If you love the music industry executives, thier spouses and mistresses AND thier nosetrails... buy the overpriced shit they sell you.
When translated to reality, reads:
"I'm justifying stealing some artist's music because I don't like that an exec who heads the label makes money in a capitalist system. I'll ignore that the artist willingly signed their contract and that distributing intellectual property without the copyright holder's permission is illegal.
Instead, I'll sidestep the issue of ripping off artists and say, "Here, look at this, it's a rich RIAA exec and his wife!" Thereby completely distracting the issue with something irrelevant that the anti-social, anti-capitalist, generally-broke Slashdotters can rally against.
And we'll pretend it's actually WRONG for the RIAA to be suing people still illegally distributing their product--even after all the awareness of its immorality and illegality. Never mind that when Napster was being sued, Slashdotters were saying the RIAA should be suing individual downloaders instead because they're the ones breaking the law!
Now they're doing exactly what Slashdotters said they should do, and suddenly it's wrong. Because I'm really trying to justify the piracy I participate in daily on my DSL connection. I'm going to pretend it's not illegal, not immoral, and I'm going to rid myself of the guilt of downloading by trying to remove the image of me being a criminal and instead paint the RIAA as the bad guy."
I would say listening to it first is a pretty good way to decide whether something is valuable to you.
Slashdotters love to say this...as though the majority of the people on Kazaa are "sampling" all those albums in order to run to the store and purchase them to re-get them.
I don't get this incessant need to avoid stating the OBVIOUS TRUTH, which is that p2p is used for a shitload of outright piracy and avoiding paying for stuff. I'd say over 90%. You're being foolish and purposely stoic if you pretend otherwise.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the RIAA suing people who are illegally distributing their product. I don't get the opposition to that either.
But let's be real, here. Last year in the span of six months, Debian, Gentoo, and GNU (twice!) were compromised. Now GNOME.
Can you honestly rail on Microsoft? When was the last time their servers were compromised? I only vaguely recall something in 2000 about alleged stolen source code, and a real good that has turned out all these years later. As for this year's stolen source code, Slashdot never reported this but it was taken from a Linux computer at MainSoft.
Just funny how things are viewed around here, with a certain bias some people don't even realize they have.
Instead of buying into groupthink, how about explaining and citing examples?
I could easily come up with Linux examples supporting the same statement. In fact, Slashdot posted the study showing Linux was the most-breached OS on the net.
You very rarely see that these days, which is a real shame because not only is it very efficient and simple from a programming point of view, but a well designed screen in that style can be very pleasing on the eye.
Please don't ever take a job as a visual designer. Monospace fonts are the opposite of readable. Proportional fonts flow and are not monotonous. The eye has an easier time following the text, picking up where it left off, and distinguishing capital letters and so forth.
Then you go and mention "it's great from a programming point of view," which illustrates my point all the more--you're again speaking as a *programmer* and not a user. THANK GOD programmers don't design everything--Linux desktop attempts are bad enough as it is.
Yet the terminal console is almost unchanged in 30 years. Hmmmm?
You think most people have learned how to use a computer properly because of the terminal? The terminal makes things even more difficult than the GUI.
I know it's hip to like the CLI above all around here, but it really is an antiquated side feature that compliments the visual interface modern computing has taken on since the mid-80s. You don't enter command-line text to operate your CD player or watch your DVD menus, do you? How about your toaster or fridge? What about your car?
Slashdot's not as fun as it used to be. Now it has an agenda to push, for "your rights online."
Used to just be an excellent place for tech news and fun articles like this. Now we have to sit through MP3 piracy justifications, DRM rants, anti-"M$" bullshit, GPL-dissertations (boooooring), etc.
I suppose Linux is right out. You gotta love desktop dominance.
Damn them for targetting the two major desktop operating systems and not also expending effort on an ever-changing niche effort that's still trying to correctly populate its devices dynamically.
True enough but this is a traffic ticket to Bill Gates. Not a traffic ticket to you and me. It always struck me as fundamentally unfair that traffic tickets are fixed and not based on income. Simply put 100 dollars is not the same to everyone.
