Not only are you piping potentially anything into their rooms, it is opening up a whole entire world. Everybody has different values that dictate what they will and will not allow into the house. Make sure you understand what could potentially be coming into their rooms. I would even wager a guess that no matter where you set your standards for what is allowable, the Internet will provide stuff to them that is way beyond where you draw your line. Remember that kids don't have to go looking for bad things on the Internet because bad stuff can also potentially find its way to them (e.g. ever get any surprising or unusual emails that are mass-marketed?).
I'm under the impression that kids and teens are more impressionable than adults -- they are forming their own values at those ages. For most grown-ups the values have been decided long ago and we're used to what we have decided to go with.
Ok, piracy is not a good thing, but jail is just a tad extreme, don't you think?
Increasingly I see this disturbing trend of posters to Slashdot trying to turn the people who are being stolen from into the real enemies. And increasingly I see sentences that allude a injustice against the criminal rather than the victim. Trying to garner support by making the companies sound like big bad guys for throwing their weight around (for really protecting themselves).
I hope ARIA (Australian version of RIAA) are pleased with themselves.
That seems a foolish type of statement, but I see it a lot. I'm sure they are pleased that they can protect their product, the same as any other type of business would be. The last thing I want to hear is foolishness about the young men's lives being ruined by the big bad company; these young men ruined themselves... isn't that just human nature... and then to complain about it too. When I was young, there were always perceived consequences for your bad actions. Why should we be taking away or lessening the consequences that are rightfully within the law?
I think I see what's really happening out there. A lot of people pirate illegal software through P2P, regular web sites, etc. And people have gotten away with it for a long time. Now that the big companies are finally stepping up to protect themselves and their products within the boundaries of the law, we are seeing a lot more legal action taken against the common user. And I think the people who share files (which most of us do) are starting to act like scared rabbits -- they are afraid it will rightfully catch up to them too. And so we see an increase of postings trying to garner emotional and other types of support against the big bad company, which is legally protecting itself. Such obscured support somehow helps us to feel better about what we're doing, or makes us feel that it's really all right and the bad stuff can't happen to us, when we're in a supportive community that does the same. A twisted self-help group if you will.
However I predict that a low percentage of file sharers will actually go to jail, but instead large fines will be put against most. From what I see in the news, I know the music is absorbantly more expensive when paying for it through fines instead of the regular off-the-shelf price. It's a gamble for all of us.
But if we lose, we certainly don't have the right to complain because we are the robber. If I go to a casino and gamble, then I can't complain when I lose my life savings. I had the choice.
You could have referenced this set of graphs instead, just to provide a different point of view.
Your post didn't save me that much time because I had to go back and look at all the graphs to find out that you referenced one of the worst. Too bad you didn't take the time to read about the beta part, and glad you are so loyal to ATI & nVidia because after all they are good cards.
Ever since everybody woke up this morning, nothing has changed with bad/. posts.
Hey, doesn't the gator on their home page look like it's spying or lying in wait or something. Try to explain the mascot away if you say it is not spyware.
They had several large metalic meteors that were out in the open free to touch. Putting my hand on it and thinking about it flying though space, to be rudely blocked by the planet earth.
... or how about flying through space picking up who knows what kind of alien virus... and then opening it up to the public to touch. I'm sure they have gone over it with a fine-toothed comb looking for anything bad, and I'm sure they've ruled out all bad things *known* to man, but what about the undiscovered ones...
nda not really bad ... just peace of mind
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The NDA has taken the rap for being super-secretive. However the NDA covers more than just technology or a product. It also covers expressions and variations on ideas. It's not a bad idea at the beginning (before you produce it), because the NDA allows you to feel free to openly discuss things with others, without the possibility of them running away with your variations on thought processes. Maybe it just provides a bit of mental ease.
Rarely is somebody going to run away with your idea anyways, because they already have their own.
The funniest is when you were already toying with an idea, and then somebody else asks you to sign an NDA, and then you find out in the meeting that their idea is very similar to yours. Then what do you do?
presumably deciding that blame should be assigned to whoever has the deepest pockets instead of to those who actually did something wrong.
