Of course, it will help if the average slashdot guy becomes a little more activist. Should you run for congress?
I will be running for Congress. I'm a senior in high school and I'm applying to the University of California-Los Angeles, and if I get in I will study CS/BioTech and go to law school for graduate studies. Then after I finish school, I hope to start a tech company (bio/computer/nanotech, still not sure). If that company is successful and I have enough money, I will start a political campaign. The reason I need money is so that I don't have to take "donations" from corporations.
My plan is to be in the House by 26, be in the Senate by 30, and be President of the United States by 35. Lofty goals? Perhaps. But I'm going to do it, and no parental discouragement or general lack of faith from other people in me is going to stop me. And when I'm in the White House, I won't forget you people, the Slashdotters, from whom many of my ideals stem.
Don't forget the GNOMEs. However since GNOMEs already exist in D&D why don't we make another (evil? hehe) race of KDE. Then we can start a flame war between the races.
For one thing, Mozilla doesn't always render Web pages the same way IE does. Why does that matter? Many Web designers have built sites primarily for IE, and those pages look odd in Mozilla.
This is what irks me. The web is supposed to be platform-neutral, not built for IE. Mozilla, IMHO is doing the right thing by not making its browser conform to the skewed standards IE has set. I say let those pages that are "built for IE" look like crap. Sooner or later, Mozilla will gain market share (we hope,) and people will have to begin building web pages that are standards-compliant not IE-compliant. Good job, Mozilla!
Believe it or not, some people ENJOY hearing about the development kernel releases. Every time someone posts a Linux kernel update, you have your 10-20 obligatory trolls about how "we subscribe for this sh*t??" If you don't care about Linux, go to your preferences and exclude it. Otherwise, don't troll.
And what happens when the "high quality only copy once" scheme is broken? How does having things exactly as they are now offer the artist/RIAA anymore protection than uncopyprotected CDs?
Whoever 'breaks the copy once protection scheme' can be prosecuted under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision. That's what happens. The "Red Book" standard has no copy-prevention, but you can bet this high-quality sure as hell will. And if you break it, you get hard time in federal prison with the rapists and murderers of society. Go DMCA.
Wow, I took one look at this article and thought, "Hurray! Microsoft lost a legal battle. Chalk one more up for Open Source!" Yeah, then I clicked the link only to find they lost a case dealing with the openness and freeness of the internet. Just think of the precedent this sets if a web site's owner is responsible for the content other, perhaps anonymous users post on his/her website. Wouldn't that make CmdrTaco liable if I posted the source to DeCSS in one of the comments? (just an example, folks)
Well that brings up the interesting case of conflicting/. views. Think about it: Well, we generally hate Microsoft, but we also hate censorship on the internet. Here, Microsoft and censorship are on opposite sides. Where does that leave us? Oof, good question.
Quite honestly, I think it's a bunch of marketing claptrap. It's just to sell more products and create jobs. For example, the Ergonomics Department at my company does very, very little. They come in and look at your chair/desk and fill out an evaluation. And it has to be signed by you, your manager, your managers manager, and the god damn janitor. It's a waste of time and it just sells things like those "ergonomic" mice.
Anyway, the summarize, the whole concept of ergonomics was invented to sell products. Sorry if this post came off as ranty. Feel free to mod down as (-1, Troll).
A hacker who can get the password list...bypassing all the high-tech security erected to keep him out.
This makes me furious! When will the media STOP equating hackers with security breakers. This is what gives open source coders and hackers a bad name.
Sorry </rantmode>, feel free to mod down as a troll.
Hargun
Re:Just read the Constitution, fer chrissakes.
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The problem with all of that is is that now you are taking away their right to choose to sell their copyright to whomever they want (be it RIAA, Michael Jackson, or even old Dubya.) Though it is a noble cause to prevent media conglomerates from taking away the rights of the artist, you will at the same time be taking away the artist's right to do whatever he wants with his copyright, including selling it.
Take a company like Microsoft, with $40-something billion in the stronghold. They should start programs like these to see what their customers want. Just random things like these that make them that little bit better. I say kudos to VeriZon for helping your customers!
Wow, I agree that doctors shouldn't be threatened...but this is just a small chip in the bone that is our first amendment. However, I think the Supreme Court will overturn the Appeal's Court and rule it lawful because seriously, if you think about it, a website cannot "immediately threaten" someone. So, not to fear. Our trusty, conservative, Supreme Court will rule in favor of freedom.....
