Yeah, right!!!
Let's see one of us create a huge Matrix spoof moovie starring ourselves and show it at some large gathering or post it on the Internet.
Warner Brother's and the MPAA's copyright nazis would be on us like stink on a big hot pile of fresh feces!!!
For the bonehead with mod points that doesn't get the joke.
1-Story : Phone Numbers -> Web Pages 2-Parent Comment : 867-5309 -> 80's rock song that talks about a girl named Jenny 3-Previous Comment : This number should resolve to Jenni Cam
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Cop:Sir, do you know how fast you were going? User:Ummm, I'm not sure my speedometer has started messing up. It felt like I was going about 256 Kbps. Cop:No sir, I clocked you at 5.4 Gbps. Thats 20,000 times the speed limit. You blew past me like I was in reverse. User:Gee, officer it must be this new European packet switching system I've added to my cable modem. Cop:Tell it to the Judge. MAC and IP adddress please...
Unfortunately the way patent law works is "he who has the patent has the power." Sure it's obvious, sure it's been done 1000 times before but it's not patented.
The USPTO makes money by issuing patents not by being a fair judge. This is like paying referees based on the number of fouls they call. If the NFL did this football games would become 12-hour epics.
If "Joe's Web Development LLP" patented this and then sued Microsoft it would cost Microsoft thousands of dollars to defend agains the patent. Patents are rarely overturned by the USPTO they rely on the iraqianly expensive judicial (I've just coined a new adjective) system to clean up their messes. However, if Microsoft (or any other company for that matter) patents this they know full well that it will never stand up in court so they won't sue anybody but for a small $5K+ fee they've effectively guaranteed they will never lose a $500M+ lawsuit (Eolas anybody?).
This is a defensive patent. In 17-years it will have expired and all will be well again. If these types of patents really bother you start spending $5K+ of your own money patenting everything under the sun and assigning the EFF. Either that or start lobbying congress to change the funding mechanism for the USPTO so that they have more motivation to be responsible.
Now women can be fully dressed yet appear completely nude. As strippers dance each piece of clothing will slowly display the image of the persons body directly beneath it.
Not only that but magine the other possibilities:
furry bush for the first dance, landing strip for the second dance, slip & slide clean for the third dance, and back to furry bush for the fourth dance.
If the guy requesting a lap dance likes big round nipples, no problem. When the next guy wants small nipples, he's happy too.
Unless those 50 Million Americans want P2P trading of music.
Does this mean that the RIAA gives more money to political campaings than the ATA?
I'm not saying that using other peoples creative works without compensating them is right. But if 50 Million Americans can't be wrong shouldn't compulsary liscensing been more of a slam dunk?
If you're going to buy an H-EV for environmental reasons then just do it. If you're going to buy an H-EV for cool/geek reasons then just do it. But if you're going to buy an H-EV for financial reasons be aware that it may be more expensive.
I recently purchased a gas 5-speed Honda Civic. I really wanted to buy the H-EV but it came at a $6,000 premium over gas. In the gas Civic I get 42 MPG. Lets assume in the H-EV I could get 63 MPG (thats 1.5x). Where I live gas is about $1.60/gal, so I'm looking at 3.8 cents/mile with gas and 2.5 cents/mile with the H-EV. That's only a savings of 1.3 cents/mile.
With only 1.3 cents/mile it would take over 460,000 miles to recoup my initial $6,000 outlay. I drive about 50,000 miles per year so that's 9+ years. I know Honda's are great cars and they last a long time but 9+ years for a break even was not acceptable for me.
Now you might save some money on maintenance, but most of these maintenance savings are speculative. We know how long a gas car can last because we've ben driving them for decades. However, the H-EV's have not been strongly road tested with thousands of drivers driving mass produced vehicles. However, if one wants to calculate the maintenance savings in to their TCO analysis then also you must calculated interest on that $6,000 premium over the term of your car loan.
As I metioned at the beginning of my comment, I bought the gas vehicle. I have still not disposed of the mini-van that my Honda Civic replaced. I think I can convert it to pure electric for about $5,000. But I won't be doing this for financial reasons this is purely for cool/geek reasons. I want to install a high end gaming PC so that people in the back seat can play games while riding and make it a mobile party van.
If you're going to buy an H-EV for environmental reasons then just do it. If you're going to buy an EV for cool/geek reasons then just do it. But if you're going to buy an H-EV for financial reasons be aware that it may be more expensive.
