In related news, the german nazi party announced that Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler are doing a fair and objective comparison between Jews and aryans, available for free to any registered german of aryan descent.
Seriously, guys, that's about how credible stuff like this is. (My sincerest apologies to everyone who lost relatives, friends, loved ones etc. in the holocaust, BTW)
SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) on Monday said sales of consumer electronics surpassed book sales for the first time and was its largest sales category over the Thanksgiving weekend, launching the online retailer's busiest holiday selling season in 10 years.
The company also said it set a single-day sales record during the period with more than 2.8 million units, or 32 items per second, ordered across the globe.
Visitor traffic peaked at an estimated 700,000 users during a 60-minute period, according to Amazon.com's Holiday Shoppers tracking program.
Its top-selling electronics products include Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL)'s iPod media player, DVD players and digital cameras, Amazon.com said.
The retailer added that customers bought more than 1 million items from its music category during each of two back-to-back weeks this month. Its jewelry and watch segment sold more than one watch per minute since Nov. 25.
In premarket activity, shares of Amazon.com gained 2.4 percent, or 95 cents, to $39.88 on the Nasdaq.
Well, assuming he didn't actually distribute movies without the respective copyright owners' permission, he's got my full support. Why can a private organization just get a website (any website!) shut down without the facts being checked, without the owner of the site being asked to present his side of the story first, and without actually having to come up with proof that it does do something illegal?
And, maybe even more important... why does the MPAA actually lower itself to using false allegations? I can understand that they represent a certain opinion and thus aren't neutral, but that doesn't mean they should use illegitimate or even illegal means to reach their goals, does it? How can they accuse others of doing illegal or illegimate things when they do it themselves?
And, in the light of that - why isn't this story on the frontpage?
No, mercenaries wouldn't be necessary - the british armed forces would be enough.
Of course, you could argue that from a practical point of view, these *would* then be mercenaries of the MPAA (or RIAA or whatever)...
But whatever you want to call it, Sealand is not immune, and what's worse, they are so small that if the UK decides to conquer them after all (be it through legal or military means), then there won't even be a huge world-wide outcry. Most people don't even know about Sealand, and a significant number of those who do either don't care or would probably agree with the UK's arguments that it is within their rights to do whatever they do.
Every part of a slashdot posting that is an actual quote is in italics, so it's usually quite easy to determine who said what.
Not that the text was particularly misleading, anyway...
That might explain why SpamAssassin didn't get tested, too: even with an insane amount of manipulation, it probably still would've beaten the crap out of borderware.
I think it would be argued that an ed2k link is not fundamentally different from a http link nevertheless, though. It's not true that the ed2k link doesn't actually link to anything - it's just that it does not immediately tell you where to find what it links to. It could be argued that http links are similar; a link like http://www.google.com, for example, is worthless if you don't have a means to resolve which address(es) correspond(s) to www.google.com, for example. In other words, you do need an infrastructure to give meaning to the link in both cases.
But yeah, the 2600 cases teaches us that money can not only buy congressmen, but also courts.
I wouldn't be so sure that merely providing a link is much safer than providing a.torrent - the.torrent doesn't contain more than some basic information on the file, either, after all.
Also, recall that 2600 magazine was sued for doing nothing more than providing links.
The data the authors of that paper used was, according to them, collected about a year ago.
The website (http://www.peer-2-peer.org) also mentions that the actual data and scripts will be released at some point (anonymized).
As for your friend... well, I'm sorry, but if he really did download that thing, then he only got what he deserves.
Only an insignificant fraction of torrent traffic is legit.
Says who? Considering the popularity *and* size of, say, ISO images of Linux distros/*BSD releases/..., I actually would think twice before making statements like this. There is no study yet that examines the ratios of illegal vs. legal or illegit vs. legit BitTorrent traffic, and furthermore, not everything that you might think illegal at first glance actually is - copyright laws are quite varied throughout the world.
It teaches you that professors can be asshats/idiots/..., too, and that you should not take classes taught by DJB.
Furthermore, it teaches you that in life, you will still get treated like shit even when you're paying for things (like your education, in this case), and that having a famous name (like DJB) is more important than what you actually do.
Not to mention that the title is misleading in that it seems to imply that it was DJB himself who found those holes, when in reality all he did was reap other people's (his students') work's rewards.
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Seriously, guys, that's about how credible stuff like this is. (My sincerest apologies to everyone who lost relatives, friends, loved ones etc. in the holocaust, BTW)
SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) on Monday said sales of consumer electronics surpassed book sales for the first time and was its largest sales category over the Thanksgiving weekend, launching the online retailer's busiest holiday selling season in 10 years.
