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Front-row seats. zer0vector writes "The previously mentioned camera that was attached to the external fuel tank on Atlantis gave some great shots of launch this afternoon on NASA TV. During the feed, it looked like the ejection of the solid rocket boosters damaged or obscured the camera, leading to a fuzzy image during the fuel tank separation stage."
SkyNet has not yet achieved consciousness. DrEnter writes "According to this Yahoo article, Vladimir Kramnik has defeated 'Deep Fritz' (apparently the world's most powerful chess computer) to take the lead, 2.5-0.5 (the first game was a draw). You can find out more details at the contest site."
Damned if you do, but also if you don't. cybaea writes "A recent article in InfoWorld argues that the latest Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Packs may be illegal for health care providers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. To make matters worse, not installing the Service Packs may also be illegal. Damned if you do, damned if you don't ..."
Dad, please switch to a real operating system. It's still spreading. deego writes " An e-mail-borne computer virus that lets crackers control infected Windoze machines remotely continues to spread and constitutes the most severe attack this year. The worm, known as W32.Bugbear, or I-Worm.Tanatos, infects computers that use Microsoft's Windows operating systems. It was first spotted a week ago and has spread to dozens of countries. Article here."
Please sit down first. calib0r writes "CNN.com is running an article on the most recent events dealing with the nissan.com lawsuit. Salon.com ran an article about this a few months ago. More information can also be found here."
The problem that bugbear exploits was patched back in march. Only retards are susceptible
Just about EVERYTHING is illegal under HIPAA. I've never seen such ridiculously stringent specs. If you want a good laugh, check out www.hipaacomply.com and read through the technology FAQ's. Even faxing is restricted.
What's your damage, Heather?
How do I get privacy while playing chess on the internet while making sure I don't get the bugbear virus?
Kramnik gets $1,000,000 if he wins, $800,000 if he draws, and $600,000 if he loses. I knew I wasn't spending all that time on Yahoo! Chess for nothing...
It's laughable to say that Deep Fritz is the strongest computer programme - Deep Blue (that defeated Kasparov) evaluated 200 million positions per second compared to Deep Fritz's 3-4 million. Deep Blue was running on an IBM-made supercomputer. Fritz isn't.
Grr! Arg!
But Uzi Nissan, whose family name is also the name of a month in Hebrew and Arabic[...]
"We've always seen this case as protecting the Nissan brand and not about money," he said. "What we are saying is the word Nissan by itself is our registered trademark and we're the only ones with the right to use the name Nissan by itself."
It gets better - Nissan Motor has registered the domain name nissancomputer.com which they'll "give" to Nissan Computers if Nissan Motor get given the nissan.com domain name. Now, if they've brought nissancomputer.com with the express purpose of squatting on it for exchange of monies, services or goods (for example, a domain name) - surley that's a blatant case of cybersquatting by Nissan Motor?
Have each machine analyze a different two-ply scenario, and play the min-max move. Granted, this only scales "linearly" (as opposed as the holy grail of parallelizing the alpha-beta search algorithm) but a one move deeper search could be enough to trounce Kramnik.
If Nissan Motors wanted to have an exclusive name, they should have made one up.
They took an existing word (in 2 languages, nonetheless) which also happens to be a surname. Now, they can't expect exclusive rights over that name.
While this isn't man vs machine as the casual observer may think, but chess playing man vs programming man, how long until programming man is able to win soundly all the time? I don't mean to offend the chess players out there, but I find it very hard to believe that the advances in both processing power and programming knowledge will eventually catch up to chess knowledge. According to Moore's law processing powers is doubling every 18 months, and I would venture that programming knowledge of AI's is progressing faster than chess knowledge given the youth of the former's frield and the extensive history of the latter's.
That said, even while as a programmer I'm somewhat rooting for Deep Fritz, as a fellow man I can't help but be in awe of the fact that Kramnik is able to think better than a machine that "thinks" millions of times faster than him.
- Bugbear actually uses one of forty different subject lines. It also sometimes throws in some random data, just for fun.
- Bugbear is a descendant of Badtrans, a nasty but not particularly widespread virus from earlier this year. The keystroke logger seems to have been borrowed bit-for-bit (at least in the copy I isolated and analysed).
JousterEnjoy.
occultae nullus est respectus musicae - originally a Greek proverb
There is no way to save users from themselves. If a sizable part of the population need to use computers, there will always be a significant number of those who do stupid things from them. These problems will continue no matter how secure Windows becomes. These problems will occur on any software platform that is simple enough for the general population to use.
Actually, with a certain class of user, Windows' automatic updates make Windows more secure than Linux. Amoung windows users, that class is rather large. We may see less of the Code Red Viruses, but the Shoot Yourself in the Foot Viruses will continue.
Linux does have one advantage though. It is intensely hard to install programs for Linux. It is so complicated that it is very hard to automate. And as long as users have to install viruses by hand, and download the correct libraries to get them to run, you can be sure that Linux users won't have to worry much about a Linux virus spreading like wildfire across the net.
Can I register a domain name SomeCompany.com and then do the following:
My response would have been, "damn right, freedom of speech..."
But now, I'm just confused.
What did he do that violated any laws?
He's paid $2.2 million in legal fees. It's not like he had a choice about showing up in court to defend himself.
Now Nissan motors can take his domain name after all the legal bills? And if not, he'll be ordered to give them financial reparations for "diluting their brand name?"
