Oddly enough, the topic of your post matches what you wrote quite well. You're the greedy bastard, not the one who submitted the question.
What on earth did you do to deserve free use of his idea? Why should he sacrifice something he came up with instead of trying to profit off of it? What you GPL-loving socialists always seem to forget that without an incentive to create, no creation will take place.
Stop trying to make others feel guilty for looking out for themselves.
Instead of claiming this to be a review of the actual game, why didn't you just be honest and tell the reader that it was a biased, one-sided whinefest?
Your style of reporting has always disgusted me. Why the rest of/.'s leadership tolerates you, I've yet to figure out.
The very essence of news reporting, which you have yet to learn, is to report the facts with as little bias as possible. While this is technically almost impossible, it's almost as if you don't even try.
For the sake of slashdot's readership (the part that actually cares, that is) either learn some basic journalism skills or get another job. Hopefully one where I won't have to listen to your idiotic opinions all day long.
Come to think of it, I never got a list of "thank yous" with my TiVo, and it doesn't constantly remind me of the socialist pile of crap license that it's innards are licensed under every time I hit the TiVo button. You know what? Nowhere at all in the interface is the GPL mentioned.
Instead of looking for reasons to beat on AOL, the "free" software community needs to be more vigilant in watching out for offenses, instead of picking its enemies at random.
I have to admit that this article is quite humorous to me. AOL/Time Warner, a company large enough to fend off any sort of attack that the highly vocal, yet tiny slashdot (and "free" software) communities can produce would simply ignore the GPL and give a nod to the other less restrictive (and truly more "free") licenses that covered the software in their device.
I still haven't seen any proof that this device violates the GPL. It runs Linux, but so what? The GPL, as I understand it, doesn't require you to do anything until you make modifications to GPL code, or use it in your own software, in which case it becomes a virus, requiring you to release the entire program containing the "free" code to the public under the same viral, "free" license.
Either way, slashdot and the "free" software community has been waiting for a case to try out the GPL in court, and it's possible you'll have one here. And the opponent certainly couldn't be much larger, well funded, or difficult to fight. Good luck; you'll need it.
(Also, please note the difference between free and "free", as used in the above rant. As mentioned many times before, the "free" software movement is a hypocritical joke, severely in need of a clue beating. May AOL be the ones to give it to you.)
This is precisely the kind of jackass behavior I'd expect from an anonymous coward. Thanks for being a shining example of the stupidity that runs rampant on/.
...as long as we've mentioned "free" licenses, let's be sure to bring up the infamous GPL, known wide and far for the "freedom" it gives users and programmers.
Of course, the astute reader will point out that the use of the word freedom in the previous sentence is complete bullshit, and that the GPL is reality just a viral piece of socialist hogwash.
I love how the slashdot community continually bitches about how noone respects Linux, noone ports software to Linux, blah blah blah.
Then, when someone finally does port to linux, then you start bitching because they don't support your particular distribution.
If there weren't so many targets to shoot for, perhaps you'd have one less barrier to entry for the software providers, one less thing to complain about, and perhaps a bit more respect from the UNIX community.
s/scrappy, beleagered protector of Internet Freedom and Goodness/spineless abuser of others rights/
Stop trying to pass off napster as the righteous defender of all that's good and true on the internet. Yes, file sharing is important to the nature of the internet, but when you build your service around pirating MP3s, you won't get any sympathy from me when the owners of the songs being pirated come after you.
You know, mikey, you conveniently ignored the fact that relatable is developing completely GPL'ed music player. But then, since you seem interested in only the bad aspects of companies, I shouldn't be surprised.
Odds are you didn't even visit the company's website, so I can't expect that you intentionally omitted this slashdot-friendly action on behalf of the company.
Obviously the readership of slashdot is vocal in trying to defeat entities that may try to opress them. But slashdot is quite the minority. The problem is the vast majority of people that just don't care.
Michael, once again you're added your trademark idiotic commentary to what could possibly have been an interesting story.
