" legal profession seems very appealing compared to IT and so far it hasn't been affected by outsourcing either !!"
Law likely won't be outsourced. Last I checked you needed to be in the courtroom to argue a case. But you're right, America is being reduced to a country which consists solely of service professions, law, medicine, marketing, entertainment, and food. Welcome to America.
Would that I had mod points for you. I too have felt the breeding out of my subculture. Twice. The first time was with the whole rave scene. Not the one people saw on 60 Minutes, the one where people actually went for the music not the drugs. You see, that only happened once they started talking about isolated incidents where it happened on tv. People said "o hey, they do drugs there, i'll go there to get drugs". It snowballed from there. It didn't help when "techno" or "electronica" became the next 'in' thing either. ClearChannel put out the Energy radio station.....which while it occasionally played one relatively underground song which I was shocked to hear, played clubby SHIT. Anybody who was in the scene before it went mainstream could easily hear the difference. And suddenly people were wearing "rave" clothes because it was cool. Every fucking show on TV targetted at teens had a "rave episode" where the kids would bop around with a fucking glowstick around their neck. Let me tell you, no partykid from when the scene was still underground would be caught dead wearing one on their neck, they were for dancing with and doing tricks.
The next topic of my rant is the anime scene. It isn't AS BAD of a problem right now...there wasn't much anime over in america to begin with and this has greatly increased the flow of decent series. However, now everybody and their brother is talking about "how cool DBZ and Yu Gi Oh" is. Granted, it brings in lots of cute girls too....so I can't complain THAT much.....but I can assure people that the anime scene will become a lot more mainstream once big corporations pick up on it even more here.
"If you're talking about Walmart, people that buy clothes from walmart most likely will go BACK to walmart at some point in the future wearing those clothes. "
Granted, I know little about the technical aspects of RFID tags, but would it be so difficult to flip a tag in the RFID or possibly have 2 RFIDs per product and only have one deactivated (the one that says if its been purchased or not) and leave another one that IDs the item for future tracking?
I think the potential value of the data would be too valuable for them to pass up and they WOULD come up with a method of having their cake and eating it to so to speak.
"Hell, they would never need to TELL you they're using them. How would you know? "
This is one of the problems I continuously bring up. It is VERY hard to figure out what has them. Some are embedded in the soles of shoes. Surely there is a scanner that can detect them.
What I suggest is someone starts up a webpage to list which products contain them, at which stores, along with contact info for the company who makes the product and/or the store that sells it. This way people can have an easy way to call and complain. We need to start making it VERY public as to what contains them.
I've seen a few posts complaining about "what is so unfortunate about this?" The point the poster was making was that it's unfortunate because it will only be a matter of time before its cost effective enough for them to go through with this in their stores.
Personally, I was a little disappointed when I read it and found out that they weren't cancelling it due to consumer backlash. That would be the ultimate victory.
"you'd get high, play pacman.. fist a bag of doritos, and that would be the end of it. "
You know, its shortsighted posts like these that will inevitably bring some poor slashdotter to post the old "running in dark halls munching pills with electronic music" quote, and then a plethora of posts after it yelling at him for not attributing the quote to the correct person.
"Uh... what? Maybe they changed it from GS3 to DR"
They did. I used to be a long time GS3er, but you should check out DR. Its simply incredible.....especially if you hated seeing numbers for everything. Its a much more thought out game. And much better implementation. You should really read up on it, simply fascinating game.
We need to take matters into our own hands. Someone needs to start a website that catalogues all of the products/retailers who use RFIDs in their products. It needs to have a search engine, and contact information for the companies that create/sell the product in order to inform them why you won't be purchasing their product and why you are telling your friends the same. Additionally, there needs to be a way to inform the masses of the products that are carrying RFID tags while not being labeled as carrying them.
" I think its important to be well informed about these things so that we can fight it. Most slashdoters know the score but people reading the articles that slashdot links to, such as this one, may not know the score."
"It was impossible to steal anything with Napster. It is impossible to steal anything with Kazaa and Freenet. You'd think he'd know the definitions of words better."
