I'm sorry for saying he was blinded. He's just plain stupid, and shouldn't have replied to my initial comment. You might want to look up what sarcasm is BTW, since I was being sarcastic in claiming the cable companies are evil. You may want to consider that you might be lacking in the intelligence department as well. If you don't like my post, piss off.
in other news, I already have a computer, but there are computer shops everywhere. there are even computer shops on the internet - how the hell does that work?"
You are so blinded by the Jobs reality distortion field you seem to not have noticed I'm pointing out what a rip-off the iTunes subscription service is relative to what the evil cable companies offer.
"Don't wanna be an American idiot. Don't want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind fuck America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension. All across the alien nation. Everything isn't meant to be okay. Television dreams of tomorrow. We're not the ones who're meant to follow. Well, thats enough to argue.
Well maybe I'm the faggot America. I'm not a part of a redneck agenda. Now everybody do the propaganda. And sing along to the age of paranoia.
Welcome to a new kind of tension. All across the alien nation. Everything isn't meant to be okay. Television dreams of tomorrow. We're not the ones who're meant to follow. Well, thats enough to argue.
Don't wanna be an American idiot. One nation controlled by the media. Information age of hysteria. It's going out to idiot America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension. All across the alien nation. Everything isn't meant to be okay. Television dreams of tomorrow. We're not the ones who're meant to follow. Well, that's enough to argue."
"I never thought about the universe, it made me feel small Never thought about the problems of this planet at all Global warming, radio-active sites Imperialistic wrongs and animal rights! no!
Why think of all the bad things when life is so good? Why help with an 'am' when there's always a 'could'? Let the whales worry about the poisons in the sea Outside of California, it's foreign policy
I don't want changes, I have no reactions Your dilemmas are my distractions
That's no way to go, franco un-american No way to go, franco un-american No way to go, franco un-american No way to go, franco, franco un-american
I never looked around, never second-guessed Then I read some Howard Zinn now I'm always depressed And now I can't sleep from years of apathy All because I read a little Noam Chomsky
I'm eating vegetation, 'cause of fast food nation I'm wearing a couple of shoes 'cause of globalization I'm watching michael moore expose the awful truth I'm listening to public enemy and reagan youth
I see no world peace 'cause of zealous armed forces I eat no breath-mints 'cause their from de-hoofed horses Now I can't believe; what an absolute failure The president's laughing 'cause we voted for Nader
That's no way to go, franco un-american No way to go, franco un-american No way to go, franco un-american Where can we go, franco un-american
I want to move north and be a canadian Or hang down low with the nice australians I don't want to be another 'i-don't-care-ican' What are we gonna do franco, franco un-american"
There's no point in providing a hacking challenge with no reward. All you've proven if it isn't hacked is you didn't interest anyone enough to bother. If you offered $1,000,000, as an opposite extreme, and no one hacked it, then you can say that even for a million dollars no one was able to hack the machine. It's hard to imagine no one bothered with a large reward.
"I think you can't "see the forest for the trees."
The original test was equivalent to saying "I'll let a thief into my house. Let's see if he can steal anything!" Most houses don't have everything bolted down to the floor.
But how often do you allow someone into your machine? For A desktop, not often, perhaps never."
Bad analogy. Unix is supposed to support multiple users.
A better analogy. I let someone move into my apartment complex and give him the keys to his apartment. He shouldn't be able to break into anyone elses apartment. And he shouldn't be able to break into the office and get the master key.
"If you believe that, its pretty obvious you've never worked at a large corperation. Theres a reason theres a term 'office politics' - its because the same bullshit *some* people seem to think only exists in politics also occurrs in capitalist organizations.
You're an idealist, and as such, you'll always be far from the truth when using critical analysis becuase the axioms of your arguments simply don't exist in the real world."
In business there's strong feedback to maximise profit, and cut waste. In govt. the feedback is much weaker. In neither case is it perfect.
"This was a while ago, but when you give a user a local account, its almost assumed that if they really wanted to they could get root. You should take care when giving out accounts.
It like giving physical access to a machine. If you give physical access to any linux machine, its not hard to log onto it. (this is why you lock up the machines!)"
A local account is much different than physical access to a machine. If an OS is secure, local users shouldn't be able to get root access. The reason physical access nullifies security is that you can just reboot the machine with your own OS and mount the hard drive and modify to your hearts content.
"Of course, I'm ignorant. But how come a law suit? Companies make marketing arrangements all the time."
Skype's deal wth Intel is part of AMD's antitrust claim since they claim Intel is a monopoly abusing its monopoly power, much like Microsoft making exclusive Winodws deals with OEM's
"There are so many good indie groups out there making films that there is no way in hell that the consumer would have nothing to watch, Hell if all the big MPAA Studios were to stop making films the overall quality and quantity of films would go up drastically."
