If you really want to win this battle, we have to hurt the people behind the corporations. It's impossible for people to fight corporations. Corporations have more money, corporations will never die. The best way to fight corporations is to realize that they are made up of people, and to attack the people instead.
Lets bring law suits against Michael Eisner, lets tag his house with graffitti, lets let all the air out if his tires, lets beat him into a bloody pulp in the middle of disneyland.
When he gets tired of getting the shit kicked out of him everyday by a mob of angry PEOPLE, he'll change his mind.
In this case Apple is evil because they are stifling innovation. Someone took the itunes software, wrote a plug in that a) worked, and b) did something cool, and Apple sweeps in and tells them they can't do this.
Can't - they did, it worked, it was cool and now it's gone.
Which means the next thing to happen in this chain of innovation never will.
If Gallelio had been like this we'd never have moved past those shitty ass helicopters he designed. Imagine a world without airplanes, rockets, spaceships, sattelites, helicopters and everything else we've built extending his IP.
selling stuff is fine, holding all of mankind back because you have a law that says you can is evil.
Comeon, now. Just because something could be used for ill (and apparently that's not even the case) doesn't mean we should outlaw it.
I could use my car to run you over, should we outlaw driving, or outlaw roads, or simply outlaw running people over, which is already outlawed by way of assault,manslaughter and murder laws.
likewise I could use my gun to shoot you, but should we outlaw guns, or bullets or outlaw shooting people, which is already covered with assault, manslaughter and murder.
Breaking and entering, and robbery and burglary are all already illegal. Do we really need to outlaw universal garage door openers because of some robber or burglar might use it to rob or burglarize someone's home.
get a grip on reality. LAWS DON'T PROTECT!!!
LAWS are NOT DESIGNED to PROTECT. They are DESINGED to ALLOW SOCIETY to PUNISH those who VIOLATE the LAWS. The LAWS themselves do nothing to PREVENT people from VIOLATING the laws, they simply define behavior as ACCEPTABLE to SOCIETY or NOT ACCEPTABLE to SOCIETY.
I think creating universal remote controls SHOULD BE acceptabl to Society. I think OWNING said remote should be acceptable to society. I think using said remote should be acceptable to society. I think using said remote to rob or burglarize SHOULD NOT be ACCEPTABLE to society - but not because he used a remote, but instead because he ROBBED or BURGLARIZED WHICH IS ALREADY UNACCEPTABLE to society.
If your wife had an LCD Display on her back, you could watch football while you made love to her from behind, or watch pr0n, or something equally appalling. How cool would that be?!!!
Seems to me the industries said "If the Tech Industry stops supporting laws that will ensure fair use rights are protected the RIAA will stop supporting laws that require anti-copying controls in all electronic equipment"
We got hosed tommy, we got hosed.
The idea of Senator Hollings bill was absolutely ludicrous and it wouldn't have been difficult to defeat. Boucher's bill, on the other hand seems to make sense and had a good chance of winning.
I ask, is this a fair trade?
Here's some of the article for those of you too cool to read it yourselves.
As part of the agreement, the Recording Industry Association of America said it would oppose legislation that would require computers and consumer electronics devices to be designed to restrict unauthorized copying of audio and video material. Technology executives have hotly opposed such measures, which they argue would slow innovation, add costs to their devices and do little to stop piracy.
"We think businesses are capable of meeting these challenges," said Hillary Rosen, president of the Recording Industry Association, at a news conference in Washington. "Our industries need to work together for the consumer to benefit and for our respective businesses to grow."
In turn, the Business Software Alliance and the Computer Systems Policy Project said they would not support legislation that seeks to bolster the rights of users of digital copyrighted material, which the recording industry has said is unnecessary.
Several consumer groups and some technology companies, including Intel and Gateway, have supported legislation proposed by Representative Rick Boucher, Democrat of Virginia, that seeks to clarify the rights of copyright users in a digital age.
My favorite game of all time is Astroblaster on Atari 2600 in Turbo Mode!!
It's like a combination of asteriods and space invaders, where you move all around and shoot the asteroids as they fall, only it's at warp speed and after you shoot one it splits up into more and they fly even faster towards you at odd angles. You hold down the trigger so that you have this steady stream of bullets and you zig zag all over the place. The more you get hit the more points you lose, until you die. But the more you shoot the more points you get and the faster the bullets come. I love that game more than any other.
We had that problem. We solved it by mounting a 2 inch diameter pipe to a square foot base that was 2 feet under the ground. The mailbox can still be knocked off, but the pipe has been hit by a car twice and is still standing. Both cars took much more damage than the mailbox. Stupid drunk neighbors.
