what we all really want to see is the flag pole and the lunar lander or whatever else was supposedly left behind by the astronauts that supposedly walked on the moon.
that would shut up those conspiracy theorists once and for all.
Imagine having a seperate agreement with the electric company for each outlet in your house?
or the water company for each faucet?
or the phone company for each phone? ( I know it used to be that way)
what a bunch of horse shit. This will last for as long as it takes the average soccer mom to realize they are full of it, and then it will go away forever.
Someone big (like yahoo dsl or the evil msn), trying to break in to the market with cash in the bank from dominating some other market will not require single access and all these bastards will have to adapt. Or someone small, trying to gain ground, will not require single access and everyone will switch over.
that, and as more and more and more items get network access, people will demand multiple access.
so even if they can do this, it won' last for very long.
know what, kazaa is slow as shit and labor intensive if you're trying to get good quality. If someone would sell me a real unprotected mp3. (Not a windows only spyware-required piece of shit.) available for download on a fast connection with guaranteed quality and a simple search/purchase/download mechanism I'd pay.
of course, then what's to stop somoene from uploading it to kazaa.
But the fact remains, as long as I can share amongst all of MY computers and MP3 Players I have no real desire to share with the universe if the price is fair.
Back when we had to buy a cd, rip, encode, and upload for 3 days on a crappy modem there was a cost that made it worth trading with others. I'll waste days of my life on artistA if you waste equal time on artisB and we'll swap. With quick high quality legal downloads for a fair price I'd rather say "go buy it yourself, here's the link".
If they can tap into that me-first (leachers abound) mentality and call it honest consumerism, they'll be loving life again. They can do so without limiting our civil liberties and suing the fuck out of everyone too.
Unfortunately, until a record company actually does something to repeal the evil fuckin dmca, I ain't buying shit from them, ever again. And I haven't since that piece of shit communist legislation was passed. FUCK YOU RIAA!!!
Spiderman should be in the public domain by now
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All this copyright crap is backfiring on these corporations. It's ridiculous. By now Spiderman is so commonly known that it would be terribly hard to "damage" the image of Spiderman, even if it was "hijacked" by modern day story tellers. I mean the "proper rights owners" killed superman and none of us bought that bullshit, did we? If copyright lasted only the 12 years or whatever it was supposed to last this wouldn't be a problem. Whoever told the best Spiderman story would be king of the box office, not whoever won the court battle.
only run on XP, or Win2kSever. I have win2k WorkStation and can't find a way to install Terminal Server. This guys stuff doesn't require me to change my OS. Neither does VNC.
I'd love to turn to channel 412 and have nothing but Simpsons, 24-7, all day all night. I'd even pay 5-10 bucks a month for such a channel. I'm tired of traditional TV. I want the on-demand convenience of the internet, with the quality and speed of TV. I think the Simpsons is a good place to start.
Imagine if you had to wait until 7:00 Sunday night to read slashdot, and could only see "older stuff" at 6 and 10 on UPN? It's high time we got show based channels. Isn't that what ESPN News and CNN Headline News is. Same show every half hour. I'd like to see more of that.
the parody of All Your Base starring George Bush and Saddam Huessien. Any of you got the link? I know that this is off topic, but this topic kinda sux, doesn't it? In 42 days these blogs will have other linkages and this will move down in pagerank(tm) and return to it's "original" meaning. At least the All Your Iraq are belong to U.S. is funny - even if it is a litte lacking in photos and photoshopped photos at that.
nope. I don't see much difference either. Apparently it's subtle yet HUGE and will mean the difference between being slaves forever now, or in a few more years.
guess we're screwed though. good think MS is taking on google, huh?
I don't think I missed your point. I think your point is limited, wrong, and leads us to a dangerous way of looking at things. Hear me out.
See, I got your point: quote: While I'll admit that the company probably will profit based on people who will buy it and then obtain stolen roms to play on it, it's incorrect to suggest that they can't make and sell such a device because some people will do such a thing.:end quote
never the less, as others have mentioned unless we can prove that thier intention was to profit from illegal uses, it doesn't matter how many people percentage wise use it illegally or not. They aren't the ones breaking the law.
If it can be used legally, than the fact that it can be used illegally is not worthwhile. Likewise, whether it is used legally or illegally, and by what percentage of users, not what percentage of times, is not of legal concern to the developer...UNLESS they planned for illegal use and plan to benefit from illegal usage.
You'd have to find evidence that they planned for illegal use as their primary use. Just because you think that's the "major, primary use of the product" doesn't mean that they do. And unless you can show intent, it's not a crime to produce something that others use illegally.
Even if 99.9% of people that used straws sniffed blow with 99.9% of the straws used, unless I as a straw manufactured counted on that and planned for that I wouldn't be guilty of any crime.
It's a technicality, sure, but it's a very important one. If we started interpreting intent of one person based on the actions of others we'd be wronging the first person.
