What about spammers that forge the FROM address? Some mail would still get through the whitelists that way. What about the guy who's address he forges, or whose authorization code he steals? If a spammer gets hold of your auth code, are you required to pay for the millions of emails he sends with it? And since this requires all of our mail servers to be updated with new software, why not just write a better protocol that lets us keep out the spam while keeping email free.
College students are easily swayed by this sort of thing, and imprisoning a few for longer than most rapists get will surely straighten them out. I mean, once they showed that they put you in jail for smoking marijuana, pretty much every college student in the U.S. stopped smoking pot. This will be just like that, right?
I agree with you on the points you made, but the parent to my post wasn't asking "what's the point of modding?", they were asking "why would you spend your money on that?". Sure, it's not too geeky to buy pre-modded cases, but not everyone is about being geeky, some people are just about the aesthetics of a clear/lit-up/painted/whatever case. So laugh all you want, but it's not up to you how other people spend their money. Posting a "how to do this yourself for half the price" sort of reply is adding to the conversation. Posting about how people who buy these are stupid and wasting their money just makes you look like an ass and leaves more crap for the rest of us to wade through. And in this case, it wasted mod points.
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I'd like to propose something to every single person who posts a comment like this whenever case modding comes up. Think of the last time you spent money on something you wanted, even though you didn't need it. Bought those Nike shoes instead of the generic brand? Paid a hundred bucks more for a fridge with a stainless steel finish? Then, instead of questioning why other people do things they want with their own money for their own amusement, why don't you just shut the fuck up...
And at that point I would remove the article in question from my server and replace it with a page that summons a horde of 50 or so pr0n pop-ups....PROFIT!
The *real* BSA (Boy Scouts of America) use a three fingered salute. The pretend BSA (the idiots we're discussing here) should only get a one fingered salute. Any suggestions as to which one fingered salute we should be using to represent them?
I have a question for the fellow who submitted this story: do you have any info that we don't? You've gone and claimed that this cure won't be readily / cheaply available, but I didn't find that information anywhere in the article. And now everyone else has gone off talking about how horrible pharmaceutical companies are. Like it or not, they do have the right to make money. If you want to spend your life trying to find cures for diseases and give them away, all the best to you, but these companies are in no way obligated to do the same. And NOWHERE in the linked article does it say that they plan to charge exorbitant fees for their findings. It simply says that they're patenting it. Good for them. Once it's protected by a patent they can go ahead and finish their research and develop some good drugs. Then, and only then, *if* they artificially limit availability or charge ridiculous ammounts of money for it, can you judge them. But we can always hope that they'll make a fair profit on it that they can use to do more research and that'll be it.
...conceived during that blizzard. I was born in November '78, roughly nine months after the blizzard. From what I know, the snow was so deep you couldn't leave the house for days (weeks?) on end. Thank you blizzard, for leaving my parents with nothing much else to do but have sex.
Someday your mom is gonna want to "get rid of some of your old junk" by which she means baseball cards, your first gen Transformers, and probably those really nice old school metal Tonka trucks. Do NOT let her!
I have devised a wonderful method for quickly factoring large prime numbers. I'm sure this discovery is worth quite a good bit of money but I have no knowledge as to how to go about marketing my idea or even patenting it. I would love to share my money with you, and maybe your friends too.
ick. They need permission to sample because they are using copyrighted material (someone else's music) to make money. I shouldn't need a band's "permission" to play the cd I *bought* in my car or my computer or wherever else is convenient for *me*, the guy who purchased their disc.
A talent agent has a young man come to him. The man is a wonderful actor, and the agent wants to sign him immediately. When he asks the young man for his name, he replies "Penis Von Lesbian". The agent tells him that his name is no good for show business and he must change it, but the young actor is adamant. "This is a family name, and to change it would be a horrible thing to my family." The young man leaves, disgusted. Many years later, on the set of a television show, the agent encounters the man again, and is amazed to find out how well he's doing. "How'd you do it?" asked the agent. "Well," said the man, "I had to change my name. I go by 'Dick Van Dyke' now."
