Either/. is leaking addresses or spammers are trying names at random.
Try making one and not giving it to anyone and you'll still find spam. I'm guessing hotmail has some security problems, I can almost picture the underpaid tech support guy who habitually fills zip disks with fresh new addresses and sells them to spammers.
Why are slashdotters so anxious to save this thing? It serverly hampers radio astronomy so that Joe and Mary Consumer can feel good about having a cell phone that works anywhere on the globe.
Reboot is terrible, it looks like a first year art student's project especially compared to last season's Transformers. Its on slashdot because not only is it CGI its also about computers. Yawn.
I like my movies to actually have dialogue, and possibly, when the director and writers have time, some actual character development. I'm pretty familiar with the X-men mythology and I had to stifle more than one yawn while the non-comic fans were trying hard not to fall asleep. Luckily, this $8 dose of Klonopin kept the little kids asleep and not crying or shouting for more popcorn.
Its like the production was exactly half done, they got their bare-bones story, visuals, and actors down, but no one bothered to build even cheesy dialogue between characters just a few cliches that don't exceed 3 syllables. Was there some hidden mutant with the power make people really quiet? The Librarian perhaps?
Don't defend the red scare because it fulfilled some adolescent sci-fi fantasy of driving around on the moon in a buggy. I'm glad people don't wan't dangerous, expensive, and arguably useless missions like landing men on moons. You accuse people of glorifying sci-fi movies, but at the same time you demand sci-fi like missions because real science is just so boring.
Yes, Dick did work the screenwriters, giving his stamp of approval, but I've always seen it as a big failure and attempt at commercializing a great story.
This wasn't a skillful adaptation of PKD's DADOES, it was just a big budget action movie trying not to be a big budget action movie sharing as little as possible with the book. The book explores the meaning of being human, reality, religion, and one's place in the world as a lot of PKD's books do. The movie provides some eye candy and "thoughtful" close-ups of Harrison's face between kills.
This isn't your typical book vs. movie argument, as the movie has little to do with the book other than sharing the setting and a couple scenes.
Yeah you're right, Rosa Parks should be ashamed of herself. What your missing is that there are unjust laws and when government doesn't listen to the needs of the community people take illegal methods to change their society. You can pick a decent law and make a strawman argument out of it, but I don't know who you're trying to convince.
BTW, its pretty childish to call people names like Doofus.
Actually the argument is about the collusion between government AND business. His beef is with both parties, if a established government respected local wishes would there be as many McD's? I doubt it.
The Amercian Revolution certainly wasn't just political, it was also economic. Corporations like Hudson Bay and East Indies had exculsive contracts with the Brit government and did their best, along with the Brits, to bleed the colonies dry. That was "legal" business. It was also crap. He isn't a hero he's just trying to raise awareness through civil-disobedience. I wouldn't praise legal business so much if I was you, once legal business was owning slaves and putting kids to work in factories.
I'd say this is more towards civil-disobedience for the purpose of raising awareness of the larger issue of business and government collusion that goes against the democratic ethic, not some PR press packet trying to stop controversy not encourage it.
This is an issue of democracy not tyranny, Bove's community doesn't want McD opening shop in their town. Who do you think the city fathers (or whatever their equivilant are in france) are going to listen to a bunch of broke artistic types and community activists or a large american corporation making promises od tax revenue, jobs, etc. Even if McD's presence is benign, not driving everyone out of business and not destroying the traditional agriculture economy, the community still has the right to protest over who's opening shop.
I've seen the fast food chains drive smaller restaurants out of business and replace originality with corporate uniformity. Corporate restuarants can afford to go with low profits and even huge losses as long as the shareholders and executive officers are willing to pour their huge amounts of capital into these restaurants. Smaller independants can't keep up, they don't have a rich uncle they can always hit up for cash.
Does this touch upon the 'let me eat crap and die painfully' argument, yes. Is this about local nationalistic pride, yes. Is this about laizze fair capitalism, yes. Are these things controversial? You bet, that's why we have a democratic ethic, the people who will be most affected by McD should be the one's rallying and making policy. Not the profit driven corporations and a handful of local beaurucrats.