I recently purchased a gas 5-speed Honda Civic. I really wanted to buy the H-EV but it came at a $6,000 premium over gas. In the gas Civic I get 42 MPG. Lets assume in the H-EV I could get 63 MPG (thats 1.5x). Where I live gas is about $1.60/gal, so I'm looking at 3.8 cents/mile with gas and 2.5 cents/mile with the H-EV. That's only a savings of 1.3 cents/mile.
With only 1.3 cents/mile it would take over 460,000 miles to recoup my initial $6,000 outlay. I drive about 50,000 miles per year so that's 9+ years. I know Honda's are great cars and they last a long time but 9+ years for a break even was not acceptable for me.
Now you might save some money on maintenance, but most of these maintenance savings are speculative. We know how long a gas car can last because we've ben driving them for decades. However, the H-EV's have not been strongly road tested with thousands of drivers driving mass produced vehicles. However, if one wants to calculate the maintenance savings in to their TCO analysis then also you must calculated interest on that $6,000 premium over the term of your car loan.
As I metioned at the beginning of my comment, I bought the gas vehicle. I have still not disposed of the mini-van that my Honda Civic replaced. I think I can convert it to pure electric for about $5,000. But I won't be doing this for financial reasons this is purely for cool/geek reasons. I want to install a high end gaming PC so that people in the back seat can play games while riding and make it a mobile party van.
We all know what this means. A layer of access control needs to be implmented by MSN to prevent unauthorized clients from communicating on the network. Any third party client that is not ble$$ed by Micro$oft will have to circumvent this access control layer.
After circumventing the access control layer one of two things will take place:
Micro$oft will claim some sort of copyright on some of the data stored on their servers. This is not have to be the messages. It could be the compliation of the directory information of the user. By circumventing their access control you have gained access to a protected copyrighted work. DING DING DING DMCA VIOLATION DING DING DING
Since all communications must go through Micro$oft's (or their duly delegated agent's) servers, by circumventing the access control layer you have gained unauthorized access to a protected computer system. DING DING DING USA PATRIOT VIOLATION DING DING DING
Of course we all know why Micro$oft is really doing this:
Lock in - Keep users in your system and don't let them talk to other systems either by your own client or by some third party client.
Security through legality - This is one more piece of legal wrangling they can use to avoid any realy responsibility about any security concerns. Any security breach would require an exploit that the MSN client is not programmed to do. Thus any exploit would require writing a different client or modifing the MSN client. Either way this is an unauthorized client and the DMCA and the USA PATRIOT Act can be used.
Same too ya - Uhhh, AOL is doing it to MSN so MSN is doing it to AOL.
Gee, I guess I'll just use that analog, electro-mechanical, voice messaging system that the FCC won't let the baby bells completely destroy.
Dover Publications is a great resource for cheap books. Dover has made a great reputation for themselves taking out of print books and putting them back into publication. If you are looking for Science and Mathematics knowledge that is not cutting-edge stuff, I'll bet there are dozens of books with more information that you'll ever need in Dover's Science and Mathematics section.
Most Dover publications are available directly through Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
There's the story of George Stallings of the NY Yankees. Stallings, rented an apartment across from Yankee Stadium that had a clear view of the catcher. A person sitting in this apartment could see the signals the catcher was giving, call the dugout of the Yankee's and tell the manager what the signal was. The manager could then signal the batter as to what pitch to expect. He then converted this whole process behind a whiskey advertisement that was not as susceptible to cloudy days. These guys were really imaginative and resourcefull with the technology (or lack there of) of the day.
Now fast forward to 2003 with WiFi in ball parks. Imagine not one spotter but 10, or 20, or 30 spotters scattered around the stands all with a laptop and all simultaneously keying in the catcher's signs.
As opposed to what happened to Stallings, I don't think this is cheating. I think anybody who can hit a 90+MPH fast ball deserves to use any means necessary to accomplish this. At least with a WiFi network the visiting team could also place some spotters in the stand.
At least the printed passports required some special skills and some artistic ability to counterfeit. The idea that "because it's digital it's better" is falacious.
I love the quote "you can read a chip and confirm its validity, but you cannot create one. That is the beauty of public key technology," from the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Passport Services. So they will digitally sign the data, how long will it take for some entity to crack the key and then they can sign the new passport. Once the key is cracked will the US government revoke all passports signed with that key?
I can imagine the h@x0r application W1NPa55P0r7 -- with a USB camera and a simple EEPROM burner you can make your own passport.
