This is more like a real world Napster, from the site:
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They say it's more about creating a community though, in the real world for a change. I like the idea in principle, there's nothing wrong with getting out from behind the screen now & then and actually going out & meeting people!
The eBay style "Web of trust" is also interesting, it could be a good way to meet new people who live nearby & have similar interests - some of them may even be girls! Now watch as the server is/.ed by the lonely surfers...Heh heh heh
Exactly. While a single paper ballot can be spoilt, or stolen, or ignored - Millions cannot with the same ease.
This system destroys any audit trail, and reduces the chance of free & fair elections. A single change in a computer's memory somewhere and the voices of millions of people are overlooked.
Cost-savings? Is it cheaper living under a (Media endorsed) dictatorship than a democracy;)
"Good evening, Prime Minister Spidla," Asimo said. "Pleased to meet you. I am a robot, a goodwill ambassador."
A robot delegate clearly has its advantages. He won't embarrass the host with off-color remarks, or get too tipsy on champagne.
Sadly the robot ambassador was then heard to say "Hand over your flesh, we demand it" before exploding the nuclear bomb in his head. Damn multi-LED faced monsters.
Moreover, they said, paper ballots can be tampered with more easily than electronic ones, and they're harder to tabulate.
Sorry, don't believe that. A few locations in memory are easier to change than thousands of paper ballots. Hanging chads notwithstanding...
Nice comeback at the end - Asked Williams, the computer security expert: "Are you saying there's no such thing as a secure and accurate computer? Do you fly on airplanes?"
I think I'd counter that by asking if he knew of any airplane where all members of the general public were allowed access to the terminals used by the pilots? And if so - does he fly with them?
Thanks for the 'Funny' mod, dodgy joke I know. To be serious, the kiddy pr0n really is what'll keep a lot of users away. Not because its on the network, because its on every network (Try searching any P2P for "Young").
The problem with Freenet is that because of how it works, a search engine is impossible. Therefore all material that is available must be sent to a pre-specified location (Such as "The Tower") for public viewing. Imagine google had no results or search, just a description and link to every site it knew about. Including child pornography. Credit to the people at "The Tower", they certainly believe in freedom of speech, to the death.
The problem is that many people don't really want adverts for child pornography on their homepage. The solution? Censorship - which then defeats Freenet's stated goal. Opinions?
This is about the cost-shifting. It is the same as having a phone number anyone can call you on, but imagine if telemarketers were making collect calls to your home to sell you things. Now it would be comparable to the phone analogy you used.
If spammers did not use other people's resources to send mails, perhaps your arguments would hold. As it costs money (Indirectly, through ISP fees) to receive spam, you are paying to receive unwanted messages.
But this has been covered a million times, I bet you already know all this, congrats on the karma reaping though;-)
Please Read This to see what YOU Americans owe France for their help in YOUR war of independence.
My favourite piece?
The French extended considerable financial support to the Congressional forces. France also supplied vital military arms and supplies, and loaned money to pay for their purchase.
French military aid was also a decisive factor in the American victory. French land and sea forces fought on the side of the American colonists against the British.
Remember this, the next time you take the pledge of allegiance - If it wasn't for the French you'd all be singing 'God save the Queen'.
Like the guy above me said, don't take no for an answer from the clerk. Ask for his manager, if his manager doesn't waive it, ask for the manager's manager.
Go all the way up the chain until you're talking to the chairman's office. In the UK we have what's called the "Banking Ombudsman", a government regulator/independent mediator between banks and their customers, a quick google for something similar for the USA shows These Guys could be the mediators you need. I'm sure more googling will help.
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) would probe the gaseous component of the early Universe, thereby addressing fundamental questions in research on the origin and evolution of the Universe.
So, they're looking for God then? Which one do you reckon they'll find?
Answer on a postcard please, to the usual address. Cheers.
Wonderful idea, did it just now myself...And cost a spammer $2.84. If enough people do it, it'll work!
But, correct me if I'm wrong (Please, I'm begging you), this has been discussed before, and if too many people come in from the same site (Referrer) it doesn't count? Sorry, tried a quick search...Couldn't find.
So please go to Google and do an "I'm feeling lucky" for "Overture", otherwise your fine efforts could be for nothing...
A goverment telling a company how to conduct business is no good.
Yeah, damn gub'mint goes insisting all my tapwater is non-toxic...Demands my electricity supply has a certain voltage...Even has the audacity to demand to inspect the workplace, to - get this - make sure no potential fire hazards exist!
The shareholders, of course, will be most displeased.
