I wonder if they overclocked it. Don't laugh, I'm completely serious. We use to do that to C64's back then. All you had to do was throw a slightly faster chystal in there and the system ran faster (although we would actually mount the old and new crystals on a toggle switch since fast-mode would break some things).
wow, thanks for the link. that was fascinating, especially the "Cotton Tie Case." I'm almost dumbfounded by the concept of licensing non-copywrited works. what a weird world we live in!
The law on that point is that the authors have already received all they can expect on the basis of the first sale of the book; they cannot expect nor deserve more. This was codified by the US Supreme Court saying exactly that, back in 1910.
IANAL either, but what if book publishers start licensing books to consumers, the same way music, software and movies are licensed. Won't this get around any established first-sale laws? I wonder if a book could have a legal clause on the back that says something to the effect of "by purchasing this book you agree to be the sole user of this material..." I know this might be hard to enforce with paper books, but E-Books might replace them sometime. Of course assuming the material was encrypted, in order to break the agreement spelled out in the license (a civil breach-of-contracr action I think) you would have to perform the criminal act of circumventing a copy protection device (laid out by the DMCA). The end result saves the company from having to sue each and every little home user, and instead lets our tax dollars be used to prosecute ourselves for wanting to do what the Supreme Court said we could back in 1910!
In the meantime, I expect publishers to dip into their rainy-day fund and try to buy a few laws to make used book sellers pay royalties to the publisher and (maybe) the author.
(Oh, and by the way, I'm pissed about the attitude of the Author's Guild and I am a writer!)
In the past I have very sucessfully used PGP for password management. I set up a shared fileserver (in our case it was an NT server, but it could easily be Samba or NFS), then create a text file with all the passwords in it, encrypted against everyone's public key. All users were then able to access these since since PGP was (and still is) available on multiple platforms.
Are there any patent lawyers reading this? I'm interested in patenting the method of increasing sales by naming my business something that begins with multiple letter 'A's so it comes first in the phone book.
Signed John Martin, President, AAAAmbulance Chasers Insurance Company
I want a digital camera with integrated GPS and digital compass. When I get home from a trip, I should be able to download all of my images and see them as icons on a map, indicating where the picture was taken, in what direction, and at what time.
I've thought of this before myself, and also imagined how cool it would be if it were possible to keep this information as meta data within the image's file itself. That way, a search engine like Google's Image Search could also index by location, time and direction. That way you could find any picture with a particular subject in it. Imagine being able to search for every picture taken of the World Trade Center. Eventually, given enough high resolution pictures and probably a little human intervention, there might even be a way to deconstruct the pictures, identify actual parts of buildings and landmarks, and reconstruct into a virtual world!
1. The abductor is an idiot and doesn't discover the 'watch' 2. The abductor manages to defeat the lock. 3. The abductor removes the kids hand *and* watch.
At least you would know an EXACT time and location of the criminal and victim. I'll bet the location of the watch-disabling could tip police of as to who he (or she) is. i.e.: library, store, classroom, home, church. Plus it would eliminate suspects that had reasonable alibi's for that exact time.
Now, consider the possible abuses, not by law enforcement, but by psychotic parents.
you describe parents who would do something psychotic to their children one way or another, regardless of the existance of the watch. so since these children (a small minority at best) will already be victimized, the rest of the population that isn't victimized still benefits from the watch.
7:00 am
alarm goes off -- Howard Stern 8:00
get out of bed, wander downstairs
turn on radio downstairs
check email 8:20
check slashdot 8:30
bathroom
use toilet
write in journal 8:45
get in shower 9:10
finish shower 9:15
start shaving 9:30
finish shaving
brush teeth
get dressed 9:35
finish fixing hair 9:40
check mail again
check if there are any new slashdot entries 9:50
get cherios and glass of water
browse some random web site 10:15
put on shoes
find keys, wallet, etc... 10:20
leave for work
Hey, don't call my beautiful 100 a toy!:) Seriously, for me it's perfect, especially with a flat panel. And once my SunPCI card comes in in a few weeks, I can finally reduce my desktop to one keyboard and monitor and run in both unix and windows. Even though both are around 700mhz, nothing I do (run emacs, outlook, listening to mp3s, running a web browser, etc..) will even come close to taxing the CPUs.
