I work at Secured eMail... unfortunately we HAVE to use Windows, but I'm pushing for atleast ONE server as Debian every frickin' day.
Oh, and I'm part of the "slashdot crowd", btw.
The first thing I do, is to change from IE to Opera.
Am I like the ONLY person who has never had any issues with screwed up websites? The few that I have had issues with, have had the same errors in Firefox, Amaya, Nutscape and IE.
Yea okay, so now they've arrested a few more of our so called "public enemies". Great. Why, again?
We hear how much money these huge corporations are losing every day, yet noone bothers to check the facts.
The very few facts that actually DO exist (companies don't feel like publishing their own investigations for some reason...) shows that the music industry are losing a small or no percentage of their yearly profits. Why? Well, you listen to cd more than once.
Movies, however, is a different story, and I can only speak for myself.
If I download a movie, I do that because I would never go see it in theatres anyways, so the movie industry aren't losing money they wouldn't "lose" anyways.
So, games, then? Again, I can only speak for myself, and I never play games that doesn't have multiplay online, and those always demand a cd-key, so I buy those.
Since I switched to linux a few years ago though, I have only played Quake III - which I bought, and haven't downlaoded or played another game since.
I guess we should arrest Linux Thorvalds for creating Linux in the first place, since I'm not using an OS that is supported by most games. Maybe we should arrest the developers behind Doom3 because they DIDN'T support linux?
No wait, I got it. Lets arrest me, because I dont use that pathetic excuse for an Operating System anymore.
Did you even read the article?
It doesnt say precisely that we should outlaw p2p - it says we should outlaw the applications that benefit from it by inducing "children" into the art of stealing. Yea, right. The children in this matter, is everyone I guess. There's not a living soul on this planet (with an internet connection, that is,) that hasn't atleast tried P2P to download *whatever*.
But that wasn't my point... I get the hypicrisy on this, just like you do - but you took it to the somewhat extreme. Like the article said, its a "narrow" focus - which will expand after a while, I'm sure. But not so far that it would actually hurt companies like MS - unfortunately.
True though, P2P is a part of todays perception of freedom. I recently got a letter from Telia, saying I had been serving the movie "Secret Windows" - which I havent. However, a friend of mine hooked his laptop up to my net a few weeks ago, and he might have. I donno. Pisses me off though that I'm not able to use whatever protocol I want without being scanned.
Being a free world (right...) and all, should we discuss invasion of privacy? Because I could probably go on for ages... Why do I feel like reading a senators email...
Since the site went down, I feel bad for people, so here's another casemod that really shows how much work that goes into it... Here ya are, the Blackmesa Case Mod
As far as I'm concerned, the only 'real' reason to use an alternative to MS's pathetic excuse for an OS, is that its simply better. That I dont agree with MS's way of doing things, might also play a role in my chosing of OS. I've been running Debian Gnu/Linux for about 2 years, and I'm never turning away.
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I work at Secured eMail... unfortunately we HAVE to use Windows, but I'm pushing for atleast ONE server as Debian every frickin' day. Oh, and I'm part of the "slashdot crowd", btw.
The first thing I do, is to change from IE to Opera.
Am I like the ONLY person who has never had any issues with screwed up websites? The few that I have had issues with, have had the same errors in Firefox, Amaya, Nutscape and IE.
Actually, IE usually have even more issues...
I wonder how much money she received to write that poem...
Was that a reply to my post? Coz it doesn't look that way... I barely mentioned gamez
Yea okay, so now they've arrested a few more of our so called "public enemies". Great. Why, again?
We hear how much money these huge corporations are losing every day, yet noone bothers to check the facts.
The very few facts that actually DO exist (companies don't feel like publishing their own investigations for some reason...) shows that the music industry are losing a small or no percentage of their yearly profits. Why? Well, you listen to cd more than once.
Movies, however, is a different story, and I can only speak for myself.
If I download a movie, I do that because I would never go see it in theatres anyways, so the movie industry aren't losing money they wouldn't "lose" anyways.
So, games, then? Again, I can only speak for myself, and I never play games that doesn't have multiplay online, and those always demand a cd-key, so I buy those.
Since I switched to linux a few years ago though, I have only played Quake III - which I bought, and haven't downlaoded or played another game since.
I guess we should arrest Linux Thorvalds for creating Linux in the first place, since I'm not using an OS that is supported by most games. Maybe we should arrest the developers behind Doom3 because they DIDN'T support linux?
No wait, I got it. Lets arrest me, because I dont use that pathetic excuse for an Operating System anymore.
Did you even read the article? It doesnt say precisely that we should outlaw p2p - it says we should outlaw the applications that benefit from it by inducing "children" into the art of stealing. Yea, right. The children in this matter, is everyone I guess. There's not a living soul on this planet (with an internet connection, that is,) that hasn't atleast tried P2P to download *whatever*.
But that wasn't my point... I get the hypicrisy on this, just like you do - but you took it to the somewhat extreme. Like the article said, its a "narrow" focus - which will expand after a while, I'm sure. But not so far that it would actually hurt companies like MS - unfortunately.
True though, P2P is a part of todays perception of freedom. I recently got a letter from Telia, saying I had been serving the movie "Secret Windows" - which I havent. However, a friend of mine hooked his laptop up to my net a few weeks ago, and he might have. I donno. Pisses me off though that I'm not able to use whatever protocol I want without being scanned.
Being a free world (right...) and all, should we discuss invasion of privacy? Because I could probably go on for ages... Why do I feel like reading a senators email...
I got; slashdot2004 / slashdot2004 ... Guess there are more than one then..
Which I now see has already been featured in a previous article on Slashdot... sry.
Since the site went down, I feel bad for people, so here's another casemod that really shows how much work that goes into it... Here ya are, the Blackmesa Case Mod
hahaha... But yea, thats most likely the way it would go ;)
As far as I'm concerned, the only 'real' reason to use an alternative to MS's pathetic excuse for an OS, is that its simply better. That I dont agree with MS's way of doing things, might also play a role in my chosing of OS.
I've been running Debian Gnu/Linux for about 2 years, and I'm never turning away.