Since all the verification information is digital how will a simple security guard check to make sure you didn't just create a simple passport mimic circuit? At least with a physical passport a forgery requires printing equipment and skills that can't be purchased for under $20.00 at BestBuy.
The trouble with most of these types of security measures is they offer no real security above what we already have.
One basic concept of security is you never trust the client -- verify everything! All these security measures have all the data stored on the client! To make this more secure, each passport should contain a unique id and each passport check point should be networked to a central database. The passport reviewer would then see the picture stored on the passport, the picture stored in the central database, and the face of the person standing in front of him. If there are any discrepancies simply punch his ticket for Camp X-Ray.
for the grammar police I changed the structure of the second sentence and I removed the apostrophe from the word "constitution's" but I failed to remove the "s".
There is no constitutional problem with electronic voting. The 15th amendment of the consitutions protects every citizens right to vote. Electronic voting machines do not interfere with this right.
There is not constitutional right to having your vote counted fairly or acurately.
In the words of Supreme Court Justice Scalia "The Constitution just sets minimums... Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires."
So all you/.'ers need to quit your bitching and just exercise your right to vote.
Wal-Mart doesn't exactly higher the "brightest bulbs in the chandelier" if you know what I mean.
The good thing is that if RFID tags become omnipresent then so will RFID tag readers. As such an RFID tag reader should be small, simple to use, portable, and dirt cheap.
In fact the RFID Journal has a story about just such a reader being developed.
I guess I'll be buying one as soon as they come to market.
Part of why truck drivers leave their trucks running is because it is a real pain in the ass trying to start a large diesel engine. Diesel needs a lot of compression and high temperature to ignite. This is why you never hear of diesel spill fires -- diesel won't burn at atmospheric pressure at ambient temperature.
The vapor temperature is about 150 degrees Farenheit, it's ignition temperature for liquid is about 450 degrees Farenheit at 1 atmosphere. The vapor point allows the vapors to burn quickly causing a flash but diesel can't sustain combustion. So to burn diesel as a fuel you need a lot of heat or a lot of pressure (see Chuck's Law -- P=k*T)
When it is cold it is really difficult to start a diesel engine. This is why people with diesel engines get electric engine heaters installed.
This is a really cool idea, but I doubt many truck drivers would turn off their engines, especially if it is cold outside. So this really won't be a cost saver for most trucking companies. As such, I doubt many trucking companies will spend money for this service as there data needs are quite minimal and there are more than adequate satellite data services already available for routing and driver auditing that are accessible anywhere in the country -- not just at truck stops.
This will be nothing more than a drive by porn d/l sight for the truck drivers. And many Flying J's are already offering internet access already anyway so whats the point?
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Shouldn't Steve Balmer be shoving the red pill with the MS logo up his ASS?
Yeah, right!!!
Let's see one of us create a huge Matrix spoof moovie starring ourselves and show it at some large gathering or post it on the Internet. Warner Brother's and the MPAA's copyright nazis would be on us like stink on a big hot pile of fresh feces!!!
For the bonehead with mod points that doesn't get the joke.
1-Story : Phone Numbers -> Web Pages
2-Parent Comment : 867-5309 -> 80's rock song that talks about a girl named Jenny
3-Previous Comment : This number should resolve to Jenni Cam
Ha, ha, ha, ha...
Off Topic my ass, its Funny
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Try this Jenni Cam
Cop:Sir, do you know how fast you were going?
User:Ummm, I'm not sure my speedometer has started messing up. It felt like I was going about 256 Kbps.
Cop:No sir, I clocked you at 5.4 Gbps. Thats 20,000 times the speed limit. You blew past me like I was in reverse.
User:Gee, officer it must be this new European packet switching system I've added to my cable modem.
Cop:Tell it to the Judge. MAC and IP adddress please...
Unfortunately the way patent law works is "he who has the patent has the power." Sure it's obvious, sure it's been done 1000 times before but it's not patented.
The USPTO makes money by issuing patents not by being a fair judge. This is like paying referees based on the number of fouls they call. If the NFL did this football games would become 12-hour epics.
If "Joe's Web Development LLP" patented this and then sued Microsoft it would cost Microsoft thousands of dollars to defend agains the patent. Patents are rarely overturned by the USPTO they rely on the iraqianly expensive judicial (I've just coined a new adjective) system to clean up their messes. However, if Microsoft (or any other company for that matter) patents this they know full well that it will never stand up in court so they won't sue anybody but for a small $5K+ fee they've effectively guaranteed they will never lose a $500M+ lawsuit (Eolas anybody?).
