He solicited 3rd parties who would be willing to place the package on their porch. He offered to compensate them for it. It was those third parties who had friends fake stealing the package. When he found out that these alleged thieves were fake, he edited them out of the video and disclosed the issue.
All he had to do was say this in the original video, not afterward.
If you're talking about the process being slower, ok yeah, by about 10 to 15 seconds or so.
Only on Slashdot could we read a story about Grace Hopper handing out nanosecond-length-wire to developers to highlight the importance of processor cycles - followed by a card-chip-and-pin story where it's completely okay to add 10-15 seconds to each and every customer.
Basically, it's tough to trademark a word that describes the thing you're selling. "React" describes the videos they create. Although this doesn't conflict with any valid trademarks the USPTO has registered, it shouldn't survive a challenge in court. Anyone who makes react videos themselves should have standing to oppose the mark.
Filing an opposition is not as simple as filling out an online form. I believe there's a trademark attorney willing to help for free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There is no provision in the U.S. Constitution protecting the civil rights of gays. There is a whole amendment for protecting the civil right to own guns.
I disagree. The 5th and 14th amendments are intended to ensure all of us receive the equal protection of the laws. It is under these amendments that laws banning marriage were struck down.
Sorry, not true. It's the heat that kills the filament, not the "shock" of turning it on. The filament is simply a resistor. There is no damage done to it by cycling it on or off. In fact, solid state dimmers, the kind you can buy at home depot from Lutron or Leviton, reduce the light of the bulb by altering the ratio of on and off while cycling the power to the bulb 120 times per sec (or 2x the frequency of the power source).
If you're curious, hook up an oscilloscope to a dimmer. You'll need a bulb or similar wattage resistive element. You'll see that, at each half wave, the dimmer holds the power source off and then flips on partway through the half wave.
If he's worried about electromagnetic waves he should ban electrical use on campus, magnets, and wave a compass around all steel desks and filing cabinets.. then have them degaussed (someplace else, of course, to keep the evil degaussing waves away).
And, of course, inspect all staff for magic magnetic bracelets and fire those wearing them.
Except that permanent magnets' field is DC. The strength of the field is constant at a given point. We all live in a 500 milligauss DC electromagnetic field coming from the Earth.
It's the AC electromagnetic radiation the administrator is worried about (irrational as it may be). Wireless access points put out less than 300 mW while cell phones operate up to and including 300 mW at the same frequencies. If he's truly concerned, he should ban cell phones, too.
Trouble is, no one has ever been able to prove that fields at these low powers actually have a negative effect on the human body. A 500 mW 2.4 GHz at 10 feet will only penetrate the first three layers of skin. You don't see people getting skin cancer from cell phones, do you?
While I'm on the subject, 60 Hz electromagnetic interference is also a hazard. I tested this back in college. I dropped a waterproof electromagnet into a fish tank filled with algae. I took samples every day for two months while I generated a (measured) 2 gauss (yes, two gauss) 60 Hz electromagnetic field. It caused the algae to grow much more dense and dark than the control samples.
American children under 18 can't vote. Why not block them?
Resident aliens can't vote. Should we block them, too?
Technically, blocking a range of IPs is far easier than blocking a demographic. I'm just trying to make a point: IMHO, it's just plain arrogant to block those who can't vote. To me, it makes the statement that those who can't vote don't matter.
I know it's just a website... but how many people get >80% of their information from the web. Me, for one (I know that's sad.. but...)
After reading Eric's paper, it seems to me the smoke and mirrors SCO is putting up could only come from one of two motives:
A) Create an image that SCO owns the rights to all of Unix/Linux, hoping they'll make a bundle by either licensing those rights or getting bought by an outside party (like M$)
B) Disrupt the Linux community in the hopes that some outside interested party will help fund their initiative, so the interested third party can sell more of their own operating system (M$?)
Kudos to Eric and OSI for creating this position statement. It should be a help to IBM, and if not, at least it calms the fears of those enterprises running Linux.
I do electrical work, and I've found countless devices that use neutral as a convenient ground, as all neutrals are grounded back at the supply panel.
Trouble is, if you get hot and neutral reversed (which works just fine, AC power and all), you can end up with a charged chassis, and anything grounded that touches it goes "Pop!" with the sparks and the running and the screaming and the.... mmmm-hey....
I don't want to sound all 'against the flow' here, but I've been turning to public radio more and more to get away from the constant commercial bombardment of ClearChannel.
I actually became a member of my local public radio station, which plays music by independent and classical artists most of the time, and in the morning and evening rush hours, plays news content from the local area as well as great Nation Public Radio (NPR) broadcasts.
All of us here on Slashdot say we want to get rid of the RIAA's stranglehold on music. Here's one way to help!
If they can't play it in the devices they have will they a) Call it a defective cd? Most likely. b) When they find out it's defective by design, will they 1) Continue to buy defective CDs? 2) Get a normal CD(-R) from friends or mp3 from internet?
