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Not only that, most of the pages on the site are either encrypted or customized (via datamining), or both. I wonder what kind of servers they're running?
i kill 10 children on a schoolbus by accident, rushing medical supplies somewhere, and i am saddened of the fact after i do it and try to make amends
The truth would be closer to... I'm on my way to making lots and lots of money, ram into a schoolbus full of children because I don't give a shit, and play on people's fears and emotions of their loss of 2 children (killed by fanatics created last time I was killing kids in school busses around here) to convince them that the kids in the schoolbusses are worth killing, since "rushing medical supplies somewhere" not only makes me (and my friends) a lot of money, but is 'good' (because God said so).
Reply to: anon-53632282@craigslist.org
Date: 2004-12-28, 1:44AM PST
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letting me video tape while sucking their cock. Your face shot will not be in
the video if you dont want to have it in. But ur cock in my mouth will. Serious
inquireies only send ur pic and stats,, also how much $$ u would like in return.
U be HOTT CLEAN and discreet
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
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As of 2004, craigslist operates with a staff of 14 people. It does not advertise. Its sole source of revenue is paid job ads in select cities ($75 per ad for the San Francisco Bay Area and $25 per ad for New York and Los Angeles).
It receives one billion page views per month from five million unique visitors. Its revenue was approximately $10 million in 2003.
NeL is not a game, it's an engine... and compared to it, CS is utter crap... Ryzom is a proprietary game that has proprietary content that pays lots of money to top artists for that content... it doesn't ask anyone to donate their copyright (code or otherwise), they pay them loads of money for it! As for being a "better" or "worse" free sofware project... you guys really seem to have no idea what free software is (you use it interchangeably with "open source")... if you want to compare, though, how easy it is to implement the two engines (CS vs. NeL), just look at the documentation sites, the front of CS says "I really have to update this documentation sometime soon..... i guess i'm just too lazy with school and all:)". NeL says: "last modification: Sunday 26 of December, 2004 [23:33:43 UTC]" That's about 7 hours ago... go figure.
*sigh* Part of the definition of capitalism a free economy. But a free economy doesn't mean that anyone can compete with anybody... or that trying to compete with projects like EQ2 (which cost $millions to make) without some serious developing power is just silly.
In other words, these guys are wasting their time, since anything they produce will be nothing compared to what real game makers can... and if they really were good designers, why are they working for free instead of making 6 digits working for Blizzard/Sony?
Wow, what a genius, better go rush off and tell the record companies that it is impossible for singers to assign their copyright to them cause they've been under the mistaken impression that this was possible for decades now.
They are being paid for the rights, just as a scientist working for a company is being paid for his work (anything he discovers belongs to the company). Surrendering all of my rights to a piece I created without compensation (as the PSL demands) is quite different.
(you can even use the Planeshift engine!)
I would never. It's shit compared to the alternatives (and they seem to understand free software much better than the PS guys, not to mention that their webiste doesn't look like utter crap in Firefox--get your webmaster a book html).
but seriously, anyone that comprehends remotely how much work goes into a game like WoW or EQ2 understands that stuff like this is a bunch of nerds wasting their time and compensating for being losers, at best...
I really don't understand what's up with you artsy types. Coders spend a zillion hours of their free time to make a free open source game just so others can enjoy it but you can't do the same for a bunch of notes? Sure, dream on that one day you'll be famous and you can sell the rights for some disgustingly large sum of money.
You missed the parent's point completely.
Coders give PlaneShift their work under the GPL. "Artsy types" give their work under PSL (the PlaneShift Lisence). From that link:
You may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, sell, participate in the transfer or sale or reproduce, create Derivative Works from, distribute, perform, display or in any way exploit any of the Material released under this License unless expressly permitted by the PlaneShift Team.
This is what the parent referred to as "relicensing". Also, since they are donating their work (as in not being paid for it), AFAIK, it's actually impossible for them to give up copyright under US Law... In other words, the PSL would never stand up in court, so stop pretending to be lawyers (people go to school for a long time for that), shove your PSL up your ass, and publish the stuff under some sort of CCL.
I cannot agree more. Prosecuting offenders one-by-one will never solve the problem as long as there is a supply of fools that spammers make money off of.
Sun is a company, and will do whatever is most advantageous in the current market. It will never follow any ideology, it will only do what is going to make money... who thought any of theses companies really believe in free software as the FSF does?
Well honestly, NASA is one of the most wasteful organizations I have ever seen.
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300C.
When confronted with the same problem, the Russians used a pencil.
This has always bugged me about RFID's... are they not incredibly insecure? As far as I understand, they 'reflect' a certain signature, kind of like... license plates on a car, except with a bit of high-tech in there. This isn't private/public key encryption scheme to verify the authenticity, this is a signature that's accessible to anyone that can get near you with a relatively small reader...
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Not only that, most of the pages on the site are either encrypted or customized (via datamining), or both. I wonder what kind of servers they're running?
