And, again, an AC with no backing or history calls ME full of shit. I'll make this short, because I HATE responding to people who post strong opinions with no backing. It shows that you have no faith in your opinion, you're just plain lazy, or YOU are full of shit.
If the tunnel IS protected, the FBI should just fuck off and go do some real work. It's just plain STUPID, because the FBI should be out there hunting down REALLY strange things. Like Saudi Arabian men with no jobs, stable checking accounts, and expired visas who are taking pyrotechnics lessons out in the middle of the fucking desert.
But hey, if you feel safer while the FBI is out hunting snipes on campus, that's YOUR fucking problem. Don't try to make it everyone else's.
If the underground tunnels are that critical, or a weak point in the infrastructure and hold the potential to facillitate a disaster, they need to be protected, not just hidden away. Keeping that information from someone looking to cause harm will not help anything.
I hate this attitude... you can investigate people right up the asshole with a flashlight everytime someone makes a "funny" request, but if the problem is that you're not protecting the goddamn thing in the first place, then you're not going to stop anyone. You can't just investigate everyone who comes into the bank and leave the vault wide open and expect to not have a problem.
Here's a thought for you: what if this guy was just a decoy to see if they could get the information, and now the mysterious, miscellaneous "evildoers" are just going to jump the fence with dynamite in their backpacks? What good would the FBI sticking it's nose into FOIA requests do then?
As usual, the people in charge are just covering up the fact that they're ignoring the real problems by pretending to protect us through this sort of bullshit...
Mmmm... that's not entirely true. Lately, a lot of virus writers have just been preying on the stupidity and gullibility of the average user. Hell, I got one of them zipped one day that practically had freakin' installation instructions... and people were STILL getting infected!
However, for this to work on a Linbox, there are two requirements: 1) the user must save the binary and make it executable and 2) the user must then run it. Now, once that happens, there's really not much going to go differently on a Linbox than a Winbox. The thing can still bind to a high port and zombify the machine for spammers, which is what the majority of viruses do as of late. On a desktop, there's no reason to believe that granny Gretchen won't do just that once she learns how to whip out chmod +x on everything's ass. The nice thing, however, is that if you're running in a corporate environment, you can isolate users to their own filesystems to protect them from doing stupid things like this. Yea, maybe they'll trash their own data, but at least they'll be isolated from critical system information and the network (excepting zombification... but you would be smart and block all those ports, right... you don't have chewy on the inside network security... right?). Great for corporate networks, FAR better than the Windows situation (Yea, I know.. you can use Active Directory, but that's not a native part of Windows). However, for desktop users at home... well... they'd still shoot themselves in the foot.
Worms, on the other hand, are another story. First, patching a Linbox is often a matter of grabbing a patch a day or two after the vuln is known and slapping it into the system. Since Linux is built on the Unix philosophy of tools in a toolbox, you don't have to worry that a patch for program x is going to change code that program's y and z also use (unless it's a library or something). Windows? Not the case. If you have to patch MSHTML, anything from IE to your damned titlebars can get fucked up as a result.
On top of that, Linux systems are not (currently) very homogenous. Part of what makes Linux a tantalizing target for manual attacks is that it's just damned hard to write malicious code that will work on a widespread number of systems. Unfortunately, as the dust settles and some companies really do start to take up the mantle of "desktop linux", that heterogeny may just go away for desktop users...
The point is this: Linux CAN be much, much, MUCH more secure than Windows. However, Linux also does the same thing Unix does: "Look, you can make me secure if you want, but you can also use me to blow your toes off one at a time... YOU choose.. I'm not going to decide for you." A lot of geeks forget that. Linux is not inherently secure (OpenBSD is inherently secure... and I don't think it's going mainstream desktop like that any time soon), and it WILL happily let you shoot yourself and your nearby friends if you so choose. Desktop users at home will do just that. It does do some things inherently better, but it still won't protect the world from people who don't bother to learn anything at all about their new toy. You can code against stupid people, but your system isn't going to do much when you're done.
The WEB is mainstream. Most people just can't tell the difference between the www, ftp, e-mail, irc, and usenet. I get the strangest looks when I tell some people to type "eff tee pee colon slash slash" sometimes...
Yea, it's a cut and paste of the "troll" parent. The point, which you managed to stumble blindly through with the grace and elegance of a whino smashing a liquor store window, is that just because you don't agree with it, that doesn't mean it's a troll or it's not true. Why did you zone in on the Linux parts? The whole thing isn't about Linux, but a lot of the criticisms, while short on explanation and curt, are true to some extent or another. They're good starting points for getting you actually THINKING about a position you took or making you THINK about whether they're really true or not. They're not meant to be hard facts, put on that dusty old critical thinking cap and DECIDE FOR YOURSELF.
