but if they're sharp enough to show kids what awful, evil, torturous things will happen to them if they do share (unlearning what they learned in kindergarten), then they're more likely to keep "clean" of it.
Yes, just like how all those kids threw down their bongs when they were shown how marijuana will KILL THEM!!! Or maybe it was DRIVE THEM INSANE!!! No, wait, it was going to TURN THEM INTO USELESS LOSERS WHO WILL DO NOTHING WITH THEIR LIVES!!! Or wasn't it suppose to KILL THEIR BROTHER BECAUSE THEY WERE DRIVING WHILE HIGH!!! No no no...it's just bad because it SUPPORTS TERRORISM!!! I'm confused. But the nice person on TV tells me is worse then we all thought. How much worse can it get???
Don't worry...they won't be told to turn in other kids. It's those trecherous parents that need to be turned in for corrupting the youth, spreading venerial disease, denoucing Big Brot...is that a helicopter I hear???
Someone please tell me again why capitalism is good.
Capitalism is good because it allows people to gain from their work. Then again, Communism, or whatever other -isms there are, all have they're good points and all work when everyone follows the rules. This shite only starts happening when those who brake the rules are the ones who influence the handing out of punishments, or get the rules taken out completely. Case in point: whatever happened to Microsoft being broken up into smaller companies?
Alright, I know WHY it bothers people, but why is it that people are more bothered by Verisign doing this. Yes, they are a big company with control over a domain. And they are using (or abusing) that control to generate more revenue. But exactly how is this different from the site leeches that register misspellings of popular websites? If you don't know what this means, just try mispelling google.com or yahoo.com. You'll find out right bloody quick. And you'll probably be drowned in ads, popups, and Gator downloads. What difference does it make if Verisign does it or Dan The Shut-In across the hall does it?
Nah...AC posts are fine. Some are even enlightening. Why, I myself post as AC sometimes. Usually to lambaste someone for being an obvious troll or just an utter moro...oh...nevermind...
They had a tile made out of the stuff. It was able to withstand a high energy laser that burned through a steel plate.
So what? I was watching this really cool show last night on this car polish, and they fired this really cool looking green laser at a car with this polish on it, and it DIDN'T EVEN BURN THE PAINT! REALLY! The polish protected the car! FROM FRICKIN' LASER BEAMS! And then I picked up the phone and ordered some for not $100, not $50, not even $29.99. I got it for the low low price of only $19.99! And that's not all! I got a shammy, a $10 value, absolutely FREE! Ain't science cool!?! I bet them NASA boys are calling all them there operators that are standing by RIGHT NOW!
Not yet. But that's what they are proposing. Although, it does say that it's only for hard drives that are a part of MP3 devices. So try to act surprised when they start selling hard drive based MP3 players without the hard drive...
The web was supposed to resemble that too, remember?
And it did, for a while. When the net was strictly a geek thing, or at least not a mainstream corporate thing (circa 1995), regular people did control the content. And there was a lot of content. Unfortunately, about 50% was crap and assorted fluff, 45% was porn, and about 5% was actually worth looking at. Then the corporates came, and it changed to about 90% porn, 8% crap and assorted fluff, and 2% worth looking at that's harder then hell to find. But one thing you must remember: TV was never controlled by regular people. It has always and will always be controlled by the corporations. But hey...every now and then, they slip up and actually let something good go on the air. And they don't even notice it at first. It took them at least 2 seasons to realize Family Guy was funny, and another season to finally kill it...
Supposedly, the way to live the longest (barring accident and/or disease) is by living with a severely-calorie restricted diet, and with a minimal amount of exercise (just enough to keep your body from atrophying).
Hmmmm...Lets see here.
Coffee with sugar and a creamer - 60 calories x30 = 1800 calories
Sorry. Flame-reactors are set a little high today. Plus I'm having work problems. Oh sorry...not problems, opportunities. My nick rings extremely true today.
Oh...so you feel that copyright should never expire, and that the public should never be given the chance to take what someone else has created to innovate it into something else that the public will enjoy? Yeah, and Disney invented all those fairy tales their movies are based on...
