It seems like any time I have a couple of people over to hang out at my apartment, at some point everyone whips out their laptops to check email, livejournal, slashdot, IM other people in the room suggestively and surreptitiously, etc. I guess this could be considered a LAN party, though we're not playing Quake...
Hey, at the end of the quiz I can't seem to find the part where it tells you which Icon of Open Source you are most like, and gives you a nice bit of html to copy into your Blog. I was guessing I was somewhere in between Wil Wheaton and Joe Greyhat.
If you don't like a billboard, then buy the property on which it is located and tear down the billboard. But you are hard-pressed to claim that the billboard interfered with your work or cost you money.
Why is something only important if it costs me money? If they put a landfill next to my house, that wouldn't cost me any money, and might even make money for my neighborhood, but I don't want to live next to a stinking trash heap.
Okay, this article may be perfectly legit, if ancient, but the way it's presented is really bad. Specifically, I'm thinking of the tag at the top, "Slashdotters: yes it's real"
Rather than saying "no really, this happened" why not just cite your sources and leave it at that? It just comes off as being overly shady and/or defensive.
I would comment on this story, but it was obscured from my vision by a thick haze of pop-ups and flash ads. Oh well, I guess it can wait until I get home.
I used to work for Record Exchange (based in Ohio) and their policy was to take ID information from anyone selling used merchandise. We actually caught quite a few people selling stolen items this way.. But as for IDing used record *purchasers*? I can't imagine a justification for that.
I guess this was modded Funny because there is no +1 Scary option.. I don't really see this as being that big a stretch for the recording industry to move to these types of tactics.
"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."
Here's a google translation of the original letter sent out by Mr xxx, the original German can be found here.
Mail of EMI (attention, long text)
RF600R (27 October 2002 17:13)
Hello,
after bought CD ran in none of my devices, I had one
Mail written EMI. Here can do you my Mail and the answer
from EMI read.
schnipp --
Ladies and Gentlemen,
yesterday I acquired the CD of TOTO "Through the looking glass". Up
the back is to be read:
"It is designed tons compatible with CD audioplayers, DVD players
and PC-OS, ms Windows 95, Pentium II 233 MHz 64MB RAM or more higher."
These statements are definitely wrong!
* Only the pieces of 1-8 in my DVD Player leave themselves actual
play. The pieces of 9-11 appear not and are not
playable. A common CD Player does not possess I no more, so that
these CD becomes worthless.
* My Macintosh with MAC OS X 10,2,1 with that actually plays
Software of itunes only the pieces of 1-7. All remaining pieces appear
as only one audio TRACK, which is playable to the half only.
Result: the CD is worthless.
* My PC with Windows XP actually plays the CD only with up
that CD Player present off. Unfortunately you conceal the fact,
that this Player is mandatory on the CD Cover. There I very much
carefully the software selects, which I on my computer
is installed and I do not force themselves leave, proprietaere
Software to use, is worthless as result these CD.
I insured myself fortunately with the purchase that I these
CD if necessary under refunding the purchase price to return can. This is
but only possible, since the dealer was so obliging.
In the long run the copy protection does not fulfill its task, because it applies
obviously: Copy protection = purchase protection!
This is the more unfortunaty, there I an expressed fan of
the group of TOTO are and all albums possesses among other things. Too it harms that IT
prevented that I also the most current work at my cabinet
to place can. Because I tend to also hear the music, which I buy.
PilotFederal Labour Office-close I do not need.
Altogether I would like you from given cause mine comment to
Topic copy protection convey:
Unfortunately you that not only the bad robbery copiers debt survey on
Their recession in sales are. Rather are the rather following reasons
decisive:
* The main consumer - young people - give a majority of their
Budget for Handys out,
* with the DVD a competition medium appeared on the market, that
deeply into the Gefilden of the music industry it fishes because it applies that one
a euro only once to spend can and everyone more or less
limited budget has
* by the copy protection is playing the CDs on DVD Playern
not or only very reduced possible. Many households are only
still with DVD Playern equips. Unfortunately you cut yourselves thereby in
own meat. Much toericht.
