Nobody's pointed out yet, that if postings were
actually moderated off-topic by a real human (or
at least through that interface), one would
receive a message in the slashdot mailbox
notifying him of that.
My earlier post has been given (score+1)
off-topic ratings to push it to -1, but NO
messages to that effect have been posted to my
account.
Thank you so much for starting this thread, and
exposing slashdot's true visage.
Suddenly it doesn't seem so strange anymore, why
Jon Katz is still employed here after his crazy
essay about the Afghani downloading DIVX onto his
Commodore. It just confirms that the whole site
is run by idiots who have sold out, just like
they're always accusing others in industry of
doing.
This comment is posted a couple of days after the
thread started. Let's see if it's still
ROBo-modded-down. As another poster stated,
reaching 50 karma was a personal goal. Now I
don't give a skinny rat's cock anymore.
It is likely that Gracenote paid Roxio either
cash or gave them access to some of their assets.
I looks like it is more critical to Gracenote
to
have an agreement with Roxio, rather than
vice-versa. The masses don't care where their CD
information comes from, they just use Roxio's
software, and it works. Roxio has the pick of
either CDDB or FreeDB, both are reasonably
complete.
Gracenote, on the other hand, has
to compete
against a free service, and this seems like a bid
to stay competitive by allying with a company
that gives them access to a large part of the
market, while keeping the option of shaking
down smaller vendors of software, that users
might want to switch to in the future.
The site is down a few minutes after being posted here. Could be because the site is run on a bitty box running AppleShare.
Anybody have more info on this web server? Is this one shipped by default with OS X?
In a reaction to the arrest of four Israeli
teenagers in connection with the release of the
"Goner" virus, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stated
that Palestinian Authority chairman Yassir Arafat
was solely at fault "for corrupting the youth of
the nation to commit acts of information warfare.
Ceterum censeo, Palestina delenda est!"
Five Palestinian police stations were destroyed
by helicopter rocket fire in a retaliatory
attack.
I like the following quote by the spokesman for
media policy of the Free Democratic Party,
Hans-Joachim Otto: "The youth media protection in
Germany is already, in comparison to other
countries, almost fit for a monestary."
I hate chipped keys -- It doesn't add much for
security, and it makes getting a spare an
expensive hassle. Not many key cutters have the
chipped blanks and they cost around $25. The
sensing hardware broke on my car and it required
a strip of the steering column to install a new
cylinder ($300).
And remote car starters? You would have to
disable the clutch interlock, so imagine you're
parked on a city street with your car in gear.
You start the car remotely and - BANG - your
starter motor pushes your car into another one.
Or down a hill.
I can think of better ways to
hack within a car: How bout an audio system that
lets you record instead of just play?
> PS: Christ, Malda, Daylight Savings Time ended almost a month ago!
This is offtopic, but before x people make comments I'll clarify.
I checked my preferences and as I registered over the summer, the time zone was set to
EDT, which didn't revert back to standard time. Kind of useless then, maybe
there should be an EST5EDT option?
While I applaud the efforts of the Galeon and
Skipstone teams, they are just front ends
depending on the full set of libs from mozilla
itself -- about 25 megs of overhead compiled, and
a lot more time and space if compiling everything
from source.
I understand that nowadays disk space and memory
are almost free (wrt those quantities), but
besides not wasting even abundant resources, it
seems to be somewhat futile to write a fast front
end to a browser when it is such a small part of
the total code base it needs to run.
Five years ago, when working at the University's
computing labs, we handed out floppy disks with a
full working browser (nutscrape-1.0). It was an
old version, granted, but the newest version at
the time was only minimally larger (but didn't
fit on a disk anymore). In the years since, have
our desires of a browser's capability increased
by a factor of 16 like the resources used have?
While the optimisations scheduled to be worked on
in mozilla after the next version hopefully will
reduce its footprint significantly, I think the
current state is rather sad.
But at least the free browsers are a viable
alternative to Internet Exploider now.
PS: Christ, Malda, Daylight Savings Time ended
almost a month ago!
I tend to disagree. I started riding last year
on a 1982 Honda CM450C. Excellent bike, and very
suitable for a beginner. But if I lived in
certain parts of Europe, I would have to putter
around on a kiddie size sports replica.
Then, after the year of conditional licensing was
over, sell off the trainer (probably at a loss)
and get something sensible like I would have
anyway.
If you get a car licence though, you
are allowed to start out on a Ferrari.
I first drove a 1982 Pontiac 2000, and when first
driving a Cadillac STS, I had problems the first
couple of times with the sheer difference in
power, that took practice to learn what pressure
to use on the accelerator.
Bikes have
clutches, which if used properly, provides for a
lot more forgiveness. I credit the MSF class for
teaching the basic concepts of machine control
and safety. Any aspiring biker should sign up for
it.
