If you like to read the satire in the Onion, then you should also try SlashNot.com It's satire write in the Slashdot format. The Slashdot staff hates it with a passion and there is a lot of antomosity for some odd reason. It's makes it even more fun to read knowing that.
It seems that this is becoming the norm on Slashdot. Nobody takes the time to see if the story is even legitamate before posting. They need an editor badly. Articles posted that are not spell checked, (bad credibility). Articles, such as this one, that don't tell the whole story, or the real story. That removes credibility from all slashdot articles. This place is going to be religated to the corners of the net normally reserved for 'The Onion' if they keep going in this direction. Slashdot used to be good. It's getting slashed and dotted pretty bad recently.
The need to change the system is clear, in my eyes. We are placing a higher priority on softer crimes that hurt only a corporation than we are of harder crimes where people hurt other people. The problem is not in government. Government is elected in this country by YOU. If there were enough people out there getting outraged by this, then it would stop. The real problem is that the politicians KNOW that the group of people whothis targets the most 18-30 year olds, tend not to vote anyways. So passing a law that targets them is actually a good move. "I can say I am fighting crime and not hurt the people who vote for me". Best of both worlds for them. That group of people, 18-30 yrs old, sealled their fate in the last national election. They were supposed to be out in force, they never showed up
You guys are screwwing yourselves and then complaining about it! Here are the US Census stats. Look at them yourself, 18-24, one of the largest segments of the population right now. 38 percent registered to vote. The election results say that only about 25% of those registered actually voted. 45-65 age group, 70% registered and actually nearly 75% of them voted too. Who is screwwing who here? If you actually voted, I would bet you the politicians would take sharp notice over your issues or fear losing their jobs. I would personally guarantee it! Those numbers have to drastically change before ANYTHING is going to happen though.
>Who doesn't have 13000 files on their PC.
I don't and there isn't another soul that I know of that does, or at least admits it. I have a wide CD collection myself. I haven't ever ripped one for someone else and don't ever plan to do it either. Ask me to make you a copy? You aren't my friend anymore. Don't ask me to break the law for you. I don't have to agree with the law, but I have to follow it. That's part of what is wrong with this country. We don't think we have to follow the laws we don't agree with or don't like. They are there for a reason, to protect the corporate cookie jar, not to protect you. That's also a problem, but we let those dorks who passed these stupid laws stay in office. Where are the young people who these laws effect on election day? Apparently they are too busy at home downloading crap. Get out and vote if you don't like it! Your lettin gthe people who have nothing better to do make the laws that govern YOUR life. You can stop it by making yourself heard. VOTE damm it!
I think the point is that someone can get a longer sentence and a heavier fine for downloading a warez product now than they are likely to get from killing someone with their automobile. We have a lopsided justice, no broken justice system in this country when start to do things like this to people because they 'hurt' a company. It sends a message that your mother's life is less valuable than the financial well being of a company. I think it's a pretty sorry state of affairs myself. It certainly makes it clear as to who is really holding the power here in the states.
You are funny. I bash Oracle and say that a migration path is better between something like MS-SQL and MySQL and you want to start comparing MySQL to Oracle. I NEVER said that MySQL was a robust database. I never even stated that I like it. I never defended it. I simply don't like Oracle. I think that there are much more cost effect databases out there that can do the SAME work. MS-SQL CAN challenge Oracle and has. Of course Oracle fanatics will challenge that as will MySQL fanatics challange your statements, (and mine).
Tiered applications are not restricted to Oracle database users, heck they are not even restricted to people who use databases. That's called good coding. Has little to do with Oracle or any other database.
Certainly any good transaction based/driven database in the enterprise world is going to out-perform MySQL. That's not the point. The point is that if you have to make a choice in the "paid for" database world, Oracle is not a good choice UNLESS you are extremely large. Then the TCO is going to come into play. Otherwise, Oracle is an overpriced, fat application drive solution that requires and inordinate amount of knowledge and understanding to manage. It also backs you into a area the you cannot migrate out of, (my original point that you choose to ignore), without a great deal of pain suffering and cost.
Please note that these are my OPINIONS and in NO WAY reflect the stance of the company I work for.
That's exactly the reason people should stay away from Oracle. Simply because it backs you into the product in a way the conversion is extremely painful and expensive. conversion from MySQL to MS-SQL or a similar SQL complient database is really pretty simple. Oracle is the mongrel out there and should be put to a very public open sourced death.
