First of all, it's Rumsfeld, not "Rumsfelt". Rumsfeld basically said if your trumpeting what's wrong in Iraq, rather than what's good (and there is more going on that's good than bad), you are helping our enemies. Not only is winning the peace within Iraq and the finding the physical war on terrorism important, but winning hearts and minds as well. And when you have your own American populace and media focusing on the negative, rather than the positive things, that makes things difficult.
Regarding the democratic canidates, I don't think any of them are worthy. They're more focused on critizing the president, or sometimes themselves, rather than giving clear plans on how they'll handle things. I hope Dean wins the primary, though. Bush will win in a landslide.
Huh? Majority of the articles I see are supporting India. The Slashdot community is overwhemlingly liberal, so you won't see many patriotic/pro-US commentary.
The danger with immortality is that it goes against Nature/(or what conservatives would call) God's rules.
For example, what if Hitler had some immortality pill? Or Usama bin Laden? Sadam? You can run, but you can't hide. If you were able to evade someone killing you, you can't evade nature. You'll eventually get old and die.
Another example, racist generations. It's hard to remove their racist feelings, but nature takes care of that by killing their entire generation off. This allows society to evolve. If they were still around today, it would be hard for society to improve.
Or what if we still had some corrupt politicans still in Washington today because of immortality? I don't think that would be good either.
I think everyone who likes Dean should read this article. While I think he is the most vocal and stands out the most from the current democratic canidates (and of course earned a LOT more money), I think he is too mysterious and won't give his real opinions on a lot of issues. For example (from the article):
He was asked if he'd vote for the Medicare bill with a prescription drug benefit that is likely to pass Congress soon? Dean wouldn't say. Why?
Is he still for a balanced budget amendment? He said only that he's "tempted" to be for it.
Should a gay marriage in Canada be recognized in the United States? He refused to give a responsive answer.
Would he name the Democratic candidates who he said need a "backbone transplant"? No, he wouldn't.
While I'm not crazy about everything Bush has done so far, I support him a lot more than any of these other democratic canidates. I think the appeal of the democratic party is fading out in a lot of Americans, they're now more interested in national security rather than domestic issues. If the economy is "good" & WMD/Saddam etc. is found by 2004, Bush will win in a land slide.
Another problem for the democratic party is that nobody knows any of the canidates. I've asked a few people I know (who are democrats) who'd they vote for, and everyone responds with "Is Hillary running?" or "Probably Gore".
Howard Dean needs to be more open about what he supports and what he doesn't, he's too worried about what people think of him. (Like on the Gay Marriage issue) If he isn't honest in these interviews, how can Americans trust him?
WinMX? Please. WinMX is going the way of the dinosaur; it has tremendously long queues, it's UI is probably the worst I've ever seen, and it's basically turned into a file TRADING network instead of a file SHARING network. I suggest you check out Shareaza instead:P It has BitTorrent & eDonkey support.
When I first got into Anime around 3 or 4 years ago (When I was 14 or 15) I found it really interesting that everyone who offered Anime up for download or Anime fansub groups would not promote distribution of licensed Anime, and that's still true today. (Though, it kind of sucks cause Anime is ussually licensed before the fansub group can even finish it) If you request or go around looking for licensed Anime, you won't really find it, or if you do it will be on a P2P network or some other non-fan supportive medium.
The entire FAQ is an interesting success story which shows that not everyone is out to pirate and rip off companies just becuase they can. If you have a good product which people like, it will accumulate a fanbase and they'll help create junior policies and "implied social contracts" against people that would harm your company. It's why I thought FOX made a huge mistake with their "cease and decist" letters against Simpsons fansites which caused many of the best Simpsons fansites to go off the web, all because they had some JPEG's of Bart or a 2 minute video clip of their favorite scene in an episode. Now everyone is realizing that fansites help companies earn more profit (because you have more explosure & a dedicated fanbase, among other things).
That isn't such a bad idea. Liberal views has a death grip on the American media. FOX is pretty much the only network I've found that is anything close to fair & balanced. CNN, CNBC etc. allow liberals to come on all the time and let them spin, and their viewpoints are always liberal.
People hate Fox because it has some conservative/republican content on it. To liberals, ANY conservative views on any media automatically deems it some kind of anti-gay/pro-war/oil-cowboy entity.
The questions for me, and a lot of other people, are whether the war was justifiable and whether it's going to accomplish what it intended to.
Saddam is no more, Iraq is free
North Korea wants to cooperate
Iran wants to cooperate
No terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 9/11
Seems pretty good to me.
