Comment Re:easy. (Score 2, Funny) 695
Too complicated. Just use a console all the time. Nobody will ask to use your 'DOS' machine again.
Comment ERROR IN SUMMARY: THIS IS NOT FOR CITIZENS! (Score 1) 676
From the linked article: "Editors Note - This story originally contained a representation that the biometrics trial in Atlanta and Detroit included the fingerprint scanning of US citizens. This has since been proved to be incorrect and the story has been modified - only non-US citizens will be expected to provide a biometric record."
Comment Everyone say it together now... (Score 1) 780
Offsite and Encrypted!
Comment I think every good book... (Score 1) 192
... has had to be inappropriate in some fashion. Can it really be called art if it doesn't challenge our sensibilities?
Comment Uh, Use Google? (Score 2, Interesting) 289
Here's a good article explaining how Google makes plagiarism detection easy: http://questioncopyright.org/node/4
There was a story a couple years ago about one of these plagiarism detection services, Turnitin, getting sued for copyright infringement... does anyone know if that went anywhere? http://education.zdnet.com/?p=953
Comment Danny Sullivan rips newspapers a new one (Score 2) 328
For anyone that hasn't read it, here is a great indictment of the idiocy of the newspapers, written by the lead writer for SearchEngineLand: http://daggle.com/090406-225638.html
Comment Against Intellectual Monopoly (Score 1) 324
Everyone interested in patents or copyrights, and why they suck, should read Against Intellectual Monopoly, a book by two profs at Wash U in St. Louis:
http://www.amazon.com/Against-Intellectual-Monopoly-Michele-Boldrin/dp/0521879280
Comment Oblig. (Score 1) 492
A post from not too long ago about how copyright sucks: http://slashdot.org/yro/03/02/14/1914236.shtml?tid=155
Comment Re:Long time coming (Score 1) 120
'The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed.' -- Gibson
Comment Legal content? No such thing! (Score 1) 265
At least, I'm sure that's what the copyright holding associations would argue / propagandize.
Comment Re:I didn't know Feinstein was a Republican.... (Score 2, Informative) 873
She basically is http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/23/feinstein/
Comment Related: If you live in California... (Score 1) 570
In related news, California DMV wants to start putting your biometrics on your driver's license. Send a letter to the state legislature urging against it:
https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1256
Comment Obama-Jesus (Score 0) 306
See? We knew he would come and make everything right! Linux takeover of government ftw!
Please, don't be so delusional. He's just another politician.
Please, don't be so delusional. He's just another politician.
Report Claims 95% of Music Downloads Are Illegal 331
Un pobre guey writes "The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) press release claims that 95% of music file downloads in 2008, an estimated 40 billion files, were illegal. Oddly enough, digital music sales are up: 'The digital music business internationally saw a sixth year of expansion in 2008, growing by an estimated 25 per cent to US$3.7 billion in trade value. Digital platforms now account for around 20 per cent of recorded music sales, up from 15 per cent in 2007. Recorded music is at the forefront of the online and mobile revolution, generating more revenue in percentage terms through digital platforms than the newspaper (4%), magazine (1%) and film industries (4%) combined... Despite these developments, the music sector is still overshadowed by the huge amount of unlicensed music distributed online. Collating separate studies in 16 countries over a three-year period, IFPI estimates over 40 billion files were illegally file-shared in 2008, giving a piracy rate of around 95 per cent.'"
Comment Re:oh goodie (Score 1) 199
Or, if you're a command line fan: http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/