I'd like to see an indie studio do LOTR and compare it with the latest attempt from Hollywood.
"I for one is sadly puzzled when the will of people may actually come before that of the government or media industry. France surely is anti-America in some ways."
Socialists countries always give consumers extra rights at the expense of producers. How is this any different? In America producers and consumers pay an agreed upon price by both for a product, and either can walk away if they don't agree.
"I'm more interested in the artists anyways, the record companies add nothing of value to music IMO. And artists will survive, even if the music business shrinks to a tenth of it's current size, artists will still make more money if we get rid of the middleman."
Yes and programmers are the only ones adding any value to a software company, and ASIC designers are the only ones who add value to chip companies, and engineers are the only ones who add value to automobile manufacturing. The rest is all magic and all the other people spend their days on the golf course and collect pay checks.
"It's important to realise that. The entertainment industry is a convenience, but not a strict necessity, and it would be well-advised to not let things reach a point where they're more annoying than convenient. People don't need the entertainment industry, but the entertainment industry very much needs people. Without consumers, they literally would not exist."
So you want to sociallize something that isn't a necessity. Traditionally socialism starts with things people think of as necessities. So if people don't need them, then make them pay for them if they want them, and stop forcing tax payers to subsidize a socialist system that no one wants but the free loaders.
Anyone with the correct data and come to such a conclusion is a complete moron. So mod me down censors, I don't give a shit
"Every penny extra goes to anti-customer anti-artist parasites, the worst possible type of middle-men. "
Yes. In every other business they just wave a magic wand and all the production costs, marketing, retail costs, etc. magically equal $0.
The sad thing is the average viewr of Love Monkey know far more about the music industry, and how it works than you do with all your research.
"In comparison, using the Net reduces the distribution costs to fractions of cents per record -- and it can do all marketing for you as well."
Yeah, I put up a web site yesterday with something I recorded on my eight track recorder, and magically, millions of people went there and started downloading my song.
Slashdot Mirror
"You're right; I clearly don't know what sarcasm is or how it is used. Thanks for the help!"
Are all your responses just canned responses based on key words from the previous post? I swear you'd have problems passing the Turing test.
"Sigh, I was waiting for this to hit the Slashdot front page."
Welcome to the "I sigh because I'm an arrogant know-it-all prick" club.
I'm sorry for saying he was blinded. He's just plain stupid, and shouldn't have replied to my initial comment. You might want to look up what sarcasm is BTW, since I was being sarcastic in claiming the cable companies are evil. You may want to consider that you might be lacking in the intelligence department as well. If you don't like my post, piss off.
"good for you.
in other news, I already have a computer, but there are computer shops everywhere. there are even computer shops on the internet - how the hell does that work?"
You are so blinded by the Jobs reality distortion field you seem to not have noticed I'm pointing out what a rip-off the iTunes subscription service is relative to what the evil cable companies offer.
and for $40 a month, I get a hell of a lot more content than 4 shows.
"Once you've managed those, the people will have a CHANCE of taking back their government. Right now it is run by corporations, for corporations."
You forgot about labor unions. And what about trial lawyers, and how about the PIRGs and Greenpeace.
American Idiot - Green Day
"Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Well, thats enough to argue.
Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Well, thats enough to argue.
Don't wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's going out to idiot America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Well, that's enough to argue."
Green Day
Moderators aren't too bright.
"Can somebody explain what DIG is?"
digg
NOFX
"I never thought about the universe, it made me feel small
Never thought about the problems of this planet at all
Global warming, radio-active sites
Imperialistic wrongs and animal rights! no!
Why think of all the bad things when life is so good?
Why help with an 'am' when there's always a 'could'?
Let the whales worry about the poisons in the sea
Outside of California, it's foreign policy
I don't want changes, I have no reactions
Your dilemmas are my distractions
That's no way to go, franco un-american
No way to go, franco un-american
No way to go, franco un-american
No way to go, franco, franco un-american
I never looked around, never second-guessed
Then I read some Howard Zinn now I'm always depressed
And now I can't sleep from years of apathy
All because I read a little Noam Chomsky
I'm eating vegetation, 'cause of fast food nation
I'm wearing a couple of shoes 'cause of globalization
I'm watching michael moore expose the awful truth
I'm listening to public enemy and reagan youth
I see no world peace 'cause of zealous armed forces
I eat no breath-mints 'cause their from de-hoofed horses
Now I can't believe; what an absolute failure
The president's laughing 'cause we voted for Nader
That's no way to go, franco un-american
No way to go, franco un-american
No way to go, franco un-american
Where can we go, franco un-american
I want to move north and be a canadian
Or hang down low with the nice australians
I don't want to be another 'i-don't-care-ican'
What are we gonna do franco, franco un-american"
NOFX
Please mod down this FUD
There's no point in providing a hacking challenge with no reward. All you've proven if it isn't hacked is you didn't interest anyone enough to bother. If you offered $1,000,000, as an opposite extreme, and no one hacked it, then you can say that even for a million dollars no one was able to hack the machine. It's hard to imagine no one bothered with a large reward.
