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  1. Re:Who funds the RIAA? on RIAA Headway Dwindling · · Score: 1

    Well according to the SPAM conspiracy.it is the the illuminati and ittanimulli the egyptian cult. uhmm WHAT! you havent read the SPAM conspiracy? look it up. http://www.scudworks.com/pablo/spam/spamcon.html or just type in google spam conspiracy.

  2. False Hope for a False Champion. on RIAA Headway Dwindling · · Score: 2

    Following this legal triviality between two groups of corporations is distracting. This article is really reporting the struggle of several corporate entities fighting in their financial interests. Wishful thinking splashes all over Slashdot if we begin to think that the various ISP and Yahoo companies are taking up the SLASHDOT freedom loving sword to smite down our Evil Enemies, the TODHSALS. i mean the RIAA etc. Corporations will never be on our side until greed is not single most important variable in policy decisions. So ignore this Slashdot article and instead let us find a new way of beating the RIAA from the grassroots, where the best technology comes from. and no, i have no ideas.

  3. Re:Wrongo. on RIAA Headway Dwindling · · Score: 1

    I dont think that other big corp. can truly be on 'our' side. They may fight for same issue on an occasion. But until corpoations are modeled differently, with greater wealth distribution, and broader base choosing policies, we will always have the rich eschelon controling the 99% of the rest of us. period. Yahoo isnt a benigh company themselves, considering how they treat their employees..

  4. If they don't win this time on RIAA Headway Dwindling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the RIAA will next time. Am i being a pessimist? Yes i am. But I think they will win. Entertainment industry---->Media------------>Positve press coverage------>re-election. they win. WE LOSE. sad.

  5. Implementation of know tech for benefit of all. on Danish Goal: 50% of Electricity from Wind · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is nice. They are in fact implementing known technology for the benefit of all, AND DOING SO IN an aggressive visionary project. It is unfortunate that most of the industrialized world is not as nimble in implementing technology, when the benifits don't neccessarily fit neatly in an accountant's bookkeeping. We admire ourselves as humans with descriptions such as adaptive, modular etc. But our culture is not, when it comes in conflict with immediate rewards like profit. This Danish wind power project is an example of human culture rising to the challenge and becoming, indeed, an adaptive and modular culture. Now if we just had an aggressive program for developing cheap, clean and abundant energy.

  6. Re:Or you could just...crash the shuttle on Houston, We Have a Software Problem · · Score: 1

    and save us the headache of that outdated tin can.
    Build something new.

  7. then again.. on A History of the Digital Copyright Struggle · · Score: 1

    Nice post. However, ponder on this.
    While the open source movement, linux etc. are succeeding in gaining new converts, Arent the Opensource companies losing money with their business model? Do they not spend 2x the money on promotion than they get in actual revenue from their business model.
    you what i said was that hollywood,opensource companies need a new business model, or an adaptation. I still think their is something similar between the two. what do you think?

  8. Re:Business Model Hollywood/ Open Source =?. on A History of the Digital Copyright Struggle · · Score: 1

    oh is that what is going on? thanks for the information.

  9. Business Model Hollywood/ Open Source =?. on A History of the Digital Copyright Struggle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It seems to me, that open-source companies are like Hollywood, in that they both create CONTENT, and both are freely available on the net. . The opensource embraces this fact, with my applause. So, what kind of business model can be adopted by both, to make a modest and fair profit, but not create this digital gestapo?

  10. buy it cuz there isnt any alternative. on A History of the Digital Copyright Struggle · · Score: 1

    free choice, free market? we are takling about enforcement by the government of all tech industry that "might" process copyrighted material. there would be no choice. so they buy dvds, because every blockbuster pushes the dvd format. (blockbuster owns my town. four blockbusters, and no competition)

  11. Re:What about Go? i say stop. on Awari Solved · · Score: 1

    GO has quite a few times more positions than chass silly.

  12. Figure this one out.. on Online Marketing for an Indie Band? · · Score: 1

    and we get to watch the major labels crash and die. And then.. freedom from the middleman.

  13. bull on Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and... · · Score: 1

    simplicity is not always the same a reduction.
    and in any case, God isnt made of other things is He? smaller parts? so to find god and his will you need to simplify.
    god is the paint, man.

