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On a serious note, though, (Score:4,
Interesting)
by SumDeusExMachina on Sunday November
18, @12:27PM (#2581282)
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| Won't this just encourage corporations to sue over
copyright infringement even more? I mean, Apple was able to
sue over "look and feel", so what would bar these people from
doing the same? Also, how in the world is software going to be
able to tell copyrighted material from non-copyrighted
material? This all seems to be rather ill-planned to me.
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- Re:On
a serious note, though, by imrdkl (Score:1) Sunday November 18,
@01:15PM
- Only
by modraken (Score:1) Sunday November 18, @01:17PM
- Re:On
a serious note, though, by ChuyMatt (Score:1) Sunday November 18,
@01:27PM
- Re:On
a serious note, though, by DotComVictim (Score:1) Sunday November 18,
@02:06PM
- Re:On
a serious note, though, by Digitalia (Score:1) Sunday November 18,
@02:41PM
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Support the DDA! (Score:4,
Informative)
by Styx on Sunday November 18,
@12:32PM (#2581296)
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| The Domain Defense
Advocate [ajax.org] is a grass-roots organisation trying
to combat unwarranted domain confiscations. IMHO, a very
worthwhile thing to support. |
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What does this have to do with My
Rights?? (Score:1, Interesting)
by
Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @12:36PM (#2581307)
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| So a corporation wants someone to take down trademarked
material. What does this have to do with anything else? It
looks like it's just a dispute between 2 parties.
I know slashdot editors think everything done by
corporations somehow tramples on my rights, but I just don't
see the connection here. |
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/.ed (Score:1)
by affenmann
on Sunday November 18, @12:37PM (#2581310)
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> The site appears intact for now
Great, now
it's /.ed. |
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by meatplow (Score:1) Sunday November 18, @01:58PM
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MIRROR (Score:2, Informative)
by JediTrainer on Sunday November 18, @12:37PM (#2581311)
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I've managed to grab copies of the software just as their
site got /.d.
Please be nice, because I'm only on
cable. Grab the files here [websoup.net].
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Here are mirrors: (Score:3,
Informative)
by Saint Aardvark on Sunday November
18, @12:38PM (#2581313)
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| http://yesiwill.plagiarist.org/
[plagiarist.org]
http://detritus.net/projects/yesiwill
[detritus.net]
Let's see how well they survive a slashdotting. |
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Slashdot is (Score:4, Funny)
by lavaforge on Sunday November 18, @12:40PM (#2581317)
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| The WTO's greatest defense. No one will ever see the
offending pages at this rate... |
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Distorted mirrors (Score:1)
by Man of
E (i.have@no.email.com) on
Sunday November 18, @12:44PM (#2581327)
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Journal: http://slashdot.org/~Man%20of%20E/journal/)
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| Learn more about funhouse mirrors and how they work right
here: The
Science of Light [learner.org].
Think before you mod: is it really offtopic..? |
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beyond the golden parachute (Score:3,
Funny)
by apwingo
(apwingo arroba eos.ncsu.edu) on
Sunday November 18, @12:57PM (#2581354)
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http://ambient.2y.net/wingo/)
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these guys and gals, the yes men, do some seriously,
seriously cool stuff. in the november issue of harper's [harpers.org], they
print a transcript of a talk that these folks were invited to
give at a textiles conference in Tampere, Finland, from folks
that thought that they really were the WTO. A few snippets:
... How do we at the WTO fit in? Well, that's
easy: We want to help you acieve those dollar results. We
want to help make sure that nothing - protectionism, worry,
even violence against physical property - stands in the way
of your dollar results. and some more:
... CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR:
PROTECTIONISM
[Slide: Freedom]
Why did
people fight and die and lose money? It comes down to one
word: FREEDOM.
[Slide: Southern Happiness]
By the 1860s, the South was utterly flush with cash. It
had recently benefited from the cotton gin, an invention
that took the seeds out of cotton and the South out of its
preindustrial past. Hundreds of thousands of workers,
previously unemployed in their countries of origin, were
given useful jobs in textiles. Into this rosy picture of
freedom and boom stepped ... you guessed it: the NORTH.
it goes on, about how the market would have
stopped slavery ("Involuntarily Imported Workforce") given
time, moving production to the third world where things are
cheaper, then it gets wack:
Now, we all known that not even the best
workplace design can help even the most astute manage keep
track odf hstaff. But our solution inables a lot more
rapport with remote workers.
Mike, would you
please?
