What Telecom fails to recognise is that these people are pushing the envelope of what the Internet can do, and will drive the technology economy in years to come.
The problem here is that Telecom HAS recognized that these people are pushing the envelope of what the internet can do and that it will drive the technology economy in years to come. They also realize that P2P is very expensive for ISPs because it actually makes the "unlimited use" part of their customers' contracts a true statement. Thus, they are trying their best to turn back the clock and bring back the days when they made more money per customer.
They're not being ignorant. They're being smart. They're also being money grubbing assholes, but that's beside the point.;)
Did you even read the/. blurb, let alone the article? This is (part) about the fact that newer electronics components cannot be messed with by an amateur hobbyist because of their complexity. Somehow, I don't think of a COMMODORE 64 as a "newer electronics component".
I don't think that the locking is intended to stop the child removing the beacon; rather, I think the idea is to ensure that any abductor would not be able to remove it.
Actually, it's probably both. Not only do parents not want an abductor to remove it, but they also don't want their three year old to take such an expensive little piece of equipment off and toss it in the street. And really, three years old DO do that a lot.
And I suppose that most construction workers don't really "build" houses, because they don't cut down trees to make their lumber, or mine and forge metal to make nails?
You do not need to create every part from nature's barest materials to "build" the finished product.
And before someone tries to scold me for this again: This is from a partnership that NYT has with Asahi.com, and it adds Asahi.com's ads to the page. Instead of "paying" with your registration, you're "paying" with the act of barely glancing at Asahi.com's ads for a split second before moving on to the actual story. And the New York Times seems to be fine with it, because they set the whole thing up.
I've worked in government, and I'm not going out on a limb when I say that the government is too damn incompetent to get anything useful out of tracking our M&M consumption habits, as it were.
Well, the private sector is a bigger worry, but Kenneth Starr used Monica Lewinsky's shopping habits on her credit card to see where she was at any point on a given day via a court order, which is a level of insidiousness that isn't given to the private secotr, sans maybe the merger giants like AOL/Time Warner.
Most of the restrictions for Salt Lake City were temporarily taken off in anticipation of the Olympic games a few months ago. They should be coming back some time around now.
Keep up the good work, trolls. We salute your valiant efforts to bring some much needed off-the-wall humor to us in times of boring and predictable stories.
Please take a look at the link before attacking it. The link listed is from a partnership that the New York Times has with Asahi Shimbun. Because Asahi puts its advertising on the top of that NYT article, you do not have to register for it. You are, in effect, "paying" through viewing additional advertising, instead of paying through a free registration. Apparently, the New York Times and Asahi Shimbun think it's an even trade, because they set the whole thing up themselves and I didn't have to mess with any URLs or anything to get to it.
And yes, it really is lame and annoying to make an exception in my cookie block list for the New York Times and let them track my browsing when they themselves present a perfectly suitable alternative on their advertising partner's website. Why choose to register when they don't really care if you do or not?
You can all find this yourselves by going to this page and looking for the same headline. They have all of the NYT articles without any registration required.
A spokeswoman rejected suggestions that Sony was responsible for creating an "edgy" advertising culture around its console which may have galvanised Acclaim Entertainment's marketing tactics.
On the ShadowMan 2 website, the game is described as incorporating "fierce and gruesome" fighting. It involves users playing a New York policeman who has a "living dead" alter ago who is seeking a confrontation with the devil. He has magic and voodoo weapons to help him.
It's amazing. Even when these sensationalist so-called "journalists" have a legitimate chance to take a slam at an insane move by the gaming industry, they have to step over that line of sane journalism to get just one more ounce of sensationalism. They could very legitimately slam Acclaim for what they're doing, but they have to go over the edge and go after Sony for creating an "edgy advertising culture", as well as the content of the game. Par for the course for Guardian Unlimited...
Since when? History has shown that the RIAA and MPAA are given protection after protection after protection, many of them layering on top of each other. In the US, for instance, there is a tax on these objects, but copying anything copyrighted to them is still illegal, bootlegs are still stopped at customs, and they are still allowed to sue people for using this media to copy anything of theirs, regardless of whether or not the person bought it and should have a fair use right to copy it. They've also gotten multiple copyright extensions which protects the whole damn thing.
The SSSCA and these taxes can be layered on top of one another easily, and that's what US legislators are trying to do.
