It's sad that they publically plan on violating the antitrust lawsuit provisions. What's worse, they'll get away with it.
After this Wednesday's "critical" security update what scrambled the BIOS on my notebook, rendering it trash (according to Toshiba, it cannot be fixed, but replaced by buying a new notebook), I know Microsoft is in the business of fucking over everyone in the world. Yes, it took this long for me to figure it out.
I DO have a fix, though. Before I spell it out for you, I want you to know that I have been a Solaris user since the late '80s, been working with Linux since the mid '90s and have been using computers since Microsoft Xenix was sold by Tandy.
My personal solution: I'm sick of this shit. I am using my employer's computer (thanks for the use of the T3 line) to sell off my existing computers. Afterwards, I am cancelling my DSL subscription.
I've had it and Microsoft is the reason. Now, don't think I'm going to go live in a forest somewhere, roasting squirrels over an open fire, no. I'm just removing one source of stress in my life. No more email or spam. No more blue screens of death. No more "This dosen't work in Linux because Microsoft won't allow it to." All gone. This is also my last Slashdot post (sniff).
I'm sure that the removal of so much stress in my life will allow my blood pressure to go down and for me to spend more time with my children. Wish me luck.
Can't the MPAA be sued for hacking? The MPAA was not given specific permission to enter another person's computer. Why can't anyone who's been sued by the MPAA countersue using the DMCA against them?
If the Induce Act were to be made into a law, this test would be illegal, as it has the potential to send copyrighted materials across it.
Come to think of it. it would make tools of all kinds illegal as some idiot would find a way to murder people with them. Also, all automobiles would be illegal as I'm sure someone in this would has already benn run over by one.
Computers would be illegal also. Finally! A legal, government sanctioned way to get rid of Microsoft and SCO!
Let's stop and analyze this for a moment. EP3 may not suck that much after all (As long as Jar Jar is left out of it). After all, we KNOW how it's going to end.
The beginning of "A New Hope" opened with a downer. Vader and his team of bell-bottomed troops overtook the ship carrying Leia and kidnapped her.
We called that a "good movie".
EP5 ended with a downer (Oh god, he's going into an argument we saw in Kevin Smith's "Clerks".) as Luke lost a hand, found out Vader was his father and the whole nine years...
Now, with EP3, we KNOW how it ends. Another downer. Who cares what the script is like, we'll all go see it for "closure" and complete the whole Disney_Circle_Of_Life thingy.
On a personal note, I'd like to see Jar Jar's car break down somewhere and he decides to check the fuel level by striking a match and peeking down the gas-hole.
I have been designing and building Linux Beowulf clusters since 1999. I can easily waste hundreds of megabytes of your bandwidth explaining how I can achieve the same performance on a fraction of the price of a Cray supercomputer, but this is not the place for it.
Cray needs to stop the FUD now or face being branded a SCO-like company who will take a side against Linux in a last-ditch effort to keep their company's finances above water.
Go ahead and tell me what I can and cannot film. Tell me what cannot be seen because your archaic model of 1950's suburbia is still being held in high regard by your church.
Go ahread and try. A federal lawsuit claiming violation of my first amendment rights will be slapped on the FCC so fast, it'll take three days for the sound to catch up.
I believe in supporting artists that I like, that's why Apple's Itunes is a big hit with me. I can buy just the songs that I like, unlike buying a whole CD for ~$15 just to get one song.
I applaud TMBG for their efforts and for blasting the industry they themselves star in.
Some may consider this a rant, but I hope someone finds it enlightening.
As a filmmaker (Director, producer, writer, editor), my productions are not G-rated, but they're not pr0n either. I create full-length low-budget (but good!) vampire movies. PG-13 to R-rated films only.
The content of the film is there for a reason. If I wanted to take an f-word out of it, I would have done it in the editing process. I find it offensive that the FCC, a branch of the United State Government has the right to require the cut of my film against my wishes just so someone of an extreme religious belief would not be offended. Trust me, I'm TRYING to offend them.
As we all know, the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights says that Congress shall make no laws pertaining to the excercise of free speech. Oh, but Congress can make the FCC that will do that for them so Congress looks innocent.
Why isn't the world's directors, studios, actors, producers and so on begging and funding the ACLU to take this on? If I drive over the border to Canada right now and be interviewed on radio, I can say "Fuck" all night long on it. They don't care. They believe that of you don't like the speech, don't listen to it. Good rule.
America, land of the semi-free, is the most free country on the face of the earth. Then why are we not allowed to speak to the public any way we want? Why MUST the government censor us?
Ask the Vatican...
(I make no apologies to those I may have offended. My speech is free. If you don't agree with it, don't read it. If I didn't mean it, i wouldn't have written it in the first place.)
Am I the only person here who thinks that Lucas needs to be locked up in a padded room to keep him from himself?
Just because he's George Lucas, dosen't mean he has the right to add land speeders to the street racing scene of "American Grafitti" or add Ewoks in the Cave of Doom in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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It's sad that they publically plan on violating the antitrust lawsuit provisions. What's worse, they'll get away with it.
After this Wednesday's "critical" security update what scrambled the BIOS on my notebook, rendering it trash (according to Toshiba, it cannot be fixed, but replaced by buying a new notebook), I know Microsoft is in the business of fucking over everyone in the world. Yes, it took this long for me to figure it out.
I DO have a fix, though. Before I spell it out for you, I want you to know that I have been a Solaris user since the late '80s, been working with Linux since the mid '90s and have been using computers since Microsoft Xenix was sold by Tandy.
My personal solution: I'm sick of this shit. I am using my employer's computer (thanks for the use of the T3 line) to sell off my existing computers. Afterwards, I am cancelling my DSL subscription.
