how do countries enforce internet crimes like this on an individual basis? there are already enough problems with international law and tourists... isn't going to a site from a different country just like tourism?
it's amazing how many people don't think they'll get suckered in by the year's free access ploy
these companies bank on the fact that people are too lazy to switch isp's..."oh well, just another month of service" is what people say... don't get suckered in...
The RIAA only cares about artists under their billing. I think if this takes off[gnotella distributions, Direct Connect, etc could kill Napster now that it's a pay per download deal] the RIAA will jump on the bandwagon. Everyone knows Indie groups do it best and first.
New Wave was making Videos before MTV came out, and then when MTV hit, it took mainstream pop artists a couple years to catch up to the great idea New Wave had.
anyway- i think Napster will sink since people have to pay.
A marsupial is not something that we can change the definition of randomly. A marsupial by definition is a mammal.
We don't say that Birds are winged animals, and then one day decide that a 4-legged hoofed animal can be considered a bird. these are words defined very explicitly and not up for debate.
when a species becomes extinct due to nature, it is natural selection... humans are a part of nature as well... why try to save every species? we can't do it, first of all, and secondly- it will make our ecosystem stagnant.
there has been legislation restricting phone solicitation to 8-5 M-F... why isn't there legislation in the works for Spam? i agree with the penny/k deal, but paying the user won't fly... maybe if it worked like postage and it was penny/k toward the government... maybe we can get a tax break.
But if you say to people, 'Do you understand the GPL?'
Gates would apparently like the world to open their minds and learn about things of which they are ignorant... like Microsoft's perspective on the GPL. Microsoft can't seriously want people to understand GPL because otherwise millions would be attracted to it. The mass population would be attracted because it inherently makes software extremely cheap or free; Intellectuals would run to it because it is ideal in its doctrines... the only place communism fell was in its inabilities to translate to the real world due to its corruptibility, but as long as people support GPL, it transcends that problem.
i think that if you register a domain name- no matter what it is- it is yours as long as you have intent to include some content which is along the lines of the domain name. Anyone who types in microsoftsucks.com, etc. obviously doesn't want to go to microsoft.com. they want to see if there is a page where they can bitch about microsoft. If that domain name redirects the user to Sucks.com; a page to bitch about things; then he has every right to own that domain name.
however- who wants to waste their time going to sucks.com
if you had read the article, you would have read that the combined weight of neutrinos in the universe was not enough to 'close' the universe. How can you spout off mentioning that just because mass was detected that we didn't know about previously Armaggedon is coming? that's like saying that the mass of the hydrogen bomb which was turned to energy or the mass turned to fire by burning a log is enough mass to 'open' the universe. hmm. interesting theory though, maybe if we are soon to reach the limit we should just burn shit to lower the threshold... hehe
And what are any of us doing other than bitching about it? seriously... i'd like to see what some people are doing to 'Topple This Totalitarianistic Tyranny' and perversion of the information age(which i think the purpose is to make all info available, not just the info you like, not sure on that, though)
umm.. who says this will sound good or even remotely like what we call music...
Pretty cool though, considering they try to map Mozart's music with fractal geometry and many believe that DNA could use fractal geometry instead of having to store all the neccessary info... Maybe a few of our DNA strands will turn out to be Chopin or Tchaichovsky... hehe
i agree... there is no point to this unless you live in a damn car... which noone does. (actually i've contemplated living in a van for quite a while)
Other than using this while the car is immobile, it will only cause accidents- half the people i know can't surf the net and talk to me at the same time much less drive... oh well
it would be nice if there were marsupial lions and 26-foot long lizards around in wildlife parks
Why put them in zoos? man would rather be dead than in a lifelong cell. Having to spend your entire life in jail is worse than dying. The only reason most men in jail don't commit suicide is the fact that it is for a temporary time or that they may have appeals. Killing animals is sometimes far more humane than keeping them hostage for our own amusement. the eradication of any species has not been a waste btw... the pirates and others were wasteful in their actions as an individual... when a species is extint, whether it be from human or other natural interactions, it is not for waste... this extinction forever alters the future and who here could say that they would be here if saber-tooth tigers were still around?