If you mishandle a car, the consequences are far
more serious to others than screwing up on a
bike.
Funny, how the jokes we had in Germany in Fifth
Grade make it across the pond and get regurgitated
by a supposed sentient being, on a website for
(one would assume) talented or educated people.
As all the recent additions to the top level domains have been rather
Anglocentric, I wonder if.biz (or any other new TLD) is obscene, vulgar or
sex related in other languages on the planet.
If so, the porn industry there will probably keep the new TLDs commercially viable, cause I don't see a good future for them otherwise.
You ask whether there'll be strip searches? Well,
check out this statement:-
Key3Media reserves the right to take any
security measures it deems
appropriate to increase the safety of our
exhibitors and attendees,
without prior notice. Key3Media reserves the
right to change the
policies set forth herein, without prior
notice, in its sole
discretion.
So it looks like strip searches could be suddenly
implemented. I wonder if anybody would mind
(actively) if they did. Americans are such sheep.
PS: Could somebody enlighten me if companies do
have such 'rights' that they are reserving? Isn't
that like changing the terms of the contract
after it has been agreed to by the exchange of a
consideration?
I really don't remember. I think it might have been some sort of newspaper subscription. If I
find the negative, and it has more text on it,
I'll let you know.
(Moderators: That text was on the advert below
the William Shatner plaque)
On wilwheaton.net, Wil complains about William Shatner's snooty attitude, but does Wil have any university buildings named after him like William Shatner does?
(Picture taken at YAPC::America::North 2001 at McGill University in Montréal)
CNN actually had the balls to refer to nimda
as a virus that affects Microsoft boxes. But you're
right, that's hardly ever said. Wouldn't bode well
for future advertisements from Micro$oft.:)
I wonder why German courts have never held that
this protection racket is illegal. After all,
eating vegetables is in my interest, but having
somebody unsolicitedly tell me to eat more vegetables
and then charge for consulting services, that would
be thrown right out.
I would translate "Abmahnung" as "consent decree". Basically, in Germany, third party individuals can present another individual with a contract that binds him to desist an activity for a fee. If the contract is not signed, or is broken, that third person can sue for a load of money in civil court. I believe in the US only interested parties may engage in such practices (I forget the legal term for this). Yes, the system does suck and it mostly hits private individuals or small business (who've advertised, for example, with 3.5" disks, since the inch is not a legal unit of measurement in Germany).
As for Sealand or Scotts Valley being countries,
that just depends on how well you can defend your
plot of land when the stormtroopers arrive to
collect taxes. From reading Sealand history, the
inhabitants did repel an approaching British boat
without repercussion. Some legitimacy there...
Officially, most countries do not recognise
Taiwan as a country, although de facto it really
is. If Taiwan set up a data haven like havenco
has done in Sealand, and distributed data that
every other country took offence at, their
connections would likely be dropped, and if
serious enough, the directors would be subject to
arrest once they stepped onto foreign soil. Not a
problem for Taiwanese people maybe, but spending
my life on Sealand to avoid arrest elsewhere is
not a nice situation I'd like to be in.
Well, I think all software should be Free.
However, it's something every company / author to
decide for itself. If billg wants the source for
Windoze under lock and key, that's fine with me.
What I think is ridiculous is the glut of little
utilities for Windoze (like programs to back up
the registry to floppy, virus scanners, defrag
tools, programs to remove temporary files,
freedrive / istore url crackers) are generally
released sourceless and with a pricetag attached
in the Windoze world.
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exposing slashdot's true visage.
Suddenly it doesn't seem so strange anymore, why
Jon Katz is still employed here after his crazy
essay about the Afghani downloading DIVX onto his
Commodore. It just confirms that the whole site
is run by idiots who have sold out, just like
they're always accusing others in industry of
doing.
This comment is posted a couple of days after the
thread started. Let's see if it's still
ROBo-modded-down. As another poster stated,
reaching 50 karma was a personal goal. Now I
don't give a skinny rat's cock anymore.
I looks like it is more critical to Gracenote to have an agreement with Roxio, rather than vice-versa. The masses don't care where their CD information comes from, they just use Roxio's software, and it works. Roxio has the pick of either CDDB or FreeDB, both are reasonably complete.
Gracenote, on the other hand, has to compete against a free service, and this seems like a bid to stay competitive by allying with a company that gives them access to a large part of the market, while keeping the option of shaking down smaller vendors of software, that users might want to switch to in the future.
The site is down a few minutes after being posted here. Could be because the site is run on a bitty box running AppleShare.
Anybody have more info on this web server? Is this one shipped by default with OS X?
Five Palestinian police stations were destroyed by helicopter rocket fire in a retaliatory attack.
