oh it's a throw back to the pope's decree (which originated in europe btw) that sex was sinful and the body evil. It's stupid yea. And we all know just how "sinful" Catholics really think sex is... good catholic school girls -- there's an oxymoron.
good point!
Greedy bastards they are. Work for a living by doing more concerts is what I say. The market has already decided RIAA, and they decided that we're tired of the way they make one hit on a cd full of mediocre stuff and have to pay for the rest of the crap. We also don't think they are worth being billionaires without working for it which is by doing concerts and meeting the fans.
What RIAA wants to do is tell US what the market should be. And that's NOT how market methods work. That's price fixing is what they do.
The thing about porn and the law that has always puzzled me is that if a person gets paid for sex without a camera its called prostitution and the woman is thrown in jail (backwards especially since this occupation is usually turned to as a last result of other problems if not downright slavery). BUT if the same person is paid to have sex in front of a camera its called "art" and legal. And the situation for the person could still be the same - only in the "profession" because of other circumstances that darn near enslave them to it. In both cases the real monsters are ignored. - Pimps.
That's what this crackdown is trying to do I bet - attack the pimps. It's like the difference between Playboy and other sleazy rags. Playboy bends over backwards to stay in full compliance with the law and their models are well cared for and certainly not hurting to be enslaved into it. The other sleazy rags though...they are like many of the 'net's porn sites where the pictures/video may even have been obtained illegally, without consent and certainly without pay. They are like Paparrazi to the porn industry iow. Will the FBI go after Playboy? - heck no, they'd find nothing illegal, doubt if they'd even find tax fraud. But these other thousands of sites? It's about time but they should just drop the stupid "deviant" thing, that's just a tag word they are using to justify their raids. A justification I don't think they even need. There are plenty of industries that have to accept and expect to have inspections popped on them by surprise at a moment's notice, the porn industry should be no different. For that matter ask the models if they want to be urinated on. I listened to an interview with Eva Carrara (sp) once and she advised gals getting into the porn biz to not put with that crap (her words) and especially not accept gang bangs on the first run... to only give up the goods gradually iow and remain in control that way.
This crackdown could lead to a much needed service protecting models. Afterall factory workers are protected by laws and their employers have to comply with regs. Why shouldn't the porn industry? Their arguement about freedom of art has run its course because their right has been trampling on the rights of the workers/models.
Google is pushing for stronger and faster change in information flow. Period. How many times have you wondered "what book/author said x?" With this service you can solve that once and for all.
What the Author's Guild is really afraid is a technology being birthed that doesn't exist at this time that would allow a person to easily get the entire book contents and put it in a more readable form. IOW what happend to music.
The legal problem with this from the Author's Guild perspective is you can't base a lawsuit on fear of what "might" happen because of something. To do that would be just as stupid as the pony express sueing to stop the invention of the telegraph because it "might" mean the end of their business. (it was actually)
So what the Author's Guild did is a pre-emptive strike by using a trumped charge of copyright infringement.
This fight has been brewing anyway because it involves everything from fair use and the stupid Mickey Mouse laws which keep anything from going into public domain anymore.
Sadly, the objective of what google is doing is harmless and the Author's Guild knows this. This is really about what MIGHT happen in the future with the technology.
"There's a danger that if we don't have some level of shared interaction, it can be destructive to our social cohesion.'"
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I cry BS on that. People have been meeting with those like minded for eons. They are called lodges, clubs, etc... but just because this is on the 'net it must be different and "destructive".
Same kind of stupid arguements people make about how "video games are dangerous". Nevermind the far greater number of fights or laziness that comes from Monday Night Football or ABC soap operas.
"oooo they're different than us, bad, evil,"
gimme a break crap like this doesn't even belong on slashdot.
why does everything have to be "open source"? Don't get me wrong I'm all for "alternatives" but Skype is already an alternative product. It's largest usage seems to be skype to skype calling anyway not computer through telephone. And that's something that MSN Messenger has done for years. So it's already an "alternative".
At least he's passionate about his job. That's more than you can say about a lot of executives. What's wrong with wanting to crush the competition? That's what capitalism's all about.
Anti-trust that's why. That same arguement could (and was) used to justify Rockefeller, Standard oil and a host of others. M$ should have been busted up when it was found guilty of anti-trust. But the DOJ and Congress were too damn scared to rock the boat and owned too much stock in it themselves. Now shoo away fan boy you're worse than a fundy apologist surrounded by contradictions and religious dilemnas yet stands there with hands over their ears shouting "la la la I can't hear you la la la la la"
much ado about nothing.
Reminds me of the article I saw after SW:Sith movie came out about the MILLIONS LOST because bootleg DVD's were found all over mexico!
