This is in fact the correct way to change this situation. When the squatters have to work hard to figure out whether to squat or not... 1 - A few lines of script 2 - p2p dispersal 3 - happiness all around
It should only take about a week before the squatting cycle got so out of hand that domain registration becomes impossible...
Perhaps I can shed some light on your prison population conundrum. From http://skeptically.org/recdrugs/id8.html::
The total number of marijuana arrests far exceeds the total number of arrests for all violent crimes combined, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
Since 1992, approximately six million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges, a greater number than the entire populations of Alaska, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming combined. Annual marijuana arrests have more than doubled in that time.
MSFT is working so hard to stop people from pirating their software ??? WTF. How did MSFT get to be so damned big and financially well off before they stopped the pirates?
It seems to me that the real reason for the problems with Vista are not because MSFT needs to protect their product with DRM, but that they need to protect the **AA's products. MSFT seemed to be doing very well for itself before implementing DRM. How is it that they now need that DRM to stay in business?
This is what worries me. MSFT seems to be looking out for the interests of the **AA, not just themselves. ( putting tinfoil hat on ) If they are looking out for the **AA, you can bet your last dollar that they are also looking out for the interests of Fascist governments. I'm not just trying to bash MSFT, but they are/were the richest and biggest software company in the world BEFORE they decided to install DRM, so what is the point of the DRM? Do you REALLY want to use a product that does that?
In line with your new network policies, I'm going to send all future payments in packets of $5 USD. You are hereby notified that some of these packets may be delayed. Since you control the network they are transmitted on, perhaps you can ensure that they arrive. I'm sending the authorization for payment of each of these packets via a p2p protocol. You may be familiar with it: bittorrent.
If you would, please help ensure the prompt delivery of these packets to ensure prompt payment.
Thank you
J.Q. Public member: Citizens for Internet equality ISP QoS Review Department
For all of the bashing the left does about Bush, what is more telling is that Bush didn't really create the modern government that is capable of doing this. Everyone has had a hand in this. A police state machine is a police state machine, all the time, not just when a "good guy" is driving it. Stop attacking Bush, and start looking at the machine! I'm not from the left, and I think Bush has earned a damned big boat load of bashing. What previous politicians left undone, Bush found ways to break the law and complete.
The machine is not broken, the Constitution remains to this day a framework that is viable, and valid. It is the men in government that torture its meanings, and pervert the rule of law. So, YES, Bush does need bashing, impeached, and a couple of other things. It is directly under his rule that a 'war' was invented, the war on terror, so that he could press the powers of wartime to further oppress the American public. I do not post AC, and I urge anyone that is disturbed by the way things have been going in American politics and government lately to stand and be counted. There is but one candidate for 2008 that dares utter the word Constitution, never mind abide by it.
You sir, you shall not defend Bush, for doing so is to say it's okay what he has done, and what has been done to My rights in his name. I say it is NOT right. I protest, both what he has done and what you are NOW doing to my rights by being passive and accepting and nearly forgiving him. The captain sinks with the ship, and if you think Bush deserves to slip away in a life raft, you are very mistaken.
For a flame war on Linux fanbois? There are several 'hobbies' that I partake of, and inevitably, in all of them, as someone is introduced to the hobby, they have great enthusiasm for it, try to re-invent the wheel, or loudly proclaim how great something is, despite it's aging status technologically.
Linux is proving it's point. IBM and others ARE contributing (to Linux and many other projects... Thank you IBM) but I think that the real point is that F/OSS is becoming popular, not *just* Linux. Where proprietary systems have been the bedrock of business applications, F/OSS is making strong inroads. LAMP anyone?
The problem is that you can't talk about how good it is without comparing it to Windows or other such products. THAT is the problem... comparing it. When you go to the hardware store to buy a hammer, do you notice if the head is round or fluted? Do you compare the steel quality of new mower blades before deciding on which to buy? A tool is a tool. Seldom, IF EVER, will you find yourself thinking "Oh noooes, I can't dig a hole with this shovel, it was not made by Acme"
Interoperability is the key. The interface between hammer and nail is a pretty open standard. The interface between dirt and shovel is a pretty open (if dirty) interface. The PROBLEM is not whether F/OSS and Linux is good enough.. it IS. The problem is that interface to content. The one remaining major hurdle is MS document formats. Once that interfacing/interoperability problem is solved, Dell will be making money shipping Linux configured desktop systems. The problem is as much user perception as it is anything else.
