You neglected to include "Remember the recent slashdot story on NASA cancelling the moon hoax book?" in your comment. Like most Slashdotters, I'm too lazy to read the brief write-up, so at first your comment made no sense to me.
Re:For all those bashing "Blogs"
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Blogger Hacked
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Incidentally, that particular BBS is still running, more than seven years later. I've checked in on a couple occasions, only to find the exact same users, arguing about the exact same things, obsessing over the same miniscule and irrelevant BBS policies, carving the same mountains out of molehills -- seven years later. It gave me the chills. I sometimes wonder if they're not trapped in some kind of Sartrian hell.
Change "seven years" to "five years", and you've summed up Slashdot quite nicely.
Darn, why did I have to do that as Anonymous Coward??? The one fp that god modded up 2+... AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!
Re:Good.. we need Ideas, not just complaints
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Its going to come, one way or another,
No, it is not unavoidable. If enough of us spread the word, it can be stopped. Even if it is adopted, rebellion is possible. [godwin's law] After all, we fought off Hitler, right? [/godwin]
so the best course of action is to attempt to develope one that is "Fair".
No Digital Ristrictions Management system will ever be "fair". It's about giving arbitrary enteties the power to restrict people from doing things at their whim. This does not necesarily represent the law.
As Bruce Perens said, though on another issue, "If we keep backing up, we'll end up with our backs against the wall."
If it means that you cant send your DVD you ripped over the net, Fine, you cant do it,
Fine?? What if the disc is public domain? What about when it becomes public domain? What if copyright law changes some day to allow this?
You would still be restricted.
Are there any Open Source projects thinking about DRM? I dont know how it would work but it must be possible.
There is no way this will happen; DRM ristricts users, and users don't like it, so therefore if an open source project adds DRM, it will be removed, and the author's reputation will be seriously damaged. After all, reputation is the main driving force for OSS development.
I wonder how much bandwidth could be saved annually if people who developed webpages maybe optimized their html a little better? Removing extraneous spacings, simplifying form field namings ("fn" instead of "FirstName"), that kind of thing. Especially sites that get insane amounts of traffic. You know, like Slashdot.:)
When netoworks came to Egypt land, let us gratis surf, They raked in cash fist under hand, let us gratis surf, Refrain: Go down, users, way down in Egypt's land; tell Tel'com Egypt let us gratis surf!
What PR firm do you work for? Your post is completly against the opinions of the tech/open source community, seems deliberatly misleading, starts by assuming that anyone could have the right to censor linking and that nobody should take their $deity given right away, and it contains no spelling errors.
You keep talking saying "Why should people be forced to allow linking?". How can anyone be allowed to censor links? Do you think publ^H^H^H^Hauthors should have the power to censor reviews of their products? Or maybe the ISBN in the review? And should travel guides be forbiden from giving locations of restaurants? Landmarks? No way!
Why should I have to search the web every week or so to find a new link to my site, check out the linking site, and see if I need to post a disclaimer? That takes time and time is money.
You don't need to do this, even with free linking.
If a linking site suddely changes what they have to say about you, you tell them not to link to you anymore.
So if someone says something about you that you don't want them to say, you make them shut up? Riiight... Ever hear of the first amendment?
But if it's some guy who posted a cool case mod on his computer connected by MediaOne or whatever, then give him a break, and send him a quick e-mail before you link to it. It's just common courtesy. But then again, common courtesy seems to be non-existant these days.
This has nothing to do with the point. Yes, an email would be nice, be nobody should have the power to censor links.
You're a great PR guy. Give my compliments to your employer for hiring you.
Slashdot Mirror
In Soviet Russia, the government spies on you! Oh wait, it also happens here in America?
Pirates bust the RIAA
Approximately 25 percent of the product seized was Latin music.
Odd, I thought Latin was a dead language.
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Happy Hacking.
You neglected to include "Remember the recent slashdot story on NASA cancelling the moon hoax book?" in your comment. Like most Slashdotters, I'm too lazy to read the brief write-up, so at first your comment made no sense to me.
