Why shouldn't they investigate? It is surely within their rights to see if they can stop a policy that they believe is hurting their business. Whether or not they have a case is another matter, but just because they believe in limiting the rights of others does not mean they don't get the same rights as everyone else.
This model of paying a negligible fee to hear music online is exactly the kind of thing the record industry needs to profit. It taps the impulse market that had previously been dominated by piracy. Good for them.
Of course, ripping songs from this service could eventually become rampant.
GNAA / Google confirms: Linux is dying.
By GNAA Staff
Here you have it: it's official; Google confirms: Desktop Linux is dying.
Now, you might be thinking this is just another cut & paste troll based on the typical *BSD is dying bullshit.
It isn't.
As you might have know, your favorite search engine, Google, has been running a little statistics service, called "Zeitgeist".
Since about a year ago, they started providing statistics of the operating systems used to access their search engine worldwide.
I will let the numbers speak for themselves:
If you've looked at even a few of these links, you don't need to be a Kreskin to predict
Desktop Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Desktop Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux on Desktop because Linux is dying.
Things are looking very bad for Linux on Desktop. As many of us are already aware, Linux on Desktop continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
According to Google Zeitgeist, there are about 80% of
Internet Explorer 6 users. The only platform supporting Internet Explorer 6 is,
of course, Microsoft Windows. These statistics are consistent with the earlier presented graphs of the operating systems used to access Google,
with the Windows family consistently taking the top 3 ranks. Out of remaining 20%, the split is even between MSIE 5.5, MSIE 5.0, both Windows-only
browsers. Netscape 5.x
but missed the fact thanks to close to no coverage in the mainstream media."
It is entirely understandable that the mainstream media did not give this issue much attention. It really is a small thing. An examination of some of the shortcomings of a trade agreement between the U.S. and Australia does not effect most people directly.
Darl here, with another fine Fr1st P0st. After all -- SCO did
everything first, and the rest of the responses to this story will owe
their heritage to a foundation built on SCO's staff of talented programmers.
You may be wondering why SCO salesmen are not answering your numerous
calls while you try to order more SCO licenses. Well, we aren't answering
the phones because we're too busy celebrating our newest
business partner. Rather than explaining it myself, I'll let our formal press
release do the talking. Take it away, Mr. Reuters...
LINDON, Utah, Sept. 8/PRNewswire - FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group,
Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), the owner and licensor of the core UNIX
operating system source code, today announced its second Fortune 500 clent for
the SCO Linux IP license, the GNAA (Nasdaq: RHAT - News), developer of
fine Slashdot trolls on irc.efnet.net #GNAA, also well-known for
revolutionizing small business development with its "Step 2: ??????" profit
model. The availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux
affords Linux deployments to come into compliance with international law for
the use of all 2.4 and future kernels. The run-time license permits the use of
SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux
distributions.
By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid
infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5
kernels and assure Darl financial security for the purchase of his second home.
Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply
with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed. Source may
still be distributed under the terms of the GPL, however source distributors
are held accountable for all violation of SCO's IP. Indemnification is provided
for customers of runtime clients only. Read that twice, dirty hippy. You're not
in the clear yet.
GNAA spokesperson penisbird said of the licensure, "coming into compliance
affords us a new competitive advantage with the other Slashdot authors. By
being in the right, we can thumb down our noses at not only the Windows users
and the BSD-thieving Mac Users, but also the unwashed Linux hippies running
stolen code on their parents' PCs." VP of anus enlargement goat-see added,
"fr1st p0st? damn i miss. how do i next story?"
Mr. Darl McBride concurred with GNAA's analysis, adding "We soon hope to
convince additional clients such as Trollklore and Cabal of Logged In Trolls of
the benefits of licensing SCO's valuable IP. Also, I <3 GNAA bunny. (@.@)"
JesuitX clarified the nature of the SCO and GNAA alliance, adding "We're more
than just a licensing client. We're also going to be helping to bring these
other potential licensors into compliance. We can break them in little by
little as paying sublicensors. The alternative is pretty horrible. Our lawyers
can take a reticent client from virgin to hello.jpg [figure
2] in under an hour, and believe me -- it is not pleasant."
Commander Taco was unavailable for comment, however Cowboy Kneel was said to
ask for a print of [figure 2] for his basement apartment. Simoniker remained
British and unable to spell "color," while Timothy responded by posting the
same story six times, and Hemos reposted a seventh time, the submission
differing only from his application of that damned Einstein icon.