. Can you name a species that was driven to extinction by humans since the dawn of history that wasn't a waste?
prehistoric man only hunted or killed for food/shelter or defense... there were no game hunters. this is not a wasteful act.
we don't hardly have many uses for animals in the U.S. anymore. pets are the main use. we have huge, powerful machines that do work and can transport us at 200 times the power of a horse. oh well. but we do need animals for the balance in ecosystems
there are 9 amino acids that we get from meat that you cannot get from vegetables or fruits.
you don't seem to know to much about biology or the english language...
you don't really seem to know much a biology anyway.
The Dodo was contained on a small island with no means of escape/defense and pirates would store them on their ship(killing more than they could eat). The passenger pigeon were killed by game hunters who shot all the pigeons as they followed eachother to their death...not evolutionally advanced animals
Both these cases are extreme scenarios of gluttony and wastefulness.. not natural selection.. think of another argument.
First of all, people have been fishing with mass nets for millenia as i pointed out before, and the fish have not declined. Your analogy of fish to trees as a natural resource is not only trite, but foolish... trees take years upon years to reproduce, and even then only yield a few from the parent. Fish lay thousands upon thousands of eggs every year. true, that many of these die, but if 10 fish survive from one parent... do the math.
If there were truly a problem with how much they fish, the government or governing bodies over the fishermen would impose new laws and orders in order to keep the fish ever present in our waters... my argument is not that it is okay to run wild, but that to stop fishing/hunting all together would be ludicrous.
Boo Hoo, you grew up in a timber town and thought there would be trees left for you... you cut the trees faster than they could grow because it would take 30 years to replace one tree(dependant on species of course). Timber companies will decimate an area, then move on to another and come back 40 years later- that's how it works... they skip generations.
Basically, what i am saying is that, while waste is wrong, there is nothing wrong with timber companies, fishermen, or hunters making the human existence better. Just because i offended you and others who didn't truly read what i was saying does not make me anti-environmentalist... I am a member of the green party and am active in many groups here in louisville.
if we wipe out a species it was meant to happen- The natural order of things is to look out for #1- as long as we aren't commiting overkill and being wasteful or gluttunous and simply feeding and supplying the human race, then it's ok.
Ok, yes we can cause a species to no longer exist... But your argument is flawed
First off I would like to mention that even if we do kill off an entire species, it means that natural selection isn't working for that species... we are doing it a favor by extinguishing it's agony... If natural selection were working it would be harder to catch, or taste bad, or be poisonous by now...(people have been fishing for millenia- read the bible)
Secondly, The commercial fishing and hunting industries do not want to kill off an entire species or even come close to it... if they did then they would have no industry; no livelihood... it would be like if computer programmers fixed every bug and made the most possibly secure, most enhanced, and most stable OS... there would be no need for anyone to make new Os's or updates...
The point of this article is that vegetarians don't see that they aren't getting all of their 9 amino acids from plants- it makes them grumpy and irritable, and therefore they bitch about any thing they can put they're hands around... shut your mouth.
dude- you kick ass...
btw, has anyone thought of users that do not wish for the meta tags to be in place, but cannot include a big bulk of programming code to turn it off because they have limited space on their page?
While Microsoft claims that they care about the individual's needs they seem to overlook the irony in their argument...
Here's the deal. There are two types of people in this world when it comes to music; Those who love every aspect of music and would do anything to know every part of it, and those who listen to music as a relaxing or mind-numbing exercise.
The latter typically tends to listen to Pop, Top-40 radio and may buy a few cd's a year, if the artists have had 2 or 3 really good singles. Assume that a majority of these music-dabblers have napster on their computer. The typical downloads by these people are singles. They don't care whether they have liner notes, the original album, or any other perks that come with a store bought cd. Hell, most of them don't even consider downloading other work from them. As well, before Napster, these were the people who made radio recordings of their favorite songs to listen to with their tape player.
