There's this big ravine near where I live that the kiddies like to push shopping carts into. Looks a lot like this "sculpture" except ours is a longer sequence...
Take a look at the download.com list of popular software [com.com]. KaZaA to date has 348,403,514 downloads. Average user doesn't know the crap that is bundled underneath.
That's because the "average" KaZaA user is about 14 years old.
See, we do our best when we can focus in on a small number of applications (e.g. Microsoft Office) for which a lot of people are willing and able to pay money. Schools, unfortunately, have the reverse situation - they need support for tons and tons of applications, and they have no money...
[joke] OMG! This guy is a Capitalist Pig! And Slashdot publishes his swill??? [/joke]
Riiiigggghhhttt. The sad thing is Darl and pals will walk away very rich men. Darl et al. may be sleazy as hell, but the fact that they are taking the legal system for a ride is not illegal. The SEC has said as much.
Really, the bottom line is: If you are not willing to either run your own server or pay a VERY reasonable $30-$35 a month for a low-end commercial account, quit your whining.
Keep in mind who these robots masters will be. No possibility of whistleblowers here, the robot outside the big fiberglass battery separator plant doesn't care what's in the water coming from the big drain pipe.
Doesn't Slashcode require mod_perl? That is a whole different price class for hosting service.
Mod_perl in a "whole different price class"? Like "FREE hosting" vs. everything else? Actually many FREE hosting plans have mod_perl as well. And since you are a Perl snob ("PHP? No thanks!") you should know very well that there are plenty of Open Source Perl based CMS systems and Blog systems out there.
Your argument does not hold any water at all. Simply abandon it before you start looking even more like a cave hermit.
Gotta love the proprietary world. Dole the juice, cajole the users and then when some event horizon is met, flip the tables and stick it to your users. Yeh haw I love it.
Amazingly enough, some people start companies to make money. A shocking concept, I know, but it's true. Now, when you start using a commercial product by a commercial company that presumably is in business to make money, why on Earth would - should - it surprise you when down the line they re-evaluate and change their pricing schedule? Bleat on and on and on about "proprietary" software and such if you must, if that's your ideological axe to grind. But when you use a commercial product, this is to be expected, and no one, not even Movable Type, is "bad" and "evil" for it, it's the rules commercial software plays by.
Now then: Why in the fuck would you use MovableType anyway? Commercial or not, it's crap. There are dozens of solid blogware out there. Slashcode, anyone? GeekLog, all the *nukes? And broaden your horizon to general purpose CMS, there's Mambo, Typo3, many many more...
I think the scarry part is that it is now fairly cheap to produce a custom virus, and you have to "trust" that both the maker is honest and "good", and that mistakes will not get out into the "wild".
[tin foil hat]While this case may be (almost certainly is) good, I think the day is coming when it will get out of hand and we will see the accidental release of some real nasty man made viral stuff into the environment.[/tin foil hat]
The typical uneducated (or Conservative-knee-jerk) response is "I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I care?" And, everyone is calling this thing a "war", which it really is, technically, but has Congress ever actually passed whatever resolutions or whatever that "officially" designate it as such? Me thinks the Prez has way too much unsupervised power.
The parent has a good point. While there still are people on 56k dial-up, the vast majority of people that use Internet connected multi-media have some form of high-speed, either cable or DSL that probibly renders this moot. On the other hand, I'm not technically up on this stuff, if it does a good job at 128, will it do better at higher rates? Or does it not work that way?
What's interesting also is that the Washington Post story tell's you exactly what it was the ACLU had to take out:
The dispute over the ACLU's April 28 news release centered on two paragraphs. The first laid out the court's schedule for receiving legal briefs and noted the name of the New York-based judge in the case, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero.
The second paragraph read: "The provision under challenge allows an FBI agent to write a letter demanding the disclosure of the name, screen names, addresses, e-mail header information, and other sensitive information held by 'electronic communication service providers.' "
Not that any hit is good, but imagine what will happen when this thing takes a hit of any kind or has a fire. Carbon fiber dust floats around like grain dust and the body likes it about as much as asbestos. When I was doing Fire Fighting for the US Air Force, occasionally, we would have the opportunity to cut into / chop up an F-16 that had made a "critical navigational error" and it was always respirator only work because of fiber dust.