I see no evidence that the Bush administration is emerging from its determined solipsism with respect to international opinion; we keep right on acting like right-wing domestic supporters are the only audience for our policies.
I think the U.S. is being waay too easy on the U.N. I mean, with Canada saying it will let Saddam stay in it's country, with France offering VISA's to Saddam & family, Russia giving Saddam reports on meetings with the U.S... why would you want to trust those people with anything? International Opinion != Right.
The jury is very much out on Iraq's reconstruction and the volatility of the middle east -- they're both supposed to become peaceful and stable as a result of this war and its aftermath, but that's a damn tall order, and this was an extremely high risk policy.
In 40 years or so there will be replicators where all you will need is a carbon block and some [pirated] scripts and you can make whatever you want through the glory of nanotechnology. What will they do regarding copyright, copy protection etc. then? Outlaw replicators? Will corperations and law restrict us from advancing in technology/quality of life? Personally, I think we'll have to move into more of a socialistic/non-capitalistic society.
Personal Rapid Transit, IMO, is the future. You can see some of it at Taxi2000. I don't like how some of the prototype's look (look flaky, cheap) but it's on the right track. (no pun intended)
I posted this somewhere else in the barrage of posts above me, but I'll repost it here so everyone can see:
The trailer is from the ending of the "Enter the Matrix" video game. You can download it from Suprnova via BitTorrent or from G2 via Shareaza here. Enjoy.
I agree, that was a good episode. Even TrekNation's review is positive. So was Judgment, which got a "Warp 5" rating on Trek5, which IMO is rather good considering most of their reviews were fair and harsh (but they were right about nearly all of them). And last weeks episode, The Breach was also very good. (Got 4/5 @ TrekNation). So people who say this series is a failure, well... perhaps you should start watching again, because it seems to be getting really good lately.
Regarding the last episode, it was good. However, I hope they don't stop at a little "suicide" to create the Prime Directive, and instead something major... like the accidental distruction of a planet (Give one race WMD and they whipe out another or something).
This is what I'd be telling them: You've done a great thing with this service, and no doubt a lot of competitors are already swarming to mirror your system to compete with you. The word that you may "bring it to Windows" is scary news to many.
To ensure the marketshare you have now stays where it is and to attract more, do the following:
Create a Community - One thing companies are only now learning is that their fanbase/community is an invaluable marketing tool. Before lawyers of TV shows sued websites for having pictures of the actors on them, now they encourage it. Amazon is a classic success story in community. If you have a community, they'll become loyal customers. So, what kind of Community am I talking about?
Allow users to create their own "Albums" by picking tracks from the database. Then allow them to feature their Albums throughout the site. People should be able to "Rate" and comment on those custom albums. Then have a page where the top 50 or so are featured. Let the creators of that album get some of that revanue, maybe 5-15%.
Allow users to rate and comment on all Albums on the site. Feature a page of the "highest ranked/rated albums". Open up forums where users can discuss genres, artists and new releases. Create mailing lists for each artist, e-mail the users when a new release for that artist comes out. Have "Auto-Pre Release" for their new albums. Have seperate artist discography, have links to buy concert tickets (earn refferal fees) or get news on them.
Ease up on the DRM - I'm positive Apple probably didn't want DRM-like restrictions on the files. However, it was probably neccessary to hook the labels into doing it. They've been so scared of what the RIAA has been telling them about "not allowing your customers to do whatever they want with your product" that they probably would never of considered it otherwise. Easing up on the DRM restrictions (or perhaps removing them completely) will give you a huge advantage.
Get on Windows - I know you've been contemplating on doing this, DO IT. Microsoft has a huge marketshare, and thus a lot of money. However, more importantly, you want those Microsoft users on Apple. On your Windows client, make it less-attractive than the iTunes. Within your Windows client, give rebates/coupons for Mac products. Show them that if they like that Windows iTunes, they'd sure love a Mac.
Improve the iPod - I know your improving the iPod, and rightly so. Work towards adding wireless Internet to the iPod so you can buy music right off of it. If you think using your mac to get music is an impulse buy, good God... think about being stranded on campus with nothing to do and with your iPod empty.
Advertise this like hell - I say use around 20% of all profits for the first two quarters to advertise this like hell. Hire the best advertising agencies, you must act fast to water down the competition and market Apple as being the "first". I can hear the people scrambling in Redmond as I type this.
