On another note, kuro5hin.org is moving to text ads (from no ads). It works under the principle that annoying your readership until they're so pissed that they don't come back anymore is not a good idea. Maybe slashdot could learn a lessons from this...
I make a point of going to sites that place the big annoying ads (going directly mind you, not clicking the ad) and looking at what they have to offer and sending them an email itemizing how much money they just lost becuase I will not buy from them due to thier poor marketing gimmickry. Sometimes this runs them *thousands* of dollars in lost potential revenue.
On the other hand, I have absolutly loved the K5 text ads, I have made a point to click every one, and I write them too, when I purchase, and tell them I would not have bought anything from them if it were not for thier clever and witty TEXT ad.
Ha ha, too dangerous, but for a different reason.
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Abusing the GPL?
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You know the game: globally replace every function name, variable name, and so on from our code with nonsensical names (or random characters), remove all of the comments, and any other form of obfuscation they can introduce.
So your company would have NO issues with me developing a "random number" generator that just happens to return me a number that, when converted to bytes, is exactly identical to your finished product. Now, I did all the development effort, I generated the number, so I can sell that number to all comers. Fun, huh?
Pretty weak defence? I think so. And the nasty-nasty is that now Morpheus is just another Gnutella client, so if Morpheus does go down, why should any client - or specifically any client developer - be let off. Because they're not making money, I hear you say. Because it's just like making copies for friends and family. It's fair use.
No it damn well isn't. If I hear one more Slashdotter claim that personal/friends/family copies are "fair use", I will quite seriously bust a gut. Here are the allowable purposes for making a copy of a copyrighted work: (1) criticism and comment, (2) parody and satire, (3) scholarship and research, (4) news reporting and (5) teaching [publaw.com]. Don't argue this with me, quote a specific case of a court saying that copies for friends and family are OK. Any judge that drew the line in the sand and said that Gnutella was OK because it's not commercial would have the MPAA/RIAA would asking for his or her head on a plate, and I'm not talking rhetorically.
Well, the easy defense would be to find amatuer artists that have put thier work out on gnutella simply becuase they wanted to get thier name out, not to make money. There is no justification for running these amatuer artists out of the market in the name of "spurring innovation".
By having come up with a plan for terrorists to strike fear into our hearts, cause havoc and mayhem and possibly killing people, you are in violation of several new federal laws!
You will be placed under arrest, put before a kangaroo court and never be heard from again.
Been nice to know you Mr. Gnovos.
Hee hee, you'll never catch me as long as I've got my slippery slime... Well, the kangaroos might.
THIS is an argument? They are trying to say that if thier product is mandated to NOT break the law then it can't be sold or supported any longer?
I don't know about you, but that sounds like PROOF that the software is *inherently* illegal.
If they are able to pull it off, that ploy would beat even the Chewbaka Defence... "Judge, please! If Mr. Thugga can't sell smack to minors, how exactly s he going to addict the youth in his neighborhood?"
"We are sorry to inform the court that if Auther Anderson is no longer allowed to cook the books, then they will simly not be able to defraud investors."
"I'm sorry your Honor, if my client were to go to jail, he would have no choice but to stop killing people."
Cop1: "Steve, you go and try and help Jim help Greg help Monica help Charlie help Bill." Did you *have* to use the names Bill and Monica in a story about lubricant?
I would have to call that a true Freudian slip. Hee hee!
I sure as hell bet your attutude would change if your where the one of the front line.
And how much would YOUR attitude change when you are clawing helplessly in the slime, trying to move, without result, that *one* extra foot into the river while the the burning napalm slick over the slime creeps closer and closer...
The game is played both ways, and as a result, the majority of players feel that war should be as fair as possible.
Another scenario: lubricant sprayed, protestor slips trying to throw molatov, fire spreads and people try and get away but...
Wow, that gave me the heebie jeebies! It doesn't even have to be protesters throwing fire, it could be Africanized bees, somone having a heart attack, tear gas, heck ANY chemical spill, an ambulance that needs to get through, anything realy...
If I were a terrorist, I would be tickled pink to see this used. I'd be in a 5 star hotel one block from the protesters, and when they get hit with the slime, I'd start dropping the chloring gas canisters...
Or even scarier, imagine if the bad guys actually got ahold of thier own version. Since it's non-toxic, it won't be guarded well, but imagine, a little sprayed down a few streets on Nob Hill in San Francisco one dark and stormy night and every passing fire truck (and there are a lot) becomes a kinetic bomb racing down into the financial district.
If you have a problem you fix the problem. We fixed a problem of recieving spam from their open relays by blocking them from sending to us. We asked them to close their relays and they said no or didn't respond, so we blocked them.
