I mean, also, that whole like... you know -- right to a fair trial thing and stuff! And uh.. um.. dude, that free speach thing! Oh oooh! And how about that no unwarrented search and siezure! And the right to vote! Oh man, we could just keep going on and on about all the things that just get in the way of technology and government and Utopian fantasies!
Yeah, we should... we should like... maybe just all submit to our governments and walk around nude and live in houses built with clear glass and keep a log of every thought we ever say just in case someone somewhere would like to know it -- I mean, who needs autonomy and a sense of self when we can just become one fleshy glob of "citizens" existing to fuel aristocracy and economy!? --- seumas.com
Of course, now that everyone and their grandmother will be doing so (especially considering all the recent press he's had in the last couple months), it will take him until he's in his grave to process everything!
I once emailed Woz, just commenting on the mural on the Apple building on Infinity Loop. The last thing I expected was a reply from him -- I just thought he might get a kick out of what I had to say. But wouldn't you know it -- that same evening, not more than a couple hours later, there was a reply from him. Not a generic "thanks for the email", but an actual thought-out email.
I felt at once grateful that he would care so much about the people that care about him, to take a few minutes out of his life to send along a reply and embarassed for having wasted at least five minutes of his time (which is certainly more valuable than my own).
I hope that people will not take advantage of this and bombard his email account just to get a personal reply. If you have something you really want to tell him, perhaps it would be kind to wait a couple or so weeks before sending it? I hate to imagine him up at 2am, glazed eyed in front of the Woz-Cam trying to fight off wrist-pains pounding out responses to all of his admirers! --- seumas.com
There's this little thing called 'protecting your source'. It's a long-standing journalistic tradition and, I believe, respected right that reporters are not required to snitch on their sources, for very obvious reasons. While exceptions are occasionally made, I'm sure, this is not one of those times where one should -- this is a web page defacement, not a murder or a rape or a kidnapping.
Congratulations to the reported for having the integrity to protect his source. The media may be a festering pile of scabs, but there are a few respectable and honorable persons left in the business.
I'd be curious to see Slashdot interview him. --- seumas.com
No, the editor (Jamie) is not new. I do agree however, that I think they completely missed the needed focus of this issue. Who located it and how they located it is irrelavent and not even minimally interesting. What is interesting and what should have been the entire focus of this is how such a weak exploit could have been left laying around for almost four years. It seems this has been similar to saying the Titanic is unsinkable, well, except if you are captaining the ship in water... --- seumas.com
Since when is adding a period to the end of a TLD a crime? If anyone should be prosecuted, it should be the service provider who failed to provide proper restrictions to content, despite advertising to parents and consumers the extreme safety of their censorship controls.
Of course, none of the people you listed would really be related to the story of AOL only now patching up a very obvious and very rediculous flaw, would they? --- seumas.com
I don't have sympathy for people who whine about gas prices. You know what? I'm in my mid-twenties, make a high salary -- and I RIDE THE BUS.
It's fast, it's easy, it's cheaper than hell and there's no traffic.
If you want to take up space on the freeway with your SUV (with no passengers, usually), dump some carbon-dioxide into the air and suck up some unreplenishable fuel sources, then shut up and pay your $2.00 per gallon. --- seumas.com
Because OPEC and the proprietors of the fuel-grid demand it.
There is no other explanation for 80+ MPG cars existing but not being marketed or alternative fuel vehicals existing but not being properly marketed, if at all.
Alternate fuels will be popular and readily available when the fuel and power grid holders say so. And they won't say so until fossil-fuels have been dried up. --- seumas.com
Dude, maybe something happened to his machine, his connection -- maybe he forgot to post and called up Timothy and asked him to do it for him. Could have been a million innocent things.
I mean, damn... don't be so paranoid. You're acting just like Katz! *grin*. --- seumas.com
You know, it wasn't long ago and there was no such thing as Napster.
People traded on private FTP sites. It's amazing how much content five, 10, 25 or even 50 friends can compile and share on a single machine with some spare drives to serve from. --- seumas.com
It's not necessarily about the literal song name -- it's the misguiding assertion that they are another band. They are making money off of the name of the popular bands, which are copyrighted.
