I like my MP3-CD player because of how much music I can fit onto a disk, and because it's easy to switch what I'm listening to without having to have a computer around to re-download music to a memory-based MP3 player.
But try bringing one of those to the gym. most of the aerobic machines have drink-holders in them, but a full-sized CD player won't easily fit in them. This might be a good compromise when you want the benefits of CD storage (165 MB is still more than 32 or 64!) but a much smaller size (not only for the gym, but for carrying in pockets, etc.
To me, it looks like the best of both worlds.
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I was the system administrator of my university's computer science club's machines the first term that the dorms were wired for Ethernet. Previously there'd only been dial-up access, with of course dynamic IP addresses.
Well, one day, I noticed that our favourite luser was up to his old tricks again; logging in using stolen usernames, writing programs to tie up resources, flood the network, store gigs and gigs in/tmp, etc. I messaged him and politely asked him to stop it. He wouldn't. In fact, he was pretty cocky about it. "You don't know who I am, and you'll never catch me!"
Imagine his surprise when 3 Very Big Guys [tm] from the Computer Scient Club knocked on his door and said "stop doing that." I guess he'd forgotten, in his excitement, that he was now on a static IP, and doing an IP-to-physical room translation was pretty easy.
We know a town has gone to pure hell when Joe-Blow's-Fast-Food-Joint-with-Mouse-Shit-In-The- French-Fries puts up a copy of the golden arches just to attract more business..
What? I thought that McDonald's already had the right to use the golden arches...
I'm still up in the air as to whose side I'm on here.
One the one hand, there are arguments like "Saturday Night Live does that sort of thing", and "Remember when Animaniacs did that great sketch where they dropped a bunch of anvils on Barney?". I have to admit, that I do think that parody sites should fall within the bounds of Fair Use and all that stuff.
On the other hand, though, is the fact that in general, people are just more stupid when it comes to the Internet than they are with other forms of media. Everyone knows when they turn on Saturday Night Live that it's all parodies. But some 6-year-old kid who typed Barney into Yahoo isn't going to know whether it's an "official" Barney web site or a parody. Hell, not even a 6-year-old kid! A 40-year-old adult! Lots of people don't realize that anyone with $9.95/month can set up a website, and as such would be more willing to accept something, especially if it has pictures of Barney all over it, as an official site.
So, as I said, I'm still on the fence. I'll have to think about it some more.
If so, will that even hold water? Barney is a name. It's also commonly given to animals.
Barney would be a trademark when associated with the likeness of a dinosaur. So, while someone could produce a children's video where there was a man named Barney as the star, you couldn't go out and produce a kid's video starring a dinosaur that "lust happened" to be named Barney
While I'm not in favour of the actions of the lawyers in this case, trade mark law does exist to protect corporations from legitimate violations ("Here are a bunch of crab toys. The crab happens to be named Sebastian. No, not Sebastian the Crab from The Little Mermaid, Sebastian the Crab who, although he looks similar, is not associated with Disney in any way, and therefore I don't need to pay license fees."). Which means that names can be trademarked when they are names of fictional characters, etc.
That said, trying to shut down these websites for trademark violations is abusing the powers that trademark gives, and probably not the spirit in which the law is intended.
"Layed off workers living in San Jose should work at McDonald's to make ends meet"Trust me, if you're working at McDonald's in Silicon Valley, you'd still be in a homeless shelter, believe that. Your time is much better spent looking for a decent job either in Silicon Valley or somewhere else.
Well, people who do work at McDonald's in the valley are living somewhere.
It boggles my mind that even though there is a distributed project to look for drugs used to treat cancer, people still insist on donating their CPU cycles to endeavours like SETI and "crack a really big key" contests. Why?
The cancer drug client is Windows only, but I'd hazard a guess that at least half of the CPU cycles donated to the encryption contest come from Windows machines. Use your machine for a good, useful purpose!
Yeah, I'll get modded down into obilivion for having the stones to post thism but...
