I'm already doing this (minus the wireless) on my xbox. When I first read the article I started to wonder if I could get a wireless adapter to work with my xbox/xbox media player, but then I realized that I haven't actually moved my tv since it was purchased.
Still, I wonder if this will be cheaper than an xbox...
I bring this up every chance I get, but for obvious reasons, the idea is usually ignored.
There are couple of replies to the parent who I think misunderstand caluml. What I'm talking about, and what believe he is talking about is a completely seperate ownerless internet made up of wifi's and cat5 cables strung to your neighbors house.
I think it could start with small neighborhood co-ops but then once some of the co-ops start peering with each other it may snowball.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger;
So what your saying is that the Patriot Act is legal as long as it is a case that: 1. arises in the land or naval forces - AND - 2. the defendant was in actual service - AND - 3. there is a war or public danger
Is that correct?
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article incase you missed it. (Score:-1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 26, @08:11PM (#6307586) Slashback with a followup on the perpetual motion DeLorean, a word on RIAA bank-account-jacking, a reminder about the fast-tracked vote on software patents in the EU, the real meaning of "high speed USB" and more. Read on below for the details.
Now even less than a week... mpawlo writes "As reported by Greplaw, although I am still looking for further confirmation, it seems like the EU vote on software patentability has been moved from the late fall to June 30, 2003. Yes, that is in one (1) week. If you have more information and another source - please comment on this news item."
Mikael writes: "Personally, I find it somewhat disturbing from a democracy perspective that this proposal seems to be fast-tracked in the middle of the summer, when most Europeans want to focus on whether they should have strawberry or vanilla ice cream. In Sweden, we also got our Swedish version of the DMCA this week. I guess the ice cream will have to wait."
DoSthAboutIt points out that "A 'Petition for a Free Europe without Software Patents' has gained more than 150000 signatures. Among the supporters are more than 2000 company owners and chief executives and 25000 developpers and engineers from all sectors of the European information and telecommunication industries, as well as more than 2000 scientists and 180 lawyers. Companies like Siemens, IBM, Alcatel and Nokia lead the list of those whose researchers and developpers want to protect programming freedom and copyright property against what they see as a 'patent landgrab.' The whole article can be found here, including some statistics like signatories by country"
The story of Peng. mantispraying writes "Looks like the college student who settled with the the RIAA for $12,000, his entire life savings, has recouped all of his money thanks to a very generous file sharing community. Also, the search engine he created that got him in trouble is back online, for demonstration purposes only, of course."
Reader T points out that while one of the students who lost his life savings to RIAA has made it back through PayPal donations, "the other, Dan Peng, is still short about $12,000. Brother, can you spare a dime?"
I'd prefer the garrote and the stick, but hey. Mark Ferguson writes: "I attended the FTC spam forum. It seems I was on their call list:-) I parlayed that into getting several others on the panels as well. While there I spoke with bulk emailers and other industry folks. Some people defined Confirmed OPT-IN to mean you sending a confirmation that the email address was subscribed so they were doing double, confirmed OPT-IN.
My heads spins.
What I figured from what I learned was these folks truly refused to accept real definitions the Service Providers have been using for years so I decided to do a site for just this.... Anyway, reboot, aka Andrew Cockrell myself and another built The Carrot and the Stick to explain email, define the best practices and to get people to abide by them.
Thoughts, comments and/or suggestions?"
Sooner or later, that DeLorean's going to land someone in jail. hackwrench writes "According to channel WSMV news, Alternate Energy Inventor Carl Tilley's compound was raided. Tilley was previously mentioned on Slashdot here."
Tilley had announced the then-upcoming demonstration of his perpetual-motion DeLorean.
My nanodots can fit inside your nanodots! Rocky Rawstern writes "I recently had the distinct pleasure to interview one of my favorite authors, Wil McCarthy. Upon completing three of his latest books - two sci-fi and one work of non-fiction - I realized that others would probably enjoy his ponderings as much as I. The questions for this interview stem from my own interest in programmable matter, and the awe-inspiring possibilities raised by Wil in his book Hacking M
If Madonna wants to insist that her music is only available as an album then let her have her way as long as she can't force every artist to do the same thing. If she's truly an artist then million dollar mansions aren't of primary importance to her and the resulting loss of income shouldn't bother her.
If, however she's in it for the money, then she's a business, and as a business she has customers to satisfy. If she can't or won't supply what her customers want they'll move elsewhere.
