Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you install Napster (or Kazaa... or Kazaa Lite... etc), it asks what files you want to share.
Beyond that, you can selectively CHOOSE C:\ to be shared. Or only C:\Program Files\Kazaa Lite\Shared Folder. Etc.
Obviously it will share all of your files if you chose a folder and your files lie in a folder that is recursively included in that selected folder.
I guess the question is whether or not files are being shared that are explicitly not included to be shared.
Except for the fact that a lot of games aren't supported by Macs.
True, if you want to do development, grab a Powerbook. But wait, why would you be looking at a high-priced laptop if you wanted dev work anyhow?
I think the main reason to get one of these high end laptops is for gaming. And if that's your motivation, then getting a Powerbook is kind of useless.
Hmmm, these problems all relate to 802.llb...
802.11a isn't as widespread yet, but it is faster... any idea if it is also less prone to these collisions? If so, maybe it would have better effectiveness in adoption.
Scanning the Internet for pirated things?
I'm sure they will find a lot, but they won't find all of it by far.
If the problem is with things like KaZaA, BearShare, and the like... I don't think this scanning will do any good.
Only a moron would list their real address in the information. If they are talking about scanning IPs or websites, fine... they may crack down on some crackers (pardon the pun), but the millions of people who share things on Kazaa will most likely not be affected. Let them threaten me based on my KaZaA info.. If you're silly enough to put your own personal info there, you're begging to be caught anyhow.
An interesting case would be on C3PO and the Ewoks. Most people (at least from my experience) generally have no problem with them these days. Some people may think the Ewoks are too "cuddly" and needless, but aside from that, not many people seem to consider C3PO much of an annoyance. Originally, people were "outraged" and hated the comic relief characters.
That brings to mind the question: Will future generations find Jar Jar not just tolerable, but... funny?
Actually, Lucas's original version of Episode V (The Empire Strikes Back) was much darker, but he was advised that the public "probably wouldn't go for it."
But I agree that SpiderMan is much older than the Star Wars saga.. It is all a matter of timing.
Electronic music has used this technique for quite some time. One of my favorite bands, Orbital, used this in their song Halcyon... combining Belinda Carligle and Bon Jovi. They mesh better than you would think.:)
Actually, Star Wars is just a valid example of an adapted Biblical story as Spider Man.
First we have the Emperor, who was once trusted. In this case, a Senator of the Republic.
Then we have the continued attempts to lure the "Good" guys to the Dark Side. Very a la the snake in the Garden of Eden.
Critics have asked Lucas whether his allusions were intentional and he said that he meant for the story to be more spiritual than Christian, but did admit that the ties [to Christianity] were present.
So I offer that Star Wars is just as "deep" as a Spider Man movie, which is part of Hollywood's current craze to capitalize on uninspired, unoriginal movies. Lucas's Wars was created from his own idea. The current cadre of comic book knock-offs and sequels shows a real lack of originality.
"To get help from SUN you have to pay, and considering that you already payed(sic) for the machine and ISP costs etc, it is a slap in the face."
Is this any different from what Microsoft does? I'm not playing favorites, really, but that's exactly what they do. Release a product...then say "If you want us to make it work right, pay us more."
At least Sun's products (Java, etc) are free. What does Microsoft make that's free? Hmm. Right. That'd be the null set. Heh.
Sure, he is with the School of Management. But if you read the Bio part of his homepage, there are some interesting parts.
Namely: "As part of this effort, he is the recent co-inventor on the patent applications "Querying Heterogeneous Data Sources over a Network Using Context Interchange" and "Data Extraction from World Wide Web Pages.""
Also: "He has been active in industry, making significant contributions as a key designer and developer of projects such as IBM's VM/370 operating system and Lockheed's DIALOG information retrieval system"
It seems to me if the man is capable of being a key designer as said in his own Bio, then one would expect him to have knowledge of... say... things you need to know when designing? The Internet is not a Microsoft-branded product. Therefore, developing a product to run on it should work with... Non-Microsoft products and machines.
