I remember when they were filming Godzilla here in NYC. I was trying to get to work, and they had closed off 23rd street to shoot one of those "tons-O-fish falling from the sky" scenes. There were a bunch of us standing there for several minutes on rush hour, trying to get to work or school, and the one security guy holding us back. Then one guy decided to just keep going, and the whole crowd just marched ahead while the security guy kept trying to hold people back.
I wonder how many security guards they're gonna need to hold back a city's entire population.
Actually, they're not/.ed. It looks like they just blocked all requests refered by slashdot in order to avoid getting/.ed. If you type their URL manually you can still get in.
I remember a case in either the Russian or Chinese embassy, where the CIA hired the Xerox repair guy to implant a little camera inside the photocopy machine. They were used to seeing him in the building, working on the machine, that nobody suspected anything. And the little camera would capture every document photocopied on the machine.
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How does 100 miles in less than 4 hours by a slightly out of shape 36 year old sound? I recently did a 100 mile ride on my recumbent in under 4 hours. And I'm not in that good of a shape, and my bike is not one of the faster recumbent models (its more of a comfort bike than a speed demon). I have been riding regular bikes since the 1960's, and after trying out recumbents for the first time last year, I'm now fully addicted. Weather permitting, I commute between home and work on my 'bent. 17 miles each way, in New York City traffic.
Actually, due to ongoing litigation, Marc's site is not the best source for this information, since he is not allowed to make any comments regarding his ex business partners. For a better source on the history of Robot Wars and Battlebots, see http://www.robotcombat.com/history.html.
Omar wrote:
>
> But instead of educating and changing killer lifestyle habits, their government steals IP.
You're misinformed here.
Brazil has had one of the most successful AIDS awareness, education, and prevention campaigns in the world for several years now. EVERY country in the world has AIDS nowadays, and Brazil is in the forefront of both prevention and treatment of this disease.
Yes, this case deals with IP infringement. But it is necessary IP infringement. The pharmaceutical companies with their almighty greed shot themselves on the foot on this one by charging such outrageous markups on the drugs they produce. And they know they can charge this markup since the people who need these drugs do not have a choice but to pay. You either pay or die, simple as that. But the problem is that people in poor countries cannot possibly afford the $15,000 dollars per year that the pharmaceutical companies charge for these drugs. For the vast majority of people in the world, AIDS is a death sentence. And trust me, these drugs do save lives. I have friends with AIDS who have been living very good and productive lives for over 15 years now thanks to these drugs.
The Brazilian government is producing the same drugs for a cost of about $700 per person per year. These are exactly the same drugs, manufactured exactly the same way. So the additional $14,300 dollars the pharmaceutical companies charge for these drugs are profit. That is the price they put on a human life. The way they look at it, if you're not willing to pay the 2100% markup, you die.
700 dollars per year is still far too much for most people. But that works in combination with an aggressive AIDS awareness campaign in Brazil that greatly reduced the spread of the disease, so instead of the predicted 1.2 million people infected, actual number of cases is about 500 thousand. So the total cost of treatment went from $18 billion dollars (15k x 1200k) to $350 million (700 x 500k). 350 million is a figure that the government can afford to pay, so the entire treatment is free for the patients!
I am Brazilian, and I have always been a very strong critic of the Brazilian government. Yet every time I read about what they have done in this case makes me want to brake into spontaneous applause.
Mr. Praline : The command line don't enter into it. It's stone dead!
Owner : Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
Mr. Praline : All right then, if he's resting, I'll wake him up!
(shouting at the system tower)
'Ello, Demon! Mister Demon OS! I've got a lovely fresh OC-3 for you if you wake up, Mr. Demon OS...
(owner hits the monitor)
Owner : There, he moved!
Mr. Praline : No, he didn't, that was you pushing the monitor!
Owner : I never!!
Mr. Praline : Yes, you did!
Owner : I never, never....
(He pulls the hard disk out of the box and screams into it.)
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(He bangs the disk against the store counter, horribly hard.)
TESTIIIING! TESTIIIING! THIS IS YOUR NINE-O' CLOCK ALARM CALL!
(He does it again, harder.)
BEEE-ESSSSS-DEEEEE!
(He tosses it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor. Longish pause.)
Now that's what I call a dead OS.
Owner : No, no.... No, he's stunned.
Mr. Praline : STUNNED?
