If you ever used Netscape 6 you can change your default search engine to Google instead of the defaulted Netscape Search Engine. There are actually 5 default engines to choose from, and they all come up in the sidebar search and popup when searching from the URL input.
So what? The point is that even if you don't have the netscape search engine selected, your query is still sent to netscape servers.
Well, I've heard it rumored quite a few times, but now I just did some research and it seems nobody has been able to prove that morpheus had spyware. So I stand (sort of) corrected. I say sort-of because there was unexplained suspicious activity from the program (.dat files containing user's data that morpheus shouldn't be storing, etc) and because the program itself did (as admitted on the morpheus website) allow someone to change their users' registry settings. That alone makes the software unsafe and almost spyware-ish. Bottomline is, I still wouldn't trust the company. (and, afaik, running any fasttrack client runs some KaZaA code, and deceptive advertising is their whole bussiness model)
I wonder if the vx2 spyware installed by AudioGalaxy is "fair". Lets see, it sends home comprehensive data about your browsing habbits, right down to data entered in forms on any website, and it randomly opens popup's for IT'S advertisers on random (or not so random) sites you visit. Fun.
Almost all of the easy p2p options now come with spyware. Morph, KaZaa, Grokster, they're all making money installing hidden software on users' computers. And denying it until they get caught. And swearing not to do it again. And doing it again.
You're not taking that in context A classic defense for defending the bible... Second most common after just smiling and saying "god works in mysterous ways". I linked to the full text of the bible so that it would be easy to put it IN context. I also read the surrounding sections to see if it sounded any less ridiculous. It didn't.
it was a symbolic act for the first century disciples. Ok, what was cursing a fig tree symbolic of exactly?
It's meanings aren't that hard to discipher; e.g. that the early disciples would be expected to still live Christian lives in un-Christian times. Wtf does the cursed fig tree have to do with Christian/Unchristian lives and times? He cursed a fig tree because it wasn't producing figs, even though it was clearly not fig season (the time of the figs was not yet!). Please explain the symbolism.
This is what galls me about your point of view. People like you believe that everyone else should do the right thing, but within your solipsistic coccoon, you are free to define a new morality.
Actually, I don't think giving up rights is "the right thing" to do, and I don't think anyone (especialy not everyone else) should. In sugesting that you give up your rights, I was actually making a not-too-subtle attempt to mock you. Though you missed the point, I'm sure someone else got it.
The rest of your post is based on the false premise that I somehow want others to give up rights so I don't have to, so I'm not going to respond to it all. But I will go on a bit more...
I'm tempted to tell you to choke on a cock, but I don't want that to taint the sincerity of what I'm saying. You are an arrogant american snot. Fair use isn't a right- it's a gift, made in trust. People have abused that trust egregiously. If you don't like it, take it up not with the government but with your fellow citizens.
You're comical indignation here is really grade-A stuff. I get the impression that you, for whatever reason, think that you personally stand to lose something if this music piracy problem is stopped at once. Is that the case?
I don't know what to tell you, except that (a) people will always pirate music, (b) causual mp3 pirating doesn't hurt cd sales, and may, infact, help them, (c) despite my comments about how I like to rip my cd's, I, also, trade music and (d) there's nothing your sorry ass can do about it!
When a site is immediately slashdotted, I think the editors should pull the story off the front page. There aren't likely to be any ontopic comments if nobody can see the site. If anyone posts a working mirror maybe they can move the story back to the front page.
I'm saying that perhaps we should consider giving up our love of CD-ripping for the greater good.
You, sir, are mad. So how about you give up your fair use rights, and any other rights you don't think might be at odds with the "greater good", and I'll happily keep mine thankyouverymuch.
Btw, I think you better give up free speech while you're at it, because someone with opinions like yours might piss people off. And pissing people off might lead to crimes. Better safe than sorry, right?
And since ripping is an INTEGRAL part of music piracy, there does seem to be a claim that Apple is obliquely responsible.