Go here and find out who your House Representative is (if you don't already know) and write him/her! This is the first time in a long, long time that I have seen a really good-intentioned bill come out of Congress. For once they are doing something for the people. Hell, they even say:
The United States captured the imagination of the peoples of the world and inspired a generation of young people to enter careers in science and engineering when it successfully landed humans on the surface of the Moon in the years 1969 through 1972.
This one is truly by the people and for the people. Don't let this one perish from this Earth. (couldn't resist, sue me;)
Sending an encrypted packet is like sending a letter. It's illegal for the letter carrier to open it.
Maybe that's one of the arguments they used to pass the DMCA. I mean, hey, if encrypted information is like a letter, then why should it be legal for anyone to open the letter (break the encryption) other than whom it was intended for? ... Or maybe I'm just on crack.
Christ a Jesu! I wish I was a moderator because I would mod this way the hell up. Your openness and frankness about your personal experience is amazing and it can be taken in two ways:
If I were a paranoid, over-protective parent, I would think, "yep, this is exactly why kids/teens should never chat or use e-mail. I mean look at this! This proof is right here! This guy almost had sex with her the first time she kissed a boy! I know my kids will never use the internet. No-sir-ee."
If I were a 16-year old boy, I would think, "THANK YOU for your point! If parents would just take an _interest_ in the kid's internet life instead of demanding to see every e-mail they've written, something like this would not have happened. If parents would just be calm, cool, and understanding, things like this just wouldn't happen." But of course, parents need show this kind of 'interest' at an early age...remember its an interest, that's all, an interest in the kid's life. Ugh, I doubt I'm making any sense...I'm too emotionally stirred by this.
The coolest part about all of this is that in a few years time, the technology will be there so that the walls of your room are LCD/oLEDs and with the touch of a button you can make your walls have any wallpaper you want.
Just think, you could have the Windows "Clouds" wallpaper all over your room! Imagine that! Gee, if that were my wallpaper, I know I'd feel like I was actually in the clouds.
Not to nitpick or anything...but the HP/Compaq merger would be horizontal consolidation because of their existance in the same marketplace. <US History Teacher mode> Back in Rockefeller's time, his company, Standard Oil, vertically integrated when the bought out the supply chains and the marketing chains so that he could control the price exactly the way he wanted to. </US History Teacher mode>
Basically vertical integration is controlling every step of the process, from extraction of raw materials to final marketing of the product. HP does not supply Compaq with anything and Compaq does not supply HP with anything. Since they are in the same market, they _horizontally consolidated_, that is, joined forces with competition to prove more competitive to even greater competition. AOL/TW was a vertical integration because AOL supplied the medium and TW supplied the content. Just FYI. Sorry to nitpick;)
Finally I can rip one in Biology class and blame it on the Earth's crust. (Of course then someone would probably say, "Hey, you farted methane, not hydrogen," and then I'd be screwed.) Damn, foiled again.
I really think I'm missing something here...I always thought GPS was a signal sent from like 20 satellites to your position on Earth, I had no idea it could receive signals too. Can someone explain how this technology is possible?
oh..wait, I get it..the content has a descrambler that only activates when it gets the right GPS signal...duh. Sorry...oh well, first post.
(Never mind for now that the videotape they used to show the Windows slowdown was revealed to be fabricated. Never mind for now that Professor Felton successfully removed IE from Windows early in the court case, then when he tried it again later he found that Microsoft had scattered the code throughout the operating system to thwart him.)
Why the _FUCK_ are they not hit with obstruction of justice? Can someone please answer that?
No because the distributed.net client needs to communicate on it's own port in whatever internal protocol it uses. That's what causes the bandwidth usage, not the downloading of the client, if that's what you think.
You can't put your own server software on sourceforge's servers, at least not to my knowledge, so all sourceforge would be good for is hosting the client downloads...which it might actually already do. Hope that answers your question. Hargun
Actually he was correct in saying "the Linux kernel." The kernel at the heart of the GNU/Linux system may be referred to simply as "Linux," as it has no GNU software (to my knowledge) in it.
Unless you were joking...in which case, never mind.;)
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Of course, it will help if the average slashdot guy becomes a little more activist. Should you run for congress?
I will be running for Congress. I'm a senior in high school and I'm applying to the University of California-Los Angeles, and if I get in I will study CS/BioTech and go to law school for graduate studies. Then after I finish school, I hope to start a tech company (bio/computer/nanotech, still not sure). If that company is successful and I have enough money, I will start a political campaign. The reason I need money is so that I don't have to take "donations" from corporations.