It appears that Microsoft is simply too big and that that is why people don't like them. However, the case against Microsoft really isn't about whether or not they're too big or whether or not they have a monopoly. The crux of it is things like the fact that they TRIED to have a monopoly by telling PC makers that they either had to sign a deal with Microsoft that they would never use any other OS in ANYTHING THEY MADE or not use any Microsoft products at all. That's a monopolist practice that falls under anti-trust law and Microsoft has also done several other things that fall under those laws.
Unfortunately, most people think that the case is simply about Microsoft being too big because the media, even the technologically inclined side of the media, is grossly irrepresenting this story.
Please mod my parent post down. Way down. The people replying to it have successfully pulled GameCube broadband and dialup modems of their ass, and at a pretty damn reliable source (Nintendo.com). It leaves me wondering, though, why EGM, Extended Play, and various major gaming sites still keep repeating the old line of "Nintendo has yet to solidify its online plans" if these things have already been announced by Nintendo.
Jesus. You'd think that between reading EGM monthly, watching Extended Play weekly, and reading The Magic Box, Mad Man's Cafe, The GIA, d+pad, MegaTokyo, Lik Sang, and much more obscure sites every single day, I would've seen this thing by now. My apologies for adding to the bullshit in this round of comments.
Sony has announced their PS2 modem, complete with specs, price, games, and other non-vaporous things. It will be available in AUGUST. Nintendo has announced their GameCube modem, but has yet to say anything about its specs, how it will work, what games will support it, or how much it will cost. Nintendo also has a history for announcing hardware, even giving it specific details, and then cancelling it.
They've committed to making the modem and NIC add-ons, but that means that we'll see it, at minimum, in six months or more. It's also likely that we may never see it, which would match Nintendo's track record perfectly.
Your first post was actually more accurate than the second. Unless "Umm... we're working on it" (the classic Nintendo blow-off phrase) somehow means that they're deeply committed to making these add-ons.;)
I just finished watching a VHS tape that had the last two weeks of Digimon from Fox on Saturday mornings on it. Digimon airs twice on Saturdays at 9:00AM and 10:30AM, and what do I see on it? A cybernetic monster biker shooting cute little creatures multiple times with his two double barrel sawed-off shotguns. The scene even slows down, Matrix-like, to show the shotgun shells blowing his enemies to bits. This has been typical of the last few years of Fox's editing of Digimon, which has previously shown one of the heroes being bitten clear in half, two full 30+ episode story arcs about a male and female angel ("Angemon" and "Angewomon") facing off against demons ("Devimon" and "Apocalymon"), a blood thirsty berserker hero creature that graphically slaughters his enemies, and numerous scenes where children have been beaten, tied up, taken hostage, or kidnapped.
Cartoon Network, a cable channel, has no defense for editing violence, violence toward children, religious references, cursing, and most of the other things that it find objectionable out of the shows that it airs from 5:00-7:00PM (EST) in the afternoon if Fox, a network station which is held to much stricter legal editing standards, does not have to adhere to the same ridiculous editing standards with the shows that they play at 9:00AM and 10:30AM on a Saturday morning.
Do you go through a newspaper or a magazine before you read it and rip out every ad, just in case your free will is somehow subjegated to Corporate Greed?
I don't know about him, but I do that all the time. I'm sick of magazines that have four to six consecutive pages of ads sandwiched right into the middle of articles (Time Magazine). I also tear them out of Electronic Gaming monthly, because they're so desperate for advertising dollars that there are two pages of ads between every single page story, in addition to tons of light cardboard advertisements and fold-out advertisements that unfold if you hold the magazine the wrong way.
I don't tear them out because I'm afraid of corporate control. I tear them out because they're damned annoying, as are most websites that use similarly invasive and annoying ads.
Have you ever tried to read something on a site that has a constantly flashing banner ad fitted in right next to the text? It's like the optical version of trying to listen to the radio while someone is firing off an air horn in your ear every half second. Not only does it stop you from enjoying or even seeing the content you're listening to, but it also makes your eyes hurt.
This is why people hate banner ads. The main reason, at least, with "It makes the site look like crap" and "No, thanks, I don't feel like paying three bucks a minute for Tiffany's Tittie Cam" coming in second and third.