I've had it and Microsoft is the reason. Now, don't think I'm going to go live in a forest somewhere, roasting squirrels over an open fire, no. I'm just removing one source of stress in my life. No more email or spam. No more blue screens of death. No more "This dosen't work in Linux because Microsoft won't allow it to." All gone. This is also my last Slashdot post (sniff).
I'm sure that the removal of so much stress in my life will allow my blood pressure to go down and for me to spend more time with my children. Wish me luck.
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...then what is America's obsession from staying away from this cheap source of energy?
The digital resoration found that Vader did not say "Luke, I am your father", he really said "I'm Bi with your father."
No wonder Luke screamed "No!"
They should have cleaned those prints a long time ago.
SkyNet
It's called SkyNet.
Actually, I am now your boss.
I don't know... I see a high pressure situation and make myself scarce. Let some other sucker handle it.
...it's my understanding that laws cannot legally be secret.
Can someone please research this?
As a filmmaker, I'll be more than happy to name my next production "COMMAND.COM"
That'll really fuck with Microsoft.
Can't the MPAA be sued for hacking? The MPAA was not given specific permission to enter another person's computer. Why can't anyone who's been sued by the MPAA countersue using the DMCA against them?
If the Induce Act were to be made into a law, this test would be illegal, as it has the potential to send copyrighted materials across it.
Come to think of it. it would make tools of all kinds illegal as some idiot would find a way to murder people with them. Also, all automobiles would be illegal as I'm sure someone in this would has already benn run over by one.
Computers would be illegal also. Finally! A legal, government sanctioned way to get rid of Microsoft and SCO!
"Is that Stud coming?"
The keyboard you're tying on is illegal since you're using it to publically say you are going to/have violated the DMCA.
Next on the Government's list: Thought crimes. Don't laugh, it's called the INDUCE ACT.
Let's stop and analyze this for a moment. EP3 may not suck that much after all (As long as Jar Jar is left out of it). After all, we KNOW how it's going to end.
The beginning of "A New Hope" opened with a downer. Vader and his team of bell-bottomed troops overtook the ship carrying Leia and kidnapped her.
We called that a "good movie".
EP5 ended with a downer (Oh god, he's going into an argument we saw in Kevin Smith's "Clerks".) as Luke lost a hand, found out Vader was his father and the whole nine years...
Now, with EP3, we KNOW how it ends. Another downer. Who cares what the script is like, we'll all go see it for "closure" and complete the whole Disney_Circle_Of_Life thingy.
On a personal note, I'd like to see Jar Jar's car break down somewhere and he decides to check the fuel level by striking a match and peeking down the gas-hole.
Bull shit.
I have been designing and building Linux Beowulf clusters since 1999. I can easily waste hundreds of megabytes of your bandwidth explaining how I can achieve the same performance on a fraction of the price of a Cray supercomputer, but this is not the place for it.
Cray needs to stop the FUD now or face being branded a SCO-like company who will take a side against Linux in a last-ditch effort to keep their company's finances above water.
It looks like someone dropped their liver.
Go ahead and tell me what I can and cannot film. Tell me what cannot be seen because your archaic model of 1950's suburbia is still being held in high regard by your church.
Go ahread and try. A federal lawsuit claiming violation of my first amendment rights will be slapped on the FCC so fast, it'll take three days for the sound to catch up.
SATAN? Well, isn't THAT special?
Ya know, as much as the /. community dosen't like Microsoft empire for one reason or another, this is one victory we can all applaud.
Strange, isn't it?
I believe in supporting artists that I like, that's why Apple's Itunes is a big hit with me. I can buy just the songs that I like, unlike buying a whole CD for ~$15 just to get one song.
I applaud TMBG for their efforts and for blasting the industry they themselves star in.
Balls. Big, hairy balls.
Canadians don't work for $0.05 a day.
Some may consider this a rant, but I hope someone finds it enlightening.
As a filmmaker (Director, producer, writer, editor), my productions are not G-rated, but they're not pr0n either. I create full-length low-budget (but good!) vampire movies. PG-13 to R-rated films only.
The content of the film is there for a reason. If I wanted to take an f-word out of it, I would have done it in the editing process. I find it offensive that the FCC, a branch of the United State Government has the right to require the cut of my film against my wishes just so someone of an extreme religious belief would not be offended. Trust me, I'm TRYING to offend them.
As we all know, the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights says that Congress shall make no laws pertaining to the excercise of free speech. Oh, but Congress can make the FCC that will do that for them so Congress looks innocent.
Why isn't the world's directors, studios, actors, producers and so on begging and funding the ACLU to take this on? If I drive over the border to Canada right now and be interviewed on radio, I can say "Fuck" all night long on it. They don't care. They believe that of you don't like the speech, don't listen to it. Good rule.
America, land of the semi-free, is the most free country on the face of the earth. Then why are we not allowed to speak to the public any way we want? Why MUST the government censor us?
Ask the Vatican...
(I make no apologies to those I may have offended. My speech is free. If you don't agree with it, don't read it. If I didn't mean it, i wouldn't have written it in the first place.)
Apple went to BSD.
Novell is going to Linux.
Windows...? It's the next generation. They just won't admit it.
Besides, I haven't seen Neuromancer by William Gibson made into a film yet...
Am I the only person here who thinks that Lucas needs to be locked up in a padded room to keep him from himself?
Just because he's George Lucas, dosen't mean he has the right to add land speeders to the street racing scene of "American Grafitti" or add Ewoks in the Cave of Doom in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
True, these things haven't happened yet. Yet.