The amount of someone's income doesn't change how much everything else costs. If I make a lot of money but still live in a $500/month apartment, and I get a $500 ticket, you've still taken my rent money.
Basically you're saying it's "worse" for a rich person to break the law than a middle-class person, because you're assigning higher value of punishment to someone who makes more money. That's "fundamentally unfair." I could have sworn being fair meant being equal to everyone...
...and everyone knows it.:) KDE is obsessed with becoming Windows. They even integrated the HTML browser and file browser--there is *absolutely no point* in doing that, and now I have to wait through seconds of lag time to open simple folders.
All the volunteer effort in the world and what do we do? We make another UNIX. Then we make another Windows on top of it!
I always thought it was just a vocal minority that used Mozilla, but I suppose i might be wrong.
Taco has already said the majority of hits are from IE. If Mozilla users are more vocal, it's because idealist people tend to be louder, and though Mozilla is technically superior to IE, most people who use it happen to be OSS idealists who always proclaim what "open alternative" they're using.
If nothing else, consider the case on servers. Apache is now fully 2/3 of all servers, yet IIS accounts for the majority of break-ins.
I guess you missed the study Slashdot itself posted that showed Linux was the most-breached OS. Incidentally, BSD was the least-breached.
A funny thing about that study was that Slashdot changed the headline to read "Linux Most Attacked OS?" instead of what the study had concluded, "Most Breached."
It's called the.NET runtime, and when Longhorn comes out and EVERYTHING including Windows itself is running on.NET libraries, you're going to have some damn secure systems. What will Slashdotters find to bitch about next? There's always something--it's impossible to satisfy people around here. The friggin' sky is always falling.
And there it was. Geez, man, couldn't you have at least made it in any way relevant to the story? I knew someone would mention Microsoft as fast as they could to get modded up.
His remarks sound like he's trying to appeal to our current neo-con regiem's inability to comprehend issues that affect anyone except fellow members of Skull & Bones fraternity.
Sucks that both major contendors for the Presidency this November are members of the Skull & Bones. One "neo-con regiem" to another.
I'm still puzzled as to why that was such a massive deal, I mean everyone has seen female breasts at some point during their lifetime, so why the big fuss? Just because it was prime-time?
You don't think it's a big deal that, to the access of all on public airwaves including little children, a major teen idol ripped the top off of another woman in front of millions of people as a form of entertainment?
We already have enough 12-year-old sluts who think they have to suck dick for attention and 12-year-old backwards-cap wearing retard males who treat girls like objects.
If you had pulled the top off of a woman and exposed her breast on the street, you'd be arrested for sexual assault. Do it in front of millions of people on freely accessible airwaves--essentially flashing people--and suddenly the lefties come out in full force and miss the point. "It's just a breast." "Who hasn't seen a breast before?"
The breast wasn't the deal, it was the context, the highly sexual nature of these two pop idols influencing more of the MTV kids to obsess about sex. It was the fact that nobody was warned, parents weren't given the chance to tell their kids not to watch, etc.
Now's the part where the morons come in, "yeah, it happened during a violent show where men run into each other with pretty cheerleaders on the side." Typical for people to draw that sort of bizarre connection as though it's the same thing. Hell, witness the other poster blaming a "conservative swing," when meanwhile the fact is that a major portion of American society has always been traditionalist. Look at the success of Passion of the Christ, despite all the liberal media bashing.
Britain - oh well, what do you expect from a deranged droid which prays together with another deranged droid before delcaring wars on other countries or on scientific education in his own country by restoring creationism.
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If you love the music industry executives, thier spouses and mistresses AND thier nosetrails... buy the overpriced shit they sell you.
When translated to reality, reads:
"I'm justifying stealing some artist's music because I don't like that an exec who heads the label makes money in a capitalist system. I'll ignore that the artist willingly signed their contract and that distributing intellectual property without the copyright holder's permission is illegal.
Instead, I'll sidestep the issue of ripping off artists and say, "Here, look at this, it's a rich RIAA exec and his wife!" Thereby completely distracting the issue with something irrelevant that the anti-social, anti-capitalist, generally-broke Slashdotters can rally against.