"I wish someone running windows 2003 professional could start a competition like this."
Yeah, because there aren't any Windows 2003 professional boxes on the web running web servers.
"I think you can't "see the forest for the trees."
The original test was equivalent to saying "I'll let a thief into my house. Let's see if he can steal anything!" Most houses don't have everything bolted down to the floor.
But how often do you allow someone into your machine? For A desktop, not often, perhaps never."
Bad analogy. Unix is supposed to support multiple users.
A better analogy. I let someone move into my apartment complex and give him the keys to his apartment. He shouldn't be able to break into anyone elses apartment. And he shouldn't be able to break into the office and get the master key.
"In other news, after giving burglers the first three of four numbers for your safe's combination, the fastest can open it in less than 30 minutes."
If giving someone local non-root access to MacOS machine is that secure, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
"If you believe that, its pretty obvious you've never worked at a large corperation. Theres a reason theres a term 'office politics' - its because the same bullshit *some* people seem to think only exists in politics also occurrs in capitalist organizations.
You're an idealist, and as such, you'll always be far from the truth when using critical analysis becuase the axioms of your arguments simply don't exist in the real world."
In business there's strong feedback to maximise profit, and cut waste. In govt. the feedback is much weaker. In neither case is it perfect.
"This was a while ago, but when you give a user a local account, its almost assumed that if they really wanted to they could get root. You should take care when giving out accounts.
It like giving physical access to a machine. If you give physical access to any linux machine, its not hard to log onto it. (this is why you lock up the machines!)"
A local account is much different than physical access to a machine. If an OS is secure, local users shouldn't be able to get root access. The reason physical access nullifies security is that you can just reboot the machine with your own OS and mount the hard drive and modify to your hearts content.
"Last one I saw in a theater was Lord of the Rings trilogy. I find myself buying older films, classics.
Hollywood just doesn't make content for me anymore, so I will gleefully watch its demise."
Hollywood made LOTR, but they don't make good movies anymore?
I thought the music industry wanted variable pricing for music, and it was Apple that wanted to keep prices fixed at $0.99/song.
"Religion is really about defining for us what the purpose and meaning of our lives is, or should be."
Actually, that's philosophy, I think
"Of course, I'm ignorant. But how come a law suit? Companies make marketing arrangements all the time."
Skype's deal wth Intel is part of AMD's antitrust claim since they claim Intel is a monopoly abusing its monopoly power, much like Microsoft making exclusive Winodws deals with OEM's
"There are so many good indie groups out there making films that there is no way in hell that the consumer would have nothing to watch, Hell if all the big MPAA Studios were to stop making films the overall quality and quantity of films would go up drastically."
I'd like to see an indie studio do LOTR and compare it with the latest attempt from Hollywood.
"I for one is sadly puzzled when the will of people may actually come before that of the government or media industry. France surely is anti-America in some ways."
Socialists countries always give consumers extra rights at the expense of producers. How is this any different? In America producers and consumers pay an agreed upon price by both for a product, and either can walk away if they don't agree.
"I'm more interested in the artists anyways, the record companies add nothing of value to music IMO. And artists will survive, even if the music business shrinks to a tenth of it's current size, artists will still make more money if we get rid of the middleman."
Yes and programmers are the only ones adding any value to a software company, and ASIC designers are the only ones who add value to chip companies, and engineers are the only ones who add value to automobile manufacturing. The rest is all magic and all the other people spend their days on the golf course and collect pay checks.
"It's important to realise that. The entertainment industry is a convenience, but not a strict necessity, and it would be well-advised to not let things reach a point where they're more annoying than convenient. People don't need the entertainment industry, but the entertainment industry very much needs people. Without consumers, they literally would not exist."
So you want to sociallize something that isn't a necessity. Traditionally socialism starts with things people think of as necessities. So if people don't need them, then make them pay for them if they want them, and stop forcing tax payers to subsidize a socialist system that no one wants but the free loaders.
Anyone with the correct data and come to such a conclusion is a complete moron. So mod me down censors, I don't give a shit
"Every penny extra goes to anti-customer anti-artist parasites, the worst possible type of middle-men.
"
Yes. In every other business they just wave a magic wand and all the production costs, marketing, retail costs, etc. magically equal $0.
The sad thing is the average viewr of Love Monkey know far more about the music industry, and how it works than you do with all your research.
"In comparison, using the Net reduces the distribution costs to fractions of cents per record -- and it can do all marketing for you as well."
Yeah, I put up a web site yesterday with something I recorded on my eight track recorder, and magically, millions of people went there and started downloading my song.