If/. degenerates into run-of-the-mill advertising... it already is tech advertising... then it ain't worth it. I've TV for run-of-the-mill advertising.
break with the "tradition" of their insolance and:
1) offer customers a sincere apology for their negligence
(no court seems able to get a comprehensive conviction
against any of them anyway, so they should't have to worry
about liability), at the same time as
2) distribute a genuinely effective set of patches to those
customers as they wait for the company to develop a new
product that actually does what it says it should
3) distribute that genuinely secure product to customers FOR
FREE, with full on-site support to smooth the transition
4) offer a discount on upcoming products to extend good will,
5) and eat the crow they so richly deserve.
I figure all in all it will only cost them about a trillion bucks. (Yeah... just the agregate personal fortunes of the top swindlers who perpetrated this biggest scam in the history of the world.)
But why should the software industry be held to a different standard? Other industries end up eating losses all the time.
Because if all those middle/upper-level managers in other sectors that wanted to cash in on the "replace workers with machines" craze of the 90's would propose such an ultimatum to their companies' stockholders, then they would have to admit that their blind greed backfired all over their damned faces!
they would break with the "tradition" of insolance in the software industry and:
1) offer customers a sincere apology for their negligence
(no court seems to be able to convict them anyway, so they
should't have to worry about liability), at the same time as
2) distribute a genuinely effective set of patches to those
customers as they wait for M$ to develop a new product
3) distribute that genuinely secure product to customers FOR
FREE, with full FREE on-site support to smooth the transition
4) offer a discount on upcoming products to extend good will,
5) and eat the crow they so richly deserve.
I figure all in all it will only cost them about $100 billion bucks. (Yeah... Bill Gates' personal forture.) But he oughta cought it up anyway, the charletan! Biggest scam in the history of the world.
And why is M$ held to a different standard? Because all those middle/upper-level managers who wanted to cash in on the "replace workers with machines" craze of the 90's would have to admit their greed backfired all over their damned faces, if they proposed such an ultimatum to the stockholders.
It speaks volumes about human intelligence that, 100 years later, the most common reference to intelligence metrics is the Stanford-Benet score. What did Stanford-Benet do to warrant such worship?
Little, apparently. IQ has been marketed admirably well over the decades, but that is not the fault of psychologists. IQ score appeals directly to the ego of certain individuals and, therefore, reference to it is remarkably effective as a marketing ploy. (Sorry people.) It pays Madison Avenue to play up IQ as much as possible. Many slashdotters go ga-ga over it.
(For the record, this is the first that I have commented on IQ in the/. forums... and my Stanford-Benet test score went off the scale. Does that make me a super genius? No. It means while still a child I was able to answer a question at the superior adult level. That sounds like an outlier to me, not a trend. The item analysis of the Stanford-Benet is just not that accurate.)
Imagine that, people writing just to express ideas
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[Let me preface this comment by noting that I write many things, including music.]
If copyright was abandoned it would get rid of a lot of tripe out there in the marketplace. Wouldn't it be great if people wrote not for money but ideas, for a change, if there was genuine competition among ideas and artistic expression?
Idealism? Fantasy? Poppycock? I doubt as if those who have a burning desire to write would be stopped by poor remuneration for their efforts. (The practice of blogging demonstrates this point. Podcasting expands the idea to radio and video.) If the tripe written by those motivated mainly by money was allowed to whither, then eventually the field would be cleared to allow content written by those actually interested to surface and flourish. (Just removal of the advertising efforts to promote the latest schlock would see to that.)
Oh yes, I realize that those writing for money are interested in their subject, too. And yes, many important things wouldn't be written except for the remuneration. (Authors must live, etc.) But I for one can't see the situation getting worse by removing the profit motive from the publishing field. The current system of copyright may benefit works written through coporate collaboration, but is not a friend of the independent. And it is the independent who gave us the calculus, the Tesla coil, Linux, and cellular automata.
Far more work that is of crucial importance has been buried than ever benefited from the skewed book selling and promoting practices now rife in the publishing world. (Note that I refer not to my own work, by the way.)
In addition, most authors are required on their own dime to go out and hawk their work on a touring circuit. There are very few corporate advertising dollars being spent on authors; only a handful are darlings, and they get constant coverage and prominent product placement. Readers are reduced to consumers and it well-known that most markets are created, not discovered. In such contrived circumstances, the very purpose for a readily presentable media -- the content -- suffers.
