Are you a hillbilly? "Hey Ma, theys all talkin' funny like on the tv box." If you can't stand to live in a country because they have an accent... I don't even know what to say. Good luck Jethro.
Would that not be great? My mind is realing with the possibilities. Maybe, Storm Troopers cut JJ open to find some hidden message from the Queen that he accidentally ate."Me so hungry." Then when they start cutting, "Ohhh, not my gemitalia? That hurt Jar-Jar!" Then Darth Maul comes and starts cutting through Ewoks, like a sythe through dry summer wheat. Their crys for mercy echoing through woods. But then that wouldn't sell any McDonalds figurines, or snuggly Christmas Ewoks.
If I had money coming out my butt, I'd buy it in a second. I loved speed racer. P.S. Legally the girl may not come with it, but if you have that much money, she'll come. Trust me.
I hope everyone above is joking because that was possibly the worst interview I've read on/.. Non-answers, flip-answers, and plugs for products. It's like Woody Allen fanatics that laugh at the credits because they are so droll and insightful. I love the guys writing, read 3 Hitchhikers, but peeyoo.
That is the capitalist model. I love the Penquins, et al but if they can't make a better mouse trap than Dell/IBM/?, they are gone, and if its a fair market, I won't be sorry. If you buy from someone thats more expensive, but has only an equal product, you are giving to charity, which you can do, but the rest of the world won't.
Harvester still has a central Broker server that all the Gatherers send the info they have collected. Where as Gnutella is truly decentralized with your searches all going to what would be the Gatherers in Harvester, with no centralization. The reason for the Broker server may be because of problems of spam etc. as many have been discussing above.
This interview is the first (and I have read about every GD one of them) that gave me an insight on what is going on in his head. (Maybe its the train of thought transcript.) Did anyone else think he is mellowing? He seemed to be more excited about the argument itself than the points of the argument. He also seems to be excited about the technology, which I think/. can appreciate. Yeah, I think he is still a greedy SOB who is only concerned about money for himself, but I think now that he understands it better, he isn't as scared. I'm thinking fear, caused by ignorance and lack of control was his main driving force to start this whole thing. The first several interviews I saw with him, he was almost ravenous, spitting and foaming. Now, he can laugh about it. He had clear and lucid points, I thought.(Not a one that I agreed with, however.) I think it has been so long since he was a fan that all he thinks about is shipping units. So when he saw people downloading stuff he thinks their point is to rip him off of units, not because they are having fun with friends, and doing just what he would have done at their age. Or maybe he just had some good doobage before the interview.
Television entertains a lot more people for a lot longer time and no one pays for it, except with the time they spend watching commercials.
People are used to getting much of their entertainment for free. How many people copy movies off of HBO and keep them? Listen to the radio all day? All of that is legal.
The only reason people have been paying for CD's, tapes, etc. at their current prices is because of the strictly controlled access to recordings. Now the access control has been removed. People just don't think it's really wrong.
The RIAA probably believes what your saying about Napster being good for sales, however, they will still want it closed down because it is not theirs. They do not own or control it. If it had started out a RIAApster then we would never have this battle and everyone would be downloading songs without a fight. The RIAA companies could pump it full of Britney, Backside Boys, Third Eye Blind songs, whatever they're pushing at the time, filter out stuff they don't sell, i.e. those indie label bastards, and have a great mechanism for generating revenue. Not to mention the fact that when you do a search for Britney, an ad for Britney T-shirts, Britney lunch boxes, and Britney Slim tampons will pop up for your consumption. A little extra money up front but with no power, means less money later with less power. They have control of everything in the music industry now, and this threat is very scary for them.
Again though, you are a techincally able, politically knowing person. The unwashed masses are not. You can protect yourself like the rest of us here (.001%), but all the slackjaws on AOL (99.999%) can't, won't don't know any better. We are a rounding error, so something needs to be done for everyone else. Here's an idea. Since Netscape, soon to be AOL 6.0 hopefully, is open, can't someone smarter than I write an add-on, plugin, something to stop, fuck-up, or otherwise make Double-click et alls data worthless?
So true. IBM has always been their own worst enemy. I was not around when IBM became a great power, but I can't imagine that the company I know now is the same one. Great products are kept secret, crappy ones pushed forward. I think they have great development/r&d people, but the business people don't know the difference between whats good and bad. The company may just be too big and too old school to correct this dychotomy. But then again, the makes gobs of money still, so I don't think they care too much.
(I think my top comment should have been marked as "troll" seeing all the responses over a one sentence congratulatory statement.)