I know redundancy is not life-threatening, like my examples, but the point is - government should interfere with companies' policies, to protect the populace from danger.
PS: Over here in England, the government is "Backdoor renationalising" the train industry(Refused to lend it money to prevent insolvency)...Private sector milked it for shareholder money, safety went down the drain, and a lot of people died in train crashes. Corporate capitalism at it's worst.
My heart bleeds for all those poor poor shareholders - Remember children - "The value of your investment may go down, as well as up
Mac OS X/iBook-DVD: Track 1 doesn't play or rip, rest okay
Mac OS X/iMac-DVD: Track 1 doesn't play, rest okay (ripping not tested)
Mac OS 9/iBook-DVD: All tracks play and rip okay
MiniDisk: Refuses to record digitally
PS2: Track 1 won't play, rest okay
Linux: Tried extracting tracks (cdparanoia), disk is not always recognised first time. Out of 12 tracks, only track 3 extracts cleanly - all others hang with read errors (probably work better with a better drive than mine).
Windows: Runs a custom MP3-player from the CD, playing data from a 30Mb data file of unknown format (according to a report I've just had).
This could be a good wake up call for Joe Six-Pack, if only for the PS2 having problems with the disk. If the industrys can pass it off as "Something that only affects Home Hackers", they can keep the attention down. When it starts going wrong in mass produced home appliances that could never be used to copy it, maybe the public will pay attention?
But this has been said before, last time it was about in-car CD players not playing protected disks...We can only hope public intolerance is cumulative, and people will start to vote with their wallets, because that's the only way things like this will stop.
I bought Codename Outbreak last week, and the copy protection on that game doesn't allow my (Original) CD to be read when the game boots...Have to "Hang" the system to kick start it every time. The site's forum is full of people with the same problem. Copy protection in itself I don't mind, if people want to get paid for their efforts I don't see why they shouldn't. But when you can't use the product you just paid for, something's gone awry.
"[A]dult themes" include: "verbal references to and depictions associated with issues such as suicide, crime, corruption, marital problems, emotional trauma, drug and alcohol dependency, death and serious illness, racism, religious issues".
And don't just think this is to "get" people who put stuff up any old how, oh no - "[I]f you place material unsuitable for minors on a web page, even on a password protected section of your site and give the password only to your adult friends, you could be prosecuted under criminal law."
Is this for real? I thought adult content was the only content on the net that made real money?
I'm guessing we're not going to be seeing "Genuine Aussie Amatuers" on the net for much longer then. Any Australians out there who can say how likely this bill is to pass? If it happens in one place it could happen in others...
The real reason we call it square is:
"Most of the public don't understand what hash (#) means."
Seriously. Straight up. That's the reason. If you don't believe me, try explaining it to some poor old lady who just can't follow you. It looks like this:
"So then you press the hash key."
"The Hash key?"
"Yeah, the one that looks like a gate."
"I don't know which one you mean"
"It looks like a noughts & crosses board."
"Eh?"
"Don't worry about it, just press the square key instead"
Nice people, it's just either they sound like that, or they sound like: "Heehee, the phone guy said hash, y'know - HASH, like, wow dude".
Please: "its goofy syntax" next time, so that yours is not such an eyesore.
No
The context was about "Perl's goofy syntax", so the poster's use of the possessive apostrophe is correct. He's talking about the goofy syntax that belongs to perl, see?
Eyesore my arse....That's why he gets 3 points - and you don't get any.
A motto to live by. These companies seem to have blown a lot of money on flashy toys & executive playthings, but left too little to run their company. While it may be a good thing to have seats that your programmers can sit in for 10 hours without "Nether region sweat", if you don't have enough work for them to do for 10 hours it's not really a worthwhile investment.
Sounds like these companies spent tens of thousands on Chairs, when they should have spent it on...Oh I don't know....Maybe Advertising?
Disclaimer - IANSWLMP - I am not someone who likes marketing people
OTOH, the author has described the chairs as a symbol of decline, not the actual reason (Although it seems to imply one follows the other). Maybe they all failed because of poor business models to begin with, not misspending after setup. Anyone have any idea how many companies bought N amount of Aeron chairs to start with then succeeded?
Chris Morris == Satirical Genius
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Roasting Sacred Cows
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· Score: 5, Informative
I watched the program, I live in the UK. It was incredibly hilarious. I know the subject of paedophilia is abhorrent to everyone with an ounce of sense, but guess what - The show contained no paedophilia...
This is overlooked by almost everyone.