These remarks apply to most anything able to be copyrighted, by the way.
For years has there even been any discussion on/. about major innovation in enterprise-level server hardware? If so, it passed by quickly... things are certainly not percolating like seven (or even five years ago) during the innovation wars between Compaq and Dell.
Now,/. discussion topics are on a par with the tabloids, except that instead of aliens from Mars we read about some slightly fresher Linux flavor. I used to come here to get the industry bleeding edge, and now I get reports about the latest revision of five year-old video games.
My point? Stick with the video games, guys. Don't bother with Rambus shannanigans. Your caring public is gone. Whoever can hang onto an IT job now will have that same job for the next twenty years. (And they'll still be working with the same equipment, probably... the way IT budgets are going). Is this a main streaming, or what?!
Too bad you asked your question 300 (or so) replies into the slash-blather...
It is entirely possible to program the application so that it does what you would like... except it will never be done. In general, help files have a format (*.chm) that requires special stand-alone tools just to edit. Maybe it is the high cost of gaining permission over copy-right/patent (like as with M$ NTFS file system utilities), or maybe it is just that there is no library that integrates and edits *.chm files into the program code on the fly, but so far there just isn't a means to program a Windows application so to be able to cut and paste into the standard help file used for most Windows applications.
What you ask for is not impossible, though. Dragonfly's Note Bene academic word processor allows for this, but of course utilizes its own help file format. However, with a program that has a steep learning curve, being able to do this is a God-send. And while Note Bene is no LaTeX - what to speak of TeX - it DOES have a steep learning curve.
So, do like I do and create your own Windows Annoyances document. So far mine has 42 main entries and scads of minor ones (a main entry is a fix or preventation strategy that must be incorporated into any new installation of Windows). Similar logs can be made for any application. But you'll wait an eternity for the programmers to solve this one.
_________________________ Make an image file of Windows frquently.
How convenient that a "simple blood test" has been found to test for such subjective mental states as anxiety disorders and depression. The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health "recommends" psychological testing for all Americans, and wants to ensure by law that every school-age child has been offered such an exam.
History time and again records governments continually abusing the power accorded by such sweeping initiatives, interpreted as mandates by sycophantic minions. Why should modern government be any different?
The real questions are: Who determines what is to be considered a mental illness? Which authorities control who is tested for mental illness and how? What will be done to the mentally ill under the aegis of treatment? Who stands to profit from it all?
The Columbia University TeenScreen Program is the pilot program mentioned in the report as the model program to administer such a CBT test. Their pilot test is already being given to kids in at least 27 states, in at least 69 schools.
At the Teenscreen website, under the "Setting The Record Straight About TeenScreen" page, the group argues that the language in the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, couched in terms of "universal screening" does not mean "mandatory screening."
Yes, Teenscreen does not advocate forced psychological testing at their website. However, Teenscreen can only vouchsafe for itself.
Teenscreen may indeed be an organization of integrity; the question is not how are the recommendations of the President's Commission being tested, but what will be the future of the initiative advocated!
Governments do not have a good track record being trusted to endorse and administer psychological testing of the citizenry. More than plaintive appeals as to Teenscreen's integrity are needed to dispell the fact that governments in both the distant and recent past have used official definitions of "mental health" as a means to control, imprison and torture citizens. The more wide-spread such programs become, the more likely they will be used nefariously. American forms of eugenics are alive and well.
Teenscreen cannot speak for the aims of government, nor for what government does with the information once it is collected by organizations such as Teenscreen. Presumeably such information will be subject to government review.
With the acknowledged surveillance of all network communications by Navy operations it is doubtful that client-professional privilege could be maintained, even if private organizations were to retain some semblance of separation between their testing of individuals in public settings and the government's pervasive snooping.
"The complexity to date of accomplishing such a feat has meant only a minority of computer users have dabbled with watching full-length movies on their computer, with most of those having acquired the content through file sharing services."
Does that mean they'll leave me alone to watch my full-length feature films acquired through file sharing services in peace? Imagine that. No DRM, no suits by the RIAA. Of course, I don't get them through bitTorrent.
alt.binaries.documentaries is a hoot!
(Alex Jones even gives out his hard-hitting feature-length documentaries for free)
alt.binaries.great and
alt.binaries.radio.misc
each have full-length recordings of all my favorite reality talk-radio programs
NNTP... slashdotters should know what that's about. There's no excuse to be un-informed.