I never said copyright is bad. As a consumer, I do understand that people deserve some compensation for what they create, especially if it's something that I enjoy. But the current incarnation of copyright is so bloated that it's hurting the public and turning them against the content creators, in one way or another. Not one person or company deserves a never ending copyright. Copyright was invented to give people who create the content some incentive to create, while giving the public the chance after a time to take that creation and turn it into something else if they want, or to simply enjoying it without paying and repaying for it constantly. And with a shorter copyright, people will still pay for content. If I wrote a song, and the copyright on it expires, I can still make money from that song through live performances and such. People would want to see the songwriter perform the song, if they like it. The song still has value, even though the copyright has expired.
As it stands now, copyright is an uncontrolled growth on the neck of society. It's ugly to look at, and will probably kill if it's not taken care of.
Should we worry about the RIAA revoking our Blockbuster (or other rental agency) membership cards?
After all, if I can have easy access to a movie (a few bucks), can't I just as easily copy the movie with a VCR/DVD Copier/Computer with DVD Burner/etc?
Nah, you shouldn't worry about that. Keep renting DVDs and feeding the media beast. They'll eventually just have DVD copiers and burners outlawed, so that you won't be tempted to copy their content.
What's that? You like putting your home-made movies onto DVD, so that you can archive them or share them with family? Shame on you...don't you know that copying any kind of content is wrong???
Some people with talent really do need a financial incentive to create music or art. That's what copyright was created for in the first place. What should be done instead is bring copyright back to a point of reasonable restrictions and limited time monopolies, just like it was meant to be in the first place.
I know this has been said several times before, but how exactly does suing anybody, even the most blatant pirates, help their situation? They want to show that they are serious about protecting their (overrated, in my opinion, and overpriced, as has been shown by the FTC) content. But suing CANNOT POSSIBLY WORK! The only thing that it will do is promote people in the US to leech from people in countries that don't care about US laws. Someone will come up with a way around the roadblocks the RIAA is trying to set up. They started with Napster, a centralized and rather good P2P app. When that went down, people moved over to decentralized P2P apps, so that taking down one server didn't mean the whole network came down. All that taking down one server means is that 10 more are going to take it's place. So what's the next step? Completely anonymous sharing? Everyone using kazaauser as their user name?
Seriously though, all this is going to do is make everyone in the US turn their sharing off, so that no one can see what files they have. All files will be hosted in other countries where the RIAA has little to no power. What will the next step after that be? Probably to sever all links to everything outside the US...who knows. All that's for certain is that it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
I nearly gag every time I walk into a mainstream music store and see a $18.99 price tag.
And just think...that's for mainstream music (i.e. Britney or the crap that is pop-punk). The last time I was in a record store, it had been about a year since I bought a CD. I figured I'd look at the price for a Lisa Loeb album (yeah, I know...sappy music, but good music to relax to.) Now by my logic, seeing as she's not exactly mainstream, I would have thought her CD would be a little less expensive. What did I find? Her CDs were about $6 more...$25 for one bloody CD. I would have broken my boycott and bought that CD if it had been priced at $15 or lower. Lisa, I love ya, but you're just not worth $25...
Whoa....you seem to think that I agree with this statement. Just to set the record straight, I don't. Just because I download a song does NOT make me a pirate. I might have the songs on CD somewhere, and don't want to bother taking the time to encode them because it's faster and easier to download them. Just because I share a file doesn't mean I'm a pirate, because I am not forcing anyone to download from me. I might just be returning the favour for the song that I downloaded which saved me time and energy, and leaving it available for someone else to legally take a copy of a song they have paid for. The logic can work both ways. The way the RIAA is viewing it as very black and white, and simply assumes everyone is a criminal, when in reality they are varying shades of grey. It's the only interpretation that keeps them in control...
You may very well have a perfectly legal reason to download that MP3--but you certainly don't have a justifiable reason to place it on a P2P network.
That logic can be twisted though. You don't really have a justifiable reason to download if you own the music, on CD or otherwise, because you can simply rip it and encode it yourself. Therefore, P2P networks are for nothing but pirates and theives, because the only people sharing are illegally distributing something they don't have the right to, and the people downloading can't possibly own the music since if they did they could encode it themselves. This is the logic that the RIAA is using. Whether you are sharing or downloading, you are assumed a pirate because there are other ways for you to enjoy the music in a digital format.