On the other side of the coin, the victim might not be concerned about deep pockets. Instead, the victim is most likely in deep pain and may be under the impression the stopping the game company from making such games might also stop this pain from happening again.
Just on a personal note, I am not opposed to violent video games; I play them. I believe teenagers are more impressionable than adults, and we should be careful about their level of violence ingested.
The agency searched for 12 terms associated with child pornography, such as "incest" and "underage." It did not actually download the files it found, but it determined that 42 percent of them had titles or descriptions associated with pornographic images of children.
In summary the agency used words associated with child pornography and ended up with only 42% hits, which seems an awfully low percentage compared to what they were directly searching for.
For example, it's like if I targetted a search at society only looking for adult pornographic magazines in convenience stores. So should we not allow people to walk around in society because whenever they enter a convenience store they might be exposed to adult pornography? Of course the both the adult and child pornography in both scenarios is labelled exactly according to what it is. Those people who are looking for it will find it, but those who are not looking for it won't be exposed to it. Should we outlaw cars because they can carry child pornography from destination to destination? It does appear as though the RIAA is trying to make a point that really doesn't fit their situation.
"The message goes on to detail the users IP, a timestamp, the product in question, the users PC name, username, and MAC address.
I believe the corporation and the individual user belong in different categories and should be distinguished from one another when piracy comes into question. The face of the organization is represented by the synergistic effect of all its employees.
I think callback software is okay to a certain degree. For me the Product name, IP# and MAC address would seem reasonable information to send back -- however it seems to be going too far if they identify the employee. The vendor needs proof that the company is infringing but should not target the individuals in the company. It is up to the company to repremand its employees or handle the situation how it wishes. So I say let the software vendor deal with the corporation, and in turn let the corporation deal with the employees.
An SCO presentation shown in Las Vegas on August 18th alleged infringement by the Linux developers. The presentation, in Microsoft PowerPoint format
I managed to download the Power Point presentation before it was totally Slashdotted. Following are 2 links to the presentation on the edonkey/overnet file sharing network.
Note: Slashdot doesn't seem to support linking to the ed2k protocol, so just do a search on the bolded text, or else copy and paste the entire link into edonkey/overnet client if you know how (note: remove the space in the hash portion that Slashdot inserted).
I would encourage everyone to share this presentation on other file sharing networks so everybody can have a chance to see the goods.
Microsoft's MSN Search seems to be a fair search engine. Enter the word "google" at MSN and it comes back with Google at the first item in the list, and even marks it as a "Top Pick"! Certainly no anti-competitiveness displayed there. Seems straight forward and honest to me.
You mean Microsoft would put in advertising like the other search engines put in advertising? Then it doesn't seem that unusual to do.
, and other Microso$ft bullcrap
I certainly hope they don't put a clippy mascot in the search engine results.
The old argument that no one likes reading on a computer has pretty much eroded.
The email hoax captured people's attention by its title. I'm unsure if every victim would have actually chose to read the entire thing on-screen.
I agree that PDA's are somewhat useful to read on. Because they can be carried around like a book. Although they aren't as good as a real paper page. You can't fit a whole lot on the screen at one time.
When you get into laptops then you can see more words and maybe read in bed. A bit klunky though.
As for a desktop PC, I can only see the proliferation of piracy for technical or other reference manuals. I don't know anybody who would sit down in their chair and enjoy a novel on the computer screen.
Books are not as passive as music or video. Books require your skills and attention. Other than the said cases, I can't see book piracy becoming a big problem on the PC because it detracts from the enjoyment of a book.
Slashdot topics of late are like: SCO, programming, SCO, toys, gaming, SCO, SCO, linux.
I'm getting tired of SCO around every corner. Either money is owed to SCO or not, but I sure as heck hope it gets straightened out soon because it's getting boring.
I wish SCO would either prove or disprove their case in court so beyond a shadow of a doubt they can either get paid, or not, depending on which way the verdict goes. The whole thing is getting very stupid.
So redesign all Swedish web sites to adhere to the cookie legislation, and then send the bill to the government. If everybody does it then that may force them to reconsider the legislation. Did they even have any technologists or experts available when making this law?
