CPM (which stands for cost per thousand, not cents per thousand) is usually measured in dollars, if you really are getting six cents instead of six dollars, you are getting ripped off big time.
IIRC, the luxury tax was between boarwalk and park place, so the ISP fee replaces the luxury tax. I think that the Linux and Sun squares are the utilities, but my memory of the monopoly board is far from flawless so I could be wrong.
Wouldn't you expect a few screw ups like an extra half formed arm that didnt do anything. We'd all survive, we'd just be a little messed up.
In order for the person with the half arm to pass it on, they would have to have sex with someone. Given the choice of having sex with someone who has two and a half arms and another person who looks normal, what would you choose?
A lot of people are bidding on the Linus autograph linked in the article, but the seller has 4 other photos which as of right now have significantly lower bids ($31 to $60 vs. $255), you can see the list here.
Foosball, ping-pong, billiards and other rec-room staples ranked at the bottom of the list
Hey, don't knock the foosball. Of course they were at the bottom of the list, a foosball table is something which your company lets you occasionally share with the other employees. Naturally a car, or a health club membership, or free computer stuff is going to rank higher since they are used exclusively by the person they're given to. What would you rather have: a porsche which you can use during the lunchbreak and share with six other people, or a Toyota Camry which is yours and yours alone?
you shouldn't waste your vote on who you WANT to win if that person has no CHANCE to win.
Do you honestly expect that your vote is going to swing the election one way or the other? If not, then by your logic your vote is wasted regardless of who you vote for.
War on Drugs
If we executed drug users, we wouldn't have the huge drug problem that we have now. Drug users are hurting themselves and I am dedicated to doing whatever it takes to stop them. This is a war, dammit, and there are casualties in a war.
Minority Relitions
I support the right of all minority religions to convert to Christianity.
Why give a tax cut?
Because, moron, I'm running for the fucking president of the United States of America. You think I'm gonna get there without promising a tax cut? Where did you grow up, dumbass?
electoral reform
Wait until next week, if I'm not elected president I promise to spearhead electoral reform.
How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
I think that people who are intellectualable have as much right to protect their property as the rest of us.
Encryption....
If people aren't breaking the law, they have nothing to worry about.
Rising Political Protests
If we executed protestors, we wouldn't have a problem with protests. All these people think they know how to run the country, but how many of them are leading in the polls? What's that? None of them are? Hmmmm, I wonder who is, oh yeah, it's me, now sit down and shut up!
Asteroid Defenses
I remember once in the 80's getting all coked out and playing asteroids for like twelve hours straight, man that was a good video game.
The Future of the Country, and of Humanity
Our national mission should be to help large corporations become larger, and to make sure that the poor people who commit crime are executed.
This may not be the ideal thread to ask this, but since encryption was mentioned, it shouldn't be too offtopic.
IANAL, but my understanding of U.S. law is that any evidence used against you in court must be obtained legally. There are certain laws which allow law enforcement officers to do certain things that ordinary citizens can not, such as search your home when a search warrant has been issued, however law enforcement officers must otherwise obey the law when obtaining evidence. The DMCA outlaws access control circumvention, so if you encrypt your files to prevent law enforcement from accessing them, doesn't the DMCA make the attempted decryption of these files illegal? Is there a section of the DMCA which exempts law enforcement or is there some other law which grants law enforcement officrs the right to violate the DMCA?
When I purchase a DVD, aren't I implicitly granted access to the contents on the DVD? As such, I should be allowed to use DeCSS to access the DVD to which I have access rights to. It seems to me that DeCSS is not used for circumvention of DVD's anymore than a dvd player is used for circumvention (they both decrypt the DVD), anyone who uses either one already has (or at least ought to have) right to access the DVD. DeCSS does allow you to decrypt Region X DVD's in Region Y, but since you could buy a Region X DVD player to do the same, and since the copyright office reasoned that since you could buy a Windows machine or a DVD player... that there was no reason for an exemption, then DeCSS should not be faulted for its multi region ability since multi region ability can be gained by purchasing more than on DVD player (or a single DVD player that supports more than one region) and the copyright office seems to think that the use of DeCSS and the purchase of DVD players are appropriate substitues.
Or, say, someone emails some of this code to the kernel mailing list directly. Now, nearly the entire team of linux developers, among other projects, has seen the 'forbidden source'. IANAL, but MSFT could possibly use the fact that they saw the 'forbidden source' as justifications that now they're now privy to MSFT's proprietary software models. They may use this fact to either sue future developers, or inhibit future development of such projects.
