"This will effectively cluster and isolate all modified Kazaa clients from FastTrack."
I think Sharman won't be laughing too long once they figure out that the vast majority of the sharers with the serious bandwidth are on this isolated cluster.
Here's a hint Sharman, WE DON'T WANT YOUR SPYWARE! If you didn't put that crap in there, people would use your client.
And just to ad to my post, I would like to as Samir, why, if he claims he does in fact work for Nintendo, does he not refute any of the claims made by the people here on Slashdot that are backed up by evidence? Samir, do you realize that Nintendo could seek to take legal action against you? Has anybody on Slashdot informed Nintendo of this guy?
And just so everybody is clear. Samir Gupta is an infamous Slashdot troll who in fact, does NOT work for Nintendo. Do not be confused by his seemingly intelligent posts.
I've always loved them. I'm a college student now and STILL have a huge box under my bed. But what I've always wanted was legos that could be remote controlled. Mindstorms has come a long way with this. But what I want is for the little figures to move around. And I want technology that makes it so my little lego battlemechs can actually fire missiles in an attempt to hit the lego jets that my friend would be flying via remote control.
Ok, lets take a hypothetical situation here. Lets say 5 years from now this sort of thing is actually in place, where we get compensated when our privacy is abused. Big companies will obviously be hurt the most because they will be most visible. But what happens when they end up making a deal with some "third party affiliate" who has no such restrictions, or who accidentally leaks your information overseas, where there is no such compensation? And what happens if those overseas people sell the information back to the big corporations? I mean, they can claim they got the information from someone who claims you opted in, yet they're overseas so there's nothing that can be done about it.
"Access to the network will be intentionally restricted to scientists and researchers only 'for research and experimentation in networking technologies and applications'."
"For exampe in the movie theather their should be a big sign outside saying cellphones are not allowed. You want to go to the movies? Leave your cellphone at home. Expecting an emergency call that could get you fired/dumped/etc? DON'T GO TO THE MOVIES."
Two points. First, In all the posts about people with cellphones in theaters, I never understood one thing. Why don't people just turn it to vibrate and have a voicemail setting that tells the caller (if its a voice call) that the cellphone user is currently only accepting text messages? Now, this may be possible but people just forget or are inconsiderate, that I could understand.
Now, my second point has to do with how you ended your post. I'm sorry, but typically you don't expect an emergency call. Now, if there is a situation where you are expecting an emergency call, maybe someone's in the hospital for example, then you probably shouldn't be at the theater for reasons other than the cellphone thing. But people should still be able to be reachable, because you cannot predict most emergencies.
I think that taking pictures of the screen using your cell phone is legal, just as long as you don't text your friends and tell them how crappy the movie was. You can be shipped to Gauto bay for that you advertising-revenue stealing terrorist thief.
" Since the Predator drones already carry Hellfire missles and have killed targets after positive ID from telecontrolling pilots I don't think the enemy is going to laugh."
Wow, talk about the ultimate telecommuting job. Sit at home, play "flight sims" and kill real people and GET PAID FOR IT! Sounds like the movie Toys, only real! (Throws out his Bf1942 cd)
Now....I know this won't exactly be a popular comment with many Slashdotters, but if the MPAA wanted to make this new law a huge success for them, they could offer a bounty for every citizens arrest made as a result of this law.
And if it senses a large spread of keys all being pressed for an extended period of time, does it automagically feed aspirin into your passed out body's mouth?
Personally, I think the enemy would be laughing if they saw that thing coming with missiles. I mean...wouldn't you if you saw the Dodo from Grand Theft Auto 3 coming at you with missiles?
So you're basically saying that people who use free software, like Linux, have less money than people who don't use free software? What kind of logic is that?
You know, I'm sure enough guys in the service love playing video games, why not make money doing it? How cool would it be if your clan could pay a fee, and be able to play against a squad of actual soldiers in your favorite games, like Desert Combat for bf1942.
I'm sure everybody remembers that Xbox commercial where the marines trounced the kids playing that xbox game. I know for a fact that many clans would pay to be able to do this and test their skills against people who do this in real life.
"We put up pr0n banners and an giant headline saying "Jenni is behind one of these banners" -- Those banners generated several thousand bucks. I doubt the users ever found the jenni they were looking for, but they sure clicked."
And this is the exact reason why there is no credibility behind internet advertising. I'd lecture you about advertising ethics, but seeing as how you would do something like this, I doubt you'd care.
"I (believe) that I'm the one who originally coined the term "camwhore". (My original registration of camwhores.com/camwhore.com predates any mention of it in google/usenet/archive.org, and the oldest web archive I can find is an IRC log of me)."
Only on Slashdot will you find rocket scientists and MIT professors having intelligent discussions with the creators of www.camwhores.com and www.autopr0n.com. What a world we live in.
"A year on the internet is 10 years in real time...:-)"
Although you were joking, What you said holds a lot of truth. Technology speeds everything up, and the internet has sped things up so incredibly that watching the internet is kind of like watching the world over a long period of time on fast-forward. And its not so much the pace of innovation, but rather the speed that the information about it travels at.
I for one feel priveledged to live in such a time where we can be part of such a cultural information overload, its brilliant to watch.
"I find the word "work" and phrase "Public Relations" to be inconsistant with each other.
I suggest you use the alternative statement, "I lie for money."
Spoken like someone who doesn't have a clue as to what PR really is, nor how it can benefit a company.
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I think Sharman won't be laughing too long once they figure out that the vast majority of the sharers with the serious bandwidth are on this isolated cluster.
Here's a hint Sharman, WE DON'T WANT YOUR SPYWARE! If you didn't put that crap in there, people would use your client.
I think they mispelled 'pr0n'.
Two points. First, In all the posts about people with cellphones in theaters, I never understood one thing. Why don't people just turn it to vibrate and have a voicemail setting that tells the caller (if its a voice call) that the cellphone user is currently only accepting text messages? Now, this may be possible but people just forget or are inconsiderate, that I could understand.
Now, my second point has to do with how you ended your post. I'm sorry, but typically you don't expect an emergency call. Now, if there is a situation where you are expecting an emergency call, maybe someone's in the hospital for example, then you probably shouldn't be at the theater for reasons other than the cellphone thing. But people should still be able to be reachable, because you cannot predict most emergencies.
Wow, talk about the ultimate telecommuting job. Sit at home, play "flight sims" and kill real people and GET PAID FOR IT! Sounds like the movie Toys, only real! (Throws out his Bf1942 cd)
(Hopes no MPAA people read Slashdot)
"Don't be evil."
I'm sure everybody remembers that Xbox commercial where the marines trounced the kids playing that xbox game. I know for a fact that many clans would pay to be able to do this and test their skills against people who do this in real life.
And AOL dialup will still cost $24.99 a month.
And this is the exact reason why there is no credibility behind internet advertising. I'd lecture you about advertising ethics, but seeing as how you would do something like this, I doubt you'd care.
Only on Slashdot will you find rocket scientists and MIT professors having intelligent discussions with the creators of www.camwhores.com and www.autopr0n.com. What a world we live in.
Although you were joking, What you said holds a lot of truth. Technology speeds everything up, and the internet has sped things up so incredibly that watching the internet is kind of like watching the world over a long period of time on fast-forward. And its not so much the pace of innovation, but rather the speed that the information about it travels at.
I for one feel priveledged to live in such a time where we can be part of such a cultural information overload, its brilliant to watch.
Spoken like someone who doesn't have a clue as to what PR really is, nor how it can benefit a company.