The point of the show, and of many of Morris' other shows, is that is an attack on self serving publicity hungry semi-celebritys. For example - Phil Collins in a "Nonce Sense" T-shirt (Nonce being an English slang word for paedophile) going to schools, and blindly repeating absolute gibberish fed to him by Morris.
Most people will say that Phil was doing a good thing, by trying to educate children. I side with Morris, that it was a self-publicising act on his behalf, and that if he had any real interest in protecting children he would have easily spotted it as a spoof. As Eammon Holmes (UK daytime TV presenter) did.
Other sections included a news report on how children were being crammed into football stadiums to "Keep them safe". How far is this from the truth? Media hysteria makes parents (Like myself) believe that it is impossible to allow children safely out at night, whereas attacks on children are at a relatively constant rate (Can't link to a newspaper - sorry).
Chris Morris has attacked not children with this show, but he has attacked the misleading media, and attention craving celebrities. For this he has been denounced, his actions upset the status quo - by showing celebrities as fools, by lambasting the newspapers who terrify us with exaggerations of how unsafe we are.
He is even described in the UK media as "Elitist" , a bludgeoning attempt to ensure people will not try to understand his comedy, for fear that they will be associated with such a negative connotation.
The UK viewing figures for this programme were 2 million at the start, 1 million at the end. Yet everyone cannot wait to tell each-other "How disgusting it was", in a ferocious attempt to prove that they too are not paedophiles. As though the very act of laughing at, or even watching the show inspires one to go out and attack children.
Mainstream media hates this man for exposing them as liars and fools.
I agree with the downbeat appraisal there, when I read ars' article I thought it was a great idea - a way to de-polarize the current two IP camps, and allow for a healthy compromise to be reached. I believe on one hand that people should be rewarded for new creations/ideas, but on the other hand I also believe in freedom of information, so a well-thought out middle ground appeals to me.
Unfortunately, I also thought that when these new structures are in the process of being worked out, the IP lawyers for the corporations will be the main advisors/proofreaders (Echoes of DMCA?).
The outlook then becomes a new IP situation, that is (To all intents) identical to the one we have now, but the IP conglomos can all say how tough it was compromising with the people, and what huge sacrifices they made for us. All of it false
This is a real shame, and I hope it doesn't come to this, but I just get that sinking feeling again...
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4Chan's /b/tards must be lawyering up right now. Or posting image macros, one or the other.
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Mwa ha ha ha haaa, that is truly funny. For those who don't know, yes - getting drunk may get you laid, the results are...unpredictable though.
Try Looking Here for examples.
This is more like a real world Napster, from the site:
/.ed by the lonely surfers...Heh heh heh
How does it work?
Create an account, then list the books and videos that you own. You will then have access to the multitude of books and videos available in other people's collections. You can search for specific authors or titles, browse individual collections, find nearby users, or find people who like books in common with yours. You will have access to user-written reviews and have the opportunity to write your own.
If the owner of a book or video you're interested in has time for you to pick it up, you can check out items for a 2, 7, 14, or 30 day period (at the owner's discretion). Returning books late will get you negative feedback, while returning books promptly will get you positive feedback. You are never under any obligation to lend an item if you don't feel comfortable doing so.
They say it's more about creating a community though, in the real world for a change. I like the idea in principle, there's nothing wrong with getting out from behind the screen now & then and actually going out & meeting people!
The eBay style "Web of trust" is also interesting, it could be a good way to meet new people who live nearby & have similar interests - some of them may even be girls! Now watch as the server is
Exactly. While a single paper ballot can be spoilt, or stolen, or ignored - Millions cannot with the same ease.
;)
This system destroys any audit trail, and reduces the chance of free & fair elections. A single change in a computer's memory somewhere and the voices of millions of people are overlooked.
Cost-savings? Is it cheaper living under a (Media endorsed) dictatorship than a democracy
"Good evening, Prime Minister Spidla," Asimo said. "Pleased to meet you. I am a robot, a goodwill ambassador."
A robot delegate clearly has its advantages. He won't embarrass the host with off-color remarks, or get too tipsy on champagne.
Sadly the robot ambassador was then heard to say "Hand over your flesh, we demand it" before exploding the nuclear bomb in his head. Damn multi-LED faced monsters.
Moreover, they said, paper ballots can be tampered with more easily than electronic ones, and they're harder to tabulate.
Sorry, don't believe that. A few locations in memory are easier to change than thousands of paper ballots. Hanging chads notwithstanding...
Nice comeback at the end -
Asked Williams, the computer security expert: "Are you saying there's no such thing as a secure and accurate computer? Do you fly on airplanes?"