Owner : Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! FreeBSDs stun easily, major.
Mr. Praline : Look my lad, I've had just about enough of this. That OS is definitely deceased, and when I bought it not half an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of market share was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long download.
Owner : Well, he's... he's, ah... probably pining for the fjords.
(Praline looks angrily back and forth, stuttering.)
Mr. Praline : PININ' for the FJORDS? What kind of talk is that? Look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home?
Owner : The FreeBSD prefers kippin' on its back! Remarkable OS, isn't it, guv, eh? Lovely command line!
Mr. Praline : (coldly) Look, I took the liberty of examining that OS when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on the hard disk in the first place was that it had been WRITE PROTECTED there.
(pause)
Owner : Well, of course it was write protected there! If I hadn't write protected that OS down, it would have nuzzled up to the ethernet card, hacked its way out with its little trident, and VOOM!
Mr. Praline : "VOOM?"
(Praline puts the system down and take the hard disk into his hands.)
Mr. Praline : Look matey, this OS wouldn't "voom" if you put four thousand volts through it! It's bleedin' demised!
Owner : It's not! I-It's pining!
Mr. Praline : It's not pinin,' it's passed on! This OS is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late OS! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't write protected him to the disk he would be pushing up the daisies! Its active processes are of interest only to historians! It's hopped the twig! It's shuffled off this mortal coil! It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This.... is an EX-OS!
> The general public, for the most part
> can do nothing to stop this. It is sysadmins
> and those running servers who need to pay
> attention.
Actually, one of the problems is that it is indeed "Joe General Public" who's running many of these servers. They do a full install of NT or W2K on their home or office PCs, or got their machine with the full OS pre-installed, and don't realize that IIS is included and running.
And in the end, we see our hero, watching the ruins of a great masterpiece before his eyes, go down to his knees while yelling out in ultimate outrage: "You finally really did it....... You maniacs! You blew it up! Ahhhh Damn you! God damn you all to hell!!".
No, I'm not talking about the final scene of the original movie. I'm talking about my reaction when I saw this new piece of crap version.
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Yes, Xsucks.com is not a violation of trademark X, but in copyrights disputes if you fail to present a defense, you lose by default. That's what happened in the Guinness case. The defendant never presented a defense, so he lost by default. Had he presented any form of defense, chances are he would have won, just as the defended against Lockheed Martin did.
Now I'll add a bunch of exclamation points and caps in order to get my point across.
If I were to make a hole perpendicular to Queens NY on a globe, the exit wound would be somewhere in the Indian Ocean, about 600 miles west of Cape Leeuwin, Australia. Is that where one would need to go in order to swim in the glow of Ana Ng's majestic presence?
The main problem I have with this is that any it makes it just about impossible for those of us who want to follow other countries' events here in the United States to do so. If NBC's broadcast is similar to the previous Olympics' broadcast, only the events where American athletes and teams compete AND are likely to win medals, will get any coverage. If web broadcasting was allowed, those of us who are foreigners living in this country should be able to follow our nations' events via webcasts from our national news and sports online sites. But without these webcasts, all we can do is read the results in the next day's papers.
Actually, its not a dance. Samba is a musical style. The dance follows the music, not the other way around.
And some styles of samba are not really danceable, like Samba Canção or Samba de Breque.
You try dancing to the Samba de uma nota só.;)
Okay then. As a Brazilian, I hereby announce that my people will be suing Germany's Standard Anmeldung Meldewesen Banken, for using the name of our trademarked musical style. Our layers will be contacting the German company, as soon as we're finished dancing.;)
Narrator: Good evening. Here is the News for parrots. No parrots were involved in an accident on the M1 today, when a lorry carrying high octane fuel was in collision with a hollard... that is a bollard and not a parrot. A spokesman for parrots said he was glad no parrots were involved. The Minister of Technology (photo of minister with parrot on his shoulder) today met the three Russian leaders (cut to photograph of Brahnev, Podgomy and Kosygin all in a group and each with a parrot on his shoulder) to discuss a £4 million airliner deal... (cut back to narrator) None of them went in the cage, or swung on the little wooden trapeze, or ate any of the nice millet seed yam, yam. Thats the end of the news. Now our programmes for parrots continue with part three of 'A Tale of Two Cities' specially adapted for parrots by Joey Boy. The story so far... Dr Manette is in England after eighteen years (as he speaks French Revolution type music creeps in under his words) in the Baslille. (cut through to a Cruikshank engraving of London). His daughter Lucy awaits her lover Charles Damay, whom we have just learnt is in fact the nephew of the Marquis de St Evremond, whose cruelty had placed Manette in the Bastille. Darnay arrives to find Lucy tending her aged father...
