"Also, there's absolutely no reason why they can't fire off an e-mail that says, "We're going to trash your server in a couple hours -- if you'd like us to mirror the 100 MB movie files for you, let us know before such-and-such a time."
TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!! This is a perfect example of Cyberterrorism and once Bush finds out about it all you slashdotters are in DEEP shit!
The previous text was a joke, all people who view it must send me 98 billion dollars or be subject to my army of lawyers for pirating my writing by copying it with your eyeballs.
I have had a couple dreams that I was playing BF1942 and when I finished playing, I got to watch my battle on the news on TV......because we were controlling robots in an actual real world battle. Kinda like in the movie Toys. Creepy stuff, but god i'd get such a kick out of knowing that I was affecting the real world.
"If I can't afford to pay that much, then I'll simply do without. Or maybe I'll save up for a while. These are concepts that seem to be lost on people these days. Worst case, I'll rent or borrow, but as a collector I prefer to plan ahead and budget for purchases."
I'm as big a collector as the next anime geek out there, but many of us don't really care about pristine quality as much as we care about collecting our favorite series and keeping up to date on new ones. And if I can't afford to pay that much for a DVD, I won't save up and do without, because there is a free alternative available to me. THIS is a freemarket concept. Someone is producing something and distributing it for no compensation, and unfortunately, it has the side affect of hurting (we'll never know absolute numbers to know exactly how much) the people who create the original content. Now, what will happen is that the anime companies will go on making anime because there are in fact people who pay for it and it will fit the bill, and the people who pirate will pirate....eventually more people will pirate as it becomes easier. Frankly, you can't get much easier than Bittorrent files on www.animesuki.com. At this point the companies will either find a way to give additional value to their product and sell that, take the RIAA/MPAA's approach and alienate their fans (which I think would be even more suicidal than what the RIAA/MPAA are doing considering the fanbase) or they will die off, at which point the fansubbers will die off. Or, the vast majority of fansubbers could realize that "hey, our industry is almost dead, and if we keep doing this it will never come back" and they could stop, but I doubt it. Welcome to the Free Market of the internet.
"This reminds me of Star Trek fans who get hung up on the difference between Trekkie and Trekker. Once they start to care about this distinction, all hope of obtaining a life is gone with the wind (or, gone with a stream of tachyon particles, as it may be)"While you are joking.....it is important to note that the comparison you made is completely inaccurate. "Trekkie" and "Trekker" are terms tossed around within a subculture. "Otaku" is a word in an actual language which has a specific meaning (well, as specific a meaning as any japanese word can have) which has migrated to the US and taken on a completely different meaning based on the subculture that adopted it.
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It DOES tend to lead a lot of technology......just imagine this:
You're in a VR simulation, with graphics the quality of the newest FF games, all rendered in realtime. Now, you have a girl......and a um.......stimulation monitor firmly clamped on your um........input device. Your breathing intensifies and she speeds up in response, or with a personality upgrade, decides to do something really kinky that she thinks will put you over the edge.
Yeah that whole concept is kinda explicit....but think of the VR pr0n possibilities. I guarantee that I would own one if it was available....I'd never admit it....but I'd own one, and so would the rest of/.
You know, somehow this really reminds me of a movie I saw recently....Minority Report. If I recall correctly, the cars moved along certain tracks and driving could be automated. I sure as hell don't want someone else having that kind of control over my car...but is that where this is ultimately heading? "Sorry people, you can't be trusted to drive anymore...so just input your destination into the GPS system provided for you in your new Government Owned Personal Transporation System (GOPTS) and we'll whisk you off to your destination....at higher speeds too because it will all be controlled by computer."
Now, while this is EXTREMELY unlikely....because the car makers of the world would sic their collective wealth against any such endeavor but seriously.....this is getting too close for comfort.
