This is short and to the point, but exactly right.
Adobe doesn't need to integrate 100% effective technology to prevent the duplication of currency. What they were trying to do was put in a nice little token positive to throw around if they ever got caught in a legal battle with Uncle Sam, if he ever said Adobe made it too easy to copy the currency effectively.
It's amazing what sort of stakeholder gain you get from adding in just a nice little tidbit feature like this. It looks good to Joe user, and since obviously it's being covered in the news, you get free advertisement for how "friendly and responsible" the software is. Marketing and Social genius, if you ask me.
It's been over a year since I've had to pay for a long distance phone call by the minute. Almost every cellular plan has free long distance included with it. Between that, e-mail and AIM/ICQ et al. for communication, the consumer is becoming less and less likley to actually pick up the phone and make an hour long phone call across the nation. It's too expensive...
Instead of dialing 10-10-982-21-121321-1231242342 before every call, just pick up your PC handset. Besides that, you'll have the advantange of being able to have your computer monitor incoming calls, allowing you for customization of when your phone rings, who goes straight to voice-mail, and hundreds of other plusses.
I think you're mistaken on this part, or I'm misreading it.
Basically, it's not the sender that sets the label, it's the recipient
I certainly am not putting a "highest" priority on anything my co-workers/clients send me. I know I can just hide the tag, so it doesn't display, and that I can change it if I want to, which makes it all but useless...
What I was trying to convey, would be allowing only certain clients to flag messages "Urgent" etc. to other certain employees. For instance, only my manager could send me an "URGENT" flag, but not Joe-Schmoe. That would be optimal IMHO.
After looking at some of the custom threadding options I realized that something like this would be perfect for online colleges. If you've ever taken an online course, or even just used newsgroups, you can see how far something like this would go for staying organized.
My biggest problem with online classes is finding relevant threads to relate back to what it is that you're actually studying, and this would make that a ton easier. Plus, hell...it's not Outlook Express;)
After reading the article, the only thing I didn't like was the annotation thing. More and more mail clients are making this option worthless. Some people have a habit of making everything they send "URGENT, or HIGHEST" priority, which is rapidly becoming annoying. I suppose its' the way it has to be, but I don't think a little color box is the best way of incorporating the idea of structuring by type...
I found this particularly interesting When AOL's market cap was at $170 billion, the executives added up the parent companies of the five major newspapers in the country -- the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Post and USA Today.
They could have bought all five for about 10 percent of their outstanding equity at the time. And they almost did it, except for the fact that they didn't think they could get antitrust clearance. But they thought that would be a good thing to do.
Nothing like unbiased news sources owned by a gigantic conglomorate of everything evil in the world.
Tv News reporter Today in news CEO/CTO of AOLTimeWarnerNetscapeNewYorkLATimes...commerical...WSJWashingtionPostUsaToday said that apparently "All your base belong to us".
Although the game itself will not change, inflation has taken its toll. One play will now cost 50 cents, compared with 25 cents a generation ago.
Speaking from an outsiders standpoint, don't arcade games today let you set how much it costs to play? Not to say I wouldn't use it for 50 cents, but why mess with a classic?
I never said that he said said "I invented the internet". Regardless of how he worded it, if you look back in history you'll see that he realistically was a miniscule portion of the combined effort of tens of thousands of people, and regardless of whatever crap he signed, there would still be an Internet. Basically, he was totally padding his part in it.
Not technically "computing" but this is my All time favorite thus far.
"GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.
But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
I think they mean that they will be distributed as fingertip sized, and paper thin.
IF they were 1cm^3 it would house 1Gb of info. So, basically, since you're looking at cutting the depth off completley, you'd have instead 1cm^2, which would be significantly less data, if it operates the way I think it's going to.
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I love getting modded offtopic for discussing the problem at hand...
802.11 is easy to hack, too easy. Scanning for unprotected networks is childs play, and even for someone who know's what they are doing, it still can't be protected enough to use as a viable option.
I have salesmen going crazy because I won't give in to the push of a wireless connection, but when you're dealing with a financial institution, and countless amounts of other people's money, it's just not an option.
Getting into that WLan and picking off traffic is not as difficult as it might seem, and then unencrypting at your leisure isn't even a problem. Finding someone's login traffic or something like that would be devistating, and at this point would be like handing them a skeleton key to a blank check stock warehouse.
There are options, and for a home Lan, it's fine I suppose. I'm just a skeptic, and don't trust other people to not abuse even a home network. I keep sensitive info there as well, and it's not something I'd like people randomly perusing.