You can't just claim something is a troll and mod it away because you don't want to think about it, and that's EXACTLY what that parent poster had happen. Why did I get modded up? Because I'm logged in, and I have Excellent karma, so it's magically more legit NOW than when the last poster put it up? Bullshit. It's the same fucking post word for word. I don't agree with all of it, but I didn't cut any of it either just because I don't agree. The POINT that you so gleefully missed while gnashing your teeth to defend your poor, downtrodden Linux system (never mind that I have a Linux system protecting this Windows box and I do all my work on another Linux box on the same network.. I must just be an anti-Linux troll, hmmm?) is that there are a LOT of people here who are EXTREMELY tired of the groupthink and kneejerk reactions around here. Whether people are sucking up for karma or they're just screaming because everyone else is, it gets extremely tiresome to see the same bullshit perpetuated. Linux is NOT ready for the home desktop. The RIAA *does* have a right to defend its copyright (gee, did you [figuratively, not you personally] mean to argue that the RIAA's METHODS are unsound? Did you THINK about it before you posted an anti-RIAA rant?). The GPL is NOT the answer to everything. Microsoft DOES have some positive traits. Some of the Slashdot editors, especially michael, ARE abusive.
Try and post anything like that in some stories and you get modded to shit no matter how truthful, well-supported, or intelligent the post is.
I'm fucking tired of it, so now I'm lending my Karma to all those AC "trolls" who keep posting this. The POINT of the whole thing is: fucking think for yourself for once instead of just chasing after some stupid 'karma' attribute in a database or joining a chorus of your idiotic screaming peers. You have a brain, use it.
The parent is NOT a goddamn troll just because they're making you think about things you normally post blindly. Here's the fucking text again. Mod me down, and I'll post it again at the top of the next story. I'll do that until my fucking Karma is lower than michael's IQ:
* If you expect companies to follow the copyright of the GPL, you should support the RIAA going after infringers of its copyright. If not, you're a hypocrite.
* There is absolutely nothing wrong with a company being upset that its product is being pirated freely over online networks. A recent Slashdot poll showed that the majority of Slashotters are unemployed or are students ("academics"), which explains a lot. Try getting a real job sometime and see what it feels like when your work is everywhere, and you start worrying that your days are numbered. Does John Carmack want you to "sample" his new game via the "free advertising" happening on eMule?
* At the 2004 WinHEC, Allchin demonstrated an alpha version of Longhorn that played six high-resolution videos at the same time while playing Quake III in the background. An equivalent XP machine couldn't play more than four videos. Meanwhile, I can't even get xmms to play without skipping, and windows to drag without visual tearing! That's because KDE and GNOME are hacks to emulate a desktop on top of the crufty XFree86 architecture that people won't let die (Linux users absolutely fear change).
* VA Linux-owned Slashdot thinks its niche opinion represents the majority of the world. This is a result of people visiting every day and buying into the groupthink. Nobody outside of Slashdot knows or cares about "Linux," "RIAA", "M$," or anything else Slashdotters think is such a huge issue in today's society. Go to a mall or coffee shop sometime and see what people actually talk about.
* Speaking of VA Linux--it's a Linux company...that owns a "tech news" site...that posts news stories negative toward competitors like Microsoft. If a Windows company or even Microsoft itself owned a "tech news" site and posted anti-Linux articles all the time, everyone would be up in arms. But with VA Linux, it's a-okay.
* Slashbots think people don't like the music coming out these days, which is the cause of the piracy. Never mind that if people didn't like the music they wouldn't be pirating it, most Slashbots--again, this goes back to the niche opinion thing--don't realize that most people these days love the music coming out and want to hear all of it. Probing around, you discover that Slashdot is made up of nerds and fogies who listen to things like The Who and Blind Guardian and techno--not what mainstream society enjoys.
* Any company ending in "AA" is evil. Especially if it doesn't want you distributing its works without paying for it. Somehow, this mindset is supposed to make sense.
* The inevitable result of all this is a world in which nothing can be profitable because people simply pirate free copies. Is that really what Slashbots want? OSS and free-ness in general reminds me of the hippie era of the 60s--idealistic socialism that only exists because of the surrounding capitalism around it that provides the environment for it to exist. We all know what happened to that idea.
* Linux rules the desktop, when in reality: Windows = 91%; Mac = 4%; Linux = 1%
* Slashdot editors are abusive. We all remember The Post. It's amusing the editors never mention the issue. The worst editor is michael, who will mod you down, insult you for your post count, and post unprofessional color commentary along with the article. This is the same bizarre person who cybersquatted Censorware for years--even as Slashdot posted articles negative toward cybersquatting! Michael played it off like he was some sort of stalking victim, which made it all the more bizarre.
* The moderation system is broken. If you mod someone as "Overrated," you can't be metamodded. People abuse this all the time to ga
"Prattle", moron. Human beings don't make brattling noises very well... unless they're bones are shaking or something. And, while it may get on your nerves, I don't think brattle would dull your mind anyway.
