If your neighbor stole a bike from a store and sold it to you at a garage sale, did you obtain the bike through illegal means? The police will charge with with conspiracy to theft if you don't give it to them *right when they ask*. Theft is theft, no matter how much it has been dilluted.
I suppose that it is my own sloth that leads me to sites like slashdot and geeknews to garner my daily water cooler conversation material. I suppose than I just have a problem with the slashdot motto... maybe it should be "News for nerds... Stuff that Matters (to us)." Oh well, I am calm now:)
Now that I think about it, you have been doing stuff like this a lot recently. You stuffed the ballot on the "Best Concert of the Summer" just last week. I know that this is heading towards redundantville, so I'll give it a rest. But please, if you want to tell us what YOU think go buy soapbox.org from its owner and put your views there. You can even link to it from the main page.
The slashgods repeatedly rejected a submission about a scientific american article that talk about upper limits on magnetic storage and puts forth a marvelous discussion of holography (http://www.sciam.com/2000/0500iss ue/0500toig.html). My question is, why this article and not the other? I personally preferred the Scientific American article.
My guess (I did not see if other people put this down yet) is that they are doing it to keep wince preferred over Linux, PalmOS, BeIA, etc. Most apps are written for Windows (duh), and making wince free for developers to look at will keep it that way. This way they can make sure that only slashdot readers and miscelaneous geeks buy linux products and for everyone else it is windows FOREVER. But that's just my opinion... I could be wrong.
It makes sense that they dropped the suit- they would not have won since etoy had the domain first and there was no "conflict of business."
They only wanted an injuntion and some evil PR karma to get NSI to take down the etoy domain so that potential visitors didn't go to etoy (perhaps on a random stab) and shop there.
Techniclly, if you had the GPS you would not need the chip because you would already know where you are. I think that the important thing about this is that "they" know where you are. It would be more of a call somebody on the phone and say "where am I?" type of thing. Just being an anal geek:)
It is good that they are finally figuring out that the maintainers of "data depositories" can not possibly be held liable for content stored on them. Think about it- holding prodigy responsible for allowing deflamatory content to be stored on their servers would be equivicable to suing a keyboard maker for letting you type it, a modem maker for letting you transmit it, and a printer maker for allowing you to print it.
I would hate to imagine: "Blondes vs Lexmark" or "Ugly Fat Chicks vs Logitech" on the docket.
Does this mean that I am going to have to actually buy those other 11 selections that I promised to get when I joined columbia house eons ago? Shit(TM)! Looks like no more online music purchases for me!
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If your neighbor stole a bike from a store and sold it to you at a garage sale, did you obtain the bike through illegal means? The police will charge with with conspiracy to theft if you don't give it to them *right when they ask*. Theft is theft, no matter how much it has been dilluted.
I suppose that it is my own sloth that leads me to sites like slashdot and geeknews to garner my daily water cooler conversation material. I suppose than I just have a problem with the slashdot motto... maybe it should be "News for nerds... Stuff that Matters (to us)." Oh well, I am calm now :)
Now that I think about it, you have been doing stuff like this a lot recently. You stuffed the ballot on the "Best Concert of the Summer" just last week. I know that this is heading towards redundantville, so I'll give it a rest. But please, if you want to tell us what YOU think go buy soapbox.org from its owner and put your views there. You can even link to it from the main page.
well dip me in shit and call me stinky :)
The slashgods repeatedly rejected a submission about a scientific american article that talk about upper limits on magnetic storage and puts forth a marvelous discussion of holography (http://www.sciam.com/2000/0500iss ue/0500toig.html). My question is, why this article and not the other? I personally preferred the Scientific American article.
My guess (I did not see if other people put this down yet) is that they are doing it to keep wince preferred over Linux, PalmOS, BeIA, etc. Most apps are written for Windows (duh), and making wince free for developers to look at will keep it that way. This way they can make sure that only slashdot readers and miscelaneous geeks buy linux products and for everyone else it is windows FOREVER. But that's just my opinion... I could be wrong.
It makes sense that they dropped the suit- they would not have won since etoy had the domain first and there was no "conflict of business."
They only wanted an injuntion and some evil PR karma to get NSI to take down the etoy domain so that potential visitors didn't go to etoy (perhaps on a random stab) and shop there.
Techniclly, if you had the GPS you would not need the chip because you would already know where you are. I think that the important thing about this is that "they" know where you are. It would be more of a call somebody on the phone and say "where am I?" type of thing. Just being an anal geek :)
It is good that they are finally figuring out that the maintainers of "data depositories" can not possibly be held liable for content stored on them. Think about it- holding prodigy responsible for allowing deflamatory content to be stored on their servers would be equivicable to suing a keyboard maker for letting you type it, a modem maker for letting you transmit it, and a printer maker for allowing you to print it.
I would hate to imagine:
"Blondes vs Lexmark" or
"Ugly Fat Chicks vs Logitech" on the docket.
Just my 2(cos(0)) cents.
It is obviously the male instint "Insert Plug A into Recepticle B" kicking in. See, testosterone put to good use!
Does this mean that I am going to have to actually buy those other 11 selections that I promised to get when I joined columbia house eons ago? Shit(TM)! Looks like no more online music purchases for me!