The protests have been expanding to other countries as well. If you look on their website you'll see they have been organizing in large and small cities.
The 1% already control everything. Everything that you buy, everything that you watch and everything that you do is controlled completely by this 1% group.
False. You control those things yourself. If you buy/watch/do something the "%1" wants you to, it's because your desires happened to coincide with theirs on that occasion. You can choose to do something different if you want.
One person can make a choice... this makes no difference anymore these days. These days, it takes a critical mass of at least a billion people in order to put into place real lasting change. If billions of people suddenly stop giving money to every single corporation...there would be instant change.
Yes...you will see Obama use some of the Occupy issues as talking points. No...it is my believe that you will not see change as a result of it. It would take an awful lot of editing of US Laws and Regulations as well as changes in the attitudes of those in Wall Street and running the US Corporations in order to see real change. Most of all, you would need to see real compassion in the hearts and minds of those running the world. This will not happen anytime soon.
Most likely, what we will see is a polarized election debate wherein the 99% are pitted against the 1%. The Republicans are going to continue to say No. The Democrats are going to vilify the very people that they will support post elections. The right wingers on Fox news are going to derp some more. The left wingers are going to mock the derping some more and we will be... still... at the mercy of the 1%.
It has been this way for more than a thousand years. It will be this way a thousand years from now unless people wise up.
Even if you're screaming right outside their door, they're just going to call the cops and crank up the volume on the TV. I don't seriously believe that the Occupy campaign are going to do that much to change what is going on. The 1% already control everything. Everything that you buy, everything that you watch and everything that you do is controlled completely by this 1% group. Just about the only way I can think of to wrest power away from these folks is if the 99% were to stop buying everything for more than 90 days. Once the corporations see their income statements go to zilch then you would see real change.
Small problem with that amazing(tm) idea. The MAFIAA(tm) does not want this to happen unless they are compensated(c) every time someone even utters one of the copyrighted or trademarked words that their pyramid-scheme(r) has come up with. In their view(c), the entity formerly known as Netflix(tm) is giving away their content(c) and the MAFIAA(tm) isn't being compensated(c) for this release(r). They want to be compensated(c) every time someone sings(c), views(r) or in any way shape or form performs(tm) their material.
Enjoy your freedom... soon it will no longer be free(c)(tm)(r).
How many more? How many more uncompleted series, idiotic product placements and other Brainwashing Network TV Executive decisions are we going to face before we finally get away from the middle man? I’m probably going to disconnect my DirecTV box now because there really isn’t anything left to watch on network TV. The networks keep eliminating anything resembling creative content and continue to deprive America of some of the finest writings out there. How much longer do we have to wait before enough of us get together to form an online media company that works? I’ve got a nice monitor / computer setup. For what it costs of DirecTV for one year, I could afford a very nice Computer / Monitor setup. And if I’m patient enough to time-shift my TV, I could do the same for online content.
The model would be extraordinarily affordable if folks were to band together. One million regular viewers of a TV series on network TV is laughable. One million regular viewers of online content is a smash hit. Add in some micro currency ($0.99 cents a month / viewer) and for twelve million a year, anyone certainly could put together a creative and production team that works. I don’t know why Network TV folks don’t take content and put it in web only mode if it works better.
For example, SGU and Caprica maybe is a better model for the online universe. That is where the audience is anyway. So put ads up on TV saying “Exclusively online”. If viewer-ship rises enough on the web then maybe transition it back to TV.
Why the hell does everything need to be TV centric anymore? This is the 21st century for frak’s sake.
Two Mikrotik routers would also work very well (http://www.mikrotik.com). You can pick up the whole thing for about $250-$300 for two of 'em and set it all up inside of about 15 minutes a piece. They're extremely reliable and the 4.0 release includes all kinds of fancy things that you can do to monitor, automatically fail over links and more.
In all of these studies and research, I am shocked by the fact that the obvious truth has been left out.
