5 generic anime sites
1 personal site half devoted to dbz
1 personal site that happed to have its own tld
1 hentai site
hmm.. maybe this could be useful.. someone (not me,i cant code, i am ashamed) could write a script to do your search on google and theindex, then return the google results minus the theindex results. the S/N ratio would improve dramatically!
Oh, and note that that search returned both personal pages and pr0n. good job.
the lighting in that screenshot looks pretty problemated to me. either the front pillars should be lighter, or the shadows they cast should be longer. Also the lighting level difference between the main floor and lower level looks a little extreme, but its hard to tell whats going on down there in the shot so maybe theres a legit reason for that. Looks good, otherwise
So i look at the comments here.. mostly they seem to be "gore is dumb," "bush is dumber," and "they're both bloody morons." No one seems to have read the last link in the article.
You know, the one where Gore's advisor happily touts the fact that Clinton/Gore is in the e-commerce industry's pocket, while Nader rips him apart for supporting monopolistic business practices, pushing for more intellectual property and less privacy at home and abroad? And then Nader calls for more public support for OSS and argues against ICANN?
Oh, you missed that one. Too busy repeating campaign slogans and getting the first post i guess.
Yes, musicians don't usually want to handle the business side of things. Thats why they have some guy be their Business Manager. They don't necessarily need the record company for that.
And as for the "added value" of "creating demand", aka promotion, the internet has the potential to, and increasingly is, providing that for free too. How many indie bands have websites with free samples, or spread their music through things like mp3.com? Sure, that still means reliance on word of mouth, but the net has potential for all sorts of more advanced, low cost ways to promote. And even word of mouth can be very powerful on the net. Remember when that nintendo cover band the Minibosses got Slashdotted?
Ok, well the auction's completely down now, but when I looked yesterday, it said it had been cancelled but serious buyers could still email the guy who owns the site.
Its anyone's guess as to why he suddenly opted for a more discreet way to take bids.
One misgiving i have about that whole proposal.. There's no problem with using plutonium to power a probe out in the middle of space, but on a potentially life-harboring planet? If we dont think the technology's safe to use on Earth, why would we use it on what could be an alien ecosystem we supposedly dont want to contaminate. This thing better be pretty damn well shielded. even if there's no life, can't radiation cause alterations in organic molecules, which would screw up the data? And what if it crashes? and what's the probe supposed to do when it's done? land, and sit there for eternity on the hope that no plutonium ever leaks out?
If you're feeling compelled to reply to this because u think im giving into uninformed hysteria, please do so, but with -facts- not counterpropaganda. i do admit that my knowledge of this technology and its possible risks is not very deep.
I see a lot of posters here talking about how this proposal isnt practical, that its beyond current technology, or that NASA is too incompentent to land a probe on its own rear. The thing is though, none of the elements necessary flat out -cant- be done. The technology may not be there today, but the precursors definitely are. It's not a matter of if its possible, but when, and whether people are going to step up to the challenge, or sit around making excuses, cutting budgets, and watching ourselves die from overpopulation. If a mission like this one does not happen in our lifetimes (making the broad generalization that all/.ers are 15-30 here), it will not be because the technology isnt up to snuff, but because of doubt and shortsightedness.
OK, so the thing from "UIN#1" is prolly a hoax. So? The article links to a page on icq's server that confirms it. Sure, that could be h4X0red too, but if so icq will realize this within, oh, say 5 minutes, considering how many flames they must be getting about now.
reading the rest of that page, most of it basically says "Our protocol is about as secure as screaming in the middle of times square. If u get screwed cause of that, its your problem." None of that is new, but to me their nonchalant attitude about having a bad protocol is worse than their new dumb unenforcable restriction.
