Get the hell off your lawn? I was hoping to come hang out and have a beer with another ex-BBS sysop. We hadn't gotten fidonet set up on ours when it finally died (a storm killed the modem on the first day of a 2 week vacation of the guy who's house the computer was in... lost just about all of our users), but there was still the paying for phone lines, a computer dedicated to the BBS, door registration, and so on. All with no requirement for users to pay up. Just because it was fun and cool to do.
Man, I miss those days. Simpler times and so much fun.
Comcast sends way more traffic to my home network than my home network sends to Comcast. Clearly they should start paying me for using up my network bandwidth.
Actually, I would be sad to see them go down. Not because I feel sorry for a bunch of idiots who can't manage a business, but because I am sure that there is actually a good amount of music on EMI that IS worth listening to.
EMI actually does have a lot of good music. EMI is a large collection of smaller labels ranging from Blue Note, which publishes tons of classic and modern jazz, to Earache Records, which publishes many of today's best up and coming metal bands.
To be fair, there ARE a number of people on here who DO think they should be able to download whatever software, music, and movies they want, whenever they want, without paying. I've had a few discussions in threads around here about it. But, given the number of people on slashdot, I'd say it's a fairly safe bet that these are different people with different opinions which is something people seem to forget about on here when they throw a fit about slashdot users being hypocrites.
No, it's not. Mono has been around for years. I haven't messed with it, but from other posts about this article and comments friends of mine who have messed with it, it's pretty damned good these days.
Maybe I'd be more for punishing an organization financially if they were engaging in risky behavior and refusing to stop; however, from what I can remember about the incident, Google apologized and shut the thing down quickly (I'm not 100% on that, though).
While I think the lawyers are just in it for the money for themselves and don't deserve this huge chunk of cash, an argument could be made that Google IS engaging in risky behavior and refusing to stop. I don't think any of this is an accident. I think Google (or at least someone at Google) tries to slip this stuff in just to see if they can sneak it by, then when users catch it they apologize and remove it and claim it was a mistake. The first time, sure, it may have been a mistake where some boilerplate legal bs got thrown in there. But in the last few years things like this have happened with Buzz, Chrome, and Streetview off the top of my head. It seems like there may be 1 or 2 more, but I'm not certain.
The really great thing about these "dumbed down" Linux distros is that you still have the option to go tweak stuff as you need, build packages from source with specific options, etc. The "dumbing down" of Linux hasn't removed the flexibility, it's just made it so that more of it "just works" so that you can spend your time tweaking the stuff that truly needs it and actually using your machine.
Sure, I remember those days. Now that I use Linux for real work, with live production servers, and not just screwing around in my bedroom I don't have time for that nonsense. I greatly prefer the more common state of things where the mostly automated configuration is probably pretty close to what I need, but I still have the option to make use of that arcane knowledge to tweak things if I need/want to.
Don't get me wrong, that kind of distro still has its place in the world, but it shouldn't be the standard way of things.
Nice, you actually got to do it again? I'm pretty sure the mission statement where I work is:
"There's never enough money to do it right, but there's always enough salaried employees to work overtime maintaining the mess."
I'm way late on this reply, but that's what I expected would actually be the case if something like that went to court, or at the very least it would be more of a "whoever has the most expensive lawyer wins" situation. I may have to look into it more when I get some free time.
Ah, yes. The old unskippable cut scene. My wife can attest to the combined total of hours I've spent furiously pressing buttons in a fit of rage as if maybe this time the cut scene will be skippable if I just hit the right button.
Perhaps I've misunderstood, but to be protected as a common carrier, don't you have to have the government classify you as one? I don't think you get to just wake up one day and say "hey, I'm a common carrier, you can't touch me! na na na na na!" once the court/feds/whoever decide they don't like what you're doing
This suggests that there are requirements for being considered a telecom common carrier including reports that have to be filed yearly, etc. - http://www.fcc.gov/wcb/filing.html
I know a lot of websites put up statements about not filtering user comments, not being liable for user comments, etc. But has that ever actually been tested in court? The closest I am aware of (and I have not researched this) would be The Pirate Bay and well, that argument hasn't exactly worked well for them. Although they were not prosecuted in the US, I suspect it would have worked no better here in the US or they'd put their servers here.