Whoops, okay - time to admit mistakes: IE is tied to the SHELL, not the kernel. My bad. I always forget that little niggling detail since trying to remove anything you don't want from a Windows system is like trying to remove a pin from a live grenade.
Now, let us go back through all this and play a little game, shall we? It's called "Who Trolled First".
Aw, pity I didn't respond to that in a civil manner. Guess I'm just not afraid to drag myself down to your level, hmm?
At any rate, I'd like you to point out now where I denied there was a memory leak? Oh, you can't? Sort of makes tracking down all of those/. posts about it a useless endeavour, doesn't it?
Next, let's talk about bug classification. Hmmm... you keep 50 tabs open for days... you don't use bookmarks, apparently... so the developers should jump right on that bug so that you can leave your browser running unattended for days with an inordinate amount of pages open? Mmmm... no. It's called prioritization, ever heard of it? I'm sure there are more important bugs to fix before 1.0, since this is a PREVIEW VERSION of a web browser. Oh, right - you probably weren't paying attention to the fact that you're using a preliminary build, were you?
Continuing onward, congratulations on finding the link to a site that specifically disavows any useful, public content. Woohoo. You're so smart that you managed to find some stuff that I developed for WORK where I have to use INTERNET EXPLORER whether I like it or not. I'm not exactly certain how that means IE is "my browser" since I haven't opened it intentionally in a good year and a half or more on my Windows box at home, but go ahead and pretend otherwise.
Congrats. You are yet another member of the ever-growing pile of people who have tried to call bullshit on me. You could live vicariously through the two folks who caught my slip up on the shell / the kernel, but that's no way to live. Keep playing though, maybe you can find something else to catch.
By the way, I'm sure your mother is a very nice lady, and she probably even has some wonderful recipes and a lovely singing voice.
No, but I got crabs in my goatee from your dad's hairy ass.... oh wait, sorry... I thought you just wanted to try and see who could be the better troll.
Anyway, ignoring the fact that you wrapped up with "I'm not smart enough to counter with anything intelligent, so I'll just sling a random, dull insult".... Honestly, if you're going to throw insults, make them interesting so someone at least gets a chuckle.
Now then, we've established that fact, let's get down to the responses you made that either put words in my mouth or responded to things I didn't say.... I..... wait.. that's your whole post.
I'm not going to bother responding with intelligent counters because this post by magefile already does that, and I don't feel a need to duplicate the work. The only thing I'll add is that while it might well be a bug, if it only occurs when you abuse the tool well beyond reasonable limits, it should be prioritized appropriately. I, of course, am assuming that this is either already a known bug, or you've submitted it as a new one... right? Mods, please mod up the linked post.
All that said, I find your lack of intelligent banter to be something of a disappointing testimony on the average quality of today's universities and private colleges (unless, of course, you're just below average) if you're the caliber of student that makes it far enough to write this deeply involved of a thesis.
I call bullshit or troll. First of all, 50 open tabs for days is so unbelievably illogical that I can't even begin to imagine what you're doing. I can't exactly say I'm going to hold it against the Firefox developers that their browser becomes a memory hog when people are using it waaayyyyy beyond its intent. If that's something you legitimately need, offer a patch or use a tool that's actually meant to do that. Otherwise, don't complain that it's not doing things it's not supposed to.
Second, the trite old "it loads slower than IE" is so incredibly irritating that I have to bite my tongue to prevent a slew of obscenities. Boo hoo. So, you have to wait an extra 2 seconds for it to load up because the WEB BROWSER isn't tied to the KERNEL. After all, what sort of moronic dipshits would make a web browser an integral part of a system kernel anyway?
Finally, I call bullshit on the "slow loads". If you've got benchmarks, show 'em. Otherwise, my anectdotal evidence says your anecdotal evidence is full of crap because the only lag I see on my 1.5/Cable connection is from the servers on the other end of the pipe.
And, here's the other thing that drives me nuts. All you nutters that think this sort of behavior is perfectly normal and acceptable. You... are... fucking.... insane. WAKE UP.
First of all, if human rights aren't universal, we don't deserve them any more than anybody else does, and our government has no need to feel obligated to keep those inconvenient "rights" that are such an impediment to their power plays and growth. Removing a right from a single person is like taking a chisel and putting a crack in the dam. The instant it's there, it's only a matter of time before the whole thing is worn away from that foothold and the water comes crashing through. The longer you ignore it, or try to play it off as insignificant, the harder it becomes to patch it back up. Let it go long enough, and only a mssive, coordinated, immediate response will avert disaster.
Second of all, YOUR bandwidth is YOUR private "property", as it were and is not subject to the same rules as the government. That has NOTHING to do with anything related to this discussion, and if you've taken at least a basic Civics class and think about it for a minute or two, you'll realize why.
