You can't stop people distributing this sick stuff one way or another (proxies, IRC etc.). This law will punish the ISPs - they either have to pay fines or pay for the equipment to do the monitoring and blocking. I does not punsih the sickos who make it or the sickos who look at it.
I think you can pretty much guarentee that this law will not stop one single child from being exploited. It might bankrupt a few small ISPs though.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD is dying troll community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD is dying trolls account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all trolls. Coming on the heels of the latest GiZ survey which plainly states that "*BSD is dying" trolls have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along.
*BSD is dying trolls are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive/usr/bin/sh test.
You don't need to be a RoboTroll to predict the future of the *BSD is dying troll. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD is dying trolls face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for them because they are dying. Things are looking very bad for the BSD is dying troll. As many of us are already aware, they continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Troll leader Anonymouse Coward states that there are 7000 Taco Snotting trolls. How many "BSD is dying" trolls are there? Let's see. The number of Taco Snotting versus BSD is dying posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 50 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/50 = 140 BSD is dying trolls. Therefore there are about 7 BSD is dying trolls. A recent article put "Kathleen Malda takes it up the shitter" at about 80 percent of the troll market. Therefore there are some trolls. This is consistent with the number of first posts.
All major surveys show that *BSD is dying trolls have steadily declined in market share. $lashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is dying trolls are to survive at all it will be among troll hobbyist dabblers. $lashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time.
For all practical purposes, *BSD is dying, is dying.
Not quite correct. Indeed, the Vatican did keep the score of the Allegri Miserere secret. Mozart didn't quite get it right on the first listening though - it was three.
Essentially correct though. I've often wondered if I'm violating copyright by listening to songs and working out the chords on the guitar. I think my playing is so bad that I can get away with it though.
It's more like a 14 year-old crack addict who'll let you fuck her up the ass for $10 (without knowing whether you're HIV positive) just because she needs the money. Surely this is "market forces" in action. Supply and demand.
In what way is this informative? The BBC site has proven itself/. and even 9/11 resistant. Are you saying that a site running these operating systems isn't up to the job? Should they switch to IIS?
Ziggy posted first
Trolling good with spork and fucky
Like some kid with a script
He posted left hand
But he posted to fast
Twenty seconds man
Well-hung with an IP ban
Ziggy really trolled
Goatse links and screwed up spelling
He was the man
He could troll them by smiling
He could leave them to hang
He posted Taco-snot
But boy could he troll slashdot
Making karma no higher
Ziggy posted at minus one
Like a goatsex messiah
When they IP banned the man how could they crush his mouse hand
Singles are a marketing ploy to sell the albums and the tours to the young and gullible.
People who care about music don't, generally, buy singles. I don't have any at all. We're not in the same market as the Britney/Backdoor Boys/Nolife bands. The singles charts and "music" are getting further and further apart all the time.
This is fair enough, but the problem that record companies face is that it now costs so much to get an artist anywhere in the charts. On singles, record companies generally lose a shedload of money. They spend millions on videos, TV & Radio adverts etc. and the return (on singles) is nothing like the outlay. Singles are definitely a loss-leader. Record companies are making lower profits than ever because of this.
This could be because of two reasons:
All the other record companies are doing it so it's just competition.
The records are such bland, boring shit that it would never sell itself. Either way, the record companies have done it to themselves.
The problem with bypassing the record companies is that to get the same sales, you'd need to spend the same amount on publicity. Would you rather have 90% of $100 or 0.1% of $1,000,000?
Established bands (like U2) probably require very little advertising to get a new album to sell. It's the manufactured teeny-bopper people who are going to get bad deals because it costs so much to generate the media hype that will get the little girlies to shell out for that crap.
Last point, IMO, without widespread broadband, Internet piracy is never going to be that much of an issue. When it takes 10 times as long to download something as it does to play it (assuming your connection stays up for that long), only the most dedicated will spend the time. I've got ADSL but, 90% of the time, the Morpheus user I'm trying to grab stuff off has a dial-up and it still takes ages. Admittedly, that's because I'm using Morpheus to get rare stuff which is not obtainable elsewhere.
