Question. Do you live here? This place is *empty* on the weekends. People are commuting to jobs here from places like Gilroy & Tracy - definitely *not* in the Silicon Valley.
VC capital also went to splurge items like Aeron chairs in addition to headcount.
According to the Pew Institute, the service jobs are being filled up by immigrants (illegal or otherwise) - so, not even *those* are available anymore.
Ok, how about another solution? Email provider that allows the parents to whitelist who can send mail to that child. All other mail is quarantined ahead of time, and the parent can inspect it and release it to the child.
Hey! What an idea! Having the parents be involved in what their children are doing online! Too bad it's easier to get "for the children" legislation passed instead.
"I have no axe to grind pro or anti gun control. And while I wonder if you could make the same statement regarding P2P technology, my only argument with you is that your reasoning is faulty."
It's not faulty at all. Comparing the two is a time honored tradition among the Slashdot crowd, and also an arguement that cannot be won by either side. I recognize that there are many legitimate uses for p2p software, but the fact remains that to publically advertise an illegal use of a piece of software is something that the software manufacturers can now be held liable for.
The two are completely unrelated. Nobody dies from copyright infringement, for one thing.
Comparing firearms to *software piracy* is really stretching things. A lot. Gun manufacturers aren't granted a safe harbour at all.
If you make "Warez-X" and advertise it as a way to freely obtain music and all it does is search Gnutella for *copyrighted material* then yes, that's now something that you *can* be held liable for.
I get really sick of the stupid Slashdot anti-gun attitude.
We shouldn't HAVE to "opt out" of slimy marketing bullshit. It should be opt IN... ONLY.
I'm sick of having to call various agencies to opt out of marketing TRASH. Why do we put up with it? Oh, that's right.. marketers have more money than us, so they lobby the hell out of congresscritters.
Which one of you IDIOTS modded this "Informative" ???
"Gun companies: not liable for guns killing people. P2P companies: liable for people downloading stuff."
No, they're liable if they're screaming "HEY! Buy our software and you can download all the copyrighted material for FREE!" - *that* is what the decision was. Gun manufacturers aren't saying "Buy a Ruger.22 so you can kill your neighbors" in any way, shape, or form. To compare the two like that is just inflammatory and stupid.
"Car companies: only get sued when they kill the rich people who bought the product.. ie. Firestone and the Flipping Ford SUV's."
You forgot to mention that reports of known failures were being covered up. The Firestone tires weren't just on SUVs either.
People sue whoever has the deepest pockets and whoever their bottom feeding lawyers will tell them to sue. Example: Plane crashes. Who gets sued? The airline, Boeing, and Pratt & Whitney(who manufactured the engines) - there are plenty of slimy lawyers. Check out this one with the nice domain name. Ugh.
I wonder how much he'd need. Remember, Hollywood/MPAA/RIAA organizations have *MILLIONS* of dollars and they won't hesitate to throw down whatever cash they need to make their point.
Unless Warren Buffet himself decides that he's going to throw down a huge pile of cash, is it even realistic to expect that a legal defense fund is going to be much help?
Example: I had an old ISP sue me for breach of contract (they lied. Fuck you, o1) but because I could not afford to defend myself in court, next thing I knew the slimeball lawyer/collection agency they hired was telling me "This will cost you $10,000 when we're done with you." Why? They can charge whatever the hell they want.
Can Cohen/etc afford to pay these overly inflated legal fees? That's the big question, and it's yet another example of what CRAP our legal system has become.
Gotta love it when the lawyers can basically bankrupt you with total bullshit lawsuits by charging ridiculous "legal fees" for pushing some papers around. (Yes, I know some lawyers, a lot of them charge $400/hr to go drop off papers at a courthouse. Ridiculous.)