Maybe you should get *your* analogies straight. Everyone is acting like Symantec did something horribly wrong. Let's not forget that there has been a patch available for this since july of last year. So if we must make analogies, how about this one: I, as a mechanic, know that cars made by Ford had a recall (say for something like tires...). Now, of course it's in my best interest to inform *my* customers, but am I "morally obligated" to stop every passer-by on the street who's driving a Ford and tell them?
The point is, Microsoft admitted there was an issue and fixed it six months ago. Why is it Symantec's obligation to remind us all to secure our servers?
First Amendment: How many times do you people have to be told? The right of free speech does not guarantee the right to an audience.
Ninth Amendment: So since telemarketers aren't constitutionally guaranteed the right to annoy me doesn't mean we can't disallow it? I'm confused here...
Tenth Amendment: I'm not sure what your argument here is...
Why must I be trapped in this caucasian-male-between-the-ages-of-18-and-35-years -old body? All this PC shit sucks! I'm in the key demographic but I now I won't be able to compete?! Sucks to that!
I use a cable modem from Cogeco. My mom has Sympatico's dsl service. Both advertise "always on, unlimited usage" connections. That's the way they sell it. They don't mention in their adverts anything like "it's unlimited, but only as long as you're not greedy". I feel no sympathy for companies that advertise a service they can't possibly offer for the advertised price and then whine about losses. And T1's cost so much because they know they can gouge on business services.
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What about spammers that forge the FROM address? Some mail would still get through the whitelists that way. What about the guy who's address he forges, or whose authorization code he steals? If a spammer gets hold of your auth code, are you required to pay for the millions of emails he sends with it? And since this requires all of our mail servers to be updated with new software, why not just write a better protocol that lets us keep out the spam while keeping email free.
College students are easily swayed by this sort of thing, and imprisoning a few for longer than most rapists get will surely straighten them out. I mean, once they showed that they put you in jail for smoking marijuana, pretty much every college student in the U.S. stopped smoking pot. This will be just like that, right?
My Slashdot surfing has been Michael-free since 10/04/2002. What a difference it makes!
Erm....this story was posted by Michael...and the comment about a penguin-free game that you're applauding was added by Michael too...
I agree with you on the points you made, but the parent to my post wasn't asking "what's the point of modding?", they were asking "why would you spend your money on that?". Sure, it's not too geeky to buy pre-modded cases, but not everyone is about being geeky, some people are just about the aesthetics of a clear/lit-up/painted/whatever case. So laugh all you want, but it's not up to you how other people spend their money. Posting a "how to do this yourself for half the price" sort of reply is adding to the conversation. Posting about how people who buy these are stupid and wasting their money just makes you look like an ass and leaves more crap for the rest of us to wade through. And in this case, it wasted mod points.
I'd like to propose something to every single person who posts a comment like this whenever case modding comes up. Think of the last time you spent money on something you wanted, even though you didn't need it. Bought those Nike shoes instead of the generic brand? Paid a hundred bucks more for a fridge with a stainless steel finish? Then, instead of questioning why other people do things they want with their own money for their own amusement, why don't you just shut the fuck up...
Last I bought VPC it came with a copy of Windows. So by purchasing VPC5 you already paid the Windows tax for a license.
[sinner@localhost sinner]$ telnet slashdot.org 80
Trying 66.35.250.150...
Connected to slashdot.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
I already know what's going to be posted half an hour from now - I just re-read what was posted two days ago!
And at that point I would remove the article in question from my server and replace it with a page that summons a horde of 50 or so pr0n pop-ups. ...PROFIT!
put windows into the factory and morale goes up, production goes up
Really? They tried to make ME use Windows and my production went way the hell down. Kudos to Main for going Mac instead!
The *real* BSA (Boy Scouts of America) use a three fingered salute. The pretend BSA (the idiots we're discussing here) should only get a one fingered salute. Any suggestions as to which one fingered salute we should be using to represent them?