If you emailed the linux source code to the Windows developers at MS, I don't think you could prevent them from working on proprietary software even if you could prove that they saw GPL'd code, so I don't think MS can prevent you from working on free software just because you saw proprietary code.
Yes, they did stop doing that. They stopped because people were registering huge amounts of domain names and then putting them on auction sites, when they actually managed to sell one they would pay NSI for that one and transfer it to the new buyer.
You cannot effectively defend your own rights by attacking someone else's.
You can defend your safety (your right to life, if you will) by attacking someone else's rights. You are most likely alive right now because everyone else's right to kill you has been taken away by the government, while this does not prevent every murder, it prevents a whole lot. I know there are plenty of people I would have killed in the heat of the moment if I knew there would be no repercussions from law enforcement, I would drive much faster if the government didn't take that right away, and I would steal food from the grocery store if the government didn't take that right away.
You do obtain security by taking freedom away. In a truly free socity, anyone would be free to take your freedom away.
the penguin hardly symbolizes the open source movement as one of teamwork, progress and widescope.
You don't seem to comprehend what the open source movement is all about. It's not about teamwork or progress, it's about eating raw fish, and personally I think the penguin is an excellent symbol for that.
it's not a dumber idea than letting advertisers influence hits on search engines, and there are already clueless investors funding that
I find goto.com very useful when I am searching for a vendor. If I am looking for someone who sells crawfish, goto.com is much more useful than a search engine which makes me weed out the crawfish recipe pages, and if I'm looking to buy socks, I don't want to go through a bunch of SOCKS protocol hits.
Slashdot Mirror
Do my tired eyes deceive me? Has a company just bought 100,000 people?
Yes, your eyes do deceive you, it's 108,000 people.
And then there's .name, everyone I know with money has a name.
6 CPM (cents per 1000 ads displayed).
CPM (which stands for cost per thousand, not cents per thousand) is usually measured in dollars, if you really are getting six cents instead of six dollars, you are getting ripped off big time.
IIRC, the luxury tax was between boarwalk and park place, so the ISP fee replaces the luxury tax. I think that the Linux and Sun squares are the utilities, but my memory of the monopoly board is far from flawless so I could be wrong.
Wouldn't you expect a few screw ups like an extra half formed arm that didnt do anything. We'd all survive, we'd just be a little messed up.
In order for the person with the half arm to pass it on, they would have to have sex with someone. Given the choice of having sex with someone who has two and a half arms and another person who looks normal, what would you choose?
Why would a Quaker attend prom anyway?
To spread the word to teenagers about their delicious oatmeal.
How would he fare against infinite monkeys?
He would beat an infinite number of them.
A lot of people are bidding on the Linus autograph linked in the article, but the seller has 4 other photos which as of right now have significantly lower bids ($31 to $60 vs. $255), you can see the list here.
Foosball, ping-pong, billiards and other rec-room staples ranked at the bottom of the list
Hey, don't knock the foosball. Of course they were at the bottom of the list, a foosball table is something which your company lets you occasionally share with the other employees. Naturally a car, or a health club membership, or free computer stuff is going to rank higher since they are used exclusively by the person they're given to. What would you rather have: a porsche which you can use during the lunchbreak and share with six other people, or a Toyota Camry which is yours and yours alone?
you shouldn't waste your vote on who you WANT to win if that person has no CHANCE to win.
Do you honestly expect that your vote is going to swing the election one way or the other? If not, then by your logic your vote is wasted regardless of who you vote for.
War on Drugs
If we executed drug users, we wouldn't have the huge drug problem that we have now. Drug users are hurting themselves and I am dedicated to doing whatever it takes to stop them. This is a war, dammit, and there are casualties in a war.
Minority Relitions
I support the right of all minority religions to convert to Christianity.
Why give a tax cut?
Because, moron, I'm running for the fucking president of the United States of America. You think I'm gonna get there without promising a tax cut? Where did you grow up, dumbass?
electoral reform
Wait until next week, if I'm not elected president I promise to spearhead electoral reform.
How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
I think that people who are intellectualable have as much right to protect their property as the rest of us.
Encryption....
If people aren't breaking the law, they have nothing to worry about.
Rising Political Protests
If we executed protestors, we wouldn't have a problem with protests. All these people think they know how to run the country, but how many of them are leading in the polls? What's that? None of them are? Hmmmm, I wonder who is, oh yeah, it's me, now sit down and shut up!
Asteroid Defenses
I remember once in the 80's getting all coked out and playing asteroids for like twelve hours straight, man that was a good video game.