This is a defensive patent. In 17-years it will have expired and all will be well again. If these types of patents really bother you start spending $5K+ of your own money patenting everything under the sun and assigning the EFF. Either that or start lobbying congress to change the funding mechanism for the USPTO so that they have more motivation to be responsible.
Not only that but magine the other possibilities:
furry bush for the first dance, landing strip for the second dance, slip & slide clean for the third dance, and back to furry bush for the fourth dance.
If the guy requesting a lap dance likes big round nipples, no problem. When the next guy wants small nipples, he's happy too.
Excuse me as I go to the ATM!!!!!
Unless those 50 Million Americans want P2P trading of music.
Does this mean that the RIAA gives more money to political campaings than the ATA?
I'm not saying that using other peoples creative works without compensating them is right. But if 50 Million Americans can't be wrong shouldn't compulsary liscensing been more of a slam dunk?
I recently purchased a gas 5-speed Honda Civic. I really wanted to buy the H-EV but it came at a $6,000 premium over gas. In the gas Civic I get 42 MPG. Lets assume in the H-EV I could get 63 MPG (thats 1.5x). Where I live gas is about $1.60/gal, so I'm looking at 3.8 cents/mile with gas and 2.5 cents/mile with the H-EV. That's only a savings of 1.3 cents/mile.
With only 1.3 cents/mile it would take over 460,000 miles to recoup my initial $6,000 outlay. I drive about 50,000 miles per year so that's 9+ years. I know Honda's are great cars and they last a long time but 9+ years for a break even was not acceptable for me.
Now you might save some money on maintenance, but most of these maintenance savings are speculative. We know how long a gas car can last because we've ben driving them for decades. However, the H-EV's have not been strongly road tested with thousands of drivers driving mass produced vehicles. However, if one wants to calculate the maintenance savings in to their TCO analysis then also you must calculated interest on that $6,000 premium over the term of your car loan.
As I metioned at the beginning of my comment, I bought the gas vehicle. I have still not disposed of the mini-van that my Honda Civic replaced. I think I can convert it to pure electric for about $5,000. But I won't be doing this for financial reasons this is purely for cool/geek reasons. I want to install a high end gaming PC so that people in the back seat can play games while riding and make it a mobile party van.
I recently purchased a gas 5-speed Honda Civic. I really wanted to buy the H-EV but it came at a $6,000 premium over gas. In the gas Civic I get 42 MPG. Lets assume in the H-EV I could get 63 MPG (thats 1.5x). Where I live gas is about $1.60/gal, so I'm looking at 3.8 cents/mile with gas and 2.5 cents/mile with the H-EV. That's only a savings of 1.3 cents/mile.
With only 1.3 cents/mile it would take over 460,000 miles to recoup my initial $6,000 outlay. I drive about 50,000 miles per year so that's 9+ years. I know Honda's are great cars and they last a long time but 9+ years for a break even was not acceptable for me.
Now you might save some money on maintenance, but most of these maintenance savings are speculative. We know how long a gas car can last because we've ben driving them for decades. However, the H-EV's have not been strongly road tested with thousands of drivers driving mass produced vehicles. However, if one wants to calculate the maintenance savings in to their TCO analysis then also you must calculated interest on that $6,000 premium over the term of your car loan.
As I metioned at the beginning of my comment, I bought the gas vehicle. I have still not disposed of the mini-van that my Honda Civic replaced. I think I can convert it to pure electric for about $5,000. But I won't be doing this for financial reasons this is purely for cool/geek reasons. I want to install a high end gaming PC so that people in the back seat can play games while riding and make it a mobile party van.
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After circumventing the access control layer one of two things will take place:
Micro$oft will claim some sort of copyright on some of the data stored on their servers. This is not have to be the messages. It could be the compliation of the directory information of the user. By circumventing their access control you have gained access to a protected copyrighted work. DING DING DING DMCA VIOLATION DING DING DING
Since all communications must go through Micro$oft's (or their duly delegated agent's) servers, by circumventing the access control layer you have gained unauthorized access to a protected computer system. DING DING DING USA PATRIOT VIOLATION DING DING DING
Of course we all know why Micro$oft is really doing this:
Lock in - Keep users in your system and don't let them talk to other systems either by your own client or by some third party client.
