It still makes very little sense... they're killing their own PR (as if rigor mortis hadn't already set in) so that one site in the US may not link to it. That doesn't mean that people in the US can't get to it, it just means that people in the US can't tell other people where to get it. It's as simple as that. The RIAA will continue to shoot themselves in the foot, until their legal department runs out of money (ha).
I think we've all missed a rather interesting point here... Why is the RIAA sueing the site with the links, rather than going straight to the site with the mp3s? This may be a more difficult process (I don't know what site it is, it could link to many sites...), but it's more likely to yield results.
Oh, let's sue over something that is almost certain to do nothing, rather than sue the person who would actually have the ability to make the problem go away. Of course this way the mp3s will still be there, for anyone to access, but they'll have a harder time finding them!
That doesn't mean that some company can't come up with a court order saying that you must log them for a particular user, somewhat akin to a phone tap...
haha good one... no they'd take your entire computer... in case you were storing some illegal MP3s in your printer cable *G*... Anyone have a link to a similar story, I'm sure there have been plenty of them (where an entire computer was seized, when only the hard drive was needed...)
Note: If i'm responding to flamebait, sorry... didn't realize
the country you live in does.
Conformist... So the entire country thinks copywrite is super-duper? You can't even walk into a crowded room and say, "Everyone thinks this"... don't believe for a second that you can say it about an entire country. If a poll was taken of slashdot users, I'm absolutely sure that there would be no conclusive results on this one. A poll was taken on CNN a while back, and some 75% of people said that they didn't think downloading copywrited songs off of napster was wrong, immoral, or inethical. Now if you're going to say that we're ALL evil, go ahead... but don't, for one second, think that everyone agrees with you.
Join the club! I've repartitioned (to have new OS's) so frequently, my hard drive has threatened to kick me if I do it again... I've had Linux, Windows (9x), BeOS, another Linux, a few more Linux'en, FreeBSD, and god knows what else... I think I actually played around with minix when it was free-ified.
One product: HP DJ722C printer. The fact that there are now linux drivers is irrelevant, as they were reverse engineered and are not very good. If I ever buy another printer (don't use much paper any more...) it will be something that can do postscript directly, with none of this Printing Performance Architechture (winprinter) crap.
uhh... remember, just this week, the story about "We're switching servers, and we don't plan to sleep until Friday or later." I'd say that is plenty of openness, and personally I'd rather be hearing the news, not "Oops, our system went down...". If their system went down, then either I know about it already, or I don't need to know about it because I was doing something else when it went down.
V.20, eh? Seems to me you're still in alpha... i hope they iron out these First Post bugs before the 1.0 release. Well, at least no one can say you're vapour...
The reason slashdot is not very responsive is because of all of the comments and your slow modem... get yourself an account and set it to display fewer comments, and voila... slashdot is faster.
I, of course, am on a cable modem... and have it set to display all comments for every story. This sometimes makes slashdot take up to FOUR SECONDS to load on any particular page.
Don't criticize slashdot for being an open forum, because it makes your browsing slower:P. It truly is YOUR MODEM, not slashdot:).
No, the part that gave it away was when they said the words Patented Look and Feel (paraphrased). They've released Slashcode, so there's no way for them to complain:)
Alright, I'll bite. Moderation is not there to "assign ratings". It's there to add or subtract points. I know I'm going to get grits dumped down my pants for this, but oh well, I'll tell you guys who are too lazy to read about moderation. AC posts start with a value of 0. User posts can start with a value of 0, 1, or 2 (i think 0, not sure...) depending on how much karma the user has. Moderators add or subtract points, they don't set a value for a story.
He is probably aware of that, and just knows very little about html... that would be my guess. Instead, you should tell him that he can type <disclaim.h> to get that.
So then we need someone else to write something to do the same thing. Would it be that hard to write something different that performs the same function, expecially now that we've read the source and the essay on how he did it? I can't imagine that this man was such a brilliant coder that there is no one else who could've done it. Then we can start again.
The solution is not that simple for a gigantic company that has standardized on one particular SCSI interface for every computer, and then discovering that there are no linux drivers for it when they decide to start using Linux. And again, a SCSI interface is a bad example... what if i've built a network on a proprietary gigabit ethernet solution. Am I going to rebuild my network just to gain some stability? Certainly not, I would say "Well, our current hardware is not supported by anything but NT, and making a changeover to linux compatible hardware will be ridiculously expensive, so i guess we're sticking with NT for now. You'll be rebooting a bit longer." Get the idea?
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It still makes very little sense... they're killing their own PR (as if rigor mortis hadn't already set in) so that one site in the US may not link to it. That doesn't mean that people in the US can't get to it, it just means that people in the US can't tell other people where to get it. It's as simple as that. The RIAA will continue to shoot themselves in the foot, until their legal department runs out of money (ha).
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well there's nothing that anyone can do in that case, nor would they want to. What are they gonna do, sue them for the price of the CD?
