Are you insane? What could be more right-wing-conservative nutty than stomping all over freedom in the name of some amorphous questionable wiretapping concerns? Than so-called "security concerns" triumphing over freedom?
This is a flat-out admission by the FBI that they believe that the US owns and controls the Internet
Would not a small bit of govermental regulation not be necessary to keep order in the ensuing digital chaos? Yes!
No! The funny thing about the internet is how well it works without regulation. Compare with the chaos of say, the (heavily regulated) airline industry, and it works quite well. If you think that governmental regulation WITHOUT massive reduction of privacy is going to help stop DDoS attacks, I'd like to get the beeper number of your crack dealer.
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I hope what this means is that there is room for free software to be free and make money. Mind you, I recognize that in addition to more money-making, there's just as much to hold out for in opening of source code, but the point is this.
I DO pay for software that's free. I've probably spent more money on free software than I have on commercial software. Personally, I do it for quality media, convenience, and to support software I like. Those people who prefer to pay for software because they think "you get what you pay for" expect the same things as me, plus support (read: someone to yell at or use as an excuse for things not working).
Someday, perhaps, it will go all the way, where software is both free and open source and commercially supported. People who choose not to pay have to really know the software to compile and install; they're probably the best evangelists, product research, and quality control experts any company will ever find (I know from having done tech support that a few knowledgable clients are invaluable for real-world bug-finding). And some people will pay because they don't trust anything that's free. As long as the free software developers find away to provide those people with what they need, they will not only turn free software into money, but they will also convert people who are least inclined to use free software into paying supporters.
The stock market's infatuation with Linux may have abated, but the release of products into Linux-land this way bodes well for the liberation of software from its secretive ivory castles, which is the most important economic reform since the decline of medieval trade guilds (and modern software/internet companies, with broad software patents and so-called intellectual property as weapons against competition, resemble medieval trade guilds very strongly).
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It's far more than that - if a user asks Yahoo "where can I find illegal mp3s", a neutral search engine is going to find it... And being "neutral" consitutes a knowing decision to include possibly illegal materials.
It's all or nothing. Accept linking or don't.
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Re:BFD, another @hotmail address I'll give out.
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Personally I use spammy@real.com, and ALWAYS opt to receive special announcements. The fun part about sending it to their own domain is that they will probably send it, refuse it, AND get the bounced message. It's a hat trick!
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American Heritage Dictionary says that a terrorist is a person who engages in terrorism, where terrorism is "The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons."
Gee, not that I'd normally do battle with someone wielding a dictionary, but...
Throwing paint on people who are wearing fur coats isn't terrorism burning people alive is.
...but then again the problem with wielding definitiions is that it can backfire. How is throwing paint and blood on people not intended to frighten people with unlawful violence and threats, and thereby change the behavior of others? I seriously hope you're trolling...
Seriously, don't be stupid. Calling PETA terrorists is like calling your high-school gym teacher a fascist.
No, calling meat murder is like calling your high-school gym teacher a fascist; the people who do one are likely to do the other (incidentally, my high school gym teacher WAS a fascist for real, and a cokehead, too...No wait, that was the basketball coach). Calling PETA terrorists is a little more like calling Napster a haven for piracy, though apparently with the added force of the American Heritage Dictionary;-)
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fact that this question focusses exclusively on the "what to develop in" aspect ignores the fact that computers are just a tool, and you use the right one for solving whatever problem you need fixed
True, but truth isn't the issue here. Seriously, when it comes to people's professional tools, they often get very... religious about them, with good reason; they depend on them, so their opinions go far deeper than truth...
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Why bother scanning the skys all the time, there is too much to look at and not enough processing power to cover everything properly.
More to the point, looking for ET in radio waves is, to quote the late Terrence McKenna, as culture-bound a project as searching the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant.
I mean some guy finds a planet that is so far away we will never go though. Does it really make a difference to us ?
If this isn't a troll, it's stupid enough to fool me. I mean, so someone made a machine the size of a house that can add. What good will that do ordinary people?
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> I think it's probably the best animated movie I've seen since Mulan.
That's not much of a compliment. Mulan suffered the same problem as Shaft; Hollywood had to tame them. Shaft doesn't have sex, and Mulan is a bumbler who gets lucky a lot. The traditional Mulan story makes her much more impressive and kick-ass, so the story is much more challenging of traditional sex roles...
