bnetd might have helped pirates get online, but it's still nothing else than a fucking server. reverse engineering a protocol is legal. writing software that utilizes that protocol is legal. what should be illegal, is bullying people with the legal system.
people on slashdot should be people who understand stuff like this.. oh, but this is the games section after all.
that it's possible to get research funds for just about anything.
I think I'm going to apply for a science grant. I'll investigate the global effects of a butterfly flapping it's wings in Syria. My hope is to finally prove Lorentz conjecture, while at the same time cash in on the imminent war in the region. I'll sell t-shirts with "I invaded Syria, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt with a butterfly on it".
That's funny. But seriously.. the Slashdot crowd is largely US based, and the editors must understand that Americans have a hard time relating to anything else than dollars.
Some of them might know that the Euro is the currency of the emu, but most of them would expect one dollar to translate into thousands of Euros or more. In addition to that, there is the totally insane European concept of using a punctuation mark instead of a comma. It's like, totally whack, for sure.
Now, do you think it's reasonable that the average Slashdot reader (Americans) should have to know ALL that to understand this little blurb?
Anybody with content interesting for the Slashdot crowd, and half a brain, got some kind of script that replaces the index with a 0 byte document once the slaughter ensues.
And if you didn't have this in place the first time around, you better hurry to get it up before the dupe is posted.
The Linux community aren't exactly top of the pops in the corporate world, much in fact due to their rather immature birdlike mascot.
A smart move from the core developers, would be to adopt the Debian logo as the official Linux logo. It's both smart and well designed. At the same time, Debian is easily recognised by professionals to be the best distro of Linux. This would only be the start of a brand new image for Linux and the community as a whole.
Considering this, and the recent problems Linux have had with corporate penetration, I can't see why domain names like Mad Penguin are chosen. The only effect is to drive away potential serious customers.
Now, that can change when there is a profound revelation [Dr. Laura Schlessinger], or when there is a ton of incentive [G.W. Bush]
I can picture it now, GWB the "black hat" cowboy coming to town with a sinister motive. Then some nasty terrorist mexicans run a dilligence into the towns two water towers. This somehow gives GWB incentive to go "white hat". Yes, it does make a lot of sense.
My favourite too.. this has been the themesong to many a summer party. The lyrics are so wickedly twisted.
Did I ever tell you the story about,
Cowboys! M... M.. M.. Midgets and indians and... Fron.. Frontier Psychiatrist,
I... I felt strangely hypnotised,
I was in another world, a world of 20,000 girls,
And milk! Rectangles, to an optometrist, the man with the golden eyeball
Can you think of anything else that talks, other than a person?
Uh ohh... uh oh, a bird! Yeah!
Somtimes a parrot talks,
Ha ha ha... Yes, some birds are funny when they talk,
Can you think of anything else?... a record!
Have you heard 'Since I Left You' by The Avalanches? It was released in 2001 and contains over 900 cleared samples. Excellent record by the way.
Then there is 'As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2' by 2 Many DJ's. They got clearance to mash-up big names like Dolly Parton, Destiny's Child, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Skee-lo, Velvet Underground and Kylie Minogue. You can read the story on how they cleared all those (and on all they didn't clear) here.
What's the point of documenting every single little piece of your life? Most peoples lives are boring.
Just look at all the bloggers. Do they think anybody actually read what they write? Or that anybody even care at all? Do anybody really care what I have to say in this post?
Why are stupid (as in very silly) names like "People for the ethical treatment of animals", "Grand Parents for A Drug Free America", "Drug Abuse Resistance Education" or "Parents for barefoot children" all the rage in the US?.
Oh.. and SMTP rocks my world. Unsafe means free and uncontrollable. You know what your govnerment lusts for.
Steatsonic - Talkin' all that jazz (Tommyboy Records)
Well here's how it started
heard you on the radio, talkin' bout rap
saying all that crap, about how we sample
giving examples, think we'll let you get away with that
you criticize our method, of how me make records
you said it wasn't art, so now we're gonna rip you apart
Stop, check it out my man, this is the music of a hip hop band
jazz.. we'll you can call it that, but this jazz retains a new format
point, where you misjudged us, speculating creating a fuss
you made the same mistake politicans have, talkin' all that jazz
Talk, we'll I've heard talk is cheap
more like beauty, talk is just skin deep
and when you lie and you talk a lot
people tell you to step off a lot
You see, you misunderstood
a sample is a tactic, a portion of my method, a tool
in fact, it's only of importance when I make it a priority
and what we samples up by the majority (?)
