Did it occur to YOUR dumb ass that maybe you should have written that instead of something completely different?
I don't have a foot in my mouth, but you seem to have a head up your ass. Either you really need to work on your ability to clearly communicate your point or you're totally full of shit and now you're trying to cover your tracks.
The product now belongs to the consumer who bought it who is free to share it because they own the product.
That's absolutely ridiculous. You buy a CD, you're absolutely free to give the CD away to anyone you want. You are NOT free to give away n-number of duplications of a portion of what you bought, because you did NOT buy distribution rights, you bought a CD. CDs do not come with distribution rights. Nor do movie tickets, mp3s, DVDs, VHS, or books. They never have. They probably never will. Just because it's convenient for you to be a crook doesn't mean your crookedness is suddenly legitimate.
violation of a rental agreement is a civil matter which requires the owner to retain legal counsel and build a case and is covered by existing law.
Yea, I already knew that. What I don't know is how that's relevant to the fact that you have absolutely no ground - legal, moral, or otherwise - to claim that you can distribute material which you have NOT purchased distribution rights for.
YOU are to blame for the kind of nonsense at the top of this article. YOU are the one that these slashbots should be tearing into. YOU are the criminal. YOU are to blame. YOU are the only one here who has NO legal or ethical ground to stand on. You found a convenient way to rip people off, now you're trying to justify your illegal behavior. Boo hoo if you get sued. Serves you right. However, now, idiots like you have proven to be the most prolific members of the p2p "community" and EVERYONE has to pay for the fact that YOU are a crook.
Wow. Thank you. I didn't realize it was possible to get so dumb so quick, but you are the first person to post a comment suggestive of the position that, perhaps, you should be legally capable of using p2p systems to rip off companies just because you're too dumb to vote with your wallet or use the system for a legitimate purpose.
Take a good long look in the mirror, my friend. It's the unchecked arrogance and rampant stupidity of people like you that cause stupid shit like this.
Wow. First response in the thread (with an 8 minute lead on the second reponse none-the-less) modded redundant. Not too shabby. I was so happy when the Slash coders implemented that additional rule on awarding mod points where they'd only give them to the bottom 2% of IQs.
Since when is the general public, which houses the majority of public opinion, capable of critically evaluating anything more complicated than a diluted press release?
There is a reason that news is written on such a sophomoric level and the major "news stations" attempt to cram all of their "information" into short, sixty second blurbs between their bickering guests and stunningly imbecilic hosts. People these days have no critical thinking skills at all. They have to be told what to do in the simplest possible terms. If they actually had to make their own daily decisions on any level above that which should be expected of a three year old, most of them would probably die.
Given all of this, how do you figure that the public will be smart enough to say "wait, these open shorts people are just protecting my rights to do with my DVDs as I please! This MBA A group is just an evil congolomerate attempting to stifle my use of my own personal property!" The MPAA will simply come out and brand anyone distributing the tools as dirty, filthy pirates, blame them for rate hikes, and continue rolling in the dough while the mentally retarded herd that is most of the developed world goes about its job of being obliviously fleeced by every major corporation and government on the planet.
That doesn't even take into consideration that these idiots have probably never even heard of 'open source', the 'MPAA', 'CSS', or, most important, their own fair use rights in anything more than the most superficial manner.
...send them to my cubicle. The second I enter it, all mental and physical functions shut down for hours.
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I hate to tell you chief, but Powertoys for XP gives you virtual desktops. And they're just as good as or better than Gnome's. And KDE's. Simple, fast, effective. Free.
Hmm. I've seen maybe two or three on my game box since I installed XP Home on it last November. To be fair, that's about the same number of kernel panics I saw in the same timeframe back on the first release of Linux kernel 2.2. I've never had a BSD crash, but I haven't used it as heavily (yet) either.
