Yeah, It's a well known fact (at least to all the After Y2K readers out there) that "crusoe" is just a code name for Eniabacus. Will someone be webcasting the event? I'd like to see the go-go dancers.
At the risk of being redundant, I think it's important for everyone here to realize that the USPTO is reviewing this patent, not because a bunch of open source geeks (no offense intended, I consider myself a geek) made a fuss about patent reform, but because a bunch of big companies that make generous campain contributions to key lawmakers would stand to suffer because of the existence of this patent. I doubt those same companies will support any patent reform that challenges their own bottom lines.
Sure, we've won this battle, but for the wrong reasons. And, I'm sorry to say, this doesn't bring us all that much closer to winning the war.
I mean, come on? Who really believes in horoscopes, anyway? It's such a load of unscientific garbage made up by a bunch of silly people looking at the stars and making things up. I think that it's a sad, sad sign of the times that we live in today that people, desperate for some guidance, look to such unfounded, useless things such as horoscopes. What a load of manure!
After all, it's a well known fact that the only true way to predict the future is tarot readings.
I believe that what you're referring to is the story that the Japanese words for 4 and 9 sound similar to the Japanese words for "sickness" and "death". Consequently, hospitals in Japan have no rooms with the numbers 4 or 9 in them. I don't know whether this is true, or just an urban legend, but that's the way I heard it.
Yes, but IIRC (and it has been a while), he also ignited Jupiter, to warm Europa up. I don't recall whether this was before or after there was life there, though.
You're failing to make the distinction between the government and a private organization. Just because the government can't force you to disclose your identity, doesn't mean that a business or other private entity has to let you use their medium to speak anonymously.
That only applies to a brute force attack. There's always the possibility that they've found some fancy mathematical trick to speed the process up by a few million orders of magnitude.
No, but I for one would have confidence that if there was a trojan in there, somebody would notice it and point it out, and it would probably show up here on/., for all the world to see.
Given how many really, genuinely dumb laws there are out there (stuff along the lines of "it is illegal for bees to fly within the city limits on Sunday after 2 pm."), I'm kinda annoyed at the fact that the site feels the need to deliberately oversimplify and misinterpret somewhat sensible laws to have an effect.
Case in point: The Ohio driver's education manual states that you must honk the horn whenever you pass another car.
Now, as an Ohioan who only learned to drive a couple of years ago, I can tell you that the rule is more along the lines of "When passing another driver on a 2 lane road, you must use your turn signals and sound your horn, to alert the other driver." Granted, nobody does it. (Too many people don't even bother with the turn signals.) But it's not entirely nonsensical when you examine the context
Excellent Point. After reading your suggestion, I went and did that to my Outlook as well. The trouble with this is, people with web based accounts, such as Hotmail or Yahoo, can't do that.
First of all, let me clearly state that I am in favor of the existence of the WTO, and of free trade.
Now, some of those protesting were probably members of special interest groups or extreme leftists, but the protesters did have a couple of points which should be discussed, namely issues of environmental protection and working conditions. Since you won't find many people who are in favor of declaring war on any country that permits toxic waste dumping or child labor, economic sanctions, i.e., trade barriers, may be our best way of preventing such practices.
It really is too bad. Here we have a group of people who were trying to peacefully make a point about their objections to the WTO. Unfortunately, some other people couldn't keep it peaceful, and then the forces of law and order started resorting to violence even against those who weren't using it themselves. As a result, we're bound to see a lot of commentary on how people are animals, since we all riot at the slightest opportunity, or how the government is oppressive because they pull out pepper spray on peaceful protesters.
Unfortunately, this probably means that the message that the peaceful protesters wanted to get out, that the WTO has a poor track record with environmental and worker issues, is going to be pretty much lost in the noise.
Goshdarn browser. I wasn't finished. Anyway, also, I remember reading an article on someone doing something similar a few years back. He spent a week in a hotel room, with a 'net connected laptop, and use of the phone. Pretty much the same results.
Really, I don't see what there is to learn from this that we don't already know. That living in isolation is bad for ones mental health? That if you don't shower for a few days, you'll start to smell? That it's easy to wander into a gay chat room?
Actually, I like the ICQ client. With Jabber, I'd still have to switch. On the other hand, it seems that the open source nature of Jabber means that there will be many clients, at least as far as user interface goes, all communicating w/ the server via the same protocols. Maybe I'll just write my own client...
I agree. I can't help wondering, since AOL now controls both AIM and ICQ, what they're planning to do with them. Personally, I use ICQ and not AIM, and I hope they don't do away with ICQ. I can't help thinking that if they could somehow come up with a product that integrated those two, that they'd have the IM market pretty much locked up.
I'd like to think that the average/. reader is already not listening to them.
And I do see the ISP's point of view, but I think we, as a community, have to force them to stand up for their client's free speech rights. Remember, they're a business. They'll do whatever is most profitable. It's in everybody's best interest if we make it unprofitable for them to cave in to anybody with high powered lawyers.
A whois query reveals that Xenu.net's ISP is www.sagenetworks.com, BTW.
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Yeah, It's a well known fact (at least to all the After Y2K readers out there) that "crusoe" is just a code name for Eniabacus. Will someone be webcasting the event? I'd like to see the go-go dancers.
At the risk of being redundant, I think it's important for everyone here to realize that the USPTO is reviewing this patent, not because a bunch of open source geeks (no offense intended, I consider myself a geek) made a fuss about patent reform, but because a bunch of big companies that make generous campain contributions to key lawmakers would stand to suffer because of the existence of this patent. I doubt those same companies will support any patent reform that challenges their own bottom lines.