I'm sure this will get modded down just like the last time I pointed out this very simple fact, but how many "Windows box gets rooted in $time!!" articles have we seen so far? I believe this is the third in the past 12 months alone. Is there really *nothing else to post* besides the same crap?
here is one from November 30th, 04, and there are others. I Googled for "windows box compromised site:slashdot.org" and found this right away. Go ahead, try it, for each "duh" story, change the search string and see what you come up with.
This is worse than a dupe, it's just... sloppy. I'm glad I don't actually pay money for this site.
If you simply have *no other option* then yeah, I guess it's ok.. if you even bother to watch TV at that point, and if you can get any broadcasts at all under that rock.
I know 1 person that watches TV and doesn't have cable. they get maybe 3 channels with the antenna (this is in the Silicon Valley, too) and they're always full of static. Comcast basic cable costs about $15/mo.
In other news, people are still watching Jane Fonda workout tapes? Then again, maybe they were trying to illicit an inflammatory response. After all, the mainstream media is just "clueless techno-pundits" according to the article, right?;)
It took me two weeks to get them to redeem a gift certificate. In California, gift certificates/gift cards do not expire, regardless of the expiration date printed on them. So, I was trying to use a gift certificate at Amazon.com. Instead of giving any sort of error message at all, it would silently fail to credit my account. i tried Safari, Firefox, IE, Mozilla, Opera.. ruled out the browser. Tried another computer. same issue. I finally emailed them with a very detailed account of what I was trying to do and what the results were. I got a canned response telling me how to enter a gift certificate. Since that didn't answer the question, I wrote back again. I got the same canned response. I replied expressing my concern over the lack of understanding of the issue. The reply? More useless drivel. I replied back to them yet again with a detailed explanation and insisted that they escalate the issue. I finally got a reply back asking for the entire gift certificate number so they could apply it manually. I gave them that. They replied saying that it had expired. I pointed out the California law. Finally, i got a reply saying that they had added the amount to my account. This entire process took a couple of weeks.
i then ordered the DVD (concert video by the band Nightwish) - and they said it'd be delivered in 7-10 days. 7-10 days almost passed, and I got a shipping delay email. Rinse, lather, repeat for approx. 2 *months* - when i inquired about cancelling the order and getting a refund, I was told that they would have to issue me a gift certificate! Ugh.
Many many weeks later, the DVD was delivered.. only to be lost by the local UPS Store branch. I ended up ordering it *again* from cdconnection.com and I had it in 3 days.
A Slashdot article about something iPod/iTunes and nobody has started wanking off about the lack of Ogg Vorbis support.
I knew you Slashdot dwellers would conform to the mp3 way!:P
Also ever so slightly interesting to note.. you can submit podcasts, and none of them seem to be in AAC format.;)
It makes you wonder...
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How many really cool TV show pilots are sitting on a shelf collecting dust, never to be seen by the public?
Why? Corporate interests? Copyrights? It's sad how copyright law lets something be shoved under the carpet like that.
I'd like to see media companies do something cool: if the product is no longer generating revenue, turn it loose on the web. Maybe that's just a dream, because they're hoping TV Land will pay royalties to air old TV shows, so since there's a *potential* revenue stream, the shows sit on the shelf.
Hey, here's another idea. Put the pilots on the web, and have a contest to see which one folks like best. *gasp* Imagine that! Having the *viewing public* help you pick out what shows to work on next! Oh, the humanity!
The first link *is* relevant, and maybe 2 more on the first Google page are as well.
The rest? PURE CRAP. Lawyers in New Idria, CA? Job listings? Home appraisals? All just SPAM.
(FYI, New Idria, CA is a ghost town. It has a population of 3. There are no homes being sold, and thank god, no lawyers there either.)
So, I was looking for further history & photos and I was flooded with marketing garbage. Take a look at some of the URLs. It's clear that they're trying to boost their rank based on city names and not actually relevant content.
* Unlimited US, local and long distance calls
* Unlimited to Canada and 17 countries in Western Europe
* 26 calling features like Voicemail, Call Forwarding and 3 way calling
* Keep your phone number, Emergency Calling Service and more...
