So then I showed my child what this stuff was all about and now he/she understands and doesn't do it.
My question is what happens when the law intervenes - like say with a report from a nosey ISP - and finds that the parent was showing his kids porn, violence, etc. to educate then? How does that go down?
While I'm all for this method when my child eventually runs across stuff on the Internet I'm worried about running afoul of today's legal deathtraps for parents.:-(
Actually the line he gave IIRC - I'm quite foggy about the whole COBOL thing - was valid on PDP WATBOL because I recall using it on a PDP-1144 in high school.
It's recently been hinted at that the first three Star Wars movies will soon be released on DVD.
If they are "Special Edition" only I will not buy them.
I fondly remember waiting in line after line after line to see the original Star Wars again and again and again. I and others helped it become the phenomenon that it is today.
We want the film we remember, not the second hand copy of it. It may be your definitive vision but it's not what made the film great to us. The film, and the maker of the film, was human. Human inspired. Human created. Human infused. That's what drew us to the films - it was about _us_ not you. The hero or villain was us not anybody else. Our dreams were wrapped in sand, space, and blades of light.
*ahem*
Brass tacks...
There is one more thing your should note. Sales are going to be down. Not a little - a lot. This is because even though you made the movie for you - we made you able to make the movies. Now we're angry because you've changed the movies that we helped you by buying. We'd gladly buy them again if they were the same movies. But they aren't - because you've forgotten that the dreams you create live not only in your heart but in the hearts of others.
I've said my piece. What you do is up to you but I hope you take to heart the things I've said and remember them when it comes time to maybe allow the "original" non-edited version out on DVD.
If you want us to pay you to view your dreams you have to enable us to make them our own otherwise what are we paying for?
I would bet that this will spark much money spent by companies to find the actual owners of abandonware so that they can offer them money for the rights.
The GPL interprets court actions as damage and routes around them.
Seriously I can't see it taking very long for the authors to re-group and patch the GPL to fix the issues.
If this truly were to happen I'd give it about 6 months before the GPL and all the code was re-released.
But wait! That would only happen in a properly working legal society. I forgot that this is all happening in New Berlin where the courts follow George W. Furer.
Or at least that's what he seems to be trying to make it anyway...
Can you say "non corrosive scratch resistant coating"?
I thought you could...
;-)
Seriously, aren't there already things like this out there? There's got to be some sprayable laminate that coats the DVD and seals it. If it is truly an oxidation method then spraying the whole DVD with some sealer stops this process easily.
*TV ad voice* DVD Guard! Stops EZ-DVDs dead in their tracks!
Another "magic marker" solution brought to you by our friends at RIAA/MPAA.
I don't care WTF you think about content mirroring or WTF you think about waiting for stories or indeed anything else. I am extremely sick of not being able to read the original story you post at night when I get up in the morning.
On top of all this you KEEP DOWNING SERVERS which will eventually get you legal action. Seeing as I like/. and want it to continue, I'm posting this rant in hopes of getting you to change your mind on mirroring sites.
You may not like it, hell it's probably going to cost you money, but it's the best for all concerned.
Sooner or later you're going to hit that one site that has an expensive lawyer on retainer and then you'll pay through the nose.
it only works on a 1024 or better screen in it's latest incarnation. In their infinite wisdom Apple has made it impossible for me to use a native iMovie in OS X on my clamshell iBook. I have everything to run it except a 1024 display.
that is until you want a Linux distro made outside the US like say SUSE...
What we _do_ need is a control on our US population other than corporations and the government that _teach_ people rather than prefer them stupid. The jobs aren't just going away because of money. Some of them, no flame intended, are going aways because the IT market is glutted with a lot of paper people that never are up to snuff. The good ones get drowned or hang onto small lifeboats to survive while the bad ones get big fat paychecks for doing a crappy job.
The companies will cease moving the jobs when two things occur:
1 - Salaries, and job working conditions get hashed out to normal levels like they are in other types of jobs. 2 - People work as hard as other people in other positions to make the companies money. (No offense to the hard-working people - I'm referring to the useless that pretend to know IT skills. You all know who they are.)
