Let's say I am a small book publisher. I publish books about historical battles. I find out that there is someone out in the world who, instead of buying a copy of my book, has simply photocopied a friend's purchased copy of the book.
Now, let's say I track this person down. Then let's say I break into their house. Then let's say I rifle through all of their belongings. Let's say I get their credit card number, bank PIN number, passwords, social security number, medical history, personal communications, personal habits and all of this information for each person in their family, too. Then let's say I take all of this data and give it to the police or the government. Or maybe I even go much further and just burn the house down with everyone in it.
Was I justified? I mean, I must be right? After all the person had a photographed copy of my book and didn't pay me the $39.95 for a legitimate right to read it...!
I loved ATITD, but my poor hand couldn't keep up. Not to mention all of the campire-spamming in the beginning really ate up the fun (especially when it happened around my private little part of the world in Seven Lakes).
It was for the better though. After a month or so of playing, I realized I was spending far too much time at it.
I'd play another eGenesis game in the future, though. Or maybe a later version (or just re-telling) of ATITD - if I had the time.
I would love to see a sci-fi-esque ATITD game. The graphics don't have to be spectacular. Just keep most of the same gameplay, throw in some new elements and have at it.:)
Considering how and where ATITD was developed and under what circumstances, you guys did an amazing job. And I've rarely seen any IRC channels for *anything* (let alone a game) that is as supportive and friendly as #atitd.
Oops. I didn't realize people would think that comment was 'funny'.:)
I really do run an auction site and we really do have a BuyItNow feature called 'Snatch-It' (and yes, I just wanted to be able to make people say the word 'snatch' all the time).
He has a one page article about linux and his involvement in some lame Australian online journal. It's not like someone saw "Linux Advocate" and gave him an 8 page in-depth interview and photo-spread in Time or the WSJ.
I don't post on Slashdot much anymore, but I think a lot of people seem to be suffering from a bit of an attitude problem here tonight.
I've never heard of "The Age", but the article certainly puts forth the qualifications to consider Rick a linux advocate and probably a more experienced/knowledgable member of the linux and open source community than the vast chunk of Slashdot.
It is an article promoting his advocacy and talking about his efforts. It isn't like they reported that he wrote the Linux OS and he was going along with the assumption.
He's done what any reasonably capable linux advocate would have done when asked to interview with an outlet - he _promoted_ linux. Wow! Imagine that.
I don't see that he has said anywhere that he deserves attention beyond anyone else and he's not taking anything away from anyone who contributes to the cause.
Roblimo went down there, drank their coffee, and wrote a follow-up piece which might be, but wasn't, entitled "How to be a sysadmin whose pager doesn't go off". (Newsforge is part of OSDN.)
Acts was a great book and I've bought a number of copies as well as tried to convince a number of retailers to stock it and give it some good shelf placement.
The author is a very dedicated and passionate writer and I've talked with him in the past. I hope to see someone pick up his books and boost his success because I'd like to see him doing well enough financially that he could continue to put out these high quality stories more often rather than sacrificing his personal and family life as we have all heard about in the past just to get a book published.
Considering the crap that is published today and makes a lot of money, I find it unforgivable that publishers haven't taken to his work. There's an audience for almost *everything* if the gaurdians of the publishing gateways weren't so damned stingy.
Sorry, but if it was a non-american involved, he would still be ignored by the public and the media. Any little attention he would manage to receive would be with the accusation that he is a rampant cracker and criminal spawned by bullying through his highschool years and society's general lack of morality, yadda yadda yadda.
American's don't care about things unless it affects their religion, the children or their cable television prices.
we built a very silent ( not quiet -but ultra silent)
How do you build a 'very silent' machine? Silence is the absence of noise. How do you have nothing and then a lot of nothing?
Second, how can something not be quiet (little or no noise) but be ultra silent (again, not just the absence of noise, but an ultra absence of noise)?. ---
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No, they're there for running red lights. In Portland/Beaverton Oregon -- we pioneered the use of this technology before anyone else. We also were the first to be caught having shortened the time of yellow lights so that more and more people were caught "running red lights". This is documented and was investigated by our local news stations and has been brought to Congress by one or another congressman, I believe.
About the only useful thing you can do is 1) put a mirror on the front top of your car to hopefully angel the glare of the sun into the camera or 2) print a very nasty message on the top of your car so that the camera catches it. Not much, but it's about all you can do. I suppose there also might be some type of advanced gear that could fuck with the signals of the camera and toast it passively too, but I'm not aware of them. ---
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I have absolutely no plans to see a patriotic WW2 movie about heroism and sacrifice by "I don't vote, but want to run for office when I'm rich so I can represent the average american (huh??)" Affleck and "if Bush gets into office, I'm immigrating to Canada" Baldwin.