Thirdly, democracy has nothing to do with censorship and, in fact, part of the reason the government is there is supposedly to protect the minority from majority abuse. Censorship is censorship, and the government has no place practicing it without an extremely compelling reason to do so. Yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre can be censored (and even that's debateable due to the "crack in the dam" thing again) because it presents a legitimate public safety hazard. Last I knew, nobody ever died jerking off to porn unless they had a fucking heart attack or something.
Finally, not only is it irrelevant to this discussion what YOU think is a waste of tax dollars, it's also irrelevant how success is measured, if at all. These are completely different issues, and are only superficially related to the topic of censorship.
And, I might add: I agree, if the government cannot be trusted to run these systems without sticking their nose into moralistic bullshit like what the Chinese should and shouldn't watch, they shouldn't be running the fucking servers.
The IBB has justified a filtered Internet connection by arguing that it's inappropriate for U.S. funds to help residents of China and Iran--both of which receive dismal ratings from human rights group Freedom House--view pornography.
In the abstract, the argument is a reasonable one. If the IBB's service had blocked only hard-core pornographic Web sites, few people would object.
In other words, censorship is a perfectly acceptable thing to do when the majority doesn't complain about it? What kind of fucked up, idiotic logic is that?
Whether the majority cares or not is irrelevant, it's not a reasonable argument because censorship is censorship. I'm sure someone will try to spin it that "oh, well, it's the government censoring ANOTHER country", but that's just bullshit too. If you can't extend the beliefs of this country to non-citizens, there's no particularly compelling reason to believe they should apply to us, either.
Why is it that every time I turn around these days, some sort of idiotic bullshit like this is coming out of the government? Who the fuck let them off their leash anyway?
... mold and fungus growing on my shower curtain that if I do get an infection from it, I can just lick it to heal up.
Seriously though, I'd be more concerned about kitchen counters than shower curtains. I don't know about this guy, but I don't exactly spend a lot of time in direct, intimate contact with it. A lot of people, however, stupidly wipe their counter tops down with the same cloth they used to wash the dishes. They take all the bacteria and germs from that cloth, and spread them all over the counter. Then, they prepare food on that same surface. Seems a trifle worse than bumping a bacteria-ridden shower curtain now and then if such inane things concern you (honestly, who cares? How do you think people lived before everything from their hand soap to their hairspray was "antibacterial" anyway?).
Maybe you're an imbecile and you have no concept of making the punishment fit the crime. Here's an idea: let's cut off your fingers so you can't type for typing something so obscenely stupid.
Oh, what? Being a stammering moron isn't a crime? Well.. it sure as hell ought to be.
Ahh but that defines the taking of solid objects and was put in webster before computers even existed.
That's ridiculous. Copyright infringement predates Webster. I'd say the printing press pretty much let that cat out of the bag a few hundred years before Webster was even on this planet.
While I agree with the spirit of what you're saying - people ripping off music are just the other side of a double-edged problem - I disagree with the way you presented it.
That day 0 copy of the next StarWars can and should land you in jail plain and simple.
Why on earth should that land anyone in jail? Punishments should be contingent with the magnitude of the crime. Last I knew, society didn't really suffer a whole lot because some poor college kid or some cheap bastard ripped off a copy of a crappy sci fi flick. Pay a fine and that's that. I mean, explain to me, please, how wasting your time downloading a movie that costs $8 to see in the theatre and $20 to bring home on DVD is worth a couple thousand taxpayer dollars for jail time? Even if you're talking about the person that made the 0 day rip available, they didn't cause enough harm to justify jail time. Make them pay twenty eight bucks for the content and add court costs, reasonable restitution for investigating and prosecuting the case, and a fine. Make the fine bigger for the person who made the copy.
Nobody ever died because someone downloaded a movie. There's no justfication for jail time, $100k+ fines, or any of the other insanely draconian punishments that these nutters in the content industries want to try and mete out.
Punishments, yes. But reasonable ones.
All that said, I find it greatly distressing that those two whackjobs Leahy and Hatch are seriously suggesting spending more of MY tax money to help their palm-greasers stomp on people's feet. It's not MY content, so I don't think I should have to pay to enforce the copyright on it. THAT'S actually the problem in this story.
I am so drunk..... (because I took off work tomorrow). WAIT! I'm not drunk enough to not qualify my statement.... and I made the link into a link.... so I'm... uh... not drunk?
You misquoted, or, perhaps, misunderstood. The quote you pulled is in reference to the individual's bizarre interest in Karma, not his or her AC status.
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And, again, an AC with no backing or history calls ME full of shit. I'll make this short, because I HATE responding to people who post strong opinions with no backing. It shows that you have no faith in your opinion, you're just plain lazy, or YOU are full of shit.
If the tunnel IS protected, the FBI should just fuck off and go do some real work. It's just plain STUPID, because the FBI should be out there hunting down REALLY strange things. Like Saudi Arabian men with no jobs, stable checking accounts, and expired visas who are taking pyrotechnics lessons out in the middle of the fucking desert.