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This is actually a good example, since it seems to apply rather closely to the patent... more closely than the web itself. This suit is laughably doomed because
Prior art is easy to find
The patent doesn't apply very closely to the web, actually
ISPs are not the right people to license the technology; browser companies are
In fact it's so far off I wonder somewhat if it isn't just some legal harassment as payback for a deal that some ISPs backed out of with BT...
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And they really can't stop it.. all they can do is pressure Real, Nullsoft, Microsoft et al not to release codec plugins for this.. which they could do, but if enough people start using it anyway, then the game is pretty much over and the new dawn will rise... I for one will happily stream in this format exclusively if it can be done... and it's openness makes it a simple programming job to add support for things that are actually desparately needed for commercialization of streaming audio on the web - namely, support for advertisements.
Real has not stepped up to this plate for years (they're just barely getting to seamless pre-stream ads), Microsoft assumes that giving away the streaming server for free means they don't need to do this, and meanwhile it's the only practical way to support a large-scale streaming service (for profit or just to break even).
Let the streams begin...
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My #1 biggest fear by far about Napster is the fact that music will be reduced to songs. Albums will no longer be produced because they will be too expensive to download, and because everybody will demand catchy three minute jewels of pop.
I fear this, too. It's a legitimate risk. Except that really good musicians will continue doing what they always have, which is make a complete work and a complete experience. The folks who've been releasing one song and a bunch of crap (IOW, pretending to be good musicians), are the ones who should worry.
When casual music fans (e.g. Napster users) begin to dictate the music industry, it will be destroyed.
Where have you been? The music industry as such has _always_ been "destroyed" in this sense.
nobody was offering any Lucy Kaplansky or Rebecca Pearcy.
I'm not sure anyone should. But that's not for me to say; the question is, did you? Because that's all that separates the music lovers (who trade music to _share_ what they enjoy with others) from the leeches (who are just looking for some free crap) in this debate.
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See, that's what happens when we let trollers like you take over. Next thing you know, you'll be the Hitler of this thread, and then the Internet will be destroyed, and then the trifecta of clichees will be completed!
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Probably for the same reason as the jump to "Solaris 7" from 5.6. It isn't a fundamental enough upgrade technically to change the major version number, but Marketroids like the whole number increment because it sounds important.
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An article at Wired states that Eminem's site will be releasing and Eminem vs Dre QUAKE LEVEL. Eminem has been using MP3, not fighting it. But the Quake leve gives me an idea:
I wonder how long until someone hacks up this Quake level to replace Eminem with a Napster character. Little kitty blowing away the Doctor. Haha.
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James Earl Jones is particularly good (and I think the post was supposed to be a joke on this) because he is dyslexic and legendary for having a hard time reading. Which is funny because he does tons of voiceovers. Aside from his baritone, he keeps getting hired largely because he is a very hard worker, despite his learning disabillity.
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He's also clearly dishonest, engaging in pure sophistry that would be laughed out of any rational discussion. He sounds not like someone debating, but like a very cornered, scared, and stupid bulldog. Bury this dinosaur now.
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You are very naiive. Even people who are not against capital punishment in principle are now turning against it because of the overwhelming proof that 5-50% of the people so charged are 100% innocent. Far too many are convicted on the basis of flaky, criminal, and/or racisit eyewitnesses, while DNA evidence proves how bullshit the whole system is. The system is simply that bad; Any system that takes even a 1% chance of executing innocents has zero respect for human life, so don't waste my time with your self-righteous verbal diharrhea.
And don't think I wouldn't unload a clip into your ass and flush you down the toilet if you came into my house; but I know the difference between self-defense and state-sponsored murder. Too bad you don't.
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This is only permissible because the supreme court has ass-raped the fourth amendment. It's an extra-constitutional search and seizure. A couple hundred years ago we shot the cops for that kind of crap. But we already know that Florida has even less respect for the laws of this country than the Court.
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Hotmail and Yahoo mail aren't generic services either... they provide email. And instant messaging services fall into the same category, plus it's really easy to trade files. So, all these companies will have to either get your credit card or else shut you out of these services. Except that they have loads and loads of money, so maybe they won't, meaning that once again, the law will be applied unevenly so as to screw the small guys and skew the playing field towards the behemoths that don't need the help.
