Michael Stokes: Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury, a major record label's attorney would certainly want you to believe Gnutella was written and used purely to transfer copyrighted data, and he makes a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself. But Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider.
*Walks up to a chart*
Michael Stokes: Ladies and Gentlemen, (Pulls down picture of Chewbacca) this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wooky from the planet Kishic, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wooky, an eight-foot-tall Wooky, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense. But more important, you have to ask yourself "What does this have to do with this case?"
*Jury stares in silence*
Michael Stokes: Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case. It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major opensource movement and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I'm am not making any sense. None of this makes sense. And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit. The defense rests.
We've all heard the joke about the computer programmer who, when given the choice of transforming a frog into a beautiful princess with a kiss, declines, saying he has no need for a beautiful woman, 'but a talking frog is REALLY cool!'
GENRIP doesn't even try to compete with 802.11 wireless networks, because that isn't what it's for. GENRIP is relatively slow (average of 120ms ping? pong! time), and TCP streaming abilities of 21k/second.
They claim it will allow users to get music in 'the formats they are demanding' (ogg?)
Unfortunantly, ogg isn't going to be the choice. The companies that ELI has signed this agreement with (Alliance, Ecast, FullAudio, Liquid Audio, Listen.com, Musicnet, Pressplay, Roxio, and Streamwaves) are all based around mp3s.
This sounds a lot like a hoax to me...he refuses to give his last name, and it seems like a story based completely on how "crazy" he looks would at least include a picture. I could be wrong, but I suspect we've been had.
Well, it still performs the basic functions it is supposed to; it records, and can encode to other file formats. However, it still obviously has bugs as it crashes and loses some of the stored files. I think that the 2.5 out of 5 rating is valid, as it's a 50%...still an F, but almost passing.
What the French philosopher Rousseau said was true at the time (during the Industrial Revolution), and apparently it still is.
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. How did this change come about? I do not know. What can make it legitimate?"
And for a split second Slashdot users everywhere rejoiced, thinking that the subscription income actually had persuaded editors to actually post comments...but then they saw his grammar was good, typos weren't everywhere...and noticed his UID.
AIM (and a decent amount of other IM programs) will allow you to connect to their servers on ports that are allowed by most firewall setups, for example, port 21. To have AIM automagically set itself up to work with your setup, go into your preferences, Sign On/Sign Off, click the Connection button, and press auto-configure.
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Aka, the Pontius Pilate / Eichmann defense.
Hey, it's better than the chewbacca defense...
Michael Stokes: Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury, a major record label's attorney would certainly want you to believe Gnutella was written and used purely to transfer copyrighted data, and he makes a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself. But Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider.
*Walks up to a chart*
Michael Stokes: Ladies and Gentlemen, (Pulls down picture of Chewbacca) this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wooky from the planet Kishic, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense.
Why would a Wooky, an eight-foot-tall Wooky, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense. But more important, you have to ask yourself "What does this have to do with this case?"
*Jury stares in silence*
Michael Stokes: Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case. It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major opensource movement and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I'm am not making any sense. None of this makes sense. And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit. The defense rests.
We've all heard the joke about the computer programmer who, when given the choice of transforming a frog into a beautiful princess with a kiss, declines, saying he has no need for a beautiful woman, 'but a talking frog is REALLY cool!'
Actually no, I haven't.
GENRIP doesn't even try to compete with 802.11 wireless networks, because that isn't what it's for. GENRIP is relatively slow (average of 120ms ping? pong! time), and TCP streaming abilities of 21k/second.
-Kaos
They claim it will allow users to get music in 'the formats they are demanding' (ogg?)
Unfortunantly, ogg isn't going to be the choice. The companies that ELI has signed this agreement with (Alliance, Ecast, FullAudio, Liquid Audio, Listen.com, Musicnet, Pressplay, Roxio, and Streamwaves) are all based around mp3s.
-Kaos
This sounds a lot like a hoax to me...he refuses to give his last name, and it seems like a story based completely on how "crazy" he looks would at least include a picture. I could be wrong, but I suspect we've been had.
These are for sale elswhere, they just have a different design. I actually prefer this design to the one mentioned in the article.
-Kaos
This may not be so secure after all, if it includes Bluetooth. Read here for more.
-Kaos
I personally think that Vegas making sure they have the best of tech to keep "plotters" away is definately a good call.
-Kaos
Pornography will be the first industry to utilize this new technology ;)
-Kaos
Similar projects for Seattle, Washington and Sonoma County, California can be found here and here, respectively.
-Kaos
I'd rather not imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Imagine the surprise when the unknowing recipient of such a gift decides to give her an oral exam...
Oh sweetheart, you're gonna give daddy a treat...open wide...mmm...tha zzzzZZZZzzzzZZZttt!
I propose the name Lorena.
If Yoshi can fit all of this into "Yoshi's box", think of what he could fit into an island!
Well, it still performs the basic functions it is supposed to; it records, and can encode to other file formats. However, it still obviously has bugs as it crashes and loses some of the stored files. I think that the 2.5 out of 5 rating is valid, as it's a 50%...still an F, but almost passing.
What the French philosopher Rousseau said was true at the time (during the Industrial Revolution), and apparently it still is.
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. How did this change come about? I do not know. What can make it legitimate?"
And for a split second Slashdot users everywhere rejoiced, thinking that the subscription income actually had persuaded editors to actually post comments...but then they saw his grammar was good, typos weren't everywhere...and noticed his UID.
At least, that's what happened to me.
Well, I think I'd get a kick out of being in Starfleet (except for their massive military focus). But... budding? Humans don't bud.
Main Entry: budding
Pronounciation: 'b&-di[ng]
Date: 1581
Definition: Being in an early stage of development
So really, humans ARE budding all across the world.
Google hasn't cached politechbot's articles, and a full text post sets of the lameness filter, so I've provided mirrors on my own server.
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http://www.kaosrain.com/biden.kazaa.letter.030202
http://www.kaosrain.com/p-03210.html
The source of new water can be the output of your methanol fuel-cell batteries :)
Kaos
AIM (and a decent amount of other IM programs) will allow you to connect to their servers on ports that are allowed by most firewall setups, for example, port 21. To have AIM automagically set itself up to work with your setup, go into your preferences, Sign On/Sign Off, click the Connection button, and press auto-configure.
Have a good day!
Kaos