Microsoft will always be dogged by the fact that Win95, 98, and ME were all tepid pieces of dog crap when it came to stability. XP and 2003 will always suffer from the thousands of curses that the last generation of PC users slung at their boxes when all their work flashed into the blue and white puddle of puke that meant windows totally fucked something up.
Fair? Probably not. But, that's just the way it goes.
As far as Linux, I'd fear switching from the BSOD to the nightmare that is the X system and tepid pieces of dog shit that are KDE and Gnome. If Linux wants to play the part of the friendly desktop distro that can compete with a Windows Home system, it needs a good window management system. KDE and Gnome are definitley NOT up to filling those shoes. When they are, I'll reccommend Linux over Windows to the "normal" people. Until then, I'll continue recommending CLI and lite window managed BSD boxes for the server, and Windows for the desktop (or, OSX if you've got the cash).
Well, in theory you'd just be replacing your symbolic representation of wealth with a good or service. Technically, you wouldn't be getting poorer overall, you'd just be shifting your resources from your bank account to seat at the park or a DVD, etc.
The entire SYSTEM is out of control. The article covers everything from the abuse of the broadcast flag to benefit rich folks at the top of effectively monopolized industries to the fleecing of taxpayers to fund "public" stadiums that they have to then pay exhorbitant prices to get into, and pay exhorbitant prices to eat in. Just think, you could be funding your local superstar's overblown salary so that he can snag 14 million dollars a year to support his coke habit. You ARE funding the FCC to tell you what you can and (more often than not) can't do with the video signal broadcast from that stadium your tax dollars built. If you live in California, you're paying tax dollars to enforce "protection" measures in movie theaters by funding police that now have to respond to copyright violations.
People amaze me. They just do. It just never crosses that thick bone barrier in the majority of this country's moronic populace that every which way they turn, whether it be shopping at Wal-Mart, buying movie tickets, buying CDs, or buying sporting even tickets, that they're actually paying people to make them poorer. The sheer ignorance that the regular public has proven itself capable of is overshadowed only by the fact that the situation just keeps getting worse. Not only are they not smart enough to stop it, they're too dumb to see that they're being fed their nieghbor's body parts in the trough.
Um... because if it put the string terminator right before EOF you'd, presumably, wind up with one giant print statement that just prints out your source code from the point of the original goof? And that would be stupid?
That's the point. IIRC, the vehicle it's based upon from Dark Knight Returns (as previously mentioned) was generally built as a tank to break into the mutant's underground lair and... well... blow the shit out of them. It was meant to be highly functional, not a symbolic representation of Batman's wang like that horizontal boner from the original series of movies...
No, I forgot the last part of my comment which was "try to do it again in a year" with the assumption that the first time you found it, you would apply the necessary metadata so it wouldn't be an issue in a database fs....:/
gun.shoot(self.foot);
Yea yea... still banned from posting. Whatever, Malda.
Instead of whining that Firefox doesn't fix other people's problems, why don't you whine to the people who make the pages wrong in the first place?
Besides, after banging around the geocaching site, I'm not seeing the problem. Some of the text is small, but looking at the source, it's supposed to be. What do you want Firefox to do, become psychic and render pages in the way you want them to, or render them the way GeoCaching says it should?
You know, some people - Linux zealots come to mind - bitch and moan about users who hold them responsible for implementing things that make their life easier. However, this is ridiculous. You're decrying the use of Firefox in the mainstream because a bunch of crappy, second-rate websites were designed by lobotomized toads? Maybe if Geocaching had bothered to design the site properly in the first place, then it wouldn't look like crap. Why hold Firefox responsible for sites that look like crap and break everything? If you want broken - use IE. If you want a competent web browser that renders all sites properly - hold moronic web developers responsible for crappy sites and demand they fix them. Hard? I don't think so... it worked fine for me when my bank put in a browser sniffer. If it's run by morons who don't want to listen to their userbase - Slashdot, for example - then don't continue to use it, or deal with the fact that it's run by morons.
left side overlaps main text requiring a page refresh to correct -- this has been noted MANY times and not corrected
I hear a lot of people complain about that, but I haven't seen it happen in a looong time.
