I was so used to cooking breakfast on the top surface of my Apple Cube. I'll miss this if the energy gets recylcled elsewhere, and I'll likely have to go buy a Foreman grill to make up for the loss of this nifty cooking appliance.
"DRM actually increases piracy, at least in this flat!"
DRM the way it has been going usually has had an effect of increasing piracy. You end up with a purchased copy that is crippled in how you can play/use it, encouring going to Grokster to find an uncrippled version you can use.
"All copy-protections can be hacked, but if (we) give people what they are asking for in terms of value, they won't go out and steal it. It's called trusting the consumer."
His heart is in the right place, but he really has to move away from RIAA word abuse. "Stealing" is something that has never been involved in the issue of copy protection, the p2p issue, etc.
"The craft will also jettison a suitcase-size stationary lander"
Isn't "American Airlines" involved with this one? If so, their experiments dropping suitcases on Mars must really explain their atrocious lost-luggage record.
Because there is a greater chance that the cable company is reading Slashdot than there is that someone knowledgable will ever answer the cable support phone #.
Besides, when you ask Slashdot, you aren't forced to listen to Mantovani for 3 hours (punctuated by "your call is important" every 37 seconds). Seems better to me.
It's all driven by Elvis, you know. He's approaching 70, and all those old ladies at the Sunny Rest Retirement Home (conveniently located near that Kalamazoo Burger King) keep asking him to swivel his hips and sing Hound Dog. Ever the entertainer, Elvis always obliges, and keeps wearing out hip sets.
7. Rush Limbaugh is passing in front of the planet.
6. Damn it, Galactus! Why did you spill your coffee again?
5. It's just the new Mystery Spot. The Wal-Drug and the Tommy Bartlett Robot World are on the other side of the planet (as if you did not know already from the billboards plastering Mars and Venus).
4. It started with a blown transformer in Cleveland, I think
3. Those sneaky bastards: New Jersey put a colony on Jupiter already!
2. "Dubya and the corporate military industrial complex are to blame"
1. Jenkins! Did you sneeze on the telescope mirror last night and forget to tell anyone?
0. "I, for one, welcome our new Jovian albedo-reducing overlords."
Silent drive, holy drive Playing Quake, all the night Crack new versions, like a script child On the dvd new mods are filed Send Grunts to eternal peace. Send Grunts to e-ter-nal peace.
(AP) Bud McSchutin, the violent videogame guinea-pig, vanished today during a police interview. He was being questioned in regards to a string of car thefts that occured after he spent three weeks playing "GTA Vice City". When questioned about this, he mumbled something about going to find a hooker to boost his health. At this point, he is alleged to have entered godmode and escaped the interrogation room by floating away through a solid wall.
Police in a neighboring county are also putting a warrant out for his arrest in regards to several indicents of vandalism involving smashed bricks at construction sites and overturned tortoises at the zoo, rumored to have occured immediately after McSchutin's "Super Mario Bros" marathon."
"....Right now I can think of nothing better than to have a nice private island with solar/wind-power for electricity and a nice boat. Grow fruits/vegetables"
We'll give you your choice of Ginger or Marianne, an ice skate for those occasional dental needs, and your new best friend the white volleyball. Don't open up those boxes with wings on them, whatever you do, and if a crate labelled "Plastic Explosives" washes up one morning, push it back to sea. You have what you need, now move along.
Isn't there a Peter Jackson pirate movie?
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I heard something about a Peter Jackson pirate movie that came out on DVD this year. At least I think it is a pirate movie: it features a character named Treebeard.
"Turns out, though, that the lowest portion of the bottom 1% make 11 times the amount of money as the bottom 50%, but only pay 9 times more in taxes."
This is hard to parse. The bottom 1% makes 11 times as much as the bottom 50%? I don't get it: the bottom 1% is part of the bottom 50%.
What it seems like you are saying is that:
Group A makes X amount of money Group B (a subset of group A) makes 11 times X amount of money.
