That's what I don't like. Caching certian information on my system that I personally don't agree with and/or find objectionable.
I will respect others freedoms, just don't leave your stuff on my computer. I advocate free speech and agency to do as they please, but once something ends up on my computer that I didn't want or put there for the sake of the utopian society of 'free-information flow', I believe things have gone too far. Too far, even into the realm of passive support.
Sorry... I don't like that idea and I believe it tramples on MY rights to not have certian materials placed on my computer.
It is not an easy thing to write a balanced and informing article about this issue, but Bruce Byfield suceeded in this and we all owe him our thanks for that. I think that there is a great deal of good will on both sides of this discussion and we should *all* try as hard as we can to built upon this good will. By calling each other names we can only all end up loosing. We need not always fully agree with each other, but we should try to accommodate each other as much as possible and try to stress that which we have in common.
... or I just heard wrong. But you only cache the content you look at and not what you don't. Is that right? Then that would mean that if I didnt' look at porn or CP it wouldn't cache itself on my computer/node?
I thought the idea of p2p was you share what you have and caching (although good in some way) wasn't what p2p was about.
This doesn't make any sense. How is the user capable, or how has the user been capable to display information on the Web (not the internet, just a part) with a web browser.
Remember, this like this never happened before this FF extension, so where do you come off saying that?
People write web pages, the browser displays them. Similar to the television, yet far more versatile, it simply displays a site how the designer attended. How has this been difficult to understand?
Not that I'm against this plug-in, I find it interesting however, but don't understand where you're getting your facts from. On the contrary, the comments on Slashdot so far seem to be this wild notion of "we do what we want", "information wants to be free" and my favorite general attitude "screw the man, I'll display my information the way I want".
No. Sorry. It's not your information. It doesn't belong to anyone. Those that chose to display information a certain way are in their right to do such and lame excuses to justify the bastardization of their attempts to come off a certain way are the rant of the uninformed zealot with a "screw you all" mentality.
Is it a wonder people here aren't terribly popular with employers and don't get the respect they deserve?
It's not something everyone has to get all up in arms about. It's a presentation of information. If you don't like it, go somewhere else! If he chooses to display it and prevent this extension from running on his site, so be it! He's well within his rights to do such.
It's not he evil DRM anal-retentive control the *AA's are trying to do so this won't work. For that kind of argument is just like the way anyone else was to lose if they mentioned something regarding Nazis.
I don't believe that's what he meant. His concern was that he wants his information presented a certian way and to leave it that way preventing others from changing it into something he didn't intend or desire for his content.
Think of it this way. Many musicians don't have a problem when people do remixes of their stuff, some do. That's why the majority of those that do offer special deals (or lisensing/sp) to allow that creativity.
Those that do not, don't offer such. Though it's still possible to do so, generally you don't find them in the public too often.
Not that my analogy is perfect by any means or stretch of the imagination, but it's not the evil DRM example you seem to have pulled out of your ass.
It's his information to present. Let him do it in a way he wants. There are plenty of other sites you can go to to change how it's presented to you. Go there and don't bitch.
he did what he had to do to preserve the union for the betterment of the people. in an actual war, not this fictious bastardization that was vietnam/korea/iraq/soon to be iran, things change. always has, most likely always will.
I see nothing wrong with what he did. He preserved the union for the people and removed the rebellious noise most people didn't want or care to have around.
Your post was quite insightful and I appreciated it. Those attacking Lincoln are sadly uninformed and their notions are completely foolish to think he trampled the constitution. He preserved the union, of which the "rich" ie. those in control, tried to take away from the people.
you have to understand. most of the people during that time didn't care about the civil war to a point. it was mostly the slave owners and those against that ideal, regardless of the fact that people still treated colored folk like sub-human (which they are not).
Thank you for making sence and defending one of the Greatest Presidents the USA has ever had.
I like your comment. It's to the point, which I believe is the same as mine:
Companies, businesses etc. should not be involved in any political arena unless it's directly or indirectly involving of their business products, laws regarding their products (IP, etc.) and such.
Businesses that get involved in moral/controvercial issues with the general public, whether local or nationwide, in my opinion, is just wrong and innappropriate.
=) Businesses are in the market to make money, build products and support them. Not to have a stance on such issues.
Only if the company is being discrimanatory in hiring for things beyond security or qualificiations should someone/govt. interfere. And no, I don't support affirmative action either. That in itself is discriminatory and a band-aid to the solution/problem of discrimination.
And exactly what is wrong with this? If you were a shareholder would you want to see profits or losses from your initial investment into a company? Profits! Exactly my point!
You can't earn money by writing F/OSS in your mom's basement for the rest of your life or trying to live out ideals while your family scrapes by. That's not realisticly safe, financially speaking.
People place themselves wherever they want to, with whatever amount of determination they have and education, skills, networked contacts etc. If you have the skills, you'll find another job. Maybe not as glamourous, or pays as much... sure you may have to bite the bullet and kiss an unreasonable managers butt to get the job done/right/retain your job etc.
