1) Get a subpoena from a judge asking for the information.
2) Go to the guy's house, shoot him 20 times in the back ("He was reaching for a gun, honest!")
3) ???
4) Coverup!
5) Profit.
Don't click on the blue E!
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Sorry for the slightly offtopic comment, but i have to post this.
O'reilly have a book called Don't click on the blue E! that's a kind of migration guide from IE to Firefox for disenchanted Internet Explorer users.
I just love the title of it. Frankly, how many Firefox users trying to get thir sister/mother/grandma to use Firefox (mostly because they're sick of being called to remove spywares/viruses induced by IE) have actually use that phrase?
From (one of) TFA: It's not, however, a Beeb insider, but rather someone working for "third-party company in Canada"
I've been wanting to do this for some time now:
Times have changed,
Our kids are getting worse
They won't obey their parents,
They just want to fart and curse.
Should we blame the government, or blame society, or should we blame the images on tv No!
Blame Canada! Blame Canada
With all their beady little eyes,
their flapping heads so full of lies
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
We need to form a full assault, it's Canada's fault!
Don't blame me, for my son Stan, He saw the darn cartoon, and now he's off to join the klan!
And my boy eric once, had my picture on his shelf, but now when I see him, he tells me to fuck myself
Well, Blame Canada!
It seems that everything's gone wrong since Canada came along
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada! They're not even a real country anyway.
My son could of been a doctor or a lawyer, it's a true, Instead he burned up like a piggie on a barbecue
Should we blame the matches?
Should we blame the fire, or the doctor who allowed him to expire. Heck no!
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
With all their hockey hubaloo and that bitch Anne Murray too. Blame Canada!
Shame on Canada!
The smut we must stop
The trash we must smash
Laughter and fun
must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!
True, you paid for the music, but you did not pay to have the "right to use the music". You paid to *listen* to the music. You paid to encourage the artist.
Compare it with other buyable goods. For exemple, take a program distributed on the web. You have to pay to use it, which is comparable to paying to listen to the music, you're doing strictly what you're supposed to with what you bought. Now, say you want to modify the program as you want to modify the songs from the CD you bought (reencode, rip, etc). You can't just decompile the program, hack your way through the source, recompile it and call it a day. It's the same thing with music CDs, you buy them to listen to it the way it is provided, not to modify it and reorganize the songs your own way or mix it with other artists' songs.
That being said, i agree, DRM sucks, but i understand their point.
Personally, i use PhotoShop for everything, so i figured i might as well use it for icons. There's a plugin from Telegraphics that allows you to save your image as ICO. Alright, it's not really an icon editor as you can only save one icon per ICO file, but you get to use a powerful tool..
This is shady.
Anyone knows how the old lady died? She might have been a serious threat to the RIAA. And, do i dare say, they might have.... terminated her before she could cause any more damage!
Eek!
How about someone creates a patch that removes the DRM exploit from the file? P2P users then download WMA files and patch them all just to be safe. Whenever the exploit is found in a file, let the user know which file was cleaned. That file is then known to have been obtained legally from the {RI|MP}AA.. convert and spread!
Additionnally, the MPAA has published a paper (PDF, 2 pages) titled "Protecting the Movie Magic in the Digital Age" that is basically what they have been up to (or at least parts of it) which you just might want to read.
If anyone needs me i'll be watching King Arthur.
I found this really nifty application called Comparator made by Vansath Dharmaraj -- it's basically a test browser with a split view: the top one is the page rendered in IE, the bottom one is the page rendered using Mozilla (which comes back to say Mozilla-powered browsers such as Firefox).
That, along with Firefox extensions IE View and Web Developer makes coding websites compatible in both IE and Mozilla browsers a hell of a lot easier.
Pretty? Please, his site is ugly. I'm a webdesigner and i can tell you that if i'd deliver such a product to pretty much any customer, they'd slap me back to my office. I think all those pro-WAI critics need a reality check.
True, a website such as his will probably never have any compatiblity issues with any current, past or future browsers. But it's just plain ugly. They need to realize that you can make a pretty websites (even with a thing they call images!) AND still be compatible for all computer browsers and platforms, you don't need to lower the eye pleasure to raise respect. How often have you heard "Oh, that site is pretty damn nice" compared to "Oh, that site is sooo compatible with Lynx!"?
If those countries knew how to use their internet properly -- secure their smtp/web/proxy servers, there wouldn't be a damn problem. They caused their own fall if you want my opinion, on to something else.
Slashdot Mirror
There are some April Fools pranks here.
Sorry pal. Google's April Fool's joke would be what they call their Google Gulp.
Now you can drink google!
Microsoft acknowledge January patch for 98/ME is flawed. Surprise!!
For cops, it's simple:
1) Get a subpoena from a judge asking for the information.
2) Go to the guy's house, shoot him 20 times in the back ("He was reaching for a gun, honest!")
3) ???
4) Coverup!
5) Profit.
Sorry for the slightly offtopic comment, but i have to post this.