That's just a sample of what I've been thinking. *sigh* I should work for Apple:/
Without DRM, you can't restrict free trading of files on P2P networks. What will prevent all those AAC files from iTunes appear on Kazaa... the business model will fail that day.
Though I agree Apple is doing a wonderful service to music lovers everywhere, and this is pretty much what everyone has been dreaming and begging the RIAA for, I have to disgree with you about this.
The reason why this service is and is going to be popular is because it's easy. This is Apple's strong point. They can take something very confusing, an operating system for example, and make it simple, easy and even fun to use. When you compare iTunes/their Music Store/iPod etc. to a File Sharing servent, iTunes wins because it's easy and fast to do. Something you make not realize (since your probably a "geek" (no offense)) is that some people aren't good with computers, they don't want to learn how to use Kazaa or other complicated P2P proggies. Granted, there are some out there that are relativly easy to use, but iTunes pretty much wins there. It's another reason why people go and buy Albums in stores, because it's easier to do than start up Kazaa and sit infront of a computer all day with pop-ups, spyware etc. fighting to find the file you want and all the while frightened that the **AA might bust down your door and throw you into the slammer.
So, to sum up, iTunes is strong because:
It's damn easy to use
There aren't fake files, low quality files, files with virus's, mislableled files
It's morally correct
It's addictive (impulse buys)
Even if those files went into Kazaa, what would it matter? Do you seriously think everyone who is on iTunes would go on Kazaa if everything on there was on there for free? I doubt it.
The FastTrack network IS decentralised, at least compared to Napster. There is no central listing of IPs/files, but rather supernode servers, which consist of users with fast connections, and these are the IPs that are queried when searching. This somewhat ingenious design results in a fast network with an almost unlimited capacity to expand, but yet which is easily searchable by users, and pretty much decentralised (I doubt Kazaa need or want to run any Napster-like indexing servers).
Well, I don't think there is any way to tell right now. Sure, they don't have a single server that indexes files for them. But they do have centralized components, and not just the discovery services. There was someone who leaked information that Kazaa has dedicated supernode servers which act as "SUPERsupernodes", you might say, that are dominant over supernode clusters on the network. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. Their network technology is pretty primitive, it's only encrypted.
And I'm not interested in their discovery services AFTER they're connected, but rather a users entrance point into the network. Do they include a list of supernodes with the install? (Like eDonkey with.met's, which would be difficult IMO because you may be a supernode one day, and a regular old node the next)... or what?
"Aha", you cry, "that's the central server!" but of course the server list isn't downloaded from anything run by edonkey or emule. They don't have a central server for such things. There are a number of lists put together by different people via their own web sites. If the one I use went off line I'd switch to another, and so on. No central point required.
Um, but you see that itself is a discovery service. Server.met's are discovery services. On eDonkey, server locations don't ussually change. However, on Kazaa one Cable user may be a supernode one day, then the next just be a normal node. What I consider a "Discovery Service" is how you get connected to the network. You have to know a Supernode to connect to. Sure, every P2P network exchanges supernode lists (Gnutella2 has KHL - Known Hub Lists, which are sent every 60 seconds from your Hub). Every P2P client needs a starting point, and so does Grokster. That is one possibility that Grokster inclues a list of known supernodes they've recorded on their network, but because these supernodes often change (may go offline, change IP's etc.) I doubt it.
Slyck Ciarán: Janus Friis recently told Slyck that "Grokster is an older customized version of KMD/FT" and that older versions "supernode server to fetch seed IP addresses when not available locally". The verdict seemed to clear Gokster Ltd of operating any supernode server. Can you categorically say that Grokster does not need a supernode server and if not how does it fetch the location of supernodes when not availably locally?
Grokster: Grokster does not operate a Supernode server or a server with IP addresses or any type of server that interfaces in any way with the operation of Grokster or FastTrack with the exception of ad serving via the Start page. Grokster does not need a Supernode server to operate.
That doesn't sound right to me. They didn't completely answer the question: what discovery services do they use? Every P2P Servent has discovery services. Kazaa has a bootstrap server, Gnutella/Gnutella2 (Shareaza, Gnucleus etc.) has GWebCache... what does Grokster have? I seriously can't think of another way to obtain a list of "Supernodes"/"Hubs"/"Ultrapeers" other than a centralized location. Well, maybe port scanning a range of IP's to see if they're running Grokster and know of any Supernodes, but I don't think they'd do that...
It just seems like they were avoiding that question, trying to get Grokster "unaffiliated" with anything "central". Because "central" = easy to shut down.
