You'd be surprised that I actually work on something very big that has a lot of banners around the Internet. I'm absolutely satisfied with my job. We certainly dont push anyone to look at our ads and we especially don't threaten them with rape if they don't. If I can make sense out of this then sure of hell the customers can.
Why don't all the website owners that feel cheated by those who use Adblock put a clear, visible banner that says it's illegal to view this website with advertising stripped off?
As soon as I see one of those, I will put their hostname in the proxy's blacklist forever. Problem solved.
If the webmasters think they can force people to read their website in one particular way that's most benefitting to them, I'll be among the ones glad to remind the webmasters that I, too, have a choice of throwing their website into a blacklist and advise other people on not using it.
I don't care if it violates any social contract. I don't even agree that there is any contract. As long as the website is publically available, I can do whatever the fuck I please to its contents on my own machine. The website owners should shut the fuck up and be grateful I spared a minute of my time to even pay attention to their little shitty website, and sure as hell I don't feel indebted to them for anything. Unless they're paying ME to have it their way, I'm going to strip their ads, block their cookies, apply my stylesheets to make their shit readable, and if they're uncomfortable with that, why don't they just let me know so that I can continue ignoring them some more and care even less?
If they feel deprived of revenue, perhaps they should reconsider the field of businness they're in, because I'm most certainly not here to pay their bills.
So here's how Internet works: when you put something into a place where everyone can have a copy, it's none of your business what people do with their copies. For those of you cretins who still have the brick-and-mortar mentality, I dont owe you anything at all and you should thank me for even considering your shitty website.
I'm so shocked and awed! It turns out that the mainstream music consumers are stupid and gullible, and their taste is so vain that even a computer program can figure it out!
What are we going to do, Slashdot?! What are we going to do?!
"Please! Will someone think of the cocaine dealers!"/. becomes more and more politically correct. Next thing you know, we'll become even less US centric that K5.
Where is this world going?!
Mutant DVD disks invade New Jersey. Rape and pillage follows. Dozens of "open source" hippies reported missing. RIAA military advisor in Pentagon was unavailable for comment. Stay tuned for updates.
Equal rights is not a decent idea. Neither on paper nor in reality. Some people are better, smarter, stronger, cuter, more brilliant than the others.
Any system that claims to provide people with equal rights is inherently flawed because it must decide where exactly those "equal" rights lay. Too much restrictions and the more enlightened part of the society will suffer; too much freedom and the least enlightened part of the society will rebel.
Under equal rights, no one can be perfectly happy with what they get - some will always feel they deserve more or that the other group does not deserves as much as this one.
In order to enforce equality, people must be made equal: not only in rights, but also in obligations, opportunities, abilities, skills and possibilities. I don't think I need to explain -what- kind of society exactly I'm describing here, as I am sure we've all read Orwell.
The man was held on charges of *distributing pornography*, because SOMEONE put a disk with pr0n with SOMEONE ELSE sucking SOMEONE ELSE's dick on ebay. Not that this entire thing makes a whole lot of sense as it is, and now you added the benefit of connecting the copyrights to it?
What the fuck, man? Was he arrested for distributing videos of someone getting blown, or infringing on someone's copyrights? Come on, read the following:
"The boy himself has been tracked down by police, faced court yesterday and has been expelled from his school."
DOES IT REALLY LOOK LIKE IT TO YOU THAT A 16 YEAR OLD WHO JUST GOT VIDEOS OF HIS GIRLFRIEND SUCKING COCK BEING SOLD ON EBAY WILL MOBILIZE POLICE FORCES TO ARREST SOMEONE FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT?
For god's sake! I understand this is slashdot, but there's a limit to every limit!
Slashdot Mirror
lol internets
One of them sheep is running USA and you post it on the front page just now?
Talk about lag.
The original credit belongs to TV series "Earth Final Conflict". The UI was used to pilot Taelon shuttles.
You'd be surprised that I actually work on something very big that has a lot of banners around the Internet. I'm absolutely satisfied with my job. We certainly dont push anyone to look at our ads and we especially don't threaten them with rape if they don't. If I can make sense out of this then sure of hell the customers can.
Well in such case I have a brilliant idea.
Why don't all the website owners that feel cheated by those who use Adblock put a clear, visible banner that says it's illegal to view this website with advertising stripped off?
