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When pranksters float your trial balloons for you. ninenet writes "A follow-up on the story posted earlier on Slashdot ... The RIAA has now officially stated that the claims of an elaborate P2P worm are 'a complete hoax.' A story on eWeek quotes an RIAA spokesman as saying, "Someone forwarded the message to us and that was the first we heard or read about it.""
<Location>,<location>,<location > A few days ago, we mentioned the interesting geographic lookup / markup system of GeoURL. Joshua Schachter, the fellow who runs GeoURL (and editor of memepool, to boot), writes with "some responses of mine to comments posted:
Q: "Why not use the WHOIS database for address information?"A: GeoURL is geographic content markup. Nobody cares where your server is - where are YOU? That said, I'm waiting for someone to hook their GPS into their web page and keep GeoURL updated.
This way different URLs can have different coordinates, as well.
Q: "Blah blah blah blah privacy."
A: If you want privacy, don't put your location on your web page.
Q: "You're evil and you're going to steal this information and go private, just like CDDB did."
A: The content is marked up on the pages and not entered into my database. Anyone could easily write a similar service (and I hope they do.)
I plan to create a page containing lessons learned and useful code snippets for other people who would like to implement similar stuff."
Most importantly, I hope this helps the development of distributed speed-trap logging and mapping!
Making this up would be too easy. An anonymous reader writes "Egomaniacal former Dot.Bomb 'entrepreneur' J. Jovan Philyaw has escaped the asylum and is back with even bigger delusions of grandeur. When last we saw him, J.J. was trying to shove the misbegotten :CueCat/:CRQ combination on unsuspecting users. Now, he's apparently writing a couple of books, selling his 'power crystals' that adorned the offices of Digital:Convergence, and changing his name: his sites refer to him now as J. Hutton Pulitzer. Apparently the utter and complete failure of Digital:Convergence (loss of at least $185M) hasn't dented his ego one bit. In his bio, he actually compares himself to Thomas Edison. A hilarious must-read for those who followed the :CueCat debacle (and for those of us who worked there)."
I hope all these things can be adapted for recumbents. Jamie Briant writes: "Saw your update to the slashdot story on games for exercise bikes. I'm a developer for exertris.com that makes a bike with LCD screen built in, which we sell primarily to gyms, but you can buy in the UK at Harrods. We write and tune the games specifically to motivate you to exercise."
heh, it couldve been awesome if it wasnt meant to track what people bought :(
refilling/ordering/getting mountain dew every week couldve been so much easier!
So, no more lawsuits
but instead there will be worms
From bad to evil.
Don't give me none of this "nature theme" business.
"Someone forwarded the message to us and that was the first we heard or read about it."
"Thanks for the idea though!"
Might be apt if you're not a fan of his (and many of us aren't). He did have a way of stealing ideas and claiming them as his own. He was just a really good marketer.
"J. Jovan Philyaw ... his sites refer to him now as J. Hutton Pulitzer.
;)
Might as well have changed it to Max Power
I couldn't fail to disagree with you less.
I write in my journal
No such thing as bad publicity right ?
Crystals ? next we will be having weird sects on global TV claiming they have cloned babies....
oh wait....nevermind
So... besides the tried and true DanceDanceRevolution (and all its spinoffs - the korean versions seems the hardest so far), there are many others nowadays. (and have been)
For those who complains that there is insufficient stuff for your hands to do because "nobody dances like that", there is also ParaParaParadise or somesuch that focuses on the hands. If you follow *exactly* what the person do onscreen, it actually gets pretty fancy.
Moreover, in Japan I have seen some boxing games where you would put on a pair of gloves and hit targets as they come up; at least one of them is themed after "Fist of the Northern Star." Also gives you quite a cardiovascular workout after a while.
Then we have the horse-riding ones... While looking silly, those gets tiring!
Another "all the rage" game is a drumming one. The Playstation version is not so tiring, but in the arcade with big drums and relatively heavy sticks, they can get interesting mighty quick (since for fast tracks you have to accelerate a fairly massy stick to the drum at high frequency).
In ESPN-zone in downtown Chicago, there is also a rock-climbing thingy. Nobody can afford one on their own, but that's probably the most physically engaging "game" I have ever played.
so... no reason to stick just to the bikes, y'all.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
only a wacko like him would be an American right ?
i guess thats what happens when you have a nations children reared on drugs
expect more to come
For all you paranoid types out there, this GEOUrl thing is remarkably easy to defeat
1. don't participate - it ain't mandatory, so you have no reason to bitch.
2. lie - hell, it could even help. make it look like you live someplace glamorous rather than in the basement of your parent's house in Poughkeepsie.
I fail to see a problem here.
To celebrate the occasion of my 1000th post, I will post no more forever on Slashdot. Goodbye.
Gobbles does have a slight tendancy to exagerate... still, despite his poor grasp of the English language, he's managed to release some fairly amazing exploit code in the past. 95% is probably a tad high, but 5% wouldn't surprise me at all (and given the number of peer-to-peer hosts out there, 5% is a frighteningly large number of users).
Shame on you; how can you call him a bozo? Judging by his many "achievements," Mr. Pulitzer deserves the "respect" of the technical and "business" communities alike. His many "inventions" and "first" (such as the supraliminal barcode) have clearly been to the benefit of all humankind. And who could question the genius of a man who has leveraged his "obvious" "Invention and Passion Gene" to record 245 episodes of a show with an ! in the name.
Royal German Ancestry meine Hinterteile.
-J
I think not...(*poof*)
"We write and tune the games specifically to motivate you to exercise." what ever happend to the whip?