  14. Re:MOD on Space Tugboat to Refuel Satellites · · Score: 1

    about parent: it didnt seem offtopic when i wrote it. i was responding to an accusation that my original comment should not have included microsoft.

  15. Re:MOD (-1, OVERRATED) on Space Tugboat to Refuel Satellites · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why everything. I want this solar system to be owned by the people, for the people. of the people. not locked down by transnational corporations seeking merely wealth. the solar system has so much potential for social growth such as economic systems, politcal systems etc. put another way. What i want is to take the open source(including linux) philosophies to broaden into other realms such social and economic policy, wealth distribution etc. NOT MICROSOFTS POLICY OF:BEND THE UNIVERSE TO OUR PLAN AND BENIFIT. open source ideals can be applied in many areas to improve the state of humankind. not communism, not capitalism in its presen sense. something new, left undiscovered. AND IF WE DONT, THE RESOURCES AND POTENTIALS WILL BE LOST to the black hole of corporate greed.

  16. Space elevators on Space Tugboat to Refuel Satellites · · Score: 1

    are real and fab. Too bad a lot of people cant actually imagine it. lol and yes. the savings would be extreme. I suppose my wished for space exploration wont come until we build one. damn.

  17. Re:What ever happened to ion drives? on Space Tugboat to Refuel Satellites · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oops. i guess i showed my hand. Didnt read the article. :) i just dont like nasa. thats all. think of my angst analogous to /. v. msn. thanks for the info guy.

  18. new machines built for space are few.. sad on Space Tugboat to Refuel Satellites · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This article saddens me in this way: Technology such as this should be the natural, and MUNDANE, result of an "agressive space exploration policy". But its not, because the new machines we build for space are few and between. AND this lack of 'space ware' makes this FERRY newsworthy on /. . I guess it just saddens me that we dont go out and make this solar system ours(humankinds). but not Microsofts.

  19. Re:What ever happened to ion drives? on Space Tugboat to Refuel Satellites · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    yes whatever happened to ion propulsion. It seems to me whenever NAsa etc. find something good, they promptly forget about it and find something more expensive.

  20. Re:Pah. back on RIP: Leonard Zubkoff · · Score: 1

    not to me. take it as a suggestion of courtesy. no more or less.

  21. A dupe? how so /. ? could you be a little louder ? on Xiph.org Releases Free Fixed-Point Vorbis Decoder · · Score: 1

    on the erroR? what do you mean dupe?

  22. Please log Out, user#595411 on RIP: Leonard Zubkoff · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you personally knew him, then that joke might be fine.. AMONGst FRIENDS!! though.Even waiting a few weeks after the news of his death, perhaps. But you did worse. you got one of the first posts on slashdot, a public forum.

  23. Re:theyr'e just no fun. on The Return Of The Live Human Being · · Score: 1

    apologies. my parent post was a poor post. head bowed.

  24. theyr'e just no fun. on The Return Of The Live Human Being · · Score: 2, Insightful

    to bitch out. NO reaction. no deal making. its a stone wall. One of the more frustrating things about phone menu systems is that they move slowly. Humans can quickly direct you to the appropiate contact or info. AI eventually will do this well, but it is definitely not up to par yet.

  25. Close but not there? one block in a million on Wireless Pedal Power Computing in Laos · · Score: 1

    You have many good points and I will concede that there are many difficult obstacles in Africa's future. Your point, in total, is that implementation of internet access is difficult to maintain, to use, etc., but your points do not tell us why these resources could be left out of any kind of serious plan for real progress. Notice: "part of the plan" all i pointed out is that the knowledge may be obtained through the internet that is not obtainable elswhere. One teacher may teach many. In short: Your mistake is thinking difficult=impossible=should not do. Wrong. I am truly aware of the difficulties, at least conceptually. But this little technology(topic), is just a small tool for that goal. Social divisions? sure. poverty. have/have nots. sure. truly terrible. No joke there. uess we shouldnt try anything that we can't implement all at once. wave my wand and POOF!!! everyone has a DELL! and cable access(bandwidth social classes) oh and good french. C'mon. id love to but... small implementations like public libraries, may still be benificial. at last. how can i write anything more than half intelligent so late? sorry for the ramblings. Oh. Humanist thoughts are useful. Good Will should never be looked down upon. things are often simpler than you may think, if the right solution is implemented. one key can unlock a complex crypt-lock. good evening .