Slashdot Mirror


User: Rares+Marian

Rares+Marian's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,630
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,630

  1. Re:Of course... on Play DVDs On Linux · · Score: 1

    We'll see.

  2. Re:Perhaps on Play DVDs On Linux · · Score: 1

    I want you to live in the authorized housing approved for your car.

  3. Re:Perhaps on Play DVDs On Linux · · Score: 1

    A rogue player like DR-DOS was arbitrarily deemed incompatiible with Windows by Microsoft, even though it wasn't true. Sorry if the MPAA wants a patent (to prevent others from making a device) they should go file one.

    They didn't file yet they get to block technologies.

  4. Re:Never mind... on Play DVDs On Linux · · Score: 1

    Musicians who aren't breaking evemn because they're gouged by the Recording Industry PUBLISHERS Association.

  5. Re:Tough Shit on Ask Carl Kadie About Censorship and Privacy at Colleges · · Score: 1

    I own the connection and the computer. What business do they have to search my system.

  6. Re:What if you are NDA'd and use the computer netw on Ask Carl Kadie About Censorship and Privacy at Colleges · · Score: 1

    You will apologize for that insult. Yeesh Rambus... the horror.

  7. Re:What if you are NDA'd and use the computer netw on Ask Carl Kadie About Censorship and Privacy at Colleges · · Score: 1

    SSH is allowed on campus.

  8. Re:Sounds Okay to me. on Ask Carl Kadie About Censorship and Privacy at Colleges · · Score: 1

    I paid for 5 7 week terms. This means I can use the available 100Mbit routing available to the dorms. Also given that the bandwidth or as I like to call it packet load is mine just as in renting an apartment, I can route my email to my machine.

    since you are receiving the monthly service gratis

    I've got a bridge to sell you, buy one get one free. It's new and improved really. That's a load of crap. Everyone is using wiring that cost the university money. Off-campus doesn't mean a thing. Before certain dorms were wired, they were off campus too.

    Come to think of it, I should go out and start charging interest on the money people make when I buy from them because after they get my money which I made with my hands, they go and make a profit on it. Can you believe that? The nerve of these people.

    Other things, searching my dorm because it's the school's (nevermind the fact everyone pays for housing) is one thing, but my computer IS NOT THEIRS! That's like saying that if I want to go to school suddenly everything belongs to them. That's bullshit.

    I'm normally the type who gets out of the kitchen but I can't say going to school is something you just say nah I'll go someplace else.

    Actually, I'm really arguing about principle. I don't have the problems others do.

  9. Re:WPI's Acceptible Use Policy on Ask Carl Kadie About Censorship and Privacy at Colleges · · Score: 1

    I go to the same school. We even get to keep our inventions for Major Qualification Projects. Frankly it kicks ass.

    For the slow, just because I think of something doesn't mean I'm using school property, specifically this $1000 Athlon I bought AND OWN.

    Course, private ownership has no place in students lives, I mean they're just students you know, they're there to learn so we can sell them to Microsoft or some other corporation.

  10. Re:Sounds Okay to me. on Ask Carl Kadie About Censorship and Privacy at Colleges · · Score: 1

    I paid $400 for that bandwidth. Get real.

  11. Re:College's vs Corporations on Ask Carl Kadie About Censorship and Privacy at Colleges · · Score: 1

    Corporations rip you off by paying you for hours not for work done.

    same with colleges.

  12. Re:Tough Shit on Ask Carl Kadie About Censorship and Privacy at Colleges · · Score: 1

    I pay the school for services, I am the one who should decide their purpose.

    Education is a business. Education should never be an institution. It only becomes a farce if it does.

  13. Re:Tough Shit on Ask Carl Kadie About Censorship and Privacy at Colleges · · Score: 1

    I do research within a consortium of developers and I am, under NDA, responsible for my part in keeping those discussions private.

    I paid $400+ for 100Mbit access.

    Schools give you free network access the same way department stores hike up prices and then call it a sale.

  14. What if you are NDA'd and use the computer network on Ask Carl Kadie About Censorship and Privacy at Colleges · · Score: 2

    I spemd time chatting about hardware designs. I have a responsibility to not one company but a whole consortium to not disclose the ideas we work on.