I'm sorry, but you have to be pretty naive to believe that he doesn't know DAMN WELL the difference between the words. It has long been part of the RIAA's anti-piracy campaign to link downloading music with the word stealing. 'Steal' has a much greater impact on someones morals than the word 'Copy'. They know what they're doing, you can be rest assured of that.
"One other wierd thing though. I never, and I mean never, see any healer player characters in the field. They all stay at the hospitals, and tend to the wounded who come inside. I have yet to see a healer that went hunting with anyone. I have no idea what to make of this, exactly. As a tank, this is pretty scary to me."
Thats not that strange a concept to me. You see, I played this great game by Simutronics for years, it was called Dragonrealms. They also made Gemstone III btw. Anyways, there was an empath guild in town, which was the hospital. People would go out, fight, and come back to get patched up unless they could find an empath somewhere else in town. The empaths could not fight, they'd lose their abilities if they hurt a creature. Only rarely did you see an empath in the wilderness, and only then they were in a very high level party, and VERY well guarded. Think about it.....if all you had was a bag of bandages and a needle, would YOU want to be out fighting monsters?
This system works fine in practice, and it just means that instead of staying out till you level, you need to come back to town every now and then. It gives a much more normal flow to the game.
For those who have lost the ability to actually read an article because they have been on Slashdot too long....here is a brief summary:
Question 1
Freenet: Thoughtful, valid answer RIAA: It helps people steal music
Question 2
Freenet: Thoughtful, valid answer RIAA: It helps people steal music, won't someone please think of the poor starving artists.
Question 3
Freenet: Thoughtful, valid answer RIAA: It helps people steal music, but the term fileswapping is incorrect because they aren't swapping, they're in fact COPYING the music, and of course copying=stealing.
Question 4
Freenet: Thoughtful, valid answer amounting to "The RIAA's business model is fuxx0red and they will go away soon enough." RIAA: He's STEALING OUR POOR ARTISTS' MUSIC, QUICK, ARREST HIM!!! WHY IS NOBODY LISTENING?!?!?!?!
Yes, I may have taken the liberty of condensing it down quite a bit......but its still dead on.
"However, at one point in the debate, he mentions that some people distribute the Bible on Freenet and dismisses that saying, "we can all get that from the motel we most recently visited..."
The part about that quote that pissed me off is that while I MAY be able to get the material somewhere else for free, I choose to use the P2P system. It is not their decision as to what is the most convenient method for me to acquire it. Just because they claim I can get it somewhere else does not mean I WANT to get it there.
To use his own example, sure I can get one from the motel (actually I don't think you can because its stealing their property), but why would I want to go to the trouble to pay for a motel room that I don't need, waste gas etc., when I can boot up P2P and download it.
"How about:
1. Control Websites.
2. Try to get companies to pay so their websites aren't shut down.
3. A little profit, and a lot of complaints.
4. Get sued.
5. Go out of business."
I think number 4 should be "Go to jail for running a protection racket."
" Oh. You are, I think, suggesting that the RIAA needs to ante up a special file in order to identify a filesharer.
I believe that all they need to do is to download one of the filesharer's files and then use commonly available software to identify the IP of the server hosting the file. "
Wrong, I am asking how they will nab people who are solely downloaders and do not share. Trust me, there are plenty of leeches out there, and I'm wondering how they will go after them, and if its legal for them to offer up a music file for download on a P2P service, and then bust anybody who tries to download it, saying "This work is copyrighted, we pWn uR 455".
"I suspect it is perfectly legal to "go after" a single individual for a single instance of copyright infringement."
I believe it is legal to do that too, however the METHOD in which they find out if they're infringing or not is the one I'm concerned about. I wonder if there are legal restrictions of the sort police have concerning entrapment.
"with one cable news channel reporting a 15% drop in file sharing."
Any idea which news channel? Wanna bet its owned by Time Warner? Its all PR. The news wants you to think use of P2P is going down so people stop doing it. While an article that correlates the RIAA's suing spree to increased use of file sharing is purely bad press for them. Although they will most likely try to spin it off in some new threatening way.
