This kid claimed to be representing the ABC, so obviously if Google had contacted him to confirm the claim, they still would have problems, which is why they should have contact the ABC directly.
I wonder if this would even have worked...I have a feeling if you call up ABC and ask them such a question, their knee-jerk reaction is just going to be to say "yes, take it down" without bothering to check on what the actual status of the show is...
When we look at the federal debt, and see that the federal government is $8.8 trillion dollars in debt, it's no different than a home loan.
I wonder what will happen when the government can't make the payments, and the banks foreclose and take the country away on the back of a really big truck...it'd make a good reality show, anyway...
If the activities take place only in a virtual world, and the entire transaction is carried out within the private sector and without government involvement, then precisely why should they be taxed?
I imagine they would only be taxed when and if you sell your virtual money for real money, which is certainly possible to do in Second Life.
Not to mention the TM and Copyright notices next to Slashrating and Slashdottit...it's not even possible to copyright a word, and Slashdot doesn't even mention a trademark on "Slashdot", let alone "Slashdottit"...;-)
I think the biggest stumbling block for the iPhone is going to be the fact that it's not a 3G phone at a time when the trend is going toward 3G phones. Cingular is even giving 3G phones away free, now...
Yeah, but when you have the huge budgets of the MSM campaigning against the war, you might get a distorted outcome.
Exactly which mass media outlet is campaigning against the war? I can't say I've seen any campaigning, and despite what the Bush administration wants us all to believe, reporting real things about the war that Bush doesn't like instead of warm fuzzy make believe stories about it isn't the same as campaigning, it's called "reporting".
Maybe because a majority of the people (voters) are Republicans? That is what majority means.
How do you figure? The last election was decidedly favorable for the Democrats...And the last presidential election was won by a very slim majority. Given that an incumbent generally has pretty big advantage, especially during wartime, the best you could argue is that half of the voters are Republicans. Realistically, it's much less than that, because there are a lot of people who vote for whomever they like in a given election, not necessarily along party lines...
In case you are too blinded by ideology to even look
Of course, because anybody who doesn't agree with the idiot-neocon ideology must be blinded by left-wing ideology. That both political parties are pretty messed up is no secret, but my point is that adding more Republicans to the mix certainly isn't going to improve matters.
And they'd still be wrong! If they could pull their heads out of their overstuffed asses, they'd realize that they're not selling records because they're not making records worth spending money on.
That's not really true, though. There are a lot of really great records coming out every year. Problem is, the ones that the record companies market are often the same-old same-old unimaginative pop crap, or the "alternative" stuff that has basically just become pop 2.0. There's still a ton of great music out there, you just have to search to find the records worth spending money on.
Tired of paying idiotically high taxes which support the bread and circuses that keep the mindless proles from thinking too hard about how much this sucks? Try electing somebody other than far-left Democrats for a change!
Yeah, because those Republicans are doing such a good job at keeping taxes down. I mean, my Federal income tax has been plummeting over the past 6 years of Republican rule. Oh, wait, no they haven't...they've gone up...and they've been spending way more than they bring in, which means they're only going to continue going up. Huh. Well, at least they're still for "smaller government", right? Oh, wait, no, that's just what they _say_ they're for. They're actually all for rolling back civil liberties and spending way too much...
What? Music has always been data. This guy isn't a music lover, he's a memorabilia lover.
It hasn't always been digital data...It hasn't even always been recordable data...prior to analog recording techniques, the only way to record a song was to write it down and learn to play it yourself. And before notation, the only way to copy a song was to listen to somebody else play it, and lean to play it yourself (still the most rewarding way to learn new music, IMHO)
I use this product that both removes the "glass" effect, and gives me an estimated 20% performance increase. It also has less DRM crap installed. It's called Windows XP.
Why would this not be free? PDF is a fully open, documented standard; Adobe licenses their patents on it royalty-free.
I think you're confusing the medium and the message. The openness of the PDF standard (the medium) has nothing to do with the openness of the content (the message).
Slashdot Mirror
Why use Thunderbird instead of Mozilla Sunbird? I use Sunbird all the time...I really like it.
Why would they want to foreclose?
Twas a joke...
This kid claimed to be representing the ABC, so obviously if Google had contacted him to confirm the claim, they still would have problems, which is why they should have contact the ABC directly.
I wonder if this would even have worked...I have a feeling if you call up ABC and ask them such a question, their knee-jerk reaction is just going to be to say "yes, take it down" without bothering to check on what the actual status of the show is...
I don't think Internet2 is intended to ever leave the university setting and become public...