Life is like a jar of jalapeños, what you do today may burn your ass tomorrow.
So how exactly do we know that Philyaw is Pulitzer? Nothing I saw jumped out at me as a firm connection. Same with the crystals; where is the connection? They could be for sale by GW for all we know.
The Pulitzer site claims the company has been around since 1988. And the story was posted by an AC. Hmmm. I smell bullshit. Problem is I can't tell where the smell is coming from. Anyone else?
I've got a few of those CueCats
:)
A few? I went into a Radio Shack recently and asked if they still had any cue cats left. I was working on a project idea. They came back with a box of about twenty of them with a requirement that if I want them, I have to take a box of about 30 special TV cables (another DC flop) with them or else it's no deal.
So I loaded up the back seat with the stuff. Now after spaying a few for use on my home PCs, I still got the rest of them in my basement.
hehe.... maybe I ought to hold on to them till they become popular on eBay
I hope the RIAA sues Gobbles for libel. I think they'd have a pretty strong case. They need to learn a lesson about damaging the reputations of others, especially since the post did not have any clearly obvious tipoffs that would make it very clear to the majority of readers that it was a joke. (Assuming the RIAA's reputation is capable of being damaged any further. LOL.)
Go read about your hero... assuming you can read. Edison was a brilliant marketeer, but a piss-poor pseudo-scientist who blundered into most of his "inventions" by sheer dumb luck when he didn't steal them outright. He lived by patents, and had a stable of lawyers file for patents everywhere patents were obtainable. Tesla had gas-discharge lighting in his labs years before Lamb invented incandescent electric lights (two years before Edison). Edison thought alternating current was an abomination (he had no clue how it worked) and tried to push DC generation... ooh, a generator on every city block, great idea. Lucky for all of us that he fired Tesla, and that Tesla hooked up with George Westinghouse. Had Edison been a scientist, he would have done something besides patent the "edison effect" and not left the invention of the vacuum tube to DeForest. And on and on... Edison was a jerk, a joke, and the original abuser of IP patents. What a guy.
According to Mr. Philyaw's (Pulitzer? Maybe Einstein next?) bio he has 100 patents in his name. Not according to the USPTO. According to them he has 3 or 4.
What a loser.
I guess next he can award his own book the Pulitzer Prize! (I wonder if he's made up his mind what the "J" stand for yet?)
next to the guy. Oh my God, I think I Slashdotted the Devil!
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Assuming it's still the same guy, of course; I didn't wade through his self-aggrandizing web site long enough to verify one way or the other.
I can just imagine all those teenybopper crackers out there who won't get or won't believe the RIAA's denial, deciding they've been issued a challenge by authority and therefore the RIAA's affiliates are fair game. RIAA's denial should be stronger but then since the RIAA's been seeking go-ahead to crack into users' computers it makes it rather difficult for them to deny they've thrown down the gauntlet to the pubescents.
Seastead this.
http://www.vertudc.com/
That's "Jovan Hutton Pulitzer" to you...
This does not look like much of a work out. Looks more like a nightmare where you fall off the bed.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
(Not sure how just how much abuse this'll generate, but let's see...)
So we all hate Bill Gates. Apparently for being ruthlessly successful at exploiting the (fairly) free, capitalist system we all hold dear. We're constantly shocked at the audacity of Microsoft, and Bill is the epitome of the evil that company represents.
This is a guy who (with his wife) is in the process of donating $24 Billion to good causes. Not frat house good causes, not pussyfooting PC good causes. He has set up a well-run foundation (you know, managment and accountability) to see that money put to use combatting aids in India, that sort of thing.
$24 Billion is more than most developed countries in the world will put into that sort of work in our lifetimes.
But we do enjoy banging on that "He tried to squash Netscape!", because that's a) more important and b) surely nothing to do with how we like to run things?
The wrong place to point it out, maybe, but it's fun to sit back and reflect on the irony sometimes.
"The outlandish claims are part of a "security advisory" supposedly written by a group called Gobbles Security. However, the message bears little resemblance to the group's other advisories and also seems to make fun of Gobbles' habit of posting vulnerability information and exploits without notifying affected vendors in advance."
Eh, I don't know what they're reading, but just about every previous Gobbles advisory looks like that. The trademark Theo bashing, poor grammar, and other things. Most likely false, but most likely them.
If I wasn't so lazy, I'd have a sig.
I wonder if Jovan would electrocute an elephant the way Thomas Edison did in order to show how superior DC is over AC.
Get a free ipod.
my rosy red ass.
And they can send me a virus while they are at it!
Hey when you are done slashdotting, come look at the hotties on Pajonet.com. If you don't the RIAA will get ya!
Hutton Pulitzer's inventions and ideas were adopted by the American consumer at a rate that outpaced the combined first year growth of cell phones, pagers, personal computers, hand held computers and total Internet users in just the first 90 days of its heralded release.
Wow, that sure is something. The free Cuecat alledgedly outpaced a bunch of things that cost alot of money.
I doubt it's true anyhow.
I kind of like his page as it reflects his company. He sits serenely over big hoard of someone else's 5 watt ideas, most of which do not work. Ah the life, bribing India, buying companies to put them out of business, cutting off air supplies, knifing babies, and telling us all that sharing software is evil bad horrible. Such benevolence, that royal purple couch is perfect.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Don't forget Boong-Ga Boong-Ga (spank 'em) , the Japanese spanking-themed video game.
cpeterso
It's come true, it's come true!
