He was fined for selling pirated video games, as others have pointed out. As well, it was PlayStation games and mod chips, not PS2 (and most definitely NOT PS/2).
First Le Pen, now this... Maybe this will put an end to some of the nose-in-the-air U.S. bashing that Europeans have become so fond of in the last decade or two...
Not that I think the U.S. shouldn't be bashed, and in fact, I agree with lots of the international criticism of U.S. policies. But the fact of the matter is that this sort of insidiousness happens everywhere, so next time some harebrained senator tries to slide through a despicable law in America, don't just snicker and shake your heads at the stupid Americans. Start looking around for the traitors in your own government who would sell you out to the highest bidder. I guarantee you'll find one or two if you look.
I'd like to help fight this EUCD, but I'm too busy keeping my own government out of my private life. Good luck, Europe. Hope you're more successful fighting this than we Americans were with the DMCA.
"I should pop over and see how the LNUX stock is doing, it's probably doubled by now."
LNUX stock is up 4 cents today to a whopping $1.79.
Even if Slashdot somehow got a million users to sign up at $100 apiece, it wouldn't help the stock price, because the rest of VA/OSDN's failed business model would eat through that cash like a fat chick at an overturned Schwan's truck.
Slashdot barely has a salable product. Saddle it with the rest of the baggage that falls under the LNUX umbrella, and Wall Street ain't interested.
...you pay because you support people who do cool smart things...
I would append that to say, "who do cool smart things well." Taco and crew do a marvelously crappy and unprofessional job running this site. Which was fine when it was a hobby site, but if they want to make money at it, they'd better get their act together.
As soon as Taco starts spell-checking his posts, and maybe occasionally uses the word "than" instead of "then" in every freakin' sentence, I'll subscribe.
And don't dismiss me as a cheapskate - I subscribe to Salon, because they provide exclusive, original content that's well-written and worth reading./. provides rehashed links from other blogs held together with very poor editorial skills.
"Life will find a way"? Christ, that's barely sufferable pablum in a crappy book/movie series, let's not try to act like it's an axiom of truth.
If life has such a hard-on for "finding a way", then why have millions of species gone extinct over the years? Why didn't that life "find a way"?
Jurassic Park is a story. Here's the tricky part: it never actually happened. Let's not quote it like it's an article from a scientific journal.
The odds that one of the irradiated flies will develop a useful adaptation that is dangerous to humans and doesn't reduce the fly's ability to survive AND slip through the cracks while still fertile AND mate with another fly AND produce viable offspring that aren't in turn eaten by predators is so vanishingly small as to be laughable. Please.
Your neighborhood grease monkey can't do much to a modern car without a bunch of electronic gear interfacing to the car's computer. It's almost a little anti-competitive.
Well, since 1996, every car sold in America has required OBD-II compliance, which dictates a requirement for an interface to the engine management computer that adheres to certain government standards. As a result, with a Palm Pilot and a $200 cable, anyone can pull all sorts of nifty information from any modern car's engine computer. Not exactly "a bunch" of electronic gear, when the whole setup fits in a jacket pocket.
One could argue that such standards are pro-competition, since one doesn't need a bunch of specialized equipment for each manufacturer (the situation prior to OBD-II). No need for a Ford computer tool, a GM computer tool, a BMW computer tool, etc...
In short, you can still work on your own car. Just like 50 years ago, you can't do anything without the proper tools. Just happens that the tools are electronic now, rather than mechanical.
And, like many people are going to tell you, if you don't like it, buy a TR6 and shut the hell up.
Keep in mind that the combined effort of 100 or 1000 people copy+pasteing a URL is way more then it takes to link a link in a comment.
Keep in mind that the combined effort of 100 or 1000 people correcting you on using "then" when you mean "than" is way more than it takes for you to learn proper grammar and spelling.
And I think their decision to sell a closed-source proprietary version of the code would be hypocritical, except that they aren't a 100% open-source company any more.
Isn't the fact that they're not an open-source company anymore the hypocritical part?
Why did last night's series premiere episode suck so much ass?
It was incredibly boring, and not nearly as fun and engrossing as the comics or the cartoon series. Jimmy Carter? A Russian robot? Lame. I thought the idea of a pilot episode was to attract people to the show, not run off your existing fan base.
