Why should the matter of storage make a difference? Whether it's delivered on a paper, viewed on microfiche, or viewed over a network shouldn't make a different.
Wasn't someone writing a book (Katz?) and wanted to quote/. messages, but the authors of some messages said no? I believe there is a story or three about that in the archives (too lazy to look).
Answering your question: I would imagine the two main differences are
(1) Size of audience: More people will read something put in TV Guide than on Slashdot.
(2) Permanence: Something published in a book will be around for a hundred years, something posted on the 'net could disapear with the next Service Pack.
TSR republished 250 back issues of thier "Dragon" magazine on a set of CDs, articles, ads, artwork and all. Some of the writers/artists were not happy about this, I wonder if the decision will re-open that wound. Oh well, I still have my set in any case.
(And no, I don't think I ripped anyone off, since I had already bought 95% of the issues on the CDs. I figure if I paid the cover price once, that covers the IP charges on other forms.)
I have since been compensated with an incredibly lame $15 gift certificate, which just about guarantees me buying something for more than $15 because, hey what can you get with $15?
Here's a book for only $12.00, that should leave enough for shipping.
I'm not looking for a free lunch,
You sure fooled me.
I just want Amazon and Viking to be held accountable and not sweep us under the gift certificate rug.
You want them to be held accountable to the tune of what, a hundred bucks, because of a typo? Do you really think that's reasonable?
You found a mistake, and they're giving free stuff for your trouble. I think you got a pretty good deal. Maybe not as good as you wanted, but still...
Assuming ubiquitous printer technology capable of printing even primitive logic circuits, how hard could it be (with the right "ink" and paper) to print off some completely convincing Federal Reserve Notes?
there are ways to properly fight the misuse of advertising, including ignoring advertising-sponsored content. but blocking that advertising is nothing but stealing. (and yes, it is stealing despite the fact that it's "digital." it's stealing bandwidth).
I'm confused. Let's see if I understand what you're saying:
Ignoring the ad is OK, but blocking it is stealing.
It's OK if you consciously decide not to see the ad (ignoring)
-but-
it's not OK if you conciously decide not to see the ad (blocking).
. We're buying bandwidth, and they had better damn well provide it, instead of hiding behind bogus 'no server' rules.
That'll happen right after we get airlines to stop overbooking planes.
The business model was made to suit the needs of the "typical" user. I'm guessing you and I (and probably 90% of/.) do not fit that typical user profile - we eat lots more bandwidth.
So the fair thing to do would be to charge for bandwidth used. Right?
You can't have your cake and gander sauce too, or however it goes.
I can see how, in these litigous days, the campus admin are between a rock and a hard place. If they don't track down every whack-ass seeming "threat" then if some mal-adjusted nutcase decides to go apeshit on the campus they're going to be reamed out for not being diligent in their efforts to keep the campus "safe". On the other hand, things like this make them come off as jack-booted thugs.
What is the middleground? Maybe we need students to sign a disclaimer that would state, in essence: "The campus powers respect the student's privacy. Including the students with heads full of bad wiring that are building pipe bombs. Watch your ass".
BTW, back when I lived in Kent I heard that the campus PD was bigger than the city's. Never found out if it was true, though.
I loved that game--i think it was origionally for the TI-99/4A
Wumpus certainly predates the TI-99 systems, and I think it predates microcomputers in general. Here is a page showing the instructions for a PDP-8 version. Note the stylish usage of ALL CAPS, for those people who couldn't afford lower case.
A quick bout of Google will yield any number of web-based Wumpus Hunts, and surely the source code is out there somewhere.
Shameful confession: my first Visual BASIC program was Hunt the Wumpus.
Isn't chess non-zero-sum.
If you lose a pawn, the opponent actually gains nothing.
Chess is zero-sum in that there are only three possible outcomes to a game:
1) White wins, black loses.
2) Black wins, white loses.
3) It's a tie or stalemate.
The total score of all players at the end of any chess game is always "1".
However, you could consider the concept of pawn promotion to make the argument that you can come out of a game with more materiel then you went in with: in theory you could promote all 8 pawns to queens.
No. The ECPA makes it illegal to tell anyone of what you heard while listening to communications on certain frequencies, including the 46-49MHz band (I think that's it), which was used by old portable phones, and the 800somethingMHz frequencies used by cellular phones.