You don't have to use the adjective 'crooked' in front of cop anymore. The word cop says that itself these days. If you need to denote a cop who is not crooked, you HAVE to say 'Honest' cop however. Otherwise it is assumed that they are crooked.
You are correct. I agree with you on nearly all of you points. I did not read that he 'offer to aid their communications' but perhaps writting literature for them could be construed that way. I also do believe that if the young man had a demonstratable 'intent' to eventually carry out an act of terrorism, that steps would need to be taken. I think that a protest against our government and an intent to cause harm to it are distiguishably different acts.
Where does my fear come from? I personnally don't think we had ought to be in Iraq any longer. I was for the initial war, I was for the occupation in the beginning. I have changed my mind as I watch the death tool of young American men and women rise at what I consider a staggering rate. I think if our president continues to handle the situation as poorly as I believe he has that it is my responsibility to speak out against his actions. I just see this arrest as a small step in the direction of giving the government the precident of being able to suppress any such condesention by flagging it as 'aiding and abbeting'. In my opinion, I think that they are increasingly taking the stance that anyone who disagrees is a 'bad' person and needs to be taken down. It is scary to me, because of how I feel about what is going on. I don't feel that I can speak freely without reprocussions. That, in my eyes, is a sad state of affairs.
I personally want to thank you for your level headed, fact based, non accusational response. It is a true joy to me to be able to speak to someone about this kind of stuff without them becoming obsessively angery. Thank you.
It's so the government can 'turn off' all of the cars when they want to, uh I meant, when they think there is a threat to them somewhere, for our own protect of course. Yea, for our own protection, that's it.
Here is something that I was taught a good number of years ago, and I have yet to find very many instances where it is not true. When you interview someone, the clothes they wear on that first meeting will be the best clothes they will ever wear in their career with you. It will never get better. So if you think they are on shaky ground in the interview with that, then you better toss the candidate. What does that have to do with this issue? The same thing applies to a news article. The news agency is always going to use up their best 'clothing' for the main article. There isn't going to be a lot more behind it for more articles. If there was more or better facts to see, they would have used them. An employee is not going to wear better clothes after they are hired. A journalist is not going to present better facts after the first article.
To state that there must be more that we don't know is only admitting that it looks outwardly wrong UNLESS there is more to it. I agree wholeheartedly. I am going to make the assumption that there IS NOT any more to it, because there generally isn't. In fact generally speaking, what you read is usually more than what the truth really represents. Someone has already 'fluffed' things to make them more enticing. So I think this IS a big red flag that we have to face in the US. We cannot speak out unless it is in line with the administrations belief system. What is that belief system? We can only draw lines where we see things like this take place. We now know that helping someone the administration doesn't like, build a web page is an arrestable offense, and a bad offense at that.
Ok so you are deferentiating between the written word and the spoken word. I still don't see the difference. So he wrote some web site stuff. If it was malicious code that attacked other machines, I would have to back off. But putting your words in writing on a web site is tantamount to speaking them aloud in my eyes. Where is the harm? I might not agree with them, I might not like them, but they are still just words. Since when is writing words for a web page synonymous with 'offering aid to'. That's a stretch in my eyes. A website cannot go out and prostelatize. A web site requires people to go to it. Because my palm pilot can run a personal web server, and I write my docs in HTML for compatability, and I write "I hate bush", am I now a 'enemy combatant' because I 'ran a hostile website'. Don't you see what is happening? The picture is being painted to make a simple act look heinous and overtly hostile when it is nothing more than a simple protest to show his oblique opposition to the current administrations actions. I too am diametrically opposed to many of this administration's actions, if I speak out about it, or write it up in a blog, what will happen to me? There should not even be a question as to that answer. It should be nothing. This article shows that the is clearly not the case.
I hope that we will see the authorities apply this logical to more areas than this. You see, they are considering the makers of the software that allows people to violate the copyright as the offenders. I think I will tell that to the next cop who stops me for speeding. "Well officer, Ford made the car that enabled me to speed, perhaps you have the wrong guy here." officer, "You are right sir, I apologize for pestering you while the real offenders go free."
That's what makes this particular arerst so ominous. I think that you point out something very valid. The government simply CANNOT monitor everything, so they are resorting to other tactics to control the problem. Primarily by spreading fear of prosecution. If they can instill enough fear in the citizens of this country that they will be arrested for speaking out against what they feel is wrong, then they can still win the 'war'. The problem is that what they seem to be fighting against now is simply people speaking out. Disagree with this kid's stance or not, all he did was say some words that represented how he felt. He did no harm to anyone. He is now paying a severe price for speaking those words.
