From the article... "BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen has warned in the past that using his technology to distribute material illegally is a "dumb idea," because the file-swapping tool is not designed to hide the identity of anyone using it."
So it is sort of like waving to the camera while robbing a bank. Don't be surprised if you get caught. I doubt these were slashdot posters of computer people, likely frat boys and jocks that didn't know any better....
My favorite stories, which happen a lot up here (Ohio) in the winter, are when the police catch thieves by following their tracks in the snow, from the scene of the crime, right to their house. Seems like the MPAA is doing a high tech version of this...
who uses a Telegraph anymore? Exactly: NOBODY.
Actually... "Some companies, like Western Union and Swedish Telia still delivers Telegrams, but they serve as nostalgic novelty items rather than a primary means of communication." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy#Telex
So some day, we may get an old fashioned phone call as a novelty gift.
I think that in order to invest, one would want to know which technology is going to win out, but also, which company is in the best position to exploit the market. In the 70's, would most have guessed that Digital (the company) would be almost gone twenty years later? Even though computers have, well, stayed on the scene?
You can do even better- Phone fart them. Call, let it ring once, and hang up. That can be your signal to call you. I used to do the same thing when I was in middle school and didn't have a quarter- When my parents got the phone fart, they knew I needed a ride.
That explains it... I have one more question- didn't the pharmacutical companies suspect something was up? I mean, thats a lot of drugs shipped to a non-chain pharmacy....
How does that work? I've only ever had prescriptions that were hand written out by the doctor. Usually,the doctor (or his office) can call or fax the pharmacy the prescription. Although in this case, it seems like a bit of the old illegality....
This case also proves a bit of regulatory ineptness, I mean, doctors and pharmacies are highly regulated, how could they miss this guy writing this many prescriptions for so long?
Definately- but don't just think laptops/pcs on the web. Think of portable voip instead of cells, broadband radio in the car instead of XM etc etc etc. Wireless broadband is really going to change things- all the sudden we will have even more access to info everywhere....
Why movie theaters stay in business (my opinion):
The only reason I ever went to a movie theater was for a date. (Haha insert slashdot user is a virgin joke here, whatever...) Why does the theater work well for a date? Number one, it is fairly cheap compared to alternatives, it is easy to grab a movie and a burger for under 40$. And it counts as a date towards the most girls wait to the third date to bang your brains out thing. Number two, it requires no planning ahead. For the most part, concerts, sporting events and live theater require advance ticket purchase for decent seats. Number 3, you can go as you are. You don't need to get all dressed up to go to a movie. Number 4, you don't have to talk. You get to put hours together in the bank, without having to make conversation.
For me, going to movies had become obnoxious- they are filled with misbehaved 13 year olds and people of all ages on cell phones. Also, people seem to think it okay to talk during a movie these days. Many of my friends stay away from the movies for the same reasons. I think an usher in every theater who was there for the whole movie, and tossed out the talkers/cell users would go a long way towards bringing people back to the theaters.
And I will be honest- I like the big screen and big speakers, but for most fils I am happy to watch them on my couch on my TV. At least at home I know what it is that is sticking my foot to the floor....
I remember using aol- (It was free in the days of dial up to use my families account while I was off at school in off campus housing) The thing that always got me with aol, is that when you signed off, it would start downloading updates and take over your machine, and the only way to make it stop was to shut down the computer.
Isn't this pretty much the same concept they are using to "keep" customers?
or at least those in a position to weigh competing offers.
Wait, that's new? Isn't that in every field? Like, what does a top grad from a law school make his first year compared to one in the middle of his class, or even in the top 15%.
Isn't this true in pro sports- the guys who garner competing offers generally make a lot... and so on. and so on...
The only place this isn't true is with unionized places....
If you work on a dedicated campus, then any lady you see and want to date is complicated because you work together. If you work in a building with multiple companies, you are free to hit on the ladies from the other companies if you wish without fear of it causing employment problmes. That is a psychological advantage to working in a non-campus facility.
Click through my link and take a gander at me and the other doctors in my practice. Then you will see why I get the ladies.
Anyhow, even ugly dudes get laid. Who do you think all the ugly chicks are sleeping with?
For all the basement living virgin jokes on slashdot, the only virgins I know are people who want to be virgins....
Ugh- Whomever modded the parent offtopic is either A: a woman (not likley because women tend to have great senses of humor when it comes to the headache/honey I'm tired thing) or
B: a virgin
The thing about insomnia is, you are never really asleep, but you are never really awake.
The second rule of fight clib, is don't talk about fight club...
