I never used online P2P technologies because I never had a legitimate use for them (there was never any file type that I needed to trade or distribute online that required the use of P2P).
I don't steal* software, movies, or music, so I have no need for Kazaa otherwise.
* = 'infringe upon copyrights' for the "I ain't stealing, I breaking the copy patent trademarks, because stealing means I took something from them - fight the power!" crowd
Television evangelist Pat Robertson was overheard stating that the process of natural evolution was impossible, given that it's findings lie outside the idea of Christian creation dogma. All the while scientists the world over continue to compile and test bodies of evidence for it's many intricate workings. Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, Pat Robertson's opinion remains firm.
If Pat Robertson were to tell the truth, he might loose some of his marketshare.
The file sharing companies want to display a facade that their business is as strong as ever, even in the face of the new RIAA litigations and attempts to prevent the further theft of their products. Saying otherwise might hurt their (the file sharing companies) potential advertising campaign or the planned "pay-per-play/download" strategies.
I gave up on Evolution when I tried the version that shipped with Red Hat 7.3. I also took one look at Kmail at the time and decided to pass.
Mozilla Mail was overall faster, easier to configure, far less bulky, and part of the browser (lighter). It's spam filtering capability is also a must - as is it's security and presentation options.
The only thing I liked about Evolution was the little configurable main page, where you could put in your favorate news-feeds or weather forecasts and what not. It also crashed harder then Outlook on a p133 with 16MB of RAM and Windows 98 First Edition.
It looks like the terrorists won, all because a few million Americans didn't want some new shadowy government agency perusing their most confidential records. How un-American.
What's so great about watching a company that was unable to out-innovate something else (Linux) hanging around and continuing to sell their second-best solution for twice as much? Screw nostalgia, this is business.
Like the average Slashdot reader (99%) has any use for or can justify the price of a SGI "graphics work station".
Now watch, some "expert troll" is about to come out of the woodworks and point out a bunch of cheap SGI systems or "I use SGI because of....and therefore it is not 99%.....blah blah".
I watch the trailer and some of the first spisode. It looked awkward and messy to me (animation and artwork). I wasn't sold on the average storyline either. But, considering the fact that it won a Sundance award, I'll give it a shot (I can only assume that it gets better).
The whole "treatment of Iraq" based character is ignorant though. I bet the creators are punk rock slackers - you know the kind, they attend the riots but never know what they're fighting for, they ramble on all day about imaginery politics and "fighting the man" (which is usually their rich white dad), they are always in a "band", etc.
How much money did Microsoft pay you guys to drop the ball with the monopoly thing? I mean come on, you made our nation's government look really weak and silly to the rest of the world by letting Microsoft off so easy (our entire federal approach towards corporations, our own free market, and monopolies is now in total question). So, at least tell us how much you earned by being Microsoft's mouthwhores. Must have been a lot.
$10,000! That's more cash than most OSS developers see in a full year! An Indian programming outfit could run off that kind of funding for years to come! Go ZDNet and Sun!
Can't wait to read Goatse's video log. 10 bucks says it will be a real eye-opener.
Maybe I'll finally get to see what that one girl that keeps sending me five or six emails a day looks like too...I think her name was BritannyXXX--HOT--XXXBritanny or something.
It simply isn't possible. A long, well written, grammatically correct and subjective story posted to Slashdot. Amazing. Frankly, that is more compelling to me than the content of the article itself.
In any event, I find it feasible enough to write up very simple litigation concerning spam that pretty much models the anti-telemarketer bill/law/whatever. That is, make a national registry on the state level. If you sign it, you don't want spam. If someone spams you, you report it, and the people are punsihed (I would prefer shot and killed, but simply "punished" is enough).
I was following various links about the topic (artificial intelligence and poker) when I found this little gem. Wicked awesome site design, so I can only assume that his software building skills are as magnificent: POKER WITH AI-LEARNING
I say we help him beta test not only his program, but also help him stress-test his web server.
The Web Caster Alliance has simply gone too far this time. Since they (the WCA) find themselves unable to compete with the superior business model of the RIAA they must resort to petty litigation, much like how SCO is behaving in the new marketplace that involves a Linux.
The Web Casters Alliance should be ashamed of themselves for resorting to such underhanded tactics. Hopefully any potential judge or jury will see right through this hollow attack and rightfully defend the RIAA.
Walmart doesn't bother with the concerns and desires of their customers, they only focus on their own motives (which is usually gung-ho $$$ grabbing with a heavy does of Christianity thrown in).
Heavily practicing censorship was just the beggining. It's sad that Walmart can get away with such and things and still be so profitable, because in the end, they are still the cheapest.
That was a mighty gracious tribute to a mere blog. I understand that it is a very old blog, but honestly, who really cares? It's poorly selected stories like these that are dragging Salon down. I'll never pay for a website that bothers to publish such boring material.
Sorry, that article just "sounds" too smart for the Slashdot crowd. Worse, it seems like it may actually contain facts. We don't require an expertly written dissertation to have our opinion swayed. Just mention the RIAA, SCO, and Amazon and we're sold.