"During the feed, it looked like the ejection of the solid rocket boosters damaged or obscured the camera, leading to a fuzzy image during the fuel tank separation stage."
Bring on anti-NASA the conspiracy theories...
forget it.
Does it annoy anyone else that NASA spent $750,000 on the technical equivalent an X-10 webcam?
And it failed! I mean, what the hell?
Private space enterprises deserve to eat NASA's breakfast, dinner AND lunch once they get started.
Interesting. I wonder if they'll be requiring Uzi Nissan to change his last name as well... after all, Nissan owns it...
Also, it bear mentioning that Uzi has spent well in excess of one million dollars defending his own last name from these assholes who didn't even use the name "Nissan" in the States until well after Uzi had registerred the domain and used it for his own business.
The corporate swines have also been using dirty tricks like filing suit across the county from where Uzi lives, in an attempt to sap his finances so he can't defend himself. (These are things Uzi himself talked about at H2K2, if you're curious about my sources)
... is NOT a computer. It's just a software program than can run on your local pc, and if you know where to look, you can get it.
Deep Blue was a real computer, much more powerful than the 8 cpu Compaq that is running Deep Fritz, although the chess algorithms were less efficient.
Btw, i don't think computers will conquer the world as much ppl think it. Remember, computers are made by humans. Until computers can think on their own (no, computers don't think, they just execute instructions, they can emulate thinking but it's not really that) human race will always win.
Now, the end of the world will be probably when the viruses exterminate the human race, but that's another topic...
Open Source Java Web Forum with LDAP authentication
...the scariest part has to be that they let a Windows operating system anywhere near brain surgery....
During the feed, it looked like the ejection of the solid rocket boosters damaged or obscured the camera...
That can be a problem for the crew too, or used to be. Each SRB has rocket motors that separate it from the external tank at around two minutes MET. Debris from these motors can get on the forward orbiter windows. Not too many years ago the shuttle flight software was changed - a "window washer" mod - to fire the FU RCS jets for a few seconds at SRB seperation to keep the windscreen clear of debris.
Just thought you'd be interested to know...
--JIm
Deep fritz plays a trivial, rather pointless game. Go is so important, it's dang near the meaning of life.
I believe Clark has the right idea
"...the health care industry needs to go to Microsoft with a joint NDA (nondisclosure agreement) and indemnification agreement, requiring Microsoft to hold their HIPAA-compliant customers harmless should patient information be leaked via this mechanism."
Not a prayer that MS would agree, but it will be interesting when they get pulled into court the first time a provider claims it was the update and MS forced them to allow it.
The regulatory oversight may do more to open MS software than the DOJ. Logic, reason, and innovation are not the watch words of these organizations. Regulations were passed, comply or be destroyed.
It is hard for me to decide who I want to win. MS or the regulators...
The real test of playing strength is results, of course. Although we have too small a sample size (for both chess computers) to be truly scientific, so far it looks like Deep Blue was stronger than Deep Fritz.
Grr! Arg!
Agreed on this. You're not allowed to trademark common words, like orange, hand or March. If your company name happens to be the name of a month in another language, you shouldn't be allowed to go into a fit everytime someone uses it.
Further,
The auto company didn't sue until 1999, but the judge said that five-year wait wasn't too long because Nissan didn't initially know the impact the Internet would have on business.
Then looks like Nissan should have had a little more foresight. IANAL but if you don't defended your trademark when you become aware of someone else using it, then it's become diluted.
It figures a simple mind who plays Chess would be attracted to the primitive concept of money. Now Go has this "money" reward as well, but it needs no money to make it the most important thing to any geek.
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Dad, please switch to a real operating system.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/18412
"Derp de derp."
We've been told at my University that we (as system administrators) can go ahead and click the "I accept" on any Microsoft service pack or hotfix, our licensing agreement with M$ overrides anything they put in a EULA.
Microsoft could actually wind up violating their own agreement if they take action not specified in the big license.
Lol!!
I see you ran across my post here!
Does anyone honestly beleive that this guy wasn't trying to take advantage of Nissan's trademark? That he didn't cackle with glee when he registered the address? If you aren't going to use English as the standard for judging common words then you need to use common sense. For all I know "Kodak" is the most common surname in Mongolia. The fact that this has gone to court tells me that Mr. Nissan played hardball when they were negotiating a payoff; I'm guessing he demanded seven (maybe eight?) figures like most cybersquatters instead of just taking a fair settlement for his lucky last name.
Logged-in trolls can't claim shit. They're too busy suckin' maldas dick.
Of course, Japanese people with that name are just as SOL.
These guys are like aliens- just remember that.
What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.-Edward Abbey
If a sizable part of the population need to use computers, there will always be a significant number of those who do stupid things from them. These problems will continue no matter how secure Windows becomes.
What gets me about some users is that they'll call me up concerned if two icons switch positions, but they get an email like this from a friend and actually find and delete jdbgc.exe themselves. Go figure.
The following email (the typical jdbgc.exe hoax) was circulated recently at my company, and one senior admin secretary sent it out to EVERYONE in her address book as it instructed. I sent out an email to my users saying that this is a known hoax and that if there were a new virus out there that McAfee, Norton and *I* would know about it before their email friends did.
I can't imagine why they thought otherwise.
Disclaimer: HOAX EMAIL! Do NOT delete the file or you will mess up IE's Java implementation.
