"It really makes me want to sue for false advertising.
So why don't you sue? A bunch of customers in Texas all got together and sued Southwestern Bell because their ads were misleading. The company was promising much more than it could deliver. The users all got pissed off and sued them!
ICANN was supposed to introduce competition!
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How has ICANN created any new competition in the namespace? VeriSign owns Network Solutions, Register.com, Registrars.com, GreatDomains, is a part of Afilias, and they now own.tv. By introducing new Top Level Domains (TLD's) how has ICANN produced any NEW competition?
Same old root, same old monopoly -- no new competition.
If ICANN really wanted to create new competition they should have approved ALL of the new TLD applications and let them compete for market share. Image Online Design has had their application for.web in the queue for 5+ years now! If you want REAL competion you need more than different registrars (all owned by VeriSign) you need a TLD that will compete AGAINST.com. This means an ALTERNATIVE to.com.... not just a new string owned by VeriSign.
Great idea... but, it has taken the entire community years of fighting to agree on things like IPv6. How long until that gets implemented? Can you even imagine how long it would take to: a) come up with a new spec and b) implement it?
Don't think in human years.... try thinking in geological time. You know... eons, epochs, and eras.
Maybe we should be wondering where all ICANN's money goes? According to their budget, the law firm Jones, Day, Reavis, and Pogue gets about $734,000.00 !!!
ICANN should be less worried about the CCtlds and focus on their own organization! The total personnel costs for ICANN are projected at $2.217 million dollars! I would like to know what EXACTLY the staff members do to deserve this type of money? ICANN is the biggest bunch of hypocrites to come along since the US Congress!
And, for those of us who are still boycotting Amazon.com for the abuse of their "one-click" ordering patent - here is a link to find books, movies and music at other retailers BESIDES Amazon:
http://www.noamazon.com/
I went and poked around in Yahoo's "Full Coverage" section and didn't see ANY ads like he was talking about. Next time you see something like this: TAKE A SCREENSHOT OF IT FIRST !!!!
Has anyone considered that if an ad did appear in the "news" section that maybe it was a simple mistake? It has been known to happen occasionally on the web (especially on Slashdot!). I went to a Yahoo page the other day and saw a call to the database printed on the page. Maybe someone put some code in the wrong spot?
Jesus! Talk about making mountains out of molehills....
"..unauthorized rebroadcasting of movies or television content over the Internet."
By 'rebroadcasting'... I tend to think of things like RealPlayer, or that company in Canada that was broadcasting American television shows over the Net. To me...this does not mean that they are going after the file-trading apps (yet!). At this point it almost seems like their major concern is the "public rebroadcast" of their movies and shows.
You can still fire-up KaZaa and download DivX movies by the truckload. You just can't rebroadcast them on the Web using a streaming server/client!
Here is a quote right off the homepage of the "Lunchboxcomputer.com" site:
What a Lunchbox Is Not
A lunchbox is NOT a cheap, off-the-shelf, shrink-wrapped computer system. In fact, one can generally purchase a fully operational notebook computer for less than the cost of the bare lunchbox chassis.
So, while you're bitching about a 700 dollar PCMCIA sound card.... you're looking at high-end rugged, special-use computers. Um.... call me a dumbass, but if you can't afford a sound card what makes you think you're going to buy a Lunchboxcomputer?
You should buy a small laptop computer, a decent sound card, and a really rugged case instead.
Since the advent of the Web, I find myself wishing more and more physical media was indexed and searchable.
Ever read "Fellowship of the Ring" and wish you could search the book you're holding? Or watched a bunch of shows end wish you could grep for something you remembered hearing?
As the TV/Computer/Film merge and become more dense we need better ways to pick out pertinent information 'nuggets'. Otherwise, it is just information overload.
If you are even REMOTELY concerned about civil liberties, freedom of speech, or privacy you should dontate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation today:
This year I was lucky enough to spend Christmas Holiday with my parents, and my grandmother. I had a nice home-cooked meal, and enjoyed the company of my family.
Last year I was at home by myself and spent Christmas online. The year before I was working. I guess I don't realy care about the Holiday or getting into the 'Christmas spirit'. It never really meant a whole lot to me anyway.
I guess I'm just saying that if you get to spend some time with your family -- it can be good. Someday when your parents and grandparents are gone you might miss them and wish you could see them again.
