so.. tracert Aroot state.of.la 10 ms 1 state.of.va 34 ms 2 sterling.va 15 ms 3 beltway.sterling.va 33 ms 4 fewmiles.beltway.sterling.va 12 ms 5 building.sterling.va 10 ms 6 mantrap.building.sterling.va 3 ms 7 room.building.sterling.va 8 ms 8 Aroot.building.sterling.va 7 ms
But isn't the entire point of them killing Napster the fact that "Digital Distribution" works all too well? Isn't that the point of "The Bill Formerly Known as the SSSCA" that any device is a medium for thievery in a digital world?
I understand your point and can see why they would do that... but it would be hypocritical for them to start the war cry of "Digital" distro doesn't work. In fact, other industries such as Software and Online Multimedia ( e.g. Flash, Fan Movies ) have made it work. They'd only be shooting themselves in the foot....oh wait. they're doing that now anyway
What's the point in only being able to listen to 200? How many albums is that? I know that I listen to alot more music than that that I buy on a CD. Why not just limit it to say 1 song / month = set rate. That way the more I pay the more I can listen to... with no limit on the total # of songs. I don't see this helping their pay service very much
Mr Jones. It has come to our attention that you are using our SunBan glasses while having cybernetic eye implants. Under the terms of the DMCA we ask that you cease and desist this action immediately.
Just because you live in the same town doesn't mean it's easy to serve somebody. They can refuse to be there. They can have the secretary lie about whether or not they are in the office ( even with their car there ) because the police aren't going to sit there for 8 hours waiting for the guy to walk out. They can refuse to answer the door unless it's somebody they know and so on and so forth... One person me and some other people tried to serve took about 2 months to do the job. And that took a hired agent to do it ( It took him 3 days of constantly following the guy )
Uh.... "AltaVista lets you use minus signs and plus signs to indicate what you really don't want and what you do want. And for some specialized searches the exclusion is essential"
Google does the same thing. It's not like Altavista has this special feature that Google doesn't. In fact I've found the main reason many people are not happy with Google is due to the fact that they don't use it enough to understand the best way to write a query.
My wife was looking for some information and since she's heard me say that Google is the best engine to use she tried it but couldn't find the information. When I got home I did the same thing and found the information on the first query. It's all in the fingers baby... but seriously like any tool it takes time before you learn to use it the way it's meant to be used.
The way this article comes across is the same as me saying Borland Turbo C++ is better than MS Visual C++ because it has the following features
Include directives
Printf
The ability to compile applications when in fact MS Visual C++ does the same thing but just might be done a little different
Ala - (1) Voila, (2) Shazam, (3) Poof apps - (1) Applications buck - (1) Dollar, (2) Male deer DOJ - (1) See JD DR-Dos - (1) Physician preferred form of Disk Operating System Gvmt - (1) Government, See #2 under JD GWB - (1) George W. Bush, (2) George W. Bush Jr, (3) See President of the USA JD - (1) Justice Department, (2) See oxymoron MS - (1)Microsoft, (2) Monopolistic Sovereignty Netscape - (1) Slow version of Opera Novell - (1) Unique company with a unique idea Office - (1) Suite of tools for confusing newbies, (2) Location of business OS/2 - (1) Cousin of OS/as well and OS/also port - (1) Modify to work with another system or framework, (2) Side of a ship, (3) Resting place for ships at sea Sun - (1) Sun Microsystem, (2) Creator of unbreakable database technology, (3) Celestial body at the center of our Solar System Windows - (1) Closed source Operating System, (2) Transparent section of a wall to look through WordPerfect - (1) Word processor with bad Grammatical checking e.g. Word Perfect
"...Hollings was joined by Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts, both of whom are heavily reliant on entertainment-industry money (with Kerry sure to become even more so if he runs for President in 2004, as expected)."
Isn't the rule of the Sith that there can be only 1 Master and 1 Apprentice. I see three here.
That's not a very good way to perform a survey. First only 700 cases... How were the demographics determined. Did they select students from East, West, South? Did they go to universities with ethnic diversity? Did they talk to students of different class levels such as Juniors, Seniors?
There are too many factors that affect this. The fact that it is a survey e.g. asking somebody and dealing with the flaws that go with Surveys ( lying, altering the truth, fear of reprisal ) and then doing the survey based on what would seem a small sample that might not really be representative of the whole of College Students.
Poor Cain only had the excuse "Am I my brother's keeper" to give to God. I think the guy was in rough shape what with no TV, Books, Games, Music to blame. Although, considering the recent spout of "I was abused... not my fault" I'm amazed it didn't go something like this
God: Where is Abel? Cain: I killed him God: Why? Cain: Because my mother and father ate the forbidden fruit so I learned by their actions that I should do bad things too... you see God. It wasn't my fault. It's theirs
How about we just implant a little electrical buzzer into each Congress person. When a RIAA/MPAA Lobbyist come in to talk with them it shocks them until they're so uncomfortable they can't listen to the Lobbyist. Now THAT'S what I call rights protection.
