What's really funny is not that AOL has 146 million people spread across it's 2 services, but that it has triple the number users of the rest of the market combined!
You'd be interested to know that CMGI and others are in Washington, DC lobbying against the AOL merger until they open their services. (which they claim to keep closed to protect member security and privacy. uuhhh... then why's the government so easily able to monitor it, huh?)
Uhh... 25% huh, that seems mighty high. Let's see, what could you do with all that lead... make bullets?
<POLITICIAN_SPEAK>I submit that American Electronics Association is right in trying to stop the production of more ammunition and guns buy the recycling of used monitors. I have a dream, a dream that one day all this violence will be stopped. Let's stop drugs and gang violence, stop the recycling of used monitors!</POLITICIAN_SPEAK>
I see the dilemma, if fuckedcompany were to sell fuckedcompany, they would have to list themselves as being fucked! I guess they tried to become unfuckedcompany.com. &*)
well, if they can sue Napster, why the hell aren't they suing everybody who's ever created a device for making a duplicate of something. I find it fascinating that during the Industrial Revolution the ability to duplicate things was considered progress, and today it is considered a danger.
Okay... so now we can pretend to find out who is causing those DOS attacks!;)
Actually this is kind of scary, since most students who have any smarts should be using rsh, and pgp. I wonder if the school would have some sort of policy against those programs on their network if they were pushed to it.
Ah... correct that Ford can't patent the car. And if the patent office would stop smoking crack Amazon wouldn't be able to patent half the shit they have. However, Ford can patent the shape of the Thunderbird!! Ford can patent their pull-out cup holders!! Ford should and can patent those things that differentiate their car from another car! Imagine if every car just copied off everyone else, then all cars would look the same and you'd have the same problem of lack of competition. Design is patentable, and though Apple may not have a patent over a cube shaped design, then may have a patent over their dinky mouse, and their funky monitor. So, either way, it is bad practice for a company to leak out their designs and other information before hand.
frivilous?! If your company has internal people leaking info, you want to send a message to them. Will this stop consumer product info leakage. Probably not, but it will send a clear message that Apple wants to protect proprietary information. Design patents are important, and you don't want anything to get in the way of your patents. Especially not things getting into the public domain before they are supposed to. It could potentially be dangerous if, say a, compaq got ahold of the design well in advance and release and patented a similar product before Apple.
Uhh... Freedom of Information Act?! You can request info from the CIA now, and maybe you'll get a letter back from them 10 years from now. There aren't any requirements on a time frame in which they have to resond is there?
I dunno, I mean the naming thing is a facade. You really have to compare OS by value of features. Honestly, you have Linux-Mandrake 7.1 which is just Red Hat 6.2 and some other stuff, I think. So, what the heck is the deal with the revision naming? Maybe the best indicator is just a comparison chart of features on some website. Anyone know of a "trusted" comparison chart?
"I see this as having a chilling effect on my ability as a computer scientist to express myself," Professor Touretzky said. He was referring to the court's preliminary injunction that barred a Web site from posting the underlying, or source, code for the cracking program. "If the court upholds this injunction, what would happen is that certain uses of computer language -- my preferred means of expression -- would be illegal."
Wow... now that it is a very cool argument for freedom of expression! I must say that is clever indeed. C as a preferred means of expression. I see one flaw in this argument, not all expression is protected by the first amendment! I can not say certain words and broadcast them over the television. Granted, posted to a web site is not the same as broadcasting, but it's getting awfully close (esp. with the ongoing convergence)
well, seeing how many developers it took to architect and implement windows, don't you think this might be a tad misdirected. I mean, if you think the ms version of windows returns a lot of gpfs, what about an open source version that is hacked together. Without a very disciplined team developing the code, you'll have pointers flying all over the place. I had a hard enough time trying to keep nachos in check... Good Luck.
track all data traffic passing through their computers and route it to the Government Technical Assistance Center (GTAC).
that does sound rather intrusive. does anybody know how encryption laws work in the UK? can somebody get a pgp-net going and still maintain some kind of protection at least internally on their network? I suppose there must be some kind laws about strong grade encrpytion.
I know I might get flamed for this, but who cares about targeting? I mean you go to Ralphs and flash your card, they know who you are, where you live, and what you buy! They then send ads to you based on that info. Does this mean that they need to follow the dame rules? It just seems to me like the is whole privacy issue is just targeting the 'net! Why are the online providers such a huge target instead of the old-school people who have been using the same tactics for a very, very long time?
