That's a really good point, one exacerbated by the profession of the accused; anyone with a youth related career (teacher, youth minister, psychologist, coach, &c.) would still receive a forcible and early retirement without condolences or concern.
However, i think about it and i realize that "Headline news: Alleged pedophile Joe Sixpack arrested and detained after revolutionary new feature in MSN allows users to report for soliciting sex from underaged kids." will be on the front page no matter what, so i don't know how much this new feature changes the status quo.
Yeay, that comment was supposed to be in response to this comment, rather than the one it's parented by currently; i probably clicked on the wrong link, but i choose to blame the slashdot moderators.
In the US we have something called 'filing a false police report' or something similar, and as i recall it actually has some pretty scary consequences associated with it, all things considered. It would stand to reason that the UK has something analogous.
Either since the day I visited my first aquarium or the day Goldie came into my family's life, our parents have told us not to tap the glass of the fish tank. It's cruel to Goldie -- I understand and respect that. I mean, heck, I am a vegetarian. But would we have many qualms over a little water perturbation if Goldie were, say, a bloodthirsty shark? I'd knock on that glass to the near-cracking point. And in that spirit, I decided to call up my new friend at the RIAA negotiation hotline again. (Hereafter I'll refer to her as Bowie, which means "yellow haired," as I'm pretty sure that's the case.)
Last time I spoke with Bowie, the conversation was pretty much over after she named $3750 as the settlement amount. (I haven't actually agreed to settle yet.) So when I called her again, I asked -- again -- about how to negotiate that amount. I counted on the fact that self-important types wouldn't be inclined to remember a lowly pirate like me. Bowie didn't disappoint. She launched into her spiel about how the RIAA doesn't negotiate settlements. I told her that it was too much to ask for thousands of dollars from a college student who only makes just enough from term and summer employment to still come out a couple thousand in debt.
Bowie replied that the RIAA was oh-so-kind enough to offer a six month repayment plan. At this point, I was beginning to speculate on Bowie's hair color, and decided to switch tactics. I concisely and calmly explained how the situation was ridiculous: they weren't offering a settlement, they were issuing an ultimatum! Let us screw you over gently now, or with chains and whips in court. Surely there must be some flexibility for individual cases.
Well, she replied, they do make allowances if something like a medical emergency comes up. Now we're getting somewhere. "And who would I talk to about a situation like that, because I'd like to talk to them now."
"Me," she replied. Ever feel like your nose has just been flattened by something large and solid? I mean, besides the doors at 77 Mass. Ave. "But you're not in a situation like that."
Oh, but I am. The Institvte has left me with severe bouts of p-set-induced insomnia and a case of stuck-to-desk-itis that recurs two to three times in a semester, then again just before break. And my wallet certainly takes a hit for it.
But as much as I tried to argue that I was in as unique a situation as someone with medical expenses, there was no getting through. Bowie even had the audacity to say, "In fact, the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford settlements."
Are. You. Shitting. Me.
There you have it, fellow Techsters: proof of the fantastic levels of absurdity to which the RIAA attack has sunk. The Recording Industry of America would rather see America's youth deprived of higher education, forever marring their ability to contribute personally and financially to society -- including the arts -- so that they may crucify us as examples to our peers. To say nothing of wrecking our lives in the process. I finally understand what the RIAA meant when they told me "stealing music is not a victimless crime" -- the victims hang for all to see.
Please, RIAA -- if any competent representative happens to enjoy flipping through The Tech -- please tell me Bowie is a moronic tool who can't help what the Superior Gray Coverage Golden Blonde hair dye does to her mental facilities. Please tell me you actually care about the futures of the age demographic that buys most of your music (http://www.riaa.com/news/marketingdata/pdf/2004co nsumerprofile.pdf). Your evil pirates are people too, people who enjoy music and almost always still purchase it legitimately. Each has an individual life and circumstances that deserve consideration, if not for the sake of empathy for your f
But to me that's the point of the IGF; to present games that might not make it in the mainstream. It's the perfect channel to present that kind of innovation -- the kind that might not necessarily go anywhere commercially, but is interesting and helps build a healthy industry nonetheless.
Otherwise, how will gaming evolve? Will it evolve? Or will we continue to see an industry dominated by FPS titles that succeed or fail based on how interesting and involving the plot is?
