The Internet has given the "common man" direct access to politicians and information about political topics.
Pardon? Direct access? You mean being able to send an email to your local MP/governor/député? People have always been able to do this with snail mail. By "information about political topics" i guess you mean the stuff that newspapers and TV news have been reporting for years. Direct access to information is hearing it from the horses mouth, not reading it on Yahoo news.
I regret to say that the common man has no more direct access than, say, 20 years ago, especially the common man that doesn't have internet. All that has happened is the "lazy man" has found a way to send his opinions and read other people's without getting out of his house. I don't necessarily think of this as a good thing since the opinions of a great deal of people that cannot be pestered to go to the trouble of expressing them outside of their own homes are often, sadly, not worth listening to.
The change in political activism will, I think, be felt essentially by the broadening of the divide between people who read about things on the web and mouth off on Slashdot and those who, because they can't (no internet) or won't (having real beliefs) do this, get out and try and change things.
Come on - get it together. Of the handful of stories you've just put up, some are reposts, some are badly written, some are untrue (cf. Bill Simon). What is wrong with you? Can't you or don't you read the stories before you publish? Don't you read the links the story includes, or check that the story isn't already up? I can understand you not doing it for all the stories that are submitted, but please at least do it for those you chose to publish.
This could be useful to help you decide if you really are an editor or not.
You're right, NIS is a breeze under linux. Unless of course you want to serve to non-linux UNIX clients, then you'll be tearing your hair out. I'm not saying OS X is where it's at, but I fear that this is, at best, a bad example.
AFAIK Sun by no means installs Gnome as default, if that's what you're saying. It's currently a beta-download for Solaris 9, and it isn't that good at the mo'.
I think there's a fundamental flaw with generalising from what is essentially the second hand market into a commercial enterprise.
For many people the second-hand market is a commercial enterprise. Just down the road from me is a cool motorbike customisation shop. They produce all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff, but they don't build their own bikes. They take commercial bikes and hack and chop to produce derivatives - some of which kick ass, and others are dogs - notably some of the stupidly lengthened ones! Everybody who buys a bike from them knows exactly what they're getting.
What if there was a book and you ripped out the pages to make sections of it appear completely out of context, and then resold it to the masses?
Again if I put a big sticker in my shop window that say, for example, all the books in the store have had the word mouse replaced by the word cat then people know where it's at. That's the most important thing.
What right does a commercial venture have to modify someone else's work and re-release it? They want to build a business model on maiming films.
I hear your point. However, most modern films are subject to a number of modifications before they're ever released anyway. There are a lot of case where the finished thing isn't much like what the director wanted anyway. You think they are maiming films (as do I, in fact), however you can not deny the fact that many people consider they're improving them. That's how they make a business out of it. They pay up for the films.
It's a remix - and personnally I can think of only a couple of remixes I've ever liked better than the original, but a mate of mine swears by dance remixes of rock classics.:-) Go figure.
I guess that until the film companies start making films for a morally righteous target audience than this kind of things will go on. They have a right to be morally righteous and watch films! In the way that Honda, Harley Davidson and Yamaha don't produce bikes to cater for the tastes of the tattooed maniacs (sorry guys:) )down the bike shop, so someone set up a business to do just that, and they do it by turning the bikes those companies do produce into what their customers want. They pay for the bikes, they hack them, they sell them.
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I, personally have many legal uses for it. I enjoy listening to radio stations I can't get any other way than on the internet (I live a long way from home), I also enjoy free software, and regularly download source code (Gentoo Linux or *BSD ports/pkgsrc are good examples). I shop on the internet to save me skipping out from the office at work, and the luxury of flat rate connexion (which only exists since the last month or so for dialup here in France) means I can take my time choosing. I dont use the phone book anymore but look up numbers on the internet, I trade shares - constant near realtime info is great, I even check the TV guide and check out cinema trailers to pick what I going to go and see at the weekend. I don't buy a daily paper but spend at least an hour a day getting up to scratch on everything that's going on.
You get the picture? Asides from the lack of flat-rate dialup situation, ADSL is right now then only things that lets me do this comfortably, surf, listen to the radio, keep tabs on newsflashes while one of my PC makes "world"...
I don't remember directors releasing movies under GPL, so why should anyone be able to tamper with their work?
I genuinely believe that I should be able to do what I want with a product once I've bought it, as long as I do not tred on the toes of the person I bought it from.
Example: I buy a book. I should be allowed to lend it to a friend, tear pages out, write notes in the margin, strike out paragraphs I don't like or aren't interesting to me. Hell I should even be able to sell or give away my copy because I freakin' paid for it. People may not want to buy my copy if I've torn pages out or struck out certain paragraphs but if they know I've done this and still want to buy it then no-one should try and stop them buying it or me selling it.
If a company doesn't protect it's wireless network by restricting MAC addresses, etc... then I believe they loose their right to complain!
While you are entitled to believe this is the case, I assure you that it is not. Unfortunately, they don't lose the right to complain. Sure the insurance company may refuse to pay up for the loss, but from a legal standpoint they have every right to complain, and will.