Seriously, this got posted? WTF? How many THOUSANDS of articles on "free firewall" or "open source firewall" are there on the web these days? How many have we seen on Slashdot alone? I know that dupes happen but this is like the monkey running the "random Slashdot article" perl script fell asleep at the switch or something.
besides, if they want under $100, that cuts out pretty much all commercial offerings (they did say firewall, not SOHO router..) - given that price point, what's left? Yup, you got it. "cheap PC with Linux/BSD." Smoothwall/Shorewall/ipfw/pf/iptables/etc.
I bet the fire department inspections will go over REALLY well.
Gotta love putting up flammable materials that emit toxic chemicals when burned in a data center.
Great idea, guys. I'm sure the insurance company will be thrilled when they find out.
Sheesh, at least get a couple of those ice bucket homebrew air conditioner things posted a few weeks back. Not that putting buckets of ice water in the data center is a better idea, but they're far less likely to go up in flames.:P
I've never heard of it before, but so far it appears to be a total piece of crap.
I got it to download *TWO SONGS* - that's it. It won't finish the other 2 tracks that it tried to grab, and no matter what I set it to, I only have 2 complete songs.
tried the Stable & unstable ones. Still no luck.
Count that as a failure in my book. Maybe I'll check back in a few months.:(
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phpBB has its own huge set of gaping security holes. :)
Question. Do you live here? This place is *empty* on the weekends. People are commuting to jobs here from places like Gilroy & Tracy - definitely *not* in the Silicon Valley.
VC capital also went to splurge items like Aeron chairs in addition to headcount.
According to the Pew Institute, the service jobs are being filled up by immigrants (illegal or otherwise) - so, not even *those* are available anymore.
In addition to the mandatory login, they're now putting Flash ads before you can get to the article.
Yes, there's a "Skip this ad" link in tiny tiny text in the upper right corner.
But, it's just another example of how annoying it is to get to online news these days.
Ok, how about another solution? Email provider that allows the parents to whitelist who can send mail to that child. All other mail is quarantined ahead of time, and the parent can inspect it and release it to the child.
Hey! What an idea! Having the parents be involved in what their children are doing online!
Too bad it's easier to get "for the children" legislation passed instead.
"I have no axe to grind pro or anti gun control. And while I wonder if you could make the same statement regarding P2P technology, my only argument with you is that your reasoning is faulty."
It's not faulty at all. Comparing the two is a time honored tradition among the Slashdot crowd, and also an arguement that cannot be won by either side.
I recognize that there are many legitimate uses for p2p software, but the fact remains that to publically advertise an illegal use of a piece of software is something that the software manufacturers can now be held liable for.
End of story.
The two are completely unrelated. Nobody dies from copyright infringement, for one thing.
Comparing firearms to *software piracy* is really stretching things. A lot. Gun manufacturers aren't granted a safe harbour at all.
If you make "Warez-X" and advertise it as a way to freely obtain music and all it does is search Gnutella for *copyrighted material* then yes, that's now something that you *can* be held liable for.
I get really sick of the stupid Slashdot anti-gun attitude.
We shouldn't HAVE to "opt out" of slimy marketing bullshit. It should be opt IN... ONLY.
I'm sick of having to call various agencies to opt out of marketing TRASH. Why do we put up with it?
Oh, that's right.. marketers have more money than us, so they lobby the hell out of congresscritters.
Ugh.
"Why don't we just call file sharers "child rapists" with some equally strained analogy?"
God, don't encourage them. The media is already frothing at the mouth for a new catch-phrase..
Which one of you IDIOTS modded this "Informative" ???
.22 so you can kill your neighbors" in any way, shape, or form. To compare the two like that is just inflammatory and stupid.
"Gun companies: not liable for guns killing people.
P2P companies: liable for people downloading stuff."