The company also said it set a single-day sales record during the period with more than 2.8 million units, or 32 items per second, ordered across the globe.
Visitor traffic peaked at an estimated 700,000 users during a 60-minute period, according to Amazon.com's Holiday Shoppers tracking program.
Its top-selling electronics products include Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL)'s iPod media player, DVD players and digital cameras, Amazon.com said.
The retailer added that customers bought more than 1 million items from its music category during each of two back-to-back weeks this month. Its jewelry and watch segment sold more than one watch per minute since Nov. 25.
In premarket activity, shares of Amazon.com gained 2.4 percent, or 95 cents, to $39.88 on the Nasdaq.
Is that a trick question?
Well, assuming he didn't actually distribute movies without the respective copyright owners' permission, he's got my full support. Why can a private organization just get a website (any website!) shut down without the facts being checked, without the owner of the site being asked to present his side of the story first, and without actually having to come up with proof that it does do something illegal? And, maybe even more important... why does the MPAA actually lower itself to using false allegations? I can understand that they represent a certain opinion and thus aren't neutral, but that doesn't mean they should use illegitimate or even illegal means to reach their goals, does it? How can they accuse others of doing illegal or illegimate things when they do it themselves? And, in the light of that - why isn't this story on the frontpage?
Location of spamvertised websites != location where spam emails are sent from. Or at least, it's not generally the case.
No, mercenaries wouldn't be necessary - the british armed forces would be enough. Of course, you could argue that from a practical point of view, these *would* then be mercenaries of the MPAA (or RIAA or whatever)... But whatever you want to call it, Sealand is not immune, and what's worse, they are so small that if the UK decides to conquer them after all (be it through legal or military means), then there won't even be a huge world-wide outcry. Most people don't even know about Sealand, and a significant number of those who do either don't care or would probably agree with the UK's arguments that it is within their rights to do whatever they do.
"You fucker steal artists" - now that is an unusual request if I ever heard one. :)
That's an interesting idea for sure. Are there artists who sell CDs through regular channels the sales of which do not support the RIAA, BTW?
You stated the reason for that right there: it costs an arm and a leg.
Every part of a slashdot posting that is an actual quote is in italics, so it's usually quite easy to determine who said what. Not that the text was particularly misleading, anyway...
Well, freenet is still very much of a research project...
Do you believe that?
That might explain why SpamAssassin didn't get tested, too: even with an insane amount of manipulation, it probably still would've beaten the crap out of borderware.
I think it would be argued that an ed2k link is not fundamentally different from a http link nevertheless, though. It's not true that the ed2k link doesn't actually link to anything - it's just that it does not immediately tell you where to find what it links to. It could be argued that http links are similar; a link like http://www.google.com, for example, is worthless if you don't have a means to resolve which address(es) correspond(s) to www.google.com, for example. In other words, you do need an infrastructure to give meaning to the link in both cases. But yeah, the 2600 cases teaches us that money can not only buy congressmen, but also courts.
I wouldn't be so sure that merely providing a link is much safer than providing a .torrent - the .torrent doesn't contain more than some basic information on the file, either, after all.
Also, recall that 2600 magazine was sued for doing nothing more than providing links.
The data the authors of that paper used was, according to them, collected about a year ago. The website (http://www.peer-2-peer.org) also mentions that the actual data and scripts will be released at some point (anonymized). As for your friend... well, I'm sorry, but if he really did download that thing, then he only got what he deserves.
Says who? Considering the popularity *and* size of, say, ISO images of Linux distros/*BSD releases/..., I actually would think twice before making statements like this. There is no study yet that examines the ratios of illegal vs. legal or illegit vs. legit BitTorrent traffic, and furthermore, not everything that you might think illegal at first glance actually is - copyright laws are quite varied throughout the world.
Whatever happened to 1.7.4?
The posting's title was obviously sarcastic.
Thanks! ^_^ You'd think the MIT would be intelligent enough to set up a torrent themselves...
Fuck off, coward.
It teaches you that professors can be asshats/idiots/..., too, and that you should not take classes taught by DJB. Furthermore, it teaches you that in life, you will still get treated like shit even when you're paying for things (like your education, in this case), and that having a famous name (like DJB) is more important than what you actually do.
Not to mention that the title is misleading in that it seems to imply that it was DJB himself who found those holes, when in reality all he did was reap other people's (his students') work's rewards.
Damn. :)
Yup. Now, where's my ten bucks? ^^