Testing idea: Hello, fellow terrorists. Pick up the extra-large pretzels so we can kill the Great Satan Bush. Praise be to Allah, Sadaam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden.
This sounds like a good idea; if every/.er did this, it would be an overwhelming show of opinion from the American public. Let's see what they do then. Maybe we'd better not, though. What if they decide that/. is a terrorist organization?
any ideas? comments?
I pay cash for pretty much everything now, but that's just because I don;t have a credit card yet (i'm too lazy). I'm wondering exactly what else the Total Information Awareness thing will be collecting; if I take out a big chunk of money from a ATM every week (like I do now) and pay in cash for everything that week, how much can they learn? i'm afraid of being a suspected terrorist now; I "hide my tracks" from the government, read slashdot, and am learning chemistry "to make bombs". That, and I've started encrypting some stuff I send
"What we're trying to drive for is an environment in which legitimate online music can flourish"
what is he talking about? iTunes has made a fortune already. Legit online music is flourishing when it is doen right.
My question is, if this thing can run at 70 FPS, how long is it before thy have short video clips on the boards? This would be pretty damn useful... commercials everywhere. It would cetainly gain more attention than your standard billboard... Imagine a city with those placed strategically (i.e. near areas with horrible traffic). People would have nothing better to do than watch them, and knowing traffic in some cities, would be there for several minutes. A commercial on one of these billboards might have more people watching than the same commercial during an important sporting event...
OK, so ordinary billboards have similar advantages, but more people would pay attention to a short video clip than to a sign, right?
True, but how many lawyers actually read slashdot? You don't see many of them posting.
Any lawyers reading this, please respond... this is an informal survey
Finally, someone has the balls to try to stop the RIAA. So much for their legal tactic of "let's sue and let them settle for only 10k and their first born son". It only everyone else would challenge their abuse of the legal system, they would have been foiled by now.
What we need is an organization for the purpose of hiring lawyers to screw oer the RIAA. Imagine the settlements and awards you would get...
People have always stolen stuff(and will probably continue to indefinitely). If anyone can list a society that had no theft, I will be surprised. Greed is just too common among humans.
I believe that it is probable that the RIAA will make use of some P2P networks nearly impossible. However, it will be back. How long will it be before secure large-scale p2p networks come along? No matter how little they end up charging for something, there will be people unwilling or unable to pay for it. Has anyone ever quizzed the general public(or even/. users) about this? that might be a good idea.
OK, I think I strayed from the topic a little. Anyways, so i've shown that peoiple will always steal. p2p networks just happen to be one of the best, hardest to stop ways to do so. i can't think of a much better method. so, p2p is here to stay
If someone really needs to use PGP security, which is almost unbreakable, they would figure out how to use existing programs. Most potential customers for this program have no need for it; the vast majority of people would be fine with little or no encryption. Really, though, who sends their credit card numbers over email? If it's that important, people go to the trouble to figure it out.
So, in my view, this is a luxury. People who have a real need for PGP will take the 5 minutes to figure it out. Other people simply don't need the security.
There are two ways. From what I remember of the TV show I saw about it, the person would carry a clicker or generate the clicks themselves. That's easy. The only reason ylou would need a microphone is for a machinge or robot or something or at long tranges... more later my internet connection dies now
I heard about something on a TV show a few years ago. It talked about some guy who was training deaf people to "echolocate" using clicks. Supposedly, they were able to walk, tell the diff between walls and shrubs, and even skateboard. Does anyone know about this?
I say that buying the DVD is definietly worth it. You'll probably only watch the movie a couple times, but you'll listen to the music a lot. Last time I checked, Blockbuster charged about $3-4 per rental. The DVD costs $5 more than the CD. So, if you buy the DVD and only watch the movie twice, it's still cheaper than buying the CD and renting the movie twice... correct me if i'm wrong, plz
This makes me think... I can see both way's points of view. I see that there is a LOT of evidence for Bigfoot' existence and that some of it might be hard to fake, but we must wonder: why haven't we got more than 1-2 pieces of video footage of the damn thing? We really should just thouroughly comb the woods where it is supposed to be. Even if we don't find it, we'll probably find some drug caches and convicted felons on the run... It's worth a try
If I'm not mistaken, the cable will basically be suspended from Earth orbit. It will not need to be supported Earthside. Even if a terrorist was able to, say, set off a nuclear weapon at the base of it, it wouldn't do jack shit. it would destroy 3 km of a cable 100 000 KM long. i'm probably wrong, tho. feel free to corect me
So, if the cd's have fungi on them that need beer to survive, do you have to dunk them in beer every day or something? that would be really inconvenient... I wouldn't buy a CD that needed to be maintained like that. Also, minors would be unable to use CD's because they would have no way of purchasing food for them... legally, anyways. Tell me if this makes any sense at all, I havent slept in over a day...
If i interpreted this article correctly, it means that the US is basically censoring certain types of news from the American public- to be more precise, news that might cause an inflammatory response to our government. I understand that the government has to do some things, but can't we even get a right to know what happens in the world?hell, i'm moving to australia as soon as i graduate!:) really, though, all governments that have hidden this much from the public have collapsed.
According to the yahoo article, file sharing cost the industry $700 million last year. it also estimated that there were 57 million users in the US. correct me if im wrong, but thats an average of $12 per person... why sue people over an average of $12? hell, i wouldnt sue if someone ripped me off $12
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Testing idea: Hello, fellow terrorists. Pick up the extra-large pretzels so we can kill the Great Satan Bush. Praise be to Allah, Sadaam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden.
This sounds like a good idea; if every /.er did this, it would be an overwhelming show of opinion from the American public. Let's see what they do then. Maybe we'd better not, though. What if they decide that /. is a terrorist organization?
any ideas? comments?