The issue's been raised before, but is anyone actually working on a more secure messager? PGPCQ, perhaps?
i think in 5 or 10 years there will be a wireless PDA network that is largely, but not totally, separated from the rest of the internet, largely because of bandwidth differences.
what should happen: an open standard PDA net is devised, based on ip, and using existing cell towers. PDA makers, digital appliance makers, and cell companies jump onto it because users like compatability. a.pda TLD is set up for PDA skewed sites hosted on the internet (to differentiate from the rest of the web, where the average page size is half a meg, mostly ads and all anyone does is buy stuff, look at pr0n movies or d/l large pirated filez). MS, yahoo, aol, etc will all have their presences on.pda, but bbs/irc/usenet culture will thrive there as well..pda will be where to go to get actual information, or communicate with others, while the rest of the web will become primarily an entertainment medium.
What will happen: companies will compete over proprietary protocols for the next 5 years, until someone gets a monopoly. wireless access will be limited to about 200 monopoly approved.com sites.
Great.. so now they can mandate the blocking of content between countries. That only goes against the entire point of the World Wide Web. Seems the whole internet is going to get slowly legislated out of existence.. or at least to the point where you have to have a major credit card and proof of age and citizenship to log on, you only get access to TLDs in your country, and all content will consist of online sales (all items must be pre-approved to not offend anyone, anywhere, ever), and, of course, pr0n.
The other part of my concern with serializing it is that the book will end up being published so long after Columbine and so many other major news events (the other killings we've heard about since then, the Elian thing, etc.) that no one will care any more.
This was also my first impression, but i think if it gets published in august or early september, just when all the parents, teachers, administrators, etc will be getting tied in knots over starting school again, the window of opportunity will still be there.
And maybe it doesnt matter when its published (within reason). The book isnt really about columbine itself, its about issues that were present long before columbine and will probably still be around long after. Tho I'd like it to get attention by almost any means necessary, it would be infitely better if it could stand on its own instead of feeding off hype and hysteria.
They agreed to an interview? on/.? ok, so they're either genuinely concerned about ip issues and want some input/discussion, or are stupidly walking right into a giant flame pit.
So im guessing most of the 1 point questions will be , and moderated up questions will be some form of, "Hi. Are you guys evil, or just stupid?", plus the interspearsed pleas to stop the insanity. what else is there to ask?
Ok so i actually went and read the MFAQ, something a lot of posters here should've done, but anyway, on to the Question.
First of all, what's the status of the HHGG movie? information is still pretty sketchy. Is there a cast set or in mind yet? when is anyone ever going to get around to actually making the thing?
But really I want to know what the movie is going to look like. a $120 million figure was cited. That means it could be done, production-wise, like a serious american sci-fi movie. But do you want to? Although some elements of HHGG seem to me to call for very advanced effects and good production values, others call more for a cheesy Dr Who type look, or something else entirely (Like when the improbability drive turns on, probably the most effective approach would be just to hand out hallucinogenic drugs to everyone in the theater). Have you discussed set design and special effects yet? Like, for example, what do you want the Heart of Gold to look like? I think it should be very advanced looking (top quality cgi, etc), but happen to have the same exact shape as, say, Arthur's toothbrush. Can I be in charge of these things? I'm highly qualified, with no experience whatsoever! Have i rambled enough yet? Now? Ok.
Well, in addition to Hemo's comment that they are working on a downloadable version, it should be noted that there already IS a downloadable version, that being the original Hellmouth stories themselves. The book is just an edited, packaged version (well, with new material, i guess, from emails to Jon and commentary by/. authors). And, last I checked, the Hellmouth series is still in the Features box at the top of the main page. I dont know how much promotion the book is getting (there was a press release in the corporate propaganda section of Yahoo somebody linked to in the first article on the book), but I'm sure its everything in/./Jon's/Andover's power. Remember this is still a "fringe" site, as far as the "mainstream" is concerned (tho its getting more mainstream everyday muahahahahaha), so they're not going to just go out and get the book featured on Oprah tomorrow. ok, so a few points. 1) Post ownership is an issue that definitely has to be resolved in the future, i think the way they're using the posts is fine and (ianal, but on the other hand i dont care) legal. Its perfectly legal for a news source to quote sources. Its perfectly legal for them not to cite the source if its in the interest of protecting the source's anonymity. 2) It would be sad (tho ironically funny) if an open source website had to stop publishing a book because its posters were yelling about IP issues. Not only would it be the hight of hypocrisy, it would feel like a victory for The Enemy 3) Books, just by their nature as a media, reach a different, more diverse audience than this site. Even if it just sits on the shelves with no promotion, this book has the potential to reach many people who just aren't aware of the issues it deals with. 4) Although I didnt post to the Hellmouth stories (at least that i remember), I did go through high skool recently and know many of the feelings and situations experienced by the posters to it. I know if I had, I would have no problem with my post being published anonymouslt, in fact I would encourage it. I think the vast majority of people who actually did post would agree with me on this. This is a message that must be spread. For all the IP moaning I've read here, I haven't seen one person who said "I posted to one of the Hellmouth articles and I don't want my post in the book!"