but you and Minardi (?) are turn to thought (?)
narrow minded and poorly taught
about hip hop fame for the silly game
to erase my music, so no one can use it
you step on us, and we'll step on you
can't have your cake and eat it too
talkin all that jazz
Lies.. it's when you hide the truth
it's when you talk more jazz than proof
but when you lie and adress something you don't know
it's so whack, that it's bound to show
the things we write are always true sucker
just get a grip, now we're talking 'bout you
seems to me that you have a problem
so we can see what we can do to solve them
rap is a fad? you must be mad
with this old bat (?) we get respect you never had
Tell the truth, James Brown was old
till Erik & Ra came with 'I know you got soul'
rap brings back old r&b and if we would not
people could've forgot
we want to make this perfectly clear
we are talented and strong and have no fear
of those who choose to judge by lack of sass
talkin' all that jazz
Now, we're not trying to be a boss to you
we just want to get across to you
that if you're talking jazz the situation is a no win
you might even get hurt my friend
Steatsonic, the hip hop band
are like Sly and the Family Stone we will stand
up for the music we live and play
and for the song we sing today
for now, let us set the record straight
and lay the (?) have a form and a formal debate
but it's the part that you remember though
what you reap is what you sow
talkin' all that jazz
Samplers, drum machines and synths are the tools of the untalented. How difficult is it to make a block busting hit by sampling another block busting hit?
And don't even get me started on drum machines. You press some keys at random, and suddenly you've got a danceable beat. If it really were this easy to make good music, then we'd all be good musicians.
Technology is the scourge of music. Every mother and his brother are wannabe producers spewing forth homogenized electronic music.
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bnetd might have helped pirates get online, but it's still nothing else than a fucking server. reverse engineering a protocol is legal. writing software that utilizes that protocol is legal. what should be illegal, is bullying people with the legal system.
people on slashdot should be people who understand stuff like this.. oh, but this is the games section after all.
that it's possible to get research funds for just about anything.
I think I'm going to apply for a science grant. I'll investigate the global effects of a butterfly flapping it's wings in Syria. My hope is to finally prove Lorentz conjecture, while at the same time cash in on the imminent war in the region. I'll sell t-shirts with "I invaded Syria, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt with a butterfly on it".
How do you (where you live) pronounce laser?
Last time I visited NY, the guys in the physics lab called it l-a-ser with an a as in father. Is that normal on the east coast?
I've always pronounced it with a very broad a, like in "layser".
the best solution for audiophile clubs would be to require an IQ test upon joining and every 6 months thereafter to make sure you aren't stupid enough
By joining an "audiophile" club, you've already disqualified yourself from passing any imaginable IQ test.
That's funny. But seriously.. the Slashdot crowd is largely US based, and the editors must understand that Americans have a hard time relating to anything else than dollars.
Some of them might know that the Euro is the currency of the emu, but most of them would expect one dollar to translate into thousands of Euros or more. In addition to that, there is the totally insane European concept of using a punctuation mark instead of a comma. It's like, totally whack, for sure.
Now, do you think it's reasonable that the average Slashdot reader (Americans) should have to know ALL that to understand this little blurb?
I've heard about comic radiation..
It tickles and is really funny.
Anybody with content interesting for the Slashdot crowd, and half a brain, got some kind of script that replaces the index with a 0 byte document once the slaughter ensues.
And if you didn't have this in place the first time around, you better hurry to get it up before the dupe is posted.
The Linux community aren't exactly top of the pops in the corporate world, much in fact due to their rather immature birdlike mascot.
A smart move from the core developers, would be to adopt the Debian logo as the official Linux logo. It's both smart and well designed. At the same time, Debian is easily recognised by professionals to be the best distro of Linux. This would only be the start of a brand new image for Linux and the community as a whole.
Considering this, and the recent problems Linux have had with corporate penetration, I can't see why domain names like Mad Penguin are chosen. The only effect is to drive away potential serious customers.
Yes, what would the heroes think of that?
I can't think of anything more heroic than dying from flying into a bunch of birds. (No it's not official, and it will never be, but I've got sources)
I'm right there with you.
Linux-screws? Come again?
Free as in beer, or speech?
If it was gay, then ok.. off topic I guess. Kinda hard to tell with that ascii art.
Did you flunk geography? It should be .fr
How is this off topic?
End this petty dispute. I want to start using it.
In the meantime, cocks.com is a good substitute.
