We need a twinkie defense for MP3s. "The thrill I got out of having such a huge number of songs available at my immediate disposal was so intense that I was unable to distinguish right from wrong."
Big frickin' suprise. Do you really think that the people implementing these voting machines are security saavy top-notch developers? No, they're 16 year old inbred ass-clowns from Fargo. Of course, there'll be a big investigation, etc etc, and they'll come up with absolutely nothing original. "Back to the drawing board. Technology isn't sophisticated enough" or some crap like that. GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So if, say, 10 cds = 1 lb, and 2500 lbs = 1 ton, then there are about 25k * 550 =~ 14 million CDs, and each one valued at $150,000 = 2,100,000,000,000! = half of the US annual GDP! So maybe the RIAA should start suing the clouds to make back their profit loss due to Cloudster and Elephantaa (and eElephant 2000)
Why don't some people get together and help settle this now with a class-action lawsuit against one of these companies? Does anyone know of any reason why (in the USA) this would be stopped dead in its tracks?
I feel like we need a win against these idio-- I mean, corporations.
German man: Entschuldigen Sie, bitte, konnen Sie Deutsch sprechen? Basil: I'm sorry, could you say that again? German lady: You speak German? Basil: Oh, German! I'm sorry, I thought there was something wrong with you. Of course, the Germans!
I've got a trackball. After 3 years of using it, I still can't draw anything that even resembles what I want it to be.
Of course, I can't draw with crayon or pencil either.
Or some hard drive speed increases. I think normal every-day IDE drives have gone from 10-11 ms down to maybe 8-9 in the past 10 years. Wow, way to make Murphy proud, fellas.
<plug>Western Digital hard drives are the best.</plug>
I applied to RIT for their Masters program.
Me: So, is the program competitive?
Lady in CS Office: (stifled laughter)(cough) umm, not really.
I didn't go there.
I went to Hofstra on Long Island (crap school, friends don't let friends go to Hofstra), but then Cornell for a M.Eng in Comp Sci. It was a teriffic school, I'd recommend it to anyone who thinks that they can handle a *very* tough courseload.
I've got a star with my name on it. In about a thousand years when we're all living on stars, it'll be worth something! I suggest you all get yours now, while supplies last!
Niagara Mohawk Offers Tips To Keep You Cooler This Summer
SYRACUSE, N.Y., July 30, 2003 - As the peak of summer weather approaches, everyone will be looking for ways to keep cool. Niagara Mohawk says it is possible to keep cool without turning up the heat on your energy budget. The utility offers the following tips to beat the heat this summer while conserving electricity.
from ny times, pay, blah
Power Outages Reported Along East Coast
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Power outages were reported today throughout the Northeast. Blackouts were reported north to Toronto, south to Maryland and west to Cleveland, Detroit and Toledo.
The cause may have been an overload of the Niagara-Mohawk power grid, according to radio reports.
Radio reports said that subways and the Long Island Rail Road were among the modes of transportation not operating in New York. With lights off inside city buildings, people are streaming out onto the streets of Manhattan.
In Manhattan, Penn Station and subways are reportedly being evacuated. Radio reports thousands and thousands of people are on the streets wandering around, but no panic or disorder is being reported and traffic is said to be moving through Midtown Manhattan.
"We don't know when Con Ed will power up again, but we do know it will take some time." Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, said.
Mayor Bloomberg said that Con Edison officials had told him that the New York City power grid was shut down, as it was built to do, to avoid beig damaged.
"People should go home, or stay with friends if they live far outside the city," he said. He also said that the city was calm.
I always name my files with the prefix 'NotPirated_' so everyone knows. It's the file-system equivalent of setting the Evil bit off. So now I just have NotPirated_MetallicaEnterSandman.mp3 NotPir ated_SpaceQuestV.zip
Because in large lecture halls, disrupting class to ask your stupid question is considered rude (oftentimes by the professor himself). I think the backchanneling thing is good, but too distracting. Some medium between the two. Of course, waiting till dissertation to go over the stuff you didn't understand is better, and you don't have the temptation to read/. during class.
There are no stupid questions, only stupid people.
Actually, (and IANAL), the crime was in duplicating these copyrighted ping pong balls. It's pretty infeasible to post guards at the edge of your lawn to stop me from grabbing one, but if they arrest you and take your ping pong balls away, then I'd have no reason to go to you. I think legally, the larger crime is stealing, rather than receiving stolen items, so the RIAA has a better chance against those who share. (Un)Fortunately, with most file sharing programs, everyone shares by default, the two are essentially equivalent. Except for me, who hasn't shared his files in over a year. Yeah, call me a bastard, we're in CYA-country now.
I figure that the majority of/. users aren't buying many CDs, but shouldn't someone organize some sort of a protest against the RIAAs actions? Speak to the artists themselves-- Just about every news story has an almost obligatory reference to a possible "backlash" from consumers. Well consumers are cattle, they're not going to think on their own. I haven't bought a CD in probably 2 years or so, but I think a little effort would hit the RIAA pretty hard. Otherwise, we're all just targets, some just a little larger than others.
Mike
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I agree, you people should all quit, that way, there'll be a job for me out there. Suckers!
Of course, we can just trust SCO to show the right hashes. Why would they lie?
I thought this was going to be an article about Scorched Earth, that was a damn good game.
We need a twinkie defense for MP3s. "The thrill I got out of having such a huge number of songs available at my immediate disposal was so intense that I was unable to distinguish right from wrong."
Damn, I wouldn't be suprised.