And remote car starters? You would have to disable the clutch interlock, so imagine you're parked on a city street with your car in gear. You start the car remotely and - BANG - your starter motor pushes your car into another one. Or down a hill.
I can think of better ways to hack within a car: How bout an audio system that lets you record instead of just play?
Consumer rents are not 'theft' until congress is paid to make it so.
This is offtopic, but before x people make comments I'll clarify.
I checked my preferences and as I registered over the summer, the time zone was set to EDT, which didn't revert back to standard time. Kind of useless then, maybe there should be an EST5EDT option?
I understand that nowadays disk space and memory are almost free (wrt those quantities), but besides not wasting even abundant resources, it seems to be somewhat futile to write a fast front end to a browser when it is such a small part of the total code base it needs to run.
Five years ago, when working at the University's computing labs, we handed out floppy disks with a full working browser (nutscrape-1.0). It was an old version, granted, but the newest version at the time was only minimally larger (but didn't fit on a disk anymore). In the years since, have our desires of a browser's capability increased by a factor of 16 like the resources used have?
While the optimisations scheduled to be worked on in mozilla after the next version hopefully will reduce its footprint significantly, I think the current state is rather sad.
But at least the free browsers are a viable alternative to Internet Exploider now.
PS: Christ, Malda, Daylight Savings Time ended almost a month ago!
If you get a car licence though, you are allowed to start out on a Ferrari. I first drove a 1982 Pontiac 2000, and when first driving a Cadillac STS, I had problems the first couple of times with the sheer difference in power, that took practice to learn what pressure to use on the accelerator.
Bikes have clutches, which if used properly, provides for a lot more forgiveness. I credit the MSF class for teaching the basic concepts of machine control and safety. Any aspiring biker should sign up for it.
If you mishandle a car, the consequences are far more serious to others than screwing up on a bike.
Funny, how the jokes we had in Germany in Fifth
Grade make it across the pond and get regurgitated
by a supposed sentient being, on a website for
(one would assume) talented or educated people.
If so, the porn industry there will probably keep the new TLDs commercially viable, cause I don't see a good future for them otherwise.
BTW, they seem to answer dns queries for any host, like buyused.pantieshere.biz.
Key3Media reserves the right to take any security measures it deems appropriate to increase the safety of our exhibitors and attendees, without prior notice. Key3Media reserves the right to change the policies set forth herein, without prior notice, in its sole discretion.
So it looks like strip searches could be suddenly implemented. I wonder if anybody would mind (actively) if they did. Americans are such sheep.
PS: Could somebody enlighten me if companies do have such 'rights' that they are reserving? Isn't that like changing the terms of the contract after it has been agreed to by the exchange of a consideration?
I really don't remember. I think it might have been some sort of newspaper subscription. If I
find the negative, and it has more text on it,
I'll let you know.
(Moderators: That text was on the advert below
the William Shatner plaque)
(Picture taken at YAPC::America::North 2001 at McGill University in Montréal)
CNN actually had the balls to refer to nimda :)
as a virus that affects Microsoft boxes. But you're
right, that's hardly ever said. Wouldn't bode well
for future advertisements from Micro$oft.
You French people must have short memories - the
guillotine was abolished just 20 years ago.
I wonder why German courts have never held that
this protection racket is illegal. After all,
eating vegetables is in my interest, but having
somebody unsolicitedly tell me to eat more vegetables
and then charge for consulting services, that would
be thrown right out.
I would translate "Abmahnung" as "consent decree". Basically, in Germany, third party individuals can present another individual with a contract that binds him to desist an activity for a fee. If the contract is not signed, or is broken, that third person can sue for a load of money in civil court. I believe in the US only interested parties may engage in such practices (I forget the legal term for this). Yes, the system does suck and it mostly hits private individuals or small business (who've advertised, for example, with 3.5" disks, since the inch is not a legal unit of measurement in Germany).
As for Sealand or Scotts Valley being countries, that just depends on how well you can defend your plot of land when the stormtroopers arrive to collect taxes. From reading Sealand history, the inhabitants did repel an approaching British boat without repercussion. Some legitimacy there...
Officially, most countries do not recognise Taiwan as a country, although de facto it really is. If Taiwan set up a data haven like havenco has done in Sealand, and distributed data that every other country took offence at, their connections would likely be dropped, and if serious enough, the directors would be subject to arrest once they stepped onto foreign soil. Not a problem for Taiwanese people maybe, but spending my life on Sealand to avoid arrest elsewhere is not a nice situation I'd like to be in.
Remember, DIVX, Soerensen etc may play on your x86 Linux box with the Windoze libraries, but it won't play on my Alpha, Joe's powerpc or Max' arm.