The CueCat wasn't great as a barcode reader, but my girlfriend finds it very pleasurable. Sometimes, we even plug it into the Internet (of course, using an AntiVirus program--you never know).
Based on whois, Digital Convergence and museumcrystals.com share the same address. Museumcrystals is registered to JJ Philyaw.
JJ Phylaw's email address is emailjovan@yahoo.com.
The email for JH Pulitzer is also emailjovan@yahoo.com!
Here are the whois records:
Registrant:
DIGITALCONVERGENCE, INC (DIGITALCONVERGENCE4-DOM)
9101 N CENTRAL EXPY STE 600
DALLAS, TX 75231-5926
US
Domain Name: DIGITALCONVERGENCE.COM
Administrative Contact:
Mathews, Dave (DM205) dmathews@HOTMAIL.COM
DaveMathews.com
213 Missing Way
Dallas, TX 75222
530-684-9988 (FAX) 530-579-7759
Technical Contact:
Network Operations (NO59-ORG) dmathews@HOTMAIL.COM
DigitalConvergence
9101 N Central EXPY STE 600
Dallas, TX 75231
USA
530-684-9988
Fax- 530-579-7759
Domain Name.......... museumcrystals.com
Creation Date........ 2002-02-07
Registration Date.... 2002-02-07
Expiry Date.......... 2003-02-07
Organisation Name.... J. Jovan Philyaw
Organisation Address. 9101 N. Central Expy 6th Floor
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Dallas
Organisation Address. 75231
Organisation Address. TX
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES
Admin Name........... J. Jovan Philyaw
Admin Address........ 9101 N. Central Expy 6th Floor
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ Dallas
Admin Address........ 75231
Admin Address........ TX
Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
Admin Email.......... emailjovan@yahoo.com
Admin Phone.......... 214-292-6000
Admin Fax............
Registrant:
J. Hutton Pulitzer (JYDPHRZAUD)
5001 Spring Valley Road, 400E
Dallas, TX 75244-3910
US
Domain Name: JHUTTONPULITZER.COM
Administrative Contact:
J. Hutton Pulitzer (CWGSDZSMJO) emailjovan@yahoo.com
J. Hutton Pulitzer
5001 Spring Valley Road, 400E
Dallas, TX 75244-3910
US
972.383.1344 fax: 123 123 1234
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You don't understand much about free markets or free societies, do you?
Are you surprised that there's a constant arms race between those seeking to regulate "fairly" and those seeking to preserve their advantage?
If so, why are you surprised?
If this is the book he's writing...kinda makes you wonder what he actually intended for that hand-held CueCat device...
i specifically went to radio shack begging them to give me one after the 2600 article came out on how to disable the tracking "feature" by cutting one little contact on an ic. then, after all that work, i realized that the cuecat was a piece of hot garbage.
To me it sounds like something to hold a steel wool wig in place.
Are you surprised that there's a constant arms race between those seeking to regulate "fairly" and those seeking to preserve their advantage?
No, I understand freedom. If it were not for bogus software patents and outrageous copyright abuse, fostered in part by Mr. Gates, M$ would be nothing today. There is no such thing as "fair" regulation, there can only be the prevention of criminal abuse if we are free.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
The people--from the CEOs to the Unix sysadmins--who worked for dot-coms with phony business plans should ALL take responsibility for the current sorry state of the economy.
Best Buy can have you arrested
This comment has nothing to do with the current Slashback articles, but it fits in this forum.. I didn't have a chance to submit it before school this morning.. I don't know if it was worthy enough to make it into Slashback anyway..
I wrote to the I-Tee case manufacturer the other day after reading this article on Slashdot..
A few of the article's commentors mentioned that they hadn't received a response from them after emailing them themselves for prices, distribution, etc.. I guess I got lucky..
Here's there response:
Dear Mr. J. Johansen (I'm not Mr. DeCSS),
Thank you for your e-mail.
At present we don't have distributor in USA.
If you want to be our distributor in USA, we offer our
best competitive price based on F.O.B. Yantian China
as following:
1. i-Tee W/250W ATX P'SU P4 with USB @USD50.00
Delivery: 2 weeks after receiving your L/C
Warranty: one year from shipment.
The above price is based on 20'container / 430pcs.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,
Kenny Tsai
Anyone have $25,150+ lying around?
Sing While You May!!
I'm still a bit amazed that anyone was taking the Gobbles claim seriously to begin with. It's an advisory for an mpg123 exploit... the bit about the RIAA in the intro is just Gobbles having some fun.
Gobbles has always had a rather twisted sense of humour, their bugtraq advisories are always full of stuff like this.. they're probably having quite a laugh right now over the fact that paranoid bloggers everywhere took it at face value and started freaking out like this.
The claims were certainly possible... but not quite plausible.
Author: Garth
Date: 1/14/2003 6:42 pm CST
Dear Mr. Pulitzer/Philyaw,
Being interested in patents in general, I took notice in your bio the fact that you have 100 patents. I went and looked them up and found that according to the USPTO you have what looks like 3 or 4 (didn't bother looking through each one). You might want to point out this oversight to them. It's quite irresponsible of them to lose track of 96 patents.
Or perhaps you filed for them somewhere else, maybe Turkey?
Garth
Of course the RIAA would deny it!
I'm off to put tinfoil hats on my mp3 collection.
Seriously, though, if I'm the RIAA, I no comment this one - just for the sheer fun of it.
I keep expecting this Philyaw/Pulitzer jerk to go off and start his own wacky cult religion that's simultaneously very stylish amongst Hollywood types and very expensive to participate in. 'Cause his grandiose inflated claims sound a lot like Elron's.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
As is DDR, unless you're doing the equivalent of sprinting, which I have yet to see.