Now with the DRM BS that they are putting on the CD's, they are taking away a means for us to enjoy the music in the way that we want. Of course this is just the way they want it, because then they fully control the distribution and access to the content. That's what their entire business model is based on. Strict distribution control. Take that control away from them, whether through the P2P services or other means, and they will fight tooth and nail to hold on because that's the only way they know how to make money. Sad, but true. It's just a shame that, in the process, they are killing a lot of rights and freedoms. Our only hope is that government officals realize the damage they are doing. But considering the blatent bribery that is the "campaign contribution", that will never happen either. It's just a vicious cycle that marginalizes the people in favour of wealth.
yeah we can have those credit card machines installed in every car
The car companies will be all over this faster then the cops can say "new police lounge."
"Hi, and welcome to your 2005 Ford Explorer. Please swipe your credit card to begin driving. This month we have a special on long distance trips...only $1.25 a kilometer! Sign up now and get 10 Frequent Driver Miles!"
I should also mention this. If you have an A7V333, and you feel there is a slight heat problem, download the latest bios. I instantly took the idle temps down from 60C to 50C just by doing that. I had bought the Vantec before I discovered that fact, but I'm still glad I bought it. Whether it works any better then the stock, I don't know. But it's not as loud as before, so there's at least that upshot.
I've got an AMD 2200+ (on an A7V333 in case you wanted to know), and I've often wondered the same thing. I even bought a Vantec Aeroflow because the copper core is suppose to cool it faster. Plus the fan is a little more quiet then the stock heatsink/fan combo. Sometimes, my system idles at about 47C. Most times it idles at about 50C, and peaks at about 60C after playing Vice City for a while. I'm still trying to find out if this is normal, because I'm getting some lockups and general instability. I don't know if it's from the CPU overheating or from something else, but it's definitely making me confused.
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but if they're sharp enough to show kids what awful, evil, torturous things will happen to them if they do share (unlearning what they learned in kindergarten), then they're more likely to keep "clean" of it.
Yes, just like how all those kids threw down their bongs when they were shown how marijuana will KILL THEM!!! Or maybe it was DRIVE THEM INSANE!!! No, wait, it was going to TURN THEM INTO USELESS LOSERS WHO WILL DO NOTHING WITH THEIR LIVES!!! Or wasn't it suppose to KILL THEIR BROTHER BECAUSE THEY WERE DRIVING WHILE HIGH!!! No no no...it's just bad because it SUPPORTS TERRORISM!!! I'm confused. But the nice person on TV tells me is worse then we all thought. How much worse can it get???
Don't worry...they won't be told to turn in other kids. It's those trecherous parents that need to be turned in for corrupting the youth, spreading venerial disease, denoucing Big Brot...is that a helicopter I hear???
A slashdot user...with a GIRLFRIEND?!? What is this world coming to???
What gets me is three days later and you're STILL quibbling about a bloody grammer mistake. What are you, a geek or an English teacher?
Someone please tell me again why capitalism is good.
Capitalism is good because it allows people to gain from their work. Then again, Communism, or whatever other -isms there are, all have they're good points and all work when everyone follows the rules. This shite only starts happening when those who brake the rules are the ones who influence the handing out of punishments, or get the rules taken out completely. Case in point: whatever happened to Microsoft being broken up into smaller companies?
Alright, I know WHY it bothers people, but why is it that people are more bothered by Verisign doing this. Yes, they are a big company with control over a domain. And they are using (or abusing) that control to generate more revenue. But exactly how is this different from the site leeches that register misspellings of popular websites? If you don't know what this means, just try mispelling google.com or yahoo.com. You'll find out right bloody quick. And you'll probably be drowned in ads, popups, and Gator downloads. What difference does it make if Verisign does it or Dan The Shut-In across the hall does it?
Nah...AC posts are fine. Some are even enlightening. Why, I myself post as AC sometimes. Usually to lambaste someone for being an obvious troll or just an utter moro...oh...nevermind...
They had a tile made out of the stuff. It was able to withstand a high energy laser that burned through a steel plate.