"Hacker" is a term commonly applied to a "computer user who intends to gain unauthorized access to a computer system." Hackers are skilled computer users who penetrate computer systems to gain knowledge about computer systems and how they work.
I'm not too sure about the "skilled" part. And, I'm also not sure about the "how they work" part, either.;)
uhh... well. if the US did kill a main portion of the net, a few things will happen.
the net will become very slow for the remaining nodes as a large portion of the backbones will go out. also, the name servers will probably take a beating causing domain names to be useless. the 'net will probably still move on, though. that is unless useless packets are spewn over the lines causing almost a global denial of service from packet-collisions, line saturation, etc.
there was an interesting commentary on Apple's design here on zdnet. It goes through the history of Apple's design changes, and critiques the reasoning vs. the craze. some more commentary.
let's not forget that netscape was under the gun from Micro$oft. It is a traumatic experience to become a target and have to be purchased. Alot of times it takes a company a while to adjust to a new corporate structure and get back some of the talent that jumped ship through the whole thing.
"While this does create an impression of confusion that is appropriate to the central themes of the book, it is also distracting at points in the story."
This seems to be a favored tactic of Clarke. Some of Stanley Kubrik's vagueness must have rubbed off on him.;)
"scampbell said that Yamaha Paper Craft has updated their rare-animal paper sculpture collection to include the Yellow-eyed Penguin."
now that's pretty cool. has anyone tried making one of these? I'm pretty sure that this is next thing be sold at any linux conference. almost free, and you can have a cluster of them.:)
the amazing is that cisco didn't buy this out already?! in Santa Barbara there were quite a few companies working on telephony equipment and technologoes. Many of them were bought out by the larger companies looking to get a strangle hold on the telephony market. I think digital sound was aquired by Unisys, and cadence and others were aquired by Cisco. Ericson jumped into the ball game too.
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What's really funny is not that AOL has 146 million people spread across it's 2 services, but that it has triple the number users of the rest of the market combined!
You'd be interested to know that CMGI and others are in Washington, DC lobbying against the AOL merger until they open their services. (which they claim to keep closed to protect member security and privacy. uuhhh... then why's the government so easily able to monitor it, huh?)
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Uhh... 25% huh, that seems mighty high. Let's see, what could you do with all that lead... make bullets?
... make love, not lobbyists ...
<POLITICIAN_SPEAK>I submit that American Electronics Association is right in trying to stop the production of more ammunition and guns buy the recycling of used monitors. I have a dream, a dream that one day all this violence will be stopped. Let's stop drugs and gang violence, stop the recycling of used monitors!</POLITICIAN_SPEAK>
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I see the dilemma, if fuckedcompany were to sell fuckedcompany, they would have to list themselves as being fucked! I guess they tried to become unfuckedcompany.com. &*)
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well, if they can sue Napster, why the hell aren't they suing everybody who's ever created a device for making a duplicate of something. I find it fascinating that during the Industrial Revolution the ability to duplicate things was considered progress, and today it is considered a danger.
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There's a book about policies you can implement to protect your company... "e-policy"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido s/ASIN/0814479960/
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Okay... so now we can pretend to find out who is causing those DOS attacks! ;)
Actually this is kind of scary, since most students who have any smarts should be using rsh, and pgp. I wonder if the school would have some sort of policy against those programs on their network if they were pushed to it.
kick some CAD
sounds like the riddler decided to take over the USPTO. ;)
pretty interesting read of a patent, Aug. 1, 2000 / July 25, 1933... so when does it expire?
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Ah... correct that Ford can't patent the car. And if the patent office would stop smoking crack Amazon wouldn't be able to patent half the shit they have. However, Ford can patent the shape of the Thunderbird!! Ford can patent their pull-out cup holders!! Ford should and can patent those things that differentiate their car from another car! Imagine if every car just copied off everyone else, then all cars would look the same and you'd have the same problem of lack of competition. Design is patentable, and though Apple may not have a patent over a cube shaped design, then may have a patent over their dinky mouse, and their funky monitor. So, either way, it is bad practice for a company to leak out their designs and other information before hand.
kick some CAD
frivilous?! If your company has internal people leaking info, you want to send a message to them. Will this stop consumer product info leakage. Probably not, but it will send a clear message that Apple wants to protect proprietary information. Design patents are important, and you don't want anything to get in the way of your patents. Especially not things getting into the public domain before they are supposed to. It could potentially be dangerous if, say a, compaq got ahold of the design well in advance and release and patented a similar product before Apple.
kick some CAD
Uhh... Freedom of Information Act?! You can request info from the CIA now, and maybe you'll get a letter back from them 10 years from now. There aren't any requirements on a time frame in which they have to resond is there?
kick some CAD
I dunno, I mean the naming thing is a facade. You really have to compare OS by value of features. Honestly, you have Linux-Mandrake 7.1 which is just Red Hat 6.2 and some other stuff, I think. So, what the heck is the deal with the revision naming? Maybe the best indicator is just a comparison chart of features on some website. Anyone know of a "trusted" comparison chart?
