Front page has a look at rise of the triads, a really really cool game which I forgot how much I missed playing. 10 years old today! (If you are ROTT, remember this?
I also miss Quarantine and DOTT. aaah Quarantine... bliss... remake? yeah!!
ROTT source!!!11 I miss gaming on a 486... using '-'-'-'-' to shrink the screen so you would have a decent framerate!!!
Not one damn link! NOT ONE DAMN LINK. Have they even heard of the world-wide-fucking-web? it is like the www but it has damn links!!
Here are some links for your guys, since the pineapple fuckers who wrote this article didn't have the courtesy to link to the companies they wrote about (I haven't seen a news article without links in it since 1994, and these fuckers have that shit green underline context shit, I hope adblock can shag that to hell once day).
Do you define it as online content? a technology? chronological postings of data? or just something that has a 'layout' and a 'republish' button.
One more reason to hate blogs: they cloud issues.
This is not about blogging, this is about freedom of speech and how it pertains to online sources of speech (textm video, flash media etc).
How to real world laws translate, etc etc. I know nothing about the apple versus thinksecret (except for the/. articles I browsed) but I realise it has a greater consequence
Sorry to add anything insightful to this thread but:
You do not shit out everything in one go, assuming you eat more than one meal in a 9 hour time slot.
An urban-myth (is there a word for things that are ture, but people think they are urban-myths? anti-myths?) type figure says that between 5lbs and 8lbs of partially digested red meat is lodged in your intestinal tract after the age of 50.
So well, again, I apologise for sounding too involved with this... quick someone post goatse so we can get back to regular/. viewing! (and apologise to any mod who has to spend points modding down anyone who *does* post goatse!)
If all blogs are journals and all blogging is journalism, then any blog is a journal and some journals are blogs. poppycock.
The worst thing is DEFINE A 'BLOG
[inserting insightful bit here] What you have to say is, not is blogging journalism, that is a VERY (yes bold and caps) narrow view of the problem, what we need to ask is, are peoples views, opinions, assertions, quips, IM's, emails, leaked documents, etc. etc. protected by any laws. Take fuckmicrosoft.com, it'd be a damn shame if the content of that wasn't protected.
Also, The idea of a 'trade secret'. Who defined what was a secret, and it isn't a secret when it is leaked. I think the notion of throwing the legal system at someone to make them rat on someone else is flawed.
Someone screwed you over, and told a secret, deal with it. It could have been conjecture. It is like plagiarism. If I get 1 million monkeys to write longhorn (I would have to head hunt them from thier current position... which is at redmond!) is that protected? copied?
This whole article looks different if you replace 'blog' with 'webpage'.
The word blog clouds and distorts the real question - blogging is a technology, and an ill defined one at that. Is a forum a blog?
I think the clearer question is are sites like/. allowed to be 'clear carrier' (what is the term?) sites, where they are 100% unedited - thus are just providing a forum of communication, like a telcom.
So once again, I ask, define blogging.
You cannot, you see. Is a blog something with *blog* in the url? is a blog a technology? is my task applciation a blog? I can easily add new 'posts' to it by adding tasks...
What is a blog, and what is a normal website? This is the problem you get by sticking naems to things, and then bending and misusing them.
The whole web has become a 'blog' because the simplest lowest common denominator for simple posting is currently marketted under the buzzword 'blog'.
Which I hate.
Blog software in general is very convoluted, all these really narky features that I will never (And don't want to) understand. I hate how they are overly-flirtatious with google.
OK enough with blog bashing. Ill pad the top of the comment with something insightful.
as others point out... there is a certain land rush in open source projects when they become uber sucessful, there is a lot of credit and prestige.
However, the good news... if it annoys me I can just copy my own cvs onto a server in the mountains somewhere and live like a ludite.
I can then make my own team of crack developers from random foliage I find in the frozen tundra, and pretend to shoot black suited NSA types with sticks and stuff.
This does bring up the serious aspects of the meritocracy of OS development... it needs management - as long as the world tried to download src/build from mizilla.org, then the people who 'own' that particular development branch, and manage it, will attract community developers.
If another project (k-meleon) that uses the similar code base or gecko (after all, gecko is the thing we love most, firefox isn't actually that hot a browser) wants to become more popular, fine.
I would say that would be a Mr Torvalds if-you-please.