"Rudeness without cause is, by definition, hypocritical." I don't think the word means what you think it means.
hypocrisy (h-pkr-s) n., pl. hypocrisies.
1.The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness. 2.An act or instance of such falseness.
If I had praised him here without mentioning that lawyers are whores because he is working on my side but on another post said "lawyers are scum" because they worked for Microsoft that would be hypocrital.
What does the guy being a "professional" have to do with anything? Does that term merit some respect like a knight or duke in your book? I should watch my tongue because he is a "professional"? Respect is earned, not given. The dumbest person I have ever met has a degree, with good grades, but lacks the very basics of common knowledge or sense. I respect her for being a nice person, not for being smart because she got a degree.
I think studying the law is immoral? Dude read my post. I don't know what you are talking about.
bully 1 (bl) n., pl. bullies.
1.A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people. 2.A hired ruffian; a thug. 3.A pimp.
I apologize if my thinking that lawyers are whores and having strong opinions in general is "habitually cruel or overbearing". The only one trying to surpress someone else's ideas or words is you telling me I shouldn't have said what I said. Just because you don't like my opinion doesn't make me a bully.
"striking out merely because you think you can get away with it" Yeah, I feel safe here with all my "homeez" in case we get "bum rushed." What are you talking about? Safe from what? If you mean no one will disagree with me,/. is the last place I would feel safe. And I have no idea about physically, but I am sure that mentally and monitarily the lawyer is neither weaker or smaller than I.
What is the extra mile? You keep saying that. The guy did his job and got paid for it. You mean because he didn't say "just take it down" he put some extra effort into it? He is a good guy because he didn't NOT do his job? Again I don't know where your extra admiration for him is coming from.
I think we are all adults here and words like "filthy" can be spoken amoungst us.
Yeah, I guess I could have held my tongue, been somewhat hypocritcal, and only said nice things, but whats the point of a discussion site like/. if you're going to do that? I gave the guy a compliment, albeit a backhanded one. I think there were probably some nice Nazi's, but I don't feel I am over generalizing when I say Nazi's were assholes. I also feel comfortable with myself saying that lawyers are whores. Now go away, you bother me.
Bullshit. He did no one any favors and would have done the exact opposite if the check went the other way.
Being my enemies enemy does not make him my friend. I praised him for doing a good job not being a good person. If he wants respect, he needs to get in another profession.
A whore is a whore. My definition being "someone who does something they know to be morally wrong for personal gain." Lawyers are whores. You think Johnny Cochran thought O.J. was innocent? Do you think lawyers don't do stuff everyday that is morally wrong because thats what makes the paycheck come in?
"The man is a professional. He also went the extra mile when he could have advised Andover.Net to simply avoid the hassle and overule the Slasdot Editors, and gotten paid the same amount. "
Bullshit 2. Extra mile? Which mile was that? If he had said that to Hemos, he would have been out the door to another lawyer, and there would be no money for him. You get paid for merit, not filling a role.
And as for "Professional" what the hell does that mean? Do you work in a gas station or something?
Yeah, maybe it was rude, and I could have left it out, but that would be hypocritcal of me. I can't say one person is good and the other is bad when they do the exact same thing.
Yes this is the 4th shitty moderation I have seen in this article. Hopefully, his rights will be revoked in meta-moderation. However, Dr Kool is a known troll, even though he isn't here.
I agree that this is not a troll. We probably have some bad moderators here today, but I think they may also be responding to the fact that that is what/. is arguing. You say MS has the right to protect it's copyrighted material, but/. is saying it's not copyrightable because it is an open standard. And if MS is saying it's copyrightable, then/. says MS can't call it Kerberos which is a non-copyrighted open protocal. Not even to mention fair use. Read the damn response you are commenting about. And moderators check your opinions at the door.
Someone spent some time on this, and it is in no way funny. Is the point that Linux people have butt sex? Not really, it plays on the 15 year old double meaning of "finger", and says the word Linux a few times. At least the Golden Girls and Natalie Portman trilogy had some laughs in it. This is just words.
Several good points I had not come up with on my own. It really feels good when someone, (albeit a filthy lawyer) can ethically cram MS' on filth back in their face. I gives me hope for the community.
Slashdot Mirror
Because, if you read the topic of the discussion it is about countries OUTSIDE of north america.
Are you a hillbilly?
"Hey Ma, theys all talkin' funny like on the tv box."
If you can't stand to live in a country because they have an accent... I don't even know what to say. Good luck Jethro.
Would that not be great? My mind is realing with the possibilities.
Maybe, Storm Troopers cut JJ open to find some hidden message from the Queen that he accidentally ate."Me so hungry."