Baaah, Baaaaaaaaaaah, *ClickClickClick* Baaah! [runs to telephone booth, changes into... SUPER /. SHEEP!] Baah dah dah baaaaaaaaah! *wget -m --delete after* Baahahahahahaha! *adds cron job*
Microsoft was right! Open source is viral!
Incidentally, that particular BBS is still running, more than seven years later. I've checked in on a couple occasions, only to find the exact same users, arguing about the exact same things, obsessing over the same miniscule and irrelevant BBS policies, carving the same mountains out of molehills -- seven years later. It gave me the chills. I sometimes wonder if they're not trapped in some kind of Sartrian hell.
Change "seven years" to "five years", and you've summed up Slashdot quite nicely.
Ignore! Ignore! O stupid me! /me puts on paper bag
D'oh! /me puts on paper bag
You're just jealous that he registered 1,337 users before j00...
(I kid you not! Do the math, 4366383-4367720=1337!)
With a 6 digit UID I doubt slashdot took five years of *your* life ;)
4,366,383 = 6 digits? Slashdot Math(tm), I presume...
One word: GeekPAC.
Ye gods! "Emacs rocks, vi sucks!" is nothing, compared to this flamebait!
Darn, why did I have to do that as Anonymous Coward???
The one fp that god modded up 2+...
AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!
No, it is not unavoidable.
If enough of us spread the word, it can be stopped. Even if it is adopted, rebellion is possible.
[godwin's law]
After all, we fought off Hitler, right?
[/godwin]
No Digital Ristrictions Management system will ever be "fair". It's about giving arbitrary enteties the power to restrict people from doing things at their whim. This does not necesarily represent the law.
As Bruce Perens said, though on another issue, "If we keep backing up, we'll end up with our backs against the wall."
Fine?? What if the disc is public domain? What about when it becomes public domain? What if copyright law changes some day to allow this?
You would still be restricted.
There is no way this will happen; DRM ristricts users, and users don't like it, so therefore if an open source project adds DRM, it will be removed, and the author's reputation will be seriously damaged. After all, reputation is the main driving force for OSS development.
That's why
When netoworks came to Egypt land,
let us gratis surf,
They raked in cash fist under hand,
let us gratis surf,
Refrain:
Go down, users,
way down in Egypt's land;
tell Tel'com Egypt
let us gratis surf!
Heh, eglooG looks like Google Klingon...
Ack, please don't use that word!
It lumps together copyright, patents, trademarks, and more, which are completly different.
In addition, it creates an analogy to physical property, which, unlike ideas, is scarce.
After all, "A candle loses nothing by lighting others"
Please don't use this propagandaish term. If you're talking about copyright law, say copyrights. If patent law, say patents.
6. ???
7. Profit!
You keep talking saying "Why should people be forced to allow linking?". How can anyone be allowed to censor links? Do you think publ^H^H^H^Hauthors should have the power to censor reviews of their products? Or maybe the ISBN in the review? And should travel guides be forbiden from giving locations of restaurants? Landmarks? No way!
Why should I have to search the web every week or so to find a new link to my site, check out the linking site, and see if I need to post a disclaimer? That takes time and time is money.
You don't need to do this, even with free linking.
If a linking site suddely changes what they have to say about you, you tell them not to link to you anymore.
So if someone says something about you that you don't want them to say, you make them shut up? Riiight... Ever hear of the first amendment?
But if it's some guy who posted a cool case mod on his computer connected by MediaOne or whatever, then give him a break, and send him a quick e-mail before you link to it. It's just common courtesy. But then again, common courtesy seems to be non-existant these days.
This has nothing to do with the point. Yes, an email would be nice, be nobody should have the power to censor links.
You're a great PR guy. Give my compliments to your employer for hiring you.
8/20/02,
:(
Dell generic comps will sell,
So called "white boxes"
The model is called,
White Box D510,
Goes for $499
It comes with Celron,
CD-ROM and floppy disk,
And Windows XP
What do people say?
Analysts like idea, but,
HP unimpressed