You almost make it sound like I-point-out-stupid-Americans exercises are bad.
Now, that can change when there is a profound revelation [Dr. Laura Schlessinger], or when there is a ton of incentive [G.W. Bush]
I can picture it now, GWB the "black hat" cowboy coming to town with a sinister motive. Then some nasty terrorist mexicans run a dilligence into the towns two water towers. This somehow gives GWB incentive to go "white hat". Yes, it does make a lot of sense.
My favourite too.. this has been the themesong to many a summer party. The lyrics are so wickedly twisted.
Did I ever tell you the story about, Cowboys! M... M.. M.. Midgets and indians and... Fron.. Frontier Psychiatrist, I... I felt strangely hypnotised, I was in another world, a world of 20,000 girls, And milk! Rectangles, to an optometrist, the man with the golden eyeball
Can you think of anything else that talks, other than a person? Uh ohh... uh oh, a bird! Yeah! Somtimes a parrot talks, Ha ha ha... Yes, some birds are funny when they talk, Can you think of anything else?... a record!
vic acid is nice.. calx too.. blue calx, green calx, yellow calx :)
Have you heard 'Since I Left You' by The Avalanches? It was released in 2001 and contains over 900 cleared samples. Excellent record by the way.
Then there is 'As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2' by 2 Many DJ's. They got clearance to mash-up big names like Dolly Parton, Destiny's Child, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Skee-lo, Velvet Underground and Kylie Minogue. You can read the story on how they cleared all those (and on all they didn't clear) here.
What's the point of documenting every single little piece of your life? Most peoples lives are boring.
Just look at all the bloggers. Do they think anybody actually read what they write? Or that anybody even care at all? Do anybody really care what I have to say in this post?
Why are stupid (as in very silly) names like "People for the ethical treatment of animals", "Grand Parents for A Drug Free America", "Drug Abuse Resistance Education" or "Parents for barefoot children" all the rage in the US?.
Oh.. and SMTP rocks my world. Unsafe means free and uncontrollable. You know what your govnerment lusts for.
Well here's how it started
heard you on the radio, talkin' bout rap
saying all that crap, about how we sample
giving examples, think we'll let you get away with that
you criticize our method, of how me make records
you said it wasn't art, so now we're gonna rip you apart
Stop, check it out my man, this is the music of a hip hop band
jazz.. we'll you can call it that, but this jazz retains a new format
point, where you misjudged us, speculating creating a fuss
you made the same mistake politicans have, talkin' all that jazz
Talk, we'll I've heard talk is cheap
more like beauty, talk is just skin deep
and when you lie and you talk a lot
people tell you to step off a lot
You see, you misunderstood
a sample is a tactic, a portion of my method, a tool
in fact, it's only of importance when I make it a priority
and what we samples up by the majority (?)
but you and Minardi (?) are turn to thought (?)
narrow minded and poorly taught
about hip hop fame for the silly game
to erase my music, so no one can use it
you step on us, and we'll step on you
can't have your cake and eat it too
talkin all that jazz
Lies.. it's when you hide the truth
it's when you talk more jazz than proof
but when you lie and adress something you don't know
it's so whack, that it's bound to show
the things we write are always true sucker
just get a grip, now we're talking 'bout you
seems to me that you have a problem
so we can see what we can do to solve them
rap is a fad? you must be mad
with this old bat (?) we get respect you never had
Tell the truth, James Brown was old
till Erik & Ra came with 'I know you got soul'
rap brings back old r&b and if we would not
people could've forgot
we want to make this perfectly clear
we are talented and strong and have no fear
of those who choose to judge by lack of sass
talkin' all that jazz
Now, we're not trying to be a boss to you
we just want to get across to you
that if you're talking jazz the situation is a no win
you might even get hurt my friend
Steatsonic, the hip hop band
are like Sly and the Family Stone we will stand
up for the music we live and play
and for the song we sing today
for now, let us set the record straight
and lay the (?) have a form and a formal debate
but it's the part that you remember though
what you reap is what you sow
talkin' all that jazz
Samplers, drum machines and synths are the tools of the untalented. How difficult is it to make a block busting hit by sampling another block busting hit?
And don't even get me started on drum machines. You press some keys at random, and suddenly you've got a danceable beat. If it really were this easy to make good music, then we'd all be good musicians.
Technology is the scourge of music. Every mother and his brother are wannabe producers spewing forth homogenized electronic music.
Electronic music, there's an oxymoron for you.