"The thing they need to realize is now that the option is there, people will prefer to spend 3 or 4 bucks getting the songs they want off an album rather than pay 15 for castoff songs."
If they were intelligent, they would go along with it, enable people to buy the individual tracks, but work not just to promote their name, but to promote the fact that the album is EVEN BETTER if they listen to the whole thing. Its all marketing. Now that people have the option to buy individual songs instead of the whole deal, the marketing people's roles will not include the job of convincing people that the rest of the crap songs are worth downloading too.
Hell, the artists might even have to make more than two songs that are worth listening to. They can cry me a god damned river for all I care. REAL businessmen would find a way to adapt, but I guess that just shows what they are. Talentless hacks.
"I don't think the RIAA is after every bloke who has ever downloaded an MP3. "
Correct, in fact, right now I believe they're just going after the people who share. Their logic being that if you cut off the source of the songs, nobody will have anything to download.
Although I can imagine them doing something similar to catch people who download simply by offering up a song which they have the copyright for, and going after anybody who downloads it. But the question we need to ask then is...is that legal? Is that entrapment?
"Replace employee with political prisioner, or spy, or whathave you."
I believe the Politically Correct term you were looking for is 'terrorist'.
Yeah...what kind of plants?
on
Wi-Fi Woods
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· Score: 1
Suddenly there is a graph showing a large concentration of students around one or two plants. After a period of a couple months (when the plant is mature) suddenly it disappears off the map (harvested). The next day the students seem a lot more chaotic in their movements on the GPS system. One of them however, managed to write out the numbers 4:20 on the GPS display based on his movements. The teachers are still unsure what this strange behavior means.
Slashdot Mirror
Darwin's Legacy lives on.......
Law likely won't be outsourced. Last I checked you needed to be in the courtroom to argue a case. But you're right, America is being reduced to a country which consists solely of service professions, law, medicine, marketing, entertainment, and food. Welcome to America.
The next topic of my rant is the anime scene. It isn't AS BAD of a problem right now...there wasn't much anime over in america to begin with and this has greatly increased the flow of decent series. However, now everybody and their brother is talking about "how cool DBZ and Yu Gi Oh" is. Granted, it brings in lots of cute girls too....so I can't complain THAT much.....but I can assure people that the anime scene will become a lot more mainstream once big corporations pick up on it even more here.
God that felt good to get out.
Granted, I know little about the technical aspects of RFID tags, but would it be so difficult to flip a tag in the RFID or possibly have 2 RFIDs per product and only have one deactivated (the one that says if its been purchased or not) and leave another one that IDs the item for future tracking?
I think the potential value of the data would be too valuable for them to pass up and they WOULD come up with a method of having their cake and eating it to so to speak.
This is one of the problems I continuously bring up. It is VERY hard to figure out what has them. Some are embedded in the soles of shoes. Surely there is a scanner that can detect them.
What I suggest is someone starts up a webpage to list which products contain them, at which stores, along with contact info for the company who makes the product and/or the store that sells it. This way people can have an easy way to call and complain. We need to start making it VERY public as to what contains them.
Personally, I was a little disappointed when I read it and found out that they weren't cancelling it due to consumer backlash. That would be the ultimate victory.
(Wife comes home to find husband cheating with neighbor)
Wife: You cheating bastard!!!
Husband: I can explain!
Wife: Corp Por!
Husband: (sizzle)
I hope to god this never makes Sims Online. They'd have to rename it to
Sims: The Return of Lord British
You know, its shortsighted posts like these that will inevitably bring some poor slashdotter to post the old "running in dark halls munching pills with electronic music" quote, and then a plethora of posts after it yelling at him for not attributing the quote to the correct person.
They did. I used to be a long time GS3er, but you should check out DR. Its simply incredible.....especially if you hated seeing numbers for everything. Its a much more thought out game. And much better implementation. You should really read up on it, simply fascinating game.
Maybe you've heard about all of the fanmail Ralsky has been getting since his name and address have been posted on slashdot.
