After your unemployment runs out, you are no longer considered 'unemployed' that 5.4% does not reflect the truth. There are many more people out of work now than in 1996, they just don't 'count' anymore. There are fewer total jobs in America now than when bush took office and much more Americans looking for work than EVER before. Want proof of lost jobs, just look at all the empty office space in any American city these days (except of course defense contractors).
It's all fine and good for you to use your own server and domain, but there are millions of other internet users who can't afford or will not get that luxury. Are their rights to privacy less important than the rights of the internet elite?
you obviously arent one of the pointy heads ive interviewed with that asks why i dont have an MCSE and then points me to the door.... Wanna give me a job?
i agree. This is a clear cut case of the media jumping to conclusions and manufacturing a story by using the chicken little in house experts we always see on TV. The problems experienced yesterday were in no way limited to Yahoo! machines.
it seems the information age has sparked a tremendous new ideological debate. information wants to be free. the very nature and code of the internet says that information should be free. does art too want to be free? it is narrow minded to see this as simply an issue of open source vs. secrecy. the implications of unlocking music and motion pictures... or even books for that matter would cause a paradigm shift like no other in the world of creative arts. an artist, the creator of art, is and should be entitled to make a decent living if there is demand for her work. css was designed to protect the creative investment of artists, as well as the financial investment of the artists supporters, greedy as they may be. piracy is wrong. piracy cicumvents the means by which someone can make a living as an artist. the real question at hand is, where do we draw the line between art and information. whether he knew it or not, Carmack set the precident with his release of the Q1 source. He asserted that a program itself should be considered information, and the data used by that program is art. Art which should not be used without compensating its' creator for their hard work. a society is judged by the way they value art. the outcome of this lawsuit could very well change the way our culture defines art. brace yourself.
I remember buying my first PC. I didnt know any better so i got a Digital Starion P-75. While shopping at CompUSA I remember the salesman telling me that Hewlett Packard adnd Packard Bell were all owned b7y Pacific Bell (the telco) and that Pacific Bell was in fact just AT&T... some kind of attempt to give credibility to these crappy machines. Anything fo a sale i suppose. I would have preferred if the salesman took the time to explain that these were all based on proprietary-2 piece motherboards that would bite me in the ass if i ever tried to upgrade. incidentally, my DEC starion performed fine with 3.1 until i ruined it by attempting to overclock to 90mhz.
We live in a world where people sell land, water, animals.. even people. is there really a fundamental difference between claiming ownership of these naturally occurring things and claiming ownership of their building blocks?
you cant copy a commercial DVD video with a dvd-RAM or a dvd-RW. last i checked, the industrial strength dvd production units are the only things capable of this. they cost arround $15k
leave it to the DOJ to protect americans from themselves. How long before the DEA(Drug Enforcement Agency) is joined by the IEA(Internet Enforcement Agency)? 2 agencies like this could toatlly destroy the concept of personal freedom and the right to privacy. And just like the DEA's DARE program has filled little heads with propaganda in a most nazi-like way. and torn apart famillies buy telling little timmy that 'its okay to turn in your parents if the smoke weed'; so too would this emmerging campaign ingrain a sense of distrust and seperatism as kids are asked to 'take sides' and rat on their prodigal friends. children in their early teens have enourmous potential with computers beacause they thirst for knowledge, that is a great asset, unfortunately, kids will eventually realize the truth behind these programs and these little brainwashed 'frankenstiens' will turn on their masters in the end.
it is a no-brainer that a company like Qwest would outsource not only the ignorant tech support guy you spoke with, but also the whole Qwest ISP division... it isnt actually Qwest... Qwest is not in the long distance business, Qwest is not in the ISP business. Qwest is a fiberoptics company that is in the business of business.
Slashdot Mirror
when it was called SimLife/SimEarth
After your unemployment runs out, you are no longer considered 'unemployed' that 5.4% does not reflect the truth. There are many more people out of work now than in 1996, they just don't 'count' anymore. There are fewer total jobs in America now than when bush took office and much more Americans looking for work than EVER before. Want proof of lost jobs, just look at all the empty office space in any American city these days (except of course defense contractors).
the dreamcast has 4 USB ports, they are right in the front... you can plugy the control pads into them.
