That's odd...I've got all sorts of nasty chemicals in the garage for killing crabgrass and ants which say something to the effect of "It is a violation of federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with it's stated use." or something like that.
Must be because it's chemical and the FDA gets involved and says "Okay...that's weed killer, not curry sauce."
This however wouldn't apply to the ones picked up from Radio Crack
Well, how does Rat Shack know I have one? I walked in, asked about one, the guy told me the correct name, handed me one, and started to talk about how he wishes he had stock in that company cause what they are doing is going to be everywhere. I smiled, politely said it looks like they have an innovative idea, and took my daughter to the carousel in the food court.
I was never told it was on loan. I opened the bag, pulled out the cue cat, and chucked the rest at the garbage can (which, as usual I missed).
So, what have I aggreed to? The only thing I can see is that "they have an innovative idea".
They don't want people to grab these things to replace the $300 wands (not that they could - they are junk.) They want people to grab them for their data-tracking.
Part of that info sent back in the stream is an ID for the cuecat. This way they can say that the user who scanned this ad, also scanned this ad, and scanned this cd/dvd they have at home/work.
I doubt that they care that someone broke their encryption - big deal. They are probably more concerned that people will be able to use them as just regular bar-code scanners without them getting the needed personal info to sell.
Okay...we have all the geeks going to Radio Shack to pick up their free CueCats (http://www.cuecat.com).
So, while they are there, get a tube of heat sink compound and send it to the north pole. Motorola then brings down Iridium carefully to the arctic ice cap, and we use the metal to make the worlds largest heat sink. Put the compound on the glaciers (make sure to fill the cracks for better transfer!).
If we all do this and it works, then we can all buy the Intel P4's without worry of more global warming.
Besides, I read someplace a while ago (wish I could find the reference) that we are actually in a warm period in the middle of an ice age!
Yes, and you can do this in 5.0 and up. Yes, they fixed the problem. I seems that since you posted above you can't do this in 4, not 5+ you knew this already...so why bother trashing them just for kicks?
Actually, the reason I said that was because the exact thing happened when I was in college. Then their was the time plant ops decided to save money or something and shut down the AC to the machine room - the mainframe made a panic call and shut itself off.
In a perfect world, no power outages, but I'm sure most would agree college is not a perfect world.:)
Doesn't matter. I just did the same thing over two monitors in w98 using D3D instead of software rendering. Works just find on both monitors. Didn't try OpenGL - OpenGL and unreal don't mesh well.
I've read it before, over and over, and it is something that I believe. Most "warez sites/warez kiddies" don't really care what software they have/carry. It's more of a competition to see who can be the first to carry the latest program - which most of them will never use.
I seriously doubt that a low-cost/free alternative would cut down on warez trafficing of the full blown version.
Odd...Misty Mountains isn't on there, which is a domain I have/had - I let it expire, tried to cancel it, but of course Network Solutions seems to have no clue.
And from what it says, they did that. Their french servers (fr.yahoo.com) have been modified to prohibit this kinda action.
However, nothing stops French citizens from going to us.yahoo.com, www.yahoo.com, or anyplace else end getting their daily dose of nazi junk.
Mindspring and Geocities are located in the US. What if someone put a web site up selling off nazi crap on there. Should the french or germans be able to demand that site to be pulled down? It's the same thing as the auctions on yahoo.
No, they don't want yahoo to change their behaviour in the US to comply with french law - they want yahoo to make sure that french citizens can't get to what france deems bad, which would of course force them to change their us operations.
What next - some xxx country wanting yahoo to make sure none of their citizens can get to pictures of women with more skin than their eyelids exposed?
Personally, if I was yahoo, I'd just reject anything from a *.fr address, but that's not good business.
Like I said to my wife - at least he isn't talking about Dingo's.
(There was an animated X-men thing that came out late70's/early 80s, where they had Wolverine talking with an Austrailian accent, and even calling someone a dingo.)
About the only difference I've noticed on MP3's and original CD's that I have is that the originals have a bit better bass response. Other than that they sound good enough - especially when driving in a car that will introduce all sorts of other noises (unless you're an asshole with more speaker than engine).
Also, there is the fact that I could put almost all my Iron Maiden CD's onto one mp3-CD. That right there is worth it...make a CD-RW for a trip and you don't need to be switching CD's in and out at 80MPH+
Yeah...it sounds like it says that regardless of what technology is out there, a consumer can use it for making dupes of something. If I have a tape recorder, or a cd ripper, I can make whatever copies I want of a recording.
However, nowhere in that quoted section do I see anything saying that I have the right to do this to some recording I don't own, or that I have the right to redistribute.
So, I can make the mp3's, but it doesn't say I can let the world download them via napster.
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That's odd...I've got all sorts of nasty chemicals in the garage for killing crabgrass and ants which say something to the effect of "It is a violation of federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with it's stated use." or something like that.
Must be because it's chemical and the FDA gets involved and says "Okay...that's weed killer, not curry sauce."
This however wouldn't apply to the ones picked up from Radio Crack
Well, how does Rat Shack know I have one? I walked in, asked about one, the guy told me the correct name, handed me one, and started to talk about how he wishes he had stock in that company cause what they are doing is going to be everywhere. I smiled, politely said it looks like they have an innovative idea, and took my daughter to the carousel in the food court.