I remember watching the Tiananmen Square incident in China on my TV a number of years back. I remember the outcry that happened here in the states with the response China issued by incarcerating the young men and women who simply 'spoke out' against their government. Isn't that what our government is now doing to our people? beware of this creeping war on terrorism. It seems to be wiping out what we used to believe in, Freedom to speak out about what we believe in. What is going to happen when the US government really does overstep it's bounds (many believe that has already happened)? The precedent is being set now. What if that makes you angry? You will be arrested for pointing that out.
I hope you were suggesting that my spelling was correct. I would hate to see you go to prison for suggesting that the US is something other than a democracy.;)
If you find something as the current calendar difficult, then you have much greater problems in your life to deal with than figuring out what day it is. If you atre that stupid that you can't keep track, use a calendar, then tperhaps you are more of a threat to our society than Osama Bin Laden's clan. Can you walk in a straight line? Can you chew gum and ride a bike? Can you even ride a bike? Heavens! If this is the state of our populous, then we deserve to be screwed with.
California court judgements are notoriously worng. MOre than half of the circuits decisions are inevitably found incorrect and struck down in federal appelate court. These are exactly the type s of judgements that get struck down too. The ones that benefit you and I , the common person. We need to change the constitution from, "for the people, by the people" to for the companies, by the companies with help from the justice system". This ruling won't stand, you watch. It removes to much power from the people who run the show.
I think that the message here is much more ominous than what the surface story tells. The young man simply stated his great dislike for the United States government that is in place. He also made a flip comment about himself being a pilot of one 9/11 planes that crashed into the towers. I only see a crime here if he actually did the task. What are we becoming here in the US? It scares me to think that if I say that I hate GWBush with a passion that I will have the FBI crashing down my door. This smacks to me of totalitarianism (or however you spell that). Don't even THINK of hating us or we will take you down! It seems to me that this will go a long long way down the road of stopping anyone from questioning this government if they happen to think they are doing something wrong. Is the strong suggestion that your opinion of someones elses actions is wrong so wrong itself? I fear for the future of a people that are suppressed in this way. The scary part is that most of the people don't see it happening around them. They truely think this is a 'defensive' measure to secure 'their' lifestyle. What did this kid do to hurt anyone? NOTHING! He though something, spoke some words and went about his life as normal. There should not be a penalty for not agreeing with someone else and trying to change their position with words. Isn't that what the US is supposed to stand for?
You can't have it both ways. You want to complain if they bundle it and you want to complain if the sell it seperately. Which will it be? It is pretty obvious to me that you are simply out to bash MS without any merit to your arguement.
Personally I dislike MS, but I will no lower myself to making stupid arguements regarding their business practices, that only makes anything else I say much less believable. You can only cry wolf so many times before people stop listening to you. Don't fall into that trap of something so silly as this.
Giant sells the software on their own, and you evidently thought is was good enough to purchase. How does that change under the ownership of MS? It simply doesn't. If anything, you will benefit by not having to pay extra for the software that is bundled in the windows package. They are making their product better. Should they not be allowed to do that? If they shouldn't, then should not those same rules apply to other software like LInux? Let us not suggest a double standard should be in place just because we don't like someone. That opens the door to an unfair standard being placed against us in the future. We need to fight for equality, fairness and justice and not just when it suits us.
I agree. I always use stickers too. It's not so much of a pain in the ass as creating labels. 30 seconds I'm done. Never had a problem with the stickers in the drive or the CD's becoming unbalanced either. I also have a library of hundreds of CD's, (originals and their backups). I think sometimes we make the task more difficult than it has to be.
I can also see a bunch of newbies burning labels into the wrong side of the platter. The more serious problem is going to be getting the right CD to do this with. TDK now is shipping CDs where the writable material is actually the underside of the 'label'. They have found that is much more efficient in production than to have to bury the material in the plastic substrate. Burn the label on this baby and you ruin your data. I expect that most of the CD manufacturers will be going to this process soon, as it is far cheaper than the old method.
Even Giant does not clean everything. The experts say that you HAVE TO run two to three different packages in order to clean 90% of the spyware applications that are out there. So regardless of the order that you run them in, they will all find instances of spyware the others have missed. That doesn't make Giant anybetter than the others because you ran it last.
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If you like to read the satire in the Onion, then you should also try SlashNot.com It's satire write in the Slashdot format. The Slashdot staff hates it with a passion and there is a lot of antomosity for some odd reason. It's makes it even more fun to read knowing that.
