Wow... You're way off on a few things, for one, any prior art goes against the right to enforce a patent, expired or not, if they own them or not, not just the defendants. (look up what "prior art" means). Just because Motorola had patents doesn't make them any more strong to defend themselves.
I have that problem, it was original in the 90's, but now 90% of it isn't me.
But I still end up better than using my real name, which is also a commonly used actively, and I apparently share the exact same name as someone who wrote a lot about Creationist Theory! Yea, that flys like a lead zeppelin when your trying to get a job as a scientist and the first thing people see when they google your name is some kook saying Evolution defies the laws of science and creationism is deeply rooted in science...
Try convincing them that isn't you when your REAL name comes up with crackpot theories and they won't even take your calls anymore.
You said "this is why execs show T'pol grunting around in panties and bra and shouting essentially, "F*ck me or I'll die" and thinking that it'll endure beyond the immediate tittilation of watching Jolene Blalock in panties and bra" as if they were wrong...;-)
"GMail, there is a "Report Phishing" option under "More Options"
I must be blind, I don't see it. Has anyone actually shown reporting these to be of benifit to anyone? Have people been arrested for fraud recently? Does Interpol deal with it?
As a former HS teacher, I remember "book return day" at the end of the year..
You might want to go back and look at how thick the books are, and how many books.
Keep the computers in the schools, I say. Give the kids books to take home..
I could not possibly disagree more. Given the ridicules volumes of text books being pushed on children, this is a good alternative.
Every year, some text book salesman shows some board of teachers how his book has more information, more details, more color glossy pictures, and converts the school to a new book. But the salesman and the teacher don't carry them home on their back, the kids do. Now, some on dollys with wheels because the weight is so high.
I say don't give them books, or laptops. Give them a little book of DVDs and a couple USB drives to hand in reports. Get rid of ALL that junk they carry.
I don't think anything legal will ever stop spam. But, some day, some one will write an intelligent RFC to include a new PGP style of shared key headers in the standard email headers. Not for "strong encryption." Just for "I've shared my key with this person, their email will make it into my inbox rather than my junk box."
Then, when there is a simple, easy to understand and use header, and it's normalized and standardized.... Most email clients will adapt a way of dealing with them. Emails with your "key," or a key you accept as from someone you know on your key ring come in and go right to you. No key, no entry.
I say, don' make it "highly secure and encrypted" just easy. And, if someone hijacks a key, and uses it for spam... It's the act of cracking and stealing the key that is illegal, not the spam... That could be prosecuted.
Hardly an original idea, but I see a new standardized mail header going a lot further than another US law...
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+55hp +80ft/lbs for the 01 AWW engine with a GIAC chips for the 1.8T VW's. It's real for VW's. For a few years, the chip was gated back on the 4 cylinder so it wouldn't cut into v6 sales. Do a search, places like Awe Tuning have proved it on dinos...
You lost me, the hot coffee one was the lawsuit. And if you don't think people sue each other over dumb shit, then you should try to spend a summer in New Jersey and just talk to a couple people and watch the news.
I wasn't arguing, I was agreeing. Story was "NASA has cancelled... for safety" and talking about this mission and that mission, based on safety and finacial reasons. It's just plain stupid to think the government can ratinalize how to spend my money on ANYTHING.
I was agreeing, and pointing out something more specific to the story than "Making NASA stronger == Kill NASA.
Don't Leave Children Behind == Leave them behind.
Healthy Forests == Cut down the forests."
Look, anyone who thinks strapping them self to a piece of hardware that is thousands of tons and 90% fuel will ever be safe.. I have a bridge to sell them.
The space race was a race, and in the 60's people new race was a risk that people took, was not safe, it was a balance between safety and cutting edge... It's a calculated gamble. You balance the risk with the will to win.
In this day of safety latches and plastic electrical covers for "child safe homes," and McDonald's lawsuits over hot coffee being too hot, is it any wonder that NASA is failing?
When I was a kid, I stuck a fork in an electrical outlet and LEARNED MY LESSON, I put my hand on the stove and LEARNED MY LESSON. I also have been burned by hot coffee in a McDonald's Styrofoam (not environmentally friendly) coffee cup.
Did I sue? Did I blame society? NO. That's just life lesson, things hurt, knifes are sharp and carving a pumpkin can result in injury... THAT WAS LIFE.
