It seems as if they blindly trust our gov't to protect them from voting fraud.
They blindly trust them for most everything else why would voting me any different? "Oh, we should really give up some of our freedoms to make sure we protect everyone from the horrors of terrorism!"
When we have a population that seriously believes that the best way we can protect ourselves is to fall victim to the ever longer Slip and Slide that this issue has become we have serious issues.
In other news, GL Online has stated that Penguin Books had used psychical and emotional intimidation to coerce them into allowing the usage of the title "A Girls Life: Online".
A representative from Boy's Life was quoted as saying, "girls have cooooodies, ewww. Good riddance!"
As it should be but if anything it would make people fight against each other even more. Religion fuels a lot of our current social problems. What the hell is it going to do when we fight intelligent life that wasn't created in what our cultures felt was "God's vision"?
There's no agenda, hidden nor otherwise, I just want them to leave me alone and I've always been very open about that. I also don't relish the publicity as she suggests.
Of course there is! If there is no drama there is no way to make the story like Reality TV. Without the story being like a Realty TV series how could they attract the interest of possible readers?
I'm not really making any 'efforts'. I've asked for them to acknowledge responsibility and to stop using my domain name. They haven't. The Amazon reviews I think just serve to show how strongly the Internet community feels about this.
Say I register Bill.com and someone writes a book about Bill Gates' secret life as a modern day Robin Hood, stealing from everyone and giving a portion back to the poor. Would I be allowed to tell them that they couldn't call it Bill.com? Fuck no I couldn't. Just because I own a domain name doesn't give me exclusive rights to tell other people what to do with the name.
My privacy has been completely invaded by their use of my domain name.
Your webpage was on the Internet. You had your resume and pictures of your family there. You chose to allow this information to be accessible. They didn't invade any privacy by naming their book that.
I don't agree with Penguin on this one as they are obviously completely in the wrong but I certainly don't agree with Katie that she is 100% right either. Tell them to fuck off. They have no leg to stand on. Katie.com was around before their book was titled and it has nothing to do w/their book. They can eat it. Case closed.
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My wireless network is fucking bulletproof. I have a monk standing guard.
"At present, P2P software has too many times been hijacked by those who use it for illegal purposes, to which the vast majority of our consumers do not wish to be exposed."
Well, supposedly the majority of P2P is used for "illegal" purposes. It's then easy to extrapolate from there to say that the vast majority does wish to be exposed to "illegal" offerings.
Although there is little evidence that child pornography or other criminal activities unrelated to copyright issues are any more prevalent on peer-to-peer networks than elsewhere on the Internet, entertainment companies and some policymakers have increasingly pointed to these issues as reason to impose new regulations on the networks and technology.
Yes, that is called FUD. What they fail to mention is that this is a vicious attack. The "we need to protect our children" bullshit. It apparently works for FoxNews why not laws?
In Washington, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is sponsoring a bill that would hold file-sharing companies liable for the illegal actions of their users, a measure that could push the existing commercial networks out of business.
I want to hold Orrin responsible for wasting Utah's tax dollars on fucking horseshit. There are much more important evils in Utah to deal with than P2P disrupting the conservative way of life out there.
The letter specifically asks that file-sharing companies stop encrypting network transmissions in ways that make it difficult for law enforcement to investigate and enforce the law.
Fuck them. I ask specifically that they keep their snooping eyes out of my business. Are they going to start asking that SSH tunnels be regulated because it may harbor criminals? We should all be required to run plaintext everything so that our information is out there for all eyes to see.
The EFF needs to write a letter back that simply says, "In the best interests of our children we have to say, 'No.'" It might be too simple for them to understand without all that legal mumbo-jumbo but it would certainly be easier than fighting with them over what is obviously a bunch of uneducated nonsense.
OK, I call bullshit. Tons of hardware doesn't work well or easily with Windows. People just never have to deal with it because Windows gets preinstalled.
