You live in a TV fueled fantasyland - that's the only place where the Good Guys draw on the man holding a gun and say "Drop it" - and he does.
Heh. Yeah, like on COPS.
Why on earth would I give up that power simply because you asked?
Because you're gambling with your life.
2) If I am irrational, how on earth can you predict what I'm going to do?
Irrational doesn't automatically desensitize you to your values or your desire to live.
The rest of your point is fair, and you're right that it's not working on N Korea, but doesn't really refute my point. This planet has seen PLENTY of military engagements since the bombs were dropped in WWII, by countries armed with nukes. Yet no more nukes have been dropped on anybody in the interim. Even the US is afraid to drop any nukes because other countries have them. It's not 100%, but it's certainly already working, and there was nothing ironic about what that guy said.
The irony in that statement is so astounding, I can't tell if you are being facetious or not. Well played, sir.
Irony? Facetious?? It's the 'bigger stick' mentality. Surely if I pointed a gun at you and said "drop your gun", you wouldn't point out the irony in that?
The piratebay make it possible for people to rip me off...
Actually the Torrent tracker makes it possible. TPB's just linking to it, they're no more liable for it happening than Google is. TPB didn't do anything new to make your software available.
... that takes me 10 hours a day a year to make... for free.
Did software piracy start occuring after you started selling games on-line? Seriously, dude. I have software for sale on-line right now. I knew going in that it'd likely be cracked and made available on-line. I knew there was only so much I was going to make on it. I cannot believe you went into this too naieve to have the same line of thought. Given that you had DRM on your software early on, I am forced to believe that you have. I would really really really like to know why you think you'd suddenly have more money landing in your account if TPB went out of business. If you've got hard data, you'll be helping out a fellow developer by sharing it.
Explain to me again how thepiratebay earning money from ads whilst giving away my work for free, and lining the pockets of its millionaire founder is anything like a fucking robin hood?
I agree, they're nothing like Robin Hood. For starters, they haven't taken anything of yours. The guy you wanna scream at is the guy who put the tracker up. Secondly, they're making money off of selling information, as opposed to shifting goods/products from one person to another. Nothing at all like Robin Hood. Actually, they're a lot like Google. They're making a metric fuckton of money off content you put on the web, too. Those scumbag jerks.
Your anger is misdirected. You really should have another gander at the arguments and listen to them more objectively. I'm not saying this to insult you or to put you in your place, I honestly and truely think you've gotten so wrapped up in the idea that you're missing money that you haven't put serious consideration into what people are saying, here. I should be in the position to be just as angry as you are, but I'm not. If you wonder why, just feel free to ask. I'd much rather discuss than argue, here.
Google obey the rights and wishes of copyright-holders. You can have google search results and blog pages and other links removed easily just by sending a DMCA complaint to google.
Blog pages are actual content. Torrent trackers and links to those torrents are not. Google caches still point to torrent files.
To claim the two are the same is either ill-informed, or an attempt to blind people to the way TPB and google operate in order to justify TPB's actions.
Actually it's niether. TPB wasn't hosting any copyrighted content. They weren't even breaking any laws. If that sets a precedent, Google's exposed. Really this was about them having the word 'Pirate' in the name.
You are aware that they were running a major piracy ring, right?
They weren't breaking the law.
That they were providing the torrent trackers that facilitated the distribution of copyrighted materials?
In effect, so does Google.
Slashdot has adopted a position that it is completely okay to rip people off and never pay them for their work
No, it hasn't.
All of this is amusing considering Slashdot has threatened websites in the past for posting Slashdot's stories--due to copyright infringement.
Yes, it's absurd when the details in your mind are muddy.
It doesn't make sense because you don't understand the other side. Seriously, that is the entire source of all your confusion. Try asking questions instead of posturing for a +5.
Where in that do you get any implications (positive or negative) about Windows?
This taught me you don't encourage friends to switch to Linux.
