Prison will be my replacement for Social Security since there will be nothing left when I become old enough to start drawing from my Social Security fund. Back in the 80s, I heard people from the government saying what a waste it was to have all that Social Security money sitting there doing nothing. It would be better to let the government spend it now and replace it later. They gave all sorts of good reasons why this should be, but I, as a young child, knew exactly what would happen... and it has. So do not make prisons too horrible. They are how I (and many other poor people) plan to retire.
I feel fairly certain that Apple paid a lot of money to Slashdot for advertising. Is that evil? I do not think so. I just bought a 17 inch powerbook because I kept hearing how they could run most of the software that I ran under a linux based system with the obvious advantage of a killer GUI (cue grammar nazi rant). I suppose I could have waited a bit longer for xorg to work more magic, it is looking pretty hot right now with xdamage and the compositing manager.
My premise is that I think advertising on Slashdot helped Apple hit such incredible numbers.
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if you can ping google.com (not the ip address, the hostname) then it is likely your hosts file is messed up. otherwise, it is your dns settings or your dns server.
you should be modded off-topic, not flamebait. it is weird that mods are using their points in this way. it would seem an obvious case of people using their mod points for a political agenda. all of the mods who labelled you flamebait should be ashamed of themselves.
you own an xp pro cd. your friend gives you a burned copy of xp pro with a cd key that is not the same as the one you have. you do not use your copy of xp anywhere. you install from the burned cd.
is what you have done illegal? what if you used your cd key instead? what if you installed from your cd but used the cd key from the burned disk (but not the software)?
i am thinking ALL of those scenarios are against the License and could therefore be deemed illegal. what reasonable person would think any of the above situations are illegal or unethical?
Help me understand here. It seems that gist of your argument is that restrictions on running servers etc. are ok because they facilitate piracy. Furthermore it is not sufficient that many (but not a majority) find uses for running servers that have NOTHING to do with anything illegal.
That's not what I'm saying, the most cursory examination of my argument would demonstrate that. If the overwhelming majority of internet media sharing was personal home videos and legally-traded music, this wouldn't be an issue.
Honestly, do you see what I am seeing in your argument?
Sorry about replying to myself, but after my previous whinefest, I figured Apple deserved this:
I chose options on the phone to get my in touch with a real live human being instead of a recording and Apple is sending me Tiger next day shipping for FREE. (I probably should not have mentioned the free part). They do treat their customers well.
I just bought a 17 inch powerbook two weeks ago. God I am annoyed. Waiting two friggin weeks would have saved me $130. Grrrrrrrr. I should have listened to the popular advice which said to just wait until they announced the release date. This is my very first Apple product I have ever bought too. What a way to start.:( Do you know what is even worse? I won't even receive my powerbook until AFTER Tiger is released to the public. (shipping times to Iraq are looooonnnnng)
" Don't they know that the biblical flood wiped out all form of life everywhere save what was on Noah's boat?"
oh my god that was hilarious. why are so many people with moderator points so humourless? oh well, i get moderator points at least once a week and meta moderate every day. maybe i will get a chance to meta moderate this one later.
who will pay for the internet? nobody will want to use the damned thing if it is locked down like that. i know for sure that i would never pay to use a network like that. i would not even buy a computer if it were locked down like that. these people are insane.
add an nt4 server to your domain and see if your 127 character password is still useful. don't forget to check if anything beyond the first six characters are encrypted. one more thing, try putting your password in with the caps lock on and then off.
this is what tabs are for. do a search in google and right click the link you want to go to and select "open in a new tab". if you find out that link is not what you want, close it. you still have the original search results in the first tab. lather, rinse, repeat.
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you did not read the complaint. the complaint was that the site was contributing to copyright infringement, not that the site was infringing copyright itself.
