"All of the RIAA lawsuits in the US are targeted towards file sharers, not downloaders, but uploaders, if you will."
That is because they figure if they get rid of all the uploaders, the downloaders won't have anything to download. I know that for now, I just download and will not share. Yes I know it sucks for me to be a leech, but there's a lot of much stupider people out there who have a much greater chance of being caught. I suspect people who know how to turn off sharing do because it not only wastes your bandwidth but also puts you at risk.
I'd also like to mention that scaring the sharers away has had a noticeable affect. That coupled with all the broken songs makes it quite frustrating to get a new RIAA-label song. This just makes me frustrated, so I just jump on a lesser known (or more complicated) P2P system, where the bar is raised for computer experience. These people know enough about computers to delete that damn broken file with the piercing noise, instead of just spreading it all over the network.
" They're targeting high school and college students... Who tend to not have much money... "
Its funny that you should say that. Because in terms of spending money, those demographics have a lot of purchasing power. There's a reason why teenagers are one of the most sought after markets. Now, in terms of the big bucks like the RIAA wants......well, these kids have parents don't they? If they're not 18, guess who has to pay up?
I dunno about that. I realize lawyers are expensive.....but now the RIAA is saying you should really be paying $150,000 per song, but pay us $50k now and we'll forget about it. Is a good lawyer going to be more or less expensive than that $50k? Hopefully a lot less, and hopefully that encourages a lot of people to fight this in the courtroom, where it NEEDS to be.
Sorry, but the last thing I would want the general Joe Driver to have is a flying car.
Have you any idea how many cars that stops on freeways/highways?
Ever thought about the consequence of a car suddenly malfunctioning when you fly 1000ft above a residential neighborohood?
Personally, I think it would be great. It would certainly speed up Darwin's work a great deal.
Aside from all the pill stuff.......how about just the fact that eating food these days is NOT just about nutrition. These days dining is an 'experience'. You can't condense an experience into pill form......well....unless its a blue or red pill.
" Maybe god is like some kind of ubercoder, daring us to figure out his implementation."
Well....if by some act of god (no pun intended) SCO manages to win against IBM, I can only imagine that the next logical step would be to sue god if he is in fact a coder. I mean, its code....God MUST HAVE stolen it. Now that's a court battle I'd pay to see.
I always thought God played a game of The Sims. That would certainly explain why I've occasionally found myself locked in a room with no other exits, and eventually wet myself.
Yes, Microsoft is now delaying Longhorn. Apparently they have some uh.......revisions i guess you could call them..........yeah.....something leaked about OSX and free R&D......
O jesus. There's always ONE isn't there? Just because this giant ballon could be used by the military for surveillance does not mean the men in black are coming to get you. I'm as much of a privacy nut as the next guy, but for god sake.....I swear, if a story were posted dogs and how they have such a good sense of smell and the military uses them for surveillance, you would post something similar and build a cave out of tinfoil so they can't reach you.
I'm not trolling, but for god sake....look out the window....there's no black van waiting for you......or maybe there IS!!!!
" With a good high-gain antenna, they should be able to access wireless LANs for quite a distance. Were I in the vicinty, I would be honored to have them posting their progress through my network."
That wouldn't be good. You would post your story to Slashdot where we will somehow manage to Slashdot their balloon and it will plummet in a giant ball of fire. And then we'll have another story posted the next day about SCO and all will be forgotten.
"and they are hoping they will not have to go to the toilet either."
Yeah right. They aren't hoping for that. They're just as eager as anybody else would be to get a balloon up that high and then throw pennies off of it. And then realizing how cool it would be to urinate off of it.
And how else do you think they would justify spending money on this? At least they're not raising the price of the paper to reflect this....well, to my knowledge at least.
" A Quebec company, Nexia, has genetically engineered goats to produce spider silk within their milk. (Apparently, the way mammary glands work and the way a spider's silk glands work are remarkably similar.)"
This is either one of the creepiest or most erotic things I've seen posted on Slashdot thus far. I cannot decide which yet.
mod parent up! I'll bet the RIAA/MPAA just bust a collective nut when they read this. How long you think it will be before they try to use this in court?