Try playing DDR Max's "Max 300" by Omega on Maniac. You're doing a solid ten steps a second.
Will I retire or break 10K?
$24 billion...good tax break, eh?
...bsr...
Who is this Anonymous Coward character, how does he post so much, and why is he always such a whore?
It was pretty absorbing and one could get quite a workout without realizing it. Playing against the AI was tough, since it never got fatigued.
The games demoed on the Exertris are all 2d and (strangely) oriented left-to-right. Strange, since according to their web site Bill Gates was showcasing them at CES. Obviously he hadn't turned up at his local gym to do some research.
You mean the inventor and the hair metal band are not one and the same?
I haven't seen a hidden goatse for some time... Ahh, nostalgia...
Subject: Greetings!
Author: Random Troll
Date: 1/14/2003 7:38 pm CST
Greetings from slashdot!
Oh great.. now you tell us.. after i deleted all my mp3's!
Please tell me where we have a free market (H1B, OSHA, IRS) or a free society (TIA, TIPS, USA PATRIOT).
Counting foreign patents as separate patents is, at best, misleading. I'd consider it downright deceptive.
I neutered my 'Cat, but it's usefullness is reduced by the way they work when neutered.
If you scan a barcode that reads "123", what the neutered 'Cat sends is:
Alt down, Numeric 0 down, Numeric 0 up, Numeric 3 down, Numeric 3 up, Numeric 1 down, Numeric 1 up, Alt up.
Alt down, Numeric 0 down, Numeric 0 up, Numeric 3 down, Numeric 3 up, Numeric 2 down, Numeric 2 up, Alt up.
And so forth. In other words, they compose the keystrokes by using the ALT+number pad trick. This makes a bit of sense - that way they can guarantee that you will get the correct ASCII codes, no matter whether your keyboard is in QWERTY or Dvorac.
And this works quite well under a normal text mode console under Linux. Howerver, the X Windows System does not seem to honor the ALT+Numeric code approach, so the neutered 'Cat isn't as useful.
So, in this mini-Ask Slashdot - does anybody know how to get X to do the ALT+code mode?
www.eFax.com are spammers
Well now, there's half your problem. Freedom doesn't beget freedom. It needs to be regulated to be as free as possible. Alas the regulations come from within the same system you need to regulate, so they aren't always going to have best of intentions attached. Less cynically, it's also difficult to strike a good balance, and to forsee the outcome of any particular regulation.
Isn't that like saying the drug dealer that buys $100k worth of food for the homeless is a good guy?
This works by sending short bursts of location information over the radio at pre-defined frequencies, including your callsign. These are broadcast and picked up by repeater stations (and anyone can be a repeater.) Eventually, they're picked up and stuck in a database.
You can then query this database to find out where you are - or where your friends are.
It don't get geekier.
Why does the name J. Hutton Pulitzer make me think of L. Ron Hubbard?
Actually, there are parallels... Their state of sanity, for one...
Convicted monopolist (spare me any whining about the company being convicted, not the man) is passing our money around and you applaud him?
So next time a bank robber throws the money out in the street, or gives it to bums, we should applaud that too?
Infuriate left and right
I was offered a job at Digital Convergence. They needed someone to make the CueCat work on Macs. I declined, telling the recruiter that if I were to take the job, I'd be out of a job after not too long.
Needless to say, I'm very glad I didn't accept. The funny thing is, most of my knowledge of DC came from Slashdot. Whether that's good or bad, I'm not sure -- but I can honestly say that Slashdot kept me from being unemployed!
irb(main):001:0>
> Ah the life, bribing India,
Yeah, the media made a big deal out of how much money he donated for AIDS while he was in India, but most neglected to mention that during the same trip his team spent about four times that much on trying to keep India loyal to the Microsoft brand name.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
This could be a discussion about, oh, bio-engineered hamsters or the moons of Neptune, and you'd still get the pathetic Microsoft non-sequitur.
Why? Because someone with mod points will probably think it's funny.
BTW, welcome to Slashdot. Or something.
score -1 ad hominem troll
A mere US$8 to ship, what a bargain!
Walt
*shudder*
What a sleeze bag.
Hmm.
I was going to mention it, but it does not fall into the "excercise" category. but wow you have not seen a person "play" until you go to japan and look at scraggy dressed guys play the 7-key version at ultra-insane difficulty level, on *double* (using both stations)...
the act of catching every raindrop in your immediate vicinity using your hand would probably be easier -- but it's pretty neat to look at the guy go into a trance and their fingers mechanically responds to the coming "notes", all at some 200bpm.
it makes me wonder if people actually are physically capable of responding that fast - each "note", from top of the screen to the bottom, lasts only some fraction of a second - i mean, the info has to travel between your eye to your brain and down to your fingers - not to mention that you have to time everything right; maybe it's all about the memorization. I don't know... I fudge up on the 5-key version on medium...
My life in the land of the rising sun.
I filed papers last week to change my name to Baron Von Hugecock.
I feel it necessary to preemptivly envoke Godwin's Law to end this thread before it gets too far.
Here goes -- -- Hitler liked dogs and children too. Bill Gates is just like Hitler. You don't like Hitler do you?
Of course now someone can invoke the Muntz Corollary and respond, "What did Hitler ever do to you?"
I, of course, will not dignify that with a response.
That would also cut down on the cost of the thing and would let you use your own bike. Hell, I'd get one in a sec.
Of course what I'd really like is a stair climber version of joust. But that's just dreaming.