My Kodak doesn't work in Linux. I plugged it into XP and it worked. Hmm. That didn't come preinstalled as I just bought it in December.
Really? I don't. Can you name any offhand?
The example I will continue to use is http://slashdot.org/. When it stops forcing a refresh to fix the sidebar then I will believe Firefox is "acceptable". It's amazing how many Firefox zealots ignore this with a brush off. General Windows users will not.
Sorry, dude, but have never had anyone I've shown firefox to complain about the ways it's different from IE. Office you may have a point about, though about 85% of companies don't need MS Office and don't use most of its features.
And again, you are dealing with people magnatudes higher in computer literacy apparently.
This deduction is bogus... the hardware is built (and drivers written) with windows in mind. This damn near never happends with linux, yet.
He said that Linux is ready for the desktop but that the hardware is only an issue because Windows OEMs make sure it is interoperable before installing.
Linux won't be ready for the desktop until hardware is written with Linux in mind. That's the point, thanks for helping to clarify.
Linux will never be ready for computer users like Windows is ready for them. Once IE and Office run on Linux natively then Linux can finally be branded "the Windows killer." Until that time it just cannot have it beat.
I deal with below average computer users daily (far below what everyone else here seems to deal with). I get MS Office attachments that do not format correct in OpenOffice, I get to visit webpages that do not format correctly in Firefox (at least not without some discomfort), and I don't hear anyone say "oh yeah, Linux, I heard of that."
When we mention DVD X Copy and people immediately post about DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink (I don't see much mention of any good re-authoring tool for Linux as I don't believe there is one). When we mention that there is a new exploit for Windows out people for some reason feel the need to blame Windows instead of the users using it. Do you think that these same people are going to have a secure Linux machine, I certainly don't. When we mention that Firefox doesn't render pages correctly we get endless people posting that yes it does and that those that post that it doesn't are wrong! Until Firefox renders every page just like IE does the public isn't going to care for it (yes, Spyware, exploits, etc are irrelevant I'm sorry to say, remember these are the people that didn't patch against it in the first place because they don't even know or care to know what it is).
Linux will be ready for the desktop when it is as easy to install, run, and care for as carelessly as Windows users demand.
All of these are valid concerns, and often frustrating, but they fail to make the case against desktop Linux, because they fail to compare apples to apples. When you buy a new PC, Windows comes pre-installed on it. You don't have to go through the process that Linux requires. The hardware manufacturer already rejected modem X, figured out that Wi-Fi adapter Y is the one to include with the computer, etc. The OEM did all the hard work for you. Even when you give a user the Windows XP CD to install, he is already ahead of the game in that he knows the OEM already configured the hardware to work with XP.
Right and when you get new hardware, plug it in, and restart, what does XP do? Hey, holy shit user, you have new hardware, we need drivers! Oh wait, we have them right here, no recompiles or modules need to be loaded. It's a digital camera you say? Wow, would you like to open the files on the camera and work with Photoshop or some random preloaded Windows software or would you like to save them to a directory on your HD?
Remember that a lot of Linux users preconfigure their machines to work with Linux. My Kodak DX4530 camera doesn't work with Linux 2.4.x (I don't have time to figure out why my network cards aren't working under 2.6.x - odd that I have been running Linux for 10 years and I can't seem to get my configuration to work w/o thinking).
All the applications he lists (OpenOffice, Mozilla, GNU Cash) are no where near the level of their Windows counterparts. They are close but they are not the same. Yeah, you can always get stuff to work with your Linux software and I spent years doing just that. Regular Joe Blow User does not want to do anything but point, click, and go.
1) Buy a Windows box with hardware that is known compatible with Linux, just as if a manufacturer were OEMing the system using Linux.
This conclusion is bogus. Basically all hardware works just fine with Windows. It's not the same for Linux. Give me a break.
Windows works for just about everyone without too many problems. Linux works for people with some problems. General users do not want to deal with anything (interoperability, futzing, fixing, downloading, etc). They just want functionality built in that works w/o question.
