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Yeah, I saw that study. The University of I-Just-Pull-Nonsense-Out-Of-My-Ass found that 9 out of 10 American's like to leave their children at home while they go out to rodeos.
Did you see the one showing that 99.9% of people named "the_B0fh" are jack-offs?
I was lost as hell over this summary and even TFAs. Here's some help, apparently "Carrier-Grade" refers to telecommunications carriers, which can typically accept no more than 30 seconds to 5 minutes of downtime per year from their servers.
I don't know if they changed this since your post, or what, but there's a download link on each now. If there wasn't one there before, then I have to agree that it's piss poor design.
Because there is money to be made here. There are plenty of people who would be willing to pay money to download a legal copy of a movie if they could burn it to DVD or stream it to their TVs. It would be worth it to them to avoid breaking the law.
I don't know how many of these people there are out there or what exactly they'd be willing to spend, but as far as I know, no one in the movie industry has bothered to look into it.
This is simialr to iTMS where a large portion of the customers are aware that they can download the latest $boy_band magahit from $p2p_network, but choose to go the legal route.
Thanks for pointing out that site. I hadn't seen it before. But Jeebus, it's ugly as sin, you'd think there would be a Libertarian around there willing to donate some webmaster skills.
At any rate, I always like to see minor party candidates taking a visible stand (especially Libertarians). Trying to bring some moderation to to Libertarians' sometimes extreme views should be attractive to a larger group of voters.
But he comes across as pretty harsh; I wonder if the bottom-right cell of his site comes on a little too strong. He might be spooking some of his potential voters who are looking for an alternative to the Rep/Dem du jour, but aren't ready to drink the kool-aid yet.
He's an asshat because his campaign is a joke. I appreciate the fact that he's trying to break away from "politics as usual" and offer an alternative. But he'll never get enough people to vote for him with commercials about action figures and banner ads on his campaign site for his barbecue sauce. Even if someone wanted to say his campaign wasn't about winning but about making a statement...what's the statement? It's fun to run for Governor? OK, I'm convinced. Independent candidates should be taken seriously? I hope not because he's giving the opposite impression.
You mentioned not knowing what Strayhorn's agenda (other than lowering taxes is), but I'm not too clear on Kinky's either. If I remember correctly he makes some broad statements about improving education and the like, but I'm sure similar things could be found on all the candidate's sites. And I'm not stumping for Strayhorn, she's just more likely to get my vote because her winning or at least taking a lot of votes just might help weaken this two-party debacle the US has dug itself into (and Kinky gives the impression of incompetence).
I'm unlikely to vote for a Republican or Democrat when there is an Independent or minor-party candidate. I'm pretty much of the opinion that most politicians are crooked as hell, I think Independents are somewhat more sincere. But Kinky? I can't tell if he's serious. I'm not willing to make a symbolic vote for him when I don't agree with his clownish antics. I feel he's making it more difficult for current and future Independent and minor-party candidates to be accepted as credible.
I think he's an asshat. I don't know much about her (except she signed my permit to collect taxes in Texas), but Comptroller Carole Strayhorn is also running as an Independent, she looks more likely to get my vote.
If a company wants to have an internet presence it has to be searchable by Google
I know this wasn't your point, but I've always found it interesting that del.icio.us blocks all search engine bots with their robots.txt. They have opted out of search engines (I assume as a precaution against spam).
They may not be most people's idea of a "company" but they have reached rare popularity without Google or any other SEs help.
I just read a post further up that had a link to this mailing list post by Linus. In it, Linus makes a point I hadn't thought of before: "You could write a kernel binary into a ROM, and solder it to the motherboard. That's fine - always has been. As long as you give out the sources to the software, there's nothing that says that the hardware has to be built to make it easy - or even possible - to change the binary there."
So the GPLd code could be "attached" to the hardware in such a way that removing one from the other becomes impossible (or at least not trivial). It's easy to see how this free software/hardware combination could be used for DRM.
Except users will no longer have the freedom to build DRM software using GPL'd code. I realize my point sounds a little idiotic, but I've heard RMS make the point himself that the reason there aren't any clauses in the GPL about code not being used to manage missile silos, distribute kiddie porn, or in Oregon logging companies is that everyone will have their own political agenda and no one will be able to agree, thus making the idea behind free software somewhat pointless. No political statements other than making software free, not freeing the movies, books, and sony CDs.
I hate to sound like I'm defending DRM, but the whole reason I support free software is because there isn't a whole lot to disagree with. You don't have to be as extreme as RMS to support free software. But it sounds like soon you'll have to be anti-DRM to use the latest GPL. Forgive my crying "slippery slope", but what's next? Oil companies can't use it? Republicans can't?
I like free software, I don't like free* software.
More surprisingly, they seem to be reluctant to use Linux on servers: 'Our personal view is that Linux, period, is only for the desktop. We don't run our main servers on Linux, because there are too many flaws in main Linux kernel.
They mentioned Windows in the summary, so to head off the "so they use Windows servers over Linux???" comments, TFA said they run Solaris on the servers because they have found it to be more stable, reliable, and have a longer lifecycle. I'm not saying I agree, just clarifying a summary I can see leading to pointless comments.
Yeah, I'm curious how adding "Yahoo" will change things, too. I downloaded a presentation by Nat Friedman the other day about Hula. He mentioned how branding open source products with the corporate name turns off potential users and developers. I think he used the example, would you rather hack on "Hula" or "Novell Groupware Suite".
It seems kind of minor, but I can see how it would make a big difference. I can't help but wonder if Yahoo should have kept the old name and just added a little "Presented by Yahoo!" or something near the corner of the logo.