My kids can not play Gunbound unless I give them administrator access. *shrug* Needless to say, the computer that they play Gunbound on is quarantined from the rest of the network.
wow. that was a FAST download. hit upwards of 600Kb/s for most of it. btcurses messed up my terminal though. ah well. keeping my client open to assist others in downloading it. Thanks for the link.:)
>>I don't see much incentive for ANY for-profit corporation porting to Linux, except perhaps for "goodwill."
that post certainly seemed flamebaitish to me. so, is Oracle a for-profit corp?
but, let's assume you meant desktop, rather than server apps. what makes you so sure people who use linux are not willing to buy software for linux? i know many people who do not buy software for windows. those are the same people who will not buy software for linux.
the problem with people paying for software for linux is that it would take a LOT of work to make an app that is better than one that already exists and it would have to let ME be in control. i can easily see a corp making an app that is better than an equivalent open source app, if only because of polish... but i simply can NOT see a for-profit corp allowing me to fully control that software.
really, i guess i just take exception to your implied opinion that all people who use linux are pirates who want to freeload off of the work of others.
Not to be nitpicking or anything, but I would not call what happened at Abu Ghraib torture. Torture is a bit more severe: branding irons, severe electrical shocks, mutilation, etc. Let's call it abuse so we do not under-react when real torture occurs. This watering down of terms is getting quite annoying.
I just finished using all of my mod points, but I would have given all of them to you if I could have boosted this one comment to +10 Insightful. I am left with more questions than answers every time I read a news article whether it is from CNN, BBC, or anywhere else. The situation is very frustrating. Surely there is a market for complete news stories?
I have run various Counter Strike servers for several years. It is true that keeping the riff raff off is tough, but if you have a dedicated clan with good admins running a server, you will find less of those KKK types hanging around. Feel free to drop by and visit on my servers. Clan ESREVER.
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Prison will be my replacement for Social Security since there will be nothing left when I become old enough to start drawing from my Social Security fund. Back in the 80s, I heard people from the government saying what a waste it was to have all that Social Security money sitting there doing nothing. It would be better to let the government spend it now and replace it later. They gave all sorts of good reasons why this should be, but I, as a young child, knew exactly what would happen... and it has. So do not make prisons too horrible. They are how I (and many other poor people) plan to retire.
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I feel fairly certain that Apple paid a lot of money to Slashdot for advertising. Is that evil? I do not think so. I just bought a 17 inch powerbook because I kept hearing how they could run most of the software that I ran under a linux based system with the obvious advantage of a killer GUI (cue grammar nazi rant). I suppose I could have waited a bit longer for xorg to work more magic, it is looking pretty hot right now with xdamage and the compositing manager.
My premise is that I think advertising on Slashdot helped Apple hit such incredible numbers.
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if you can ping google.com (not the ip address, the hostname) then it is likely your hosts file is messed up. otherwise, it is your dns settings or your dns server.
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you should be modded off-topic, not flamebait. it is weird that mods are using their points in this way. it would seem an obvious case of people using their mod points for a political agenda. all of the mods who labelled you flamebait should be ashamed of themselves.
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something to think about:
you own an xp pro cd. your friend gives you a burned copy of xp pro with a cd key that is not the same as the one you have. you do not use your copy of xp anywhere. you install from the burned cd.
is what you have done illegal?
what if you used your cd key instead?
what if you installed from your cd but used the cd key from the burned disk (but not the software)?
i am thinking ALL of those scenarios are against the License and could therefore be deemed illegal. what reasonable person would think any of the above situations are illegal or unethical?
what do you get when you pay for software?
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Honestly, do you see what I am seeing in your argument?
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Sorry about replying to myself, but after my previous whinefest, I figured Apple deserved this:
I chose options on the phone to get my in touch with a real live human being instead of a recording and Apple is sending me Tiger next day shipping for FREE. (I probably should not have mentioned the free part). They do treat their customers well.
