Mattel thinks that they can shut me up by bring a frivilous claim against me, then litigate me into silence. It won't work, I'm too stubborn! If I give in, it is letting Mattel to be rewarded for this practice.
I have a problem witht eh DeCSS lititation. In the first case, brought in California, the injunction was denied. How could then they bring it in New York? Once there was a ruling against them, they should have been stopped.
That's why I thought they kept Microsystems as a company. So in my suit, that they would insulate TLC from a large punitive damage award. This was before Mattel bought TLC.
There has been a few Sci-fi stories where kids have been tested to see if they were very smart.
There was one story where the kid would have to be surgically altered if they were able to beat the test. If the kid was smart enough to figure out the way around the test, they would be put in an advanced studies program.
Maybe we can use these filters for that.
Hey Mattel, if a kid can break your filter, give them a scholarship to MIT.
Microsystems (MSI) is really a dead company. MSI was bought by TLC (The Learning Company). The assets were transferred. Or at least that's what was said in their answers to part of their lawsuit against me.
I worked with some of them and one is quite good. One is fast, but I find some of his techniques a little sloppy.
Unix will die like DOS died like OS/2 died!
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Back in 1994 Philip Kahn said that DOS was dead. In 1989 Bill Gates said OS/2 was the operating system of the future.
Unix will evolve. Linux is a flavor of Unix. Many people use QNX on the Iopener internet device. Many people run OS/2 on their ATMs without realizing it. Many companies use cash registers based on DOS or OS/2.
You may not see lots of articles or advertising on Unix, DOS, or OS/2. That's not because it's not being used. It's that it is 'stable' and you don't have many new things comming out for it.
Part of the good about the internet, is that barriers are broken down.
This will give the impression that there is a way to control it via country. What about to the city and state level? What about when it does not work?
With this, the argument of what is acceptable for Boston is not acceptible for Tuscon, and since there may be a mechanism for controlling access (by location), there will be prosecution.
We just change the parameters of the problem. Or we could take advantage of a hole in the rules.I had a president of a company tell me that if you take two engineers they will always disagree, but if you take two lawyers or doctors, they will always sort of agree (they won't say the other is wrong).
I went to the Mario Umana School of Science and Technology in Boston.
Since we had a "Computer Science" program, they came up with the idea of a computer dance.
What that was is that everyone going fills out a "matching form" which was entered into the computer. The computer would spit out a list of matches for each person. They would get numbers, not names. Then at the dance, everyone would have a numbered tag.
I did the programming for it, and of course, skewed the results for myself.
Wozniak gave an interesting presentation on this at AppleFest Boston 1983.
He started of by talking about how bad piracy is and calculating how much money was being lost on his watch. During this, he was interupted by some calls that he responded to by saying, "type brun choplifter, 100", and "I just cracked that, it's in the top left draw of my desk."
Then he ducked behind the podium, and put on an eye patch and pirates hat. He pointed out how all this money lost was not real, since nobody would buy the crap. That it provided free advertising.
There is some money lost, but not even close to as much as the companies claim that it is. The people that support the DMCA are full of it!
I thought of the same thing. But you left out, getting rid of the competition.
You have to program the "cutie"'s unit not to react to anybody's pager except yours. Either that, or you just fry her unit so that it does not trigger (or is not triggered by) another other unit.
I wonder how many of the people here reprogrammed the computer in school to alway match you with the good lookers at the computer dance in school?
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I don't doubt it, but that can't be used as evidence for a judge.
They of course would say it's accidental.
Mattel thinks that they can shut me up by bring a frivilous claim against me, then litigate me into silence. It won't work, I'm too stubborn! If I give in, it is letting Mattel to be rewarded for this practice.
Free speech is not free! It has to be worked for.
There was one story where the kid would have to be surgically altered if they were able to beat the test. If the kid was smart enough to figure out the way around the test, they would be put in an advanced studies program.
Maybe we can use these filters for that.
Hey Mattel, if a kid can break your filter, give them a scholarship to MIT.
Someone shows the dirty laundry of their cybernot list, so the file suit against them.
Barbie Benson uses her name on her site, they don't like it, so they file suit.
A pattern perhaps?
MSI originally developed CyberPatrol.
The decryption code seems more like a class in how to determine and break encryption and how the CyberPatrol encryption works.
In their opposition to summary judgment, I have caught many misrepresentations that they have made.
Unix will evolve. Linux is a flavor of Unix. Many people use QNX on the Iopener internet device. Many people run OS/2 on their ATMs without realizing it. Many companies use cash registers based on DOS or OS/2.
You may not see lots of articles or advertising on Unix, DOS, or OS/2. That's not because it's not being used. It's that it is 'stable' and you don't have many new things comming out for it.
This will give the impression that there is a way to control it via country. What about to the city and state level? What about when it does not work?
With this, the argument of what is acceptable for Boston is not acceptible for Tuscon, and since there may be a mechanism for controlling access (by location), there will be prosecution.
Since we had a "Computer Science" program, they came up with the idea of a computer dance.
What that was is that everyone going fills out a "matching form" which was entered into the computer. The computer would spit out a list of matches for each person. They would get numbers, not names. Then at the dance, everyone would have a numbered tag.
I did the programming for it, and of course, skewed the results for myself.
If things were fair, Bill Gates would have to call into the Microsoft 900# for support.
Wozniak gave an interesting presentation on this at AppleFest Boston 1983.
He started of by talking about how bad piracy is and calculating how much money was being lost on his watch. During this, he was interupted by some calls that he responded to by saying, "type brun choplifter, 100", and "I just cracked that, it's in the top left draw of my desk."
Then he ducked behind the podium, and put on an eye patch and pirates hat. He pointed out how all this money lost was not real, since nobody would buy the crap. That it provided free advertising.
There is some money lost, but not even close to as much as the companies claim that it is. The people that support the DMCA are full of it!
You have to program the "cutie"'s unit not to react to anybody's pager except yours. Either that, or you just fry her unit so that it does not trigger (or is not triggered by) another other unit.
I wonder how many of the people here reprogrammed the computer in school to alway match you with the good lookers at the computer dance in school?