That's the problem with young geeks these days. No respect for their elders. What with their "pwned" and their "kthxbye" and their fancy-dan slidey-outie phones, why some of them barely have guts! And their beards! Little whispy things... Makes me want to bust the keyboard off my Kaypro and come out swingin'! Just be glad papaw had his adderall this morning.
I'm not sure I agree: One day I actually looked over my old posts and discovered that I'm actually kind of a know-it-all douchebag possessed of very stale sense of humour. ( Look it up yourself! )
I worked as a busboy my freshman year of college (`84). I was mopping vomit out of the bathroom. The Assistang Manager came in to have a leak. He said "I don't know anything about a roast beef sandwich, but I do know that if I ever made one, I'd slice it thin" (pause for dramatic eye contact) "and pile it high." He zipped, tucked his tie back between the third and fourth buttons on his shirt and left.
Thus I was enlightened.
Oh, and Jef Raskin's "Humane Interface" is still pretty good reading.
Actually he was waiting for one of his Secret Service guys to run over to the Wal-Mart to get some of them nice Shea Butter baby wipes.
If one explosively releases the entire contents of one's bowels, only the cool, soothing power of pure Shea Butter impregnated in a tough, disposable medium will do.
Soothing one's self image after being caught on camera, vacuously continuing your photo op while waiting for your flappers to decide which bellows to haul on - well, that will take something a bit stronger.
Why am I reminded of the "Yawning Lieutenant" in Band of Brothers every time I see that clip of Dubya reading My Pet Goat to the kids?
... by Nathan Fillion's big-hearted rogue spaceship captain performance. After all, Mal "shot Greedo first" several times and it was very, very satisfying.:-)
I'd love to see Ford do an endless bunch of "Oy My Piratical Back" jokes (seriously, the guy is funny), but a revisit to Indiana Jones is enough.
I run a forum for folks involved in the punk scene in a certain midwestern city in the 1980's. We had a wiki (pikipiki acutally) that was created to describe some of the personalities that were involed and some of the very silly and fun times we had.
Some of these silly and fun times involved gobbling drugs, having sex with various other humans (of varying sexes - count them how you will...) and other things that might cause one to get one's security clearance revoked.
However, the events described ACTUALLY HAPPENED (or were purported to). Therefore any actionable position I was placed into by hosting this wiki were informed by the original poster's evidence (often photographic). That being said, I gladly redacted the wiki when asked, and occaisionally sent a 'stifle yourself' email to a couple of the more vociferous users.
However, if two of these people were arguing in a forum about what did or did not happen, I would not intervene. What purpose would be served by censoring an argument? Or, for that matter, a flamewar? One can point to exactly who the numbnutz' are in a particular conversation without much effort.
Was it impolite on the part of the griefers and embarassing to the 'victim' to see an puppet of herself pelted with penii? Probably. Is it going to be more embarassing (or perhaps more profitable? After all, there is no such thing as bad publicity...) to be the object of ridicule for acting like the sort of person one would want to see pelted with penii?
I suspect that the whole invocation of the DMCA was done, partly, in the hopes that it would push Slashdotter's buttons (not to mention BoingBoing or any other number of DMCA-loathers) thereby generating buzz. I suspect that we are both complete dipshits for adding pagerank for these people, but hey, I like a good argument!:-)
Come, let us reason together:
I just wish it was possible to obtain such an action without needing the mostrosity of the DCMA to be in existance, to be mis-used for this valid and proper end. 1. Wishing that a law exists does not automatically invoke other laws, nor does a wish inform an existing law until it passes through the tort process. Law does not inherit like an OOP class. (Although that dirty, rotten scoundrel Charles Stross's Accellerando has a silly throw-away comment about a corporation's charter being written in python that has been invading my mind for about two weeks - how would laws be different if they had to compile before they could be enforced? AAAARGH? LOGLAN! WHA? PHILISOPHIC LANGUAGE? AIEEEEE! )
2. If this is a misuse of a law, as you state, then how is it ethical for it to be applied? Two wrongs do not, etc. If you are, in fact, arguing that use of the DMCA is justified since it's embarassing for the 'victim', then "Cops" is in trouble.
I actually suspect you are trolling here, but I'm not entirely sure.
I disagree. How much expectation of privacy can one have when one is "representing" as a software avatar in a forum? True, the forum is privately owned and the avatar is considered IP (I think TFA made an excellent analogy to a piece of haute coture), but if someone beaned Ted Kennedy with a rubber phallus at a private Democratic Party fundraiser and someone caught a picture of it, would that not fall under fair use for it to be distributed for no cost, regardless of whether Mr. K was wearing a bespoke suit by Jaques Penne?
I could understand your argument if it were a nekkid picture taken by a peeping tom in a persons bathroom, but lets take a step back, eh?
As far as "harm by omission" goes, isn't cumulative public opinion and devloping more's something that a court must take into effect? One might present logs showing a number of viewings vs. complaints lodged as a bit of evidence? Yeah, derivative, but I'm having a hard time finding harm on either side of this!:-)
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Don't be obtuse. The point of the program is information gathering. Why would you inform the spied-upon?
Speaking as someone of mainly Irish extraction: I've often fell in a barrel of titties and come up sucking my thumb, you insensitive clod!
That's the problem with young geeks these days. No respect for their elders. What with their "pwned" and their "kthxbye" and their fancy-dan slidey-outie phones, why some of them barely have guts! And their beards! Little whispy things ... Makes me want to bust the keyboard off my Kaypro and come out swingin'! Just be glad papaw had his adderall this morning.
I'm not sure I agree: One day I actually looked over my old posts and discovered that I'm actually kind of a know-it-all douchebag possessed of very stale sense of humour. ( Look it up yourself! )
Luckily, I'm very very pretty.
