Capitalism itself isn't theift (no matter what Zaphod says about the matter when he's getting ready to steal another spaceship) but it often involves theift.
Unpaid overtine IS theift. But capitalism doesn't demand unpaid overtime, although some capitalists do.
The consensus in science amongst string theorists is that string theory is correct.
The consensis among Muslims is that "Allah created the universe" is correct. String theory is so far just as unprovable (or rather, cannot be experimentally tested). So what's your point?
Even if I have to make up the lost week in unpaid overtime?
If you enjoy working for free than there's no problem; that's where a lot of FOSS comes from. But if you resent working for free and you're "forced" to then you're a fool for working for free.
Your corporate overlords are stealing from you, and all you do about it is whine? That's pathetic.
Not quite accurate. Gasoline didn't kill steam; internal combustion boats killed steamboats, but steam is very much alive. Your electricity most likely comes from a steam turbine.
The statement "piracy killed music" is just brain dead fucktarded stupid and neither needs nor deserves rebuttal.
Whatever you call it, it is forbidden by law, so stop doing it.
Eldred was a miscarraige of justice. When Congress starts writing respectable laws, I'll respect the law. The current copyright laws are no more respectable than the marijuana laws.
However, stop sharing RIAA files because sharing RIAA files only helps the RIAA labels! If they didn't want you to hear it they wouldn't allow it on the radio. File sharing is free advertising, and the RIAA is against it because it is as useful to their competetion as it is to them, while they have radio and the competetion doesn't. If you want that new top-40 song, just plug your radio into your computer and "download" it from your radio.
How to rip from vinyl or tape or radio, and defeat any and all music DRM in the process! The linked file is an illegal thought crime under the DMCA.
Dropped from 20% to 19%? Samuel Clemons (Mark Twain) said there are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
First off, how are these numbers generated? Finding out how many file sharers there are may not be as impossible as finding out how many Linux users there are, but how are these metrics obtained?
Second, what is the margin of error? If there is a +- 4% margin, then the actual percentage could have risen.
Third, if the total number of internet users has risen by, say 5% (number pulled from a dark hairy orifice) and file sharing dropped by 1%, the actual number of file sharers has risen.
Fourth and most importantly, not all file sharers are breaking the (civil) law. There are far, far more musicians (and programmers, etc) with files they WANT you to share than there are RIAA musicians. How many file sharers are sharing legitimate content? The corporate media would have you think everything on Kazaa or Morpheus is illegal, when in fact that "fact" is a damned lie.
Maybe we should ask them to. They generally do the polar opposite of what we dirty damned computer hackers, libertarians, and other such terrorists want them to.
For those of you to whom the number "2600" has no meaning, the courts stopped 2600.org from posting and even linking to DeCSS or the source code (which the last I saw was seven lines of code and still shrinking). It is the website of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Amazing that anyone at slashdot hasn't heard of it.
The courts held that source code isn't speech, pissing off a LOT of programmers who only know a few languages, all of which are computer languages. </script>
Damn, I clicked before I saw all the nominations. I'd have voted hot grits too had I seen it.
Wait, I still don't see it? Cowboy Neal must have eaten 'em. Somebody put a lasso 'round that boy and tie him to a chair before he eats TOR and wikileaks!
For those who are unclear on the definition of "hyperbole", please read the above quoted sentence.
For those who are unclear on the definition of bullshit, please read the linked bullshit.
The summary is not, in fact, hyperbole. You should consult a dictionary. This is the 21st century. Today we use the internet as our medium of speech, press, and assembly. There is no exageration whatever when the GP says that the ISP owns the one wire that delivers those three freedoms to us.
There is no other way besides the internet to make my views known to more than a few people. Until the internet, freedom of the press was restricted to those with the money to buy a press. Your freedom of assembly was restricted to physicality.
Now that I and my fellow peons have freedom of the press, speech, and assembly, that the rich bastards who have owned knowedge, its dissimination, and indeed freedom itself have always had, they're scared shitless.
