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-- Life is like a line of waiting taxi cabs pulled up to the curb in front of a fancy hotel. You never know which raving lunatic is going to get you to your destination - or for that matter, whether you'll get your destination at all." (www.myboot.com)--
It looks like there was some sort of mass troll flood. All of the messages hit at 10:32 pm and it looks like they came from some sort of list of statements. I see over 900 listed as of 9:57 PST. This is bullshit. How are moderates supposed to find this message? I am going to start a message thread called "THIS IS NOT SPAM" someone mod it up so that there is a thread people can go to and discount the other stuff. hopefully the spammers are finished for the night.
When I first heard about "Geeks In Space" I was really excited because I thought it would be a cool way to hear about all of the other cool stuff you guys read about but can't put up on the front page because you don't have either enough time or enough space for it. Instead what I found was what felt to me like a text-to-speech of the front page with some creative editing and interesting soundbites. But/. is here so that I can read it. So why confront the same issues and news blurbs in the same depth in audio? Why not use "Geeks In Space" to step outside of the regular bounds of slashdot so that it's actually something that readers haven't already heard about? I can understand the difficulty in the logistics of showing readers all of the submissions, but it's pretty obvious from this turnout that we have a lot of curiousity in the ain't-it-too-bad-this-didn't-make-it-to-the-front- page-dept.
Something that I always found odd about Napster was that the file content one shared was limited to MP3s. Sure, that is the most likely thing to be traded, but couldn't they have avoided all of this by simply allowing unlimited filesharing? That way, although there system would actually allow a broader range of information transfer, the Napster system wouldn't be any more to fault for piracy than a college network. That's not to say that college networks don't corner the market on piracy, but what business has ever sued A school for MP3 distribution? By this means, Napster could split of lists of files by their file type and create ways to trade a number of other useful media too.
Those who use the word "bravado" rarely have very much of it.
We've all heard the suggestion that people are not really mammals but some sort of bacteria or virus. It was mentioned in the matrix which I'm sure many of us have seen. The idea though, of fixing what you argue to be the problem of the "starving millions" by simply sapping the resources from another planet is not a solution. It's a rather abhorent idea at that. if "the more we prop these people up, the more they are going to have more poor starving children, creating a vicious cycle" is happening on Earth, how do you intend to solve that problem by EXPANDING it to another planet? Perhaps some/. readers have read "The Story of B" which suggests that certain forms of exploitative agriculture have actually created a world that cause the population booms and starvation we have seen? The suggestion of moving the starving to another location so that we as a species begin our "vicious cycle" of sapping the land and moving on when there are not enough resources for our expanded populus is just a little bit too close to borg/sci-fi dystopia for me to handle.
Those who use the world "bravado" rarely have very much of it.
There are all sorts of programs available for finding and killing cookies. Are there network sniffing resources that can detect and report this sort of thing? Maybe even catch and kill them on their way out? A little program like this would be a good way to catch more programs like this before they've been circulated to > 69 Million users.
In America, there are 160 million people wearing either glasses or contacts. (TIME, 1999) There are two different forms of laser surgery. One is called "PRK", which stands for "photorefractive keratectomy", and the other is called "LASIK", which stands for "laser in situ Keratomileusis". There are some fundamental differences between these two procedures. Basically, the PRK method is used most often on smaller, less drastic eye corrections. It has virtually no human involvement (there are no cuts made by a doctor because only a machine does any slicing) but it has a longer recovery period. LASIK is used for more drastic changes in vision quality and has a faster recovery period. This procedure depends more on the doctor making cuts, so there is more need to be absolutely sure that the doctor is experienced with this particular treatment. A basic thing to be concerned about is actually, it turns out, the software used for the laser path. Depending who you go to, newer software will be available for better vision. This cost is, of course, passed on to the patient which is something else to consider. If you are interested in seeing a photo essay example of LASIK surgery, that is available here. And for those squeamish folks out there, these are illustrations. No blood, no gore. Check it out.