(Superimposed caption: 'LONDON 1793' Music reaches a climax and we mix slowly through to an eighteenth-century living room. Lucy is nursing her father. Some low music continues over. Suddenly the door bursts open and Charles Darnay enters.)
Darnay:(in parrot voice) 'Allo, 'allo.
Lucy: 'Allo, 'allo, 'allo.
Old Man: 'Allo, 'allo, 'allo.
Darnay: Who's a pretty boy, then?
Lucy: 'Allo, 'allo, 'allo.
(And more of the same. Cut back to the narrator.)
Narrator: And while that's going on, here is the news for gibbons. No gibbons were involved today in an accident on the M 1...
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I remember when they were filming Godzilla here in NYC. I was trying to get to work, and they had closed off 23rd street to shoot one of those "tons-O-fish falling from the sky" scenes. There were a bunch of us standing there for several minutes on rush hour, trying to get to work or school, and the one security guy holding us back. Then one guy decided to just keep going, and the whole crowd just marched ahead while the security guy kept trying to hold people back.
I wonder how many security guards they're gonna need to hold back a city's entire population.
Que? ;)
Joao "my hovercraft is full of eels" de souza
Actually, they're not /.ed. It looks like they just blocked all requests refered by slashdot in order to avoid getting /.ed. If you type their URL manually you can still get in.
I remember a case in either the Russian or Chinese embassy, where the CIA hired the Xerox repair guy to implant a little camera inside the photocopy machine. They were used to seeing him in the building, working on the machine, that nobody suspected anything. And the little camera would capture every document photocopied on the machine.
I had to register several copies of MS software for my office some time ago, and since then I've been receiving a whole lot of newsletters from them. So I followed their instructions on how to unsubscribe, and went to http://www.microsoft.com/info/unsubscribe.htm
Guess what? In order to unsubscribe from their spam, I need to sign up for Passport.
So I set up a procmail filter.
http://www.google.com/search?q=link:http://www.kpm g.com&hl=en&filter=0&num=100&safe=off ;)
I wonder how long it would take for The Prime Number Shitting Bear to reach this number... ;)
How does 100 miles in less than 4 hours by a slightly out of shape 36 year old sound? I recently did a 100 mile ride on my recumbent in under 4 hours. And I'm not in that good of a shape, and my bike is not one of the faster recumbent models (its more of a comfort bike than a speed demon). I have been riding regular bikes since the 1960's, and after trying out recumbents for the first time last year, I'm now fully addicted. Weather permitting, I commute between home and work on my 'bent. 17 miles each way, in New York City traffic.
Official website
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Story on CNN
Actually, due to ongoing litigation, Marc's site is not the best source for this information, since he is not allowed to make any comments regarding his ex business partners. For a better source on the history of Robot Wars and Battlebots, see http://www.robotcombat.com/history.html.
Omar wrote:
>
> But instead of educating and changing killer lifestyle habits, their government steals IP.
You're misinformed here.
Brazil has had one of the most successful AIDS awareness, education, and prevention campaigns in the world for several years now. EVERY country in the world has AIDS nowadays, and Brazil is in the forefront of both prevention and treatment of this disease.
Yes, this case deals with IP infringement. But it is necessary IP infringement. The pharmaceutical companies with their almighty greed shot themselves on the foot on this one by charging such outrageous markups on the drugs they produce. And they know they can charge this markup since the people who need these drugs do not have a choice but to pay. You either pay or die, simple as that. But the problem is that people in poor countries cannot possibly afford the $15,000 dollars per year that the pharmaceutical companies charge for these drugs. For the vast majority of people in the world, AIDS is a death sentence. And trust me, these drugs do save lives. I have friends with AIDS who have been living very good and productive lives for over 15 years now thanks to these drugs.
The Brazilian government is producing the same drugs for a cost of about $700 per person per year. These are exactly the same drugs, manufactured exactly the same way. So the additional $14,300 dollars the pharmaceutical companies charge for these drugs are profit. That is the price they put on a human life. The way they look at it, if you're not willing to pay the 2100% markup, you die.