I bought 5 books on Amazon that day-- I used up my gift certificates from Christmas and ordered a textbook for next semester.
i kill 10 children on a schoolbus by accident, rushing medical supplies somewhere, and i am saddened of the fact after i do it and try to make amends
The truth would be closer to... I'm on my way to making lots and lots of money, ram into a schoolbus full of children because I don't give a shit, and play on people's fears and emotions of their loss of 2 children (killed by fanatics created last time I was killing kids in school busses around here) to convince them that the kids in the schoolbusses are worth killing, since "rushing medical supplies somewhere" not only makes me (and my friends) a lot of money, but is 'good' (because God said so).
from here:
Reply to: anon-53632282@craigslist.org
Date: 2004-12-28, 1:44AM PST
I'm a 27yr old Male looking for REALLY HOTT guys that want to be paid for letting me video tape while sucking their cock. Your face shot will not be in the video if you dont want to have it in. But ur cock in my mouth will. Serious inquireies only send ur pic and stats,, also how much $$ u would like in return. U be HOTT CLEAN and discreet
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
53632282
CraigsList:
craigslist is a highly popular network of urban online communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with employment, housing, personals, for sale/wanted, services, community, events, gigs and resumes categories) and forums sorted by various topics. It was founded in 1995 by Craig Newmark for the San Francisco Bay Area and was incorporated in 1999, as a for-profit company with social goals. After incorporation, it expanded into nine more cities in 2000, four each in 2001 and 2002, fourteen in 2003; as of 2004, craigslist is in about 75 cities, in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, continental Europe, Australia, Asia, and [[Brazil]. As of 2004, craigslist operates with a staff of 14 people. It does not advertise. Its sole source of revenue is paid job ads in select cities ($75 per ad for the San Francisco Bay Area and $25 per ad for New York and Los Angeles). It receives one billion page views per month from five million unique visitors. Its revenue was approximately $10 million in 2003.
Worse things have happened.
Note the date of the securityfocus story. It says "Feb 5 2004". It's nearly a year old!
:)
I think the point of it was to get visitors to the last link he provided... not a bad idea, and no one seems to have noticed...
NeL is not a game, it's an engine... and compared to it, CS is utter crap... Ryzom is a proprietary game that has proprietary content that pays lots of money to top artists for that content... it doesn't ask anyone to donate their copyright (code or otherwise), they pay them loads of money for it! As for being a "better" or "worse" free sofware project... you guys really seem to have no idea what free software is (you use it interchangeably with "open source")... if you want to compare, though, how easy it is to implement the two engines (CS vs. NeL), just look at the documentation sites, the front of CS says "I really have to update this documentation sometime soon..... i guess i'm just too lazy with school and all :)". NeL says: "last modification: Sunday 26 of December, 2004 [23:33:43 UTC]" That's about 7 hours ago... go figure.
*sigh* Part of the definition of capitalism a free economy. But a free economy doesn't mean that anyone can compete with anybody... or that trying to compete with projects like EQ2 (which cost $millions to make) without some serious developing power is just silly.
In other words, these guys are wasting their time, since anything they produce will be nothing compared to what real game makers can... and if they really were good designers, why are they working for free instead of making 6 digits working for Blizzard/Sony?
Wow, what a genius, better go rush off and tell the record companies that it is impossible for singers to assign their copyright to them cause they've been under the mistaken impression that this was possible for decades now.
They are being paid for the rights, just as a scientist working for a company is being paid for his work (anything he discovers belongs to the company). Surrendering all of my rights to a piece I created without compensation (as the PSL demands) is quite different.
(you can even use the Planeshift engine!)
I would never. It's shit compared to the alternatives (and they seem to understand free software much better than the PS guys, not to mention that their webiste doesn't look like utter crap in Firefox--get your webmaster a book html).
Except for the fact that your PSL is not enforceable in the US or GB (search your forums if you wanna know why).
where are the mod points when you want them...
but seriously, anyone that comprehends remotely how much work goes into a game like WoW or EQ2 understands that stuff like this is a bunch of nerds wasting their time and compensating for being losers, at best...
I really don't understand what's up with you artsy types. Coders spend a zillion hours of their free time to make a free open source game just so others can enjoy it but you can't do the same for a bunch of notes? Sure, dream on that one day you'll be famous and you can sell the rights for some disgustingly large sum of money.
You missed the parent's point completely.
Coders give PlaneShift their work under the GPL. "Artsy types" give their work under PSL (the PlaneShift Lisence). From that link:
You may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, sell, participate in the transfer or sale or reproduce, create Derivative Works from, distribute, perform, display or in any way exploit any of the Material released under this License unless expressly permitted by the PlaneShift Team.
This is what the parent referred to as "relicensing". Also, since they are donating their work (as in not being paid for it), AFAIK, it's actually impossible for them to give up copyright under US Law... In other words, the PSL would never stand up in court, so stop pretending to be lawyers (people go to school for a long time for that), shove your PSL up your ass, and publish the stuff under some sort of CCL.
Proof that a group of assholes can produce a product.
I cannot agree more. I'd like to point out, also, that the product is on par with EQ1, which was released over 5 years ago...
um, AdBlock can block any element on a website, including flash ads....
I cannot agree more. Prosecuting offenders one-by-one will never solve the problem as long as there is a supply of fools that spammers make money off of.
Google Redirect: http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://tech2.nyti mes.com/mem/technology/techreview.html?res=9D00E1D C163FF93BA25751C1A9659C8B63
Sun is a company, and will do whatever is most advantageous in the current market. It will never follow any ideology, it will only do what is going to make money... who thought any of theses companies really believe in free software as the FSF does?
That obviously entales copying the link location, which is not necessarily a URL, which is what you said first.
Now you're just a flip-flopping waffler.
Xept he didn't provide a URL, but liked using a href...
pwned!
Well honestly, NASA is one of the most wasteful organizations I have ever seen.
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300C. When confronted with the same problem, the Russians used a pencil.
This has always bugged me about RFID's... are they not incredibly insecure? As far as I understand, they 'reflect' a certain signature, kind of like... license plates on a car, except with a bit of high-tech in there. This isn't private/public key encryption scheme to verify the authenticity, this is a signature that's accessible to anyone that can get near you with a relatively small reader...
this may only give a false sense of security
Even my playlist is more than 1.5GB though, it's hard to compete with the 40GB iPods...
The most pirated piece of software in history was MS Windows 3.11