? Well she broke the law in doing so.
This statement by the American Library Association addresses their continued vigilance in protecting privacy in light of current events.
Didn't someone used to have a sig like 'the supreme court ruled it legal to screw voters, and demonstrated how to do it'?
Just proof that throughout the whole election mess people's opinions - from ordinary citizens right up to the members of the US Supreme Court - were dictated by who they wanted to be in office.
There are some things karma can't buy
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Stating that there are lots of different people on the Internet: 1 sentence.
A Jon Katz essay saying the same thing: 1,000 words.
Skipping yet another windbag editorial: priceless.
To make your point clearly there's concise writing, for everything else there's John Katz.
No speech or press by a person can ever be censored for any reason, ever. Period.
Why don't you go put on a DeCSS T-Shirt, yell fire in a crowded Linux expo, sell unauthorized reprints of Opra's latest pick, testify to congress that smoking isn't addictive while under oath, shout obscenities all day long while at your nearest daycare facility, and publish Bush's missile command codes in your online Weblog.
Lemme know how that simple defense of yours works. Period.
The irony here being that Beatrice was later bought out by a bigger company (ConAgra).
Other companies have changed their names as they grow (First Union bought out Wachovia, and took its name to boot).
So yeah that Microsoft strategy is a good idea. I mean can you imagine if people knew there was a single company controlling something like: AOL, AOL Instant Messenger, AOL TV, Asiaweek, Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Thrashers, Atlantic Records, Baby Talk, Book-of-the-Month Club, Capitol Records, Cartoon Network, Castle Rock Entertainment, Cinemax, CNN, CNNfn, Coastal Living, Columbia House, Comedy Central, CompuServe, Cooking Light, Court TV, DC Comics, Digital City, eCompany Now, Elektra, EMI, Entertaindom.com, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN, Family Life, Fortune Magazine, Goodwill Games, Hanna-Barbera, HBO, Headline News, Health Magazine, ICQ, InStyle, Life Magazine, Little Brown, Looney Tunes, Mad Magazine, Money Magazine, MovieFone, Netscape, New Line Cinema, NY1 News, the Open Directory Project, People Magazine, Progressive Farmer, Qwest, Real Simple, Rhino, Road Runner, Southern Accents, Southern Living, Spinner, Sports Illustrated Magazines, Sunset, TBS, Teen People, Telepictures Productions, This Old House, Time Magazines, Time Warner Cable, TNT, Tommy Boy Music, Turner Classic Movies, Virgin Records, Warner Brothers Companies (Movies, Television Network, Video, Music, Stores), Winamp, and World Championship Wrestling. I mean really, that would be crazy.
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It costs less to make a CD than a casette tape. So why do CDs and DVDs cost more than tapes? Because it's what 'they' think the market will bear... wankers.
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Sure, the medium has changed, but fascists were burning books well before the Internet came along. All of this talk of being so aghast that censorship is happening of the Web should really be taken with some historical perspective.
it's too late to worry about whether you left the gas on now.
Bnetd isn't the least of Blizzard's problems right now. If you haven't been following the Diablo saga, here's a short history.
Diablo I was quickly prone to excessive hacks because all character information was stored client-side.
Diablo II was released under the premise that character data was unhackable under a secure server. However, packet sending programs became capable of producing duplicates of godly items, and more recently hack into item properties, and bring characters up to essentially infinite skill levels. Essentially, Diablo I all over again (a big reason for this IMO is that Blizzard does not disallow the selling of game items and characters on ebay, as do the makers of Ultima Online and EverQuest).
After the most recent wave of hacks (typically a new hack is produced, and its use becomes so widespread that Blizzard has to patch it to get it's servers running again), Blizzard announced that it had deleted accounts found sending bogus packets.
Up to WarCraft III all Blizzard products have been free to play on Battle.Net. If they can't be more proactive in securing their servers, the prospects for World of WarCraft, their monthly payment MMORPG under development, does not instill one with confidence.
.... from a guy talking to a class about 15 years ago. His general theme was that although the technology had been around for a long time, certain political barriers were delaying it's release. But, he added, in just a few short years, it will replace conventional television.
Here's some HDTV Highlights (Feb. 1981-March 1998).
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/technology/circu its/17VIDE.html
You just have to know the address, then you can get in through the free registration method. Although Google follows the nytimes.com robots.txt, enough people link to articles that the search engine has records for the URLs.
"Flamebait=1"
/. moderators, but oh well.
I guess I should have included a link like this. Didn't think a clue-by-four would be necessary with
I live in the USA, where corporate interests hold no sway over our politicans. Clean up your act, Eurpoe!
Pacific rim hosts dominate the SpamCop statistics.
