Hmmm - I wonder if I can sue the US patent office for lost funds in a lawsuit to combat this. Can the US patent office be sued for lost legal fees from carelessly handed-out patents? If so, that might force them to be more careful with throwing those things around.
In that case, a question for someone using it now - how does the travel area work? When a mouse reaches the end of a mouse pad, you pick it up and move it to the middle (or you get a special "mouse pad upgrade" only $229 if you order now)... if every movement of the gyro is registered, how do you handle the regular drift that is incurred, resulting in you eventually leaving the travel area?
Another place where this would be a problem in games, where there is not a set "screen" that you can use to define the travel area - theoretically you could spend the entire game moving the mouse to the right (hint - don't play Quake with a digitizing pad).
I would love to see the Israelis do this, if they used large enough weaponry - the blast radius and fallout would nicely blanket the whole country, giving the Israelis proper punishment for Zionism.
What bugs me the most about all this is how people still don't seem to make a big deal about it. Here's a good way to think:
Imagine every crime that has been committed against you that cost you money. This can include having your bicycle stolen, your car stolen for a joyride and crashed into a wall... your house vandalized and your stereo ripped off, your credit card number hijacked, your wallet taken in a mugging, etc. Whatever cost you money. Now, try to remember the anger. Try to remember how pissed off you were. How much you would've loved to bash the punk's face in with a brick.
Now listen.
Corporate crime has stolen about twice that from you, and other investors and tax payers. You are an invesor if you have a retirement plan. You are a taxpayer if you have a job. Even if you don't in either case, your sales taxes go to governments, and governments are effected by the stock market. The total monetary cost per year of street crime in the United States is well below the total amount of money lost due to white collar corporate crime. That is money you should have in your assets right now.
The thief, the mugger, at least they have some balls about it - if you catch them, you could very well bash their faces in with a brick, then get them arrested by the police (who kick the living crap out of them if they try to run) and then end up in a federal "pound me in the ass" prison for quite a long time.
The white collar criminal is not caught. If he is, his company gets fined something around 1% of their earnings this quarter. If he personally is caught, he just gets sent to a minimum security country club for a few months.
Yes, and the equivalent computer industry terms in this case would be: - maliscious code - cracking/hacking - backdoors in critical software Except that, for doing any of those things, under current laws you will be fired, fined, and imprisoned. Those laws are enforced.
For "miscalculations" you will be noted, fined 1% of your profit, and forgotten.
Let's compare what happened to Mitnick or Sklyarov to the worst cases of corporate fraud you can think of. Pretty depressing innit?
This is different - we're not just talking "Enron threw money at them" this is more like "people have investments in Enron stock, have friends who work in high up positions at Enron, and are scratching each other's backs".
Except then its not really immortality, is it? Your still fscking dead. Your brain is still toast - they just made a copy of you based on your DNA and your brain.
Heheh, read Larry Niven's "The Integral Trees"... There's a short-story of his that's more to the point, but I don't remember the name.
The concept is this: The State (big evil Commie entity) has no use for "Corpsicles" as they are called. It doesn't know how to thaw them either. It also has similarly useless convicted felons. So, The State supercools the corpsicles to near-absolute-zero and runs current through their brain so it becomes a superconductor. Then they interrogate the brain and see if they have a useful personality. If so, they take a felon and wipe its brain. Then they dissect (and destroy) the corpicle's brain and read its personality into a computer. The corpsicle's personality is then written into the felon's brain. Then the brain is force-fed a ton of useful knowledge and behavioural modification for a job.
The new person, the Corpsicle in a felon's body, has no rights. Both the body and mind are legally the property of a dead person, ownership transferred to the state. The Corpsicle's are used as State slaves, often for one-way interplanetary exploration and seeding. Space travel is slower then light, so the Corpsicles never know the world they're leaving behind, and never will see it again.
Hmm.... one thing legislators do not seem to know about internet-based streaming audio is that it is both more and less limited then radio in terms of # of users. Its more limited in that internet radio cannot support as many users on a station simultaneously. It has the additional power though that you know approximately how many listeners you have at any given moment (you know how many computers are connected).
This means that, conceivably, internet radio stations could be charged on a per-listener per-song basis, instead of a flat rate that is unfair to the smaller-scale operations.
This would also satisfy the RIAA's calls for more fees - they could be much larger when applied to an internet radio station with as wide listenership as a regular radio station, but in general would be far less.
You read it again - it was 20% of 240 Million - wich is ~50 million. So Nyah.
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Well, even if its not porn, I'm not a kid and I'm often a little revolted by the "Get 10 inch Giant Cocks" e-mails I get. This is not porn (its advertising enhancement) nor am I a child - but it just might be sexual harassment.