That's why Windows will continue to reign supreme, at least for now.
Nah, Sony is in bed w/the RIAA and MPAA. These two groups aren't going to step on Sony's toes as long as Sony makes sure that they did everything they could to keep from stepping on the other two assholes' toes as well.
What's going to end up hurting the employees profits are the overhyped stock prices. As the article mentions it is likely that the prices will fall soon after the stock hits the open market.
Technically it would be between $400 and $650 as you are required to buy at least 5. According the article speculators believe that it is overpriced and will quickly fall after the market opens.
This isn't huge news or anything. They found the mistake, theya re going to buy back the shares, it's going to cost about 25 million to buy the shares back.
25 million out of their on-hand cash reserves isn't that much.
I love it when non-business people dream up the way that it should be, when in reality, they couldn't run a fucking lemonade stand. You know buddy, if you're such a financial whiz, and you can make a world class newspaper and give it out for free, you should! You'd make a goddamned fortune, like Rupert Murdoch or Ted Turner. Except that you'd be the "good guy". Since your business model is *so* great, you should have an easy time of it!
I especially love when people are so blind as to ignore the fact that advertising is what pays for the paper. I can't imagine that.50 to 1.00 pays for the entire staff, writing, editing, printing, and distributing the paper.
Oh wait it doesn't.
The ad revenue stream can still continue, in tact, in an electronically viewed form.
Fucking advertising? I thought the paper wanted to make money back for the distribution and printing of the paper by the costs that you had to pay. The costs of online distribution have to be far less than that of physical.
Keep the damn ads and stop with the registration happy horseshit.
Of course, they're also giving you the news without asking for 50 cents, either... Registration is the "price" you pay for full access to the online newspaper. Is that too much? Fine, then don't read it... but don't adopt some holier-than-thou attitude just because the newspaper (gasp) asks for something back before it hands over its content.
If it's a bad business model, they'll go under. But there's no moral high ground here.
It's you that has the holier than thou attitude as far as I can see. How dare you openly accept the fact that companies are asking intrusive information for exchange of information? We should not let this stand. While the people here on Slashdot are usually smart enough to make fake accounts with fake addresses, telephone numbers, etc, the general public is not.
These companies make MUCH more on selling you out than they do from us buying the newspaper at an outlet. They are taking advantage of the general stupidity and willingness of the public to give up their info.
They will NOT go under because people don't understand that it is a bad business model. People think that it is a necessary thing to do thus they do it. It won't fail them because the public is just not educated enough against this.
I don't just enter it I routinely give it out in person as my zipcode. The Minnesota Twins have no business knowing my zipcode and telephone number when I buy tickets. 000-000-0000 and 90210 usually gets a chuckle from the ticket salesperson sometimes it gets a scowl and a question. "I'm from Beverely Hills, our area code is 000."
The companies might not think it's all that intrusive but I feel that it is my god given right to give them whatever I want just as they feel it is there to ask me whatever they want.
Nero doesn't do anything better as far as burning an ISO than DVD Decrypter does. I want to rip to ISO and burn it. Why bother with Nero when I can do it for free?
I think you misunderstand. Daxx's point is that people won't care as long as the issue is abstract. When it starts to hit them personally, there will be action.
I think it's you that misunderstands. People aren't going to understand that they have a leg to stand on especially with more and more money being pumped into lawmaking to enable the MPAA/RIAA to do what they want.
People aren't motivated by much these days. We have always had factions that went against the norm. Everyone else conforms. Sad reality but a true one.
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It seems as if they blindly trust our gov't to protect them from voting fraud.
They blindly trust them for most everything else why would voting me any different? "Oh, we should really give up some of our freedoms to make sure we protect everyone from the horrors of terrorism!"
When we have a population that seriously believes that the best way we can protect ourselves is to fall victim to the ever longer Slip and Slide that this issue has become we have serious issues.
