"This is one of the major problems with the DMCA. By negating the need for a court order to be allowed to send these orders they have opened the door to thousands of frivolous and invalid claims. Companies that have made invalid claims such as this one should be punished."
You should read the DMCA. Any DMCA accusation made comes under penalty of perjury. If this guy cared to press charges, he could charge the company with perjury.
Could you please chill out and think of an RFID tag as a slightly-longer-ranged barcode? It uses radio instead of lazers to read the number, and it can be read from a few meters away instead of a few inches, but it is otherwise just a barcode! And just as you can scratch out a barcode, you can break, or microwae, or whatever an RFID tag. Don't get your panties in a bunch.
You are assuming only malicious persons would review the source code. I bet if there were open source voting software, people the world over would pour over it just to make sure their vote would be counted! You would have so much peer review, the system could be bulletproof.
I call bullshit! My Rayovac Renewals (and I had plenty) were worthless after a few charges, and they could never run my PDA or digital cammera for a useable ammount of time. Renewals (rechargeable alkaline) were the WORST batteries I have ever used!
Your phone is designed to recharge NiCads and you are using it to charge NiMHs? I'm not a chemist, but common sense (and many warning labels) says that putting batteries in the wrong type of charger can cause explosions. Don't be surprised if you are talking on the phone and you lose half your face. "My friend does it" is not in any way proof of the safety of what you are doing.
I have a Rayovac 3in1 charger that does NiCad, NiMh, and Rechargable Alkaline batteries.
The rechargeable alkaline are CRAP. They are worthless after their first recharge in things like PDAs and digital cammeras.
NiCads are also a poor substitue for regular alkalines. They are weak and suffer from memory problems.
The NiMH batteries work great. I use them in all of my devices. They cost like $4/battery though. I have been using them for about two years and none of my batteries are noticably degraded in output or length of charge. They don't have the memory problems of NiCads.
There are also Lithium Ion batteries, but they are way to expensive for me to evaluate.
'Give me enough parallel data, and you can have a translation system in hours'
Give me enough data, and I can instantly give you a translation system. And mine requires no statistical analysis or anything like that. All I need as input is every possible phrase in both languages. Nyah!
It is not the names that matter. The RIAA is demanding that ISPs give them the home address of the owner of the internet account that was on at a certain date and time, and had KaZaA running with that user name. The name alone would be meaningless. They need the IP, time, and ISP cooperation.
Yeah, we have no choice about RFID tags! Next thing you know, those privacy-destroying stores will be printing BARCODES on EVERYTHING! And the government will be assigning each citizen a distinct number so they can use their DATABASES on us!
If you knew the difference between patents and copyrights you wouldn't be asking this question. If you come up with a device, anyone can build and proffit from it unless you patent it. Writing a book about it gives you no claims to it without the patent.
Wow, the way you say it, it does sound like an imaginary CRT-perceived life is better than a real one. I am sure you are having great fun at it. Keep having fun while the rest of us are getting laid.
You mean the language doesn't make a temp which contains matrix1+matrix2 and then rename the matrix3 variable to be that temp? I mean, the temp isn't needed anymore.
And if Linux were easy to install and configure, it would take less of your time, and therefore be cheaper. By that reasoning, the better Linux the cheaper, and hence worse (get what you pay for) it is. Hrmm.
This whole "peace through strength" mindset is total bullshit
Could you explain this to me? What better way is there to defend a country from attack than to make it obvious that any country that attacks us will lose? No one attacking us sounds like peace to me. We are the wealthiest and therefore need to protect our wealth. Why is peace through strength wrong? You provied no support at all for your argument.
We used OOo to write a 1,000+ page software documentation. It worked very well, except for a few bugs that caused crashes or being unable to edit tables at the tops of pages. But that was in the 1.0.1 days. I think these bugs are fixed now. The thing was, when we tried to convert it to Word it went to total, unreadable shit. In fact, every time I have tried to save anything but the most trivial OOo doc in word format, it has failed horribly. It made files that hung Word upon opening. So, in our experience, OOo is great as long as you never have to share your documents with someone using MS office.
Every time there is an article about patents, somebody posts his "clever" idea of patenting patents, and every time, he gets modded to +5. When will the maddness ever end?
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No doubt. When the crossbow was invented, the Pope declared it an evil weapon.
"Are people in third world countries more likely to endager their lives because their life expectancy is only half that of the first world?"
Yes.
Think suicide bombers, mercenaries, etc. You just don't get many of those in the "first world."
"This is one of the major problems with the DMCA. By negating the need for a court order to be allowed to send these orders they have opened the door to thousands of frivolous and invalid claims. Companies that have made invalid claims such as this one should be punished."
