There is a distinction between business transactions (e.g. paying to see a movie) and exploitation (e.g. prostitution, drugs, gambling).
How do you decide what is exploitation? My boss exploits me for my mind, and I have manual labor friends who are exploited for their bodies, is this wrong?
And you say we should allow them, thereby endorsing their actions.
How am I endorsing them? I don't drink coke or pepsi, but my passive acceptance of their right to sell soft drinks is not an endorsement of either.
I had a very nice day today. I was free to do all the things I wanted to do. I was able to earn money and to spend it in all the things I wanted to.
I'm hapy for you, though I find it unfortunate that you wish to deny others the same.
Why is prostitution illegal - women should be able to earn money any way they want, right?
Right.
Why are drugs illegal - people should have the freedom to destroy their health, right?
Right, it's worth pointing out that people do destroy their health every time they walk outside without wearing sunblock (not to mention dozens of other daily activities).
Gambling and going to the movies are not the same thing.
No, but they are both activities which can take someone's money and leave them no tangible result.
Gambling is addictive
Unlike some things which are addictive (alcohol, cigarettes), gambling does not have any chemical which causes you to become addicted. It is addictive in that it is an activity which people enjoy. Skydiving is addictive to some people, and I'm sure there has been at least one person who has died as a result of their addiction to skydiving, not to mention the countless others who have spent money on skydiving which they could have used to buy toys for their children.
it has destroyed families, lives, and fortunes.
My father gambled away my college fund at the horse races, but I support his right to do so. If he wasn't addicted to gambling, he could have been addicted to and thrown his money away on: alcohol, pornography, the stock market, baseball cards, or any number of things.
The government also has the responsibility to protect its citizens
Yes, the government has a responsibility to protect me, but not from myself. Children need protection from themself because they are often unaware of the consequences of their activities. Adults, on the other hand, are fully capable of comprehending the consequences of gambling -- they can win money or they can lose money, people who do not understand the consequences of their actions are in insane asylums. There may be people who tell themselves that they're going to win, those that have grandiose dreams about what they're going to do with all their money when they clean out the casino, and many of these people will lose money when they gamble, but they enjoyed thinking that they might win. Even though they lost money, they enjoyed the experience. This is true of any service, you lose money but (hopefully) whatever service you paid for was enjoyable.
Ideally, everyone would have a good education and would know when to gamble and when to stop
Yes, education is great. I support government programs which explain to people why (tobacco, gambling, running with scissors, alcohol) is bad for them, but all those activities have advantages as well and it is up to the individual to weigh the pros and cons and make a decision for themself whether it's good for them.
Just because they are allowed to operate in some places doesn't mean we should make it even easier for people to gamble
We aren't making it easier for people to gamble, the online casinos are. I'm sure there are some places which don't have 24 hour photo processing places, and I don't think we should make it possible for people in these places to process their photos in 24 hours, but if a photo processing company wants to open up a store there, that's fine with me.
Why do our elected officials feel it is necessary to pass laws which protect us from ourself? If someone wants to gamble away their money, that is their choice, and the only one they are potentially hurting is themself. Everybody knows that the advantage is towards the casino, and yet they make the decision to spend their money on gambling anyways, they enjoy the experience of gambling. I enjoy the experience of going to the movies, and I always leave the movie theatre with less money than I went in with. Should the government ban movies because they are clearly taking money from the public? No, the government should let the public make their own decisions on what form of entertainment they will spend their money on. Traditionally if I wanted to gamble, I would have to take a bus of a plane or drive to Vegas (or Atlantic City, or an indian reservation), the internet makes it more convenient. Gambling on the internet doesn't make it possible for me to do something I would otherwise be unable to do, it makes it more convenient for me to do it, which is a good thing.
This means the data is (redundantly) read from disk by the kernel, copied to userspace for Apache to see, just so that Apache can copy it back to kernel space
When sending a file to the network, you can use sendfile(2) to avoid this scenario. It doesn't look like apache currently does this, but hopefully future versions will.
If there's a real domain called spam-yahoo.com, well, they deserve it
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Watching Battlefield Earth didn't give me cancer, and from the lack of discussion about it on the news, I assume that it has not given anyone cancer. Cancer is a bad disease and I applaud the producers of Battlefield Earth and their decided no-cancer policy towards the viewers of the film. Also, the videogames at the theater were pretty cool and the nachos weren't half bad.
just as irrational as disbelieving the existance of God because you don't want to believe, not because you have real proof.
