The Content Reference Forum is hoping to create a kind of intelligent file that can be distributed through file-sharing networks like Kazaa, Web pages, e-mail or almost anywhere else online.
And just what's wrong with the dumb P2P files we have now?
"the [CRF-created] file would set up a process that automatically delivers files in the right format and potentially triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor."
"The great thing about standards, is that there are so many to choose from"
Imagine what would happen if we standardized on one breakfast cereal. The lack of "Made in China" plastic toys would be appalling. We could then sieze the opportunity to set a new plastic toy standard, and make them in the U.S.A.
Funny how the music industry changes its tune as soon as the money starts rolling in.
Where have you been? Then money's been rolling in.
There was that 12 year-old girl they sued and got some money out of, that 70-something year old man they sued, the college kids they sued, the housewife they're suing, etc., etc.
A trip to Mars means "trying to live in an environment that human beings were not built to live in," Dr. Lowenstein said. "Space is not `Star Trek,' but the public certainly doesn't understand that."
Yeah, right...I hope Captain Picard is reading Slashdot right now and gets mad enough to kick this guy's ass!
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But they said it only comes in a set of 32 hardbound volumes.
No, you're thinking about the Warren Commission report on the Kennedy Assassination, another PC (Political Conspiracy) annoyance.
My Biggest PC Annoyance...
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...is the politically-correct renaming of the "Trash Can" to "Recycle Bin".
It leaves me with the impression that I can never truly destroy my data, and that someone else will get my recycled bits.
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How to deal with common PC annoyances, like Windows, Email, Microsoft Office...
The term ''financial gain'' includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value such as crack, or including the receipt of other copyrighted works in lieu of crack.
But is privacy a 'property' and does its loss require compensation?
Absolutely, unequivocally "YES" on both counts.
We live in an increasingly Corporate culture, where it's always "the economy stupid." We have become global Corporate citizens instead of citizens of any one particular country. Privacy is not respected by the machinery of business, and those of you out there who have ever worked with or in a Marketing department know what I'm talking about.
It took a law to put the brakes on telemarketers, and God knows what it will take to stop spam, if that's even possible. But by making privacy a "property" that has monetary value, we can finally put it on the radar screens of Big Business.
What are we to do without SCO? Go back to Microsoft bashing?
I wouldn't go back to Micro$oft bashing unless Micro$oft did something REALLY outrageous, like charging you for using FAT32 technology in your products or something like that, and what are the odds of that?
Incubated in a geeky part of the U.S. Department of Defense decades ago, the Internet has become a thriving global marketplace since being fully turned over to the private business community in the early 1990s.
So the Internet didn't take off until Big Business wrested control of it from the Geeky Nerds? Let's hear it for Corporate America! Woo-hoo! Slap another software patent on the barbeque and pass me a Coca-Cola (and please, no free beer).
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And just what's wrong with the dumb P2P files we have now?
I know it's 2003, but why does it feel like 1984?
It can be hard when grasping Kermit...just ask Miss Piggy.
In other news today, the Cracker community announced it would commit to new virus and worm releases on the second Wednesday in each month.
Yeah, Sybex must have a nerd division in their Marketing department. This can't be coincidence.
How ironic! I am rather short in height, and I sit on this very book at home when I use my computer.
Imagine what would happen if we standardized on one breakfast cereal. The lack of "Made in China" plastic toys would be appalling. We could then sieze the opportunity to set a new plastic toy standard, and make them in the U.S.A.
The problem has been traced to kindergarten hackers and has been fixed. Please disregard the following terror-alert color codes:
Brick Red
Flesh
Lemon Yellow
Prussian Blue
Spring Green
Sincerely,
Homeland Security
Where have you been? Then money's been rolling in.
There was that 12 year-old girl they sued and got some money out of, that 70-something year old man they sued, the college kids they sued, the housewife they're suing, etc., etc.
He's probably not young anymore, but at this point I'll settle for him to do the job.
Dear Sir,
Because no one trusts a hardware engineer.
Sincerely,
A Software Engineer
No, not yet! I'm only halfway through my penis-enlarging regimen!
To hell with that--lead jock straps!
Yeah, right...I hope Captain Picard is reading Slashdot right now and gets mad enough to kick this guy's ass!
No, you're thinking about the Warren Commission report on the Kennedy Assassination, another PC (Political Conspiracy) annoyance.
It leaves me with the impression that I can never truly destroy my data, and that someone else will get my recycled bits.
Try Linux!
Sure enough, the legal code Linus refers to is:
Great way to get sober before you leave the bar!
And it will probably be Darl McBribe.
Absolutely, unequivocally "YES" on both counts.
We live in an increasingly Corporate culture, where it's always "the economy stupid." We have become global Corporate citizens instead of citizens of any one particular country. Privacy is not respected by the machinery of business, and those of you out there who have ever worked with or in a Marketing department know what I'm talking about.
It took a law to put the brakes on telemarketers, and God knows what it will take to stop spam, if that's even possible. But by making privacy a "property" that has monetary value, we can finally put it on the radar screens of Big Business.
You've got snail!
I wouldn't go back to Micro$oft bashing unless Micro$oft did something REALLY outrageous, like charging you for using FAT32 technology in your products or something like that, and what are the odds of that?
So the Internet didn't take off until Big Business wrested control of it from the Geeky Nerds? Let's hear it for Corporate America! Woo-hoo! Slap another software patent on the barbeque and pass me a Coca-Cola (and please, no free beer).
Crap! No wonder my programming sucks--I've been using ones all this time!!!