Couldn't Eolas offer to license it to Moz (et al) at a signifigantly reduced cost (say, maybe $0) in the same way that educational institutions can get cheaper software licenses because they don't have the funding? If all Eolas wanted to do was stick it to MS I'd think that would be the way to do it, although I don't know the legalities of it all.
...who can't remember his login" my ass! More like "anonymous guy who was afraid of the lynching he'd get for posting this to/. under his real username".
Just because something *can* be done does not mean there's any real point to doing it.
Actually, just because it *can* be done IS the reason to do it. How many great inventions would we be without today if it weren't for that exact line of reasoning? And even so, what's so wrong with doing something just to prove that you can? Or do you feel that since it has no immediate value to you personally that it must be useless? If you don't like it, fine. But you don't need to bitch about someone else doing it. Go sit in your basement and play video games while the rest of us enrich ourselves by actually learning things. There's much to be said for learning the ins and outs of a new system and porting an OS to it. Kudos to the team that did it, and shame on you for slagging on their hard work.
I absolutely love this idea. But follow it through. Simply throwing a voice saying "please don't redistribute this song" at the beginning of a song won't do. People will delete it, or copy it intact. The RIAA will bring that up - "people already know that ripping a cd and putting the tracks online is illegal, and they still do it". So what's the next logical step? DRM. And that's bad. That gets us into the same mess we have now with DVD, where you can't *legally* play them on linux since there aren't really any legal open source players. And do we really want to see DRM implemented at the hardware level so that our computers can tell us what media we can or cannot play?
I normally don't feed the trolls, but I'll bite. Where's the law that says anyone has to donate anything? The number one purpose of a corporation is to make money for its shareholders, not to win public opinion for humanitarian efforts. So what if Microsoft could afford to give way, way more than $50 million to some high school? I bet it's more than you've donated! Would breast cancer research be better off declining the hundreds of thousands BMW gives them because it's *only* a tenth of a percent of their yearly profit and instead only accept your $500 check because that's at least a full percent of your annual net? After all, it's the thought that counts, right? Your $500 check that's purely altruistic will cure cancer much faster than millions from a corporation who only wants a little PR. Idiot.
I live in a border town, so I just buy my blanks in the U.S. (I work over there, so I don't get hosed on exchange). A couple months ago I went into Best Buy and grabbed a couple boxes of 75 blanks that were marked $15.99 and came with a $15.00 mail-in rebate. When I got to the counter they told me the rebate period was over, but since they were tagged that way on the shelf they gave me the rebate right there. I got 150 blanks for $1.98.. I'll continue to buy my blanks from the U.S. since I *refuse* to give the RIAA any of my money for the *privelege* of writing linux isos and putting MY OWN BAND'S MUSIC on cd.
A kiddie made changes to Blaster, trying to make it run faster. Now we're all making jokes, 'cuz he was bought for some smokes by George, who he now calls his master.
I've always thought that if you wanted to really wreak some havoc with a worm, rather than the crap we see now where it simply multiplies like wildfire, have some fun on the systems while you're there. Search for Excel documents, locate cells with numbers, and change them. Alter formulae. Check Word docs for addresses and phone numbers, and change them. Insert random vulgarities. Modify databases. Shuffle values in address books. Seek out financial records (Quickbooks, M.Y.O.B., whatever else) and fudge some numbers. Why just reboot a computer or wipe the drive clean? Imagine something like I described running for even a few hours before it's noticed. Look how many individuals and businesses *still* don't know they've got code red-infected machines. If these bastards really wanted to cause some problems, I think this would be the way.
One time this guy with a wooden leg tried to convince me that he wasn't a pirate, but I still made him walk the diving boar...er...plank. Shoved him right into the pool, I did.
Well, that's great for you. Hope you still feel the same when they want to put surveillance cameras in your home. I mean, hey, *I'm* not doing anything illegal in my own home, so I have nothing to fear, and if you are, well then tough shit for you. Just remember: when they come for a privacy that *you* hold dear, the rest of us may not be around to stand up for you.
No, despite what the herd thinks, this isn't about killing P2P networks. The RIAA/MPAA have nothing against P2P, they take issue with people using it to infringe on their copyrights. P2P *DOES* have legitimate uses, but letting four million strangers get the newest Britney "song" for free isn't one of them. If you want the music and the movies, pay for it. If you think the RIAA is evil, don't buy music from artists that are signed to their member labels. The only way to bring about a change is to vote with your wallet. Too bad for everyone that the free ride is almost over, but this is not evil. This is exactly what everyone has been saying all along: don't go after the technology, go after the people abusing it. Remember: if you're sharing files that are legally allowed to be shared (indy music that the bands/labels put there themselves, free-as-in-beer software) then you're safe. If you're breaking laws, well then it's time to ante up.