Apparently, the woman who he describes in a less then subtle manner is quite offended. I don't have a link to the forum, but he is describing a particular person in detail when he discusses his "stalker". She says that he has never intruded on his private life (that includes leaving his wife alone) and only has taken pictures and studied his place of business.
There has been some discussion of her taking legal action against the paper or the spammer himself for these libellous statements. Somewhere around here there's a link to the discussion board where this is happening.
A good point is made that the reporter has made no attempts to verify any of the facts put forth by the spammer in this case.
I don't - good god, that guy harassed 50 million people for a paltry $250. I mean, its pathetic - he's doing that much damage to the internet for so little incentive. Its disgusting. I could almost understand it if a substantial fraction of his recievers were actually interested in his product.
And anyone else vaguely unsettled by this "ointment for sexually disfunctional women?" I may be wrong, but to me it sounds like "you can't turn your woman on, and are too lazy to learn how, so you're buying her this so you can fsck here senseless and only bore her instead of maiming her".
Then you make sure your phones have a complex device known as an "off switch". And you only run one at a time. This would be an amicable solution if you want one for your car, one for your pants, one for your bike, etc.
Actually, this would make much better sense. For example, lets say a private security firm wants to use cell-phones as a walky-talky system. Rather then get a bunch've overspecialized equipment, they get standard cells, hack the connections and link them up to their private hub.
This never happens - but its a good example of when you might want to hack a phone. And in this example, like all others I've heard, you'll be doing it on a private network.
So connecting a hacked phone to an outside network is what becomes illegal. That, in my opinion, makes much more sense (it would also be a good way to divide account piracy and experimentation).
I couldn't find in the article - what is the actual story of the hole in the picture? Was it deliberate? Was it a puzzle for fellow artists (as approached here)? Was it an error? Was it just to make people think? Was it damaged after completion? What?
Btw, my fave escher has always been the hand drawing a hand. Relativity would make a great Q3 level tho.
Wasn't the Ottawa case more about copied games then teh mod-chip? If he was just arrested for a mod-chip then the comparison would be valid, but selling burned games is an entirely different matter.
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Learning to fly by trial and error is fine... learning to land by trial and error might get you in a bit of trouble though.
Yes it is - as a coder, finally having stable C++ compiling is a big, big deal.
Hmmm - I wonder if I can sue the US patent office for lost funds in a lawsuit to combat this. Can the US patent office be sued for lost legal fees from carelessly handed-out patents? If so, that might force them to be more careful with throwing those things around.
In that case, a question for someone using it now - how does the travel area work? When a mouse reaches the end of a mouse pad, you pick it up and move it to the middle (or you get a special "mouse pad upgrade" only $229 if you order now)... if every movement of the gyro is registered, how do you handle the regular drift that is incurred, resulting in you eventually leaving the travel area?
Another place where this would be a problem in games, where there is not a set "screen" that you can use to define the travel area - theoretically you could spend the entire game moving the mouse to the right (hint - don't play Quake with a digitizing pad).
I would love to see the Israelis do this, if they used large enough weaponry - the blast radius and fallout would nicely blanket the whole country, giving the Israelis proper punishment for Zionism.
Hmm... I keep thinking of the video navigation system from Minority Report actually. Still, same page, different book.
I guess its better then nuclear escalation with Pakistan... notice how they seem to be mirroring the US-USSR cold war?
Mod this post up. All hail the new evil empire.
What bugs me the most about all this is how people still don't seem to make a big deal about it. Here's a good way to think:
Imagine every crime that has been committed against you that cost you money. This can include having your bicycle stolen, your car stolen for a joyride and crashed into a wall... your house vandalized and your stereo ripped off, your credit card number hijacked, your wallet taken in a mugging, etc. Whatever cost you money. Now, try to remember the anger. Try to remember how pissed off you were. How much you would've loved to bash the punk's face in with a brick.
Now listen.
Corporate crime has stolen about twice that from you, and other investors and tax payers. You are an invesor if you have a retirement plan. You are a taxpayer if you have a job. Even if you don't in either case, your sales taxes go to governments, and governments are effected by the stock market. The total monetary cost per year of street crime in the United States is well below the total amount of money lost due to white collar corporate crime. That is money you should have in your assets right now.
The thief, the mugger, at least they have some balls about it - if you catch them, you could very well bash their faces in with a brick, then get them arrested by the police (who kick the living crap out of them if they try to run) and then end up in a federal "pound me in the ass" prison for quite a long time.
The white collar criminal is not caught. If he is, his company gets fined something around 1% of their earnings this quarter. If he personally is caught, he just gets sent to a minimum security country club for a few months.
And people don't seem very mad about this.
Yes, and the equivalent computer industry terms in this case would be:
- maliscious code
- cracking/hacking
- backdoors in critical software
Except that, for doing any of those things, under current laws you will be fired, fined, and imprisoned. Those laws are enforced.