IANAL (I Am Not A Legislator), but my reading of section 2511 makes it a felony to intercept cell calls. If you see something here I'm missing please illuminate me.
If you're aware of a case in which anyone has been found guilty of any offense (let alone theft!) for receiving a signal on their own property, or having received it for processing it any way they chose then please cite it.
I'm not aware of any prosecutions, but the law is on the books - the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (EPCA) makes it criminal to listen to cellular phone calls.
Footnote: This law does not apply to Democrat shills recording Republican phone calls.
With all that said, I have to applaud the hackers who work for DirecTV. Unlike certain other industries, they didn't resort to dirty tricks or underhanded legislation -- they simply used what they had, and ingeniously too.
From the main story:
It was apparent that DirecTV had lost this battle, relegating DirecTV to hunting down Web sites that discussed their product and using their legal team to sue and intimidate them into submission.
IIRC, they shut down some satellite magazine (paper version) as well.
DirecTV is broadcasting their programming to EVERYONE in America. Is it wrong if you simply figure out how to listen in?
I agree with part of your point - I say, if you don't want me intercepting, decrypting and enjoying your content then keep it the fsck out of my airwaves.
On the other hand the vast majority of the people using hacked H cards to steal content had no idea how they worked... they simply bought them to get some free TV. I'm reminded of the speech that Malcom (sp?) made in Jurassic Park: these folks didn't do anything to earn the technology they were using, they simply put it together from other's hard work.
I mean, it's 2001 fer hecks sake. Where are the rocket cars? The moon bases? Why doesn't everyone wear silver jumpsuits? Where's my laser ray?
Of course Moonbase Alpha was a tremendous accomplishment, but alas, on 13-Sep-1999 the accident ended what was perhaps humanity's shining moment.
Don't you remember? And then we had to put up all those holographic projectors to paint a fake moon in the sky so it's absence wouldn't scare all the stupid peop...
Even more fun: Tape the envelope or reply card to a brick before you mail it.
How about you just enclose a single sheet of blank paper, folded, with a little bit of flour or cornstarch in it. When the pour schmuck opens it they're going to get some sort of "powder" on them, and just think what might go through their minds then...?
"Naw. It's not anthrax. I'm sure of it... gotta keep calm..."
Yeah, it really strikes a blow against telemarketing to take it out on the poor guy making minimum wage whose circumstances have made him desperate enough to take one of the worst jobs in the universe.
Absolute rubbish! By unloading on these weasle bastards I may, just may get one of them to think "Hey - I'm better than this. I'm a worthwhile person, and it's demeaning and horrible for me to hold a job that is, in essence, a tremendous annoyance to hardworking honest people. I'm going to CHANGE! I'm going to get some education, read some books, learn how to sling HTML and get a REAL JOB!"
So every time I call a telemarketer a choad-smoking bag of of fermented piss who should take their headset and ram it up their chocolate starfish, I am, in my own small way, helping that person.
"See, we have lots of competition! Look at those penguin guys, ooooh scary! We're getting our lunch eaten by folks who GIVE AWAY FREE SOFTWARE! How can we possibly compete with FREE? AIEEE!"
C'mon, read between the lines and figure out who this was targeted to.
Slashdot Mirror
Why should the matter of storage make a difference? Whether it's delivered on a paper, viewed on microfiche, or viewed over a network shouldn't make a different.
/. messages, but the authors of some messages said no? I believe there is a story or three about that in the archives (too lazy to look).
Wasn't someone writing a book (Katz?) and wanted to quote
Answering your question: I would imagine the two main differences are
(1) Size of audience: More people will read something put in TV Guide than on Slashdot.
(2) Permanence: Something published in a book will be around for a hundred years, something posted on the 'net could disapear with the next Service Pack.
TSR republished 250 back issues of thier "Dragon" magazine on a set of CDs, articles, ads, artwork and all. Some of the writers/artists were not happy about this, I wonder if the decision will re-open that wound. Oh well, I still have my set in any case.
(And no, I don't think I ripped anyone off, since I had already bought 95% of the issues on the CDs. I figure if I paid the cover price once, that covers the IP charges on other forms.)
I have since been compensated with an incredibly lame $15 gift certificate, which just about guarantees me buying something for more than $15 because, hey what can you get with $15?
Here's a book for only $12.00, that should leave enough for shipping.
I'm not looking for a free lunch,
You sure fooled me.
I just want Amazon and Viking to be held accountable and not sweep us under the gift certificate rug.