" No. More likely they'll raise your taxes to hire some more cronies (read: judges) to hear cases. Or they'll remove the right for you to appeal the decision. Or even have a trial. In the US, most traffic violations are civil offenses, so your 'rights' are severely curtailed. No idea about the UK."
No! You're ALL wrong! They will hire "judges" who will be judge/jury/executioner and will have poor english skills and wear dorky outfits as their ride around on their barely functional flying motorcycles proclaiming "I AM THA LAW" to everybody who crosswalks.
"Space wars are too expensive compared to just moving to the next rock."
Right...except when the number of places that we know of/can reach are extremely limited and our resources only give us so many attempts at getting them. Just wait and see what happens once somebody tries to claim the mineral rights to the moon. WW4, and guess what, it won't need to take place at the location being fought for, it will most likely just being the involved countries duking it out on planet Earth cuz it happens to be closer.
"I think India is to be reckoned with in the future. Take the pharmaceutical industry at the moment, India has big companies manufacturing generic medicines.
That story actually reminded of that: give them the source/ingredients and they will try to make it, but cheaper. Obviously they can't make free software any cheaper, but if they try to make it a complete solution, then why couldn't they have a chance of succeeding?
The major problem they are facing at the moment imho is probably a lack of qualified IT people, but give them time, and they will surely be there."
That's it.....we need to "liberate" those "terrorists" NOW! Before they um....."steal" from the poor poor CEO's of America by producing something for cheaper and undercutting American Corporations. Someone get FOX on the phone.......there's a new "War on Terror" at hand!
"BTW, how does it matter that a question is easily answered? Again, I try and understand your reason for pointing this out, but it goes beyond my comprehension"
The reason why it matters that it's an easily answered question is that there are plenty of other more difficult questions that could be asked instead of this one.....which could be answered by spending 5 minutes on Google.
" I actually think it's pretty interesting reading what the linux community likes to read."
That's just it though....as pro-linux as many posts on slashdot may be, it is not a linux community. It is "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters". This is not news for nerds, nor is it stuff that really matters. And no wonder he got 600+ reviews, it's an extremely easy question to answer to of course people are gonna chime in with their answer. Go into a room somewhere and ask anybody what their favorite books are and you'd get the same response.
"Just taking medal of honor for example, many times on servers which force the skin type, it can be very hard to determine if someone is behind a wall because of the lack of contrast between default uniforms and the background."
No offense, but isn't that the point of camoflauge? And even if it's not the typical forest camo, most military uniforms are designed to blend in to some degree with the soldier's surroundings.
"One potential problem (note: this is anecdotal) is games may have reinforced a very competitive personality. I.e. those things within my control I'll push to the limit to win, those outside my control I'll just swear at."
The other major thing they have reinforced, and that I have noticed has affected both my driving habits and the driving habits of my friends who play games (like GTA3 and GT3) is that while the game reinforces the fact that if you hit things, bad shit happens (ie. you spin out of control and the car bursts into flames.....now if that ain't incentive not to hit things i don't know what is) but also, that your perception of how close is too close goes WAAAAY down. I've noticed myself thinking that "as long as I don't HIT the person crossing the street, it's ok to drive very close by them at my present speed".
I mean.....not to troll here....but come on........this isn't a friggin book club. Do your own research for once and pick a book YOU like, or go to a review site and read up on some books. But come on.....I look forward to Ask Slashdot's because from time to time I have seen very interesting questions asked....but this is ridiculous. Let's get a little more thought provoking than helping someone pick up a book to read for the summer.
" So a virus that rewrites your DNS to point Pheonex's servers to itself will allow it to destroy an entire company in one fell swoop... Excellent."
That assumes that the company is as foolish as this piece of work seems to be and has this BIOS chip in their servers. Which I doubt they do.....they just want to peddle it to other people, they're not actually stupid enough to use it themselves.
Now, don't bash me for this for I don't know the technical aspects of Computrace....but how hard is it for someone to install a firewall and block it from "phoning home"?