I just called this number and got one of the sales drones to confirm some information for me:
1) Bruce Nelson is the CEO of Office Depot. (bnelson@officedepot.com does not bounce but other permutations do. I got a blank response 24 hours after sending this e-mail. I heard about this yesterday BTW Slashdot.)
2) The corporate phone number is 1-800-937-3600. That is where the sales drone told me to call when I asked her for a number for "corporate policy complaints".
She mentioned that she hasn't heard a lot about this so I suspect many are not calling. Just FYI.
I know it is not politically correct, but i tend to agree with you. Some people are just that : stupid.
Sons of suits - they only have intelligence enough to be suits. Not that they don't have the potential for change but they are unlikely to do so.
Unfortunately, if you look closer, they are a vast majority. Hope it changes in the next generations, but I think is too much to wish...
Hmm...I know this will go down in a flurry of jokes but the culture should change at least somewhat IMHO due to Geeks having kids. Hopefully the Geeks of the world will educate their children better thus making them a little more resistant to standard suit-level intelligence.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not a matter of just losing the rights to making copies of our currency.
It's about the loss of rights period.
Remember - the only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights.
Do you really want to give them up so easily?
This kid has been unfairly punished as a result of incompetence by his supposed educators. He will not have learned anything useful from this.
Actually I think he learned quite a bit about how paranoid and insane the real world is.
It should give him a better place to stand when dealing with people like this in the future.
The original Enterprise computer _was_ Majel Barett.
Looks like the old "The is only one China" Jedi mind trick is becoming less effective.
*Grammar Nazi*
I sense a disturbance in the force...
*Grammar Nazi*
Don't you mean Bizarro Jerks? ;-)
I'm seeing a lot of posts saying:
:-(
So then I showed my child what this stuff was all about and now he/she understands and doesn't do it.
My question is what happens when the law intervenes - like say with a report from a nosey ISP - and finds that the parent was showing his kids porn, violence, etc. to educate then? How does that go down?
While I'm all for this method when my child eventually runs across stuff on the Internet I'm worried about running afoul of today's legal deathtraps for parents.
Actually the line he gave IIRC - I'm quite foggy about the whole COBOL thing - was valid on PDP WATBOL because I recall using it on a PDP-1144 in high school.
Add a dose of nanotech and you have the makings of a Technomage from B5.
George,
It's recently been hinted at that the first three Star Wars movies will soon be released on DVD.
If they are "Special Edition" only I will not buy them.
I fondly remember waiting in line after line after line to see the original Star Wars again and again and again. I and others helped it become the phenomenon that it is today.
We want the film we remember, not the second hand copy of it. It may be your definitive vision but it's not what made the film great to us. The film, and the maker of the film, was human. Human inspired. Human created. Human infused. That's what drew us to the films - it was about _us_ not you. The hero or villain was us not anybody else. Our dreams were wrapped in sand, space, and blades of light.
*ahem*
Brass tacks...
There is one more thing your should note. Sales are going to be down. Not a little - a lot.
This is because even though you made the movie for you - we made you able to make the movies. Now we're angry because you've changed the movies that we helped you by buying. We'd gladly buy them again if they were the same movies. But they aren't - because you've forgotten that the dreams you create live not only in your heart but in the hearts of others.
I've said my piece. What you do is up to you but I hope you take to heart the things I've said and remember them when it comes time to maybe allow the "original" non-edited version out on DVD.
If you want us to pay you to view your dreams you have to enable us to make them our own otherwise what are we paying for?
Sincerely,
A concerned Star Wars fan...
Yes, but somehow a corporation will get him for violating the DMCA. ;-)
I don't care what you say I'm not playing bad music just to stop them. ;-)
Then again the thought of giant Tomeatos rolling up the White House lawn is kind of appealing...
It would appear so at first glance.
I would bet that this will spark much money spent by companies to find the actual owners of abandonware so that they can offer them money for the rights.
It's only just begun...
The GPL interprets court actions as damage and routes around them.
Seriously I can't see it taking very long for the authors to re-group and patch the GPL to fix the issues.