Now days, with the world as it is, is there any wonder NASA is failing? What was that famous 60's quote by an Apollo astronaut? Something about "we are sitting in a 10 sq ft cone on 90 tons of explosive fuel, does this feel as crazy to you as it does to me?" Something like that, I wish I had the real quote.. But point is, It's about pushing the limits of what humans can do, not about putting foam safety bumpers on all the sharp corners you could get a bo-bo from.
I have looked, for months, and I'm looking for a 3 or 4 bay standard stand alone tower, with it's own power supply, for serial ata drives. Something like this SCSI one.
Not trying to troll, just looking for a normal $70 to $150 solution, not a $200 pocket rocket flashy plastic solution.
Cheep == Spend couple hundred to save $9.95/month?
Ok, you going to spend a couple hundred dollars and a lot of time to build a piece of hardware that will cost you more than a new TiVo just so you can save the monthly subscription... Then dig around to get all the software working with the guide and everything? Do you see the irony?
But, anyway, as an owner of a Series II SA TiVo, and two HDVR2's, I also have a strong desire to build a Freevo or MythTV box. But, I'm not happy with that alone, I want to have it run 2 or 3 DVB-PCI cards to get Free-to-Air programming, download the guide data, and have DiSEqC 1.2 Enabled at a minimum, so I can have the thing automatically find satellites, tune in, record.
Then, I need play lists, and then put the box on my channel injector. Channel 105 will become the BadlandZ in home all the show's I love all the time network...
Ok, your point is we should be able to review the code for the polling booths, or we can't trust it. And you give ONE reference. But no solution?
This is a very serious accusation you're making. Unfortunately, a single accusation by someone on Slashdot will not make a difference, even though it has been mod'ed to +5.
Why not just outline what needs to be done, in a reasonable logical list, as clear and short as possible? Like (IMHO);
Polling Booth: A) System is to be un-networked, for security. Only networked WITHIN the polling location, not to the "internet." B) all polling booths will use minimal hardware (save money for taxpayers, simple to code because of legacy code base, hard to hack because there isn't enough RAM for an exploit to be loaded). C) After minimizing RAM for prevention of exploits, checksum code after each vote is cast to insure security?
Polling Station Logs: A) Polling Booth "checks in" digitally date/time/unit stamped vote into database for polling station. B) Check-in's are done to a single, CHEAP (but reliable) PC running open source database like PostgreSQL. C) Backups are done to removable media frequently (USB drives every half hour?) D) Backups are IMMEDIATELY taken MANALLY to central database to update voting. (Bypassing internet hacks, and "physical hijacks" of data are ruled out because the next delivery will show that there is a substantial error). E) Digital Forensics is used to investigate any accusations of "ballot stuffing" where every backup drive, every polling booth, every poling location PC, and every central database that receives manual updates can be instantly checked both physically, and against each other, as well as by looking at low-level info that was "quickly erased" from all storage media.
Now THAT'S an idea. Just one off the top of my head in 2 minutes. Sure, there are better ideas, but my point is; take 2 minutes to come up with them rather than the typical 10 seconds to poke holes in them and criticize. Why not come up with ideas rather than trash those that exist? Anyway.... Rant Over...
To compare $20/month online service with a $200 PC seems a bit off to me. Why would you pick the cheapest PC, and most expensive dialup?
There are dial up services for $9.95, some can be found for $5/month. And, believe it or not, there are also free ones (and you thought YOU had problems with popup ads!).
I don't believe that the $20/month is causing "the digital divide" as you call it. However, I do believe there is a digital divide. I just don't think it's the $20/month causing it.
I would challenge anyone to find a survey of only people who don't have internet access, who live in the USA, and who aren't homeless (that is, ruling out the people who have bigger problems). I'll bet you find the answers don't reflect that, and I'll bet the answers don't even jive with reality.
One can claim that $20/month keeps them off the net, but does that same person have a cell phone, or premium cable with HBO and Showtime, or dual phone lines... Or anything else that is billed monthly for a ballpark $20/month that would prove they COULD afford it?
My guess is the "digital divide" is primarily a mental one. The people on the non-tech side of the digital divide are (IMHO) people who don't know how to use computers in the first place. And, a vast majority of those people will be completely reluctant to admit it, and will claim ANY excuse to avoid admitting that they are not comfortable using a computer in the first place.
All this smoke about broadband over powerlines will not change that.
I see your point, but you don't see mine. "Open Source" doesn't gain extra meaning to everyone in the world the minute you put the two words together. The real dictionary definitions and context would mean "let you see inside the program, read the code." I understand what the "Open Source Movement" wants when they say "Open Source," but that doesn't mean everyone who used the two words together is bound to that definition.
I think your right, as long as the user has to keep track of the spammer, things will never change.