You're entirely missing the fact that many people, such as myself, rip every cd they own and prefer to listen to mp3s and leave the Cd's in a case somewhere. This is entirely legal, and it's the way I like to listen to music that I paid for. As you mentioned, we don't prosecute fertilizer companies when bombs are made with their products, because their product is targeted at law abiding gardeners. Likewise, going after apple for iTunes/iPod would be ridiculous because they target their product at law abiding citizens who want to rip music. If any court ruling were presented against apple (unlikely; at this point t's just eisner talking), it would imply that the very concept of archiving your music collection on your computer (and transferring it to your mp3 player) was inherently at odds with the law. And that is absurd.
Eisner's just being a moron anyway. I'd be suprised if anyone takes him seriously.
Yeah, the CEO of Disney is just some guy nobody really takes seriously. He doesn't have any influence over bussiness or government at all, unlike, say, slashdot user #559709.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World" - John 4:14
Hey! You like the bible, right? Can you tell me why Jesus has gotta curse fig trees? I mean, whats up with that?
And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! - Matthew 21:19
"And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it." - Mark 11:13
Jesus! Dude! The time of the figs was not yet! It wasn't fig season! You can't just go around cursing fig trees because they don't produce figs off-season. It's just not nice.
Also, by my source, you've got John 4:14 all wrong. Isn't it "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."? Thats what it says here at least. It must be tough being christian with so many different bibles to choose from.
if you happen to be color blind, and you can't see the damn text?
Are you telling me a color blind person is unable to see colored text on a background of an entirely different color? I'm no expert, but I don't think color-blindness works like that.
As the font controls: Changing a font can change how much space a whole block of text takes up, which can fuck up a whole layout. Flash isnt meant for that kind of user control! If the user had control of fonts, it would defeat a lot of the benefits of using flash. (like absolute platform independent control of how your content is gonna look)
It's up to the designer to make a decent looking flash movie and, granted, a lot of people have fallen short. But giving added control, epecially font control, would only make the ugly mess that is today's flash content even worse.
I hope that some of the "standard controls" in FlashMX will help with the flash usability crisis. We'll see...
The article you're probably refering to (posted on/. here) was originally written in Feb 2001. I don't have any exact figures, but I'm quite certain the gnutella network has only grown since then, and it's still going strong. And napster (the p2p network the articles author was involved in creating), well, isn't. I think it's clear which network is stronger, both from a technical viewpoint and a legal one.
I used kaliedoscope for about a week before realizing that it made my system unusably unstable. Aside from that, it was a great program! I read several reports that lead me to believe my trouble with it was not unusual, but by the number of available themes I guess it must have worked for somebody at least.
I respect the guy plenty, because of his contribution to the OS I grew up using, but I totally disagree with almost everything he says in that article.
The confusion he descibes at encountering nonstandard interfaces is laughable. And because he can't figure it out, in the name of efficiency, we're expected to abandon the ability to customize interfaces. Any takers?
I, for one, am only surprised that email spam has not been used for campaigning earlier.
I'm very surprised anyone would want to use spam for political purposes. It's just stupid. Your average spammer doesn't care about his reputation, so it doesn't matter that 95% of the people who see their message will angrily throw it away. Politians, however, live off of their reputation. They can't afford to piss off that many people at once.
I'm sure this guy is regreting it. I mean, his website is blackholed right now, a few days before the primary! And this guy was supposedly "net savy"....
Slashdot Mirror
My os9 mac's browsers sizes compared:
- mozilla 0.9.8 - 23.9mb
- ie 5.1 - 10.7mb
- communicator 4.7 - 24.1mb
- netscape 6 - 21mb
- opera 5.0 - 4.8mb
- NCSA Mosaic 2.0.1 - 2.6mb
Claims of moz being small don't seem to apply to the mac. But if size was all that mattered, I'd still be using Mosaic!
As it is, I'd say IE is the most stable, Opera is the fastest, and Mozilla is the most free.
If you ever used Netscape 6 you can change your default search engine to Google instead of the defaulted Netscape Search Engine. There are actually 5 default engines to choose from, and they all come up in the sidebar search and popup when searching from the URL input.
So what? The point is that even if you don't have the netscape search engine selected, your query is still sent to netscape servers.