I agree, pretty much. I don't mind a boss battle. I do mind a boss battle that I have to do more than 2-3 times, especially when it's one of those 5-20 minute epic battles. Those games can fuck off. It also gets especially old with a long loading time and short fight. If I keep dying 15-45 seconds in and then have to wait for a 30+ second load time, again, the game can fuck right off. I've got plenty of things to do, all of it more interesting than this same boss fight segment (or loading screen) for the 20th time.
I'm sure he's in it strictly for the money now, but it is possible that initially he built it just because it would be fun. I've started a number of projects just to see if I could do it, what kind of difficulties come up that I haven't thought of, etc. and then later realized that it was actually kind of useful and I could probably make money off of it with some marketing and time spent maintaining it. The difference being he wanted the money bad enough to follow through on that thought while I have decided it was going to be way too much work with a high risk of failure in the end to be worth quitting my stable day job to try.
Man... I have no idea if I was just typing like crap last night or if slashdot was hosing my posts. Sorry for the typos and missing words in a few spots.
I didn't mean to imply that I think Christians should never sin in any way. Hell, I spent much of my life in the church and being harassed about "sinning" with my evil heavy metal and books and video games with witchcraft in them. I still, in some ways, consider myself a Christian.
I was just pointing out that his argument that hiding from the world to avoid temptation is weak. It doesn't allow people to see you being a good Christian, which is what the world needs to see for Christians (and other religions) to be accepted. It's also easy. You're just going along with the crowd and doing what everyone else you're around is doing. There's no strength of character or proof that you really believe in the way you are behaving in doing that.
I never said I was mad at Christians. A lot of people are, though, as you can easily see when it comes up around here.
I was raised going to church every Sunday, praying before every meal, etc. I believe the core teachings are great and I believe that there are some very genuinely good people involved in the religion (and every other religion). I also believe there are a lot of people who want to be good, but have imo misinterpreted much of the message and gotten too caught up in worrying about the wrong parts of the teachings.
The misinterpretation is why I have stopped going to church since leaving my parents' house many years ago. Far too many religious people seem far too concerned over whether I said fuck or wore a t-shirt with a skull on it rather than whether I peacefully worked out the situation with some asshole or helped someone in need or was just generally courteous and held a door open for someone whose hands were full. To many of these people, such as the person I replied to, going out and being a witness to God (as the Bible puts it) to people means occasionally leaving your safe, protected group of to cram Jesus down someone's throat whether they want to hear it or not by preaching on the street corner or including how it's a great day to be a Christian and every little thing done that day was blessed by God. To me, being a witness to God means going out into the world and just generally being a good person. Bring up your religion when it's relevant, keep it to yourself when it's not. No one in any modern country is not a Christian because they've never heard of the religion, they're not a Christian because they have seen a reason to be one.
The reason that real Christians live seperated lives is that it helps keep down the tendency to sin.
Maybe people wouldn't have such a problem with Christians and other religious folk if they were out in the world living the way they believe they should even with temptation around them, where otherwise can see them behaving kindly and peacefully and living a wholesome life? You know, kind of like Jesus did?
If the only way you can keep yourself from doing what you consider wrong is to hide from it and pretend it doesn't exist, that doesn't make you good in my opinion, it makes you weak and likely a hypocrite who would jump at the first opportunity given to do whatever it is you consider wrong.
As long as you come really cheap, I can probably get you on where I work. You won't get cool hardware like that, but you can have the other half. Management seems to be ok with substandard work as long as apologizing to the customers continues to be cheaper than doing a good job or buying the hardware to cover up the poor job.
I've actually got a landline phone with a Goog-411 button on it that dials it. I've never used it, though. I might have to use it before it goes away just to check it out.
That depends. It says it supports wifi and there are wifi hotspots on practically every corner where I live and many of them are free and of course the wifi in my house is free for me to use. The carriers all (I believe all of them, anyway) require an "unlmited" (with varying defintions of unlimited) data plan with Android phones, so depending on how much data skype actually uses and how much you use for other stuff, it may still be a viable option if you're over on your voice minutes or whatever.
I'm with you. Blockbuster really doesn't have much nostalgia for me, it's the places the preceded shops like that. Blockbuster was cool at first in that it was new, shinier, larger, etc. Once the amazement at a large, clean, video store like that wore off it was just this new place that was more expensive than the place I used to rent videos that it drove out of business. All of my really good rental related childhood memories are from the pre-blockbuster days.