I wonder if this is the first real "acid test" of the USA Patriot Act for the Fed? Did they tap phone lines, hack computers, and gather all the "facts" to incriminate the Warez groups first.. then move in to bust them? Previously this kind of behaviour would have gotten their case dismissed from court quicker than you can say "keygen".
But, now that the USA Patriot act is in effect all this stuff in now admissible in court. Look out! First it's going to be blatent shit like Warez groups. Then, they'll start going for movie and MP3 traders. Maybe someday they'll try to stamp out free software.
Who knows... maybe the grand finale will be that in the future everyone who uses a computer has to have a license. Then, they can run around and arrest people who operate "unlicenced computers".
I don't understand why this is such a big deal. Sure you can't pop it into your CD-ROM drive and rip the entire CD. But, what is to stop you from hooking the Auxillary OUT of your stereo to the Line IN port of your soundcard?
If they think that this is going to stop us from ripping MP3s they are in for a rude awakening!
In the picture, there is a guy sitting with his hands in front of a PDA. My question is this: how do you keep your fingers on the "home row" ? How do you even tell where it is? Looks to me like I'd be typing like this:
S Ssf RCscmprl zOg hr Srth Srinhj Adijr
You ever sat down and started typing away furiously on your keyboard only to look up a few seconds later and find that your fingers had shifted to the left by a key?
I just don't see this as being practical.
Now... if you combine this with some VR display (like the computers in "Final Fantasy: Spirits Within") that displays a 'virtual keyboard' underneath your fingers --- maybe it could work.
Otherwise, I would rather spend my money perfecting speech-recognition because this thing isn't going to go very far.
Remember the CueCat? Well the company that made them went after hackers who were interested in their products. Now they are out of business and in major debt.
You know this is the result of some jackass in the legal dept. or the board room. Usually, Sony is pretty cool about this stuff. But, if they wage war with their customers (especially the ones who encourage other people to buy products) then AIBO isn't goint to last long.
Slashdot Mirror
So why don't you sue? A bunch of customers in Texas all got together and sued Southwestern Bell because their ads were misleading. The company was promising much more than it could deliver. The users all got pissed off and sued them!
DSL Users Sue Over Slowness
How has ICANN created any new competition in the namespace? VeriSign owns Network Solutions, Register.com, Registrars.com, GreatDomains, is a part of Afilias, and they now own .tv. By introducing new Top Level Domains (TLD's) how has ICANN produced any NEW competition?
.web in the queue for 5+ years now! If you want REAL competion you need more than different registrars (all owned by VeriSign) you need a TLD that will compete AGAINST .com. This means an ALTERNATIVE to .com .... not just a new string owned by VeriSign.
Same old root, same old monopoly -- no new competition.
If ICANN really wanted to create new competition they should have approved ALL of the new TLD applications and let them compete for market share. Image Online Design has had their application for
Try getting the link here: dowload kazaa
I uploaded a mirror here: Windows, Linux. If everyone uploads a copy of the program this thing will never go away!
Great idea... but, it has taken the entire community years of fighting to agree on things like IPv6. How long until that gets implemented? Can you even imagine how long it would take to: a) come up with a new spec and b) implement it?
Don't think in human years.... try thinking in geological time. You know... eons, epochs, and eras.
ICANN should be less worried about the CCtlds and focus on their own organization! The total personnel costs for ICANN are projected at $2.217 million dollars! I would like to know what EXACTLY the staff members do to deserve this type of money? ICANN is the biggest bunch of hypocrites to come along since the US Congress!
And, for those of us who are still boycotting Amazon.com for the abuse of their "one-click" ordering patent - here is a link to find books, movies and music at other retailers BESIDES Amazon: http://www.noamazon.com/
I went and poked around in Yahoo's "Full Coverage" section and didn't see ANY ads like he was talking about. Next time you see something like this: TAKE A SCREENSHOT OF IT FIRST !!!!
Has anyone considered that if an ad did appear in the "news" section that maybe it was a simple mistake? It has been known to happen occasionally on the web (especially on Slashdot!). I went to a Yahoo page the other day and saw a call to the database printed on the page. Maybe someone put some code in the wrong spot?
Jesus! Talk about making mountains out of molehills....
"..unauthorized rebroadcasting of movies or television content over the Internet."
By 'rebroadcasting'... I tend to think of things like RealPlayer, or that company in Canada that was broadcasting American television shows over the Net. To me...this does not mean that they are going after the file-trading apps (yet!). At this point it almost seems like their major concern is the "public rebroadcast" of their movies and shows.