You want them to be held accountable to the tune of what, a hundred bucks, because of a typo? Do you really think that's reasonable?
You found a mistake, and they're giving free stuff for your trouble. I think you got a pretty good deal. Maybe not as good as you wanted, but still...
I read that first as "a Minbar representative". ;-)
"There is a hole in your CD"
IIRC, BethMo worked for Microsoft, and the Wizards net-rep stuff was a side-job, so I don't think she was (ahem) immersed in the corporate culture.
Too bad the article didn't mention Wizards buying AndOn and running that into the ground. I miss Gary Smith.
There's no reason that a mass-produced little cardboard card that costs $0.15 to print
...should ever be for sale for $30. That's insanity.
Nitpick: The cards sold for about $0.16333 retail ($2.45 for a 15 card pack), so I very much doubt they cost $0.15 to print.
No, it's supply and demand.
Garfield created the game of Magic on a mandate that WOTC needed a portable game that could be played in 20 minutes.
That's not the way I heard it. Garfield only showed Adkison Magic after he tried to pitch RoboRally and Peter said "what else ya got?"
I liked WOTC better when they were poor and happy.
Really? What three products did you buy from WotC prior to the 1993 introduction of Magic?
(That may be a trick question, I'm not entirely sure that WotC had three products prior to Magic.)
...is Space:1999 - The Next Generation.
C'mon. If stories were at all important, none of your would be watching the latest thrashing of the dead Trek horse. Let's get back to basics:
Cool looking spaceships. And big explosions.
POW! Zaap! Whoosh!
You know you want it. Admit it already.
Assuming ubiquitous printer technology capable of printing even primitive logic circuits, how hard could it be (with the right "ink" and paper) to print off some completely convincing Federal Reserve Notes?
Or am I just slow on the uptake?
there are ways to properly fight the misuse of advertising, including ignoring advertising-sponsored content. but blocking that advertising is nothing but stealing. (and yes, it is stealing despite the fact that it's "digital." it's stealing bandwidth).
I'm confused. Let's see if I understand what you're saying:
Ignoring the ad is OK, but blocking it is stealing.
It's OK if you consciously decide not to see the ad (ignoring)
-but-
it's not OK if you conciously decide not to see the ad (blocking).
Have I got that right?
At mach 7.6 it will reach the ground in no time! How will they slow it down? How will it, "stop".
They're going to throw a planet at it. That'll stop it real good.
. We're buying bandwidth, and they had better damn well provide it, instead of hiding behind bogus 'no server' rules.
/.) do not fit that typical user profile - we eat lots more bandwidth.
That'll happen right after we get airlines to stop overbooking planes.
The business model was made to suit the needs of the "typical" user. I'm guessing you and I (and probably 90% of
So the fair thing to do would be to charge for bandwidth used. Right?
You can't have your cake and gander sauce too, or however it goes.
While most of this seems to be a half-assed attempt to spread some FUD, I really like the quote from Allchin at the bottom:
''We can build a better product than Linux,'' he said.
Not "We have built ", but "We can build". I would have expected more self-confidence from the head Windows guy.
Well shucks, any time Microsoft is ready, they should do that thing!
I can see how, in these litigous days, the campus admin are between a rock and a hard place. If they don't track down every whack-ass seeming "threat" then if some mal-adjusted nutcase decides to go apeshit on the campus they're going to be reamed out for not being diligent in their efforts to keep the campus "safe". On the other hand, things like this make them come off as jack-booted thugs.
What is the middleground? Maybe we need students to sign a disclaimer that would state, in essence: "The campus powers respect the student's privacy. Including the students with heads full of bad wiring that are building pipe bombs. Watch your ass".
BTW, back when I lived in Kent I heard that the campus PD was bigger than the city's. Never found out if it was true, though.
An important issue when trying to move around in those very heavy spacesuits and when working on machinery that requires brute strength at times.
If brute strength is an issue then why aren't we sending up 20 year old young bucks instead of thse middle-age PhDs?
Is Wumpus the shameful part, or is it the fact that you write VB?
Given the context (/.) I would have thought that obvious. I stand tall and proud to say I've implemented Wumpus.
And it's "wrote", not "write", OK?
I loved that game--i think it was origionally for the TI-99/4A
Wumpus certainly predates the TI-99 systems, and I think it predates microcomputers in general. Here is a page showing the instructions for a PDP-8 version. Note the stylish usage of ALL CAPS, for those people who couldn't afford lower case.
