It's not the right time to be sober
Now the idiots have taken over
Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?
Mensa membership receeding
Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson, it's really elementary
The industrial revolution
Has flipped the bitch on evolution
The benevolent and wise are being cornered, ostracized, what a bummer
The world keeps getting dumber
Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason
Darwin's rollin over in his coffin
The fittest are surviving much less often
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
And I'm startin to feel a lot like charlton heston
Stranded on a primate planet
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
With generals and the armies that obeyed them
Followers following fables
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard
There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
Political scientists think the same one vote that some monkeys are inbred
Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions
What are we left with?
A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
Pass on traditions
How to get ahead religions
And prosperity be a symbol to culture
Most spammers don't use a real reply address. All this filter would do is generate a bounced return mail for every piece of spam, effectively doubling the amount of crap in your inbox.
I almost always do a quick search to see if I can find some code snippets that solve a problem I encounter. Spending 10 or 15 minutes to find a solid piece of functional code is a lot lazier IMO than writing everything from scratch.
As was pointed out by another poster, pre-sorted mailings actually consume much less USPS resources than private mailings. Often the sending company actually delivers the mailing to the regional post office of their destination.
Additionaly, the bulk mailers actually (in effect) subsidise private use of the post office. In other words, without junk mail you're be paiying considerably more for a stamp as mail-people would be walking around delivering one or two peices of paid mail to each household instead of 1 or 2 pieces of private mail and 4 or 5 pieces of paid bulk mailings.
...is that now Independance day in the US is no longer billed as being about a people's uprising to overthrown an unpopular and (arguably) tyrannical gov't. Somehow the 4th of July has now become a celebration of "America" and "Freedom" and military victories.
I've been thinking about this for a while... If enough people were to set up unsecured wireless basestations such that (in, say, an apt complex) there were always 4 or 5 different signals available for a given user how could anything be tracked? I don't think there's any legal obligation to secure a wireless network.
Of course this would probably lead to the RIAA being able to storm your residence and "take inventory" of the files on any drives/storage media.
Everyone knows the RIAA is a bunch of publicity seeking, money grubbing pricks. They are going to do anything and everything in their power to make it look as if they are being vicitmized and driven out of business. The only allies they have are those that they bought. Hopefully universities and ISPs will realize that cooperation with the RIAA will only cause them more headaches and lawsuits in the long run as the RIAA lashes out and sues everyone in sight.
There is no force involved. The supermarkets are essentially propsoing an agreement: let us sell your information to whomever we want and we will cut you a deal on groceries.
Personally, I refuse to get/use any of those "courtesy" cards because my privacy is worth more to me than saving a few dollars on groceries. Still, nine times out of ten the cashier will run a card through and give me the discounts anyways. If not, I just look at it as paying a little extra for the convienience of going to that market rather than one further away that does not have "courtesy" cards.
Wouldn't that make all currently existing CDs unplayable on this new equipment?
I'm not sure that would fly with the general public who only knows how to buy a CD and put it in their CD player. The RIAA/MPAA can get away with a lot as long as it doesn't effect Joe Public shopping at best buy for the newest Brittney Spears CD. Once it gets to the point that everyday non-technical people are effected is when the true backlash will begin.
is that at some point the music has to be unencrypted. There is no way to prevent me from intercepting the signal being sent to my speakers, recording it and ripping it to mp3. The quality is not going to be that great, but that's par for the course on Kazaa. The same is true for movies... there will always be cam versions no matter what.
So, if we accept the (logical) "Napsterization" model using any type of encryption/fair use deprivation sceme is going to be pointless when the music/film has to be percieved by the human eyes and ears in the same way it always has been.
They're out of a job because of this new-fangled "graphical" stuff. Too bad they didn't patent the idea of displaying a representation of naked women on the internet for the purpose of facilitating masturbation.
Hoe could they release a document with so many factual and grammatical errors? I would have thought the lawyers would at least do a little proofreading and fact checking.
Regardless, since UNIX was licensed to universities to study couldn't the concepts SCO claims were "stolen" by IBM simply have been studied by the Linux developers when they were in school?
I've had good luck with my Mintek 1600. It has played everything I've thrown at it including raw mpegs(!!)
I haven't tried many DVD-/+Rs, but it gets good reviews on vcdhelp.com (http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDname=mi ntek+1600&Submit=Search&Search=Search) and is only $50 at best buy.
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It's not the right time to be sober
Now the idiots have taken over
Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?