* there is no copy protection, which is not to be cracked: -)
Altogether you ignore simply the fact that each salesman
by law is permitted to make a copy of its bought CD.
Their behavior is altogether illegal. Unfortunately it shows up here that those
Disk industry obviously a too strong lobby has.
Result: I become no more CD from their still from another house
buy, which is equipped with a copy protection. They are in
my household not playable and thus worthlessly.
How do you intend to recover me in the future as customers?
There will be an equilibrium to everything humans do. If we eat too much food, one of two things will happen: we figure out how to make more food, or we die. Period.
I would prefer to not get to the point of starvation. Since, as sentient humans, we are able to look forward and see the potential consequences of our wastefulness, would it not be better to curb our actions in such a way that we can prepare for and possibly avoid the inevitable global starvation? I get grumpy when I miss dinner for a day, I can't imagine what it would be like to _actually_ be starving. Okay, so 83% is a stupid made up number, but I'm sure we can find other studies that can back up the fact that we are misusing land on a massive scale. I think the point of this article was probably to draw attention to that in a sensational way, which they've accomplished.
Wow. I think my head is going to explode. The russian doll-like implications are kind of neat, though. Perhaps every black hole is just a pocket universe?
As a moral point, anyone who believes that competition is a good thing and a monopoly is a bad thing should skip Playstation 2 titles, no matter how good, and get a Gamecube or XBOX instead.
So, wait.. someone who doesn't like monopolies should buy a Microsoft product? That seems like strange reasoning to me.
Don't know if this will be useful to anyone, but there have been several other crashes involving this same plane. Here's a link to a report dealing with this.
-cobweb
Slashdot Mirror
It seems like any time I have a couple of people over to hang out at my apartment, at some point everyone whips out their laptops to check email, livejournal, slashdot, IM other people in the room suggestively and surreptitiously, etc. I guess this could be considered a LAN party, though we're not playing Quake...
I think someone needs to do this to a coworkers cube while they're on vacation or something.. Now *that* would be good.
Hey, at the end of the quiz I can't seem to find the part where it tells you which Icon of Open Source you are most like, and gives you a nice bit of html to copy into your Blog. I was guessing I was somewhere in between Wil Wheaton and Joe Greyhat.
Wait, biggest software threat.. update. You weren't talking about the Mac 10.3 update. Sorry, here's your cookie back...
Oh, man... I can't believe you left out 2.6! No cookie for you..
Lets not get carried away and call every piece of buggy software "spyware". The Comcast software may suck, but it's not spyware.
If you don't like a billboard, then buy the property on which it is located and tear down the billboard. But you are hard-pressed to claim that the billboard interfered with your work or cost you money.
Why is something only important if it costs me money? If they put a landfill next to my house, that wouldn't cost me any money, and might even make money for my neighborhood, but I don't want to live next to a stinking trash heap.
Hmm, I was thinking of it as a thermonuclear money shot, myself.
Okay, this article may be perfectly legit, if ancient, but the way it's presented is really bad. Specifically, I'm thinking of the tag at the top, "Slashdotters: yes it's real"
Rather than saying "no really, this happened" why not just cite your sources and leave it at that? It just comes off as being overly shady and/or defensive.
I would comment on this story, but it was obscured from my vision by a thick haze of pop-ups and flash ads. Oh well, I guess it can wait until I get home.
I used to work for Record Exchange (based in Ohio) and their policy was to take ID information from anyone selling used merchandise. We actually caught quite a few people selling stolen items this way.. But as for IDing used record *purchasers*? I can't imagine a justification for that.
Thank you thank you thank you for not including a ??? and a Profit! in there.
I guess this was modded Funny because there is no +1 Scary option.. I don't really see this as being that big a stretch for the recording industry to move to these types of tactics.
All I need is one of these:
"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."
I ran the original through a google translater, for us english speaking-types:
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Here's a google translation of the original letter sent out by Mr xxx, the original German can be found here.