Big frickin' suprise. Do you really think that the people implementing these voting machines are security saavy top-notch developers? No, they're 16 year old inbred ass-clowns from Fargo. Of course, there'll be a big investigation, etc etc, and they'll come up with absolutely nothing original. "Back to the drawing board. Technology isn't sophisticated enough" or some crap like that. GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So if, say, 10 cds = 1 lb, and 2500 lbs = 1 ton, then there are about 25k * 550 =~ 14 million CDs, and each one valued at $150,000 = 2,100,000,000,000! = half of the US annual GDP! So maybe the RIAA should start suing the clouds to make back their profit loss due to Cloudster and Elephantaa (and eElephant 2000)
Why don't some people get together and help settle this now with a class-action lawsuit against one of these companies? Does anyone know of any reason why (in the USA) this would be stopped dead in its tracks?
I feel like we need a win against these idio-- I mean, corporations.
Germany definately has it together.
German man: Entschuldigen Sie, bitte, konnen Sie Deutsch sprechen?
Basil: I'm sorry, could you say that again?
German lady: You speak German?
Basil: Oh, German! I'm sorry, I thought there was something wrong with you. Of course, the Germans!
I get so depressed when I think of something really good to say, only to see that someone else has already said it. :(
I've got a trackball. After 3 years of using it, I still can't draw anything that even resembles what I want it to be. Of course, I can't draw with crayon or pencil either.
Or some hard drive speed increases. I think normal every-day IDE drives have gone from 10-11 ms down to maybe 8-9 in the past 10 years. Wow, way to make Murphy proud, fellas.
<plug>Western Digital hard drives are the best.</plug>
Great, now the percentage of women working in tech companies will go from 15% down to 2%. Good job, ass.
You've got that right. Fortunately, my loans were only $40k (for one year at grad school). Thank you corporate america.
I applied to RIT for their Masters program. Me: So, is the program competitive? Lady in CS Office: (stifled laughter)(cough) umm, not really. I didn't go there.
I went to Hofstra on Long Island (crap school, friends don't let friends go to Hofstra), but then Cornell for a M.Eng in Comp Sci. It was a teriffic school, I'd recommend it to anyone who thinks that they can handle a *very* tough courseload.
I've got a star with my name on it. In about a thousand years when we're all living on stars, it'll be worth something! I suggest you all get yours now, while supplies last!
Niagara Mohawk Offers Tips To Keep You Cooler This Summer
SYRACUSE, N.Y., July 30, 2003 - As the peak of summer weather approaches, everyone will be looking for ways to keep cool. Niagara Mohawk says it is possible to keep cool without turning up the heat on your energy budget. The utility offers the following tips to beat the heat this summer while conserving electricity.
Oh sure, nice, why don't you just email all of the terrorists this information!
from ny times, pay, blah Power Outages Reported Along East Coast By THE NEW YORK TIMES Power outages were reported today throughout the Northeast. Blackouts were reported north to Toronto, south to Maryland and west to Cleveland, Detroit and Toledo. The cause may have been an overload of the Niagara-Mohawk power grid, according to radio reports. Radio reports said that subways and the Long Island Rail Road were among the modes of transportation not operating in New York. With lights off inside city buildings, people are streaming out onto the streets of Manhattan. In Manhattan, Penn Station and subways are reportedly being evacuated. Radio reports thousands and thousands of people are on the streets wandering around, but no panic or disorder is being reported and traffic is said to be moving through Midtown Manhattan. "We don't know when Con Ed will power up again, but we do know it will take some time." Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, said. Mayor Bloomberg said that Con Edison officials had told him that the New York City power grid was shut down, as it was built to do, to avoid beig damaged. "People should go home, or stay with friends if they live far outside the city," he said. He also said that the city was calm.
I always name my files with the prefix 'NotPirated_' so everyone knows. It's the file-system equivalent of setting the Evil bit off. So now I just haver ated_SpaceQuestV.zip
NotPirated_MetallicaEnterSandman.mp3
NotPi
I suggest you all do the same.
Why not just don't get into accidents?
Because in large lecture halls, disrupting class to ask your stupid question is considered rude (oftentimes by the professor himself). I think the backchanneling thing is good, but too distracting. Some medium between the two. Of course, waiting till dissertation to go over the stuff you didn't understand is better, and you don't have the temptation to read /. during class.
There are no stupid questions, only stupid people.
Actually, (and IANAL), the crime was in duplicating these copyrighted ping pong balls. It's pretty infeasible to post guards at the edge of your lawn to stop me from grabbing one, but if they arrest you and take your ping pong balls away, then I'd have no reason to go to you. I think legally, the larger crime is stealing, rather than receiving stolen items, so the RIAA has a better chance against those who share. (Un)Fortunately, with most file sharing programs, everyone shares by default, the two are essentially equivalent. Except for me, who hasn't shared his files in over a year. Yeah, call me a bastard, we're in CYA-country now.
Good point, Century Media and Nuclear Blast both have good selections, but I doubt the black/death metal crowd would make the RIAA tremble...
I figure that the majority of /. users aren't buying many CDs, but shouldn't someone organize some sort of a protest against the RIAAs actions? Speak to the artists themselves-- Just about every news story has an almost obligatory reference to a possible "backlash" from consumers. Well consumers are cattle, they're not going to think on their own. I haven't bought a CD in probably 2 years or so, but I think a little effort would hit the RIAA pretty hard. Otherwise, we're all just targets, some just a little larger than others.
Mike