The really dangerous fact is that as cable providers and other numbnuts protect their corporate hosting fees and other nonsense by having "no server" rules and other skullduggery, we are creating a two-class internet; the server haves, and the have-nots. Only so-called professionals will have servers, or access to the services thus provided. So individuals are being gradually forced back into their passive shell. Sooner or later they will be initimidated, secret API'd and legislated out of doing anything except sitting in front of the screen, letting the magic box it do what it wants. Sound familiar? Great, now stick your head inside and welcome to the Matrix.
The laws protecting ISPs are supposed to ensure open access. But a free, unclogged pipe is useless if it's blocked at both ends.
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He also went the extra mile when he could have advised Andover.Net to simply avoid the hassle and overule the Slasdot Editors, and gotten paid the same amount.
While I agree with your sentiment,./'s lawyer has a very strong obligation to defend their interests, which in this case means refusing to allow censorship, especially that which might compel prior restraint on speech. I'm kind of surprised not to see more legalese, and while IANAL, my lawyer is, and it's pretty obvious in this letter that he is soliciting information on some legally relevant points: how a trade secrets can market themselves as a public protocol (if they'd even called it "Microsoft Kerberos" they'd be on firmer ground), what efforts they have taken to keep their secrets a trade secret, etc.
Frankly, on that last point, Microsoft doesn't have a good answer. The information that they are claiming is a trade secret is being freely shared; the fact that the clickshit agreement claims to keep it a trade secret isn't legally binding for those in certain jurisdictions or who are under 18, so in fact, they have not made a reasonable effort to protect their trade secret. They will probably be laughed out of court by ajudge for this reason, if (s)he doesn't kick their asses for wasting the court's time.
"What's that? You mean, it's a secret, but you put in a public place where everyone can see it? Oh, they have to agree to keep it secret? What if they aren't legally able to enter into that contract? What about the people who reposted the info on that web site? Are they 18? US citizens? Did you even check? Did you try to check at any time before they downloaded the information from your site? No? Thank you, I'll render my decision on the injunction in 5 seconds... one, two, three, four, five... NO!"
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The people who the page is for ultimately understand only one point that give you any leverage: the need to please their customers. Try these, or suitable variants:
You do need to make sure the page works for Mac users. Would you give the finger to 10% of your potential clients?
Top executives want their computers to work. That's why many of them have tiny screens and older software. Do you want to send the message that you don't want them to look at your site.
The one person you want to see the site might look at it from a laptop, at home, on the weekend. Do you want the site to work under that condition, or is it OK to look like amateurs?
What browser does your mother use?
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As an Old Wolf you should know that BSD was not in any way derived from SCO, but from AT&T. Look for the word "UNIX" on http://www.freebsd.org/. Do you know why it's not there?
Time to learn some new tricks, Old Wolf.
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This is a flat-out admission by the FBI that they believe that the US owns and controls the Internet
No! The funny thing about the internet is how well it works without regulation. Compare with the chaos of say, the (heavily regulated) airline industry, and it works quite well. If you think that governmental regulation WITHOUT massive reduction of privacy is going to help stop DDoS attacks, I'd like to get the beeper number of your crack dealer.Boss of nothin. Big deal.
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I DO pay for software that's free. I've probably spent more money on free software than I have on commercial software. Personally, I do it for quality media, convenience, and to support software I like. Those people who prefer to pay for software because they think "you get what you pay for" expect the same things as me, plus support (read: someone to yell at or use as an excuse for things not working).
Someday, perhaps, it will go all the way, where software is both free and open source and commercially supported. People who choose not to pay have to really know the software to compile and install; they're probably the best evangelists, product research, and quality control experts any company will ever find (I know from having done tech support that a few knowledgable clients are invaluable for real-world bug-finding). And some people will pay because they don't trust anything that's free. As long as the free software developers find away to provide those people with what they need, they will not only turn free software into money, but they will also convert people who are least inclined to use free software into paying supporters.