Mensa membership receeding
Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson, it's really elementary
The industrial revolution
Has flipped the bitch on evolution
The benevolent and wise are being cornered, ostracized, what a bummer
The world keeps getting dumber
Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason
Darwin's rollin over in his coffin
The fittest are surviving much less often
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
And I'm startin to feel a lot like charlton heston
Stranded on a primate planet
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
With generals and the armies that obeyed them
Followers following fables
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard
There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
Political scientists think the same one vote that some monkeys are inbred
Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions
What are we left with?
A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
Pass on traditions
How to get ahead religions
And prosperity be a symbol to culture
The idiots are takin over
-NOFX
Most spammers don't use a real reply address. All this filter would do is generate a bounced return mail for every piece of spam, effectively doubling the amount of crap in your inbox.
according to riaa radar...
Artist:White Stripes
Album:White Blood Cells
Label:V2. / Bmg
RESULTS:
Warning!
This album was found to have bene released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
You say that as if the lawmakers don't want the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. Rich people = campaign contributions.
I almost always do a quick search to see if I can find some code snippets that solve a problem I encounter. Spending 10 or 15 minutes to find a solid piece of functional code is a lot lazier IMO than writing everything from scratch.
As was pointed out by another poster, pre-sorted mailings actually consume much less USPS resources than private mailings. Often the sending company actually delivers the mailing to the regional post office of their destination. Additionaly, the bulk mailers actually (in effect) subsidise private use of the post office. In other words, without junk mail you're be paiying considerably more for a stamp as mail-people would be walking around delivering one or two peices of paid mail to each household instead of 1 or 2 pieces of private mail and 4 or 5 pieces of paid bulk mailings.
Don't click that link, it's the goatse guy.
Hmmm.... Accessory after the fact to an unproven case of contributory copyright infringement... that does sound like the case the RIAA would bring.
The kid set up a paypal link on his site (chewplastic.com) so help him pay the rediculous extortion by the RIAA. I threw the kid $20 to help.
...is that now Independance day in the US is no longer billed as being about a people's uprising to overthrown an unpopular and (arguably) tyrannical gov't. Somehow the 4th of July has now become a celebration of "America" and "Freedom" and military victories.
I've been thinking about this for a while... If enough people were to set up unsecured wireless basestations such that (in, say, an apt complex) there were always 4 or 5 different signals available for a given user how could anything be tracked? I don't think there's any legal obligation to secure a wireless network.
Of course this would probably lead to the RIAA being able to storm your residence and "take inventory" of the files on any drives/storage media.
Everyone knows the RIAA is a bunch of publicity seeking, money grubbing pricks. They are going to do anything and everything in their power to make it look as if they are being vicitmized and driven out of business. The only allies they have are those that they bought. Hopefully universities and ISPs will realize that cooperation with the RIAA will only cause them more headaches and lawsuits in the long run as the RIAA lashes out and sues everyone in sight.
There is no force involved. The supermarkets are essentially propsoing an agreement: let us sell your information to whomever we want and we will cut you a deal on groceries.
Personally, I refuse to get/use any of those "courtesy" cards because my privacy is worth more to me than saving a few dollars on groceries. Still, nine times out of ten the cashier will run a card through and give me the discounts anyways. If not, I just look at it as paying a little extra for the convienience of going to that market rather than one further away that does not have "courtesy" cards.
Wouldn't that make all currently existing CDs unplayable on this new equipment?
I'm not sure that would fly with the general public who only knows how to buy a CD and put it in their CD player. The RIAA/MPAA can get away with a lot as long as it doesn't effect Joe Public shopping at best buy for the newest Brittney Spears CD. Once it gets to the point that everyday non-technical people are effected is when the true backlash will begin.
is that at some point the music has to be unencrypted. There is no way to prevent me from intercepting the signal being sent to my speakers, recording it and ripping it to mp3. The quality is not going to be that great, but that's par for the course on Kazaa. The same is true for movies... there will always be cam versions no matter what.
So, if we accept the (logical) "Napsterization" model using any type of encryption/fair use deprivation sceme is going to be pointless when the music/film has to be percieved by the human eyes and ears in the same way it always has been.
They're out of a job because of this new-fangled "graphical" stuff. Too bad they didn't patent the idea of displaying a representation of naked women on the internet for the purpose of facilitating masturbation.
Luckily I don't plan on basing a lawsuit on the contents of that post.
Hoe could they release a document with so many factual and grammatical errors? I would have thought the lawyers would at least do a little proofreading and fact checking.
Regardless, since UNIX was licensed to universities to study couldn't the concepts SCO claims were "stolen" by IBM simply have been studied by the Linux developers when they were in school?
I've had good luck with my Mintek 1600. It has played everything I've thrown at it including raw mpegs(!!) I haven't tried many DVD-/+Rs, but it gets good reviews on vcdhelp.com (http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDname=mi ntek+1600&Submit=Search&Search=Search) and is only $50 at best buy.