It's not worth driving down to the voting booth, waiting in line, but if this process were easy though, it could help clear things up.
I think this would have an age-gap stopper though, since you're mostly going to see the younger people getting into the "e-voting is cool" phase (and many older generation can't even use a PC), at least at first.
What we really need though, is a system to be able to vote on issues that are important to us. If we combined a system that took the parliamentary vote, along with combined citizen votes (net-votes, etc) - at least we'd have more say in things.
Beam me down an end-tag... we've got too much bold here
Seriously though, I wonder how much it would take to trim this thing down... make it look a little more communicator-like.
Next year I'm going to watch out for the replicator or transporter beam. Personally, if they ever make something like that (and they probably wil one day) - I'd be very wary of being transported around, but it'd be fun to transport other things.
I wonder if you could be so specific as to transport things off of people, would make a very fun test at the ladies gym.
Despite the fact that you can get a dedicated IP with cable.
One of the things I've noticed on DSL is that to get a dedicated IP, I have to get a "business" package. With that package, I also get a much nicer bandwidth cap, and it is noticable. Business DSL is very nicely fast... better than standard personal DSL, you get a couple dedicated IP addresses, and increased speed in surfing as well - double bonus.
But what a lot of us need before we get heavy into the CG and workings of the card - is a knowledge of the more basic 3d programming principles. Does anyone have some basic, well-written code snippets for GL or something else linux-friendly.
Personally, I've found directX a nice language to work with, but it's MS and somewhat restricted to the OS. Why not a good GL wrapper for CG, does one exist? How about some good GL samples, period? Can anyone help here?
First of all, there is conventional DSL (capped) and then business DSL (less capped). I have business, and my average rate is always a very very nice speed. At the high ends, I can get >1000Kbps uploading to a nearby FTP.
Now cable... when last I had it, it had decent speed up to about 4:00-5:00, at which point many people went online, and speed went down the crapper. I have a friend who has similar problems, as does my girlfriend.
For anyone in an apartment/townhouse or dense neighbourhood type dwelling, I'd recommend against cable, unless you're a midnight warrior when few users are online. Yes, the local junction can still feel strain on DSL if a lot of people are online, but when you're sharing the same downline on an analog medium, you're still going to feel a lot more pain in peak hours.
There are various laws, and various degrees of penalty - generally based on the criminal action. How you can in any way compare sticking a gun/knife/etc in somebody's face and physically removing a product - to downloading an Mp3 file (no physical product loss, no mental trauma) is beyond me.
Yes, a fine should probably be in order. Piracy really isn't the best solution, but jailing somebody for mp3's when there are real thieves (piracy != theft), rapists, murderers out there is ludicrous.
Now really... a headline comparable to yours would be if somebody walked into a music store and held them up for CD's, or perhaps - to a lesser extend - bought music online with a stolen CC
Which is fine for the development of an endoskeletal structure, but not for the chip - which was the key part. The arm was perhaps evidence of the technology... but the chip was what Cyberdyne (present-day parent of future Skynet) based their computer technology on.
They could probably wrangle that out into the arm still promoting Terminator technology, but more likely Arnie is just another T-800 that came from the future (note that he wouldn't have the memories of the previous Arnie though).
...and downloading is alright if you have the original CD. Most people download when they don't own - but I know a few who are too clueless to rip a CD so they just download the Mp3's from kazaa if they want them in file format (for collections, etc)
A clean needle suggests allowing them a safe place to get their fix, not preventing them from doing so (making them have to think up more stealthy/ingenius methods of hacking).
I think a clean needle would run more along the lines of the previously mentioned - give them a proper place to hack. Let them hack a home server, or a site intented to be hacked. I can suggest severalsites that seem to be in demand for a good hacking
But what they need to start doing, is imprison more of the right-type people, and less of the people who are being nailed for minor crimes, or wrongfully imprisoned, etc.
First of all, a nice dark cell for white-collar execs, complete with a large guy named "bubba", would go nicely towards prevent future Enrons
Well... I checked the whois. I think they're getting smarter.
Firstly, no email address on the whois (damn)
next, the registrant name is: mark felstein
Looking this name up on google shows up that this person may be a lawyer
So, not only are the spammers being more cautious about being tracable... they're now filtering more through their lawyer. How smart of them.
Still, I'd imagine that the summary signing up of randomnames@emarketersamerica.org will still be generating an aweful lot of redundant traffic, which will be making somebody unhappy with the bandwidth bill (and yes, this is slashdot, you know that more than one person has enough time to sign up or script half a bazillion of these names onto spam lists).