I mean......I know that Apple wouldn't have seen what was going on and said "lets tighten the screws" unless someone from the the labels had come and said "fix this or lose access to our songs". So what I'm wondering is what's to stop them from doing more things like that now that they have Apple dependent on their support. Ie. "People are burning CDs and ripping the music off and trading it, fix this or lose access to our songs"?
My roommate this past semester cared, so do many people. In fact, so many people care that Entertainment is included in the news, and that it is a multi-billion dollar industry. I hate to break it to you, but with many of the stories like this on slashdot that people bitch about.....we are in fact the minority with our viewpoints. So while I skip past the dumb blond as well, there must be enough people who DO like watching her to make the network that pays for her put her on.
You saying things like this is no better than when the people you are mocking, mock us for our interest in technology. I dub thee TROLL!
" Release the DVDs earlier, and people will buy them instead of downloading."
Ah....but thats a double-edged sword, because while you would then give people the option of buying the dvd vs downloading (a free copy), you also then give them less time to milk every last fucking dime out of us in the theaters.
Makes sense then that the next step is to make a p2p program that lets people search for BT links and acts as a 100% decentralized tracker. Let's see the lawyers take THAT one out.
"I'd prefer not to hear the... it's a business expense that you must pay arguement. I have built my business on the model I am in right now at the prices I pay right now. It works perfectly. If ISPs want more bandwidth then there's optimizations and measures for stopping scam site hosting and SPAM mail that they could do."
Well, according to capitalism, your choices are either change your business model, or do something to lower your costs. If the ISP is being the problem, complain to them. If they won't change things, find a new ISP. If you can't, find a new business model. I hate to break it to you, but you don't have a god-given right to have your business model work forever. This is the same thing people harp at the RIAA for.....change your business model, or fail, others who are able to adapt will take your place. This isn't meant as a flame, I'm just tellin ya how capitalism works, unless of course you have enough money to buy your own laws...thats a whole new can of worms though.
" They should also check with the folks at Kazaa Lite, the Kazaa version without all those ads."
Maybe I'm just using an old version of kazaalite or something.....but I still get popups when using it. Last I checked, kazaalite still spits ads at you. It does take out the spyware however.
For those of us who live in the US who don't really like our government.....how easy is it to become a citizen somewhere in Europe? What are the financial costs of something like that. What are the benefits and what are the downsides (aside from not having to be a US citizen anymore)? I'm not saying I'm ready to leave the US yet....but I definitely like to keep my options open, and frankly moving to Canada doesn't offer me the same warm cozy feeling that moving to Europe would.
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TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!! This is a perfect example of Cyberterrorism and once Bush finds out about it all you slashdotters are in DEEP shit!
The previous text was a joke, all people who view it must send me 98 billion dollars or be subject to my army of lawyers for pirating my writing by copying it with your eyeballs.
I'm as big a collector as the next anime geek out there, but many of us don't really care about pristine quality as much as we care about collecting our favorite series and keeping up to date on new ones. And if I can't afford to pay that much for a DVD, I won't save up and do without, because there is a free alternative available to me. THIS is a freemarket concept. Someone is producing something and distributing it for no compensation, and unfortunately, it has the side affect of hurting (we'll never know absolute numbers to know exactly how much) the people who create the original content. Now, what will happen is that the anime companies will go on making anime because there are in fact people who pay for it and it will fit the bill, and the people who pirate will pirate....eventually more people will pirate as it becomes easier. Frankly, you can't get much easier than Bittorrent files on www.animesuki.com. At this point the companies will either find a way to give additional value to their product and sell that, take the RIAA/MPAA's approach and alienate their fans (which I think would be even more suicidal than what the RIAA/MPAA are doing considering the fanbase) or they will die off, at which point the fansubbers will die off. Or, the vast majority of fansubbers could realize that "hey, our industry is almost dead, and if we keep doing this it will never come back" and they could stop, but I doubt it. Welcome to the Free Market of the internet.
