"The new FTC rules also require that telemarketers have Caller ID enabled..."
That right there would make me want to buy a Microsoft Powered phone. Has anybody ever used Outlook's "Rules Wizard" before? Imagine being able to apply that to phone calls.
Apply this rule when the phone rings
whose phone number is not on the Contact List.
Set ringer mode to silent.
Answer with this message 'PlaceMeOnDNCList.wav'
Hang up
Set ringer mode to default
Stop processing more rules
(Actually I wouldn't care who made it, I just think MS would implement a decent version of it.)
"Interesting because Sony and Matsushita are bitter foes: this shows they're even more scared of Microsoft"
Um no, this does not 'show they're even more scared of Microsoft'. Sony has always been the type of company to try to control every little aspect of any product they make. In a case like this, they can control the OS.
Sony doesn't like sharing their pie. It has nothing to do with 'fear of Microsoft'.
Funny? Heh I'm serious guys. I don't care about Triumph of the Nerds. I don't care about the Sony Legged Robot Soccer Championshiip. But if they feed down porn, hell yeah I'm going to jump through some hoops to get it to work!
I'm not +1 Funny whoring here, I'm bored with the porn I've got and don't feel like running my credit card up higher!
"We are streaming some very cool video, such as Triumph of the Nerds by Bob Cringely, distinguished lecture by Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, ACM SIGCOMM conference paper presentation by Dave Clark, and 2002 Sony Legged Robot Soccer Championship."
"I've had my ticket confirmation print out pinned to my cube since I bought my tickets on 11/27/02. Now my anxious salivations are almost to an end though...in just 6.5 short hours, I'll be in the theatre when the film roles! (insert evil laugh here)."
Just think: LotR's revenues would double if people brought dates!
"Ok, im not from the US, and i havent watched too much American TV lately, so my (really naive i guess) question is this: What's the deal with all these "In soviet russia" jokes? where did they all come from? is this a secret plot to bring it back? ridicule it? Sounds like a South Park type of joke to me, but i would really like to know."
The Slashdot Community tries desperately to be funny, but few people can actually create new jokes. Occasionally, somebody resurrects something humorous from the past and places a fresh spin on it. However, much like a Hollywood movie sequal, they get milked into retardedness.
Before Mr. Smirnoff (explained in another response to this thread), it was "1.) Blah blah blah, 2.) blah blah blah, 3.)?????, 4.) Profit". Before that, it was "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!" Before that, it was "Herr herr, Windows crashes." For a while, it was "All your base..."... and.. well I don't remember the rest. All I can say is one day in the not too distant future, I'm going to stumble across old/. articles and I'm going to cringe at the bad attempts at milking humor. (In Soviet Russia, bad humor milks YOU!)
"The article was corrected. Therefore, there was no need for people to read posts bitching about the mistake in the article. I'm glad that some of the posts were marked down. I just wish they'd marked down the rest of them."
Why? You'd lose a lot of funny posts that way. Sorry bud, those ain't redundant. If they were found funny, they'll still be funny after the correction is made.
"But if everyone stopped buying CDs from RIAA labels, it would put the RIAA out of business eventually. At least they wouldn't be able to afford the political donations, lobbyists, and lawyers that give them their power. Without all their money, they would be effectively neutered. Of course, Slashdot readers are far from being everyone. It wouldn't be enough."
Do you honestly feel that they could be waited out? I dont.
... Don't be stupid. Parent post recieved an overrated moderation for saying this:
"What happened to Home Depot and the Dark Side?"
Don't mod this guy Redundant or Off-topic. When the topic originally appeared it was missing that info. Don't burn his karma up just because he can't go back and update it now that the story is fixed.
Normally I wouldn't bother to post something like this, but I've been burned a couple of times recently over it. If you have karma to burn, mod up the funny posts or find people that really are trolling. Don't mod people down because an article was corrected after the fact. Its not like we can run back and edit our posts to coincide with the edit to the story.
"Yes, the RIAA appears to be attributing any declines in sales to piracy, but this tactic might be turned around, if some advertising money can be scraped together"
I like that idea. Do something like those anti-Smoke 'Truth' ads?
"It ain't that phricken difficult, folks. Movies: Only attend matinees, if you MUST see it in a theatre. DVD's: Only buy used. Period. It's not that difficult to find a pawn shop, or ebay, or whatever. Music: Only buy used. Again, it's not that hard to find your favorite artists. Wanna support the artist? Go see their show, buy their ts-shirt or cd AT THE SHOW. I utterly REFUSE to give those fsckers another dime that I don't absolutely have to."
This would not work. Period. All they'll see is that there's a decline in sales. Where do you think they'll place the blame? Hint: Their first assumption won't be that they're being boycotted.
At best, it'd backfire. Ironically, it'd probably be useful to give them more money. As silly as it sounds, the RIAA sounded incredibly idiotic when they claimed that Napster cut into their sales while they were at the peak of their sales.
I bet you a contributing factor to the dismissal of the SSSCA was that the MPAA couldn't make legitimate claims of losses. If people really did shift over to P2P like the *AA fears, then a different story might have emerged from that whole ordeal.