Under the EMI deal, consumers will be able to make permanent copies of songs and transfer them to recordable CDs, portable music players and their computer hard drives. Consumers can also purchase singles online once they hit radio airwaves.
You can burn it, you can put it on a portable (assumes this means you can get it as mp3 or a player-compatible format), and you can put it on your drive.
I'm fairly sure the secure part means the billing/transaction system.
The big problem is that, of course, the big ISPs also have to support the messages coming in. Also, when email becomes practically useless due to spam, it's not a particularly good business model.
Remember, spammers don't pay for bandwidth etc involved in receiving emails. And the often don't pay for sending either, as they used hacked servers, etc. Even if the US made a move towards a more centralized network, there are lots of other countries where hack-and-spam would still be prevalent...
Is how they're going to sort out whom has a legal copy of a song, and whom has an illegal copy of a song. I suppose that even if you "buy" a song online you still can't put it on kazaa, as that would be considered distribution?
But what about if you're accused of piracy when you have a vast library of legal songs? Are they going to properly cross-reference their user-list, or just continue to send nastygrams to anyone whom they suspect of having Mp3's?
IMHO, it seems terrible ironic and two-faced to be blatantly accusing mp3's etc of being piracy and profit-stealers, asking for (in Canada) huge taxation on mp3-capable storage devices, and then selling off music to run on those same devices
Agreed.I think an ovaline manhole cover would be a better choice. You get the same benefit as a rounded cover, but making it slightly ovaline (not too much, or you can tip it up using pressure on one end) would stop the problem of rotation.
Perhaps there's a ratio between the size of a construction worker and the roundness of a manhole cover?
A friend was messing with my machine, changing my background and internet explorer start page, etc - so next time I got at his box I made a registry entry in HKLM->SOFTWARE->MS->Windows->CurrentVersion->Ru n that basically reloaded some other registry stuff every time his machine restarted. Of course, I'm not sick enough to set it up with K-pr0n, but a goatse link got the point over to him quickly enough that he should stay away from my machine if he wanted his to remain untouched:-)
The scary question is not whether or not he was actually involved in the aforementioned illegal material - but whether such a virus could and does exist. Judging by other/. comments, I wouldn't be surprised if one does, but even if it's not a virus, it wouldn't be hard for somebody's box to become a haxored harbour for illegal material.
Recently, I've been playing with my Samba server on my home network, which also serves as my router, etc. I accidentally malformed the "interfaces" line so that I was allowing connections from my "DSL" NIC as opposed to just the LAN one. Luckily, I found some suspiciousl logs fairly soon after (it logs by username, and there were some odd Chinese-sounding names trying to log in), and tracked down the problem. BUT, if my samba server had been owned, it would have been an easy route to the windows machine in the private network behind the Samba box (not to mention the previous samba exploit, recently patched). If hacked, this box and others could easily have been a harbour for illegal porn or other nasty files.
Also, this isn't mentioning at all the fact that there is a lot of misnamed material on kaZaa, etc - and while a lot is just movies named as other movies, some of it is pretty sleazy stuff that could theoretically get you in trouble with your wife/girlfriend, if not the police. You download the file and get caught... intent can be hard to disprove.
We've got a big conflict on here as to whether this particular piece of "art" is indeed a parody or not. My question is, can an individual piece of art only "parody" one thing, or can it parody multiple sources?
In this case, yes, it seems to parody American McGee, but it seems to parody the "cutesy oh so good" Strawberry Shortcake, poking fun at a seamier dark side of the annoyingly sweet character. Does the fact that AM is mentioned disallow also parodying Strawberry, I've never heard anything against dual-parody.
Or maybe it's that the two items being parodied are fairly unrelated, but I still don't see why dual-parody would be disallowed - could an arguement as the word-simularity between "American Greetings" and "American McGee" (if AM had done cards for AG, Mad Magazine often did shorts like this)
I do see the point made by American Greetings as to their trademark though - if they'd sent a nicer letter this probably would have gone better for them. I think a lot of the problem comes not from the use of the copyright bat, but just in legalese scare tactics when a simply "please, we'd appreciate it if you didn't do that" might work better - or at least as a start.
It's looking nicer and nicer up here isn't it? I mean, while down in the US you're being hunted, we're looking at legalizing. Now if the US companies would stop sending their lawyers and lobbies up here every now and then (see: tariffs, CD's, insane), I'd expect we'd be doing much happier.