First post you greedy Microsoft loving capatilist GNU/hippies. SCO RIAA MPAA SCO RIAA MPAA SCO RIAA MPAA SCO RIAA MPAA SCO RIAA MPAA SCO RIAA MPAA
I wonder what kind of FUD Microsft and SCO will cook up to try to thwart this new display of raw power. McNealy seems intent on not only winning the Asshat award, but outright retiring it in his honor.
It's funny that Microsoft always tries to downplay Linux's enterprise capabilities, when Linux has been scaled to far more power then Microsoft's best offering for years now. Windows 2003 is a clumsy, bloated, closed source chunk of green crap.
The respect of foreign cultures and language is something that those Euro-union people do. Here in the 'States football is soccer, Indians are the nature people that used to live in the mountains, "Swiss" is a type of bank, and Linux is pronounced Linux - period.
The most commonly butchered tech-related word. What's that Lie-nucks thing again?
I never thought about it, but we must sound really funny to non-technically inclined people. "Yea, I picked up the Athlon 1800 XP, you know the one point five three three gig, and the dude was selling pc2100 for like 50 a stick of 512 so I figured what the hell, cause Galaxies was running choppy with my old 133 stuff and the 64 meg GeForce two I had."
That must sound as bad as Star Trek dialogue to most people.
Again with the inane bickering over the words "stealing" and "theft". The word "theft" is more identifiable, more accurate in many people's minds*, and sounds worse.
Not everyone likes to break out a dictionary and reveal every technical aspect of a word. When generalizing, it is easier to say "you are stealing music" then "you are infringing upon this record label's copyrights by downloading copied music". When most people think of stealing, they think of people taking stuff that isn't theirs. They don't worry about the technical aspects of actually depriving someone else of physical property. I.E. they aren't nerdy like you, and hence will not take the time to break out a dictionary to see if the use of the word "stealing" is absolutely the most correct word to be used when explaining music theft.
When music theieves try to attack the technicality of the RIAA's rhetoric, such as trying to say that the word "stealing" isn't correct, they end up looking like a kid that got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and is trying to manipulate words and circumstance to somehow make himself look either innocent or "less guilty". This behavior reveals to judges and intelligent people just what kind of a person they are dealing with.
You shouldn't steal music. It's illegal. It deprives the RIAA their rightful profits. It doesn't matter if "the RIAA sucks dude, and they made a lot of money of the artists, so what's a few MP3's to them!?!". I don't endorse Microsoft's tactics, so I don't buy their products. I don't pirate their software either, because I'm a law abiding person, and not a petty thief.
Well, it would have made more sense to have kept selling the product to Mac users until it was no longer profitable. As far as I knew, Premiere is still the most popular film editing app amongst Mac users, which would stand to reason that it is still making a lot of money. So why decide to drop the product entirely, instead of just entering into some healthy competition?
I guess when you are used to being the only bully on the block, and have thus come to enjoy forcing people to pay your extremely high prices (since there isn't anywhere else to go), then you would react in such a non-sensical way to sudden competition. First post?
I suppose now we have to question the severity of the defects (and also factor in the implementation and use of the code). If Apache and, say, IIS are roughly equivalent in terms of code defects, you have to ask yourself "well, why does IIS have so many more general problems and security flaws then Apache, when they both carry the same general amount of coding defects?". Is IIS just inherinetly insucure because it is used on a Windows platform? Is it because hackers generally target IIS and not Apache (most people will rush to this conclusion)?
But here's the kicker: the vast majority runs Apache on either BSD or Linux. All of this code, from the kernel to the library that tells Apache how to use PHP, is open source. Every hacker on the planet has full access to the code - which means that they can review it and find vulnerabilities in it. Not many people have access to Windows or IIS code. So why does IIS and Windows come out as far less secure, and is exploited so much more?
I think the answer lies in the severity of the code defects, and the architecture and design of the operating system that powers the web server. And yes, I know that Apache can run on Windows.
This was all covered earlier. The story posted by Michael earlier today about Lexmark's DMCA suit contained a link to a BBC article showing the price of ink to be higher then that of vintage champagne. The 1.70 per millitre thing was even covered.
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I don't steal* software, movies, or music, so I have no need for Kazaa otherwise.
* = 'infringe upon copyrights' for the "I ain't stealing, I breaking the copy patent trademarks, because stealing means I took something from them - fight the power!" crowd
If Pat Robertson were to tell the truth, he might loose some of his marketshare.
The file sharing companies want to display a facade that their business is as strong as ever, even in the face of the new RIAA litigations and attempts to prevent the further theft of their products. Saying otherwise might hurt their (the file sharing companies) potential advertising campaign or the planned "pay-per-play/download" strategies.
Mozilla Mail was overall faster, easier to configure, far less bulky, and part of the browser (lighter). It's spam filtering capability is also a must - as is it's security and presentation options.
The only thing I liked about Evolution was the little configurable main page, where you could put in your favorate news-feeds or weather forecasts and what not. It also crashed harder then Outlook on a p133 with 16MB of RAM and Windows 98 First Edition.