Nah, it's just that the media has recently jumped on this. Al Roker probably has more people that are psychotic than we do.
In other news, GL Online has stated that Penguin Books had used psychical and emotional intimidation to coerce them into allowing the usage of the title "A Girls Life: Online".
A representative from Boy's Life was quoted as saying, "girls have cooooodies, ewww. Good riddance!"
and it would be seen as a threat
As it should be but if anything it would make people fight against each other even more. Religion fuels a lot of our current social problems. What the hell is it going to do when we fight intelligent life that wasn't created in what our cultures felt was "God's vision"?
There's no agenda, hidden nor otherwise, I just want them to leave me alone and I've always been very open about that. I also don't relish the publicity as she suggests.
Of course there is! If there is no drama there is no way to make the story like Reality TV. Without the story being like a Realty TV series how could they attract the interest of possible readers?
I'm not really making any 'efforts'. I've asked for them to acknowledge responsibility and to stop using my domain name. They haven't. The Amazon reviews I think just serve to show how strongly the Internet community feels about this.
Say I register Bill.com and someone writes a book about Bill Gates' secret life as a modern day Robin Hood, stealing from everyone and giving a portion back to the poor. Would I be allowed to tell them that they couldn't call it Bill.com? Fuck no I couldn't. Just because I own a domain name doesn't give me exclusive rights to tell other people what to do with the name.
My privacy has been completely invaded by their use of my domain name.
Your webpage was on the Internet. You had your resume and pictures of your family there. You chose to allow this information to be accessible. They didn't invade any privacy by naming their book that.
I don't agree with Penguin on this one as they are obviously completely in the wrong but I certainly don't agree with Katie that she is 100% right either. Tell them to fuck off. They have no leg to stand on. Katie.com was around before their book was titled and it has nothing to do w/their book. They can eat it. Case closed.
My wireless network is fucking bulletproof. I have a monk standing guard.
"At present, P2P software has too many times been hijacked by those who use it for illegal purposes, to which the vast majority of our consumers do not wish to be exposed."
Well, supposedly the majority of P2P is used for "illegal" purposes. It's then easy to extrapolate from there to say that the vast majority does wish to be exposed to "illegal" offerings.
Although there is little evidence that child pornography or other criminal activities unrelated to copyright issues are any more prevalent on peer-to-peer networks than elsewhere on the Internet, entertainment companies and some policymakers have increasingly pointed to these issues as reason to impose new regulations on the networks and technology.
Yes, that is called FUD. What they fail to mention is that this is a vicious attack. The "we need to protect our children" bullshit. It apparently works for FoxNews why not laws?
In Washington, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is sponsoring a bill that would hold file-sharing companies liable for the illegal actions of their users, a measure that could push the existing commercial networks out of business.
I want to hold Orrin responsible for wasting Utah's tax dollars on fucking horseshit. There are much more important evils in Utah to deal with than P2P disrupting the conservative way of life out there.
The letter specifically asks that file-sharing companies stop encrypting network transmissions in ways that make it difficult for law enforcement to investigate and enforce the law.
Fuck them. I ask specifically that they keep their snooping eyes out of my business. Are they going to start asking that SSH tunnels be regulated because it may harbor criminals? We should all be required to run plaintext everything so that our information is out there for all eyes to see.
The EFF needs to write a letter back that simply says, "In the best interests of our children we have to say, 'No.'" It might be too simple for them to understand without all that legal mumbo-jumbo but it would certainly be easier than fighting with them over what is obviously a bunch of uneducated nonsense.
OK, I call bullshit. Tons of hardware doesn't work well or easily with Windows. People just never have to deal with it because Windows gets preinstalled.
My Kodak doesn't work in Linux. I plugged it into XP and it worked. Hmm. That didn't come preinstalled as I just bought it in December.
Really? I don't. Can you name any offhand?
