Re:TV is actually worse than movies...
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TV Piracy is Next
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· Score: 2, Interesting
"Spare me the anti-capitalist bullshit."
Spare me the cultural-imperialistic, greedy bastard nonsense please.
- When I can buy a DVD at the same bloody time you can, you will beright. Now you are not. - When Terminator 5 is brought out over the world, AT THE SAME DATE, you are right. Now you are not. - When iTunes offers service globally, you are right. Now you are not.
THAT is what anti-globalists see. There is nothing anti-kapitalist about it. There is a -difference- in globalization for -people- and globalization for corps, and if you do not reckognize that, you are blind.
A Big ISP pushes their services via a Big media hype, Idols, by advertising a winner-Idol's site.
They however cock up: they fail to publish the.au extention, pretty major slip, the 'net is bigger then down under mate. They also fail to check if similar names are used on the 'net by people whom they wish not to associate with.
And after all these blunders, they file a complaint because a website exists, with a -similar- name, about a dead Gay Porn star being indecent?
So they -steal- the clickies to the dead porn star, claiming it really, probably, is their clickies...
How weird is that? I must be misunderstanding this article.. yeah?
If I was the Dead Gay Porn Star, id sue BACK, for re-directing -my- traffic to -their- website.
Thats like stealing my mail, claiming the sender really did not want to send it me. That might be true, but how does that justify stealing someone elses mail, or traffic?
Small correction: this is Communist China. While there are improvements over the past strictly "maoist" policies, this is a country where any concept of property plain is relatively novel.
SG series plot(all of them): "Close the gate, its dangerous!" "No! We need the satisafaction of our curiosity and the progressions of science to erm, satisfy and progress us!" -scene develops where the gate rescues Earth/The universe- The End.
Atlantis? Whuh? If its WORSE the the series, well sjees.
Not to piss on the fanboy's parade, but Star Trek (ALL series) r00lz, and Star Gate dr00lzzzZ!
The biggest mistake Bush made was not to invade Iraq. The biggest mistake he made, was using the "WMD" as the -reason-, and -linking- Bin Laden to Saddam, in -every- goddamn speech he made pre-Iraq invasion.
You know, Europeans do not like Saddam. Say the Dutch (Im Dutch), most people I know are pretty social (youd call em socialist, but its different), and dont like dictatorships. Dictators kill people.
Now, If Bush had created a coalition, WITH the VN, to abolish this Dictator Saddam -because- he was a murderous bastard, NOT because some invented "threat" he was suppose to be, or some -completely made up- link to Al Qaida, Id say The Netherlands would have been involved IN THE BEGINNING (not merely as peace keepers after the invasion, like it really happened). And so would France. And so would most likely be Germany.
Europeans love being the "ethical cop", human rights and all that crap, that should have been the reason. Not some grudge by Mr. Prez cuz the bad guy pissed his daddy off. Or Oil. Or Power.
Never -lie- to your friends. Never tell friends that "your with us, or against us". WTF yeah? France and Germany are now Saddam's little helpers? Terrorist training camps in Paris?
GW Bush is a lying SOB, and I hope his whole staff eats it. (the election, that is) I think I can savely speak for about 75% of Europe.
And please, dont go voting for Bush just to piss Europeans off, thats silly. Vote for peace, coorperation and friendship or for Bush. But at least VOTE.
The Internet was "born" for the public, when it came available for the public. That happens pretty much to collide with the rise of http.
The previous existance, of some wack hackers, playing with protocols, some of them still very usefull, and smart militairy playing with communications doesnt mean its the "net".
At least, I think thats the semantic meaning of your parent's "real"
90 days? Holy crap. That wont hold in my country though (Dutch), lots of things are limited to bizarre short warrenty periods here too, but consumer laws dictate that a company must always garantee upto reasonable expectations of the product anyway. 90 days on an piece of electronics? It aint no ounce of cheese! Its -hardware-! A year is completely reasonable to expect.
/code is to blame, according to postings on.. err/dot. Why they dont fix it, is really beyond me.
It shines bad on free software development, on free software usability, and well, it sucks.
(Althoug -I- very rarely have that problem.. and I do use Firefox on Debian, almost exlusively. My probs were usually fixed by tweaking the font manager in KDE or gnome)
That said, this is news? We had riots over lowering DAM on favourite weapons, sjeez. Can you imagine? A world where a vorpal sword would sometimes FAIL a beheading? Noo... RIOT!
I have this uber conncted friend, that thinks its quite ok, to have lengthty conversations with random strangers (to me) from the comfort of MY couch.