I pay cash for pretty much everything now, but that's just because I don;t have a credit card yet (i'm too lazy). I'm wondering exactly what else the Total Information Awareness thing will be collecting; if I take out a big chunk of money from a ATM every week (like I do now) and pay in cash for everything that week, how much can they learn? i'm afraid of being a suspected terrorist now; I "hide my tracks" from the government, read slashdot, and am learning chemistry "to make bombs". That, and I've started encrypting some stuff I send
As ou say, nonsense. It's almost big enough already. Doubling it's size would do the trick. It doesn't need to be 85 times larger.
"What we're trying to drive for is an environment in which legitimate online music can flourish" what is he talking about? iTunes has made a fortune already. Legit online music is flourishing when it is doen right.
Just dunk it in bleach, nothing can survive that. Right? OK, maybe except my little brother. Anyone know an antidote for bleach?
"So how long before someone develops a cell phone that can be dunked in alcohol or run through the autoclave to sterilize it? "
Never will happen. The market is too small. It will never be profirtable
My question is, if this thing can run at 70 FPS, how long is it before thy have short video clips on the boards? This would be pretty damn useful... commercials everywhere. It would cetainly gain more attention than your standard billboard... Imagine a city with those placed strategically (i.e. near areas with horrible traffic). People would have nothing better to do than watch them, and knowing traffic in some cities, would be there for several minutes. A commercial on one of these billboards might have more people watching than the same commercial during an important sporting event... OK, so ordinary billboards have similar advantages, but more people would pay attention to a short video clip than to a sign, right?
True, but how many lawyers actually read slashdot? You don't see many of them posting. Any lawyers reading this, please respond... this is an informal survey
Finally, someone has the balls to try to stop the RIAA. So much for their legal tactic of "let's sue and let them settle for only 10k and their first born son". It only everyone else would challenge their abuse of the legal system, they would have been foiled by now. What we need is an organization for the purpose of hiring lawyers to screw oer the RIAA. Imagine the settlements and awards you would get...
People have always stolen stuff(and will probably continue to indefinitely). If anyone can list a society that had no theft, I will be surprised. Greed is just too common among humans. I believe that it is probable that the RIAA will make use of some P2P networks nearly impossible. However, it will be back. How long will it be before secure large-scale p2p networks come along? No matter how little they end up charging for something, there will be people unwilling or unable to pay for it. Has anyone ever quizzed the general public(or even /. users) about this? that might be a good idea.
OK, I think I strayed from the topic a little. Anyways, so i've shown that peoiple will always steal. p2p networks just happen to be one of the best, hardest to stop ways to do so. i can't think of a much better method. so, p2p is here to stay
If someone really needs to use PGP security, which is almost unbreakable, they would figure out how to use existing programs. Most potential customers for this program have no need for it; the vast majority of people would be fine with little or no encryption. Really, though, who sends their credit card numbers over email? If it's that important, people go to the trouble to figure it out. So, in my view, this is a luxury. People who have a real need for PGP will take the 5 minutes to figure it out. Other people simply don't need the security.
thanks. know of any way to make it legally binding?
There are two ways. From what I remember of the TV show I saw about it, the person would carry a clicker or generate the clicks themselves. That's easy. The only reason ylou would need a microphone is for a machinge or robot or something or at long tranges... more later my internet connection dies now
sorry, i forgot to mention that this was real. it wasnt some sci-fi/fantasy thing
I heard about something on a TV show a few years ago. It talked about some guy who was training deaf people to "echolocate" using clicks. Supposedly, they were able to walk, tell the diff between walls and shrubs, and even skateboard. Does anyone know about this?
I say that buying the DVD is definietly worth it. You'll probably only watch the movie a couple times, but you'll listen to the music a lot. Last time I checked, Blockbuster charged about $3-4 per rental. The DVD costs $5 more than the CD. So, if you buy the DVD and only watch the movie twice, it's still cheaper than buying the CD and renting the movie twice... correct me if i'm wrong, plz
This makes me think... I can see both way's points of view. I see that there is a LOT of evidence for Bigfoot' existence and that some of it might be hard to fake, but we must wonder: why haven't we got more than 1-2 pieces of video footage of the damn thing? We really should just thouroughly comb the woods where it is supposed to be. Even if we don't find it, we'll probably find some drug caches and convicted felons on the run... It's worth a try
If I'm not mistaken, the cable will basically be suspended from Earth orbit. It will not need to be supported Earthside. Even if a terrorist was able to, say, set off a nuclear weapon at the base of it, it wouldn't do jack shit. it would destroy 3 km of a cable 100 000 KM long. i'm probably wrong, tho. feel free to corect me
I was thinking of Australia, but recently realized that it costs a lot to fly there. So, sure, sign me up, i'll flee there as soon as I graduate
So, if the cd's have fungi on them that need beer to survive, do you have to dunk them in beer every day or something? that would be really inconvenient... I wouldn't buy a CD that needed to be maintained like that. Also, minors would be unable to use CD's because they would have no way of purchasing food for them... legally, anyways. Tell me if this makes any sense at all, I havent slept in over a day...
If i interpreted this article correctly, it means that the US is basically censoring certain types of news from the American public- to be more precise, news that might cause an inflammatory response to our government. I understand that the government has to do some things, but can't we even get a right to know what happens in the world?hell, i'm moving to australia as soon as i graduate! :) really, though, all governments that have hidden this much from the public have collapsed.
According to the yahoo article, file sharing cost the industry $700 million last year. it also estimated that there were 57 million users in the US. correct me if im wrong, but thats an average of $12 per person... why sue people over an average of $12? hell, i wouldnt sue if someone ripped me off $12