It's all fine and good for you to use your own server and domain, but there are millions of other internet users who can't afford or will not get that luxury. Are their rights to privacy less important than the rights of the internet elite?
you obviously arent one of the pointy heads ive interviewed with that asks why i dont have an MCSE and then points me to the door.... Wanna give me a job?
this review sucks. next time why not just cut&paste Roger Ebert rather than plagerize him!
i agree. This is a clear cut case of the media jumping to conclusions and manufacturing a story by using the chicken little in house experts we always see on TV. The problems experienced yesterday were in no way limited to Yahoo! machines.
it seems the information age has sparked a tremendous new ideological debate. information wants to be free. the very nature and code of the internet says that information should be free. does art too want to be free? it is narrow minded to see this as simply an issue of open source vs. secrecy. the implications of unlocking music and motion pictures... or even books for that matter would cause a paradigm shift like no other in the world of creative arts. an artist, the creator of art, is and should be entitled to make a decent living if there is demand for her work. css was designed to protect the creative investment of artists, as well as the financial investment of the artists supporters, greedy as they may be. piracy is wrong. piracy cicumvents the means by which someone can make a living as an artist. the real question at hand is, where do we draw the line between art and information. whether he knew it or not, Carmack set the precident with his release of the Q1 source. He asserted that a program itself should be considered information, and the data used by that program is art. Art which should not be used without compensating its' creator for their hard work. a society is judged by the way they value art. the outcome of this lawsuit could very well change the way our culture defines art. brace yourself.
read your douglas adams, fool.
I wonder how this theory meshes with the earlier reports that time doesnt exist. creativity is our way of making up for feeble, 3D perception.
this patent business is getting rediculous.
what DONT you understand about a FREE, PUBLIC, OPEN SOURCE forum?!
to move into a 3d WM we must first lose the windows metaphor for aplications. the 2 just arent compatable.
I remember buying my first PC. I didnt know any better so i got a Digital Starion P-75. While shopping at CompUSA I remember the salesman telling me that Hewlett Packard adnd Packard Bell were all owned b7y Pacific Bell (the telco) and that Pacific Bell was in fact just AT&T... some kind of attempt to give credibility to these crappy machines. Anything fo a sale i suppose. I would have preferred if the salesman took the time to explain that these were all based on proprietary-2 piece motherboards that would bite me in the ass if i ever tried to upgrade. incidentally, my DEC starion performed fine with 3.1 until i ruined it by attempting to overclock to 90mhz.
is it legal to patent something that you use brute force to reverse engineer?
We live in a world where people sell land, water, animals.. even people. is there really a fundamental difference between claiming ownership of these naturally occurring things and claiming ownership of their building blocks?
where do the get off claiming right to MY body!
you cant copy a commercial DVD video with a dvd-RAM or a dvd-RW. last i checked, the industrial strength dvd production units are the only things capable of this. they cost arround $15k
2 thing that your pirated windows software will say that Linux won't 1) Please insert your Win98 CD 2) it is NOW neccesary to restart your computer
leave it to the DOJ to protect americans from themselves. How long before the DEA(Drug Enforcement Agency) is joined by the IEA(Internet Enforcement Agency)? 2 agencies like this could toatlly destroy the concept of personal freedom and the right to privacy. And just like the DEA's DARE program has filled little heads with propaganda in a most nazi-like way. and torn apart famillies buy telling little timmy that 'its okay to turn in your parents if the smoke weed'; so too would this emmerging campaign ingrain a sense of distrust and seperatism as kids are asked to 'take sides' and rat on their prodigal friends. children in their early teens have enourmous potential with computers beacause they thirst for knowledge, that is a great asset, unfortunately, kids will eventually realize the truth behind these programs and these little brainwashed 'frankenstiens' will turn on their masters in the end.
it is a no-brainer that a company like Qwest would outsource not only the ignorant tech support guy you spoke with, but also the whole Qwest ISP division... it isnt actually Qwest... Qwest is not in the long distance business, Qwest is not in the ISP business. Qwest is a fiberoptics company that is in the business of business.
it appears that it is actually cheaper to get this 'protection' from hackers than to employ a 'security expert' to protect the system.