All the while increasing his voice level whilst gesturing to ME to lower the TV output.
If he wasn't my best friend, i'd kill him.
"/Dread"
Confidential Proposal, Off shore data haven
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Ask Neal Stephenson
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· Score: 5, Funny
Greetings to you in the name of the most high God, from my beloved country Nigeria.
I am sorry and I solicit your permission into your privacy. I am Barrister Leonardo Akume, lawyer to the late Dr. Koffi Abachus, a brilliant Nigerian mathematician.
My former client, late Dr. Koffi Abachus, died in a mysterious plane crash in the year 1994 on the way to a scientific conference to make an announcement of the utmost importance to mankind.
He was planning to present a paper regarding his extensive work on data storage. It is said the data storage device he had developed, would be roughly ten times more secure compared to the latest quantum excyption techniques. The device was about the size of a steamer trunk, and stored on a privately owned island close to the coast of Nigeria. Dr Koffi Abachus is also the King of the local tribe by heritage...
Oh well.. Should there BE a data haven? If so, where?
Phillips SO saw this coming.... they sold polygram years ago (Their music business), then masively promoted CD burners, THEN issued warnings that CD protection fails to meet CD Audio requirements, adn demanded the removal of "CD Audio" labels on protected CD's.
"But Linux is alive and well and I don't know any person at Linux or any Linux programmers who share the Commission's view."'"
Well, I do. Granted, Im no "person at Linux" (WTF? does FSF member count?;-) or a programmer, but I AM responsible for switching our companies main old crappy (SCO) machines to Redhat. I use Linux since uhm, the Minix days.
-Without- access to documented API's, compatibility battles are always going to be a "catch-up" game.
Meaning MS can leveradge its closed fileformats and closed API's to keep a lock on its customers.
Even the much applauded SAMBA (Love it, love it) is mostly reversed engeneered, and often has to deal with changed Windows OS behaviour between releases and SP's.
To get out of this deadlock, people can either massively switch away from MS (unlikely, but possible) or have MS open up its secrets, and level the playing ground. Only THEN can Linux and MS compete on the one level that mnatters: "innovation".
No matter how good Gnome and KDE have gotten, if the.net and JAVA software is lacking (Mono is not nearly complete, and is exactly fighting this catch-up game, JAVA is a nifty SUN Trap) and MS file formats could potentially be 100% closed in a single update (Yes MS DOES hold your DATA ransom) Managers will always take the save route. Or at the very best, change will happen very very slowly.
I mean, c'mon, burn every "Freedom==security threat" wanker at my account, but the article is fair. Even a Mountie (Well prolly not a mountie, but some IT manager for the Police) was quoted saying "Every twist in technology has benefits and not-so-beneficial things that occur".
The original Mountie report was quoted to say flash mobs are a "phenomenon to be reckoned with" and they are bloody well right. They are the police. Flash mobs ARE a force. Leddem reckon with it. Thats them jobs.
I mean, Its not like "The Man" recommended to do away with cell phones entirely or anything, that would be preposterous even in the US of A. And this is Canada speaking.
"People use MS Office because people use MS Office. Not because of the file format."
That is not always so.
I remember vividely an ex-employer of mine, switching to Windows/Terminal Servers FROM Apple's MAC JUST to get rid of the "conversion desk"
Thats right, their stubbornly grabs to that silly old MacOS (Version 8 in that time) forced them to vreate a "conversion desk" JUST to handle send in ".doc's" em ".xls"
The only righteous way was indeed to switch away from that old crappy "conversion prone" MacOS.
Did it help? Sure! The whole conversion desks than could spend their much valued time, rebooting (and rebuilding) Citrix servers... Different times thou... the Terminal Servers became more reliable, but the office format didnt get any more open...
Slashdot Mirror
Have been playing Half Life 2 just a little to much, have we?
Ok, who else thinks g-man is actually G.ordon freeMAN self in the future?
all day long! Now theyll be /dotted and fix it ;-(
"Spare me the anti-capitalist bullshit."
Spare me the cultural-imperialistic, greedy bastard nonsense please.
- When I can buy a DVD at the same bloody time you can, you will beright. Now you are not.
- When Terminator 5 is brought out over the world, AT THE SAME DATE, you are right. Now you are not.
- When iTunes offers service globally, you are right. Now you are not.
THAT is what anti-globalists see. There is nothing anti-kapitalist about it. There is a -difference- in globalization for -people- and globalization for corps, and if you do not reckognize that, you are blind.
"/Dread"
that, and be voted -for-, I think..
"/Dread"
A Big ISP pushes their services via a Big media hype, Idols, by advertising a winner-Idol's site.