When we look at the federal debt, and see that the federal government is $8.8 trillion dollars in debt, it's no different than a home loan.
I wonder what will happen when the government can't make the payments, and the banks foreclose and take the country away on the back of a really big truck...it'd make a good reality show, anyway...
So they're replacing the tubes with pipes. I suppose that is an upgrade. :)
Less flexible, though...
Proving that having no software patents increases one's company's ability to
I never said that there shouldn't be any software patents, but there should be some standard of innovation required...
Wow, great, another patent covering something completely obvious, like analyzing my browser history to find out what sorts of things I might like.
If the activities take place only in a virtual world, and the entire transaction is carried out within the private sector and without government involvement, then precisely why should they be taxed?
I imagine they would only be taxed when and if you sell your virtual money for real money, which is certainly possible to do in Second Life.
Yeah, I'm somewhat disappointed that I got modded down for my comment...the adoption of new "web 2.0" oriented buzzwords is out of control...
The only use of the term Mashup that I'm familiar with is the music-oriented one...I guess the "web 2.0" crowd needed another catchy buzzword. Hooray.
Not to mention the TM and Copyright notices next to Slashrating and Slashdottit...it's not even possible to copyright a word, and Slashdot doesn't even mention a trademark on "Slashdot", let alone "Slashdottit"... ;-)
I think the biggest stumbling block for the iPhone is going to be the fact that it's not a 3G phone at a time when the trend is going toward 3G phones. Cingular is even giving 3G phones away free, now...
They should find some way to incorporate Phrenology into the system.
Yeah, but when you have the huge budgets of the MSM campaigning against the war, you might get a distorted outcome.
Exactly which mass media outlet is campaigning against the war? I can't say I've seen any campaigning, and despite what the Bush administration wants us all to believe, reporting real things about the war that Bush doesn't like instead of warm fuzzy make believe stories about it isn't the same as campaigning, it's called "reporting".
it means I quit getting pestered about buying AOL's "service" every time I run in to BB for anything.
Nah, now it's those damned "free" magazine subscriptions...
Maybe because a majority of the people (voters) are Republicans? That is what majority means.
How do you figure? The last election was decidedly favorable for the Democrats...And the last presidential election was won by a very slim majority. Given that an incumbent generally has pretty big advantage, especially during wartime, the best you could argue is that half of the voters are Republicans. Realistically, it's much less than that, because there are a lot of people who vote for whomever they like in a given election, not necessarily along party lines...
The Republican majority ignored these arguments and voted for an Inquiry, to which the Democrats acceded.
I don't get it...Why in the world is there a Republican majority?
In case you are too blinded by ideology to even look
Of course, because anybody who doesn't agree with the idiot-neocon ideology must be blinded by left-wing ideology. That both political parties are pretty messed up is no secret, but my point is that adding more Republicans to the mix certainly isn't going to improve matters.
And they'd still be wrong! If they could pull their heads out of their overstuffed asses, they'd realize that they're not selling records because they're not making records worth spending money on.
That's not really true, though. There are a lot of really great records coming out every year. Problem is, the ones that the record companies market are often the same-old same-old unimaginative pop crap, or the "alternative" stuff that has basically just become pop 2.0. There's still a ton of great music out there, you just have to search to find the records worth spending money on.
Tired of paying idiotically high taxes which support the bread and circuses that keep the mindless proles from thinking too hard about how much this sucks? Try electing somebody other than far-left Democrats for a change!
Yeah, because those Republicans are doing such a good job at keeping taxes down. I mean, my Federal income tax has been plummeting over the past 6 years of Republican rule. Oh, wait, no they haven't...they've gone up...and they've been spending way more than they bring in, which means they're only going to continue going up. Huh. Well, at least they're still for "smaller government", right? Oh, wait, no, that's just what they _say_ they're for. They're actually all for rolling back civil liberties and spending way too much...
You'd be surprised. Even Internet Explorer runs under linux.
What?
Why???
What? Music has always been data. This guy isn't a music lover, he's a memorabilia lover.
It hasn't always been digital data...It hasn't even always been recordable data...prior to analog recording techniques, the only way to record a song was to write it down and learn to play it yourself. And before notation, the only way to copy a song was to listen to somebody else play it, and lean to play it yourself (still the most rewarding way to learn new music, IMHO)
I use this product that both removes the "glass" effect, and gives me an estimated 20% performance increase. It also has less DRM crap installed. It's called Windows XP.
Why would this not be free? PDF is a fully open, documented standard; Adobe licenses their patents on it royalty-free.
I think you're confusing the medium and the message. The openness of the PDF standard (the medium) has nothing to do with the openness of the content (the message).