No, the orinithiscian and saurithiscian groups diverged in the Triassic, pretty much at the very beginning of dinosaur evolution. Unless dinosaurs had four chambered hearts from the very beginning (somewhat doubtful, but possible), the internal anatomy of an orinithiscian means nothing to that of a saurithscian (including therapods). However, since these animals were living together at the same time, and competing, and had similar anatomical possibilities, its reasonable to assume that they would have somewhat similar metabolic rates. This is the idea of co-evolution. The usual example is a predator and a prey. If the predator evolves something that makes it a better predator, the prey will be driven to develop better defenses, driving th predator to develop somthing else better, and so on, in a sort of "evolutionary arms race".
I remember a year or two ago a therapod was found with some well preserved internal organs. No heart, but enough to speculate on its respiratory system. They found that this was unique, different from any modern animal- som sort of piston-like setup, i dont quite remember. Anyway, the animal appeared to be cold blooded, but could get short bursts of extremely high energy. This would seem ideal for a predator- low energy consumption until the chase starts.
Anyway i think this fossil was from 100 mil. yeas ago, or something, so perhaps it represented a stage in the evolution of dinosaur metabolism, or perhaps this all shows that dinosaurs had a wide variety of metabolic solutions, some similar to those in modern animals, some not. Regardless, some dinosaurs were warm blooded and had four chambered hearts by the end of the Cretacious. If not all of them did, then those who didn;t must have had some adaptation that allowed them to keep up.
That the dinosaurs were killed by the extinction and mammals and birds weren't doesnt have anything to do with warm/cold bloodedness, as I understand it. Many species of cold blooded reptiles survived (lizards, turtles, etc). The dinosaurs were vulnerable because they were on top of the food chain. Large herbivores need lots of plant life to feed on, and large carnivores need lots of large herbivores. If there's a big plant die-off, the big animals are all gonna die too, but smaller animals, such as rodent like mammals and birds, can scavenge and survive on fewer resources.
As for the marine extinctions i believe the groups most afftected were those that lived exclusively in shallow equatorial seas that depended on a warm current that circled the globe. continental movements and lowering sea levels were already messing wiht these conditions, and the big impact pushed it over the catastrophic edge. Or something like that. It's widely regarded that the impact was the key factor in the extinction, but there were other things involved.
FOOL! You have no idea what you're up against! First of all, Wisconsin was not destroyed, it never existed, and second, you trust the mainstream (or quasi-mainstream) media to tell you whether Wisconsin exists. You don't think they'd try to convince an entire planet of the legitamacy of a nonexistant state, and then just let it leak out to some news agency? No. Second, you are far too quick to believe everything you read. Heck, you sound like you wouldve taken my sig at face value were you not preconditioned to believe in Wisconsin so heavily. Perhaps this article will enlighten you on the falsehood that is Wisconsin. Now obviously, you've never actually tried to go to Wisconsin, another logical flaw in your argument, to be so sure a place exists without having gone there, but I have been gone to a place that was supposed to be Wisconsin, and I assure you, IT DOESNT EXIST. Now perhaps you might think me wrong, but I've actually tried to go there, whereas you've done nothing but visit a few news sites, and maybe pull out your encyclopedia or highschool history textbook, all of which are tertiary sources not to be trusted on such sensitive subjects as Wisconsin.