I remember a quote at the time: One day, aliens will wonder why humanity built an enormous phased-array antenna to beam pornography and credit-card numbers into deep space.
I explicitly said "systems" not "computers". The world (legislation, environment, external systems) changes. Systems have to change to incorporate that. This will happen to companies. I've seen it in the past where a company has deliberately moved a crucial system back to "maintenance" mode and then a change in the law means a major revision which the skills are no longer there to deal with. Ex workers beeing dragged back for $300 an hour was one consequence.
Yeah - looking at Computing, they've got 8 pages of job advertisments. This time last year, it was ten times that.
I've got a feeling though that over the next six months, systems are going to start going wrong or need to be updated and a lot of companies will realise that they do need some people with some skill. IT is so fundamental to the way companies operate these days - it's not going to go away any time soon. There has, in the past, been a problem with IT being regarded as an end in itself - resulting in millions of $ being spent on systems which don't actually help companies very much. This will have to change.
I can't get modded up so I'll get modded down - Ramones style.
Twenty twenty twenty four hours to go I wanna be moderated Nuthin to do no way to go home I wanna be moderated I post like I'm insightful I post like I'm a troll I post that Bill's a dickward I post I like Torvalds I post using mozilla On 2.4 kernel Oh oh oh oh oh bah bah ba bah bah bah ba bah Wanna be moderated bah bah ba bah bah bah ba bah Wanna be moderated
I think that scientists are getting genuinely annoyed with the state of people's beliefs these days. Sadly, New Scientist have removed their creationism articles from the public portion of their site so I can't link.One of the more disturbinng conclusions is that creationism is not declining - quite the contrary. It's also spreading to other countries. In the US, many teachers feel that teaching evolution is not worth the trouble it will cause for them.
Science and theories based on evidence are under attack from all sides now. More and more people are turning to other forms of mysticism as well - astrology, spritualism, psychic healing, bukkake etc. Personally, I think it's a sign of decadence. When science and technology were required for people to survive and eat, then they ruled supreme. Nowadays people feel comfortable in their lives and don't make the connection. For instance, if you do a survey, you'll find out that most people oppose using animals in testing. Yet these same people are quite happy to take the latest prescription medicines or undergo complicated surgery without realising that animal testing is absolutely vital to medicine. I'd support someone's choice to undergo an organ transplant or prosthetic joint replacement that hasn't been done before on animal or human, but I wouldn't make that choice myself.
Anyway, any amount of evidence wouldn't convince the hardcore creationists so I agree that attacking them in this way is not that useful.
Maybe "poorly written", but still pretty insightful.
Just because MS came up with.NET doesn't make it automatically a bad thing (even a blind pig finds an acorn now and again). Assuing that Bill hasn't lied to us, the core of.NET is about self describing components which communicate in a language/platform neutral way (SOAP, WSDL). How is this a bad thing?
OK, we know that Bill wants us to buy into his web services and his development software on his platform, but at least others are getting a chance now. I would hope that they've learnt a valuable lesson in standards from VJ++. To get others to participate, they can't afford to bugger about.
This post is badly written as well, but does contain the word "antidisestablishmentarianism".
The story seems to be about a programming language which doesn't exist, created around a race of aliens who don't exist. The whole thing exists only in the mind of this guy. I would speculate on this person's sexual history (or lack of) but then that would be offtopic or a troll - which this comment is not.
Slashdot Mirror
Insightful indeed.
You can't stop people distributing this sick stuff one way or another (proxies, IRC etc.). This law will punish the ISPs - they either have to pay fines or pay for the equipment to do the monitoring and blocking. I does not punsih the sickos who make it or the sickos who look at it.