I got news for 'em - most of Mexico doesn't have theaters that would get the movie when the consumer wants to see it HELLO! Which means they didn't lose anything because they would have never made the money there in the first place. I know I've seen movies in mexico most of the country with theatres get them long long after everybody else. So supply-demand nothing more, nothing less.
So whenever these suits start throwing $$ figures around its all smoke and mirror speculation or flat out lies as in the star wars case.
same claptrap that was made in the 80s during the satanic panic: "D&D Players commit suicide and worship the devil!!!!!"
There's more killings over damn football games on tv than there ever will be from RPGs.
It's the whole "oh that's weird" mentality. For some reason its supposed to be "normal" to veg out in front of the idiot box (tv) but its not normal to use ones brain via two way communication on a computer. So whenever something happens in the "un normal" culture the "normal" talking heads point fingers and shout "see see..."
Reminds me of a few days ago when a co-worker of my wife came to visit and saw my throwing knife targets in the back yard and made a comment in jest saying "oh because everyone has to have one of those". Now it's just a joke yea, but I've heard mock jokes like that crap all my life from the "normal" crowd so to speak. But a month ago when a neighbor down the street went wacky at 2 in the morning and started mowing his lawn and slamming things around who's house did 2 other neighbor gals come too because he was freaking them out? - That's right boys and girls the one who had something more than a TV to use on the weirdo if push came to shove. (cops handled it after I called them. The guy despite his snockered state had enough sense at least left to keep his distance one glance was all it took).
Point is, claptrap comments like this article gets made to all counter-culture activities whether its video games, collectible card games, pen paper & dice games, whatever the idiot box doesn't give you basically or the damn nightly news doesn't "approve" of.
Xandros is actually a very well running distro as well and they make updates a snap. Crossover works best for the Windows Media Player and Quicktime player plugins. A lot of other Windows programs (iTunes comes to mind) fail miserably in Crossover so its best use is the plugins.
Any other programs needed can be found in Xandros networks as linux ones.
To be perfect I think Xandros needs to do what Linspire did by licencing WMP, Quicktime, and dvd codecs and be done with it. Try as we might there's no winning the fight against prop. codecs so this is one area where the pro Linux distros need to just give in and it becomes one of the reasons to buy a pro Distro.
very dangerous indeed. in fact it makes information illegal. why someone could find the article ABOUT the case illegal even because it provides information about the guys website thereby also being an accessory. see how this snowballs?
this is an excellent example of how the copyright war has run amock now.
>>You talk about the free market, but you ignore our freedom to *not* buy their products.
The problem is we can't NOT buy their products. They are everywhere, start reading the damn labels on the products they got the "made in china" labels everywhere! Even things without the label has *parts* of it made in China.
This is the result of our healthcare system and laws which demand companies pay for that, so American companies are more and more saying "screw that" and outsource.
I don't think its needed at all.
For one thing I don't believe all the piracy hype. It's made up smoke and mirrors.
Now bypass TV by providing tv shows without commercials, the day after they air instead of waiting for dvd collections and they may be onto something.
"xperts believe there are scores of incidents occurring undetected, sometimes to frightening effect"
let's do some critical thinking here. If it's undetected then how do they know some unknown evil underworld is doing this to spread porn and what not?
I cry BS, it's nothing more than "we gotta do something" thinking that lawmakers (formerly known as Representatives and senators) have. Show me a legislative session where absolutely NOTHING is passed and that will be a successful session!
the only sure fire way to "protect" against spam is useing email programs that can block any emails that are not in the users address book. Of them all only ONE email program can do that effectively - AOL's.
I'll be the first one to say AOL is the internet on training wheels and like WinXP contributes to people's sheer and utter ignorance as to how their computer works but this feature they've had from the beginning and it's always worked.
>>Professional photographers have successfully sued processors (like Wal-Mart) for reproducing their digital works without permission.
And that practice of photographers owning a copyright on our pictures that WE PAID them to take should never have been allowed in the first place!
We pay them for the professional ability to take a picture and (at one time) their equipment to develop the photos. It's damn time we insist that we are owners of said product that we paid for and not freaking renters!
wouldn't happen. it would be as stupid as the HP iPod is - same thing, sold by somebody but same thing and same price even.
Unless Mac opened themselves for anyone to buy OS X and run it on their own home built hardware then whatever they do is no different than before the cpu change.
why do people think Linux is the only OS that has OSS software available? over 50% of the programs I use on my WinXP laptop are OSS and I know there are tons of OSS and freeware apps for mac too currently.