For about... ummm ZERO dollars I can setup up an application development station for Linux apps. Compare that to the MS equivelent? yikes. As soon as it makes no difference to users whether they use Linux or Windows... I bet the cost of the MSDN drops to something your mom can afford to buy you for christmas. Lets face it, Linux and F/OSS ARE the only thing creating competition to MS. Mac is nice, workable, and user friendly... but the price tag is a bit much for someone shopping for the Hyundai of home computers.
I don't want them to pay back all the public funds they were give, or the tax breaks etc.
What I want is to know what percentage of their infrastructure was built with public funds and tax breaks and so on, if that is 45% then I want a 45% discount on my monthly bill.
For every site that I am unable to reach because of their deregulation, I want compensation on my monthly bill. For every censored email, I want compensation.
Don't tell me that your 'public internet access' I pay for will only access content you approve of. I will not buy a special car to drive on restricted roads. I will not pay for two services to access both Google and Yahoo. I will simply sue every time I am denied access based on their censorship. Yes, I realize that there may not be any basis for that in law, but we must do something to let them know what their consumers want.
Nice! abuse MY right to be free of unfair business practices in the name of your right to choose. You are that idiot that believes the little blue e on your desktop actually IS the Internet, aren't you?
See my earlier posting, (tin foil hat on) this is just one step to justify the war against copyright infringement. They have proven that the copyright terrorists are using our vastly superior email systems to commit their atrocities. We'll just get ISP's to block all MP3's by proving that when attached to emails, MP3 files can only be spam or terrorist activities. Once we have that filtering in place, the 'people' will be happy that we are protecting them from the evils of copyright terroristas.
Then we can pressure Cisco et al to put this al-gore-ithm in the routers (tube control points) so we can monitor more Intarweb traffic than ever before.
would restoring the Mona Lisa to her original glory be in violation of the DMCA? Mother nature has specifically encoded the particles of the painting into their current state. Disassembling those particles or re-arranging them to unlock the original content seems to contravene explicit provisions of the DMCA.
While the rest of the world may enjoy Leonardo's original work, here in the US we simply will not tolerate such abashed attacks on the copyrights of Leonardo. What do you mean copyright has expired? Ok, give us one more congressional session (and a couple pleasure boat cruises) and we will have that fixed.
The problem with your argument is singular, and profoundly intuitive despite the fact that you and the current US government want you to not see the simplicity of the truth.
No one has yet shown why pre-9/11 intelligence infrastructure was not or is not good enough. The simple fact is that it is and was a workable and competent system, replete with oversight and check and balances. The current government failed to utilize it correctly, or twisted the information that it fed them in order to create public support for a war that was not needed, and to create support for taking away our rights and freedoms. This is how repression works.
The more that you and others begin to believe that this illegal intelligence system is 'needed' the easier it is for the government to take away even MORE of our rights.
You must be new here? The news agencies are reporting lately of more and more intelligence that was ignored or twisted into lies to mislead the public, and not just the US public, but the world public. They could have bought Saddam off. They had multiple chances to arrest Osama. They KNEW there were not WMDs. Is the picture becoming any clearer? This current Administration twisted the truth, manipulated the news, and broke the law to create an environment where you, and others like you would simply roll over and let it happen. There are more than a few scary comparisons to pre-WWII Germany.
The pre-9/11 intelligence infrastructure was and is functionally good enough. More is not needed, and only erodes the rights they claim to be protecting. You are a FOOL to believe the claims of the same people that lied to you to get you to support a war that is illegal, and was TOTALLY unnecessary.
to force ISP's to filter the entire fscking Internet, one service at a time? This is going to be interesting. If Usenet.com goes down, next will be NNTP service filters on every ISP in the US, and then by association, such efforts will be made in the rest of the world. Perhaps it might not work in Russia for fear of being mistaken for a spammer, but in the rest of the world, the US government and the **AA will push to have the entire Internet filtered...