Bove is an extremist, if he wasn't you'd never hear of him. Him and his pals did dismantle half of a McDonald's because they were pissed. I see this as a healthy display of civil-disobedience, its going to open a lot of eyes on both sides of the pond.
What do you expect from a chip named after the cheapest of the cheapest "wines?" I'm half expecting Intel's new super secret "Colt 45." I can see the Lando marketing campaign now.
The main problem I see with the government is the obvious conflict of interest that arises when corporations make laws through lobbying and "donations," which of course is a symptom of business having too much power in the first place.
How much longer till they release the M-P3 battle droid? Programmed to battle big record label executives while serving copywritten music. Could happen.
Considering there's a difference between spirituality and religion I'd say the problem isn't as real as you make it out to be. Not to mention that the fundamentalist type belief you describe isn't as popular as it used to be.
Seems to me that people are taking a great dose of scientific cosmology as faith, as much as the followers as organized religion, and not understanding that our current knowledge is far from perfect and existance is almost as much a mystery as its ever been. I don't see a conflict between religion and science as much as a migration for the credulous from one orthodoxy to another without question and ignorance of the underlying philosphy.
How much scientific hubris do you need to believe that consciousness is simply an effect of electrical activity in the brain and that your complex object of choice (computers, internet, etc) will suddenly come 'alive?' Answer: Lots
Makes about as much sense as the space shuttle coming alive because its so complex.
Junkbuster defaults to blocking no sites, blocking all cookies, and making your user_agent tell web servers that your using a Macintosh and an ancient version of NS. After 20 minutes of setting it up and probably not even using the cookie blocking feature (like i want to hunt for every site I use that wants cookies) you realize that a search for 'block ads hosts file' on google and a simple cut and paste to windows/hosts is all you ever needed.
JB is great for privacy power users but if you want site blocking to catch on with most users show them the easy way.
Are you serious, what if Robert Moog or Steve Wozniak thought like that? The only problem I see is that slashdot has too few articles for its huge readership leaving tens of thousands of cynics concentrated on a couple projects when they should be out there poo-pooing the entire world.
I like his plan a lot, its very daring and dangerous but is feasible, I'm sure the cynics are just jealous they don't have the cash or balls to pull this off.
Transhumanism: Sitting around waiting for AI and technology to magically come to life to solve everyone's problems.
Luddite: Sitting around bitching that AI and technology hasn't solved everyone's problems.
I hate to rain on the exremists' parade, but tech is a tool and can be controlled by legislation. The problem as usual is the wants of the powerless compared to the wants of the powerful.
As to the profit vs. non-profit argument its pretty trivial, the only way this type of copyright infringement is going to end is not through censorship, but by going after casual MP3 traders or by a thorough change in the industry that will never happen. Imagine a few high-profile busts in your neighborhood, confiscating computers and all. How many kids would quickly wipe their Mp3's and delete Napster? I'd say a whole bunch.
Exactly what is violating copyright for 'fun' mean? I burn a copy of Bjork's latest and give it to my pal, and he burns a copy of a Radiohead EP and gives it to me. Gasp, I just made a profit of a Radiohead CD. I didn't pay for it.
What you really are trying to get at is, but not admitting, is that everyday copyright violations are so damn trivial its only efficient to go after major illegal disributors because they *might* have a chance of hurting profit. Fine, but do it without Corporate America trampling on my right to link and if the law has a problem with what I'm doing they can go get a warrant, not some blanket civil-rights violating law because big business is paranoid.
I'd rather go to court and defend my MP3 collection (which could be all copies of CDs I own for all you know and may be tranfering to my other PC through Napster) instead of getting a notice from my ISP saying they're forced to close my account because of illegal linking or content. The latter assumes everyone is guilty of some crime, that certainly isn't true.
Human evolution has been dead since the germ theory. Society subscribes to a higher ethic than just fight, fuck, and die. If natural selection was the one and only way to be evolved than a large brain at a certain point becomes a liability. I'd say get used to it, but considering your a human, you've had a life of socialization with all sorts of pampering and know exactly what I'm talking about.
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Either /. is leaking addresses or spammers are trying names at random.
Try making one and not giving it to anyone and you'll still find spam. I'm guessing hotmail has some security problems, I can almost picture the underpaid tech support guy who habitually fills zip disks with fresh new addresses and sells them to spammers.