Anyhow, I always try and fall asleep first if there is a woman sleeping in my bed with me- If she falls asleep first, you are likely to hear a terrific fart (women don't fart less than us, they just hold them, while we are proud of them, and as such they are much stinkier and louder) and once you hear a woman fart, the magic is gone....
Shoot, regarding my above post- is it GHB? I need more sleep- my memory is shot....
Anyhow- I would love to not have to sleep- as long as the workday was still 8 hours. Man, I could get a lot done...
I forget the name of it- But one of the "street drugs" (Maybe Ketamine?) that used to be used by bodybuilders supposidly (sp) allows you to feel rested fully with a few hours of sleep a night- I guess it puts you right into deep sleep and you stay there, rather than the usual sleep cycles we all have. This seems, if possible, more natural- forcing more recuprative sleep rather than creating alertness...
My personal favorite- Whenever I transport a CRT monitor, I use the seat belt to hold it. It works really well actually.
Long story short- don't do this with your gf's jeep, with no doors and with only a lap belt with no shoulder harness. I left an expensive (at the time) monitor in pieces in the middle of an intersection after a particularly quick turn.
Wow- I stand corrected. Growing up on a farm, I guess I know nothing about eggs. We country bumpkins always appreciate some city folk settin' us straight!!!
I prefer brown eggs. I like getting them while they are still warm. People never believe me until they actually try them, but eggs that have been out from under the hen for just a few minutes before you cook them taste very different than what you get at the supermarket, or even free range eggs.
A lot of city folks will buy free range stuff that is 5 times as expensive than the regular stuff, yet not very different in either taste or the way the chickens live. I know city dwellers like to think that those of us who were raised on farms are idiots, but we do get a chuckle out of being able to sell an egg for $2 because the chicken was, um, "happy"....
Cool- That makes sense. I had a best friend who was a Vegan. We made an odd couple- I am big into hunting, and she didn't think that humans should even have domesticated animals. Yet we got along well.
One big sticking point for me: Women who are vegetarians and won't eat Jello, yet use lipstick! (Unless you get the animal free version, lipstick contains gelatin.)
And yes, I am all for vegetarianism. It isn't something that I have the discipline to do (It would have to be discipline for me, as I don't have an ethical problem eating animals)but I guess my veggie friends will have the last laugh when i die of heart disease....
So it is somewhat analagous to eating chicken eggs? I never understood why vegetarians won't eat eggs. (I understand why Vegans don't) Eggs we eat are the unfertalized ones, so they won't ever become chicks. Even if we don't eat them. (Not to be totally vile, but the same way that the egg that ebds up on a maxi pad each month will never become a human) They actually check the chicken eggs before shipping them off to be eaten....
On the converse- get caught destroying a bald eagle or a piping plover egg, and see how the government feels about the "not yet born."
I am going to be honest- I have trouble formenting an opinion on stem cells, because each time I lean one way, something pulls me back in the other direction. My question, if stem cells lead to a cure for cancer, will those who opposed the stem cell research boycott the treatment, and die?
"Just Dumb. Deal With it" Uh, Ok. If a person can't be bothered to type dodge when it's a Dodge Ram they're looking for that sounds to me like PEBKAC.
What if someone is looking up who makes a Ram, because they don't know the manufacturer. I hate to tell you this, but people who make a lot of money and have good products, realize that users aren't experts, and cater to them.
It is just the nature of the beast- Throw in a tech company and a normal story about a company PR/Picnic event becomes tech news. This same story, but at GM or Toyota would be in an automotive trade journal. A normal small town library event that would usually be relegated to page 10 of a small town weekly newspaper ends up in political magazines if a politician shows up. It is just the way it is.
It is an interesting story for me, even if I would never ever admit it, because secretly, I would like to party at the googleplex. But I would never admit it. The same way most men would like to party at the Playboy Mansion, many nerds (like me) would love to party at the googleplex. And the Playboy Mansion.
You said it man- Global Climate Change. One of the biggest misnomers of all time is Global Warming. It allows ingrates to say "we had 10 feet of snow in July, it can't be Global Warming!"
The "It isn't global warming" idiots will shiver to death during an ice age caused by global climate change and say "{if only we had used more cfcs!"
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From the article... "BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen has warned in the past that using his technology to distribute material illegally is a "dumb idea," because the file-swapping tool is not designed to hide the identity of anyone using it."
So it is sort of like waving to the camera while robbing a bank. Don't be surprised if you get caught. I doubt these were slashdot posters of computer people, likely frat boys and jocks that didn't know any better....