5)Shy boy lacking any confidence falls for beautiful girl and somehow she is attracted to him. Hilarity insues.
You're in a VR simulation, with graphics the quality of the newest FF games, all rendered in realtime. Now, you have a girl......and a um.......stimulation monitor firmly clamped on your um........input device. Your breathing intensifies and she speeds up in response, or with a personality upgrade, decides to do something really kinky that she thinks will put you over the edge.
Yeah that whole concept is kinda explicit....but think of the VR pr0n possibilities. I guarantee that I would own one if it was available....I'd never admit it....but I'd own one, and so would the rest of /.
Now, while this is EXTREMELY unlikely....because the car makers of the world would sic their collective wealth against any such endeavor but seriously.....this is getting too close for comfort.
No! You're ALL wrong! They will hire "judges" who will be judge/jury/executioner and will have poor english skills and wear dorky outfits as their ride around on their barely functional flying motorcycles proclaiming "I AM THA LAW" to everybody who crosswalks.
Right...except when the number of places that we know of/can reach are extremely limited and our resources only give us so many attempts at getting them. Just wait and see what happens once somebody tries to claim the mineral rights to the moon. WW4, and guess what, it won't need to take place at the location being fought for, it will most likely just being the involved countries duking it out on planet Earth cuz it happens to be closer.
That's it.....we need to "liberate" those "terrorists" NOW! Before they um....."steal" from the poor poor CEO's of America by producing something for cheaper and undercutting American Corporations. Someone get FOX on the phone.......there's a new "War on Terror" at hand!
The reason why it matters that it's an easily answered question is that there are plenty of other more difficult questions that could be asked instead of this one.....which could be answered by spending 5 minutes on Google.
That's just it though....as pro-linux as many posts on slashdot may be, it is not a linux community. It is "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters". This is not news for nerds, nor is it stuff that really matters. And no wonder he got 600+ reviews, it's an extremely easy question to answer to of course people are gonna chime in with their answer. Go into a room somewhere and ask anybody what their favorite books are and you'd get the same response.
No offense, but isn't that the point of camoflauge? And even if it's not the typical forest camo, most military uniforms are designed to blend in to some degree with the soldier's surroundings.
The other major thing they have reinforced, and that I have noticed has affected both my driving habits and the driving habits of my friends who play games (like GTA3 and GT3) is that while the game reinforces the fact that if you hit things, bad shit happens (ie. you spin out of control and the car bursts into flames.....now if that ain't incentive not to hit things i don't know what is) but also, that your perception of how close is too close goes WAAAAY down. I've noticed myself thinking that "as long as I don't HIT the person crossing the street, it's ok to drive very close by them at my present speed".
How's that for a double-edged sword.
That assumes that the company is as foolish as this piece of work seems to be and has this BIOS chip in their servers. Which I doubt they do.....they just want to peddle it to other people, they're not actually stupid enough to use it themselves.
You saying things like this is no better than when the people you are mocking, mock us for our interest in technology. I dub thee TROLL!
Ah....but thats a double-edged sword, because while you would then give people the option of buying the dvd vs downloading (a free copy), you also then give them less time to milk every last fucking dime out of us in the theaters.
Well, according to capitalism, your choices are either change your business model, or do something to lower your costs. If the ISP is being the problem, complain to them. If they won't change things, find a new ISP. If you can't, find a new business model. I hate to break it to you, but you don't have a god-given right to have your business model work forever. This is the same thing people harp at the RIAA for.....change your business model, or fail, others who are able to adapt will take your place. This isn't meant as a flame, I'm just tellin ya how capitalism works, unless of course you have enough money to buy your own laws...thats a whole new can of worms though.
Maybe I'm just using an old version of kazaalite or something.....but I still get popups when using it. Last I checked, kazaalite still spits ads at you. It does take out the spyware however.