As far as the sharing thing goes, I'm mainly talking about someone getting into my router and using the broaband ISP subscription I pay for to download stuff as opposed to purchasing it. themselves. It really isn't that difficult to get in, once you know the connection is there...
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I'll just toss in my $.02
Working for a company where security is of the utmost concern, I don't see 802.11 taking over anytime soon. While the speeds and reliability are getting better, it's still just too easy to find a way in. Not broadcasting the link help, but even that's not foolproof for people who know what their doing.
I don't know if you'll ever see this sort of technology in main stream business, but for home Lan's it sure is cool. Personally however, I'm just not a big fan of even thinking about sharing my $50 a month I spend on broadband internet service with anyone else.
1) Sue our customers so they have no money 2) ??? 3) Profit!
I really think the RIAA is screwing themselves on this pretty bad though. People are going to go back underground where it's multitudes more difficult to track. Piracy is not going to go away because of the lawsuits.
The RIAA could have done all this differently and made a TON of money with a good marketing scheme, but instead they went for the throat and screwed themselves. They won't ever be able to 100% protect against it, and it won't fade on it's own. I just see it as bad business planning, and nothing more.
The other side of it is there are alot of good indy artists who provide their music free to download, and don't answer to the RIAA. I have a feeling you'll see more people take this route eventually, and less rap stars turned producers...
Kind of a cool idea to legalize the ROM's of your favorite derelict console. My biggest problem with it is that they don't supply or support an emulator. It's basically all at your own risk, and if it doesn't work, too bad.
On the flip side I'd love to actually see this sort of thing take off and, get licenses out for games and emulators for other systems. Not to mention it's nice to have a piece of history without the ritual blowing, rubbing alcohol, smashing and praying for hours, for one round of Double Dragon;)
As a gamer sometimes all the new fancy-smancy graphics from the X-Box and PS2 and the like are cool, but dammit, sometimes Gannon or Bowser just need to get owned!
Doesn't this put a big fat hole in their main source of information? How many of these need to happen before practices are questioned, and lawsuits start getting dropped? Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel for these people...
I honestly feel bad for people who have already given in, but I can't say I really blame them with the "go for the jugular" tactics the RIAA is using.
It didn't even occur to me that we could have/.'d Google, but since it's on labs. I suppose we just nuked that portion of it...I'll just wait a few hours;)
It'd be nice if it worked though. The two main things I tried to look up by my zip code came up with nothing but a fat server error.
Both Hotels and Restaurants plus my zip code don't function, Schools doesn't work....
Just typing in my town name and searching in my zip code works just fine, but I think they have a few kinks to work out before this is even moderatley useful.
Okay, obligitory funny out of the way, it actually might just work out. As far as I'm concerned the extra $2 bucks a month I spend on unlimited text messaging on my phone saves me a ton of money because I'm not using minutes. Anything to help facilitate me using it more, I'm all for.
All three members of the appeals court appeared to accept the RIAA's contention that peer-to-peer networks are rife with piracy. "This case is about a fellow who made available 600 copyrighted works," Roberts said. "Is there any legitimate purpose for making available for copying 600 copyrighted works?"
Maybe someone has answered this legitly elsewhere, but I would love it if there could be a little light placed on this question since IANAL.
If P2P networks such as KaZaA (et. al) share files in a directory that you have previously downloaded by default, can you truly be held liable for making them available without your knowledge?
Imagine this situation:
I find a friend to OCR scan a copy of a book (which I own legal copy of) to my word processor for "backup" so I can read it if the original is destroyed. Following that, someone comes over to my house, and finds the file which is aptly named and copies it to a disk, and is subsequently caught possessing his "illegal copy". Can I be held accountable for giving him access without my knowledge?
To me it seems these P2P networks automatically make these files available with little knowledge to Joe User trying to find someone who Ripped and Encoded the latest Jay-Z song for use on his new iPod, which he could possibly own, and have a right to possessing a backup.
I know that just because you don't understand a law doesn't mean you can't be held accountable for it. I know distributing files is illegal, but if I don't know they are being distributed via my PC because I'm not "technically adept" is that a crime?
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California has put in a bid to not allow the flowers to ever be planted. They could cause worldwide destruction much like the Glofish
Beware!
Nothing. Will. Happen. ....
positive or negative, when meetings like this happen and anything changes, it's FAR from the norm, IMHO.
This is short and to the point, but exactly right.
Adobe doesn't need to integrate 100% effective technology to prevent the duplication of currency. What they were trying to do was put in a nice little token positive to throw around if they ever got caught in a legal battle with Uncle Sam, if he ever said Adobe made it too easy to copy the currency effectively.