But hey, if you feel safer while the FBI is out hunting snipes on campus, that's YOUR fucking problem. Don't try to make it everyone else's.
If the underground tunnels are that critical, or a weak point in the infrastructure and hold the potential to facillitate a disaster, they need to be protected, not just hidden away. Keeping that information from someone looking to cause harm will not help anything.
I hate this attitude... you can investigate people right up the asshole with a flashlight everytime someone makes a "funny" request, but if the problem is that you're not protecting the goddamn thing in the first place, then you're not going to stop anyone. You can't just investigate everyone who comes into the bank and leave the vault wide open and expect to not have a problem.
Here's a thought for you: what if this guy was just a decoy to see if they could get the information, and now the mysterious, miscellaneous "evildoers" are just going to jump the fence with dynamite in their backpacks? What good would the FBI sticking it's nose into FOIA requests do then?
As usual, the people in charge are just covering up the fact that they're ignoring the real problems by pretending to protect us through this sort of bullshit...
Mmmm... that's not entirely true. Lately, a lot of virus writers have just been preying on the stupidity and gullibility of the average user. Hell, I got one of them zipped one day that practically had freakin' installation instructions... and people were STILL getting infected!
However, for this to work on a Linbox, there are two requirements: 1) the user must save the binary and make it executable and 2) the user must then run it. Now, once that happens, there's really not much going to go differently on a Linbox than a Winbox. The thing can still bind to a high port and zombify the machine for spammers, which is what the majority of viruses do as of late. On a desktop, there's no reason to believe that granny Gretchen won't do just that once she learns how to whip out chmod +x on everything's ass. The nice thing, however, is that if you're running in a corporate environment, you can isolate users to their own filesystems to protect them from doing stupid things like this. Yea, maybe they'll trash their own data, but at least they'll be isolated from critical system information and the network (excepting zombification... but you would be smart and block all those ports, right... you don't have chewy on the inside network security... right?). Great for corporate networks, FAR better than the Windows situation (Yea, I know.. you can use Active Directory, but that's not a native part of Windows). However, for desktop users at home... well... they'd still shoot themselves in the foot.
Worms, on the other hand, are another story. First, patching a Linbox is often a matter of grabbing a patch a day or two after the vuln is known and slapping it into the system. Since Linux is built on the Unix philosophy of tools in a toolbox, you don't have to worry that a patch for program x is going to change code that program's y and z also use (unless it's a library or something). Windows? Not the case. If you have to patch MSHTML, anything from IE to your damned titlebars can get fucked up as a result.
On top of that, Linux systems are not (currently) very homogenous. Part of what makes Linux a tantalizing target for manual attacks is that it's just damned hard to write malicious code that will work on a widespread number of systems. Unfortunately, as the dust settles and some companies really do start to take up the mantle of "desktop linux", that heterogeny may just go away for desktop users...
The point is this: Linux CAN be much, much, MUCH more secure than Windows. However, Linux also does the same thing Unix does: "Look, you can make me secure if you want, but you can also use me to blow your toes off one at a time... YOU choose.. I'm not going to decide for you." A lot of geeks forget that. Linux is not inherently secure (OpenBSD is inherently secure... and I don't think it's going mainstream desktop like that any time soon), and it WILL happily let you shoot yourself and your nearby friends if you so choose. Desktop users at home will do just that. It does do some things inherently better, but it still won't protect the world from people who don't bother to learn anything at all about their new toy. You can code against stupid people, but your system isn't going to do much when you're done.
The WEB is mainstream. Most people just can't tell the difference between the www, ftp, e-mail, irc, and usenet. I get the strangest looks when I tell some people to type "eff tee pee colon slash slash" sometimes...
Yea, it's a cut and paste of the "troll" parent. The point, which you managed to stumble blindly through with the grace and elegance of a whino smashing a liquor store window, is that just because you don't agree with it, that doesn't mean it's a troll or it's not true. Why did you zone in on the Linux parts? The whole thing isn't about Linux, but a lot of the criticisms, while short on explanation and curt, are true to some extent or another. They're good starting points for getting you actually THINKING about a position you took or making you THINK about whether they're really true or not. They're not meant to be hard facts, put on that dusty old critical thinking cap and DECIDE FOR YOURSELF.
You can't just claim something is a troll and mod it away because you don't want to think about it, and that's EXACTLY what that parent poster had happen. Why did I get modded up? Because I'm logged in, and I have Excellent karma, so it's magically more legit NOW than when the last poster put it up? Bullshit. It's the same fucking post word for word. I don't agree with all of it, but I didn't cut any of it either just because I don't agree. The POINT that you so gleefully missed while gnashing your teeth to defend your poor, downtrodden Linux system (never mind that I have a Linux system protecting this Windows box and I do all my work on another Linux box on the same network.. I must just be an anti-Linux troll, hmmm?) is that there are a LOT of people here who are EXTREMELY tired of the groupthink and kneejerk reactions around here. Whether people are sucking up for karma or they're just screaming because everyone else is, it gets extremely tiresome to see the same bullshit perpetuated. Linux is NOT ready for the home desktop. The RIAA *does* have a right to defend its copyright (gee, did you [figuratively, not you personally] mean to argue that the RIAA's METHODS are unsound? Did you THINK about it before you posted an anti-RIAA rant?). The GPL is NOT the answer to everything. Microsoft DOES have some positive traits. Some of the Slashdot editors, especially michael, ARE abusive.