And we'll pretend it's actually WRONG for the RIAA to be suing people still illegally distributing their product--even after all the awareness of its immorality and illegality. Never mind that when Napster was being sued, Slashdotters were saying the RIAA should be suing individual downloaders instead because they're the ones breaking the law!
Now they're doing exactly what Slashdotters said they should do, and suddenly it's wrong. Because I'm really trying to justify the piracy I participate in daily on my DSL connection. I'm going to pretend it's not illegal, not immoral, and I'm going to rid myself of the guilt of downloading by trying to remove the image of me being a criminal and instead paint the RIAA as the bad guy."
Yeah, that sounds about right.
I would say listening to it first is a pretty good way to decide whether something is valuable to you.
Slashdotters love to say this...as though the majority of the people on Kazaa are "sampling" all those albums in order to run to the store and purchase them to re-get them.
I don't get this incessant need to avoid stating the OBVIOUS TRUTH, which is that p2p is used for a shitload of outright piracy and avoiding paying for stuff. I'd say over 90%. You're being foolish and purposely stoic if you pretend otherwise.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the RIAA suing people who are illegally distributing their product. I don't get the opposition to that either.
I fully expect a bunch of lame Microsoft jokes.
But let's be real, here. Last year in the span of six months, Debian, Gentoo, and GNU (twice!) were compromised. Now GNOME.
Can you honestly rail on Microsoft? When was the last time their servers were compromised? I only vaguely recall something in 2000 about alleged stolen source code, and a real good that has turned out all these years later. As for this year's stolen source code, Slashdot never reported this but it was taken from a Linux computer at MainSoft.
Just funny how things are viewed around here, with a certain bias some people don't even realize they have.
Instead of buying into groupthink, how about explaining and citing examples?
I could easily come up with Linux examples supporting the same statement. In fact, Slashdot posted the study showing Linux was the most-breached OS on the net.
You very rarely see that these days, which is a real shame because not only is it very efficient and simple from a programming point of view, but a well designed screen in that style can be very pleasing on the eye.
Please don't ever take a job as a visual designer. Monospace fonts are the opposite of readable. Proportional fonts flow and are not monotonous. The eye has an easier time following the text, picking up where it left off, and distinguishing capital letters and so forth.
Then you go and mention "it's great from a programming point of view," which illustrates my point all the more--you're again speaking as a *programmer* and not a user. THANK GOD programmers don't design everything--Linux desktop attempts are bad enough as it is.
Yet the terminal console is almost unchanged in 30 years. Hmmmm?
You think most people have learned how to use a computer properly because of the terminal? The terminal makes things even more difficult than the GUI.
I know it's hip to like the CLI above all around here, but it really is an antiquated side feature that compliments the visual interface modern computing has taken on since the mid-80s. You don't enter command-line text to operate your CD player or watch your DVD menus, do you? How about your toaster or fridge? What about your car?
Wow, you're so modern, cutting-edge, and l33t by staying in the 1980s.
Slashdot's not as fun as it used to be. Now it has an agenda to push, for "your rights online."
Used to just be an excellent place for tech news and fun articles like this. Now we have to sit through MP3 piracy justifications, DRM rants, anti-"M$" bullshit, GPL-dissertations (boooooring), etc.
How l33t you are. A godawful, crappy, Win95-alike manager.
Visual cues are important. People need to get with this decade. It's not 1992 anymore.
I suppose Linux is right out. You gotta love desktop dominance.
Damn them for targetting the two major desktop operating systems and not also expending effort on an ever-changing niche effort that's still trying to correctly populate its devices dynamically.
True enough but this is a traffic ticket to Bill Gates. Not a traffic ticket to you and me. It always struck me as fundamentally unfair that traffic tickets are fixed and not based on income. Simply put 100 dollars is not the same to everyone.
The amount of someone's income doesn't change how much everything else costs. If I make a lot of money but still live in a $500/month apartment, and I get a $500 ticket, you've still taken my rent money.
Basically you're saying it's "worse" for a rich person to break the law than a middle-class person, because you're assigning higher value of punishment to someone who makes more money. That's "fundamentally unfair." I could have sworn being fair meant being equal to everyone...