I think I'd counter that by asking if he knew of any airplane where all members of the general public were allowed access to the terminals used by the pilots? And if so - does he fly with them?
Are these pictures even real? looking at the site (I actually RTFA) the blurb is:
Here, for the first time, is a gallery of UI prototypes that I believe accurately portrays the "Aero" user interface in Longhorn.
So are these leaked screens, an accurate estimate, or a wild 'Guesstimate'?
Where's the GNAA, come on.
Heads will roll for this, you wait.
Thanks for the 'Funny' mod, dodgy joke I know. To be serious, the kiddy pr0n really is what'll keep a lot of users away. Not because its on the network, because its on every network (Try searching any P2P for "Young").
The problem with Freenet is that because of how it works, a search engine is impossible. Therefore all material that is available must be sent to a pre-specified location (Such as "The Tower") for public viewing.
Imagine google had no results or search, just a description and link to every site it knew about. Including child pornography. Credit to the people at "The Tower", they certainly believe in freedom of speech, to the death.
The problem is that many people don't really want adverts for child pornography on their homepage. The solution? Censorship - which then defeats Freenet's stated goal. Opinions?
Faster kiddy pr0n for all!
Now with Anonymity, for her pleasure!
[x] Post Anonymously
Look at Dimensio's post you replied to.
;-)
This is about the cost-shifting. It is the same as having a phone number anyone can call you on, but imagine if telemarketers were making collect calls to your home to sell you things. Now it would be comparable to the phone analogy you used.
If spammers did not use other people's resources to send mails, perhaps your arguments would hold. As it costs money (Indirectly, through ISP fees) to receive spam, you are paying to receive unwanted messages.
But this has been covered a million times, I bet you already know all this, congrats on the karma reaping though
Please Read This to see what YOU Americans owe France for their help in YOUR war of independence.
My favourite piece?
Remember this, the next time you take the pledge of allegiance - If it wasn't for the French you'd all be singing 'God save the Queen'.
Toodle pip
Now I'm tired of this....
Please Read This to see what YOU Americans owe France for their help in YOUR war of independence
That's right, if it wasn't for the glorious French, you'd still all be UK subjects over the pond.
Go all the way up the chain until you're talking to the chairman's office. In the UK we have what's called the "Banking Ombudsman", a government regulator/independent mediator between banks and their customers, a quick google for something similar for the USA shows These Guys could be the mediators you need. I'm sure more googling will help.
Best of luck mate.
So, they're looking for God then? Which one do you reckon they'll find?
Answer on a postcard please, to the usual address. Cheers.
But, correct me if I'm wrong (Please, I'm begging you), this has been discussed before, and if too many people come in from the same site (Referrer) it doesn't count? Sorry, tried a quick search...Couldn't find.
So please go to Google and do an "I'm feeling lucky" for "Overture", otherwise your fine efforts could be for nothing...
Yeah, damn gub'mint goes insisting all my tapwater is non-toxic...Demands my electricity supply has a certain voltage...Even has the audacity to demand to inspect the workplace, to - get this - make sure no potential fire hazards exist!
The shareholders, of course, will be most displeased.
I know redundancy is not life-threatening, like my examples, but the point is - government should interfere with companies' policies, to protect the populace from danger.
PS: Over here in England, the government is "Backdoor renationalising" the train industry(Refused to lend it money to prevent insolvency)...Private sector milked it for shareholder money, safety went down the drain, and a lot of people died in train crashes. Corporate capitalism at it's worst.
My heart bleeds for all those poor poor shareholders - Remember children - "The value of your investment may go down, as well as up
Mac OS X/iMac-DVD: Track 1 doesn't play, rest okay (ripping not tested)
Mac OS 9/iBook-DVD: All tracks play and rip okay
MiniDisk: Refuses to record digitally
PS2: Track 1 won't play, rest okay
Linux: Tried extracting tracks (cdparanoia), disk is not always recognised first time. Out of 12 tracks, only track 3 extracts cleanly - all others hang with read errors (probably work better with a better drive than mine).
Windows: Runs a custom MP3-player from the CD, playing data from a 30Mb data file of unknown format (according to a report I've just had).
This could be a good wake up call for Joe Six-Pack, if only for the PS2 having problems with the disk. If the industrys can pass it off as "Something that only affects Home Hackers", they can keep the attention down. When it starts going wrong in mass produced home appliances that could never be used to copy it, maybe the public will pay attention?