Try and post anything like that in some stories and you get modded to shit no matter how truthful, well-supported, or intelligent the post is.
I'm fucking tired of it, so now I'm lending my Karma to all those AC "trolls" who keep posting this. The POINT of the whole thing is: fucking think for yourself for once instead of just chasing after some stupid 'karma' attribute in a database or joining a chorus of your idiotic screaming peers. You have a brain, use it.
The parent is NOT a goddamn troll just because they're making you think about things you normally post blindly. Here's the fucking text again. Mod me down, and I'll post it again at the top of the next story. I'll do that until my fucking Karma is lower than michael's IQ:
* If you expect companies to follow the copyright of the GPL, you should support the RIAA going after infringers of its copyright. If not, you're a hypocrite.
* There is absolutely nothing wrong with a company being upset that its product is being pirated freely over online networks. A recent Slashdot poll showed that the majority of Slashotters are unemployed or are students ("academics"), which explains a lot. Try getting a real job sometime and see what it feels like when your work is everywhere, and you start worrying that your days are numbered. Does John Carmack want you to "sample" his new game via the "free advertising" happening on eMule?
* At the 2004 WinHEC, Allchin demonstrated an alpha version of Longhorn that played six high-resolution videos at the same time while playing Quake III in the background. An equivalent XP machine couldn't play more than four videos. Meanwhile, I can't even get xmms to play without skipping, and windows to drag without visual tearing! That's because KDE and GNOME are hacks to emulate a desktop on top of the crufty XFree86 architecture that people won't let die (Linux users absolutely fear change).
* VA Linux-owned Slashdot thinks its niche opinion represents the majority of the world. This is a result of people visiting every day and buying into the groupthink. Nobody outside of Slashdot knows or cares about "Linux," "RIAA", "M$," or anything else Slashdotters think is such a huge issue in today's society. Go to a mall or coffee shop sometime and see what people actually talk
about.
* Speaking of VA Linux--it's a Linux company...that owns a "tech news" site...that posts news stories negative toward competitors like Microsoft. If a Windows company or even Microsoft itself owned a "tech news" site and posted anti-Linux articles all the time, everyone would be up in arms. But with VA Linux, it's a-okay.
* Slashbots think people don't like the music coming out these days, which is the cause of the piracy. Never mind that if people didn't like the music they wouldn't be pirating it, most Slashbots--again, this goes back to the niche opinion thing--don't realize that most people these days love the music coming out and want to hear all of it. Probing around, you discover that Slashdot is made up of nerds and fogies who listen to things like The Who and Blind Guardian and techno--not what mainstream society enjoys.
* Any company ending in "AA" is evil. Especially if it doesn't want you distributing its works without paying for it. Somehow, this mindset is supposed to make sense.
* The inevitable result of all this is a world in which nothing can be profitable because people simply pirate free copies. Is that really what Slashbots want? OSS and free-ness in general reminds me of the hippie era of the 60s--idealistic socialism that only exists because of the surrounding capitalism around it that provides the environment for it to exist. We all know what happened to that idea.
* Linux rules the desktop, when in reality: Windows = 91%; Mac = 4%; Linux = 1%
* Slashdot editors are abusive. We all remember The Post. It's amusing the editors never mention the issue. The worst editor is michael, who will mod you down, insult you for your post count, and post unprofessional color commentary along with the article. This is the same bizarre person who cybersquatted Censorware for years--even as Slashdot posted articles negative toward cybersquatting! Michael played it off like he was some sort of stalking victim, which made it all the more bizarre.
* The moderation system is broken. If you mod someone as "Overrated," you can't be metamodded. People abuse this all the time to ga
What the heck are they going to do if I meet up with them on the street? Try to fire me from the sidewalk?
"Their", moron. They're is a contraction, their is possessive, and there is positional.
"Prattle", moron. Human beings don't make brattling noises very well... unless they're bones are shaking or something. And, while it may get on your nerves, I don't think brattle would dull your mind anyway.
Whoops, okay - time to admit mistakes: IE is tied to the SHELL, not the kernel. My bad. I always forget that little niggling detail since trying to remove anything you don't want from a Windows system is like trying to remove a pin from a live grenade.
Now, let us go back through all this and play a little game, shall we? It's called "Who Trolled First".
You said.