United Pr0n Co. has sued has sued half the Internet for its patent on "A process of allowing visitors to preview bad pr0n before buying a bunch more bad pr0n." Packaged Meat Product Entertainment has issued a countersuit on United Pr0n and 34,237 other sites for infringing on its 1998 patent on using popup windows for advertising. The Nasdaq Pr0n Index fell 3 1/4 points to 69 3/8 at closing.
Ok, I am a bit biased, since I didnt really see the what the big deal over cabbage patch kidsor ET was at the time, but I was a big transformers fan then (and still am), but seriously, if they're commemorating 80s pop culture, transformers are conspicuously absent. For one thing, unlike breakdancing or cabbage patch kids, they're still somewhat popular today. And, IMHO, transformers were one of the only worthwhile things to come out of that decade, culturally. so THERE.
Well, it's not all that different from meatworld communities, i think. It's pretty easy to make a group devoted to some specific purpose, such as, say, the boy scouts, or online, transformers rpgs. Membership to such groups is self selecting- either you've got an interest in it or you don't, so there isnt much in the way of trolls. Communities with more generic aims, such as a town or the 'generic' virtual community, or ones that generate large interest, like/., are just going to have stupid people and trolls and whatnot no matter what you do. The meatworld deals with this with laws and police and ridiculous social structures, which is why meatworld communities tend to be boring as hell.
conclusion: communities just arent going to become utopias. especially if the only thing you change about them is putting them on the internet.
This isnt the first time someone's been legally threatened for linking (actually that case in sweden was just thrown out) and im sure someone's brought this up before, but couldnt an unfavorable ruling here lead to some vicuously evil legal hacks? I mean, a recording industry exc with an ax to grind could then just go onto a site he doesnt like, anonymously post a link to DeCSS or pirated music or whatever, then sue the site for linking to it.
Of course, they could do that already- sure it prolly wouldnt have any legal standing, but the victimized site would prolly run out of money before they could convince a judge of this.
Anyway, is there anyone out there fighting for -sensible- net and IP laws in an organized way? IMHO, IANAL, I Dont Really Know What Im Taking About So Just Ignore Me Please, The era of web anarchy seems to be coming to a close, or at least being pushed horribly deep underground, and the legal system thats shaping up right now doesnt look to be good for anyone (worth under 100 mil that is).. who out there is working not just to hold off the advance of ridiculous lawsuits, but advocate reform to ensure our liberties on the net, and perhaps simplify things a bit? I mean, issues of juristiction alone.. in a realm where physical location doesnt matter, what is legal depends on what country the server's in? geez.
Slashdot Mirror
checked site. tried searching for "dragonball"
21 results
non-noise or interesting results:
5 generic anime sites
1 personal site half devoted to dbz
1 personal site that happed to have its own tld
1 hentai site
hmm.. maybe this could be useful.. someone (not me,i cant code, i am ashamed) could write a script to do your search on google and theindex, then return the google results minus the theindex results. the S/N ratio would improve dramatically!
Oh, and note that that search returned both personal pages and pr0n. good job.
the lighting in that screenshot looks pretty problemated to me. either the front pillars should be lighter, or the shadows they cast should be longer. Also the lighting level difference between the main floor and lower level looks a little extreme, but its hard to tell whats going on down there in the shot so maybe theres a legit reason for that. Looks good, otherwise
So i look at the comments here.. mostly they seem to be "gore is dumb," "bush is dumber," and "they're both bloody morons." No one seems to have read the last link in the article.
You know, the one where Gore's advisor happily touts the fact that Clinton/Gore is in the e-commerce industry's pocket, while Nader rips him apart for supporting monopolistic business practices, pushing for more intellectual property and less privacy at home and abroad? And then Nader calls for more public support for OSS and argues against ICANN?
Oh, you missed that one. Too busy repeating campaign slogans and getting the first post i guess.
who suggest their own name as a tld.
.dubai domain!!
I've always wanted a
(actually im holding out for insi.pid)
Yes, musicians don't usually want to handle the business side of things. Thats why they have some guy be their Business Manager. They don't necessarily need the record company for that.