The only way this could matter is if a few top names are able to control the entire industry with regards to single song downloads. That is, Madonna knows she'll lose customers if she doesn't allow single downloads so, out of spite, she somehow is able to end single downloads altogether.
The FBI persuing the LAW, which coincendintly equates to persuing the interests of RIAA does not mean the government is Fascist!
Yes it does. You have to know this. I'm certain you're posting comments that you yourself don't agree with just to get a response. Is that called trolling?
Isn't there some way to "fire" legislators? Like a recall vote or something? Maybe legislators should be threatened when they give too much preference to the "monied interests". Especially in CA.
There's no way the cult of Apple will ever disappear completely. The Apple crowd are the ones who produce most of the attractive media anyway. Maybe one day I'll stop seeing sites that require IE because of this decision.
Let's assume for the moment that you are not a troll and honestly would like your question answered.
While I'm not a programmer I do understand that programs are made up of several functions that cooperate to perform a given task. Even a simple clock program that displays the time in your kicker panel will have more than a few functions, or libraries.
Shit, will someone respond to this ac cause I think should be articulated better than I'm able to.
But he does have a good point. Control of every resource is becoming more centralized. Just like merging all of the media companies into a giant aol/time/warner/etc can be a bad thing, the merging of authority from several local authorities into one centralized government can be a bad thing.
What if the whole world merged into the EU? Where could you go if you didn't like the way your economy/religion/social programs/etc were being regulated?
Decentralize everything to a reasonable degree and you'll have better protection against totalitarian government. The main idea being that megacorps won't be able to bribe the legislative branch of every country or state.
This idea doesn't just apply to government, but to companies that provide needed products or services as well. For example, if there were a thousand ISP's and the government wanted to monitor just about everything their customers did on the internet it would have to pass some laws allowing it to do that, provoking some debate. But if AOL were the only ISP they wouldn't have to pass any legislation at all. With only one company to strongarm they could secure the permissions they needed with just a phone call:
"Hello, AOL CEO?, Yeah, well regarding that 'request', you see we'd really like your cooperation on that. Btw, we need to schedule an IRS audit ASAP. How's next Tuesday for you?"
hmmm, If I thought for a while I could probably think of a dozen ways that one company could be kept under thumb without any legislation being passed.
Commercial websites get a lot of hits. But there are far, far more websites that are not commercial and I think it's those sites that collectively get the most traffic even if individually they each receive only a few hits. The power to change and influence is not just in the hands of commercial websites largely because it's the commercial websites that are the least interesting. Hmmm, what I'm trying to say is while BestBuy.com gets more hits than your MyFirstHomepage, BestBuy.com gets fewer hits than all of the MyFirstHomepages combined. I'm using your term but I'm including all of the MySecond, MyThird, MyFourth, and MyFifthHomepages too.
Please continue to use GIF's for your corporate splash page if you feel you should. But also consider using PNG's on any sites that you produce for yourself.
I understand your logic and agree that the best way to promote png is to convince MicroSoft to support png.
But the reason we have this situation is that (as you said) 95% of of the non-technical web browsing populace is using IE. If that percentage were only 50% MicroSoft would be much more standards compliant. If MicroSoft had to sweat Mozilla's popularity there would be more benefits than just the support of png.
I would like to see more pages that say "Best viewed without Internet Explorer"
I think that the NYT gets more than a few page views from/. - page views that affect how much they can charge for ads.
If slashdot stopped accepting submissions that included a NYT link would the NYT stop requiring registration? Or maybe allow slashdot to link directly to the article?
just wondering if a slashdotting is actually a measurable benefit to a big site like that.
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I'm already doing this (minus the wireless) on my xbox. When I first read the article I started to wonder if I could get a wireless adapter to work with my xbox/xbox media player, but then I realized that I haven't actually moved my tv since it was purchased.
Still, I wonder if this will be cheaper than an xbox...
I bring this up every chance I get, but for obvious reasons, the idea is usually ignored.
There are couple of replies to the parent who I think misunderstand caluml. What I'm talking about, and what believe he is talking about is a completely seperate ownerless internet made up of wifi's and cat5 cables strung to your neighbors house.
I think it could start with small neighborhood co-ops but then once some of the co-ops start peering with each other it may snowball.
This insightful post was incorrectly modded as Flamebait, so I'll repeat it for the A/C
Subject: Re:Patriot Act is upsurd (sic)
Right down to the doublespeak name.