I woudl certainly say it was the best thing Microsoft have done for linux so far, I mean, spending all that money to legitimise and place such great precedent for future generations of linux users.
Lets all not forget to thank bill and his minions next time we fire up tux racer!
I heard recently (on/.?) that people who are 60 today may be the first people to hit 100 years old (based on a 0.001 % chance of dying each year - hence non-auto-mortal)
So in 20-25 they may bring together all reverse aging/ageing techniques.
Some harsh warning labels actually say that doing XYZ can/will kill you.
My new 'build you own nuclear bomb' webpage is legal in Australia, except the part that says 'warning detonation of this bomb while you are within a 12 mile radius can be immediately life threatening' (hence you can suicide)
Now this site is so illegal I get a bone everytime I code html for it. I hope someone sues me so I can run a loki-like fun raiser!:D
That hole in the ozone must be meddling with thier heads!
Strewth! (I love.au! I pick it as a mirror from sf.net even tho' I am.eu, because I love it so much!!11)
I think they mean sites that say 'how to commit suicide in a painless way, what documents you should sort out, and what life insurance is good' and then walk people through with warm words of encouragement.
I'd love one of these sites to get sued by an unhappy customer who failed in his quest becuase step 5 was badly written!:-) lol. or not.
Probably none, depending on your definition of tossed.
Hear me out.
This is either a one off or a short run. And in these one off's short runs (if full scale production hasn't already started - if it has tweaks have been made) are run slower, with more supervision, and components are probably prechecked as they go in, so they can fully appreciate the production mechanisms.
The prototypes and previous designs, do you count them as 'tossed' because of production errors?
In the full scale run, I am sure they will aim to minimise the error rates to the same or less (because higher value goods) of the other TFT's.
Also, bigger size != more pixels, this is the same old HD resolution, and larger components (pixels) can be produced more reliably.
Wow I didn't mention spam and 82" anywhere in my post... damn.
OK. You cannot sue http is someone downloads something illegal on a website, and good websites do not legitimise http.
If slashdot was around all-those-years-ago:
"Legal ftp sites may defend/legitimise ftp protocol!!11"
Of course, the world is a much different palce, but it would be crazier than a female to try and block a protocol...
Perhaps I am just to scared to admit the truth of the situation... but please, saying legal torrent sites are legal, and then asking if this means the illegal ones were illegal (which has nothing to do with the underlying protocol) is silly.
Especially if you do so in the context of the protocol.
Bittorrent is a technology that is good regardless os legality or not.
A well made gun is a well made gun if it is used legally or not.
A Ferrari is a pretty nifty car if you drive it legally, or if you kill an entire small country with your drunk driving.
I think that covers it in the 'far reaching and barely parallelis^Hzable metaphor' department.
Dude, what does mine say? Sweet, what does mine say? Dude! What does mine say? Sweet!! What does mine say? Dude!! What does mine say? Sweet!!! What does mine say?
I am making a new tin foil hat, this is a great little consiracy, starring P2P, nasty corps, gullible donators, and a rambuncious kid getting rich!
RIAA haven't got a clue who they sued, for all they know they might have sued him, but don't know.
Or they thought, heck, we know we aren't suing him, let him do this, and it'll save us the legal costs! Heck we can tell our tax man we *did* sue him, and then maybe another one of our films can scrape by into the black?
If you drive a company by profits, you can die by profits. If you drive a company by 'maximize shareholder wealth' it depends what that means.
Profits are fundamentally important. But Starbucks is profit driven *after* is was coffee driven, and after it spread because its coffee was good, or was it because people will drink anything if it is 10 ft closer than the next place?
Anyway, I always thought the customer played a part somewhere in the equation, at least in the long run.
It will never be bye bye microsoft, but it will be bye bye M$ (as in the monolithic monopoly of today), it'll take 15-20 years, but I can wait. (except if they can really hijack legalities like the Telcos and the VoIP's and the FCC.)
already happening with video tranmissions (see EFF's DIY tv, I panicked and almost bout a pcHDTV3000 but realised I don't live in a broadcast flag country.
What is the.eu status on HDTV and broadcast flag?
This is certainly illegal... what am I saying, paying someone to pass a law that will force people to use your technology, and waste tax dollars that was is not illegal!