Well, there's always this tactic...
Good overview here.
"...I think it takes more guts to propose in front of all the flamers..."
:p
I would hope that User #1 is pretty flame-proof by now. I doubt there's anything a troll could say to really get under his skin. The only possible flames could have come from you. Fortunately, I've yet to see an outlandish proposal (billboard displays, newspaper ads, etc.) fail, and this was no exception.
And I wouldn't really call it guts. There's a certain personality type that will propose in public - or even in as massively public of a manner possible - and there's a certain type that will do it in a more intimate manner. It's more a question of style.
I'm not criticizing it (but like I said, it's irrelevent if anyone but you would) - in this case, using a public forum that is a big part of your life to propose I found kinda cute - even if it is on Valentine's Day.
And so have many others - this thread is up to over 1,000 posts, a good contender for the hall of fame.
"You get what you pay for after all."
Hmm, I'm going to say that about Linux now.
Let's see how that get's moderated.
The confidentiality of library records (like what books you've checked out) is one of the most staunchly defended rights in the recent history of librarianship (anther being freedom to access library materials, such as the Satanic-inducing Harry Potter or Internet sans censorware).
It goes back to the MaCarthy era inquisitions of practices such as FBI requests of who had "dangerous" materials checked out. Thankfully we now have 48 states with laws prohibiting the disclosure of library records.
In most cases, nobody - not your parents, police, or spouse - can access your circulation record without a specific court order. Remember that Florida librarian who phoned the police to say she recognized the hijacking terrorists as library users? Well she broke the law in doing so.
This statement by the American Library Association addresses their continued vigilance in protecting privacy in light of current events.
Didn't someone used to have a sig like 'the supreme court ruled it legal to screw voters, and demonstrated how to do it'?
Just proof that throughout the whole election mess people's opinions - from ordinary citizens right up to the members of the US Supreme Court - were dictated by who they wanted to be in office.
- Stating that there are lots of different people on the Internet: 1 sentence.
- A Jon Katz essay saying the same thing: 1,000 words.
- Skipping yet another windbag editorial: priceless.
To make your point clearly there's concise writing, for everything else there's John Katz.Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:
2002-02-06 17:17:50 Google Programming Contest (articles,quickies) (rejected)
Why don't you go put on a DeCSS T-Shirt, yell fire in a crowded Linux expo, sell unauthorized reprints of Opra's latest pick, testify to congress that smoking isn't addictive while under oath, shout obscenities all day long while at your nearest daycare facility, and publish Bush's missile command codes in your online Weblog.
Lemme know how that simple defense of yours works. Period.
How gullible do they think people are?
If you haven't heard much about this case, there's several sites about it here.
Actually the documents are from buying out the Northern Light database, which is no longer free to the public either.
http://premium.search.yahoo.com/
The irony here being that Beatrice was later bought out by a bigger company (ConAgra).
Other companies have changed their names as they grow (First Union bought out Wachovia, and took its name to boot).
So yeah that Microsoft strategy is a good idea. I mean can you imagine if people knew there was a single company controlling something like: AOL, AOL Instant Messenger, AOL TV, Asiaweek, Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Thrashers, Atlantic Records, Baby Talk, Book-of-the-Month Club, Capitol Records, Cartoon Network, Castle Rock Entertainment, Cinemax, CNN, CNNfn, Coastal Living, Columbia House, Comedy Central, CompuServe, Cooking Light, Court TV, DC Comics, Digital City, eCompany Now, Elektra, EMI, Entertaindom.com, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN, Family Life, Fortune Magazine, Goodwill Games, Hanna-Barbera, HBO, Headline News, Health Magazine, ICQ, InStyle, Life Magazine, Little Brown, Looney Tunes, Mad Magazine, Money Magazine, MovieFone, Netscape, New Line Cinema, NY1 News, the Open Directory Project, People Magazine, Progressive Farmer, Qwest, Real Simple, Rhino, Road Runner, Southern Accents, Southern Living, Spinner, Sports Illustrated Magazines, Sunset, TBS, Teen People, Telepictures Productions, This Old House, Time Magazines, Time Warner Cable, TNT, Tommy Boy Music, Turner Classic Movies, Virgin Records, Warner Brothers Companies (Movies, Television Network, Video, Music, Stores), Winamp, and World Championship Wrestling. I mean really, that would be crazy.
- Stating that common computer consumers don't care that much about cutting-edge design: 1 sentence.
- A Jon Katz essay saying the same thing: 1,000 words.
- Skipping yet another windbag editorial: priceless.
To make your point clearly there's concise writing, for everything else there's John Katz.Interesting point. This reminds me of a Star Trek episode.
... here.