Reminds me of a cardgame called 'catholic school girls'; I think it could be interesting.
I have to say though that i was kindof disappointed in the amount of innovation. I would hope that at a festival like this games featuring interesting (original) gameplay and innovative controls, design, story lines, &c. would rise to the top. Those mentioned in the article, though novel, don't really inspire me. Though, it reminded me how much fun it would be to work for a game design house.
I know that everyone always says, "oh, every big company is pro-patent", &c. &c., but i have to say that it's nice to see that a company that's been burned by shaky patents (RIM) has decided to pursue / support the effort towards patent reform. I hope that they are able to do something good.
I gave my opinion, that he was right, but overly agressive. my opinion on your post is that you're sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and entirely too reactionary. As for that being your comment... well, the analysis was my comment.
My point is simple: people are too reactionary about certain issues; he's too reactionary, you're too reactionary. The way i make this point is through analysis.
It is people like you who irritate me because they think they can sue whoever they like - If you're waiting on an emergency phone call, then don't go into the building. If the company puts the sign up saying 'the paint is on' then that's your fault. The person putting on the paint is just following their boss' orders, he/she has no intent on blocking your emergency calls. If you're waiting for the baby to pop out, hang out with your pregnant girlfriend.
While i do think the parent is fairly aggressive, he's exactly right. While not everything need to be litigated, this is something that would need to be. So your statement regarding "think they can sue whoever they like" starts you off on a bad foot.
You continue to say, "If you're waiting on an emergency phone call"... This may be an attempt to characterize people who are on call, but that is a special case. What about parents who want a night out?
You continue, saying "If the company puts the sign up saying 'the paint is on' then that's your fault." Now, the parent poster explicitly said at the beginning of his post, "I would want to see warning signs posted at key places in buildings where this paint is used though"... so it's pretty clear that you didn't read the post accurately at all.
You then say, "The person putting on the paint is just following their boss' orders, he/she has no intent on blocking your emergency calls." You're absolutely right there, but then again the poster did say, "I might even sue the guy who applied the paint on the walls.." Which was clearly an editorial comment to emphasize how serious he is based on the *might* qualification. So you're guilty of reading that part way too literally.
To conclude, you say "If you're waiting for the baby to pop out, hang out with your pregnant girlfriend." I think this is a pretty poor attempt at implying that the poster is somehow morally deficient, which is clearly offtopic and irrelivant.
To conclude my post, you've made yourself a Troll and, though the moderators may not label you as such, I hope that you can refrain from posting such flamebait in the future.
keep in mind that the GPL really is just a template and that you can add or subtract clauses as you like. Many software packages do this, yielding licenses that are GPL compatible but either allow more permissive use or restrict certain uses.
The GPL is not, and never has been, a boilerplate that you must either accept or reject.
... by which he means to say (i believe) that Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and author of the GPL, was never connected to "Open Source" by anything but the licenses he has authored. Those who lump open source and free software together and then comment on the idealogy as though it's one homogenous crowd are making a logical error.
While Firefox is a memorable name, it seems like a loss not to take advantage of the Mozilla name recognition.
That's just crazy talk. In terms of branding the name 'Firefox' has what 'Mozilla' never really had: buzz. Even people that call IE "The internet" have heard about Firefox, even if they don't know what it is. Firefox, as a brand, has momentum.
They would be much better served if they called their organization "Mozilla", their stack of applications "the Mozilla Suite", and left the individual names alone.
AMD Turion 64 mobile technology models ML-37, ML-34, ML-32, ML-30, MT-34, MT-32, and MT-30 are priced at $354, $263, $220, $184, $268, $225 and $189 respectively, in 1,000-unit quantities.
Doesn't this seem like a high price for bulk chips?
It is true that primarily non-technical work is expected of students. It is also true that the majority of computer labs use primarily windows XP boxen. It is not true that non-technical students are required to use windows by necessity, policy, or even convenience.
Some misconceptions. First, Availability. Most universities use servers running commercial Unices. You can usually log into one or more of those servers to do common basic tasks, like read email. If you know what you're doing, you can of course use them for even more diverse tasks.
The University of Chicago (my alma mater) has dumb terminals in the lobby of most of the dorms. Almost every computer lab has a mac. The CS lab at the UofC is open to everyone, conveniently located, and is stocked with ~50 macs, ~20 linux machines, and no windows computers!