The next step? To filter all your email, IM, and VoIP traffic as well, and in fact any method of sharing data. Sounds like tin foil hat stuff, but that seems to be the writing on the wall. If the **AA has those filters in place, guess who will be using them? Why the NSA of course. Any bets on whether the **AA are digging so deep into their wallets on the legal battles because the NSA is promising to refund some portion of the cost, if they are not already secretly funding them from money that went missing in Iraq?
yeah, sounds a bit crazy, but after the lies that have been discovered lately, it would NOT surprise me.
God, I hope this means the end of political correctness. That guy is black, that girl is fat, that secretary is stupid as a bag of hammers, that customer is blind, and the guy who fixes computers at sales office in Jersey is a short little moron, whose dubious parentage must surely include a mongoloid.
Why yes, I do feel more free for having said that.... oh, btw, that coonass in accounting puts bourbon in his coffee.
Google finds a way that is only minimally less painful for the **AA to protect their copywrited works, and in turn gets original copies of all of them. I just know this made the **AA truly happy.
Cuban said anyone that bought youtube was a fool, wonder what he thinks about this move?
It sounds to me like the **AA will be hiring in their IT departments soon.. anyone need a job?
The cyber sidearm program is part of a broader effort to defend Air Force networks against intruders. Service officials have also begun auditing crucial software to identify security risks, Elder said. Question #1 - What brought them to the mindboggling decision that they need extra protection that is not already being provided by the wider development world? Break-ins we don't know about?
Question #2 - Why have the rest of the worlds security process/procedures not been sufficient?
Question #3 - Why are they JUST NOW auditing crucial software to identify security risks?
Surely they could simply ask the NSA how to secure their data? right? I smell a rat here, and curious minds want to know the answers.
SETI has yet to find any obvious intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Apparently they have been here, seen us, and decided censorship is the correct solution. With all that red shift out there, could we have realistically expected anything else?
After consulting "The Google" we at the Galactic Law Center feel it best to address you here in this forum as you obviously post here a lot. To wit, this is a cease and desist order. The phrase and word iPedant and iPedantic are registered trademarks (phrases and words) of the Galactic Law Center law firm. If you continue to use them in posts on/. (Slashdot.org) or other public forums (notice boards, web bloggs etc.) we (The Galactic Law Center) shall be forced and motivated to file suit upon you, your estate, and any remaining heirs. We shall petition the Galactic IP Court for retroactive recompense and punitive damages.
For more information on how to properly use the registered trademarks and logos of the Galactic Law Center (A law firm), please install IPv14 drivers, and read the information found at HTTFP://UWW.Solaris.Andromeda.GalacticLawCenter.RTFM.law )
Failure to respond to this C&D (cease and desist) letter within 45 standard galactic days will constitute willful and wanton infringement of our IP (intellectual properties).
If they have been using P2P clients to download them, the RIAA/MPAA will be suing them shortly.
The court case will be of special interest as the first attempt by a US entity to claim IP rights off world, and will be referred to for decades to come as precedent reference.
In unusual clamor, SETI will engage the ACLU to defend NASA, and found the ETIPFLC (extra terrestrial IP Freedom Law Center) to later become the infamous Galactic Law Center. You will remember them, as this gigantic legal machine was the first recognition of the human race by other sentient beings in the universe.
I am killing myself laughing.... \ I guess that tag thing gets removed when posting, even in text mode... there was supposed to be an end sarcasm tag at the end of My first comment... sigh
why they gave the prize for this. It is not like this is important to the rest of us in our daily lives in any meaningful way, is it?
Makes you wonder how different today is from how it was envisioned 40 years ago. With 2TB of drive space in my house, things like this could help us move toward dreams like the Star Trek holodeck and other things that will require galactic size storage systems. I'm ready for it.
The court found that 'The routine addition of modern electronics to an otherwise unpatentable invention' isn't enough to get over the 'non-obvious' hurdle that every patent is supposed to clear. This is a huge step in the right direction...... Can someone please explain why NTP has a patent on sending e-mail to wireless devices? Looks like we have an opening to go back and invalidate quite a number of patents.
that can be applied when MS claims 'open source' on products that do NOT have open source? IANAL but it seems a fair assessment of the facts to counter that this is NOT open source, and therefore the advertising and promotional material is misleading, and in fact, in violation of such laws?
will the computer send the appropriate message to software vendors? Would this technology have been able to cause clippy to die a horrible death? Would the detection of boredom and frustration and other mental states actually be translated to something useful? Will it help use make sense of the 'load letter' error? Will see see reports on CNN stating that 79.35% of Exchange users are confused, thus leading to the conclusion that the more intelligent you the more likely you use Thunderbird?