Next, we have the music-lover's group. These people need help(I know; I'm one of them). They _will_ take their time to download entire albums off Napster, even all albums by an artist that they really have gotten into(I know; I've done it). However, as the recording industry is so conveniently overlooking, this is simply not enough for them. They travel around they're city on the weekends looking for vintage lp's and original packaging albums at snobbishly overpriced record shoppes(notice the snobbish spelling) and try to accomplish their one true goal:
_Own every album known to man_
And they don't mean the songs. If someone really enjoys a band, they want the pictures, the lyrics, the cover, and the nice-looking professionally designed cd. The whole package is part of the art form known as music. I can't tell you how many times myself and people I know have downloaded an entire album only to buy it for $18 at Better Days a few days later(The latest Weezer album for example).
Even if you are not as obsessed with music as I am, the majority of you must admit, it is extremely nice and coveted to own the actual cd, the cover, the liner notes, maybe even have a vinyl collection. It's not always about just the songs.
Also, these people are the ones who would make mix tapes for their freinds and copy albums onto cassettes in order to try to get others interested in their favorite music.
Napster has allowed those who would tape singles off of the radio to download them... oh damn! they are pirating the same amount as before.
Also Napster allows music lovers to download entire albums (it's not like they weren't going to get it from their freinds anyway) which they buy a week or two later. Also Napster has opened the doors for bands that are not as well known. Searching for Radiohead, I find songs by the Beta Band, Air, and Portishead. hmm... If I happen to see that Thom Yorke did a project with Portishead I might download that song, and then, if I like it, a Portishead album. Eventually I own all of Portishead's albums. I think you see my point.
If anything- Napster has sold more records. Common Sense.
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Never trust anything cute... i mean hell, look at an iMac...
Our army declares that we were in international waters. The 'reds' declare that we were in Chinese waters. The only people who are ever going to know the truth are the actual people involved. What we hear is what the government is releasing to the press. What they hear is what their government tells their press to cover. Noone in our country is going to get the exact truth on the any military matter and we can't tell who is telling the truth. Why worry about it.
--never trust anything cute, i mean hell, look at an imac!
Slashdot Mirror
hmm... i always assumed that slashdot was for at least semi-intelligent people... thanks for proving me wron.
how do countries enforce internet crimes like this on an individual basis? there are already enough problems with international law and tourists... isn't going to a site from a different country just like tourism?
whatever
it's amazing how many people don't think they'll get suckered in by the year's free access ploy
these companies bank on the fact that people are too lazy to switch isp's..."oh well, just another month of service" is what people say... don't get suckered in...
The RIAA only cares about artists under their billing. I think if this takes off[gnotella distributions, Direct Connect, etc could kill Napster now that it's a pay per download deal] the RIAA will jump on the bandwagon. Everyone knows Indie groups do it best and first.
New Wave was making Videos before MTV came out, and then when MTV hit, it took mainstream pop artists a couple years to catch up to the great idea New Wave had.
anyway- i think Napster will sink since people have to pay.
you are a moron... i'm sorry but it's true
A marsupial is not something that we can change the definition of randomly. A marsupial by definition is a mammal.
We don't say that Birds are winged animals, and then one day decide that a 4-legged hoofed animal can be considered a bird. these are words defined very explicitly and not up for debate.
when a species becomes extinct due to nature, it is natural selection... humans are a part of nature as well... why try to save every species? we can't do it, first of all, and secondly- it will make our ecosystem stagnant.
there has been legislation restricting phone solicitation to 8-5 M-F... why isn't there legislation in the works for Spam? i agree with the penny/k deal, but paying the user won't fly... maybe if it worked like postage and it was penny/k toward the government... maybe we can get a tax break.
But if you say to people, 'Do you understand the GPL?'
Gates would apparently like the world to open their minds and learn about things of which they are ignorant... like Microsoft's perspective on the GPL. Microsoft can't seriously want people to understand GPL because otherwise millions would be attracted to it.
The mass population would be attracted because it inherently makes software extremely cheap or free; Intellectuals would run to it because it is ideal in its doctrines... the only place communism fell was in its inabilities to translate to the real world due to its corruptibility, but as long as people support GPL, it transcends that problem.
i think that if you register a domain name- no matter what it is- it is yours as long as you have intent to include some content which is along the lines of the domain name.