I said
And then, you trolled with this
Aw, pity I didn't respond to that in a civil manner. Guess I'm just not afraid to drag myself down to your level, hmm?
At any rate, I'd like you to point out now where I denied there was a memory leak? Oh, you can't? Sort of makes tracking down all of those /. posts about it a useless endeavour, doesn't it?
Next, let's talk about bug classification. Hmmm... you keep 50 tabs open for days... you don't use bookmarks, apparently... so the developers should jump right on that bug so that you can leave your browser running unattended for days with an inordinate amount of pages open? Mmmm... no. It's called prioritization, ever heard of it? I'm sure there are more important bugs to fix before 1.0, since this is a PREVIEW VERSION of a web browser. Oh, right - you probably weren't paying attention to the fact that you're using a preliminary build, were you?
Continuing onward, congratulations on finding the link to a site that specifically disavows any useful, public content. Woohoo. You're so smart that you managed to find some stuff that I developed for WORK where I have to use INTERNET EXPLORER whether I like it or not. I'm not exactly certain how that means IE is "my browser" since I haven't opened it intentionally in a good year and a half or more on my Windows box at home, but go ahead and pretend otherwise.
Congrats. You are yet another member of the ever-growing pile of people who have tried to call bullshit on me. You could live vicariously through the two folks who caught my slip up on the shell / the kernel, but that's no way to live. Keep playing though, maybe you can find something else to catch.
By the way, I'm sure your mother is a very nice lady, and she probably even has some wonderful recipes and a lovely singing voice.
Do you suffer from narcolepsy?
No, but I got crabs in my goatee from your dad's hairy ass.... oh wait, sorry... I thought you just wanted to try and see who could be the better troll.
Anyway, ignoring the fact that you wrapped up with "I'm not smart enough to counter with anything intelligent, so I'll just sling a random, dull insult".... Honestly, if you're going to throw insults, make them interesting so someone at least gets a chuckle.
Now then, we've established that fact, let's get down to the responses you made that either put words in my mouth or responded to things I didn't say.... I..... wait.. that's your whole post.
I'm not going to bother responding with intelligent counters because this post by magefile already does that, and I don't feel a need to duplicate the work. The only thing I'll add is that while it might well be a bug, if it only occurs when you abuse the tool well beyond reasonable limits, it should be prioritized appropriately. I, of course, am assuming that this is either already a known bug, or you've submitted it as a new one... right? Mods, please mod up the linked post.
All that said, I find your lack of intelligent banter to be something of a disappointing testimony on the average quality of today's universities and private colleges (unless, of course, you're just below average) if you're the caliber of student that makes it far enough to write this deeply involved of a thesis.
Go ahead, troll. Beat that.
I call bullshit or troll. First of all, 50 open tabs for days is so unbelievably illogical that I can't even begin to imagine what you're doing. I can't exactly say I'm going to hold it against the Firefox developers that their browser becomes a memory hog when people are using it waaayyyyy beyond its intent. If that's something you legitimately need, offer a patch or use a tool that's actually meant to do that. Otherwise, don't complain that it's not doing things it's not supposed to.
Second, the trite old "it loads slower than IE" is so incredibly irritating that I have to bite my tongue to prevent a slew of obscenities. Boo hoo. So, you have to wait an extra 2 seconds for it to load up because the WEB BROWSER isn't tied to the KERNEL. After all, what sort of moronic dipshits would make a web browser an integral part of a system kernel anyway?
Finally, I call bullshit on the "slow loads". If you've got benchmarks, show 'em. Otherwise, my anectdotal evidence says your anecdotal evidence is full of crap because the only lag I see on my 1.5/Cable connection is from the servers on the other end of the pipe.
What could possibly require that kind of hardware for an 'average' desktop user?
Unspoken deals between hardware makers and Microsoft come to mind...
Next you'll be telling me that Duke Nukem Forever just went into public beta...
Heh... only if the developers took a page from Valve's book.
That's why the smarter people use Firefox.
And, here's the other thing that drives me nuts. All you nutters that think this sort of behavior is perfectly normal and acceptable. You... are... fucking.... insane. WAKE UP.
First of all, if human rights aren't universal, we don't deserve them any more than anybody else does, and our government has no need to feel obligated to keep those inconvenient "rights" that are such an impediment to their power plays and growth. Removing a right from a single person is like taking a chisel and putting a crack in the dam. The instant it's there, it's only a matter of time before the whole thing is worn away from that foothold and the water comes crashing through. The longer you ignore it, or try to play it off as insignificant, the harder it becomes to patch it back up. Let it go long enough, and only a mssive, coordinated, immediate response will avert disaster.
Second of all, YOUR bandwidth is YOUR private "property", as it were and is not subject to the same rules as the government. That has NOTHING to do with anything related to this discussion, and if you've taken at least a basic Civics class and think about it for a minute or two, you'll realize why.