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This is in fact the correct way to change this situation. When the squatters have to work hard to figure out whether to squat or not...
1 - A few lines of script
2 - p2p dispersal
3 - happiness all around
It should only take about a week before the squatting cycle got so out of hand that domain registration becomes impossible...
ok, script is done... ready?
3... 2.... 1...
Since 1992, approximately six million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges, a greater number than the entire populations of Alaska, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming combined. Annual marijuana arrests have more than doubled in that time.
begin distributing youtube videos via bittorrent, this problem would find a quick resolution?
MSFT is working so hard to stop people from pirating their software ??? WTF. How did MSFT get to be so damned big and financially well off before they stopped the pirates?
It seems to me that the real reason for the problems with Vista are not because MSFT needs to protect their product with DRM, but that they need to protect the **AA's products. MSFT seemed to be doing very well for itself before implementing DRM. How is it that they now need that DRM to stay in business?
This is what worries me. MSFT seems to be looking out for the interests of the **AA, not just themselves. ( putting tinfoil hat on ) If they are looking out for the **AA, you can bet your last dollar that they are also looking out for the interests of Fascist governments. I'm not just trying to bash MSFT, but they are/were the richest and biggest software company in the world BEFORE they decided to install DRM, so what is the point of the DRM? Do you REALLY want to use a product that does that?
In line with your new network policies, I'm going to send all future payments in packets of $5 USD. You are hereby notified that some of these packets may be delayed. Since you control the network they are transmitted on, perhaps you can ensure that they arrive. I'm sending the authorization for payment of each of these packets via a p2p protocol. You may be familiar with it: bittorrent.
If you would, please help ensure the prompt delivery of these packets to ensure prompt payment.
Thank you
J.Q. Public
member: Citizens for Internet equality
ISP QoS Review Department
The machine is not broken, the Constitution remains to this day a framework that is viable, and valid. It is the men in government that torture its meanings, and pervert the rule of law. So, YES, Bush does need bashing, impeached, and a couple of other things. It is directly under his rule that a 'war' was invented, the war on terror, so that he could press the powers of wartime to further oppress the American public. I do not post AC, and I urge anyone that is disturbed by the way things have been going in American politics and government lately to stand and be counted. There is but one candidate for 2008 that dares utter the word Constitution, never mind abide by it.
You sir, you shall not defend Bush, for doing so is to say it's okay what he has done, and what has been done to My rights in his name. I say it is NOT right. I protest, both what he has done and what you are NOW doing to my rights by being passive and accepting and nearly forgiving him. The captain sinks with the ship, and if you think Bush deserves to slip away in a life raft, you are very mistaken.
For a flame war on Linux fanbois?
... ummm ZERO dollars I can setup up an application development station for Linux apps. Compare that to the MS equivelent? yikes. As soon as it makes no difference to users whether they use Linux or Windows... I bet the cost of the MSDN drops to something your mom can afford to buy you for christmas. Lets face it, Linux and F/OSS ARE the only thing creating competition to MS. Mac is nice, workable, and user friendly... but the price tag is a bit much for someone shopping for the Hyundai of home computers.
There are several 'hobbies' that I partake of, and inevitably, in all of them, as someone is introduced to the hobby, they have great enthusiasm for it, try to re-invent the wheel, or loudly proclaim how great something is, despite it's aging status technologically.
Linux is proving it's point. IBM and others ARE contributing (to Linux and many other projects... Thank you IBM) but I think that the real point is that F/OSS is becoming popular, not *just* Linux. Where proprietary systems have been the bedrock of business applications, F/OSS is making strong inroads. LAMP anyone?