"How much closer does this get us to overturning the law? What exactly did we win?"
I wouldn't be after overturning of the law. The truth of the matter is, that'll never happen. There'll always be a need to define what 'Digital Copyright' is, and for that reason alone that law will forever be frozen in place.
It isn't worth trying to fight the whole law. Instead, what you can do is take little pokes at it here and there so that common sense starts to permeate through it.
This case is a good example of that. It basically means that a company can't go running around crying "DMCA!!" just because somebody made something that could be used to 'violate copyright'.
I'm curious if this can create ripples in the DeCSS case. (If it's not too late, I haven't kept up on that in a while.) If the kid made that program so he could watch DVDs in Linux, then he falls in the same category that ElcomSoft was in when they won. "We didn't do it to intentionally break the law."
This could open the door a crack to lifting the reverse engineering clause of the DMCA.
... Ironic to me at least. The MPAA claims that video over the net has to be locked up in a chastity belt in order to survive. Yet, the porn industry has been able to thrive even in a highly saturated market.
It'd suck if this caused a damaging blow to the porn industry. It's probably the best proof out there that the internet *is* a place where people can make money with content without having to use DRM.
Slashdot Mirror
"You want a spoiler?
You will die alone."
I don't know what's worse. Your reference to Star Trek V, or that I get the reference.
"So what was the consensus on Picard's and Guinan's relationship? It's not fair to keep us hanging!"
It died down after a crack Picard made about Guinan's face resembling that of Shrek.
"The new FTC rules also require that telemarketers have Caller ID enabled..."
That right there would make me want to buy a Microsoft Powered phone. Has anybody ever used Outlook's "Rules Wizard" before? Imagine being able to apply that to phone calls.
Apply this rule when the phone rings
whose phone number is not on the Contact List.
Set ringer mode to silent.
Answer with this message 'PlaceMeOnDNCList.wav'
Hang up
Set ringer mode to default
Stop processing more rules
(Actually I wouldn't care who made it, I just think MS would implement a decent version of it.)
"honest honey, all the porno text ads are from the previous owner of the cell phone."
"Then explain why you paid $400 for a phone with a color screen."
Off-topic my ass.
I guess funny posts are automatically off topic unless you start it with "In Soviet Russia..."
"Interesting because Sony and Matsushita are bitter foes: this shows they're even more scared of Microsoft"
Um no, this does not 'show they're even more scared of Microsoft'. Sony has always been the type of company to try to control every little aspect of any product they make. In a case like this, they can control the OS.
Sony doesn't like sharing their pie. It has nothing to do with 'fear of Microsoft'.
"honest honey, all the porno text ads are from the previous owner of the cell phone."
"Then explain why you paid $400 for a phone with a color screen."
"We want... PORN!"
Funny? Heh I'm serious guys. I don't care about Triumph of the Nerds. I don't care about the Sony Legged Robot Soccer Championshiip. But if they feed down porn, hell yeah I'm going to jump through some hoops to get it to work!
I'm not +1 Funny whoring here, I'm bored with the porn I've got and don't feel like running my credit card up higher!
"We are streaming some very cool video, such as Triumph of the Nerds by Bob Cringely, distinguished lecture by Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, ACM SIGCOMM conference paper presentation by Dave Clark, and 2002 Sony Legged Robot Soccer Championship."
... PORN!
We want
"Just think: LotR's revenues would double if people brought dates!"
"A user has given a Funny (+1)moderation to your comment, Re:I'm a geek..., attached to LOTR: The Two Towers. Your comment is currently scored (3)"
Oh wow.. I never ever thought a Jay Leno joke would get me a +1 Funny.
"Once on opening night, and once a few weeks later when she agrees to go."
Heh. Anybody else read that and get an image of Steve Urkel saying "I'm wearing you down baby!"
"I see no problem with posting registration-required links. Just make sure there are others (as there are in this case)."
Erm, have you ever noticed how people whine every time there's a registration link? He was probably responding to that.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
"I've had my ticket confirmation print out pinned to my cube since I bought my tickets on 11/27/02.
Now my anxious salivations are almost to an end though...in just 6.5 short hours, I'll be in the theatre when the film roles! (insert evil laugh here)."
Just think: LotR's revenues would double if people brought dates!
"Ok, im not from the US, and i havent watched too much American TV lately, so my (really naive i guess) question is this:
... and.. well I don't remember the rest. All I can say is one day in the not too distant future, I'm going to stumble across old /. articles and I'm going to cringe at the bad attempts at milking humor. (In Soviet Russia, bad humor milks YOU!)
What's the deal with all these "In soviet russia" jokes? where did they all come from? is this a secret plot to bring it back? ridicule it?
Sounds like a South Park type of joke to me, but i would really like to know."
The Slashdot Community tries desperately to be funny, but few people can actually create new jokes. Occasionally, somebody resurrects something humorous from the past and places a fresh spin on it. However, much like a Hollywood movie sequal, they get milked into retardedness.