The example I will continue to use is http://slashdot.org/. When it stops forcing a refresh to fix the sidebar then I will believe Firefox is "acceptable". It's amazing how many Firefox zealots ignore this with a brush off. General Windows users will not.
Sorry, dude, but have never had anyone I've shown firefox to complain about the ways it's different from IE. Office you may have a point about, though about 85% of companies don't need MS Office and don't use most of its features.
And again, you are dealing with people magnatudes higher in computer literacy apparently.
This deduction is bogus... the hardware is built (and drivers written) with windows in mind. This damn near never happends with linux, yet.
He said that Linux is ready for the desktop but that the hardware is only an issue because Windows OEMs make sure it is interoperable before installing.
Linux won't be ready for the desktop until hardware is written with Linux in mind. That's the point, thanks for helping to clarify.
Linux will never be ready for computer users like Windows is ready for them. Once IE and Office run on Linux natively then Linux can finally be branded "the Windows killer." Until that time it just cannot have it beat.
I deal with below average computer users daily (far below what everyone else here seems to deal with). I get MS Office attachments that do not format correct in OpenOffice, I get to visit webpages that do not format correctly in Firefox (at least not without some discomfort), and I don't hear anyone say "oh yeah, Linux, I heard of that."
When we mention DVD X Copy and people immediately post about DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink (I don't see much mention of any good re-authoring tool for Linux as I don't believe there is one). When we mention that there is a new exploit for Windows out people for some reason feel the need to blame Windows instead of the users using it. Do you think that these same people are going to have a secure Linux machine, I certainly don't. When we mention that Firefox doesn't render pages correctly we get endless people posting that yes it does and that those that post that it doesn't are wrong! Until Firefox renders every page just like IE does the public isn't going to care for it (yes, Spyware, exploits, etc are irrelevant I'm sorry to say, remember these are the people that didn't patch against it in the first place because they don't even know or care to know what it is).
Linux will be ready for the desktop when it is as easy to install, run, and care for as carelessly as Windows users demand.
All of these are valid concerns, and often frustrating, but they fail to make the case against desktop Linux, because they fail to compare apples to apples. When you buy a new PC, Windows comes pre-installed on it. You don't have to go through the process that Linux requires. The hardware manufacturer already rejected modem X, figured out that Wi-Fi adapter Y is the one to include with the computer, etc. The OEM did all the hard work for you. Even when you give a user the Windows XP CD to install, he is already ahead of the game in that he knows the OEM already configured the hardware to work with XP.
Right and when you get new hardware, plug it in, and restart, what does XP do? Hey, holy shit user, you have new hardware, we need drivers! Oh wait, we have them right here, no recompiles or modules need to be loaded. It's a digital camera you say? Wow, would you like to open the files on the camera and work with Photoshop or some random preloaded Windows software or would you like to save them to a directory on your HD?
Remember that a lot of Linux users preconfigure their machines to work with Linux. My Kodak DX4530 camera doesn't work with Linux 2.4.x (I don't have time to figure out why my network cards aren't working under 2.6.x - odd that I have been running Linux for 10 years and I can't seem to get my configuration to work w/o thinking).
All the applications he lists (OpenOffice, Mozilla, GNU Cash) are no where near the level of their Windows counterparts. They are close but they are not the same. Yeah, you can always get stuff to work with your Linux software and I spent years doing just that. Regular Joe Blow User does not want to do anything but point, click, and go.
1) Buy a Windows box with hardware that is known compatible with Linux, just as if a manufacturer were OEMing the system using Linux.
This conclusion is bogus. Basically all hardware works just fine with Windows. It's not the same for Linux. Give me a break.
Windows works for just about everyone without too many problems. Linux works for people with some problems. General users do not want to deal with anything (interoperability, futzing, fixing, downloading, etc). They just want functionality built in that works w/o question.
That's why Windows will continue to reign supreme, at least for now.