Anyone who types in microsoftsucks.com, etc. obviously doesn't want to go to microsoft.com. they want to see if there is a page where they can bitch about microsoft. If that domain name redirects the user to Sucks.com; a page to bitch about things; then he has every right to own that domain name.
however- who wants to waste their time going to sucks.com
if you had read the article, you would have read that the combined weight of neutrinos in the universe was not enough to 'close' the universe. How can you spout off mentioning that just because mass was detected that we didn't know about previously Armaggedon is coming?
that's like saying that the mass of the hydrogen bomb which was turned to energy or the mass turned to fire by burning a log is enough mass to 'open' the universe. hmm. interesting theory though, maybe if we are soon to reach the limit we should just burn shit to lower the threshold... hehe
somehow i don't know if Microsoft will be up for 1/2%, maybe 1% of 1/2%... greedy capitalist bastards...
And what are any of us doing other than bitching about it? seriously... i'd like to see what some people are doing to 'Topple This Totalitarianistic Tyranny' and perversion of the information age(which i think the purpose is to make all info available, not just the info you like, not sure on that, though)
umm.. who says this will sound good or even remotely like what we call music...
Pretty cool though, considering they try to map Mozart's music with fractal geometry and many believe that DNA could use fractal geometry instead of having to store all the neccessary info... Maybe a few of our DNA strands will turn out to be Chopin or Tchaichovsky... hehe
i agree... there is no point to this unless you live in a damn car... which noone does. (actually i've contemplated living in a van for quite a while)
Other than using this while the car is immobile, it will only cause accidents- half the people i know can't surf the net and talk to me at the same time much less drive... oh well
it would be nice if there were marsupial lions and 26-foot long lizards around in wildlife parks Why put them in zoos? man would rather be dead than in a lifelong cell. Having to spend your entire life in jail is worse than dying. The only reason most men in jail don't commit suicide is the fact that it is for a temporary time or that they may have appeals. Killing animals is sometimes far more humane than keeping them hostage for our own amusement. the eradication of any species has not been a waste btw... the pirates and others were wasteful in their actions as an individual... when a species is extint, whether it be from human or other natural interactions, it is not for waste... this extinction forever alters the future and who here could say that they would be here if saber-tooth tigers were still around? . Can you name a species that was driven to extinction by humans since the dawn of history that wasn't a waste? prehistoric man only hunted or killed for food/shelter or defense... there were no game hunters. this is not a wasteful act.
But do they really hold a candle to Full House or Pee Wee's Great Adventure or any of the other brilliant programs that have followed? No.
I hope that this is a satire
we don't hardly have many uses for animals in the U.S. anymore. pets are the main use. we have huge, powerful machines that do work and can transport us at 200 times the power of a horse. oh well. but we do need animals for the balance in ecosystems
there are 9 amino acids that we get from meat that you cannot get from vegetables or fruits.
you don't seem to know to much about biology or the english language...
you don't really seem to know much a biology anyway.
The Dodo was contained on a small island with no means of escape/defense and pirates would store them on their ship(killing more than they could eat). The passenger pigeon were killed by game hunters who shot all the pigeons as they followed eachother to their death...not evolutionally advanced animals
Both these cases are extreme scenarios of gluttony and wastefulness.. not natural selection.. think of another argument.
First of all, people have been fishing with mass nets for millenia as i pointed out before, and the fish have not declined. Your analogy of fish to trees as a natural resource is not only trite, but foolish... trees take years upon years to reproduce, and even then only yield a few from the parent. Fish lay thousands upon thousands of eggs every year. true, that many of these die, but if 10 fish survive from one parent... do the math.
If there were truly a problem with how much they fish, the government or governing bodies over the fishermen would impose new laws and orders in order to keep the fish ever present in our waters... my argument is not that it is okay to run wild, but that to stop fishing/hunting all together would be ludicrous.
Boo Hoo, you grew up in a timber town and thought there would be trees left for you... you cut the trees faster than they could grow because it would take 30 years to replace one tree(dependant on species of course). Timber companies will decimate an area, then move on to another and come back 40 years later- that's how it works... they skip generations.