I wonder if the trick might be to write mailservers that backtrack the email's headers and check for open relays before passing it on. No need to have an actual list, it would be automagic!
As a developer, I want to get paid for code I write, especially in the case of a proprietary application.
No way, as a developer, *I* want to retain the copyrights on my work, release them with DRM, and extract royalty payment PER USE for my artistic and functional work...:)
Isn't the reason most often touted for bans on marijuana is it's role as a "gateway" drug, leading it's casual uses down the dark roads into full blown hard core drug addiction? How can "music" be justified in our country. It leads people to petty theft when they can't get thier "fix" from the CD dealers. Sure, the theft is small, costing nothing but the price of bandwidth, but what cost is it to have the youth of our country entering into criminal acts before they even understand the true concequences of what they are doing? Music is a gateway into hard crime, into rape, violence, murder...
Can anyone honestly say that if M$ offered them financial security for your work, you would really turn them down? Just think of all the good you could do with that money. That good is worth more than your silly M$ hate...
Are they going to giving me breifcases full of cash? If so, maybe we can talk, but chances are they won't and in fact will be planning on screwing me over in some way. For example, paying me $0.05 on the dollar for every unit they "sell"... and then giving thier product away for free (It's happened before, go ask Spyglass). Here's your check for zero, buddy!
Don't do deals with M$, no matter how good you think you are doing. You WILL be screwed, just on principle. Microsoft doesn't let people get away free and happy from thier business deals...
Now evey two bit retardo government that has some grief with the US can control our domain names. France, for example, could pass laws giving the domain names of Anti-nazi violaters to the state or whatever and end thier whole case against Yahoo.com quick as can be.
Is this what America has come to. I mean, anybody who wants to learn something is autmatically a terrorist. How sad. The touted terrorists involved in the september trajic events had an enormus supply of money and time it seems.
By questioning the veracity of my previous terrorism claims, I can only conclude that you too are a terrorist...
...to everyone ever wrongfully shot by a gun. If they can legislate mathematically impossible DRM into existance, then why the HELL can't they legislate guns that won't shoot innocent people?
If life DOES exist on mars, and it metabolizes Fe (thus all the rust everywhere)... It would make for a great Sci-Fi story at least.
Re:so, you people want to build a gun eh?
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Homemade Gauss Gun
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Take a look at this page [google.com] before talking about something you don't know about. Do you know how much energy you can get out of an electromagnetic field generated by a solenoid that's got 400km of wire?
Rail guns and coil guns are different, they work on completely different properties of magnetics. For a rail gun you need exactly ZERO coils of copper wire. All you need are two very expensive rails, a few rare earth magnets and a huge bank of incredibly dangerous capacitors. And just a little prayer that you don't fuse your slug to your rails and waste a good $400.
AAAARGH! I am not advocating free, I'm advocating TEXTUAL ADVERTISING. Text based ads produce HIGHER sales per hit than graphical ads. They are smaller and allow for MORE advertising in the same space as a typical banner ad. They produce more REPEAT CUSTOMERS.
Just becuase the current advertisers want X does NOT mean they know what's best for them. Nor does it mean that one must bow to thier wishes. I'm sure Think Geek (or whoever) would go gibber happy if Slashdot changed it's name to SlashThinkGeekDot, but if/. were to actually follow through with it, no matter how much money they were offered, it would be a *bad idea*.
Text ads will not only make more money for the companies selling goods, but it will make people happier in general with sites that have them. It is a good idea and one that can work if people don't sell it short.
If you are looking for a computer lab that CS studnts can use, go with standard X-Windows dumb-terminals. They have nice big screens and nothing small enough or useful enough that anybody would want to steal.
If you are thinking you want a lab for writing/printing papers and surfing the internet, then go CHEAP. A PII 400 can run Win2k, Word and Mozilla with no problems, and they are mega cheap if you can find them.
Re:I will accept copy protection.
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SSSCA Hearing
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I'm entirely willing to accept copy protection, DRM, whatever, with one single condition.
All media has a lifetime guarantee against anything I do to it.
Don't you mean "lifetime plus 20 years"? I mean, come on, you want to leave a little something for your children, right?
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On another note, kuro5hin.org is moving to text ads (from no ads). It works under the principle that annoying your readership until they're so pissed that they don't come back anymore is not a good idea. Maybe slashdot could learn a lessons from this...
I make a point of going to sites that place the big annoying ads (going directly mind you, not clicking the ad) and looking at what they have to offer and sending them an email itemizing how much money they just lost becuase I will not buy from them due to thier poor marketing gimmickry. Sometimes this runs them *thousands* of dollars in lost potential revenue.
On the other hand, I have absolutly loved the K5 text ads, I have made a point to click every one, and I write them too, when I purchase, and tell them I would not have bought anything from them if it were not for thier clever and witty TEXT ad.