By the way, if you do reinforce your mailbox, be sure to set up us a webcam to watch the mailbox bashers get theirs. ha ha ha ha.
http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html Download version 7, or version 8, but stop at 8. Don't download G2, or RealOne or anything that isn't a number.
silly bastards, if they don't want to be linked, they shouldn't have a web page. They should invent thier own non-http protocol that doesn't allow linking, or more importantly, allows restriction of linking. As long as their using our protocol, they have to play by our rules.
was the first thing that came to mind. How sad is that? Pr0n, sex, etc, it's always what drives the technology.
what a world. funny how nudity is outlawed on TV, yet violence is ok, then kids shoot eachother and we wonder why, yet pr0n drives every technological breakthrough we've had.
What about Korea. Why is it we're soooo concerned about Iraq (OIL), when all reports indicate they are decades away from producing Nukes (OIL), yet N. Korea can build all the fucking Nukes they want? I'll tell you why, Iraq is about OIL. N. Korea doesn't have oil, they have rice. We already have rice, we want oil.
If that's not simple enough, consider that N. Korea has a big brother that a. we don't want to piss off, and b. provides American businesses with 3 billion consumers.
If you want to war monger, try this approach- "China has 3 billion people that in 5, 10, x (your choice) many years will single handedly eat all the food the earth can produce and drink all the water the earth can produce, and in 10, 15, x (again, your choice) will deplete the earth entirely of all it's food and water. Therefore we need to kill them all to save ourselves."
It's equally absurd, and is very evil, but at least it's a little scarier than the "Iraq will nuke the US" threat.
I for one am totally sick that my friends and family are going to risk their lives to fight in this family fued. I'll hold bush, his fucking father, and the entire oil industry personally responsible for every friend I lose. ANd people like you should go to their f*cking funerals and try to explain to their lifeless bodies why it's a good war.
(by the way, I don't think most of this relates to your comment, but I'm off topic anyway, so what the hell. cheers.)
I usually print and file from the same machine at which I installed anyway. This only has two impacts
1. You can no longer get the friends and family pack, so what, it's $20.00 and is super easy way to do your taxes. How many accountants charge $20.00 for you, and your friends, and your parents. Give it up, the free ride is over.
2. Audits from the IRS go back 7 years. If I have a new computer in 7 years I won't be able to reprint this years return. So much for the "store my tax info on CD". I'm stuck with Paper as my only record keeping. That removes one of the benefits of using a computer program in the first place.
"Government funded projects released under the GPL would remain public resources and have no commercial value. Like FreeBSD"
Isn't that the point. I'm tired of paying lots of taxes (& Tuition) to fund projects that get private companies rich and do little to give back to the community or the schools.
Oh know, GPL limits corporate welfare. Very fuckin well then, spend the money on Art/Music/PE and teachers in K-12, and let MS create thier own software.
is that everyone is a little bit fucked up. Everyone watches a little porn and drinks a little vodka and buys a little too much soda or else 90% of people are fucked up and 10% of people got all their shit together.
I for one think only the mormons will survive the puritanical restrictions the rest of us pretend to hold for ourselves.
It will be funny to go to "whorentsporn.com" and look up your child's 6th grade teacher. It will be even funnier when that same teacher looks up all the parents of his students and points out to them that they all have done the same thing.
Slashdot rejected this earlier this week, but since this is a slashback on TIA, I offer you this hilarious story submission.
Taste of their own medicine
- Poindexter gets TIA'ed.
asscroft writes "[H] has this
scoop - The head of the government's Total
Information Awareness project, which aims to root out potential terrorists
by aggregating credit-card, travel, medical, school and other records of
everyone in the United States, has himself become a target of personal data
profiling. Wired has the article.
The whole idea was started by Matt
Smith, a columnist for SF Weekly. And the folks over at cryptome have
continued on in fine
fashion. Reminds me of the spammer getting spammed. If you have any
dealings with mr. Poindexter yourself, you may want to "randomly" select him
for security checks, whether you work in the airport, mcdonalds, ace hardware,
etc. Let's remind this bozo why we have a 4th
ammendment. and remember to support the EFF's
efforts against TIA."
Slashdot Mirror
Saying that these are action figures and not dolls is one thing, but saying that these are not human characters is absolutely wrong. marvell sold out!
I hope this doesn't set a precedent for when mutants/clones/cyborgs are a part of society.
Now I don't give a rats ass about Iraq, but if we were to champion a war for our rights, I'd be suited up and standing at attention.
Hang in there John.
F-YOU RIAA/MPAA. MAY YOU ALL BURN IN HELL!!!!
damn, you guys ripped me. I had it coming. /. keeps you honest.
seriously.
