There is a way to enforce a rental concept - MS Windows Media DRM has the ability to grant licenses that expire after a certain time. Check www.movielink.com as an example of a service that uses it. You download a movie, then have 24 hours of use from the time you first play the file. After the 24 hours you have this wonderfully useless file sitting on your computer taking up space.
Now, their prices are currently a little steep for a one night rental... but that's not a technological problem. What you want is possible.
Re:Cell phone jamming on private property
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Being the primary service in the bands they are located, the cell phone providers are entitled to interference protection throughout their service contour, regardless of private property or not. By emitting a signal to purposely interfere, if someone complains, the FCC will likely fine the perpetrator and confiscate the equipment (if they can find him).
What IS entirely legal however is to design your building such that cell phone signals are unable to penetrate it...For example, by making your building a faraday cage. This I think could be a lucrative business - retrofitting movie theaters to block (not interfere with) the cell phone frequencies.
But, when happens when the closed/proprietary door is opened?!
It simply proves the previous author correct! The open(ed) source is less secure than the same code closed source. And if it's not, why are we worried about the repercussions of this release?
All this thread needs is about 65 more comments to get itself into the Hall of Fame for most active stories!
Re:Scooby Snacks: Think of the butter
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Assuming they did provide the butter (a huge assumption)...
If you steal butter from the grocery store to bake your cake, is the grocery store entitled to be compensated for the value of the entire cake? There are a lot of other ingredients (cake mix, eggs, chocolate, milk...) properly paid for or made from scratch in that cake.
And you can always bake that same cake using margarine or crisco to grease the pan.
I'm not certain, but this looks to me like it would have been in the path of where they drove the rover to the bedrock...might we have our first case of Martian Roadkill?
My favorite meetings are the ones where the boss tells us "Okay, you guys get together and figure out how to do this." He then shows up to the meeting and proceeds to tell us what we're going to do. When we try to explain that there may be better options, he pulls out the "I've got 31 years of experience" card, and ends the meeting...
We just wait until he leaves the room and then get back to work:)
What I find extraordinarily ironic is that, in the article there is a picture of some McAfee workers testing anti-virus software - The main guy you see in that picture is pressing 'ctrl-alt-del'
Even the people fixing the problems are brainwashed into that mentality!
This is no different than college profs spending an entire class hour explaining how they would like papers to be formatted. Or TPS report cover sheets. Or any other stylistic guideline. It's a common occurrance, and as this only applies to the state department, the general public will not be affected in the least by this.
It's not like all AIM users will be forced to use TNR 14, black on white background....though that might not be a bad thing if they were. Those damn hot pink on lime green fonts are simply painful.
that is, until thunderstorms hit. Sure, you'll get great broadband when it's sunny outside - but on those rainy days when you really want it because there's nothing else to do, you're screwed. Err, blown...(away).
With the fairly new Xerox color copy machine I tried, it printed an image containing the dot pattern just fine, but would not make a color copy of the image it just printed. It will happily make a B&W copy.
So basically, you can print whatever you want, at least with this particular machine.
Now, putting the circle design on webpage images might effectively limit Photoshopping contests - I'd be looking for it soon in AP photos and the like.
The FCC will not make it illegal to copy TV shows...all the work that they are doing regarding copyright stuff is to make it difficult for a CE manufacturer to create a device designed to record stuff then dump it straight to the internet - Thus redistribution control. The broadcast flag in no way restricts you from copying a a TV program. But you won't be able to make a perfect serial copy of your recording.
It would still take less time to accept a patent than to reject one. Therefore no change would be effected.
What you would have to do is take them off the quota system, so that they get paid the same regardless of how many applications they review. This would, however, make getting a patent incredibly slow (might not be a bad thing - fewer stupid applications if it takes a really long time)
Or reduce the paperwork involved in rejecting an application. Simply make rejecting and accepting equal amounts of work - then hold the reviewers responsible if a patent has been granted when it shouldn't be.