I think you can pretty much guarentee that this law will not stop one single child from being exploited. It might bankrupt a few small ISPs though.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD is dying troll community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD is dying trolls account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all trolls. Coming on the heels of the latest GiZ survey which plainly states that "*BSD is dying" trolls have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along.
/usr/bin/sh test.
*BSD is dying trolls are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive
You don't need to be a RoboTroll to predict the future of the *BSD is dying troll. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD is dying trolls face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for them because they are dying. Things are looking very bad for the BSD is dying troll. As many of us are already aware, they continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Troll leader Anonymouse Coward states that there are 7000 Taco Snotting trolls. How many "BSD is dying" trolls are there? Let's see. The number of Taco Snotting versus BSD is dying posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 50 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/50 = 140 BSD is dying trolls. Therefore there are about 7 BSD is dying trolls. A recent article put "Kathleen Malda takes it up the shitter" at about 80 percent of the troll market. Therefore there are some trolls. This is consistent with the number of first posts. All major surveys show that *BSD is dying trolls have steadily declined in market share. $lashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is dying trolls are to survive at all it will be among troll hobbyist dabblers. $lashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time.
For all practical purposes, *BSD is dying, is dying.
They should be using servlets.
I think JET uses/used this technique to get a load of current to the bits which heat up the plasma. I could be wrong though.
Nobody wants to write a virus which executes that slowly.
Not quite correct. Indeed, the Vatican did keep the score of the Allegri Miserere secret. Mozart didn't quite get it right on the first listening though - it was three.
Essentially correct though. I've often wondered if I'm violating copyright by listening to songs and working out the chords on the guitar. I think my playing is so bad that I can get away with it though.
You should've logged in.
Joke
It's more like a 14 year-old crack addict who'll let you fuck her up the ass for $10 (without knowing whether you're HIV positive) just because she needs the money. Surely this is "market forces" in action. Supply and demand.
Nothing specific about porn.
In what way is this informative? The BBC site has proven itself /. and even 9/11 resistant. Are you saying that a site running these operating systems isn't up to the job? Should they switch to IIS?
PS Can anyone get karma this way?
Ziggy posted first
Trolling good with spork and fucky
Like some kid with a script
He posted left hand
But he posted to fast
Twenty seconds man
Well-hung with an IP ban
Ziggy really trolled
Goatse links and screwed up spelling
He was the man
He could troll them by smiling
He could leave them to hang
He posted Taco-snot
But boy could he troll slashdot
Making karma no higher
Ziggy posted at minus one
Like a goatsex messiah
When they IP banned the man how could they crush his mouse hand
Fuck me - Wierd Al gets paid for doing this shit.
Which part of "loss-leader" are you unclear on?
Singles are a marketing ploy to sell the albums and the tours to the young and gullible.
People who care about music don't, generally, buy singles. I don't have any at all. We're not in the same market as the Britney/Backdoor Boys/Nolife bands. The singles charts and "music" are getting further and further apart all the time.
Free viola music?
This is fine if nobody wants to use the one phone line that most people have.
This could be because of two reasons:
All the other record companies are doing it so it's just competition.
The records are such bland, boring shit that it would never sell itself.
Either way, the record companies have done it to themselves.
The problem with bypassing the record companies is that to get the same sales, you'd need to spend the same amount on publicity. Would you rather have 90% of $100 or 0.1% of $1,000,000?
Established bands (like U2) probably require very little advertising to get a new album to sell. It's the manufactured teeny-bopper people who are going to get bad deals because it costs so much to generate the media hype that will get the little girlies to shell out for that crap.
Last point, IMO, without widespread broadband, Internet piracy is never going to be that much of an issue. When it takes 10 times as long to download something as it does to play it (assuming your connection stays up for that long), only the most dedicated will spend the time. I've got ADSL but, 90% of the time, the Morpheus user I'm trying to grab stuff off has a dial-up and it still takes ages. Admittedly, that's because I'm using Morpheus to get rare stuff which is not obtainable elsewhere.