It just so happens to be that this is carried through via the act of subverting names of songs. --- seumas.com
We didn't just label it as music that sounded like hers, and thereby reach out to her udience. Instead we labeled it as everything!
I just noticed this obvious statement.
They claim to be doing this because his wife is a musician and they're tired of people ripping musicians off? So the solution they're using is to label chunks of her music as the music of other extremely popular groups, instead of reaching out to her own audience via 'similar music'? Why? If they labeled it as similar artists to herself, then they would be sticking it to the people they claim to be most against -- those stealing her music! Duh!
So obviously, this isn't about making those bad Napster users learn a lesson -- it's about getting her sounds out under the guise of more popular music! Again, DUH! --- seumas.com
Great, so we'll have trolls running around on the Napster client, spamming content with comments about Natalie Portman, Beowulf Clusters and hot grits... *sigh*. --- seumas.com
While Stefanie has gotten a bunch more people to hear her music and had a few more hits on her website, she has also taken more heat than you can imagine... Remember, most of the folks who heard her music didn't want to hear her music and were probably expecting something completely different. We didn't just label it as music that sounded like hers, and thereby reach out to her udience. Instead we labeled it as everything! Not a lot of Kid Rock or Black Sabbath fans that can appreciate a good old folk/pop tune, eh?
He uses the above statement to explain that this is not a stunt to get attention for his wife and her "music", yet he just explained that they decided to use Kid Rock, Black Sabbath and other popular band names to get people to listen to it, because they probably would not listen to it otherwise.
So which is it -- a stunt to gain attention for her or not? He says he's not doing it for that reason, and then goes on to say exactly that, but in other words!
Another thing to bear in mind in regards to Stefanie and this being her gravy train - when we started the project we didn't want to steal other peoples music to use for the eggs and we didn't want to just use noise, so we used the music close at hand with the approval of the artist. All of the bands and or musician friends we approached said, great idea - we support you. This was generally followed by their saying they didn't want to participate for fear of the backlash. Others got bogged down in band meetings about differences of opinion about what to do and never gave the ok.
No, instead, you decided that it would just be better to steal their names. Copyrighted names of bands and songs, mind you! So you're not only riding on the coat-tails of bands that actually produce something people want to hear, but you're infringing on their product! This is like selling Tab in a Pepsi or Coke can!
I don't suppose these people have considered the fact that a lot of artists DO want their music to be available via Napster and don't mind that it is traded around. But I guess these cocky SOBs wouldn't have thought about that possibility, because they're too busy rigging publicity stunts. --- seumas.com
I may be mistaken, but I believe that book reviews are always posted by a member of the Slashdot staff, unless they are also the reviewer (such as when Hemos reviews a book himself or something). --- seumas.com
I think a Slashdot-hosted forum, ala-AskSlashdot or Your Rights Online would be excellent.
Actually find a couple people to moderate and run the sub-section. Offer a place for legit organizations and groups to ask for help and a place for geeks to over their help. Sort of a MonsterBoard for geek-good-samaritans. A place to talk about things, including special 'articles' that seem intersting. There's no limit to what a small effort Slashdot puts forward could do, considering the massive amount of energy and knowledge it has access to in its hundred thousand members. --- seumas.com
I seriously believe that the best way that you can help is to find a young man or woman who is desperate to learn. I know that when I was a lot younger, I wanted to do a lot of things in computing that I could neither find the resources nor the mentor for. My library didn't have books on writing PERL or C++ or even PASCAL. I wouldn't even have known that you could get the software for free to do it. Further, I wanted to learn Unix, but when I was 12 (this was in the late 1980's), I knew they were machines that only people in college or at big companies had access to.
More than anything, a lot of teenagers just want to learn. Sure, they can get HTML classes somewhere, but that isn't going to help them become reliably employable.
I'd encourage people to find a highschool dropout (or one who is bordering on becoming one) or a teenage mother or just about any other kid who doesn't realize they have a future -- and whom others may think the same of -- and, if they have a desire to learn it, you can turn them from a life of being a couch potatoe earning 5 bucks an hour at the mini-mart into an upper-middle-class person with a career and a cool job title.