It is perfectly normal in every country in the world. *sigh*
Free WiFi is coming, but also is a EULA that will forbid the running of open WAP's, and TV license type wardrivers will roam the streets looking for your open access, and then fire a code at your box and KILL IT AND YOU AND THEN BURN DOWN YOUR BUILDING! This is the Neal Stephenson future of tomorrow, even though he is a dick writer and I don't like his books, he is a handy name tag to such corporate antics.
I like his lengthy disclaimers on how he claims to have thought of ideas, but actually didn't, who cares, look it is ok to write books using pre-existing technology and ideas. I liked parts of his books.
I know who I won't be buying my next virus tool from, currently I am using the 'common sense' virus scanner, it even detects viruses that no other system knows about, basically any bin file I don't trust!
Slashdot Mirror
Worth checking out the links I posted:
3D Realms
Front page has a look at rise of the triads, a really really cool game which I forgot how much I missed playing. 10 years old today! (If you are ROTT, remember this?
I also miss Quarantine and DOTT. aaah Quarantine... bliss... remake? yeah!!
ROTT source!!!11 I miss gaming on a 486... using '-'-'-'-' to shrink the screen so you would have a decent framerate!!!
(Since there is no such thing as 'karma-whoring' anymore, I can safely tell you why I am posting these two simple links)
;-)
;-)
Links:
Meqon - the dudes with the rigid bodies!
3D Realms, the home of Duke Nukem FOREVAR!
Not one damn link! NOT ONE DAMN LINK. Have they even heard of the world-wide-fucking-web? it is like the www but it has damn links!!
Here are some links for your guys, since the pineapple fuckers who wrote this article didn't have the courtesy to link to the companies they wrote about (I haven't seen a news article without links in it since 1994, and these fuckers have that shit green underline context shit, I hope adblock can shag that to hell once day).
Links:
Meqon - the dudes with the rigid bodies!
3D Realms, the home of Duke Nukem FOREVAR!
Hope that helps.
But, what is a blog?
/. articles I browsed) but I realise it has a greater consequence
Do you define it as online content? a technology? chronological postings of data? or just something that has a 'layout' and a 'republish' button.
One more reason to hate blogs: they cloud issues.
This is not about blogging, this is about freedom of speech and how it pertains to online sources of speech (textm video, flash media etc).
How to real world laws translate, etc etc. I know nothing about the apple versus thinksecret (except for the
Sorry to add anything insightful to this thread but:
/. viewing! (and apologise to any mod who has to spend points modding down anyone who *does* post goatse!)
You do not shit out everything in one go, assuming you eat more than one meal in a 9 hour time slot.
An urban-myth (is there a word for things that are ture, but people think they are urban-myths? anti-myths?) type figure says that between 5lbs and 8lbs of partially digested red meat is lodged in your intestinal tract after the age of 50.
So well, again, I apologise for sounding too involved with this... quick someone post goatse so we can get back to regular
Is blogging journalism?
/. allowed to be 'clear carrier' (what is the term?) sites, where they are 100% unedited - thus are just providing a forum of communication, like a telcom.
If all blogs are journals and all blogging is journalism, then any blog is a journal and some journals are blogs. poppycock.
The worst thing is DEFINE A 'BLOG
[inserting insightful bit here] What you have to say is, not is blogging journalism, that is a VERY (yes bold and caps) narrow view of the problem, what we need to ask is, are peoples views, opinions, assertions, quips, IM's, emails, leaked documents, etc. etc. protected by any laws. Take fuckmicrosoft.com, it'd be a damn shame if the content of that wasn't protected.
Also, The idea of a 'trade secret'. Who defined what was a secret, and it isn't a secret when it is leaked. I think the notion of throwing the legal system at someone to make them rat on someone else is flawed.
Someone screwed you over, and told a secret, deal with it. It could have been conjecture. It is like plagiarism. If I get 1 million monkeys to write longhorn (I would have to head hunt them from thier current position... which is at redmond!) is that protected? copied?
This whole article looks different if you replace 'blog' with 'webpage'.
The word blog clouds and distorts the real question - blogging is a technology, and an ill defined one at that. Is a forum a blog?
I think the clearer question is are sites like
So once again, I ask, define blogging.
You cannot, you see. Is a blog something with *blog* in the url? is a blog a technology? is my task applciation a blog? I can easily add new 'posts' to it by adding tasks...