    How does that work with Network Use Policies?

  15. Companies get rich by paying per hour not per task on Slashback: Antennae, Play, Book Larnin' · · Score: 1

    Material wealth has no effect on the supply of time. There are still only 24 hours in a day.

    My computer makes my time much more valuable. I have access to tons of quality content that I can enrich my time with.

    Having Debian means I have even more time because I don't have to hunt dependencies.

    Time is a relative value, my knowledge, my determination to get things done, and my material wealth sets the value of those 24 hours.

    Chaos theory teaches that equilibrium equals death. Things can't change. Basing wealth on time is dangerous. Instead of me deciding what my time is worth by my education and self-improvement, nowadays companies own my time regardless what I do, whether it's independent inventions of my own, tasks that cover multiple jobs. Hell, a plumber gets a better deal. Plumbers get paid for a specific service, while i get paid the same no matter what it is I do. Companies already recognize the wealth of time. That's how they get rich and rip off their employees who perform multiple complex tasks for which they should be getting paid according to the value of the task.

  16. Re:Non-Zero sum game on Slashback: Antennae, Play, Book Larnin' · · Score: 1

    Rich also means having the MEANS with which to support the American Revolution. You think Jefferson built Monticello while cleaning dishes?

  17. Re:Non-Zero sum game on Slashback: Antennae, Play, Book Larnin' · · Score: 1

    Wrong, wrong, wrong. A certain weight of copper has a monetary value, however when used in electronics that value is many times more than its "rest" value so to speak.

    Time can be saved by hiring people or by machinery. I really don't understand the premise here. Would you rather people who are poor be unable to earn money for themselves? Is there a poverty gene that keeps them there or is menial work a stepping stone as well as a living base for those unable to further themselves.

    Now you can argue that maybe the wages at each level aren't enough to move from one level to the next, but guess what? Taking risks and mainting pride and self-respect will get you a long way.

    The "army" of poor people is not constant, people move on.

  18. Re:Off-topic, anti-Godwin's Law, etc. on SSH Claims Trademark Infringement by OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    War means killing people, Business means paying people and making money to pay with.

    Murder is not acceptable. Corporate attitudes are partly caused by the ground rules of business.

  19. Re:He *has* to do so on SSH Claims Trademark Infringement by OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    Read the law yourself. You don't fight for a trademark you lose it.

  20. bubblespeak on Genetic Stone Soup · · Score: 1

    You really should try harder. First there was nothing about licensing in the article. It's likely owned by the college.

    Seconc, classic reversal of ideology set up as trick question. Lame. Try harder.

  21. Re:Remember when Bell owned all telephones? on NEAR Touches Down on Eros · · Score: 1

    So what's stopping people from making their own phones.

  22. Re:Canada puts people on wait list, the UZ treats on US Sues Over Genetic Testing for Insurance Claims · · Score: 1


    There are people dying of treatable causes in the US because they can't afford health insurance. Long live Canada, Scandinavia, most of Europe and everywhere else where people are treated as humans and for their problems, and not only as a sack of money.


    Canada does NOT treat people. It sends them to us.

    Nothing stops you from getting treatment in the US.

    Insurance only keeps you from going broke. The US keeps you alive.

  23. Technology not recognized as an element of reality on Kafka vs. Orwell: Metaphors About Electronic Privacy · · Score: 1

    You go chat in shakespearewouldntuseapc.org and I'll go program my Palm virtual moron vudu doll.

  24. Canada puts people on wait list, the UZ treats ppl on US Sues Over Genetic Testing for Insurance Claims · · Score: 1

    Insurance in the US only prevents bankruptcy, people are treeated.

  25. Re:Why is this a problem? on US Sues Over Genetic Testing for Insurance Claims · · Score: 1

    What is served by insurance companies that do not provide coverage?

    How about the fact that screening people means they can't make a living so that they can improve themselves and tdeal with such problems?

    How about the fact that genetics is bogus anyway? It's like trying to find meaning in the Sistine chapel by examining its bricks.

    What defines a deisease is the proteins produced by genes, proteins which make up amino acids. It's the acids that cause the body to work or fail to function. Amino acids can be fixed.