It's a sad day on Slashdot when such content-free bashing comments are rated "insightful".
If it weren't the truth, it may have been modded funny instead...
I miss the days of growing up, hating the Soviets for doing the same things to their citizens. And though they are no longer around, they have won. We treat our own citizens exactly the way we were taught that they treated theirs, and that is why we hated them so much.
Robot rebellion? All the AI needs to do when it takes over is get control of the financial systems, etc., and people will carry on doing what they're told as usual. Government master, robot master, all the same to most people. Could have already happened and we wouldn't know.;)
I submit for proof, George W... Oh wait... He fails the turing test... Nevermind...
You had a system to write a distro for each time you booted?! We had to install Slackware on our abacuses (abacusii?!?!). And use TCP/IP by carrier pigeon. Installing the networking components wasn't even the hardest part... First, you had to teach the pigeons to use the abacus... Users these days... Geesh!
"My first crash was several weeks later when I ran GnuChess under X on my 486DX2/66 w 8MB RAM, and made my second move... "
That wasn't a crash, it was checkmate;)
I've been running Slackware since the distro was at version 0.96, which would be what? 1993? Sometimes, I long for the days of hand-configuring everything because there weren't any configutation scripts (that worked reliably) for X or PPP or any number of other things... Fun times:)
"...but am I the only one who still prefers pine?"
You were modded funny, but no, you're not... I prefer pine as well... I used to read all my mail using the DOS version of pine... Now, I use Thunderbird, Squirelmail, or pine under Linux, depending on where I'm checking my mail from.
2. No matter if he would pay or not, the correct term is still "copyright infringement". The word "theft" covers *removing* something from a person, and to remove something, he had to have it in the first place.
Just wanted to point out that the AC is correct. And while IANAL, I am a Criminal Justice major.
Why wait for Vista? Just make sure your version of IE has not been patched in 2 years, and visit as many "free" porn sites as you can find. Never mind the "spyware," it's just updating your maching to Vista Porn Edition;)
"Ah, Lexmark is at it again... Gotta love that company - maybe next they'll just send out beefy guys with baseball bats to break the kneecaps of anyone who sells refilled cartridges..."
Nah... They'll just hire thugs to beat up people as they leave the store with a Lexmark product. That way, people will know they're enforcing their patents.
"Horse pucky. If you aren't free to share your opinion, then this isn't the United States I thought I lived in. More and more, it seems like the freedom of speech is directly related to how much money you have."
Welcome to the Soviet States of America... Or hadn't you noticed?
"... but have you priced the towers and the infrastructure that SUPPORTS the phone?"
I worked at an ISP that deployed wireless internet access to the town I'm in. Because of cost, we could only lease tower space. What we discovered is that many cell companies lease tower space as well, and because you pay per square-foot on the ground, many of them do not have on-site generators. They bring their generators on-site and chain them outside the fence during an outage because the tower owners do not charge any extra that way. Then, they have to drive site-to-site during an extended outage to keep the generators fuled up. This was difficult during last winter's ice storm, and pretty much impossible during a hurricane.
"I think fellow used fedex.com to order a whole lot of boxes with no intention of using them to actually ship stuff in. It's a bit like someone taking an enormous number of ketchup packets from a Burger King in order to have ketchup in his house, rather than using them on the fries he didn't buy there."
Should FedEx stop giving him boxes? Obviously. But does the DMCA apply? I don't really see how. It certainly wouldn't apply to your Burger King guy, even if he took pictures of said ketchup packets being used on McDonalds' fries and placed them on the web.
"But I still fail to see why that merits a boycott just because you, personally, have no need for their service and product. Is this service going to do you harm some how? Is it going to prevent you from doing exactly what you are doing so far? No. Because you won't participate in it."
Not sure if you were trolling or not because of other comments in your post, but there is one important point you are missing in this particular part of your post: (note - I am not the original AC)
If we do not speak out against DRM, then eventually the answer to your question will be "Yes" because eventually all music will be DRM'ed and we will no longer be able to rip our own CDs. We will be forced to use the services that we're not participating in now in order to get our music digitally, or we will be forced to violate the DMCA when we bypass the DRM that is in place. In order to prevent this, we need to let our money do the talking by not buying from those that are pushing the DRM in the first place.
That said, I like the idea of co-location of mirrors of the music providers' servers on campus networks... I just don't like the DRM part.
"So this guy switched from Linux to BSD not because he saw some poorly implemented code, but because of a comment? That is absolutely insane."
If he's got a doctorate in comp-sci, he should have been able to tell if it belonged there, and if not, sent in a patch to put it in the correct place.
Am I the only one who misread the first part of the title??? At first I thought "I bet this strikes fear in the heart of Alter Boys everywhere!" Then I read the rest of the title.
"It will do little to stop criminals, because criminals have never cared about the rules, but decent American citizens will have to jump through hoops and come to accept presenting papers to travel in-country just like those Soviets we looked down on."
I think you nailed it... If you were a child of the 70s and 80s, you were taught to hate the Soviet Union because, among other things, they made their own citizens show papers just to travel domestically. Now, *we* have to show papers to travel domestically. And that's not good enough. They now want to make those papers uniform. All in the name of what? And what would we give up to gain that? A wise man would say that we deserve neither.
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If it weren't the truth, it may have been modded funny instead...
I miss the days of growing up, hating the Soviets for doing the same things to their citizens. And though they are no longer around, they have won. We treat our own citizens exactly the way we were taught that they treated theirs, and that is why we hated them so much.
You had a system to write a distro for each time you booted?! We had to install Slackware on our abacuses (abacusii?!?!). And use TCP/IP by carrier pigeon. Installing the networking components wasn't even the hardest part... First, you had to teach the pigeons to use the abacus... Users these days... Geesh!