What is a blog, and what is a normal website? This is the problem you get by sticking naems to things, and then bending and misusing them.
The whole web has become a 'blog' because the simplest lowest common denominator for simple posting is currently marketted under the buzzword 'blog'.
Which I hate.
Blog software in general is very convoluted, all these really narky features that I will never (And don't want to) understand. I hate how they are overly-flirtatious with google.
OK enough with blog bashing. Ill pad the top of the comment with something insightful.
Wouldn't it be funny if the whole SCO debacle really had been engineered by MSFT?
/. you know!! ;-) [check sibling for link]
They do say fact is stranger than fiction... you wouldn't believe....
You should read
as others point out... there is a certain land rush in open source projects when they become uber sucessful, there is a lot of credit and prestige.
However, the good news... if it annoys me I can just copy my own cvs onto a server in the mountains somewhere and live like a ludite.
I can then make my own team of crack developers from random foliage I find in the frozen tundra, and pretend to shoot black suited NSA types with sticks and stuff.
This does bring up the serious aspects of the meritocracy of OS development... it needs management - as long as the world tried to download src/build from mizilla.org, then the people who 'own' that particular development branch, and manage it, will attract community developers.
If another project (k-meleon) that uses the similar code base or gecko (after all, gecko is the thing we love most, firefox isn't actually that hot a browser) wants to become more popular, fine.
If my PyroBox (firefox clone) is better, fine.
That is open source kids!!
Now where did I leave my gun.
I would say that would be a Mr Torvalds if-you-please.
I woudl certainly say it was the best thing Microsoft have done for linux so far, I mean, spending all that money to legitimise and place such great precedent for future generations of linux users.
Lets all not forget to thank bill and his minions next time we fire up tux racer!
adios.
...this is old news...
/.?) that people who are 60 today may be the first people to hit 100 years old (based on a 0.001 % chance of dying each year - hence non-auto-mortal)
I heard recently (on
So in 20-25 they may bring together all reverse aging/ageing techniques.
I say MILF sites will have to be redefined!
Some harsh warning labels actually say that doing XYZ can/will kill you.
:D
.au! I pick it as a mirror from sf.net even tho' I am .eu, because I love it so much!!11)
:-) lol. or not.
My new 'build you own nuclear bomb' webpage is legal in Australia, except the part that says 'warning detonation of this bomb while you are within a 12 mile radius can be immediately life threatening' (hence you can suicide)
Now this site is so illegal I get a bone everytime I code html for it. I hope someone sues me so I can run a loki-like fun raiser!
That hole in the ozone must be meddling with thier heads!
Strewth! (I love
I think they mean sites that say 'how to commit suicide in a painless way, what documents you should sort out, and what life insurance is good' and then walk people through with warm words of encouragement.
I'd love one of these sites to get sued by an unhappy customer who failed in his quest becuase step 5 was badly written!
Probably none, depending on your definition of tossed.
Hear me out.
This is either a one off or a short run. And in these one off's short runs (if full scale production hasn't already started - if it has tweaks have been made) are run slower, with more supervision, and components are probably prechecked as they go in, so they can fully appreciate the production mechanisms.
The prototypes and previous designs, do you count them as 'tossed' because of production errors?
In the full scale run, I am sure they will aim to minimise the error rates to the same or less (because higher value goods) of the other TFT's.
Also, bigger size != more pixels, this is the same old HD resolution, and larger components (pixels) can be produced more reliably.
Wow I didn't mention spam and 82" anywhere in my post... damn.
...if the admin uses Outlook (on a diff machine):
Subject: "I hax0r3d your box!11"
Dear adm1n, I hjax0red your l1nu> box, look at the attached screensh00t as pr00f!!!
h4x0r3d.vbs.exe.scr.pif.dll.bat
Look at the pic and I will hack^H^H^H^H show you!!
Yours
skr1pt k1|)|)1e
PS: I am tha l33ts7 I even misp4ll l36t words.
Bittorrent is a protocol.
OK. You cannot sue http is someone downloads something illegal on a website, and good websites do not legitimise http.
If slashdot was around all-those-years-ago:
"Legal ftp sites may defend/legitimise ftp protocol!!11"
Of course, the world is a much different palce, but it would be crazier than a female to try and block a protocol...