Or open up the patent system to a public review on each application. So that the public could look through the pending patent applications, and make comments, submit examples of prior art, etc. Then follow that by an equal amount of paperwork for acceptance or rejectance.
How long have they been making their panels out of recycled materials like this? Somehow I doubt it's more than 20 years.
AstroPower began as a division of Astrosystems Inc., founded in 1983 as an outgrowth of semiconductor work initiated at the University of Delaware. In 1989, the company was incorporated in Delaware. from here
The company has only been around for barely 20 years. They could not have been mass producing recycled panels immediately thereafter. So I don't see how you can make a claim of "they usually last longer than 20 years."
This Zenith from Circuit City is what I have, and it has an "Autoplay" option, which will automatically start the main movie when the disc is put in, skipping menus and such. Quite handy.
that would be incredibly easy to jam if using the FM freqs...if a system like that were created, I would imagine it to be a radar system up in the 76 GHz band where there's an allocation for unlicensed vehicular radar...the results of which of course would be transmitted to the vehicles using this new 5.9 GHz allocation.
The thing is that the different region codes gives the studios an excuse to release at different times. If all DVDs worked everywhere, then there would be no ability to delay a release in a prticular region, or to release at a substantially different price.
WHY a studio would have different release time is beyond the scope of his argument. He just notes that eliminating the region coding would prevent the studios from shooting themselves in the foot on a regular basis.
Does MS still release patches for Win95? What about those people still stuck on it? Besides...for the most part I'd be willing to wager that those people still running 95/98 on old hardware are the ones that never download patches anyway, because they're on dial-ups if any 'net connection at all.
Perhaps the entertainment industry doesn't need to give as much money to the Republicans because they're already got them in thier pocket? They're still trying to buy the democrats, so they have to dump more money toward them.
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There is a way to enforce a rental concept - MS Windows Media DRM has the ability to grant licenses that expire after a certain time. Check www.movielink.com as an example of a service that uses it. You download a movie, then have 24 hours of use from the time you first play the file. After the 24 hours you have this wonderfully useless file sitting on your computer taking up space.
Now, their prices are currently a little steep for a one night rental... but that's not a technological problem. What you want is possible.
The average IQ can't go up. It's defined as 100.
Being the primary service in the bands they are located, the cell phone providers are entitled to interference protection throughout their service contour, regardless of private property or not. By emitting a signal to purposely interfere, if someone complains, the FCC will likely fine the perpetrator and confiscate the equipment (if they can find him).
What IS entirely legal however is to design your building such that cell phone signals are unable to penetrate it...For example, by making your building a faraday cage. This I think could be a lucrative business - retrofitting movie theaters to block (not interfere with) the cell phone frequencies.
But, when happens when the closed/proprietary door is opened?!
It simply proves the previous author correct! The open(ed) source is less secure than the same code closed source. And if it's not, why are we worried about the repercussions of this release?
--purposely facetious. don't hate me.
All this thread needs is about 65 more comments to get itself into the Hall of Fame for most active stories!
Assuming they did provide the butter (a huge assumption)...
If you steal butter from the grocery store to bake your cake, is the grocery store entitled to be compensated for the value of the entire cake? There are a lot of other ingredients (cake mix, eggs, chocolate, milk...) properly paid for or made from scratch in that cake.
And you can always bake that same cake using margarine or crisco to grease the pan.
I'm not certain, but this looks to me like it would have been in the path of where they drove the rover to the bedrock...might we have our first case of Martian Roadkill?
My favorite meetings are the ones where the boss tells us "Okay, you guys get together and figure out how to do this." He then shows up to the meeting and proceeds to tell us what we're going to do. When we try to explain that there may be better options, he pulls out the "I've got 31 years of experience" card, and ends the meeting...
:)
We just wait until he leaves the room and then get back to work
What I find extraordinarily ironic is that, in the article there is a picture of some McAfee workers testing anti-virus software - The main guy you see in that picture is pressing 'ctrl-alt-del'
Even the people fixing the problems are brainwashed into that mentality!