It seems impossible. It is like saying: "Jim, Betty, and Sally made a total of 30 cookies." AND "Jim made a total of 180 cookies"
Answers to your questions
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"1. Are restrictive copyrights good?"
If applied to country music, yes. Anything that hampers the propagation of this is good.
"2. Are patents good?"
If it's good enough for Doc Emmet Brown, it is good enough for me.
"3. Is control over free distribution of knowledge, information and deeds by large faceless corporates and non-elected, non-governmental organisations good?"
Have you ever had a look at Steve Ballmer? Sometimes a faceless corporation is preferable!
"4. Is the extortionate price of CDs, videos and software good?"
See answer to #1. Also, the higher the price on a "Dharma and Greg Season #1" DVD, the better.
"5. Is the exploitation of developing and third-world workers in the production of consumer media goods for the West a good thing?"
It depends on how well-developed these workers are.
"7. Is the fact that the actual people who do the work (programmers and artists, or just artists if you see programmers that way) get a relatively small proportion of the finanical benefit from the sale in comparison to the monolithic behemoths that punt the stuff out to the ever willing consumer good?"
If a minimal reward provides a disincentive for "Artists" to create country music CD's and shows like "Dharma and Greg", well.....yes. Reward them as little as possible.
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We already have reversible robots.. Why not reversible computers?
"Apple Toast-Or! From G5 Power, to nice warm toast, back to G5 Power again!"
I was so used to cooking breakfast on the top surface of my Apple Cube. I'll miss this if the energy gets recylcled elsewhere, and I'll likely have to go buy a Foreman grill to make up for the loss of this nifty cooking appliance.
"The "information" on IRC is 99% crap"
/mode -o ChanXBot" ?
Come on now, don't you really need a search engine to find out about statements like "
Googling minds want to know!
2005 - Google indexes all the things ever said on soap operas and talk radio.
2007 - Did you forget what you said in your high school cafeteria in 1998? Don't worry, Google now has it indexed.
2010 - Lost your car keys? Don't worry, Google knows. Just do a search and you will find them.
"DRM actually increases piracy, at least in this flat!"
DRM the way it has been going usually has had an effect of increasing piracy. You end up with a purchased copy that is crippled in how you can play/use it, encouring going to Grokster to find an uncrippled version you can use.
"All copy-protections can be hacked, but if (we) give people what they are asking for in terms of value, they won't go out and steal it. It's called trusting the consumer."
His heart is in the right place, but he really has to move away from RIAA word abuse. "Stealing" is something that has never been involved in the issue of copy protection, the p2p issue, etc.
"The craft will also jettison a suitcase-size stationary lander"
Isn't "American Airlines" involved with this one? If so, their experiments dropping suitcases on Mars must really explain their atrocious lost-luggage record.
If they can get the lander to land on a shoestring, I think they can meet the "lands on the head of a pin" challenge shortly thereafter.
I've long wanted C++ to compile on my Atari 8-bit XL computer. At last, the moment has come!
Because there is a greater chance that the cable company is reading Slashdot than there is that someone knowledgable will ever answer the cable support phone #.
Besides, when you ask Slashdot, you aren't forced to listen to Mantovani for 3 hours (punctuated by "your call is important" every 37 seconds). Seems better to me.
"The needs for artificial hips are growing"
It's all driven by Elvis, you know. He's approaching 70, and all those old ladies at the Sunny Rest Retirement Home (conveniently located near that Kalamazoo Burger King) keep asking him to swivel his hips and sing Hound Dog. Ever the entertainer, Elvis always obliges, and keeps wearing out hip sets.
Fink panther? Now I won't get the Pink Panther tune out of my head.
I once got my head cut off by one of those giant pink walking warthog things in Doom.
Oh. wait. You're talking actual injuries here? Oh, sorry.
10. Roy Scheider says it is hatching black slabs again.
9. Then they realized that the dark area was really that dratted corner-logo for the Sci Fi channel in the corner of the screen.
8. Zug Island: A New Beginning
7. Rush Limbaugh is passing in front of the planet.
6. Damn it, Galactus! Why did you spill your coffee again?
5. It's just the new Mystery Spot. The Wal-Drug and the Tommy Bartlett Robot World are on the other side of the planet (as if you did not know already from the billboards plastering Mars and Venus).