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I found the little bear in my machine because of that I am sending this message in order for you to find it in your machine. The procedure is very simple:
The objective of this e-mail is to warn all Hotmail users about a new virus that is spreading by MSN Messenger. The name of this virus is jdbgmgr.exe and it is sent automatically by the Messenger and by the address book too. The virus is not detected by McAfee or Norton and it stays quiet for 14 days before damaging the system.
The virus can be cleaned before it deletes the files from your system. In order to eliminate it, it is just necessary to do the following steps:
1. Go to Start, click "Search"
2.- In the "Files or Folders option" write the name jdbgmgr.exe
3.- Be sure that you are searching in the drive "C"
4.- Click "find now"
5.- If the virus is there (it has a little bear-like icon with the name of jdbgmgr.exe DO NOT OPEN IT FOR ANY REASON
6.- Right click and delete it (it will go to the Recycle bin)
7.- Go to the recycle bin and delete it or empty the recycle bin.
IF YOU FIND THE VIRUS IN ALL OF YOUR SYSTEMS SEND THIS MESSAGE TO ALL OF YOUR CONTACTS LOCATED IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK BEFORE IT CAN CAUSE ANY DAMAGE.
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Disclaimer: The above is a HOAX! Do not follow its advice!
While plenty of web sites, blogs, and usenet discussions informatively describe and criticize the heavy handed tactics of companies like Nissan, Molson Canadian, and Gateway (2000), these companies need to start hearing vocally from consumers who will not buy their brands based on their overbearing legal tactics and we should compile and distribute a list of companies to target. More important than a boycott itself, the average joe and especially these company's dealers, sales, and marketing people need to know WHY we're upset.
Whenever these cases come up we read the lawyers and spokespeople telling us they have to do this to "protect the brand", or to "prevent consumers from being confused". Real squatters aside, this is generally total crap. Consumers in any demographic able to buy a car will quickly realize Nissan Computer != Nissan Motors and while brands need to be protected to a certain extent in order to avoid becoming generic (like kleenex, or xerox) the chance of "nissan" becoming a generic term is slim to none (and not just because it doesn't have an 'x'). Trademarks apply to specific categories only, and this limitation should help to prevent dilution happening from unrelated uses of the same mark. Companies that try to over extend their marks should do so only at their own risk, and I bet that willy nilly suing other users probably does more to imply dilution than just leaving things be (Ob.IANAL but this should be true even if it's not the actual law).
Actually, I doubt any of these cases stem from the marketing department, more likely the lawyers are trying to justify their salaries and budgets. But if the sales and marketing people thought these tactics were hurting their brand they could override legal in a second. Enough slashdotters are young professionals with a well paying job and interest in new products to present a very attractive demographic to these people. Let them know you're pissed!
My next sig will be ready soon, but friends can beat the rush!
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What I don't understand about the whole lawsuit is how Nissan (motors) can prove that they own the rights to that name. Uzi was apparently around before Nissan became any sort of MAJOR advertising spender ($400 million last year).
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The judge decided that the Internet wasn't that big of a deal in 1994, so the 5 year span between the registration of nissan.com and 1999 when they sued was ok. WHAT? Explain to me how this is ok? Uzi had it first, tough shit if they didn't decide that the Internet wasn't all that important.
Early bird gets the worm. Money should have no bearing on who gets what domain.
If I were Uzi, I would tell them to use nissancomputer.com for themselves.
Just my worthless
Press releases touting this week's match boast that Fritz has beaten both Kasparov and Deep Blue. The win over Kasparov came, however, in a super fast kind of chess, where computers have a decided edge. And Fritz didn't really beat Deep Blue-it beat an early version of its software running on slower hardware.
Do I think that there is an added value to better algorithms and pruning methods over pure computational firepower? Sure, but you need to keep in mind that now that Deep Blue has been disassembled, there is no way to get an honest, head to head comparison.
As if it matters, I still get my but kicked by good old GNU Chess.
So who is naming these viruses? :)
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
It's true. Real men program where there's no effective evaluation algorithm. Regardless of the massive search space for go, there's no way to accurately judge a position (hence no minimax or a-b pruning); in a year you can become as good as the best go program out there.
Not a 'cybersquatter'
The judge ruled early on that Hooters wasn't a "cybersquatter," the name for Wildlife speculators who catch sought-after birds in about 30 places a year, hoping to resell them for hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Hooters(R) applied for trademark in 1994, a company which was founded in 1991. Grand opening was in 1996.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) didn't sue until 1999, but the judge said that five-year wait wasn't too long because WWF was too busy suing the-now "World Wresting Entertainment" company because they overrated the impact the Internet would have on business.
"By 1999, HOOTERS(R) restaurants had transformed into an essential marketing tool, with the ability to reach millions of potential customers throughout the United States and around the world," Pregerson said.
The court said HOOTERS altered their newest promotional materials at that time to add advertisements to drive traffic and money to the World Wildlife Fund web site.
"Clearly, HOOTERS(R) was capitalizing upon the traffic that was coming to HOOTERS(R) restaurants in search of the Wildlife Fund," Pregerson said.
~xintegerx
Cover your eyes and click this link!
Remember the good old days when we used to laugh at the people that thought they could get viruses (viri, whatever) from email?
How can you separate minimax and pruning? One is generating the tree, the other is optimizing it. Ha, the geek equivalent of showing a stain on your shirt.