In our quest for "purity" through social aestheticism (teenage pregnancy "linked" to sex on tv and now video games "linked" to violence) we have left out the obvious fact. We are members of the animal kingdom. Our species is "human". We have all the same characteristics of other animals in the kingdom. We "hunt" for food at local food sources (the store). We adapt to social orders of things similar to other apes (we call it voting). And for all this, we call ourselves more "advanced" when we try to root out things that took evolution hundreds of thousands of years to program into our genes.
When are we going to accept the obvious truth? Instead of denying that it exists, we must accept that it does exist. We do not have hundreds of millions of murderers out there. Humans evolved through a clan-like experience. As recently as a thousand years ago humans were hunting bears, deers and god knows what else that is now extinct in the forest. They didn't just wake up one day and learn how to hunt. This was a learned skill and largely a group experience.
So when little kids are practicing Jackie Chan moves I think about the fact that evolution is a pretty grand thing. It is better instead, to teach children the difference between right and wrong and to teach them how to think. It would be near impossible to guard all children from the fact that evolution is at work even today.
Neal Stephenson's books have always been very compelling to me. This one looks to be astonishing. And actually, I think it is the first time that I have ever seen a video introduce a book. It actually makes me want to read it all that much more and wonder if they will actually make a movie of this.
I don't think that they could have possibly setup enough servers in time for download day. If you have 1,000,000 people downloading a 7mb file and they all try to hit the getfirefox.com website at 10am Pacific... Well, you get what happened right now. The pages won't display. Incidentally, I was able to get ff 3.0 from their FTP site.
I have personally called, faxed, emailed and snail mailed my two California Senators (Boxer + Feinstein) and told them to vote against this bill in the Senate.
If everyone here on Slashdot does the same, I would imagine the Slashdot effect would overwhelm our elected officials with our intentions and desires.
I doubt anyone will read this as it is already OldNews(TM).
But I find cases where folks sue over 87 pieces of email to be discouraging. As an ISP myself, I have to constantly monitor the emails and what my own customers are doing to ensure that no spam is going out. We're signed up to the different Spam reporting systems from AOL, Yahoo, MSN and others. When someone clicks on "THIS IS SPAM!!!!" we know about it. More than not, the majority (over 90%) of the reported "THIS IS SPAM!!!!" are things like notifications of orders and things like that from our e-commerce stores. Now imagine if one of those people take an ISP to court and say that they're spamming when, in fact, they are only doing business according to the accepted norms of business which is to effectively communicate with the customers as to the status of the order?
According to the agreements that AOL, Yahoo and others enforce according to the anti-spam rules, I can now no longer email order notifications and things like that to the folks that click on "THIS IS SPAM!!!!" button. Next, I'm sure these folks (as has happened) called to customer service saying they're not getting order notifications. At that point, they get told that "they gotta stop reporting these things as spam" if they want to continue getting those emails.
In my opinion, the suit against these guys for 87 pieces of spam (a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the spam) is frivolous and a complete time wasting enterprise. Spam doesn't account but for a fraction of the bandwidth and with today's anti-spam engines that uses heuristics and not the "cyber-terrorist" actions of others, we don't get that much spam to begin with.
The only folks that are making the money on the whole spam versus anti-spammers are the lawyers and the software vendors. Everyone else should be slapped around for being stupid. Quit yer whining!!!
Q. Based upon your examination of the hard drive which you examined, what evidence did you find that inculpated Marie Lindor personally? A. Would you please define the second-to-last word. Q. "Her"? A. No, "inculpated." Would you please define that for me. Q. Do you not know what the word "inculpated" means? A. That's correct. Q. Are you familiar with the word "exculpate"? A. No. Q. What is your educational background? A. Computer engineering. Q. Well, which school did you attend? Did you get a Bachelor's degree? A. Yes. Q. What school? A. Iowa State University, science and technology. Q. When did you graduate? A. With which degree? Q. When did you get your Bachelor's degree? A. 1980. Q. Do you have any other degrees? A. I hold a Master of Science in electrical engineering. Q. When did you get that? A. 1982. Q. Any other degrees? A. A Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., in computer engineering. Q. When was that? A. 1985. Q. And you are associate professor at Iowa State University? A. That is correct. Q. And you do not know what the word "exculpate" means? A. That's correct.