I personally can't wait for this (and for *nix's to follow of course). Here's a good example of what we were dreaming of doing with it:
Each mp3 on a file server has a file entry of course. The schema is then extended to add attributes such as "last played" "last played by user" "times played" etc.. then when the song was accessed by the web server, it would increment the times-played, change the last-played timestamp, etc..
sure you can accomplish all this in other ways (like meta files, dedicated databases, etc), but it would be more convenient this way, especially since files could be moved around without having to worry about creating an indexing scheme to sync the file location and the external database.
Other tricks that could be done would be to better organize the music selection, so that browsing by artist would SELECT ALL WHERE ARTIST = foo, even if they were in albums, compilations, etc. You could also store things like images, videos, lyrics, etc.. in with the song, too. Personal playlists could be built with a simple schema as well.
a pirate walks into a bar and sits down. he has a steering wheel sticking out of his pants. the bartender says: "buddy, you know you have a steering wheel sticking out of your pants?" the pirate replys: "arrrr, i know. and it's driving me fucking nuts."
I think they're safe, especially since none of these are illegal activities. Violation of copyright is illegal.
yes, and shooting someone with a gun is illegal. 99% of gun owners don't shoot people, yet look at their constant struggle with gun laws.
don't put it past our government to pass irrational and unreasonable laws under the influence of a small unethical subset of our corporate population. where there's a will, there's a way (of course 'will' in this case means lobbyists, lawyers, and millions of dollars.)
BTW, under some child welfare and animal abuse statutes, there is also no due process -- you are presumed guilty until proven innocent. This is why in some states (California for one), children are sometimes removed from a home based entirely on unfounded, *anonymous* "tips" alleging abuse. In those cases, you also have no right to face your accuser.
wow, thanks. now the movie 'freddie got fingered' just made a little more sense to me (that's not saying much tho)
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I think what's missing in most creation vs. science arguments is the allowance for the posibility that both sides could be wrong.
I wonder if they overclocked it. Don't laugh, I'm completely serious. We use to do that to C64's back then. All you had to do was throw a slightly faster chystal in there and the system ran faster (although we would actually mount the old and new crystals on a toggle switch since fast-mode would break some things).
P.S. I wonder what percent of Slashdot readers actually know how big a bread box is?
Breadbox? I don't know. Sounds like the punchline to a joke about yeast infections. Just kidding.
wow, thanks for the link. that was fascinating, especially the "Cotton Tie Case." I'm almost dumbfounded by the concept of licensing non-copywrited works. what a weird world we live in!
IANAL, but my spouse is :-)
The law on that point is that the authors have already received all they can expect on the basis of the first sale of the book; they cannot expect nor deserve more. This was codified by the US Supreme Court saying exactly that, back in 1910.
IANAL either, but what if book publishers start licensing books to consumers, the same way music, software and movies are licensed. Won't this get around any established first-sale laws? I wonder if a book could have a legal clause on the back that says something to the effect of "by purchasing this book you agree to be the sole user of this material..." I know this might be hard to enforce with paper books, but E-Books might replace them sometime. Of course assuming the material was encrypted, in order to break the agreement spelled out in the license (a civil breach-of-contracr action I think) you would have to perform the criminal act of circumventing a copy protection device (laid out by the DMCA). The end result saves the company from having to sue each and every little home user, and instead lets our tax dollars be used to prosecute ourselves for wanting to do what the Supreme Court said we could back in 1910!
In the meantime, I expect publishers to dip into their rainy-day fund and try to buy a few laws to make used book sellers pay royalties to the publisher and (maybe) the author.
(Oh, and by the way, I'm pissed about the attitude of the Author's Guild and I am a writer!)
redundant? hey fuck you i was first! :)
In the past I have very sucessfully used PGP for password management. I set up a shared fileserver (in our case it was an NT server, but it could easily be Samba or NFS), then create a text file with all the passwords in it, encrypted against everyone's public key. All users were then able to access these since since PGP was (and still is) available on multiple platforms.
Are there any patent lawyers reading this? I'm interested in patenting the method of increasing sales by naming my business something that begins with multiple letter 'A's so it comes first in the phone book.
Signed John Martin,
President, AAAAmbulance Chasers Insurance Company
wow!
I want a digital camera with integrated GPS and digital compass. When I get home from a trip, I should be able to download all of my images and see them as icons on a map, indicating where the picture was taken, in what direction, and at what time.
I've thought of this before myself, and also imagined how cool it would be if it were possible to keep this information as meta data within the image's file itself. That way, a search engine like Google's Image Search could also index by location, time and direction. That way you could find any picture with a particular subject in it. Imagine being able to search for every picture taken of the World Trade Center. Eventually, given enough high resolution pictures and probably a little human intervention, there might even be a way to deconstruct the pictures, identify actual parts of buildings and landmarks, and reconstruct into a virtual world!