A quick bout of Google will yield any number of web-based Wumpus Hunts, and surely the source code is out there somewhere.
Shameful confession: my first Visual BASIC program was Hunt the Wumpus.
Isn't chess non-zero-sum.
If you lose a pawn, the opponent actually gains nothing.
Chess is zero-sum in that there are only three possible outcomes to a game:
1) White wins, black loses.
2) Black wins, white loses.
3) It's a tie or stalemate.
The total score of all players at the end of any chess game is always "1".
However, you could consider the concept of pawn promotion to make the argument that you can come out of a game with more materiel then you went in with: in theory you could promote all 8 pawns to queens.
Umm, what was the question again?
No. The ECPA makes it illegal to tell anyone of what you heard while listening to communications on certain frequencies, including the 46-49MHz band (I think that's it), which was used by old portable phones, and the 800somethingMHz frequencies used by cellular phones.
e ct ronicPrivacyAct.html
The text of the ECPA can be found here:
http://www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/Datenschutz/USA/El
IANAL (I Am Not A Legislator), but my reading of section 2511 makes it a felony to intercept cell calls. If you see something here I'm missing please illuminate me.
If you're aware of a case in which anyone has been found guilty of any offense (let alone theft!) for receiving a signal on their own property, or having received it for processing it any way they chose then please cite it.
I'm not aware of any prosecutions, but the law is on the books - the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (EPCA) makes it criminal to listen to cellular phone calls.
Footnote: This law does not apply to Democrat shills recording Republican phone calls.
With all that said, I have to applaud the hackers who work for DirecTV. Unlike certain other industries, they didn't resort to dirty tricks or underhanded legislation -- they simply used what they had, and ingeniously too.
From the main story:
It was apparent that DirecTV had lost this battle, relegating DirecTV to hunting down Web sites that discussed their product and using their legal team to sue and intimidate them into submission.
IIRC, they shut down some satellite magazine (paper version) as well.
DirecTV is broadcasting their programming to EVERYONE in America. Is it wrong if you simply figure out how to listen in?
I agree with part of your point - I say, if you don't want me intercepting, decrypting and enjoying your content then keep it the fsck out of my airwaves.
On the other hand the vast majority of the people using hacked H cards to steal content had no idea how they worked... they simply bought them to get some free TV. I'm reminded of the speech that Malcom (sp?) made in Jurassic Park: these folks didn't do anything to earn the technology they were using, they simply put it together from other's hard work.
I mean, it's 2001 fer hecks sake. Where are the rocket cars? The moon bases? Why doesn't everyone wear silver jumpsuits? Where's my laser ray?
Of course Moonbase Alpha was a tremendous accomplishment, but alas, on 13-Sep-1999 the accident ended what was perhaps humanity's shining moment.
Don't you remember? And then we had to put up all those holographic projectors to paint a fake moon in the sky so it's absence wouldn't scare all the stupid peop...
Oh. Uh, nevermid.
(with apologies to Steve Martin...)
Even more fun: Tape the envelope or reply card to a brick before you mail it.
How about you just enclose a single sheet of blank paper, folded, with a little bit of flour or cornstarch in it. When the pour schmuck opens it they're going to get some sort of "powder" on them, and just think what might go through their minds then...?
"Naw. It's not anthrax. I'm sure of it... gotta keep calm..."
Yeah, it really strikes a blow against telemarketing to take it out on the poor guy making minimum wage whose circumstances have made him desperate enough to take one of the worst jobs in the universe.
Absolute rubbish! By unloading on these weasle bastards I may, just may get one of them to think "Hey - I'm better than this. I'm a worthwhile person, and it's demeaning and horrible for me to hold a job that is, in essence, a tremendous annoyance to hardworking honest people. I'm going to CHANGE! I'm going to get some education, read some books, learn how to sling HTML and get a REAL JOB!"
So every time I call a telemarketer a choad-smoking bag of of fermented piss who should take their headset and ram it up their chocolate starfish, I am, in my own small way, helping that person.
"See, we have lots of competition! Look at those penguin guys, ooooh scary! We're getting our lunch eaten by folks who GIVE AWAY FREE SOFTWARE! How can we possibly compete with FREE? AIEEE!"
C'mon, read between the lines and figure out who this was targeted to.