Second, expectations; professors do not care how they read your paper, they just care that they can read it and that it's layout conforms to guidelines. Print it out, send it in an email as a pdf, who cares? The professors don't.
The truth is that you are expected to be a platform agnostic in college. And THAT is what should perhaps be taught in school. If children want to become zealots or stay milquetoast later in life, that's fine. But why should we teach them to ignore an entire set of useful tools?
OK, first and foremost, that is one fucked up conversation... i mean, i couldn't handle that for more than 60 seconds before i went postal.
BUT you do have a point about taking the person out of salesperson. I mean, bottom line, can you or can you not force a design for AI not to lie? [I think] The answer is yes. Therefore, they would match the truly useful sales%(entity_type)s of our time; informative, helpful, without pressure.
It's all about the way Murphy MacManus (Norman Reedus) says, "Put it back on, you look fuckin' scary!" in his funny irish accent, just before the brothers and Rocco smash down the doors to the porn palace to do Vincenzo Lipazzi (Ron Jeremy). Reedus is referring to the Ski mask that Rocco made himself with very messy eye and mouth holes.
Think about it. A semi-intelligent entity of mechanical nature selling you something strikingly
similar to it, perhaps even built by it. The human analogy is a woman selling you her child, or a
child. it's a theme or idea that can be explored literarily with interesting results.
So, no, i'm not kidding you. And i'm not sure how your response was a response so much as a
generic post that could have gone anywhere.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeay! do away with the byte!
Also, i can't wait until we've got clockless quantum holographic computers booting off of non-volatile ramdisks and cooled by eskimo flatulence ...
By the way, your hover car is getting towed.
That's a really good point, one exacerbated by the profession of the accused; anyone with a youth related career (teacher, youth minister, psychologist, coach, &c.) would still receive a forcible and early retirement without condolences or concern.
However, i think about it and i realize that "Headline news: Alleged pedophile Joe Sixpack arrested and detained after revolutionary new feature in MSN allows users to report for soliciting sex from underaged kids." will be on the front page no matter what, so i don't know how much this new feature changes the status quo.
Yeay, that comment was supposed to be in response to this comment, rather than the one it's parented by currently; i probably clicked on the wrong link, but i choose to blame the slashdot moderators.
stupid moderators <grumble, grumble, grumble ... >
In the US we have something called 'filing a false police report' or something similar, and as i recall it actually has some pretty scary consequences associated with it, all things considered. It would stand to reason that the UK has something analogous.
this is the funniest fucking post ever ... EVAR! i just about lost it when i read Apple Should Buy Apple. kudos.
Everyone gather round! I'm going to open grandpa's tarball ...
Run Over by the RIAA Don't Tap the Glass
By Cassi Hunt
Either since the day I visited my first aquarium or the day Goldie came into my family's life, our parents have told us not to tap the glass of the fish tank. It's cruel to Goldie -- I understand and respect that. I mean, heck, I am a vegetarian. But would we have many qualms over a little water perturbation if Goldie were, say, a bloodthirsty shark? I'd knock on that glass to the near-cracking point. And in that spirit, I decided to call up my new friend at the RIAA negotiation hotline again. (Hereafter I'll refer to her as Bowie, which means "yellow haired," as I'm pretty sure that's the case.)
Last time I spoke with Bowie, the conversation was pretty much over after she named $3750 as the settlement amount. (I haven't actually agreed to settle yet.) So when I called her again, I asked -- again -- about how to negotiate that amount. I counted on the fact that self-important types wouldn't be inclined to remember a lowly pirate like me. Bowie didn't disappoint. She launched into her spiel about how the RIAA doesn't negotiate settlements. I told her that it was too much to ask for thousands of dollars from a college student who only makes just enough from term and summer employment to still come out a couple thousand in debt.
Bowie replied that the RIAA was oh-so-kind enough to offer a six month repayment plan. At this point, I was beginning to speculate on Bowie's hair color, and decided to switch tactics. I concisely and calmly explained how the situation was ridiculous: they weren't offering a settlement, they were issuing an ultimatum! Let us screw you over gently now, or with chains and whips in court. Surely there must be some flexibility for individual cases.