The typical "Libertarian babble" is to allow corporations to do as they please. If a company wants to do something to piss off its customers, then the customer should be smart enough (read: not too apathetic) to not do business with that company.
Unfortunately, thanks to people like you, the prevaling notion is that the government should step in like a big "daddy" to take care of the innocent little consumers whenever the big, bad company takes advantage of them. This should be the exception, and not the rule.
For months I had a static ISDN connection that used 192.168/24 addresses for the PPP link between my router and my ISP's. It didn't cause any problems at all.
I consider this to be a good practice. (Networking gurus, feel free to disagree.) The network in question doesn't need to be accessible from the outside world, and it didn't confuse my Cisco router.
Now, since you're dealing with Microsoft software, all bets are off...
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The only real problem with using DLT's for piracy is it entirely defeats the purpose. A $15 legal copy beats paying $90 for a DLT cartridge to store an illegal copy, methinks...
I'm usually in the minority on things like this, but I think it's pretty irresponsible to assume the worst about something like this.
Sports broadcasts are usually paid for by radio stations which then recoup the expense through ad sales. Assuming the $9.95/season gives you the rights to listen to every game, sans-ads, how is this "unethical", "criminal" or "immoral"?
Why is the slashdot community so vehemently opposed to companies making money through honest means? This stuff costs money. Deal with it.
What an excellent attitude. Cynicism has been the driving force behind every positive social change, and this post has plenty of it.
Big business, in an ideal economy, has to know what's best for you, in order to suceed. You know why? Because in an ideal economy people like you don't just tolerate being pushed around by big business. If a company rips you off, you refuse to do business with them.
Society has become incredibly apathetic in this regard. Instead of taking a stand when a company tries to take advantage of you, everyone just likes to whine and run crying to the government, expecting them to make it all better.
Would you really prefer the government take advantage of you, instead? What makes you think that they're any more capable of being fair, when we have plenty of examples of corruption in government and of politicians doing things that certainly aren't in the best interests of those being represented.
Sure, you might say that we give our elected officials their power, and we can just as easily take it away. What you fail to realize is that you can take the power away from the big, abusive corporations just as easily. Just stop expecting the government to do it for you.
GPS is a one way technology. There is no return frequency, no two-way communications, and no possible way to use GPS by itself to monitor you.
Now, if they were to equip every single little gadget and gizmo with a radio transmitter, you'd be right to worry. But if you continued to support any manufacturer that used such a device, I'd blame you for being the idiot.
The last thing I want is the government regulating e-mail delivery. Next thing I know, I'll have to hand Uncle Sam the keys to my mail server, buy an expensive license every year, and submit to random "privacy checks" just to ensure my mail server is "legal".
If you care enough to keep your e-mail from being read, learn how to use PGP. Don't expect the government to take care of you.
According to the article, 'A spokesman for the FBI denied that the name change stemmed from worries that the name Carnivore made the system sound like a predatory device made to invade people's privacy.
Wake up America and realize how much you have to lose. People willing to give up freedom in exchange for security deserve neither, and neither you will get.
The government derives its power from the people. And right now the vast majority of people are too apathetic to care about something as 'trivial' as their own privacy.
A database backend is incredible overkill for something like this. Unless you're planning to make some massive web-based, multiuser beast, be satisfied with just storing data in files.
An alternative to superdisks? Finally! An alternative to that 120MB, decently fast yet archaic technology! This is going to blow that away!
Seriously, slashdot... what were you smoking? Why do we need to imagine what LRP can do with a 32 MB floppy, when it can already do all that and more with an LS-120 drive?
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Oddly enough, the topic of your post matches what you wrote quite well. You're the greedy bastard, not the one who submitted the question.
What on earth did you do to deserve free use of his idea? Why should he sacrifice something he came up with instead of trying to profit off of it? What you GPL-loving socialists always seem to forget that without an incentive to create, no creation will take place.
Stop trying to make others feel guilty for looking out for themselves.