Before Mr. Smirnoff (explained in another response to this thread), it was "1.) Blah blah blah, 2.) blah blah blah, 3.)?????, 4.) Profit". Before that, it was "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!" Before that, it was "Herr herr, Windows crashes."
For a while, it was "All your base..."
"Still got some fully functioning Wang's here..."
"A rarity indeed among geek culture...;-)"
It does explain the spelling oddities we see on public forums. I think the problem stems from keyboards requiring the use of two hands.
"Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy."
They can, you just don't want to pay for it."
I don't know wtf you guys think that means it'll be better. I'm sure we're ALL itching to be working on a 1960's computer that fills a sizeable room.
The only item I have that I'd ever hope to last >10 years is my car. Everything else I want to upgrade as technology gets better.
"What it said: My name is Vger"
... us."
No, that's not what it said. They're still working on filtering out the noise, all they got was "All your... are
"I'm selling rights to the Hudson River bottom on ebay, any takers? Also up for sale is a bridge in Brooklyn, good condition, barely used!"
Didn't some big lizard really mess that bridge up once? I ran across that news story while I was channel surfing one day. Barely used indeed.
"The article was corrected. Therefore, there was no need for people to read posts bitching about the mistake in the article. I'm glad that some of the posts were marked down. I just wish they'd marked down the rest of them."
Why? You'd lose a lot of funny posts that way. Sorry bud, those ain't redundant. If they were found funny, they'll still be funny after the correction is made.
"But if everyone stopped buying CDs from RIAA labels, it would put the RIAA out of business eventually. At least they wouldn't be able to afford the political donations, lobbyists, and lawyers that give them their power. Without all their money, they would be effectively neutered. Of course, Slashdot readers are far from being everyone. It wouldn't be enough."
Do you honestly feel that they could be waited out? I dont.
... Don't be stupid. Parent post recieved an overrated moderation for saying this:
"What happened to Home Depot and the Dark Side?"
Don't mod this guy Redundant or Off-topic. When the topic originally appeared it was missing that info. Don't burn his karma up just because he can't go back and update it now that the story is fixed.
Normally I wouldn't bother to post something like this, but I've been burned a couple of times recently over it. If you have karma to burn, mod up the funny posts or find people that really are trolling. Don't mod people down because an article was corrected after the fact. Its not like we can run back and edit our posts to coincide with the edit to the story.
"What happened to Home Depot and the Dark Side?"
Didn't Yoda make it pretty clear that when one attains enough power within the Dark Side that they can hide themselves from the Jedi?
Afterall, if the information doesn't exist in the Great Archive, then it simply doesn't exist!
"Yes, the RIAA appears to be attributing any declines in sales to piracy, but this tactic might be turned around, if some advertising money can be scraped together"
I like that idea. Do something like those anti-Smoke 'Truth' ads?
I have a DV camera...
"It ain't that phricken difficult, folks.
Movies: Only attend matinees, if you MUST see it in a theatre.
DVD's: Only buy used. Period. It's not that difficult to find a pawn shop, or ebay, or whatever.
Music: Only buy used. Again, it's not that hard to find your favorite artists. Wanna support the artist? Go see their show, buy their ts-shirt or cd AT THE SHOW.
I utterly REFUSE to give those fsckers another dime that I don't absolutely have to."
This would not work. Period. All they'll see is that there's a decline in sales. Where do you think they'll place the blame? Hint: Their first assumption won't be that they're being boycotted.
At best, it'd backfire. Ironically, it'd probably be useful to give them more money. As silly as it sounds, the RIAA sounded incredibly idiotic when they claimed that Napster cut into their sales while they were at the peak of their sales.
I bet you a contributing factor to the dismissal of the SSSCA was that the MPAA couldn't make legitimate claims of losses. If people really did shift over to P2P like the *AA fears, then a different story might have emerged from that whole ordeal.
"How much closer does this get us to overturning the law? What exactly did we win?"
I wouldn't be after overturning of the law. The truth of the matter is, that'll never happen. There'll always be a need to define what 'Digital Copyright' is, and for that reason alone that law will forever be frozen in place.
It isn't worth trying to fight the whole law. Instead, what you can do is take little pokes at it here and there so that common sense starts to permeate through it.
This case is a good example of that. It basically means that a company can't go running around crying "DMCA!!" just because somebody made something that could be used to 'violate copyright'.
I'm curious if this can create ripples in the DeCSS case. (If it's not too late, I haven't kept up on that in a while.) If the kid made that program so he could watch DVDs in Linux, then he falls in the same category that ElcomSoft was in when they won. "We didn't do it to intentionally break the law."
This could open the door a crack to lifting the reverse engineering clause of the DMCA.
... Ironic to me at least. The MPAA claims that video over the net has to be locked up in a chastity belt in order to survive. Yet, the porn industry has been able to thrive even in a highly saturated market.
It'd suck if this caused a damaging blow to the porn industry. It's probably the best proof out there that the internet *is* a place where people can make money with content without having to use DRM.