The only thing that is changing, at least here in Europe, it corporate resposibility for damages made to a third party using their network. They have an obligation to attempt to prevent their IT infrastructure from being used for illegal activities. If it can be proven that they did not have reasonable protection, and that lack of protection lead to their network being used to attack a third party, they can be held responsible for damages to the third party, even if the attack originated outside of their network, and only used it as a rebound. A good example would be the openssl worm last week that infects then "phones home" on 2002/udp to potentially take part in DDoS. If after this, a company didn't at least block outbound traffic on 2002/udp at the firewall (if for example the server couldn't be patched straight away) then that company can be legally responsible for the (its part in) the DDoS attack.
Record attempts have always been about the bleeding edge. All that has changed is the technology available to push that bleeding edge. I race sand yachts and not so long ago carbon fiber equipment and decent sails were restricted to the record breakers. Now just about anyone with the technical ability can hit 100km/h in standard kit... That's what it's about. Anyone who sails takes for granted the performance on modern sail boats (not only speed, but essentially efficiency in low winds or difficult conditions) - but they only have that because 50 years ago people were pushing the envelope on this kind of thing.
An interesting article by all means. Perhaps the time has come for all artists, new upcomers or old timers, to seek an alternative distribution model. I have often thought, considering the very slim royalties most performers receive from CD sales, that simply selling tunes direct to the customer on a website could put the power back where it belongs - in the hands of the people who have the talent.
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And indeed, you are...:-) Seriously, the version numbering appears a bit strange, but if you check out the mozilla page then you'll see that 1.2 alpha is the bleeding edge stuff, and 1.0 is a stable release, and err well, 1.1 is "in between":-).
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The Internet has given the "common man" direct access to politicians and information about political topics.
Pardon? Direct access? You mean being able to send an email to your local MP/governor/député? People have always been able to do this with snail mail. By "information about political topics" i guess you mean the stuff that newspapers and TV news have been reporting for years. Direct access to information is hearing it from the horses mouth, not reading it on Yahoo news.
I regret to say that the common man has no more direct access than, say, 20 years ago, especially the common man that doesn't have internet. All that has happened is the "lazy man" has found a way to send his opinions and read other people's without getting out of his house. I don't necessarily think of this as a good thing since the opinions of a great deal of people that cannot be pestered to go to the trouble of expressing them outside of their own homes are often, sadly, not worth listening to.
The change in political activism will, I think, be felt essentially by the broadening of the divide between people who read about things on the web and mouth off on Slashdot and those who, because they can't (no internet) or won't (having real beliefs) do this, get out and try and change things.
Come on - get it together. Of the handful of stories you've just put up, some are reposts, some are badly written, some are untrue (cf. Bill Simon). What is wrong with you? Can't you or don't you read the stories before you publish? Don't you read the links the story includes, or check that the story isn't already up? I can understand you not doing it for all the stories that are submitted, but please at least do it for those you chose to publish.
This could be useful to help you decide if you really are an editor or not.
Too true, I've heard girls really go for infected penis.
I can't wait for your google spellchecker to be built into OpenOffice.org - it'll make my life easier :-)
so a given mass of H20 takes up less space as ice than it does as liquid water.
Or the other way around. It is also, and more importantly (for fish) the reason that ice floats.
Wow, this stuff blew all those machines and you still want to do it? :-)
Mandrake as a good first distro, but LindowsOS looks pretty nice, as well.
This guy talks to you about a server and you suggest a distro that runs as root by default?
So, you have a banshee in a box that you put under your PC and it'll run UT so well you can hear it? How does that work?
:-)
(well NIS, NFS and automount is)
You're right, NIS is a breeze under linux. Unless of course you want to serve to non-linux UNIX clients, then you'll be tearing your hair out. I'm not saying OS X is where it's at, but I fear that this is, at best, a bad example.
AFAIK Sun by no means installs Gnome as default, if that's what you're saying. It's currently a beta-download for Solaris 9, and it isn't that good at the mo'.
And a two-hour movie takes how long?
You raise interesting points.
:-) Go figure.
:) )down the bike shop, so someone set up a business to do just that, and they do it by turning the bikes those companies do produce into what their customers want. They pay for the bikes, they hack them, they sell them.
I think there's a fundamental flaw with generalising from what is essentially the second hand market into a commercial enterprise.
For many people the second-hand market is a commercial enterprise. Just down the road from me is a cool motorbike customisation shop. They produce all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff, but they don't build their own bikes. They take commercial bikes and hack and chop to produce derivatives - some of which kick ass, and others are dogs - notably some of the stupidly lengthened ones! Everybody who buys a bike from them knows exactly what they're getting.
What if there was a book and you ripped out the pages to make sections of it appear completely out of context, and then resold it to the masses?
Again if I put a big sticker in my shop window that say, for example, all the books in the store have had the word mouse replaced by the word cat then people know where it's at. That's the most important thing.