As far as the geocaching one... what OS? Linux browsers have a tendency to render the fonts much, much smaller than Windows. I'll check it when I get off and see what Firefox through Windows vs. Firefox through FreeBSD look like, but I'm betting that's an OS specific issue (I don't have a Linbox on the network right now, so it's BSD or nuthin').
Give me a broken site with a significant level of traffic (in other words, don't give me some 13 year old kid's site hosted off Geocities) that doesn't work in Firefox 0.8. Or, were you talking out your ass?
I use it exclusively on three different boxes - the only exception is work where I'm forced to use IE and I limit my browsing to about a dozen sites. 0.7 solved almost all of the rendering "problems" that the multitudes of completely clueless web developers caused. I've never seen a site render improperly in 0.8 except/., and even this broken-ass POS loads right most of the time now that I use 0.8. The rare exceptions to this rule are the occasional sites that are so broken they have a browser sniffer. I've encountered ONE site of significance like that (other sites were all personal sites playing stupid Javascript parlor tricks). Changed the UA and it worked just fine. Company caved to complaints less than 2 days after launching said broken-ass site and removed the sniffer.
Well, I don't click through links in e-mail anyway unless it's from someone I know personally, but it would be a lot easier if we could see the page code...
Wait... so... you can't see a need for a new filesystem, because you can use a series of chained, archaic mechanisms to do it?
That's great, and I can use all those tools too, but I know an awful lot more people who can't than who can and THEY are the target audience for such a system.
Okay, fine. Put a picture of a bird with a cache-like (i.e. - meaningless) filename in a random place on your hard drive, then find it.
And, before you tell me that you should be using more intelligent filenames so the linear search can find it - you don't always have control over the names of the files you're working with.
Wow, hey - check it out everyone! Somebody who "gets it" instead of just uses FOSS stuff because they want to pretend they're cool.
THIS guy's attitude is what the FOSS community MUST begin to cultivate and it MUST find a way to push the din from all the screaming Microsoft haters down to an inaudible level (the cluetrain just dropped off a package: nobody cares if Microsoft has been promising something without delivering for 10 years. If they beat Linux to it, that's all that matters). The FOSS community disgusts me, and it's lack of focus that makes that so. The parent poster understands that the point of any software development should be to fill a need that's still empty, or to improve upon a tool that's already filling a need.
When more people get on board with pushing Linux to just be a good system, more people will use it. Nobody is going to switch to Linux just because YOU hate Microsoft. They WILL switch to Linux, however, when it offers them a good reason to do so.
Maybe there should be a free alternative to these search engines?
Okay, Brainiac. Now, all you have to do is figure out 1) what difference it would make since yes, if the Chinese government doesn't like it and can't control it, they'll ban it and 2) the logistics of creating a free search engine to compete with Google which is dedicated specifically to search.
Here's a thought: maybe the answer to every problem isn't "oo! oo! Make a "free" version of it! Oo! oo!
If you could install a "free" version of the Chinese government, that would be great. But, until then, I don't see, exactly, what good creating another "subversive" site for them to block would do. If Google didn't bow, it would be blocked. They're not in the search engine business for idyllic world views, they're in it to make money. If you don't like that, don't use them. THEN you can go create your little "free" engine to pit idealism against capitalism.
Crikey... I like idealistic dreams as much as the next guy, but get real. Google wants to make money, not conform to your bizarre ideas of a perfect world.
The irony in using a command that started in the proprietary IRIX system to show "how open source should deal with software patents" is something I fear shall be forever lost on most Slashdotters...
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Heh.. sometimes sarcasm helps us see more clearly.
Did it occur to YOUR dumb ass that maybe you should have written that instead of something completely different?