You know the game: globally replace every function name, variable name, and so on from our code with nonsensical names (or random characters), remove all of the comments, and any other form of obfuscation they can introduce.
So your company would have NO issues with me developing a "random number" generator that just happens to return me a number that, when converted to bytes, is exactly identical to your finished product. Now, I did all the development effort, I generated the number, so I can sell that number to all comers. Fun, huh?
DOJ Lawyer, TK429 : Hey, you Microsoft, Let me take a look at your software!
Bill Glates : This is not the software you're looking for.
TK429 : Ok, this isn't the software we're looking for.
Gates (waving his hand) : We may procede.
TK429 : Ok, these guys look clean, move along.
on those searches were you looking for "indy band new promo music" or "brittany spears"? No wonder you found pirated music...
Pretty weak defence? I think so. And the nasty-nasty is that now Morpheus is just another Gnutella client, so if Morpheus does go down, why should any client - or specifically any client developer - be let off. Because they're not making money, I hear you say. Because it's just like making copies for friends and family. It's fair use.
No it damn well isn't. If I hear one more Slashdotter claim that personal/friends/family copies are "fair use", I will quite seriously bust a gut. Here are the allowable purposes for making a copy of a copyrighted work: (1) criticism and comment, (2) parody and satire, (3) scholarship and research, (4) news reporting and (5) teaching [publaw.com]. Don't argue this with me, quote a specific case of a court saying that copies for friends and family are OK. Any judge that drew the line in the sand and said that Gnutella was OK because it's not commercial would have the MPAA/RIAA would asking for his or her head on a plate, and I'm not talking rhetorically.
Well, the easy defense would be to find amatuer artists that have put thier work out on gnutella simply becuase they wanted to get thier name out, not to make money. There is no justification for running these amatuer artists out of the market in the name of "spurring innovation".
By having come up with a plan for terrorists to strike fear into our hearts, cause havoc and mayhem and possibly killing people, you are in violation of several new federal laws!
You will be placed under arrest, put before a kangaroo court and never be heard from again.
Been nice to know you Mr. Gnovos.
Hee hee, you'll never catch me as long as I've got my slippery slime... Well, the kangaroos might.
THIS is an argument? They are trying to say that if thier product is mandated to NOT break the law then it can't be sold or supported any longer?
I don't know about you, but that sounds like PROOF that the software is *inherently* illegal.
If they are able to pull it off, that ploy would beat even the Chewbaka Defence...
"Judge, please! If Mr. Thugga can't sell smack to minors, how exactly s he going to addict the youth in his neighborhood?"
"We are sorry to inform the court that if Auther Anderson is no longer allowed to cook the books, then they will simly not be able to defraud investors."
"I'm sorry your Honor, if my client were to go to jail, he would have no choice but to stop killing people."
"If my client is not a wookie, you must aquit..."
Cop1: "Steve, you go and try and help Jim help Greg help Monica help Charlie help Bill."
Did you *have* to use the names Bill and Monica in a story about lubricant?
I would have to call that a true Freudian slip . Hee hee!
I sure as hell bet your attutude would change if your where the one of the front line.
And how much would YOUR attitude change when you are clawing helplessly in the slime, trying to move, without result, that *one* extra foot into the river while the the burning napalm slick over the slime creeps closer and closer...
The game is played both ways, and as a result, the majority of players feel that war should be as fair as possible.
Another scenario: lubricant sprayed, protestor slips trying to throw molatov, fire spreads and people try and get away but...
Wow, that gave me the heebie jeebies! It doesn't even have to be protesters throwing fire, it could be Africanized bees, somone having a heart attack, tear gas, heck ANY chemical spill, an ambulance that needs to get through, anything realy...
If I were a terrorist, I would be tickled pink to see this used. I'd be in a 5 star hotel one block from the protesters, and when they get hit with the slime, I'd start dropping the chloring gas canisters...
Or even scarier, imagine if the bad guys actually got ahold of thier own version. Since it's non-toxic, it won't be guarded well, but imagine, a little sprayed down a few streets on Nob Hill in San Francisco one dark and stormy night and every passing fire truck (and there are a lot) becomes a kinetic bomb racing down into the financial district.
So, what you are saying is: Contrary to popular opinion, violence DOES solve things, and rather quickly.
Bomb Microsoft?
If you have a problem you fix the problem.
We fixed a problem of recieving spam from their open relays by blocking them from sending to us.
We asked them to close their relays and they said no or didn't respond, so we blocked them.
I wonder if the trick might be to write mailservers that backtrack the email's headers and check for open relays before passing it on. No need to have an actual list, it would be automagic!