Frankly, I really don't care what happens to Grokster. Grokster isn't in for it for the evolution of P2P technology, but rather money. Hell, they didn't even really code Grokster, they just license other P2P clients from other companies which were created from other companies. All they do then is create cute GUI layer then stuff it to oblivion with Spyware and other ads which yield them, apprently, "millions".
What I think won this case was their defense that P2P can be used for "good things". They probably use Gnutella as a prime example, where the network is free, open and decentralized. FastTrack (the network Grokster is modeled after) is none of those. IMO, it's a three strikes your out philosophy. Is your closed source? Strike. (Okay, you can get away with that one) Is your client network closed? Strike. Do you earn profit? Strike. Grokster is outa' here.
What's this? GWB saying one thing and then doing the complete opposite?
How do you even know Bush has anything to do with this? This is an unconfirmed story after all. I don't agree at all with this, BTW, but we should wait until it's confirmed to critize the Bush administration of anything.
And he gets away with it 'cause the 24 hour "news" channels don't have the will or the stones to make, afraid that they'll lose interviews or access or credibility among people who made the WWE and NASCAR such powerhouses.
Huh? FOX News critized NASCAR before. Your making ungrounded assumptions.
that poor Senator from PA who's under attack by crazy lefties just because he hates homosexuals.
That is really blown out of proportion. What really happened was:
1. Cops find Gays having sex, arrests them (under their current, stupid law)
2. People say State has no right to make laws in the privacy of someones home
3. "Senator from PA" says wait: the State should be able to have power in the bedroom, because then your saying "anything goes" which is not right. State needs to be able to make incest, rape etc. illegal in the bedroom.
4. "Senator from PA"'s statement taken out of context and blown out of proportion, people say he "hates homosexuals" which he even said was untrue and there is no evidence to show that fact.
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Don't spin this.
First of all, it's Rumsfeld, not "Rumsfelt". Rumsfeld basically said if your trumpeting what's wrong in Iraq, rather than what's good (and there is more going on that's good than bad), you are helping our enemies. Not only is winning the peace within Iraq and the finding the physical war on terrorism important, but winning hearts and minds as well. And when you have your own American populace and media focusing on the negative, rather than the positive things, that makes things difficult.
Regarding the democratic canidates, I don't think any of them are worthy. They're more focused on critizing the president, or sometimes themselves, rather than giving clear plans on how they'll handle things. I hope Dean wins the primary, though. Bush will win in a landslide.
Is that the liberal myth of McCarthy (aka Mycarthism) or the real McCarthy?
Huh? Majority of the articles I see are supporting India. The Slashdot community is overwhemlingly liberal, so you won't see many patriotic/pro-US commentary.
The danger with immortality is that it goes against Nature/(or what conservatives would call) God's rules.
For example, what if Hitler had some immortality pill? Or Usama bin Laden? Sadam? You can run, but you can't hide. If you were able to evade someone killing you, you can't evade nature. You'll eventually get old and die.
Another example, racist generations. It's hard to remove their racist feelings, but nature takes care of that by killing their entire generation off. This allows society to evolve. If they were still around today, it would be hard for society to improve.
Or what if we still had some corrupt politicans still in Washington today because of immortality? I don't think that would be good either.
Soooo... -1
While I'm not crazy about everything Bush has done so far, I support him a lot more than any of these other democratic canidates. I think the appeal of the democratic party is fading out in a lot of Americans, they're now more interested in national security rather than domestic issues. If the economy is "good" & WMD/Saddam etc. is found by 2004, Bush will win in a land slide.
Another problem for the democratic party is that nobody knows any of the canidates. I've asked a few people I know (who are democrats) who'd they vote for, and everyone responds with "Is Hillary running?" or "Probably Gore".
Howard Dean needs to be more open about what he supports and what he doesn't, he's too worried about what people think of him. (Like on the Gay Marriage issue) If he isn't honest in these interviews, how can Americans trust him?
WinMX? Please. WinMX is going the way of the dinosaur; it has tremendously long queues, it's UI is probably the worst I've ever seen, and it's basically turned into a file TRADING network instead of a file SHARING network. I suggest you check out Shareaza instead :P It has BitTorrent & eDonkey support.
Yes, Critein did say that he'd let Saddam have refuge in Canada. I'd goggle it, but I'm busy.