When Orwell happens in the US, I wonder how many will be looking to move to Canada. Hope you like bacon (the igloo rumours are false, but yes we do like bacon).
But, on the subject, has anyone as of yet heard of an ??AA case in Canada, or are those CD taxes actually keeping them at bay?
But when they can supeona your ISP's records, or just blatantly pin something on you and then drown you in lawyers before you can say
"hey, wait a mpthtt"
It's a lot harder not to get caught. Even if you don't do something nowadays, that is - even if you didn't break this law in the slightest, the ??AA machine would break your bank before you could even get your head back above water.
Why not invite him or some other nerd-like people in law/government for a slashdot interview?
Seriously, we interview the people who will generally agree with our opinions, and we all bitch about the laws being passed... why not interview somebody from the government, or somebody who doesn't have to answer IANAL to all our questions?
I think they have surgeries that help solve part of this problem, but they come at the expense of losing your ability to park properly or find directions while driving, not to mention the all-important ability to pee whilst standing up.
I think Linux is entering the desktop race at an unfortunate stage
But that's the clinch. We want our 'nix desktops to be close enough to the windoze ones that users can make the switchover fairly easily. On top of that, we want it improved so that the advanced users can get more productivity out of the 'nix desktop. Realistically, the windows desktop and/or GUI aren't the problem, it's the bugs and the licensing/restrictions etc.
What users want is basically a windows (does it run app X) without so many crashes/bugs. What corps want is the above, and an affordable licensing scheme.
What linux supporters want are both of the previous, and killer app to draw normal users over (we're already drawing corporations over because of the cost benefit, I know since I work at one of said corps)..
So basically, once we have:
a) Application support - at least the most popular apps, preferable most of the apps without crashing due to OS bugs
b) Good cost/licensing terms, fewer restrictions than windoze
c) A killer app, something to draw a crowd
If you had these three, you wouldn't even need a windows GUI. As long as the user could get into his her app, or her apps - most of the configuration stuff can be ignored. Where I work, nobody goes beyond their little sandbox anyways, and the "Control Panel" in windows can be almost as taboo as a commandline or 'nix menu.
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it seems everything French starts off well but is never really completed
Like french kissing? Somehow there's always a headache, or a phone ringing, or something else before it gets where you wanna go.
Or maybe that's just me...
It's not worth driving down to the voting booth, waiting in line, but if this process were easy though, it could help clear things up.
I think this would have an age-gap stopper though, since you're mostly going to see the younger people getting into the "e-voting is cool" phase (and many older generation can't even use a PC), at least at first.
What we really need though, is a system to be able to vote on issues that are important to us. If we combined a system that took the parliamentary vote, along with combined citizen votes (net-votes, etc) - at least we'd have more say in things.
Beam me down an end-tag... we've got too much bold here
Seriously though, I wonder how much it would take to trim this thing down... make it look a little more communicator-like.
Next year I'm going to watch out for the replicator or transporter beam. Personally, if they ever make something like that (and they probably wil one day) - I'd be very wary of being transported around, but it'd be fun to transport other things.
I wonder if you could be so specific as to transport things off of people, would make a very fun test at the ladies gym.
Despite the fact that you can get a dedicated IP with cable.
One of the things I've noticed on DSL is that to get a dedicated IP, I have to get a "business" package. With that package, I also get a much nicer bandwidth cap, and it is noticable. Business DSL is very nicely fast... better than standard personal DSL, you get a couple dedicated IP addresses, and increased speed in surfing as well - double bonus.
But what a lot of us need before we get heavy into the CG and workings of the card - is a knowledge of the more basic 3d programming principles. Does anyone have some basic, well-written code snippets for GL or something else linux-friendly.
Personally, I've found directX a nice language to work with, but it's MS and somewhat restricted to the OS. Why not a good GL wrapper for CG, does one exist? How about some good GL samples, period? Can anyone help here?
First of all, there is conventional DSL (capped) and then business DSL (less capped). I have business, and my average rate is always a very very nice speed. At the high ends, I can get >1000Kbps uploading to a nearby FTP.
Now cable... when last I had it, it had decent speed up to about 4:00-5:00, at which point many people went online, and speed went down the crapper. I have a friend who has similar problems, as does my girlfriend.
For anyone in an apartment/townhouse or dense neighbourhood type dwelling, I'd recommend against cable, unless you're a midnight warrior when few users are online. Yes, the local junction can still feel strain on DSL if a lot of people are online, but when you're sharing the same downline on an analog medium, you're still going to feel a lot more pain in peak hours.
