In the absence of any real news Slashdot now considers the Pledge of Allegiance and Skittles to be nerdsworthy tech news (while rejecting legitimate stories as usual).
Suing thieves does not equal suing your customers. How anyone can call these people 'customers' is beyond me. These aren't casual downloaders, these are people who are downloading and distributing hundreds or thousands of stolen items.
because you have to verify your email address, presumably so people don't go through randomly registering phone numbers, or perhaps automating the registration of every phone number.
hell, i wouldve charged a couple grand and done a much better job. And while hundreds of thousands of developers are out of work good ole uncle sam forks out 3500 large to a billion dollar corporation for work that could be done for 1/1000th of that with a sense of quality and pride.
Of course, as you said, if the deal includes maintenance, bandwidth etc tack on a zero, but even that would be overpriced.
yeah and everyone loves reading your gripes about moderation. does it really ruin your day because slashdot points arent handed out according to strict guidelines? who fucking cares stfu.
"The fact that SGI has replaced the three code fragments in question does not satisfy SCO, according to Blake Stowell, a SCO spokesman. "These releases have already taken place in Linux," he said. "You still have all these machines out there that haven't applied patches that are still benefitting from this Unix System V code."
200 freaking lines of code that could probably be written in less than an hour, and are likely public domain anyway? You've gotta be kidding me...
"Is this STILL necessary? Have we not got used to the idea of backups yet? REALLY!"
So you're saying that even though there is a profitable market for data recovery, the businesses should shut their doors because people should make backups.
And McDonalds should shut down because people should know better than to eat that shit.
i'd rather watch a character drop a few subtle plugs such as drinking a Pepsi or eating a Snickers than have 20 minutes of each hour commercial breaks. The only thing that bugs me is the commercial breaks aren't getting shorter, if anything theyre getting longer in addition to the placements.
ooh yeah good one. what's this stupid obsession with "slashdotting sites out of existence" in every fucking article? so slashdot gets alot of visitors who may follow a link, big fucking deal. quit acting so damned proud, you can't put it on a resume "I am a slashdot member, and there are alot of us, we click links."
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if you have a paypal account why not just use your free PayPal checkcard?
probably from all the people refreshing to watch the counter go up
right now it's at 10-20 hits per second
sure let's just label every post you don't agree with "Troll". You've got my vote.
"Go up this street to where the jewlery store burned down"
Don't you mean the street where Whitesnake burned the nightclub down?
Yeah so I missed that, sue me, or better yet blow me.
l33t linking skillz mor0n
In the absence of any real news Slashdot now considers the Pledge of Allegiance and Skittles to be nerdsworthy tech news (while rejecting legitimate stories as usual).
A PhD with *gasp* positive slashdot karma!!!!
i'm impressed!!
My god don't even get me started on McDonalds new thug life campaign. I've had my last Big Mac ...
gamecube is already $99
Suing thieves does not equal suing your customers. How anyone can call these people 'customers' is beyond me. These aren't casual downloaders, these are people who are downloading and distributing hundreds or thousands of stolen items.
because you have to verify your email address, presumably so people don't go through randomly registering phone numbers, or perhaps automating the registration of every phone number.
Of course, as you said, if the deal includes maintenance, bandwidth etc tack on a zero, but even that would be overpriced.
isn't gonna explain themselves. That part is pretty clear already...
you forgot to give us your opinion.
yeah and everyone loves reading your gripes about moderation. does it really ruin your day because slashdot points arent handed out according to strict guidelines? who fucking cares stfu.
"The fact that SGI has replaced the three code fragments in question does not satisfy SCO, according to Blake Stowell, a SCO spokesman. "These releases have already taken place in Linux," he said. "You still have all these machines out there that haven't applied patches that are still benefitting from this Unix System V code."
200 freaking lines of code that could probably be written in less than an hour, and are likely public domain anyway? You've gotta be kidding me...
if you're looking to buy something i guess you should use alta-vista -- the first 6 results were advertisements
"Is this STILL necessary? Have we not got used to the idea of backups yet? REALLY!"
So you're saying that even though there is a profitable market for data recovery, the businesses should shut their doors because people should make backups.
And McDonalds should shut down because people should know better than to eat that shit.
i'd rather watch a character drop a few subtle plugs such as drinking a Pepsi or eating a Snickers than have 20 minutes of each hour commercial breaks. The only thing that bugs me is the commercial breaks aren't getting shorter, if anything theyre getting longer in addition to the placements.
ooh yeah good one. what's this stupid obsession with "slashdotting sites out of existence" in every fucking article? so slashdot gets alot of visitors who may follow a link, big fucking deal. quit acting so damned proud, you can't put it on a resume "I am a slashdot member, and there are alot of us, we click links."
Yeah tell me about it - so far i've uploaded 29MB for the privilege of downloading 17MB, and currently i'm downloading at 0 kbps - impressive.
uh, who says he's not allowed to do whatever he pleases?
in most areas, at least where i live (MN), you don't have a choice of cable or phone companies. there is no taking your business elsewhere.