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Get the hell off your lawn? I was hoping to come hang out and have a beer with another ex-BBS sysop. We hadn't gotten fidonet set up on ours when it finally died (a storm killed the modem on the first day of a 2 week vacation of the guy who's house the computer was in... lost just about all of our users), but there was still the paying for phone lines, a computer dedicated to the BBS, door registration, and so on. All with no requirement for users to pay up. Just because it was fun and cool to do.
Man, I miss those days. Simpler times and so much fun.
But I'm not downloading torrents. When I am, which is generally just WoW patches, I do seed for awhile after I am done downloading.
Most of my inbound in Netflix.
Comcast sends way more traffic to my home network than my home network sends to Comcast. Clearly they should start paying me for using up my network bandwidth.
Actually, I would be sad to see them go down. Not because I feel sorry for a bunch of idiots who can't manage a business, but because I am sure that there is actually a good amount of music on EMI that IS worth listening to.
EMI actually does have a lot of good music. EMI is a large collection of smaller labels ranging from Blue Note, which publishes tons of classic and modern jazz, to Earache Records, which publishes many of today's best up and coming metal bands.
To be fair, there ARE a number of people on here who DO think they should be able to download whatever software, music, and movies they want, whenever they want, without paying. I've had a few discussions in threads around here about it. But, given the number of people on slashdot, I'd say it's a fairly safe bet that these are different people with different opinions which is something people seem to forget about on here when they throw a fit about slashdot users being hypocrites.
No, it's not. Mono has been around for years. I haven't messed with it, but from other posts about this article and comments friends of mine who have messed with it, it's pretty damned good these days.
Maybe I'd be more for punishing an organization financially if they were engaging in risky behavior and refusing to stop; however, from what I can remember about the incident, Google apologized and shut the thing down quickly (I'm not 100% on that, though).
While I think the lawyers are just in it for the money for themselves and don't deserve this huge chunk of cash, an argument could be made that Google IS engaging in risky behavior and refusing to stop. I don't think any of this is an accident. I think Google (or at least someone at Google) tries to slip this stuff in just to see if they can sneak it by, then when users catch it they apologize and remove it and claim it was a mistake. The first time, sure, it may have been a mistake where some boilerplate legal bs got thrown in there. But in the last few years things like this have happened with Buzz, Chrome, and Streetview off the top of my head. It seems like there may be 1 or 2 more, but I'm not certain.
When I screw around in your bedroom I don't need your mom to perform, but it's better when she does.
The really great thing about these "dumbed down" Linux distros is that you still have the option to go tweak stuff as you need, build packages from source with specific options, etc. The "dumbing down" of Linux hasn't removed the flexibility, it's just made it so that more of it "just works" so that you can spend your time tweaking the stuff that truly needs it and actually using your machine.
Sure, I remember those days. Now that I use Linux for real work, with live production servers, and not just screwing around in my bedroom I don't have time for that nonsense. I greatly prefer the more common state of things where the mostly automated configuration is probably pretty close to what I need, but I still have the option to make use of that arcane knowledge to tweak things if I need/want to.
Don't get me wrong, that kind of distro still has its place in the world, but it shouldn't be the standard way of things.
Nice, you actually got to do it again? I'm pretty sure the mission statement where I work is: "There's never enough money to do it right, but there's always enough salaried employees to work overtime maintaining the mess."
I'm way late on this reply, but that's what I expected would actually be the case if something like that went to court, or at the very least it would be more of a "whoever has the most expensive lawyer wins" situation. I may have to look into it more when I get some free time.
Ah, yes. The old unskippable cut scene. My wife can attest to the combined total of hours I've spent furiously pressing buttons in a fit of rage as if maybe this time the cut scene will be skippable if I just hit the right button.
Perhaps I've misunderstood, but to be protected as a common carrier, don't you have to have the government classify you as one? I don't think you get to just wake up one day and say "hey, I'm a common carrier, you can't touch me! na na na na na!" once the court/feds/whoever decide they don't like what you're doing
This suggests that there are requirements for being considered a telecom common carrier including reports that have to be filed yearly, etc. - http://www.fcc.gov/wcb/filing.html
I know a lot of websites put up statements about not filtering user comments, not being liable for user comments, etc. But has that ever actually been tested in court? The closest I am aware of (and I have not researched this) would be The Pirate Bay and well, that argument hasn't exactly worked well for them. Although they were not prosecuted in the US, I suspect it would have worked no better here in the US or they'd put their servers here.