My favorite stories, which happen a lot up here (Ohio) in the winter, are when the police catch thieves by following their tracks in the snow, from the scene of the crime, right to their house. Seems like the MPAA is doing a high tech version of this...
who uses a Telegraph anymore? Exactly: NOBODY.
Actually... "Some companies, like Western Union and Swedish Telia still delivers Telegrams, but they serve as nostalgic novelty items rather than a primary means of communication." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy#Telex
So some day, we may get an old fashioned phone call as a novelty gift.
I think that in order to invest, one would want to know which technology is going to win out, but also, which company is in the best position to exploit the market. In the 70's, would most have guessed that Digital (the company) would be almost gone twenty years later? Even though computers have, well, stayed on the scene?
You can do even better- Phone fart them. Call, let it ring once, and hang up. That can be your signal to call you. I used to do the same thing when I was in middle school and didn't have a quarter- When my parents got the phone fart, they knew I needed a ride.
That explains it... I have one more question- didn't the pharmacutical companies suspect something was up? I mean, thats a lot of drugs shipped to a non-chain pharmacy....
How does that work? I've only ever had prescriptions that were hand written out by the doctor.
Usually,the doctor (or his office) can call or fax the pharmacy the prescription.
Although in this case, it seems like a bit of the old illegality....
This case also proves a bit of regulatory ineptness, I mean, doctors and pharmacies are highly regulated, how could they miss this guy writing this many prescriptions for so long?
Definately- but don't just think laptops/pcs on the web. Think of portable voip instead of cells, broadband radio in the car instead of XM etc etc etc. Wireless broadband is really going to change things- all the sudden we will have even more access to info everywhere....
Why movie theaters stay in business (my opinion):
The only reason I ever went to a movie theater was for a date. (Haha insert slashdot user is a virgin joke here, whatever...) Why does the theater work well for a date? Number one, it is fairly cheap compared to alternatives, it is easy to grab a movie and a burger for under 40$. And it counts as a date towards the most girls wait to the third date to bang your brains out thing. Number two, it requires no planning ahead. For the most part, concerts, sporting events and live theater require advance ticket purchase for decent seats. Number 3, you can go as you are. You don't need to get all dressed up to go to a movie. Number 4, you don't have to talk. You get to put hours together in the bank, without having to make conversation.
For me, going to movies had become obnoxious- they are filled with misbehaved 13 year olds and people of all ages on cell phones. Also, people seem to think it okay to talk during a movie these days. Many of my friends stay away from the movies for the same reasons. I think an usher in every theater who was there for the whole movie, and tossed out the talkers/cell users would go a long way towards bringing people back to the theaters.
And I will be honest- I like the big screen and big speakers, but for most fils I am happy to watch them on my couch on my TV. At least at home I know what it is that is sticking my foot to the floor....
I remember using aol- (It was free in the days of dial up to use my families account while I was off at school in off campus housing) The thing that always got me with aol, is that when you signed off, it would start downloading updates and take over your machine, and the only way to make it stop was to shut down the computer.
Isn't this pretty much the same concept they are using to "keep" customers?
or at least those in a position to weigh competing offers.
Wait, that's new? Isn't that in every field? Like, what does a top grad from a law school make his first year compared to one in the middle of his class, or even in the top 15%.
Isn't this true in pro sports- the guys who garner competing offers generally make a lot... and so on. and so on...
The only place this isn't true is with unionized places....
If you work on a dedicated campus, then any lady you see and want to date is complicated because you work together. If you work in a building with multiple companies, you are free to hit on the ladies from the other companies if you wish without fear of it causing employment problmes. That is a psychological advantage to working in a non-campus facility.
Click through my link and take a gander at me and the other doctors in my practice. Then you will see why I get the ladies.
Anyhow, even ugly dudes get laid. Who do you think all the ugly chicks are sleeping with?
For all the basement living virgin jokes on slashdot, the only virgins I know are people who want to be virgins....
Ugh- Whomever modded the parent offtopic is either
A: a woman (not likley because women tend to have great senses of humor when it comes to the headache/honey I'm tired thing) or
B: a virgin
The thing about insomnia is, you are never really asleep, but you are never really awake.
The second rule of fight clib, is don't talk about fight club...
Anyhow, I always try and fall asleep first if there is a woman sleeping in my bed with me- If she falls asleep first, you are likely to hear a terrific fart (women don't fart less than us, they just hold them, while we are proud of them, and as such they are much stinkier and louder) and once you hear a woman fart, the magic is gone....