Well, at least his first name isn't already taken or anything.
I wish there was a band called Uzi Nissan. I'd totally be into them.
Everything that was once directly lived has receded into a representation. -debord
It looks like ~anti-klerck is writing that CNN's webpage so that content renders very wide.
Is that a Mozilla bug or shitty HTML?
*slap!* Godammit, I said no TEETH!
Isn't there prior judgement in the case Maggie Vs Maggie where food company lost to little because the guy wasn't cybersquating?
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I remember this was featured a while back on
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
I mean really, Bugbears only have 3 hit die. Roll for initiative!
Since neither Hebrew nor Arabic is written with Latin characters, I find the "it's the name of a month" argument rather weak. Furthermore, the owner of www.nissan.com is incorporated in the United States, where "Nissan" cannot be considered a common word
As far as the "waiting until 1999" argument goes, it sounds like Nissan is claiming he didn't infringe until 1999 when he started linking to car sites, meaning he was generating revenue based on visitors who were looking for www.nissanmotors.com.
I think this argument holds water.
However, the remedy the company is asking for is way out of proportion. Nissan Motors should be granted an injunction against www.nissan.com being used to adverstise cars.
Which reminds me of the shooting spree near DC.
nissan can mean "daily output" or "daily visit" or, and this may be a stretch "2, 3" I searched for it here: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/ wwwjdic?1C
Just the tank camera, no cutaways, all the way from launch to SRB seperation.
Play it fast (hold the frame advance button down) for another cool view of the whole launch in about 15 seconds.
One simple rule for its versus it's
Why isn't Nissan forced to use the name "Nissan Cars"? Only the Nissan family can use "Nissan" on its own. Otherwise, they would dilute the value of a name that's built up a reputation over many generations!
It's for lobotomies.
If you read through all the things listed maybe you would realise some people _can't_ install microsoft's patches because of there EULA requirements.
Let's see...
Unpatched windows: Bugbear.
Patched windows: No bugbear, but all your file are belong to Microsoft.
LindowsOS: Different enough from the Win9x and WinNT lines that it may not catch the same viruses. Definitely comes with a mailer that's not susceptible to the iframe bug.
Fourth option. Fifth option. Sixth option. Seventh option.
Choose the one most appealing to you.
Will I retire or break 10K?
n/m
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re: "Kodak" may mean something in another language...
dictionary.com says: "1 entry found for nissan: the seventh month of the civil year; the first month of the ecclesiastic year (in March and April)"
And it has been so and also recorded in dictionaries *way* before the Internet.
I went to
http://www.nissanusa.com/global/contactus/Contact
and
http://www.ncchelp.org/How_Can_you_Help/how_can_y
and sent this email:
"Formerly Dear Nissan Motors,
I have a white Nissan pickup with the word Nissan written in large black letters on the back. After reading about your lawsuit with the rightful owner of www.nissan.com, I am greatly embarrassed to have a Nissan. I plan on displaying a sign in my back glass that says 'Nissan is stealing nissan.com! See ncchelp.org'
By the way, why the @*#! didn't you go after and/or use www.nissanmotor.com ? It looks like the blank website of a cyber squatter:
nissanmotor.com
Registrant: Cha Sang Woo
816 Yeonam-Dong Buk-Gu Ulsan KOREA
Domain Name: nissanmotor.com
Registrar: NETPIA.COM, INC.(http://www.ibi.net)
Record created on........: 29-Dec-2000 EST.
Record expires on........: 29-Dec-2003 EST.
Record last updated on...: 11-Jul-2002 10:04:29 EST."
Just because his name is Nissan doesn't mean that he has the exclusive rights to any property with "Nissan" attached to it. He already owns nissan.net as well. Let's look at it from an independent judge's perspective:
Both sides want nissan.com. Why? They either feel that:
A. nissan.com will get more traffic and thus generate more revenue than some alternative, or
B. nissan.com is more representative of their company's name
As for A, what would cause nissan.com to get more traffic than "nissanmotors.com" or "nissancomputer.com"? People around the world recognize the Nissan brand name. Common sense would dictate that an overwhelming percentage of traffic seen to nissan.com [i]stems from that recognition, which Nissan (the car company) has carefully cultivated and paid for since 1933 when Nissan was incorporated in Japan[/i]. To continue to grant Mr. Uzi Nissan a monopoly on the domain "nissan.com" to promote his own company would be to allow his company to capitalize on the name recognition he did not establish. This fact does not seem to be in dispute. (Mr. Nissan would add, however, that the coincidence of his name should not be held against him.)
As for B, both sides feel THEY have the right to use the name Nissan, and they do. As it happens, Mr. Nissan was first to claim nissan.com. Nissan Motors, however, was clearly the first to stake out recognition of "Nissan" as a brand name. Which one should legally be priority?
It is fair to say that Mr. Nissan knew that registering nissan.com would be disputed by Nissan Motors. He chose to register nissan.com anyway, and it must be assumed that he did so because he felt he would be better served by nissan.com than nissancomputers.com or something else. It is also fair to say that he knew that by picking nissan.com he would receive more traffic to his address than a small computer store in North Carolina would normally receive, and that this traffic is a result of the name conflict with Nissan Motors.