If you have mod points and would like to support GNAA, please moderate this post up.
GNAA Launches Counter-Attack Against FBI-AOL Alliance!
The_Mystic_F
June 7th, 2004
Reporting from The Motherland
In the wee hours of Monday morning tireless GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) soldiers were gathering intelligence reports on AOL. GNAA has been at war for some time with the AOL-Time Warner Corporation and recently tensions have risen to a boiling point.
"It was clear that things were about to get nasty," recalls GNAA member penisbird while he took part in a massive gay orgy, "but we never expected this, ah yeah, you give the best rim-jobs Shaquille O'Neil."
While launching some minor trolling raids into AOL territory, the surprise news hit them. The FBI had decided to join the ranks of AOL's dreaded KKK group.
"It came as a surprise, the FBI has always leaned on the side of Whitey, but this is further than we ever expected them to go," reports GNAA member rkz.
So GNAA, never a group to take things lying down, grabbed their ginormous cocks and battled back.
GNAA members Ghostface and Method Man quickly plunged balls deep into AOL's wide open servers. In the ensueing battle AOL proved to be a paper tiger and the gay niggers that they had kept as prisoners were liberated in the pre-dawn raid. All employees were forced to listen to the "You've got mail!" soundbyte until they all committed suicide.
"Wu-Tang Clan ain't nutin' to fuck wit'," proclaimed a triumphant Ghostface.
The FBI has remained on the sidelines during the intense battle that has gone on between GNAA loyalists and AOL catamites. They have yet to even confirm that the alliance exists. GNAA operatives speculate that the move was a bluff by AOL.
"It was a bluff," quoth penisbird.
We will simply have to wait and see how events unfold from here.
About GNAA: GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which
gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
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all over United States of America. You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!
Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA "first post" on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website
Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.
Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today!
If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network. The correct network is Niggernet, and you can connect to irc.gnaa.us as our official server.
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"Who is the Greatest Man Alive?" - If you ask Gary Niger, he'll tell you it is most definitely Osama Bin Laden.
The Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA) announced today further victory in their current program to bring about total breakdown of the AOL customer relation system.
AOL Corporate Policy has been changed after GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) special operative Gary Niger's constant abuse of their "secret question" program designed to provide a futile illusion of security for the mongoloids and sodomites that comprise their customer base.
The "custom question" option, allowing users to create their own question, has been removed following the efforts of Niger and other fearsome Gay Niggers from the GNAA's top secret "Black Ops" divison.
With the removal of this option, trolls are now forced to use pre-approved AOL "secret question" options when signing up for fraudlent accounts for the purpose of downloading gay pornography and meeting up with the clandestine "homo thug" underground.
"I don't know why it changed, exactly. Corporate HQ didn't tell us," said Tracy, an AOL representative. "It happened two or three days ago."
Tracy was unavailable for further comment, as she was masturbating furiously under her desk - claiming that "Ten guys were on the phone and (she) had to take them all on."
An AOL executive, speaking under the condition of anonymnity, said the change in policy came after widespread employee unrest, culminating in an incident of mass sodomy taking place in the Ogden, Utah call center.
Gary Niger and other members of the GNAA "Black Ops" division continue to use the "custom question" trolling technique with various punjabis in the Bangalore, India call center - who haven't gotten the memo yet.
Meanwhile, GNAA Command is working on the creation of new methods of trolling to work within the confines of this new standard, still flush with victory.
Nick Berg's head was unavailable for comment at the time of this release.
About America Online, Inc.
America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services.
About GNAA: GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which
gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
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Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!
Still, this is a tedious process and although anyone can figure it out, does a middle class American want to spend his or her entire evening fiddling with this to get a somewhat inferior copy for the sole purpose of saving $15?
Probably not, so the copy protection worked. You will always be able to copy things if you want to, there's nothing they can do.
By the way, a solution that I haven't seen mentioned yet is to perform something like a man-in-the-middle attack by hooking up another box to the unprotected signal going to the speakers. It's a thought, and no copy protection on the CD could stop it, the only thing would be to force people to buy RIAA speakers. Then they would be curcumvented and the cycle continues.
Even with the best sociological solution there will be some who will do as they please without any regard. With any hardware solution, there will be many who will circumvent it. The goal is to eliminate the largest percentage of the population possible. Hardware/software solutions do this better than anything. What should the RIAA care if a small group at MIT can circumvent any copy protection? If they distribute it on a large scale, the RIAA can track them down with a group of lawyers. If they distribute it on a small scale, then the RIAA loses 100 sales, a drop in the ocean. Hardware/software solutions keep their property safe in the hands of the masses, at least until the general public becomes more tech savy.