If they are going to try to legislate an answer, why not a simple one? Like, all unsolicited email with the intent to sell or create traffic (insert some definition of spam here) has to contain a header that states it's unsolicited, sales meterial, etc...
Then filtering it out is simple. Then it's easier to bring spammers to court also (if that's the intent) because you gather people that recieved email without the proper header... Clearer case.
Well, to be fair. If I want to build a new PC, it's helpful to know if I should wait 3 months or not. To know that is almost impossible, but what little information we get (like release dates) helps some.
Of course, I'm not going to have the $$ to buy the NEW stuff, but the stuff I'm eyeing now is going to drop in $$ when the new stuff comes out, right?
Just to make sure the other side of the concept of release dates is heard.
I read it, and I must be missing something. I re-read it. I still missed it. What licence will it use? Unless it's a clear licence, viewing the source may not be helpful.
What if they don't allow people to submit patches? What if they won't let you use the source to fork off your own project because they retain some rights to it? What good is seeing the source then?
Open source just means you can see thier code, and CQF doesn't really mean anything to me. Can someone point me to some info that may make the meaning of this announcement a little clearer to me?
Snail-mail or phone calls are the only things that'll make a difference.
I just wanted to highlight that, I totally agree. They will have 1,000's of email's in their inbox tomarrow, and it's not likely that they will read any of them.
However, phone calls are hard to ignore.
PS: I like begining conversations with lawyers with "hi, just letting you know, this conversation is being taped because I have a bad memory, and don't want to mis-quote you in any way what-so-ever..."
27. Maximum penalty for reading "Alice in Wonderland" aloud (possible DMCA violation): 5 years jail
Why can I already see "The Million Geek March" where massive crowds of geeks stand in the mall in Washington reading Alice in Wonderland at the top of their lungs.
mythtv has the feel of an app thats going to go all the way.
That's my problem with it, MythTV is an APPLICATION, not a OS, not a distribution, and I don't even think they should make it a complete solution for home entertainment. I think it's a cool, TiVo'ish application. But, I'd rather see it stay just that.
The interface needs to be run with a gamepad. Why? Because anyone can walk into any computer shop, and buy one. Because there are already linux drivers for many of them. Because it's as functional as a remote control, plus it allows you to play games on your TV using this thing.
I really think that if Linux/Open platforms will dominate on the TV entertainment market, it's going to mean that you need a clean fast top layer (I'd say window manager, but it's really just a launcher you need, because there really isn't any windowing).
That way, you can have games develop completely independantly, and just edit a line of text to have the new game get launched from your main interface screen.
That is for now, so us geeks can start playing with it. Eventually, you want to develop the launcher/window(less)manager into a configureable thing that allows you to add and remove buttons using your gamepad.
So, IMHO, it's the launcher, or Window(less)manager run from a gamepad that is going to be the "Tipping Point" that causes everyone to set one of these things up themself, develop them, share them, grow them.... etc...
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Wow... You're way off on a few things, for one, any prior art goes against the right to enforce a patent, expired or not, if they own them or not, not just the defendants. (look up what "prior art" means). Just because Motorola had patents doesn't make them any more strong to defend themselves.
I have that problem, it was original in the 90's, but now 90% of it isn't me.
But I still end up better than using my real name, which is also a commonly used actively, and I apparently share the exact same name as someone who wrote a lot about Creationist Theory! Yea, that flys like a lead zeppelin when your trying to get a job as a scientist and the first thing people see when they google your name is some kook saying Evolution defies the laws of science and creationism is deeply rooted in science...
Try convincing them that isn't you when your REAL name comes up with crackpot theories and they won't even take your calls anymore.
You said "this is why execs show T'pol grunting around in panties and bra and shouting essentially, "F*ck me or I'll die" and thinking that it'll endure beyond the immediate tittilation of watching Jolene Blalock in panties and bra" as if they were wrong... ;-)
"GMail, there is a "Report Phishing" option under "More Options" I must be blind, I don't see it. Has anyone actually shown reporting these to be of benifit to anyone? Have people been arrested for fraud recently? Does Interpol deal with it?
Sweet, Cool, Uh.... Whatever...
You might want to go back and look at how thick the books are, and how many books.
Keep the computers in the schools, I say. Give the kids books to take home. .
I could not possibly disagree more. Given the ridicules volumes of text books being pushed on children, this is a good alternative.
Every year, some text book salesman shows some board of teachers how his book has more information, more details, more color glossy pictures, and converts the school to a new book. But the salesman and the teacher don't carry them home on their back, the kids do. Now, some on dollys with wheels because the weight is so high.