In this case we can't hold the manufacturer of the device guily of piracy simply because users of the device committ piracy to aid their use of the device. We can only punish the pirates for piracy. And that's already illegal. That case is covered.
While I'll admit that the company probably will profit based on people who will buy it and then obtain stolen roms to play on it, it's incorrect to suggest that they can't make and sell such a device because some people will do such a thing.
Your argument is totally absurd. That's like holding the soda straw manufacturers guilty because people use them to snort cocaine. Or holding the digital camera manufacturers responsible because child-pornographers prefer digital cameras.
Or better yet, holding a CD Player guilty because someone will play CDs that were shoplifted.
Hell, OJ killed his wife with kitchen knives, should we outlaw kitchen knives.
911 - box cutters. Should we outlaw box cutters?
Woman drove car with children into ocean. Outlaw driving? or outlaw cars? or outlaw access to oceans?
Get a grip on reality. The only person responsible for piracy are the pirates.
Piracy is already illegal. We don't need to bad legitimate devices to make it "more illegal".
Likewise, murder is already illegal. Murderers don't care if it's "more illegal" to do so with a banned weapon.
I think we can all agree that this s a biparsn problem. they all want to spy on you. pubs might be more in favor of the "private sector" doing it, and dems may be more in favor of the gov doing it, but it's all the same.
I'd mod you up. I think it's a load of crap that political party has anything to do with the economy too. Sometimes.
other times I see how easily a trend can propagate itself through the market, and I see how much influence a president has, and I can easily see that it does make a difference.
I guess we'll never be able to scientifically prove it one way or another, I'd love to be in the control group with no president, or the "fixed" economy and several presidents. but alas, that's why we have slashdot.
thanks for a point of view that said something other than "nuh-uh, clinton did it"
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what we all really want to see is the flag pole and the lunar lander or whatever else was supposedly left behind by the astronauts that supposedly walked on the moon.
that would shut up those conspiracy theorists once and for all.
If it exists...bwoo hoo haa ha ha ha
Imagine having a seperate agreement with the electric company for each outlet in your house?
or the water company for each faucet?
or the phone company for each phone? ( I know it used to be that way)
what a bunch of horse shit. This will last for as long as it takes the average soccer mom to realize they are full of it, and then it will go away forever.
Someone big (like yahoo dsl or the evil msn), trying to break in to the market with cash in the bank from dominating some other market will not require single access and all these bastards will have to adapt. Or someone small, trying to gain ground, will not require single access and everyone will switch over.
that, and as more and more and more items get network access, people will demand multiple access.
so even if they can do this, it won' last for very long.
know what, kazaa is slow as shit and labor intensive if you're trying to get good quality. If someone would sell me a real unprotected mp3. (Not a windows only spyware-required piece of shit.) available for download on a fast connection with guaranteed quality and a simple search/purchase/download mechanism I'd pay.
of course, then what's to stop somoene from uploading it to kazaa.
But the fact remains, as long as I can share amongst all of MY computers and MP3 Players I have no real desire to share with the universe if the price is fair.
Back when we had to buy a cd, rip, encode, and upload for 3 days on a crappy modem there was a cost that made it worth trading with others. I'll waste days of my life on artistA if you waste equal time on artisB and we'll swap. With quick high quality legal downloads for a fair price I'd rather say "go buy it yourself, here's the link".
If they can tap into that me-first (leachers abound) mentality and call it honest consumerism, they'll be loving life again. They can do so without limiting our civil liberties and suing the fuck out of everyone too.
Unfortunately, until a record company actually does something to repeal the evil fuckin dmca, I ain't buying shit from them, ever again. And I haven't since that piece of shit communist legislation was passed. FUCK YOU RIAA!!!
Slashdot's Palm page in an iframe is a nice solution for your personal starting page - if anyone still has such a thing.
yeah, I didn't read the article. thanx
All this copyright crap is backfiring on these corporations. It's ridiculous. By now Spiderman is so commonly known that it would be terribly hard to "damage" the image of Spiderman, even if it was "hijacked" by modern day story tellers. I mean the "proper rights owners" killed superman and none of us bought that bullshit, did we? If copyright lasted only the 12 years or whatever it was supposed to last this wouldn't be a problem. Whoever told the best Spiderman story would be king of the box office, not whoever won the court battle.
only run on XP, or Win2kSever. I have win2k WorkStation and can't find a way to install Terminal Server. This guys stuff doesn't require me to change my OS. Neither does VNC.
I truly feel stupid for visiting slashdot today.
why not establish mirrors before you submit to slashdot, especially if it's a self referral?
must like the slashdotting effect.
Is it legal to reverse engineer a water filter?
once it goes digital and/or has IP involved everything gets all screwed up.
stupid people. I can't wait until the 11 year old script kiddies are finally running this place.