Women everywhere moan.... as their number two excuse, right after I have a headache, becomes scientifically irrelevant....
I'm too tired honey....
Shoot, regarding my above post- is it GHB? I need more sleep- my memory is shot....
Anyhow- I would love to not have to sleep- as long as the workday was still 8 hours. Man, I could get a lot done...
I forget the name of it- But one of the "street drugs" (Maybe Ketamine?) that used to be used by bodybuilders supposidly (sp) allows you to feel rested fully with a few hours of sleep a night- I guess it puts you right into deep sleep and you stay there, rather than the usual sleep cycles we all have. This seems, if possible, more natural- forcing more recuprative sleep rather than creating alertness...
My personal favorite- Whenever I transport a CRT monitor, I use the seat belt to hold it. It works really well actually.
Long story short- don't do this with your gf's jeep, with no doors and with only a lap belt with no shoulder harness. I left an expensive (at the time) monitor in pieces in the middle of an intersection after a particularly quick turn.
Wow- I stand corrected. Growing up on a farm, I guess I know nothing about eggs. We country bumpkins always appreciate some city folk settin' us straight!!!
I prefer brown eggs. I like getting them while they are still warm. People never believe me until they actually try them, but eggs that have been out from under the hen for just a few minutes before you cook them taste very different than what you get at the supermarket, or even free range eggs.
A lot of city folks will buy free range stuff that is 5 times as expensive than the regular stuff, yet not very different in either taste or the way the chickens live. I know city dwellers like to think that those of us who were raised on farms are idiots, but we do get a chuckle out of being able to sell an egg for $2 because the chicken was, um, "happy"....
Cool- That makes sense. I had a best friend who was a Vegan. We made an odd couple- I am big into hunting, and she didn't think that humans should even have domesticated animals. Yet we got along well.
One big sticking point for me: Women who are vegetarians and won't eat Jello, yet use lipstick! (Unless you get the animal free version, lipstick contains gelatin.)
And yes, I am all for vegetarianism. It isn't something that I have the discipline to do (It would have to be discipline for me, as I don't have an ethical problem eating animals)but I guess my veggie friends will have the last laugh when i die of heart disease....
So it is somewhat analagous to eating chicken eggs? I never understood why vegetarians won't eat eggs. (I understand why Vegans don't) Eggs we eat are the unfertalized ones, so they won't ever become chicks. Even if we don't eat them. (Not to be totally vile, but the same way that the egg that ebds up on a maxi pad each month will never become a human)
They actually check the chicken eggs before shipping them off to be eaten....
On the converse- get caught destroying a bald eagle or a piping plover egg, and see how the government feels about the "not yet born."
I am going to be honest- I have trouble formenting an opinion on stem cells, because each time I lean one way, something pulls me back in the other direction. My question, if stem cells lead to a cure for cancer, will those who opposed the stem cell research boycott the treatment, and die?
"Just Dumb. Deal With it"
Uh, Ok.
If a person can't be bothered to type dodge when it's a Dodge Ram they're looking for that sounds to me like PEBKAC.
What if someone is looking up who makes a Ram, because they don't know the manufacturer. I hate to tell you this, but people who make a lot of money and have good products, realize that users aren't experts, and cater to them.
And don't forget, automotive as in the trademark of one of the largest corporations in the world... Dodge.m l l a-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client= firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
http://www.dodge.com/ram_truck/ram_truck_flash.ht
Hard to believe Diamler Chrysler couldn't get it in the top ten of a Google search for Ram.
http://www.google.com/search?q=RAM&sourceid=mozil
One must wonder, now that computers are a home appliance for the masses, if the majority of Americans searching for Ram are looking for a truck....
It is just the nature of the beast- Throw in a tech company and a normal story about a company PR/Picnic event becomes tech news. This same story, but at GM or Toyota would be in an automotive trade journal. A normal small town library event that would usually be relegated to page 10 of a small town weekly newspaper ends up in political magazines if a politician shows up. It is just the way it is.
It is an interesting story for me, even if I would never ever admit it, because secretly, I would like to party at the googleplex. But I would never admit it. The same way most men would like to party at the Playboy Mansion, many nerds (like me) would love to party at the googleplex. And the Playboy Mansion.
You said it man-
Global Climate Change. One of the biggest misnomers of all time is Global Warming. It allows ingrates to say "we had 10 feet of snow in July, it can't be Global Warming!"
The "It isn't global warming" idiots will shiver to death during an ice age caused by global climate change and say "{if only we had used more cfcs!"