The Future of the Country, and of Humanity
Our national mission should be to help large corporations become larger, and to make sure that the poor people who commit crime are executed.
Is Netscape going to try and patent the Back button?
Don't be ridiculous, you can't patent the back button. The forward button on the other hand...
This may not be the ideal thread to ask this, but since encryption was mentioned, it shouldn't be too offtopic.
IANAL, but my understanding of U.S. law is that any evidence used against you in court must be obtained legally. There are certain laws which allow law enforcement officers to do certain things that ordinary citizens can not, such as search your home when a search warrant has been issued, however law enforcement officers must otherwise obey the law when obtaining evidence. The DMCA outlaws access control circumvention, so if you encrypt your files to prevent law enforcement from accessing them, doesn't the DMCA make the attempted decryption of these files illegal? Is there a section of the DMCA which exempts law enforcement or is there some other law which grants law enforcement officrs the right to violate the DMCA?
who gets to decided which cases to hear, and what rules do they follow? If it's these guys at ICANN, then perhaps, but WIPO?
WIPO is just one of the arbitrators, you can get more information from ICANN.
I just realized that Peta got their domain name back, Peta.org
There was a slashdot article on this when it happened.
When I purchase a DVD, aren't I implicitly granted access to the contents on the DVD? As such, I should be allowed to use DeCSS to access the DVD to which I have access rights to. It seems to me that DeCSS is not used for circumvention of DVD's anymore than a dvd player is used for circumvention (they both decrypt the DVD), anyone who uses either one already has (or at least ought to have) right to access the DVD. DeCSS does allow you to decrypt Region X DVD's in Region Y, but since you could buy a Region X DVD player to do the same, and since the copyright office reasoned that since you could buy a Windows machine or a DVD player... that there was no reason for an exemption, then DeCSS should not be faulted for its multi region ability since multi region ability can be gained by purchasing more than on DVD player (or a single DVD player that supports more than one region) and the copyright office seems to think that the use of DeCSS and the purchase of DVD players are appropriate substitues.
Or, say, someone emails some of this code to the kernel mailing list directly. Now, nearly the entire team of linux developers, among other projects, has seen the 'forbidden source'. IANAL, but MSFT could possibly use the fact that they saw the 'forbidden source' as justifications that now they're now privy to MSFT's proprietary software models. They may use this fact to either sue future developers, or inhibit future development of such projects.
If you emailed the linux source code to the Windows developers at MS, I don't think you could prevent them from working on proprietary software even if you could prove that they saw GPL'd code, so I don't think MS can prevent you from working on free software just because you saw proprietary code.
Yes, they did stop doing that. They stopped because people were registering huge amounts of domain names and then putting them on auction sites, when they actually managed to sell one they would pay NSI for that one and transfer it to the new buyer.
No, he meant like z.com.
you have better odds of being hit twice in your lifetime by lightning
Every week several people win the lottery. In an average week, how many people are struck by lightning for the second time?
You cannot effectively defend your own rights by attacking someone else's.
You can defend your safety (your right to life, if you will) by attacking someone else's rights. You are most likely alive right now because everyone else's right to kill you has been taken away by the government, while this does not prevent every murder, it prevents a whole lot. I know there are plenty of people I would have killed in the heat of the moment if I knew there would be no repercussions from law enforcement, I would drive much faster if the government didn't take that right away, and I would steal food from the grocery store if the government didn't take that right away.
You do obtain security by taking freedom away. In a truly free socity, anyone would be free to take your freedom away.
the penguin hardly symbolizes the open source movement as one of teamwork, progress and widescope.
You don't seem to comprehend what the open source movement is all about. It's not about teamwork or progress, it's about eating raw fish, and personally I think the penguin is an excellent symbol for that.
That falls under my patent, USP#1829904768237501765824609105 on 'Lawsuit-related buisness practice'!
That falls under my patent on "'Lawsuit-related business practice' related business practices"
My lawyers have been notified.
Why does this sound like the plot for a really bad sci-fi movie?
Alien Files - horny space fungi that become horny Earth girls.
Now, does that sound like a bad sci-fi movie to you?
it's not a dumber idea than letting advertisers influence hits on search engines, and there are already clueless investors funding that
I find goto.com very useful when I am searching for a vendor. If I am looking for someone who sells crawfish, goto.com is much more useful than a search engine which makes me weed out the crawfish recipe pages, and if I'm looking to buy socks, I don't want to go through a bunch of SOCKS protocol hits.