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oh it's a throw back to the pope's decree (which originated in europe btw) that sex was sinful and the body evil. It's stupid yea. And we all know just how "sinful" Catholics really think sex is... good catholic school girls -- there's an oxymoron.
good point! Greedy bastards they are. Work for a living by doing more concerts is what I say. The market has already decided RIAA, and they decided that we're tired of the way they make one hit on a cd full of mediocre stuff and have to pay for the rest of the crap. We also don't think they are worth being billionaires without working for it which is by doing concerts and meeting the fans. What RIAA wants to do is tell US what the market should be. And that's NOT how market methods work. That's price fixing is what they do.
The thing about porn and the law that has always puzzled me is that if a person gets paid for sex without a camera its called prostitution and the woman is thrown in jail (backwards especially since this occupation is usually turned to as a last result of other problems if not downright slavery). BUT if the same person is paid to have sex in front of a camera its called "art" and legal. And the situation for the person could still be the same - only in the "profession" because of other circumstances that darn near enslave them to it. In both cases the real monsters are ignored. - Pimps. That's what this crackdown is trying to do I bet - attack the pimps. It's like the difference between Playboy and other sleazy rags. Playboy bends over backwards to stay in full compliance with the law and their models are well cared for and certainly not hurting to be enslaved into it. The other sleazy rags though...they are like many of the 'net's porn sites where the pictures/video may even have been obtained illegally, without consent and certainly without pay. They are like Paparrazi to the porn industry iow. Will the FBI go after Playboy? - heck no, they'd find nothing illegal, doubt if they'd even find tax fraud. But these other thousands of sites? It's about time but they should just drop the stupid "deviant" thing, that's just a tag word they are using to justify their raids. A justification I don't think they even need. There are plenty of industries that have to accept and expect to have inspections popped on them by surprise at a moment's notice, the porn industry should be no different. For that matter ask the models if they want to be urinated on. I listened to an interview with Eva Carrara (sp) once and she advised gals getting into the porn biz to not put with that crap (her words) and especially not accept gang bangs on the first run... to only give up the goods gradually iow and remain in control that way. This crackdown could lead to a much needed service protecting models. Afterall factory workers are protected by laws and their employers have to comply with regs. Why shouldn't the porn industry? Their arguement about freedom of art has run its course because their right has been trampling on the rights of the workers/models.
Google is pushing for stronger and faster change in information flow. Period. How many times have you wondered "what book/author said x?" With this service you can solve that once and for all. What the Author's Guild is really afraid is a technology being birthed that doesn't exist at this time that would allow a person to easily get the entire book contents and put it in a more readable form. IOW what happend to music. The legal problem with this from the Author's Guild perspective is you can't base a lawsuit on fear of what "might" happen because of something. To do that would be just as stupid as the pony express sueing to stop the invention of the telegraph because it "might" mean the end of their business. (it was actually) So what the Author's Guild did is a pre-emptive strike by using a trumped charge of copyright infringement. This fight has been brewing anyway because it involves everything from fair use and the stupid Mickey Mouse laws which keep anything from going into public domain anymore. Sadly, the objective of what google is doing is harmless and the Author's Guild knows this. This is really about what MIGHT happen in the future with the technology.
"There's a danger that if we don't have some level of shared interaction, it can be destructive to our social cohesion.'" ---- I cry BS on that. People have been meeting with those like minded for eons. They are called lodges, clubs, etc... but just because this is on the 'net it must be different and "destructive". Same kind of stupid arguements people make about how "video games are dangerous". Nevermind the far greater number of fights or laziness that comes from Monday Night Football or ABC soap operas. "oooo they're different than us, bad, evil," gimme a break crap like this doesn't even belong on slashdot.
next RIAA will have their MIB's raiding garage sales.
kiss skype good bye now as it swiftly becomes a new source of spam just like happend to ICQ when aol bought it.
or so on time warner cable's "in demand" channel. So I ask the same question I do about other tv/movie initiatives on the 'net "why?"
crackpots and very sad it got /. cybertime.
why does everything have to be "open source"? Don't get me wrong I'm all for "alternatives" but Skype is already an alternative product. It's largest usage seems to be skype to skype calling anyway not computer through telephone. And that's something that MSN Messenger has done for years. So it's already an "alternative".
At least he's passionate about his job. That's more than you can say about a lot of executives. What's wrong with wanting to crush the competition? That's what capitalism's all about. Anti-trust that's why. That same arguement could (and was) used to justify Rockefeller, Standard oil and a host of others. M$ should have been busted up when it was found guilty of anti-trust. But the DOJ and Congress were too damn scared to rock the boat and owned too much stock in it themselves. Now shoo away fan boy you're worse than a fundy apologist surrounded by contradictions and religious dilemnas yet stands there with hands over their ears shouting "la la la I can't hear you la la la la la"
much ado about nothing. Reminds me of the article I saw after SW:Sith movie came out about the MILLIONS LOST because bootleg DVD's were found all over mexico! I got news for 'em - most of Mexico doesn't have theaters that would get the movie when the consumer wants to see it HELLO! Which means they didn't lose anything because they would have never made the money there in the first place. I know I've seen movies in mexico most of the country with theatres get them long long after everybody else. So supply-demand nothing more, nothing less. So whenever these suits start throwing $$ figures around its all smoke and mirror speculation or flat out lies as in the star wars case.