... that has something like this in it. The name of it is Minority Report...
It's the new Tom Cruise movie. There have been previews for it, in case it sounds familiar to anyone.
Basically, he is a detective who tracks down people before they commit crimes. Of course, Hollywood being what it is, then he goes on the run because he supposedly is going to do something illegal.
In case you're wanting to check it out (the movie is still in production), the link is here
Well, not safe from spam, but you can get revenge. It's against the law in WA state to receive email that is unwarranted and contains a forged header. A *lot* of these spam places forge headers... I know I get about 30+ a day from Taiwan, which seems to hate me for some reason.
In any case, if you register your email address (a search for spam and register should pull it up from a WA state page), then you are eligable to sue for up to $250 *per email* that you receive.
I haven't done it yet, but my friend has and has made some money on it. The biggest problem with some of them is that the situation is "Yeah, this is a forged header, but where is the real originator?" Some of them are pretty good at hiding it. I figure even if for every 20 emails I got, if I got $250 for one of em, I'd be happy.;)
The company has recently hiked their monthly subscription fee to play their games from $9.95 for basic service up to $12.95 -- a hefty price, considering the games are solely text-based.
The change was rationalized, saying that they haven't raised prices in five years... which evidently translates into: "We're getting more money now. If you don't like it, tough."
A GameMaster (i.e. their word for coder) for the company felt this was wrong and said just that on one of the player discussion boards.
The interesting thing is that he used his player account, not his GameMaster one. This means that none of the players knew it was a dissenting opinion from one of the company members... It just looked like another voice of agreement.
Apparently dissention is not treated lightly there, as he was summarily fired from the company for saying so.
Talk about a violation of First Amendment rights... Just because I work for a company, does not mean I should have to agree with every decision made by them.
If this were true, many people would be fired for thinking their boss was an idiot.;-)
The company has not made any official statement about this incident or its policy; the information was received from a reliable source, however.
Just thought I'd add another example of our rights slowly being robbed...:(
As you install KaZaa there is a wizard that asks which components you want to install. I keep hearing about "spyware" built into KaZaa. But, I don't believe it. All the programs that come BUNDLED with KaZaa are spyware (New.Net, Offer Companion, Gator, etc..). But, if you uncheck all the boxes for these programs they won't be installed on your computer! (snip)
However.... after I installed KaZaa I ran Lavasoft's AdAware (www.lavasoft.de) to search for any remaining spyware. It did detect a software plugin which displayed KaZaa's ads. I used AdAware to remove it. But, then KaZaa stopped working and I had to reinstall it.
It seems to me you don't quite understand what the controversy is.
Yes, there is bundled spyware in KaZaA that you can choose not to install. But it also installs spyware that you don't have any choice about.
There was a previous comment by someone who posted a link with information about this hidden spyware.
But rest assured, spyware *is* included in KaZaA -- hence the cause of everyone's anger at their forcing Morpheus off their network.
Yeah.
There are other places that it occurs.
Gemstone III and the other Simutronics (text) games are some of the biggest non-graphical MMORPGs and I personally know of tens of thousands of dollars that have changed hands over the years for various things.
True, it is a much smaller environment, but the same sentiments are behind it.
Simutronics TOS claims to be against it, but in practice they really could care less. Probably due to the fact numerous GM's have received kickbacks from players who regularly parlay in this type of trading.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you install Napster (or Kazaa... or Kazaa Lite... etc), it asks what files you want to share.
Beyond that, you can selectively CHOOSE C:\ to be shared. Or only C:\Program Files\Kazaa Lite\Shared Folder. Etc.
Obviously it will share all of your files if you chose a folder and your files lie in a folder that is recursively included in that selected folder. I guess the question is whether or not files are being shared that are explicitly not included to be shared.
Except for the fact that a lot of games aren't supported by Macs.
True, if you want to do development, grab a Powerbook. But wait, why would you be looking at a high-priced laptop if you wanted dev work anyhow?