So what? I was watching this really cool show last night on this car polish, and they fired this really cool looking green laser at a car with this polish on it, and it DIDN'T EVEN BURN THE PAINT! REALLY! The polish protected the car! FROM FRICKIN' LASER BEAMS! And then I picked up the phone and ordered some for not $100, not $50, not even $29.99. I got it for the low low price of only $19.99! And that's not all! I got a shammy, a $10 value, absolutely FREE! Ain't science cool!?! I bet them NASA boys are calling all them there operators that are standing by RIGHT NOW!
The levies are NOT PER MB
Not yet. But that's what they are proposing. Although, it does say that it's only for hard drives that are a part of MP3 devices. So try to act surprised when they start selling hard drive based MP3 players without the hard drive...
The web was supposed to resemble that too, remember?
And it did, for a while. When the net was strictly a geek thing, or at least not a mainstream corporate thing (circa 1995), regular people did control the content. And there was a lot of content. Unfortunately, about 50% was crap and assorted fluff, 45% was porn, and about 5% was actually worth looking at. Then the corporates came, and it changed to about 90% porn, 8% crap and assorted fluff, and 2% worth looking at that's harder then hell to find. But one thing you must remember: TV was never controlled by regular people. It has always and will always be controlled by the corporations. But hey...every now and then, they slip up and actually let something good go on the air. And they don't even notice it at first. It took them at least 2 seasons to realize Family Guy was funny, and another season to finally kill it...
Hmmm...does anyone else feel like calling Steve Jobs "Big Brother"?
Read some books...
Good idea. Here's one to start.
Supposedly, the way to live the longest (barring accident and/or disease) is by living with a severely-calorie restricted diet, and with a minimal amount of exercise (just enough to keep your body from atrophying).
Hmmmm...Lets see here.
Coffee with sugar and a creamer - 60 calories x30 = 1800 calories
Typing on the computer, 16 hours - 1736 calories
I don't see the problem...
Sorry. Flame-reactors are set a little high today. Plus I'm having work problems. Oh sorry...not problems, opportunities. My nick rings extremely true today.
Oh...so you feel that copyright should never expire, and that the public should never be given the chance to take what someone else has created to innovate it into something else that the public will enjoy? Yeah, and Disney invented all those fairy tales their movies are based on...
I never said copyright is bad. As a consumer, I do understand that people deserve some compensation for what they create, especially if it's something that I enjoy. But the current incarnation of copyright is so bloated that it's hurting the public and turning them against the content creators, in one way or another. Not one person or company deserves a never ending copyright. Copyright was invented to give people who create the content some incentive to create, while giving the public the chance after a time to take that creation and turn it into something else if they want, or to simply enjoying it without paying and repaying for it constantly. And with a shorter copyright, people will still pay for content. If I wrote a song, and the copyright on it expires, I can still make money from that song through live performances and such. People would want to see the songwriter perform the song, if they like it. The song still has value, even though the copyright has expired.
As it stands now, copyright is an uncontrolled growth on the neck of society. It's ugly to look at, and will probably kill if it's not taken care of.
Should we worry about the RIAA revoking our Blockbuster (or other rental agency) membership cards?
After all, if I can have easy access to a movie (a few bucks), can't I just as easily copy the movie with a VCR/DVD Copier/Computer with DVD Burner/etc?
Nah, you shouldn't worry about that. Keep renting DVDs and feeding the media beast. They'll eventually just have DVD copiers and burners outlawed, so that you won't be tempted to copy their content.
What's that? You like putting your home-made movies onto DVD, so that you can archive them or share them with family? Shame on you...don't you know that copying any kind of content is wrong???
Some people with talent really do need a financial incentive to create music or art. That's what copyright was created for in the first place. What should be done instead is bring copyright back to a point of reasonable restrictions and limited time monopolies, just like it was meant to be in the first place.
I know this has been said several times before, but how exactly does suing anybody, even the most blatant pirates, help their situation? They want to show that they are serious about protecting their (overrated, in my opinion, and overpriced, as has been shown by the FTC) content. But suing CANNOT POSSIBLY WORK! The only thing that it will do is promote people in the US to leech from people in countries that don't care about US laws. Someone will come up with a way around the roadblocks the RIAA is trying to set up. They started with Napster, a centralized and rather good P2P app. When that went down, people moved over to decentralized P2P apps, so that taking down one server didn't mean the whole network came down. All that taking down one server means is that 10 more are going to take it's place. So what's the next step? Completely anonymous sharing? Everyone using kazaauser as their user name?