There's nothing irrational about not believing in god. Do you believe that there is a psycho axe murderer behind you right now? Did you have to turn around before believing there wasn't?
until I see all 60,000 pages of logs showing 335,435 people downloading songs by Metallica in one weekend I refuse to believe it.
I don't think they said 335,435 people downloaded songs by Metallica, they said something along the lines of 335,435 people trading Metallica music which I think means 335,435 people had Metallica in their upload directory. I've never used Napster, but I doubt that there's a way to get a list of everyone who's downloading songs (from the client side, anyway).
When children are named after a parent or relative, a Roman numeral is appended to their name -- John Doe II, Jane Doe III, King Henry VIII, etc. Is this sexist, or is it only sexist when non-roman numerals are used after someone's name?
does he want my 16.6 cents for the two songs I've downloaded? What else could he sue me for?
Depending on the state, he may be able to receive up to 5 times actual damages. You're looking at a possible judgement of 83 cents. Don't panic, you can probably settle the case for half a dollar.
I agree that if you work in the closed-source world (like I do) that having your source code leaked is not a good thing. Not because it makes the program available to people for free (a leaked binary would do the same), but because it allows other people to package your program into their closed-source application and claim it as their own. This problem, however, would disappear if everything were open (open as in the source code was available to license holders, not open as in the open source definition). Books by their very nature are open, but does plagiarism run rampant in the book industry? No, because the open nature of books makes plagiarism easy to detect. Oh, look, now I'm ranting at you for no good reason.
I wouldn't trust the government to not leak my code (making my application free)
How would that make your application free? If you're worried about free-as-in-beer, the government leaking your binary would have the same effect. If you're worried about free-as-in-speech, copyright law prevents it from becoming so.
imagine how hard it would be tell people how to get to./ if it was http://slashdot.dot
I don't know what you currently do, but I always say "slashdot.org, ess-ell-ay-ess-aitch-dee-oh-tee dot oh-are-gee" and it shouldn't be any harder for slashdot.dot or dot.slashdot.dot or slash.dot.slashdot.dot or dot.dot.dash.dot.slashdot.dash.dot.slash.dot
If you come to me looking for some nose garbage, and I say 'yeah. Go two doors down and ask for Rodney, he'll hook you up.' then technically, I *AM* committing a crime. I am aiding in the commission of a crime. Is it a crime because you are knowingly aiding someone in breaking the law or because you are potentially aiding someone in breaking the law? A friend of mine once lived next to a crack house and he told me that his neighbor ran a crack house, was it illegal for him to tell me the location of a crack house, or would it only be illegal if I had asked him where I could get crack? If the later, then a web page wouldn't violate the law since the web page has no knowledge of whether or not you want to break the law.
the "/" that you see between the top-level-domain of an address and its subdirectory is no longer being served by Slashdot
Slashdot has never been the slash between the domain and directory, slashdot is the second slash in http:// and as of March 18 of this year, it's the first slash in ftp://. A currently pending deal will make it both of the slashes in gopher://.
Why doesn't/. take some of it's own advice and burn some of it's GIFs?
When has slashdot advised anyone to burn gifs? Slashdot has reported burn all gifs day. They've reported Microsoft's anti-trust trial too, but that doesn't mean they're advising you to violate anti-trust laws.
By preventing closed-source modifications, all you do is limit the number of choices available on the markey.
By preventing crime, and throwing criminals in jail, police limit the number of career choices available. Sometimes limiting people's choice is a good thing.
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There is a distinction between business transactions (e.g. paying to see a movie) and exploitation (e.g. prostitution, drugs, gambling).
How do you decide what is exploitation? My boss exploits me for my mind, and I have manual labor friends who are exploited for their bodies, is this wrong?
And you say we should allow them, thereby endorsing their actions.
How am I endorsing them? I don't drink coke or pepsi, but my passive acceptance of their right to sell soft drinks is not an endorsement of either.
I had a very nice day today. I was free to do all the things I wanted to do. I was able to earn money and to spend it in all the things I wanted to.
I'm hapy for you, though I find it unfortunate that you wish to deny others the same.
Why is prostitution illegal - women should be able to earn money any way they want, right?
Right.