If you really want to be any more pedantic about it then I suggest you go look up the word 'imply' in the dictionary because you're not the first I've bumped into to have difficulty with it.
I can't find the sentence that says he's awakened every morning at 1 to troubleshoot a Windows problem and that the Linux problem was especially bad because he had to use a total of 3 sentences to help him.
your son is way too young to be running around with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator strapped to his back
I think he was referring to things like strange noises at night, doors opening and closing, food missing from the fridge, symmetrical book stacking, and mysterious puddles of an unidentfiable green substance littering the place.
A sufficiently powerful explosive will render any complex machine into a pile of useless scrap metal.
Humans are really good at putting the pieces back together, no matter how 'useless' the scrap metal is.
If you want to avoid killing grand-pappy software designer just put it out away from people - in a remote dessert or the like.
You presumably need lotsa power to time travel, that won't happen in the remote desert. No matter what you do, you're going to attract lots of attention and leave lots of clues.
There are a billion ways to do this. It's not a particularly hard problem to solve.
There are a billion ways to fuck it up. There's nothing easy about that problem, and that's just within the constraints they've alluded to. Time travel problems are self healing, like I said.
They all ask for help with one question or other concerning both systems and I personally can't tell the difference.
Heh! Well that other guy could! The fun thing about Windows, though, is you just go clicking around in panels to find the solution. Mac is the same way. Linux? Ha yeah you have to run to Google and find the right.CONF file to tinker around with, then restart services/daemons and all that other crap. It gets better every year, though.
Alas, this points out that education (the one everyone hates so much) is needed.
Actually, if anything, it points out that thoughtful design is the clear winner.
Only good thing about mainstream - you are not the only one they can bug.
The good thing about mainstream is that it has been put through millions of people's hands and solutions have evolved. Linux has not had this benefit, yet.
And with linux nowadays, there are quite a lot of knowledgeable people already.
Sure, but the best way to get them to help you is to loudly proclaim that Linux can't do something. Imagine what would happen if I went into another thread here and shouted "Linux cannot support dual monitors!!!" I'd get 10 replies from people writing detailed instructions on how to make dual monitors work.
If you'd watched a complete episode, you'd have seen that the people from the core worlds did have better weapons.
I'm not sure if you utterly missed his point or totally got it. Some of these reasons people have concocted for not liking SCC suddenly don't apply when used on a show they do like.
So a Terminator could just jump back, spend 15 years building a time machine, do the research they needed, and then jump forward/backward again to whatever time they needed to in order to complete their mission.
... and leave behind a time machine for humans, their worst enemies, to take apart and use against the machines.
Really guys, time travel plot holes are self healing.
Rumours are not news. They belong on Digg. Please please/., try to keep the quality of the post high and avoid speculation like this. It makes the site so much more worth reading.
The diversity is what makes Slashdot worth reading. Frankly, that's all Slashdot's got.
Slashdot Mirror
You live in a TV fueled fantasyland - that's the only place where the Good Guys draw on the man holding a gun and say "Drop it" - and he does.
Heh. Yeah, like on COPS.
Why on earth would I give up that power simply because you asked?
Because you're gambling with your life.
2) If I am irrational, how on earth can you predict what I'm going to do?
Irrational doesn't automatically desensitize you to your values or your desire to live.
The rest of your point is fair, and you're right that it's not working on N Korea, but doesn't really refute my point. This planet has seen PLENTY of military engagements since the bombs were dropped in WWII, by countries armed with nukes. Yet no more nukes have been dropped on anybody in the interim. Even the US is afraid to drop any nukes because other countries have them. It's not 100%, but it's certainly already working, and there was nothing ironic about what that guy said.
The irony in that statement is so astounding, I can't tell if you are being facetious or not. Well played, sir.
Irony? Facetious?? It's the 'bigger stick' mentality. Surely if I pointed a gun at you and said "drop your gun", you wouldn't point out the irony in that?