No, right about the time the users start to rally and enough of an outcry is made, the RIAA will present their solution: A new medium, be it DVDA or SACD or some other format, that has DRM built in.
They're hoping if they frustrate you enough, you'll eventually have to choose another medium, which they'll be happy to provide!
In other news, the federal government of the United States has uncovered their latest secret: Photon detection. Using this revolutionary technology, they can actually track people and objects by analyzing the photonic particles bouncing off of them.
Consequently, the citizens of the United States are now in a panic, realizing they can no longer go out in public for fear of being watched...
You forget that the optimum way to win a war (or battle) is not to overpower your oppenent 49 to 51, but rather obliterate them 99 to 1. (Colin Powell said this).
When you are your oppenent are evenly matched, both sides get hurt pretty badly before one is destroyed or surrenders.
If you are so much more powerful than your opponent, you end up seeing situations much like the Gulf War, where your enemies surrender shortly after the infantry realize the can't even see their opponents before they're killed.
Therefore, the best way to win is also the way which causes the least loss of life (especially on the winning side), and that is to overpower your oppenent by the largest margin possible.
Remember, a few years ago, a 15 second pulse of a high power gas laser destroyed a Titan missle? The new fighters will not have to hit their target for even four seconds to cause severe damage. When an object is moving through a fluid substance (air), and needs stabalizers to stay in control (wings), you don't have to do very much damage to disable the craft.
I believe the intent of the four second pulse could be to take out ground targets. All it has to do is heat up the target to the point of explosives going off, or to the temperature at which human flesh ignites!
A Hippocratic Oath for Coders isn't a bad idea. I can see many programs out there that could use it, Kazaa, for instance.
However, if coders are to follow an oath stating they won't write harmful code, then it becomes necessary for them to know what is and isn't harmful. This puts too much burden on the coder. Even if it becomes an unofficial rule, I can imagine a coder accidentally writing harmful code and being held accountable not only for the harm but also for breaking the oath.
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He solicited 3rd parties who would be willing to place the package on their porch. He offered to compensate them for it. It was those third parties who had friends fake stealing the package. When he found out that these alleged thieves were fake, he edited them out of the video and disclosed the issue.
All he had to do was say this in the original video, not afterward.
If you're talking about the process being slower, ok yeah, by about 10 to 15 seconds or so.
Only on Slashdot could we read a story about Grace Hopper handing out nanosecond-length-wire to developers to highlight the importance of processor cycles - followed by a card-chip-and-pin story where it's completely okay to add 10-15 seconds to each and every customer.
I posted a video reaction to this myself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Basically, it's tough to trademark a word that describes the thing you're selling. "React" describes the videos they create. Although this doesn't conflict with any valid trademarks the USPTO has registered, it shouldn't survive a challenge in court. Anyone who makes react videos themselves should have standing to oppose the mark.
Filing an opposition is not as simple as filling out an online form. I believe there's a trademark attorney willing to help for free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you want to file an oppsition notice yourself: http://estta.uspto.gov/filing-...
There is no provision in the U.S. Constitution protecting the civil rights of gays. There is a whole amendment for protecting the civil right to own guns.
I disagree. The 5th and 14th amendments are intended to ensure all of us receive the equal protection of the laws. It is under these amendments that laws banning marriage were struck down.
I would argue copyright infringement and unjust enrichment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unjust_enrichment
Even if it were in the TOS and the terms were properly agreed to, I would still haul them before a judge and make them explain.
I am a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
Sorry, not true. It's the heat that kills the filament, not the "shock" of turning it on. The filament is simply a resistor. There is no damage done to it by cycling it on or off. In fact, solid state dimmers, the kind you can buy at home depot from Lutron or Leviton, reduce the light of the bulb by altering the ratio of on and off while cycling the power to the bulb 120 times per sec (or 2x the frequency of the power source).
m mingBasics.pdf
If you're curious, hook up an oscilloscope to a dimmer. You'll need a bulb or similar wattage resistive element. You'll see that, at each half wave, the dimmer holds the power source off and then flips on partway through the half wave.
Check out Lutron's dimming paper at:
http://www.lutron.com/technical_info/pdf/LutronDi
Except that permanent magnets' field is DC. The strength of the field is constant at a given point. We all live in a 500 milligauss DC electromagnetic field coming from the Earth.
It's the AC electromagnetic radiation the administrator is worried about (irrational as it may be). Wireless access points put out less than 300 mW while cell phones operate up to and including 300 mW at the same frequencies. If he's truly concerned, he should ban cell phones, too.
Trouble is, no one has ever been able to prove that fields at these low powers actually have a negative effect on the human body. A 500 mW 2.4 GHz at 10 feet will only penetrate the first three layers of skin. You don't see people getting skin cancer from cell phones, do you?
While I'm on the subject, 60 Hz electromagnetic interference is also a hazard. I tested this back in college. I dropped a waterproof electromagnet into a fish tank filled with algae. I took samples every day for two months while I generated a (measured) 2 gauss (yes, two gauss) 60 Hz electromagnetic field. It caused the algae to grow much more dense and dark than the control samples.