I don't have a foot in my mouth, but you seem to have a head up your ass. Either you really need to work on your ability to clearly communicate your point or you're totally full of shit and now you're trying to cover your tracks.
The product now belongs to the consumer who bought it who is free to share it because they own the product.
That's absolutely ridiculous. You buy a CD, you're absolutely free to give the CD away to anyone you want. You are NOT free to give away n-number of duplications of a portion of what you bought, because you did NOT buy distribution rights, you bought a CD. CDs do not come with distribution rights. Nor do movie tickets, mp3s, DVDs, VHS, or books. They never have. They probably never will. Just because it's convenient for you to be a crook doesn't mean your crookedness is suddenly legitimate.
violation of a rental agreement is a civil matter which requires the owner to retain legal counsel and build a case and is covered by existing law.
Yea, I already knew that. What I don't know is how that's relevant to the fact that you have absolutely no ground - legal, moral, or otherwise - to claim that you can distribute material which you have NOT purchased distribution rights for.
YOU are to blame for the kind of nonsense at the top of this article. YOU are the one that these slashbots should be tearing into. YOU are the criminal. YOU are to blame. YOU are the only one here who has NO legal or ethical ground to stand on. You found a convenient way to rip people off, now you're trying to justify your illegal behavior. Boo hoo if you get sued. Serves you right. However, now, idiots like you have proven to be the most prolific members of the p2p "community" and EVERYONE has to pay for the fact that YOU are a crook.
Wow. Thank you. I didn't realize it was possible to get so dumb so quick, but you are the first person to post a comment suggestive of the position that, perhaps, you should be legally capable of using p2p systems to rip off companies just because you're too dumb to vote with your wallet or use the system for a legitimate purpose.
Take a good long look in the mirror, my friend. It's the unchecked arrogance and rampant stupidity of people like you that cause stupid shit like this.
That's either a very clever, subtle joke or a very stupid and ironic statement.
I'm going with the joke since it's so hard to discern the meaning.
Wow. First response in the thread (with an 8 minute lead on the second reponse none-the-less) modded redundant. Not too shabby. I was so happy when the Slash coders implemented that additional rule on awarding mod points where they'd only give them to the bottom 2% of IQs.
Since when is the general public, which houses the majority of public opinion, capable of critically evaluating anything more complicated than a diluted press release?
There is a reason that news is written on such a sophomoric level and the major "news stations" attempt to cram all of their "information" into short, sixty second blurbs between their bickering guests and stunningly imbecilic hosts. People these days have no critical thinking skills at all. They have to be told what to do in the simplest possible terms. If they actually had to make their own daily decisions on any level above that which should be expected of a three year old, most of them would probably die.
Given all of this, how do you figure that the public will be smart enough to say "wait, these open shorts people are just protecting my rights to do with my DVDs as I please! This MBA A group is just an evil congolomerate attempting to stifle my use of my own personal property!" The MPAA will simply come out and brand anyone distributing the tools as dirty, filthy pirates, blame them for rate hikes, and continue rolling in the dough while the mentally retarded herd that is most of the developed world goes about its job of being obliviously fleeced by every major corporation and government on the planet.
That doesn't even take into consideration that these idiots have probably never even heard of 'open source', the 'MPAA', 'CSS', or, most important, their own fair use rights in anything more than the most superficial manner.
...send them to my cubicle. The second I enter it, all mental and physical functions shut down for hours.
I hate to tell you chief, but Powertoys for XP gives you virtual desktops. And they're just as good as or better than Gnome's. And KDE's. Simple, fast, effective. Free.
Hmm. I've seen maybe two or three on my game box since I installed XP Home on it last November. To be fair, that's about the same number of kernel panics I saw in the same timeframe back on the first release of Linux kernel 2.2. I've never had a BSD crash, but I haven't used it as heavily (yet) either.