No, they're liable if they're screaming "HEY! Buy our software and you can download all the copyrighted material for FREE!" - *that* is what the decision was. Gun manufacturers aren't saying "Buy a Ruger
"Car companies: only get sued when they kill the rich people who bought the product.. ie. Firestone and the Flipping Ford SUV's."
You forgot to mention that reports of known failures were being covered up. The Firestone tires weren't just on SUVs either.
People sue whoever has the deepest pockets and whoever their bottom feeding lawyers will tell them to sue. Example: Plane crashes. Who gets sued? The airline, Boeing, and Pratt & Whitney(who manufactured the engines) - there are plenty of slimy lawyers. Check out this one with the nice domain name. Ugh.
Summary: Our legal system sucks ass.
I wonder how much he'd need. Remember, Hollywood/MPAA/RIAA organizations have *MILLIONS* of dollars and they won't hesitate to throw down whatever cash they need to make their point.
Unless Warren Buffet himself decides that he's going to throw down a huge pile of cash, is it even realistic to expect that a legal defense fund is going to be much help?
Example: I had an old ISP sue me for breach of contract (they lied. Fuck you, o1) but because I could not afford to defend myself in court, next thing I knew the slimeball lawyer/collection agency they hired was telling me "This will cost you $10,000 when we're done with you." Why? They can charge whatever the hell they want.
Can Cohen/etc afford to pay these overly inflated legal fees? That's the big question, and it's yet another example of what CRAP our legal system has become.
Gotta love it when the lawyers can basically bankrupt you with total bullshit lawsuits by charging ridiculous "legal fees" for pushing some papers around. (Yes, I know some lawyers, a lot of them charge $400/hr to go drop off papers at a courthouse. Ridiculous.)
Fuck you, o1 for doing the same thing.
I'm sure this will get modded down just like the last time I pointed out this very simple fact, but how many "Windows box gets rooted in $time!!" articles have we seen so far? I believe this is the third in the past 12 months alone. Is there really *nothing else to post* besides the same crap?
here is one from November 30th, 04, and there are others. I Googled for "windows box compromised site:slashdot.org" and found this right away.
Go ahead, try it, for each "duh" story, change the search string and see what you come up with.
This is worse than a dupe, it's just... sloppy. I'm glad I don't actually pay money for this site.
How long before the RIAA tries to get on this rebuilt internet, eh? ;)
If you simply have *no other option* then yeah, I guess it's ok.. if you even bother to watch TV at that point, and if you can get any broadcasts at all under that rock.
;)
I know 1 person that watches TV and doesn't have cable. they get maybe 3 channels with the antenna (this is in the Silicon Valley, too) and they're always full of static.
Comcast basic cable costs about $15/mo.
In other news, people are still watching Jane Fonda workout tapes? Then again, maybe they were trying to illicit an inflammatory response. After all, the mainstream media is just "clueless techno-pundits" according to the article, right?
It took me two weeks to get them to redeem a gift certificate. In California, gift certificates/gift cards do not expire, regardless of the expiration date printed on them. So, I was trying to use a gift certificate at Amazon.com. Instead of giving any sort of error message at all, it would silently fail to credit my account. i tried Safari, Firefox, IE, Mozilla, Opera.. ruled out the browser. Tried another computer. same issue. I finally emailed them with a very detailed account of what I was trying to do and what the results were.
I got a canned response telling me how to enter a gift certificate. Since that didn't answer the question, I wrote back again. I got the same canned response. I replied expressing my concern over the lack of understanding of the issue. The reply? More useless drivel. I replied back to them yet again with a detailed explanation and insisted that they escalate the issue. I finally got a reply back asking for the entire gift certificate number so they could apply it manually. I gave them that. They replied saying that it had expired. I pointed out the California law. Finally, i got a reply saying that they had added the amount to my account.
