tantamount to making love to your wife in your open front doorway
Ok - after some time spent researching this phrase, I think I'm able to translate this analogy for my fellow average slashdot readers. What he's trying to say is, it's "tantamount to downloading hentai in your open front doorway."
you'll find that by signing the form, you're allowing the federal government to know everything just about you that there is to know about you
Actually, I think the gist of the article was that they're planning on gathering all that data anyway whether you sign the form or not. Might as well get paid while they collect it.
Idiot moderators - he meant it as a joke. He's quoting the last line of "Back to the Future" (get it? India's Road "to the Future"? Actually pretty clever, and not the least bit insulting, when the gist of the article involves the *future* of India). If you don't understand it, at least don't moderate it.
C-Scope is a cool, free, class browsing tool that can make vi feel like a full-featured IDE. If you're an OS kind of person, take a look at this before you jump into the commercial tools.
Personally, if I really like the service (say, dictionary.com), I'll take that a step further and click through the ad and actually look at whatever they're advertising - it only takes a few seconds, and helps the service. But the salient point is that the ad has to be fairly polite; popup ads don't get a second of my time.
downloading stuff without paying for it is OK because the product sucks and I wouldn't buy anyway
Actually, I what he said was "downloading stuff without paying for it is OK because the people who are charging are pure evil." May not be effective, but it sounds gratifying.
And you can bet that if somebody invents a matter replicator, the Cola Inventors Association of America (CIAA) will be screaming about how the unauthorized replication of their intellectual property (which they will refer to as "stealing") should be cut off at the source by banning the matter replicator.
The draft defines, for regulatory purposes, broadband Internet transmission services--or BITS--as "a packet-switched service that is offered to the public,"
...opening the door to an "owned by the public, therefore censored by the federal government" argument such as the one used by the FCC to decide what content may be broadcast over the "public" airwaves.
Impart your uber skills upon them oh-mighty computer professionals! Volunteer your time to your county forensic lab.
That's a good idea. Show up at a police station and say, "Please give me some hard drives that you suspect contain kiddie porn. I want to search them for you." Let me know how that turns out.
But I'll bet if somebody invented a matter replicator and started sharing matter-replicated whisky over the internet, Jim Beam would be suing like crazy to put a stop to that blatant alcohol piracy.
Actually, Ian Clarke is - but unfortunately, he rarely gets much support... any mention of Freenet here, for example, turns into "You don't care about Chinese dissidents, you're just enabling child pornographers". Well, forget Chinese dissidents; I'm more concerned about "corporate dissidents". How long before people who post book reviews on Amazon.com get sued for slander when they say that a book's no good? Freenet has the capability to turn the internet back into what it ought to have been from the start.
Actually, it's accepted in every single corner of the universe except for a (small) group of repetitive, monotonous drones on slashdot. One of these days, I'm going to register a domain called "properenglish.com", and add a page that insists that the word "inconceivable" doesn't mean what people think it means. Then I'm going to argue with everybody on slashdot about their use of the word "inconceivable", provide a link to my page to make it "official", and see how many people pick up the torch and begin decrying any use of the word "inconceivable". This would really beg the question as to whether or not these people are just contrary, wouldn't it?
Ummm... did you read your link? The Wikipedia article you linked to says exactly what the "OP" says. An old lady spilled hot coffee on herself (I now know that she wasn't driving the car, but that doesn't mean she didn't spill it on herself), sued McDonalds, and was awarded $2.9 million which was later reduced to about $600,000. That's pretty outrageous for being to stupid to handle coffee. Way to make the OP's point for him.
Hehe - I've wondered about this myself. When you look at the "feature list" of a lot of Usenet service providers and they include things like "we don't keep any logs!", "we protect your anonymity completely!", "pay anonymously by money order!" and "even your ISP won't be able to tell what you're downloading!"... I have to wonder if it's the FBI hosting the servers in the first place. That would be funny, though, 'cause lots of non-illegal stuff that the FBI would be a tad embarrassed about being involved with passes through those servers, too...
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Ok - after some time spent researching this phrase, I think I'm able to translate this analogy for my fellow average slashdot readers. What he's trying to say is, it's "tantamount to downloading hentai in your open front doorway."