It's amazing what sort of stakeholder gain you get from adding in just a nice little tidbit feature like this. It looks good to Joe user, and since obviously it's being covered in the news, you get free advertisement for how "friendly and responsible" the software is. Marketing and Social genius, if you ask me.
It's been over a year since I've had to pay for a long distance phone call by the minute. Almost every cellular plan has free long distance included with it. Between that, e-mail and AIM/ICQ et al. for communication, the consumer is becoming less and less likley to actually pick up the phone and make an hour long phone call across the nation. It's too expensive...
Instead of dialing 10-10-982-21-121321-1231242342 before every call, just pick up your PC handset. Besides that, you'll have the advantange of being able to have your computer monitor incoming calls, allowing you for customization of when your phone rings, who goes straight to voice-mail, and hundreds of other plusses.
Wish I had mod points for you,
You've definatley hit the nail on the head here.
Um...
I think you're mistaken on this part, or I'm misreading it.
Basically, it's not the sender that sets the label, it's the recipient
I certainly am not putting a "highest" priority on anything my co-workers/clients send me. I know I can just hide the tag, so it doesn't display, and that I can change it if I want to, which makes it all but useless...
What I was trying to convey, would be allowing only certain clients to flag messages "Urgent" etc. to other certain employees. For instance, only my manager could send me an "URGENT" flag, but not Joe-Schmoe. That would be optimal IMHO.
After looking at some of the custom threadding options I realized that something like this would be perfect for online colleges. If you've ever taken an online course, or even just used newsgroups, you can see how far something like this would go for staying organized.
;)
My biggest problem with online classes is finding relevant threads to relate back to what it is that you're actually studying, and this would make that a ton easier. Plus, hell...it's not Outlook Express
After reading the article, the only thing I didn't like was the annotation thing. More and more mail clients are making this option worthless. Some people have a habit of making everything they send "URGENT, or HIGHEST" priority, which is rapidly becoming annoying. I suppose its' the way it has to be, but I don't think a little color box is the best way of incorporating the idea of structuring by type...
I found this particularly interesting
. .WSJWashingtionPostUsaToday said that apparently "All your base belong to us".
When AOL's market cap was at $170 billion, the executives added up the parent companies of the five major newspapers in the country -- the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Post and USA Today.
They could have bought all five for about 10 percent of their outstanding equity at the time. And they almost did it, except for the fact that they didn't think they could get antitrust clearance. But they thought that would be a good thing to do.
Nothing like unbiased news sources owned by a gigantic conglomorate of everything evil in the world.
Tv News reporter
Today in news CEO/CTO of AOLTimeWarnerNetscapeNewYorkLATimes...commerical.
Although the game itself will not change, inflation has taken its toll. One play will now cost 50 cents, compared with 25 cents a generation ago.
Speaking from an outsiders standpoint, don't arcade games today let you set how much it costs to play? Not to say I wouldn't use it for 50 cents, but why mess with a classic?
Would most of the planet know about it today without his help? Doubtful
I think I just found my new favorite!!!
THANKS!
I posted the whole quote for a reason.
I never said that he said said "I invented the internet". Regardless of how he worded it, if you look back in history you'll see that he realistically was a miniscule portion of the combined effort of tens of thousands of people, and regardless of whatever crap he signed, there would still be an Internet. Basically, he was totally padding his part in it.
Not technically "computing" but this is my All time favorite thus far.
"GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.
But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Shamelessley pulled from here
I think they mean that they will be distributed as fingertip sized, and paper thin.
IF they were 1cm^3 it would house 1Gb of info. So, basically, since you're looking at cutting the depth off completley, you'd have instead 1cm^2, which would be significantly less data, if it operates the way I think it's going to.
I love getting modded offtopic for discussing the problem at hand...
802.11 is easy to hack, too easy. Scanning for unprotected networks is childs play, and even for someone who know's what they are doing, it still can't be protected enough to use as a viable option.
I have salesmen going crazy because I won't give in to the push of a wireless connection, but when you're dealing with a financial institution, and countless amounts of other people's money, it's just not an option.
Getting into that WLan and picking off traffic is not as difficult as it might seem, and then unencrypting at your leisure isn't even a problem. Finding someone's login traffic or something like that would be devistating, and at this point would be like handing them a skeleton key to a blank check stock warehouse.
There are options, and for a home Lan, it's fine I suppose. I'm just a skeptic, and don't trust other people to not abuse even a home network. I keep sensitive info there as well, and it's not something I'd like people randomly perusing.
As far as the sharing thing goes, I'm mainly talking about someone getting into my router and using the broaband ISP subscription I pay for to download stuff as opposed to purchasing it. themselves. It really isn't that difficult to get in, once you know the connection is there...
