RFID tags to find my TV remote
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Don't RFID tags have a range of just a few feet. It would be cool to put tags on my remote, keys, cell phone etc, then just walk around the house with a scanner each time I lose something. Anyone know how much a home scanner and tags would cost?
I you want the source code then email them and ask them?
Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; They have a contact us link, use it.
Didn't the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 impose a tax on media that was meant to reimbure the industry from pirating? (I don't know if it applies to cd's or just tapes)
Is it still stealing if we pay taxes to refund them for stealing?
SCO DID distribute the stuff. Under your theory I can take any GPL'd program, add in my own code. Distribute the code then go back and say, "Oh my propriatary code accidentally got into the GPL'd code, I give a license to everyone who paid me money, but nuts to those other guys." SCO wants to have it both ways and the GPL says that you can't. SCO DID distribute GPL'd code so now it either has to abide by the GPL or not. SCO can't give a special license to its friends.
# b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
Wouldn't that mean that code that SCO distributed in the last three years must be made available?
Then Linus could send a letter to those people that SCO gave a license to and say "SCO gave you a license to 50 lines of code, but you can't use the other 30000 lines of code because SCO's codes is not GPL'd"
The GPL does prevent SCO from deciding who can and can't use the linux kernel.
"A very well-known top lawyer at the RIAA, while making threats of further legal actions, referred to himself as a 'dentist' that I would not want to 'have another visit with'"
Could this be an ethics violation? Each state bar association has its own ethics rules. It could be possible that making threats like this, threating to rescind a lawsuit etc.., could be an ethics violation. Especially if it was done without any legal basis and only as a threat. It might be good to file an ethics complaint with that states bar. It might not get him punished, but it would probably be a thorn in his side.
A law professor of mine was a US attorney. He said that when they had a case against a mafia figure, the mob attornyes would ALWAYS file an ethics complaint against the prosecutors. The complaints always proved false, but they would show that the mob was willing to fight hard and would sometimes shake up the government attorney. Having an ongoing ethics investigation could prevent an attorney from getting a new job, promotion etc.
That is not necessarily true. You could say the same about no competition clauses but courts routinely strike them down. So like it or not, how fair or unfair the settlement was does matter. Routinely settlements can't go against public policy. Courts don't like settlement that keep people from doing basic things like working, prevention of free speech (in narrow areas) etc.
If the settlement is way too one sided (not a little bit, but a WHOLE lot, then a court may strike it down.)
I wonder if telemarketing laws would apply? I know it is not a voice call they are making, but if they send a message to a number that is on a do not call list could they be fined?
My front door is quickly accessable by about 400,000 people. So I guess I had better go down to home depot. Damn my car is parked outside. Probably 20,000+ people drive by it everyday. Maybe I should install some bullet proof glass. Oh shit, when I went to the mall I walked by 1000s of people that might try to mug me, I should start to carry a sub-machine gun.
So if I lock my door, some criminal breaks down my door and robs my house under your theory:
The people who got paged in the middle of the night were probably the same people who didn't put up a strong enough door on your house. The world is so big and far reaching now, if you put a regular wood door rather than a fort knox grade steel door, it will get hacked.
Tell that to the guys who got the pager call in the middle of the night and had to get up leave their wife and kids, go in to work and fix this. The kid should pay, not because he killed an Orc/B. He should pay because he disrupted a business, and caused them monetary damages. The kid should have least have to pay for all of the overtime he caused.
People crazy enough to do this sort of thing would prefere to do something more destructive than denying internet service for a day or two.
I think you don't understand how crazy people can be. Where I live just about every road sign is full of bullet holes made by bored kids/rednecks. I blimp would be a perfect target for a drunken night of vandalism. Remember the drunk guy that show the hole in the Alaskan pipeline?
http://www.adn.com/front/story/712078p-752606c.htm l
Yep that is it. Radio Shack (aka Tandy). Has a mal l with their corporate headquarters. Employees and mall shoppers could park in the subway lot which was a few blocks away and down a hill. They could then ride to the mall in an airconditioned subway car. Much better than walking up the hill on 110 degree Texas summer day.
They recently sold the mall and coporate headquarters and are building a new headquarters a few miles away.
TMNT is still alive and kicking. Here is the listing from yahoo. Note the original airdate. KMCI May 17 08:00am Add to My Calendar Series/Family, 30 Mins.
"Notes From the Underground", Episode #113. The turtles unearth a laboratory where they learn more about Shredder's agenda.
