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Slashback: Wireless, Radio, Ralsky
Don't Post While Sleepy: Hi, Chrisd here apologizing about that false post on Sony/Nintendo Playstation Trademark Settlement. Oops. Doh. No excuse. Mea Culpa. I'll be more careful next time.
Is "Rubber stamping everything" a patentable business practice? Brian Dear writes "With all the news these days about the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issuing a patent to AOL/ICQ/Mirabilis for Instant Messaging, I thought the Slashdot community would be interested in reading about TERM-talk on PLATO, which was announced on the PLATO network on this day in 1973. Here is the URL with a screen shot of the actual announcement."
Turing, Marconi and Rosen: pick any two. squiggleslash writes "Salon is running an informative and sympathetic story about GNU radio. The article discusses how the project could end up pre-empting the Hollywood producers and other content cartel's attempts to destroy modifiable consumer hardware by creating a blatently legitimate space where programmable hardware is a requirement, as well as opening up radio to groups outside of the current cabals. Good stuff."
We've mentioned quite a bit about GNU Radio before (see also Eric Blossom's interview questions and answers; this article delves into the fight that the GNU Radio folks are gearing up for over broadcast flags.
Suiteness and light. To follow up on our mention of the effort to buy from Gobe (and release as Free software) the sourcecode of Gobe Productive, Simon Gauvin of beunited.org writes "beunited.org has been pledged over $10,000.00 by the public and corporate community for the release of Gobe Productive for BeOS. Linux users have also pledged, and we encourage more members of the Linux community to participate for the release of the Linux version. Call all your friends and send them over to beunited.org to help raise awareness!"
Here's the relevant discussion thread if you'd like to learn more about this effort; I wish the site had a bar chart of some sort showing how much money was currently raised, and an obvious PayPal link or similar. Note that for now, beunited's first goal is to open the source for the BeOS version of Productive.
Ralsky, Ralsky, Ralsky ... IsoRashi writes "Over at the Register they have this short article about a guy who took some photos of spammer Alan Ralsky's home. After taking the photographs, the man was chased by someone in a black jaguar and he began receiving threatening phone calls the next day. Here is a direct link to the site the photographer set up."
Read your TOS carefully before you start downloading ... Sergeant Beavis writes "Nate Carlson was kind enough to create a HOWTO for connecting your Linux box to Sprint's Vision network via a Sanyo SCP-4900 phone. However Sanyo's store shows the cable to be out of stock. Now comes FutureDial to the rescue with both the USB cable and SnapDialer software for connecting to the Vision network with Windows instead of Linux. Oh, the cable only cost $19.99 at your local Radio Shack. Enjoy!"
And let this be a lesson (of sorts) to you! gh0ul writes "Looks like Uzi Nissan (for those of you who don't recall owns nissan.com) has lost his fight with Nissan Motors to keep his nissan.com (last name by birthright/company) domain. The site now reads "In compliance with a ruling issued by the United States District Court in Los Angeles on November 14, 2002, in the lawsuit of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. v. Nissan Computer Corporation, this web site has been converted to non-commercial use." Are we ever going to have any protection against these kind of things?"
The Eye was never there. You never saw it. It was not creepy. Finally, Rob writes "The creepy all-seeing eye logo from John Poindexter and the Total Information Awareness project is suddenly missing from the TIA web site. Old site ; Current site Perhaps TIA is seeking suggestions for a new logo?"
The creepy all-seeing eye logo from John Poindexter and the Total Information Awareness project is suddenly missing from the TIA web site.
How about a pentagram with a goat's head?
A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
Dear god. Does this mean that the editors are actually going to edit? Next thing you know they'll start reading posts to make sure they aren't dupes.
"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." P.J. O'Rourke
There is, it's here. And that's it. Sorry.
Operator: Hello, Mr Johnson?
Jon: Mr Jameson actually.
Operator: Did you take pictures of my house?
Jon: Yes, so what??
Operator: Perhaps you'd be interested in our new line of digital cameras?
Jon: What? No, god no...
(Here comes the threatening part..)
Operator: But my camera now bitch or you'll get a call like this every hour for the new 15 years.
Jon: Noooooooooooooooooooo (dies in horrible spam anguish)
Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!
The eye is gone as well as the 'scientia est potentia' (knowledge is power) moto. The new logo should be a little more straight forward. Here are some of my suggestions:
The globe under a microscope (variation on a theme).
The 4th ammendment getting pissed on by Calvin.
Either we poked a stick in it. Or they realized, it could only see half the world.
Nissan motors has a lot of money.
Uzi Nissan does not.
It was simply a matter of the judge finding a diplomatic way to say this.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
Homer: [answering the door] Who is it?
Voice: Goons.
Homer: Who?
Voice: Hired goons.
Homer: Hired goons? [opens the door]
Goons: [take Homer roughly away]
(Aaah yes...The Simpsons Archive. Best site ever!)
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I sig, therefore I was.
It's a public street. If he does not want pictures of his home taken from a public street he should plant a lot of huge shrubs.
Does that count?
For historical reference, read about Hitler and WW2.
;-)
Does this mean the argument is over now?
I write in my journal
Wow, as annoying as that is I have to admit it is pretty clever.
Everything will be taken away from you.
just for kicks, 2mbit.com is hosted on my cablemodem. (the link which shows the mirrors hosting the pictures of ralsky's house). I'd like to thank the committee and everyone who made the slashdotting of my cablemodem possible. I hope they don't can my account, but if they do it's been nice knowing you.
a bit more about me http://www.advogato.org/person/trelane/ or my private page http://trelane.net
They're mistakes Otto, I looked them up.
Operator: Perhaps you'd be interested in our new line of digital cameras?
Jon: What? No, god no...
(Here comes the threatening part..)
Operator: But my camera now bitch or you'll get a call like this every hour for the new 15 years.
Jon: What? What do you mean "but your camera"?
Operator: Huh?
Jon: You said "but my camera".
Operator: No I didn't. Oh, right. Sorry. I meant "buy".
Jon: And you'll call me for the "new" what?
Operator: Sorry?
Jon: You said you would call me for the "new 15 years". What does that mean?
Operator: I did?
Jon: Yes, you did. Are you mad?
Operator: No, sorry, my fault again. I meant to say the "next" 15 years.
Jon: Do you really think digital cameras will be selling in 15 years?
Operator: Well, I don't know. I suppose so.
Jon: And would you really call me every 15 minutes?
Operator: Would that be an inconvenience?
Jon: Yes, quite.
Operator: So sorry. I won't call then.
Jon: Thanks, I appreciate that.
Operator: So, are you happy with your penis size?
Jon: Pardon?
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.