I got indentified once, too. I released the safety on a punchdown tool and pressed it into my hand. Now I have ten little indentifications...
Imagine a beowulf cluster of .22s....
.22 caliber phalanx?
or how about a
ljfrench
American children under 18 can't vote. Why not block them?
Resident aliens can't vote. Should we block them, too?
Technically, blocking a range of IPs is far easier than blocking a demographic. I'm just trying to make a point:
IMHO, it's just plain arrogant to block those who can't vote. To me, it makes the statement that those who can't vote don't matter.
I know it's just a website... but how many people get >80% of their information from the web. Me, for one (I know that's sad.. but...)
ljfrench
He who gives up liberty for security loses both and deserves neither. -- Thomas Jefferson
This still won't prevent me from buying the cheaper copy and ripping it, er... backing it up... onto my hd for later viewing...
April Fools was a little over a month ago...
Lego Mindstorms!
Seriously. Use a regular dvd player, make a mindstorms kit to load a DVD from a rack and put it in the player!
Yeah, right....
After reading Eric's paper, it seems to me the smoke and mirrors SCO is putting up could only come from one of two motives:
A) Create an image that SCO owns the rights to all of Unix/Linux, hoping they'll make a bundle by either licensing those rights or getting bought by an outside party (like M$)
B) Disrupt the Linux community in the hopes that some outside interested party will help fund their initiative, so the interested third party can sell more of their own operating system (M$?)
Kudos to Eric and OSI for creating this position statement. It should be a help to IBM, and if not, at least it calms the fears of those enterprises running Linux.
Does this mean we can now *gobble* our gas? ;-)
L
I do electrical work, and I've found countless devices that use neutral as a convenient ground, as all neutrals are grounded back at the supply panel.
Trouble is, if you get hot and neutral reversed (which works just fine, AC power and all), you can end up with a charged chassis, and anything grounded that touches it goes "Pop!" with the sparks and the running and the screaming and the.... mmmm-hey....
I actually became a member of my local public radio station, which plays music by independent and classical artists most of the time, and in the morning and evening rush hours, plays news content from the local area as well as great Nation Public Radio (NPR) broadcasts.
All of us here on Slashdot say we want to get rid of the RIAA's stranglehold on music. Here's one way to help!
Check out http://www.npr.org! ljfrench
FM Radio was fine until Abrams fscked it up, and now he's a director for XM?
I wonder if it went something like this:
1) Satellite radio needs investors
2) FM Radio is fine
3) Make FM Radio suck
4) Suddenly satellite radio is in!
6) ?????
7) Profit!
I smell conspiracy....
If they can't play it in the devices they have will they
a) Call it a defective cd? Most likely.
b) When they find out it's defective by design, will they
1) Continue to buy defective CDs?
2) Get a normal CD(-R) from friends or mp3 from internet?
No, right about the time the users start to rally and enough of an outcry is made, the RIAA will present their solution: A new medium, be it DVDA or SACD or some other format, that has DRM built in.
They're hoping if they frustrate you enough, you'll eventually have to choose another medium, which they'll be happy to provide!
ljfrench
In other news, the federal government of the United States has uncovered their latest secret: Photon detection. Using this revolutionary technology, they can actually track people and objects by analyzing the photonic particles bouncing off of them.
Consequently, the citizens of the United States are now in a panic, realizing they can no longer go out in public for fear of being watched...
You forget that the optimum way to win a war (or battle) is not to overpower your oppenent 49 to 51, but rather obliterate them 99 to 1. (Colin Powell said this).
When you are your oppenent are evenly matched, both sides get hurt pretty badly before one is destroyed or surrenders.
If you are so much more powerful than your opponent, you end up seeing situations much like the Gulf War, where your enemies surrender shortly after the infantry realize the can't even see their opponents before they're killed.
Therefore, the best way to win is also the way which causes the least loss of life (especially on the winning side), and that is to overpower your oppenent by the largest margin possible.
Remember, a few years ago, a 15 second pulse of a high power gas laser destroyed a Titan missle? The new fighters will not have to hit their target for even four seconds to cause severe damage. When an object is moving through a fluid substance (air), and needs stabalizers to stay in control (wings), you don't have to do very much damage to disable the craft.
I believe the intent of the four second pulse could be to take out ground targets. All it has to do is heat up the target to the point of explosives going off, or to the temperature at which human flesh ignites!
A Hippocratic Oath for Coders isn't a bad idea. I can see many programs out there that could use it, Kazaa, for instance.
However, if coders are to follow an oath stating they won't write harmful code, then it becomes necessary for them to know what is and isn't harmful. This puts too much burden on the coder. Even if it becomes an unofficial rule, I can imagine a coder accidentally writing harmful code and being held accountable not only for the harm but also for breaking the oath.
Just a thought.