O'reilly have a book called Don't click on the blue E! that's a kind of migration guide from IE to Firefox for disenchanted Internet Explorer users.
I just love the title of it. Frankly, how many Firefox users trying to get thir sister/mother/grandma to use Firefox (mostly because they're sick of being called to remove spywares/viruses induced by IE) have actually use that phrase?
From (one of) TFA: It's not, however, a Beeb insider, but rather someone working for "third-party company in Canada"
I've been wanting to do this for some time now:
Times have changed,
Our kids are getting worse
They won't obey their parents,
They just want to fart and curse.
Should we blame the government, or blame society, or should we blame the images on tv No!
Blame Canada! Blame Canada
With all their beady little eyes,
their flapping heads so full of lies
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
We need to form a full assault, it's Canada's fault!
Don't blame me, for my son Stan, He saw the darn cartoon, and now he's off to join the klan!
And my boy eric once, had my picture on his shelf, but now when I see him, he tells me to fuck myself
Well, Blame Canada!
It seems that everything's gone wrong since Canada came along
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada! They're not even a real country anyway.
My son could of been a doctor or a lawyer, it's a true, Instead he burned up like a piggie on a barbecue
Should we blame the matches?
Should we blame the fire, or the doctor who allowed him to expire. Heck no!
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
With all their hockey hubaloo and that bitch Anne Murray too. Blame Canada!
Shame on Canada!
The smut we must stop
The trash we must smash
Laughter and fun
must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!
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True, you paid for the music, but you did not pay to have the "right to use the music". You paid to *listen* to the music. You paid to encourage the artist. Compare it with other buyable goods. For exemple, take a program distributed on the web. You have to pay to use it, which is comparable to paying to listen to the music, you're doing strictly what you're supposed to with what you bought. Now, say you want to modify the program as you want to modify the songs from the CD you bought (reencode, rip, etc). You can't just decompile the program, hack your way through the source, recompile it and call it a day. It's the same thing with music CDs, you buy them to listen to it the way it is provided, not to modify it and reorganize the songs your own way or mix it with other artists' songs.
That being said, i agree, DRM sucks, but i understand their point.
to the first freemail provider who codes a XUL interface for its webmail. Meanwhile, i'll stick with my IMAP and POP3 accounts.
Personally, i use PhotoShop for everything, so i figured i might as well use it for icons. There's a plugin from Telegraphics that allows you to save your image as ICO. Alright, it's not really an icon editor as you can only save one icon per ICO file, but you get to use a powerful tool..
This is shady. Anyone knows how the old lady died? She might have been a serious threat to the RIAA. And, do i dare say, they might have.... terminated her before she could cause any more damage! Eek!
... your thumbs damage blackberries?
How about someone creates a patch that removes the DRM exploit from the file? P2P users then download WMA files and patch them all just to be safe. Whenever the exploit is found in a file, let the user know which file was cleaned. That file is then known to have been obtained legally from the {RI|MP}AA.. convert and spread!
It's not 'new', he just digitally enhances it.
We could start a "Extreme Slashdotting" movement, pretty much like Extreme Ironing!
Hell, it may even be considered a sport in the near future!
KaZaA users with government documents?
Someone should raise the DEFCON level up a notch.
apt-get it?
Additionnally, the MPAA has published a paper (PDF, 2 pages) titled "Protecting the Movie Magic in the Digital Age" that is basically what they have been up to (or at least parts of it) which you just might want to read. If anyone needs me i'll be watching King Arthur.
Yeah i'll have one I'll trade vital organs for it? c0ldfusi0n at mtl2600 dot org Too bad there's no +5 Generous mod :P
Someone should give him a few suggestions to keep his site reasonably reachable when mentionned on Slashdot -- maybe he'll make you CEO of something!
An easy way is to get a little thing they call Stash Cans -- another great american invention available at your local Weed store.
I found this really nifty application called Comparator made by Vansath Dharmaraj -- it's basically a test browser with a split view: the top one is the page rendered in IE, the bottom one is the page rendered using Mozilla (which comes back to say Mozilla-powered browsers such as Firefox).
That, along with Firefox extensions IE View and Web Developer makes coding websites compatible in both IE and Mozilla browsers a hell of a lot easier.
Pretty? Please, his site is ugly. I'm a webdesigner and i can tell you that if i'd deliver such a product to pretty much any customer, they'd slap me back to my office. I think all those pro-WAI critics need a reality check. True, a website such as his will probably never have any compatiblity issues with any current, past or future browsers. But it's just plain ugly. They need to realize that you can make a pretty websites (even with a thing they call images!) AND still be compatible for all computer browsers and platforms, you don't need to lower the eye pleasure to raise respect. How often have you heard "Oh, that site is pretty damn nice" compared to "Oh, that site is sooo compatible with Lynx!"?
If those countries knew how to use their internet properly -- secure their smtp/web/proxy servers, there wouldn't be a damn problem. They caused their own fall if you want my opinion, on to something else.
Get it all here.