I'll just toss in my $.02
Working for a company where security is of the utmost concern, I don't see 802.11 taking over anytime soon. While the speeds and reliability are getting better, it's still just too easy to find a way in. Not broadcasting the link help, but even that's not foolproof for people who know what their doing.
I don't know if you'll ever see this sort of technology in main stream business, but for home Lan's it sure is cool. Personally however, I'm just not a big fan of even thinking about sharing my $50 a month I spend on broadband internet service with anyone else.
1) Sue our customers so they have no money
2) ???
3) Profit!
I really think the RIAA is screwing themselves on this pretty bad though. People are going to go back underground where it's multitudes more difficult to track. Piracy is not going to go away because of the lawsuits.
The RIAA could have done all this differently and made a TON of money with a good marketing scheme, but instead they went for the throat and screwed themselves. They won't ever be able to 100% protect against it, and it won't fade on it's own. I just see it as bad business planning, and nothing more.
The other side of it is there are alot of good indy artists who provide their music free to download, and don't answer to the RIAA. I have a feeling you'll see more people take this route eventually, and less rap stars turned producers...
Just my $.02
Kind of a cool idea to legalize the ROM's of your favorite derelict console. My biggest problem with it is that they don't supply or support an emulator. It's basically all at your own risk, and if it doesn't work, too bad.
;)
On the flip side I'd love to actually see this sort of thing take off and, get licenses out for games and emulators for other systems. Not to mention it's nice to have a piece of history without the ritual blowing, rubbing alcohol, smashing and praying for hours, for one round of Double Dragon
As a gamer sometimes all the new fancy-smancy graphics from the X-Box and PS2 and the like are cool, but dammit, sometimes Gannon or Bowser just need to get owned!
You mean This Lee R. West?
Only lives about 15 miles from the courthouse.
Of course Mapquest could be wrong...
Anyone feel like giving it a try?
Doesn't this put a big fat hole in their main source of information? How many of these need to happen before practices are questioned, and lawsuits start getting dropped? Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel for these people...
I honestly feel bad for people who have already given in, but I can't say I really blame them with the "go for the jugular" tactics the RIAA is using.
Scratch that...
/.'d Google, but since it's on labs. I suppose we just nuked that portion of it...I'll just wait a few hours ;)
It didn't even occur to me that we could have
It'd be nice if it worked though. The two main things I tried to look up by my zip code came up with nothing but a fat server error.
Both Hotels and Restaurants plus my zip code don't function, Schools doesn't work....
Just typing in my town name and searching in my zip code works just fine, but I think they have a few kinks to work out before this is even moderatley useful.
It's actually an AT&T business plan I get. Now that I think of it, it might be $5, but the point remains the same.
j4Ust W1h1a8t we al3l ne21ed!!!
Okay, obligitory funny out of the way, it actually might just work out. As far as I'm concerned the extra $2 bucks a month I spend on unlimited text messaging on my phone saves me a ton of money because I'm not using minutes. Anything to help facilitate me using it more, I'm all for.
Roll with me on this...
Features:
Up to 3.0 GHz processor with 256MB DDR RAM
- High-performance nVidia video card
- High-performance Intel motherboard
- Dolby Digital(TM) 7.1 Surround Sound
- 100+ Gigabyte internal storage device
- On-board RF wireless modules
- S-Video, RCA or component video and PAL
- 10/100 baseT Ethernet
- 1 wireless controller
- Wireless keyboard and mouse
- 2 USB ports
- 4 controller ports
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't a proprietary box that has all these features have a COMPAQ logo on it?
Maybe someone has answered this legitly elsewhere, but I would love it if there could be a little light placed on this question since IANAL.
If P2P networks such as KaZaA (et. al) share files in a directory that you have previously downloaded by default, can you truly be held liable for making them available without your knowledge?
Imagine this situation:
I find a friend to OCR scan a copy of a book (which I own legal copy of) to my word processor for "backup" so I can read it if the original is destroyed. Following that, someone comes over to my house, and finds the file which is aptly named and copies it to a disk, and is subsequently caught possessing his "illegal copy". Can I be held accountable for giving him access without my knowledge?
To me it seems these P2P networks automatically make these files available with little knowledge to Joe User trying to find someone who Ripped and Encoded the latest Jay-Z song for use on his new iPod, which he could possibly own, and have a right to possessing a backup.
I know that just because you don't understand a law doesn't mean you can't be held accountable for it. I know distributing files is illegal, but if I don't know they are being distributed via my PC because I'm not "technically adept" is that a crime?