Nissan Motors clearly has more at stake in its name than Mr. Nissan has in his company. Forcing Mr. Nissan to relocate to a different address will have some cost, but this cost is small compared to the potential commerce that is being impeded by the naming mismatch. Clearly, the public does not expect to get Nissan Computer Corp of Raleigh, NC when they type "www.nissan.com" into their web browsers.
The cost to commerce as a whole must be taken into consideration, and weighed against the cost to Mr. Nissan for relocation.
Judgment? plaintiff [Nissan Motors] may use nissan.com, but must pay a reasonable fee for costs of relocating Mr. Nissan's site.
Steven N. Severinghaus
file-ownership is determined upon installation of a modern Microsoft operating system. All your anti-MS posts are belong to punk-kitty.
Blar.
Is this some kind of "trusted computing"/Palladium version of Earth, created by Microsoft, to answer the question "What is the meaning of life, the universe, and Microsoft?
If it is...I want a copy of that OS...it doesn't crash for seven billion years! However, a product flaw causes lazers to vaporize the hardware when it does crash...
Since neither Hebrew nor Arabic is written with Latin characters, I find the "it's the name of a month" argument rather weak.
Erm... if you want to take that tack... "Nissan" in Japanese isn't written with Latin characters either.
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Dum de dum.
Freedom is not the license to do what we like, it is the power to do what we ought.
Are you nanogator, or a friend of his?. i could never work it out....
He's my friend. He sits a couple of cubes down from me. We trade amusing/interesting posts back and forth.
From the article:
... what do you think?
[The car company] has registered the domain name nissancomputer.com, and Dutcher said the company will give that Web address to Uzi Nissan if he's ordered to turn over his domains to the car company.
Looks like Nissan Motors are cybersquatting to me
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
"Datsun was used for passenger cars. However in 1982 the corporate name "Nissan" started being used for all new lines for passenger vehicles too"
"U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson is expected to decide by November whether the coveted Internet addresses go to the automaker or stay with the man who's used his family name on a succession of businesses -- from mobile auto repair to exporting to computers _ since he came to Raleigh two decades ago."
Who started using the name first? I'll bet this guy is more than 20 years old, which is how long Datsun has been using the name Nissan.
If Datsun changed it's name to Nissan after this guy went into business, he could have a case for taking the entire use of the name from them.
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
So technically, they BOTH have rights to the name, perhaps even equal rights to it. The guy should probably get to keep it, but come on, he should have known Nissan would come calling when he hit 'submit' on NetSol's website way back when. The judge should do something creative - like disallowing BOTH of them from using the name, he gets to use www.nissancomputers.com, and Nissan has to use www.nissancars.com.
"See, we plan ahead! That way, we never have to do anything now."
since Micro$oft has put in all the nice DRM goodies in their updates, I don't want to apply any of the patches. However, that leaves me vulnerable to the things that the patches are supposed to 'fix'. *sigh* I guess my Windows machine is screwed either way....(wanders off to go install Mandrake 9 on his Linux Box :)
This is probably posted already buy you can view this video on Space.com Here.
It's pretty sweet.
I remember a trek episode where spock diagnoses the computer is malfunctioning because earlier that week he'd programmed it to play 3d chess, and now he was able to beat his own program. I guess in the far future programming languages are really really good. Man in the real world I can outplay my own programs far too easily. :P
Then again Spock was WAY overrated at 3d chess. Kirk beat him routinely using "illogical" moves. Wait until he plays my little sister, she's the master of illogical moves!
I thought that if you registered your last name as a domain name that no one else could take it from you..because it's YOUR NAME! Am I wrong here? Seems to me that HE has more right to HIS OWN NAME then some car comapny does...especially when they were Datsun for many years BEFORE they changed their name to Nissan!
there ? A REALLY simple HONEST answer would be for BOTH sites to place a nice visible link on each site with a little goodwill plug for each other. They are not in competition, and if the issue is not REALLY money but name recognition and family honor that should suffice. But of course we all realize common sense went the way of the dodo and the tazmanian tiger....
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
This is a clear and cut case where Nissanmotors is in the right. No reason why that man should be able to capitalize off of the years and $$$ Nissanmotors has spent branding its trademark. Just because you share the name doesn't give you the right to piggyback.
Corporations should only get their stock ticker as a domain name and name servers would provide a list of possible matches based on the search term.
These morons are not worried at all about the patient's information, they seek way to cover their fscking ass.
And again "who is responsible" ! In other words "we don't give a shit if the patient dies, as long as we are not held responsible" !
I can, for instance, look at a picture of my wife and identify her as my wife in a fraction of a second. The best image-recognition software in the world can't reliably do even that simple task.
That's extremely unfair since no computer has a wife (or husband). We all know that computers can't get married to people -- possibly explaining why so many of the guys on Slashdot are single.
Verse 1:
Mi-cro-soft is a piece of shit,
A piece of shit,
A piece of shit,
Mi-cro-soft is a piece of shit,
La la la la la
Verse 2:
Win-doze is a piece of shit,
A piece of shit,
A piece of shit,
Win-doze is a piece of shit,
La la la la la
Voiceover:
I'll HUFF and I'll PUFF and I'll MAKE your computer crash!
This is because Microsoft does not worry about making their products work right. They have this enormous cash cow. All they have to do is make the graphics stupider, put more bugs in, and release it as the great new operating system that will save the day. And then the IDIOTS who use that piece of crap software wonder why bad stuff happens to their data.