700 dollars per year is still far too much for most people. But that works in combination with an aggressive AIDS awareness campaign in Brazil that greatly reduced the spread of the disease, so instead of the predicted 1.2 million people infected, actual number of cases is about 500 thousand. So the total cost of treatment went from $18 billion dollars (15k x 1200k) to $350 million (700 x 500k). 350 million is a figure that the government can afford to pay, so the entire treatment is free for the patients!
I am Brazilian, and I have always been a very strong critic of the Brazilian government. Yet every time I read about what they have done in this case makes me want to brake into spontaneous applause.
Cheers.
NewbieSpaz wrote:
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>
> BSD is NOT dying!
Mr. Praline : 'Ello. I wish to register a complaint.
(The owner has his back to the register and does not respond.)
Mr. Praline : 'Ello, Miss?
Owner : (turning around, very angry) What do you mean, "miss"?
Mr. Praline : I'm sorry, I have a cold.
(The owner nods, understanding.)
Mr. Praline : I wish to make a complaint!
Owner : (hurriedly) Sorry, we're closin' for lunch...!
Mr. Praline : Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this OS, what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Owner : Oh yes, the, ah, the FreeBSD... What's, ah... W-what's wrong with it?
Mr. Praline : I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it.
Owner : No, no, 'e's ah... he's resting.
Mr. Praline : Look, matey, I know a dead OS when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Owner : No no, h-he's not dead, he's, he's restin'!
Mr. Praline : Restin'?
Owner : Y-yeah, restin.' Remarkable OS, the FreeBSD, isn't it, eh? Beautiful command line!
Mr. Praline : The command line don't enter into it. It's stone dead!
Owner : Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
Mr. Praline : All right then, if he's resting, I'll wake him up!
(shouting at the system tower)
'Ello, Demon! Mister Demon OS! I've got a lovely fresh OC-3 for you if you wake up, Mr. Demon OS...
(owner hits the monitor)
Owner : There, he moved!
Mr. Praline : No, he didn't, that was you pushing the monitor!
Owner : I never!!
Mr. Praline : Yes, you did!
Owner : I never, never....
(He pulls the hard disk out of the box and screams into it.)
Mr. Praline : 'ELLO DEEEEEEMMMOOONN BEEE-ESSSSS-DEEEEE! DEMON OS! WAKE UP!
(He bangs the disk against the store counter, horribly hard.)
TESTIIIING! TESTIIIING! THIS IS YOUR NINE-O' CLOCK ALARM CALL!
(He does it again, harder.)
BEEE-ESSSSS-DEEEEE!
(He tosses it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor. Longish pause.)
Now that's what I call a dead OS.
Owner : No, no.... No, he's stunned.
Mr. Praline : STUNNED?
Owner : Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! FreeBSDs stun easily, major.
Mr. Praline : Look my lad, I've had just about enough of this. That OS is definitely deceased, and when I bought it not half an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of market share was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long download.
Owner : Well, he's... he's, ah... probably pining for the fjords.
(Praline looks angrily back and forth, stuttering.)
Mr. Praline : PININ' for the FJORDS? What kind of talk is that? Look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home?
Owner : The FreeBSD prefers kippin' on its back! Remarkable OS, isn't it, guv, eh? Lovely command line!
Mr. Praline : (coldly) Look, I took the liberty of examining that OS when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on the hard disk in the first place was that it had been WRITE PROTECTED there.
(pause)
Owner : Well, of course it was write protected there! If I hadn't write protected that OS down, it would have nuzzled up to the ethernet card, hacked its way out with its little trident, and VOOM!
Mr. Praline : "VOOM?"
(Praline puts the system down and take the hard disk into his hands.)
Mr. Praline : Look matey, this OS wouldn't "voom" if you put four thousand volts through it! It's bleedin' demised!
Owner : It's not! I-It's pining!
Mr. Praline : It's not pinin,' it's passed on! This OS is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late OS! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't write protected him to the disk he would be pushing up the daisies! Its active processes are of interest only to historians! It's hopped the twig! It's shuffled off this mortal coil! It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This.... is an EX-OS!
(pause)
Owner : Well, I'd better replace it, then.
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Sorry folks. Couldn't resist!
> The general public, for the most part
> can do nothing to stop this. It is sysadmins
> and those running servers who need to pay
> attention.