Sure, we've won this battle, but for the wrong reasons. And, I'm sorry to say, this doesn't bring us all that much closer to winning the war.
I mean, come on? Who really believes in horoscopes, anyway? It's such a load of unscientific garbage made up by a bunch of silly people looking at the stars and making things up. I think that it's a sad, sad sign of the times that we live in today that people, desperate for some guidance, look to such unfounded, useless things such as horoscopes. What a load of manure!
After all, it's a well known fact that the only true way to predict the future is tarot readings.
I believe that what you're referring to is the story that the Japanese words for 4 and 9 sound similar to the Japanese words for "sickness" and "death". Consequently, hospitals in Japan have no rooms with the numbers 4 or 9 in them. I don't know whether this is true, or just an urban legend, but that's the way I heard it.
Yes, but IIRC (and it has been a while), he also ignited Jupiter, to warm Europa up. I don't recall whether this was before or after there was life there, though.
You're failing to make the distinction between the government and a private organization. Just because the government can't force you to disclose your identity, doesn't mean that a business or other private entity has to let you use their medium to speak anonymously.
Napster is designed for MP3 distribution. It's not their responsibility if the majority of the MP3s that get distributed are illegal.
But now that they have common carrier status, they risk losing it if they attempt to regulate what people do with their access.
That only applies to a brute force attack. There's always the possibility that they've found some fancy mathematical trick to speed the process up by a few million orders of magnitude.
No, but I for one would have confidence that if there was a trojan in there, somebody would notice it and point it out, and it would probably show up here on /., for all the world to see.
Given how many really, genuinely dumb laws there are out there (stuff along the lines of "it is illegal for bees to fly within the city limits on Sunday after 2 pm."), I'm kinda annoyed at the fact that the site feels the need to deliberately oversimplify and misinterpret somewhat sensible laws to have an effect.
Case in point: The Ohio driver's education manual states that you must honk the horn whenever you pass another car.
Now, as an Ohioan who only learned to drive a couple of years ago, I can tell you that the rule is more along the lines of "When passing another driver on a 2 lane road, you must use your turn signals and sound your horn, to alert the other driver." Granted, nobody does it. (Too many people don't even bother with the turn signals.) But it's not entirely nonsensical when you examine the context
Excellent Point. After reading your suggestion, I went and did that to my Outlook as well. The trouble with this is, people with web based accounts, such as Hotmail or Yahoo, can't do that.
can be found at http://www.epic.org/open_gov/ foia/nsa_suit_12_99.html
Yes, Dogbert was hired as a consultant, and created the logo "the brown ring of quality".
Who could resist such great stories as
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The Hellmouth: Roadmap to Success
Feature: The Internet
Why Do Troubled Teens Learn?
and my personal favorite
It's Time For TV
Maybe Katz could use these for inspiration.
First of all, let me clearly state that I am in favor of the existence of the WTO, and of free trade.
Now, some of those protesting were probably members of special interest groups or extreme leftists, but the protesters did have a couple of points which should be discussed, namely issues of environmental protection and working conditions. Since you won't find many people who are in favor of declaring war on any country that permits toxic waste dumping or child labor, economic sanctions, i.e., trade barriers, may be our best way of preventing such practices.
It really is too bad. Here we have a group of people who were trying to peacefully make a point about their objections to the WTO. Unfortunately, some other people couldn't keep it peaceful, and then the forces of law and order started resorting to violence even against those who weren't using it themselves. As a result, we're bound to see a lot of commentary on how people are animals, since we all riot at the slightest opportunity, or how the government is oppressive because they pull out pepper spray on peaceful protesters.
Unfortunately, this probably means that the message that the peaceful protesters wanted to get out, that the WTO has a poor track record with environmental and worker issues, is going to be pretty much lost in the noise.
Goshdarn browser. I wasn't finished.
Anyway, also, I remember reading an article on someone doing something similar a few years back. He spent a week in a hotel room, with a 'net connected laptop, and use of the phone. Pretty much the same results.
Really, I don't see what there is to learn from this that we don't already know. That living in isolation is bad for ones mental health? That if you don't shower for a few days, you'll start to smell? That it's easy to wander into a gay chat room?
So did you.
Actually, I like the ICQ client. With Jabber, I'd still have to switch. On the other hand, it seems that the open source nature of Jabber means that there will be many clients, at least as far as user interface goes, all communicating w/ the server via the same protocols. Maybe I'll just write my own client...
I agree. I can't help wondering, since AOL now controls both AIM and ICQ, what they're planning to do with them. Personally, I use ICQ and not AIM, and I hope they don't do away with ICQ. I can't help thinking that if they could somehow come up with a product that integrated those two, that they'd have the IM market pretty much locked up.
I meant, of course, to say that their ISP is Sage Networks, whose website is www.sagenetworks.com.
I'd like to think that the average /. reader is already not listening to them.
And I do see the ISP's point of view, but I think we, as a community, have to force them to stand up for their client's free speech rights. Remember, they're a business. They'll do whatever is most profitable. It's in everybody's best interest if we make it unprofitable for them to cave in to anybody with high powered lawyers.
A whois query reveals that Xenu.net's ISP is www.sagenetworks.com, BTW.
Top Ten Anagrams for "Information Superhighway"
10. Enormous, hairy pig with fan
9. Hey, ignoramus -- win profit? Ha!
8. Oh-oh, wiring snafu: empty air
7. When forming, utopia's hairy
6. A rough whimper of insanity
5. Oh, wormy infuriating phase
4. Inspire humanity, who go far
3. Waiting for any promise, huh?
2. Hi-ho! Yow! I'm surfing Arpanet!
1. New utopia? Horrifying sham