Together they can filter the DNS addresses of a good share of Internet traffic, like both have done already. Here's slashdotters recognizing that TimeWarner did so against www.inforwars.com and against www.prisonplanet.tv:
Alright, supposing for the sake of argument that the Level 3 filtering is just a rivalry between two ISPs... the point is, the end-result is at least the danger of DNS address filtering no matter how you slice it. Alternatives to mainstream reporting gets squashed by such moves.
As to regulation, a legitimate purpose of government is to prevent such abuse by corporate entities (which have legal rights as "persons" under the law, yet have far greater freedom at the public's expense to acquire wealth than do either you or I). Of course, the fact that government has not done so in the past and has allowed the increase of such abuse means that government will probably not do so in this case.
As usual, we cannot depend upon government to protect us even though it should. So, it becomes important to get the word out to so people to stop subsidizing such abuse by dropping both Microsoft's and Time Warner. For those left without alternatives, isn't that an argument in and of itself to prevent monopolization by these giants?
Pretty crazy, no? Wondor how the Zionists feel about that one. (The fact that Bush said that in June of 2003 and we're just now learning about it is telling.)
Guess that means tonight's nation-wide address should be pretty interesting, huh? Suppose we need a draft? (That'll get the slashdotters' attention.)
Mock drills are a coming in droves, it would appear. And not just from Japan... or Pakistan... or Germany... or England... or...
(Yeah, you can learn about all their mock teror drills, too, at www.infowars.net, too)
Found that out using tracert. The Internet didn't route around the blockage. (Fancy that.) Those ISPs prevented any re-routing. That's a fatal flaw in your argument. The only remedy is to avoid those ISPs, but as ISPs become more and more centralized, this will no longer be possible.
infowars.net wasn't blocked, though, because the powers that be overlooked it.
Go to infowars.net to get free movies and info-links about real issues as reported in major news media. Links to articles listed with AP, Reuters, and The London Guardian will bring up mainstream news articles that will tell you why we need to watch what ALL governments (foreign and domestic) are doing.
Found that out using tracert. The Internet didn't route around the blockage. (Fancy that.) Those ISPs prevented any re-routing. That's a fatal flaw in your argument. The only remedy is to avoid those ISPs, but as ISPs become more and more centralized, this will no longer be possible.
infowars.net wasn't blocked, though, because the powers that be overlooked it.
Go to infowars.net to get free movies and info-links about real issues as reported in major news media. Links to articles listed with AP, Reuters, and The London Guardian will bring up mainstream news articles that will tell you why we need to watch what ALL governments (foreign and domestic) are doing.
The US government will give the UN/EU the DNS servers, that's how. Don't you know about the GATT, the WTO, the agreements that Bush/Clinton have signed with the UN/EU, etc. Why do you think gas prices have risen? The UN/EU isn't going to stand for cheap energy prices for the US anymore!
Learn all about reality at www.infowars.net and www.prisonplanet.tv.
Oh, you don't accept their "opinions?" Then read their links to major news media (AP, Reuters, The London Guardian) that make their points for them. We need more information that is unfiltered, not less.
It is an information war, after all. Whoever is better informed wins. Because there is a war on for your mind!
If the US wasn't mutating into a malevalent police state I might agree with you. Although censorship and filtering by the US government is not the issue in this debate, you should be aware of the following.
At this point, TimeWarner and AOL ISPs are using DNS filters to block websites (www.infowars.net and www.prisonplanet.tv) that link to major news media (AP, Reuters, The London Guardian), and when called on it TimeWarner and AOL claim they are just blocking a hate site. (They will restore the links shortly under public pressure, but the fact that the sites were filtered has already been confirmed by slashdotters... http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164421&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=1&tid=95&mode=thread&pid=1372760 2#13727627)
Just imagine what kind of filtering will occur when the UN gets ahold of the DNS servers! American democracy is so weak and is being attacked so viciously now that in our best interest we can't afford any further censorship by globalist extremists.
We need more information that is unfiltered, not less. It is an information war, after all. Whoever is better informed wins.
Now admittedly, in a perfect world your point would have much more merit. But I ask you... why is it that the UN is making its move to appropriate these DNS servers now if not for purposes of censorship?
If the US wasn't mutating into a malevalent police state I might agree with you. Although censorship and filtering by the US government is not the issue in this debate, you should be aware of the following.