Well, not quite shitless, as the bullshit I'm responding to can attest. But drowning us normal people (peons) in bullshit is what the rich have always done. The ionternet gives US a shovel.
Ewe muss bee knew hear. Naw, Goooooooogle ain't be makin' us stew pod. Teh internets is makin us stew pod.
Whut iz makin uss stooopid is reading shit from people like Nick Carr. "Following a growing body of research within neuroscience, Carr argues that as we use the web 'we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies'" despite the fact that Carr has absolutely no credentials in the field of neuroscience whatever.
The guy's a fucking writer for Gawd sake! Wikipedia entry: "Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is an American writer who has published books and articles on technology, business, and culture. He was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard University.[1]"
Guys like Nick Carr are making us stupid by writing utter bullshit thet nobody can rebut anywhere that matters.
If I say something stupid about physics on slashdot, someone with a degree in physics will set me and everyone reading my comment straight (and it happens lots, kiddies). When Carr spouts his unlearned drivel on c|net, nobody has a chance to rebut anywhere that matters unless his drivel gets on slashdot. Then kids who haven't read enough or lived enough to realise the taste of bullshit when it's spoon fed to them believe the hokum and parrot it elsewhere, lending credence to dumb "facts".
That's why I prefer to do my research using either uncyclopeia, or even more preferably an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters (if I can find enough monkeys).
The UNcyclopedia has this to say about the Encyclopædia Britannica:
Encyclopædia Britannica From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search
Encyclopædia Britannica The Encyclopædia Britannica is the only official compilation of the vast scholarly wisdom of Britannica Spears with her latest creation, the Encyclopaedia BrittanicaThe Encyclopædia Britannica is the only official compilation of the vast scholarly wisdom of internationally-renowned scholar Britannica "Britney" Spears. Covering every imaginable topic from Aardvarks to ZZ Top, the Brittanica is respected worldwide both for the substantial academic weight that its prose contains and for the number of encyclopædia salespeople who have broken their backs travelling door-to-door with a complete set of these fine volumes.
Originally, Ms. Spears had set out simply to write a short essay on the Aardvark population of Australia and Austria but somehow she got carried away. In less time than it takes to say Oops, I did it again! the entire 41-volume set was a reality, revolutionising the academic community at the stroke of a pen.
[edit] The Encyclopædia The first edition of the encyclopædia has sold out long ago; copies are very rare indeed and fetch upwards of 1 million at exclusive Sotheby's auctions among the moneyed and lettered elite of Great Britain.
A second edition, the exclusive Baby One More Time box set is still available but copies are becoming very scarce indeed and dealers in rare books are doing their utmost to lay their hands on a copy before all are gone.
Noted fikiwiddler Andrew Orlowski says that the Briteyannica is much better than Uncyclopedia.
[edit] See also Albert Einstein Oxford University Oxford English Dictionary Sorbonne of Paris NASA Retrieved from "http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica"
You seem to believe that your data will be safer on your CD than it would be with Google
Using the internet for offsite backup is stupid. The data would be safer from loss, but would NOT be secure. They passed the laws making medical records secret for good reason. I do not trust Google or any other corporation with my medical records. I only trust the doctors and hospitals and insurance companies with them because I have to; I have no choice.
If I have the CD in my hand I can put it in a bank vault. Not much chance of fire or tornado destroying it there.
you are like most folks and didn't make enough backups
I'm a nerd. Nerds aren't like most folks.
What about if you have an auto accident or other emergency, and you don't have your CD with you?
The CD's only needed if I get a new doctor. He gets a copy.
Right now, there is no consensus whatever about file formats for medical records
That's YOUR problem. I'm paying you, and paying you some damn big money, to treat my illnesses and injuries and to keep, maintain, and most of all be able to read those records. If there's no consensus as to how those data are organized, then that's a failing of your profession.
I suggest plain text for anything not an image, and TIF for images.
The problem is that all of the images come with their own proprietary viewer on the disc, they all have different user interfaces, and they only run on Windows.
You just made me lose a lot of faith in your profession, doc.
It would seem more appropriate for a government agency to do this.