I've seen this done. To a degree, I'm that person -- only I had to help myself. But there are some other very talented and intelligent kids out there who have completely given up. I don't see a better way to offer your time and energy, computer-wise. --- seumas.com
Help them setup that US Email system they've been talking about for so long! After all, what better contribution can you make to humanity than increasing the efficiency of the likes of Cliff Claven!? --- seumas.com
There were lots of other people who liked or didn't like things and put their support behind their cause. They didn't say "gee, this gets people riled up and arguementative, so I'm not going to talk about it anymore".
I mean, Ghandi didn't say "screw peace -- it just upsets people".
Jimmy Hoffa didn't say "Bullocks to the ruthless company-boars, but ya know -- fighting for unions just gets people all edgy and stuff".
Martin Luther King never said "Damn. Maybe I shouldn't bring up racism anymore. It just makes people cranky".
Rob Maldo never said "Bah. This Linux thing is starting to get old and boring. Let's talk about the Ron Popiel Juicer!"
Not that MP3's rank anywhere near those issues, but they are at once controversial, interesting, popular and newsworthy. Thus, they are worth reporting. --- seumas.com
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, we should... we should like... maybe just all submit to our governments and walk around nude and live in houses built with clear glass and keep a log of every thought we ever say just in case someone somewhere would like to know it -- I mean, who needs autonomy and a sense of self when we can just become one fleshy glob of "citizens" existing to fuel aristocracy and economy!?
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The right to Innovate and Inviolate!
Sheesh. I need more caffeine... or less Microsoft... Or something.
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I once emailed Woz, just commenting on the mural on the Apple building on Infinity Loop. The last thing I expected was a reply from him -- I just thought he might get a kick out of what I had to say. But wouldn't you know it -- that same evening, not more than a couple hours later, there was a reply from him. Not a generic "thanks for the email", but an actual thought-out email.
I felt at once grateful that he would care so much about the people that care about him, to take a few minutes out of his life to send along a reply and embarassed for having wasted at least five minutes of his time (which is certainly more valuable than my own).
I hope that people will not take advantage of this and bombard his email account just to get a personal reply. If you have something you really want to tell him, perhaps it would be kind to wait a couple or so weeks before sending it? I hate to imagine him up at 2am, glazed eyed in front of the Woz-Cam trying to fight off wrist-pains pounding out responses to all of his admirers!
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Congratulations to the reported for having the integrity to protect his source. The media may be a festering pile of scabs, but there are a few respectable and honorable persons left in the business.
I'd be curious to see Slashdot interview him.
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No, the editor (Jamie) is not new. I do agree however, that I think they completely missed the needed focus of this issue. Who located it and how they located it is irrelavent and not even minimally interesting. What is interesting and what should have been the entire focus of this is how such a weak exploit could have been left laying around for almost four years. It seems this has been similar to saying the Titanic is unsinkable, well, except if you are captaining the ship in water...
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Duh.
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Of course, none of the people you listed would really be related to the story of AOL only now patching up a very obvious and very rediculous flaw, would they?
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It's fast, it's easy, it's cheaper than hell and there's no traffic.
If you want to take up space on the freeway with your SUV (with no passengers, usually), dump some carbon-dioxide into the air and suck up some unreplenishable fuel sources, then shut up and pay your $2.00 per gallon.
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seumas.com
There is no other explanation for 80+ MPG cars existing but not being marketed or alternative fuel vehicals existing but not being properly marketed, if at all.
Alternate fuels will be popular and readily available when the fuel and power grid holders say so. And they won't say so until fossil-fuels have been dried up.
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Which can be infringed upon and dilluted ala Barbie, Pokey, Toys R Us and all the other similar flurries of lawsuits.
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I mean, damn... don't be so paranoid. You're acting just like Katz! *grin*.
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seumas.com
People traded on private FTP sites. It's amazing how much content five, 10, 25 or even 50 friends can compile and share on a single machine with some spare drives to serve from.
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seumas.com
It just so happens to be that this is carried through via the act of subverting names of songs.
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seumas.com
I just noticed this obvious statement.
