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Slashback: :CueCat, Exercise, Wormage
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."
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!"
"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 got my :CueCat back in 98 I think; came with the issue of Wired Mag. There were some driver issues and it didn't install, so I just threw it in the closet where it still is.
In fact, here's a picture to prove I was part of the moron revolution.
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*)
And here I thought all the whackjobs were Tesla fans. (Tesla the inventor, I mean, not the Canadian hair metal band.)
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
"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.
"Endumbened". I'll have to remember that one. The correct term, I believe, is "demoronised - but I like yours too.
Heh. There's definitely something pompous about using a first initial and middle name. Particularly if the first initial is J. Odd.
I wonder if J in this case is short for Jabba the.
"How can you claim that you are anti-crack, while still writing a window manager?" — Metacity README
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.
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.
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).
If this is the book he's writing...kinda makes you wonder what he actually intended for that hand-held CueCat device...
You're an idiot, Ritalin and Adderall are the SHIT. Like speed with none of the horrible back-aches. As for this fucker, I'd say he sounds horrifyingly like L. Ron.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
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
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
/* In fact, here's a picture [66.186.8.206] to prove I was part of the moron revolution. */
660KB picture, I'll say you're a moron!!
> Edison invented the electric chair as part of his marketting campaign for DC - the chair used AC.
And it really backfired -- the execution went so horribly, disgustingly wrong that people thought "well, if it's *that* hard to kill someone with AC on *purpose*, I guess it doesn't seem so dangerous to have it in my home."
And so AC took off.
"Orthodoxy is unconsciousness" - Orwell
I teamed up with a friend of mine and did (very dim) rave-esque lighting with a bunch of them.
I have pictures... somewhere...
Ahhh, college years...