Microsoft will always be dogged by the fact that Win95, 98, and ME were all tepid pieces of dog crap when it came to stability. XP and 2003 will always suffer from the thousands of curses that the last generation of PC users slung at their boxes when all their work flashed into the blue and white puddle of puke that meant windows totally fucked something up.
Fair? Probably not. But, that's just the way it goes.
As far as Linux, I'd fear switching from the BSOD to the nightmare that is the X system and tepid pieces of dog shit that are KDE and Gnome. If Linux wants to play the part of the friendly desktop distro that can compete with a Windows Home system, it needs a good window management system. KDE and Gnome are definitley NOT up to filling those shoes. When they are, I'll reccommend Linux over Windows to the "normal" people. Until then, I'll continue recommending CLI and lite window managed BSD boxes for the server, and Windows for the desktop (or, OSX if you've got the cash).
Well, in theory you'd just be replacing your symbolic representation of wealth with a good or service. Technically, you wouldn't be getting poorer overall, you'd just be shifting your resources from your bank account to seat at the park or a DVD, etc.
The entire SYSTEM is out of control. The article covers everything from the abuse of the broadcast flag to benefit rich folks at the top of effectively monopolized industries to the fleecing of taxpayers to fund "public" stadiums that they have to then pay exhorbitant prices to get into, and pay exhorbitant prices to eat in. Just think, you could be funding your local superstar's overblown salary so that he can snag 14 million dollars a year to support his coke habit. You ARE funding the FCC to tell you what you can and (more often than not) can't do with the video signal broadcast from that stadium your tax dollars built. If you live in California, you're paying tax dollars to enforce "protection" measures in movie theaters by funding police that now have to respond to copyright violations.
People amaze me. They just do. It just never crosses that thick bone barrier in the majority of this country's moronic populace that every which way they turn, whether it be shopping at Wal-Mart, buying movie tickets, buying CDs, or buying sporting even tickets, that they're actually paying people to make them poorer. The sheer ignorance that the regular public has proven itself capable of is overshadowed only by the fact that the situation just keeps getting worse. Not only are they not smart enough to stop it, they're too dumb to see that they're being fed their nieghbor's body parts in the trough.
Um... because if it put the string terminator right before EOF you'd, presumably, wind up with one giant print statement that just prints out your source code from the point of the original goof? And that would be stupid?
That's the point. IIRC, the vehicle it's based upon from Dark Knight Returns (as previously mentioned) was generally built as a tank to break into the mutant's underground lair and... well... blow the shit out of them. It was meant to be highly functional, not a symbolic representation of Batman's wang like that horizontal boner from the original series of movies...
No, I forgot the last part of my comment which was "try to do it again in a year" with the assumption that the first time you found it, you would apply the necessary metadata so it wouldn't be an issue in a database fs.... :/
gun.shoot(self.foot);
Yea yea... still banned from posting. Whatever, Malda.
Instead of whining that Firefox doesn't fix other people's problems, why don't you whine to the people who make the pages wrong in the first place?
Besides, after banging around the geocaching site, I'm not seeing the problem. Some of the text is small, but looking at the source, it's supposed to be. What do you want Firefox to do, become psychic and render pages in the way you want them to, or render them the way GeoCaching says it should?
You know, some people - Linux zealots come to mind - bitch and moan about users who hold them responsible for implementing things that make their life easier. However, this is ridiculous. You're decrying the use of Firefox in the mainstream because a bunch of crappy, second-rate websites were designed by lobotomized toads? Maybe if Geocaching had bothered to design the site properly in the first place, then it wouldn't look like crap. Why hold Firefox responsible for sites that look like crap and break everything? If you want broken - use IE. If you want a competent web browser that renders all sites properly - hold moronic web developers responsible for crappy sites and demand they fix them. Hard? I don't think so... it worked fine for me when my bank put in a browser sniffer. If it's run by morons who don't want to listen to their userbase - Slashdot, for example - then don't continue to use it, or deal with the fact that it's run by morons.
left side overlaps main text requiring a page refresh to correct -- this has been noted MANY times and not corrected
I hear a lot of people complain about that, but I haven't seen it happen in a looong time.