This is not a troll. I really feel that the show was far below what Mr. Edlund has shown he's capable of, and I wonder why it didn't translate to a live-action format. Too much network interference? Not enough budget? What happened?
The word you're thinking of is "THAN". How many times are you going to make this mistake? I don't think I've ever seen Taco post a story using the word "than" properly. It's always "then". Real professional site you got here, Taco-man.
THEN I came here, and no problems! Guess that's one good thing about this site and the folks who run it...they're used to heavy loads!
Think about it for a second. Why were CNN.com, et al, flooded on 9/11? Because everyone was trying to get some information. Even people like me, who rarely use those types of sites. So you have a massive influx of traffic many, many times over the normal amount. Because even my grandma would think to try CNN.com.
Now look at Slashdot. How many people know about this site? Only the people who regularly use it. So while there was a big upswing in traffic over what/. normally sees, it was nothing like the mad stampede over at CNN.com, MSNBC, etc.
You don't really think Slashdot gets more hits in an average day than CNN, right? The reason the "conventional" news sites were down in the wake of the attacks was basically the equivalent of a DDOS attack - thousands (millions?) of computers hitting their servers all at once. The surge at Slashdot and other small news sites wasn't of the magnitude that the big guys saw.
Also, the net is a crappy place to get breaking news anyway. There was a lot of false reporting from all sources in the wake of the attacks, but some of the garbage floating around the net was completely insane... The net's good for in-depth analysis if you are prepared to do your own research, but for breaking news, it's nearly worthless, unless you like being misinformed.
Wow, you really are a risk-taker! You'd be willing to risk some arbitrary points given to you by people you've never met and never will meet, in a silly little popularity contest masquerading as a news and discussion website, just to stand up for what you believe in? Man, you are a true hero, the likes of which are too few in this world.
I'm willing to risk pocket lint and used toilet paper for what I believe. I figure that sets your beliefs and mine at around the same value. Now, let's you and me go out there and show those ACs what it means to take risks!
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Wow, someone put "Microsoft" and "hack proof" in the same sentence...
No, they didn't. They put "X-box" and "hackproof" in the same sentence. Can't you read?
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Results like:
Shitty aerial footage of your wedding or party ("Honey, get the dramamine - I want to watch our wedding video again!")
Guests getting whacked in the eye with a spinning propeller
Stopping your party every ten minutes so you don't miss anything while the batteries recharge
Yeah, these things will totally make my party rock!
He was FINED for selling PIRATED GAMES, not "jailed for selling mod chips".
There's a world of difference.
He was fined for selling pirated video games, as others have pointed out. As well, it was PlayStation games and mod chips, not PS2 (and most definitely NOT PS/2).
"Editors": Is it so hard to read the article?
Not that I think the U.S. shouldn't be bashed, and in fact, I agree with lots of the international criticism of U.S. policies. But the fact of the matter is that this sort of insidiousness happens everywhere, so next time some harebrained senator tries to slide through a despicable law in America, don't just snicker and shake your heads at the stupid Americans. Start looking around for the traitors in your own government who would sell you out to the highest bidder. I guarantee you'll find one or two if you look.
I'd like to help fight this EUCD, but I'm too busy keeping my own government out of my private life. Good luck, Europe. Hope you're more successful fighting this than we Americans were with the DMCA.
LNUX stock is up 4 cents today to a whopping $1.79.
Even if Slashdot somehow got a million users to sign up at $100 apiece, it wouldn't help the stock price, because the rest of VA/OSDN's failed business model would eat through that cash like a fat chick at an overturned Schwan's truck.
Slashdot barely has a salable product. Saddle it with the rest of the baggage that falls under the LNUX umbrella, and Wall Street ain't interested.
I would append that to say, "who do cool smart things well." Taco and crew do a marvelously crappy and unprofessional job running this site. Which was fine when it was a hobby site, but if they want to make money at it, they'd better get their act together.
As soon as Taco starts spell-checking his posts, and maybe occasionally uses the word "than" instead of "then" in every freakin' sentence, I'll subscribe.
And don't dismiss me as a cheapskate - I subscribe to Salon, because they provide exclusive, original content that's well-written and worth reading. /. provides rehashed links from other blogs held together with very poor editorial skills.