Another test involves placing the animals in water and seeing if they swim or simply give up and float.
Now that's just good science. In my youth, I seem to remember my brother and I performing a similar experiment on our neighbor's cat and their swimming pool.
If you've been reading slashdot comments for a while you shouldn't have any problems. With all the tubgirl and goatse images that get posted in here, seeing even the fattest, harriest of men engaged in a "regular" bowel movement shouldn't even make you blink.
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Did you see the one showing that 99.9% of people named "the_B0fh" are jack-offs?
That's no moon!
I was lost as hell over this summary and even TFAs. Here's some help, apparently "Carrier-Grade" refers to telecommunications carriers, which can typically accept no more than 30 seconds to 5 minutes of downtime per year from their servers.
I don't know if they changed this since your post, or what, but there's a download link on each now. If there wasn't one there before, then I have to agree that it's piss poor design.
What would they bring to the table? What would it cost. Would they stay around long term?
Somebody please moderate me down.
As long as you're going to be your own grammar Nazi, you could have also pointed out that the second sentence should have ended in a question mark. :)
I don't know how many of these people there are out there or what exactly they'd be willing to spend, but as far as I know, no one in the movie industry has bothered to look into it.
This is simialr to iTMS where a large portion of the customers are aware that they can download the latest $boy_band magahit from $p2p_network, but choose to go the legal route.
Well, if you like having an AdSense account, you might want to stop encouraging readers to "click on the ads a few times".
Well, they haven't exactly blown away the home computer market.
They should call it "Slashdot Island".
Thanks for pointing out that site. I hadn't seen it before. But Jeebus, it's ugly as sin, you'd think there would be a Libertarian around there willing to donate some webmaster skills. At any rate, I always like to see minor party candidates taking a visible stand (especially Libertarians). Trying to bring some moderation to to Libertarians' sometimes extreme views should be attractive to a larger group of voters. But he comes across as pretty harsh; I wonder if the bottom-right cell of his site comes on a little too strong. He might be spooking some of his potential voters who are looking for an alternative to the Rep/Dem du jour, but aren't ready to drink the kool-aid yet.
He's probably feeling like Marsellus Wallace right about now.
You mentioned not knowing what Strayhorn's agenda (other than lowering taxes is), but I'm not too clear on Kinky's either. If I remember correctly he makes some broad statements about improving education and the like, but I'm sure similar things could be found on all the candidate's sites. And I'm not stumping for Strayhorn, she's just more likely to get my vote because her winning or at least taking a lot of votes just might help weaken this two-party debacle the US has dug itself into (and Kinky gives the impression of incompetence).
I'm unlikely to vote for a Republican or Democrat when there is an Independent or minor-party candidate. I'm pretty much of the opinion that most politicians are crooked as hell, I think Independents are somewhat more sincere. But Kinky? I can't tell if he's serious. I'm not willing to make a symbolic vote for him when I don't agree with his clownish antics. I feel he's making it more difficult for current and future Independent and minor-party candidates to be accepted as credible.
So pretty much, that's why he's an asshat.
I think he's an asshat. I don't know much about her (except she signed my permit to collect taxes in Texas), but Comptroller Carole Strayhorn is also running as an Independent, she looks more likely to get my vote.
If you look closely at the top-right of the picture you can see a noodley appendage.
I'm sure there will be a torrent.
I know this wasn't your point, but I've always found it interesting that del.icio.us blocks all search engine bots with their robots.txt. They have opted out of search engines (I assume as a precaution against spam).
They may not be most people's idea of a "company" but they have reached rare popularity without Google or any other SEs help.
So the GPLd code could be "attached" to the hardware in such a way that removing one from the other becomes impossible (or at least not trivial). It's easy to see how this free software/hardware combination could be used for DRM.
Except users will no longer have the freedom to build DRM software using GPL'd code. I realize my point sounds a little idiotic, but I've heard RMS make the point himself that the reason there aren't any clauses in the GPL about code not being used to manage missile silos, distribute kiddie porn, or in Oregon logging companies is that everyone will have their own political agenda and no one will be able to agree, thus making the idea behind free software somewhat pointless. No political statements other than making software free, not freeing the movies, books, and sony CDs.
I hate to sound like I'm defending DRM, but the whole reason I support free software is because there isn't a whole lot to disagree with. You don't have to be as extreme as RMS to support free software. But it sounds like soon you'll have to be anti-DRM to use the latest GPL. Forgive my crying "slippery slope", but what's next? Oil companies can't use it? Republicans can't?
I like free software, I don't like free* software.
*some exceptions to freedom may apply
They mentioned Windows in the summary, so to head off the "so they use Windows servers over Linux???" comments, TFA said they run Solaris on the servers because they have found it to be more stable, reliable, and have a longer lifecycle. I'm not saying I agree, just clarifying a summary I can see leading to pointless comments.
Moderated "interesting"... Every time a moderator mods a post before clicking a link, the Flying Spaghetti Monster kills a kitten...
It seems kind of minor, but I can see how it would make a big difference. I can't help but wonder if Yahoo should have kept the old name and just added a little "Presented by Yahoo!" or something near the corner of the logo.
What's the statute of limitations on cruelty to animals?
Now that's just good science. In my youth, I seem to remember my brother and I performing a similar experiment on our neighbor's cat and their swimming pool.
If you've been reading slashdot comments for a while you shouldn't have any problems. With all the tubgirl and goatse images that get posted in here, seeing even the fattest, harriest of men engaged in a "regular" bowel movement shouldn't even make you blink.