If you really want to win this battle, we have to hurt the people behind the corporations. It's impossible for people to fight corporations. Corporations have more money, corporations will never die. The best way to fight corporations is to realize that they are made up of people, and to attack the people instead.
Lets bring law suits against Michael Eisner, lets tag his house with graffitti, lets let all the air out if his tires, lets beat him into a bloody pulp in the middle of disneyland.
When he gets tired of getting the shit kicked out of him everyday by a mob of angry PEOPLE, he'll change his mind.
Same goes for all the other evil corporations.
In this case Apple is evil because they are stifling innovation. Someone took the itunes software, wrote a plug in that a) worked, and b) did something cool, and Apple sweeps in and tells them they can't do this.
Can't - they did, it worked, it was cool and now it's gone.
Which means the next thing to happen in this chain of innovation never will.
If Gallelio had been like this we'd never have moved past those shitty ass helicopters he designed. Imagine a world without airplanes, rockets, spaceships, sattelites, helicopters and everything else we've built extending his IP.
selling stuff is fine, holding all of mankind back because you have a law that says you can is evil.
Comeon, now. Just because something could be used for ill (and apparently that's not even the case) doesn't mean we should outlaw it.
I could use my car to run you over, should we outlaw driving, or outlaw roads, or simply outlaw running people over, which is already outlawed by way of assault,manslaughter and murder laws.
likewise I could use my gun to shoot you, but should we outlaw guns, or bullets or outlaw shooting people, which is already covered with assault, manslaughter and murder.
Breaking and entering, and robbery and burglary are all already illegal. Do we really need to outlaw universal garage door openers because of some robber or burglar might use it to rob or burglarize someone's home.
get a grip on reality. LAWS DON'T PROTECT!!!
LAWS are NOT DESIGNED to PROTECT. They are DESINGED to ALLOW SOCIETY to PUNISH those who VIOLATE the LAWS. The LAWS themselves do nothing to PREVENT people from VIOLATING the laws, they simply define behavior as ACCEPTABLE to SOCIETY or NOT ACCEPTABLE to SOCIETY.
I think creating universal remote controls SHOULD BE acceptabl to Society. I think OWNING said remote should be acceptable to society. I think using said remote should be acceptable to society. I think using said remote to rob or burglarize SHOULD NOT be ACCEPTABLE to society - but not because he used a remote, but instead because he ROBBED or BURGLARIZED WHICH IS ALREADY UNACCEPTABLE to society.
What the hell don't people understand about this.
If your wife had an LCD Display on her back, you could watch football while you made love to her from behind, or watch pr0n, or something equally appalling. How cool would that be?!!!
Seems to me the industries said "If the Tech Industry stops supporting laws that will ensure fair use rights are protected the RIAA will stop supporting laws that require anti-copying controls in all electronic equipment"
We got hosed tommy, we got hosed.
The idea of Senator Hollings bill was absolutely ludicrous and it wouldn't have been difficult to defeat. Boucher's bill, on the other hand seems to make sense and had a good chance of winning.
I ask, is this a fair trade?
Here's some of the article for those of you too cool to read it yourselves.
As part of the agreement, the Recording Industry Association of America said it would oppose legislation that would require computers and consumer electronics devices to be designed to restrict unauthorized copying of audio and video material. Technology executives have hotly opposed such measures, which they argue would slow innovation, add costs to their devices and do little to stop piracy.
"We think businesses are capable of meeting these challenges," said Hillary Rosen, president of the Recording Industry Association, at a news conference in Washington. "Our industries need to work together for the consumer to benefit and for our respective businesses to grow."
In turn, the Business Software Alliance and the Computer Systems Policy Project said they would not support legislation that seeks to bolster the rights of users of digital copyrighted material, which the recording industry has said is unnecessary.
Several consumer groups and some technology companies, including Intel and Gateway, have supported legislation proposed by Representative Rick Boucher, Democrat of Virginia, that seeks to clarify the rights of copyright users in a digital age.
My favorite game of all time is Astroblaster on Atari 2600 in Turbo Mode!!
It's like a combination of asteriods and space invaders, where you move all around and shoot the asteroids as they fall, only it's at warp speed and after you shoot one it splits up into more and they fly even faster towards you at odd angles. You hold down the trigger so that you have this steady stream of bullets and you zig zag all over the place. The more you get hit the more points you lose, until you die. But the more you shoot the more points you get and the faster the bullets come. I love that game more than any other.
Second place would be freecell for my palm pilot.
Bout time I get some photoshopped hillary Rosen pics on my server.