When I first got into Anime around 3 or 4 years ago (When I was 14 or 15) I found it really interesting that everyone who offered Anime up for download or Anime fansub groups would not promote distribution of licensed Anime, and that's still true today. (Though, it kind of sucks cause Anime is ussually licensed before the fansub group can even finish it) If you request or go around looking for licensed Anime, you won't really find it, or if you do it will be on a P2P network or some other non-fan supportive medium.
The entire FAQ is an interesting success story which shows that not everyone is out to pirate and rip off companies just becuase they can. If you have a good product which people like, it will accumulate a fanbase and they'll help create junior policies and "implied social contracts" against people that would harm your company. It's why I thought FOX made a huge mistake with their "cease and decist" letters against Simpsons fansites which caused many of the best Simpsons fansites to go off the web, all because they had some JPEG's of Bart or a 2 minute video clip of their favorite scene in an episode. Now everyone is realizing that fansites help companies earn more profit (because you have more explosure & a dedicated fanbase, among other things).
People hate Fox because it has some conservative/republican content on it. To liberals, ANY conservative views on any media automatically deems it some kind of anti-gay/pro-war/oil-cowboy entity.
- Saddam is no more, Iraq is free
- North Korea wants to cooperate
- Iran wants to cooperate
- No terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 9/11
Seems pretty good to me. I think the U.S. is being waay too easy on the U.N. I mean, with Canada saying it will let Saddam stay in it's country, with France offering VISA's to Saddam & family, Russia giving Saddam reports on meetings with the U.S... why would you want to trust those people with anything? International Opinion != Right. You should read this.In 40 years or so there will be replicators where all you will need is a carbon block and some [pirated] scripts and you can make whatever you want through the glory of nanotechnology. What will they do regarding copyright, copy protection etc. then? Outlaw replicators? Will corperations and law restrict us from advancing in technology/quality of life? Personally, I think we'll have to move into more of a socialistic/non-capitalistic society.
Hear that Windows users?! Why use Windows when you can use an operating system that was done for FUN?!
Probably the only Segway in a 50 mile radius.
Personal Rapid Transit, IMO, is the future. You can see some of it at Taxi2000. I don't like how some of the prototype's look (look flaky, cheap) but it's on the right track. (no pun intended)
I posted this somewhere else in the barrage of posts above me, but I'll repost it here so everyone can see:
The trailer is from the ending of the "Enter the Matrix" video game. You can download it from Suprnova via BitTorrent or from G2 via Shareaza here. Enjoy.
I agree, that was a good episode. Even TrekNation's review is positive. So was Judgment, which got a "Warp 5" rating on Trek5, which IMO is rather good considering most of their reviews were fair and harsh (but they were right about nearly all of them). And last weeks episode, The Breach was also very good. (Got 4/5 @ TrekNation). So people who say this series is a failure, well... perhaps you should start watching again, because it seems to be getting really good lately.
Regarding the last episode, it was good. However, I hope they don't stop at a little "suicide" to create the Prime Directive, and instead something major... like the accidental distruction of a planet (Give one race WMD and they whipe out another or something).
To ensure the marketshare you have now stays where it is and to attract more, do the following:
- Create a Community - One thing companies are only now learning is that their fanbase/community is an invaluable marketing tool. Before lawyers of TV shows sued websites for having pictures of the actors on them, now they encourage it. Amazon is a classic success story in community. If you have a community, they'll become loyal customers. So, what kind of Community am I talking about?
Allow users to create their own "Albums" by picking tracks from the database. Then allow them to feature their Albums throughout the site. People should be able to "Rate" and comment on those custom albums. Then have a page where the top 50 or so are featured. Let the creators of that album get some of that revanue, maybe 5-15%.
Allow users to rate and comment on all Albums on the site. Feature a page of the "highest ranked/rated albums". Open up forums where users can discuss genres, artists and new releases. Create mailing lists for each artist, e-mail the users when a new release for that artist comes out. Have "Auto-Pre Release" for their new albums. Have seperate artist discography, have links to buy concert tickets (earn refferal fees) or get news on them.
- Ease up on the DRM - I'm positive Apple probably didn't want DRM-like restrictions on the files. However, it was probably neccessary to hook the labels into doing it. They've been so scared of what the RIAA has been telling them about "not allowing your customers to do whatever they want with your product" that they probably would never of considered it otherwise. Easing up on the DRM restrictions (or perhaps removing them completely) will give you a huge advantage.
- Get on Windows - I know you've been contemplating on doing this, DO IT. Microsoft has a huge marketshare, and thus a lot of money. However, more importantly, you want those Microsoft users on Apple. On your Windows client, make it less-attractive than the iTunes. Within your Windows client, give rebates/coupons for Mac products. Show them that if they like that Windows iTunes, they'd sure love a Mac.