The Patriot Act is a symptom of a sick government.
Think before you moderate, please.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger;
So what your saying is that the Patriot Act is legal as long as it is a case that:
1. arises in the land or naval forces - AND -
2. the defendant was in actual service - AND -
3. there is a war or public danger
Is that correct?
except for diamonds and oil
So a bad law is like a virus? It's just going to keep getting worse then isn't it.
This means WAR!
I'm sorry, but I just can't seem to take this seriously.
To which I replied:
"Now that's funny."
at plus 2. Immediately some moderator is modding down the entire thread to -1. The thing was funny. My reply was ontopic.
I don't know who the moderator is, but I hope he meets the "IF I EVER MEET YOU ILL BEAT YOUR ASS" guy. Where's he been anyway?
Originally posted by AC...
... mpawlo writes "As reported by Greplaw, although I am still looking for further confirmation, it seems like the EU vote on software patentability has been moved from the late fall to June 30, 2003. Yes, that is in one (1) week. If you have more information and another source - please comment on this news item."
:-) I parlayed that into getting several others on the panels as well. While there I spoke with bulk emailers and other industry folks. Some people defined Confirmed OPT-IN to mean you sending a confirmation that the email address was subscribed so they were doing double, confirmed OPT-IN.
... Anyway, reboot, aka Andrew Cockrell myself and another built The Carrot and the Stick to explain email, define the best practices and to get people to abide by them.
article incase you missed it. (Score:-1, Flamebait)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 26, @08:11PM (#6307586)
Slashback with a followup on the perpetual motion DeLorean, a word on RIAA bank-account-jacking, a reminder about the fast-tracked vote on software patents in the EU, the real meaning of "high speed USB" and more. Read on below for the details.
Now even less than a week
Mikael writes: "Personally, I find it somewhat disturbing from a democracy perspective that this proposal seems to be fast-tracked in the middle of the summer, when most Europeans want to focus on whether they should have strawberry or vanilla ice cream. In Sweden, we also got our Swedish version of the DMCA this week. I guess the ice cream will have to wait."
DoSthAboutIt points out that "A 'Petition for a Free Europe without Software Patents' has gained more than 150000 signatures. Among the supporters are more than 2000 company owners and chief executives and 25000 developpers and engineers from all sectors of the European information and telecommunication industries, as well as more than 2000 scientists and 180 lawyers. Companies like Siemens, IBM, Alcatel and Nokia lead the list of those whose researchers and developpers want to protect programming freedom and copyright property against what they see as a 'patent landgrab.' The whole article can be found here, including some statistics like signatories by country"
The story of Peng. mantispraying writes "Looks like the college student who settled with the the RIAA for $12,000, his entire life savings, has recouped all of his money thanks to a very generous file sharing community. Also, the search engine he created that got him in trouble is back online, for demonstration purposes only, of course."
Reader T points out that while one of the students who lost his life savings to RIAA has made it back through PayPal donations, "the other, Dan Peng, is still short about $12,000. Brother, can you spare a dime?"
I'd prefer the garrote and the stick, but hey. Mark Ferguson writes: "I attended the FTC spam forum. It seems I was on their call list
My heads spins.
What I figured from what I learned was these folks truly refused to accept real definitions the Service Providers have been using for years so I decided to do a site for just this.
Thoughts, comments and/or suggestions?"
Sooner or later, that DeLorean's going to land someone in jail. hackwrench writes "According to channel WSMV news, Alternate Energy Inventor Carl Tilley's compound was raided. Tilley was previously mentioned on Slashdot here."
Tilley had announced the then-upcoming demonstration of his perpetual-motion DeLorean.
My nanodots can fit inside your nanodots! Rocky Rawstern writes "I recently had the distinct pleasure to interview one of my favorite authors, Wil McCarthy. Upon completing three of his latest books - two sci-fi and one work of non-fiction - I realized that others would probably enjoy his ponderings as much as I. The questions for this interview stem from my own interest in programmable matter, and the awe-inspiring possibilities raised by Wil in his book Hacking M
Now thats funny.
Work with my mozilla. I'm using 1.4b from ubl.
What about the video? Is it on board or not included or what? I think not included would be better myself.
If Madonna wants to insist that her music is only available as an album then let her have her way as long as she can't force every artist to do the same thing. If she's truly an artist then million dollar mansions aren't of primary importance to her and the resulting loss of income shouldn't bother her.