I heard someone [...] the other day bemoan the fact that macromedia doesn't make a browser.
Apart from a Flash/Shockwave browser, I'm sure Macromedia could make a very good "standard" browser too. Given their experience creating web design tools, I'm sure they would have a relatively short foray to enter the browser market. For anyone that has used the Dreamweaver tools, and seen how they squash Microsoft Front Page tools, it's not hard to believe that Macromedia could create a competitive, "standard" browser.
However it seems that a playlist can be generated based on a user voting system (semi-generated for the user), as long as the resulting playlist conforms to the other rules (types of songs per hour, etc). Algorithms can be applied to format the voted playlist into an actual playlist that conforms to the rules (e.g. by padding the playlist with similar music from different groups) where need be.
The author's original idea will have to be manipulated a bit, but it's still feasible in many ways.
A bit of ingenuity can go a long ways.
I have my doubts as to if the general idea could really fly in the current online world, however you never know until you try. It would definitely have to be OSS.
The firey part happened in the atmosphere, the shuttle broke apart and was scattered over a wide area. It's not like the worms survived in a "firey impact with the earth". Ever drop an ant or spider from a very high place? It will always survive -- not enough mass to cause it to travel fast enough against the air friction to hit the ground with any sort of impact that would hurt it. Even if you drop a container containing a group of fragile items, some will survive the impact, using others as a cushion. I don't think the meteor anaology adds too much creditibility at all; in fact the analogy seems a bit skewed. I'm not commenting about the origins of life argument, but rather that this analogy will probably hinder your argument more than help it.
and along with such a withdrawl, Java would lose a lot of market share. I doubt the good graces will end anytime soon. Not if Sun wants Java to remain competitive.
NASA is proposing that this counterweight be an asteroid that would somehow be moved into a precise position and placed into orbit thousands of miles from Earth. If everything went as planned, this asteroid would orbit Earth, pulling the cable tight to allow a vehicle to slide up and down it.
-- http://science.howstuffworks.com/space-elevator2.h tm
And if everything didn't go as planned.... ? From all the information I've ever seen, we've been more worried about moving asteroids away from earth, for obvious reasons.
I this it is the responsibility of the creators of the content to deem whether it is important enough to keep on the Internet or not, or else to archive it. If somebody else tries to archive the Net then I believe we'll end up with 95% fluff, and 5% good stuff. The Internet is now so large at a single point in time, it's sometimes hard to find something current let alone wading through years of archives.
I say to forget spending the money on archiving the Internet which is already being done to some degree by TheWayBack machine, and leave the responsiblity in the hands of the content creators/publishers. The good content will continue to survive.
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Not only are you piping potentially anything into their rooms, it is opening up a whole entire world. Everybody has different values that dictate what they will and will not allow into the house. Make sure you understand what could potentially be coming into their rooms. I would even wager a guess that no matter where you set your standards for what is allowable, the Internet will provide stuff to them that is way beyond where you draw your line. Remember that kids don't have to go looking for bad things on the Internet because bad stuff can also potentially find its way to them (e.g. ever get any surprising or unusual emails that are mass-marketed?). I'm under the impression that kids and teens are more impressionable than adults -- they are forming their own values at those ages. For most grown-ups the values have been decided long ago and we're used to what we have decided to go with.
Increasingly I see this disturbing trend of posters to Slashdot trying to turn the people who are being stolen from into the real enemies. And increasingly I see sentences that allude a injustice against the criminal rather than the victim. Trying to garner support by making the companies sound like big bad guys for throwing their weight around (for really protecting themselves).
I hope ARIA (Australian version of RIAA) are pleased with themselves.
That seems a foolish type of statement, but I see it a lot. I'm sure they are pleased that they can protect their product, the same as any other type of business would be. The last thing I want to hear is foolishness about the young men's lives being ruined by the big bad company; these young men ruined themselves ... isn't that just human nature ... and then to complain about it too. When I was young, there were always perceived consequences for your bad actions. Why should we be taking away or lessening the consequences that are rightfully within the law?
