When you spray pesticides on a population, and only one plant is resistant, that plant thrives. To date, the MPAA has not allowed the porno industry to join its ranks; after all, it's responsible for regulating morality for America via PG and PG-13. So if they go after movie swappers, but not PORN movie swappers, won't this have the effect of creating a population of p2p shared movies which are "safe" - that is, just porn?
It's noon on the East Coast, this story is being read by tons of people from work, and a lot of people can be fired if their web proxy detects them downloading pictures like this. I can't direct link to the image because it's generated by a PHP script, but basically it's a topless woman holding a string to barely cover some of her nipples. You could get fired for looking at that at most companies, and it's on the main page of the story link to boingboing.net. It's on topic and people deserve this warning to keep their jobs!
If you must moderate me down so be it but I don't want anyone fired because a story reviewer was irresponsible.
They can learn nearly any concept from the ground up faster than an adult. Amazingly, they can even do it during the last term of pregnancy, making late-term abortions apalling and John Kerry's stance as a baby killer all the more morally reprehensible. Personally I'm voting to save more of these amazing machines!
And it's message to get out the vote, I'd just like to pass along the reminder not to vote for the lesser of two evils. The false belief that you must do this is what keeps us bound in a single party system. Vote your heart, vote your conscience, help heal America. I'm voting for Nader tomorrow and so are most of my friends here in Ohio but you can do what you wish. Good luck!
Displayed by both sides. Science is the quest to determine how our Universe operates. But if a God/Creator exists, and is all powerful, then our Universe could have been - actually, must have been - "intelligently designed". If science is currently discovering that evolution is the mechanism by which this occurs, discovering that mankind was created by putting a rock in play about a sun with just the right mixture of gasses and stability in it and letting the laws of Physics do their work, then so be it. Evolution is hardly a refutation of religion, and "Creationism" is the pathetic blithering of men who have read their Bible incorrectly.
Einstein rejected more than one theory on the premise that no God would have designed the proposed system - and he was right more often than not. Religion and science are hardly incompatible, except to those of rigid thinking.
Stern basically acted like a 5 year old and accused him of nepotism. He's an appointed official accountable to no one who has used his office to enhance his stock portfolio. Why the hell would he ever show his face, let alone do this interview?
yeah right, they have a whole newsroom doing fact checking for you
What newsroom? Nuclearspace.com is the personal rantsite of known space fetishist Bruce Behrhorst, space forum goon extraordinaire. And absolutely none of his claims can be backed up by the P&W web site. Maybe you should call them instead? Ask them about their Triton nuclear rocket. See what they say.
How do you make a movie without vertical clipping? I think it's going to be a real challenge to explain to the audience why a rocket fired 300 feet below someone can hit them. Should make for interesting cinematography though.
They should have just used their lower costs and economics of scale to undercut the small companies until none were left, then forced all their customers to enter 20-year exclusive contracts. There's no need to use market regulation to enforce your monopoly in a free market- once you've established a trust position in a free market maintaining it is absurdly easy. This is the point of libertarianism- to create a single trust which owns the whole world.
That, or what you think, they ought to want to hear?
Who knows? I believe we should let free market competition be the judge of that. That's the problem with you liberals: always trying to interfere in the marketplace.
What a pretentious, self righteous bastard. Turning off TVs in public places is like jamming other people's cell phones and GPS navigation systems. How would you like it if someone did this in a 911 call center? Wouldn't be so funny as fifty screens worth of emergency calls all flipped off. Turning off TV's at a store which sells televisions is probably great for their business right, it's not like your meddling with their private property. So now one person in an airport can impose their viewpoint on the other 100, and we're cheering for this in a democratic nation. Hello? There's a precedent for this technology, the infrared transmitters which emulate ambulances to switch lights green. They were almost instantly made illegal for private sale.
That would imply that trolls were allowed to ask Neal Stephenson questions, which is impossible because the moderation system elminates all trolling before it reaches a score of +5. Can we get the story amended? All in all a pretty good interview though... very detailed response on encryption tools as weapons.