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What Telecom fails to recognise is that these people are pushing the envelope of what the Internet can do, and will drive the technology economy in years to come.
;)
The problem here is that Telecom HAS recognized that these people are pushing the envelope of what the internet can do and that it will drive the technology economy in years to come. They also realize that P2P is very expensive for ISPs because it actually makes the "unlimited use" part of their customers' contracts a true statement. Thus, they are trying their best to turn back the clock and bring back the days when they made more money per customer.
They're not being ignorant. They're being smart. They're also being money grubbing assholes, but that's beside the point.
Did you even read the /. blurb, let alone the article? This is (part) about the fact that newer electronics components cannot be messed with by an amateur hobbyist because of their complexity. Somehow, I don't think of a COMMODORE 64 as a "newer electronics component".
I don't think that the locking is intended to stop the child removing the beacon; rather, I think the idea is to ensure that any abductor would not be able to remove it.
Actually, it's probably both. Not only do parents not want an abductor to remove it, but they also don't want their three year old to take such an expensive little piece of equipment off and toss it in the street. And really, three years old DO do that a lot.
Every time I whore myself out for kharma, some looser, cheaper whore has to come around and try to steal my spotlight. ;)
And I suppose that most construction workers don't really "build" houses, because they don't cut down trees to make their lumber, or mine and forge metal to make nails?
You do not need to create every part from nature's barest materials to "build" the finished product.
Yes, yes, I do. Enjoy.
The story, no registration required.
And before someone tries to scold me for this again: This is from a partnership that NYT has with Asahi.com, and it adds Asahi.com's ads to the page. Instead of "paying" with your registration, you're "paying" with the act of barely glancing at Asahi.com's ads for a split second before moving on to the actual story. And the New York Times seems to be fine with it, because they set the whole thing up.
I've worked in government, and I'm not going out on a limb when I say that the government is too damn incompetent to get anything useful out of tracking our M&M consumption habits, as it were.
Well, the private sector is a bigger worry, but Kenneth Starr used Monica Lewinsky's shopping habits on her credit card to see where she was at any point on a given day via a court order, which is a level of insidiousness that isn't given to the private secotr, sans maybe the merger giants like AOL/Time Warner.
Most of the restrictions for Salt Lake City were temporarily taken off in anticipation of the Olympic games a few months ago. They should be coming back some time around now.
Keep up the good work, trolls. We salute your valiant efforts to bring some much needed off-the-wall humor to us in times of boring and predictable stories.
Please take a look at the link before attacking it. The link listed is from a partnership that the New York Times has with Asahi Shimbun. Because Asahi puts its advertising on the top of that NYT article, you do not have to register for it. You are, in effect, "paying" through viewing additional advertising, instead of paying through a free registration. Apparently, the New York Times and Asahi Shimbun think it's an even trade, because they set the whole thing up themselves and I didn't have to mess with any URLs or anything to get to it.
And yes, it really is lame and annoying to make an exception in my cookie block list for the New York Times and let them track my browsing when they themselves present a perfectly suitable alternative on their advertising partner's website. Why choose to register when they don't really care if you do or not?
The story, no registration required.
You can all find this yourselves by going to this page and looking for the same headline. They have all of the NYT articles without any registration required.
It's amazing. Even when these sensationalist so-called "journalists" have a legitimate chance to take a slam at an insane move by the gaming industry, they have to step over that line of sane journalism to get just one more ounce of sensationalism. They could very legitimately slam Acclaim for what they're doing, but they have to go over the edge and go after Sony for creating an "edgy advertising culture", as well as the content of the game. Par for the course for Guardian Unlimited...
Oh my God, Slashdot has ADS?! I hadn't noticed...
How about a page that doesn't require any login at all?
The story, sans login. This can be replicated for every single NYT story on Slashdot or any other site via this page.
Since when? History has shown that the RIAA and MPAA are given protection after protection after protection, many of them layering on top of each other. In the US, for instance, there is a tax on these objects, but copying anything copyrighted to them is still illegal, bootlegs are still stopped at customs, and they are still allowed to sue people for using this media to copy anything of theirs, regardless of whether or not the person bought it and should have a fair use right to copy it. They've also gotten multiple copyright extensions which protects the whole damn thing.
The SSSCA and these taxes can be layered on top of one another easily, and that's what US legislators are trying to do.