Wow, that's one of the worst pieces of FUD I've seen posted on Slashdot so far! The SmartTags are just something that allows Content Provider A to neatly package something for syndication. So, for example, Content Provider A gives stock quotes. The SmartTags feature just makes it easy for Web Site Operator B, if he's running IIS/ASP or whatever, to easily insert a stock quote from A's site. That's all.
The comment you posted makes it sound like Microsoft is going to be taking over everybody's website. Using the SmartTags requires an actual effort on the part of the webmaster; Microsoft (or any other content provider -- anyone can make Smart Tags easily) will not suddenly have editorial control over every website in the world.
You guys need to chill out. Everything that Microsoft does is not necessarily automatically evil.
I've been with my company since almost the very beginning, and as such I have a lot of options. They will be worth something if and only if the company gets bought or starts trading publicly. What do I value them at? Nothing.
Not that I don't think they're ever going to be worth anything -- on the contrary, I have a lot of faith in my company and what it does -- but I don't know for sure that they are, and even if they are, I don't even have any way of estimating how much they'll be worth.
So my strategy is to treat them like they don't exist. I don't base any financial plans on them, and I make sure that I'm being compensated fairly with a good salary and good benefits. If they ever become worth something, I'll be really happy, and that'll be like a bonus, but until them, I'm not relying on that.
How is this different from police radios? They like to jump between frequencies, but I can walk into Radio Shack and get a scanner that'll receive them...
I don't get what the big deal is. So parents can find out if their kids are doing all their homework, and skipping. Isn't that what responsible parents are supposed to know about their kids?
Here's a hypothetical situation. Let's say that a parent goes into Parent-Teacher Conference nights and says things like "How's little Jimmy doing on his assignments?" or "Does Sarah have any unexcused absences this semester?" Naturally, the teacher would answer (except in the cases of 18-year-olds or whatever). Would that be an invasion of rights? Some big civil liberties thing? Or just a parent and teacher both doing their jobs?
I don't understand how having this available on the Internet is any different. So.. what? It's easier for parents and teachers to do their jobs? Academic performance is eroding steadily. Maybe if parents were a little more responsible and involved in their childrens' education, then this wouldn't be happening.
This just makes it easier for the parents to be responsible.
Well, I appreciate this section, but that's only because Hiroki's a friend of mine, and you really know your firends have made it when they make it onto the main page of Slashdot, not as a poster, but as a subject!
It's different in the USA, but in Canada, there is a requirement for any securities dealers to "know their client" and assess the suitability of the client before making any trade on behalf of the client (this, incidentally, is why online brokers charge $30/trade here rather than $8 -- a real human-being at their end has to approve the trade)
And you know what? I don't think that's such a bad idea. If we can prevent some little old lady from dumping her life savings into options, why wouldn't we? Risk tolerance is a very important factor in any investment decision, and sometimes non-trained people are not the best ones to analyze their risk tolerance, or even how risky a particular trade might be.
I'm not saying that the RedHat IPO wasn't a sure thing (I think it was, actually), but I've seen general negativity here about know-your-customer rules, and I figured I'd voice my opinion on that.
Everything on my PC was free of charge, and is 100% legal
One will be quick to see that I did not say I don't use Napster...
So that means that you either use Napster only to transmit public-domain files, or files which you may transmit under Fair Use, or that you don't store your MP3s on your PC.... Which is it? Because if it's neither, then your self-righteous rant is pretty much worthless.
You've been moderated down for posts critical of the GPL. I've read some of your posts before, and based on that you may have deserved it - you definately have a tendancy to walk the line between being critical and just attacking, and to attack it in a flamebait (NOT trollish as the other poster stated) manner as well.
Excuse me? I have? Or are you assuming that I am the same person as the original poster?
Once again, some moderator has taken a response that they disagree with, and marked it down for being a "troll". How is it a troll? This person simply is stating his opinion.
This is something which has always bugged me about the moderation system here. People can't post contrarian opinions without being moderated into oblivion. Obviously moderation is needed to keep out the "first post"s and "natalie hot grits", but don't use it to silence opposing views.