I agree, pretty much. I don't mind a boss battle. I do mind a boss battle that I have to do more than 2-3 times, especially when it's one of those 5-20 minute epic battles. Those games can fuck off. It also gets especially old with a long loading time and short fight. If I keep dying 15-45 seconds in and then have to wait for a 30+ second load time, again, the game can fuck right off. I've got plenty of things to do, all of it more interesting than this same boss fight segment (or loading screen) for the 20th time.
I'm sure he's in it strictly for the money now, but it is possible that initially he built it just because it would be fun. I've started a number of projects just to see if I could do it, what kind of difficulties come up that I haven't thought of, etc. and then later realized that it was actually kind of useful and I could probably make money off of it with some marketing and time spent maintaining it. The difference being he wanted the money bad enough to follow through on that thought while I have decided it was going to be way too much work with a high risk of failure in the end to be worth quitting my stable day job to try.
Man... I have no idea if I was just typing like crap last night or if slashdot was hosing my posts. Sorry for the typos and missing words in a few spots.
I didn't mean to imply that I think Christians should never sin in any way. Hell, I spent much of my life in the church and being harassed about "sinning" with my evil heavy metal and books and video games with witchcraft in them. I still, in some ways, consider myself a Christian.
I was just pointing out that his argument that hiding from the world to avoid temptation is weak. It doesn't allow people to see you being a good Christian, which is what the world needs to see for Christians (and other religions) to be accepted. It's also easy. You're just going along with the crowd and doing what everyone else you're around is doing. There's no strength of character or proof that you really believe in the way you are behaving in doing that.
I never said I was mad at Christians. A lot of people are, though, as you can easily see when it comes up around here.
I was raised going to church every Sunday, praying before every meal, etc. I believe the core teachings are great and I believe that there are some very genuinely good people involved in the religion (and every other religion). I also believe there are a lot of people who want to be good, but have imo misinterpreted much of the message and gotten too caught up in worrying about the wrong parts of the teachings.
The misinterpretation is why I have stopped going to church since leaving my parents' house many years ago. Far too many religious people seem far too concerned over whether I said fuck or wore a t-shirt with a skull on it rather than whether I peacefully worked out the situation with some asshole or helped someone in need or was just generally courteous and held a door open for someone whose hands were full. To many of these people, such as the person I replied to, going out and being a witness to God (as the Bible puts it) to people means occasionally leaving your safe, protected group of to cram Jesus down someone's throat whether they want to hear it or not by preaching on the street corner or including how it's a great day to be a Christian and every little thing done that day was blessed by God. To me, being a witness to God means going out into the world and just generally being a good person. Bring up your religion when it's relevant, keep it to yourself when it's not. No one in any modern country is not a Christian because they've never heard of the religion, they're not a Christian because they have seen a reason to be one.
The reason that real Christians live seperated lives is that it helps keep down the tendency to sin.
Maybe people wouldn't have such a problem with Christians and other religious folk if they were out in the world living the way they believe they should even with temptation around them, where otherwise can see them behaving kindly and peacefully and living a wholesome life? You know, kind of like Jesus did?
If the only way you can keep yourself from doing what you consider wrong is to hide from it and pretend it doesn't exist, that doesn't make you good in my opinion, it makes you weak and likely a hypocrite who would jump at the first opportunity given to do whatever it is you consider wrong.
As long as you come really cheap, I can probably get you on where I work. You won't get cool hardware like that, but you can have the other half. Management seems to be ok with substandard work as long as apologizing to the customers continues to be cheaper than doing a good job or buying the hardware to cover up the poor job.
Hey, I'm waving at you over the cubicle wall right now. How's it going over there?
I've actually got a landline phone with a Goog-411 button on it that dials it. I've never used it, though. I might have to use it before it goes away just to check it out.
That depends. It says it supports wifi and there are wifi hotspots on practically every corner where I live and many of them are free and of course the wifi in my house is free for me to use. The carriers all (I believe all of them, anyway) require an "unlmited" (with varying defintions of unlimited) data plan with Android phones, so depending on how much data skype actually uses and how much you use for other stuff, it may still be a viable option if you're over on your voice minutes or whatever.
I'm with you. Blockbuster really doesn't have much nostalgia for me, it's the places the preceded shops like that. Blockbuster was cool at first in that it was new, shinier, larger, etc. Once the amazement at a large, clean, video store like that wore off it was just this new place that was more expensive than the place I used to rent videos that it drove out of business. All of my really good rental related childhood memories are from the pre-blockbuster days.