now the teenbopper lifeguards can flirt more and pay even less attention to their jobs.
same claptrap that was made in the 80s during the satanic panic: "D&D Players commit suicide and worship the devil!!!!!" There's more killings over damn football games on tv than there ever will be from RPGs. It's the whole "oh that's weird" mentality. For some reason its supposed to be "normal" to veg out in front of the idiot box (tv) but its not normal to use ones brain via two way communication on a computer. So whenever something happens in the "un normal" culture the "normal" talking heads point fingers and shout "see see..." Reminds me of a few days ago when a co-worker of my wife came to visit and saw my throwing knife targets in the back yard and made a comment in jest saying "oh because everyone has to have one of those". Now it's just a joke yea, but I've heard mock jokes like that crap all my life from the "normal" crowd so to speak. But a month ago when a neighbor down the street went wacky at 2 in the morning and started mowing his lawn and slamming things around who's house did 2 other neighbor gals come too because he was freaking them out? - That's right boys and girls the one who had something more than a TV to use on the weirdo if push came to shove. (cops handled it after I called them. The guy despite his snockered state had enough sense at least left to keep his distance one glance was all it took). Point is, claptrap comments like this article gets made to all counter-culture activities whether its video games, collectible card games, pen paper & dice games, whatever the idiot box doesn't give you basically or the damn nightly news doesn't "approve" of.
excellent post.
Xandros is actually a very well running distro as well and they make updates a snap. Crossover works best for the Windows Media Player and Quicktime player plugins. A lot of other Windows programs (iTunes comes to mind) fail miserably in Crossover so its best use is the plugins.
Any other programs needed can be found in Xandros networks as linux ones.
To be perfect I think Xandros needs to do what Linspire did by licencing WMP, Quicktime, and dvd codecs and be done with it. Try as we might there's no winning the fight against prop. codecs so this is one area where the pro Linux distros need to just give in and it becomes one of the reasons to buy a pro Distro.
very dangerous indeed. in fact it makes information illegal. why someone could find the article ABOUT the case illegal even because it provides information about the guys website thereby also being an accessory. see how this snowballs? this is an excellent example of how the copyright war has run amock now.
>>You talk about the free market, but you ignore our freedom to *not* buy their products. The problem is we can't NOT buy their products. They are everywhere, start reading the damn labels on the products they got the "made in china" labels everywhere! Even things without the label has *parts* of it made in China. This is the result of our healthcare system and laws which demand companies pay for that, so American companies are more and more saying "screw that" and outsource.
I don't think its needed at all. For one thing I don't believe all the piracy hype. It's made up smoke and mirrors. Now bypass TV by providing tv shows without commercials, the day after they air instead of waiting for dvd collections and they may be onto something.
"xperts believe there are scores of incidents occurring undetected, sometimes to frightening effect" let's do some critical thinking here. If it's undetected then how do they know some unknown evil underworld is doing this to spread porn and what not? I cry BS, it's nothing more than "we gotta do something" thinking that lawmakers (formerly known as Representatives and senators) have. Show me a legislative session where absolutely NOTHING is passed and that will be a successful session!
the only sure fire way to "protect" against spam is useing email programs that can block any emails that are not in the users address book. Of them all only ONE email program can do that effectively - AOL's. I'll be the first one to say AOL is the internet on training wheels and like WinXP contributes to people's sheer and utter ignorance as to how their computer works but this feature they've had from the beginning and it's always worked.
>>Professional photographers have successfully sued processors (like Wal-Mart) for reproducing their digital works without permission. And that practice of photographers owning a copyright on our pictures that WE PAID them to take should never have been allowed in the first place! We pay them for the professional ability to take a picture and (at one time) their equipment to develop the photos. It's damn time we insist that we are owners of said product that we paid for and not freaking renters!
wouldn't happen. it would be as stupid as the HP iPod is - same thing, sold by somebody but same thing and same price even. Unless Mac opened themselves for anyone to buy OS X and run it on their own home built hardware then whatever they do is no different than before the cpu change.
SciFi channel is one of the few I bother with anymore. The big three have zero patience for shows to gather the fanbase needed.
sucker born every minute. Can build a whole PC for that price.
why do people think Linux is the only OS that has OSS software available? over 50% of the programs I use on my WinXP laptop are OSS and I know there are tons of OSS and freeware apps for mac too currently.