I'm going to point out something here that may at first seem rather obvious. Because of legal judgements like this, we can never become the Star Trek world. Though I don't want to step on any toes, it has always appeared to me that Star Trek 'The Next Generation' was the most ideal of the differing Star Trek television programs. I watched more of that than the others, so I'll speak from what I know here. The Government no longer needed money because people no longer really needed to buy stuff. They could pretty much replicate whatever they wanted from energy. Do you see where I'm going here? It may seem obvious that we may never have a commander of a starship who fights aliens bare-handed and gets laid by blue and green chicks every other episode, but has it occurred to anyone that in the evolving world of nanotechnology and replicatable software, it's never going to fly to make free copies of stuff? If we ever have replicators, they will infringe on so many patents and copywrites that we will never be able to use them legally. We have already reached that point with software. If we want to make copies of stuff that we purchased(other than copylefted stuff), we are most likely violating the law. We are on our way (or may have already gotten there) to Selfishland. Not to be the proverbial pinko, but isn't this all about sharing? My argument for the illegal copying and distributing of mp3s (which I, of course, would _never_ consider doing myself) is that causing musicians to make less money through music creates less of a commercial, monetary influence, and more of a creative, from the heart influence. I stated this to my father. His comment was that musicians would stop making music if they couldn't make money. I seriously doubt that. Music wouldn't have occured in the first place if it required money as a fuel. So how does this apply to software? If all software is free, will only true artists make software? Will there still be a thriving market for business applications if all business software is pirated? In my eyes, what made Star Trek so great was that it was all about artists. People with totally unselfish curiousity doing things because it was in there heart to do so. I guess I'm just talking about the federation here. How would our world change if the only contributions to it came from artists? Are we making a world safe for artists with all this selfishness and greediness, or do we only hear about the 'musicians' who are good businessmen who know what demographic they are playing to? It is my perspective that in a long term view, it is irresponsible and damaging to create a world where piracy is illegal. Theft is wrong... piracy is a good idea.
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Personally, I think Cousin It would have been an astute example. That dude loved to party. He must have lost a few guinness' in his day.
"Either leave an impact on the world, or leave the world on impact." -- Jeffrey Trompeter
Do everyone a favor. if you plan to spam, aim it at the main article and not at this post. If you actually have something to say, reply to this message and change the Subject to whatever you want.
-- Life is like a line of waiting taxi cabs pulled up to the curb in front of a fancy hotel. You never know which raving lunatic is going to get you to your destination - or for that matter, whether you'll get your destination at all." (www.myboot.com)--
It looks like there was some sort of mass troll flood. All of the messages hit at 10:32 pm and it looks like they came from some sort of list of statements. I see over 900 listed as of 9:57 PST. This is bullshit. How are moderates supposed to find this message? I am going to start a message thread called "THIS IS NOT SPAM" someone mod it up so that there is a thread people can go to and discount the other stuff. hopefully the spammers are finished for the night.
Artist's conception of International Space Station BURNING IN HELL.
When I first heard about "Geeks In Space" I was really excited because I thought it would be a cool way to hear about all of the other cool stuff you guys read about but can't put up on the front page because you don't have either enough time or enough space for it. Instead what I found was what felt to me like a text-to-speech of the front page with some creative editing and interesting soundbites. But /. is here so that I can read it. So why confront the same issues and news blurbs in the same depth in audio? Why not use "Geeks In Space" to step outside of the regular bounds of slashdot so that it's actually something that readers haven't already heard about? I can understand the difficulty in the logistics of showing readers all of the submissions, but it's pretty obvious from this turnout that we have a lot of curiousity in the ain't-it-too-bad-this-didn't-make-it-to-the-front- page-dept.
Something that I always found odd about Napster was that the file content one shared was limited to MP3s. Sure, that is the most likely thing to be traded, but couldn't they have avoided all of this by simply allowing unlimited filesharing? That way, although there system would actually allow a broader range of information transfer, the Napster system wouldn't be any more to fault for piracy than a college network. That's not to say that college networks don't corner the market on piracy, but what business has ever sued A school for MP3 distribution? By this means, Napster could split of lists of files by their file type and create ways to trade a number of other useful media too.
Those who use the word "bravado" rarely have very much of it.