"Apple's ad campaign suggested to potential buyers "that they can create a theft if they buy this computer," said Eisner, who otherwise ignored Apple's iPod ad campaign, which features prominent warnings against stealing music. "
Uhm.. how does one 'Create a theft'?. How do you create a verb. Disney + Corporate Executive Office = Grammatical Moron
Is it just me or does this guy sound like the genetic reject of the bad side of a trailor park
Although this may sound like me shooting myself in the foot;you have to make that subscription seem more worthwhile. I hate ads but I'd prefer to see slashdot stay and we all know that bandwidth doesn't come from the bandwidth bunny.
So. My suggestions for your subscription service.
1. Delayed posts. Make all comments by a non-subscribed author delayed until either 1 hour has passed or 5 unique ads have been viewed.
2. Advanced Moderation system. We all strive to get those mod points ( why else would you want Karma? ) so allow another tier of moderators. These being the *elite* few who are paying subscribers.
3. Offer people the ability to host a small gif ad as their sig in exchange for 200 views w/out ads. Hence each post they make will be an ad in itself.
4. Priority in the submission que. I haven't been accepted for a story yet. But if paying increases my chances of getting a story on the 'Holy Grail' of slashdot... the frontpage, I might just consider.
5. The most important. Techies can't help but fall for a challenge. so just say 'You can't handle a Slashdot subscription'. This last option is the one most likely to get you signups.
just my 1.034 cents worth
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Let's see. How many families of 9/11 have their money? why not?
How many people are still waiting the outcome of Congress and the President before they get employment ( or welfare - depending on your parties choice ) help?
How many people are still waiting for homeland defense and security that applies to us physically such as the planes I fly and the bridge I drive over to get to work?
This is ridiculous. If the only thing Congress can do with their time is write laws and bills that make their *supporters* and Lobbyist happy then this country is in a sad state indeed. We vote these people into office. WE should be the ones they answer to. Not AOL Time/Warnder. Not RIAA/MPAA. Not Company A or B. This is pathetic and I'm getting sick of the waste of taxpayers dollar paying these people to make laws that are designed to 'burn us, make companys happy'.
Let's just all get together and give all of our money to our local congressman. Then we'll take our childrens money and give it to a company of our congressman's choice AND THEN jump off a bridge.
They must not do a very good job because you can have late payments due in one store... in one side of town and then go to another... on the other side of town and they'll let you rent.
Not what I exactly call a national infrastructure of info. What I gather these people are wanting to do this nationally and thus profile a persons daily habits.
I don't know about anybody else but the idea of ANYBODY tracking my habits of shopping, roaming or just plain anything else spooks me. I don't like the idea of anybody keeping track of what I do even though I'm not doing anything illegal. The worst part is that corporations only have 1 thing in mind and that's the almight dollar ( or Yen in this case ) and so they'll do anything to make a buck... including selling this kind of information.
Although you make a good point. One thing to consider is this. We cannot base our interpretation of legal precedent just because of potential or real uses. Although IANAL I know that a Drug Dealer gets the same right to our judicial system as a person who commits Grand Theft Auto.
Are they different crimes? Yes.
Should they use the same justice system? Yes.
The same applies. Although the nature of Google is really pertaining to websites ( some of which do have illegal material ) we cannot say that it's different since the core functionality is the same. It's possible for P2P to return purely legal material and Google to return only those links to illegal material. Should the focus of the RIAA switch? I'm sure that they would but the point is you should not be able to sue because of 'potential' uses.
We ban guns in this country. How about steak knives? I can kill with one of those. How about a nail file? I can do the same with it. We know it's best to work on those that are apt to kill. Not the tool. Those who wish to enforce copyrights should focus on the infringers.. not the tools. As soon as the tool is shut down... people will find another... perhaps even Google. - - - -
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so..
tracert Aroot
state.of.la 10 ms
1 state.of.va 34 ms
2 sterling.va 15 ms
3 beltway.sterling.va 33 ms
4 fewmiles.beltway.sterling.va 12 ms
5 building.sterling.va 10 ms
6 mantrap.building.sterling.va 3 ms
7 room.building.sterling.va 8 ms
8 Aroot.building.sterling.va 7 ms
Trace Complete
What does this mean for Big Mouths like us? Instead of "can you speak a little softer" it'd be "can you shut your mouth"... oh wait, nothing new.
But isn't the entire point of them killing Napster the fact that "Digital Distribution" works all too well? Isn't that the point of "The Bill Formerly Known as the SSSCA" that any device is a medium for thievery in a digital world?