[Unruh steps out from behind the podium to a
drum roll. An assistant grabs him by the tie and belt and
rips off his suit to reveal a golden spandex unitard
underneath.]
Ah! That's better! This is the
Management Leisure suit. This is the WTO's answer
to the problems of maintaining rapport with distant workers
and maintaining one's own mental health as a manager with
the proper amount of leisure. How does the MLS work, besides
being comfortable? Allow me to describe the suit's core
features.
[Unruh unzips the from of the suit, then
pulls on a rip cord that inflates a three-foot-long golden
phallus. The audience claps.] And it goes
on.
The presentation, which Harper's describes as
"well-received", was subsequently praised by the MC on three
seperate occasions that day.
(I want to be a yes man :) |
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Reminds me of the Dialectizer...
(Score:3, Informative)
by Zergwyn on Sunday
November 18, @01:06PM (#2581367)
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| It seems sort of like a bigger versioin of the Dialectizer
[rinkworks.com], a site that allows you to insert a url and
then have all the text on the page translated into a number of
amusing "languages," such as redneck, jive, elmer fudd, etc.
/. readers may especially appreciate the hacker dialect. ^_^
Try this
version of slashdot! [rinkworks.com](hit the dialectize
button). CmdrTaco's gone l33+! |
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He he he (Score:2)
by trilucid
([ceo] [at] [trilucid.com]) on
Sunday November 18, @01:28PM (#2581412)
(User #515316 Info |
http://www.trilucid.com/)
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"The site appears intact for now, but read
on to learn about the interesting software the complaint has
spawned -- perhaps this isn't what the WTO had in mind."
The WTO has nothing to fear... the /. effect will take
care of that in short order. ;)
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Roll-your-own "Parody" site here...
(Score:2)
by Robber Baron on Sunday November 18,
@01:32PM (#2581416)
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| I like this one
[pornolize.com] better! |
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... (Score:1)
by Popocatepetl
(dkm_holdings@hNoOtSmPaAiMl.com) on
Sunday November 18, @02:22PM (#2581520)
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| Time to get web stripper out and download the whole thing
before it goes poof. |
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SlashPorn! (Score:1)
by
dimer0 on Sunday November 18, @02:22PM (#2581524)
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| Slashporn
[pornolize.com]. 'nuff said. |
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Sample of installation; mirror
(Score:2)
by gbnewby (gbnewby@despammed.com) on Sunday November
18, @03:27PM (#2581701)
(User #74175 Info | http://petascale.org/)
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| I went ahead and installed this to show my systems
administration class on Monday (INLS183 [unc.edu]). If
you're trying to install the software, I included steps in the
sample directory at this
location [unc.edu]. The installation steps I used are in
parody-steps.txt.
I made a parody, visit here
[unc.edu] to see (it probably won't be up too long...).
Finally, you can also get the code in the directory mentioned
above, if you are having trouble finding a mirror. Retrieve
yesiwill-1.0.tar.gz
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Two-Timed by Slashdot (Score:1)
by box2321 on Sunday November 18, @03:33PM (#2581722)
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When I submitted this story, I got this...
"2001-11-15 16:39:40 WTO Tells ISP: Remove Satire Web
Site (articles,news) (rejected)"
... but now it
appears under another's name. All the good lovin' I gave you,
Slashdot, and how you are in another's arms!
For the
satire impared, let me say it's not such a big deal. A tiny
deal, not a big deal. |
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this is very scary.... (Score:3,
Insightful)
by tcc (teeceecee@nospam.hotmail.com) on Sunday
November 18, @03:48PM (#2581764)
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I am on gatt.org....
I'm reading the website...
and now I am wondering is it defaced or it's the real thing? I
mean I never really bothered with all that WTO stuff but when
I read (on the front page):
>Brazilian AIDS drugs a
sure path to economic sickness
>Today, however,
another Holocaust is taking place: it goes by the name of
"distrust of big business," and it is every bit as terrible as
the last.
>Qatar saves the day Responding to the
selfish and dangerous actions of special-interest forces at
recent free-trade summits, the kingdom of Qatar has generously
offered to host the next WTO Ministerial. In Qatar, the sort
of lobbying seen in Seattle, Quebec, Davos, Prague, Barcelona,
and elsewhere is strictly illegal and heavily punished, ...
I mean... what the hell?? is that all real? I mean I'm
used to lying politician, backstabbing authority figures, and
all that stuff, but I mean, putting such things on a front
page has really shocked me, I can't beleive people can be that
openly materialistic and use historic stuff and lie without
raising a LOT of opposition...