I have a question for the fellow who submitted this story: do you have any info that we don't? You've gone and claimed that this cure won't be readily / cheaply available, but I didn't find that information anywhere in the article. And now everyone else has gone off talking about how horrible pharmaceutical companies are. Like it or not, they do have the right to make money. If you want to spend your life trying to find cures for diseases and give them away, all the best to you, but these companies are in no way obligated to do the same. And NOWHERE in the linked article does it say that they plan to charge exorbitant fees for their findings. It simply says that they're patenting it. Good for them. Once it's protected by a patent they can go ahead and finish their research and develop some good drugs. Then, and only then, *if* they artificially limit availability or charge ridiculous ammounts of money for it, can you judge them. But we can always hope that they'll make a fair profit on it that they can use to do more research and that'll be it.
What a wonderful idea! Perl is so terribly simple to read that it *needs* some highly complex math thrown in to keep us from getting bored.
I already live in Canada. I guess I could just run further north.
...conceived during that blizzard. I was born in November '78, roughly nine months after the blizzard. From what I know, the snow was so deep you couldn't leave the house for days (weeks?) on end. Thank you blizzard, for leaving my parents with nothing much else to do but have sex.
Dear 12 year old me,
Someday your mom is gonna want to "get rid of some of your old junk" by which she means baseball cards, your first gen Transformers, and probably those really nice old school metal Tonka trucks. Do NOT let her!
Thanks,
your 24 year old self
On the contrary, it's a hell of a lot easier to turn profit when you don't pay people!
Dear Gannoc,
I have devised a wonderful method for quickly factoring large prime numbers. I'm sure this discovery is worth quite a good bit of money but I have no knowledge as to how to go about marketing my idea or even patenting it. I would love to share my money with you, and maybe your friends too.
Thanks
ick. They need permission to sample because they are using copyrighted material (someone else's music) to make money. I shouldn't need a band's "permission" to play the cd I *bought* in my car or my computer or wherever else is convenient for *me*, the guy who purchased their disc.
A talent agent has a young man come to him. The man is a wonderful actor, and the agent wants to sign him immediately. When he asks the young man for his name, he replies "Penis Von Lesbian". The agent tells him that his name is no good for show business and he must change it, but the young actor is adamant. "This is a family name, and to change it would be a horrible thing to my family." The young man leaves, disgusted. Many years later, on the set of a television show, the agent encounters the man again, and is amazed to find out how well he's doing. "How'd you do it?" asked the agent. "Well," said the man, "I had to change my name. I go by 'Dick Van Dyke' now."
Maybe you should get *your* analogies straight. Everyone is acting like Symantec did something horribly wrong. Let's not forget that there has been a patch available for this since july of last year. So if we must make analogies, how about this one:
I, as a mechanic, know that cars made by Ford had a recall (say for something like tires...). Now, of course it's in my best interest to inform *my* customers, but am I "morally obligated" to stop every passer-by on the street who's driving a Ford and tell them?
The point is, Microsoft admitted there was an issue and fixed it six months ago. Why is it Symantec's obligation to remind us all to secure our servers?
First Amendment: How many times do you people have to be told? The right of free speech does not guarantee the right to an audience.
Ninth Amendment: So since telemarketers aren't constitutionally guaranteed the right to annoy me doesn't mean we can't disallow it? I'm confused here...
Tenth Amendment: I'm not sure what your argument here is...
I don't think his mom shouting down the stairs "Come on up from the basement now and brush your teeth before beddy time!" qualifies as a phone call.
Why must I be trapped in this caucasian-male-between-the-ages-of-18-and-35-years -old body? All this PC shit sucks! I'm in the key demographic but I now I won't be able to compete?! Sucks to that!
I use a cable modem from Cogeco. My mom has Sympatico's dsl service. Both advertise "always on, unlimited usage" connections. That's the way they sell it. They don't mention in their adverts anything like "it's unlimited, but only as long as you're not greedy". I feel no sympathy for companies that advertise a service they can't possibly offer for the advertised price and then whine about losses. And T1's cost so much because they know they can gouge on business services.