That is a BIG FUCKING difference.
Not big enough. They're still indexing torrent sites. Why? Because torrent trackers are not copyrighted data.
how many times do I have to type this:
Read the other replies.
On another note: there's still a huge part of my post you missed. Misdirected anger. Google's making money off of your hard work. Etc etc.
How do they know that there was no data compromised if they don't even know the type of the virus?
For the same reason that if I got a virus, none of your data would be comporomised. Seperate network, like it said in the summary. :P
The piratebay make it possible for people to rip me off ...
Actually the Torrent tracker makes it possible. TPB's just linking to it, they're no more liable for it happening than Google is. TPB didn't do anything new to make your software available.
... that takes me 10 hours a day a year to make... for free.
Did software piracy start occuring after you started selling games on-line? Seriously, dude. I have software for sale on-line right now. I knew going in that it'd likely be cracked and made available on-line. I knew there was only so much I was going to make on it. I cannot believe you went into this too naieve to have the same line of thought. Given that you had DRM on your software early on, I am forced to believe that you have. I would really really really like to know why you think you'd suddenly have more money landing in your account if TPB went out of business. If you've got hard data, you'll be helping out a fellow developer by sharing it.
Explain to me again how thepiratebay earning money from ads whilst giving away my work for free, and lining the pockets of its millionaire founder is anything like a fucking robin hood?
I agree, they're nothing like Robin Hood. For starters, they haven't taken anything of yours. The guy you wanna scream at is the guy who put the tracker up. Secondly, they're making money off of selling information, as opposed to shifting goods/products from one person to another. Nothing at all like Robin Hood. Actually, they're a lot like Google. They're making a metric fuckton of money off content you put on the web, too. Those scumbag jerks.
Your anger is misdirected. You really should have another gander at the arguments and listen to them more objectively. I'm not saying this to insult you or to put you in your place, I honestly and truely think you've gotten so wrapped up in the idea that you're missing money that you haven't put serious consideration into what people are saying, here. I should be in the position to be just as angry as you are, but I'm not. If you wonder why, just feel free to ask. I'd much rather discuss than argue, here.
Imply, v.: To express or state indirectly.
I bolded the important bit that you keep overlooking.
If you somehow implied anything about Windows from the sentence you quoted, well yeah, someone's definitely having some difficulty.
Yep. It's the guy not seeing what the rest of the people in the thread are.
Google obey the rights and wishes of copyright-holders. You can have google search results and blog pages and other links removed easily just by sending a DMCA complaint to google.
Blog pages are actual content. Torrent trackers and links to those torrents are not. Google caches still point to torrent files.
To claim the two are the same is either ill-informed, or an attempt to blind people to the way TPB and google operate in order to justify TPB's actions.
Actually it's niether. TPB wasn't hosting any copyrighted content. They weren't even breaking any laws. If that sets a precedent, Google's exposed. Really this was about them having the word 'Pirate' in the name.
Nobody can compete with free...
Tell Apple that.
Why does Slashdot constantly side with PirateBay?
Read the +5 Comments.
You are aware that they were running a major piracy ring, right?
They weren't breaking the law.
That they were providing the torrent trackers that facilitated the distribution of copyrighted materials?
In effect, so does Google.
Slashdot has adopted a position that it is completely okay to rip people off and never pay them for their work
No, it hasn't.
All of this is amusing considering Slashdot has threatened websites in the past for posting Slashdot's stories--due to copyright infringement.
Yes, it's absurd when the details in your mind are muddy.
It doesn't make sense because you don't understand the other side. Seriously, that is the entire source of all your confusion. Try asking questions instead of posturing for a +5.
Where in that do you get any implications (positive or negative) about Windows?
This taught me you don't encourage friends to switch to Linux.
If you really want to be any more pedantic about it then I suggest you go look up the word 'imply' in the dictionary because you're not the first I've bumped into to have difficulty with it.