Sorry to be offtopic here, but do you not understand the meaning and purpose of "temp"?
/tmp deserves to be blown away.
Anything important in
Yet another idiotic michael posting.
/.'s leadership tolerates you, I've yet to figure out.
Instead of claiming this to be a review of the actual game, why didn't you just be honest and tell the reader that it was a biased, one-sided whinefest?
Your style of reporting has always disgusted me. Why the rest of
The very essence of news reporting, which you have yet to learn, is to report the facts with as little bias as possible. While this is technically almost impossible, it's almost as if you don't even try.
For the sake of slashdot's readership (the part that actually cares, that is) either learn some basic journalism skills or get another job. Hopefully one where I won't have to listen to your idiotic opinions all day long.
Come to think of it, I never got a list of "thank yous" with my TiVo, and it doesn't constantly remind me of the socialist pile of crap license that it's innards are licensed under every time I hit the TiVo button. You know what? Nowhere at all in the interface is the GPL mentioned.
Instead of looking for reasons to beat on AOL, the "free" software community needs to be more vigilant in watching out for offenses, instead of picking its enemies at random.
I have to admit that this article is quite humorous to me. AOL/Time Warner, a company large enough to fend off any sort of attack that the highly vocal, yet tiny slashdot (and "free" software) communities can produce would simply ignore the GPL and give a nod to the other less restrictive (and truly more "free") licenses that covered the software in their device.
I still haven't seen any proof that this device violates the GPL. It runs Linux, but so what? The GPL, as I understand it, doesn't require you to do anything until you make modifications to GPL code, or use it in your own software, in which case it becomes a virus, requiring you to release the entire program containing the "free" code to the public under the same viral, "free" license.
Either way, slashdot and the "free" software community has been waiting for a case to try out the GPL in court, and it's possible you'll have one here. And the opponent certainly couldn't be much larger, well funded, or difficult to fight. Good luck; you'll need it.
(Also, please note the difference between free and "free", as used in the above rant. As mentioned many times before, the "free" software movement is a hypocritical joke, severely in need of a clue beating. May AOL be the ones to give it to you.)
Unlike another certain /. editor, he has the balls to admit when he screwed up.
michael, perhaps you should learn from this example.
This is precisely the kind of jackass behavior I'd expect from an anonymous coward. Thanks for being a shining example of the stupidity that runs rampant on /.
...as long as we've mentioned "free" licenses, let's be sure to bring up the infamous GPL, known wide and far for the "freedom" it gives users and programmers.
Of course, the astute reader will point out that the use of the word freedom in the previous sentence is complete bullshit, and that the GPL is reality just a viral piece of socialist hogwash.
I love how the slashdot community continually bitches about how noone respects Linux, noone ports software to Linux, blah blah blah.
Then, when someone finally does port to linux, then you start bitching because they don't support your particular distribution.
If there weren't so many targets to shoot for, perhaps you'd have one less barrier to entry for the software providers, one less thing to complain about, and perhaps a bit more respect from the UNIX community.
s/scrappy, beleagered protector of Internet Freedom and Goodness/spineless abuser of others rights/
Stop trying to pass off napster as the righteous defender of all that's good and true on the internet. Yes, file sharing is important to the nature of the internet, but when you build your service around pirating MP3s, you won't get any sympathy from me when the owners of the songs being pirated come after you.
Fortunately, and it seems you don't quite realize this, trees are an incredibly renewable resource. We're not going to run out anytime soon...
You know, mikey, you conveniently ignored the fact that relatable is developing completely GPL'ed music player. But then, since you seem interested in only the bad aspects of companies, I shouldn't be surprised.
Odds are you didn't even visit the company's website, so I can't expect that you intentionally omitted this slashdot-friendly action on behalf of the company.
Obviously the readership of slashdot is vocal in trying to defeat entities that may try to opress them. But slashdot is quite the minority. The problem is the vast majority of people that just don't care.
Michael, once again you're added your trademark idiotic commentary to what could possibly have been an interesting story.