Large companies are stockpiling software patents in exactly the same mutually-assured-destruction mindset anticipated in the cold war: If you sue me to death, I'll sue you to death. They even have the same peace treaties: I promise not to sue you with my patents if you promise the same. You could call them Patent Noproliferation Pacts.
The fact that that question was sent to the interviewee meant that Slashdot's readers wanted to know his opinion of the patent system. He could have answered it in any manner he chose, but he chose to sidestep it instead because his employer (Google) believes in using patents aggressively in a mutually-assured-destruction way, even if it means the end of Linux. That is why he didn't answer, and your faux-objective pseudointellectual babble isn't fooling anyone.
They just can't have a slashdot topic icon like democrats and republicans do because Slashdot is helping to reinforce our failed two-party system. Isn't it time that, in light of this discrimination, the "Your Rights Online" section get erased? It's obvious no one here actually cares.
It IS part of a natural progression, and one that has been too long in coming. First the retail stores will die, then the major labels that subsidize their product, then the payola radio stations and television stations that centralize their advertising. What will die last is the age of the massively wealthy musician, an anonmoly at best that has led us to such tragedies as Milli Vanilla and Britney. Think of the poor wretch, dear Ludwig Van, who created the greatest music the world has ever seen not for the pennies he was tossed but for his love of the art. This is the soul of music; this is the golden age to which we are returning. Down with the cartels!
Apple iTunes introduced weak DRM at the behest of the content providers in order to coax them into offering their media up for digital distribution. It worked and Apple got rich. And because Google is following the lead of a market leader, they're idiots.
Right? It's either that, OR... there's an idiot in your comment, and it's not Google.
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When you spray pesticides on a population, and only one plant is resistant, that plant thrives. To date, the MPAA has not allowed the porno industry to join its ranks; after all, it's responsible for regulating morality for America via PG and PG-13. So if they go after movie swappers, but not PORN movie swappers, won't this have the effect of creating a population of p2p shared movies which are "safe" - that is, just porn?
I love the law of unintended consequences.
You money grubbing whore.
Here's a whore free link and some healthy capitalist competition to boot.
It's noon on the East Coast, this story is being read by tons of people from work, and a lot of people can be fired if their web proxy detects them downloading pictures like this. I can't direct link to the image because it's generated by a PHP script, but basically it's a topless woman holding a string to barely cover some of her nipples. You could get fired for looking at that at most companies, and it's on the main page of the story link to boingboing.net. It's on topic and people deserve this warning to keep their jobs!
If you must moderate me down so be it but I don't want anyone fired because a story reviewer was irresponsible.
They can learn nearly any concept from the ground up faster than an adult. Amazingly, they can even do it during the last term of pregnancy, making late-term abortions apalling and John Kerry's stance as a baby killer all the more morally reprehensible. Personally I'm voting to save more of these amazing machines!
And it's message to get out the vote, I'd just like to pass along the reminder not to vote for the lesser of two evils. The false belief that you must do this is what keeps us bound in a single party system. Vote your heart, vote your conscience, help heal America. I'm voting for Nader tomorrow and so are most of my friends here in Ohio but you can do what you wish. Good luck!
Displayed by both sides. Science is the quest to determine how our Universe operates. But if a God/Creator exists, and is all powerful, then our Universe could have been - actually, must have been - "intelligently designed". If science is currently discovering that evolution is the mechanism by which this occurs, discovering that mankind was created by putting a rock in play about a sun with just the right mixture of gasses and stability in it and letting the laws of Physics do their work, then so be it. Evolution is hardly a refutation of religion, and "Creationism" is the pathetic blithering of men who have read their Bible incorrectly.
Einstein rejected more than one theory on the premise that no God would have designed the proposed system - and he was right more often than not. Religion and science are hardly incompatible, except to those of rigid thinking.