At this point, TimeWarner and AOL ISPs are using DNS filters to block websites (www.infowars.net and www.prisonplanet.tv) that link to major news media (AP, Reuters, The London Guardian), and when called on it TimeWarner and AOL claim they are just blocking a hate site. (They will restore the links shortly under public pressure, but the fact that the sites were filtered has already been confirmed by slashdotters... http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164421&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=1&tid=95&mode=thread&pid=1372760 2#13727627)
Just imagine what kind of filtering will occur when the UN gets ahold of the DNS servers! American democracy is so weak and is being attacked so viciously now that in our best interest we can't afford any further censorship by globalist extremists.
We need more information that is unfiltered, not less. It is an information war, after all. Whoever is better informed wins.
Now admittedly, in a perfect world your point would have much more merit. But I ask you... why is it that the UN is making its move to appropriate these DNS servers now if not for purposes of censorship?
While you are thinking about "local events" the rest of the world is looking over your fence, seeing what you have and desiring to take it. How will they do that, you ask? Because the US government will let them. But that's impossible, you say?
Read all about it in major news media (AP, Reuters, The London Guardian) by finding out where to look at:
www.infowars.net (or)
www.prisonplanet.tv
Time-Warner and AOL ISPs filters out these websites at the DNS level now... (fancy that, the great wall of America)... just imagine... what the UN will do when they control the DNS?
The hate crimes bill threatening your favorite talk-radio show, the UN trying to control DNS servers and threatening your favorite source of on-line news, self-censorship of the major news media threatening our country... where are we to turn???
For excellent on-line videos that report real issues in a truthful manner go to
www.infowars.com (or)
www.prisonplanet.tv
They're so good Time-Warner and AOL ISPs filter them out at the DNS level. (Fancy that. The great wall of America. Traceroute is great.)
No problems, mate. Just go to infowars.net. The M$ clones overlooked that one.
Get free movies and info-links about real issues that are well-documented and can be found in major news media (if you look on page 26, in column G).
Tired of hoaxes? Go to www.infowars.com or www.prisonplanet.tv and get excellent films that report real issues in a truthful manner.
No worries there about one-view DVDs, pay-per-view DVDs, satellite downloads, key-logging uploads, etc. M$ is not involved.
There must be something to those websites. Time-Warner and AOL ISPs filter them via DNS. Fancy that! (Traceroute is great.)
But that's OK. Just go to infowars.net. The M$ clones overlooked that one.
Go and get your free movies and info-links about real issues reported in major news media (AP, Reuters, CNN, and the London Guardian). Fully half of the numerous hours of streaming video is freely viewable, and the other half just verifies and documents the first half.
Having trouble getting excellent films that report real issues in a truthful manner? Can't get through to www.infowars.com or www.prisonplanet.com? Well, guess what, it is Time-Warner and AOL ISPs filtering the DNS. Fancy that. (Traceroute is great.)
Just go to infowars.net. They overlooked that one.
Go there and get your free movies and info-links about real issues as reported in major news media.
Scandal? I can't think of anything more scandalous than last year's presidential elections.
Well, maybe this year's announcement by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan [Sober To A Fault]Greenspan to France's Finance Minister Thierry Breton that the American budet deficit has spun out of control.
What is all this talk about conspiracies! Are you all nuts!? There is nothing going wrong ANYWHERE. Right?... Right?... Guys?
Many of you have said as much in several replies to obvious nut-job, wacko reports like those about the Chinese censoring the Internet... or hows-about that one with the Attorney General going after p0rn on the Internet? Politics do's as politics does. (Hehe)
Geeze, do I have to remind you to take your little blue pills every day now?
Ohhhhhh, I get it. This cockamamie story is about GEEKAZOIDS losing your God-given right to infringe upon the copyright of digital content. It's about YOU... and so now it matters.
Slashdot Mirror
If /. degenerates into run-of-the-mill advertising ... it already is tech advertising ... then it ain't worth it. I've TV for run-of-the-mill advertising.
break with the "tradition" of their insolance and:
... just the agregate personal fortunes of the top swindlers who perpetrated this biggest scam in the history of the world.)
1) offer customers a sincere apology for their negligence
(no court seems able to get a comprehensive conviction
against any of them anyway, so they should't have to worry
about liability), at the same time as
2) distribute a genuinely effective set of patches to those
customers as they wait for the company to develop a new
product that actually does what it says it should
3) distribute that genuinely secure product to customers FOR
FREE, with full on-site support to smooth the transition
4) offer a discount on upcoming products to extend good will,
5) and eat the crow they so richly deserve.