I'm not allowed to ride my motorcycle at 25mph without a helmet, and there's a reason for that. There's no protection in case of a crash.
Should something like this come into popularity, would we need to enforce a helmet rule? Hitting something at 25mph can be pretty deadly, and I can already see people in a hurry having accidents.
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I like my MP3-CD player because of how much music I can fit onto a disk, and because it's easy to switch what I'm listening to without having to have a computer around to re-download music to a memory-based MP3 player.
But try bringing one of those to the gym. most of the aerobic machines have drink-holders in them, but a full-sized CD player won't easily fit in them. This might be a good compromise when you want the benefits of CD storage (165 MB is still more than 32 or 64!) but a much smaller size (not only for the gym, but for carrying in pockets, etc.
To me, it looks like the best of both worlds.
Well, one day, I noticed that our favourite luser was up to his old tricks again; logging in using stolen usernames, writing programs to tie up resources, flood the network, store gigs and gigs in /tmp, etc. I messaged him and politely asked him to stop it. He wouldn't. In fact, he was pretty cocky about it. "You don't know who I am, and you'll never catch me!"
Imagine his surprise when 3 Very Big Guys [tm] from the Computer Scient Club knocked on his door and said "stop doing that." I guess he'd forgotten, in his excitement, that he was now on a static IP, and doing an IP-to-physical room translation was pretty easy.
check out http://www.cknow.com/vtutor/vtplural.htm for more information...
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What? I thought that McDonald's already had the right to use the golden arches...
Or, perhaps more appropriately, "Hand me a Xerox", or "go kleenex my arse"
Quit eating fast food all the time.
get rich quick
Put the money that you would have spent eating fast food into the bank
or get rid of debt
Take the money out of that bank and use it to pay off your credit cards and other debts.
chilli sauce had to be used instead of a missing cleaning gel. ... Velcro pads stick to everything they touched
I'm not a domestic genius, but I suspect that if they hadn't cleaned everything with Chili Sauce, it wouldn't be quite so sticky.
One the one hand, there are arguments like "Saturday Night Live does that sort of thing", and "Remember when Animaniacs did that great sketch where they dropped a bunch of anvils on Barney?". I have to admit, that I do think that parody sites should fall within the bounds of Fair Use and all that stuff.
On the other hand, though, is the fact that in general, people are just more stupid when it comes to the Internet than they are with other forms of media. Everyone knows when they turn on Saturday Night Live that it's all parodies. But some 6-year-old kid who typed Barney into Yahoo isn't going to know whether it's an "official" Barney web site or a parody. Hell, not even a 6-year-old kid! A 40-year-old adult! Lots of people don't realize that anyone with $9.95/month can set up a website, and as such would be more willing to accept something, especially if it has pictures of Barney all over it, as an official site.
So, as I said, I'm still on the fence. I'll have to think about it some more.
Barney would be a trademark when associated with the likeness of a dinosaur. So, while someone could produce a children's video where there was a man named Barney as the star, you couldn't go out and produce a kid's video starring a dinosaur that "lust happened" to be named Barney
While I'm not in favour of the actions of the lawyers in this case, trade mark law does exist to protect corporations from legitimate violations ("Here are a bunch of crab toys. The crab happens to be named Sebastian. No, not Sebastian the Crab from The Little Mermaid, Sebastian the Crab who, although he looks similar, is not associated with Disney in any way, and therefore I don't need to pay license fees."). Which means that names can be trademarked when they are names of fictional characters, etc.
That said, trying to shut down these websites for trademark violations is abusing the powers that trademark gives, and probably not the spirit in which the law is intended.
Well, people who do work at McDonald's in the valley are living somewhere.
The cancer drug client is Windows only, but I'd hazard a guess that at least half of the CPU cycles donated to the encryption contest come from Windows machines. Use your machine for a good, useful purpose!
Wow, that's one of the worst pieces of FUD I've seen posted on Slashdot so far! The SmartTags are just something that allows Content Provider A to neatly package something for syndication. So, for example, Content Provider A gives stock quotes. The SmartTags feature just makes it easy for Web Site Operator B, if he's running IIS/ASP or whatever, to easily insert a stock quote from A's site. That's all.