I was never told it was on loan. I opened the bag, pulled out the cue cat, and chucked the rest at the garbage can (which, as usual I missed).
So, what have I aggreed to? The only thing I can see is that "they have an innovative idea".
They don't want people to grab these things to replace the $300 wands (not that they could - they are junk.) They want people to grab them for their data-tracking.
Part of that info sent back in the stream is an ID for the cuecat. This way they can say that the user who scanned this ad, also scanned this ad, and scanned this cd/dvd they have at home/work.
I doubt that they care that someone broke their encryption - big deal. They are probably more concerned that people will be able to use them as just regular bar-code scanners without them getting the needed personal info to sell.
Okay...we have all the geeks going to Radio Shack to pick up their free CueCats (http://www.cuecat.com).
So, while they are there, get a tube of heat sink compound and send it to the north pole. Motorola then brings down Iridium carefully to the arctic ice cap, and we use the metal to make the worlds largest heat sink. Put the compound on the glaciers (make sure to fill the cracks for better transfer!).
If we all do this and it works, then we can all buy the Intel P4's without worry of more global warming.
Besides, I read someplace a while ago (wish I could find the reference) that we are actually in a warm period in the middle of an ice age!
Yes, and you can do this in 5.0 and up. Yes, they fixed the problem. I seems that since you posted above you can't do this in 4, not 5+ you knew this already...so why bother trashing them just for kicks?
Actually, the reason I said that was because the exact thing happened when I was in college. Then their was the time plant ops decided to save money or something and shut down the AC to the machine room - the mainframe made a panic call and shut itself off.
:)
In a perfect world, no power outages, but I'm sure most would agree college is not a perfect world.
Doesn't matter. I just did the same thing over two monitors in w98 using D3D instead of software rendering. Works just find on both monitors. Didn't try OpenGL - OpenGL and unreal don't mesh well.
Really? One of mine plays Unreal and the other plays hide-n-go-seek
And when you have to bring the mainframe down due to some moron cutting power mains or some other reason, all 41,000 customers lose service.
I miss IBM mainframes, the are so cool to play with...ah...college days.
I've read it before, over and over, and it is something that I believe. Most "warez sites/warez kiddies" don't really care what software they have/carry. It's more of a competition to see who can be the first to carry the latest program - which most of them will never use.
I seriously doubt that a low-cost/free alternative would cut down on warez trafficing of the full blown version.
Odd...Misty Mountains isn't on there, which is a domain I have/had - I let it expire, tried to cancel it, but of course Network Solutions seems to have no clue.
That was Georgia Tech. I don't remember all the details, but I think they wanted www.gatech.edu to be in French.
And from what it says, they did that. Their french servers (fr.yahoo.com) have been modified to prohibit this kinda action.
However, nothing stops French citizens from going to us.yahoo.com, www.yahoo.com, or anyplace else end getting their daily dose of nazi junk.
Mindspring and Geocities are located in the US. What if someone put a web site up selling off nazi crap on there. Should the french or germans be able to demand that site to be pulled down? It's the same thing as the auctions on yahoo.
No, they don't want yahoo to change their behaviour in the US to comply with french law - they want yahoo to make sure that french citizens can't get to what france deems bad, which would of course force them to change their us operations.
What next - some xxx country wanting yahoo to make sure none of their citizens can get to pictures of women with more skin than their eyelids exposed?
Personally, if I was yahoo, I'd just reject anything from a *.fr address, but that's not good business.
Don Regan worked for Reagan, but it was never his administration. :)
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Tools|AutoCorrect, AutoFormatting tab
Yes...it's a stupid place to put it, implying that their autoformatting is correcting your errors.
Correction: 1989's Pryde of the X-men is what I was thinking of - it's even worse than the Spiderman appearance.
turn the "feature" off and stop whining.
Like I said to my wife - at least he isn't talking about Dingo's.
(There was an animated X-men thing that came out late70's/early 80s, where they had Wolverine talking with an Austrailian accent, and even calling someone a dingo.)
(a) Consolidate free software web sites under a common TLD -- freeing up SLDs under .com and .org and .net
.oss is much better. .opensoft is even better!
not if you think RMS is a blind, egotistical idiot.
.gnu is a terrible idea. The
About the only difference I've noticed on MP3's and original CD's that I have is that the originals have a bit better bass response. Other than that they sound good enough - especially when driving in a car that will introduce all sorts of other noises (unless you're an asshole with more speaker than engine).
Also, there is the fact that I could put almost all my Iron Maiden CD's onto one mp3-CD. That right there is worth it...make a CD-RW for a trip and you don't need to be switching CD's in and out at 80MPH+
Yeah...it sounds like it says that regardless of what technology is out there, a consumer can use it for making dupes of something. If I have a tape recorder, or a cd ripper, I can make whatever copies I want of a recording.
However, nowhere in that quoted section do I see anything saying that I have the right to do this to some recording I don't own, or that I have the right to redistribute.
So, I can make the mp3's, but it doesn't say I can let the world download them via napster.
Wow...I got fast downloads from that site...though I think I already had everything they had :)
Look at commercial-archive.com, where those came from - they have Real versions.
Regardless, Slashdot is a community for geeks and nerds, not for linux users - right?
I don't care how many times they rewrite it, what platform/program/etc... they write it for. I suck at Pac-Man!