"I see this as having a chilling effect on my ability as a computer scientist to express myself," Professor Touretzky said. He was referring to the court's preliminary injunction that barred a Web site from posting the underlying, or source, code for the cracking program. "If the court upholds this injunction, what would happen is that certain uses of computer language -- my preferred means of expression -- would be illegal."
Wow... now that it is a very cool argument for freedom of expression! I must say that is clever indeed. C as a preferred means of expression. I see one flaw in this argument, not all expression is protected by the first amendment! I can not say certain words and broadcast them over the television. Granted, posted to a web site is not the same as broadcasting, but it's getting awfully close (esp. with the ongoing convergence)
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gotta love it when someone offers to take your credit cards...
and doesn't even have a website.
be afraid... be very afraid.
well, seeing how many developers it took to architect and implement windows, don't you think this might be a tad misdirected. I mean, if you think the ms version of windows returns a lot of gpfs, what about an open source version that is hacked together. Without a very disciplined team developing the code, you'll have pointers flying all over the place. I had a hard enough time trying to keep nachos in check... Good Luck.
kick some CAD
track all data traffic passing through their computers and route it to the Government Technical Assistance Center (GTAC).
that does sound rather intrusive. does anybody know how encryption laws work in the UK? can somebody get a pgp-net going and still maintain some kind of protection at least internally on their network? I suppose there must be some kind laws about strong grade encrpytion.
kick some CAD
I know I might get flamed for this, but who cares about targeting? I mean you go to Ralphs and flash your card, they know who you are, where you live, and what you buy! They then send ads to you based on that info. Does this mean that they need to follow the dame rules? It just seems to me like the is whole privacy issue is just targeting the 'net! Why are the online providers such a huge target instead of the old-school people who have been using the same tactics for a very, very long time?
kick some CAD
great... attach a 5km tether to that puppy and lets drag it around like a motorhome. ;)
First AutoCAD Virus Found!
"Hacker" is a term commonly applied to a "computer user who intends to gain unauthorized access to a computer system." Hackers are skilled computer users who penetrate computer systems to gain knowledge about computer systems and how they work.
;)
I'm not too sure about the "skilled" part. And, I'm also not sure about the "how they work" part, either.
uhh... well. if the US did kill a main portion of the net, a few things will happen.
the net will become very slow for the remaining nodes as a large portion of the backbones will go out.
also, the name servers will probably take a beating causing domain names to be useless.
the 'net will probably still move on, though. that is unless useless packets are spewn over the lines causing almost a global denial of service from packet-collisions, line saturation, etc.
kick some CAD
there was an interesting commentary on Apple's design here on zdnet. It goes through the history of Apple's design changes, and critiques the reasoning vs. the craze. some more commentary.
let's not forget that netscape was under the gun from Micro$oft. It is a traumatic experience to become a target and have to be purchased. Alot of times it takes a company a while to adjust to a new corporate structure and get back some of the talent that jumped ship through the whole thing.
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"While this does create an impression of confusion that is appropriate to the central themes of the book, it is also distracting at points in the story."
;)
This seems to be a favored tactic of Clarke. Some of Stanley Kubrik's vagueness must have rubbed off on him.
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"scampbell said that Yamaha Paper Craft has updated their rare-animal paper sculpture collection to include the Yellow-eyed Penguin."
:)
now that's pretty cool. has anyone tried making one of these? I'm pretty sure that this is next thing be sold at any linux conference. almost free, and you can have a cluster of them.
Apple's Design Approach
uhhh...
www.us.sony.music
www.jp.sony.music
www.sony.trucks
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the amazing is that cisco didn't buy this out already?! in Santa Barbara there were quite a few companies working on telephony equipment and technologoes. Many of them were bought out by the larger companies looking to get a strangle hold on the telephony market. I think digital sound was aquired by Unisys, and cadence and others were aquired by Cisco. Ericson jumped into the ball game too.
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