No, that liscense is for the sony software, which has been carefully kept seperate from the GPL'd code.
Don't wait until you are old and on your death bed to make things right with God, you do not know when you will die.
Thank you so much! I have seen the light! I'm on my way to church now...
(haha)
First off, Gentoo doesn't have scripts called spells, or a cast command to run them.
Spyware in Morpheus? Do you have a cite for that?
Well, I've heard it rumored quite a few times, but now I just did some research and it seems nobody has been able to prove that morpheus had spyware. So I stand (sort of) corrected. I say sort-of because there was unexplained suspicious activity from the program (.dat files containing user's data that morpheus shouldn't be storing, etc) and because the program itself did (as admitted on the morpheus website) allow someone to change their users' registry settings. That alone makes the software unsafe and almost spyware-ish. Bottomline is, I still wouldn't trust the company. (and, afaik, running any fasttrack client runs some KaZaA code, and deceptive advertising is their whole bussiness model)
I wonder if the vx2 spyware installed by AudioGalaxy is "fair". Lets see, it sends home comprehensive data about your browsing habbits, right down to data entered in forms on any website, and it randomly opens popup's for IT'S advertisers on random (or not so random) sites you visit. Fun.
Almost all of the easy p2p options now come with spyware. Morph, KaZaa, Grokster, they're all making money installing hidden software on users' computers. And denying it until they get caught. And swearing not to do it again. And doing it again.
You're not taking that in context
A classic defense for defending the bible... Second most common after just smiling and saying "god works in mysterous ways". I linked to the full text of the bible so that it would be easy to put it IN context. I also read the surrounding sections to see if it sounded any less ridiculous. It didn't.
it was a symbolic act for the first century disciples.
Ok, what was cursing a fig tree symbolic of exactly?
It's meanings aren't that hard to discipher; e.g. that the early disciples would be expected to still live Christian lives in un-Christian times.
Wtf does the cursed fig tree have to do with Christian/Unchristian lives and times? He cursed a fig tree because it wasn't producing figs, even though it was clearly not fig season (the time of the figs was not yet!). Please explain the symbolism.
This is what galls me about your point of view. People like you believe that everyone else should do the right thing, but within your solipsistic coccoon, you are free to define a new morality.
Actually, I don't think giving up rights is "the right thing" to do, and I don't think anyone (especialy not everyone else) should. In sugesting that you give up your rights, I was actually making a not-too-subtle attempt to mock you. Though you missed the point, I'm sure someone else got it.
The rest of your post is based on the false premise that I somehow want others to give up rights so I don't have to, so I'm not going to respond to it all. But I will go on a bit more...
I'm tempted to tell you to choke on a cock, but I don't want that to taint the sincerity of what I'm saying. You are an arrogant american snot. Fair use isn't a right- it's a gift, made in trust. People have abused that trust egregiously. If you don't like it, take it up not with the government but with your fellow citizens.
You're comical indignation here is really grade-A stuff. I get the impression that you, for whatever reason, think that you personally stand to lose something if this music piracy problem is stopped at once. Is that the case?
I don't know what to tell you, except that (a) people will always pirate music, (b) causual mp3 pirating doesn't hurt cd sales, and may, infact, help them, (c) despite my comments about how I like to rip my cd's, I, also, trade music and (d) there's nothing your sorry ass can do about it!
Yes. Be now has one employee, and exists solely to sue Microsoft.
What a sad end to an OS with such great potential.
I can only hope that whatever palm does with the IP they bought turns out to be worth it.
When a site is immediately slashdotted, I think the editors should pull the story off the front page. There aren't likely to be any ontopic comments if nobody can see the site. If anyone posts a working mirror maybe they can move the story back to the front page.
I'm saying that perhaps we should consider giving up our love of CD-ripping for the greater good.
You, sir, are mad. So how about you give up your fair use rights, and any other rights you don't think might be at odds with the "greater good", and I'll happily keep mine thankyouverymuch.
Btw, I think you better give up free speech while you're at it, because someone with opinions like yours might piss people off. And pissing people off might lead to crimes. Better safe than sorry, right?
ok wise ass, reply here when apple lawyers complain to slashdot and make them get rid of the theme.