That's why I named my router "ParasiteNet".
:-)
http://craphound.com/someone/download.php
I can connect to four open routers from my home office. I don't stress if my dsl goes down.
"Easy Reader says: 'The Ramen always do everything in threes!'"
Smile when you say that, daggit-meat.
Dad?
...
C'mon Dad, It's time for your meds. How did you get out of bed?
The answer is in the question, Grasshopper.
I worked as a busboy my freshman year of college (`84). I was mopping vomit out of the bathroom. The Assistang Manager came in to have a leak. He said "I don't know anything about a roast beef sandwich, but I do know that if I ever made one, I'd slice it thin" (pause for dramatic eye contact) "and pile it high." He zipped, tucked his tie back between the third and fourth buttons on his shirt and left.
Thus I was enlightened.
Oh, and Jef Raskin's "Humane Interface" is still pretty good reading.
Mark? Mark V. Chaney?
I have never felt more humble. Wow.
She can stay in my habitat.
>>> howDoILoveThee = ['nekkid','clothed','here','away','angry','delight ed','flushed and sweaty','cold and angry']
>>> print len(howDoILoveThee)
8
>>> aRose = 'Sweet'
>>> bRose = 'Sweet'
>>> aRose == bRose
True
>>>
>>> thee = 'thee'
>>> aSummersDay = 'thee'
>>> thee == aSummersDay
True
>>>
It's a lot easier in a dynamically-typed language, but it don't exactly trip off the tongue.
Actually he was waiting for one of his Secret Service guys to run over to the Wal-Mart to get some of them nice Shea Butter baby wipes.
If one explosively releases the entire contents of one's bowels, only the cool, soothing power of pure Shea Butter impregnated in a tough, disposable medium will do.
Soothing one's self image after being caught on camera, vacuously continuing your photo op while waiting for your flappers to decide which bellows to haul on - well, that will take something a bit stronger.
Why am I reminded of the "Yawning Lieutenant" in Band of Brothers every time I see that clip of Dubya reading My Pet Goat to the kids?
Grep Gelato.
/bin and Jerry's Blueberry bison.yacc.
I'm also partial to
The plural of "doofus" is "doofusis" (pronounced Doo-Fah-SEE-z). A group of doofasis ruled by a single doofus is a "Doofusate".
As in: "The prime Doofus among Doofusis in this Doofusate is Lysdexia, since his indoofation was initiated in doofanum 1999."
It's simple, really.
But to be fair, the police did arrest Alan Turing for being gay. So it all works out in the end.
Git off'n my porch! An getcher dog!
... by Nathan Fillion's big-hearted rogue spaceship captain performance. After all, Mal "shot Greedo first" several times and it was very, very satisfying. :-)
I'd love to see Ford do an endless bunch of "Oy My Piratical Back" jokes (seriously, the guy is funny), but a revisit to Indiana Jones is enough.
Graef also used to teach a course on "virtual lovemaking" within the world.
I run a forum for folks involved in the punk scene in a certain midwestern city in the 1980's. We had a wiki (pikipiki acutally) that was created to describe some of the personalities that were involed and some of the very silly and fun times we had.
...) and other things that might cause one to get one's security clearance revoked.
...) to be the object of ridicule for acting like the sort of person one would want to see pelted with penii?
:-)
Some of these silly and fun times involved gobbling drugs, having sex with various other humans (of varying sexes - count them how you will
However, the events described ACTUALLY HAPPENED (or were purported to). Therefore any actionable position I was placed into by hosting this wiki were informed by the original poster's evidence (often photographic). That being said, I gladly redacted the wiki when asked, and occaisionally sent a 'stifle yourself' email to a couple of the more vociferous users.
However, if two of these people were arguing in a forum about what did or did not happen, I would not intervene. What purpose would be served by censoring an argument? Or, for that matter, a flamewar? One can point to exactly who the numbnutz' are in a particular conversation without much effort.
Was it impolite on the part of the griefers and embarassing to the 'victim' to see an puppet of herself pelted with penii? Probably. Is it going to be more embarassing (or perhaps more profitable? After all, there is no such thing as bad publicity
I suspect that the whole invocation of the DMCA was done, partly, in the hopes that it would push Slashdotter's buttons (not to mention BoingBoing or any other number of DMCA-loathers) thereby generating buzz. I suspect that we are both complete dipshits for adding pagerank for these people, but hey, I like a good argument!
2. If this is a misuse of a law, as you state, then how is it ethical for it to be applied? Two wrongs do not, etc. If you are, in fact, arguing that use of the DMCA is justified since it's embarassing for the 'victim', then "Cops" is in trouble.
I actually suspect you are trolling here, but I'm not entirely sure.
I disagree. How much expectation of privacy can one have when one is "representing" as a software avatar in a forum? True, the forum is privately owned and the avatar is considered IP (I think TFA made an excellent analogy to a piece of haute coture), but if someone beaned Ted Kennedy with a rubber phallus at a private Democratic Party fundraiser and someone caught a picture of it, would that not fall under fair use for it to be distributed for no cost, regardless of whether Mr. K was wearing a bespoke suit by Jaques Penne?
:-)
I could understand your argument if it were a nekkid picture taken by a peeping tom in a persons bathroom, but lets take a step back, eh?
As far as "harm by omission" goes, isn't cumulative public opinion and devloping more's something that a court must take into effect? One might present logs showing a number of viewings vs. complaints lodged as a bit of evidence? Yeah, derivative, but I'm having a hard time finding harm on either side of this!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5387867190 768022577&q=Anshe+Chung
I'm still here you bastards!