There are various laws, and various degrees of penalty - generally based on the criminal action. How you can in any way compare sticking a gun/knife/etc in somebody's face and physically removing a product - to downloading an Mp3 file (no physical product loss, no mental trauma) is beyond me.
Yes, a fine should probably be in order. Piracy really isn't the best solution, but jailing somebody for mp3's when there are real thieves (piracy != theft), rapists, murderers out there is ludicrous.
Now really... a headline comparable to yours would be if somebody walked into a music store and held them up for CD's, or perhaps - to a lesser extend - bought music online with a stolen CC
Which is fine for the development of an endoskeletal structure, but not for the chip - which was the key part. The arm was perhaps evidence of the technology... but the chip was what Cyberdyne (present-day parent of future Skynet) based their computer technology on.
They could probably wrangle that out into the arm still promoting Terminator technology, but more likely Arnie is just another T-800 that came from the future (note that he wouldn't have the memories of the previous Arnie though).
...and downloading is alright if you have the original CD. Most people download when they don't own - but I know a few who are too clueless to rip a CD so they just download the Mp3's from kazaa if they want them in file format (for collections, etc)
A clean needle suggests allowing them a safe place to get their fix, not preventing them from doing so (making them have to think up more stealthy/ingenius methods of hacking).
I think a clean needle would run more along the lines of the previously mentioned - give them a proper place to hack. Let them hack a home server, or a site intented to be hacked. I can suggest several sites that seem to be in demand for a good hacking
But what they need to start doing, is imprison more of the right-type people, and less of the people who are being nailed for minor crimes, or wrongfully imprisoned, etc.
First of all, a nice dark cell for white-collar execs, complete with a large guy named "bubba", would go nicely towards prevent future Enrons
Well... I checked the whois. I think they're getting smarter.
Firstly, no email address on the whois (damn)
next, the registrant name is: mark felstein
Looking this name up on google shows up that this person may be a lawyer
So, not only are the spammers being more cautious about being tracable... they're now filtering more through their lawyer. How smart of them.
Still, I'd imagine that the summary signing up of randomnames@emarketersamerica.org will still be generating an aweful lot of redundant traffic, which will be making somebody unhappy with the bandwidth bill (and yes, this is slashdot, you know that more than one person has enough time to sign up or script half a bazillion of these names onto spam lists).
Under the EMI deal, consumers will be able to make permanent copies of songs and transfer them to recordable CDs, portable music players and their computer hard drives. Consumers can also purchase singles online once they hit radio airwaves.
You can burn it, you can put it on a portable (assumes this means you can get it as mp3 or a player-compatible format), and you can put it on your drive.
I'm fairly sure the secure part means the billing/transaction system.
The big problem is that, of course, the big ISPs also have to support the messages coming in. Also, when email becomes practically useless due to spam, it's not a particularly good business model.
Remember, spammers don't pay for bandwidth etc involved in receiving emails. And the often don't pay for sending either, as they used hacked servers, etc. Even if the US made a move towards a more centralized network, there are lots of other countries where hack-and-spam would still be prevalent...
Is how they're going to sort out whom has a legal copy of a song, and whom has an illegal copy of a song. I suppose that even if you "buy" a song online you still can't put it on kazaa, as that would be considered distribution?
But what about if you're accused of piracy when you have a vast library of legal songs? Are they going to properly cross-reference their user-list, or just continue to send nastygrams to anyone whom they suspect of having Mp3's?
IMHO, it seems terrible ironic and two-faced to be blatantly accusing mp3's etc of being piracy and profit-stealers, asking for (in Canada) huge taxation on mp3-capable storage devices, and then selling off music to run on those same devices
Agreed.I think an ovaline manhole cover would be a better choice. You get the same benefit as a rounded cover, but making it slightly ovaline (not too much, or you can tip it up using pressure on one end) would stop the problem of rotation.
Perhaps there's a ratio between the size of a construction worker and the roundness of a manhole cover?
A friend was messing with my machine, changing my background and internet explorer start page, etc - so next time I got at his box I made a registry entry in HKLM->SOFTWARE->MS->Windows->CurrentVersion->Ru n that basically reloaded some other registry stuff every time his machine restarted. Of course, I'm not sick enough to set it up with K-pr0n, but a goatse link got the point over to him quickly enough that he should stay away from my machine if he wanted his to remain untouched :-)
The scary question is not whether or not he was actually involved in the aforementioned illegal material - but whether such a virus could and does exist. Judging by other /. comments, I wouldn't be surprised if one does, but even if it's not a virus, it wouldn't be hard for somebody's box to become a haxored harbour for illegal material.