"In theory you could increase productivity in a company by demoting everybody by one position. That way everybody is operating at the edge of their abilities, not way beyond them."
Why not just make promotions a temporary thing pending a several month or yearly review. And if they make the cut, they stay, otherwise back they go. Might have some interesting office politics attached with the idea, but it could be interesting.
Slashdot Mirror
That is because they figure if they get rid of all the uploaders, the downloaders won't have anything to download. I know that for now, I just download and will not share. Yes I know it sucks for me to be a leech, but there's a lot of much stupider people out there who have a much greater chance of being caught. I suspect people who know how to turn off sharing do because it not only wastes your bandwidth but also puts you at risk.
I'd also like to mention that scaring the sharers away has had a noticeable affect. That coupled with all the broken songs makes it quite frustrating to get a new RIAA-label song. This just makes me frustrated, so I just jump on a lesser known (or more complicated) P2P system, where the bar is raised for computer experience. These people know enough about computers to delete that damn broken file with the piercing noise, instead of just spreading it all over the network.
Its funny that you should say that. Because in terms of spending money, those demographics have a lot of purchasing power. There's a reason why teenagers are one of the most sought after markets. Now, in terms of the big bucks like the RIAA wants......well, these kids have parents don't they? If they're not 18, guess who has to pay up?
I dunno about that. I realize lawyers are expensive.....but now the RIAA is saying you should really be paying $150,000 per song, but pay us $50k now and we'll forget about it. Is a good lawyer going to be more or less expensive than that $50k? Hopefully a lot less, and hopefully that encourages a lot of people to fight this in the courtroom, where it NEEDS to be.
Personally, I think it would be great. It would certainly speed up Darwin's work a great deal.
I'd be much happier if they were receiving "unsolicited" bullets through their windows.
Well....if by some act of god (no pun intended) SCO manages to win against IBM, I can only imagine that the next logical step would be to sue god if he is in fact a coder. I mean, its code....God MUST HAVE stolen it. Now that's a court battle I'd pay to see.
SCO VS GOD
Simple, cut off the users fingers. You can't do any of the things you mentioned above without fingers. Unless you use your toes.
Cutting off the users fingers and toes will solve the problem. Unless of course they can use their stumps.
You will need to have all your appendages removed in order to be certified by Microsoft to use their DRMed products.
Yes, and now they will suffer from a real Slashdot effect. Bravo.
Actually, that is just someone who wants to see what people said in response to him, it has nothing to do with geekiness.
I feel bad for making that joke now because I have Nvidia stock.
O jesus. There's always ONE isn't there? Just because this giant ballon could be used by the military for surveillance does not mean the men in black are coming to get you. I'm as much of a privacy nut as the next guy, but for god sake.....I swear, if a story were posted dogs and how they have such a good sense of smell and the military uses them for surveillance, you would post something similar and build a cave out of tinfoil so they can't reach you.
I'm not trolling, but for god sake....look out the window....there's no black van waiting for you......or maybe there IS!!!!
That wouldn't be good. You would post your story to Slashdot where we will somehow manage to Slashdot their balloon and it will plummet in a giant ball of fire. And then we'll have another story posted the next day about SCO and all will be forgotten.
Yeah right. They aren't hoping for that. They're just as eager as anybody else would be to get a balloon up that high and then throw pennies off of it. And then realizing how cool it would be to urinate off of it.
And then I went back to the Oval Office.
Personally, I think a slightly more literal interpretation of this headline would be a lot more hilarious/interesting than the real story.
Stoned Segway Rider: "Whoah man....like, I lean and it moves and I don't fall over.....I wish I could do that on my own....."
This is either one of the creepiest or most erotic things I've seen posted on Slashdot thus far. I cannot decide which yet.
While your idea is intriguing, I feel the majority of Slashdot along with myself would enjoy stain-resistant silk boxers a lot more.
P.S. You insensitive clod.
Why not just make promotions a temporary thing pending a several month or yearly review. And if they make the cut, they stay, otherwise back they go. Might have some interesting office politics attached with the idea, but it could be interesting.