Security through legality - This is one more piece of legal wrangling they can use to avoid any realy responsibility about any security concerns. Any security breach would require an exploit that the MSN client is not programmed to do. Thus any exploit would require writing a different client or modifing the MSN client. Either way this is an unauthorized client and the DMCA and the USA PATRIOT Act can be used.
Same too ya - Uhhh, AOL is doing it to MSN so MSN is doing it to AOL.
Gee, I guess I'll just use that analog, electro-mechanical, voice messaging system that the FCC won't let the baby bells completely destroy.
Most Dover publications are available directly through Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
Now fast forward to 2003 with WiFi in ball parks. Imagine not one spotter but 10, or 20, or 30 spotters scattered around the stands all with a laptop and all simultaneously keying in the catcher's signs.
As opposed to what happened to Stallings, I don't think this is cheating. I think anybody who can hit a 90+MPH fast ball deserves to use any means necessary to accomplish this. At least with a WiFi network the visiting team could also place some spotters in the stand.
I love the quote "you can read a chip and confirm its validity, but you cannot create one. That is the beauty of public key technology," from the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Passport Services. So they will digitally sign the data, how long will it take for some entity to crack the key and then they can sign the new passport. Once the key is cracked will the US government revoke all passports signed with that key?
I can imagine the h@x0r application W1NPa55P0r7 -- with a USB camera and a simple EEPROM burner you can make your own passport.
Since all the verification information is digital how will a simple security guard check to make sure you didn't just create a simple passport mimic circuit? At least with a physical passport a forgery requires printing equipment and skills that can't be purchased for under $20.00 at BestBuy.
The trouble with most of these types of security measures is they offer no real security above what we already have.
One basic concept of security is you never trust the client -- verify everything! All these security measures have all the data stored on the client! To make this more secure, each passport should contain a unique id and each passport check point should be networked to a central database. The passport reviewer would then see the picture stored on the passport, the picture stored in the central database, and the face of the person standing in front of him. If there are any discrepancies simply punch his ticket for Camp X-Ray.
whoops...
for the grammar police I changed the structure of the second sentence and I removed the apostrophe from the word "constitution's" but I failed to remove the "s".
I'll go flatulate^h^h^h^h^h^hgellate now!
There is no constitutional problem with electronic voting. The 15th amendment of the consitutions protects every citizens right to vote. Electronic voting machines do not interfere with this right.
... Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires."
/.'ers need to quit your bitching and just exercise your right to vote.
There is not constitutional right to having your vote counted fairly or acurately.
In the words of Supreme Court Justice Scalia "The Constitution just sets minimums
So all you
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Wal-Mart doesn't exactly higher the "brightest bulbs in the chandelier" if you know what I mean.
The good thing is that if RFID tags become omnipresent then so will RFID tag readers. As such an RFID tag reader should be small, simple to use, portable, and dirt cheap.
In fact the RFID Journal has a story about just such a reader being developed.
I guess I'll be buying one as soon as they come to market.
Part of why truck drivers leave their trucks running is because it is a real pain in the ass trying to start a large diesel engine. Diesel needs a lot of compression and high temperature to ignite. This is why you never hear of diesel spill fires -- diesel won't burn at atmospheric pressure at ambient temperature.
The vapor temperature is about 150 degrees Farenheit, it's ignition temperature for liquid is about 450 degrees Farenheit at 1 atmosphere. The vapor point allows the vapors to burn quickly causing a flash but diesel can't sustain combustion. So to burn diesel as a fuel you need a lot of heat or a lot of pressure (see Chuck's Law -- P=k*T)
When it is cold it is really difficult to start a diesel engine. This is why people with diesel engines get electric engine heaters installed.
This is a really cool idea, but I doubt many truck drivers would turn off their engines, especially if it is cold outside. So this really won't be a cost saver for most trucking companies. As such, I doubt many trucking companies will spend money for this service as there data needs are quite minimal and there are more than adequate satellite data services already available for routing and driver auditing that are accessible anywhere in the country -- not just at truck stops.
This will be nothing more than a drive by porn d/l sight for the truck drivers. And many Flying J's are already offering internet access already anyway so whats the point?
When did Microsoft hire Jeff Bezos?
My plan of subtle diversion and subterfuge has been detected. Come Pinky we must prepare for tommorow
What are we doing tomorrow, Brain?
The same thing we do every day Pinky, try to take over the world.
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