The comment you posted makes it sound like Microsoft is going to be taking over everybody's website. Using the SmartTags requires an actual effort on the part of the webmaster; Microsoft (or any other content provider -- anyone can make Smart Tags easily) will not suddenly have editorial control over every website in the world.
You guys need to chill out. Everything that Microsoft does is not necessarily automatically evil.
I've been with my company since almost the very beginning, and as such I have a lot of options. They will be worth something if and only if the company gets bought or starts trading publicly. What do I value them at? Nothing.
Not that I don't think they're ever going to be worth anything -- on the contrary, I have a lot of faith in my company and what it does -- but I don't know for sure that they are, and even if they are, I don't even have any way of estimating how much they'll be worth.
So my strategy is to treat them like they don't exist. I don't base any financial plans on them, and I make sure that I'm being compensated fairly with a good salary and good benefits. If they ever become worth something, I'll be really happy, and that'll be like a bonus, but until them, I'm not relying on that.
Well, most of Slashdot's readers are probably American, where the concepts "considering suing" and "are suing" actually are equal.
How is this different from police radios? They like to jump between frequencies, but I can walk into Radio Shack and get a scanner that'll receive them...
Here's a hypothetical situation. Let's say that a parent goes into Parent-Teacher Conference nights and says things like "How's little Jimmy doing on his assignments?" or "Does Sarah have any unexcused absences this semester?" Naturally, the teacher would answer (except in the cases of 18-year-olds or whatever). Would that be an invasion of rights? Some big civil liberties thing? Or just a parent and teacher both doing their jobs?
I don't understand how having this available on the Internet is any different. So.. what? It's easier for parents and teachers to do their jobs? Academic performance is eroding steadily. Maybe if parents were a little more responsible and involved in their childrens' education, then this wouldn't be happening.
This just makes it easier for the parents to be responsible.
Well, I appreciate this section, but that's only because Hiroki's a friend of mine, and you really know your firends have made it when they make it onto the main page of Slashdot, not as a poster, but as a subject!
With all the billions of dollars that the International Space Station is costing, I would assume that they could afford one player for each region.
Someone needs to read the moderation guidelines.
And you know what? I don't think that's such a bad idea. If we can prevent some little old lady from dumping her life savings into options, why wouldn't we? Risk tolerance is a very important factor in any investment decision, and sometimes non-trained people are not the best ones to analyze their risk tolerance, or even how risky a particular trade might be.
I'm not saying that the RedHat IPO wasn't a sure thing (I think it was, actually), but I've seen general negativity here about know-your-customer rules, and I figured I'd voice my opinion on that.
Everything on my PC was free of charge, and is 100% legal
One will be quick to see that I did not say I don't use Napster...
So that means that you either use Napster only to transmit public-domain files, or files which you may transmit under Fair Use, or that you don't store your MP3s on your PC.... Which is it? Because if it's neither, then your self-righteous rant is pretty much worthless.
You've been moderated down for posts critical of the GPL. I've read some of your posts before, and based on that you may have deserved it - you definately have a tendancy to walk the line between being critical and just attacking, and to attack it in a flamebait (NOT trollish as the other poster stated) manner as well.
Excuse me? I have? Or are you assuming that I am the same person as the original poster?
Once again, some moderator has taken a response that they disagree with, and marked it down for being a "troll". How is it a troll? This person simply is stating his opinion.
This is something which has always bugged me about the moderation system here. People can't post contrarian opinions without being moderated into oblivion. Obviously moderation is needed to keep out the "first post"s and "natalie hot grits", but don't use it to silence opposing views.
I'm not allowed to ride my motorcycle at 25mph without a helmet, and there's a reason for that. There's no protection in case of a crash.
Should something like this come into popularity, would we need to enforce a helmet rule? Hitting something at 25mph can be pretty deadly, and I can already see people in a hurry having accidents.