.. it always seemed so sad to me.. just look at the logo. :{
maybe because it was never used. at least it was fun "modding it" to uh.. "crack" the encryption scheme to output only numbers
Post or retract, asshole. You said, "his team spent about four times that much on trying to keep India loyal to the Microsoft brand name." Post some kind of URL that confirms this accusation or retract your statement. I'm sick and tired of Slashdotters spewing falsehoods whenever they feel an urge to make a point.
Post, or retract.
It would be helpful if you mentioned the type of license your software is under within the first page or the download page. Not all open-source software are equal.
Linux at home
You rock, Bungi. If I hadn't already posted in this thread, I'd mod you up.
I write in my journal
I have it on good authority that Hitler didn't like dogs very much. He was more of a cat person. Which I think says more about Hitler than it does about cats. No wonder he wanted to take over all of Europe. He never got any affection from his pets.
I wish I had remembered this earlier; I would have posted it then. About a year and a half ago, the Dallas Observer (one of those "let's all pretend we're not owned by a giant soulless corporation" alternative weeklys) posted a positively high-larious article about Digital Convergence, the Belo Corporation, and our friend Mr. Philyaw... er, Mr. Pulitzer. Mr. Whatever Person.
It's short, funny, and worth a read. And it mentions uses a Simpsons reference to advance the story, so it's got to be cool.
Because this article will be off the front page soon, meaning nobody is going to see it, I'll post this little tidbit in my journal as well. That way the Teeming Horde (i.e., my fans) will get a chance to read and laugh and live and love!
I write in my journal
I'm sorry, but I don't see why the moderators modded up the two previous posts. Look, we learned what we learned in high school from those textbooks because most historians and educators agreed upon those facts. If these facts are wrong, the only way for us to unlearn them (i.e. to learn the actual truth) then the onus is upon you, the poster, to provide references to back up your claims. By providing references, it allows us, the readers, to formulate our own points of view. Let's move beyond pure conjecture and provide some references people! Even URLs would be helpful. Yes, history is subject to interpretation, but so is science. Put the facts out there and let us decide. And if you make a claim of fact, provide at least one reference for us to determine our own interpretation.
Linux at home
> Post or retract, asshole. You said, "his team spent about four times that much on trying to keep India loyal to the Microsoft brand name." Post some kind of URL that confirms this accusation or retract your statement. I'm sick and tired of Slashdotters spewing falsehoods whenever they feel an urge to make a point.
> Post, or retract.
I stand corrected. While looking for the relevant news in a search engine (you should learn to do that too) I discovered that my claimed 4:1 ratio was off by more a factor of three. It should actually be 14:1 , since the funding ratio is $421 MM over 3 years vs. $100 MM over 10 years.
I should learn to research my posts a little better.
ps - What exactly do you do at Microsoft?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
The boxing game you speak of is called Mo-Cap Boxing.
Actually, the original poster spoke of a game where you physically hit targets as they popped up. That game is Fighting Mania. In Mo-Cap Boxing, there is no contact (at least, there's not supposed to be, and I'll kick you out of the arcade if you hit the screen too many times).
Incidently, the horse racing game he mentions is called Final Furlong, and the paddling game mentioned by someone else is called Rapid River.
How much you want for 3 of them?
--
In Soviet Russia Cat Cue's YOU!
ps - What exactly do you do at Microsoft?
I fuck your baby sister's bloody ass all day long. What exactly do you do under RMS's desk all day?
The Gates Foundation has given out over $5.5 billion since 1994, and over $3 billion of that went to world health. Microsoft's $400 million investment is a fucking pimple compared to those kinds of numbers. When you give five billion dollars in charitable grants, Crack Faggot, you can criticize. Until the, wipe RMS's commie jizz off of your chin and get back to work.
Reminds me of DNS LOC
Also, check out RFC 1876 - A Means for Expressing Location Information in the Domain Name System
Here is a picture of the Virtual Exercise bike. Apparently, it was produced by Tectrix and called the VR bike. It was purchased by Cybex and then squashed. It's a crying shame, since this was a fun machine to work out on.
Sorry - here is the Wiki site for the VR exercise bike. Unfortunately, it was produced bt Tectrix, bought by Cybex and then canned. Oh it also had a fan that would blow in your face as you started going faster.
That bit about the American civil war was as misguided as any of those other references of yours. Go and count how many abolishionists were active in the north in 1862? not many huh?
And the bit where the 1863 emancipation proclamation only applied in Confederate controlled terrirtories? The very ones in which it couldnt be reinforced?? The fact that the war was fought on the more general issue of states rights????
Read a few good books, then make judgements.
(I suggest none died in vain - Robert Leckie, If only i wasnt at work and could get to my bookshelf !)
"Garbles", uh, I mean "Gobbles security" are really cheesy and annoying. They've got chops, and it's understandable that the Register had to run with the story, but C'mon...
From their bugtraq post:
"Things to keep in mind:
1) If you participate in illegal file-sharing networks, your
computer now belongs to the RIAA.
2) Your BlackIce Defender(tm) firewall will not help you.
3) Snort, RealSecure, Dragon, NFR, and all that other crap
cannot detect this attack, or this type of attack.
4) Don't f*ck with the RIAA again, scriptkids.
5) We have our own private version of this hydra actively
infecting p2p users, and building one giant ddosnet."
Hmmm. If this is true, and I sometimes play "borrowed" MP3's and MPEG's on Winamp, then why do my versions of Xolox and KaZaA Lite checksum exactly the same as the binaries from the net distros...?