Until we get government funded universal health care the government has no business looking at my PRIVATE health records.
No kidding. This much ambiguity will make most everyone on slashdot a criminal. Of course, with the way US laws are now, pretty much everyone is *some* kind of criminal anyway.
I must be a criminal, they violated my 4th amentment rights twice last year and everybody knows if you have nothing to hide the 4th amendment doesn't matter. At least that's what the trolls at slashdot tell me.
Funny that I didn't get arrested. Aren't they supposed to arrest us criminals after they search us?
Addressing your comment though, it probably isn't a bad thing for more people to interact with computers using the highly structured interface that is a programming language
I agree with that completely, but NOT in a corporate environment. In a blog, sure.
I know, he's really a Republican. I'm voting for him as a protest against the fact that there are no good candidates. Considering the Libertarian's stance on corporations, if I thought they'd win I'd have to rethink my vote even if they ran a real Libertarian. If I thought Barr would win I'd have to write someone in or sit the election out, or what I often do in uncontested races, leave the ballot for that candidate blank.
If Jimmy has a medical problem with his hippocampus then his surgery would be no crazier than mine.
BTW the auto +1 comes from forgetting to check the "no karma bonus" checkbox. I haven't hacked slashdot or anything (aside from making interesting informative insightful comments without too much percieved offtopic trolling). I'm no "slashdot insider" either, metamoderation comes from karma. Should I start making posts that piss people off instead of making them think, I'll lose that auto +1.
What's cool about it, and how is it useful seeing's how Internet Explorer's the only browser that supports it, or seemingly will in the future?
To all of you who saw Field of Dreams: It was fiction. They will NOT come just because you build it! They will come only if it is not only useful, but more useful than the established alternatives.
"Cool" is a valid reason to do something in your garage or in the bar (A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will be sitting there with you saying "wow, that was fun!").
"Cool" is NOT a valid reason to do something in business unless "cool" is what makes money for you.
Is it any wonder normal people think we're strange? (Ignore the rest of this comment, as it presently has too few characters per line (currently 8.5) but thankfully I can paste slashdot's retarded "error" message in the comment to correct this travesty)
Slashdot Mirror
Douglas Adams, and it wasn't "complicated", it was "improbable".
Also my sig misquotes Zaphod as well, as I discovered when rereading the novels.
Capitalism itself isn't theift (no matter what Zaphod says about the matter when he's getting ready to steal another spaceship) but it often involves theift.
Unpaid overtine IS theift. But capitalism doesn't demand unpaid overtime, although some capitalists do.
The consensus in science amongst string theorists is that string theory is correct.
The consensis among Muslims is that "Allah created the universe" is correct. String theory is so far just as unprovable (or rather, cannot be experimentally tested). So what's your point?
Even if I have to make up the lost week in unpaid overtime?
If you enjoy working for free than there's no problem; that's where a lot of FOSS comes from. But if you resent working for free and you're "forced" to then you're a fool for working for free.
Your corporate overlords are stealing from you, and all you do about it is whine? That's pathetic.
Not quite accurate. Gasoline didn't kill steam; internal combustion boats killed steamboats, but steam is very much alive. Your electricity most likely comes from a steam turbine.
The statement "piracy killed music" is just brain dead fucktarded stupid and neither needs nor deserves rebuttal.
Whatever you call it, it is forbidden by law, so stop doing it.
Eldred was a miscarraige of justice. When Congress starts writing respectable laws, I'll respect the law. The current copyright laws are no more respectable than the marijuana laws.
However, stop sharing RIAA files because sharing RIAA files only helps the RIAA labels! If they didn't want you to hear it they wouldn't allow it on the radio. File sharing is free advertising, and the RIAA is against it because it is as useful to their competetion as it is to them, while they have radio and the competetion doesn't. If you want that new top-40 song, just plug your radio into your computer and "download" it from your radio.
How to rip from vinyl or tape or radio, and defeat any and all music DRM in the process! The linked file is an illegal thought crime under the DMCA.