It seems to me that if you were really concerned about studying, you'd have done it before downloading Angels & Demons.
Yeah, we're real quick to judge. Surely this guy should be studying 24/7 without a break until after the exams, right?
I can't find the sentence that says he's awakened every morning at 1 to troubleshoot a Windows problem and that the Linux problem was especially bad because he had to use a total of 3 sentences to help him.
your son is way too young to be running around with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator strapped to his back
I think he was referring to things like strange noises at night, doors opening and closing, food missing from the fridge, symmetrical book stacking, and mysterious puddles of an unidentfiable green substance littering the place.
First Proton Pack!
Oops... I mean post.
It's first ghost.
Stupid zone-dweebie.
A sufficiently powerful explosive will render any complex machine into a pile of useless scrap metal.
Humans are really good at putting the pieces back together, no matter how 'useless' the scrap metal is.
If you want to avoid killing grand-pappy software designer just put it out away from people - in a remote dessert or the like.
You presumably need lotsa power to time travel, that won't happen in the remote desert. No matter what you do, you're going to attract lots of attention and leave lots of clues.
There are a billion ways to do this. It's not a particularly hard problem to solve.
There are a billion ways to fuck it up. There's nothing easy about that problem, and that's just within the constraints they've alluded to. Time travel problems are self healing, like I said.
They all ask for help with one question or other concerning both systems and I personally can't tell the difference.
Heh! Well that other guy could! The fun thing about Windows, though, is you just go clicking around in panels to find the solution. Mac is the same way. Linux? Ha yeah you have to run to Google and find the right .CONF file to tinker around with, then restart services/daemons and all that other crap. It gets better every year, though.
Alas, this points out that education (the one everyone hates so much) is needed.
Actually, if anything, it points out that thoughtful design is the clear winner.
Only good thing about mainstream - you are not the only one they can bug.
The good thing about mainstream is that it has been put through millions of people's hands and solutions have evolved. Linux has not had this benefit, yet.
And with linux nowadays, there are quite a lot of knowledgeable people already.
Sure, but the best way to get them to help you is to loudly proclaim that Linux can't do something. Imagine what would happen if I went into another thread here and shouted "Linux cannot support dual monitors!!!" I'd get 10 replies from people writing detailed instructions on how to make dual monitors work.
Giving awkward promises was what wasn't happening before switch. And "don't push Linux because friends lose manner" is slightly unconvincing argument.
However, people being able to make do with Windows in a way they can't with Linux is.
There are benefits to going mainstream.
But all that does is scatter the parts around! And what if you accidently kill the grandfather of the key guy that develops Skynet??!!!???!!
We could have this argument all day.
If you'd watched a complete episode, you'd have seen that the people from the core worlds did have better weapons.
I'm not sure if you utterly missed his point or totally got it. Some of these reasons people have concocted for not liking SCC suddenly don't apply when used on a show they do like.
So a Terminator could just jump back, spend 15 years building a time machine, do the research they needed, and then jump forward/backward again to whatever time they needed to in order to complete their mission.
... and leave behind a time machine for humans, their worst enemies, to take apart and use against the machines.
Really guys, time travel plot holes are self healing.
Never heard of Firefly?
Firefly sucked!!!
Oh, wait, I mean I just didn't care for it. Don't mind me, I can't tell the difference between those two phrases. :D
Then why in the world did you watch every episode?
That's what people who haven't actually watched it say.
Babylon 5 sucks for reasons I won't go into, btw.
Rumours are not news. They belong on Digg. Please please /., try to keep the quality of the post high and avoid speculation like this. It makes the site so much more worth reading.
The diversity is what makes Slashdot worth reading. Frankly, that's all Slashdot's got.
And how is that different then friends running windows calling you at 2am?
It was implied in his post that this wasn't happening before the switch.
Haven't had to upgrade my graphics cards in my Linux boxes for the last 5 years...
Have you been avoiding a Trojan tax all these years, too?