Well my father, for instance, isn't Bush's biggest supporter. On the other hand, he was far more aligned to his values than those of Al Gore or John Kerry. Its a simple lack of viable options.
Third parties are always dead before they hit the floor.
Well, it was this or the story about the slashdotter who followed Sergey around until he was able to collect a stool sample for disection. Later it was placed on his Google-Shrine. An article was submitted and photos were available, but bandwidth was limited.
Well, actually this sort of thing happens every single day. Its just not usually about the DMCA, so we don't notice or care.
I'm also not sure that this indicates that America is well on the path to destroying itself. Its sad and frustrating, but I don't know that its worse than that.
As for alienation? Uhm, maybe a little. Again, this thing happens between lots of countries every day over all sorts of law, from contract enforcement to tariffs. Its not actually a shocking, pointed attack on Canada and its sovereignty. Pushing hard for your economic interests is really par for the course in any country.
This is a good point. Our PR class covered the DMCA a couple weeks ago, and our teacher couldn't stop saying, "this is the world we live in, folks".
I got the impression most kids didn't know it even exists, and this is on a college campus where liberal ideas are tatooed on your forehead as a prereq for admission.
Even my strctly conservative father doesn't like the DMCA after a brief explaination of its implications. I think people just don't know what its all about.
(5 years ago), I would say Kazaa Lite after the fall of Napster. But nowdays with all the suing going on, I wouldn't give such advice now. I would feel guiltly for leading them down a road to a potential lawsuit by the RIAA.
If I got asked this question again, I would just suggest searching for indi music through google or check out Apple iTunes. Also, less chance of getting infected with spyware and viri too.
Oddly, I think the RIAA AND most of us slashdotters would agree with you on that.:)
Murphy claims to be 'a 20-year veteran of the I.T. consulting industry, specializing in Unix and Unix-related management issues'.
So what? I must know 50 people who claim to be longtime veterans of the IT consulting industry. Why is anyone even remotely interested in what this jamoke has to say in the first place?
Tell me we're not helping to launch this flamebaiting asshats new career as a writer.
In light of the fact that we just found the "biggest compromise in history" of secure data was perpetrated by idiot employees selling peoples profiles for $10 (USD) a pop, I'm less worried about unhackable transmissions and more worried about the people at each end.
I know they had a project around here where IT professionals donated their time to teach poorer kids how to use the internet. Unfortunatly, I don't think these kids had computers at home.
What I'd like to see is an organization that takes old machines, rebuilds them with OSS that a machine can run on without dragging ass, and passes them out to less affluent people.
I know there are parts of the city where a kid could probably afford the $7/mo for unlimited dialup, but probably couldn't afford a $300 machine. No reason he shouldn't be able to at least browse the web. Oh, and no city-wide wireless project here... and I don't see it happening.
We never did this particular sort of service project in scouts, mostly food drives n' such. Where can I find organizations that do this, so I can help out? Anyone?
I guess that depends on who they mean. If they're talking about major corps that support OSS, they might get a meeting. The problem is, I don't want anyone speaking for ME. Not RedHat, not Stallman, not anyone. None of them speak for me.
This seems to fit somewhere along the lines of IPV6 and enough ip addresses for your toaster to be ip enabled. Yea... No toast today, the network is down.
Ah, but the real question is, can my IPv6 enabled toaster use PoE?
I already have a plug for one of these games in my sig. PuzzlePirates is really an MMORPG where level of firepower is not the measure of a good player. The environment isn't hostile, it really is fun for people of all ages. The graphics are pretty, but they're not super grotesque mega-3d intensive requiring a $4,000 machine.
Perhaps even more importantly, you don't have to play every moment of every day to be a good player. Much of it has to do with the community (which is stellar), and you won't be trashed for being mediocre.
Its just a good time, every time. To my mind, this is innovative.
[for the record, I don't work for, profit from, or formally represent Three Rings]
People are probably in the mood for a hero who knows what's right and is willing to do terrible things to the bad guys.
As long as it's dark, I will probably like the movie either way. A dark Batman of any kind is far preferrable to the bubblegum variety.