1. The abductor is an idiot and doesn't discover the 'watch'
2. The abductor manages to defeat the lock.
3. The abductor removes the kids hand *and* watch.
At least you would know an EXACT time and location of the criminal and victim. I'll bet the location of the watch-disabling could tip police of as to who he (or she) is. i.e.: library, store, classroom, home, church. Plus it would eliminate suspects that had reasonable alibi's for that exact time.
Now, consider the possible abuses, not by law enforcement, but by psychotic parents.
you describe parents who would do something psychotic to their children one way or another, regardless of the existance of the watch. so since these children (a small minority at best) will already be victimized, the rest of the population that isn't victimized still benefits from the watch.
Sorry, I think they used me as an example:
7:00 am
alarm goes off -- Howard Stern
8:00
get out of bed, wander downstairs
turn on radio downstairs
check email
8:20
check slashdot
8:30
bathroom
use toilet
write in journal
8:45
get in shower
9:10
finish shower
9:15
start shaving
9:30
finish shaving
brush teeth
get dressed
9:35
finish fixing hair
9:40
check mail again
check if there are any new slashdot entries
9:50
get cherios and glass of water
browse some random web site
10:15
put on shoes
find keys, wallet, etc...
10:20
leave for work
etc.. i really wish i was exaggerating.
"Hidden heaven cam, hot teen angels! (34231)"?
:)
Nice touch
Hey, don't call my beautiful 100 a toy! :) Seriously, for me it's perfect, especially with a flat panel. And once my SunPCI card comes in in a few weeks, I can finally reduce my desktop to one keyboard and monitor and run in both unix and windows. Even though both are around 700mhz, nothing I do (run emacs, outlook, listening to mp3s, running a web browser, etc..) will even come close to taxing the CPUs.
I personally can't wait for this (and for *nix's to follow of course). Here's a good example of what we were dreaming of doing with it:
Each mp3 on a file server has a file entry of course. The schema is then extended to add attributes such as "last played" "last played by user" "times played" etc.. then when the song was accessed by the web server, it would increment the times-played, change the last-played timestamp, etc..
sure you can accomplish all this in other ways (like meta files, dedicated databases, etc), but it would be more convenient this way, especially since files could be moved around without having to worry about creating an indexing scheme to sync the file location and the external database.
Other tricks that could be done would be to better organize the music selection, so that browsing by artist would SELECT ALL WHERE ARTIST = foo, even if they were in albums, compilations, etc. You could also store things like images, videos, lyrics, etc.. in with the song, too. Personal playlists could be built with a simple schema as well.
ok, how's this:
a pirate walks into a bar and sits down. he has a steering wheel sticking out of his pants. the bartender says: "buddy, you know you have a steering wheel sticking out of your pants?" the pirate replys: "arrrr, i know. and it's driving me fucking nuts."
(i wish i made that one up)
Exactly! My friend writes jokes for a living. I think we're going to petition the government to tarrif mouths and ears.
>>you're still supporting Celine Dion's retirement fund.
>yeah but at least it means she might retire sooner which would be a good thing.
No, actually I seriously doubt any artist will see one Canadian cent of that tarrif. But maybe it will let Hilary Rosen retire sooner.
Isn't it a fundamental contradiction to say "this company hurt competition by being a monopoly?"
I love election years.
Rip, Mix, and Burn.
I think they're safe, especially since none of these are illegal activities. Violation of copyright is illegal.
yes, and shooting someone with a gun is illegal. 99% of gun owners don't shoot people, yet look at their constant struggle with gun laws.
don't put it past our government to pass irrational and unreasonable laws under the influence of a small unethical subset of our corporate population. where there's a will, there's a way (of course 'will' in this case means lobbyists, lawyers, and millions of dollars.)
My question is why not Firewire?
I know this is getting horribly off topic, but needs to be addressed. One of the reasons might be that Apple charges a licensing royalty per port.
BTW, under some child welfare and animal abuse statutes, there is also no due process -- you are presumed guilty until proven innocent. This is why in some states (California for one), children are sometimes removed from a home based entirely on unfounded, *anonymous* "tips" alleging abuse. In those cases, you also have no right to face your accuser.
wow, thanks. now the movie 'freddie got fingered' just made a little more sense to me (that's not saying much tho)
agreed!