Capitalism works. Capitalism with greed and dishonesty will not. It's not inherently bad, only the people with their selfish money grubbing ways/desires yadda yadda yadda. Google is capitalistic, and we cheer them on!
Get a grip, Citizen of Slashdot #654200. Your giving flack to IBM for what they have to do. Lose 13k employees or suffer as a whole? Sorry, I'd rather get rid of a few than the whole, which would result in QUITE the economic problem. The world is bigger than your percieved notions of employees getting laid off.
What I'd like to see is placement of ads in my GMail. It's free so I wont' complain, but I'd rather the ads were at the bottom of my message than on the right hand side. I've seen some gmail users have that feature (or bug??) but I'd really like the option to set it in either place.
Personally, if the ads were on the bottom, it looks nicer and I'm actually more interested in looking at what they have to say. I don't mind targeted ads based on automatic scanning (will they "learn" and generate even smarter ones???).
not that anyone's paying attention, but google offers 2+ gigs of storage now and it's going up up up.
That, and who doesn't use the simplest way to store and retrieve information? For my roommate it was his pda and 1 gig SD cards. For me, it's email and google able to store 10mb attachments for 2gigs worth of data and my pda. it almost completely negates the need for a pc these days with online storage and pda's.
cept for those cube monkeys (shudder) who actually sit in front of one for hours on end. what a waste. (perhaps I'll explain that one later in my journal?)
I'm going to rain on your parade. Corporations/businesses exzisted LONG before government. Especially this one. The government doesn't grant us anything. WE GRANT THE GOVERNMENT ITS RIGHTS. PERIOD! Didn't you ever take an American History/Civics class?
Good lord, what are the schools teaching kids these days?!
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That's what I don't like. Caching certian information on my system that I personally don't agree with and/or find objectionable.
I will respect others freedoms, just don't leave your stuff on my computer. I advocate free speech and agency to do as they please, but once something ends up on my computer that I didn't want or put there for the sake of the utopian society of 'free-information flow', I believe things have gone too far. Too far, even into the realm of passive support.
Sorry... I don't like that idea and I believe it tramples on MY rights to not have certian materials placed on my computer.
pardon your jargon?
Although he was just an honorable mention, lawnchair Larry was funny. Here's what he did:
http://darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-11.html
It is not an easy thing to write a balanced and informing article about this issue, but Bruce Byfield suceeded in this and we all owe him our thanks for that. I think that there is a great deal of good will on both sides of this discussion and we should *all* try as hard as we can to built upon this good will. By calling each other names we can only all end up loosing. We need not always fully agree with each other, but we should try to accommodate each other as much as possible and try to stress that which we have in common.
This was also posted on the NF page.
... or I just heard wrong. But you only cache the content you look at and not what you don't. Is that right? Then that would mean that if I didnt' look at porn or CP it wouldn't cache itself on my computer/node?
I thought the idea of p2p was you share what you have and caching (although good in some way) wasn't what p2p was about.
maybe I'm wrong
talking about flawed analogies...
I'll get modded into oblivion, but screw it.
This doesn't make any sense. How is the user capable, or how has the user been capable to display information on the Web (not the internet, just a part) with a web browser.
Remember, this like this never happened before this FF extension, so where do you come off saying that?
People write web pages, the browser displays them. Similar to the television, yet far more versatile, it simply displays a site how the designer attended. How has this been difficult to understand?
Not that I'm against this plug-in, I find it interesting however, but don't understand where you're getting your facts from. On the contrary, the comments on Slashdot so far seem to be this wild notion of "we do what we want", "information wants to be free" and my favorite general attitude "screw the man, I'll display my information the way I want".
No. Sorry. It's not your information. It doesn't belong to anyone. Those that chose to display information a certain way are in their right to do such and lame excuses to justify the bastardization of their attempts to come off a certain way are the rant of the uninformed zealot with a "screw you all" mentality.
Is it a wonder people here aren't terribly popular with employers and don't get the respect they deserve?
It's not something everyone has to get all up in arms about. It's a presentation of information. If you don't like it, go somewhere else! If he chooses to display it and prevent this extension from running on his site, so be it! He's well within his rights to do such.
It's not he evil DRM anal-retentive control the *AA's are trying to do so this won't work. For that kind of argument is just like the way anyone else was to lose if they mentioned something regarding Nazis.
You lose... game over - looks like he won.
I don't believe that's what he meant. His concern was that he wants his information presented a certian way and to leave it that way preventing others from changing it into something he didn't intend or desire for his content.
/sp) to allow that creativity.
Think of it this way. Many musicians don't have a problem when people do remixes of their stuff, some do. That's why the majority of those that do offer special deals (or lisensing
Those that do not, don't offer such. Though it's still possible to do so, generally you don't find them in the public too often.