Cop1: "EVERYONE DISPERSE! THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING!"
...
Cop2: "They aren't moving, slime em."
SPLOTCH!
Cop1: "NOW EVERYONE DISPERSE!"
Hippie: "Ok, ok, we're moving... um, wait a second, we CAN'T MOVE!"
Cop1: "Bill, you go out there and drag a few out."
Cop2: "You got it Bob..."
(Bill slips on the slime halfway down the street)
Cop1: "Damn... Hey, Charlie, get you but out there and help Bill!"
... hours pass
Cop1: "Steve, you go and try and help Jim help Greg help Monica help Charlie help Bill."
Cop7: "Sure thing boss!"
As a developer, I want to get paid for code I write, especially in the case of a proprietary application.
:)
No way, as a developer, *I* want to retain the copyrights on my work, release them with DRM, and extract royalty payment PER USE for my artistic and functional work...
Isn't the reason most often touted for bans on marijuana is it's role as a "gateway" drug, leading it's casual uses down the dark roads into full blown hard core drug addiction? How can "music" be justified in our country. It leads people to petty theft when they can't get thier "fix" from the CD dealers. Sure, the theft is small, costing nothing but the price of bandwidth, but what cost is it to have the youth of our country entering into criminal acts before they even understand the true concequences of what they are doing? Music is a gateway into hard crime, into rape, violence, murder...
BAN MUSIC NOW!!!
"Pants are optional, but recommended for you.."
Well, I kind of have to. I keep stepping on it.
Bowel problems?
Can anyone honestly say that if M$ offered them financial security for your work, you would really turn them down? Just think of all the good you could do with that money. That good is worth more than your silly M$ hate...
Are they going to giving me breifcases full of cash? If so, maybe we can talk, but chances are they won't and in fact will be planning on screwing me over in some way. For example, paying me $0.05 on the dollar for every unit they "sell"... and then giving thier product away for free (It's happened before, go ask Spyglass). Here's your check for zero, buddy!
Don't do deals with M$, no matter how good you think you are doing. You WILL be screwed, just on principle. Microsoft doesn't let people get away free and happy from thier business deals...
Now evey two bit retardo government that has some grief with the US can control our domain names. France, for example, could pass laws giving the domain names of Anti-nazi violaters to the state or whatever and end thier whole case against Yahoo.com quick as can be.
Is this what America has come to. I mean, anybody who wants to learn something is autmatically a terrorist. How sad. The touted terrorists involved in the september trajic events had an enormus supply of money and time it seems.
By questioning the veracity of my previous terrorism claims, I can only conclude that you too are a terrorist...
...to everyone ever wrongfully shot by a gun. If they can legislate mathematically impossible DRM into existance, then why the HELL can't they legislate guns that won't shoot innocent people?
If life DOES exist on mars, and it metabolizes Fe (thus all the rust everywhere)... It would make for a great Sci-Fi story at least.
Take a look at this page [google.com] before talking about something you don't know about. Do you know how much energy you can get out of an electromagnetic field generated by a solenoid that's got 400km of wire?
Rail guns and coil guns are different, they work on completely different properties of magnetics. For a rail gun you need exactly ZERO coils of copper wire. All you need are two very expensive rails, a few rare earth magnets and a huge bank of incredibly dangerous capacitors. And just a little prayer that you don't fuse your slug to your rails and waste a good $400.
How do I know this? I actually build rail guns.
AAAARGH! I am not advocating free, I'm advocating TEXTUAL ADVERTISING. Text based ads produce HIGHER sales per hit than graphical ads. They are smaller and allow for MORE advertising in the same space as a typical banner ad. They produce more REPEAT CUSTOMERS.
/. were to actually follow through with it, no matter how much money they were offered, it would be a *bad idea*.
Just becuase the current advertisers want X does NOT mean they know what's best for them. Nor does it mean that one must bow to thier wishes. I'm sure Think Geek (or whoever) would go gibber happy if Slashdot changed it's name to SlashThinkGeekDot, but if
Text ads will not only make more money for the companies selling goods, but it will make people happier in general with sites that have them. It is a good idea and one that can work if people don't sell it short.
If you are looking for a computer lab that CS studnts can use, go with standard X-Windows dumb-terminals. They have nice big screens and nothing small enough or useful enough that anybody would want to steal.
If you are thinking you want a lab for writing/printing papers and surfing the internet, then go CHEAP. A PII 400 can run Win2k, Word and Mozilla with no problems, and they are mega cheap if you can find them.
I'm entirely willing to accept copy protection, DRM, whatever, with one single condition.
All media has a lifetime guarantee against anything I do to it.
Don't you mean "lifetime plus 20 years"? I mean, come on, you want to leave a little something for your children, right?