Perhaps I am just to scared to admit the truth of the situation... but please, saying legal torrent sites are legal, and then asking if this means the illegal ones were illegal (which has nothing to do with the underlying protocol) is silly.
Especially if you do so in the context of the protocol.
Bittorrent is a technology that is good regardless os legality or not.
A well made gun is a well made gun if it is used legally or not.
A Ferrari is a pretty nifty car if you drive it legally, or if you kill an entire small country with your drunk driving.
I think that covers it in the 'far reaching and barely parallelis^Hzable metaphor' department.
My spacebar sticks.
so what's your beef?
/.'ter where his meat products are kept could result in some disturbing answers.
becomes:
so where's the beef?
Asking a
Although 'what's your beef' does have a 15% share of the google results versus 'where's the beef', so you are not alone.
Dude, what does mine say?
Sweet, what does mine say?
Dude! What does mine say?
Sweet!! What does mine say?
Dude!! What does mine say?
Sweet!!! What does mine say?
I try and sleep instead of working, but sometimes I forget to turn off the monitor, so maybe it doesn't count?
From the fell-asleep-at-the-keyboard department
... Mod parent up!
(ok, had to provide some case evidence!)
Then wonders why RAMBUS would be worried about suing a non-existent company!
SCO, Infinium, in the same story, that would have been wierd!
Sorry I should read slashdot more often... (is this good or bad news? I forget which side to cheer for sometimes!)
I am making a new tin foil hat, this is a great little consiracy, starring P2P, nasty corps, gullible donators, and a rambuncious kid getting rich!
RIAA haven't got a clue who they sued, for all they know they might have sued him, but don't know.
Or they thought, heck, we know we aren't suing him, let him do this, and it'll save us the legal costs! Heck we can tell our tax man we *did* sue him, and then maybe another one of our films can scrape by into the black?
Notice your quote doesn't say they actually sued.
Because my logic centers are still functioning.
If you drive a company by profits, you can die by profits. If you drive a company by 'maximize shareholder wealth' it depends what that means.
Profits are fundamentally important. But Starbucks is profit driven *after* is was coffee driven, and after it spread because its coffee was good, or was it because people will drink anything if it is 10 ft closer than the next place?
Anyway, I always thought the customer played a part somewhere in the equation, at least in the long run.
It will never be bye bye microsoft, but it will be bye bye M$ (as in the monolithic monopoly of today), it'll take 15-20 years, but I can wait. (except if they can really hijack legalities like the Telcos and the VoIP's and the FCC.)
I mean, won't they take away the attention from each other? ...or maybe converge attention in a tigher spotlight previously unknown to mankind.
Maybe they are going to spend some wang on the launch, and want to smoke to ferrets with one stone in the bush. Or something to that effect.
Also, 1st to market might play something for dual core.
Was I the only one who read the snippet as:
is planning to release both it's dual-core desktop and mobile chips AT THE SAME TIME. [dun dun duuuun]
Well, it means I can upgrade my desky and lappy at the same time! joy!
already happening with video tranmissions (see EFF's DIY tv, I panicked and almost bout a pcHDTV3000 but realised I don't live in a broadcast flag country.
.eu status on HDTV and broadcast flag?
What is the
This is certainly illegal... what am I saying, paying someone to pass a law that will force people to use your technology, and waste tax dollars that was is not illegal!
It is perfectly normal in every country in the world. *sigh*
Free WiFi is coming, but also is a EULA that will forbid the running of open WAP's, and TV license type wardrivers will roam the streets looking for your open access, and then fire a code at your box and KILL IT AND YOU AND THEN BURN DOWN YOUR BUILDING! This is the Neal Stephenson future of tomorrow, even though he is a dick writer and I don't like his books, he is a handy name tag to such corporate antics.
I like his lengthy disclaimers on how he claims to have thought of ideas, but actually didn't, who cares, look it is ok to write books using pre-existing technology and ideas. I liked parts of his books.
OK I have no more OnTopic to add.
Sue the virus writters for patent infringment!
clever!
I know who I won't be buying my next virus tool from, currently I am using the 'common sense' virus scanner, it even detects viruses that no other system knows about, basically any bin file I don't trust!
hurrah.
$20 to unflag your box. good. I love the black market.
Kramer did it [watch out for the suites]. Just return to sender all thier mail, but smear it with shit first.