It seems that this is becoming the norm on Slashdot. Nobody takes the time to see if the story is even legitamate before posting. They need an editor badly. Articles posted that are not spell checked, (bad credibility). Articles, such as this one, that don't tell the whole story, or the real story. That removes credibility from all slashdot articles. This place is going to be religated to the corners of the net normally reserved for 'The Onion' if they keep going in this direction. Slashdot used to be good. It's getting slashed and dotted pretty bad recently.
The need to change the system is clear, in my eyes. We are placing a higher priority on softer crimes that hurt only a corporation than we are of harder crimes where people hurt other people. The problem is not in government. Government is elected in this country by YOU. If there were enough people out there getting outraged by this, then it would stop. The real problem is that the politicians KNOW that the group of people whothis targets the most 18-30 year olds, tend not to vote anyways. So passing a law that targets them is actually a good move. "I can say I am fighting crime and not hurt the people who vote for me". Best of both worlds for them. That group of people, 18-30 yrs old, sealled their fate in the last national election. They were supposed to be out in force, they never showed up
You guys are screwwing yourselves and then complaining about it! Here are the US Census stats. Look at them yourself, 18-24, one of the largest segments of the population right now. 38 percent registered to vote. The election results say that only about 25% of those registered actually voted. 45-65 age group, 70% registered and actually nearly 75% of them voted too. Who is screwwing who here? If you actually voted, I would bet you the politicians would take sharp notice over your issues or fear losing their jobs. I would personally guarantee it! Those numbers have to drastically change before ANYTHING is going to happen though.
>Who doesn't have 13000 files on their PC. I don't and there isn't another soul that I know of that does, or at least admits it. I have a wide CD collection myself. I haven't ever ripped one for someone else and don't ever plan to do it either. Ask me to make you a copy? You aren't my friend anymore. Don't ask me to break the law for you. I don't have to agree with the law, but I have to follow it. That's part of what is wrong with this country. We don't think we have to follow the laws we don't agree with or don't like. They are there for a reason, to protect the corporate cookie jar, not to protect you. That's also a problem, but we let those dorks who passed these stupid laws stay in office. Where are the young people who these laws effect on election day? Apparently they are too busy at home downloading crap. Get out and vote if you don't like it! Your lettin gthe people who have nothing better to do make the laws that govern YOUR life. You can stop it by making yourself heard. VOTE damm it!
I think the point is that someone can get a longer sentence and a heavier fine for downloading a warez product now than they are likely to get from killing someone with their automobile. We have a lopsided justice, no broken justice system in this country when start to do things like this to people because they 'hurt' a company. It sends a message that your mother's life is less valuable than the financial well being of a company. I think it's a pretty sorry state of affairs myself. It certainly makes it clear as to who is really holding the power here in the states.
Waht the hell is a LEO? The generally accepted defination of LEO is Low Earth Orbit. What the heck are you noting?
You are funny. I bash Oracle and say that a migration path is better between something like MS-SQL and MySQL and you want to start comparing MySQL to Oracle. I NEVER said that MySQL was a robust database. I never even stated that I like it. I never defended it. I simply don't like Oracle. I think that there are much more cost effect databases out there that can do the SAME work. MS-SQL CAN challenge Oracle and has. Of course Oracle fanatics will challenge that as will MySQL fanatics challange your statements, (and mine).
Tiered applications are not restricted to Oracle database users, heck they are not even restricted to people who use databases. That's called good coding. Has little to do with Oracle or any other database.
Certainly any good transaction based/driven database in the enterprise world is going to out-perform MySQL. That's not the point. The point is that if you have to make a choice in the "paid for" database world, Oracle is not a good choice UNLESS you are extremely large. Then the TCO is going to come into play. Otherwise, Oracle is an overpriced, fat application drive solution that requires and inordinate amount of knowledge and understanding to manage. It also backs you into a area the you cannot migrate out of, (my original point that you choose to ignore), without a great deal of pain suffering and cost.
Please note that these are my OPINIONS and in NO WAY reflect the stance of the company I work for.
It's a good day for Boeing all around. They also sold 50 of their new 7E7 planes today. That tops Airbus's sales of their new 'bigger' plane.
That's exactly the reason people should stay away from Oracle. Simply because it backs you into the product in a way the conversion is extremely painful and expensive. conversion from MySQL to MS-SQL or a similar SQL complient database is really pretty simple. Oracle is the mongrel out there and should be put to a very public open sourced death.