Why are slashdotters so anxious to save this thing? It serverly hampers radio astronomy so that Joe and Mary Consumer can feel good about having a cell phone that works anywhere on the globe.
What if everyone displayed such grace?
Or what if everyone bothered to do some research before writing and self-promoting some inane rant.
Reboot is terrible, it looks like a first year art student's project especially compared to last season's Transformers. Its on slashdot because not only is it CGI its also about computers. Yawn.
I'm thinking something towards Tea Leoni.
I like my movies to actually have dialogue, and possibly, when the director and writers have time, some actual character development. I'm pretty familiar with the X-men mythology and I had to stifle more than one yawn while the non-comic fans were trying hard not to fall asleep. Luckily, this $8 dose of Klonopin kept the little kids asleep and not crying or shouting for more popcorn.
Its like the production was exactly half done, they got their bare-bones story, visuals, and actors down, but no one bothered to build even cheesy dialogue between characters just a few cliches that don't exceed 3 syllables. Was there some hidden mutant with the power make people really quiet? The Librarian perhaps?
Don't defend the red scare because it fulfilled some adolescent sci-fi fantasy of driving around on the moon in a buggy. I'm glad people don't wan't dangerous, expensive, and arguably useless missions like landing men on moons. You accuse people of glorifying sci-fi movies, but at the same time you demand sci-fi like missions because real science is just so boring.
Yes, Dick did work the screenwriters, giving his stamp of approval, but I've always seen it as a big failure and attempt at commercializing a great story.
This wasn't a skillful adaptation of PKD's DADOES, it was just a big budget action movie trying not to be a big budget action movie sharing as little as possible with the book. The book explores the meaning of being human, reality, religion, and one's place in the world as a lot of PKD's books do. The movie provides some eye candy and "thoughtful" close-ups of Harrison's face between kills.
This isn't your typical book vs. movie argument, as the movie has little to do with the book other than sharing the setting and a couple scenes.
Maybe, but sit ins violate property rights, namely the right to not have tresspassers. The OP was directly addressing property rights.
Yeah you're right, Rosa Parks should be ashamed of herself. What your missing is that there are unjust laws and when government doesn't listen to the needs of the community people take illegal methods to change their society. You can pick a decent law and make a strawman argument out of it, but I don't know who you're trying to convince.
BTW, its pretty childish to call people names like Doofus.
Actually the argument is about the collusion between government AND business. His beef is with both parties, if a established government respected local wishes would there be as many McD's? I doubt it.
The Amercian Revolution certainly wasn't just political, it was also economic. Corporations like Hudson Bay and East Indies had exculsive contracts with the Brit government and did their best, along with the Brits, to bleed the colonies dry. That was "legal" business. It was also crap. He isn't a hero he's just trying to raise awareness through civil-disobedience. I wouldn't praise legal business so much if I was you, once legal business was owning slaves and putting kids to work in factories.
I'd say this is more towards civil-disobedience for the purpose of raising awareness of the larger issue of business and government collusion that goes against the democratic ethic, not some PR press packet trying to stop controversy not encourage it.
This is an issue of democracy not tyranny, Bove's community doesn't want McD opening shop in their town. Who do you think the city fathers (or whatever their equivilant are in france) are going to listen to a bunch of broke artistic types and community activists or a large american corporation making promises od tax revenue, jobs, etc. Even if McD's presence is benign, not driving everyone out of business and not destroying the traditional agriculture economy, the community still has the right to protest over who's opening shop.
I've seen the fast food chains drive smaller restaurants out of business and replace originality with corporate uniformity. Corporate restuarants can afford to go with low profits and even huge losses as long as the shareholders and executive officers are willing to pour their huge amounts of capital into these restaurants. Smaller independants can't keep up, they don't have a rich uncle they can always hit up for cash.
Does this touch upon the 'let me eat crap and die painfully' argument, yes. Is this about local nationalistic pride, yes. Is this about laizze fair capitalism, yes. Are these things controversial? You bet, that's why we have a democratic ethic, the people who will be most affected by McD should be the one's rallying and making policy. Not the profit driven corporations and a handful of local beaurucrats.