I think the main reason to get one of these high end laptops is for gaming. And if that's your motivation, then getting a Powerbook is kind of useless.
Hmmm, these problems all relate to 802.llb... 802.11a isn't as widespread yet, but it is faster... any idea if it is also less prone to these collisions? If so, maybe it would have better effectiveness in adoption.
... Do I really need to be the one to step forward and say "Uh... Taco was being sarcastic."
He wasn't saying he condones or doesn't condone piracy. He was making a joke that shutting down napster did nothing to affect music piracy.
Scanning the Internet for pirated things? I'm sure they will find a lot, but they won't find all of it by far.
If the problem is with things like KaZaA, BearShare, and the like... I don't think this scanning will do any good.
Only a moron would list their real address in the information. If they are talking about scanning IPs or websites, fine... they may crack down on some crackers (pardon the pun), but the millions of people who share things on Kazaa will most likely not be affected. Let them threaten me based on my KaZaA info.. If you're silly enough to put your own personal info there, you're begging to be caught anyhow.
An interesting case would be on C3PO and the Ewoks. Most people (at least from my experience) generally have no problem with them these days. Some people may think the Ewoks are too "cuddly" and needless, but aside from that, not many people seem to consider C3PO much of an annoyance. Originally, people were "outraged" and hated the comic relief characters.
That brings to mind the question: Will future generations find Jar Jar not just tolerable, but... funny?
Actually, Lucas's original version of Episode V (The Empire Strikes Back) was much darker, but he was advised that the public "probably wouldn't go for it."
But I agree that SpiderMan is much older than the Star Wars saga.. It is all a matter of timing.
... I can get that pretty blue screen on my PS2 that I've been hearing such good things about from my Windows-using friends.
::dreamy sigh::
There was a post about this already on /. earlier where it was done in Seattle. Check it out here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/29/013322 2&mode=thread&tid=126
Electronic music has used this technique for quite some time. One of my favorite bands, Orbital, used this in their song Halcyon... combining Belinda Carligle and Bon Jovi. They mesh better than you would think. :)
Actually, Star Wars is just a valid example of an adapted Biblical story as Spider Man.
First we have the Emperor, who was once trusted. In this case, a Senator of the Republic.
Then we have the continued attempts to lure the "Good" guys to the Dark Side. Very a la the snake in the Garden of Eden.
Critics have asked Lucas whether his allusions were intentional and he said that he meant for the story to be more spiritual than Christian, but did admit that the ties [to Christianity] were present.
So I offer that Star Wars is just as "deep" as a Spider Man movie, which is part of Hollywood's current craze to capitalize on uninspired, unoriginal movies. Lucas's Wars was created from his own idea. The current cadre of comic book knock-offs and sequels shows a real lack of originality.
"To get help from SUN you have to pay, and considering that you already payed(sic) for the machine and ISP costs etc, it is a slap in the face."
Is this any different from what Microsoft does? I'm not playing favorites, really, but that's exactly what they do. Release a product...then say "If you want us to make it work right, pay us more."
At least Sun's products (Java, etc) are free. What does Microsoft make that's free? Hmm. Right. That'd be the null set. Heh.
That seems like an excuse Microsoft might use.
Sure, he is with the School of Management. But if you read the Bio part of his homepage, there are some interesting parts.
Namely: "As part of this effort, he is the recent co-inventor on the patent applications "Querying Heterogeneous Data Sources over a Network Using Context Interchange" and "Data Extraction from World Wide Web Pages.""
Also: "He has been active in industry, making significant contributions as a key designer and developer of projects such as IBM's VM/370 operating system and Lockheed's DIALOG information retrieval system"
It seems to me if the man is capable of being a key designer as said in his own Bio, then one would expect him to have knowledge of... say... things you need to know when designing? The Internet is not a Microsoft-branded product. Therefore, developing a product to run on it should work with... Non-Microsoft products and machines.