LISTEN UP PEOPLE! There is an alternative! Or, more accurately, there ARE alternatives! PLURAL! All you have to do is get Linux or *BSD! Big successful companies like IBM and Apple are supporting these great systems! There is a TON of software out there for them! So yeah, you might not have all the whiz-bang UGLY *G*A*R*B*A*G*E* that comes with that piece of *G*A*R*B*A*G*E* , uh, what's it called? Oh yeah--WINDOWS. That piece of GARBAGE!!! Use free software. Make those evil people that make the garbage go out of business! That will bring joy and happiness to the world!!!
Ok, well maybe it ain't happening in the next two weeks. Ooooooooh well. It's nice to dream about it. TIME FOR ANOTHER BEER (as in free)!
The Russians, when faced with the same problem used a pencil.
Nerd: Derogatory term typically directed at anybody with a lower Slashdot ID than you.
Wether a platform spreads email-viruses or not has NOTHING to do with that platform and everything to do with the email-client.
;-)
If Microsoft builds MS Outlook for Linux, the potential to undermine Linux is so great I'm surprised they have not already done this.
... doesn't not a legally binding contract make. Mainly because there is no way to prove whether you were the one who clicked it. This is why EULAs have never stood up in court (at least in the EU). The only way they could be made legally binding is for the software company to insist you return a signed form before allowing you to run setup.exe.
Doesn't this seem a little ironic. M$ software is historically flawed whenn it comes to security. The way M$ resolves these flaws is with patches. The problem is that the language in the EULAs is turning people away from installing the patches. The end result is that M$ software sucurity as an internet entity, over time, becomes inherently more insecure because of the increasing number of discovered exploits and the decreasing rate of patch compliance.
All your base are belong to us!
Since neither Hebrew nor Arabic is written with Latin characters, I find the "it's the name of a month" argument rather weak.
FWIW, in Turkish which does use Latin characters, the word for April is also pronounced "Nissan" but is spelled "nisan". (English obviously needs the double 'S' to stop the "i" from becoming a long sound).
Besides, the guy is not trying to sell cars under the name of Nissan, just computers. Seems to me to be similiar to the Apple (records) vs Apple (computer). It's easy enough to distinguish the companies because they are in totally different markets.
As far as the "waiting until 1999" argument goes, it sounds like Nissan is claiming he didn't infringe until 1999 when he started linking to car sites, meaning he was generating revenue based on visitors who were looking for www.nissanmotors.com.
Oops! Sorry, I missed that bit in the OP (makes note to self to drink some more coffee).
[Event "Brains in Bahrain Man-Machine Match"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2002.10.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Deep Fritz"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C45"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[EventDate "2002.10.04"]
[SourceDate "2002.10.04"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nxc6 Qf6 6. Qd2 dxc6 7. Nc3 Ne7
8. Qf4 Be6 9. Qxf6 gxf6 10. Na4 Bb4+ 11. c3 Bd6 12. Be3 b6 13. f4 O-O-O 14. Kf2
c5 15. c4 Nc6 16. Nc3 f5 17. e5 Bf8 18. b3 Nb4 19. a3 Nc2 20. Rc1 Nxe3 21. Kxe3
Bg7 22. Nd5 c6 23. Nf6 Bxf6 24. exf6 Rhe8 25. Kf3 Rd2 26. h3 Bd7 27. g3 Re6 28.
Rb1 Rxf6 29. Be2 Re6 30. Rhe1 Kc7 31. Bf1 b5 32. Rec1 Kb6 33. b4 cxb4 34. axb4
Re4 35. Rd1 Rxd1 36. Rxd1 Be6 37. Bd3 Rd4 38. Be2 Rxd1 39. c5+ Kb7 40. Bxd1 a5
41. bxa5 Ka6 42. Ke3 Kxa5 43. Kd4 b4 44. g4 fxg4 45. hxg4 b3 46. Kc3 Ka4 47.
Kb2 f6 48. Bf3 Kb5 49. g5 f5 50. Kc3 Kxc5 0-1
In the Deep Blue vs Kasparov match, they had _people_ tweaking and tuning Deep Blue between matches.
That's unfair. It's like playing against a different unknown opponent for each game. Worse it's actually playing against a team of people aided by a powerful machine.
The Kramnik vs Fritz match seems fairer.
Let's put that machine to good use- how many caves-per-second can this thing do?
The rules for registering domain names have been made public since the beginning. Companies had the option of defending their trademarks from the start, if some of them didn't believe the internet could be a source of profits, that's their problem. If company managers have been too lazy to keep abreast of the technology, they should pay for it now, registered domain names are "intellectual property" and should be treated as such.
file-ownership is determined upon installation of a modern Microsoft operating system.
More specifically, upon installation of Microsoft Windows XP, the user agrees to an End User License Agreement. One reading of the Windows Media Player EULA implies that Microsoft reserves the right to leave a backdoor in the NTFS permissions that reveals significant portions of the contents of your hard disk.
Not to mention "My Computer", "My Documents", etc.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Deep Fritz uses the G4 processor.
As Apple keeps telling us, you can't compare simply by specs. Some computers are just faster no matter what the numbers say.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
Simply give NissanMotor.com the option of having a link to their site on his page. ...Perhaps you were looking for Nissan Motors.... Nissan should, of course, pay for this link. He registered his own family business long ago. The fact that it is, and has been his family name for generations SHOULD exhonerate him. Its ridiculous that one cannot own a domain of one's own name. (unless it's already taken, of course).