What right does a commercial venture have to modify someone else's work and re-release it? They want to build a business model on maiming films.
I hear your point. However, most modern films are subject to a number of modifications before they're ever released anyway. There are a lot of case where the finished thing isn't much like what the director wanted anyway. You think they are maiming films (as do I, in fact), however you can not deny the fact that many people consider they're improving them. That's how they make a business out of it. They pay up for the films.
It's a remix - and personnally I can think of only a couple of remixes I've ever liked better than the original, but a mate of mine swears by dance remixes of rock classics.
I guess that until the film companies start making films for a morally righteous target audience than this kind of things will go on. They have a right to be morally righteous and watch films! In the way that Honda, Harley Davidson and Yamaha don't produce bikes to cater for the tastes of the tattooed maniacs (sorry guys
TROLL_FOOD=1
I, personally have many legal uses for it. I enjoy listening to radio stations I can't get any other way than on the internet (I live a long way from home), I also enjoy free software, and regularly download source code (Gentoo Linux or *BSD ports/pkgsrc are good examples). I shop on the internet to save me skipping out from the office at work, and the luxury of flat rate connexion (which only exists since the last month or so for dialup here in France) means I can take my time choosing. I dont use the phone book anymore but look up numbers on the internet, I trade shares - constant near realtime info is great, I even check the TV guide and check out cinema trailers to pick what I going to go and see at the weekend. I don't buy a daily paper but spend at least an hour a day getting up to scratch on everything that's going on.
You get the picture? Asides from the lack of flat-rate dialup situation, ADSL is right now then only things that lets me do this comfortably, surf, listen to the radio, keep tabs on newsflashes while one of my PC makes "world"...
I don't remember directors releasing movies under GPL, so why should anyone be able to tamper with their work?
I genuinely believe that I should be able to do what I want with a product once I've bought it, as long as I do not tred on the toes of the person I bought it from.
Example: I buy a book. I should be allowed to lend it to a friend, tear pages out, write notes in the margin, strike out paragraphs I don't like or aren't interesting to me. Hell I should even be able to sell or give away my copy because I freakin' paid for it. People may not want to buy my copy if I've torn pages out or struck out certain paragraphs but if they know I've done this and still want to buy it then no-one should try and stop them buying it or me selling it.
Wow! U R A 733t hax0r
:-)
I'm all up for a bit of teet hacking, if u r?
If a company doesn't protect it's wireless network by restricting MAC addresses, etc ... then I believe they loose their right to complain!
While you are entitled to believe this is the case, I assure you that it is not. Unfortunately, they don't lose the right to complain. Sure the insurance company may refuse to pay up for the loss, but from a legal standpoint they have every right to complain, and will.
The only thing that is changing, at least here in Europe, it corporate resposibility for damages made to a third party using their network. They have an obligation to attempt to prevent their IT infrastructure from being used for illegal activities. If it can be proven that they did not have reasonable protection, and that lack of protection lead to their network being used to attack a third party, they can be held responsible for damages to the third party, even if the attack originated outside of their network, and only used it as a rebound. A good example would be the openssl worm last week that infects then "phones home" on 2002/udp to potentially take part in DDoS. If after this, a company didn't at least block outbound traffic on 2002/udp at the firewall (if for example the server couldn't be patched straight away) then that company can be legally responsible for the (its part in) the DDoS attack.
Record attempts have always been about the bleeding edge. All that has changed is the technology available to push that bleeding edge. I race sand yachts and not so long ago carbon fiber equipment and decent sails were restricted to the record breakers. Now just about anyone with the technical ability can hit 100km/h in standard kit... That's what it's about. Anyone who sails takes for granted the performance on modern sail boats (not only speed, but essentially efficiency in low winds or difficult conditions) - but they only have that because 50 years ago people were pushing the envelope on this kind of thing.
An interesting article by all means. Perhaps the time has come for all artists, new upcomers or old timers, to seek an alternative distribution model. I have often thought, considering the very slim royalties most performers receive from CD sales, that simply selling tunes direct to the customer on a website could put the power back where it belongs - in the hands of the people who have the talent.
No, no, you don't understand. All Slashdot [posts/drivels]* are [reviewed/skimmed over]* by a group of [editors/blind chimps]* before appearing on the site - so they're all [high quality/riddled with mistakes]*, and guaranteed to be [of interest/reposts]* by the time they reach your [desktop/wastepaper basket]*
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Is the plural of UFO not UFO?
Unidentified Flying Object
Unidentified Flying Objects
Perhaps looking here before you talk would be a good idea.
In the current directory :-)
Fans of this kind of thing will probably like this.
You mean like "First Post" :-)
As I understand it (and I could be wrong)
:-) Seriously, the version numbering appears a bit strange, but if you check out the mozilla page then you'll see that 1.2 alpha is the bleeding edge stuff, and 1.0 is a stable release, and err well, 1.1 is "in between" :-).
And indeed, you are...
You will find the original report here, and you might like to check out the linux section. Credit to a previous poster for that link, however.