Why are drugs illegal - people should have the freedom to destroy their health, right?
Right, it's worth pointing out that people do destroy their health every time they walk outside without wearing sunblock (not to mention dozens of other daily activities).
Gambling and going to the movies are not the same thing.
No, but they are both activities which can take someone's money and leave them no tangible result.
Gambling is addictive
Unlike some things which are addictive (alcohol, cigarettes), gambling does not have any chemical which causes you to become addicted. It is addictive in that it is an activity which people enjoy. Skydiving is addictive to some people, and I'm sure there has been at least one person who has died as a result of their addiction to skydiving, not to mention the countless others who have spent money on skydiving which they could have used to buy toys for their children.
it has destroyed families, lives, and fortunes.
My father gambled away my college fund at the horse races, but I support his right to do so. If he wasn't addicted to gambling, he could have been addicted to and thrown his money away on: alcohol, pornography, the stock market, baseball cards, or any number of things.
The government also has the responsibility to protect its citizens
Yes, the government has a responsibility to protect me, but not from myself. Children need protection from themself because they are often unaware of the consequences of their activities. Adults, on the other hand, are fully capable of comprehending the consequences of gambling -- they can win money or they can lose money, people who do not understand the consequences of their actions are in insane asylums. There may be people who tell themselves that they're going to win, those that have grandiose dreams about what they're going to do with all their money when they clean out the casino, and many of these people will lose money when they gamble, but they enjoyed thinking that they might win. Even though they lost money, they enjoyed the experience. This is true of any service, you lose money but (hopefully) whatever service you paid for was enjoyable.
Ideally, everyone would have a good education and would know when to gamble and when to stop
Yes, education is great. I support government programs which explain to people why (tobacco, gambling, running with scissors, alcohol) is bad for them, but all those activities have advantages as well and it is up to the individual to weigh the pros and cons and make a decision for themself whether it's good for them.
Just because they are allowed to operate in some places doesn't mean we should make it even easier for people to gamble
We aren't making it easier for people to gamble, the online casinos are. I'm sure there are some places which don't have 24 hour photo processing places, and I don't think we should make it possible for people in these places to process their photos in 24 hours, but if a photo processing company wants to open up a store there, that's fine with me.
Why do our elected officials feel it is necessary to pass laws which protect us from ourself? If someone wants to gamble away their money, that is their choice, and the only one they are potentially hurting is themself. Everybody knows that the advantage is towards the casino, and yet they make the decision to spend their money on gambling anyways, they enjoy the experience of gambling. I enjoy the experience of going to the movies, and I always leave the movie theatre with less money than I went in with. Should the government ban movies because they are clearly taking money from the public? No, the government should let the public make their own decisions on what form of entertainment they will spend their money on. Traditionally if I wanted to gamble, I would have to take a bus of a plane or drive to Vegas (or Atlantic City, or an indian reservation), the internet makes it more convenient. Gambling on the internet doesn't make it possible for me to do something I would otherwise be unable to do, it makes it more convenient for me to do it, which is a good thing.
This means the data is (redundantly) read from disk by the kernel, copied to userspace for Apache to see, just so that Apache can copy it back to kernel space
When sending a file to the network, you can use sendfile(2) to avoid this scenario. It doesn't look like apache currently does this, but hopefully future versions will.
If there's a real domain called spam-yahoo.com, well, they deserve it
whois spam-yahoo.com
[whois.networksolutions.com]
Registrant:
YAHOO (SPAM-YAHOO-DOM)
3400 CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY, SUITE 2
SANTA CLARA, CA 95051
US
Domain Name: SPAM-YAHOO.COM
Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
HANLEY, JOHN P (JPH376) not-abuse@SPAM-YAHOO.COM
YAHOO
3400 CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY, SUITE 2
SANTA CLARA, CA 95051
(408) 530.5002
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
mydomain Support (MS311-ORG) support@MYINTERNET.COM
mydomain Support
Email to address provided
Email to address provided
BM
+1 (888) 700-4087
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Domain servers in listed order:
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But, do we really want to support Ebay while they continue removing valid auctions of Microsoft products?
What auctions have they removed lately? There hasn't been any feedback for msoft in about four months. Does microsoft have a new ebay userid?