I think I see what's really happening out there. A lot of people pirate illegal software through P2P, regular web sites, etc. And people have gotten away with it for a long time. Now that the big companies are finally stepping up to protect themselves and their products within the boundaries of the law, we are seeing a lot more legal action taken against the common user. And I think the people who share files (which most of us do) are starting to act like scared rabbits -- they are afraid it will rightfully catch up to them too. And so we see an increase of postings trying to garner emotional and other types of support against the big bad company, which is legally protecting itself. Such obscured support somehow helps us to feel better about what we're doing, or makes us feel that it's really all right and the bad stuff can't happen to us, when we're in a supportive community that does the same. A twisted self-help group if you will.
However I predict that a low percentage of file sharers will actually go to jail, but instead large fines will be put against most. From what I see in the news, I know the music is absorbantly more expensive when paying for it through fines instead of the regular off-the-shelf price. It's a gamble for all of us.
But if we lose, we certainly don't have the right to complain because we are the robber. If I go to a casino and gamble, then I can't complain when I lose my life savings. I had the choice.
You could have referenced this set of graphs instead, just to provide a different point of view. Your post didn't save me that much time because I had to go back and look at all the graphs to find out that you referenced one of the worst. Too bad you didn't take the time to read about the beta part, and glad you are so loyal to ATI & nVidia because after all they are good cards. Ever since everybody woke up this morning, nothing has changed with bad /. posts.
Now the title is more like "British Ability.com server Faces Slashdot Invasion"!
Hey, doesn't the gator on their home page look like it's spying or lying in wait or something. Try to explain the mascot away if you say it is not spyware.
The NDA has taken the rap for being super-secretive. However the NDA covers more than just technology or a product. It also covers expressions and variations on ideas. It's not a bad idea at the beginning (before you produce it), because the NDA allows you to feel free to openly discuss things with others, without the possibility of them running away with your variations on thought processes. Maybe it just provides a bit of mental ease.
Rarely is somebody going to run away with your idea anyways, because they already have their own.
The funniest is when you were already toying with an idea, and then somebody else asks you to sign an NDA, and then you find out in the meeting that their idea is very similar to yours. Then what do you do?
Yes, you must start to do that sometime soon. ;)
On the other side of the coin, the victim might not be concerned about deep pockets. Instead, the victim is most likely in deep pain and may be under the impression the stopping the game company from making such games might also stop this pain from happening again.
Just on a personal note, I am not opposed to violent video games; I play them. I believe teenagers are more impressionable than adults, and we should be careful about their level of violence ingested.
In summary the agency used words associated with child pornography and ended up with only 42% hits, which seems an awfully low percentage compared to what they were directly searching for.
For example, it's like if I targetted a search at society only looking for adult pornographic magazines in convenience stores. So should we not allow people to walk around in society because whenever they enter a convenience store they might be exposed to adult pornography? Of course the both the adult and child pornography in both scenarios is labelled exactly according to what it is. Those people who are looking for it will find it, but those who are not looking for it won't be exposed to it. Should we outlaw cars because they can carry child pornography from destination to destination?
It does appear as though the RIAA is trying to make a point that really doesn't fit their situation.
I believe the corporation and the individual user belong in different categories and should be distinguished from one another when piracy comes into question. The face of the organization is represented by the synergistic effect of all its employees. I think callback software is okay to a certain degree. For me the Product name, IP# and MAC address would seem reasonable information to send back -- however it seems to be going too far if they identify the employee. The vendor needs proof that the company is infringing but should not target the individuals in the company. It is up to the company to repremand its employees or handle the situation how it wishes. So I say let the software vendor deal with the corporation, and in turn let the corporation deal with the employees.
I managed to download the Power Point presentation before it was totally Slashdotted. Following are 2 links to the presentation on the edonkey/overnet file sharing network.
ed2k://|file|SCOsource_Briefing_II.2.zip|389072|fa f8f74f7afc98c21284cce152642424|c 2c6bfa65cd82f1d88300f8f2dbbeea|
ed2k://|file|SCOsource_Briefing_II.2.ppt|582144|4
Note: Slashdot doesn't seem to support linking to the ed2k protocol, so just do a search on the bolded text, or else copy and paste the entire link into edonkey/overnet client if you know how (note: remove the space in the hash portion that Slashdot inserted).