The stock market's infatuation with Linux may have abated, but the release of products into Linux-land this way bodes well for the liberation of software from its secretive ivory castles, which is the most important economic reform since the decline of medieval trade guilds (and modern software/internet companies, with broad software patents and so-called intellectual property as weapons against competition, resemble medieval trade guilds very strongly).
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It's all or nothing. Accept linking or don't.
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Personally I use spammy@real.com, and ALWAYS opt to receive special announcements. The fun part about sending it to their own domain is that they will probably send it, refuse it, AND get the bounced message. It's a hat trick!
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That's not much of a compliment. Mulan suffered the same problem as Shaft; Hollywood had to tame them. Shaft doesn't have sex, and Mulan is a bumbler who gets lucky a lot. The traditional Mulan story makes her much more impressive and kick-ass, so the story is much more challenging of traditional sex roles...
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- Prior art is easy to find
- The patent doesn't apply very closely to the web, actually
- ISPs are not the right people to license the technology; browser companies are
In fact it's so far off I wonder somewhat if it isn't just some legal harassment as payback for a deal that some ISPs backed out of with BT...Boss of nothin. Big deal.
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Real has not stepped up to this plate for years (they're just barely getting to seamless pre-stream ads), Microsoft assumes that giving away the streaming server for free means they don't need to do this, and meanwhile it's the only practical way to support a large-scale streaming service (for profit or just to break even).
Let the streams begin...
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Moderate this UP!
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I'll piss into a cup. If my future boss will hold it. Across the room. In his/her mouth.
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See, that's what happens when we let trollers like you take over. Next thing you know, you'll be the Hitler of this thread, and then the Internet will be destroyed, and then the trifecta of clichees will be completed!
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From the Yahoo story it looks like they covered the windows. I only remember one of them having windows (the one that's less than 10yrs old).
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Probably for the same reason as the jump to "Solaris 7" from 5.6. It isn't a fundamental enough upgrade technically to change the major version number, but Marketroids like the whole number increment because it sounds important.
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I wonder how long until someone hacks up this Quake level to replace Eminem with a Napster character. Little kitty blowing away the Doctor. Haha.
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James Earl Jones is particularly good (and I think the post was supposed to be a joke on this) because he is dyslexic and legendary for having a hard time reading. Which is funny because he does tons of voiceovers. Aside from his baritone, he keeps getting hired largely because he is a very hard worker, despite his learning disabillity.
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He's also clearly dishonest, engaging in pure sophistry that would be laughed out of any rational discussion. He sounds not like someone debating, but like a very cornered, scared, and stupid bulldog. Bury this dinosaur now.
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And don't think I wouldn't unload a clip into your ass and flush you down the toilet if you came into my house; but I know the difference between self-defense and state-sponsored murder. Too bad you don't.
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The really dangerous fact is that as cable providers and other numbnuts protect their corporate hosting fees and other nonsense by having "no server" rules and other skullduggery, we are creating a two-class internet; the server haves, and the have-nots. Only so-called professionals will have servers, or access to the services thus provided. So individuals are being gradually forced back into their passive shell. Sooner or later they will be initimidated, secret API'd and legislated out of doing anything except sitting in front of the screen, letting the magic box it do what it wants. Sound familiar? Great, now stick your head inside and welcome to the Matrix.
The laws protecting ISPs are supposed to ensure open access. But a free, unclogged pipe is useless if it's blocked at both ends.
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Frankly, on that last point, Microsoft doesn't have a good answer. The information that they are claiming is a trade secret is being freely shared; the fact that the clickshit agreement claims to keep it a trade secret isn't legally binding for those in certain jurisdictions or who are under 18, so in fact, they have not made a reasonable effort to protect their trade secret. They will probably be laughed out of court by ajudge for this reason, if (s)he doesn't kick their asses for wasting the court's time.
"What's that? You mean, it's a secret, but you put in a public place where everyone can see it? Oh, they have to agree to keep it secret? What if they aren't legally able to enter into that contract? What about the people who reposted the info on that web site? Are they 18? US citizens? Did you even check? Did you try to check at any time before they downloaded the information from your site? No? Thank you, I'll render my decision on the injunction in 5 seconds... one, two, three, four, five... NO!"
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The people who the page is for ultimately understand only one point that give you any leverage: the need to please their customers. Try these, or suitable variants:
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Time to learn some new tricks, Old Wolf.
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