... but it would be hypocritical for them to start the war cry of "Digital" distro doesn't work. In fact, other industries such as Software and Online Multimedia ( e.g. Flash, Fan Movies ) have made it work. They'd only be shooting themselves in the foot....oh wait. they're doing that now anyway
I understand your point and can see why they would do that
What's the point in only being able to listen to 200? How many albums is that? I know that I listen to alot more music than that that I buy on a CD. Why not just limit it to say 1 song / month = set rate. That way the more I pay the more I can listen to... with no limit on the total # of songs. I don't see this helping their pay service very much
" Is this the end of VCR+? "
Mr Jones. It has come to our attention that you are using our SunBan glasses while having cybernetic eye implants. Under the terms of the DMCA we ask that you cease and desist this action immediately.
Just because you live in the same town doesn't mean it's easy to serve somebody. They can refuse to be there. They can have the secretary lie about whether or not they are in the office ( even with their car there ) because the police aren't going to sit there for 8 hours waiting for the guy to walk out. They can refuse to answer the door unless it's somebody they know and so on and so forth... One person me and some other people tried to serve took about 2 months to do the job. And that took a hired agent to do it ( It took him 3 days of constantly following the guy )
Not the english language. Just binary[theonion.com]
Uh....
"AltaVista lets you use minus signs and plus signs to indicate what you really don't want and what you do want. And for some specialized searches the exclusion is essential"
Google does the same thing. It's not like Altavista has this special feature that Google doesn't. In fact I've found the main reason many people are not happy with Google is due to the fact that they don't use it enough to understand the best way to write a query.
My wife was looking for some information and since she's heard me say that Google is the best engine to use she tried it but couldn't find the information. When I got home I did the same thing and found the information on the first query. It's all in the fingers baby... but seriously like any tool it takes time before you learn to use it the way it's meant to be used.
The way this article comes across is the same as me saying Borland Turbo C++ is better than MS Visual C++ because it has the following features
Include directives
Printf
The ability to compile applications
when in fact MS Visual C++ does the same thing but just might be done a little different
"In addition, Microsoft has already developed the database technology it needs for a new file system. A future release of its SQL Server database"
deltree.bat will now contain....
Delete * from drives where folder = 'c:'
Appendix A: Glossary of terms used in this post
Ala - (1) Voila, (2) Shazam, (3) Poof
apps - (1) Applications
buck - (1) Dollar, (2) Male deer
DOJ - (1) See JD
DR-Dos - (1) Physician preferred form of Disk Operating System
Gvmt - (1) Government, See #2 under JD
GWB - (1) George W. Bush, (2) George W. Bush Jr, (3) See President of the USA
JD - (1) Justice Department, (2) See oxymoron
MS - (1)Microsoft, (2) Monopolistic Sovereignty
Netscape - (1) Slow version of Opera
Novell - (1) Unique company with a unique idea
Office - (1) Suite of tools for confusing newbies, (2) Location of business
OS/2 - (1) Cousin of OS/as well and OS/also
port - (1) Modify to work with another system or framework, (2) Side of a ship, (3) Resting place for ships at sea
Sun - (1) Sun Microsystem, (2) Creator of unbreakable database technology, (3) Celestial body at the center of our Solar System
Windows - (1) Closed source Operating System, (2) Transparent section of a wall to look through
WordPerfect - (1) Word processor with bad Grammatical checking e.g. Word Perfect
It's so bad that I'm going to prove my point. I'm going to take 5 17 year olds and get them drunk in a bar in Tijuana. That'll show em... yeah
"...Hollings was joined by Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts, both of whom are heavily reliant on entertainment-industry money (with Kerry sure to become even more so if he runs for President in 2004, as expected)."
Isn't the rule of the Sith that there can be only 1 Master and 1 Apprentice. I see three here.
That's not a very good way to perform a survey. First only 700 cases... How were the demographics determined. Did they select students from East, West, South? Did they go to universities with ethnic diversity? Did they talk to students of different class levels such as Juniors, Seniors?
There are too many factors that affect this. The fact that it is a survey e.g. asking somebody and dealing with the flaws that go with Surveys ( lying, altering the truth, fear of reprisal ) and then doing the survey based on what would seem a small sample that might not really be representative of the whole of College Students.
people will somehow stop being "animals".
I agree. What was that in Dune? The Gom Jobbar? It separated the Humans from the Animals. I can just see it now.
Helen Gauis: Jessica, Since you have seen violent holotapes we must give you the Gom Jabbar to see if you are an animal
Mankind is beastlike by nature. Doesn't take Television or Games or Books to teach us how to be cruel... that seems to come naturally.