Thirdly, democracy has nothing to do with censorship and, in fact, part of the reason the government is there is supposedly to protect the minority from majority abuse. Censorship is censorship, and the government has no place practicing it without an extremely compelling reason to do so. Yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre can be censored (and even that's debateable due to the "crack in the dam" thing again) because it presents a legitimate public safety hazard. Last I knew, nobody ever died jerking off to porn unless they had a fucking heart attack or something.
Finally, not only is it irrelevant to this discussion what YOU think is a waste of tax dollars, it's also irrelevant how success is measured, if at all. These are completely different issues, and are only superficially related to the topic of censorship.
And, I might add: I agree, if the government cannot be trusted to run these systems without sticking their nose into moralistic bullshit like what the Chinese should and shouldn't watch, they shouldn't be running the fucking servers.
The IBB has justified a filtered Internet connection by arguing that it's inappropriate for U.S. funds to help residents of China and Iran--both of which receive dismal ratings from human rights group Freedom House--view pornography.
In the abstract, the argument is a reasonable one. If the IBB's service had blocked only hard-core pornographic Web sites, few people would object.
In other words, censorship is a perfectly acceptable thing to do when the majority doesn't complain about it? What kind of fucked up, idiotic logic is that?
Whether the majority cares or not is irrelevant, it's not a reasonable argument because censorship is censorship. I'm sure someone will try to spin it that "oh, well, it's the government censoring ANOTHER country", but that's just bullshit too. If you can't extend the beliefs of this country to non-citizens, there's no particularly compelling reason to believe they should apply to us, either.
Why is it that every time I turn around these days, some sort of idiotic bullshit like this is coming out of the government? Who the fuck let them off their leash anyway?
... mold and fungus growing on my shower curtain that if I do get an infection from it, I can just lick it to heal up.
Seriously though, I'd be more concerned about kitchen counters than shower curtains. I don't know about this guy, but I don't exactly spend a lot of time in direct, intimate contact with it. A lot of people, however, stupidly wipe their counter tops down with the same cloth they used to wash the dishes. They take all the bacteria and germs from that cloth, and spread them all over the counter. Then, they prepare food on that same surface. Seems a trifle worse than bumping a bacteria-ridden shower curtain now and then if such inane things concern you (honestly, who cares? How do you think people lived before everything from their hand soap to their hairspray was "antibacterial" anyway?).
Maybe you're an imbecile and you have no concept of making the punishment fit the crime. Here's an idea: let's cut off your fingers so you can't type for typing something so obscenely stupid.
Oh, what? Being a stammering moron isn't a crime? Well.. it sure as hell ought to be.
Ahh but that defines the taking of solid objects and was put in webster before computers even existed.
That's ridiculous. Copyright infringement predates Webster. I'd say the printing press pretty much let that cat out of the bag a few hundred years before Webster was even on this planet.
While I agree with the spirit of what you're saying - people ripping off music are just the other side of a double-edged problem - I disagree with the way you presented it.
That day 0 copy of the next StarWars can and should land you in jail plain and simple.
Why on earth should that land anyone in jail? Punishments should be contingent with the magnitude of the crime. Last I knew, society didn't really suffer a whole lot because some poor college kid or some cheap bastard ripped off a copy of a crappy sci fi flick. Pay a fine and that's that. I mean, explain to me, please, how wasting your time downloading a movie that costs $8 to see in the theatre and $20 to bring home on DVD is worth a couple thousand taxpayer dollars for jail time? Even if you're talking about the person that made the 0 day rip available, they didn't cause enough harm to justify jail time. Make them pay twenty eight bucks for the content and add court costs, reasonable restitution for investigating and prosecuting the case, and a fine. Make the fine bigger for the person who made the copy.
Nobody ever died because someone downloaded a movie. There's no justfication for jail time, $100k+ fines, or any of the other insanely draconian punishments that these nutters in the content industries want to try and mete out.
Punishments, yes. But reasonable ones.
All that said, I find it greatly distressing that those two whackjobs Leahy and Hatch are seriously suggesting spending more of MY tax money to help their palm-greasers stomp on people's feet. It's not MY content, so I don't think I should have to pay to enforce the copyright on it. THAT'S actually the problem in this story.
I don't think much better of Clinton, but he's not running now, so he's just a bad memory.
Your mockery relies on historic vindication.
Normally, I wouldn't take such a huge risk. In this case, I say: Good Luck.
Check back in 49 years for the result.
Holy shit
That is the FUNNIEST fucking comment EVER. I have preserved a screenshot in case it ever changes at http://www.simple-sam.com/ass_in_gap.png
I am so drunk..... (because I took off work tomorrow). WAIT! I'm not drunk enough to not qualify my statement.... and I made the link into a link.... so I'm... uh... not drunk?
You misquoted, or, perhaps, misunderstood. The quote you pulled is in reference to the individual's bizarre interest in Karma, not his or her AC status.