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There's this big ravine near where I live that the kiddies like to push shopping carts into. Looks a lot like this "sculpture" except ours is a longer sequence...
That's because the "average" KaZaA user is about 14 years old.
[joke] OMG! This guy is a Capitalist Pig! And Slashdot publishes his swill??? [/joke]
It's automated, right? Interesting possibilities...
Yes. This is sort of like saying one architect stole a building design from another because it has four sides and a roof.
Riiiigggghhhttt. The sad thing is Darl and pals will walk away very rich men. Darl et al. may be sleazy as hell, but the fact that they are taking the legal system for a ride is not illegal. The SEC has said as much.
Really, the bottom line is: If you are not willing to either run your own server or pay a VERY reasonable $30-$35 a month for a low-end commercial account, quit your whining.
Keep in mind who these robots masters will be. No possibility of whistleblowers here, the robot outside the big fiberglass battery separator plant doesn't care what's in the water coming from the big drain pipe.
Mod_perl in a "whole different price class"? Like "FREE hosting" vs. everything else? Actually many FREE hosting plans have mod_perl as well. And since you are a Perl snob ("PHP? No thanks!") you should know very well that there are plenty of Open Source Perl based CMS systems and Blog systems out there.
Your argument does not hold any water at all. Simply abandon it before you start looking even more like a cave hermit.
Amazingly enough, some people start companies to make money. A shocking concept, I know, but it's true. Now, when you start using a commercial product by a commercial company that presumably is in business to make money, why on Earth would - should - it surprise you when down the line they re-evaluate and change their pricing schedule? Bleat on and on and on about "proprietary" software and such if you must, if that's your ideological axe to grind. But when you use a commercial product, this is to be expected, and no one, not even Movable Type, is "bad" and "evil" for it, it's the rules commercial software plays by.
Now then: Why in the fuck would you use MovableType anyway? Commercial or not, it's crap. There are dozens of solid blogware out there. Slashcode, anyone? GeekLog, all the *nukes? And broaden your horizon to general purpose CMS, there's Mambo, Typo3, many many more...
I think USB is the next step. Then it can be sold on "ThinkGeek".
I think the scarry part is that it is now fairly cheap to produce a custom virus, and you have to "trust" that both the maker is honest and "good", and that mistakes will not get out into the "wild".
Err... No?
[tin foil hat]While this case may be (almost certainly is) good, I think the day is coming when it will get out of hand and we will see the accidental release of some real nasty man made viral stuff into the environment.[/tin foil hat]
The typical uneducated (or Conservative-knee-jerk) response is "I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I care?" And, everyone is calling this thing a "war", which it really is, technically, but has Congress ever actually passed whatever resolutions or whatever that "officially" designate it as such? Me thinks the Prez has way too much unsupervised power.
The parent has a good point. While there still are people on 56k dial-up, the vast majority of people that use Internet connected multi-media have some form of high-speed, either cable or DSL that probibly renders this moot. On the other hand, I'm not technically up on this stuff, if it does a good job at 128, will it do better at higher rates? Or does it not work that way?
The dispute over the ACLU's April 28 news release centered on two paragraphs. The first laid out the court's schedule for receiving legal briefs and noted the name of the New York-based judge in the case, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero.
The second paragraph read: "The provision under challenge allows an FBI agent to write a letter demanding the disclosure of the name, screen names, addresses, e-mail header information, and other sensitive information held by 'electronic communication service providers.' "
Didn't require me to register, took me right to it. I've never registered.
More like "...the joys of S & M..."? (quickly runs to the door and locks it...)
Actually, you can get third-party cards and drivers that allow NT4 to use USB just fine.
Not that any hit is good, but imagine what will happen when this thing takes a hit of any kind or has a fire. Carbon fiber dust floats around like grain dust and the body likes it about as much as asbestos. When I was doing Fire Fighting for the US Air Force, occasionally, we would have the opportunity to cut into / chop up an F-16 that had made a "critical navigational error" and it was always respirator only work because of fiber dust.
Are you suggesting that for some reason Giant Pandas are not worthy of this prize?