Poor Cain only had the excuse "Am I my brother's keeper" to give to God. I think the guy was in rough shape what with no TV, Books, Games, Music to blame. Although, considering the recent spout of "I was abused... not my fault" I'm amazed it didn't go something like this
... you see God. It wasn't my fault. It's theirs
God: Where is Abel?
Cain: I killed him
God: Why?
Cain: Because my mother and father ate the forbidden fruit so I learned by their actions that I should do bad things too
How about we just implant a little electrical buzzer into each Congress person. When a RIAA/MPAA Lobbyist come in to talk with them it shocks them until they're so uncomfortable they can't listen to the Lobbyist. Now THAT'S what I call rights protection.
After I submitted the post I noted the 'stupidity' of my comment.... Hence I guess I come from the bad side of the trailor park :)
A man admits when he's wrong. An idiot announces it.
"Apple's ad campaign suggested to potential buyers "that they can create a theft if they buy this computer," said Eisner, who otherwise ignored Apple's iPod ad campaign, which features prominent warnings against stealing music. "
Uhm.. how does one 'Create a theft'?. How do you create a verb. Disney + Corporate Executive Office = Grammatical Moron
Is it just me or does this guy sound like the genetic reject of the bad side of a trailor park
Although this may sound like me shooting myself in the foot;you have to make that subscription seem more worthwhile. I hate ads but I'd prefer to see slashdot stay and we all know that bandwidth doesn't come from the bandwidth bunny.
So. My suggestions for your subscription service.
1. Delayed posts. Make all comments by a non-subscribed author delayed until either 1 hour has passed or 5 unique ads have been viewed.
2. Advanced Moderation system. We all strive to get those mod points ( why else would you want Karma? ) so allow another tier of moderators. These being the *elite* few who are paying subscribers.
3. Offer people the ability to host a small gif ad as their sig in exchange for 200 views w/out ads. Hence each post they make will be an ad in itself.
4. Priority in the submission que. I haven't been accepted for a story yet. But if paying increases my chances of getting a story on the 'Holy Grail' of slashdot... the frontpage, I might just consider.
5. The most important. Techies can't help but fall for a challenge. so just say 'You can't handle a Slashdot subscription'. This last option is the one most likely to get you signups.
just my 1.034 cents worth
Let's see. How many families of 9/11 have their money? why not?
How many people are still waiting the outcome of Congress and the President before they get employment ( or welfare - depending on your parties choice ) help?
How many people are still waiting for homeland defense and security that applies to us physically such as the planes I fly and the bridge I drive over to get to work?
This is ridiculous. If the only thing Congress can do with their time is write laws and bills that make their *supporters* and Lobbyist happy then this country is in a sad state indeed. We vote these people into office. WE should be the ones they answer to. Not AOL Time/Warnder. Not RIAA/MPAA. Not Company A or B. This is pathetic and I'm getting sick of the waste of taxpayers dollar paying these people to make laws that are designed to 'burn us, make companys happy'.
Let's just all get together and give all of our money to our local congressman. Then we'll take our childrens money and give it to a company of our congressman's choice AND THEN jump off a bridge.
They must not do a very good job because you can have late payments due in one store... in one side of town and then go to another... on the other side of town and they'll let you rent.
Not what I exactly call a national infrastructure of info. What I gather these people are wanting to do this nationally and thus profile a persons daily habits.
I don't know about anybody else but the idea of ANYBODY tracking my habits of shopping, roaming or just plain anything else spooks me.
I don't like the idea of anybody keeping track of what I do even though I'm not doing anything illegal.
The worst part is that corporations only have 1 thing in mind and that's the almight dollar ( or Yen in this case ) and so they'll do anything to make a buck... including selling this kind of information.
The kind of fear I have of that??? enormouse
Hey Slashdot.... I'll pay you .10 cents for better placement. .50 cents for First post.
So instead of the traditional "Five Finger Discount" now it's the "Five Second Discount" ... interesting.
Although you make a good point. One thing to consider is this. We cannot base our interpretation of legal precedent just because of potential or real uses. Although IANAL I know that a Drug Dealer gets the same right to our judicial system as a person who commits Grand Theft Auto.
Are they different crimes?
Yes.
Should they use the same justice system?
Yes.
The same applies. Although the nature of Google is really pertaining to websites ( some of which do have illegal material ) we cannot say that it's different since the core functionality is the same. It's possible for P2P to return purely legal material and Google to return only those links to illegal material. Should the focus of the RIAA switch? I'm sure that they would but the point is you should not be able to sue because of 'potential' uses.
We ban guns in this country. How about steak knives? I can kill with one of those. How about a nail file? I can do the same with it. We know it's best to work on those that are apt to kill. Not the tool. Those who wish to enforce copyrights should focus on the infringers.. not the tools. As soon as the tool is shut down... people will find another... perhaps even Google.
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