Dropped from 20% to 19%? Samuel Clemons (Mark Twain) said there are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
First off, how are these numbers generated? Finding out how many file sharers there are may not be as impossible as finding out how many Linux users there are, but how are these metrics obtained?
Second, what is the margin of error? If there is a +- 4% margin, then the actual percentage could have risen.
Third, if the total number of internet users has risen by, say 5% (number pulled from a dark hairy orifice) and file sharing dropped by 1%, the actual number of file sharers has risen.
Fourth and most importantly, not all file sharers are breaking the (civil) law. There are far, far more musicians (and programmers, etc) with files they WANT you to share than there are RIAA musicians. How many file sharers are sharing legitimate content? The corporate media would have you think everything on Kazaa or Morpheus is illegal, when in fact that "fact" is a damned lie.
Maybe we should ask them to. They generally do the polar opposite of what we dirty damned computer hackers, libertarians, and other such terrorists want them to.
2600
For those of you to whom the number "2600" has no meaning, the courts stopped 2600.org from posting and even linking to DeCSS or the source code (which the last I saw was seven lines of code and still shrinking). It is the website of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Amazing that anyone at slashdot hasn't heard of it.
The courts held that source code isn't speech, pissing off a LOT of programmers who only know a few languages, all of which are computer languages.
</script>
Damn, I clicked before I saw all the nominations. I'd have voted hot grits too had I seen it.
Wait, I still don't see it? Cowboy Neal must have eaten 'em. Somebody put a lasso 'round that boy and tie him to a chair before he eats TOR and wikileaks!
For those who are unclear on the definition of "hyperbole", please read the above quoted sentence.
For those who are unclear on the definition of bullshit, please read the linked bullshit.
The summary is not, in fact, hyperbole. You should consult a dictionary. This is the 21st century. Today we use the internet as our medium of speech, press, and assembly. There is no exageration whatever when the GP says that the ISP owns the one wire that delivers those three freedoms to us.
There is no other way besides the internet to make my views known to more than a few people. Until the internet, freedom of the press was restricted to those with the money to buy a press. Your freedom of assembly was restricted to physicality.
Now that I and my fellow peons have freedom of the press, speech, and assembly, that the rich bastards who have owned knowedge, its dissimination, and indeed freedom itself have always had, they're scared shitless.
Well, not quite shitless, as the bullshit I'm responding to can attest. But drowning us normal people (peons) in bullshit is what the rich have always done. The ionternet gives US a shovel.
Ewe muss bee knew hear. Naw, Goooooooogle ain't be makin' us stew pod. Teh internets is makin us stew pod.
Whut iz makin uss stooopid is reading shit from people like Nick Carr. "Following a growing body of research within neuroscience, Carr argues that as we use the web 'we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies'" despite the fact that Carr has absolutely no credentials in the field of neuroscience whatever.
The guy's a fucking writer for Gawd sake! Wikipedia entry: "Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is an American writer who has published books and articles on technology, business, and culture. He was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard University.[1]"
Guys like Nick Carr are making us stupid by writing utter bullshit thet nobody can rebut anywhere that matters.
If I say something stupid about physics on slashdot, someone with a degree in physics will set me and everyone reading my comment straight (and it happens lots, kiddies). When Carr spouts his unlearned drivel on c|net, nobody has a chance to rebut anywhere that matters unless his drivel gets on slashdot. Then kids who haven't read enough or lived enough to realise the taste of bullshit when it's spoon fed to them believe the hokum and parrot it elsewhere, lending credence to dumb "facts".
For my news I prefer either UnNews (Today's on-topic headline "Society collapses, Anarchy reigns") or the Onion (today's Onion headline is also on-topic, Terrible Idea Committed To Paper.
The UNcyclopedia has this to say about the Encyclopædia Britannica:
You seem to believe that your data will be safer on your CD than it would be with Google
Using the internet for offsite backup is stupid. The data would be safer from loss, but would NOT be secure. They passed the laws making medical records secret for good reason. I do not trust Google or any other corporation with my medical records. I only trust the doctors and hospitals and insurance companies with them because I have to; I have no choice.