Or have kids. (Don't worry, I got the joke... but I just googled for "The Wiggles"!)
Actually, I think the gist of the article was that they're planning on gathering all that data anyway whether you sign the form or not. Might as well get paid while they collect it.
Interesting... how does one go about finding his local mesh network?
>>"The ability to enforce antitrust laws is decreasing hyperbolically with each era."
>You keep saying that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Actually, that's 12 words.
Those acrostic puzzles are all greek to me.
Idiot moderators - he meant it as a joke. He's quoting the last line of "Back to the Future" (get it? India's Road "to the Future"? Actually pretty clever, and not the least bit insulting, when the gist of the article involves the *future* of India). If you don't understand it, at least don't moderate it.
C-Scope is a cool, free, class browsing tool that can make vi feel like a full-featured IDE. If you're an OS kind of person, take a look at this before you jump into the commercial tools.
Personally, if I really like the service (say, dictionary.com), I'll take that a step further and click through the ad and actually look at whatever they're advertising - it only takes a few seconds, and helps the service. But the salient point is that the ad has to be fairly polite; popup ads don't get a second of my time.
Actually, I what he said was "downloading stuff without paying for it is OK because the people who are charging are pure evil." May not be effective, but it sounds gratifying.
Well, if we're going to discuss historical hackers, we can't leave out Lizzie Borden, can we?
Yet... we're the ones who live in fear of outsourcing. Ain't that a kick in the teeth?
Yeah - Tara Reid may end up suing me, but it'll be worth it.
And you can bet that if somebody invents a matter replicator, the Cola Inventors Association of America (CIAA) will be screaming about how the unauthorized replication of their intellectual property (which they will refer to as "stealing") should be cut off at the source by banning the matter replicator.
...opening the door to an "owned by the public, therefore censored by the federal government" argument such as the one used by the FCC to decide what content may be broadcast over the "public" airwaves.
That's a good idea. Show up at a police station and say, "Please give me some hard drives that you suspect contain kiddie porn. I want to search them for you." Let me know how that turns out.
But I'll bet if somebody invented a matter replicator and started sharing matter-replicated whisky over the internet, Jim Beam would be suing like crazy to put a stop to that blatant alcohol piracy.
Actually, Ian Clarke is - but unfortunately, he rarely gets much support... any mention of Freenet here, for example, turns into "You don't care about Chinese dissidents, you're just enabling child pornographers". Well, forget Chinese dissidents; I'm more concerned about "corporate dissidents". How long before people who post book reviews on Amazon.com get sued for slander when they say that a book's no good? Freenet has the capability to turn the internet back into what it ought to have been from the start.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Hmmm... yes, I've seen a lot of "burgerly" police officers, but most of them are more "donutly" in my experience.
Actually, it's accepted in every single corner of the universe except for a (small) group of repetitive, monotonous drones on slashdot. One of these days, I'm going to register a domain called "properenglish.com", and add a page that insists that the word "inconceivable" doesn't mean what people think it means. Then I'm going to argue with everybody on slashdot about their use of the word "inconceivable", provide a link to my page to make it "official", and see how many people pick up the torch and begin decrying any use of the word "inconceivable". This would really beg the question as to whether or not these people are just contrary, wouldn't it?
The +2 funny mod tipped me off.
Ummm... did you read your link? The Wikipedia article you linked to says exactly what the "OP" says. An old lady spilled hot coffee on herself (I now know that she wasn't driving the car, but that doesn't mean she didn't spill it on herself), sued McDonalds, and was awarded $2.9 million which was later reduced to about $600,000. That's pretty outrageous for being to stupid to handle coffee. Way to make the OP's point for him.
Hehe - I've wondered about this myself. When you look at the "feature list" of a lot of Usenet service providers and they include things like "we don't keep any logs!", "we protect your anonymity completely!", "pay anonymously by money order!" and "even your ISP won't be able to tell what you're downloading!"... I have to wonder if it's the FBI hosting the servers in the first place. That would be funny, though, 'cause lots of non-illegal stuff that the FBI would be a tad embarrassed about being involved with passes through those servers, too...
In fact, he was acquited.