Maybe I'm just crazy then...
... that has something like this in it. The name of it is Minority Report... It's the new Tom Cruise movie. There have been previews for it, in case it sounds familiar to anyone.
Basically, he is a detective who tracks down people before they commit crimes. Of course, Hollywood being what it is, then he goes on the run because he supposedly is going to do something illegal.
In case you're wanting to check it out (the movie is still in production), the link is here
Well, not safe from spam, but you can get revenge. It's against the law in WA state to receive email that is unwarranted and contains a forged header. A *lot* of these spam places forge headers... I know I get about 30+ a day from Taiwan, which seems to hate me for some reason. In any case, if you register your email address (a search for spam and register should pull it up from a WA state page), then you are eligable to sue for up to $250 *per email* that you receive. I haven't done it yet, but my friend has and has made some money on it. The biggest problem with some of them is that the situation is "Yeah, this is a forged header, but where is the real originator?" Some of them are pretty good at hiding it. I figure even if for every 20 emails I got, if I got $250 for one of em, I'd be happy. ;)
... is futile.
When will the states learn they can't compete with MS?!?!
Heh, just kidding.
Seriously though, what is the impact of the States continuing the case if the Federal Government has already dismissed it?
Does it lessen the damage(s) or penalties that could have originally been levied on M$?
An online game which myself and a few thousand people play had a similar occurence recently.
;-)
:(
Simutronics -- maker of text games such as Gemstone III and Dragonrealms has fired an employee of theirs over just such an incident.
The company has recently hiked their monthly subscription fee to play their games from $9.95 for basic service up to $12.95 -- a hefty price, considering the games are solely text-based.
The change was rationalized, saying that they haven't raised prices in five years... which evidently translates into: "We're getting more money now. If you don't like it, tough."
A GameMaster (i.e. their word for coder) for the company felt this was wrong and said just that on one of the player discussion boards.
The interesting thing is that he used his player account, not his GameMaster one. This means that none of the players knew it was a dissenting opinion from one of the company members... It just looked like another voice of agreement.
Apparently dissention is not treated lightly there, as he was summarily fired from the company for saying so.
Talk about a violation of First Amendment rights... Just because I work for a company, does not mean I should have to agree with every decision made by them.
If this were true, many people would be fired for thinking their boss was an idiot.
The company has not made any official statement about this incident or its policy; the information was received from a reliable source, however.
Just thought I'd add another example of our rights slowly being robbed...
As you install KaZaa there is a wizard that asks which components you want to install. I keep hearing about "spyware" built into KaZaa. But, I don't believe it. All the programs that come BUNDLED with KaZaa are spyware (New.Net, Offer Companion, Gator, etc..). But, if you uncheck all the boxes for these programs they won't be installed on your computer! (snip)
However.... after I installed KaZaa I ran Lavasoft's AdAware (www.lavasoft.de) to search for any remaining spyware. It did detect a software plugin which displayed KaZaa's ads. I used AdAware to remove it. But, then KaZaa stopped working and I had to reinstall it.
It seems to me you don't quite understand what the controversy is.
Yes, there is bundled spyware in KaZaA that you can choose not to install. But it also installs spyware that you don't have any choice about.
There was a previous comment by someone who posted a link with information about this hidden spyware.
But rest assured, spyware *is* included in KaZaA -- hence the cause of everyone's anger at their forcing Morpheus off their network.
All that means is people will use silly phonetic spellings, like in other MMORPGS.
Luke will be Luuk, Lukk, and many other permutations thereof. Same for the rest of them.
Yeah. There are other places that it occurs. Gemstone III and the other Simutronics (text) games are some of the biggest non-graphical MMORPGs and I personally know of tens of thousands of dollars that have changed hands over the years for various things. True, it is a much smaller environment, but the same sentiments are behind it. Simutronics TOS claims to be against it, but in practice they really could care less. Probably due to the fact numerous GM's have received kickbacks from players who regularly parlay in this type of trading.