And as for the "added value" of "creating demand", aka promotion, the internet has the potential to, and increasingly is, providing that for free too. How many indie bands have websites with free samples, or spread their music through things like mp3.com? Sure, that still means reliance on word of mouth, but the net has potential for all sorts of more advanced, low cost ways to promote. And even word of mouth can be very powerful on the net. Remember when that nintendo cover band the Minibosses got Slashdotted?
Ok, well the auction's completely down now, but when I looked yesterday, it said it had been cancelled but serious buyers could still email the guy who owns the site.
Its anyone's guess as to why he suddenly opted for a more discreet way to take bids.
winme has no command line
osx does. and it's unix, even.
One misgiving i have about that whole proposal.. There's no problem with using plutonium to power a probe out in the middle of space, but on a potentially life-harboring planet? If we dont think the technology's safe to use on Earth, why would we use it on what could be an alien ecosystem we supposedly dont want to contaminate. This thing better be pretty damn well shielded. even if there's no life, can't radiation cause alterations in organic molecules, which would screw up the data? And what if it crashes? and what's the probe supposed to do when it's done? land, and sit there for eternity on the hope that no plutonium ever leaks out?
If you're feeling compelled to reply to this because u think im giving into uninformed hysteria, please do so, but with -facts- not counterpropaganda. i do admit that my knowledge of this technology and its possible risks is not very deep.
I see a lot of posters here talking about how this proposal isnt practical, that its beyond current technology, or that NASA is too incompentent to land a probe on its own rear. The thing is though, none of the elements necessary flat out -cant- be done. The technology may not be there today, but the precursors definitely are. It's not a matter of if its possible, but when, and whether people are going to step up to the challenge, or sit around making excuses, cutting budgets, and watching ourselves die from overpopulation. If a mission like this one does not happen in our lifetimes (making the broad generalization that all /.ers are 15-30 here), it will not be because the technology isnt up to snuff, but because of doubt and shortsightedness.
OK, so the thing from "UIN#1" is prolly a hoax. So? The article links to a page on icq's server that confirms it. Sure, that could be h4X0red too, but if so icq will realize this within, oh, say 5 minutes, considering how many flames they must be getting about now.
reading the rest of that page, most of it basically says "Our protocol is about as secure as screaming in the middle of times square. If u get screwed cause of that, its your problem." None of that is new, but to me their nonchalant attitude about having a bad protocol is worse than their new dumb unenforcable restriction.
The issue's been raised before, but is anyone actually working on a more secure messager? PGPCQ, perhaps?
I use duct tape. You can still see the lights, but most of the glare is gone.
i think in 5 or 10 years there will be a wireless PDA network that is largely, but not totally, separated from the rest of the internet, largely because of bandwidth differences.
.pda TLD is set up for PDA skewed sites hosted on the internet (to differentiate from the rest of the web, where the average page size is half a meg, mostly ads and all anyone does is buy stuff, look at pr0n movies or d/l large pirated filez). MS, yahoo, aol, etc will all have their presences on .pda, but bbs/irc/usenet culture will thrive there as well. .pda will be where to go to get actual information, or communicate with others, while the rest of the web will become primarily an entertainment medium.
.com sites.
what should happen:
an open standard PDA net is devised, based on ip, and using existing cell towers. PDA makers, digital appliance makers, and cell companies jump onto it because users like compatability. a
What will happen:
companies will compete over proprietary protocols for the next 5 years, until someone gets a monopoly. wireless access will be limited to about 200 monopoly approved
yes i know I'm jumping to conclusions. or am i?
This was also my first impression, but i think if it gets published in august or early september, just when all the parents, teachers, administrators, etc will be getting tied in knots over starting school again, the window of opportunity will still be there.
And maybe it doesnt matter when its published (within reason). The book isnt really about columbine itself, its about issues that were present long before columbine and will probably still be around long after. Tho I'd like it to get attention by almost any means necessary, it would be infitely better if it could stand on its own instead of feeding off hype and hysteria.
end rambling.