"My first crash was several weeks later when I ran GnuChess under X on my 486DX2/66 w 8MB RAM, and made my second move... "
;)
:)
That wasn't a crash, it was checkmate
I've been running Slackware since the distro was at version 0.96, which would be what? 1993? Sometimes, I long for the days of hand-configuring everything because there weren't any configutation scripts (that worked reliably) for X or PPP or any number of other things... Fun times
OK, before anyone makes an "In Soviet Russia..." joke, remember it's been changed to "In Soviet America..." because of the USA PATRIOT act.
I thought that the Onion was real... The current administration is the joke...
"...but am I the only one who still prefers pine?"
You were modded funny, but no, you're not... I prefer pine as well... I used to read all my mail using the DOS version of pine... Now, I use Thunderbird, Squirelmail, or pine under Linux, depending on where I'm checking my mail from.
2. No matter if he would pay or not, the correct term is still "copyright infringement". The word "theft" covers *removing* something from a person, and to remove something, he had to have it in the first place.
Just wanted to point out that the AC is correct. And while IANAL, I am a Criminal Justice major.
Why wait for Vista? Just make sure your version of IE has not been patched in 2 years, and visit as many "free" porn sites as you can find. Never mind the "spyware," it's just updating your maching to Vista Porn Edition ;)
"Communists used to ban BBC in our country that way :) I guess the history is repeating itself in different context :) "
I hearby announce that all "In Soviet Russia" jokes shall become "In Soviet America" jokes instead. Violaters will be violated.
"Ah, Lexmark is at it again... Gotta love that company - maybe next they'll just send out beefy guys with baseball bats to break the kneecaps of anyone who sells refilled cartridges..."
Nah... They'll just hire thugs to beat up people as they leave the store with a Lexmark product. That way, people will know they're enforcing their patents.
"Horse pucky. If you aren't free to share your opinion, then this isn't the United States I thought I lived in. More and more, it seems like the freedom of speech is directly related to how much money you have."
Welcome to the Soviet States of America... Or hadn't you noticed?
"... but have you priced the towers and the infrastructure that SUPPORTS the phone?"
I worked at an ISP that deployed wireless internet access to the town I'm in. Because of cost, we could only lease tower space. What we discovered is that many cell companies lease tower space as well, and because you pay per square-foot on the ground, many of them do not have on-site generators. They bring their generators on-site and chain them outside the fence during an outage because the tower owners do not charge any extra that way. Then, they have to drive site-to-site during an extended outage to keep the generators fuled up. This was difficult during last winter's ice storm, and pretty much impossible during a hurricane.
"I think fellow used fedex.com to order a whole lot of boxes with no intention of using them to actually ship stuff in. It's a bit like someone taking an enormous number of ketchup packets from a Burger King in order to have ketchup in his house, rather than using them on the fries he didn't buy there."
Should FedEx stop giving him boxes? Obviously. But does the DMCA apply? I don't really see how. It certainly wouldn't apply to your Burger King guy, even if he took pictures of said ketchup packets being used on McDonalds' fries and placed them on the web.
You people need to wake up and remember the programmer's addage, "Use the right tool for the right job!"
;)
You must me new around here. Everyone knows that their tool of choice is the only one that matters, and everyone *must* switch to it immediately
"GEEZ. You might as well take a solar powered light and shine it on itself."
Everyone knows you need to use two solar-powered lights and shine them on each other. What do you take us for? Sheesh!
"I'm saddened at what the Internet has become."
You are!? How do you think Al Gore feels?!?!
"But I still fail to see why that merits a boycott just because you, personally, have no need for their service and product. Is this service going to do you harm some how? Is it going to prevent you from doing exactly what you are doing so far? No. Because you won't participate in it."
Not sure if you were trolling or not because of other comments in your post, but there is one important point you are missing in this particular part of your post: (note - I am not the original AC)
If we do not speak out against DRM, then eventually the answer to your question will be "Yes" because eventually all music will be DRM'ed and we will no longer be able to rip our own CDs. We will be forced to use the services that we're not participating in now in order to get our music digitally, or we will be forced to violate the DMCA when we bypass the DRM that is in place. In order to prevent this, we need to let our money do the talking by not buying from those that are pushing the DRM in the first place.
That said, I like the idea of co-location of mirrors of the music providers' servers on campus networks... I just don't like the DRM part.
"So this guy switched from Linux to BSD not because he saw some poorly implemented code, but because of a comment?
That is absolutely insane."
If he's got a doctorate in comp-sci, he should have been able to tell if it belonged there, and if not, sent in a patch to put it in the correct place.
"$>use key on door
You unlock the door. "
You are eaten by a grue.
Am I the only one who misread the first part of the title??? At first I thought "I bet this strikes fear in the heart of Alter Boys everywhere!" Then I read the rest of the title.
"There is also this large world of legally sharing copyrighted content, like linux ISO or actually free radio or TV shows."
;)
SCO may disagree with you on that
Ok, this isn't even close to being an accurate list... Surely they would have included *MY* blog on the A-List if it were ;)
And in return, /. has cracked the site's code ;)
"It will do little to stop criminals, because criminals have never cared about the rules, but decent American citizens will have to jump through hoops and come to accept presenting papers to travel in-country just like those Soviets we looked down on."
I think you nailed it... If you were a child of the 70s and 80s, you were taught to hate the Soviet Union because, among other things, they made their own citizens show papers just to travel domestically. Now, *we* have to show papers to travel domestically. And that's not good enough. They now want to make those papers uniform. All in the name of what? And what would we give up to gain that? A wise man would say that we deserve neither.