Well, she replied, they do make allowances if something like a medical emergency comes up. Now we're getting somewhere. "And who would I talk to about a situation like that, because I'd like to talk to them now."
"Me," she replied. Ever feel like your nose has just been flattened by something large and solid? I mean, besides the doors at 77 Mass. Ave. "But you're not in a situation like that."
Oh, but I am. The Institvte has left me with severe bouts of p-set-induced insomnia and a case of stuck-to-desk-itis that recurs two to three times in a semester, then again just before break. And my wallet certainly takes a hit for it.
But as much as I tried to argue that I was in as unique a situation as someone with medical expenses, there was no getting through. Bowie even had the audacity to say, "In fact, the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford settlements."
Are. You. Shitting. Me.
There you have it, fellow Techsters: proof of the fantastic levels of absurdity to which the RIAA attack has sunk. The Recording Industry of America would rather see America's youth deprived of higher education, forever marring their ability to contribute personally and financially to society -- including the arts -- so that they may crucify us as examples to our peers. To say nothing of wrecking our lives in the process. I finally understand what the RIAA meant when they told me "stealing music is not a victimless crime" -- the victims hang for all to see.
Please, RIAA -- if any competent representative happens to enjoy flipping through The Tech -- please tell me Bowie is a moronic tool who can't help what the Superior Gray Coverage Golden Blonde hair dye does to her mental facilities. Please tell me you actually care about the futures of the age demographic that buys most of your music (http://www.riaa.com/news/marketingdata/pdf/2004co nsumerprofile.pdf). Your evil pirates are people too, people who enjoy music and almost always still purchase it legitimately. Each has an individual life and circumstances that deserve consideration, if not for the sake of empathy for your f
But to me that's the point of the IGF; to present games that might not make it in the mainstream. It's the perfect channel to present that kind of innovation -- the kind that might not necessarily go anywhere commercially, but is interesting and helps build a healthy industry nonetheless.
Otherwise, how will gaming evolve? Will it evolve? Or will we continue to see an industry dominated by FPS titles that succeed or fail based on how interesting and involving the plot is?
Reminds me of a cardgame called 'catholic school girls'; I think it could be interesting.
I have to say though that i was kindof disappointed in the amount of innovation. I would hope that at a festival like this games featuring interesting (original) gameplay and innovative controls, design, story lines, &c. would rise to the top. Those mentioned in the article, though novel, don't really inspire me. Though, it reminded me how much fun it would be to work for a game design house.
I know that everyone always says, "oh, every big company is pro-patent", &c. &c., but i have to say that it's nice to see that a company that's been burned by shaky patents (RIM) has decided to pursue / support the effort towards patent reform. I hope that they are able to do something good.
I gave my opinion, that he was right, but overly agressive. my opinion on your post is that you're sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and entirely too reactionary. As for that being your comment ... well, the analysis was my comment.
My point is simple: people are too reactionary about certain issues; he's too reactionary, you're too reactionary. The way i make this point is through analysis.
It is people like you who irritate me because they think they can sue whoever they like - If you're waiting on an emergency phone call, then don't go into the building. If the company puts the sign up saying 'the paint is on' then that's your fault. The person putting on the paint is just following their boss' orders, he/she has no intent on blocking your emergency calls. If you're waiting for the baby to pop out, hang out with your pregnant girlfriend.
While i do think the parent is fairly aggressive, he's exactly right. While not everything need to be litigated, this is something that would need to be. So your statement regarding "think they can sue whoever they like" starts you off on a bad foot.
You continue to say, "If you're waiting on an emergency phone call" ... This may be an attempt to characterize people who are on call, but that is a special case. What about parents who want a night out?
You continue, saying "If the company puts the sign up saying 'the paint is on' then that's your fault." Now, the parent poster explicitly said at the beginning of his post, "I would want to see warning signs posted at key places in buildings where this paint is used though" ... so it's pretty clear that you didn't read the post accurately at all.
You then say, "The person putting on the paint is just following their boss' orders, he/she has no intent on blocking your emergency calls." You're absolutely right there, but then again the poster did say, "I might even sue the guy who applied the paint on the walls.." Which was clearly an editorial comment to emphasize how serious he is based on the *might* qualification. So you're guilty of reading that part way too literally.