Man, we've had this since the 1960's! Anyone watch Six Million Dollar Man? Even in the 80's we had this technology. It was called Terminator. Look at him, he's now Governor of California!
I, for one, welcome our Bionic Eye wearing overlords.
Patents and Copyrights are a right to sue over a particular piece of technology or art. You can "invent" the idea on the moon, file a US patent or copyright and then sue anyone (or everyone in the case of the RIAA/MPAA). All a patent or copyright is a "supposedly" clever piece of legalease that allows "LawYERS" the right and process to sue someone else.
An invention is an idea to make everyone's lives easier.
A patent or copyright is an idea to make everyone suffer for it.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: QueryErrorException: Too many connections
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[QueryErrorException: Too many connections]
FuseTalk.Tools.Data.Query.RunQueryNoResult() in C:\Documents and Settings\dplouffe\Desktop\dominic\Database\Query .cs:177
HotHardware.Global.Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) +1374
System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.Htt pApplication+IExecutionStep.Execute() +60
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionS tep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +87
Okay, so remember the old saying...no such thing as bad advertising? All these articles about the lapboard only makes it that much more popular and known. Maybe Slashdot should stop posting any articles for Infinium? Otherwise they'll never die!
There's an idea. Patent all of the methodologies that **AA uses to locate the 'alleged offenders' then sue them every time they sue someone for copyright infringement. Will wonders never cease.
Slashdot Mirror
ICANN also requires valid WHOIS domain data http://wdprs.internic.net/
Instant change, in that those billions of people would have no idea how to obtain a single one of the necessities of life.
The necessities of life can be obtained without using corporations.
The protests have been expanding to other countries as well. If you look on their website you'll see they have been organizing in large and small cities.
False. You control those things yourself. If you buy/watch/do something the "%1" wants you to, it's because your desires happened to coincide with theirs on that occasion. You can choose to do something different if you want.
One person can make a choice ... this makes no difference anymore these days. These days, it takes a critical mass of at least a billion people in order to put into place real lasting change. If billions of people suddenly stop giving money to every single corporation...there would be instant change.
Yes...you will see Obama use some of the Occupy issues as talking points. No...it is my believe that you will not see change as a result of it. It would take an awful lot of editing of US Laws and Regulations as well as changes in the attitudes of those in Wall Street and running the US Corporations in order to see real change. Most of all, you would need to see real compassion in the hearts and minds of those running the world. This will not happen anytime soon. Most likely, what we will see is a polarized election debate wherein the 99% are pitted against the 1%. The Republicans are going to continue to say No. The Democrats are going to vilify the very people that they will support post elections. The right wingers on Fox news are going to derp some more. The left wingers are going to mock the derping some more and we will be ... still ... at the mercy of the 1%.
It has been this way for more than a thousand years. It will be this way a thousand years from now unless people wise up.
Even if you're screaming right outside their door, they're just going to call the cops and crank up the volume on the TV. I don't seriously believe that the Occupy campaign are going to do that much to change what is going on. The 1% already control everything. Everything that you buy, everything that you watch and everything that you do is controlled completely by this 1% group. Just about the only way I can think of to wrest power away from these folks is if the 99% were to stop buying everything for more than 90 days. Once the corporations see their income statements go to zilch then you would see real change.
Small problem with that amazing(tm) idea. The MAFIAA(tm) does not want this to happen unless they are compensated(c) every time someone even utters one of the copyrighted or trademarked words that their pyramid-scheme(r) has come up with. In their view(c), the entity formerly known as Netflix(tm) is giving away their content(c) and the MAFIAA(tm) isn't being compensated(c) for this release(r). They want to be compensated(c) every time someone sings(c), views(r) or in any way shape or form performs(tm) their material. Enjoy your freedom ... soon it will no longer be free(c)(tm)(r).