(that is, you won't have to bother replying cause it aint gonna happen)
And since ripping is an INTEGRAL part of music piracy, there does seem to be a claim that Apple is obliquely responsible.
You're entirely missing the fact that many people, such as myself, rip every cd they own and prefer to listen to mp3s and leave the Cd's in a case somewhere. This is entirely legal, and it's the way I like to listen to music that I paid for. As you mentioned, we don't prosecute fertilizer companies when bombs are made with their products, because their product is targeted at law abiding gardeners. Likewise, going after apple for iTunes/iPod would be ridiculous because they target their product at law abiding citizens who want to rip music. If any court ruling were presented against apple (unlikely; at this point t's just eisner talking), it would imply that the very concept of archiving your music collection on your computer (and transferring it to your mp3 player) was inherently at odds with the law. And that is absurd.
Eisner's just being a moron anyway. I'd be suprised if anyone takes him seriously.
Yeah, the CEO of Disney is just some guy nobody really takes seriously.
He doesn't have any influence over bussiness or government at all, unlike, say, slashdot user #559709.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World" - John 4:14
Hey! You like the bible, right? Can you tell me why Jesus has gotta curse fig trees? I mean, whats up with that?
And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! - Matthew 21:19
"And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it." - Mark 11:13
Jesus! Dude! The time of the figs was not yet! It wasn't fig season! You can't just go around cursing fig trees because they don't produce figs off-season. It's just not nice.
Also, by my source, you've got John 4:14 all wrong.
Isn't it "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."? Thats what it says here at least. It must be tough being christian with so many different bibles to choose from.
You'll find some pretty weird obscure stuff on Audiogalaxy, if you mis-spell the file names a little bit...
trading files with misspelled filenames is super lame.
if you happen to be color blind, and you can't see the damn text?
Are you telling me a color blind person is unable to see colored text on a background of an entirely different color? I'm no expert, but I don't think color-blindness works like that.
As the font controls: Changing a font can change how much space a whole block of text takes up, which can fuck up a whole layout. Flash isnt meant for that kind of user control! If the user had control of fonts, it would defeat a lot of the benefits of using flash. (like absolute platform independent control of how your content is gonna look)
It's up to the designer to make a decent looking flash movie and, granted, a lot of people have fallen short. But giving added control, epecially font control, would only make the ugly mess that is today's flash content even worse.
I hope that some of the "standard controls" in FlashMX will help with the flash usability crisis. We'll see...
here
right-click: pause, play, forward, back, zoom.
Thats all the control you need.
It would sure suck developing flash movies if the user had more control that they already do.
The article you're probably refering to (posted on /. here) was originally written in Feb 2001. I don't have any exact figures, but I'm quite certain the gnutella network has only grown since then, and it's still going strong. And napster (the p2p network the articles author was involved in creating), well, isn't. I think it's clear which network is stronger, both from a technical viewpoint and a legal one.
take for instance kaleidoscope for os9.
I used kaliedoscope for about a week before realizing that it made my system unusably unstable. Aside from that, it was a great program! I read several reports that lead me to believe my trouble with it was not unusual, but by the number of available themes I guess it must have worked for somebody at least.
I respect the guy plenty, because of his contribution to the OS I grew up using, but I totally disagree with almost everything he says in that article.
The confusion he descibes at encountering nonstandard interfaces is laughable. And because he can't figure it out, in the name of efficiency, we're expected to abandon the ability to customize interfaces. Any takers?
To be fair to Jones ... it isn't unsolicited commercial email.
It is if you consider a politician a commercial enterprise.
I, for one, am only surprised that email spam has not been used for campaigning earlier.
I'm very surprised anyone would want to use spam for political purposes. It's just stupid. Your average spammer doesn't care about his reputation, so it doesn't matter that 95% of the people who see their message will angrily throw it away. Politians, however, live off of their reputation. They can't afford to piss off that many people at once.
I'm sure this guy is regreting it. I mean, his website is blackholed right now, a few days before the primary! And this guy was supposedly "net savy"....