That was what The Punisher was for.:)
Unfortunatly, I didn't exactly love that movie either... but it was bettter than the Dolph Lundgren* version. I was kinda hoping they'd have the Punisher show up in Daredevil to whoop Bennifer's ass.
I used to love tinkering with PCs. I love building them, fixing them, streamlining the OS, finding helpful new stuff to use... the whole 9.
Then you start doing systems admin somewhere and when you get home at the end of the night you don't want to SEE a computer. You just want a beer and your bed.
Now if only I could find a job in drinking and sleeping.
This sounds about right, as per the Fortune article on them a month or so after I had first heard of Skype.
The article when on to explain that these fine Estonian programmers are actually in hiding. Apparently the west wanted to prosecute them over Kazaa so bad, they were actually (on occasion) chased by thugs.
The writer of the Fortune article had to meet them in the back of a somewhat hidden bar to do the interview.
The rest of the article was flecked with input from various telephony bigwigs admitting that VoIP is the way of the future, and that Skype is a remarkable system.
I suspect it wont do anything other than look slightly prettier and require a faster cpu, more disk space and twice as much memory as XP does to do the same basically thing.
I thought Palladium was supposed to be the hyper intense "security" system that created hashes from all your equipment and profiled you, possibly tracked you, etc.?
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The americans will rename this to Freedom Discoverer anyway.
And GWB will call it Discovererer
And Al Gore will claim to have invented it.
And Kerry will claim to have supported its creation, then retract.
And FoxNews will tell the world that Bonjour is an attack on our freedom created by the Democrats.
And CNN will claim that Clinton wrote it while he was getting head.
This could also be true. Not sure, but I'd like to think my theory is correct... seeing as I weigh virtually nothing.
Classic debate!
My opinion is, good hackers are fat, great hackers are skinny.
Good hackers find time to grab munchies (fritos, little debbies, etc).
But great hackers don't have time for food!
Disclaimer: I weigh 135 lbs.
Or powerful enough to build Gentoo in under 48 hours?
Now THAT would be useful.
Yeah and we must be guilty of dumping goods and services in the market at below cost to take marketshare.
You dirty, dirty volunteers.
Well my father, for instance, isn't Bush's biggest supporter. On the other hand, he was far more aligned to his values than those of Al Gore or John Kerry. Its a simple lack of viable options.
Third parties are always dead before they hit the floor.
Well, it was this or the story about the slashdotter who followed Sergey around until he was able to collect a stool sample for disection. Later it was placed on his Google-Shrine. An article was submitted and photos were available, but bandwidth was limited.
Real quick, someone press some bogus currency from 2009 and throw a handful in the air when everyones standing around in a group.
They'll think they're right around the corner and get their asses in gear!
Well, actually this sort of thing happens every single day. Its just not usually about the DMCA, so we don't notice or care.
I'm also not sure that this indicates that America is well on the path to destroying itself. Its sad and frustrating, but I don't know that its worse than that.
As for alienation? Uhm, maybe a little. Again, this thing happens between lots of countries every day over all sorts of law, from contract enforcement to tariffs. Its not actually a shocking, pointed attack on Canada and its sovereignty. Pushing hard for your economic interests is really par for the course in any country.
This is a good point. Our PR class covered the DMCA a couple weeks ago, and our teacher couldn't stop saying, "this is the world we live in, folks".
I got the impression most kids didn't know it even exists, and this is on a college campus where liberal ideas are tatooed on your forehead as a prereq for admission.
Even my strctly conservative father doesn't like the DMCA after a brief explaination of its implications. I think people just don't know what its all about.
(5 years ago), I would say Kazaa Lite after the fall of Napster. But nowdays with all the suing going on, I wouldn't give such advice now. I would feel guiltly for leading them down a road to a potential lawsuit by the RIAA.
:)
If I got asked this question again, I would just suggest searching for indi music through google or check out Apple iTunes. Also, less chance of getting infected with spyware and viri too.
Oddly, I think the RIAA AND most of us slashdotters would agree with you on that.
How about this?