Nah, Sony is in bed w/the RIAA and MPAA. These two groups aren't going to step on Sony's toes as long as Sony makes sure that they did everything they could to keep from stepping on the other two assholes' toes as well.
What's going to end up hurting the employees profits are the overhyped stock prices. As the article mentions it is likely that the prices will fall soon after the stock hits the open market.
Technically it would be between $400 and $650 as you are required to buy at least 5. According the article speculators believe that it is overpriced and will quickly fall after the market opens.
This isn't huge news or anything. They found the mistake, theya re going to buy back the shares, it's going to cost about 25 million to buy the shares back.
25 million out of their on-hand cash reserves isn't that much.
That person owes the RIAA money for distributing their music without royalty!
My original comment was meant as a joke and wasn't intended to be "Insightful".
Sure, and he will claim that you owe him money for using his rays without consent/payment.
That all ended with money backed litigation that basically forces someone to hand domains over before they run out of their own money.
You are again confusing your own viewing habbits to those of others. Remember, there's a *minority* of users that have these features.
Build the ads into the text just like the newspapers do in print.
I love it when non-business people dream up the way that it should be, when in reality, they couldn't run a fucking lemonade stand. You know buddy, if you're such a financial whiz, and you can make a world class newspaper and give it out for free, you should! You'd make a goddamned fortune, like Rupert Murdoch or Ted Turner. Except that you'd be the "good guy". Since your business model is *so* great, you should have an easy time of it!
.50 to 1.00 pays for the entire staff, writing, editing, printing, and distributing the paper.
I especially love when people are so blind as to ignore the fact that advertising is what pays for the paper. I can't imagine that
Oh wait it doesn't.
The ad revenue stream can still continue, in tact, in an electronically viewed form.
Fucking advertising? I thought the paper wanted to make money back for the distribution and printing of the paper by the costs that you had to pay. The costs of online distribution have to be far less than that of physical.
Keep the damn ads and stop with the registration happy horseshit.
Of course, they're also giving you the news without asking for 50 cents, either... Registration is the "price" you pay for full access to the online newspaper. Is that too much? Fine, then don't read it... but don't adopt some holier-than-thou attitude just because the newspaper (gasp) asks for something back before it hands over its content.
If it's a bad business model, they'll go under. But there's no moral high ground here.
It's you that has the holier than thou attitude as far as I can see. How dare you openly accept the fact that companies are asking intrusive information for exchange of information? We should not let this stand. While the people here on Slashdot are usually smart enough to make fake accounts with fake addresses, telephone numbers, etc, the general public is not.
These companies make MUCH more on selling you out than they do from us buying the newspaper at an outlet. They are taking advantage of the general stupidity and willingness of the public to give up their info.
They will NOT go under because people don't understand that it is a bad business model. People think that it is a necessary thing to do thus they do it. It won't fail them because the public is just not educated enough against this.
I don't just enter it I routinely give it out in person as my zipcode. The Minnesota Twins have no business knowing my zipcode and telephone number when I buy tickets. 000-000-0000 and 90210 usually gets a chuckle from the ticket salesperson sometimes it gets a scowl and a question. "I'm from Beverely Hills, our area code is 000."
The companies might not think it's all that intrusive but I feel that it is my god given right to give them whatever I want just as they feel it is there to ask me whatever they want.
Nero doesn't do anything better as far as burning an ISO than DVD Decrypter does. I want to rip to ISO and burn it. Why bother with Nero when I can do it for free?
This stuff only runs on Windows...
When you find me some good DVD authoring software for Linux we'll talk. Until then this is as free as you're going to get.
I think you misunderstand. Daxx's point is that people won't care as long as the issue is abstract. When it starts to hit them personally, there will be action.
I think it's you that misunderstands. People aren't going to understand that they have a leg to stand on especially with more and more money being pumped into lawmaking to enable the MPAA/RIAA to do what they want.
People aren't motivated by much these days. We have always had factions that went against the norm. Everyone else conforms. Sad reality but a true one.