Not that my analogy is perfect by any means or stretch of the imagination, but it's not the evil DRM example you seem to have pulled out of your ass.
It's his information to present. Let him do it in a way he wants. There are plenty of other sites you can go to to change how it's presented to you. Go there and don't bitch.
The mods are on crack to mod this flaimbait. It's just someone's suggestion and preference.
:D
What he failed to realize was that he could always install kde anyways.
if you're willing to send it to me for shipping costs or something else like other hardware you might need that I have, can we work out deal?
email me at gmail, pubkey for gpg is on slashdot.org/~zoloto/pubkey
I detest authority with the only exception of it being given to the right men with exemplary character and motivations.
he did what he had to do to preserve the union for the betterment of the people. in an actual war, not this fictious bastardization that was vietnam/korea/iraq/soon to be iran, things change. always has, most likely always will.
I see nothing wrong with what he did. He preserved the union for the people and removed the rebellious noise most people didn't want or care to have around.
Your post was quite insightful and I appreciated it. Those attacking Lincoln are sadly uninformed and their notions are completely foolish to think he trampled the constitution. He preserved the union, of which the "rich" ie. those in control, tried to take away from the people.
:)
you have to understand. most of the people during that time didn't care about the civil war to a point. it was mostly the slave owners and those against that ideal, regardless of the fact that people still treated colored folk like sub-human (which they are not).
Thank you for making sence and defending one of the Greatest Presidents the USA has ever had.
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It's down for me as well, however, for some reason... my GMail Drive explorer extension is still functioning so I can transfer files to and from.
Glitch perhaps? I was just a minute short of looking at the DNS query... Could this be a possible DNS attack on (one of) our beloved G?
~zoloto
Morse Code Translator
wow, talk about taking things out of context to an extreme.
I like your comment. It's to the point, which I believe is the same as mine:
Companies, businesses etc. should not be involved in any political arena unless it's directly or indirectly involving of their business products, laws regarding their products (IP, etc.) and such.
Businesses that get involved in moral/controvercial issues with the general public, whether local or nationwide, in my opinion, is just wrong and innappropriate.
=) Businesses are in the market to make money, build products and support them. Not to have a stance on such issues.
Only if the company is being discrimanatory in hiring for things beyond security or qualificiations should someone/govt. interfere. And no, I don't support affirmative action either. That in itself is discriminatory and a band-aid to the solution/problem of discrimination.
Speaking of jokes, here's a good one.
/bad //so bad
Did you hear about the constipated mathematician?
He worked it out with a pencil!
And exactly what is wrong with this? If you were a shareholder would you want to see profits or losses from your initial investment into a company? Profits! Exactly my point!
You can't earn money by writing F/OSS in your mom's basement for the rest of your life or trying to live out ideals while your family scrapes by. That's not realisticly safe, financially speaking.
People place themselves wherever they want to, with whatever amount of determination they have and education, skills, networked contacts etc. If you have the skills, you'll find another job. Maybe not as glamourous, or pays as much... sure you may have to bite the bullet and kiss an unreasonable managers butt to get the job done/right/retain your job etc.
Capitalism works. Capitalism with greed and dishonesty will not. It's not inherently bad, only the people with their selfish money grubbing ways/desires yadda yadda yadda. Google is capitalistic, and we cheer them on!
Get a grip, Citizen of Slashdot #654200. Your giving flack to IBM for what they have to do. Lose 13k employees or suffer as a whole? Sorry, I'd rather get rid of a few than the whole, which would result in QUITE the economic problem. The world is bigger than your percieved notions of employees getting laid off.
What I'd like to see is placement of ads in my GMail. It's free so I wont' complain, but I'd rather the ads were at the bottom of my message than on the right hand side. I've seen some gmail users have that feature (or bug??) but I'd really like the option to set it in either place.
Personally, if the ads were on the bottom, it looks nicer and I'm actually more interested in looking at what they have to say. I don't mind targeted ads based on automatic scanning (will they "learn" and generate even smarter ones???).
~zoloto
Hi. My name is actually Brett, sorry you believe everything you look up.
not that anyone's paying attention, but google offers 2+ gigs of storage now and it's going up up up.
That, and who doesn't use the simplest way to store and retrieve information? For my roommate it was his pda and 1 gig SD cards. For me, it's email and google able to store 10mb attachments for 2gigs worth of data and my pda. it almost completely negates the need for a pc these days with online storage and pda's.
cept for those cube monkeys (shudder) who actually sit in front of one for hours on end. what a waste. (perhaps I'll explain that one later in my journal?)
~zoloto
teenagers shouldn't have credit cards. fucking monsters.
My voice is my passport *cough*, verify me. *click-click... BAM!*
I'm going to rain on your parade. Corporations/businesses exzisted LONG before government. Especially this one. The government doesn't grant us anything. WE GRANT THE GOVERNMENT ITS RIGHTS. PERIOD! Didn't you ever take an American History/Civics class?
Good lord, what are the schools teaching kids these days?!