The problem is that you can't talk about how good it is without comparing it to Windows or other such products. THAT is the problem... comparing it. When you go to the hardware store to buy a hammer, do you notice if the head is round or fluted? Do you compare the steel quality of new mower blades before deciding on which to buy? A tool is a tool. Seldom, IF EVER, will you find yourself thinking "Oh noooes, I can't dig a hole with this shovel, it was not made by Acme"
Interoperability is the key. The interface between hammer and nail is a pretty open standard. The interface between dirt and shovel is a pretty open (if dirty) interface. The PROBLEM is not whether F/OSS and Linux is good enough.. it IS. The problem is that interface to content. The one remaining major hurdle is MS document formats. Once that interfacing/interoperability problem is solved, Dell will be making money shipping Linux configured desktop systems. The problem is as much user perception as it is anything else.
For about
I don't want them to pay back all the public funds they were give, or the tax breaks etc.
What I want is to know what percentage of their infrastructure was built with public funds and tax breaks and so on, if that is 45% then I want a 45% discount on my monthly bill.
For every site that I am unable to reach because of their deregulation, I want compensation on my monthly bill. For every censored email, I want compensation.
Don't tell me that your 'public internet access' I pay for will only access content you approve of. I will not buy a special car to drive on restricted roads. I will not pay for two services to access both Google and Yahoo. I will simply sue every time I am denied access based on their censorship. Yes, I realize that there may not be any basis for that in law, but we must do something to let them know what their consumers want.
Nice! abuse MY right to be free of unfair business practices in the name of your right to choose. You are that idiot that believes the little blue e on your desktop actually IS the Internet, aren't you?
See my earlier posting, (tin foil hat on) this is just one step to justify the war against copyright infringement. They have proven that the copyright terrorists are using our vastly superior email systems to commit their atrocities. We'll just get ISP's to block all MP3's by proving that when attached to emails, MP3 files can only be spam or terrorist activities. Once we have that filtering in place, the 'people' will be happy that we are protecting them from the evils of copyright terroristas.
Then we can pressure Cisco et al to put this al-gore-ithm in the routers (tube control points) so we can monitor more Intarweb traffic than ever before.
would restoring the Mona Lisa to her original glory be in violation of the DMCA? Mother nature has specifically encoded the particles of the painting into their current state. Disassembling those particles or re-arranging them to unlock the original content seems to contravene explicit provisions of the DMCA.
While the rest of the world may enjoy Leonardo's original work, here in the US we simply will not tolerate such abashed attacks on the copyrights of Leonardo. What do you mean copyright has expired? Ok, give us one more congressional session (and a couple pleasure boat cruises) and we will have that fixed.
The problem with your argument is singular, and profoundly intuitive despite the fact that you and the current US government want you to not see the simplicity of the truth.
No one has yet shown why pre-9/11 intelligence infrastructure was not or is not good enough. The simple fact is that it is and was a workable and competent system, replete with oversight and check and balances. The current government failed to utilize it correctly, or twisted the information that it fed them in order to create public support for a war that was not needed, and to create support for taking away our rights and freedoms. This is how repression works.
The more that you and others begin to believe that this illegal intelligence system is 'needed' the easier it is for the government to take away even MORE of our rights.
You must be new here? The news agencies are reporting lately of more and more intelligence that was ignored or twisted into lies to mislead the public, and not just the US public, but the world public. They could have bought Saddam off. They had multiple chances to arrest Osama. They KNEW there were not WMDs. Is the picture becoming any clearer? This current Administration twisted the truth, manipulated the news, and broke the law to create an environment where you, and others like you would simply roll over and let it happen. There are more than a few scary comparisons to pre-WWII Germany.
The pre-9/11 intelligence infrastructure was and is functionally good enough. More is not needed, and only erodes the rights they claim to be protecting. You are a FOOL to believe the claims of the same people that lied to you to get you to support a war that is illegal, and was TOTALLY unnecessary.
to force ISP's to filter the entire fscking Internet, one service at a time?
This is going to be interesting. If Usenet.com goes down, next will be NNTP service filters on every ISP in the US, and then by association, such efforts will be made in the rest of the world. Perhaps it might not work in Russia for fear of being mistaken for a spammer, but in the rest of the world, the US government and the **AA will push to have the entire Internet filtered...
