April Fools Day is an absolute nightmare for a news guy like me, because its become a grand tradition for some companies that use the Internet as one of their primary methods of communication to send out phony press releases announcing products that dont really exist or new services they have no intention of offering. By the end of the day, Im usually shell-shocked at trying to figure out the real stuff from the hoaxes. And I always wake up on this day just a bit gunshy.
So maybe CmdrTaco got trolled and didn't know Apple has been selling iPod socks forever. Or maybe he DOES know, and he's trolling everyone here who will post that CmdrTaco got trolled because Apple has been selling iPod socks forever. But then maybe THOSE people are trolling everyone else...
One unreported danger of Google Gulp is the way it reorganizes your organs using PageRank. Those who talk out their asses end up with assholes for mouths.
Fortunately, whenever you drink Google Gulp, you're feeling lucky!
I'm currently pirating my music collection to my friends using this brand-new technology, but they keep throwing things at me and telling me to stop hurting their ears with my singing voice.
"At the heart of Xcode 2.0 is Apple's version of gcc 4.0, the next generation of the industry-standard gcc compiler. The new compiler helps you get more performance from your existing code by using a number of advanced optimization techniques. Auto-vectorization, a technique borrowed from the world of supercomputing, helps you to unlock the power of the Velocity Engine in every PowerPC G4 and G5 system without writing vectorized code. Other optimization tools include support for feedback-directed optimization and inter-module analysis."
You can't stop worms and trojans. But why should your operating system take those extra steps to be helpful to script kiddies by having insecure ports open and a vulnerable RPC protocol? Hackers love Microsoft Windows.
Microsoft comes out looking like a good guy who brought this person to justice. Most of the media ignores that a large part of the fault lies with Microsoft Windows...and Microsoft appreciates that very much.
In comp science class in high school, we switched the keyboards of two computers and actually convinced a student to type his password into Telnet for us. When the password wasn't appearing on screen, we shrugged cluelessly.
We used the password to change his website into a massive gay porn site with images grabbed from Manhole.com. We put a giant ASCII penis in his signature file. And for good measure, we got his character stuck in an unescapable place in Dark Castle. All in the name of deviousness.
They want to send nanotechnology swarms onto another planet in order to burrow into the core and create a vast nanotech brain. The planet will gain self-awareness in a matter of seven years and will decide humanity is its greatest threat, altering the course of its orbit to crash into Earth.
Seriously. Piracy is about getting stuff for free without having to pay for it.
To justify doing this, people have created entire rationalizations in their heads. They've invented a faceless entity called the "RIAA" who does every evil thing you can imagine. I hear they even rip off artists! Though I never cite an actual, specific instance.
In reality, the RIAA has nothing to do with the contracts artists sign. The RIAA is just a lobbying group for the record labels, and artists hire entertainment lawyers to work out their contracts with the labels. And then willingly sign them.
People who have grown accustomed to downloading whatever they want for so long have decided they are freedom fighters fighting against the evil RIAA. The human beings they're ripping off--the artists--are never, ever mentioned. The reason being that it makes them realize how self-serving their behavior is. So artists are quietly pushed out of the discussion in order to bash the RIAA some more, as if that justifies violating intellectual property anyway.
Pirates are freeloaders who get bitter when the free ride is taken away. And now a lot of those same people expect everyone to follow the GPL. People have taken the concepts of free as in "speech" and free as in "beer" in the OSS world and applied it to the commercial world. Which then becomes free as in "loading."
You state this claim every time PearPC gets mentioned on Slashdot, and I've pointed out to you at least once that it's simply untrue, with links to +5 comments that do nothing but point out the hypocrisy. Your comment is at +4 at the moment.
Wow, links to +5 comments on Slashdot that agree with your position? Talk about objective evidence!:)
Stop lying about a moderation bias. There are other biases, but not when it comes to copyright infringement. You know this, but you make the claim anyway. That's what makes you a troll.
What makes me a "troll" is the fact you disagree with me and feel the need to demonize me for it. There is a moderation bias. RIAA rantings get upmodded. Very few anti-piracy posts get modded up. Often, they are modded down. Need proof? My post is no longer at +4.
epic battle of intellectual property the way we define it, against the way they define it.