It appears that Microsoft is simply too big and that that is why people don't like them. However, the case against Microsoft really isn't about whether or not they're too big or whether or not they have a monopoly. The crux of it is things like the fact that they TRIED to have a monopoly by telling PC makers that they either had to sign a deal with Microsoft that they would never use any other OS in ANYTHING THEY MADE or not use any Microsoft products at all. That's a monopolist practice that falls under anti-trust law and Microsoft has also done several other things that fall under those laws.
Unfortunately, most people think that the case is simply about Microsoft being too big because the media, even the technologically inclined side of the media, is grossly irrepresenting this story.
Please mod my parent post down. Way down. The people replying to it have successfully pulled GameCube broadband and dialup modems of their ass, and at a pretty damn reliable source (Nintendo.com). It leaves me wondering, though, why EGM, Extended Play, and various major gaming sites still keep repeating the old line of "Nintendo has yet to solidify its online plans" if these things have already been announced by Nintendo.
Jesus. You'd think that between reading EGM monthly, watching Extended Play weekly, and reading The Magic Box, Mad Man's Cafe, The GIA, d+pad, MegaTokyo, Lik Sang, and much more obscure sites every single day, I would've seen this thing by now. My apologies for adding to the bullshit in this round of comments.
Sony has announced their PS2 modem, complete with specs, price, games, and other non-vaporous things. It will be available in AUGUST. Nintendo has announced their GameCube modem, but has yet to say anything about its specs, how it will work, what games will support it, or how much it will cost. Nintendo also has a history for announcing hardware, even giving it specific details, and then cancelling it.
;)
They've committed to making the modem and NIC add-ons, but that means that we'll see it, at minimum, in six months or more. It's also likely that we may never see it, which would match Nintendo's track record perfectly.
Your first post was actually more accurate than the second. Unless "Umm... we're working on it" (the classic Nintendo blow-off phrase) somehow means that they're deeply committed to making these add-ons.
relevant d+pad strip
Let me guess: Some of your best friends are Germans, you swear. Really, they are.
I just finished watching a VHS tape that had the last two weeks of Digimon from Fox on Saturday mornings on it. Digimon airs twice on Saturdays at 9:00AM and 10:30AM, and what do I see on it? A cybernetic monster biker shooting cute little creatures multiple times with his two double barrel sawed-off shotguns. The scene even slows down, Matrix-like, to show the shotgun shells blowing his enemies to bits. This has been typical of the last few years of Fox's editing of Digimon, which has previously shown one of the heroes being bitten clear in half, two full 30+ episode story arcs about a male and female angel ("Angemon" and "Angewomon") facing off against demons ("Devimon" and "Apocalymon"), a blood thirsty berserker hero creature that graphically slaughters his enemies, and numerous scenes where children have been beaten, tied up, taken hostage, or kidnapped.
Cartoon Network, a cable channel, has no defense for editing violence, violence toward children, religious references, cursing, and most of the other things that it find objectionable out of the shows that it airs from 5:00-7:00PM (EST) in the afternoon if Fox, a network station which is held to much stricter legal editing standards, does not have to adhere to the same ridiculous editing standards with the shows that they play at 9:00AM and 10:30AM on a Saturday morning.
Slashdot posts commentary and editorials from people all the time, often regardless of what profession they're in. Are you new here?
I don't know about him, but I do that all the time. I'm sick of magazines that have four to six consecutive pages of ads sandwiched right into the middle of articles (Time Magazine). I also tear them out of Electronic Gaming monthly, because they're so desperate for advertising dollars that there are two pages of ads between every single page story, in addition to tons of light cardboard advertisements and fold-out advertisements that unfold if you hold the magazine the wrong way.
I don't tear them out because I'm afraid of corporate control. I tear them out because they're damned annoying, as are most websites that use similarly invasive and annoying ads.
Have you ever tried to read something on a site that has a constantly flashing banner ad fitted in right next to the text? It's like the optical version of trying to listen to the radio while someone is firing off an air horn in your ear every half second. Not only does it stop you from enjoying or even seeing the content you're listening to, but it also makes your eyes hurt.
This is why people hate banner ads. The main reason, at least, with "It makes the site look like crap" and "No, thanks, I don't feel like paying three bucks a minute for Tiffany's Tittie Cam" coming in second and third.