We've all heard the suggestion that people are not really mammals but some sort of bacteria or virus. It was mentioned in the matrix which I'm sure many of us have seen. The idea though, of fixing what you argue to be the problem of the "starving millions" by simply sapping the resources from another planet is not a solution. It's a rather abhorent idea at that. if "the more we prop these people up, the more they are going to have more poor starving children, creating a vicious cycle" is happening on Earth, how do you intend to solve that problem by EXPANDING it to another planet? Perhaps some /. readers have read "The Story of B" which suggests that certain forms of exploitative agriculture have actually created a world that cause the population booms and starvation we have seen? The suggestion of moving the starving to another location so that we as a species begin our "vicious cycle" of sapping the land and moving on when there are not enough resources for our expanded populus is just a little bit too close to borg/sci-fi dystopia for me to handle.
Those who use the world "bravado" rarely have very much of it.
There are all sorts of programs available for finding and killing cookies. Are there network sniffing resources that can detect and report this sort of thing? Maybe even catch and kill them on their way out? A little program like this would be a good way to catch more programs like this before they've been circulated to > 69 Million users.
for the Spin Doctor attorneys at M$... perhaps they would benefit from a giftwrapped case of Penguin Mints, compliments of /.?
In America, there are 160 million people wearing either glasses or contacts. (TIME, 1999) There are two different forms of laser surgery. One is called "PRK", which stands for "photorefractive keratectomy", and the other is called "LASIK", which stands for "laser in situ Keratomileusis". There are some fundamental differences between these two procedures. Basically, the PRK method is used most often on smaller, less drastic eye corrections. It has virtually no human involvement (there are no cuts made by a doctor because only a machine does any slicing) but it has a longer recovery period. LASIK is used for more drastic changes in vision quality and has a faster recovery period. This procedure depends more on the doctor making cuts, so there is more need to be absolutely sure that the doctor is experienced with this particular treatment. A basic thing to be concerned about is actually, it turns out, the software used for the laser path. Depending who you go to, newer software will be available for better vision. This cost is, of course, passed on to the patient which is something else to consider. If you are interested in seeing a photo essay example of LASIK surgery, that is available here. And for those squeamish folks out there, these are illustrations. No blood, no gore. Check it out.
I'm going to point out something here that may at first seem rather obvious. Because of legal judgements like this, we can never become the Star Trek world.
Though I don't want to step on any toes, it has always appeared to me that Star Trek 'The Next Generation' was the most ideal of the differing Star Trek television programs. I watched more of that than the others, so I'll speak from what I know here. The Government no longer needed money because people no longer really needed to buy stuff. They could pretty much replicate whatever they wanted from energy. Do you see where I'm going here?
It may seem obvious that we may never have a commander of a starship who fights aliens bare-handed and gets laid by blue and green chicks every other episode, but has it occurred to anyone that in the evolving world of nanotechnology and replicatable software, it's never going to fly to make free copies of stuff?
If we ever have replicators, they will infringe on so many patents and copywrites that we will never be able to use them legally. We have already reached that point with software. If we want to make copies of stuff that we purchased(other than copylefted stuff), we are most likely violating the law. We are on our way (or may have already gotten there) to Selfishland. Not to be the proverbial pinko, but isn't this all about sharing? My argument for the illegal copying and distributing of mp3s (which I, of course, would _never_ consider doing myself) is that causing musicians to make less money through music creates less of a commercial, monetary influence, and more of a creative, from the heart influence. I stated this to my father. His comment was that musicians would stop making music if they couldn't make money. I seriously doubt that. Music wouldn't have occured in the first place if it required money as a fuel. So how does this apply to software? If all software is free, will only true artists make software? Will there still be a thriving market for business applications if all business software is pirated?
In my eyes, what made Star Trek so great was that it was all about artists. People with totally unselfish curiousity doing things because it was in there heart to do so. I guess I'm just talking about the federation here. How would our world change if the only contributions to it came from artists? Are we making a world safe for artists with all this selfishness and greediness, or do we only hear about the 'musicians' who are good businessmen who know what demographic they are playing to? It is my perspective that in a long term view, it is irresponsible and damaging to create a world where piracy is illegal. Theft is wrong... piracy is a good idea.