If, however she's in it for the money, then she's a business, and as a business she has customers to satisfy. If she can't or won't supply what her customers want they'll move elsewhere.
The only way this could matter is if a few top names are able to control the entire industry with regards to single song downloads. That is, Madonna knows she'll lose customers if she doesn't allow single downloads so, out of spite, she somehow is able to end single downloads altogether.
The FBI persuing the LAW, which coincendintly equates to persuing the interests of RIAA does not mean the government is Fascist!
Yes it does. You have to know this. I'm certain you're posting comments that you yourself don't agree with just to get a response. Is that called trolling?
The discussion is not about whether copyrights are justified nor is it about whether or not it's okay to download music from FastTrack.
The discussion is about the FBI enforcing the *CIVIL* offense of copyright violation.
When corporations can buy enough influence to make their desires law, it's called "corporatism", or "facism".
Please try to stay on topic
Isn't there some way to "fire" legislators? Like a recall vote or something? Maybe legislators should be threatened when they give too much preference to the "monied interests". Especially in CA.
This one doesn't seem to be in the catalogue of Start Trek Particles...
At least not yet.
There's no way the cult of Apple will ever disappear completely. The Apple crowd are the ones who produce most of the attractive media anyway. Maybe one day I'll stop seeing sites that require IE because of this decision.
Is Safari a w3c compliant browser?
Let's assume for the moment that you are not a troll and honestly would like your question answered.
While I'm not a programmer I do understand that programs are made up of several functions that cooperate to perform a given task. Even a simple clock program that displays the time in your kicker panel will have more than a few functions, or libraries.
Shit, will someone respond to this ac cause I think should be articulated better than I'm able to.
lol, that was good response...
But he does have a good point. Control of every resource is becoming more centralized. Just like merging all of the media companies into a giant aol/time/warner/etc can be a bad thing, the merging of authority from several local authorities into one centralized government can be a bad thing.
What if the whole world merged into the EU? Where could you go if you didn't like the way your economy/religion/social programs/etc were being regulated?
Decentralize everything to a reasonable degree and you'll have better protection against totalitarian government. The main idea being that megacorps won't be able to bribe the legislative branch of every country or state.
This idea doesn't just apply to government, but to companies that provide needed products or services as well. For example, if there were a thousand ISP's and the government wanted to monitor just about everything their customers did on the internet it would have to pass some laws allowing it to do that, provoking some debate. But if AOL were the only ISP they wouldn't have to pass any legislation at all. With only one company to strongarm they could secure the permissions they needed with just a phone call:
"Hello, AOL CEO?, Yeah, well regarding that 'request', you see we'd really like your cooperation on that. Btw, we need to schedule an IRS audit ASAP. How's next Tuesday for you?"
hmmm, If I thought for a while I could probably think of a dozen ways that one company could be kept under thumb without any legislation being passed.
When the serial killer is born that executes corrupt lawyers, leeches and vampires, this Kristine Grow whore should be killed too.
man, that's a good one...Man there's a lot of posts like this.
Commercial websites get a lot of hits. But there are far, far more websites that are not commercial and I think it's those sites that collectively get the most traffic even if individually they each receive only a few hits. The power to change and influence is not just in the hands of commercial websites largely because it's the commercial websites that are the least interesting. Hmmm, what I'm trying to say is while BestBuy.com gets more hits than your MyFirstHomepage, BestBuy.com gets fewer hits than all of the MyFirstHomepages combined. I'm using your term but I'm including all of the MySecond, MyThird, MyFourth, and MyFifthHomepages too.
Please continue to use GIF's for your corporate splash page if you feel you should. But also consider using PNG's on any sites that you produce for yourself.
bookmarked, thanks...
I understand your logic and agree that the best way to promote png is to convince MicroSoft to support png.
But the reason we have this situation is that (as you said) 95% of of the non-technical web browsing populace is using IE. If that percentage were only 50% MicroSoft would be much more standards compliant. If MicroSoft had to sweat Mozilla's popularity there would be more benefits than just the support of png.
I would like to see more pages that say "Best viewed without Internet Explorer"
I think that the NYT gets more than a few page views from /. - page views that affect how much they can charge for ads.
If slashdot stopped accepting submissions that included a NYT link would the NYT stop requiring registration? Or maybe allow slashdot to link directly to the article?
just wondering if a slashdotting is actually a measurable benefit to a big site like that.