>The auto company didn't sue until 1999, but the >judge said that five-year wait wasn't too long >because Nissan didn't initially know the impact >the Internet would have on business.
.Pregerson said.
>"By 1999, the Internet had transformed into an >essential marketing tool, with the ability to >reach millions of potential customers throughout >the United States and around the world,"
Isnt this saying, "The domain name is a valuable marketing tool?" So how does that MAke nissan motor corp's case any better? If I found a huge oil supply in my back yard, could Mobile come take it because it would be valuable for their business? I dont understand their argument at all. If its SO damn valuable for business, how can they possibly defend taking this VALUABLE domain name from another business, just because it isnt as BIG as Nissan Motor Company? This case is _important_.
Why stick up for big business?
A friend of mine pointed out that Domino.com could be easily claimed by any one of several companies: A pizza company, a sugar company, or a software company.
This is a very sordid and very nasty issue. If you want a view from the front lines look here.
Nearly fifty percent of all graduates come from the bottom half of the class!
Our society has come to the point where a corporate name that has been around only 20yrs or so can come along and demand that a person cannot use his last name, which has been around for 100's of years.
That's sick
The Nissan brand name is so valuable that they wouldn't risk it when they first sold cars in America, waiting until the name change cost multi-millions of dollars. Same spineless company.
From the Salon acticle, Nissan-the-man's POV on the advertising:
"In 1999 we had 23 advertisers on our site," he continues. "Three of them were auto-related companies. [Nissan Motors] is claiming they were automotive companies. But none of them were selling or were in the business of selling cars or car accessories."
Dunno it it's true, of course, but that's what the judiciary is for.
yes, we have no bananas
An open letter to: webmaster@NissanUSA.com.
Can you tell me how to get a hold of
the Nissan Computer company? I know
it's located in Raleigh NC USA and I
thought that I could find it by typing
NISSANUSA.COM. But instead I got a
Japanease Car company? What gives you
the right to highjack this name?
Could you e-mail me the link to the
Nissan Computer company? BTW I checked
nissan computer.com but I think
someone is cybersquatting on that name,
trying to convince Mr Uzi to pay them
for it. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Mark
Briefly: German domain-name squatter snaps up "Shell.de." The German division of Royal Dutch/Shell negotiates to buy it in 1996, but won't pay the freight, and drops the matter. Couple years later Andreas Shell, owner of a publicity and translation business, buys the domain name (I'll bet the price had dropped a ton now that the oil giant had taken a pass), and set up his Web site.
Then Shell Oil tried to win in court what it lost in negotiations, and sued for the rights to the domain name. Astonishingly, the German high court ruled in the oil giant's favor. The judge's decision is full of flip-flops--on the one hand, he says everyone has the right to the domain name of his own name, whether for personal or business use--then he contradicts himself and says that such a right evaporates when you look at the relative sizes of the two. His ruling was based in part on what he conjectured the average user would expect when surfing to that site.
Why couldn't the judge have simply ordered Herr Shell to prominently display a link to Shell Oil on his Web site?
I'm not so conservative as to hold the "ownership is nine-tenths of the law" kind of views, but that, plus the fact that it was the guy's *name*, for heaven's sake, makes me think this was a really rotten decision. I'm sorry that I can't see a better or fairer way to award domain names than first-come-first-served, squatters be damned.
While Slashdot has a habit of repeating stories, this is the first time I think I've seen Slashdot link an article discussing an issue first raised in an Ask Slashdot.
I'm not going to get into all these arguments about the "fairness" (or unfairness) of the competition between Kramnik and Deep Fritz. The terms of the match were agreed to (by both sides) prior to the commencement of play, so it's moot.
I do have a general idea of how computers play chess versus how humans play chess and why computers are strong in some areas, (i.e. calculating tactics in very sharp positions), and weak in other areas such as inducing positional weaknesses, (i.e. weak squares, a "bad" bishop, or saddling their opponent with an isolated pawn.) Against really top notch competition like Kramnik, inducing the machine into making a positional error is tantamount to winning the game. In fact, this appears to be exactly what happenned in yesterday's Game 2. At move 12, Deep Fritz committed a terrible blunder: It returned a bishop, which it had previously moved, back to its original square! This is the kind of error a human player (especially a player of Kramnik's caliber) would NEVER make. As soon as Deep Fritz made this move, Kramnik probably knew he was going to win the game.
Artificial intelligence researchers first began to tackle "the chess problem" back in the late 1950's. In fact, a noted AI researcher, Herbert Simon of Carnegie-Mellon University, made the following "prediction" in 1957: "A digital computer will be the world chess champion within ten years - unless they change the rules of chess." Many computer scientists and programmers have attempted to "solve" the chess problem - and failed. Many of those who have taken on this challenge have reasoned that, bottom line, chess
ultimately boils down to a matter of calculation. "All we have to do," they have thought, "is get the machine to 'see' one move 'deeper' than the human sees." "Once we achieve that, the machine will (naturally) triumph."