To conclude, you say "If you're waiting for the baby to pop out, hang out with your pregnant girlfriend." I think this is a pretty poor attempt at implying that the poster is somehow morally deficient, which is clearly offtopic and irrelivant.
To conclude my post, you've made yourself a Troll and, though the moderators may not label you as such, I hope that you can refrain from posting such flamebait in the future.
blu-ray will never win over HD-DVD. it breaks at least two cardinal rules of naming products:
1) it drops a vowel.
2) it rhymes with gay (bengay was a fluke).
keep in mind that the GPL really is just a template and that you can add or subtract clauses as you like. Many software packages do this, yielding licenses that are GPL compatible but either allow more permissive use or restrict certain uses.
The GPL is not, and never has been, a boilerplate that you must either accept or reject.
... by which he means to say (i believe) that Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and author of the GPL, was never connected to "Open Source" by anything but the licenses he has authored. Those who lump open source and free software together and then comment on the idealogy as though it's one homogenous crowd are making a logical error.
references:
open source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software
free software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
Because they don't want to spend time diving into stolen source; who wants to learn to read Hungarian notation on top of english?
While Firefox is a memorable name, it seems like a loss not to take advantage of the Mozilla name recognition.
That's just crazy talk. In terms of branding the name 'Firefox' has what 'Mozilla' never really had: buzz. Even people that call IE "The internet" have heard about Firefox, even if they don't know what it is. Firefox, as a brand, has momentum.
They would be much better served if they called their organization "Mozilla", their stack of applications "the Mozilla Suite", and left the individual names alone.
AMD Turion 64 mobile technology models ML-37, ML-34, ML-32, ML-30, MT-34, MT-32, and MT-30 are priced at $354, $263, $220, $184, $268, $225 and $189 respectively, in 1,000-unit quantities.
Doesn't this seem like a high price for bulk chips?
that XGL screenshot is probably the prettiest X capture i've seen in a long while. kudos to David Reveman.
you're right; but only in a cursory way.
It is true that primarily non-technical work is expected of students. It is also true that the majority of computer labs use primarily windows XP boxen. It is not true that non-technical students are required to use windows by necessity, policy, or even convenience.
Some misconceptions. First, Availability. Most universities use servers running commercial Unices. You can usually log into one or more of those servers to do common basic tasks, like read email. If you know what you're doing, you can of course use them for even more diverse tasks.
The University of Chicago (my alma mater) has dumb terminals in the lobby of most of the dorms. Almost every computer lab has a mac. The CS lab at the UofC is open to everyone, conveniently located, and is stocked with ~50 macs, ~20 linux machines, and no windows computers!
Second, expectations; professors do not care how they read your paper, they just care that they can read it and that it's layout conforms to guidelines. Print it out, send it in an email as a pdf, who cares? The professors don't.
The truth is that you are expected to be a platform agnostic in college. And THAT is what should perhaps be taught in school. If children want to become zealots or stay milquetoast later in life, that's fine. But why should we teach them to ignore an entire set of useful tools?
The sinister plan for world domination is right on schedule. --ESR
i knew it; ESR's support of open source was just a bid to allow the NRA to control the government.
Personally, I never trusted that gun-toting bastard.
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this is, bar none, the funniest comment i've read on slashdot in about 2 months.
OK, first and foremost, that is one fucked up conversation... i mean, i couldn't handle that for
more than 60 seconds before i went postal.
BUT you do have a point about taking the person out of salesperson. I mean, bottom line, can you
or can you not force a design for AI not to lie? [I think] The answer is yes. Therefore, they would
match the truly useful sales%(entity_type)s of our time; informative, helpful, without pressure.
It's all about the way Murphy MacManus (Norman Reedus) says, "Put it back on, you look fuckin'
scary!" in his funny irish accent, just before the brothers and Rocco smash down the doors to the
porn palace to do Vincenzo Lipazzi (Ron Jeremy). Reedus is referring to the Ski mask that Rocco made
himself with very messy eye and mouth holes.
umm... congratulations, i guess?
Think about it. A semi-intelligent entity of mechanical nature selling you something strikingly similar to it, perhaps even built by it. The human analogy is a woman selling you her child, or a child. it's a theme or idea that can be explored literarily with interesting results.
So, no, i'm not kidding you. And i'm not sure how your response was a response so much as a generic post that could have gone anywhere.