It looks like the terrorists won, all because a few million Americans didn't want some new shadowy government agency perusing their most confidential records. How un-American.
What's so great about watching a company that was unable to out-innovate something else (Linux) hanging around and continuing to sell their second-best solution for twice as much? Screw nostalgia, this is business.
Now watch, some "expert troll" is about to come out of the woodworks and point out a bunch of cheap SGI systems or "I use SGI because of....and therefore it is not 99%.....blah blah".
You know want too, froggy, jump.
The whole "treatment of Iraq" based character is ignorant though. I bet the creators are punk rock slackers - you know the kind, they attend the riots but never know what they're fighting for, they ramble on all day about imaginery politics and "fighting the man" (which is usually their rich white dad), they are always in a "band", etc.
How much money did Microsoft pay you guys to drop the ball with the monopoly thing? I mean come on, you made our nation's government look really weak and silly to the rest of the world by letting Microsoft off so easy (our entire federal approach towards corporations, our own free market, and monopolies is now in total question). So, at least tell us how much you earned by being Microsoft's mouthwhores. Must have been a lot.
*ducks*
Maybe I'll finally get to see what that one girl that keeps sending me five or six emails a day looks like too...I think her name was BritannyXXX--HOT--XXXBritanny or something.
A single image he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented bung still wet-
One perfect troll.
I knew the language of the internet;
"The anus spreads," it said, "ASCII art enclosed."
Manhood, long, hanging like an amulet
One perfect troll.
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect hole, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect troll.
In any event, I find it feasible enough to write up very simple litigation concerning spam that pretty much models the anti-telemarketer bill/law/whatever. That is, make a national registry on the state level. If you sign it, you don't want spam. If someone spams you, you report it, and the people are punsihed (I would prefer shot and killed, but simply "punished" is enough).
I say we help him beta test not only his program, but also help him stress-test his web server.
The Web Casters Alliance should be ashamed of themselves for resorting to such underhanded tactics. Hopefully any potential judge or jury will see right through this hollow attack and rightfully defend the RIAA.
Heavily practicing censorship was just the beggining. It's sad that Walmart can get away with such and things and still be so profitable, because in the end, they are still the cheapest.
Oh wait......*
You win.
First post you greedy Microsoft loving capatilist GNU/hippies. SCO RIAA MPAA SCO RIAA MPAA SCO RIAA MPAA SCO RIAA MPAA SCO RIAA MPAA SCO RIAA MPAA
It's funny that Microsoft always tries to downplay Linux's enterprise capabilities, when Linux has been scaled to far more power then Microsoft's best offering for years now. Windows 2003 is a clumsy, bloated, closed source chunk of green crap.
PS: That was a joke
I never thought about it, but we must sound really funny to non-technically inclined people. "Yea, I picked up the Athlon 1800 XP, you know the one point five three three gig, and the dude was selling pc2100 for like 50 a stick of 512 so I figured what the hell, cause Galaxies was running choppy with my old 133 stuff and the 64 meg GeForce two I had."
That must sound as bad as Star Trek dialogue to most people.
Not everyone likes to break out a dictionary and reveal every technical aspect of a word. When generalizing, it is easier to say "you are stealing music" then "you are infringing upon this record label's copyrights by downloading copied music". When most people think of stealing, they think of people taking stuff that isn't theirs. They don't worry about the technical aspects of actually depriving someone else of physical property. I.E. they aren't nerdy like you, and hence will not take the time to break out a dictionary to see if the use of the word "stealing" is absolutely the most correct word to be used when explaining music theft.
When music theieves try to attack the technicality of the RIAA's rhetoric, such as trying to say that the word "stealing" isn't correct, they end up looking like a kid that got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and is trying to manipulate words and circumstance to somehow make himself look either innocent or "less guilty". This behavior reveals to judges and intelligent people just what kind of a person they are dealing with.
You shouldn't steal music. It's illegal. It deprives the RIAA their rightful profits. It doesn't matter if "the RIAA sucks dude, and they made a lot of money of the artists, so what's a few MP3's to them!?!". I don't endorse Microsoft's tactics, so I don't buy their products. I don't pirate their software either, because I'm a law abiding person, and not a petty thief.
I guess when you are used to being the only bully on the block, and have thus come to enjoy forcing people to pay your extremely high prices (since there isn't anywhere else to go), then you would react in such a non-sensical way to sudden competition. First post?
But here's the kicker: the vast majority runs Apache on either BSD or Linux. All of this code, from the kernel to the library that tells Apache how to use PHP, is open source. Every hacker on the planet has full access to the code - which means that they can review it and find vulnerabilities in it. Not many people have access to Windows or IIS code. So why does IIS and Windows come out as far less secure, and is exploited so much more?
I think the answer lies in the severity of the code defects, and the architecture and design of the operating system that powers the web server. And yes, I know that Apache can run on Windows.
This was all covered earlier. The story posted by Michael earlier today about Lexmark's DMCA suit contained a link to a BBC article showing the price of ink to be higher then that of vintage champagne. The 1.70 per millitre thing was even covered.
You guys are editorial juggernaughts.