How many more? How many more uncompleted series, idiotic product placements and other Brainwashing Network TV Executive decisions are we going to face before we finally get away from the middle man? I’m probably going to disconnect my DirecTV box now because there really isn’t anything left to watch on network TV. The networks keep eliminating anything resembling creative content and continue to deprive America of some of the finest writings out there. How much longer do we have to wait before enough of us get together to form an online media company that works? I’ve got a nice monitor / computer setup. For what it costs of DirecTV for one year, I could afford a very nice Computer / Monitor setup. And if I’m patient enough to time-shift my TV, I could do the same for online content. The model would be extraordinarily affordable if folks were to band together. One million regular viewers of a TV series on network TV is laughable. One million regular viewers of online content is a smash hit. Add in some micro currency ($0.99 cents a month / viewer) and for twelve million a year, anyone certainly could put together a creative and production team that works. I don’t know why Network TV folks don’t take content and put it in web only mode if it works better. For example, SGU and Caprica maybe is a better model for the online universe. That is where the audience is anyway. So put ads up on TV saying “Exclusively online”. If viewer-ship rises enough on the web then maybe transition it back to TV. Why the hell does everything need to be TV centric anymore? This is the 21st century for frak’s sake.
Two Mikrotik routers would also work very well (http://www.mikrotik.com). You can pick up the whole thing for about $250-$300 for two of 'em and set it all up inside of about 15 minutes a piece. They're extremely reliable and the 4.0 release includes all kinds of fancy things that you can do to monitor, automatically fail over links and more.
NewYorkCountryLawyer said:
Well here's a story that could make us skeptical and/or cynical about our skepticism and/or cynicism.
It's way too early on a Sunday morning and/or afternoon for me to ponder and/or grok the in and/or out of the and/or in that sentence.
In all of these studies and research, I am shocked by the fact that the obvious truth has been left out.
In our quest for "purity" through social aestheticism (teenage pregnancy "linked" to sex on tv and now video games "linked" to violence) we have left out the obvious fact. We are members of the animal kingdom. Our species is "human". We have all the same characteristics of other animals in the kingdom. We "hunt" for food at local food sources (the store). We adapt to social orders of things similar to other apes (we call it voting). And for all this, we call ourselves more "advanced" when we try to root out things that took evolution hundreds of thousands of years to program into our genes.
When are we going to accept the obvious truth? Instead of denying that it exists, we must accept that it does exist. We do not have hundreds of millions of murderers out there. Humans evolved through a clan-like experience. As recently as a thousand years ago humans were hunting bears, deers and god knows what else that is now extinct in the forest. They didn't just wake up one day and learn how to hunt. This was a learned skill and largely a group experience.
So when little kids are practicing Jackie Chan moves I think about the fact that evolution is a pretty grand thing. It is better instead, to teach children the difference between right and wrong and to teach them how to think. It would be near impossible to guard all children from the fact that evolution is at work even today.
Neal Stephenson's books have always been very compelling to me. This one looks to be astonishing. And actually, I think it is the first time that I have ever seen a video introduce a book. It actually makes me want to read it all that much more and wonder if they will actually make a movie of this.
I don't think that they could have possibly setup enough servers in time for download day. If you have 1,000,000 people downloading a 7mb file and they all try to hit the getfirefox.com website at 10am Pacific... Well, you get what happened right now. The pages won't display. Incidentally, I was able to get ff 3.0 from their FTP site.
I have personally called, faxed, emailed and snail mailed my two California Senators (Boxer + Feinstein) and told them to vote against this bill in the Senate.
If everyone here on Slashdot does the same, I would imagine the Slashdot effect would overwhelm our elected officials with our intentions and desires.
