The day Windows is not the pirate's OS of choice will be the day Linux is officially ready for the desktop. How do you think Windows got it's market share in the first place?
Heh, thats funny. There are 3 highly modded posts saying to just delete the history file. Hmmm.... why would Slashdotters be so familiar with a procedure such as that?
If you run the script below, it will create a page with a title that's quite huge. Close your browser and open it again. The browser will spin for about 2 minutes what it tries to make sense the contents of your history file.
So what you are saying is that the browser is trying to process text from an outside user? That sounds pretty dangerous even if there aren't any know attacks that use it.
But whatever, I am sure the next story will be about it being patched.
GTX Global Cognitive Robotics(TM) product schedule includes interactive banner advertising utilizing Automated Intelligence Agents for website sales and customer service...
Actually, this would be a pretty good use for an advanced Eliza type bot. Most of those jobs are fulfilled with humans just reading from a script anyway. With a web or chat interface you don't even need to worry about voice acting.
Interesting tangent. It seems like a drive for self preservation could be arrived at by logic alone though regardless of what other drives were programmed. E.g. my main focus is to complete task a, being "alive" to do so would probably help.
However, in effect, a binary of my program has been, however temporarily, placed at the disposal of that one user. They are a user after all. they are "using" the program.
You are playing semantic word games. The users of the service are no more using the software than I am using the accounting software of my accountant when he does my taxes.
Except for the fact that you are directly controlling the software yourself. Computing resources are being expended to your direct command. That sounds like "using" to me.
How can you lump every activity that can be done online and somehow classify it as an addiction?
If I trade stocks over the phone, talk on the phone, and orde rpizza on the phone, does that mean I am addicted to the phone? How is it any different?
Do you order so much pizza over the phone that it endangers your health? Do you talk so much on the phone that you lose you job or girlfriend etc? If so then yes, you are addicted to the phone, there is no difference.
Well, at the time the Mac was the system for audio enthusiasts. I believe it was the first system to ship with a sound card even. So there was a bit of "confusing" market overlap. Apple settled the case so there is no way to know how the courts would have ruled. The terms of the settlement did require Apple to stay out of the music business, not sure why they haven't followed up due to iTunes...
How long is it going to be before these companies realize that attacking their customers and treating them like criminals really is NOT a good way to do business?
When it stops earning them assloads of cash. Unfortunately people are still buying this crap.
Of course, with every act of attrition the P2P networks improve. Kazaa is already pretty much useless, this will just push more people toward the superior technology.
I'm either boycotting the console maker (Sony and Microsoft), or I hold the maker in very low esteem (Nintendo, for bringing us Pokemon and thus refining price gouging and bringing marketing to a new level).
Ok, so you are boycotting Sony for installing rootkits on peoples computers. You are boycotting MS for abusive business practices. And you are boycotting Nintendo for putting out a product that was too popular?
Disclaimer: I actually kind of like Pokemon, the GB games were pretty clever in combining a neo-pet type mechanism and a classic RPG, and the cartoon was actually pretty funny (for the 1st season).
The belief of how anything outside of the universe behaves, whether it is a theoretical quantum metauniverse, God, a giant bowl of pasta, etc. is an untestable belief. Since the universe had a beginning at the Big Bang, something had to start it, and that something, being necessarily outside of the universe, cannot be tested.
The usefulness of an underlying philosophy to science is undoubtable though. The philosophy that the universe is ordered has helped aid scientific discovery (until quantum physics). The philosophy that the universe has a beginning and is constantly changing was fought against hard by the majority of the scientific community who believed in the philosophy of a relatively static universe until the data was too much for it to stand. The philosophy that evolution governs all biology has worked for quite some time, but it is a philosophy, and it is possible, like Newtonian physics, that it governs only a part of the full field. ID proposes more uniqueness and order to living organisms than evolution currently allows. As a guiding philosophy, it lives or dies on the biological discoveries in the future.
A governing philosophy to part of science should be taught, but not as a scientific fact, and a historical view of the different philosophies that have been successful and discarded would be as useful as teaching the current scientific understanding of reality.
So don't buy it. But if you like the music, they're giving you 2 CDs worth of songs for the price of 2 CDs in a smaller, less scratch-prone format. I'm not sure why you're being a dick about that.
Though it is a clever gimmick it should be noted that RIAA Radar lists this band as unclean. The db doesn't have this memory stick thing in it but at least one of the albums on it was released by Warner Bros.
It doesn't seem to stop every self proclaimed expert here from spouting off their particular pet theory that coiincidentally justifies their eMule use, nevertheless.
And I for one thank Sony for making this a little easier for everyone to justify!
but the point at which society stopped dealing with personal issues and problems and instead desperately started seeking someone to blame,
Humans have always been like this. My theory is that religions arose to fill this need as well. When your crops go bad and there is nobody to blame feel free to use our god.
I don't agree with Jack Thompson but I do not see a problem with him expressing his point of view in our culture of ideas. Posting a very gross picture of a kid vomiting and an absurd cartoon does the anti-Thompson no good.
Well I don't agree with vomit-picture as debate tool, but I don't see a problem with that person expressing his opinion of the matter either. Is Jack Thompson the only one whose freedom of expression is protected? If Amazon chooses to remove the picture that is their business (and property) but making this into a lawsuit is ridiculous.
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The day Windows is not the pirate's OS of choice will be the day Linux is officially ready for the desktop. How do you think Windows got it's market share in the first place?
What do you call somebody who can't say for certain, but is 99.9999999999999999% sure there is no god?
USC Title 17?
Heh, thats funny. There are 3 highly modded posts saying to just delete the history file. Hmmm.... why would Slashdotters be so familiar with a procedure such as that?
If you run the script below, it will create a page with a title that's quite huge. Close your browser and open it again. The browser will spin for about 2 minutes what it tries to make sense the contents of your history file.