Yes, those damned croporations will be the downfall of us all.
Heh, heh, hehehehe, hehehe, heh.
I'm sorry, but you have to be pretty naive to believe that he doesn't know DAMN WELL the difference between the words. It has long been part of the RIAA's anti-piracy campaign to link downloading music with the word stealing. 'Steal' has a much greater impact on someones morals than the word 'Copy'. They know what they're doing, you can be rest assured of that.
Thats not that strange a concept to me. You see, I played this great game by Simutronics for years, it was called Dragonrealms. They also made Gemstone III btw. Anyways, there was an empath guild in town, which was the hospital. People would go out, fight, and come back to get patched up unless they could find an empath somewhere else in town. The empaths could not fight, they'd lose their abilities if they hurt a creature. Only rarely did you see an empath in the wilderness, and only then they were in a very high level party, and VERY well guarded. Think about it.....if all you had was a bag of bandages and a needle, would YOU want to be out fighting monsters?
This system works fine in practice, and it just means that instead of staying out till you level, you need to come back to town every now and then. It gives a much more normal flow to the game.
Question 1
Freenet: Thoughtful, valid answer
RIAA: It helps people steal music
Question 2
Freenet: Thoughtful, valid answer
RIAA: It helps people steal music, won't someone please think of the poor starving artists.
Question 3
Freenet: Thoughtful, valid answer
RIAA: It helps people steal music, but the term fileswapping is incorrect because they aren't swapping, they're in fact COPYING the music, and of course copying=stealing.
Question 4
Freenet: Thoughtful, valid answer amounting to "The RIAA's business model is fuxx0red and they will go away soon enough."
RIAA: He's STEALING OUR POOR ARTISTS' MUSIC, QUICK, ARREST HIM!!! WHY IS NOBODY LISTENING?!?!?!?!
Yes, I may have taken the liberty of condensing it down quite a bit......but its still dead on.
The part about that quote that pissed me off is that while I MAY be able to get the material somewhere else for free, I choose to use the P2P system. It is not their decision as to what is the most convenient method for me to acquire it. Just because they claim I can get it somewhere else does not mean I WANT to get it there.
To use his own example, sure I can get one from the motel (actually I don't think you can because its stealing their property), but why would I want to go to the trouble to pay for a motel room that I don't need, waste gas etc., when I can boot up P2P and download it.
I think number 4 should be "Go to jail for running a protection racket."
Wrong, I am asking how they will nab people who are solely downloaders and do not share. Trust me, there are plenty of leeches out there, and I'm wondering how they will go after them, and if its legal for them to offer up a music file for download on a P2P service, and then bust anybody who tries to download it, saying "This work is copyrighted, we pWn uR 455".
I believe it is legal to do that too, however the METHOD in which they find out if they're infringing or not is the one I'm concerned about. I wonder if there are legal restrictions of the sort police have concerning entrapment.
Any idea which news channel? Wanna bet its owned by Time Warner? Its all PR. The news wants you to think use of P2P is going down so people stop doing it. While an article that correlates the RIAA's suing spree to increased use of file sharing is purely bad press for them. Although they will most likely try to spin it off in some new threatening way.
If they were intelligent, they would go along with it, enable people to buy the individual tracks, but work not just to promote their name, but to promote the fact that the album is EVEN BETTER if they listen to the whole thing. Its all marketing. Now that people have the option to buy individual songs instead of the whole deal, the marketing people's roles will not include the job of convincing people that the rest of the crap songs are worth downloading too.
Hell, the artists might even have to make more than two songs that are worth listening to. They can cry me a god damned river for all I care. REAL businessmen would find a way to adapt, but I guess that just shows what they are. Talentless hacks.
Correct, in fact, right now I believe they're just going after the people who share. Their logic being that if you cut off the source of the songs, nobody will have anything to download.
Although I can imagine them doing something similar to catch people who download simply by offering up a song which they have the copyright for, and going after anybody who downloads it. But the question we need to ask then is...is that legal? Is that entrapment?
I believe the Politically Correct term you were looking for is 'terrorist'.