I say don't give them books, or laptops. Give them a little book of DVDs and a couple USB drives to hand in reports. Get rid of ALL that junk they carry.
I thought ATM's already had a mechinism in place to help fight this... Called a Video Camera?
Then, when there is a simple, easy to understand and use header, and it's normalized and standardized.... Most email clients will adapt a way of dealing with them. Emails with your "key," or a key you accept as from someone you know on your key ring come in and go right to you. No key, no entry.
I say, don' make it "highly secure and encrypted" just easy. And, if someone hijacks a key, and uses it for spam... It's the act of cracking and stealing the key that is illegal, not the spam... That could be prosecuted.
Hardly an original idea, but I see a new standardized mail header going a lot further than another US law...
+55hp +80ft/lbs for the 01 AWW engine with a GIAC chips for the 1.8T VW's. It's real for VW's. For a few years, the chip was gated back on the 4 cylinder so it wouldn't cut into v6 sales. Do a search, places like Awe Tuning have proved it on dinos...
You lost me, the hot coffee one was the lawsuit. And if you don't think people sue each other over dumb shit, then you should try to spend a summer in New Jersey and just talk to a couple people and watch the news.
I was agreeing, and pointing out something more specific to the story than "Making NASA stronger == Kill NASA. Don't Leave Children Behind == Leave them behind. Healthy Forests == Cut down the forests."
The space race was a race, and in the 60's people new race was a risk that people took, was not safe, it was a balance between safety and cutting edge... It's a calculated gamble. You balance the risk with the will to win.
In this day of safety latches and plastic electrical covers for "child safe homes," and McDonald's lawsuits over hot coffee being too hot, is it any wonder that NASA is failing?
When I was a kid, I stuck a fork in an electrical outlet and LEARNED MY LESSON, I put my hand on the stove and LEARNED MY LESSON. I also have been burned by hot coffee in a McDonald's Styrofoam (not environmentally friendly) coffee cup.
Did I sue? Did I blame society? NO. That's just life lesson, things hurt, knifes are sharp and carving a pumpkin can result in injury... THAT WAS LIFE.
Now days, with the world as it is, is there any wonder NASA is failing? What was that famous 60's quote by an Apollo astronaut? Something about "we are sitting in a 10 sq ft cone on 90 tons of explosive fuel, does this feel as crazy to you as it does to me?" Something like that, I wish I had the real quote.. But point is, It's about pushing the limits of what humans can do, not about putting foam safety bumpers on all the sharp corners you could get a bo-bo from.
I have looked, for months, and I'm looking for a 3 or 4 bay standard stand alone tower, with it's own power supply, for serial ata drives. Something like this SCSI one. Not trying to troll, just looking for a normal $70 to $150 solution, not a $200 pocket rocket flashy plastic solution.
I was just starting to wonder why I haven't seen any external serial ATA boxes...
Ok, you going to spend a couple hundred dollars and a lot of time to build a piece of hardware that will cost you more than a new TiVo just so you can save the monthly subscription... Then dig around to get all the software working with the guide and everything? Do you see the irony?
But, anyway, as an owner of a Series II SA TiVo, and two HDVR2's, I also have a strong desire to build a Freevo or MythTV box. But, I'm not happy with that alone, I want to have it run 2 or 3 DVB-PCI cards to get Free-to-Air programming, download the guide data, and have DiSEqC 1.2 Enabled at a minimum, so I can have the thing automatically find satellites, tune in, record.
Then, I need play lists, and then put the box on my channel injector. Channel 105 will become the BadlandZ in home all the show's I love all the time network...
Anyone done that yet?
This is a very serious accusation you're making. Unfortunately, a single accusation by someone on Slashdot will not make a difference, even though it has been mod'ed to +5.
Why not just outline what needs to be done, in a reasonable logical list, as clear and short as possible? Like (IMHO);
Polling Booth: A) System is to be un-networked, for security. Only networked WITHIN the polling location, not to the "internet." B) all polling booths will use minimal hardware (save money for taxpayers, simple to code because of legacy code base, hard to hack because there isn't enough RAM for an exploit to be loaded). C) After minimizing RAM for prevention of exploits, checksum code after each vote is cast to insure security?