This entire process took a couple of weeks.
i then ordered the DVD (concert video by the band Nightwish) - and they said it'd be delivered in 7-10 days. 7-10 days almost passed, and I got a shipping delay email. Rinse, lather, repeat for approx. 2 *months* - when i inquired about cancelling the order and getting a refund, I was told that they would have to issue me a gift certificate! Ugh.
Many many weeks later, the DVD was delivered.. only to be lost by the local UPS Store branch. I ended up ordering it *again* from cdconnection.com and I had it in 3 days.
This is the second article in as many days about something that that already has had 2,000 articles written about it.
"Results 1 - 10 of about 30,400 for build mythtv box. (0.28 seconds)"
Interestingly enough, the O'Reilly article is the #1 Google hit, and it has a publication date of 6/22. Today is 6/28. Wow, that's pretty fast!
A Slashdot article about something iPod/iTunes and nobody has started wanking off about the lack of Ogg Vorbis support.
:P
;)
I knew you Slashdot dwellers would conform to the mp3 way!
Also ever so slightly interesting to note.. you can submit podcasts, and none of them seem to be in AAC format.
How many really cool TV show pilots are sitting on a shelf collecting dust, never to be seen by the public?
Why? Corporate interests? Copyrights? It's sad how copyright law lets something be shoved under the carpet like that.
I'd like to see media companies do something cool: if the product is no longer generating revenue, turn it loose on the web. Maybe that's just a dream, because they're hoping TV Land will pay royalties to air old TV shows, so since there's a *potential* revenue stream, the shows sit on the shelf.
Hey, here's another idea. Put the pilots on the web, and have a contest to see which one folks like best. *gasp* Imagine that! Having the *viewing public* help you pick out what shows to work on next! Oh, the humanity!
Google for "new idria, ca"
The first link *is* relevant, and maybe 2 more on the first Google page are as well.
The rest? PURE CRAP. Lawyers in New Idria, CA? Job listings? Home appraisals? All just SPAM.
(FYI, New Idria, CA is a ghost town. It has a population of 3. There are no homes being sold, and thank god, no lawyers there either.)
So, I was looking for further history & photos and I was flooded with marketing garbage. Take a look at some of the URLs. It's clear that they're trying to boost their rank based on city names and not actually relevant content.
http://www.lingo.com/
* Unlimited US, local and long distance calls
* Unlimited to Canada and 17 countries in Western Europe
* 26 calling features like Voicemail, Call Forwarding and 3 way calling
* Keep your phone number, Emergency Calling Service and more...
Dude, this is like "Flatliners" and "Resident Evil" all rolled into one.
That, and not one but TWO zombie movies coming out this summer, and we're all set.
Mmm... zombies!
Seriously, this got posted? WTF? How many THOUSANDS of articles on "free firewall" or "open source firewall" are there on the web these days?
How many have we seen on Slashdot alone? I know that dupes happen but this is like the monkey running the "random Slashdot article" perl script fell asleep at the switch or something.
besides, if they want under $100, that cuts out pretty much all commercial offerings (they did say firewall, not SOHO router..) - given that price point, what's left?
Yup, you got it. "cheap PC with Linux/BSD." Smoothwall/Shorewall/ipfw/pf/iptables/etc.
There ya go. Next redundant article, please?
I bet the fire department inspections will go over REALLY well.
:P
Gotta love putting up flammable materials that emit toxic chemicals when burned in a data center.
Great idea, guys. I'm sure the insurance company will be thrilled when they find out.
Sheesh, at least get a couple of those ice bucket homebrew air conditioner things posted a few weeks back. Not that putting buckets of ice water in the data center is a better idea, but they're far less likely to go up in flames.
I've never heard of it before, but so far it appears to be a total piece of crap.
:(
I got it to download *TWO SONGS* - that's it. It won't finish the other 2 tracks that it tried to grab, and no matter what I set it to, I only have 2 complete songs.
tried the Stable & unstable ones. Still no luck.
Count that as a failure in my book. Maybe I'll check back in a few months.