Stern basically acted like a 5 year old and accused him of nepotism. He's an appointed official accountable to no one who has used his office to enhance his stock portfolio. Why the hell would he ever show his face, let alone do this interview?
Wouldn't that be... the whole world, mostly?
What newsroom? Nuclearspace.com is the personal rantsite of known space fetishist Bruce Behrhorst, space forum goon extraordinaire. And absolutely none of his claims can be backed up by the P&W web site. Maybe you should call them instead? Ask them about their Triton nuclear rocket. See what they say.
How do you make a movie without vertical clipping? I think it's going to be a real challenge to explain to the audience why a rocket fired 300 feet below someone can hit them. Should make for interesting cinematography though.
They should have just used their lower costs and economics of scale to undercut the small companies until none were left, then forced all their customers to enter 20-year exclusive contracts. There's no need to use market regulation to enforce your monopoly in a free market- once you've established a trust position in a free market maintaining it is absurdly easy. This is the point of libertarianism- to create a single trust which owns the whole world.
Who knows? I believe we should let free market competition be the judge of that. That's the problem with you liberals: always trying to interfere in the marketplace.
Radio stations would have to play what people wanted to hear.
Indeed, PostgreSQL is awesome.
Steal his iPod. Tell him it's for his own good.
What a pretentious, self righteous bastard. Turning off TVs in public places is like jamming other people's cell phones and GPS navigation systems. How would you like it if someone did this in a 911 call center? Wouldn't be so funny as fifty screens worth of emergency calls all flipped off. Turning off TV's at a store which sells televisions is probably great for their business right, it's not like your meddling with their private property. So now one person in an airport can impose their viewpoint on the other 100, and we're cheering for this in a democratic nation. Hello? There's a precedent for this technology, the infrared transmitters which emulate ambulances to switch lights green. They were almost instantly made illegal for private sale.
Here's to history.
That would imply that trolls were allowed to ask Neal Stephenson questions, which is impossible because the moderation system elminates all trolling before it reaches a score of +5. Can we get the story amended? All in all a pretty good interview though... very detailed response on encryption tools as weapons.
When Diebold rewrites my vote as a vote for Bush, it's going to be a problem for me the user.
Large companies are stockpiling software patents in exactly the same mutually-assured-destruction mindset anticipated in the cold war: If you sue me to death, I'll sue you to death. They even have the same peace treaties: I promise not to sue you with my patents if you promise the same. You could call them Patent Noproliferation Pacts.
The fact that that question was sent to the interviewee meant that Slashdot's readers wanted to know his opinion of the patent system. He could have answered it in any manner he chose, but he chose to sidestep it instead because his employer (Google) believes in using patents aggressively in a mutually-assured-destruction way, even if it means the end of Linux. That is why he didn't answer, and your faux-objective pseudointellectual babble isn't fooling anyone.
" Comparing patents to nuclear weapons is a bit extreme. "
Now there's a sidestep George Bush would approve of.
Shocking.
They just can't have a slashdot topic icon like democrats and republicans do because Slashdot is helping to reinforce our failed two-party system. Isn't it time that, in light of this discrimination, the "Your Rights Online" section get erased? It's obvious no one here actually cares.
It IS part of a natural progression, and one that has been too long in coming. First the retail stores will die, then the major labels that subsidize their product, then the payola radio stations and television stations that centralize their advertising. What will die last is the age of the massively wealthy musician, an anonmoly at best that has led us to such tragedies as Milli Vanilla and Britney. Think of the poor wretch, dear Ludwig Van, who created the greatest music the world has ever seen not for the pennies he was tossed but for his love of the art. This is the soul of music; this is the golden age to which we are returning. Down with the cartels!
Cool libertarian pipe dream!
Apple iTunes introduced weak DRM at the behest of the content providers in order to coax them into offering their media up for digital distribution. It worked and Apple got rich. And because Google is following the lead of a market leader, they're idiots.
Right? It's either that, OR... there's an idiot in your comment, and it's not Google.