.au extention, pretty major slip, the 'net is bigger then down under mate. They also fail to check if similar names are used on the 'net by people whom they wish not to associate with.
They however cock up: they fail to publish the
And after all these blunders, they file a complaint because a website exists, with a -similar- name, about a dead Gay Porn star being indecent?
So they -steal- the clickies to the dead porn star, claiming it really, probably, is their clickies...
How weird is that? I must be misunderstanding this article.. yeah?
If I was the Dead Gay Porn Star, id sue BACK, for re-directing -my- traffic to -their- website.
Thats like stealing my mail, claiming the sender really did not want to send it me. That might be true, but how does that justify stealing someone elses mail, or traffic?
"/Dread"
Small correction: this is Communist China. While there are improvements over the past strictly "maoist" policies, this is a country where any concept of property plain is relatively novel.
"/Dread"
somewhat, the series I have found horrible.
SG series plot(all of them): "Close the gate, its dangerous!" "No! We need the satisafaction of our curiosity and the progressions of science to erm, satisfy and progress us!" -scene develops where the gate rescues Earth/The universe- The End.
Atlantis? Whuh? If its WORSE the the series, well sjees.
Not to piss on the fanboy's parade, but Star Trek (ALL series) r00lz, and Star Gate dr00lzzzZ!
"/Dread"
"Bush can't get it. Perhaps Kerry can."
I think Kerry can.
The biggest mistake Bush made was not to invade Iraq. The biggest mistake he made, was using the "WMD" as the -reason-, and -linking- Bin Laden to Saddam, in -every- goddamn speech he made pre-Iraq invasion.
You know, Europeans do not like Saddam. Say the Dutch (Im Dutch), most people I know are pretty social (youd call em socialist, but its different), and dont like dictatorships. Dictators kill people.
Now, If Bush had created a coalition, WITH the VN, to abolish this Dictator Saddam -because- he was a murderous bastard, NOT because some invented "threat" he was suppose to be, or some -completely made up- link to Al Qaida, Id say The Netherlands would have been involved IN THE BEGINNING (not merely as peace keepers after the invasion, like it really happened). And so would France. And so would most likely be Germany.
Europeans love being the "ethical cop", human rights and all that crap, that should have been the reason. Not some grudge by Mr. Prez cuz the bad guy pissed his daddy off. Or Oil. Or Power.
Never -lie- to your friends. Never tell friends that "your with us, or against us". WTF yeah? France and Germany are now Saddam's little helpers? Terrorist training camps in Paris?
GW Bush is a lying SOB, and I hope his whole staff eats it. (the election, that is) I think I can savely speak for about 75% of Europe.
And please, dont go voting for Bush just to piss Europeans off, thats silly. Vote for peace, coorperation and friendship or for Bush. But at least VOTE.
In short, Kerry can get support. Bush will never.
"/Dread"
I, as a European, want to firmly say:
4 more years! We love Bush! All Europeans think Kerry is a lame-Americain! Boo Kerry!
Really!
"/Dread"
You are correct, it depends on the type of hardware. 3 months for a xbox! I bet its legal in the US too, Silly Americans ;-)
"/Dread"
The Internet was "born" for the public, when it came available for the public. That happens pretty much to collide with the rise of http.
The previous existance, of some wack hackers, playing with protocols, some of them still very usefull, and smart militairy playing with communications doesnt mean its the "net".
At least, I think thats the semantic meaning of your parent's "real"
"/Dread"
"The warranty is crap - Only 90 days."
90 days? Holy crap. That wont hold in my country though (Dutch), lots of things are limited to bizarre short warrenty periods here too, but consumer laws dictate that a company must always garantee upto reasonable expectations of the product anyway. 90 days on an piece of electronics? It aint no ounce of cheese! Its -hardware-!
A year is completely reasonable to expect.
"/Dread"
"Lotus Notes is a beast. It stops working whenever it feels like it, and occasionally corrupts the database just to make your day."
Sounds a lot like "Microsoft Echange"
"/Dread"
/code is to blame, according to postings on.. err /dot. Why they dont fix it, is really beyond me.
It shines bad on free software development, on free software usability, and well, it sucks.
(Althoug -I- very rarely have that problem.. and I do use Firefox on Debian, almost exlusively. My probs were usually fixed by tweaking the font manager in KDE or gnome)
Greetings "/Dread"
As I part time MUD admin, Id like to comment:
Are these fe-males frigging KIDDING me?!
That said, this is news? We had riots over lowering DAM on favourite weapons, sjeez. Can you imagine? A world where a vorpal sword would sometimes FAIL a beheading? Noo... RIOT!