For "miscalculations" you will be noted, fined 1% of your profit, and forgotten.
Let's compare what happened to Mitnick or Sklyarov to the worst cases of corporate fraud you can think of. Pretty depressing innit?
This is different - we're not just talking "Enron threw money at them" this is more like "people have investments in Enron stock, have friends who work in high up positions at Enron, and are scratching each other's backs".
This comment would be really insightful if not for the caps. Instead you just look retarded. Congratulations.
Except then its not really immortality, is it? Your still fscking dead. Your brain is still toast - they just made a copy of you based on your DNA and your brain.
Heheh, read Larry Niven's "The Integral Trees"... There's a short-story of his that's more to the point, but I don't remember the name.
The concept is this: The State (big evil Commie entity) has no use for "Corpsicles" as they are called. It doesn't know how to thaw them either. It also has similarly useless convicted felons. So, The State supercools the corpsicles to near-absolute-zero and runs current through their brain so it becomes a superconductor. Then they interrogate the brain and see if they have a useful personality. If so, they take a felon and wipe its brain. Then they dissect (and destroy) the corpicle's brain and read its personality into a computer. The corpsicle's personality is then written into the felon's brain. Then the brain is force-fed a ton of useful knowledge and behavioural modification for a job.
The new person, the Corpsicle in a felon's body, has no rights. Both the body and mind are legally the property of a dead person, ownership transferred to the state. The Corpsicle's are used as State slaves, often for one-way interplanetary exploration and seeding. Space travel is slower then light, so the Corpsicles never know the world they're leaving behind, and never will see it again.
Hmm? I understood it was a flat rate - just per song. After all, how do you know how many listeners a radio station has?
Hmm.... one thing legislators do not seem to know about internet-based streaming audio is that it is both more and less limited then radio in terms of # of users. Its more limited in that internet radio cannot support as many users on a station simultaneously. It has the additional power though that you know approximately how many listeners you have at any given moment (you know how many computers are connected).
This means that, conceivably, internet radio stations could be charged on a per-listener per-song basis, instead of a flat rate that is unfair to the smaller-scale operations.
This would also satisfy the RIAA's calls for more fees - they could be much larger when applied to an internet radio station with as wide listenership as a regular radio station, but in general would be far less.
You read it again - it was 20% of 240 Million - wich is ~50 million. So Nyah.
Well, even if its not porn, I'm not a kid and I'm often a little revolted by the "Get 10 inch Giant Cocks" e-mails I get. This is not porn (its advertising enhancement) nor am I a child - but it just might be sexual harassment.
Apparently, the woman who he describes in a less then subtle manner is quite offended. I don't have a link to the forum, but he is describing a particular person in detail when he discusses his "stalker". She says that he has never intruded on his private life (that includes leaving his wife alone) and only has taken pictures and studied his place of business.
There has been some discussion of her taking legal action against the paper or the spammer himself for these libellous statements. Somewhere around here there's a link to the discussion board where this is happening.
A good point is made that the reporter has made no attempts to verify any of the facts put forth by the spammer in this case.
I don't - good god, that guy harassed 50 million people for a paltry $250. I mean, its pathetic - he's doing that much damage to the internet for so little incentive. Its disgusting. I could almost understand it if a substantial fraction of his recievers were actually interested in his product.
And anyone else vaguely unsettled by this "ointment for sexually disfunctional women?" I may be wrong, but to me it sounds like "you can't turn your woman on, and are too lazy to learn how, so you're buying her this so you can fsck here senseless and only bore her instead of maiming her".
How ironic - Playdium is owned by Sega, I believe, and this an article on using sega gear to hack equipemnt
Then you make sure your phones have a complex device known as an "off switch". And you only run one at a time. This would be an amicable solution if you want one for your car, one for your pants, one for your bike, etc.
Actually, this would make much better sense. For example, lets say a private security firm wants to use cell-phones as a walky-talky system. Rather then get a bunch've overspecialized equipment, they get standard cells, hack the connections and link them up to their private hub.
This never happens - but its a good example of when you might want to hack a phone. And in this example, like all others I've heard, you'll be doing it on a private network.
So connecting a hacked phone to an outside network is what becomes illegal. That, in my opinion, makes much more sense (it would also be a good way to divide account piracy and experimentation).
I couldn't find in the article - what is the actual story of the hole in the picture? Was it deliberate? Was it a puzzle for fellow artists (as approached here)? Was it an error? Was it just to make people think? Was it damaged after completion? What?
Btw, my fave escher has always been the hand drawing a hand. Relativity would make a great Q3 level tho.
Wasn't the Ottawa case more about copied games then teh mod-chip? If he was just arrested for a mod-chip then the comparison would be valid, but selling burned games is an entirely different matter.