Watching Battlefield Earth didn't give me cancer, and from the lack of discussion about it on the news, I assume that it has not given anyone cancer. Cancer is a bad disease and I applaud the producers of Battlefield Earth and their decided no-cancer policy towards the viewers of the film. Also, the videogames at the theater were pretty cool and the nachos weren't half bad.
just as irrational as disbelieving the existance of God because you don't want to believe, not because you have real proof.
There's nothing irrational about not believing in god. Do you believe that there is a psycho axe murderer behind you right now? Did you have to turn around before believing there wasn't?
until I see all 60,000 pages of logs showing 335,435 people downloading songs by Metallica in one weekend I refuse to believe it.
I don't think they said 335,435 people downloaded songs by Metallica, they said something along the lines of 335,435 people trading Metallica music which I think means 335,435 people had Metallica in their upload directory. I've never used Napster, but I doubt that there's a way to get a list of everyone who's downloading songs (from the client side, anyway).
When children are named after a parent or relative, a Roman numeral is appended to their name -- John Doe II, Jane Doe III, King Henry VIII, etc. Is this sexist, or is it only sexist when non-roman numerals are used after someone's name?
does he want my 16.6 cents for the two songs I've downloaded? What else could he sue me for?
Depending on the state, he may be able to receive up to 5 times actual damages. You're looking at a possible judgement of 83 cents. Don't panic, you can probably settle the case for half a dollar.
I agree that if you work in the closed-source world (like I do) that having your source code leaked is not a good thing. Not because it makes the program available to people for free (a leaked binary would do the same), but because it allows other people to package your program into their closed-source application and claim it as their own. This problem, however, would disappear if everything were open (open as in the source code was available to license holders, not open as in the open source definition). Books by their very nature are open, but does plagiarism run rampant in the book industry? No, because the open nature of books makes plagiarism easy to detect. Oh, look, now I'm ranting at you for no good reason.
I wouldn't trust the government to not leak my code (making my application free)
How would that make your application free? If you're worried about free-as-in-beer, the government leaking your binary would have the same effect. If you're worried about free-as-in-speech, copyright law prevents it from becoming so.
Well thats it I want .geek and .no
.no is the tld for Norway.
imagine how hard it would be tell people how to get to ./ if it was http://slashdot.dot
I don't know what you currently do, but I always say "slashdot.org, ess-ell-ay-ess-aitch-dee-oh-tee dot oh-are-gee" and it shouldn't be any harder for slashdot.dot or dot.slashdot.dot or slash.dot.slashdot.dot or dot.dot.dash.dot.slashdot.dash.dot.slash.dot
Why do they want to mispell bank?
.bank and everyone who has a .banc will need to register the .bank
Five years from now, they can make a
So are there any widely used libraries that make C coding CGI easier?
You might want to take a look at cgilib.
If you come to me looking for some nose garbage, and I say 'yeah. Go two doors down and ask for Rodney, he'll hook you up.' then technically, I *AM* committing a crime. I am aiding in the commission of a crime. Is it a crime because you are knowingly aiding someone in breaking the law or because you are potentially aiding someone in breaking the law? A friend of mine once lived next to a crack house and he told me that his neighbor ran a crack house, was it illegal for him to tell me the location of a crack house, or would it only be illegal if I had asked him where I could get crack? If the later, then a web page wouldn't violate the law since the web page has no knowledge of whether or not you want to break the law.
the "/" that you see between the top-level-domain of an address and its subdirectory is no longer being served by Slashdot
Slashdot has never been the slash between the domain and directory, slashdot is the second slash in http:// and as of March 18 of this year, it's the first slash in ftp://. A currently pending deal will make it both of the slashes in gopher://.
The root servers are root-servers.net, so IBM can be called the dot in .net and Sun can still claim to be the dot in .com.
Why doesn't /. take some of it's own advice and burn some of it's GIFs?
When has slashdot advised anyone to burn gifs? Slashdot has reported burn all gifs day. They've reported Microsoft's anti-trust trial too, but that doesn't mean they're advising you to violate anti-trust laws.
I wonder if anyone hacked something together in perl....
C, C++, Pascal, and Java are the only acceptable languages.
By preventing closed-source modifications, all you do is limit the number of choices available on the markey.
By preventing crime, and throwing criminals in jail, police limit the number of career choices available. Sometimes limiting people's choice is a good thing.
I don't think Intel makes much Mac hardware, but they seem to think there is a benefit to it.
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