Basically, what i am saying is that, while waste is wrong, there is nothing wrong with timber companies, fishermen, or hunters making the human existence better. Just because i offended you and others who didn't truly read what i was saying does not make me anti-environmentalist... I am a member of the green party and am active in many groups here in louisville.
if we wipe out a species it was meant to happen- The natural order of things is to look out for #1- as long as we aren't commiting overkill and being wasteful or gluttunous and simply feeding and supplying the human race, then it's ok.
Ok, yes we can cause a species to no longer exist... But your argument is flawed
First off I would like to mention that even if we do kill off an entire species, it means that natural selection isn't working for that species... we are doing it a favor by extinguishing it's agony... If natural selection were working it would be harder to catch, or taste bad, or be poisonous by now...(people have been fishing for millenia- read the bible)
Secondly, The commercial fishing and hunting industries do not want to kill off an entire species or even come close to it... if they did then they would have no industry; no livelihood... it would be like if computer programmers fixed every bug and made the most possibly secure, most enhanced, and most stable OS... there would be no need for anyone to make new Os's or updates...
The point of this article is that vegetarians don't see that they aren't getting all of their 9 amino acids from plants- it makes them grumpy and irritable, and therefore they bitch about any thing they can put they're hands around... shut your mouth.
dude- you kick ass... btw, has anyone thought of users that do not wish for the meta tags to be in place, but cannot include a big bulk of programming code to turn it off because they have limited space on their page? While Microsoft claims that they care about the individual's needs they seem to overlook the irony in their argument...
imagine meta tags on slashdot....
uggh
Here's the deal. There are two types of people in this world when it comes to music; Those who love every aspect of music and would do anything to know every part of it, and those who listen to music as a relaxing or mind-numbing exercise.
The latter typically tends to listen to Pop, Top-40 radio and may buy a few cd's a year, if the artists have had 2 or 3 really good singles. Assume that a majority of these music-dabblers have napster on their computer. The typical downloads by these people are singles. They don't care whether they have liner notes, the original album, or any other perks that come with a store bought cd. Hell, most of them don't even consider downloading other work from them. As well, before Napster, these were the people who made radio recordings of their favorite songs to listen to with their tape player.
Next, we have the music-lover's group. These people need help(I know; I'm one of them). They _will_ take their time to download entire albums off Napster, even all albums by an artist that they really have gotten into(I know; I've done it). However, as the recording industry is so conveniently overlooking, this is simply not enough for them. They travel around they're city on the weekends looking for vintage lp's and original packaging albums at snobbishly overpriced record shoppes(notice the snobbish spelling) and try to accomplish their one true goal:
_Own every album known to man_
And they don't mean the songs. If someone really enjoys a band, they want the pictures, the lyrics, the cover, and the nice-looking professionally designed cd. The whole package is part of the art form known as music. I can't tell you how many times myself and people I know have downloaded an entire album only to buy it for $18 at Better Days a few days later(The latest Weezer album for example).
Even if you are not as obsessed with music as I am, the majority of you must admit, it is extremely nice and coveted to own the actual cd, the cover, the liner notes, maybe even have a vinyl collection. It's not always about just the songs.
Also, these people are the ones who would make mix tapes for their freinds and copy albums onto cassettes in order to try to get others interested in their favorite music.
Napster has allowed those who would tape singles off of the radio to download them... oh damn! they are pirating the same amount as before.
Also Napster allows music lovers to download entire albums (it's not like they weren't going to get it from their freinds anyway) which they buy a week or two later. Also Napster has opened the doors for bands that are not as well known. Searching for Radiohead, I find songs by the Beta Band, Air, and Portishead. hmm... If I happen to see that Thom Yorke did a project with Portishead I might download that song, and then, if I like it, a Portishead album. Eventually I own all of Portishead's albums. I think you see my point.
If anything- Napster has sold more records. Common Sense.
--
Never trust anything cute... i mean hell, look at an iMac...
Our army declares that we were in international waters. The 'reds' declare that we were in Chinese waters. The only people who are ever going to know the truth are the actual people involved. What we hear is what the government is releasing to the press. What they hear is what their government tells their press to cover. Noone in our country is going to get the exact truth on the any military matter and we can't tell who is telling the truth. Why worry about it.
--never trust anything cute, i mean hell, look at an imac!