But this has been said before, last time it was about in-car CD players not playing protected disks...We can only hope public intolerance is cumulative, and people will start to vote with their wallets, because that's the only way things like this will stop.
I bought Codename Outbreak last week, and the copy protection on that game doesn't allow my (Original) CD to be read when the game boots...Have to "Hang" the system to kick start it every time. The site's forum is full of people with the same problem. Copy protection in itself I don't mind, if people want to get paid for their efforts I don't see why they shouldn't. But when you can't use the product you just paid for, something's gone awry.
"[A]dult themes" include: "verbal references to and depictions associated with issues such as suicide, crime, corruption, marital problems, emotional trauma, drug and alcohol dependency, death and serious illness, racism, religious issues".
And don't just think this is to "get" people who put stuff up any old how, oh no - "[I]f you place material unsuitable for minors on a web page, even on a password protected section of your site and give the password only to your adult friends, you could be prosecuted under criminal law."
Is this for real? I thought adult content was the only content on the net that made real money?
I'm guessing we're not going to be seeing "Genuine Aussie Amatuers" on the net for much longer then. Any Australians out there who can say how likely this bill is to pass? If it happens in one place it could happen in others...
The real reason we call it square is: "Most of the public don't understand what hash (#) means."
Seriously. Straight up. That's the reason. If you don't believe me, try explaining it to some poor old lady who just can't follow you. It looks like this:
"So then you press the hash key."
"The Hash key?"
"Yeah, the one that looks like a gate."
"I don't know which one you mean"
"It looks like a noughts & crosses board."
"Eh?"
"Don't worry about it, just press the square key instead"
Nice people, it's just either they sound like that, or they sound like: "Heehee, the phone guy said hash, y'know - HASH, like, wow dude".
Hell, it is goofy syntax.
Please: "its goofy syntax" next time, so that yours is not such an eyesore.
No
The context was about "Perl's goofy syntax", so the poster's use of the possessive apostrophe is correct. He's talking about the goofy syntax that belongs to perl, see?
Eyesore my arse....That's why he gets 3 points - and you don't get any.
Sounds like these companies spent tens of thousands on Chairs, when they should have spent it on...Oh I don't know....Maybe Advertising?
Disclaimer - IANSWLMP - I am not someone who likes marketing people
OTOH, the author has described the chairs as a symbol of decline, not the actual reason (Although it seems to imply one follows the other). Maybe they all failed because of poor business models to begin with, not misspending after setup. Anyone have any idea how many companies bought N amount of Aeron chairs to start with then succeeded?
This is overlooked by almost everyone.
The point of the show, and of many of Morris' other shows, is that is an attack on self serving publicity hungry semi-celebritys. For example - Phil Collins in a "Nonce Sense" T-shirt (Nonce being an English slang word for paedophile) going to schools, and blindly repeating absolute gibberish fed to him by Morris.
Most people will say that Phil was doing a good thing, by trying to educate children. I side with Morris, that it was a self-publicising act on his behalf, and that if he had any real interest in protecting children he would have easily spotted it as a spoof. As Eammon Holmes (UK daytime TV presenter) did.
Other sections included a news report on how children were being crammed into football stadiums to "Keep them safe". How far is this from the truth? Media hysteria makes parents (Like myself) believe that it is impossible to allow children safely out at night, whereas attacks on children are at a relatively constant rate (Can't link to a newspaper - sorry).
Chris Morris has attacked not children with this show, but he has attacked the misleading media, and attention craving celebrities. For this he has been denounced, his actions upset the status quo - by showing celebrities as fools, by lambasting the newspapers who terrify us with exaggerations of how unsafe we are.
He is even described in the UK media as "Elitist" , a bludgeoning attempt to ensure people will not try to understand his comedy, for fear that they will be associated with such a negative connotation.
The UK viewing figures for this programme were 2 million at the start, 1 million at the end. Yet everyone cannot wait to tell each-other "How disgusting it was", in a ferocious attempt to prove that they too are not paedophiles. As though the very act of laughing at, or even watching the show inspires one to go out and attack children.
Mainstream media hates this man for exposing them as liars and fools.
That just makes me like him more ;-]
Unfortunately, I also thought that when these new structures are in the process of being worked out, the IP lawyers for the corporations will be the main advisors/proofreaders (Echoes of DMCA?).
The outlook then becomes a new IP situation, that is (To all intents) identical to the one we have now, but the IP conglomos can all say how tough it was compromising with the people, and what huge sacrifices they made for us. All of it false
This is a real shame, and I hope it doesn't come to this, but I just get that sinking feeling again...