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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."
I can remember when the CueCats were distributed by radio shack. When you got it, it was in a plastic bag with a sealed paper envelope saying not to install the software if you did not agree to the terms, which included not reverse engineering. However if you didn't accept the license agreement, with the way it was packaged, you could still use the device as a standard barcode reader. At least this is what a couple friends did.
----- I want my LART.
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.
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-- Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelly
I write in my journal
Actually, Gobbles Security are one of the most active, and largest, exploit groups hanging around the "Security" field at the moment. They have a knack for Pissing off Theo DeRaadt.
You can see the posting to bugtraq from them on the SecurityFocus website.
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/306476Based 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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The boxing game you speak of is called Mo-Cap Boxing, and it's produced by Konami, the same company that brings us Dance Dance Revolution, Para Para Paradise, DrumMania and Percussion Freaks (the drumming game you mention), and a wide variety of other motion-sensor and music-based games. Their Bemani division produces all of these (except for Police 911 and Mo-Cap Boxing).
The Korean knock-off is called Pump It Up, and it's produced by Andamiro. It is more difficult, but in my opinion it's not as fun as DDR. The song selection isn't very good. Another Korean knock-off, Techno Motion, basically builds off the Andamiro formula, which says "More arrows *must* mean more fun!" There's also Stepping Selection, by Jaleco, which is the system that is the basis for Britney's Dance Beat. That's a pretty loathsome game there.
Para Para Paradise, for the uninformed, uses five vertically positioned infrared beams placed in a pentagon shape around you. Similarly to DDR, you follow the arrows on the screen and break the light beams at the appropriate time. You don't have to use your feet, unlike DDR - Any body part will do. The orientation of the arrows makes it so that you have to rotate and twist more often, frequently making upper-body motions more efficient and viable. It's named Para Para Paradise because the motions you perform in the game are similar to a type of Japanese karaoke bar dancing called "parapara".
For a good combination of both DDR and Para Para Paradise, try DanceManiax/Dance Freaks. These games have sensors on the front of the machine which you can place your hands/arms/knees/whatever over or under, and foot panels on the bottom similar to DDR.
Bemani makes a lot of other good stuff too (Like Beatmania!), but it's not exercise-oriented, and so I won't mention it here. For anyone interested in Bemani products, take a look at BemaniStyle.com and DDRFreak.
"Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
660KB picture, I'll say you're a moron!!
Moron doesn't even cover it. He's posting it from a businiess' web server (Pacific Auto Leasing, whatever that is).
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
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.
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.
The download page has been updated.
;-)
And yes, I am aware that not all OSS licenses are equal, but few school administrators care.