If I have the CD in my hand I can put it in a bank vault. Not much chance of fire or tornado destroying it there.
you are like most folks and didn't make enough backups
I'm a nerd. Nerds aren't like most folks.
What about if you have an auto accident or other emergency, and you don't have your CD with you?
The CD's only needed if I get a new doctor. He gets a copy.
Right now, there is no consensus whatever about file formats for medical records
That's YOUR problem. I'm paying you, and paying you some damn big money, to treat my illnesses and injuries and to keep, maintain, and most of all be able to read those records. If there's no consensus as to how those data are organized, then that's a failing of your profession.
I suggest plain text for anything not an image, and TIF for images.
The problem is that all of the images come with their own proprietary viewer on the disc, they all have different user interfaces, and they only run on Windows.
You just made me lose a lot of faith in your profession, doc.
It would seem more appropriate for a government agency to do this.
Until we get government funded universal health care the government has no business looking at my PRIVATE health records.
And/or simply 'Grow a pair'
Only half of all humans are capable of growing a pair. And afaik if you don't have a pair at birth there's no way to grow them.
Did you fail biology, son? Next semester stay off slashdot and pay attention to the teacher.
Wow, so many comments before anybody shows any insight.
But obviously too the girl who killed herself had more problems than just being manipulated by someone on the net.
BINGO! Nobody sane EVER attempte suicide. Suicide or its attempt is defacto proof of insanity.
No kidding. This much ambiguity will make most everyone on slashdot a criminal. Of course, with the way US laws are now, pretty much everyone is *some* kind of criminal anyway.
I must be a criminal, they violated my 4th amentment rights twice last year and everybody knows if you have nothing to hide the 4th amendment doesn't matter. At least that's what the trolls at slashdot tell me.
Funny that I didn't get arrested. Aren't they supposed to arrest us criminals after they search us?
Addressing your comment though, it probably isn't a bad thing for more people to interact with computers using the highly structured interface that is a programming language
I agree with that completely, but NOT in a corporate environment. In a blog, sure.
I know, he's really a Republican. I'm voting for him as a protest against the fact that there are no good candidates. Considering the Libertarian's stance on corporations, if I thought they'd win I'd have to rethink my vote even if they ran a real Libertarian. If I thought Barr would win I'd have to write someone in or sit the election out, or what I often do in uncontested races, leave the ballot for that candidate blank.
If Jimmy has a medical problem with his hippocampus then his surgery would be no crazier than mine.
BTW the auto +1 comes from forgetting to check the "no karma bonus" checkbox. I haven't hacked slashdot or anything (aside from making interesting informative insightful comments without too much percieved offtopic trolling). I'm no "slashdot insider" either, metamoderation comes from karma. Should I start making posts that piss people off instead of making them think, I'll lose that auto +1.
So why is KSHE still allowed to play seven uncut albums every Sunday night?
Microsoft did somethin cool and useful.
What's cool about it, and how is it useful seeing's how Internet Explorer's the only browser that supports it, or seemingly will in the future?
To all of you who saw Field of Dreams: It was fiction. They will NOT come just because you build it! They will come only if it is not only useful, but more useful than the established alternatives.
"Cool" is a valid reason to do something in your garage or in the bar (A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will be sitting there with you saying "wow, that was fun!").
"Cool" is NOT a valid reason to do something in business unless "cool" is what makes money for you.
Ruby
rails
Ruby on rails
Soap
Ajax
Ajax soap
Python
Perl
Java
Is it any wonder normal people think we're strange? (Ignore the rest of this comment, as it presently has too few characters per line (currently 8.5) but thankfully I can paste slashdot's retarded "error" message in the comment to correct this travesty)
Rails is a well done framework for Ruby that opened up the language to the masses.
Am I the only one who sees something bad about that?
Does a plumber do electrical work? No? Then why does anyone but a programmer do programming in a professional environment?
It must be this nasty cold I've contracted, I can't seem to understand anything today.
My guess is the idiot that came up with this stupid idea had a previous job at an internet based pet food company in the late '90s.
Our leaders are morons, we're doomed.