When are they going to declare misreporting multi-billion dollars profit treason?
If the damage illegal hacking warrants life in prison, then the damage a corporation makes to the overall US economy warrants death by firing squad. Not to mention that affecting the economy directly affects the national security of a nation.
A week ago I thought that would be extreme, but apparently it isn't.
My question is, when will the RIAA and MPAA have the government declare mp3/divx illegal computer hacking and put us all in jail for life.
I've been getting offers from consulting firms taking advantage of this market. All of them have been about 60-80% less than what I had made last year.
Ok, I admit that my salary was bloated like everyone elses, but they are offering less money than what I made at my entry level position, and with 1 year contracts with penalties for leaving early. WTF???? After 8 years, can I get a little more money?
Agreed, bad MP3 encodes are the worst problem that Napster has.
I don't see why RIAA is so worked up. Most of the music traded over napster is of poor quality. I mean I heard cassettes left out in the sun on a hot afternoon sound better then some of the songs I got off of there.
Ok, its not all that bad, but more people should start using lame. 'Nuff Said.
Second to poor encoding is bad taste in music... but I wont go into that now.:-)
Assuming I was not being watched over my shoulder, I would delete anything I found that was worthy for HR to fire someone over, but not something truly moraly offensive (eg kiddy-pr0n). Perhaps I would send them a "big brother/guardian angel" message, to scare the witts out of them.
Of course, not to raise any eyebrows, I would turn in a couple people that did things that couldnt get them fired (like that one guy who is subscribed to EVERY joke list on the net, and insists on sending it to everyone in the company, and maybe the person who had to CC the starwars trailer to 30 people vs putting it on a webserver)
I work for a company that gets over 5 million hits a day on ONE Sun Ultra 2 with 2*200MHz, 1Gb Ram, and 11Gb HDD, with Apache, Oracle, and Netscape serving pages (you have to love corp. politics)
Why you cant handle the load/. gets on a dual 266 is beyond me. Especialy since you are running only apache.
Oh yeah, before I get flammed for running three webservers on one machine... trust me, if it were up to me, I would run only apache with perl dbi calling oracle on another machine!
Am I being paranoid, or is it odd that a privacy organization running a "Big Brother" award is asking for information such as Name, Phone Number, and email address.
I agree, anyone who uses a celphone, two way pager, etc should not complain about the P-III.
In a way, it does have some benefits.
But for thoes of you who do not want to be tracked, you might have to build your own hardware and software from the ground up. The way technology is going, there will be no way to buy products without a unique serial number. Its only time.
According to Mondial's complaint, the company acquired 1985 trademarks for the terms "Earth" and "Earth Shoe."
According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office the trademarks EARTH and EARTH SHOE were filed on 20 July 1994 and were not registered until 15 December 1998
Don't need a lawyer on this case. Unless of course you want to counter sue for malicious prosecution:-) Ok, so I'm not a lawyer, but this looks like another case of a company trying to bully around the little guy. Will they never learn? Mike derGott, God of nothing
Ummmm... While I was in the navy 3 years ago, we had a full internet connection, though it was slow.
I was browsing webpages, killing dragons on muds, and chatting on IRC. Oh did I mention sending email too???
Course most of the ship I was on didnt know about it, and they also did not set up the workstations with a DNS server, meaning I had to find one and then tell my machine to look at it. So I was only one of 5 people (outside of ADP people) that could use it... unofficialy.
Of course sometime you would lose connection for an hour or two depending on the direction ofthe ship. (sometimes the radar would be in the way of the satilite)
Hehehe... This stuff is old news.
They were officialy able to send offship mail using cc:Mail my entire time on the ship.
Slashdot Mirror
When are they going to declare misreporting multi-billion dollars profit treason?
If the damage illegal hacking warrants life in prison, then the damage a corporation makes to the overall US economy warrants death by firing squad. Not to mention that affecting the economy directly affects the national security of a nation.