I'd rather have seen this as the vehical for a couple of unknown but talented actors than two big-name morons demonstrating their lack of reverance for the country that made them rich and famous. ---
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It couldn't have happened to a worse company. IDG deserves the bad fortune they've brought on themselves as a result of being such dicks to anyone who uses such trademarks as "the color yellow" or the word "dummies". Here's hoping to Chapter 11 for IDG. ---
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Just what we need. I'm sure if the Library of Congress takes control of it, we will NEVER have the ability to Nuke posts from the archive . . . Not to mention, they'll probalby ignore the X-NoArchive pragma altogether. ---
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Amusing, with all the evils in the world that police forces could be concentrating on, they are going after a bunch of people who are trying to get free music!
I mean, yeah, it may be illegal, but I don't see them cracking down like that on the mafia or anything else. ---
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When you log in to napster, if you happen to join one of the 'channels', there is usually a warning to the effect of "we can't prevent people from sending or receiving copyrighted material without permission, but it's bad so don't do it".
My guess is that's what they're talking about. ---
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Oh man. Okay, I've had nothing good to say about Napster in a looong time. And I still don't.
This just strikes me as Charles Manson telling a bunch of kids to go out and kill their families and giving them the instructions and weapons to do it. Then, after they commit the murders, arresting them and giving Manson a contract with the FBI (aka, napster signing up with BMG, etc).
I don't really care much for either side -- but it does strike me as incredibly ironic and unjust. ---
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I would suggest that billn has anything to do with it. If everyone is instructed to lay a line of bullshit, your reporting won't get you terribly far if everyone with information is putting that line onto you as well. Universities are good at this sort of thing -- they have a reputation to upkeep and are as much media-machine as they are educational-machine.
For all we know, people could be providing the complete and unobstructed truth to billn, but I doubt there is data existing outside of the university's hands to prove they're lying or covering up a mistake on their part.
Anyway, I would want the university to be much more open and straightforward (from the very beginning, not after they've had two weeks to manufacturer everything) before I just went ahead and said "oh, yeah! okay, it was just a misunderstanding -- the university is the good guy!". ---
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Hey, Kent saw itself getting shredded over this stupid move. So they had to generate some cover story to keep their asses from feeling the heat. What better than blaming the kid for 'hacking' the university's network (Yeah, we always call the FBI when a student abuses our network...?) ---
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I can agree with that, but you can still place data in the public with certain restrictions (on the web at least). For example, I can place an article or a picture online that belongs to me and require that it not be redistributed or otherwise used beyond viewing on my site. Similarly, some WHOIS services restrict any commercial use of their service -- and they can or may have done that at Register.com, which would presumably disallow this action. ---
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I mean, it's a lot like walking into a competitor's office, pulling open his file drawers , compiling a list of names and numbers of customers and then going back to your office to call them up and try to take them away.
If this was not Register.com's WHOIS service that was being used, then I would consider it a little more like a company that makes photocopiers looking in a public phonebook for big businesses, calling them up and saying "Hey, we'd like to do business with you and we'll beat whatever your current photocopier service is charging you". ---
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Slashdot Mirror
Okay, this one seems simple enough.
Let's say I am a small book publisher. I publish books about historical battles. I find out that there is someone out in the world who, instead of buying a copy of my book, has simply photocopied a friend's purchased copy of the book.
Now, let's say I track this person down. Then let's say I break into their house. Then let's say I rifle through all of their belongings. Let's say I get their credit card number, bank PIN number, passwords, social security number, medical history, personal communications, personal habits and all of this information for each person in their family, too. Then let's say I take all of this data and give it to the police or the government. Or maybe I even go much further and just burn the house down with everyone in it.
Was I justified? I mean, I must be right? After all the person had a photographed copy of my book and didn't pay me the $39.95 for a legitimate right to read it...!
You thought planting and harvesting flax was a bitch? Just wait until you have to harvest spice!
Heh.
I loved ATITD, but my poor hand couldn't keep up. Not to mention all of the campire-spamming in the beginning really ate up the fun (especially when it happened around my private little part of the world in Seven Lakes).
:)
It was for the better though. After a month or so of playing, I realized I was spending far too much time at it.
I'd play another eGenesis game in the future, though. Or maybe a later version (or just re-telling) of ATITD - if I had the time.
I would love to see a sci-fi-esque ATITD game. The graphics don't have to be spectacular. Just keep most of the same gameplay, throw in some new elements and have at it.
Considering how and where ATITD was developed and under what circumstances, you guys did an amazing job. And I've rarely seen any IRC channels for *anything* (let alone a game) that is as supportive and friendly as #atitd.
Oops. I didn't realize people would think that comment was 'funny'. :)
I really do run an auction site and we really do have a BuyItNow feature called 'Snatch-It' (and yes, I just wanted to be able to make people say the word 'snatch' all the time).
http://gothicauctions.com
My auction site uses something called "Snatch-It", which is essentially "BuyItNow".
Hope I don't get fined $30,000,000 for it. Especially since I don't make a dime.
Show them that mozilla movie that PBS or whoever made awhile ago about the open sourcing of Mozilla, maybe?
I don't remember what it was called and it's probably fairly lame, but it might make a good introduction as far as from a class-room angle.
Stardom?