Genuinely new business model? Shit, man, I remember renting movies 20 years ago. Let's try this once more for those at the back of the class: BUSINESS METHODS SHOULD NOT BE PATENTABLE. Can I patent renting DVDs out of my mom's basement? How about on a train, or under water maybe? How about bubble wrapping them before I ship them, or accepting food stamps for payment? Why not just patent a method for charging money to rent things and collect royalties on everyone renting movies, power tools, whatever? Just because they use a different way of distributing and billing, doesn't mean they should get a patent on it anymore than Blockbuster should have a patent on renting movies from a store. Patenting business methods kills competition, plain and simple.
bah, the spam commies have already worked around this one. Here's an email I got yesterday that slipped through my filters:
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with a FREE physician's consultation and discrete shipment to the
privacy of your home or office.
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Please Visit The Site Below For More Information
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To be REM|O|VED Please Visit below
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See, I have a folder that I dump spam in, based on words like: enlarge, penis, credit, mortgage, viagra (and the popular mis-spelling "viagara"), and so on. Co-workers who use this setup on my advice refer to it as "the penis credit filter". Notice how they used the pipe symbol to break up things like "money back guarantee" and "removed" and how they hyphenated "viagra". I now know that filtering just with Outlook's filters isn't enough. Which is too bad, because I get very very few false positives (I've had one in the past six months, and I average about 20-30 spams per day). And of course I have an address that only friends send to, that's never been used to sign up for anything or put on any website, and I don't filter it since I don't *need* to.
But we know they license their code to IBM (and probably to others too...too lazy to look it up) so I'd bet that anybody licensing that code has archives that they could pull up to check against SCO pulling any shenanigans like changing comments / code / dates.
I remember both! And that scary little baby with the forked tongue! I was only 4 when it first aired, but I remember watching it with my dad. I saw the dvd the other day and almost bought it. Funny how this came up now...
Back when Taco first posted the story that they were going to subscriptions, I posted a comment that there were certain perks that would make me subscribe, and one of those would be access to the rejected stories. I still stand by this. If they want to add it for everyone, great! If they add it for subscribers only, I'll pony up. I'm sure a lot of gems get dumped in the dust bin because a shiny new "SCO still sucks" story gets submitted at the same time.
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Couldn't Eolas offer to license it to Moz (et al) at a signifigantly reduced cost (say, maybe $0) in the same way that educational institutions can get cheaper software licenses because they don't have the funding? If all Eolas wanted to do was stick it to MS I'd think that would be the way to do it, although I don't know the legalities of it all.
...who can't remember his login" my ass! More like "anonymous guy who was afraid of the lynching he'd get for posting this to /. under his real username".
Just because something *can* be done does not mean there's any real point to doing it.
Actually, just because it *can* be done IS the reason to do it. How many great inventions would we be without today if it weren't for that exact line of reasoning? And even so, what's so wrong with doing something just to prove that you can? Or do you feel that since it has no immediate value to you personally that it must be useless? If you don't like it, fine. But you don't need to bitch about someone else doing it. Go sit in your basement and play video games while the rest of us enrich ourselves by actually learning things. There's much to be said for learning the ins and outs of a new system and porting an OS to it. Kudos to the team that did it, and shame on you for slagging on their hard work.
You're afraid of apostrophes, aren't you? It's ok, we're here to help.
I absolutely love this idea. But follow it through. Simply throwing a voice saying "please don't redistribute this song" at the beginning of a song won't do. People will delete it, or copy it intact. The RIAA will bring that up - "people already know that ripping a cd and putting the tracks online is illegal, and they still do it". So what's the next logical step? DRM. And that's bad. That gets us into the same mess we have now with DVD, where you can't *legally* play them on linux since there aren't really any legal open source players. And do we really want to see DRM implemented at the hardware level so that our computers can tell us what media we can or cannot play?
I normally don't feed the trolls, but I'll bite. Where's the law that says anyone has to donate anything? The number one purpose of a corporation is to make money for its shareholders, not to win public opinion for humanitarian efforts. So what if Microsoft could afford to give way, way more than $50 million to some high school? I bet it's more than you've donated! Would breast cancer research be better off declining the hundreds of thousands BMW gives them because it's *only* a tenth of a percent of their yearly profit and instead only accept your $500 check because that's at least a full percent of your annual net? After all, it's the thought that counts, right? Your $500 check that's purely altruistic will cure cancer much faster than millions from a corporation who only wants a little PR. Idiot.
You should check out LinuxBIOS for some answers, but I think you'll still need a flashable BIOS to use it.
