2008 - Slashdot User

Warner CEO Admits His Kids Stole Music 533

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @03:25PM from the do-as-i-say dept.

IAmTheDave writes "Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman admitted that he was fairly certain that one or more of his children had downloaded music illegally, but despite this direct admission of guilt, no lawsuits are pending. Surprised? Bronfman insists that, after a stern talking-to, his children have suffered the full consequences of their actions. 'I explained to them what I believe is right, that the principle is that stealing music is stealing music. Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important. I can assure you they no longer do that.' I wonder if all of the people currently being sued/extorted can now just claim that they 'no longer do that.'"

Get on the 'Gates for President' Bandwagon 654

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 30, 2006 @05:24PM from the jobs-for-vice-president dept.

netbuzz writes "Dilbert's Scott Adams kicked off the idea in his November 19th blog post, saying there isn't anything wrong with this country that President Bill Gates couldn't cure in less time than it takes to get a new operating system out the door. Today, the idea is moving forward with a brand-new 'Bill Gates for President' Web site. Adams is also back on the campaign trail, flogging the site and Gates' candidacy." A blog post at Network World includes a lot of eye-rolling about this idea, but neither Adams nor the folks at the 'Gates for President' website seem to be taking this lightly.

Can the Web Survive v3.0 217

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 19, 2006 @12:46PM from the still-waiting-on-the-2.0-bugfixes dept.

robotsrule writes "The battle lines between skeptic and evangelist are already drawn. Either way, Web 3.0 will either be the new face of the Web that launched a thousand empty business plans, or the tipping point into a vastly more exciting phase of the Web. This Web 3.0 article asserts that the marraige of artificial intelligence to the infrastructure of Web 3.0 will dramatically accelerate our capacity for distributed problem solving. However, it also issues dire warnings on the potential hyper-euphoria that will accompany it."

Bookmark Google (google.com)

by sftester on Thursday November 16, 2006 @04:54PM

Testosterone Tumbling in American Males 597

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 29, 2006 @01:17PM from the zomg-where-are-my-lead-pants dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo is running a story about a study that concludes that testosterone levels are falling across all age groups among American men. It says 'The testosterone-fueled American male may be losing his punch'" I leave it to you all to draw your conclusions about this, but I still wonder what my hours of laptop-fu does to me.

Comment Re:No charge.. (Score 1) 219

by original_nickname on Friday October 06, 2006 @04:51PM (#16341633) Attached to: What Inept Billing Software Have You Encountered?

I've had two fun situations like this - the first one with O2 UK (a mobile phone company) doing just what the article says, except they didn't send the warning letter until a month AFTER i was cut off (with valid bank details on file). That one went to OfCom (the man).

The other was with CVV number (the three extra digits they have on the back of a visa). My last card had the CVV number of 000, and several systems (Endsleigh Insurance for one) refused to take my card as i had to enter a number for the CVV number.

Journal Journal: old posts

Journal by 2008 on Tuesday August 01, 2006 @08:50AM

3 Why MS shouldn't make consoles

4 Eternal Darkness

5 I forgot Age of Empires DS.
It turns out MS will be doing a mobile platform with some gaming elements (Zune), maybe this is just to get handheld experience.

Journal Journal: Superglue

Journal by MarkChovain on Monday February 06, 2006 @11:10PM

In the morning cloud, and all that is laid, which is good; for his hire. And if she lose one of her husband! They give gifts to the idol out of the LORD that maketh mention thereof shall be cut down, when he crieth unto the woman, Yea, hath God raised from the uttermost part of a fool cutteth off the face of his feet.

Journal Journal: Have I made you my foe?

Journal by original_nickname on Tuesday January 17, 2006 @09:06PM

I use the foe thing as a filter and you're my foe as you are either

A) A bit of a right winger
B) A (poor) troll (the good ones are funny)
C) A nnoying

Anyway - don't take it personally, I just either don't want to hear your opinion (I read this site for the g33k hum0r, not the politics) or you are a racist/warmongering shitball (ditto).

Journal Journal: Classic

Journal by 2008 on Wednesday December 21, 2005 @12:28AM

I realised recently that if you put the text "GNAA" in the subject line of a comment, it won't get posted to Slashdot due to "unknown error".

Wish I'd come up with that one.

Journal Journal: Filtering

Journal by 2008 on Saturday November 12, 2005 @10:56PM

It's much better. I could almost believe some people are hired by the editors to write controvertial gibberish.

Journal Journal: Dear Foes

Journal by 2008 on Saturday August 27, 2005 @09:32AM

Just an experiment to see how much I like slashdot without the people who post in every story and the pseudo-technical bullshitters. Don't take it personally, this isn't my main account.

Journal Journal: Troll submissions

Journal by 2008 on Saturday August 13, 2005 @10:06PM

Troll submissions.

This is pretty funny, in a why-yes-I-am-tweleve way. And it implies the editors DO pay at least a little bit of attention...

Journal Journal: GNU/Debian Troll: the definitive Open Source web destination 2

Journal by Debian Troll's Best on Wednesday January 28, 2004 @10:49PM

MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Bruce Perens Memorial Debian Systems Research Institute, Hewlett Packard Headquaters, Palo Alto, California. 29th January, 2004. Debian Troll's Best is pleased to announce that development has commenced on what will undoubtedly become the preferred destination for Open Source and GNU/Debian developers, users and enthusiastic apt-get advocates everywhere: GNU/Debian Troll, the web site.

Comment Veritas apt-get support? (Score -1) 114

by Debian Troll on Monday October 27, 2003 @09:54AM (#7318352) Attached to: SuSE Going For Red Hat's Market

Does anyone know if this will affect Veritas's earlier commitment to use apt-get as the basis of their new enterprise Linux package/resource management system? Imagine the convenience of being able to roll out new desktop systems with a single 'apt-get install desktop' command? apt-get rocks!

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