He has a one page article about linux and his involvement in some lame Australian online journal. It's not like someone saw "Linux Advocate" and gave him an 8 page in-depth interview and photo-spread in Time or the WSJ.
I don't post on Slashdot much anymore, but I think a lot of people seem to be suffering from a bit of an attitude problem here tonight.
I've never heard of "The Age", but the article certainly puts forth the qualifications to consider Rick a linux advocate and probably a more experienced/knowledgable member of the linux and open source community than the vast chunk of Slashdot.
It is an article promoting his advocacy and talking about his efforts. It isn't like they reported that he wrote the Linux OS and he was going along with the assumption.
He's done what any reasonably capable linux advocate would have done when asked to interview with an outlet - he _promoted_ linux. Wow! Imagine that.
I don't see that he has said anywhere that he deserves attention beyond anyone else and he's not taking anything away from anyone who contributes to the cause.
Damn people. Be humble.
Roblimo went down there, drank their coffee, and wrote a follow-up piece which might be, but wasn't, entitled "How to be a sysadmin whose pager doesn't go off". (Newsforge is part of OSDN.)
Whatever.
Acts was a great book and I've bought a number of copies as well as tried to convince a number of retailers to stock it and give it some good shelf placement.
The author is a very dedicated and passionate writer and I've talked with him in the past. I hope to see someone pick up his books and boost his success because I'd like to see him doing well enough financially that he could continue to put out these high quality stories more often rather than sacrificing his personal and family life as we have all heard about in the past just to get a book published.
Considering the crap that is published today and makes a lot of money, I find it unforgivable that publishers haven't taken to his work. There's an audience for almost *everything* if the gaurdians of the publishing gateways weren't so damned stingy.
Sorry, but if it was a non-american involved, he would still be ignored by the public and the media. Any little attention he would manage to receive would be with the accusation that he is a rampant cracker and criminal spawned by bullying through his highschool years and society's general lack of morality, yadda yadda yadda.
American's don't care about things unless it affects their religion, the children or their cable television prices.
Second, how can something not be quiet (little or no noise) but be ultra silent (again, not just the absence of noise, but an ultra absence of noise)?.
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No, they're there for running red lights. In Portland/Beaverton Oregon -- we pioneered the use of this technology before anyone else. We also were the first to be caught having shortened the time of yellow lights so that more and more people were caught "running red lights". This is documented and was investigated by our local news stations and has been brought to Congress by one or another congressman, I believe.
About the only useful thing you can do is 1) put a mirror on the front top of your car to hopefully angel the glare of the sun into the camera or 2) print a very nasty message on the top of your car so that the camera catches it. Not much, but it's about all you can do. I suppose there also might be some type of advanced gear that could fuck with the signals of the camera and toast it passively too, but I'm not aware of them.
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I'd rather have seen this as the vehical for a couple of unknown but talented actors than two big-name morons demonstrating their lack of reverance for the country that made them rich and famous.
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seumas.com
It couldn't have happened to a worse company. IDG deserves the bad fortune they've brought on themselves as a result of being such dicks to anyone who uses such trademarks as "the color yellow" or the word "dummies". Here's hoping to Chapter 11 for IDG.
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I hate to be one of those people, but if you're suffering deja-vu, that's because TimeCube was already featured in a Quickie.
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Just what we need. I'm sure if the Library of Congress takes control of it, we will NEVER have the ability to Nuke posts from the archive . . . Not to mention, they'll probalby ignore the X-NoArchive pragma altogether.
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Tell that to the RIAA.
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I mean, yeah, it may be illegal, but I don't see them cracking down like that on the mafia or anything else.
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My guess is that's what they're talking about.
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This just strikes me as Charles Manson telling a bunch of kids to go out and kill their families and giving them the instructions and weapons to do it. Then, after they commit the murders, arresting them and giving Manson a contract with the FBI (aka, napster signing up with BMG, etc).
I don't really care much for either side -- but it does strike me as incredibly ironic and unjust.
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For all we know, people could be providing the complete and unobstructed truth to billn, but I doubt there is data existing outside of the university's hands to prove they're lying or covering up a mistake on their part.
Anyway, I would want the university to be much more open and straightforward (from the very beginning, not after they've had two weeks to manufacturer everything) before I just went ahead and said "oh, yeah! okay, it was just a misunderstanding -- the university is the good guy!".
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Hey, Kent saw itself getting shredded over this stupid move. So they had to generate some cover story to keep their asses from feeling the heat. What better than blaming the kid for 'hacking' the university's network (Yeah, we always call the FBI when a student abuses our network...?)
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I can agree with that, but you can still place data in the public with certain restrictions (on the web at least). For example, I can place an article or a picture online that belongs to me and require that it not be redistributed or otherwise used beyond viewing on my site. Similarly, some WHOIS services restrict any commercial use of their service -- and they can or may have done that at Register.com, which would presumably disallow this action.
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If this was not Register.com's WHOIS service that was being used, then I would consider it a little more like a company that makes photocopiers looking in a public phonebook for big businesses, calling them up and saying "Hey, we'd like to do business with you and we'll beat whatever your current photocopier service is charging you".
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