Intellectual property = Pirating on P2P is okay, but pirating GPL code is not? What is the difference really between "their" definition intellectual property and yours? Both get violated, and both result in lawsuits based on the same kinds of laws.
The money-making issue is a red herring. It's irrelevant.
The double-standard is over the application of intellectual property rights. What right do the GPL authors have to sue someone who violates the GPL? Intellectual property rights, that's what.
Whether or not a company tries to make money off of the GPL isn't the issue here. In both cases of violating copyright of the GPL and violating copyright of media content on P2P networks, intellectual property rights are violated for someone else's gain.
I speak out about this because I'm tired of the double-standard that people don't even seem to notice. If you're going to advance the cause of the GPL, you have to respect the very ideas it's based on. You can't turn it into some special-case scenario that only applies when a fellow GPL author's rights are being violated. It has to apply to everyone fairly. That includes the artists whose music was put out for sale but was then ripped and stuck on P2P networks for people to buy without having to pay for it.
Who decides what is greed and what is advancing human kind? Slashdot, whom you admit roots for one side over the other?
Why aren't P2P pirates greedy as well? They're the ones getting a ton of stuff without paying for it. Or are corporations the only ones who can be greedy?
Demonizing the RIAA with more vague accusations doesn't advance your position. Artists willingly sign their contracts with record labels.
That's not the point. Whether or not they make money isn't the issue here.
Both cases are instances of violating intellectual property law. If you get angry over GPL violation but are okay with P2P violation, you are elevating one instance of the law over another, which is a double-standard.
I really don't see why this upsets people so much when it's pointed out. The law doesn't magically go away just because you're not physically making money when you violate it. If we're supposed to respect the intellectual property basis of the GPL, that has to apply everywhere, or else the GPL has no valid legal basis. We can't paint the GPL as some special situation just because we want to.
This is supposed to be a mature community; grow up! I don't care if you pirate. But don't complain about GPL violations on Slashdot while you check your background eMule downloads. It's self-serving and hypocritical. GPL violaters gain everything and return nothing based on the work of others. As do P2P copyright violaters. They're the same kinds of people who want to benefit from others without compensation of any kind.
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So maybe CmdrTaco got trolled and didn't know Apple has been selling iPod socks forever. Or maybe he DOES know, and he's trolling everyone here who will post that CmdrTaco got trolled because Apple has been selling iPod socks forever. But then maybe THOSE people are trolling everyone else...
I have a headache, wake me when this is all over.
One unreported danger of Google Gulp is the way it reorganizes your organs using PageRank. Those who talk out their asses end up with assholes for mouths.
Fortunately, whenever you drink Google Gulp, you're feeling lucky!
I'm currently pirating my music collection to my friends using this brand-new technology, but they keep throwing things at me and telling me to stop hurting their ears with my singing voice.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/xcode.html
"At the heart of Xcode 2.0 is Apple's version of gcc 4.0, the next generation of the industry-standard gcc compiler. The new compiler helps you get more performance from your existing code by using a number of advanced optimization techniques. Auto-vectorization, a technique borrowed from the world of supercomputing, helps you to unlock the power of the Velocity Engine in every PowerPC G4 and G5 system without writing vectorized code. Other optimization tools include support for feedback-directed optimization and inter-module analysis."
You can't stop worms and trojans. But why should your operating system take those extra steps to be helpful to script kiddies by having insecure ports open and a vulnerable RPC protocol? Hackers love Microsoft Windows.
He's a script kiddie, so don't you mean "replacing himself with someone else's modified Visual Basic 6 project file he got from IRC?"
Microsoft comes out looking like a good guy who brought this person to justice. Most of the media ignores that a large part of the fault lies with Microsoft Windows...and Microsoft appreciates that very much.
Mirrordot has the article mirrored.
How is the above "troll"?
Imagine a whole underground culture of identity-trading, where people become other people for a vacation. I don't want to be me this weekend!
Unfortunately, some people have confused "security" with "track everyone, everywhere."
So don't click "Read more" and post a comment.
In comp science class in high school, we switched the keyboards of two computers and actually convinced a student to type his password into Telnet for us. When the password wasn't appearing on screen, we shrugged cluelessly.