Especially the last
part "we don't value your opinion, saying you dislike what we
are working on is illegal so we will host our "democratic"
process in a place you'll get shot in the head if you
disagree"... wow... now I see why people are so upset...while
I don't think people fighting police to disrupt the meeting is
a viable option (policemen are people like you and me, just
doing what they are told to, hitting them won't make things
better), I do think it's bad to not let people express their
opposition, afterall, these are the people these leaders are
supposed to work for, they should give numbers and
sensibilization if having a world-class economy system is such
a good thing, not shutting the door off and smashing
opponents, this shows only that these opponents might be right
somewhere...
I can't beleive it, everyone should go
take a look at that site, that gatt.org thing, anyone with a
minimal sense of humanity and a bit of education will probably
feel like I am right now, there's some stuff that is still
true there, BUT it's stuff usually classified as "silent
truth", you know it's right but you don't say it openly
because it could backfire heavily (like the AIDS thing for
example, of course if you copy a patented thing that took
years and billion in research, it's stealing, but then again,
selling it to make 100 of billions in profits (I did mention
PROFITS not only recovering the cost of R&D and salaries)
so that rich people can afford it and poor people can't, is it
a more noble goal?
Anyways, I leave you with that
quote:
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Protesters rich, study shows
A new
study shows that the special-interest lobbyists attending the
Seattle, Prague, Nice, Davos, and other demonstrations come
from population sectors that have freedom and money to travel,
putting them in a different class from those sectors of the
developing world they pretend to defend.
--
Well
if that system we all know is to make rich people richer, if
people that are opposing it are already rich, I read this and
I think "maybe there's really something wrong in there" and
with everything else I just read on their website, I'm really
beginning to think that there is.
Funny thing is when
this happened in Quebec (where I live) I thought that these
protestors were just a bunch of kids with too much hormones
needing to hit at something just like a big heavy metal
concert... like a big party... I'm scared now because while
this might still apply to a bunch of the people that were
there, now I realize that 10,000s of people can't all be
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Of course the easy out is: (Score:1)
by GISboy on Sunday November 18, @04:35PM (#2581871)
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the parody is produced by code, in code.
Seeing as
code is free speech (for the time being) it is as simple as
saying the program "produces html code which is free speech,
and is a parody...which is protected as free speech as well".
Yeah, that is kind of a weasle-y way of thinking, but
"eagles my fly, but weasles don't get sucked into jet
engines", seems to apply.
Or, as one poster pointed
out "Fight fire with fire".
stray thought for the day:
DMCA: Digital Masturbating Conusmers of America. ( if you
ran it thru the pornalize would it accomplish anything?)
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Re:Big deal... (Score:1)
by
garcia on Sunday November 18, @12:46PM (#2581332)
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umm, this isn't "machine" in the sense that a program
actually does it. The people @ the Onion are just a group of
really fucking funny people.
I honestly don't think
that what this program does is all that funny, nor do I care
about what happens as a result of this...
It's one
thing to do a parody of a site on your own as a joke or
whatever but to make a fucking program so that other people
can have the almost exact same thing so that they can be
annoying and put up stupid, unoriginal, web-sites? Goto any
mom-pop ISP and load up someone's web page. There are plenty
of sites out there that are almost identical w/a few changes
that are almost funny...
"Welcome to my HOMEPAGE! --
This site is under construction" |
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Re:Microsoft (Score:1)
by
t_allardyce on Sunday November 18, @03:56PM (#2581783)
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what? they can't do that? how?
with most users*
running their software, and some anon. donations to
judges/politicians... thats the reason why windows is closed -
because the code to do this and change the underlaying
protocals are all dorment, hidden in every version of windows
that regularly net-updates. When they decide, overnight the
internet will change - servers will refuse connections from
non-windows machines. entire websites will automatically be
'updated' to use the new executable package technology, MSN
will become the defualt dial-up connection and all other dun
profiles will be deleted. Linus Torvalds will be turned to for
a press conference for his views.. but wait, where is
Torvalds????!! he has gone, been taken care of. (outstanding
favour from the government to billy g for anon. donations).
People turn to demonstrations but wait! slashdot is not
working, no one can communicate: email??? gone irc??? gone. Be
afraid... be very afraid
This conspiracy theory is
purely fiction and in no way factual. Any resemblence to real
life situations is purely coincidence. Microsoft(tm) is a
registered trade mark of Capitalist Pigs corp. Any spelling
mistakes in this post are the result of not giving a shit
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