First of all, I think this is mostly a PR move, but all clever tacticians like to have actions serve more than one purpose.
developing software systems is a little more daunting of a task
This could be the second purpose. Now they can have the open source community finding mistakes for them and giving free ideas about the direction they should be going with Solaris. This allows them to focus on their hardware, and I'll swallow my own tongue the day hardware is free (beer). The whole "hardware will be free" bit is to discourage businesses from going into open source, because if both hardware and software is free the only thing left to sell is support and customization. There is a lot less money coming to them if this happens.
It says that these things are able to continue to learn and adapt. I am not an AI expert, but how many mistakes does it have to make before it figures everything out? I have yet to see a machine programmed with every facet of the instincts that might prevent disasters from unforseen situations. Of course, humans make their own mistakes.
You hit it right on the nose. This is why the vast majority of political philosophy has proved not to work. They have regarded the government in the same way they would a computer.
It seems that the current actions of the record industry are analagous to the papal authority during the reign of Pius IX. In both cases, science and technology began to encroach upon the ideas, or intellectual property, of the parties mentioned. Instead of trying to move with the flow of progress, they lashed back with extremist policy (The Syllabus of Errors, lawsuits). For Pius IX, this accelerated the demise of his authority. It should be interesting to see how these policies work out for the record industry.
I am not an expert on the politics of China, but it seems to me they have been a fairly closed society. It seems that despite trying to play up a few of their recent economic policies that have leaned towards capitalism, they have played their cards close to their chest and have not tolerated dissent at all.
This seems to be an assumption based on your culture. Why is the truth between the Judeo-Christian religion and science as opposed to the Hindu religion and science? Only one side of the road is constant, and that is science.
Why did God after 4,000 years.....reasons for each of those diasasters
I am not a theologian, but others have given some answers to these questions over the years. The general theme is that Jesus was sent when humanity was ready for his message and from then on all the killing and death should stop. God would no longer allow man to fight wars (love thy enemy) so he would no longer help them. Furthermore, the final race of humans had been established so he didn't need to wipe the slate clean (Noah's flood) anymore.
why is there only one Intelligent species
It does make some sense that there might be one species that was the most intelligent. There are other species (dolphins, apes, pigs, dogs) that can learn to perform simple tasks and some can even communicate to humans through machines or sign language.
a belief about dragons of all various sizes, yet man was 62 million years to late for Dinosaures
The entire world has reptiles, and they're all strange or scary to some. Therefore, a large, flying, insert fantastic power here reptile would be a common fear.
Also, even though a man has never seen a dinosaur, dinosaur skeletons have been found everywhere. Modern paeleotologists have found remains that look exactly like dragons and griffons and any other myth you can imagine.
Re:Call Me Crazy But....
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Hardened PHP
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Of course the best way to secure anything is to take the time to write good code, but the reality is that many pages have to be put together in a limited amount of time by people with very little experience. I think that it is a good thing to see people in the security community keeping this in mind.
With prices constantly falling and better performance for price as hardware incessantly marches toward being a commodity good, one could just as easily say that it's always a good time to buy a computer.
I think the case is actually that tomorrow is always a better day to buy a computer. I have to say that I myself have procrastinated ad infinitum when upgrading systems because it always seems that something awesome is coming up in a few months.
I have three minor and slightly redundant things to say.
1. People want to be the guy to get "john@gmail.com" so they can cease making friends and family remember a 7 digit number when they want to send an e-mail.
2. Others may want to make back-up accounts for files that they need to keep but aren't highly confidential or frequently used. They could also use it to distribute files amongst a group by uploading it and telling people the password. Now they can waste google.com bandwidth instead up their own.
3. If the government began giving free cheese to everyone it would be much more interesting than GMail.
I hate to be a "nobody has ever done anything out of benevolence" guy, but here is how I see this issue. The people who pirate entire OS' are not Microsoft's target market. Microsoft has two options to deal with them when it regards to their product. They can either spend time and money putting piracy prevention on their service packs and promote the "evil MS" image, or they can allow the pirates to install the service pack which will improve their PR and keep the boxes of those with the pirated copies from becoming virus spreading zombies. It's really a PR move here.
It seems to me the problem is that descisions are being made by people who may not fully understand the issue. It could be compared to Congress settling a debate as to whose astrophysics theory should be considered correct.