Polling Station Logs: A) Polling Booth "checks in" digitally date/time/unit stamped vote into database for polling station. B) Check-in's are done to a single, CHEAP (but reliable) PC running open source database like PostgreSQL. C) Backups are done to removable media frequently (USB drives every half hour?) D) Backups are IMMEDIATELY taken MANALLY to central database to update voting. (Bypassing internet hacks, and "physical hijacks" of data are ruled out because the next delivery will show that there is a substantial error). E) Digital Forensics is used to investigate any accusations of "ballot stuffing" where every backup drive, every polling booth, every poling location PC, and every central database that receives manual updates can be instantly checked both physically, and against each other, as well as by looking at low-level info that was "quickly erased" from all storage media.
Now THAT'S an idea. Just one off the top of my head in 2 minutes. Sure, there are better ideas, but my point is; take 2 minutes to come up with them rather than the typical 10 seconds to poke holes in them and criticize. Why not come up with ideas rather than trash those that exist? Anyway.... Rant Over...
There are dial up services for $9.95, some can be found for $5/month. And, believe it or not, there are also free ones (and you thought YOU had problems with popup ads!).
I don't believe that the $20/month is causing "the digital divide" as you call it. However, I do believe there is a digital divide. I just don't think it's the $20/month causing it.
I would challenge anyone to find a survey of only people who don't have internet access, who live in the USA, and who aren't homeless (that is, ruling out the people who have bigger problems). I'll bet you find the answers don't reflect that, and I'll bet the answers don't even jive with reality.
One can claim that $20/month keeps them off the net, but does that same person have a cell phone, or premium cable with HBO and Showtime, or dual phone lines... Or anything else that is billed monthly for a ballpark $20/month that would prove they COULD afford it?
My guess is the "digital divide" is primarily a mental one. The people on the non-tech side of the digital divide are (IMHO) people who don't know how to use computers in the first place. And, a vast majority of those people will be completely reluctant to admit it, and will claim ANY excuse to avoid admitting that they are not comfortable using a computer in the first place.
All this smoke about broadband over powerlines will not change that.
I see your point, but you don't see mine. "Open Source" doesn't gain extra meaning to everyone in the world the minute you put the two words together. The real dictionary definitions and context would mean "let you see inside the program, read the code." I understand what the "Open Source Movement" wants when they say "Open Source," but that doesn't mean everyone who used the two words together is bound to that definition.
If they are going to try to legislate an answer, why not a simple one? Like, all unsolicited email with the intent to sell or create traffic (insert some definition of spam here) has to contain a header that states it's unsolicited, sales meterial, etc...
Then filtering it out is simple. Then it's easier to bring spammers to court also (if that's the intent) because you gather people that recieved email without the proper header... Clearer case.
Of course, I'm not going to have the $$ to buy the NEW stuff, but the stuff I'm eyeing now is going to drop in $$ when the new stuff comes out, right?
Just to make sure the other side of the concept of release dates is heard.
What if they don't allow people to submit patches? What if they won't let you use the source to fork off your own project because they retain some rights to it? What good is seeing the source then?
Open source just means you can see thier code, and CQF doesn't really mean anything to me. Can someone point me to some info that may make the meaning of this announcement a little clearer to me?
I just wanted to highlight that, I totally agree. They will have 1,000's of email's in their inbox tomarrow, and it's not likely that they will read any of them.
However, phone calls are hard to ignore.
PS: I like begining conversations with lawyers with "hi, just letting you know, this conversation is being taped because I have a bad memory, and don't want to mis-quote you in any way what-so-ever..."
Why can I already see "The Million Geek March" where massive crowds of geeks stand in the mall in Washington reading Alice in Wonderland at the top of their lungs.
That's my problem with it, MythTV is an APPLICATION, not a OS, not a distribution, and I don't even think they should make it a complete solution for home entertainment. I think it's a cool, TiVo'ish application. But, I'd rather see it stay just that.
The interface needs to be run with a gamepad. Why? Because anyone can walk into any computer shop, and buy one. Because there are already linux drivers for many of them. Because it's as functional as a remote control, plus it allows you to play games on your TV using this thing.
I really think that if Linux/Open platforms will dominate on the TV entertainment market, it's going to mean that you need a clean fast top layer (I'd say window manager, but it's really just a launcher you need, because there really isn't any windowing).
That way, you can have games develop completely independantly, and just edit a line of text to have the new game get launched from your main interface screen.
That is for now, so us geeks can start playing with it. Eventually, you want to develop the launcher/window(less)manager into a configureable thing that allows you to add and remove buttons using your gamepad.
So, IMHO , it's the launcher, or Window(less)manager run from a gamepad that is going to be the "Tipping Point" that causes everyone to set one of these things up themself, develop them, share them, grow them.... etc...