As soon as I see one of those, I will put their hostname in the proxy's blacklist forever. Problem solved.
If the webmasters think they can force people to read their website in one particular way that's most benefitting to them, I'll be among the ones glad to remind the webmasters that I, too, have a choice of throwing their website into a blacklist and advise other people on not using it.
I don't care if it violates any social contract. I don't even agree that there is any contract. As long as the website is
publically available, I can do whatever the fuck I please to its contents on my own machine. The website owners should shut the fuck up and be grateful I spared a minute of my time to even pay attention to their little shitty website, and sure as hell I don't feel indebted to them for anything. Unless they're paying ME to have it their way, I'm going to strip their ads, block their cookies, apply my stylesheets to make their shit readable, and if they're uncomfortable with that, why don't they just let me know so that I can continue ignoring them some more and care even less?
If they feel deprived of revenue, perhaps they should reconsider the field of businness they're in, because I'm most certainly not here to pay their bills.
So here's how Internet works: when you put something into a place where everyone can have a copy, it's none of your business what people do with their copies. For those of you cretins who still have the brick-and-mortar mentality, I dont owe you anything at all and you should thank me for even considering your shitty website.
Now that the pope is dead, and it's a first post not about Terry Schiavo!
The point was that Russia is not former Russia as parent suggested.
Russia's still there, Einstein.
Sure thing! We can refuse to procreate. Less children = less sickness worldwide.
Oh wait, this is Slashdot.
Kickass, we can sit and do nothing instead but still take all the credit. :P
this entire case is sticky. And, first post!
Still dead? Cuz that's what Netcraft says..
Oh. Wait.
I'm so shocked and awed! It turns out that the mainstream music consumers are stupid and gullible, and their taste is so vain that even a computer program can figure it out!
What are we going to do, Slashdot?! What are we going to do?!
Gates: That's what they think.
I worked with KDE and now my k key is stuk! Krap!!
1. Invest a billion dollars into something with word "sharing" in it. ...
2.
3. You fail it!
C'mon guys!
"Please! Will someone think of the cocaine dealers!" /. becomes more and more politically correct. Next thing you know, we'll become even less US centric that K5.
Where is this world going?!
*ring ring* Hello! Chen calling. I speak James please! No James here man... Oh! Is this left left right down left right up? What the...
Yes, right! With all the corruption, war, terrorism, poverty and starvation, it's about time people could read RSS of their DDR!
I also suspect that he's way richer than we know...
Mutant DVD disks invade New Jersey. Rape and pillage follows. Dozens of "open source" hippies reported missing. RIAA military advisor in Pentagon was unavailable for comment. Stay tuned for updates.
Am I the only one who just read this /. news item as "IBM has big plans for 1970"... and weren't surprised a least bit?
Any system that claims to provide people with equal rights is inherently flawed because it must decide where exactly those "equal" rights lay. Too much restrictions and the more enlightened part of the society will suffer; too much freedom and the least enlightened part of the society will rebel.
Under equal rights, no one can be perfectly happy with what they get - some will always feel they deserve more or that the other group does not deserves as much as this one.
In order to enforce equality, people must be made equal: not only in rights, but also in obligations, opportunities, abilities, skills and possibilities. I don't think I need to explain -what- kind of society exactly I'm describing here, as I am sure we've all read Orwell.
"Superstitious activities"?
Why does this sound more and more Stalinesque to me? Uhm.. wait.. might have something to do with those and these being communists.
Are people going to get it any time soon?
The man was held on charges of *distributing pornography*, because SOMEONE put a disk with pr0n with SOMEONE ELSE sucking SOMEONE ELSE's dick on ebay. Not that this entire thing makes a whole lot of sense as it is, and now you added the benefit of connecting the copyrights to it?
What the fuck, man? Was he arrested for distributing videos of someone getting blown, or infringing on someone's copyrights? Come on, read the following:
DOES IT REALLY LOOK LIKE IT TO YOU THAT A 16 YEAR OLD WHO JUST GOT VIDEOS OF HIS GIRLFRIEND SUCKING COCK BEING SOLD ON EBAY WILL MOBILIZE POLICE FORCES TO ARREST SOMEONE FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT?
For god's sake! I understand this is slashdot, but there's a limit to every limit!
first.post!