You should read the DMCA. Any DMCA accusation made comes under penalty of perjury. If this guy cared to press charges, he could charge the company with perjury.
Could you please chill out and think of an RFID tag as a slightly-longer-ranged barcode? It uses radio instead of lazers to read the number, and it can be read from a few meters away instead of a few inches, but it is otherwise just a barcode! And just as you can scratch out a barcode, you can break, or microwae, or whatever an RFID tag. Don't get your panties in a bunch.
You are assuming only malicious persons would review the source code. I bet if there were open source voting software, people the world over would pour over it just to make sure their vote would be counted! You would have so much peer review, the system could be bulletproof.
I call bullshit! My Rayovac Renewals (and I had plenty) were worthless after a few charges, and they could never run my PDA or digital cammera for a useable ammount of time. Renewals (rechargeable alkaline) were the WORST batteries I have ever used!
Your phone is designed to recharge NiCads and you are using it to charge NiMHs? I'm not a chemist, but common sense (and many warning labels) says that putting batteries in the wrong type of charger can cause explosions. Don't be surprised if you are talking on the phone and you lose half your face. "My friend does it" is not in any way proof of the safety of what you are doing.
I have a Rayovac 3in1 charger that does NiCad, NiMh, and Rechargable Alkaline batteries.
The rechargeable alkaline are CRAP. They are worthless after their first recharge in things like PDAs and digital cammeras.
NiCads are also a poor substitue for regular alkalines. They are weak and suffer from memory problems.
The NiMH batteries work great. I use them in all of my devices. They cost like $4/battery though. I have been using them for about two years and none of my batteries are noticably degraded in output or length of charge. They don't have the memory problems of NiCads.
There are also Lithium Ion batteries, but they are way to expensive for me to evaluate.
'Give me enough parallel data, and you can have a translation system in hours'
Give me enough data, and I can instantly give you a translation system. And mine requires no statistical analysis or anything like that. All I need as input is every possible phrase in both languages. Nyah!
It is not the names that matter. The RIAA is demanding that ISPs give them the home address of the owner of the internet account that was on at a certain date and time, and had KaZaA running with that user name. The name alone would be meaningless. They need the IP, time, and ISP cooperation.
Sept 2003 to whenever I have to come home again
Sorry about losing your job dude, it's a tough economy.
Yeah, we have no choice about RFID tags! Next thing you know, those privacy-destroying stores will be printing BARCODES on EVERYTHING! And the government will be assigning each citizen a distinct number so they can use their DATABASES on us!
If you knew the difference between patents and copyrights you wouldn't be asking this question. If you come up with a device, anyone can build and proffit from it unless you patent it. Writing a book about it gives you no claims to it without the patent.
Wow, the way you say it, it does sound like an imaginary CRT-perceived life is better than a real one. I am sure you are having great fun at it. Keep having fun while the rest of us are getting laid.
You sound like someone who has never had to work on a project with other people or maintain someone else's code.
You mean the language doesn't make a temp which contains matrix1+matrix2 and then rename the matrix3 variable to be that temp? I mean, the temp isn't needed anymore.
And if Linux were easy to install and configure, it would take less of your time, and therefore be cheaper. By that reasoning, the better Linux the cheaper, and hence worse (get what you pay for) it is. Hrmm.
This whole "peace through strength" mindset is total bullshit
Could you explain this to me? What better way is there to defend a country from attack than to make it obvious that any country that attacks us will lose? No one attacking us sounds like peace to me. We are the wealthiest and therefore need to protect our wealth. Why is peace through strength wrong? You provied no support at all for your argument.
Delivering weapons quickly is more important than deivering people quickly. Chill out.
"Has anyone figured out how to get the escape pod going?"
Yes. Enter:
press power
pull throttle
But then I just die. Anybody know how to make that damn pod not blow up in space?
We were our own "Boss." There was nobod to fire us. And the documentation was requested in paper form.
Saving to intermediate formats loses lots of things (headers, tables, etc) so that won't work.
We used OOo to write a 1,000+ page software documentation. It worked very well, except for a few bugs that caused crashes or being unable to edit tables at the tops of pages. But that was in the 1.0.1 days. I think these bugs are fixed now. The thing was, when we tried to convert it to Word it went to total, unreadable shit. In fact, every time I have tried to save anything but the most trivial OOo doc in word format, it has failed horribly. It made files that hung Word upon opening. So, in our experience, OOo is great as long as you never have to share your documents with someone using MS office.
Check your mailbox.
Every time there is an article about patents, somebody posts his "clever" idea of patenting patents, and every time, he gets modded to +5. When will the maddness ever end?