Not something that could ever happen in USA or Canada
It goes far beyond this. In 1842, when Charles Dickens visited the USA, he saw that his books were pirated all over the US. He campaigned heavily for the idea of an international copyright. However his pleas were generally ignored in the USA, because at that time, the USA didn't have any literature which would benefit from a copyright. It was only when the USA started having stuff worth copyrighting did they become a champion for copyright.
In general, in any country, in order to prime start a particular industry, the lack of copyright protection helps a lot - like how the printing industry in the USA flourished because they could freely pirated any British book they felt like.
Once the industry becomes mature in the country, then they can implement copyright protection.
I am calling bullshit on this obvious lie. You had a clean instal, behind a firewall, with all the service packs installed, and in just 10 minutes after that with a direct connection to the net, someone infected it with spyware? That has to be bullshit.
Equal amount of FUD is spread by both sides - MS & OSS. Unfortunately, on slashdot only the MS FUD is called out with screaming headlines.
This is going to come to bite them very badly. Almost anything can be broken into if there is enough incentive. This contest basically justs 'ups' the incentive.
Hard to say whether it's progress, since I can't access TFA. However, I will say that the MS/Windows habit of trying to iconify every possible command is not progress. Some things simply cannot be conveyed via a 12x12 or 16x16 (or whatever the res is) pictogram.
Can you give an example?
Also can you suggest what should be done for the said example?
And also explain how 'iconyfing' the said command is bad?
The thing no one ever seems to mention...about Napster. Explicitly, anyway.
Once you stop paying your $15/month or $180/year, which will likely become $17, and $20, and so on, in the future, you no longer have access to your music.
How the hell is this insightful? This is mentioned in the summary of the article.
Quote "(access to which lasts as long as subscription is valid)" Unquote.
Where the "screw and subvert legitimate businesses and content owners at all costs" attitude is considered "Insightful".
"Screw legitimate businesses & content owners at all costs & then whine about businesses trying to crack down on the offenders" would be Informative, Insightful & Interesting.
"So if you are interested in an faux iPod Shuffle I expect they will soon fill those Asian consumer electronics stores along Broadway in NY. You know, the ones that have had the 'Going Out of Business' sign posted in their window for 20 years straight."
What about mattress stores? Are they also all owned by Asians?
Print out all the emails. Photocopy all the printouts. Laminate the originals. Lease fire/water proof storage space & store it there. Keep the copies under your bed.
If you have saved them since the 80's, I am sure they warrant such special care.
In other news, Webex CEO just published an article on how videoconferencing is going to kill off the
automobile & airline industry & submitted it to slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
Not something that could ever happen in USA or Canada
It goes far beyond this. In 1842, when Charles Dickens visited the USA, he saw that his books were pirated all over the US. He campaigned heavily for the idea of an international copyright. However his pleas were generally ignored in the USA, because at that time, the USA didn't have any literature which would benefit from a copyright. It was only when the USA started having stuff worth copyrighting did they become a champion for copyright.
In general, in any country, in order to prime start a particular industry, the lack of copyright protection helps a lot - like how the printing industry in the USA flourished because they could freely pirated any British book they felt like.
Once the industry becomes mature in the country, then they can implement copyright protection.
Is this because Asia wants to try Linux and thinks it's the best, or is it because of the anti American (And Microsoft is very American) feelings?
South Korea is different from North Korea
If this Easter Egg was discovered so many years ago, then how come the news is only appearing on Slashdot now?
You must be new here.
Austria! Not Australia. Sheeesh.
Potato Patato
Err...if we haven't put it on the internet, then I'm not sure how you can declare we've "been there, done that.
Well, if you can have a world series without inviting any other country to play in it, rest assured that you can declare anything you want.
In Soviet Russia, Gulfstreams cross the water.
I am calling bullshit on this obvious lie. You had a clean instal, behind a firewall, with all the service packs installed, and in just 10 minutes after that with a direct connection to the net, someone infected it with spyware? That has to be bullshit.
Equal amount of FUD is spread by both sides - MS & OSS. Unfortunately, on slashdot only the MS FUD is called out with screaming headlines.
This is going to come to bite them very badly. Almost anything can be broken into if there is enough incentive. This contest basically justs 'ups' the incentive.
There was something similiar which happened at
Microsoft a few months back.
Don't get locked into one online store.
In all fairness, this would probably have been the advice which the average slashdotter would have given if Apple weren't involved.
All AFP is doing is using legitimate means to protect a legitimate business model.
On slashdot, only Apple is allowed to use legitimate means to protect a legitimate business model. Anyone else who does it is evil.
I'm surprised that they haven't patented DNS.
Apple probably has already patented it - you can search here
Can a topic title be modded as Troll?
Hard to say whether it's progress, since I can't access TFA. However, I will say that the MS/Windows habit of trying to iconify every possible command is not progress. Some things simply cannot be conveyed via a 12x12 or 16x16 (or whatever the res is) pictogram.
Can you give an example?
Also can you suggest what should be done for the said example?
And also explain how 'iconyfing' the said command is bad?
The thing no one ever seems to mention ...about Napster. Explicitly, anyway.
Once you stop paying your $15/month or $180/year, which will likely become $17, and $20, and so on, in the future, you no longer have access to your music.
How the hell is this insightful? This is mentioned in the summary of the article.
Quote "(access to which lasts as long as subscription is valid)" Unquote.
Ah, slashdot.
Where the "screw and subvert legitimate businesses and content owners at all costs" attitude is considered "Insightful".
"Screw legitimate businesses & content owners at
all costs & then whine about businesses trying
to crack down on the offenders" would be Informative, Insightful & Interesting.
In other news, flights would be much cheaper, if plane manufactures stopped Quality Control.
Next up: what KDE developer had for lunch and how often they take a dump.
Nah - that's already been done. Timothy is just
getting ready to post of a dupe of that.
We should just copy and paste all of our old comments over? Why beat a dead horse?
I am just going to copy paste the high rated
comments outthere to improve my karma.
From the MP3Newswire article
"So if you are interested in an faux iPod Shuffle I expect they will soon fill those Asian consumer electronics stores along Broadway in NY. You know, the ones that have had the 'Going Out of Business' sign posted in their window for 20 years straight."
What about mattress stores? Are they also all owned
by Asians?
Print out all the emails. Photocopy all the printouts. Laminate the originals. Lease fire/water proof storage space & store it there. Keep the copies under your bed.
If you have saved them since the 80's, I am sure
they warrant such special care.
What I think you meant to say was
ChoicePoint != CheckPoint
Though if you are communicating to us in Java you want
!ChoicePoint.equals(CheckPoint)
In perl, I just write
No chance of going wrong there.
In other news, Webex CEO just published an article on how videoconferencing is going to kill off the automobile & airline industry & submitted it to slashdot.
Is this Linux's answer to Microsoft's Clippy?
Yes, but does it support Linux?