Mail of EMI (attention, long text) RF600R (27 October 2002 17:13) Hello,
after bought CD ran in none of my devices, I had one Mail written EMI. Here can do you my Mail and the answer from EMI read.
schnipp --
Ladies and Gentlemen,
yesterday I acquired the CD of TOTO "Through the looking glass". Up the back is to be read:
"It is designed tons compatible with CD audioplayers, DVD players and PC-OS, ms Windows 95, Pentium II 233 MHz 64MB RAM or more higher."
These statements are definitely wrong!
* Only the pieces of 1-8 in my DVD Player leave themselves actual play. The pieces of 9-11 appear not and are not playable. A common CD Player does not possess I no more, so that these CD becomes worthless.
* My Macintosh with MAC OS X 10,2,1 with that actually plays Software of itunes only the pieces of 1-7. All remaining pieces appear as only one audio TRACK, which is playable to the half only. Result: the CD is worthless.
* My PC with Windows XP actually plays the CD only with up that CD Player present off. Unfortunately you conceal the fact, that this Player is mandatory on the CD Cover. There I very much carefully the software selects, which I on my computer is installed and I do not force themselves leave, proprietaere Software to use, is worthless as result these CD.
I insured myself fortunately with the purchase that I these CD if necessary under refunding the purchase price to return can. This is but only possible, since the dealer was so obliging.
In the long run the copy protection does not fulfill its task, because it applies obviously: Copy protection = purchase protection!
This is the more unfortunaty, there I an expressed fan of the group of TOTO are and all albums possesses among other things. Too it harms that IT prevented that I also the most current work at my cabinet to place can. Because I tend to also hear the music, which I buy. PilotFederal Labour Office-close I do not need.
Altogether I would like you from given cause mine comment to Topic copy protection convey:
Unfortunately you that not only the bad robbery copiers debt survey on Their recession in sales are. Rather are the rather following reasons decisive:
* The main consumer - young people - give a majority of their Budget for Handys out, * with the DVD a competition medium appeared on the market, that deeply into the Gefilden of the music industry it fishes because it applies that one a euro only once to spend can and everyone more or less limited budget has * by the copy protection is playing the CDs on DVD Playern not or only very reduced possible. Many households are only still with DVD Playern equips. Unfortunately you cut yourselves thereby in own meat. Much toericht. * there is no copy protection, which is not to be cracked: -)
Altogether you ignore simply the fact that each salesman by law is permitted to make a copy of its bought CD. Their behavior is altogether illegal. Unfortunately it shows up here that those Disk industry obviously a too strong lobby has.
Result: I become no more CD from their still from another house buy, which is equipped with a copy protection. They are in my household not playable and thus worthlessly.
How do you intend to recover me in the future as customers?
Faithfully,
xxx
What are these "CD's" of which you speak? I'll be really pissed when they start copy-protecting vinyl.
I want to see Henry Rollins and Danzig get it on.
I'm certain there's something wrong with this sentance, but I can't put my finger on it...
There will be an equilibrium to everything humans do. If we eat too much food, one of two things will happen: we figure out how to make more food, or we die. Period.
I would prefer to not get to the point of starvation. Since, as sentient humans, we are able to look forward and see the potential consequences of our wastefulness, would it not be better to curb our actions in such a way that we can prepare for and possibly avoid the inevitable global starvation? I get grumpy when I miss dinner for a day, I can't imagine what it would be like to _actually_ be starving. Okay, so 83% is a stupid made up number, but I'm sure we can find other studies that can back up the fact that we are misusing land on a massive scale. I think the point of this article was probably to draw attention to that in a sensational way, which they've accomplished.
Wow. I think my head is going to explode. The russian doll-like implications are kind of neat, though. Perhaps every black hole is just a pocket universe?
The world gets more and more like transmet every day.
As a moral point, anyone who believes that competition is a good thing and a monopoly is a bad thing should skip Playstation 2 titles, no matter how good, and get a Gamecube or XBOX instead.
So, wait.. someone who doesn't like monopolies should buy a Microsoft product? That seems like strange reasoning to me.
But as soon as we know that there is reproduction with information being passed on, we know that it is life.
So then, would computer viruses and such count as life?
Don't know if this will be useful to anyone, but there have been several other crashes involving this same plane. Here's a link to a report dealing with this. -cobweb