You don't have to use the adjective 'crooked' in front of cop anymore. The word cop says that itself these days. If you need to denote a cop who is not crooked, you HAVE to say 'Honest' cop however. Otherwise it is assumed that they are crooked.
You are correct. I agree with you on nearly all of you points. I did not read that he 'offer to aid their communications' but perhaps writting literature for them could be construed that way. I also do believe that if the young man had a demonstratable 'intent' to eventually carry out an act of terrorism, that steps would need to be taken. I think that a protest against our government and an intent to cause harm to it are distiguishably different acts.
Where does my fear come from? I personnally don't think we had ought to be in Iraq any longer. I was for the initial war, I was for the occupation in the beginning. I have changed my mind as I watch the death tool of young American men and women rise at what I consider a staggering rate. I think if our president continues to handle the situation as poorly as I believe he has that it is my responsibility to speak out against his actions. I just see this arrest as a small step in the direction of giving the government the precident of being able to suppress any such condesention by flagging it as 'aiding and abbeting'. In my opinion, I think that they are increasingly taking the stance that anyone who disagrees is a 'bad' person and needs to be taken down. It is scary to me, because of how I feel about what is going on. I don't feel that I can speak freely without reprocussions. That, in my eyes, is a sad state of affairs.
I personally want to thank you for your level headed, fact based, non accusational response. It is a true joy to me to be able to speak to someone about this kind of stuff without them becoming obsessively angery. Thank you.
It's so the government can 'turn off' all of the cars when they want to, uh I meant, when they think there is a threat to them somewhere, for our own protect of course. Yea, for our own protection, that's it.
Yea! Let's not start sullying out vision of the world with facts! Come on now! ;)
Here is something that I was taught a good number of years ago, and I have yet to find very many instances where it is not true. When you interview someone, the clothes they wear on that first meeting will be the best clothes they will ever wear in their career with you. It will never get better. So if you think they are on shaky ground in the interview with that, then you better toss the candidate. What does that have to do with this issue? The same thing applies to a news article. The news agency is always going to use up their best 'clothing' for the main article. There isn't going to be a lot more behind it for more articles. If there was more or better facts to see, they would have used them. An employee is not going to wear better clothes after they are hired. A journalist is not going to present better facts after the first article.
To state that there must be more that we don't know is only admitting that it looks outwardly wrong UNLESS there is more to it. I agree wholeheartedly. I am going to make the assumption that there IS NOT any more to it, because there generally isn't. In fact generally speaking, what you read is usually more than what the truth really represents. Someone has already 'fluffed' things to make them more enticing. So I think this IS a big red flag that we have to face in the US. We cannot speak out unless it is in line with the administrations belief system. What is that belief system? We can only draw lines where we see things like this take place. We now know that helping someone the administration doesn't like, build a web page is an arrestable offense, and a bad offense at that.
Ok so you are deferentiating between the written word and the spoken word. I still don't see the difference. So he wrote some web site stuff. If it was malicious code that attacked other machines, I would have to back off. But putting your words in writing on a web site is tantamount to speaking them aloud in my eyes. Where is the harm? I might not agree with them, I might not like them, but they are still just words. Since when is writing words for a web page synonymous with 'offering aid to'. That's a stretch in my eyes. A website cannot go out and prostelatize. A web site requires people to go to it. Because my palm pilot can run a personal web server, and I write my docs in HTML for compatability, and I write "I hate bush", am I now a 'enemy combatant' because I 'ran a hostile website'. Don't you see what is happening? The picture is being painted to make a simple act look heinous and overtly hostile when it is nothing more than a simple protest to show his oblique opposition to the current administrations actions. I too am diametrically opposed to many of this administration's actions, if I speak out about it, or write it up in a blog, what will happen to me? There should not even be a question as to that answer. It should be nothing. This article shows that the is clearly not the case.
I hope that we will see the authorities apply this logical to more areas than this. You see, they are considering the makers of the software that allows people to violate the copyright as the offenders. I think I will tell that to the next cop who stops me for speeding. "Well officer, Ford made the car that enabled me to speed, perhaps you have the wrong guy here." officer, "You are right sir, I apologize for pestering you while the real offenders go free."
That's what makes this particular arerst so ominous. I think that you point out something very valid. The government simply CANNOT monitor everything, so they are resorting to other tactics to control the problem. Primarily by spreading fear of prosecution. If they can instill enough fear in the citizens of this country that they will be arrested for speaking out against what they feel is wrong, then they can still win the 'war'. The problem is that what they seem to be fighting against now is simply people speaking out. Disagree with this kid's stance or not, all he did was say some words that represented how he felt. He did no harm to anyone. He is now paying a severe price for speaking those words.