Seriously though, all this is going to do is make everyone in the US turn their sharing off, so that no one can see what files they have. All files will be hosted in other countries where the RIAA has little to no power. What will the next step after that be? Probably to sever all links to everything outside the US...who knows. All that's for certain is that it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
I nearly gag every time I walk into a mainstream music store and see a $18.99 price tag.
And just think...that's for mainstream music (i.e. Britney or the crap that is pop-punk). The last time I was in a record store, it had been about a year since I bought a CD. I figured I'd look at the price for a Lisa Loeb album (yeah, I know...sappy music, but good music to relax to.) Now by my logic, seeing as she's not exactly mainstream, I would have thought her CD would be a little less expensive. What did I find? Her CDs were about $6 more...$25 for one bloody CD. I would have broken my boycott and bought that CD if it had been priced at $15 or lower. Lisa, I love ya, but you're just not worth $25...
Whoa....you seem to think that I agree with this statement. Just to set the record straight, I don't. Just because I download a song does NOT make me a pirate. I might have the songs on CD somewhere, and don't want to bother taking the time to encode them because it's faster and easier to download them. Just because I share a file doesn't mean I'm a pirate, because I am not forcing anyone to download from me. I might just be returning the favour for the song that I downloaded which saved me time and energy, and leaving it available for someone else to legally take a copy of a song they have paid for. The logic can work both ways. The way the RIAA is viewing it as very black and white, and simply assumes everyone is a criminal, when in reality they are varying shades of grey. It's the only interpretation that keeps them in control...
You may very well have a perfectly legal reason to download that MP3--but you certainly don't have a justifiable reason to place it on a P2P network.
That logic can be twisted though. You don't really have a justifiable reason to download if you own the music, on CD or otherwise, because you can simply rip it and encode it yourself. Therefore, P2P networks are for nothing but pirates and theives, because the only people sharing are illegally distributing something they don't have the right to, and the people downloading can't possibly own the music since if they did they could encode it themselves. This is the logic that the RIAA is using. Whether you are sharing or downloading, you are assumed a pirate because there are other ways for you to enjoy the music in a digital format.
Now with the DRM BS that they are putting on the CD's, they are taking away a means for us to enjoy the music in the way that we want. Of course this is just the way they want it, because then they fully control the distribution and access to the content. That's what their entire business model is based on. Strict distribution control. Take that control away from them, whether through the P2P services or other means, and they will fight tooth and nail to hold on because that's the only way they know how to make money. Sad, but true. It's just a shame that, in the process, they are killing a lot of rights and freedoms. Our only hope is that government officals realize the damage they are doing. But considering the blatent bribery that is the "campaign contribution", that will never happen either. It's just a vicious cycle that marginalizes the people in favour of wealth.
Kill kittens? Dude...you know, if you keep doing that, you'll go blind and never see the X-Force anyways...
yeah we can have those credit card machines installed in every car
The car companies will be all over this faster then the cops can say "new police lounge."
"Hi, and welcome to your 2005 Ford Explorer. Please swipe your credit card to begin driving. This month we have a special on long distance trips...only $1.25 a kilometer! Sign up now and get 10 Frequent Driver Miles!"
I should also mention this. If you have an A7V333, and you feel there is a slight heat problem, download the latest bios. I instantly took the idle temps down from 60C to 50C just by doing that. I had bought the Vantec before I discovered that fact, but I'm still glad I bought it. Whether it works any better then the stock, I don't know. But it's not as loud as before, so there's at least that upshot.
I've got an AMD 2200+ (on an A7V333 in case you wanted to know), and I've often wondered the same thing. I even bought a Vantec Aeroflow because the copper core is suppose to cool it faster. Plus the fan is a little more quiet then the stock heatsink/fan combo. Sometimes, my system idles at about 47C. Most times it idles at about 50C, and peaks at about 60C after playing Vice City for a while. I'm still trying to find out if this is normal, because I'm getting some lockups and general instability. I don't know if it's from the CPU overheating or from something else, but it's definitely making me confused.