Wait! I'll bet these guys are so l33t that they hacked my version of Cygwin sum, too, just to be sure.
Or no, wait, wait, they're prob'ly so good that they hacked the net distros, or...
I've got it. These guys are such geniuses, they computed their hack to checksum exactly the same as the unhacked binary! Wow! No wonder my firewall, which checksums every executable I run, is useless against their l33tness!
Fsckin' punks.
The slightly paranoid side of me says - what if both sides are saying the truth. What if someone posing as an employee of the RIAA contacts Gobbles, gets them to do this and then takes the data for their own nefarious uses. I can think of a number of borderline "legal" groups of people who would be willing to pay someone to produce this type of data for them.
I would love to know from Gobbles how they *know* they were dealing with the RIAA and whether the whole discussion of their deal was done online or not.
Unfortunately, you had to keep pedaling at a steady rate or it would interrupt whatever fun stuff you were doing on the computer to nag you about getting your butt in gear and pedaling faster, which meant you couldn't do much typing (typing being a relatively inaccurate and clumsy process when you're bouncing around on a bike.) So this meant that most of what you could do with the computer was try to get it fired up into some news site before it nagged you and then do a lot of pagedowns. Well, there was an obvious site to read while biking, which was Slashdot. It was a bit tedious, since the screen was only 640x480, but it was halfway manageable or at least, as long as you didn't want to write long, insightful, informative articles like this one, anyway....
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Oh, right. So who were they? Doesn't matter, because they were a dot-bomb, and they're dead now..... Ran out of cash and valuable prizes, unplugged the DSL, and eventually the gym rolled them out of there.
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Twitter accused me of trolling because I pointed out that I didn't fancy the idea of running with an ipod for two hours (I run Marathons) because I didn't like the idea of shaking a hard drive all that time.
Go figure.
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Putting ':' in front of a name makes me think that its pretentious and stupid. This called bad marketing. Companies please just use normal words, its not cleaver, original, fun, thought provoking or arty to put random punctuation into titles or stick every single title together to make one word. Cue Cat not CueCat. We live in a world were people can handle 2 words and no-body cares if C cant take spaces in variable names. Its not the end of the world if you do it, it just pisses me off. And probably other people too.
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Against their will. You might have heard of the press gangs that used to roam British ports, kidnapping men and forcing them into the navy? They were impressed sailors, although I doubt they were too impressed by what happened.
> > ps - What exactly do you do at Microsoft?
> I fuck your baby sister's bloody ass all day long. What exactly do you do under RMS's desk all day?
You make such an eloquent argument that I'm tempted to apply for a job at Micorsoft too!
> The Gates Foundation has given out over $5.5 billion since 1994, and over $3 billion of that went to world health. Microsoft's $400 million investment is a fucking pimple compared to those kinds of numbers. When you give five billion dollars in charitable grants, Crack Faggot, you can criticize.
As a percentage of his net worth, that's like someone making $100K/year giving a few hundred dollars per year to charity.
> Until the, wipe RMS's commie jizz off of your chin and get back to work.
I'm unemployed. Microsoft destroyed my company.
ps - My 14:1 ratio of money spent in India still stands. Shouldn't Gates also be lauded for all that money he donated toward the preservation of monopolies?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
You don't understand much about free markets or free societies, do you?
I certainly don't. Do you suppose you could point me at one, so I can be better informed?
Oh, wait? You weren't thinking of the USA were you?
Bwahahahahahahah!
"So we all hate Bill Gates."
I think it would be more accurate to say that we dislike microsoft shareholders, and large companies in general. We like bill gates, even if his programs are only toys.
This is a guy who (with his wife) is in the process of donating $24 Billion to good causes.
It would be interesting to kow what percentage of that money came from illegally exploiting his company's power as a monopoly i.e. how much of his generous donation was effectively stolen from you and me and others over the year?
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for every dollar bill gates has its $1 that a worker (who wrote the software, did the accounting, drove the truck, washed the bathroom etc) doesnt have.
no person can possibly create the billions of dollars Gates has... his 'weatlh' is a result of a distorted and corrupt system.
dont applaud him because he has managed to suck money from so many...
the richer you are, the less moral and honourable you are -- if it was not so, you wouldnt actually *be* rich... meaning, a "good" person would SHARE and not HORDE.
Go fig, had mod points yesterday, nothing worth moderating, now I don't have them.
Impress is the correct word. In this case, it means that the British took US sailors off of their ships and forced them to serve the British Navy.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
wrt M$ - i like it, it is the same kind of advertising/marketing for the ANTI-ms camp as "where do you want to go today" is for M$ themselves - it makes a point, its quick and effective...
who decided you would be allowed to frame the debate and outlaw nit-picking (as "M$" I concede is...) - really, the communication straight *from* M$ is equally shallow and empty... whats good-for-the-goose...
Hey cool! You mean, like Robin Hood? Yeah man, I can see that. He like robbed from the rich to give to the poor!
Robin Hood was an outlaw as well, found guilty by the Evil Sherrif of committing terrible crimes and stealing for poor defenceless rich people.
Despite some evidence that suggests he had a taste for violence, and in fact helped rich people as well, of course everybody loves Robin, don't they.
Anyway, back to the point, Bill made a lot of money out of the markets precisely by so effectively removing that freedom. He should be punished like anybody else who attempts to play the markets, but he hasn't been. Giving away lots of money to charity doesn't make it OK by the way, if that were the case all drug dealers would have to do to get off the books would be to give away some of their personal fortune to good causes.