Then when they start cutting,
"Ohhh, not my gemitalia? That hurt Jar-Jar!"
Then Darth Maul comes and starts cutting through Ewoks, like a sythe through dry summer wheat. Their crys for mercy echoing through woods.
But then that wouldn't sell any McDonalds figurines, or snuggly Christmas Ewoks.
If I had money coming out my butt, I'd buy it in a second. I loved speed racer.
P.S. Legally the girl may not come with it, but if you have that much money, she'll come. Trust me.
I hope everyone above is joking because that was possibly the worst interview I've read on /..
Non-answers, flip-answers, and plugs for products. It's like Woody Allen fanatics that laugh at the credits because they are so droll and insightful.
I love the guys writing, read 3 Hitchhikers, but peeyoo.
That is the capitalist model. I love the Penquins, et al but if they can't make a better mouse trap than Dell/IBM/?, they are gone, and if its a fair market, I won't be sorry. If you buy from someone thats more expensive, but has only an equal product, you are giving to charity, which you can do, but the rest of the world won't.
Damnit! Reading this just cost me $.03! I hope I can make it back to my own server in less than $1.75.
Fast track to the supreme court this fall. No appeals past the SC. That puts break-up at fall of 2001.
Harvester still has a central Broker server that all the Gatherers send the info they have collected. Where as Gnutella is truly decentralized with your searches all going to what would be the Gatherers in Harvester, with no centralization.
The reason for the Broker server may be because of problems of spam etc. as many have been discussing above.
Not so loud...they'll here you.
This interview is the first (and I have read about every GD one of them) that gave me an insight on what is going on in his head. (Maybe its the train of thought transcript.) /. can appreciate.
Did anyone else think he is mellowing? He seemed to be more excited about the argument itself than the points of the argument.
He also seems to be excited about the technology, which I think
Yeah, I think he is still a greedy SOB who is only concerned about money for himself, but I think now that he understands it better, he isn't as scared. I'm thinking fear, caused by ignorance and lack of control was his main driving force to start this whole thing. The first several interviews I saw with him, he was almost ravenous, spitting and foaming. Now, he can laugh about it. He had clear and lucid points, I thought.(Not a one that I agreed with, however.)
I think it has been so long since he was a fan that all he thinks about is shipping units. So when he saw people downloading stuff he thinks their point is to rip him off of units, not because they are having fun with friends, and doing just what he would have done at their age.
Or maybe he just had some good doobage before the interview.
I love you too dillhole.
1. Elevendy-four :QED
2. 42
3. 69 (Ooh, sexy.)
4. Both 7 and 11 (it's a quantum problem)
5. 14 cats + 1 hedgehog * Larry Storch
6. No
7. E=mc^3
Please have my check ready, I will be over to get it after "Full House".
Yes, all of these are very good, but none pass the grandma test.
Television entertains a lot more people for a lot longer time and no one pays for it, except with the time they spend watching commercials.
People are used to getting much of their entertainment for free. How many people copy movies off of HBO and keep them? Listen to the radio all day? All of that is legal.
The only reason people have been paying for CD's, tapes, etc. at their current prices is because of the strictly controlled access to recordings. Now the access control has been removed. People just don't think it's really wrong.
The RIAA probably believes what your saying about Napster being good for sales, however, they will still want it closed down because it is not theirs. They do not own or control it.
If it had started out a RIAApster then we would never have this battle and everyone would be downloading songs without a fight. The RIAA companies could pump it full of Britney, Backside Boys, Third Eye Blind songs, whatever they're pushing at the time, filter out stuff they don't sell, i.e. those indie label bastards, and have a great mechanism for generating revenue. Not to mention the fact that when you do a search for Britney, an ad for Britney T-shirts, Britney lunch boxes, and Britney Slim tampons will pop up for your consumption.
A little extra money up front but with no power, means less money later with less power. They have control of everything in the music industry now, and this threat is very scary for them.
Again though, you are a techincally able, politically knowing person. The unwashed masses are not. You can protect yourself like the rest of us here (.001%), but all the slackjaws on AOL (99.999%) can't, won't don't know any better. We are a rounding error, so something needs to be done for everyone else.
Here's an idea. Since Netscape, soon to be AOL 6.0 hopefully, is open, can't someone smarter than I write an add-on, plugin, something to stop, fuck-up, or otherwise make Double-click et alls data worthless?