A week ago I thought that would be extreme, but apparently it isn't.
My question is, when will the RIAA and MPAA have the government declare mp3/divx illegal computer hacking and put us all in jail for life.
What is scary is that it is now a possibility.
Ok, I admit that my salary was bloated like everyone elses, but they are offering less money than what I made at my entry level position, and with 1 year contracts with penalties for leaving early. WTF???? After 8 years, can I get a little more money?
Am I the only one that this has happined too?
Agreed, bad MP3 encodes are the worst problem that Napster has.
:-)
I don't see why RIAA is so worked up. Most of the music traded over napster is of poor quality. I mean I heard cassettes left out in the sun on a hot afternoon sound better then some of the songs I got off of there.
Ok, its not all that bad, but more people should start using lame. 'Nuff Said.
Second to poor encoding is bad taste in music... but I wont go into that now.
Later
Mike
Yeah, just set your junkbuster to block all doubleclick :-)
I hate it when they go by IP though, but then I usualy find that unique path to block....
I had to do that for thoes 1x1 pixel images that our very own slashdot uses on its entry page.
Later
Mike
Just ratting out the people who annoy me, like any good bastard operator from hell... Perhaps they should have little "accidents". Hmmmm
*EVIL GRIN*
And now for something completly diffrent...
Mike
(Nothing I say should be taken seriously, as it may cause mental damage)
I have to agree with this.
Assuming I was not being watched over my shoulder, I would delete anything I found that was worthy for HR to fire someone over, but not something truly moraly offensive (eg kiddy-pr0n). Perhaps I would send them a "big brother/guardian angel" message, to scare the witts out of them.
Of course, not to raise any eyebrows, I would turn in a couple people that did things that couldnt get them fired (like that one guy who is subscribed to EVERY joke list on the net, and insists on sending it to everyone in the company, and maybe the person who had to CC the starwars trailer to 30 people vs putting it on a webserver)
Of course, this is my humble opinion.
:-)
Enjoy,
Mike
We should all donate massive massive harddrives so that way rob can mirror a site before posting it :-)
Ok... Atleast enough room to mirror the starwars trailers.
Mike
derGott
"It takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 to pull the trigger of a finly tuned sniper rifle."
I work for a company that gets over 5 million hits a day on ONE Sun Ultra 2 with 2*200MHz, 1Gb Ram, and 11Gb HDD, with Apache, Oracle, and Netscape serving pages (you have to love corp. politics)
/. gets on a dual 266 is beyond me. Especialy since you are running only apache.
Why you cant handle the load
Oh yeah, before I get flammed for running three webservers on one machine... trust me, if it were up to me, I would run only apache with perl dbi calling oracle on another machine!
Mike
derGott
Just who is Big Brother?
Mike
derGott
In a way, it does have some benefits.
But for thoes of you who do not want to be tracked, you might have to build your own hardware and software from the ground up. The way technology is going, there will be no way to buy products without a unique serial number. Its only time.
Resistance is futile.
You will be assimalated.
Yours truly :-)
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Mike of Borg
Earth Shoe
Don't need a lawyer on this case. Unless of course you want to counter sue for malicious prosecutionEarth
US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
derGott, God of nothing
Ummmm... While I was in the navy 3 years ago, we had a full internet connection, though it was slow.
I was browsing webpages, killing dragons on muds, and chatting on IRC. Oh did I mention sending email too???
Course most of the ship I was on didnt know about it, and they also did not set up the workstations with a DNS server, meaning I had to find one and then tell my machine to look at it. So I was only one of 5 people (outside of ADP people) that could use it... unofficialy.
Of course sometime you would lose connection for an hour or two depending on the direction ofthe ship. (sometimes the radar would be in the way of the satilite)
Hehehe... This stuff is old news.
They were officialy able to send offship mail using cc:Mail my entire time on the ship.
Enjoy
Mike