You spend a lot of time chatting with preteen girls, jgabby?
Don't tell the FBI, please.
This is no different than college profs spending an entire class hour explaining how they would like papers to be formatted. Or TPS report cover sheets. Or any other stylistic guideline. It's a common occurrance, and as this only applies to the state department, the general public will not be affected in the least by this.
It's not like all AIM users will be forced to use TNR 14, black on white background....though that might not be a bad thing if they were. Those damn hot pink on lime green fonts are simply painful.
Another problem is that to get from the Positive state to the Negative state, you have to cross through the Ground state.
that is, until thunderstorms hit. Sure, you'll get great broadband when it's sunny outside - but on those rainy days when you really want it because there's nothing else to do, you're screwed. Err, blown...(away).
With the fairly new Xerox color copy machine I tried, it printed an image containing the dot pattern just fine, but would not make a color copy of the image it just printed. It will happily make a B&W copy.
So basically, you can print whatever you want, at least with this particular machine.
Now, putting the circle design on webpage images might effectively limit Photoshopping contests - I'd be looking for it soon in AP photos and the like.
The FCC will not make it illegal to copy TV shows...all the work that they are doing regarding copyright stuff is to make it difficult for a CE manufacturer to create a device designed to record stuff then dump it straight to the internet - Thus redistribution control. The broadcast flag in no way restricts you from copying a a TV program. But you won't be able to make a perfect serial copy of your recording.
And we all remember how well this worked at Jurrasic Park.
It would still take less time to accept a patent than to reject one. Therefore no change would be effected.
What you would have to do is take them off the quota system, so that they get paid the same regardless of how many applications they review. This would, however, make getting a patent incredibly slow (might not be a bad thing - fewer stupid applications if it takes a really long time)
Or reduce the paperwork involved in rejecting an application. Simply make rejecting and accepting equal amounts of work - then hold the reviewers responsible if a patent has been granted when it shouldn't be.
Or open up the patent system to a public review on each application. So that the public could look through the pending patent applications, and make comments, submit examples of prior art, etc. Then follow that by an equal amount of paperwork for acceptance or rejectance.
How long have they been making their panels out of recycled materials like this? Somehow I doubt it's more than 20 years.
AstroPower began as a division of Astrosystems Inc., founded in 1983 as an outgrowth of semiconductor work initiated at the University of Delaware. In 1989, the company was incorporated in Delaware. from here
The company has only been around for barely 20 years. They could not have been mass producing recycled panels immediately thereafter. So I don't see how you can make a claim of "they usually last longer than 20 years."
This Zenith from Circuit City is what I have, and it has an "Autoplay" option, which will automatically start the main movie when the disc is put in, skipping menus and such. Quite handy.
that would be incredibly easy to jam if using the FM freqs...if a system like that were created, I would imagine it to be a radar system up in the 76 GHz band where there's an allocation for unlicensed vehicular radar...the results of which of course would be transmitted to the vehicles using this new 5.9 GHz allocation.
The thing is that the different region codes gives the studios an excuse to release at different times. If all DVDs worked everywhere, then there would be no ability to delay a release in a prticular region, or to release at a substantially different price.
WHY a studio would have different release time is beyond the scope of his argument. He just notes that eliminating the region coding would prevent the studios from shooting themselves in the foot on a regular basis.
"What's the airspeed velocity of a coconut laden swallow? ...Martian or Terran time scale?"
Here says that the DHS scored a 34 ... the lowest of all the agencies surveyed. Way to go, guys!
Does MS still release patches for Win95? What about those people still stuck on it? Besides...for the most part I'd be willing to wager that those people still running 95/98 on old hardware are the ones that never download patches anyway, because they're on dial-ups if any 'net connection at all.
Perhaps the entertainment industry doesn't need to give as much money to the Republicans because they're already got them in thier pocket? They're still trying to buy the democrats, so they have to dump more money toward them.
Just an alternate theory.