Bove is an extremist, if he wasn't you'd never hear of him. Him and his pals did dismantle half of a McDonald's because they were pissed. I see this as a healthy display of civil-disobedience, its going to open a lot of eyes on both sides of the pond.
What do you expect from a chip named after the cheapest of the cheapest "wines?" I'm half expecting Intel's new super secret "Colt 45." I can see the Lando marketing campaign now.
The main problem I see with the government is the obvious conflict of interest that arises when corporations make laws through lobbying and "donations," which of course is a symptom of business having too much power in the first place.
How much longer till they release the M-P3 battle droid? Programmed to battle big record label executives while serving copywritten music. Could happen.
Considering there's a difference between spirituality and religion I'd say the problem isn't as real as you make it out to be. Not to mention that the fundamentalist type belief you describe isn't as popular as it used to be.
Seems to me that people are taking a great dose of scientific cosmology as faith, as much as the followers as organized religion, and not understanding that our current knowledge is far from perfect and existance is almost as much a mystery as its ever been. I don't see a conflict between religion and science as much as a migration for the credulous from one orthodoxy to another without question and ignorance of the underlying philosphy.
How much scientific hubris do you need to believe that consciousness is simply an effect of electrical activity in the brain and that your complex object of choice (computers, internet, etc) will suddenly come 'alive?' Answer: Lots
Makes about as much sense as the space shuttle coming alive because its so complex.
Junkbuster defaults to blocking no sites, blocking all cookies, and making your user_agent tell web servers that your using a Macintosh and an ancient version of NS. After 20 minutes of setting it up and probably not even using the cookie blocking feature (like i want to hunt for every site I use that wants cookies) you realize that a search for 'block ads hosts file' on google and a simple cut and paste to windows/hosts is all you ever needed.
JB is great for privacy power users but if you want site blocking to catch on with most users show them the easy way.
[i]really creative and unique, but WHY? [/i]
Are you serious, what if Robert Moog or Steve Wozniak thought like that? The only problem I see is that slashdot has too few articles for its huge readership leaving tens of thousands of cynics concentrated on a couple projects when they should be out there poo-pooing the entire world.
I like his plan a lot, its very daring and dangerous but is feasible, I'm sure the cynics are just jealous they don't have the cash or balls to pull this off.
Transhumanism: Sitting around waiting for AI and technology to magically come to life to solve everyone's problems.
Luddite: Sitting around bitching that AI and technology hasn't solved everyone's problems.
I hate to rain on the exremists' parade, but tech is a tool and can be controlled by legislation. The problem as usual is the wants of the powerless compared to the wants of the powerful.
Napster has ads? Not my copy.
As to the profit vs. non-profit argument its pretty trivial, the only way this type of copyright infringement is going to end is not through censorship, but by going after casual MP3 traders or by a thorough change in the industry that will never happen. Imagine a few high-profile busts in your neighborhood, confiscating computers and all. How many kids would quickly wipe their Mp3's and delete Napster? I'd say a whole bunch.
Exactly what is violating copyright for 'fun' mean? I burn a copy of Bjork's latest and give it to my pal, and he burns a copy of a Radiohead EP and gives it to me. Gasp, I just made a profit of a Radiohead CD. I didn't pay for it.
What you really are trying to get at is, but not admitting, is that everyday copyright violations are so damn trivial its only efficient to go after major illegal disributors because they *might* have a chance of hurting profit. Fine, but do it without Corporate America trampling on my right to link and if the law has a problem with what I'm doing they can go get a warrant, not some blanket civil-rights violating law because big business is paranoid.
I'd rather go to court and defend my MP3 collection (which could be all copies of CDs I own for all you know and may be tranfering to my other PC through Napster) instead of getting a notice from my ISP saying they're forced to close my account because of illegal linking or content. The latter assumes everyone is guilty of some crime, that certainly isn't true.
Human evolution has been dead since the germ theory. Society subscribes to a higher ethic than just fight, fuck, and die. If natural selection was the one and only way to be evolved than a large brain at a certain point becomes a liability. I'd say get used to it, but considering your a human, you've had a life of socialization with all sorts of pampering and know exactly what I'm talking about.