They agreed to an interview? on /.? ok, so they're either genuinely concerned about ip issues and want some input/discussion, or are stupidly walking right into a giant flame pit.
So im guessing most of the 1 point questions will be , and moderated up questions will be some form of, "Hi. Are you guys evil, or just stupid?", plus the interspearsed pleas to stop the insanity. what else is there to ask?
First of all, what's the status of the HHGG movie? information is still pretty sketchy. Is there a cast set or in mind yet? when is anyone ever going to get around to actually making the thing?
But really I want to know what the movie is going to look like. a $120 million figure was cited. That means it could be done, production-wise, like a serious american sci-fi movie. But do you want to? Although some elements of HHGG seem to me to call for very advanced effects and good production values, others call more for a cheesy Dr Who type look, or something else entirely (Like when the improbability drive turns on, probably the most effective approach would be just to hand out hallucinogenic drugs to everyone in the theater). Have you discussed set design and special effects yet? Like, for example, what do you want the Heart of Gold to look like? I think it should be very advanced looking (top quality cgi, etc), but happen to have the same exact shape as, say, Arthur's toothbrush. Can I be in charge of these things? I'm highly qualified, with no experience whatsoever! Have i rambled enough yet? Now? Ok.
Well, in addition to Hemo's comment that they are working on a downloadable version, it should be noted that there already IS a downloadable version, that being the original Hellmouth stories themselves. The book is just an edited, packaged version (well, with new material, i guess, from emails to Jon and commentary by /. authors). And, last I checked, the Hellmouth series is still in the Features box at the top of the main page. I dont know how much promotion the book is getting (there was a press release in the corporate propaganda section of Yahoo somebody linked to in the first article on the book), but I'm sure its everything in /./Jon's/Andover's power. Remember this is still a "fringe" site, as far as the "mainstream" is concerned (tho its getting more mainstream everyday muahahahahaha), so they're not going to just go out and get the book featured on Oprah tomorrow. ok, so a few points. 1) Post ownership is an issue that definitely has to be resolved in the future, i think the way they're using the posts is fine and (ianal, but on the other hand i dont care) legal. Its perfectly legal for a news source to quote sources. Its perfectly legal for them not to cite the source if its in the interest of protecting the source's anonymity. 2) It would be sad (tho ironically funny) if an open source website had to stop publishing a book because its posters were yelling about IP issues. Not only would it be the hight of hypocrisy, it would feel like a victory for The Enemy 3) Books, just by their nature as a media, reach a different, more diverse audience than this site. Even if it just sits on the shelves with no promotion, this book has the potential to reach many people who just aren't aware of the issues it deals with. 4) Although I didnt post to the Hellmouth stories (at least that i remember), I did go through high skool recently and know many of the feelings and situations experienced by the posters to it. I know if I had, I would have no problem with my post being published anonymouslt, in fact I would encourage it. I think the vast majority of people who actually did post would agree with me on this. This is a message that must be spread. For all the IP moaning I've read here, I haven't seen one person who said "I posted to one of the Hellmouth articles and I don't want my post in the book!"
No, the orinithiscian and saurithiscian groups diverged in the Triassic, pretty much at the very beginning of dinosaur evolution. Unless dinosaurs had four chambered hearts from the very beginning (somewhat doubtful, but possible), the internal anatomy of an orinithiscian means nothing to that of a saurithscian (including therapods). However, since these animals were living together at the same time, and competing, and had similar anatomical possibilities, its reasonable to assume that they would have somewhat similar metabolic rates. This is the idea of co-evolution. The usual example is a predator and a prey. If the predator evolves something that makes it a better predator, the prey will be driven to develop better defenses, driving th predator to develop somthing else better, and so on, in a sort of "evolutionary arms race".
I remember a year or two ago a therapod was found with some well preserved internal organs. No heart, but enough to speculate on its respiratory system. They found that this was unique, different from any modern animal- som sort of piston-like setup, i dont quite remember. Anyway, the animal appeared to be cold blooded, but could get short bursts of extremely high energy. This would seem ideal for a predator- low energy consumption until the chase starts.