Cast: Frank Frankson, Michael Sinterniklaas, Sam Regal, Wayne Grayson, Darren Dunstan, Veronica Taylor, Scottie Ray, Marc Thompson. Director(s): Chuck Patton, Lloyd Goldfine, Peter Laird. Producer(s): Al Kahn, Norman J. Grossfeld, Gary Richardson, Frederick U. First. Writer(s): Mike Ryan, Marty Eisenberg, Eric Luke, Greg Johnson.
You can't have guns or fighting childrens cartoons anymore.
Have you actually watched any kids cartoons lately? They are still full of violence.
Jackie Chan -- full of hand to hand combat
Pokemon -- little animals shooting fireballs and lighting at each other.
Power Rangers -- lots of fighting and shooting there.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -- lots of fighting
The car service manual analogy is interesting. I wonder how the public would react if Ford sued Chilton, using the DMCA? There are plenty of aftermarket carbs, cam shafts, mod chips etc for cars. What would prevent Ford or GM from applying the DMCA on aftermarket parts manufacturers?
Ford has a copyright on the engine design and wants to control access to the design. By taking an engine apart you can thwart their control and get the engine design. They bolt the engine togther pretty tight, so that is their copyright protection.
Babys are good excuse for gadgets. Here are some ideas:
1. PVR. Here is my setup. I use my linux box to record my favorite TV shows, then watch them back on my Zaurus over my wireless card. That whay I can watch TV while I rock my baby to sleep.
2. Get a digital camera. The grandparents live out of state, so I set up a website. (great excuse to learn PHP)
3. Get the wooden train sets (Brio, Thomas the Tank Engine) not the plastic or metal ones.
Most of all have fun with your kid. He will be your best buddy (except when you don't let him have his candy).
Now if someone would just design a linux powered potty trainer.
Iraq's Kurds see US invasion as a double-edged sword from yahoo news . The Kurds want an independant state. Which I don't think we will give them. If you look back in history, Ho Chi Min welcomed US support to fight the Japanese. After fighting the Japanese, they wanted an indepedant state and look what happend.
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Don't RFID tags have a range of just a few feet. It would be cool to put tags on my remote, keys, cell phone etc, then just walk around the house with a scanner each time I lose something. Anyone know how much a home scanner and tags would cost?
I you want the source code then email them and ask them?
Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;
They have a contact us link, use it.
Didn't the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 impose a tax on media that was meant to reimbure the industry from pirating? (I don't know if it applies to cd's or just tapes)
Is it still stealing if we pay taxes to refund them for stealing?
SCO DID distribute the stuff. Under your theory I can take any GPL'd program, add in my own code. Distribute the code then go back and say, "Oh my propriatary code accidentally got into the GPL'd code, I give a license to everyone who paid me money, but nuts to those other guys." SCO wants to have it both ways and the GPL says that you can't. SCO DID distribute GPL'd code so now it either has to abide by the GPL or not. SCO can't give a special license to its friends.
# b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
Wouldn't that mean that code that SCO distributed in the last three years must be made available?
Then Linus could send a letter to those people that SCO gave a license to and say "SCO gave you a license to 50 lines of code, but you can't use the other 30000 lines of code because SCO's codes is not GPL'd"
The GPL does prevent SCO from deciding who can and can't use the linux kernel.
Could this be an ethics violation? Each state bar association has its own ethics rules. It could be possible that making threats like this, threating to rescind a lawsuit etc.., could be an ethics violation. Especially if it was done without any legal basis and only as a threat. It might be good to file an ethics complaint with that states bar. It might not get him punished, but it would probably be a thorn in his side.
A law professor of mine was a US attorney. He said that when they had a case against a mafia figure, the mob attornyes would ALWAYS file an ethics complaint against the prosecutors. The complaints always proved false, but they would show that the mob was willing to fight hard and would sometimes shake up the government attorney. Having an ongoing ethics investigation could prevent an attorney from getting a new job, promotion etc.
IANAL
That is not necessarily true. You could say the same about no competition clauses but courts routinely strike them down. So like it or not, how fair or unfair the settlement was does matter. Routinely settlements can't go against public policy. Courts don't like settlement that keep people from doing basic things like working, prevention of free speech (in narrow areas) etc.
If the settlement is way too one sided (not a little bit, but a WHOLE lot, then a court may strike it down.)
I wonder if telemarketing laws would apply? I know it is not a voice call they are making, but if they send a message to a number that is on a do not call list could they be fined?
How about telling us how we can help?