I doubt anyone will read this as it is already OldNews(TM). But I find cases where folks sue over 87 pieces of email to be discouraging. As an ISP myself, I have to constantly monitor the emails and what my own customers are doing to ensure that no spam is going out. We're signed up to the different Spam reporting systems from AOL, Yahoo, MSN and others. When someone clicks on "THIS IS SPAM!!!!" we know about it. More than not, the majority (over 90%) of the reported "THIS IS SPAM!!!!" are things like notifications of orders and things like that from our e-commerce stores. Now imagine if one of those people take an ISP to court and say that they're spamming when, in fact, they are only doing business according to the accepted norms of business which is to effectively communicate with the customers as to the status of the order? According to the agreements that AOL, Yahoo and others enforce according to the anti-spam rules, I can now no longer email order notifications and things like that to the folks that click on "THIS IS SPAM!!!!" button. Next, I'm sure these folks (as has happened) called to customer service saying they're not getting order notifications. At that point, they get told that "they gotta stop reporting these things as spam" if they want to continue getting those emails. In my opinion, the suit against these guys for 87 pieces of spam (a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the spam) is frivolous and a complete time wasting enterprise. Spam doesn't account but for a fraction of the bandwidth and with today's anti-spam engines that uses heuristics and not the "cyber-terrorist" actions of others, we don't get that much spam to begin with. The only folks that are making the money on the whole spam versus anti-spammers are the lawyers and the software vendors. Everyone else should be slapped around for being stupid. Quit yer whining!!!
PWNED!
Q. Based upon your examination of the hard drive which you examined, what evidence did you find that inculpated Marie Lindor personally?
A. Would you please define the second-to-last word.
Q. "Her"?
A. No, "inculpated." Would you please define that for me.
Q. Do you not know what the word "inculpated" means?
A. That's correct.
Q. Are you familiar with the word "exculpate"?
A. No.
Q. What is your educational background?
A. Computer engineering.
Q. Well, which school did you attend? Did you get a Bachelor's degree?
A. Yes.
Q. What school?
A. Iowa State University, science and technology.
Q. When did you graduate?
A. With which degree?
Q. When did you get your Bachelor's degree?
A. 1980.
Q. Do you have any other degrees?
A. I hold a Master of Science in electrical engineering.
Q. When did you get that?
A. 1982.
Q. Any other degrees?
A. A Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., in computer engineering.
Q. When was that?
A. 1985.
Q. And you are associate professor at Iowa State University?
A. That is correct.
Q. And you do not know what the word "exculpate" means?
A. That's correct.
Man, we've had this since the 1960's! Anyone watch Six Million Dollar Man? Even in the 80's we had this technology. It was called Terminator. Look at him, he's now Governor of California!
I, for one, welcome our Bionic Eye wearing overlords.
Still funny as hell though.
Patents and Copyrights are a right to sue over a particular piece of technology or art. You can "invent" the idea on the moon, file a US patent or copyright and then sue anyone (or everyone in the case of the RIAA/MPAA). All a patent or copyright is a "supposedly" clever piece of legalease that allows "LawYERS" the right and process to sue someone else.
An invention is an idea to make everyone's lives easier.
A patent or copyright is an idea to make everyone suffer for it.
Anyone know if the screen displayed "LP On Fire?"
June 7 (Las Vegas) -- Bookies in Las Vegas have already begun accepting bets. 1.2 to 1 odds are that the winning lawyer will pick Paper over Rock.
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Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: QueryErrorException: Too many connections
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[QueryErrorException: Too many connections]
FuseTalk.Tools.Data.Query.RunQueryNoResult() in C:\Documents and
Settings\dplouffe\Desktop\dominic\Database\Quer
HotHardware.Global.Application_BeginRequest(Objec
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Accoona presently isn't rated by "SearchEngineWatch.com" ... Therefore, it goes at the bottom of the list.
1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. AskJeeves
4. AllTheWeb
5. AolSearch
6. HotBot
7. Teoma
8. AltaVista
9. GigaBlast
10. LookSmart
11. Lycos
12. MSN Search
13. Netscape Search
14. DMOZ
(...15-99...)
100. Accoona
Yep. I think it might register as a minor roadbump in Google's quest to take over the world.
Okay, so remember the old saying...no such thing as bad advertising? All these articles about the lapboard only makes it that much more popular and known. Maybe Slashdot should stop posting any articles for Infinium? Otherwise they'll never die!
There's an idea. Patent all of the methodologies that **AA uses to locate the 'alleged offenders' then sue them every time they sue someone for copyright infringement. Will wonders never cease.