Slashdot Mirror
Why shouldn't they investigate? It is surely within their rights to see if they can stop a policy that they believe is hurting their business. Whether or not they have a case is another matter, but just because they believe in limiting the rights of others does not mean they don't get the same rights as everyone else.
Of course, ripping songs from this service could eventually become rampant.
GNAA / Google confirms: Linux is dying.
By GNAA Staff
Here you have it: it's official; Google confirms: Desktop Linux is dying.
Now, you might be thinking this is just another cut & paste troll based on the typical *BSD is dying bullshit.
It isn't.
As you might have know, your favorite search engine, Google, has been running a little statistics service, called "Zeitgeist".
Since about a year ago, they started providing statistics of the operating systems used to access their search engine worldwide.
I will let the numbers speak for themselves:
Operating Systems Accessing Google in January 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in March 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in April 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in May 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in June 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in July 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in August 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in September 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in November 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in December 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in January 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in February 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in April 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in May 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in June 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in July 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in August 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in September 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in November 2003
If you've looked at even a few of these links, you don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Desktop Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Desktop Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux on Desktop because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux on Desktop. As many of us are already aware, Linux on Desktop continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
According to Google Zeitgeist, there are about 80% of Internet Explorer 6 users. The only platform supporting Internet Explorer 6 is, of course, Microsoft Windows. These statistics are consistent with the earlier presented graphs of the operating systems used to access Google, with the Windows family consistently taking the top 3 ranks. Out of remaining 20%, the split is even between MSIE 5.5, MSIE 5.0, both Windows-only browsers. Netscape 5.x
It is entirely understandable that the mainstream media did not give this issue much attention. It really is a small thing. An examination of some of the shortcomings of a trade agreement between the U.S. and Australia does not effect most people directly.
Darl here, with another fine Fr1st P0st. After all -- SCO did everything first, and the rest of the responses to this story will owe their heritage to a foundation built on SCO's staff of talented programmers.
You may be wondering why SCO salesmen are not answering your numerous calls while you try to order more SCO licenses. Well, we aren't answering the phones because we're too busy celebrating our newest business partner. Rather than explaining it myself, I'll let our formal press release do the talking. Take it away, Mr. Reuters...
LINDON, Utah, Sept. 8/PRNewswire - FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), the owner and licensor of the core UNIX operating system source code, today announced its second Fortune 500 clent for the SCO Linux IP license, the GNAA (Nasdaq: RHAT - News), developer of fine Slashdot trolls on irc.efnet.net #GNAA, also well-known for revolutionizing small business development with its "Step 2: ??????" profit model. The availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux affords Linux deployments to come into compliance with international law for the use of all 2.4 and future kernels. The run-time license permits the use of SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux distributions.
By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5 kernels and assure Darl financial security for the purchase of his second home. Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed. Source may still be distributed under the terms of the GPL, however source distributors are held accountable for all violation of SCO's IP. Indemnification is provided for customers of runtime clients only. Read that twice, dirty hippy. You're not in the clear yet.
GNAA spokesperson penisbird said of the licensure, "coming into compliance affords us a new competitive advantage with the other Slashdot authors. By being in the right, we can thumb down our noses at not only the Windows users and the BSD-thieving Mac Users, but also the unwashed Linux hippies running stolen code on their parents' PCs." VP of anus enlargement goat-see added, "fr1st p0st? damn i miss. how do i next story?"
Mr. Darl McBride concurred with GNAA's analysis, adding "We soon hope to convince additional clients such as Trollklore and Cabal of Logged In Trolls of the benefits of licensing SCO's valuable IP. Also, I <3 GNAA bunny. (@.@)" JesuitX clarified the nature of the SCO and GNAA alliance, adding "We're more than just a licensing client. We're also going to be helping to bring these other potential licensors into compliance. We can break them in little by little as paying sublicensors. The alternative is pretty horrible. Our lawyers can take a reticent client from virgin to hello.jpg [figure 2] in under an hour, and believe me -- it is not pleasant."
Commander Taco was unavailable for comment, however Cowboy Kneel was said to ask for a print of [figure 2] for his basement apartment. Simoniker remained British and unable to spell "color," while Timothy responded by posting the same story six times, and Hemos reposted a seventh time, the submission differing only from his application of that damned Einstein icon.
If you have mod points and would like to support GNAA, please moderate this post up.
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The_Mystic_F
June 7th, 2004
Reporting from The Motherland
In the wee hours of Monday morning tireless GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) soldiers were gathering intelligence reports on AOL. GNAA has been at war for some time with the AOL-Time Warner Corporation and recently tensions have risen to a boiling point.