Gates has been funding disease research for years, particularly in foreign countries. It's always been well-known that he's given to charities.
Take off the "FREE SOFTWARE 4EVER D00D" blinders. This is the real world.
640K was enough for anybody in 1981.
That's like me saying now "1GB of RAM should be enough for anybody." I didn't say "ever."
I think you're confusing Windows with a desktop that's attractive to the majority of desktop users.
No, I'm not. Windows is not an attractive desktop. Nor is KDE.
We're changing the world, and we're providing users with freedom. They will never accept that freedom unless our software is easy to use.
KDE is not easy to use. I could list paragraphs of flaws, and most of them stem from the copying of Windows and its metaphors.
And how many vulnerabilities have come out for W2k3? RPC has been the only one, and it affected ALL Windows products.
...and everyone knows it. :) KDE is obsessed with becoming Windows. They even integrated the HTML browser and file browser--there is *absolutely no point* in doing that, and now I have to wait through seconds of lag time to open simple folders.
All the volunteer effort in the world and what do we do? We make another UNIX. Then we make another Windows on top of it!
I always thought it was just a vocal minority that used Mozilla, but I suppose i might be wrong.
Taco has already said the majority of hits are from IE. If Mozilla users are more vocal, it's because idealist people tend to be louder, and though Mozilla is technically superior to IE, most people who use it happen to be OSS idealists who always proclaim what "open alternative" they're using.
If nothing else, consider the case on servers. Apache is now fully 2/3 of all servers, yet IIS accounts for the majority of break-ins.
I guess you missed the study Slashdot itself posted that showed Linux was the most-breached OS. Incidentally, BSD was the least-breached.
A funny thing about that study was that Slashdot changed the headline to read "Linux Most Attacked OS?" instead of what the study had concluded, "Most Breached."
It's called the .NET runtime, and when Longhorn comes out and EVERYTHING including Windows itself is running on .NET libraries, you're going to have some damn secure systems. What will Slashdotters find to bitch about next? There's always something--it's impossible to satisfy people around here. The friggin' sky is always falling.
Does this have anything to do with Firefox's string changes which reduced the code and increased speed by about 5%?
"Hungarian"
And there it was. Geez, man, couldn't you have at least made it in any way relevant to the story? I knew someone would mention Microsoft as fast as they could to get modded up.
His remarks sound like he's trying to appeal to our current neo-con regiem's inability to comprehend issues that affect anyone except fellow members of Skull & Bones fraternity.
Sucks that both major contendors for the Presidency this November are members of the Skull & Bones. One "neo-con regiem" to another.
I'm still puzzled as to why that was such a massive deal, I mean everyone has seen female breasts at some point during their lifetime, so why the big fuss? Just because it was prime-time?
You don't think it's a big deal that, to the access of all on public airwaves including little children, a major teen idol ripped the top off of another woman in front of millions of people as a form of entertainment?
We already have enough 12-year-old sluts who think they have to suck dick for attention and 12-year-old backwards-cap wearing retard males who treat girls like objects.
If you had pulled the top off of a woman and exposed her breast on the street, you'd be arrested for sexual assault. Do it in front of millions of people on freely accessible airwaves--essentially flashing people--and suddenly the lefties come out in full force and miss the point. "It's just a breast." "Who hasn't seen a breast before?"
The breast wasn't the deal, it was the context, the highly sexual nature of these two pop idols influencing more of the MTV kids to obsess about sex. It was the fact that nobody was warned, parents weren't given the chance to tell their kids not to watch, etc.
Now's the part where the morons come in, "yeah, it happened during a violent show where men run into each other with pretty cheerleaders on the side." Typical for people to draw that sort of bizarre connection as though it's the same thing. Hell, witness the other poster blaming a "conservative swing," when meanwhile the fact is that a major portion of American society has always been traditionalist. Look at the success of Passion of the Christ, despite all the liberal media bashing.
Britain - oh well, what do you expect from a deranged droid which prays together with another deranged droid before delcaring wars on other countries or on scientific education in his own country by restoring creationism.
Michael Moore, is that you?