- Improve the iPod - I know your improving the iPod, and rightly so. Work towards adding wireless Internet to the iPod so you can buy music right off of it. If you think using your mac to get music is an impulse buy, good God... think about being stranded on campus with nothing to do and with your iPod empty.
- Advertise this like hell - I say use around 20% of all profits for the first two quarters to advertise this like hell. Hire the best advertising agencies, you must act fast to water down the competition and market Apple as being the "first". I can hear the people scrambling in Redmond as I type this.
That's just a sample of what I've been thinking. *sigh* I should work for AppleThe reason why this service is and is going to be popular is because it's easy. This is Apple's strong point. They can take something very confusing, an operating system for example, and make it simple, easy and even fun to use. When you compare iTunes/their Music Store/iPod etc. to a File Sharing servent, iTunes wins because it's easy and fast to do. Something you make not realize (since your probably a "geek" (no offense)) is that some people aren't good with computers, they don't want to learn how to use Kazaa or other complicated P2P proggies. Granted, there are some out there that are relativly easy to use, but iTunes pretty much wins there. It's another reason why people go and buy Albums in stores, because it's easier to do than start up Kazaa and sit infront of a computer all day with pop-ups, spyware etc. fighting to find the file you want and all the while frightened that the **AA might bust down your door and throw you into the slammer.
So, to sum up, iTunes is strong because:
- It's damn easy to use
- There aren't fake files, low quality files, files with virus's, mislableled files
- It's morally correct
- It's addictive (impulse buys)
Even if those files went into Kazaa, what would it matter? Do you seriously think everyone who is on iTunes would go on Kazaa if everything on there was on there for free? I doubt it.Well, I don't think there is any way to tell right now. Sure, they don't have a single server that indexes files for them. But they do have centralized components, and not just the discovery services. There was someone who leaked information that Kazaa has dedicated supernode servers which act as "SUPERsupernodes", you might say, that are dominant over supernode clusters on the network. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. Their network technology is pretty primitive, it's only encrypted.
And I'm not interested in their discovery services AFTER they're connected, but rather a users entrance point into the network. Do they include a list of supernodes with the install? (Like eDonkey with
That doesn't sound right to me. They didn't completely answer the question: what discovery services do they use? Every P2P Servent has discovery services. Kazaa has a bootstrap server, Gnutella/Gnutella2 (Shareaza, Gnucleus etc.) has GWebCache... what does Grokster have? I seriously can't think of another way to obtain a list of "Supernodes"/"Hubs"/"Ultrapeers" other than a centralized location. Well, maybe port scanning a range of IP's to see if they're running Grokster and know of any Supernodes, but I don't think they'd do that...
It just seems like they were avoiding that question, trying to get Grokster "unaffiliated" with anything "central". Because "central" = easy to shut down.
Frankly, I really don't care what happens to Grokster. Grokster isn't in for it for the evolution of P2P technology, but rather money. Hell, they didn't even really code Grokster, they just license other P2P clients from other companies which were created from other companies. All they do then is create cute GUI layer then stuff it to oblivion with Spyware and other ads which yield them, apprently, "millions".
What I think won this case was their defense that P2P can be used for "good things". They probably use Gnutella as a prime example, where the network is free, open and decentralized. FastTrack (the network Grokster is modeled after) is none of those. IMO, it's a three strikes your out philosophy. Is your closed source? Strike. (Okay, you can get away with that one) Is your client network closed? Strike. Do you earn profit? Strike. Grokster is outa' here.
Huh? FOX News critized NASCAR before. Your making ungrounded assumptions.
That is really blown out of proportion. What really happened was:
1. Cops find Gays having sex, arrests them (under their current, stupid law)
2. People say State has no right to make laws in the privacy of someones home
3. "Senator from PA" says wait: the State should be able to have power in the bedroom, because then your saying "anything goes" which is not right. State needs to be able to make incest, rape etc. illegal in the bedroom.
4. "Senator from PA"'s statement taken out of context and blown out of proportion, people say he "hates homosexuals" which he even said was untrue and there is no evidence to show that fact.
It's because its a low-carbohydrate diet. Lowering carbs is more important than lowering fat or calories.
In other words, they ripped it off.
Exactly. And all those silly fools who cried a bloody river about Microsoft releasing their "free" alternative included within Windows.
Yea, what cry babies!