I would encourage everyone to share this presentation on other file sharing networks so everybody can have a chance to see the goods.
You mean Microsoft would put in advertising like the other search engines put in advertising? Then it doesn't seem that unusual to do.
, and other Microso$ft bullcrap
I certainly hope they don't put a clippy mascot in the search engine results.
The email hoax captured people's attention by its title. I'm unsure if every victim would have actually chose to read the entire thing on-screen.
I agree that PDA's are somewhat useful to read on. Because they can be carried around like a book. Although they aren't as good as a real paper page. You can't fit a whole lot on the screen at one time.
When you get into laptops then you can see more words and maybe read in bed. A bit klunky though.
As for a desktop PC, I can only see the proliferation of piracy for technical or other reference manuals. I don't know anybody who would sit down in their chair and enjoy a novel on the computer screen.
Books are not as passive as music or video. Books require your skills and attention. Other than the said cases, I can't see book piracy becoming a big problem on the PC because it detracts from the enjoyment of a book.
I'm getting tired of SCO around every corner. Either money is owed to SCO or not, but I sure as heck hope it gets straightened out soon because it's getting boring.
I wish SCO would either prove or disprove their case in court so beyond a shadow of a doubt they can either get paid, or not, depending on which way the verdict goes. The whole thing is getting very stupid.
So redesign all Swedish web sites to adhere to the cookie legislation, and then send the bill to the government. If everybody does it then that may force them to reconsider the legislation. Did they even have any technologists or experts available when making this law?
http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/tracks/media/research /perpendicular.html
Apart from a Flash/Shockwave browser, I'm sure Macromedia could make a very good "standard" browser too. Given their experience creating web design tools, I'm sure they would have a relatively short foray to enter the browser market. For anyone that has used the Dreamweaver tools, and seen how they squash Microsoft Front Page tools, it's not hard to believe that Macromedia could create a competitive, "standard" browser.
However it seems that a playlist can be generated based on a user voting system (semi-generated for the user), as long as the resulting playlist conforms to the other rules (types of songs per hour, etc). Algorithms can be applied to format the voted playlist into an actual playlist that conforms to the rules (e.g. by padding the playlist with similar music from different groups) where need be.
The author's original idea will have to be manipulated a bit, but it's still feasible in many ways.
A bit of ingenuity can go a long ways.
I have my doubts as to if the general idea could really fly in the current online world, however you never know until you try. It would definitely have to be OSS.
Shawn Fanning's cameo appearance in The Italian Job. It appears as though the more popular spelling of his name is "Shawn" instead of "Sean".
The firey part happened in the atmosphere, the shuttle broke apart and was scattered over a wide area. It's not like the worms survived in a "firey impact with the earth". Ever drop an ant or spider from a very high place? It will always survive -- not enough mass to cause it to travel fast enough against the air friction to hit the ground with any sort of impact that would hurt it. Even if you drop a container containing a group of fragile items, some will survive the impact, using others as a cushion. I don't think the meteor anaology adds too much creditibility at all; in fact the analogy seems a bit skewed. I'm not commenting about the origins of life argument, but rather that this analogy will probably hinder your argument more than help it.
and along with such a withdrawl, Java would lose a lot of market share. I doubt the good graces will end anytime soon. Not if Sun wants Java to remain competitive.
I never have to do laundry again! Now I can drag the 3-day wear into infinity ...
-- http://science.howstuffworks.com/space-elevator2.
And if everything didn't go as planned .... ? From all the information I've ever seen, we've been more worried about moving asteroids away from earth, for obvious reasons.
I this it is the responsibility of the creators of the content to deem whether it is important enough to keep on the Internet or not, or else to archive it. If somebody else tries to archive the Net then I believe we'll end up with 95% fluff, and 5% good stuff. The Internet is now so large at a single point in time, it's sometimes hard to find something current let alone wading through years of archives. I say to forget spending the money on archiving the Internet which is already being done to some degree by TheWayBack machine, and leave the responsiblity in the hands of the content creators/publishers. The good content will continue to survive.