4. It started with a blown transformer in Cleveland, I think
3. Those sneaky bastards: New Jersey put a colony on Jupiter already!
2. "Dubya and the corporate military industrial complex are to blame"
1. Jenkins! Did you sneeze on the telescope mirror last night and forget to tell anyone?
0. "I, for one, welcome our new Jovian albedo-reducing overlords."
You mean you go all the way to Jupiter and pay $11 to tour a run-down shack with tilted tables and floors?
Silent drive, holy drive
Playing Quake, all the night
Crack new versions, like a script child
On the dvd new mods are filed
Send Grunts to eternal peace.
Send Grunts to e-ter-nal peace.
I had a friend who worked in a Victoria's Secret. He made great use of the peepholes behind the dressing rooms. Talk about a security problem.
(AP) Bud McSchutin, the violent videogame guinea-pig, vanished today during a police interview. He was being questioned in regards to a string of car thefts that occured after he spent three weeks playing "GTA Vice City". When questioned about this, he mumbled something about going to find a hooker to boost his health. At this point, he is alleged to have entered godmode and escaped the interrogation room by floating away through a solid wall.
Police in a neighboring county are also putting a warrant out for his arrest in regards to several indicents of vandalism involving smashed bricks at construction sites and overturned tortoises at the zoo, rumored to have occured immediately after McSchutin's "Super Mario Bros" marathon."
When all is said and done, I'll be lucky to have a "0 Funny" mod on this one. It is pretty lame.
"Eeepp eep eep eep eep eeeep"
"....Right now I can think of nothing better than to have a nice private island with solar/wind-power for electricity and a nice boat. Grow fruits/vegetables"
We'll give you your choice of Ginger or Marianne, an ice skate for those occasional dental needs, and your new best friend the white volleyball. Don't open up those boxes with wings on them, whatever you do, and if a crate labelled "Plastic Explosives" washes up one morning, push it back to sea. You have what you need, now move along.
I heard something about a Peter Jackson pirate movie that came out on DVD this year. At least I think it is a pirate movie: it features a character named Treebeard.
"Turns out, though, that the lowest portion of the bottom 1% make 11 times the amount of money as the bottom 50%, but only pay 9 times more in taxes."
This is hard to parse. The bottom 1% makes 11 times as much as the bottom 50%? I don't get it: the bottom 1% is part of the bottom 50%.
What it seems like you are saying is that:
Group A makes X amount of money
Group B (a subset of group A) makes 11 times X amount of money.
It seems impossible. It is like saying:
"Jim, Betty, and Sally made a total of 30 cookies."
AND
"Jim made a total of 180 cookies"
"1. Are restrictive copyrights good?"
.yes. Reward them as little as possible.
If applied to country music, yes. Anything that hampers the propagation of this is good.
"2. Are patents good?"
If it's good enough for Doc Emmet Brown, it is good enough for me.
"3. Is control over free distribution of knowledge, information and deeds by large faceless corporates and non-elected, non-governmental organisations good?"
Have you ever had a look at Steve Ballmer? Sometimes a faceless corporation is preferable!
"4. Is the extortionate price of CDs, videos and software good?"
See answer to #1. Also, the higher the price on a "Dharma and Greg Season #1" DVD, the better.
"5. Is the exploitation of developing and third-world workers in the production of consumer media goods for the West a good thing?"
It depends on how well-developed these workers are.
"7. Is the fact that the actual people who do the work (programmers and artists, or just artists if you see programmers that way) get a relatively small proportion of the finanical benefit from the sale in comparison to the monolithic behemoths that punt the stuff out to the ever willing consumer good?"
If a minimal reward provides a disincentive for "Artists" to create country music CD's and shows like "Dharma and Greg", well....
It may not be insightful, it may not be funny, and I'm sure it is not a troll.
However, we can't let nearly 40 comments in a Pirate item slip by without even one "Arrr matey" comment, can we?