Anyway i think this fossil was from 100 mil. yeas ago, or something, so perhaps it represented a stage in the evolution of dinosaur metabolism, or perhaps this all shows that dinosaurs had a wide variety of metabolic solutions, some similar to those in modern animals, some not. Regardless, some dinosaurs were warm blooded and had four chambered hearts by the end of the Cretacious. If not all of them did, then those who didn;t must have had some adaptation that allowed them to keep up.
That the dinosaurs were killed by the extinction and mammals and birds weren't doesnt have anything to do with warm/cold bloodedness, as I understand it. Many species of cold blooded reptiles survived (lizards, turtles, etc). The dinosaurs were vulnerable because they were on top of the food chain. Large herbivores need lots of plant life to feed on, and large carnivores need lots of large herbivores. If there's a big plant die-off, the big animals are all gonna die too, but smaller animals, such as rodent like mammals and birds, can scavenge and survive on fewer resources.
As for the marine extinctions i believe the groups most afftected were those that lived exclusively in shallow equatorial seas that depended on a warm current that circled the globe. continental movements and lowering sea levels were already messing wiht these conditions, and the big impact pushed it over the catastrophic edge. Or something like that. It's widely regarded that the impact was the key factor in the extinction, but there were other things involved.
Oh, and I'll capitalize whatever the hEck i want.
United Pr0n Co. has sued has sued half the Internet for its patent on "A process of allowing visitors to preview bad pr0n before buying a bunch more bad pr0n." Packaged Meat Product Entertainment has issued a countersuit on United Pr0n and 34,237 other sites for infringing on its 1998 patent on using popup windows for advertising. The Nasdaq Pr0n Index fell 3 1/4 points to 69 3/8 at closing.
Ok, I am a bit biased, since I didnt really see the what the big deal over cabbage patch kidsor ET was at the time, but I was a big transformers fan then (and still am), but seriously, if they're commemorating 80s pop culture, transformers are conspicuously absent. For one thing, unlike breakdancing or cabbage patch kids, they're still somewhat popular today. And, IMHO, transformers were one of the only worthwhile things to come out of that decade, culturally. so THERE.
Well, it's not all that different from meatworld communities, i think. It's pretty easy to make a group devoted to some specific purpose, such as, say, the boy scouts, or online, transformers rpgs. Membership to such groups is self selecting- either you've got an interest in it or you don't, so there isnt much in the way of trolls. Communities with more generic aims, such as a town or the 'generic' virtual community, or ones that generate large interest, like /., are just going to have stupid people and trolls and whatnot no matter what you do. The meatworld deals with this with laws and police and ridiculous social structures, which is why meatworld communities tend to be boring as hell.
conclusion: communities just arent going to become utopias. especially if the only thing you change about them is putting them on the internet.
This isnt the first time someone's been legally threatened for linking (actually that case in sweden was just thrown out) and im sure someone's brought this up before, but couldnt an unfavorable ruling here lead to some vicuously evil legal hacks? I mean, a recording industry exc with an ax to grind could then just go onto a site he doesnt like, anonymously post a link to DeCSS or pirated music or whatever, then sue the site for linking to it.
Of course, they could do that already- sure it prolly wouldnt have any legal standing, but the victimized site would prolly run out of money before they could convince a judge of this.
Anyway, is there anyone out there fighting for -sensible- net and IP laws in an organized way?
IMHO, IANAL, I Dont Really Know What Im Taking About So Just Ignore Me Please, The era of web anarchy seems to be coming to a close, or at least being pushed horribly deep underground, and the legal system thats shaping up right now doesnt look to be good for anyone (worth under 100 mil that is).. who out there is working not just to hold off the advance of ridiculous lawsuits, but advocate reform to ensure our liberties on the net, and perhaps simplify things a bit? I mean, issues of juristiction alone.. in a realm where physical location doesnt matter, what is legal depends on what country the server's in? geez.
three posts for the price of one!
fsck = fa-suck
and on another note, what's with that guy who wants us all to say "jigabyte"? what the fsck is he on?