As far as the geocaching one... what OS? Linux browsers have a tendency to render the fonts much, much smaller than Windows. I'll check it when I get off and see what Firefox through Windows vs. Firefox through FreeBSD look like, but I'm betting that's an OS specific issue (I don't have a Linbox on the network right now, so it's BSD or nuthin').
What a load.
Give me a broken site with a significant level of traffic (in other words, don't give me some 13 year old kid's site hosted off Geocities) that doesn't work in Firefox 0.8. Or, were you talking out your ass?
I use it exclusively on three different boxes - the only exception is work where I'm forced to use IE and I limit my browsing to about a dozen sites. 0.7 solved almost all of the rendering "problems" that the multitudes of completely clueless web developers caused. I've never seen a site render improperly in 0.8 except /., and even this broken-ass POS loads right most of the time now that I use 0.8. The rare exceptions to this rule are the occasional sites that are so broken they have a browser sniffer. I've encountered ONE site of significance like that (other sites were all personal sites playing stupid Javascript parlor tricks). Changed the UA and it worked just fine. Company caved to complaints less than 2 days after launching said broken-ass site and removed the sniffer.
I call bullshit.
Well, I don't click through links in e-mail anyway unless it's from someone I know personally, but it would be a lot easier if we could see the page code...
You call this a color scheme? I thought my monitor was dying the first time I saw it...
90%. Marked one fraud by mistake. I mean.. shit... I don't do business with PayPal anyway.
Wait... so... you can't see a need for a new filesystem, because you can use a series of chained, archaic mechanisms to do it?
That's great, and I can use all those tools too, but I know an awful lot more people who can't than who can and THEY are the target audience for such a system.
Okay, fine. Put a picture of a bird with a cache-like (i.e. - meaningless) filename in a random place on your hard drive, then find it.
And, before you tell me that you should be using more intelligent filenames so the linear search can find it - you don't always have control over the names of the files you're working with.
Wow, hey - check it out everyone! Somebody who "gets it" instead of just uses FOSS stuff because they want to pretend they're cool.
THIS guy's attitude is what the FOSS community MUST begin to cultivate and it MUST find a way to push the din from all the screaming Microsoft haters down to an inaudible level (the cluetrain just dropped off a package: nobody cares if Microsoft has been promising something without delivering for 10 years. If they beat Linux to it, that's all that matters). The FOSS community disgusts me, and it's lack of focus that makes that so. The parent poster understands that the point of any software development should be to fill a need that's still empty, or to improve upon a tool that's already filling a need.
When more people get on board with pushing Linux to just be a good system, more people will use it. Nobody is going to switch to Linux just because YOU hate Microsoft. They WILL switch to Linux, however, when it offers them a good reason to do so.
Maybe there should be a free alternative to these search engines?
Okay, Brainiac. Now, all you have to do is figure out 1) what difference it would make since yes, if the Chinese government doesn't like it and can't control it, they'll ban it and 2) the logistics of creating a free search engine to compete with Google which is dedicated specifically to search.
Here's a thought: maybe the answer to every problem isn't "oo! oo! Make a "free" version of it! Oo! oo!
If you could install a "free" version of the Chinese government, that would be great. But, until then, I don't see, exactly, what good creating another "subversive" site for them to block would do. If Google didn't bow, it would be blocked. They're not in the search engine business for idyllic world views, they're in it to make money. If you don't like that, don't use them. THEN you can go create your little "free" engine to pit idealism against capitalism.
Crikey... I like idealistic dreams as much as the next guy, but get real. Google wants to make money, not conform to your bizarre ideas of a perfect world.
The irony in using a command that started in the proprietary IRIX system to show "how open source should deal with software patents" is something I fear shall be forever lost on most Slashdotters...