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damned html tags... had a </> in there, instead of the </I> I wanted...
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Oh, let's sue over something that is almost certain to do nothing, rather than sue the person who would actually have the ability to make the problem go away. Of course this way the mp3s will still be there, for anyone to access, but they'll have a harder time finding them!
Duh.
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That doesn't mean that some company can't come up with a court order saying that you must log them for a particular user, somewhat akin to a phone tap...
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haha good one... no they'd take your entire computer... in case you were storing some illegal MP3s in your printer cable *G*... Anyone have a link to a similar story, I'm sure there have been plenty of them (where an entire computer was seized, when only the hard drive was needed...)
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the country you live in does.
Conformist... So the entire country thinks copywrite is super-duper? You can't even walk into a crowded room and say, "Everyone thinks this"... don't believe for a second that you can say it about an entire country. If a poll was taken of slashdot users, I'm absolutely sure that there would be no conclusive results on this one. A poll was taken on CNN a while back, and some 75% of people said that they didn't think downloading copywrited songs off of napster was wrong, immoral, or inethical. Now if you're going to say that we're ALL evil, go ahead... but don't, for one second, think that everyone agrees with you.
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Join the club! I've repartitioned (to have new OS's) so frequently, my hard drive has threatened to kick me if I do it again... I've had Linux, Windows (9x), BeOS, another Linux, a few more Linux'en, FreeBSD, and god knows what else... I think I actually played around with minix when it was free-ified.
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One product: HP DJ722C printer. The fact that there are now linux drivers is irrelevant, as they were reverse engineered and are not very good. If I ever buy another printer (don't use much paper any more...) it will be something that can do postscript directly, with none of this Printing Performance Architechture (winprinter) crap.
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uhh... remember, just this week, the story about "We're switching servers, and we don't plan to sleep until Friday or later." I'd say that is plenty of openness, and personally I'd rather be hearing the news, not "Oops, our system went down...". If their system went down, then either I know about it already, or I don't need to know about it because I was doing something else when it went down.
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I'm sure they thought of that, they did that for the last server move. Important tho.
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First of all, no 6th post, and second of all: to clarify. Messages now are ok, messages posted at the moment they change the server will be dumped.
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i don't like hp, but i can definitely see uses for this
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V.20, eh? Seems to me you're still in alpha... i hope they iron out these First Post bugs before the 1.0 release. Well, at least no one can say you're vapour...
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linuxisgood:~$ man woman
Bah, you can't run linux on that! GO HOME DOS lUSER! heh...
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linuxisgood:~$ man woman
Too bad you can't camp the railgun respawn point in real life...
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linuxisgood:~$ man woman
Does anyone else remember the NSAKey? I read this, and NSAKey was the first thing to come to mind.
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linuxisgood:~$ man woman
I, of course, am on a cable modem... and have it set to display all comments for every story. This sometimes makes slashdot take up to FOUR SECONDS to load on any particular page.
Don't criticize slashdot for being an open forum, because it makes your browsing slower :P. It truly is YOUR MODEM, not slashdot :).
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linuxisgood:~$ man woman
We need a story in |33+ 5p34k!!!!!!!
/me hides...
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linuxisgood:~$ man woman
No, the part that gave it away was when they said the words Patented Look and Feel (paraphrased). They've released Slashcode, so there's no way for them to complain :)
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linuxisgood:~$ man woman
Alright, I'll bite. Moderation is not there to "assign ratings". It's there to add or subtract points. I know I'm going to get grits dumped down my pants for this, but oh well, I'll tell you guys who are too lazy to read about moderation. AC posts start with a value of 0. User posts can start with a value of 0, 1, or 2 (i think 0, not sure...) depending on how much karma the user has. Moderators add or subtract points, they don't set a value for a story.
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linuxisgood:~$ man woman
He is probably aware of that, and just knows very little about html... that would be my guess. Instead, you should tell him that he can type <disclaim.h> to get that.
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linuxisgood:~$ man woman
that's WOPR :P
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linuxisgood:~$ man woman
So then we need someone else to write something to do the same thing. Would it be that hard to write something different that performs the same function, expecially now that we've read the source and the essay on how he did it? I can't imagine that this man was such a brilliant coder that there is no one else who could've done it. Then we can start again.
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linuxisgood:~$ man woman
The solution is not that simple for a gigantic company that has standardized on one particular SCSI interface for every computer, and then discovering that there are no linux drivers for it when they decide to start using Linux. And again, a SCSI interface is a bad example... what if i've built a network on a proprietary gigabit ethernet solution. Am I going to rebuild my network just to gain some stability? Certainly not, I would say "Well, our current hardware is not supported by anything but NT, and making a changeover to linux compatible hardware will be ridiculously expensive, so i guess we're sticking with NT for now. You'll be rebooting a bit longer." Get the idea?
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linuxisgood:~$ man woman