My plan is to be in the House by 26, be in the Senate by 30, and be President of the United States by 35. Lofty goals? Perhaps. But I'm going to do it, and no parental discouragement or general lack of faith from other people in me is going to stop me. And when I'm in the White House, I won't forget you people, the Slashdotters, from whom many of my ideals stem.
Hargun
Don't forget the GNOMEs. However since GNOMEs already exist in D&D why don't we make another (evil? hehe) race of KDE. Then we can start a flame war between the races.
j/k, I don't use either. BlackBox, baby!
Hargun
For one thing, Mozilla doesn't always render Web pages the same way IE does. Why does that matter? Many Web designers have built sites primarily for IE, and those pages look odd in Mozilla.
This is what irks me. The web is supposed to be platform-neutral, not built for IE. Mozilla, IMHO is doing the right thing by not making its browser conform to the skewed standards IE has set. I say let those pages that are "built for IE" look like crap. Sooner or later, Mozilla will gain market share (we hope,) and people will have to begin building web pages that are standards-compliant not IE-compliant. Good job, Mozilla!
Hargun
Believe it or not, some people ENJOY hearing about the development kernel releases. Every time someone posts a Linux kernel update, you have your 10-20 obligatory trolls about how "we subscribe for this sh*t??" If you don't care about Linux, go to your preferences and exclude it. Otherwise, don't troll.
;D
Sorry if this is a troll.
Hargun
And what happens when the "high quality only copy once" scheme is broken? How does having things exactly as they are now offer the artist/RIAA anymore protection than uncopyprotected CDs?
Whoever 'breaks the copy once protection scheme' can be prosecuted under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision. That's what happens. The "Red Book" standard has no copy-prevention, but you can bet this high-quality sure as hell will. And if you break it, you get hard time in federal prison with the rapists and murderers of society. Go DMCA.
Hargun
Wow, I took one look at this article and thought, "Hurray! Microsoft lost a legal battle. Chalk one more up for Open Source!" Yeah, then I clicked the link only to find they lost a case dealing with the openness and freeness of the internet. Just think of the precedent this sets if a web site's owner is responsible for the content other, perhaps anonymous users post on his/her website. Wouldn't that make CmdrTaco liable if I posted the source to DeCSS in one of the comments? (just an example, folks)
/. views. Think about it: Well, we generally hate Microsoft, but we also hate censorship on the internet. Here, Microsoft and censorship are on opposite sides. Where does that leave us? Oof, good question.
Well that brings up the interesting case of conflicting
Bottom line: scary precedent.
Hargun
Quite honestly, I think it's a bunch of marketing claptrap. It's just to sell more products and create jobs. For example, the Ergonomics Department at my company does very, very little. They come in and look at your chair/desk and fill out an evaluation. And it has to be signed by you, your manager, your managers manager, and the god damn janitor. It's a waste of time and it just sells things like those "ergonomic" mice.
Anyway, the summarize, the whole concept of ergonomics was invented to sell products. Sorry if this post came off as ranty. Feel free to mod down as (-1, Troll).
Hargun
A hacker who can get the password list...bypassing all the high-tech security erected to keep him out.
This makes me furious! When will the media STOP equating hackers with security breakers. This is what gives open source coders and hackers a bad name.
Sorry </rantmode>, feel free to mod down as a troll.
Hargun
The problem with all of that is is that now you are taking away their right to choose to sell their copyright to whomever they want (be it RIAA, Michael Jackson, or even old Dubya.) Though it is a noble cause to prevent media conglomerates from taking away the rights of the artist, you will at the same time be taking away the artist's right to do whatever he wants with his copyright, including selling it.
Just my $.02US...feel free to mod as flamebait.
Hargun
Take a company like Microsoft, with $40-something billion in the stronghold. They should start programs like these to see what their customers want. Just random things like these that make them that little bit better. I say kudos to VeriZon for helping your customers!
Hargun
Wow, I agree that doctors shouldn't be threatened...but this is just a small chip in the bone that is our first amendment. However, I think the Supreme Court will overturn the Appeal's Court and rule it lawful because seriously, if you think about it, a website cannot "immediately threaten" someone. So, not to fear. Our trusty, conservative, Supreme Court will rule in favor of freedom. ....