"Life will find a way"? Christ, that's barely sufferable pablum in a crappy book/movie series, let's not try to act like it's an axiom of truth.
If life has such a hard-on for "finding a way", then why have millions of species gone extinct over the years? Why didn't that life "find a way"?
Jurassic Park is a story. Here's the tricky part: it never actually happened. Let's not quote it like it's an article from a scientific journal.
The odds that one of the irradiated flies will develop a useful adaptation that is dangerous to humans and doesn't reduce the fly's ability to survive AND slip through the cracks while still fertile AND mate with another fly AND produce viable offspring that aren't in turn eaten by predators is so vanishingly small as to be laughable. Please.
Wow, your pissy crybaby attitude really makes me want to buy from you. Where can I give you my credit card number, Mr. Professional?
You need to find a new job. If your company can't afford to spend another $40 a month for your services, it's got some serious financial problems.
Get an Irman.
Yeah! Let's get back to 1998!
Well, since 1996, every car sold in America has required OBD-II compliance, which dictates a requirement for an interface to the engine management computer that adheres to certain government standards. As a result, with a Palm Pilot and a $200 cable, anyone can pull all sorts of nifty information from any modern car's engine computer. Not exactly "a bunch" of electronic gear, when the whole setup fits in a jacket pocket.
One could argue that such standards are pro-competition, since one doesn't need a bunch of specialized equipment for each manufacturer (the situation prior to OBD-II). No need for a Ford computer tool, a GM computer tool, a BMW computer tool, etc...
In short, you can still work on your own car. Just like 50 years ago, you can't do anything without the proper tools. Just happens that the tools are electronic now, rather than mechanical.
And, like many people are going to tell you, if you don't like it, buy a TR6 and shut the hell up.
Keep in mind that the combined effort of 100 or 1000 people correcting you on using "then" when you mean "than" is way more than it takes for you to learn proper grammar and spelling.
I'll let "pasteing" slide this time.
Isn't the fact that they're not an open-source company anymore the hypocritical part?
A simple question:
Why did last night's series premiere episode suck so much ass?
It was incredibly boring, and not nearly as fun and engrossing as the comics or the cartoon series. Jimmy Carter? A Russian robot? Lame. I thought the idea of a pilot episode was to attract people to the show, not run off your existing fan base.
This is not a troll. I really feel that the show was far below what Mr. Edlund has shown he's capable of, and I wonder why it didn't translate to a live-action format. Too much network interference? Not enough budget? What happened?
The word you're thinking of is "THAN". How many times are you going to make this mistake? I don't think I've ever seen Taco post a story using the word "than" properly. It's always "then". Real professional site you got here, Taco-man.
Think about it for a second. Why were CNN.com, et al, flooded on 9/11? Because everyone was trying to get some information. Even people like me, who rarely use those types of sites. So you have a massive influx of traffic many, many times over the normal amount. Because even my grandma would think to try CNN.com.
Now look at Slashdot. How many people know about this site? Only the people who regularly use it. So while there was a big upswing in traffic over what /. normally sees, it was nothing like the mad stampede over at CNN.com, MSNBC, etc.
You don't really think Slashdot gets more hits in an average day than CNN, right? The reason the "conventional" news sites were down in the wake of the attacks was basically the equivalent of a DDOS attack - thousands (millions?) of computers hitting their servers all at once. The surge at Slashdot and other small news sites wasn't of the magnitude that the big guys saw.
Also, the net is a crappy place to get breaking news anyway. There was a lot of false reporting from all sources in the wake of the attacks, but some of the garbage floating around the net was completely insane... The net's good for in-depth analysis if you are prepared to do your own research, but for breaking news, it's nearly worthless, unless you like being misinformed.
Wow, you really are a risk-taker! You'd be willing to risk some arbitrary points given to you by people you've never met and never will meet, in a silly little popularity contest masquerading as a news and discussion website, just to stand up for what you believe in? Man, you are a true hero, the likes of which are too few in this world.
I'm willing to risk pocket lint and used toilet paper for what I believe. I figure that sets your beliefs and mine at around the same value. Now, let's you and me go out there and show those ACs what it means to take risks!
No, they didn't. They put "X-box" and "hackproof" in the same sentence. Can't you read?