I'd love to turn to channel 412 and have nothing but Simpsons, 24-7, all day all night. I'd even pay 5-10 bucks a month for such a channel. I'm tired of traditional TV. I want the on-demand convenience of the internet, with the quality and speed of TV. I think the Simpsons is a good place to start.
Imagine if you had to wait until 7:00 Sunday night to read slashdot, and could only see "older stuff" at 6 and 10 on UPN? It's high time we got show based channels. Isn't that what ESPN News and CNN Headline News is. Same show every half hour. I'd like to see more of that.
how does it know when to stop despite the varying sizes of the cups?
dude, that was so f*ckin funny. Thanks!!!
no, that's the canadian spelling, like colour.
just kidding.
and a couple super computers and stuck em where the sun don't shine. haha
pretty neat, outrunning the sunrise every night.
yuou could say this system is faster than the speed of light, but you'd really only be faster than the speed of the earth's rotation.
Check out http://www.lp.org/ [lp.org] for an alternative to the 2-party bullshit.
what? Three Party Bullshit?
hahahahahaha. They all suck ass.
the parody of All Your Base starring George Bush and Saddam Huessien. Any of you got the link? I know that this is off topic, but this topic kinda sux, doesn't it? In 42 days these blogs will have other linkages and this will move down in pagerank(tm) and return to it's "original" meaning. At least the All Your Iraq are belong to U.S. is funny - even if it is a litte lacking in photos and photoshopped photos at that.
nope. I don't see much difference either. Apparently it's subtle yet HUGE and will mean the difference between being slaves forever now, or in a few more years.
guess we're screwed though. good think MS is taking on google, huh?
I don't think I missed your point. I think your point is limited, wrong, and leads us to a dangerous way of looking at things. Hear me out.
:end quote
See, I got your point:
quote:
While I'll admit that the company probably will profit based on people who will buy it and then obtain stolen roms to play on it, it's incorrect to suggest that they can't make and sell such a device because some people will do such a thing.
never the less, as others have mentioned unless we can prove that thier intention was to profit from illegal uses, it doesn't matter how many people percentage wise use it illegally or not. They aren't the ones breaking the law.
If it can be used legally, than the fact that it can be used illegally is not worthwhile.
Likewise, whether it is used legally or illegally, and by what percentage of users, not what percentage of times, is not of legal concern to the developer...UNLESS they planned for illegal use and plan to benefit from illegal usage.
You'd have to find evidence that they planned for illegal use as their primary use. Just because you think that's the "major, primary use of the product" doesn't mean that they do. And unless you can show intent, it's not a crime to produce something that others use illegally.
Even if 99.9% of people that used straws sniffed blow with 99.9% of the straws used, unless I as a straw manufactured counted on that and planned for that I wouldn't be guilty of any crime.
It's a technicality, sure, but it's a very important one. If we started interpreting intent of one person based on the actions of others we'd be wronging the first person.
In this case we can't hold the manufacturer of the device guily of piracy simply because users of the device committ piracy to aid their use of the device. We can only punish the pirates for piracy. And that's already illegal. That case is covered.
damn RIAA
ZOO ROCKS!!!
While I'll admit that the company probably will profit based on people who will buy it and then obtain stolen roms to play on it, it's incorrect to suggest that they can't make and sell such a device because some people will do such a thing. Your argument is totally absurd. That's like holding the soda straw manufacturers guilty because people use them to snort cocaine. Or holding the digital camera manufacturers responsible because child-pornographers prefer digital cameras. Or better yet, holding a CD Player guilty because someone will play CDs that were shoplifted. Hell, OJ killed his wife with kitchen knives, should we outlaw kitchen knives. 911 - box cutters. Should we outlaw box cutters? Woman drove car with children into ocean. Outlaw driving? or outlaw cars? or outlaw access to oceans? Get a grip on reality. The only person responsible for piracy are the pirates. Piracy is already illegal. We don't need to bad legitimate devices to make it "more illegal". Likewise, murder is already illegal. Murderers don't care if it's "more illegal" to do so with a banned weapon.
I think we can all agree that this s a biparsn problem. they all want to spy on you. pubs might be more in favor of the "private sector" doing it, and dems may be more in favor of the gov doing it, but it's all the same.
"the real site is down" yeah, they're going to announce it today and the real site is down. Whatever.
an LCD Screen that won't crack when I get pissed off and hit it. In the last week i've fuxored a laptop and an Archos Jukebox.
Maybe I need anger management classes instead.
I'd mod you up. I think it's a load of crap that political party has anything to do with the economy too. Sometimes.
other times I see how easily a trend can propagate itself through the market, and I see how much influence a president has, and I can easily see that it does make a difference.
I guess we'll never be able to scientifically prove it one way or another, I'd love to be in the control group with no president, or the "fixed" economy and several presidents. but alas, that's why we have slashdot.
thanks for a point of view that said something other than "nuh-uh, clinton did it"