I remember watching the Tiananmen Square incident in China on my TV a number of years back. I remember the outcry that happened here in the states with the response China issued by incarcerating the young men and women who simply 'spoke out' against their government. Isn't that what our government is now doing to our people? beware of this creeping war on terrorism. It seems to be wiping out what we used to believe in, Freedom to speak out about what we believe in. What is going to happen when the US government really does overstep it's bounds (many believe that has already happened)? The precedent is being set now. What if that makes you angry? You will be arrested for pointing that out.
I hope you were suggesting that my spelling was correct. I would hate to see you go to prison for suggesting that the US is something other than a democracy. ;)
If you find something as the current calendar difficult, then you have much greater problems in your life to deal with than figuring out what day it is. If you atre that stupid that you can't keep track, use a calendar, then tperhaps you are more of a threat to our society than Osama Bin Laden's clan. Can you walk in a straight line? Can you chew gum and ride a bike? Can you even ride a bike? Heavens! If this is the state of our populous, then we deserve to be screwed with.
California court judgements are notoriously worng. MOre than half of the circuits decisions are inevitably found incorrect and struck down in federal appelate court. These are exactly the type s of judgements that get struck down too. The ones that benefit you and I , the common person. We need to change the constitution from, "for the people, by the people" to for the companies, by the companies with help from the justice system". This ruling won't stand, you watch. It removes to much power from the people who run the show.
I think that the message here is much more ominous than what the surface story tells. The young man simply stated his great dislike for the United States government that is in place. He also made a flip comment about himself being a pilot of one 9/11 planes that crashed into the towers. I only see a crime here if he actually did the task. What are we becoming here in the US? It scares me to think that if I say that I hate GWBush with a passion that I will have the FBI crashing down my door. This smacks to me of totalitarianism (or however you spell that). Don't even THINK of hating us or we will take you down! It seems to me that this will go a long long way down the road of stopping anyone from questioning this government if they happen to think they are doing something wrong. Is the strong suggestion that your opinion of someones elses actions is wrong so wrong itself? I fear for the future of a people that are suppressed in this way. The scary part is that most of the people don't see it happening around them. They truely think this is a 'defensive' measure to secure 'their' lifestyle. What did this kid do to hurt anyone? NOTHING! He though something, spoke some words and went about his life as normal. There should not be a penalty for not agreeing with someone else and trying to change their position with words. Isn't that what the US is supposed to stand for?
You can't have it both ways. You want to complain if they bundle it and you want to complain if the sell it seperately. Which will it be? It is pretty obvious to me that you are simply out to bash MS without any merit to your arguement.
Personally I dislike MS, but I will no lower myself to making stupid arguements regarding their business practices, that only makes anything else I say much less believable. You can only cry wolf so many times before people stop listening to you. Don't fall into that trap of something so silly as this.
Giant sells the software on their own, and you evidently thought is was good enough to purchase. How does that change under the ownership of MS? It simply doesn't. If anything, you will benefit by not having to pay extra for the software that is bundled in the windows package. They are making their product better. Should they not be allowed to do that? If they shouldn't, then should not those same rules apply to other software like LInux? Let us not suggest a double standard should be in place just because we don't like someone. That opens the door to an unfair standard being placed against us in the future. We need to fight for equality, fairness and justice and not just when it suits us.
We keep telling you... The label/sticker HAS TO BE small than the DVD itself (and you can't cover the hole). Jeesh!
I agree. I always use stickers too. It's not so much of a pain in the ass as creating labels. 30 seconds I'm done. Never had a problem with the stickers in the drive or the CD's becoming unbalanced either. I also have a library of hundreds of CD's, (originals and their backups). I think sometimes we make the task more difficult than it has to be.
I can also see a bunch of newbies burning labels into the wrong side of the platter. The more serious problem is going to be getting the right CD to do this with. TDK now is shipping CDs where the writable material is actually the underside of the 'label'. They have found that is much more efficient in production than to have to bury the material in the plastic substrate. Burn the label on this baby and you ruin your data. I expect that most of the CD manufacturers will be going to this process soon, as it is far cheaper than the old method.
Even Giant does not clean everything. The experts say that you HAVE TO run two to three different packages in order to clean 90% of the spyware applications that are out there. So regardless of the order that you run them in, they will all find instances of spyware the others have missed. That doesn't make Giant anybetter than the others because you ran it last.