So what you are saying is that the browser is trying to process text from an outside user? That sounds pretty dangerous even if there aren't any know attacks that use it.
But whatever, I am sure the next story will be about it being patched.
GTX Global Cognitive Robotics(TM) product schedule includes interactive banner advertising utilizing Automated Intelligence Agents for website sales and customer service...
Actually, this would be a pretty good use for an advanced Eliza type bot. Most of those jobs are fulfilled with humans just reading from a script anyway. With a web or chat interface you don't even need to worry about voice acting.
Interesting tangent. It seems like a drive for self preservation could be arrived at by logic alone though regardless of what other drives were programmed. E.g. my main focus is to complete task a, being "alive" to do so would probably help.
However, in effect, a binary of my program has been, however temporarily, placed at the disposal of that one user. They are a user after all. they are "using" the program.
You are playing semantic word games. The users of the service are no more using the software than I am using the accounting software of my accountant when he does my taxes.
Except for the fact that you are directly controlling the software yourself. Computing resources are being expended to your direct command. That sounds like "using" to me.
How can you lump every activity that can be done online and somehow classify it as an addiction?
If I trade stocks over the phone, talk on the phone, and orde rpizza on the phone, does that mean I am addicted to the phone? How is it any different?
Do you order so much pizza over the phone that it endangers your health? Do you talk so much on the phone that you lose you job or girlfriend etc? If so then yes, you are addicted to the phone, there is no difference.
But violence is often necessary in real life.
Some people claim that sex is necessary in real life too!
Well, at the time the Mac was the system for audio enthusiasts. I believe it was the first system to ship with a sound card even. So there was a bit of "confusing" market overlap. Apple settled the case so there is no way to know how the courts would have ruled. The terms of the settlement did require Apple to stay out of the music business, not sure why they haven't followed up due to iTunes...
How long is it going to be before these companies realize that attacking their customers and treating them like criminals really is NOT a good way to do business?
When it stops earning them assloads of cash. Unfortunately people are still buying this crap.
Wow, the 360 must use some sort of transfinite spatail interface just to have a 2 meter wide thermal port.
No kidding! Everybody knows the 2 meter wide thermal port was only on the original Xbox.
Of course, with every act of attrition the P2P networks improve. Kazaa is already pretty much useless, this will just push more people toward the superior technology.
while Architect and Tester are eliminated in favor of Noisy Fanboy, who just gets a web browser.
Yes, but is it Firefox or Opera?
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick
Perhaps you could share with us your incredibly accurate estimation technique?
It's actually quite simple. Let anybody but marketing set the ship date.
I'm either boycotting the console maker (Sony and Microsoft), or I hold the maker in very low esteem (Nintendo, for bringing us Pokemon and thus refining price gouging and bringing marketing to a new level).
Ok, so you are boycotting Sony for installing rootkits on peoples computers. You are boycotting MS for abusive business practices. And you are boycotting Nintendo for putting out a product that was too popular?
Disclaimer: I actually kind of like Pokemon, the GB games were pretty clever in combining a neo-pet type mechanism and a classic RPG, and the cartoon was actually pretty funny (for the 1st season).
The belief of how anything outside of the universe behaves, whether it is a theoretical quantum metauniverse, God, a giant bowl of pasta, etc. is an untestable belief. Since the universe had a beginning at the Big Bang, something had to start it, and that something, being necessarily outside of the universe, cannot be tested.
The usefulness of an underlying philosophy to science is undoubtable though. The philosophy that the universe is ordered has helped aid scientific discovery (until quantum physics). The philosophy that the universe has a beginning and is constantly changing was fought against hard by the majority of the scientific community who believed in the philosophy of a relatively static universe until the data was too much for it to stand. The philosophy that evolution governs all biology has worked for quite some time, but it is a philosophy, and it is possible, like Newtonian physics, that it governs only a part of the full field. ID proposes more uniqueness and order to living organisms than evolution currently allows. As a guiding philosophy, it lives or dies on the biological discoveries in the future.
A governing philosophy to part of science should be taught, but not as a scientific fact, and a historical view of the different philosophies that have been successful and discarded would be as useful as teaching the current scientific understanding of reality.
What class do you want to cover this in again?
So don't buy it. But if you like the music, they're giving you 2 CDs worth of songs for the price of 2 CDs in a smaller, less scratch-prone format. I'm not sure why you're being a dick about that.
Though it is a clever gimmick it should be noted that RIAA Radar lists this band as unclean. The db doesn't have this memory stick thing in it but at least one of the albums on it was released by Warner Bros.
It doesn't seem to stop every self proclaimed expert here from spouting off their particular pet theory that coiincidentally justifies their eMule use, nevertheless.
And I for one thank Sony for making this a little easier for everyone to justify!
but the point at which society stopped dealing with personal issues and problems and instead desperately started seeking someone to blame,
Humans have always been like this. My theory is that religions arose to fill this need as well. When your crops go bad and there is nobody to blame feel free to use our god.
So wait... you mean there isn't a large group of attractive young women clamouring to meet me over the internet!?!?! I am SHOCKED!
After he died, she learned that there was a warning/disclaimer in small print stating that the game could cause seizures.
If by small you mean the entire inside cover of every video game made in the US since the NES days...
I don't agree with Jack Thompson but I do not see a problem with him expressing his point of view in our culture of ideas. Posting a very gross picture of a kid vomiting and an absurd cartoon does the anti-Thompson no good.
Well I don't agree with vomit-picture as debate tool, but I don't see a problem with that person expressing his opinion of the matter either. Is Jack Thompson the only one whose freedom of expression is protected? If Amazon chooses to remove the picture that is their business (and property) but making this into a lawsuit is ridiculous.