Recently, I've been playing with my Samba server on my home network, which also serves as my router, etc. I accidentally malformed the "interfaces" line so that I was allowing connections from my "DSL" NIC as opposed to just the LAN one. Luckily, I found some suspiciousl logs fairly soon after (it logs by username, and there were some odd Chinese-sounding names trying to log in), and tracked down the problem. BUT, if my samba server had been owned, it would have been an easy route to the windows machine in the private network behind the Samba box (not to mention the previous samba exploit, recently patched). If hacked, this box and others could easily have been a harbour for illegal porn or other nasty files.
Also, this isn't mentioning at all the fact that there is a lot of misnamed material on kaZaa, etc - and while a lot is just movies named as other movies, some of it is pretty sleazy stuff that could theoretically get you in trouble with your wife/girlfriend, if not the police. You download the file and get caught... intent can be hard to disprove.
We've got a big conflict on here as to whether this particular piece of "art" is indeed a parody or not. My question is, can an individual piece of art only "parody" one thing, or can it parody multiple sources?
In this case, yes, it seems to parody American McGee, but it seems to parody the "cutesy oh so good" Strawberry Shortcake, poking fun at a seamier dark side of the annoyingly sweet character. Does the fact that AM is mentioned disallow also parodying Strawberry, I've never heard anything against dual-parody.
Or maybe it's that the two items being parodied are fairly unrelated, but I still don't see why dual-parody would be disallowed - could an arguement as the word-simularity between "American Greetings" and "American McGee" (if AM had done cards for AG, Mad Magazine often did shorts like this)
I do see the point made by American Greetings as to their trademark though - if they'd sent a nicer letter this probably would have gone better for them. I think a lot of the problem comes not from the use of the copyright bat, but just in legalese scare tactics when a simply "please, we'd appreciate it if you didn't do that" might work better - or at least as a start.
It's looking nicer and nicer up here isn't it? I mean, while down in the US you're being hunted, we're looking at legalizing. Now if the US companies would stop sending their lawyers and lobbies up here every now and then (see: tariffs, CD's, insane), I'd expect we'd be doing much happier.
When Orwell happens in the US, I wonder how many will be looking to move to Canada. Hope you like bacon (the igloo rumours are false, but yes we do like bacon).
But, on the subject, has anyone as of yet heard of an ??AA case in Canada, or are those CD taxes actually keeping them at bay?
But when they can supeona your ISP's records, or just blatantly pin something on you and then drown you in lawyers before you can say
"hey, wait a mpthtt"
It's a lot harder not to get caught. Even if you don't do something nowadays, that is - even if you didn't break this law in the slightest, the ??AA machine would break your bank before you could even get your head back above water.
Why not invite him or some other nerd-like people in law/government for a slashdot interview?
Seriously, we interview the people who will generally agree with our opinions, and we all bitch about the laws being passed... why not interview somebody from the government, or somebody who doesn't have to answer IANAL to all our questions?
I think they have surgeries that help solve part of this problem, but they come at the expense of losing your ability to park properly or find directions while driving, not to mention the all-important ability to pee whilst standing up.
I think Linux is entering the desktop race at an unfortunate stage
But that's the clinch. We want our 'nix desktops to be close enough to the windoze ones that users can make the switchover fairly easily. On top of that, we want it improved so that the advanced users can get more productivity out of the 'nix desktop. Realistically, the windows desktop and/or GUI aren't the problem, it's the bugs and the licensing/restrictions etc.
What users want is basically a windows (does it run app X) without so many crashes/bugs. What corps want is the above, and an affordable licensing scheme.
What linux supporters want are both of the previous, and killer app to draw normal users over (we're already drawing corporations over because of the cost benefit, I know since I work at one of said corps)..
So basically, once we have:
a) Application support - at least the most popular apps, preferable most of the apps without crashing due to OS bugs
b) Good cost/licensing terms, fewer restrictions than windoze
c) A killer app, something to draw a crowd
If you had these three, you wouldn't even need a windows GUI. As long as the user could get into his her app, or her apps - most of the configuration stuff can be ignored. Where I work, nobody goes beyond their little sandbox anyways, and the "Control Panel" in windows can be almost as taboo as a commandline or 'nix menu.
Huh?
Play gamez, eat natchos, watch TV. I've done all 3 simultaneously. You'd also be amazed at whatsome people can also do while watching pr0n.