They claim to be doing this because his wife is a musician and they're tired of people ripping musicians off? So the solution they're using is to label chunks of her music as the music of other extremely popular groups, instead of reaching out to her own audience via 'similar music'? Why? If they labeled it as similar artists to herself, then they would be sticking it to the people they claim to be most against -- those stealing her music! Duh!
So obviously, this isn't about making those bad Napster users learn a lesson -- it's about getting her sounds out under the guise of more popular music! Again, DUH!
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seumas.com
Great, so we'll have trolls running around on the Napster client, spamming content with comments about Natalie Portman, Beowulf Clusters and hot grits... *sigh*.
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seumas.com
He uses the above statement to explain that this is not a stunt to get attention for his wife and her "music", yet he just explained that they decided to use Kid Rock, Black Sabbath and other popular band names to get people to listen to it, because they probably would not listen to it otherwise.
So which is it -- a stunt to gain attention for her or not? He says he's not doing it for that reason, and then goes on to say exactly that, but in other words!
Another thing to bear in mind in regards to Stefanie and this being her gravy train - when we started the project we didn't want to steal other peoples music to use for the eggs and we didn't want to just use noise, so we used the music close at hand with the approval of the artist. All of the bands and or musician friends we approached said, great idea - we support you. This was generally followed by their saying they didn't want to participate for fear of the backlash. Others got bogged down in band meetings about differences of opinion about what to do and never gave the ok.
No, instead, you decided that it would just be better to steal their names. Copyrighted names of bands and songs, mind you! So you're not only riding on the coat-tails of bands that actually produce something people want to hear, but you're infringing on their product! This is like selling Tab in a Pepsi or Coke can!
I don't suppose these people have considered the fact that a lot of artists DO want their music to be available via Napster and don't mind that it is traded around. But I guess these cocky SOBs wouldn't have thought about that possibility, because they're too busy rigging publicity stunts.
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I may be mistaken, but I believe that book reviews are always posted by a member of the Slashdot staff, unless they are also the reviewer (such as when Hemos reviews a book himself or something).
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seumas.com
"It grew while I was playing Q3 on that new kick-ass IBM monitor!"
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Actually find a couple people to moderate and run the sub-section. Offer a place for legit organizations and groups to ask for help and a place for geeks to over their help. Sort of a MonsterBoard for geek-good-samaritans. A place to talk about things, including special 'articles' that seem intersting. There's no limit to what a small effort Slashdot puts forward could do, considering the massive amount of energy and knowledge it has access to in its hundred thousand members.
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seumas.com
More than anything, a lot of teenagers just want to learn. Sure, they can get HTML classes somewhere, but that isn't going to help them become reliably employable.
I'd encourage people to find a highschool dropout (or one who is bordering on becoming one) or a teenage mother or just about any other kid who doesn't realize they have a future -- and whom others may think the same of -- and, if they have a desire to learn it, you can turn them from a life of being a couch potatoe earning 5 bucks an hour at the mini-mart into an upper-middle-class person with a career and a cool job title.
I've seen this done. To a degree, I'm that person -- only I had to help myself. But there are some other very talented and intelligent kids out there who have completely given up. I don't see a better way to offer your time and energy, computer-wise.
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seumas.com
Help them setup that US Email system they've been talking about for so long! After all, what better contribution can you make to humanity than increasing the efficiency of the likes of Cliff Claven!?
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And, of course, that's probably what they're counting on.
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Er.. Make that, legally illegal. Not that legality has ever stopped a corporation before.
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Do you understand the concept of "Better than having a fucking commercial?"
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I mean, Ghandi didn't say "screw peace -- it just upsets people".
Jimmy Hoffa didn't say "Bullocks to the ruthless company-boars, but ya know -- fighting for unions just gets people all edgy and stuff".
Martin Luther King never said "Damn. Maybe I shouldn't bring up racism anymore. It just makes people cranky".
Rob Maldo never said "Bah. This Linux thing is starting to get old and boring. Let's talk about the Ron Popiel Juicer!"
Not that MP3's rank anywhere near those issues, but they are at once controversial, interesting, popular and newsworthy. Thus, they are worth reporting.
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