My front door is quickly accessable by about 400,000 people. So I guess I had better go down to home depot. Damn my car is parked outside. Probably 20,000+ people drive by it everyday. Maybe I should install some bullet proof glass. Oh shit, when I went to the mall I walked by 1000s of people that might try to mug me, I should start to carry a sub-machine gun.
So if I lock my door, some criminal breaks down my door and robs my house under your theory: The people who got paged in the middle of the night were probably the same people who didn't put up a strong enough door on your house. The world is so big and far reaching now, if you put a regular wood door rather than a fort knox grade steel door, it will get hacked.
Tell that to the guys who got the pager call in the middle of the night and had to get up leave their wife and kids, go in to work and fix this. The kid should pay, not because he killed an Orc/B. He should pay because he disrupted a business, and caused them monetary damages. The kid should have least have to pay for all of the overtime he caused.
People crazy enough to do this sort of thing would prefere to do something more destructive than denying internet service for a day or two.
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I think you don't understand how crazy people can be. Where I live just about every road sign is full of bullet holes made by bored kids/rednecks. I blimp would be a perfect target for a drunken night of vandalism. Remember the drunk guy that show the hole in the Alaskan pipeline? http://www.adn.com/front/story/712078p-752606c.ht
Yep that is it. Radio Shack (aka Tandy). Has a mal l with their corporate headquarters. Employees and mall shoppers could park in the subway lot which was a few blocks away and down a hill. They could then ride to the mall in an airconditioned subway car. Much better than walking up the hill on 110 degree Texas summer day.
They recently sold the mall and coporate headquarters and are building a new headquarters a few miles away.
TMNT is still alive and kicking. Here is the listing from yahoo. Note the original airdate.
KMCI May 17 08:00am Add to My Calendar
Series/Family, 30 Mins.
"Notes From the Underground", Episode #113.
The turtles unearth a laboratory where they learn more about Shredder's agenda.
Cast: Frank Frankson, Michael Sinterniklaas, Sam Regal, Wayne Grayson, Darren Dunstan, Veronica Taylor, Scottie Ray, Marc Thompson.
Director(s): Chuck Patton, Lloyd Goldfine, Peter Laird.
Producer(s): Al Kahn, Norman J. Grossfeld, Gary Richardson, Frederick U. First.
Writer(s): Mike Ryan, Marty Eisenberg, Eric Luke, Greg Johnson.
Original Airdate: May 10, 2003.
You can't have guns or fighting childrens cartoons anymore.
Have you actually watched any kids cartoons lately? They are still full of violence.
Jackie Chan -- full of hand to hand combat
Pokemon -- little animals shooting fireballs and lighting at each other.
Power Rangers -- lots of fighting and shooting there.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -- lots of fighting
The car service manual analogy is interesting. I wonder how the public would react if Ford sued Chilton, using the DMCA? There are plenty of aftermarket carbs, cam shafts, mod chips etc for cars. What would prevent Ford or GM from applying the DMCA on aftermarket parts manufacturers?
Ford has a copyright on the engine design and wants to control access to the design. By taking an engine apart you can thwart their control and get the engine design. They bolt the engine togther pretty tight, so that is their copyright protection.
I spent $45 on a TV card and put it in a computer I already owned. So I saved $155 up front, plus whatever the monthly subscription is.
Maybe $155 isn't much to you, but it was much easier to slip $45 past the wife, than $200.
Babys are good excuse for gadgets. Here are some ideas:
1. PVR. Here is my setup. I use my linux box to record my favorite TV shows, then watch them back on my Zaurus over my wireless card. That whay I can watch TV while I rock my baby to sleep.
2. Get a digital camera. The grandparents live out of state, so I set up a website. (great excuse to learn PHP)
3. Get the wooden train sets (Brio, Thomas the Tank Engine) not the plastic or metal ones.
Most of all have fun with your kid. He will be your best buddy (except when you don't let him have his candy).
Now if someone would just design a linux powered potty trainer.
Lets hope not.
Iraq's Kurds see US invasion as a double-edged sword from yahoo news . The Kurds want an independant state. Which I don't think we will give them. If you look back in history, Ho Chi Min welcomed US support to fight the Japanese. After fighting the Japanese, they wanted an indepedant state and look what happend.
What does 4.0 have that msyql-max 3.23 not have? I switched to mysql-max so I could use InnoDB.
Also I think vegetable oil smells alot better than diesel fuel.
What about that stuff in the Koran or the book of Morman? Isn't that God's laws too?