Considering he basically did steal that money and even got found guilty of it, I don't see why his charitable preferences should override mine. He gave $10 billion to India to fight aids yes? He also gave a lot more than that to fight Linux in the very same country, not a good cause I'd have chosen to donate to (and I do donate to charity by the way).
$24 Billion is more than most developed countries in the world will put into that sort of work in our lifetimes.
Since when? Governments give huge amounts of money away as part of aid initiatives and so on. Britain still pays out large sums of money to help prop up parts of Africa, as well as supporting many charities through grants. Other governments do similar things. Often it has strings attached of course - Bill can give away all his money and see it disappear down the drains through long term corruption and mismanagement but governments who represent the people need to be a bit more careful, which is why such organisations often require governmental reforms to go along with aid.
Oh and finally, don't forget that if him or his company had paid income tax, then a portion of that money would have gone towards such aid, and (at least in theory) the people would have chosen where the aid went or at least had some influence over it.
This gives me another chance to say " FLYING BUTT MONKEYS on slashdot and still be ontopic!
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The "concept cover" for Pulitzer's magazine looks strangely similar to the cover of Wired's December issue
I protested, and thought about the question over Christmas dinner. Afterwords, I gave him my answer. "If you want to talk about 'connecting the world' Bill Gates isn't your man. You should be talking about Jon Postal, who authored most of the specifications for the internet." The response... "Bill Gates is the one who brought it to the masses." (The Christmas gathering ended shortly thereafter -- a bit earlier than usual.)
Thinking about it a bit more, a better answer might have been Tim Berners Lee for WWW or, to counter "...the one who brought it to the masses...," I could have responded with Marc Andresen, main author of Mosaic and Netscape, which is what really fueled the internet explosion.
So, It seems that the history of the future has already been rewritten, and Bill Gates invented it all.
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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Goethe
That line of reasoning only applies if you are a communist.
Earning a great deal of wealth is moral neutral. It all depends in how you got it. Not sharing is also not something that makes someone less moral.
Personal accountability is something people like you seem to not be very big on. If you stopped worrying about how much money Mr. Gates makes and more about how much you make you might be doing well enough to not worry about the MS CEO anymore.
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1. Yes, it is a good thing that he is doing with his money.
2. It is a pittance, compared to what he is worth.
3. Are you suggesting we forgive him his transgressions simply because he donates a tiny portion of it to charity?
4. He is, and from what I have read has always been, an unethical businessman. The fact that he has succeeded doesn't make that any less true. Why should his charity be run any more ethically? I am not accusing him of anything, just that he is who he is, and that person is 0-1 in running ethical businesses.
5. I could give a rat's ass how much money he has, money hasn't made him any less of a dufus. There are other people out there who effectively have the same amount of money (more than they could ever spend) yet people don't quote how much they give to charity.
6. It is EASY for him to give away money. Just because he gives away more than I'll ever see in my life doesn't mean I should be impressed. Money means nothing to him. Although the sheer amount of money is impressive, his "charity" is not.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Edison may have invented the lightbulb, but he was a bastard to his wife and kids!
To read makes our speaking English good. - X. Harris
Of which irony do you speak? I fail to see any.
Believe it or not, it's possible for a single human being to do both good things and bad things. It's generally considered acceptable to complain about the bad things someone does while still appreciating the good things.
Second, the "we" you're talking about refers to a thousands of people, each with slightly differing ideas and opinions. If you collect all of those opinions and try to stick it into a single opinion labelled "Slashdot's opinion", you're going to get some confused, conflicting ideas.
Microsoft, while under the control of Bill Gates, repeatedly and intentionally used their market dominance to limit potential competitors access to the market. Netscape just happened to be the straw that broke the camels back. The complaint isn't "He tried to squash Netscape." Every competitor tries to outdo their opponents. The complaint is "Microsoft used its position of market dominance to threaten a wide variety of companies into behaving as Microsoft wanted."
Bill Gates is using his fortune for a great deal of good work. But Bill Gates also lead his company as it tried to stop the free market forces that created it. There is no irony here, just the complexity of humanity.
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As a percentage of his net worth, that's like someone making $100K/year giving a few hundred dollars per year to charity.
You are an idiot. Bill Gates's net worth is estimated to be $35 billion. His foundation has given away $5.5 billion to various charitable causes. That's more than 1/6th of his entire net worth. In other words, it's like someone making $100,000 a year giving nearly $20,000 per year to charity.
So shut. The fuck. Up. Now. Bitch.
I'm unemployed. Microsoft destroyed my company.
Can't you read? Post or retract, bitch! Which company did you work for? Post the fucking name! Let's see if you're telling the truth, or if you're lying because you've got a bug up your ass about Microsoft.
ps - My 14:1 ratio of money spent in India still stands.
No, it doesn't, you idiot. Read the post. $5.5 billion to charity. Yes, most of it was in grants of less than $1 million, but so what? The fact is that Gates has spent $5.5 billion on charity, and $400 million on promoting Microsoft software in India. Coincidentally, that's a ratio of about 14:1 as well. Suck on it, bitch.
> You are an idiot. Bill Gates's net worth is estimated to be $35 billion.
IIRC it was over $100 billion for much of the period you invoked. The drop in his net worth came with the general tech-stock crash of the past couple of years.
Do correct me if I'm wrong on that point.
> Can't you read? Post or retract, bitch!
I elected to post. Don't blame me if you don't like the results!
> No, it doesn't, you idiot. Read the post. $5.5 billion to charity. Yes, most of it was in grants of less than $1 million, but so what? The fact is that Gates has spent $5.5 billion on charity, and $400 million on promoting Microsoft software in India. Coincidentally, that's a ratio of about 14:1 as well.