I figure all in all it will only cost them about a trillion bucks. (Yeah
But why should the software industry be held to a different standard? Other industries end up eating losses all the time.
Because if all those middle/upper-level managers in other sectors that wanted to cash in on the "replace workers with machines" craze of the 90's would propose such an ultimatum to their companies' stockholders, then they would have to admit that their blind greed backfired all over their damned faces!
they would break with the "tradition" of insolance in the software industry and:
... Bill Gates' personal forture.) But he oughta cought it up anyway, the charletan! Biggest scam in the history of the world.
1) offer customers a sincere apology for their negligence
(no court seems to be able to convict them anyway, so they
should't have to worry about liability), at the same time as
2) distribute a genuinely effective set of patches to those
customers as they wait for M$ to develop a new product
3) distribute that genuinely secure product to customers FOR
FREE, with full FREE on-site support to smooth the transition
4) offer a discount on upcoming products to extend good will,
5) and eat the crow they so richly deserve.
I figure all in all it will only cost them about $100 billion bucks. (Yeah
And why is M$ held to a different standard? Because all those middle/upper-level managers who wanted to cash in on the "replace workers with machines" craze of the 90's would have to admit their greed backfired all over their damned faces, if they proposed such an ultimatum to the stockholders.
It speaks volumes about human intelligence that, 100 years later, the most common reference to intelligence metrics is the Stanford-Benet score. What did Stanford-Benet do to warrant such worship?
/. forums ... and my Stanford-Benet test score went off the scale. Does that make me a super genius? No. It means while still a child I was able to answer a question at the superior adult level. That sounds like an outlier to me, not a trend. The item analysis of the Stanford-Benet is just not that accurate.)
Little, apparently. IQ has been marketed admirably well over the decades, but that is not the fault of psychologists. IQ score appeals directly to the ego of certain individuals and, therefore, reference to it is remarkably effective as a marketing ploy. (Sorry people.) It pays Madison Avenue to play up IQ as much as possible. Many slashdotters go ga-ga over it.
(For the record, this is the first that I have commented on IQ in the
[Let me preface this comment by noting that I write many things, including music.]
If copyright was abandoned it would get rid of a lot of tripe out there in the marketplace. Wouldn't it be great if people wrote not for money but ideas, for a change, if there was genuine competition among ideas and artistic expression?
Idealism? Fantasy? Poppycock? I doubt as if those who have a burning desire to write would be stopped by poor remuneration for their efforts. (The practice of blogging demonstrates this point. Podcasting expands the idea to radio and video.) If the tripe written by those motivated mainly by money was allowed to whither, then eventually the field would be cleared to allow content written by those actually interested to surface and flourish. (Just removal of the advertising efforts to promote the latest schlock would see to that.)
Oh yes, I realize that those writing for money are interested in their subject, too. And yes, many important things wouldn't be written except for the remuneration. (Authors must live, etc.) But I for one can't see the situation getting worse by removing the profit motive from the publishing field. The current system of copyright may benefit works written through coporate collaboration, but is not a friend of the independent. And it is the independent who gave us the calculus, the Tesla coil, Linux, and cellular automata.
Far more work that is of crucial importance has been buried than ever benefited from the skewed book selling and promoting practices now rife in the publishing world. (Note that I refer not to my own work, by the way.)
In addition, most authors are required on their own dime to go out and hawk their work on a touring circuit. There are very few corporate advertising dollars being spent on authors; only a handful are darlings, and they get constant coverage and prominent product placement. Readers are reduced to consumers and it well-known that most markets are created, not discovered. In such contrived circumstances, the very purpose for a readily presentable media -- the content -- suffers.
These remarks apply to most anything able to be copyrighted, by the way.
For years has there even been any discussion on /. about major innovation in enterprise-level server hardware? If so, it passed by quickly ... things are certainly not percolating like seven (or even five years ago) during the innovation wars between Compaq and Dell.
/. discussion topics are on a par with the tabloids, except that instead of aliens from Mars we read about some slightly fresher Linux flavor. I used to come here to get the industry bleeding edge, and now I get reports about the latest revision of five year-old video games.
... the way IT budgets are going). Is this a main streaming, or what?!
Now,
My point? Stick with the video games, guys. Don't bother with Rambus shannanigans. Your caring public is gone. Whoever can hang onto an IT job now will have that same job for the next twenty years. (And they'll still be working with the same equipment, probably
More like a rigor mortus, actually.