The typical "Libertarian babble" is to allow corporations to do as they please. If a company wants to do something to piss off its customers, then the customer should be smart enough (read: not too apathetic) to not do business with that company.
Unfortunately, thanks to people like you, the prevaling notion is that the government should step in like a big "daddy" to take care of the innocent little consumers whenever the big, bad company takes advantage of them. This should be the exception, and not the rule.
One day you'll learn.
For months I had a static ISDN connection that used 192.168/24 addresses for the PPP link between my router and my ISP's. It didn't cause any problems at all.
I consider this to be a good practice. (Networking gurus, feel free to disagree.) The network in question doesn't need to be accessible from the outside world, and it didn't confuse my Cisco router.
Now, since you're dealing with Microsoft software, all bets are off...
Heh, Michael, doing a writeup that's inaccurate?
INCONCEIVABLE!
The only real problem with using DLT's for piracy is it entirely defeats the purpose. A $15 legal copy beats paying $90 for a DLT cartridge to store an illegal copy, methinks...
I'm usually in the minority on things like this, but I think it's pretty irresponsible to assume the worst about something like this.
Sports broadcasts are usually paid for by radio stations which then recoup the expense through ad sales. Assuming the $9.95/season gives you the rights to listen to every game, sans-ads, how is this "unethical", "criminal" or "immoral"?
Why is the slashdot community so vehemently opposed to companies making money through honest means? This stuff costs money. Deal with it.
What an excellent attitude. Cynicism has been the driving force behind every positive social change, and this post has plenty of it.
Big business, in an ideal economy, has to know what's best for you, in order to suceed. You know why? Because in an ideal economy people like you don't just tolerate being pushed around by big business. If a company rips you off, you refuse to do business with them.
Society has become incredibly apathetic in this regard. Instead of taking a stand when a company tries to take advantage of you, everyone just likes to whine and run crying to the government, expecting them to make it all better.
Would you really prefer the government take advantage of you, instead? What makes you think that they're any more capable of being fair, when we have plenty of examples of corruption in government and of politicians doing things that certainly aren't in the best interests of those being represented.
Sure, you might say that we give our elected officials their power, and we can just as easily take it away. What you fail to realize is that you can take the power away from the big, abusive corporations just as easily. Just stop expecting the government to do it for you.
Let me get this straight. You're posting "ICQ logs" from a site called retardmagnet.com? Good luck winning that pulitzer.
Journalistic integrity, meet slashdot. Slashdot, meet... hey, where'd it go?
GPS is a one way technology. There is no return frequency, no two-way communications, and no possible way to use GPS by itself to monitor you.
Now, if they were to equip every single little gadget and gizmo with a radio transmitter, you'd be right to worry. But if you continued to support any manufacturer that used such a device, I'd blame you for being the idiot.
The last thing I want is the government regulating e-mail delivery. Next thing I know, I'll have to hand Uncle Sam the keys to my mail server, buy an expensive license every year, and submit to random "privacy checks" just to ensure my mail server is "legal".
If you care enough to keep your e-mail from being read, learn how to use PGP. Don't expect the government to take care of you.
According to the article, 'A spokesman for the FBI denied that the name change stemmed from worries that the name Carnivore made the system sound like a predatory device made to invade people's privacy.
Wake up America and realize how much you have to lose. People willing to give up freedom in exchange for security deserve neither, and neither you will get.
The government derives its power from the people. And right now the vast majority of people are too apathetic to care about something as 'trivial' as their own privacy.
But then, I'm just preaching to the choir.
A database backend is incredible overkill for something like this. Unless you're planning to make some massive web-based, multiuser beast, be satisfied with just storing data in files.
An alternative to superdisks? Finally! An alternative to that 120MB, decently fast yet archaic technology! This is going to blow that away!
Seriously, slashdot... what were you smoking? Why do we need to imagine what LRP can do with a 32 MB floppy, when it can already do all that and more with an LS-120 drive?
Once again, excellent work.