We used the password to change his website into a massive gay porn site with images grabbed from Manhole.com. We put a giant ASCII penis in his signature file. And for good measure, we got his character stuck in an unescapable place in Dark Castle. All in the name of deviousness.
I'd think her popularity would increase with the amount of sucking.
Changing your grade is as simple as looking for the password taped under the desk!
They want to send nanotechnology swarms onto another planet in order to burrow into the core and create a vast nanotech brain. The planet will gain self-awareness in a matter of seven years and will decide humanity is its greatest threat, altering the course of its orbit to crash into Earth.
All brought to you by NASA. Thanks, NASA!
...cookies!
Because human beings are selfish.
Seriously. Piracy is about getting stuff for free without having to pay for it.
To justify doing this, people have created entire rationalizations in their heads. They've invented a faceless entity called the "RIAA" who does every evil thing you can imagine. I hear they even rip off artists! Though I never cite an actual, specific instance.
In reality, the RIAA has nothing to do with the contracts artists sign. The RIAA is just a lobbying group for the record labels, and artists hire entertainment lawyers to work out their contracts with the labels. And then willingly sign them.
People who have grown accustomed to downloading whatever they want for so long have decided they are freedom fighters fighting against the evil RIAA. The human beings they're ripping off--the artists--are never, ever mentioned. The reason being that it makes them realize how self-serving their behavior is. So artists are quietly pushed out of the discussion in order to bash the RIAA some more, as if that justifies violating intellectual property anyway.
Pirates are freeloaders who get bitter when the free ride is taken away. And now a lot of those same people expect everyone to follow the GPL. People have taken the concepts of free as in "speech" and free as in "beer" in the OSS world and applied it to the commercial world. Which then becomes free as in "loading."
Wow, links to +5 comments on Slashdot that agree with your position? Talk about objective evidence!
What makes me a "troll" is the fact you disagree with me and feel the need to demonize me for it. There is a moderation bias. RIAA rantings get upmodded. Very few anti-piracy posts get modded up. Often, they are modded down. Need proof? My post is no longer at +4.
epic battle of intellectual property the way we define it, against the way they define it.
Intellectual property = Pirating on P2P is okay, but pirating GPL code is not? What is the difference really between "their" definition intellectual property and yours? Both get violated, and both result in lawsuits based on the same kinds of laws.
The money-making issue is a red herring. It's irrelevant.
The double-standard is over the application of intellectual property rights. What right do the GPL authors have to sue someone who violates the GPL? Intellectual property rights, that's what.
Whether or not a company tries to make money off of the GPL isn't the issue here. In both cases of violating copyright of the GPL and violating copyright of media content on P2P networks, intellectual property rights are violated for someone else's gain.
I speak out about this because I'm tired of the double-standard that people don't even seem to notice. If you're going to advance the cause of the GPL, you have to respect the very ideas it's based on. You can't turn it into some special-case scenario that only applies when a fellow GPL author's rights are being violated. It has to apply to everyone fairly. That includes the artists whose music was put out for sale but was then ripped and stuck on P2P networks for people to buy without having to pay for it.
But if you are giving something away to make money, others are allowed to take it for free?
Who decides what is greed and what is advancing human kind? Slashdot, whom you admit roots for one side over the other?
Why aren't P2P pirates greedy as well? They're the ones getting a ton of stuff without paying for it. Or are corporations the only ones who can be greedy?
Demonizing the RIAA with more vague accusations doesn't advance your position. Artists willingly sign their contracts with record labels.
That's not the point. Whether or not they make money isn't the issue here.
Both cases are instances of violating intellectual property law. If you get angry over GPL violation but are okay with P2P violation, you are elevating one instance of the law over another, which is a double-standard.
I really don't see why this upsets people so much when it's pointed out. The law doesn't magically go away just because you're not physically making money when you violate it. If we're supposed to respect the intellectual property basis of the GPL, that has to apply everywhere, or else the GPL has no valid legal basis. We can't paint the GPL as some special situation just because we want to.
This is supposed to be a mature community; grow up! I don't care if you pirate. But don't complain about GPL violations on Slashdot while you check your background eMule downloads. It's self-serving and hypocritical. GPL violaters gain everything and return nothing based on the work of others. As do P2P copyright violaters. They're the same kinds of people who want to benefit from others without compensation of any kind.