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I just bought a 17 inch powerbook two weeks ago. God I am annoyed. Waiting two friggin weeks would have saved me $130. Grrrrrrrr. I should have listened to the popular advice which said to just wait until they announced the release date. This is my very first Apple product I have ever bought too. What a way to start. :( Do you know what is even worse? I won't even receive my powerbook until AFTER Tiger is released to the public. (shipping times to Iraq are looooonnnnng)
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are there any companies left in america that would need them?
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" Don't they know that the biblical flood wiped out all form of life everywhere save what was on Noah's boat?"
oh my god that was hilarious. why are so many people with moderator points so humourless? oh well, i get moderator points at least once a week and meta moderate every day. maybe i will get a chance to meta moderate this one later.
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there is a god in this world. i just meta-moderated the fool who marked it a troll. sometimes, life just is not fair. this is not one of them. :)
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who will pay for the internet? nobody will want to use the damned thing if it is locked down like that. i know for sure that i would never pay to use a network like that. i would not even buy a computer if it were locked down like that. these people are insane.
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add an nt4 server to your domain and see if your 127 character password is still useful. don't forget to check if anything beyond the first six characters are encrypted. one more thing, try putting your password in with the caps lock on and then off.
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this is what tabs are for. do a search in google and right click the link you want to go to and select "open in a new tab". if you find out that link is not what you want, close it. you still have the original search results in the first tab. lather, rinse, repeat.
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you did not read the complaint. the complaint was that the site was contributing to copyright infringement, not that the site was infringing copyright itself.
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My kids can not play Gunbound unless I give them administrator access. *shrug* Needless to say, the computer that they play Gunbound on is quarantined from the rest of the network.
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wow. that was a FAST download. hit upwards of 600Kb/s for most of it. btcurses messed up my terminal though. ah well. keeping my client open to assist others in downloading it. Thanks for the link. :)
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>>I don't see much incentive for ANY for-profit corporation porting to Linux, except perhaps for "goodwill."
that post certainly seemed flamebaitish to me. so, is Oracle a for-profit corp?
but, let's assume you meant desktop, rather than server apps. what makes you so sure people who use linux are not willing to buy software for linux? i know many people who do not buy software for windows. those are the same people who will not buy software for linux.
the problem with people paying for software for linux is that it would take a LOT of work to make an app that is better than one that already exists and it would have to let ME be in control. i can easily see a corp making an app that is better than an equivalent open source app, if only because of polish... but i simply can NOT see a for-profit corp allowing me to fully control that software.
really, i guess i just take exception to your implied opinion that all people who use linux are pirates who want to freeload off of the work of others.
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"I do, however, really like the /. font. Anyone know where I can get a copy or what it's called?"
there is no slashdot font. look at the html (view source) and you can see they only change font color and sizes but specify no font face.
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at one point in time, my brother assembled Dell computers while he was in prison. prisoners do make commercial products in american prisons nowadays.
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encrypting your root partition is pointless. encrypt $HOME and that is all you need.
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"Her story is pretty amazing, and seeing her film and how it touches survivors really helps non-survivors understand sexual traumas."
aren't non-survivors dead, by definition? perhaps you meant,"it helps people who were not sexually abused understand the situation."
some of the labels people use in this context seem rather creepy... almost as if the labels are meant to program the "paticipants".
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Not to be nitpicking or anything, but I would not call what happened at Abu Ghraib torture. Torture is a bit more severe: branding irons, severe electrical shocks, mutilation, etc. Let's call it abuse so we do not under-react when real torture occurs. This watering down of terms is getting quite annoying.
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I just finished using all of my mod points, but I would have given all of them to you if I could have boosted this one comment to +10 Insightful. I am left with more questions than answers every time I read a news article whether it is from CNN, BBC, or anywhere else. The situation is very frustrating. Surely there is a market for complete news stories?
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I have run various Counter Strike servers for several years. It is true that keeping the riff raff off is tough, but if you have a dedicated clan with good admins running a server, you will find less of those KKK types hanging around. Feel free to drop by and visit on my servers. Clan ESREVER.
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