Hargun
Go here and find out who your House Representative is (if you don't already know) and write him/her! This is the first time in a long, long time that I have seen a really good-intentioned bill come out of Congress. For once they are doing something for the people. Hell, they even say:
;)
The United States captured the imagination of the peoples of the world and inspired a generation of young people to enter careers in science and engineering when it successfully landed humans on the surface of the Moon in the years 1969 through 1972.
This one is truly by the people and for the people. Don't let this one perish from this Earth. (couldn't resist, sue me
Write your Reps by postal mail, now!
Hargun
Sending an encrypted packet is like sending a letter. It's illegal for the letter carrier to open it.
... Or maybe I'm just on crack.
Maybe that's one of the arguments they used to pass the DMCA. I mean, hey, if encrypted information is like a letter, then why should it be legal for anyone to open the letter (break the encryption) other than whom it was intended for?
Hargun
Christ a Jesu! I wish I was a moderator because I would mod this way the hell up. Your openness and frankness about your personal experience is amazing and it can be taken in two ways:
If I were a paranoid, over-protective parent, I would think, "yep, this is exactly why kids/teens should never chat or use e-mail. I mean look at this! This proof is right here! This guy almost had sex with her the first time she kissed a boy! I know my kids will never use the internet. No-sir-ee."
If I were a 16-year old boy, I would think, "THANK YOU for your point! If parents would just take an _interest_ in the kid's internet life instead of demanding to see every e-mail they've written, something like this would not have happened. If parents would just be calm, cool, and understanding, things like this just wouldn't happen." But of course, parents need show this kind of 'interest' at an early age...remember its an interest, that's all, an interest in the kid's life. Ugh, I doubt I'm making any sense...I'm too emotionally stirred by this.
Hargun
it's just a shame that the clouds wallpaper doesn't tile correctly.
Seriously, you'd think a $36b company could manage to hire a decent wallpaper artist.
Hargun
The coolest part about all of this is that in a few years time, the technology will be there so that the walls of your room are LCD/oLEDs and with the touch of a button you can make your walls have any wallpaper you want.
Just think, you could have the Windows "Clouds" wallpaper all over your room! Imagine that! Gee, if that were my wallpaper, I know I'd feel like I was actually in the clouds.
Hargun
Not to nitpick or anything...but the HP/Compaq merger would be horizontal consolidation because of their existance in the same marketplace.
;)
<US History Teacher mode>
Back in Rockefeller's time, his company, Standard Oil, vertically integrated when the bought out the supply chains and the marketing chains so that he could control the price exactly the way he wanted to.
</US History Teacher mode>
Basically vertical integration is controlling every step of the process, from extraction of raw materials to final marketing of the product. HP does not supply Compaq with anything and Compaq does not supply HP with anything. Since they are in the same market, they _horizontally consolidated_, that is, joined forces with competition to prove more competitive to even greater competition. AOL/TW was a vertical integration because AOL supplied the medium and TW supplied the content. Just FYI. Sorry to nitpick
Hargun
Finally I can rip one in Biology class and blame it on the Earth's crust. (Of course then someone would probably say, "Hey, you farted methane, not hydrogen," and then I'd be screwed.) Damn, foiled again.
Hargun
I really think I'm missing something here...I always thought GPS was a signal sent from like 20 satellites to your position on Earth, I had no idea it could receive signals too. Can someone explain how this technology is possible?
oh..wait, I get it..the content has a descrambler that only activates when it gets the right GPS signal...duh. Sorry...oh well, first post.
The key thing you forget is that a joke needs to be funny.
You know it's bad when people start analyzing humor. That just kills it.
Hargun
(Never mind for now that the videotape they used to show the Windows slowdown was revealed to be fabricated. Never mind for now that Professor Felton successfully removed IE from Windows early in the court case, then when he tried it again later he found that Microsoft had scattered the code throughout the operating system to thwart him.)
Why the _FUCK_ are they not hit with obstruction of justice? Can someone please answer that?
No because the distributed.net client needs to communicate on it's own port in whatever internal protocol it uses. That's what causes the bandwidth usage, not the downloading of the client, if that's what you think.
You can't put your own server software on sourceforge's servers, at least not to my knowledge, so all sourceforge would be good for is hosting the client downloads...which it might actually already do. Hope that answers your question.
Hargun
ROFL! Someone, mod this guy up!
NT.....waiting 20 seconds....... Mod this down please.
Actually he was correct in saying "the Linux kernel." The kernel at the heart of the GNU/Linux system may be referred to simply as "Linux," as it has no GNU software (to my knowledge) in it.
;)
Unless you were joking...in which case, never mind.
Hargun