"It was clear that things were about to get nasty," recalls GNAA member penisbird while he took part in a massive gay orgy, "but we never expected this, ah yeah, you give the best rim-jobs Shaquille O'Neil."
While launching some minor trolling raids into AOL territory, the surprise news hit them. The FBI had decided to join the ranks of AOL's dreaded KKK group.
"It came as a surprise, the FBI has always leaned on the side of Whitey, but this is further than we ever expected them to go," reports GNAA member rkz.
So GNAA, never a group to take things lying down, grabbed their ginormous cocks and battled back.
GNAA members Ghostface and Method Man quickly plunged balls deep into AOL's wide open servers. In the ensueing battle AOL proved to be a paper tiger and the gay niggers that they had kept as prisoners were liberated in the pre-dawn raid. All employees were forced to listen to the "You've got mail!" soundbyte until they all committed suicide.
"Wu-Tang Clan ain't nutin' to fuck wit'," proclaimed a triumphant Ghostface.
The FBI has remained on the sidelines during the intense battle that has gone on between GNAA loyalists and AOL catamites. They have yet to even confirm that the alliance exists. GNAA operatives speculate that the move was a bluff by AOL.
"It was a bluff," quoth penisbird.
We will simply have to wait and see how events unfold from here.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which
gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
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Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!
First, you have to obtain a copy of GAY NIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. (You can download the movie (~280mb) using BitTorrent, by clicking here.
Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA "first post" on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website
Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.
Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today!
If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network. The correct network is Niggernet, and you can connect to irc.gnaa.us as our official server. If you do not have an IRC client handy, you are free to use the GNAA Java IRC client by clicking here.
If you have mod points
Monday, May 17 2004, GNAA, Nigeria
"Who is the Greatest Man Alive?" - If you ask Gary Niger, he'll tell you it is most definitely Osama Bin Laden.
The Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA) announced today further victory in their current program to bring about total breakdown of the AOL customer relation system.
AOL Corporate Policy has been changed after GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) special operative Gary Niger's constant abuse of their "secret question" program designed to provide a futile illusion of security for the mongoloids and sodomites that comprise their customer base.
The "custom question" option, allowing users to create their own question, has been removed following the efforts of Niger and other fearsome Gay Niggers from the GNAA's top secret "Black Ops" divison.
With the removal of this option, trolls are now forced to use pre-approved AOL "secret question" options when signing up for fraudlent accounts for the purpose of downloading gay pornography and meeting up with the clandestine "homo thug" underground.
"I don't know why it changed, exactly. Corporate HQ didn't tell us," said Tracy, an AOL representative. "It happened two or three days ago."
Tracy was unavailable for further comment, as she was masturbating furiously under her desk - claiming that "Ten guys were on the phone and (she) had to take them all on."
An AOL executive, speaking under the condition of anonymnity, said the change in policy came after widespread employee unrest, culminating in an incident of mass sodomy taking place in the Ogden, Utah call center.
Gary Niger and other members of the GNAA "Black Ops" division continue to use the "custom question" trolling technique with various punjabis in the Bangalore, India call center - who haven't gotten the memo yet.
Meanwhile, GNAA Command is working on the creation of new methods of trolling to work within the confines of this new standard, still flush with victory.
Nick Berg's head was unavailable for comment at the time of this release.
About America Online, Inc.
America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which
gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America. You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!
First, you have to obtain a copy of GAY NIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. (You can download the movie (~280mb) using BitTorrent, by clicking here.
Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA "first post" on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website
Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gna
Probably not, so the copy protection worked. You will always be able to copy things if you want to, there's nothing they can do.
By the way, a solution that I haven't seen mentioned yet is to perform something like a man-in-the-middle attack by hooking up another box to the unprotected signal going to the speakers. It's a thought, and no copy protection on the CD could stop it, the only thing would be to force people to buy RIAA speakers. Then they would be curcumvented and the cycle continues.
Even with the best sociological solution there will be some who will do as they please without any regard. With any hardware solution, there will be many who will circumvent it. The goal is to eliminate the largest percentage of the population possible. Hardware/software solutions do this better than anything. What should the RIAA care if a small group at MIT can circumvent any copy protection? If they distribute it on a large scale, the RIAA can track them down with a group of lawyers. If they distribute it on a small scale, then the RIAA loses 100 sales, a drop in the ocean. Hardware/software solutions keep their property safe in the hands of the masses, at least until the general public becomes more tech savy.
developing software systems is a little more daunting of a task
This could be the second purpose. Now they can have the open source community finding mistakes for them and giving free ideas about the direction they should be going with Solaris. This allows them to focus on their hardware, and I'll swallow my own tongue the day hardware is free (beer). The whole "hardware will be free" bit is to discourage businesses from going into open source, because if both hardware and software is free the only thing left to sell is support and customization. There is a lot less money coming to them if this happens.