Actually, one of the problems is that it is indeed "Joe General Public" who's running many of these servers. They do a full install of NT or W2K on their home or office PCs, or got their machine with the full OS pre-installed, and don't realize that IIS is included and running.
And in the end, we see our hero, watching the ruins of a great masterpiece before his eyes, go down to his knees while yelling out in ultimate outrage: "You finally really did it....... You maniacs! You blew it up! Ahhhh Damn you! God damn you all to hell!!".
No, I'm not talking about the final scene of the original movie. I'm talking about my reaction when I saw this new piece of crap version.
Okay, someone had to do it.... :)
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Yes, Xsucks.com is not a violation of trademark X, but in copyrights disputes if you fail to present a defense, you lose by default. That's what happened in the Guinness case. The defendant never presented a defense, so he lost by default. Had he presented any form of defense, chances are he would have won, just as the defended against Lockheed Martin did.
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Now I'll add a bunch of exclamation points and caps in order to get my point across.
!!!KHHHBOHBASD!!!!!!KJHBKJDBHF!!
Cheers.
If I were to make a hole perpendicular to Queens NY on a globe, the exit wound would be somewhere in the Indian Ocean, about 600 miles west of Cape Leeuwin, Australia. Is that where one would need to go in order to swim in the glow of Ana Ng's majestic presence?
Cheers.
The main problem I have with this is that any it makes it just about impossible for those of us who want to follow other countries' events here in the United States to do so. If NBC's broadcast is similar to the previous Olympics' broadcast, only the events where American athletes and teams compete AND are likely to win medals, will get any coverage. If web broadcasting was allowed, those of us who are foreigners living in this country should be able to follow our nations' events via webcasts from our national news and sports online sites. But without these webcasts, all we can do is read the results in the next day's papers.
efuseekay wrote:
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> Also, samba is an English word
Correction: Samba is a Portuguese word.
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Joao de Souza (Mrs.)
Violence
Brazilian Portuguese Language Police
Actually, its not a dance. Samba is a musical style. The dance follows the music, not the other way around. And some styles of samba are not really danceable, like Samba Canção or Samba de Breque. You try dancing to the Samba de uma nota só. ;)
Okay then. As a Brazilian, I hereby announce that my people will be suing Germany's Standard Anmeldung Meldewesen Banken, for using the name of our trademarked musical style. Our layers will be contacting the German company, as soon as we're finished dancing. ;)
Besides, its not like they are a GOOD soccer team. ;)
Joao "another Brazilian" de Souza
<PYTHON>
Narrator: Good evening. Here is the News for parrots. No parrots were involved in an accident on the M1 today, when a lorry carrying high octane fuel was in collision with a hollard ... that is a bollard and not a parrot. A spokesman for parrots said he was glad no parrots were involved. The Minister of Technology (photo of minister with parrot on his shoulder) today met the three Russian leaders (cut to photograph of Brahnev, Podgomy and Kosygin all in a group and each with a parrot on his shoulder) to discuss a £4 million airliner deal ... (cut back to narrator) None of them went in the cage, or swung on the little wooden trapeze, or ate any of the nice millet seed yam, yam. Thats the end of the news. Now our programmes for parrots continue with part three of 'A Tale of Two Cities' specially adapted for parrots by Joey Boy. The story so far ... Dr Manette is in England after eighteen years (as he speaks French Revolution type music creeps in under his words) in the Baslille. (cut through to a Cruikshank engraving of London). His daughter Lucy awaits her lover Charles Damay, whom we have just learnt is in fact the nephew of the Marquis de St Evremond, whose cruelty had placed Manette in the Bastille. Darnay arrives to find Lucy tending her aged father...
(Superimposed caption: 'LONDON 1793' Music reaches a climax and we mix slowly through to an eighteenth-century living room. Lucy is nursing her father. Some low music continues over. Suddenly the door bursts open and Charles Darnay enters.)
Darnay: (in parrot voice) 'Allo, 'allo.
Lucy: 'Allo, 'allo, 'allo.
Old Man: 'Allo, 'allo, 'allo.
Darnay: Who's a pretty boy, then?
Lucy: 'Allo, 'allo, 'allo.
(And more of the same. Cut back to the narrator.)
Narrator: And while that's going on, here is the news for gibbons. No gibbons were involved today in an accident on the M 1 ...
(The narrator's voice fades.)
</PYTHON>
....the fact that I never got to see it!
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