Murphy claims to be 'a 20-year veteran of the I.T. consulting industry, specializing in Unix and Unix-related management issues'.
So what? I must know 50 people who claim to be longtime veterans of the IT consulting industry. Why is anyone even remotely interested in what this jamoke has to say in the first place?
Tell me we're not helping to launch this flamebaiting asshats new career as a writer.
In light of the fact that we just found the "biggest compromise in history" of secure data was perpetrated by idiot employees selling peoples profiles for $10 (USD) a pop, I'm less worried about unhackable transmissions and more worried about the people at each end.
Lets remember to call our banks.
I know they had a project around here where IT professionals donated their time to teach poorer kids how to use the internet. Unfortunatly, I don't think these kids had computers at home.
What I'd like to see is an organization that takes old machines, rebuilds them with OSS that a machine can run on without dragging ass, and passes them out to less affluent people.
I know there are parts of the city where a kid could probably afford the $7/mo for unlimited dialup, but probably couldn't afford a $300 machine. No reason he shouldn't be able to at least browse the web. Oh, and no city-wide wireless project here... and I don't see it happening.
We never did this particular sort of service project in scouts, mostly food drives n' such. Where can I find organizations that do this, so I can help out? Anyone?
I guess that depends on who they mean. If they're talking about major corps that support OSS, they might get a meeting. The problem is, I don't want anyone speaking for ME. Not RedHat, not Stallman, not anyone. None of them speak for me.
Its my movement too, you know!
I saw that! I believe they used a dustbuster to vacuum up his ashes too. Brilliantly stupid. I loved it.
Oh, they're working on it.
Just... they'll be using Nixon's head... in a jar.
I have seen it!
This seems to fit somewhere along the lines of IPV6 and enough ip addresses for your toaster to be ip enabled. Yea... No toast today, the network is down.
Ah, but the real question is, can my IPv6 enabled toaster use PoE?
Oh yeah, I totally saw that! woot for YPP!
God bless 'em... that is all.
I expected to hear this after the email update this morning.
I already have a plug for one of these games in my sig. PuzzlePirates is really an MMORPG where level of firepower is not the measure of a good player. The environment isn't hostile, it really is fun for people of all ages. The graphics are pretty, but they're not super grotesque mega-3d intensive requiring a $4,000 machine.
Perhaps even more importantly, you don't have to play every moment of every day to be a good player. Much of it has to do with the community (which is stellar), and you won't be trashed for being mediocre.
Its just a good time, every time. To my mind, this is innovative.
[for the record, I don't work for, profit from, or formally represent Three Rings]
People are probably in the mood for a hero who knows what's right and is willing to do terrible things to the bad guys.
:)
As long as it's dark, I will probably like the movie either way. A dark Batman of any kind is far preferrable to the bubblegum variety.
That was what The Punisher was for.
Unfortunatly, I didn't exactly love that movie either... but it was bettter than the Dolph Lundgren* version. I was kinda hoping they'd have the Punisher show up in Daredevil to whoop Bennifer's ass.
"He's nut u mun, he's uh muchine"
I used to love tinkering with PCs. I love building them, fixing them, streamlining the OS, finding helpful new stuff to use... the whole 9.
Then you start doing systems admin somewhere and when you get home at the end of the night you don't want to SEE a computer. You just want a beer and your bed.
Now if only I could find a job in drinking and sleeping.
This sounds about right, as per the Fortune article on them a month or so after I had first heard of Skype.
The article when on to explain that these fine Estonian programmers are actually in hiding. Apparently the west wanted to prosecute them over Kazaa so bad, they were actually (on occasion) chased by thugs.
The writer of the Fortune article had to meet them in the back of a somewhat hidden bar to do the interview.
The rest of the article was flecked with input from various telephony bigwigs admitting that VoIP is the way of the future, and that Skype is a remarkable system.
I suspect it wont do anything other than look slightly prettier and require a faster cpu, more disk space and twice as much memory as XP does to do the same basically thing.
I thought Palladium was supposed to be the hyper intense "security" system that created hashes from all your equipment and profiled you, possibly tracked you, etc.?