If this truly were to happen I'd give it about 6 months before the GPL and all the code was re-released.
But wait! That would only happen in a properly working legal society. I forgot that this is all happening in New Berlin where the courts follow George W. Furer.
Or at least that's what he seems to be trying to make it anyway...
*blink*
Why are there black SUVs on my lawn suddenly?
Milled brass anodized black or aluminum.
Comes in multiple grades of fountain nib.
Takes cartridge or bottle ink.
Is available almost anywhere.
I love mine.
Yes. An unprotected, unupdated XP machine will be at risk if it's connected to the internet.
www.sunhelp.org - Contact this guy. He or someone on the mailing lists there should be able to find Sun 2 stuff for you.
Can you say "non corrosive scratch resistant coating"?
I thought you could...
;-)
Seriously, aren't there already things like this out there? There's got to be some sprayable laminate that coats the DVD and seals it. If it is truly an oxidation method then spraying the whole DVD with some sealer stops this process easily.
*TV ad voice*
DVD Guard! Stops EZ-DVDs dead in their tracks!
Another "magic marker" solution brought to you by our friends at RIAA/MPAA.
No binary available. Java jar file downloaded from www.freenetproject.org.
I've tried to use Freenet; never could get it up and running under Mac OS X.
;-)
It works fine in OS X. I currently run it on a 466 iBook without any problems. OS X 10.1.5, 320meg RAM.
Freenet in Java is slow though. Could someone port it to C or assembler please?
I don't care WTF you think about content mirroring or WTF you think about waiting for stories or indeed anything else. I am extremely sick of not being able to read the original story you post at night when I get up in the morning.
/. and want it to continue, I'm posting this rant in hopes of getting you to change your mind on mirroring sites.
On top of all this you KEEP DOWNING SERVERS which will eventually get you legal action. Seeing as I like
You may not like it, hell it's probably going to cost you money, but it's the best for all concerned.
Sooner or later you're going to hit that one site that has an expensive lawyer on retainer and then you'll pay through the nose.
it only works on a 1024 or better screen in it's latest incarnation. In their infinite wisdom Apple has made it impossible for me to use a native iMovie in OS X on my clamshell iBook. I have everything to run it except a 1024 display.
Exceptionally annoying.
That is, unless someone knows a workaround....
Try Sodium Chloride - NaCL.
This is fine in theory...
that is until you want a Linux distro made outside the US like say SUSE...
What we _do_ need is a control on our US population other than corporations and the government that _teach_ people rather than prefer them stupid. The jobs aren't just going away because of money. Some of them, no flame intended, are going aways because the IT market is glutted with a lot of paper people that never are up to snuff. The good ones get drowned or hang onto small lifeboats to survive while the bad ones get big fat paychecks for doing a crappy job.
The companies will cease moving the jobs when two things occur:
1 - Salaries, and job working conditions get hashed out to normal levels like they are in other types of jobs.
2 - People work as hard as other people in other positions to make the companies money. (No offense to the hard-working people - I'm referring to the useless that pretend to know IT skills. You all know who they are.)
I just called this number and got one of the sales drones to confirm some information for me:
1) Bruce Nelson is the CEO of Office Depot.
(bnelson@officedepot.com does not bounce but other permutations do. I got a blank response 24 hours after sending this e-mail. I heard about this yesterday BTW Slashdot.)
2) The corporate phone number is 1-800-937-3600. That is where the sales drone told me to call when I asked her for a number for "corporate policy complaints".
She mentioned that she hasn't heard a lot about this so I suspect many are not calling. Just FYI.
I know it is not politically correct, but i tend to agree with you. Some people are just that : stupid.
Sons of suits - they only have intelligence enough to be suits. Not that they don't have the potential for change but they are unlikely to do so.
Unfortunately, if you look closer, they are a vast majority. Hope it changes in the next generations, but I think is too much to wish...
Hmm...I know this will go down in a flurry of jokes but the culture should change at least somewhat IMHO due to Geeks having kids. Hopefully the Geeks of the world will educate their children better thus making them a little more resistant to standard suit-level intelligence.