"/Dread"
"W.W.K.D"
Scotty! All energy to the reverse polarized tracktor beam so we can hook ourself on the planet before we get blasted to outer space!
"I'm giv'n it all she got cap'tn!"
"/Dread"
"How would you like to see something you've worked on for 50+ hours a week for months on end being freely copied around?"
I would like to see that as "Flattering".
"/Dread"
"He would call me up every three hours to find out where I was."
In Sovjet America, the Mentors Call YOU!
"/Dread"
I want this in my HOUSE.
I have this uber conncted friend, that thinks its quite ok, to have lengthty conversations with random strangers (to me) from the comfort of MY couch.
All the while increasing his voice level whilst gesturing to ME to lower the TV output.
If he wasn't my best friend, i'd kill him.
"/Dread"
Greetings to you in the name of the most high God, from my beloved country Nigeria.
I am sorry and I solicit your permission into your privacy. I am Barrister Leonardo Akume, lawyer to the late Dr. Koffi Abachus, a brilliant Nigerian mathematician.
My former client, late Dr. Koffi Abachus, died in a mysterious plane crash in the year 1994 on the way to a scientific conference to make an announcement of the utmost importance to mankind.
He was planning to present a paper regarding his extensive work on data storage. It is said the data storage device he had developed, would be roughly ten times more secure compared to the latest quantum excyption techniques. The device was about the size of a steamer trunk, and stored on a privately owned island close to the coast of Nigeria. Dr Koffi Abachus is also the King of the local tribe by heritage...
Oh well.. Should there BE a data haven? If so, where?
"/Dread"
Management pressure.
"/Dread"
Gnagnagna,
Phillips SO saw this coming.... they sold polygram years ago (Their music business), then masively promoted CD burners, THEN issued warnings that CD protection fails to meet CD Audio requirements, adn demanded the removal of "CD Audio" labels on protected CD's.
They sell mucho car CD players, for exmpl...
I always wondered WTF Sony was thinking...
"/Dread"
"But Linux is alive and well and I don't know any person at Linux or any Linux programmers who share the Commission's view."'"
;-) or a programmer, but I AM responsible for switching our companies main old crappy (SCO) machines to Redhat. I use Linux since uhm, the Minix days.
.net and JAVA software is lacking (Mono is not nearly complete, and is exactly fighting this catch-up game, JAVA is a nifty SUN Trap) and MS file formats could potentially be 100% closed in a single update (Yes MS DOES hold your DATA ransom) Managers will always take the save route. Or at the very best, change will happen very very slowly.
Well, I do. Granted, Im no "person at Linux" (WTF? does FSF member count?
-Without- access to documented API's, compatibility battles are always going to be a "catch-up" game.
Meaning MS can leveradge its closed fileformats and closed API's to keep a lock on its customers.
Even the much applauded SAMBA (Love it, love it) is mostly reversed engeneered, and often has to deal with changed Windows OS behaviour between releases and SP's.
To get out of this deadlock, people can either massively switch away from MS (unlikely, but possible) or have MS open up its secrets, and level the playing ground. Only THEN can Linux and MS compete on the one level that mnatters: "innovation".
No matter how good Gnome and KDE have gotten, if the
"/Dread"
I mean, c'mon, burn every "Freedom==security threat" wanker at my account, but the article is fair. Even a Mountie (Well prolly not a mountie, but some IT manager for the Police) was quoted saying "Every twist in technology has benefits and not-so-beneficial things that occur".
The original Mountie report was quoted to say flash mobs are a "phenomenon to be reckoned with" and they are bloody well right. They are the police. Flash mobs ARE a force. Leddem reckon with it. Thats them jobs.
I mean, Its not like "The Man" recommended to do away with cell phones entirely or anything, that would be preposterous even in the US of A.
And this is Canada speaking.
"/Dread"
"People use MS Office because people use MS Office. Not because of the file format."
That is not always so.
I remember vividely an ex-employer of mine, switching to Windows/Terminal Servers FROM Apple's MAC JUST to get rid of the "conversion desk"
Thats right, their stubbornly grabs to that silly old MacOS (Version 8 in that time) forced them to vreate a "conversion desk" JUST to handle send in ".doc's" em ".xls"
The only righteous way was indeed to switch away from that old crappy "conversion prone" MacOS.
Did it help? Sure! The whole conversion desks than could spend their much valued time, rebooting (and rebuilding) Citrix servers... Different times thou... the Terminal Servers became more reliable, but the office format didnt get any more open...
"/Dread"