Supplying some of the other 25%.
Too bad you asked your question 300 (or so) replies into the slash-blather ...
... except it will never be done. In general, help files have a format (*.chm) that requires special stand-alone tools just to edit. Maybe it is the high cost of gaining permission over copy-right/patent (like as with M$ NTFS file system utilities), or maybe it is just that there is no library that integrates and edits *.chm files into the program code on the fly, but so far there just isn't a means to program a Windows application so to be able to cut and paste into the standard help file used for most Windows applications.
It is entirely possible to program the application so that it does what you would like
What you ask for is not impossible, though. Dragonfly's Note Bene academic word processor allows for this, but of course utilizes its own help file format. However, with a program that has a steep learning curve, being able to do this is a God-send. And while Note Bene is no LaTeX - what to speak of TeX - it DOES have a steep learning curve.
So, do like I do and create your own Windows Annoyances document. So far mine has 42 main entries and scads of minor ones (a main entry is a fix or preventation strategy that must be incorporated into any new installation of Windows). Similar logs can be made for any application. But you'll wait an eternity for the programmers to solve this one.
_________________________
Make an image file of Windows frquently.
How convenient that a "simple blood test" has been found to test for such subjective mental states as anxiety disorders and depression. The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health "recommends" psychological testing for all Americans, and wants to ensure by law that every school-age child has been offered such an exam.
History time and again records governments continually abusing the power accorded by such sweeping initiatives, interpreted as mandates by sycophantic minions. Why should modern government be any different?
The real questions are: Who determines what is to be considered a mental illness? Which authorities control who is tested for mental illness and how? What will be done to the mentally ill under the aegis of treatment? Who stands to profit from it all?
The Columbia University TeenScreen Program is the pilot program mentioned in the report as the model program to administer such a CBT test. Their pilot test is already being given to kids in at least 27 states, in at least 69 schools.
At the Teenscreen website, under the "Setting The Record Straight About TeenScreen" page, the group argues that the language in the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, couched in terms of "universal screening" does not mean "mandatory screening."
Yes, Teenscreen does not advocate forced psychological testing at their website. However, Teenscreen can only vouchsafe for itself.
Teenscreen may indeed be an organization of integrity; the question is not how are the recommendations of the President's Commission being tested, but what will be the future of the initiative advocated!
Governments do not have a good track record being trusted to endorse and administer psychological testing of the citizenry. More than plaintive appeals as to Teenscreen's integrity are needed to dispell the fact that governments in both the distant and recent past have used official definitions of "mental health" as a means to control, imprison and torture citizens. The more wide-spread such programs become, the more likely they will be used nefariously. American forms of eugenics are alive and well.
Teenscreen cannot speak for the aims of government, nor for what government does with the information once it is collected by organizations such as Teenscreen. Presumeably such information will be subject to government review.
With the acknowledged surveillance of all network communications by Navy operations it is doubtful that client-professional privilege could be maintained, even if private organizations were to retain some semblance of separation between their testing of individuals in public settings and the government's pervasive snooping.
For more, see: www.inforwars.net
"The complexity to date of accomplishing such a feat has meant only a minority of computer users have dabbled with watching full-length movies on their computer, with most of those having acquired the content through file sharing services."
... slashdotters should know what that's about. There's no excuse to be un-informed.
Does that mean they'll leave me alone to watch my full-length feature films acquired through file sharing services in peace? Imagine that. No DRM, no suits by the RIAA. Of course, I don't get them through bitTorrent.
alt.binaries.documentaries is a hoot!
(Alex Jones even gives out his hard-hitting feature-length documentaries for free)
alt.binaries.great and
alt.binaries.radio.misc
each have full-length recordings of all my favorite reality talk-radio programs
NNTP
Together they can filter the DNS addresses of a good share of Internet traffic, like both have done already. Here's slashdotters recognizing that TimeWarner did so against www.inforwars.com and against www.prisonplanet.tv:
o ld=-1&commentsort=1&tid=95&mode=thread&pid=1372760 2#13727627
... the point is, the end-result is at least the danger of DNS address filtering no matter how you slice it. Alternatives to mainstream reporting gets squashed by such moves.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164421&thresh
Alright, supposing for the sake of argument that the Level 3 filtering is just a rivalry between two ISPs
As to regulation, a legitimate purpose of government is to prevent such abuse by corporate entities (which have legal rights as "persons" under the law, yet have far greater freedom at the public's expense to acquire wealth than do either you or I). Of course, the fact that government has not done so in the past and has allowed the increase of such abuse means that government will probably not do so in this case.