We had that problem. We solved it by mounting a 2 inch diameter pipe to a square foot base that was 2 feet under the ground. The mailbox can still be knocked off, but the pipe has been hit by a car twice and is still standing. Both cars took much more damage than the mailbox. Stupid drunk neighbors. By the way, if you do reinforce your mailbox, be sure to set up us a webcam to watch the mailbox bashers get theirs. ha ha ha ha.
As each year there exist less and less species.
In Soviet Russia, All You Belong to BASE!!! does anyone know when this ISR stuff started? Is there a flash video yet????!!!!
I didn't RTFDisclaimer.
Someone mod this fool up!
http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html
Download version 7, or version 8, but stop at 8.
Don't download G2, or RealOne or anything that isn't a number.
silly bastards, if they don't want to be linked, they shouldn't have a web page. They should invent thier own non-http protocol that doesn't allow linking, or more importantly, allows restriction of linking. As long as their using our protocol, they have to play by our rules.
nah nah nah naaaah naaaahh
I hate to say it, but Patent this before some jerk does and then tries to sue you!
was the first thing that came to mind. How sad is that? Pr0n, sex, etc, it's always what drives the technology.
what a world. funny how nudity is outlawed on TV, yet violence is ok, then kids shoot eachother and we wonder why, yet pr0n drives every technological breakthrough we've had.
fuckin puritans.
What about Korea. Why is it we're soooo concerned about Iraq (OIL), when all reports indicate they are decades away from producing Nukes (OIL), yet N. Korea can build all the fucking Nukes they want? I'll tell you why, Iraq is about OIL. N. Korea doesn't have oil, they have rice. We already have rice, we want oil.
If that's not simple enough, consider that N. Korea has a big brother that a. we don't want to piss off, and b. provides American businesses with 3 billion consumers.
If you want to war monger, try this approach- "China has 3 billion people that in 5, 10, x (your choice) many years will single handedly eat all the food the earth can produce and drink all the water the earth can produce, and in 10, 15, x (again, your choice) will deplete the earth entirely of all it's food and water. Therefore we need to kill them all to save ourselves."
It's equally absurd, and is very evil, but at least it's a little scarier than the "Iraq will nuke the US" threat.
I for one am totally sick that my friends and family are going to risk their lives to fight in this family fued. I'll hold bush, his fucking father, and the entire oil industry personally responsible for every friend I lose. ANd people like you should go to their f*cking funerals and try to explain to their lifeless bodies why it's a good war.
(by the way, I don't think most of this relates to your comment, but I'm off topic anyway, so what the hell. cheers.)
I usually print and file from the same machine at which I installed anyway. This only has two impacts
1. You can no longer get the friends and family pack, so what, it's $20.00 and is super easy way to do your taxes. How many accountants charge $20.00 for you, and your friends, and your parents. Give it up, the free ride is over.
2. Audits from the IRS go back 7 years. If I have a new computer in 7 years I won't be able to reprint this years return. So much for the "store my tax info on CD". I'm stuck with Paper as my only record keeping. That removes one of the benefits of using a computer program in the first place.
"Government funded projects released under the GPL would remain public resources and have no commercial value. Like FreeBSD"
Isn't that the point. I'm tired of paying lots of taxes (& Tuition) to fund projects that get private companies rich and do little to give back to the community or the schools.
Oh know, GPL limits corporate welfare. Very fuckin well then, spend the money on Art/Music/PE and teachers in K-12, and let MS create thier own software.
is that everyone is a little bit fucked up.
Everyone watches a little porn and drinks a little vodka and buys a little too much soda or else 90% of people are fucked up and 10% of people got all their shit together.
I for one think only the mormons will survive the puritanical restrictions the rest of us pretend to hold for ourselves.
It will be funny to go to "whorentsporn.com" and look up your child's 6th grade teacher. It will be even funnier when that same teacher looks up all the parents of his students and points out to them that they all have done the same thing.
silly puritans.
but now it's gone. nothing else is quite the same. damn RIAA
Who do you think put them in their graves??? I wouldn't put it past this administration. I seriously wouldn't.
Taste of their own medicine - Poindexter gets TIA'ed.
asscroft writes "[H] has this scoop - The head of the government's Total Information Awareness project, which aims to root out potential terrorists by aggregating credit-card, travel, medical, school and other records of everyone in the United States, has himself become a target of personal data profiling. Wired has the article. The whole idea was started by Matt Smith, a columnist for SF Weekly. And the folks over at cryptome have continued on in fine fashion. Reminds me of the spammer getting spammed. If you have any dealings with mr. Poindexter yourself, you may want to "randomly" select him for security checks, whether you work in the airport, mcdonalds, ace hardware, etc. Let's remind this bozo why we have a 4th ammendment. and remember to support the EFF's efforts against TIA."