Ah, but you're comparing his total donations over his entire life vs. his recent MS promotion in India alone.
Don't get me wrong: I'm glad that he's spending a big percentage of his tax-break PR-break money on AIDS research, since AIDS seems to be one of the world's worst problems these days. But don't mistake those outlays as anything other than an integral part of the cost of being an ultra-rich businessman. If you investigate a bit you'll find that they all do the same thing. In fact, one of the previous times this came up on Slashdot someone marshalled the evidence to show that Gates' donations are actually lower than the going rate for this class of individual.
Face it, they are gestures that reveal no more about his character than when a politician serves the first bowl of gruel at a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving. If you want to promote him to sainthood, he needs to give until it's inconvenient. I'm happy about where some of his money goes; I just don't buy it as evidence that he isn't a world-class jerk.
ps - How does it feel to realize that you have bought in to a propaganda ploy hook, line, and sinker?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
> Look, we learned what we learned in high school
> from those textbooks because most historians and
> educators agreed upon those facts.
No, you learned that because that was the toned-down drivel that the textbook publisher could sell to the largest number of school boards. And as Mark Twain said, "First God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he created school boards."
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Anything that makes it easier for me to lose weight. (252 lbs at 5'10")
What's this Submit thingy do?
in dancing games that focus on the hands and waist you move like a lady the totally serious-looking feller I saw in the arcades the other night, playing PPP, had no idea of the huge crowd clustered behind him, trying incredibly hard not to laugh. of course, there is an alternative to doing all these silly gimmicks in the pursuit of health.. calisthenesia psychosis.
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who decided you would be allowed to frame the debate and outlaw nit-picking (as "SOVIET RUSSIA" I concede is...) - really, the communication straight *from* trolls is equally shallow and empty... whats good-for-the-goose...
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Speaking of lackluster performances...
The french have no word for victory, so we all expect it from them. I still believe a stronger US isolationist policy that kept us out of WWII and no FDR might have made the world a more interesting place.
if you can say any one good thing about americans, which is difficult to do, it's that we will finish what we start (and more than likely provoked to begin with...)
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I elected to post. Don't blame me if you don't like the results!
I knew it. You're a fucking liar. "Oh, waa, Microsoft put my company out of business, waa." "Gee, Black Parrot, what company was that, exactly?" "Uh... waa! Waa!"
Whatever, asshole. You're a fucking liar, and now everybody on Slashdot knows it.
ps - How does it feel to realize that you have bought in to a propaganda ploy hook, line, and sinker?
ps - How does it feel to realize that you are a fucking sheep who couldn't think for himself if his life depended on it? "Micro$oft is EVIL! Bill Gates is El Diablo! Everything they do sucks! The people on Slashdot say it, so it must be true!"
The only even remotely independent thought you've exhibited during this entire thread was that bald-faced lie you posted about being run out of business by Microsoft.
And the Mafia don gives money to the Catholic Church, but he ain't a saint for that.
Note, I am not saying that MS=Mafia here, just that donating to charity
means nothing if you are a motherfucking bastard the rest of the time.
Oh, and I am convinced that if the donations were sincere and not PR we wouldn't hear about them so much.
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Bill Gates,
This is one of the two memes about the internet that really bugs me. If you are going to criticize someone, criticize them for what they actually said, not for what their critics say they said, for crying out loud.
Gore never claimed to have "invented" the internet. During a CNN interview he said "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
So, who did create the internet? Well Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn were the guys who lead the development of TCP/IP, so their opinion should carry some weight.
And this is what they had to say about it.
I imagine that if Gore had been writing, rather than speaking off the cuff, he may have prefaced the word "initiative", and said, "legislative initiative" or "political initiative". And if Cerf and Kahn are to be believed, this would be a very fair assessment of his role.
I didn't know of his efforts, prior to reading this article. Reading it earned him my respect.
Particularly when you consider what George W. Bush was doing during this time. When was dubya a drunk and a coke-head?
The other meme that bugs me is that "the internet was designed to survive a nuclear war." You don't believe that one too, do you crawdaddy?
I am going to go off-topic in this last paragraph, and suggest slashdot readers take a look at the portion of Douglas Jones's homage to the punch card devoted to analyzing the questionable voting machines used in Florida./a?
Given that he has an entire website, I find it very odd that Googling on "J. Hutton Pulitzer" returns NO hits, while Googling on "Jovan Hutton Pulitzer" or just "Hutton Pulitzer" returns only one.
Presumably he has a robots.txt file set up, but why wouldn't he want Google to find his site easily?
Googlewhackers: just remember "Hutton Pulitzer"...
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Thanks for the clarification. The article simply adds to the respect I already have for Gore. I voted for him in 2000 and would vote for him if he had decided to run in 2004. Bush and most of his administration is the cause of way too many problems plaguing the US at the moment. But who said you didn't have to admire/respect someone to poke fun at them?
And of course I believe the internet can survive a nuclear war. Afterall, it IS just a bunch of people dialing into ISPs linked up with sattelites, right? See? Joking again...I know that all the backbones of the internet aren't in space, but instead are housed in underground armored bunkers in secret locations around the world.
Whassa matter, "Black Parrot?" I called you a liar and dared you to prove me wrong, and yet you remain completely silent on the issue. Afraid of being caught in the lie, liar?
Shit-for-brains cock gobbler.
gorgo: *lol* :) :>
joey: what's so funny?
shh, joey is losing all sanity from lack of sleep
'yes joey, very funny'
Humor him
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