As usual, we cannot depend upon government to protect us even though it should. So, it becomes important to get the word out to so people to stop subsidizing such abuse by dropping both Microsoft's and Time Warner. For those left without alternatives, isn't that an argument in and of itself to prevent monopolization by these giants?
There were even drills for the Oaklahoma City bombing.
... is it my imagination or did Bush promise the Palestinians a state? http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/sto ries/2005/10_october/06/bush.shtml
... or Pakistan ... or Germany ... or England ... or ...
Read about it at www.infowars.net
or see the videos at www.prisonplanet.tv
Oh, and BTW
Pretty crazy, no? Wondor how the Zionists feel about that one. (The fact that Bush said that in June of 2003 and we're just now learning about it is telling.)
Guess that means tonight's nation-wide address should be pretty interesting, huh? Suppose we need a draft? (That'll get the slashdotters' attention.)
Mock drills are a coming in droves, it would appear. And not just from Japan
(Yeah, you can learn about all their mock teror drills, too, at www.infowars.net, too)
Uh, what about Time-Warner and AOL ISPs filtering the DNS of a couple of real news websites?
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www.infowars.com or www.prisonplanet.com
Slashdotters confirmed it http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164421&thresh
Found that out using tracert. The Internet didn't route around the blockage. (Fancy that.) Those ISPs prevented any re-routing. That's a fatal flaw in your argument. The only remedy is to avoid those ISPs, but as ISPs become more and more centralized, this will no longer be possible.
infowars.net wasn't blocked, though, because the powers that be overlooked it.
Go to infowars.net to get free movies and info-links about real issues as reported in major news media. Links to articles listed with AP, Reuters, and The London Guardian will bring up mainstream news articles that will tell you why we need to watch what ALL governments (foreign and domestic) are doing.
Uh, what about Time-Warner and AOL ISPs filtering the DNS of a couple of real news websites?
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www.infowars.com or www.prisonplanet.com
Slashdotters confirmed it http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164421&thresh
Found that out using tracert. The Internet didn't route around the blockage. (Fancy that.) Those ISPs prevented any re-routing. That's a fatal flaw in your argument. The only remedy is to avoid those ISPs, but as ISPs become more and more centralized, this will no longer be possible.
infowars.net wasn't blocked, though, because the powers that be overlooked it.
Go to infowars.net to get free movies and info-links about real issues as reported in major news media. Links to articles listed with AP, Reuters, and The London Guardian will bring up mainstream news articles that will tell you why we need to watch what ALL governments (foreign and domestic) are doing.
The US government will give the UN/EU the DNS servers, that's how. Don't you know about the GATT, the WTO, the agreements that Bush/Clinton have signed with the UN/EU, etc. Why do you think gas prices have risen? The UN/EU isn't going to stand for cheap energy prices for the US anymore!
Learn all about reality at www.infowars.net and www.prisonplanet.tv.
Oh, you don't accept their "opinions?" Then read their links to major news media (AP, Reuters, The London Guardian) that make their points for them. We need more information that is unfiltered, not less.
It is an information war, after all. Whoever is better informed wins. Because there is a war on for your mind!
If the US wasn't mutating into a malevalent police state I might agree with you. Although censorship and filtering by the US government is not the issue in this debate, you should be aware of the following.
... http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164421&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=1&tid=95&mode=thread&pid=1372760 2#13727627)
... why is it that the UN is making its move to appropriate these DNS servers now if not for purposes of censorship?
At this point, TimeWarner and AOL ISPs are using DNS filters to block websites (www.infowars.net and www.prisonplanet.tv) that link to major news media (AP, Reuters, The London Guardian), and when called on it TimeWarner and AOL claim they are just blocking a hate site. (They will restore the links shortly under public pressure, but the fact that the sites were filtered has already been confirmed by slashdotters
Just imagine what kind of filtering will occur when the UN gets ahold of the DNS servers! American democracy is so weak and is being attacked so viciously now that in our best interest we can't afford any further censorship by globalist extremists.
We need more information that is unfiltered, not less. It is an information war, after all. Whoever is better informed wins.
Now admittedly, in a perfect world your point would have much more merit. But I ask you
If the US wasn't mutating into a malevalent police state I might agree with you. Although censorship and filtering by the US government is not the issue in this debate, you should be aware of the following.