So true. IBM has always been their own worst enemy. I was not around when IBM became a great power, but I can't imagine that the company I know now is the same one. Great products are kept secret, crappy ones pushed forward. I think they have great development/r&d people, but the business people don't know the difference between whats good and bad. The company may just be too big and too old school to correct this dychotomy. But then again, the makes gobs of money still, so I don't think they care too much.
(I think my top comment should have been marked as "troll" seeing all the responses over a one sentence congratulatory statement.)
/. is the last place I would feel safe. And I have no idea about physically, but I am sure that mentally and monitarily the lawyer is neither weaker or smaller than I.
/. if you're going to do that? I gave the guy a compliment, albeit a backhanded one. I think there were probably some nice Nazi's, but I don't feel I am over generalizing when I say Nazi's were assholes. I also feel comfortable with myself saying that lawyers are whores. Now go away, you bother me.
"Rudeness without cause is, by definition, hypocritical." I don't think the word means what you think it means.
hypocrisy (h-pkr-s)
n., pl. hypocrisies.
1.The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
2.An act or instance of such falseness.
If I had praised him here without mentioning that lawyers are whores because he is working on my side but on another post said "lawyers are scum" because they worked for Microsoft that would be hypocrital.
What does the guy being a "professional" have to do with anything? Does that term merit some respect like a knight or duke in your book? I should watch my tongue because he is a "professional"? Respect is earned, not given. The dumbest person I have ever met has a degree, with good grades, but lacks the very basics of common knowledge or sense. I respect her for being a nice person, not for being smart because she got a degree.
I think studying the law is immoral? Dude read my post. I don't know what you are talking about.
bully 1 (bl)
n., pl. bullies.
1.A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people.
2.A hired ruffian; a thug.
3.A pimp.
I apologize if my thinking that lawyers are whores and having strong opinions in general is "habitually cruel or overbearing". The only one trying to surpress someone else's ideas or words is you telling me I shouldn't have said what I said. Just because you don't like my opinion doesn't make me a bully.
"striking out merely because you think you can get away with it" Yeah, I feel safe here with all my "homeez" in case we get "bum rushed." What are you talking about? Safe from what? If you mean no one will disagree with me,
What is the extra mile? You keep saying that. The guy did his job and got paid for it. You mean because he didn't say "just take it down" he put some extra effort into it? He is a good guy because he didn't NOT do his job? Again I don't know where your extra admiration for him is coming from.
I think we are all adults here and words like "filthy" can be spoken amoungst us.
Yeah, I guess I could have held my tongue, been somewhat hypocritcal, and only said nice things, but whats the point of a discussion site like
Bullshit. He did no one any favors and would have done the exact opposite if the check went the other way.
Being my enemies enemy does not make him my friend. I praised him for doing a good job not being a good person. If he wants respect, he needs to get in another profession.
A whore is a whore. My definition being "someone who does something they know to be morally wrong for personal gain." Lawyers are whores. You think Johnny Cochran thought O.J. was innocent? Do you think lawyers don't do stuff everyday that is morally wrong because thats what makes the paycheck come in?
"The man is a professional. He also went the extra mile when he could have advised Andover.Net to simply avoid the hassle and overule the Slasdot Editors, and gotten paid the same amount. "
Bullshit 2. Extra mile? Which mile was that? If he had said that to Hemos, he would have been out the door to another lawyer, and there would be no money for him. You get paid for merit, not filling a role.
And as for "Professional" what the hell does that mean? Do you work in a gas station or something?
Yeah, maybe it was rude, and I could have left it out, but that would be hypocritcal of me. I can't say one person is good and the other is bad when they do the exact same thing.
Yes this is the 4th shitty moderation I have seen in this article. Hopefully, his rights will be revoked in meta-moderation.
However, Dr Kool is a known troll, even though he isn't here.
I agree that this is not a troll. We probably have some bad moderators here today, but I think they may also be responding to the fact that that is what /. is arguing. /. is saying it's not copyrightable because it is an open standard. And if MS is saying it's copyrightable, then /. says MS can't call it Kerberos which is a non-copyrighted open protocal. Not even to mention fair use.
You say MS has the right to protect it's copyrighted material, but
Read the damn response you are commenting about. And moderators check your opinions at the door.
Someone spent some time on this, and it is in no way funny. Is the point that Linux people have butt sex? Not really, it plays on the 15 year old double meaning of "finger", and says the word Linux a few times.
At least the Golden Girls and Natalie Portman trilogy had some laughs in it.
This is just words.
That's a troll, don't get suckered into responding.
Several good points I had not come up with on my own.
It really feels good when someone, (albeit a filthy lawyer) can ethically cram MS' on filth back in their face. I gives me hope for the community.