Us younger people don't have mainframes to play with. I'm 22 and I have never ever seen a mainframe. Anywhere. I don't even know what kind of software or operating system they have. Other than they might have a cobol compiler.
I can code cobol. But I'd rather gouge out my eyes with a sharp stick.
I believe this will bring and end to the profit motive of spam -- break the law and it will cost you. And it will not cost you a piddling $50, as in the California, Washington, and other state laws. Oh no. It will cost you a thousand PER OFFENSE.
You better believe spammers will want to do things the legal way.
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" The way things are structured today, from a licensing perspective, in the Linux world nobody will ever commercialize Linux the way the Sun commercialized FreeBSD."
" Linux itself is a clone of an operating system that is 20-plus years old. That's what it is. That is what you can get today, a clone of a 20-year-old system. I'm not saying that it doesn't have some place for some customers, but that is not an innovative proposition."
So just because the basic design is old, it's not "innovative?" I think this guy needs to spend more time with his programmers!
They're providing the bandwidth anyway. Are they concerned that people will host thousands of computers (at a major cost to the ISP's bandwidth) if people are allowed to do this?
Software is a very quiet and peaceful industry, and you could send your product over the internet. Your neighbors probably wouldn't notice if you had such a company, and therefore probably don't care if you do or not.
Remember that joke about the kid who prooves that he has no time to attend school, since he must spend x days sleeping and x days eating and x days are weekends.....
The kid in this joke arrives at the figure that he does because the way he does it counts a good portion of time twice. (IE: Sleep and weekends overlaps...) The RIAA I think is counting things twice when it obtains these "Billion Dollar" figures. I think that it counts the number of P2P transactions and multiplies it by the cost of an album. This dispite people downloading songs that they would never buy. In fact, one could further inflate the figures by including incompleted transactions as a full one.
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Mind you please that this is one fifth of my entire lifetime. If I "ain't done shit" then I'm in very deep trouble.
Us younger people don't have mainframes to play with. I'm 22 and I have never ever seen a mainframe. Anywhere. I don't even know what kind of software or operating system they have. Other than they might have a cobol compiler.
I can code cobol. But I'd rather gouge out my eyes with a sharp stick.
Most of these spoofs are done in a kind of tasteless level. Rude, but not illegal.
Even so, shame on these derivitive makers.
Rule of the internet #1:
People on the internet are inevitably very very very very very wierd.
Rule of the internet #2:
Most of the people who spend a *lot* of time on the internet are sexually frustrated.
Conclusion:
These people are gonna make raunchy jokes about everything they get their hands on.
I don't understand this "Broken Memories" approach. Getting your favorite cartoon spoofed causes you psychological damage? GET A GRIP, DUDE!
This prank again?
It was funny the first five times.
This is indeed what the founding fathers intended with copyright -- You profit from your work for a while, then it becomes public.
Copyrights are so long these days, once you've written one book, there's no need to write a second one.
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Well....at least it'll be better than
a fundamentalist government.
That kind shoots you for listening to music,
copyrighted or no.
Imagine what will happen when spamming is illegal in all but a few states....
I can see a federal anti-spam law on the rise, and for spammers it will not be pretty....
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I believe this will bring and end to the profit motive of spam -- break the law and it will cost you. And it will not cost you a piddling $50, as in the California, Washington, and other state laws. Oh no. It will cost you a thousand PER OFFENSE.
You better believe spammers will want to do things the legal way.
Must you use the magic word, Kappa Delta Edward?
Forgetting RedHat, Mr. Balmer?
So just because the basic design is old, it's not "innovative?" I think this guy needs to spend more time with his programmers!
Gee, and here I thought espionage had to be international.
This doesn't seem developed enough for anyone to buy it yet, but I imagine when it's fully developed, cinamatographers will buy them by the truckload.
Genetically modified humans would be no different than humans born in the traditional method. Why can't people understand this?????
Gah.
They're providing the bandwidth anyway.
Are they concerned that people will host thousands of computers (at a major cost to the ISP's bandwidth) if people are allowed to do this?
One cannot hear telephone conversations on the outside of a residence, no matter how loud the person is yelling.
Now if you're a rock band like my little brother, you WILL annoy the neighbors....
Software is a very quiet and peaceful industry, and you could send your product over the internet. Your neighbors probably wouldn't notice if you had such a company, and therefore probably don't care if you do or not.
I was suspicious about their P1 floating point bug, but what really got me to avoid them forever was their PIII.
And now P4 is buggy, just like P1....
Does that mean a horrendous sucking privacy violation is to come on the P6?
The point of my post was not that RIAA doesn't suffer because of file-trading. It does cost them some money. But not as much as they claim it does.
That's an oxymoron. (Contradiction in terms, guys!)
This needs the same protection as any phone convo.
(Fortunately, getting encryption should be much easier.)
You can reinstall IE afterwards to repair the breaks in windows update and microsoft's help files.
(Napster didn't work right after I uninstalled IE.)
Best of all, when you reinstall, it runs as a separate program and doesn't load as a part of the OS.
I have a little program to remove Internet Explorer.
It came from here: http://www.win98lite.net
I did not write this program, but I am very satisfied with it's results.
Remember that joke about the kid who prooves that he has no time to attend school, since he must spend x days sleeping and x days eating and x days are weekends.....
The kid in this joke arrives at the figure that he does because the way he does it counts a good portion of time twice. (IE: Sleep and weekends overlaps...)
The RIAA I think is counting things twice when it obtains these "Billion Dollar" figures. I think that it counts the number of P2P transactions and multiplies it by the cost of an album. This dispite people downloading songs that they would never buy. In fact, one could further inflate the figures by including incompleted transactions as a full one.
Billions of Dollars? Baloney.
Fox does not have a case here.
The material fell out of copyright and is now public domain and they're still claiming rights to it?
Hold on, I gotta go sue the supermarket to recover the money I spent there -- because hey, it *USED* to be mine....