... http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164421&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=1&tid=95&mode=thread&pid=1372760 2#13727627)
... why is it that the UN is making its move to appropriate these DNS servers now if not for purposes of censorship?
At this point, TimeWarner and AOL ISPs are using DNS filters to block websites (www.infowars.net and www.prisonplanet.tv) that link to major news media (AP, Reuters, The London Guardian), and when called on it TimeWarner and AOL claim they are just blocking a hate site. (They will restore the links shortly under public pressure, but the fact that the sites were filtered has already been confirmed by slashdotters
Just imagine what kind of filtering will occur when the UN gets ahold of the DNS servers! American democracy is so weak and is being attacked so viciously now that in our best interest we can't afford any further censorship by globalist extremists.
We need more information that is unfiltered, not less. It is an information war, after all. Whoever is better informed wins.
Now admittedly, in a perfect world your point would have much more merit. But I ask you
Uh, doombob,
... (fancy that, the great wall of America) ... just imagine ... what the UN will do when they control the DNS?
While you are thinking about "local events" the rest of the world is looking over your fence, seeing what you have and desiring to take it. How will they do that, you ask? Because the US government will let them. But that's impossible, you say?
Read all about it in major news media (AP, Reuters, The London Guardian) by finding out where to look at:
www.infowars.net (or)
www.prisonplanet.tv
Time-Warner and AOL ISPs filters out these websites at the DNS level now
The hate crimes bill threatening your favorite talk-radio show, the UN trying to control DNS servers and threatening your favorite source of on-line news, self-censorship of the major news media threatening our country ... where are we to turn???
For excellent on-line videos that report real issues in a truthful manner go to
www.infowars.com (or)
www.prisonplanet.tv
They're so good Time-Warner and AOL ISPs filter them out at the DNS level. (Fancy that. The great wall of America. Traceroute is great.)
No problems, mate. Just go to infowars.net. The M$ clones overlooked that one.
Get free movies and info-links about real issues that are well-documented and can be found in major news media (if you look on page 26, in column G).
Tired of hoaxes? Go to www.infowars.com or www.prisonplanet.tv and
get excellent films that report real issues in a truthful manner.
No worries there about one-view DVDs, pay-per-view DVDs, satellite downloads, key-logging uploads, etc. M$ is not involved.
There must be something to those websites. Time-Warner and AOL ISPs filter them via DNS. Fancy that! (Traceroute is great.)
But that's OK. Just go to infowars.net. The M$ clones overlooked that one.
Go and get your free movies and info-links about real issues reported in major news media (AP, Reuters, CNN, and the London Guardian). Fully half of the numerous hours of streaming video is freely viewable, and the other half just verifies and documents the first half.
Yeah, the playing field is not equal. And the info at www.infowars.com and www.prisonplanet.tv is so important right now.
... try exciting reality and you'll get hooked. It is better than video game fantasies!
(Fully half of the exciting documentaries there are freely distributed.)
No need to pay money for dull fantasy
Having trouble getting excellent films that report real issues in a truthful manner? Can't get through to www.infowars.com or www.prisonplanet.com? Well, guess what, it is Time-Warner and AOL ISPs filtering the DNS. Fancy that. (Traceroute is great.)
Just go to infowars.net. They overlooked that one.
Go there and get your free movies and info-links about real issues as reported in major news media.
Scandal? I can't think of anything more scandalous than last year's presidential elections.
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Well, maybe this year's announcement by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan [Sober To A Fault]Greenspan to France's Finance Minister Thierry Breton that the American budet deficit has spun out of control.
http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle
Can anyone spell "d-e-p-r-e-s-s-i-o-n"?
Tin foil hat, man! You're crazy.
What is all this talk about conspiracies! Are you all nuts!? There is nothing going wrong ANYWHERE. Right? ... Right? ... Guys?
... or hows-about that one with the Attorney General going after p0rn on the Internet? Politics do's as politics does. (Hehe)
... and so now it matters.
... I bet you'll call me a troll now.
Many of you have said as much in several replies to obvious nut-job, wacko reports like those about the Chinese censoring the Internet
Geeze, do I have to remind you to take your little blue pills every day now?
Ohhhhhh, I get it. This cockamamie story is about GEEKAZOIDS losing your God-given right to infringe upon the copyright of digital content. It's about YOU
Hmmmmmm,