At first glance, this kind of reasoning would seem to make sense. However, the really good chess players - certainly all Masters and Grand Masters - have long understood something that the AI folks don't quite get: Chess (really good chess) is more than a matter of mere calculation. It has only been recently, (say in the last ten to fifteen years), that computer scientists and programmers have started to realize that brute force alone (raw computing power) is not enough. Several computer scientists who have worked on this problem - Dr. Hans Berliner of Carnegie-Mellon University, a former postal chess champion and highly rated master - argue that more "chess knowledge" and knowledge-based heuristics will have to be integrated into these programs before they have a realistic chance of beating the best human players. (What Dr. Berliner - and others - are really saying is that chess playing programs are going to have to learn how to play more "human like" chess if they hope to prevail against the likes of Kramnik and the top human players.) Unfortunately for the AI folks, programming "human like" qualities - such as intuition, judgement, or just the sense that "this is the right move" - is a very difficult thing to "teach" to a computer. (It is interesting to note that computers do poorly [against top human competition] in two other popular games which have high "human intuition" factors: Poker and Bridge.)
A lot of computer scientists, (such as the three young men who programmed IBM's Deep Blue), continue to believe that brute force alone will eventually prevail. This unwavering belief that "brute force alone" will be enough was the illusion that hindered Dr. Hsu's thinking. (Hsu was Deep Blue's primary design engineer.)
The machines are getting faster and faster all the time - able to calculate more "positions per second" - and thus see "deeper" into each position; so brute force may indeed eventually prevail. Others think brute force alone will never be enough. As with all things, time will tell.
How can you separate minimax and pruning? One is generating the tree, the other is optimizing it.
Seems you just sepearated it to me. A-b pruning is one particular method of pruning a minimax tree. Quoting Norvig & Russell from "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach":
"The particular technique we will examine [for pruning a minimax tree] is called alpha-beta pruning"
Please look into what you attempt to correct, on the off chance that the people who brought it to your attention know more about it than you do.
Sheesh, how about YOU actually know what you're talking about. The Deep Blue that played Kasparov was DISMANTLED. Any Deep Blues that are around now are lesser machines.
Looking through your posts, do you actually know anything about ANYTHING? The amount of ignorance you have on so many subjects is astounding. Yet you actually believe you know something about them.
[Event "Brains in Bahrain Man-Machine Match"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2002.10.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Deep Fritz"]
[Result "½-½"]
[ECO "D34"]
[EventDate "2002.10.10"]
[SourceDate "2002.10.10"]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.g3 Nc6 6.Bg2 Nf6 7.O-O Be7 8.Nc3 O-O 9.Bg5 cxd4 10.Nxd4 h6 11.Bf4 Bg4 12.h3 Be6 13.Rc1 Re8 14.Nxe6 fxe6 15.e4 d4 16.e5 dxc3 17.exf6 Bxf6 18.bxc3 Qxd1 19.Rfxd1 Rad8 20.Be3 Rxd1+ 21.Rxd1 Bxc3 22.Rd7 Rb8 23.Bxc6 bxc6 24.Rxa7 Rb2 25.Ra6 Bd2 26.Rxc6 Bxe3 27.fxe3 Kf7 28.a4 Ra2 29.Rc4 Kf6 30.Kf1 g5 31.h4 h5 32.hxg5+ Kxg5 33.Ke1 e5 34.Kf1 Kf5 35.Rh4 Kg5 36.Re4 Kf5 37.Rh4 Kg5 38.Kg1 Kg6 39.g4 hxg4 40.Rxg4+ Kf5 41.Rc4 ½-½
[Event "Brains in Bahrain Man-Machine Match"]
[Site "Manama, Bahrain"]
[Date "2002.10.13"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Deep Fritz"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[EventDate "2002.10.13"]
[SourceDate "2002.10.13"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 0-0 7.e3 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.cxd5 Nxc3 10.bxc3 exd5 11.Qb3 Rd8 12.c4 dxc4 13.Bxc4 Nc6 14.Be2 b6 15.0-0 Bb7 16.Rfc1 Rac8 17.Qa4 Na5 18.Rc3 c5 19.Rac1 cxd4 20.Nxd4 Rxc3 21.Rxc3 Rc8 22.Rxc8+ Bxc8 23.h3 g6 24.Bf3 Bd7 25.Qc2 Qc5 26.Qe4 Qc1+ 27.Kh2 Qc7+ 28.g3 Nc4 29.Be2 Ne5 30.Bb5 Bxb5 31.Nxb5 Qc5 32.Nxa7 Qa5 33.Kg2 Qxa2 34.Nc8 Qc4?? 35.Ne7+ 1-0
So as you see, Microsoft did innovate!
RMN
~~~
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #14 -- VALGOL
VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the
industry. VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE, WELL, and Y*KNOW.
Variables are assigned with the =LIKE and =TOTALLY operators. Other
operators include the "California booleans", AX and NOWAY. Loops are
accomplished with the FOR SURE construct. A simple example:
LIKE, Y*KNOW(I MEAN)START
IF PIZZA =LIKE BITCHEN AND
GUY =LIKE TUBULAR AND
VALLEY GIRL =LIKE GRODY**MAX(FERSURE)**2
THEN
FOR I =LIKE 1 TO OH*MAYBE 100
DO*WAH - (DITTY**2); BARF(I)=TOTALLY GROSS(OUT)
SURE
LIKE, BAG THIS PROGRAM; REALLY; LIKE TOTALLY(Y*KNOW); IM*SURE
GOTO THE MALL
VALGOL is also characterized by its unfriendly error messages. For
example, when the user makes a syntax error, the interpreter displays the
message GAG ME WITH A SPOON! A successful compile may be termed MAXIMALLY
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