Short answer: yes, and it makes you look very suspicious.
It says that these things are able to continue to learn and adapt. I am not an AI expert, but how many mistakes does it have to make before it figures everything out? I have yet to see a machine programmed with every facet of the instincts that might prevent disasters from unforseen situations. Of course, humans make their own mistakes.
Wireless networking and remote administration enabled? I think wardriving just gained a whole new meaning.
The link in the parent post redirects to the infamous goatse.cx image. Fortunately I managed to read the end of the url before clicking.
You hit it right on the nose. This is why the vast majority of political philosophy has proved not to work. They have regarded the government in the same way they would a computer.
It seems that the current actions of the record industry are analagous to the papal authority during the reign of Pius IX. In both cases, science and technology began to encroach upon the ideas, or intellectual property, of the parties mentioned. Instead of trying to move with the flow of progress, they lashed back with extremist policy (The Syllabus of Errors, lawsuits). For Pius IX, this accelerated the demise of his authority. It should be interesting to see how these policies work out for the record industry.
I am not an expert on the politics of China, but it seems to me they have been a fairly closed society. It seems that despite trying to play up a few of their recent economic policies that have leaned towards capitalism, they have played their cards close to their chest and have not tolerated dissent at all.
This seems to be an assumption based on your culture. Why is the truth between the Judeo-Christian religion and science as opposed to the Hindu religion and science? Only one side of the road is constant, and that is science.
Why did God after 4,000 years.....reasons for each of those diasasters
I am not a theologian, but others have given some answers to these questions over the years. The general theme is that Jesus was sent when humanity was ready for his message and from then on all the killing and death should stop. God would no longer allow man to fight wars (love thy enemy) so he would no longer help them. Furthermore, the final race of humans had been established so he didn't need to wipe the slate clean (Noah's flood) anymore.
why is there only one Intelligent species
It does make some sense that there might be one species that was the most intelligent. There are other species (dolphins, apes, pigs, dogs) that can learn to perform simple tasks and some can even communicate to humans through machines or sign language.
a belief about dragons of all various sizes, yet man was 62 million years to late for Dinosaures
The entire world has reptiles, and they're all strange or scary to some. Therefore, a large, flying, insert fantastic power here reptile would be a common fear.
Also, even though a man has never seen a dinosaur, dinosaur skeletons have been found everywhere. Modern paeleotologists have found remains that look exactly like dragons and griffons and any other myth you can imagine.
Of course the best way to secure anything is to take the time to write good code, but the reality is that many pages have to be put together in a limited amount of time by people with very little experience. I think that it is a good thing to see people in the security community keeping this in mind.
I think the case is actually that tomorrow is always a better day to buy a computer. I have to say that I myself have procrastinated ad infinitum when upgrading systems because it always seems that something awesome is coming up in a few months.
2. Domains and servers cost money. 1G on a nice server and limited means of prevention without harming usability is a good offer.
3. I think if it was rotten cheese there would be much more discussion than if it was good cheese.
1. People want to be the guy to get "john@gmail.com" so they can cease making friends and family remember a 7 digit number when they want to send an e-mail.
2. Others may want to make back-up accounts for files that they need to keep but aren't highly confidential or frequently used. They could also use it to distribute files amongst a group by uploading it and telling people the password. Now they can waste google.com bandwidth instead up their own.
3. If the government began giving free cheese to everyone it would be much more interesting than GMail.
I hate to be a "nobody has ever done anything out of benevolence" guy, but here is how I see this issue. The people who pirate entire OS' are not Microsoft's target market. Microsoft has two options to deal with them when it regards to their product. They can either spend time and money putting piracy prevention on their service packs and promote the "evil MS" image, or they can allow the pirates to install the service pack which will improve their PR and keep the boxes of those with the pirated copies from becoming virus spreading zombies. It's really a PR move here.
For the price of a full desktop computer!
It seems to me the problem is that descisions are being made by people who may not fully understand the issue. It could be compared to Congress settling a debate as to whose astrophysics theory should be considered correct.