The next step? To filter all your email, IM, and VoIP traffic as well, and in fact any method of sharing data. Sounds like tin foil hat stuff, but that seems to be the writing on the wall. If the **AA has those filters in place, guess who will be using them? Why the NSA of course. Any bets on whether the **AA are digging so deep into their wallets on the legal battles because the NSA is promising to refund some portion of the cost, if they are not already secretly funding them from money that went missing in Iraq?
yeah, sounds a bit crazy, but after the lies that have been discovered lately, it would NOT surprise me.
God, I hope this means the end of political correctness. That guy is black, that girl is fat, that secretary is stupid as a bag of hammers, that customer is blind, and the guy who fixes computers at sales office in Jersey is a short little moron, whose dubious parentage must surely include a mongoloid.
Why yes, I do feel more free for having said that.... oh, btw, that coonass in accounting puts bourbon in his coffee.
Google finds a way that is only minimally less painful for the **AA to protect their copywrited works, and in turn gets original copies of all of them. I just know this made the **AA truly happy.
Cuban said anyone that bought youtube was a fool, wonder what he thinks about this move?
It sounds to me like the **AA will be hiring in their IT departments soon.. anyone need a job?
Question #2 - Why have the rest of the worlds security process/procedures not been sufficient?
Question #3 - Why are they JUST NOW auditing crucial software to identify security risks?
Surely they could simply ask the NSA how to secure their data? right? I smell a rat here, and curious minds want to know the answers.
SETI has yet to find any obvious intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Apparently they have been here, seen us, and decided censorship is the correct solution. With all that red shift out there, could we have realistically expected anything else?
Dear Mr. Anonymous,
/. (Slashdot.org) or other public forums (notice boards, web bloggs etc.) we (The Galactic Law Center) shall be forced and motivated to file suit upon you, your estate, and any remaining heirs. We shall petition the Galactic IP Court for retroactive recompense and punitive damages.
After consulting "The Google" we at the Galactic Law Center feel it best to address you here in this forum as you obviously post here a lot. To wit, this is a cease and desist order. The phrase and word iPedant and iPedantic are registered trademarks (phrases and words) of the Galactic Law Center law firm. If you continue to use them in posts on
For more information on how to properly use the registered trademarks and logos of the Galactic Law Center (A law firm), please install IPv14 drivers, and read the information found at HTTFP://UWW.Solaris.Andromeda.GalacticLawCenter.RTFM.law )
Failure to respond to this C&D (cease and desist) letter within 45 standard galactic days will constitute willful and wanton infringement of our IP (intellectual properties).
Signed
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If they have been using P2P clients to download them, the RIAA/MPAA will be suing them shortly.
The court case will be of special interest as the first attempt by a US entity to claim IP rights off world, and will be referred to for decades to come as precedent reference.
In unusual clamor, SETI will engage the ACLU to defend NASA, and found the ETIPFLC (extra terrestrial IP Freedom Law Center) to later become the infamous Galactic Law Center. You will remember them, as this gigantic legal machine was the first recognition of the human race by other sentient beings in the universe.
I am killing myself laughing.... \ I guess that tag thing gets removed when posting, even in text mode... there was supposed to be an end sarcasm tag at the end of My first comment... sigh
why they gave the prize for this. It is not like this is important to the rest of us in our daily lives in any meaningful way, is it?
Makes you wonder how different today is from how it was envisioned 40 years ago. With 2TB of drive space in my house, things like this could help us move toward dreams like the Star Trek holodeck and other things that will require galactic size storage systems. I'm ready for it.
but that sounds like they are well on their way to creating Mighty Mouse.... He'll save us from Global warming, right?
that can be applied when MS claims 'open source' on products that do NOT have open source? IANAL but it seems a fair assessment of the facts to counter that this is NOT open source, and therefore the advertising and promotional material is misleading, and in fact, in violation of such laws?
will the computer send the appropriate message to software vendors? Would this technology have been able to cause clippy to die a horrible death? Would the detection of boredom and frustration and other mental states actually be translated to something useful? Will it help use make sense of the 'load letter' error? Will see see reports on CNN stating that 79.35% of Exchange users are confused, thus leading to the conclusion that the more intelligent you the more likely you use Thunderbird?