Now go ahead and flame me.
He would've expected that any legal action would have an equal but opposite reaction ... and ...
I'll get me coat.
I remember a quote at the time:
One day, aliens will wonder why humanity built an enormous phased-array antenna to beam pornography and credit-card numbers into deep space.
I explicitly said "systems" not "computers". The world (legislation, environment, external systems) changes. Systems have to change to incorporate that. This will happen to companies. I've seen it in the past where a company has deliberately moved a crucial system back to "maintenance" mode and then a change in the law means a major revision which the skills are no longer there to deal with. Ex workers beeing dragged back for $300 an hour was one consequence.
Yeah - looking at Computing, they've got 8 pages of job advertisments. This time last year, it was ten times that.
I've got a feeling though that over the next six months, systems are going to start going wrong or need to be updated and a lot of companies will realise that they do need some people with some skill. IT is so fundamental to the way companies operate these days - it's not going to go away any time soon. There has, in the past, been a problem with IT being regarded as an end in itself - resulting in millions of $ being spent on systems which don't actually help companies very much. This will have to change.
Who is this fuckwit moderator who doesn't know the meaing of "troll". These posts are definitely offtopic, but they are not trolls. Tosser.
I donate you this Dead Kennedys tribute to use in a future first post:
Went to a website
Lurked all night
Drank 18 beers
Couldn't type right
I was jaded
Couldn't work the poll
'Cos was fallin' over keys
To drunk to troll
I can't get modded up so I'll get modded down - Ramones style.
Twenty twenty twenty four hours to go
I wanna be moderated
Nuthin to do no way to go home
I wanna be moderated
I post like I'm insightful
I post like I'm a troll
I post that Bill's a dickward
I post I like Torvalds
I post using mozilla
On 2.4 kernel
Oh oh oh oh oh
bah bah ba bah
bah bah ba bah
Wanna be moderated
bah bah ba bah
bah bah ba bah
Wanna be moderated
I think that scientists are getting genuinely annoyed with the state of people's beliefs these days. Sadly, New Scientist have removed their creationism articles from the public portion of their site so I can't link.One of the more disturbinng conclusions is that creationism is not declining - quite the contrary. It's also spreading to other countries. In the US, many teachers feel that teaching evolution is not worth the trouble it will cause for them.
Science and theories based on evidence are under attack from all sides now. More and more people are turning to other forms of mysticism as well - astrology, spritualism, psychic healing, bukkake etc. Personally, I think it's a sign of decadence. When science and technology were required for people to survive and eat, then they ruled supreme. Nowadays people feel comfortable in their lives and don't make the connection. For instance, if you do a survey, you'll find out that most people oppose using animals in testing. Yet these same people are quite happy to take the latest prescription medicines or undergo complicated surgery without realising that animal testing is absolutely vital to medicine. I'd support someone's choice to undergo an organ transplant or prosthetic joint replacement that hasn't been done before on animal or human, but I wouldn't make that choice myself.
Anyway, any amount of evidence wouldn't convince the hardcore creationists so I agree that attacking them in this way is not that useful.
Maybe "poorly written", but still pretty insightful.
.NET doesn't make it automatically a bad thing (even a blind pig finds an acorn now and again). Assuing that Bill hasn't lied to us, the core of .NET is about self describing components which communicate in a language/platform neutral way (SOAP, WSDL). How is this a bad thing?
Just because MS came up with
OK, we know that Bill wants us to buy into his web services and his development software on his platform, but at least others are getting a chance now. I would hope that they've learnt a valuable lesson in standards from VJ++. To get others to participate, they can't afford to bugger about.
This post is badly written as well, but does contain the word "antidisestablishmentarianism".
The story seems to be about a programming language which doesn't exist, created around a race of aliens who don't exist. The whole thing exists only in the mind of this guy. I would speculate on this person's sexual history (or lack of) but then that would be offtopic or a troll - which this comment is not.
Somebody had to say it.