I live in a border town, so I just buy my blanks in the U.S. (I work over there, so I don't get hosed on exchange). A couple months ago I went into Best Buy and grabbed a couple boxes of 75 blanks that were marked $15.99 and came with a $15.00 mail-in rebate. When I got to the counter they told me the rebate period was over, but since they were tagged that way on the shelf they gave me the rebate right there. I got 150 blanks for $1.98.. I'll continue to buy my blanks from the U.S. since I *refuse* to give the RIAA any of my money for the *privelege* of writing linux isos and putting MY OWN BAND'S MUSIC on cd.
Of course here in Canada it's legal to distribute copyrighted content over file sharing networks, so we don't have to worry about such things.
Just out of curiosity, could you point me to some documentation on this? If I'm legally allowed to do so, I think it's high time I started to indulge!
A kiddie made changes to Blaster,
trying to make it run faster.
Now we're all making jokes,
'cuz he was bought for some smokes
by George, who he now calls his master.
geek who goes to jail
gets to learn all about sex.
he's one-up on you!
I've always thought that if you wanted to really wreak some havoc with a worm, rather than the crap we see now where it simply multiplies like wildfire, have some fun on the systems while you're there. Search for Excel documents, locate cells with numbers, and change them. Alter formulae. Check Word docs for addresses and phone numbers, and change them. Insert random vulgarities. Modify databases. Shuffle values in address books. Seek out financial records (Quickbooks, M.Y.O.B., whatever else) and fudge some numbers. Why just reboot a computer or wipe the drive clean? Imagine something like I described running for even a few hours before it's noticed. Look how many individuals and businesses *still* don't know they've got code red-infected machines. If these bastards really wanted to cause some problems, I think this would be the way.
Why are you confusing morality and intelligence? Does the term "evil genius" ring a bell?
not all robots download robots.txt. In fact, I'd assume most of the more annoying ones don't, nor do they identify as anything other than MSIE 5.5.
One time this guy with a wooden leg tried to convince me that he wasn't a pirate, but I still made him walk the diving boar...er...plank. Shoved him right into the pool, I did.
Well, that's great for you. Hope you still feel the same when they want to put surveillance cameras in your home. I mean, hey, *I'm* not doing anything illegal in my own home, so I have nothing to fear, and if you are, well then tough shit for you. Just remember: when they come for a privacy that *you* hold dear, the rest of us may not be around to stand up for you.
No, despite what the herd thinks, this isn't about killing P2P networks. The RIAA/MPAA have nothing against P2P, they take issue with people using it to infringe on their copyrights. P2P *DOES* have legitimate uses, but letting four million strangers get the newest Britney "song" for free isn't one of them. If you want the music and the movies, pay for it. If you think the RIAA is evil, don't buy music from artists that are signed to their member labels. The only way to bring about a change is to vote with your wallet. Too bad for everyone that the free ride is almost over, but this is not evil. This is exactly what everyone has been saying all along: don't go after the technology, go after the people abusing it. Remember: if you're sharing files that are legally allowed to be shared (indy music that the bands/labels put there themselves, free-as-in-beer software) then you're safe. If you're breaking laws, well then it's time to ante up.
Genuinely new business model? Shit, man, I remember renting movies 20 years ago. Let's try this once more for those at the back of the class: BUSINESS METHODS SHOULD NOT BE PATENTABLE. Can I patent renting DVDs out of my mom's basement? How about on a train, or under water maybe? How about bubble wrapping them before I ship them, or accepting food stamps for payment? Why not just patent a method for charging money to rent things and collect royalties on everyone renting movies, power tools, whatever? Just because they use a different way of distributing and billing, doesn't mean they should get a patent on it anymore than Blockbuster should have a patent on renting movies from a store. Patenting business methods kills competition, plain and simple.
Microsoft shitty yoyos which doesn't work
So their yo-yos are like their servers...they go down but then they won't come back up? *rimshot*
But we know they license their code to IBM (and probably to others too...too lazy to look it up) so I'd bet that anybody licensing that code has archives that they could pull up to check against SCO pulling any shenanigans like changing comments / code / dates.
He's tied up right now. He heard that somebody was looking to shoot themselves in the foot and he went to get his gun.
I remember both! And that scary little baby with the forked tongue! I was only 4 when it first aired, but I remember watching it with my dad. I saw the dvd the other day and almost bought it. Funny how this came up now...
Back when Taco first posted the story that they were going to subscriptions, I posted a comment that there were certain perks that would make me subscribe, and one of those would be access to the rejected stories. I still stand by this. If they want to add it for everyone, great! If they add it for subscribers only, I'll pony up. I'm sure a lot of gems get dumped in the dust bin because a shiny new "SCO still sucks" story gets submitted at the same time.