You can still fire-up KaZaa and download DivX movies by the truckload. You just can't rebroadcast them on the Web using a streaming server/client!
Yeah?
And when is the last time you read a Tolkein book with an index in the back?
Works great for the Perl Cookbook.... but, non-fiction doesn't tend to use indexing too much.
[pretty funny post though!]
What a Lunchbox Is Not
A lunchbox is NOT a cheap, off-the-shelf, shrink-wrapped computer system. In fact, one can generally purchase a fully operational notebook computer for less than the cost of the bare lunchbox chassis.
So, while you're bitching about a 700 dollar PCMCIA sound card.... you're looking at high-end rugged, special-use computers. Um.... call me a dumbass, but if you can't afford a sound card what makes you think you're going to buy a Lunchboxcomputer?
You should buy a small laptop computer, a decent sound card, and a really rugged case instead.
Here is another mirror of the article that got slashdotted: http://www.jeffwilhelm.com/imac/
Since the advent of the Web, I find myself wishing more and more physical media was indexed and searchable.
Ever read "Fellowship of the Ring" and wish you could search the book you're holding? Or watched a bunch of shows end wish you could grep for something you remembered hearing?
As the TV/Computer/Film merge and become more dense we need better ways to pick out pertinent information 'nuggets'. Otherwise, it is just information overload.
I just donated $100... and you should too!
If you are even REMOTELY concerned about civil liberties, freedom of speech, or privacy you should dontate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation today:
http://www.eff.org/support/
Maybe Michael Robers should fix the "lindows.com" site so that it can withstand the /. effect first.
The spike in Nostradamus searches could be people checking to see if he predicted the WTC disaster. Or, maybe it was the phony prediction that the village idiot (George Bush) becomes the leader in new millennium.
This year I was lucky enough to spend Christmas Holiday with my parents, and my grandmother. I had a nice home-cooked meal, and enjoyed the company of my family.
Last year I was at home by myself and spent Christmas online. The year before I was working. I guess I don't realy care about the Holiday or getting into the 'Christmas spirit'. It never really meant a whole lot to me anyway.
I guess I'm just saying that if you get to spend some time with your family -- it can be good. Someday when your parents and grandparents are gone you might miss them and wish you could see them again.
Besides... free food shouldn't be missed!
Call it "Winux" instead
;)
This seems to be the plan for Universal:
Step 1: wage war against your customers
Step 2: introduce hair-brained scheme to keep monopoly
Step 3: go out of business like guys who made CueCat
I wonder if this is the first real "acid test" of the USA Patriot Act for the Fed? Did they tap phone lines, hack computers, and gather all the "facts" to incriminate the Warez groups first.. then move in to bust them? Previously this kind of behaviour would have gotten their case dismissed from court quicker than you can say "keygen".
But, now that the USA Patriot act is in effect all this stuff in now admissible in court. Look out! First it's going to be blatent shit like Warez groups. Then, they'll start going for movie and MP3 traders. Maybe someday they'll try to stamp out free software.
Who knows... maybe the grand finale will be that in the future everyone who uses a computer has to have a license. Then, they can run around and arrest people who operate "unlicenced computers".
Is it really that far fetched ?!?!?!
I don't understand why this is such a big deal. Sure you can't pop it into your CD-ROM drive and rip the entire CD. But, what is to stop you from hooking the Auxillary OUT of your stereo to the Line IN port of your soundcard?
If they think that this is going to stop us from ripping MP3s they are in for a rude awakening!
In the picture, there is a guy sitting with his hands in front of a PDA. My question is this: how do you keep your fingers on the "home row" ? How do you even tell where it is? Looks to me like I'd be typing like this:
S Ssf RCscmprl zOg hr Srth Srinhj Adijr
You ever sat down and started typing away furiously on your keyboard only to look up a few seconds later and find that your fingers had shifted to the left by a key?
I just don't see this as being practical.
Now... if you combine this with some VR display (like the computers in "Final Fantasy: Spirits Within") that displays a 'virtual keyboard' underneath your fingers --- maybe it could work.
Otherwise, I would rather spend my money perfecting speech-recognition because this thing isn't going to go very far.
Do I pay a 'penny a minute' to watch TV? No.
I think this is a dumb idea that will fail miserably. Maybe I'd pay a penny to see 100 pages. But a penny a page would add up quick!
And what about X-10 ads? Or pop-up-porn sites?!? One visit to a warez or a crack site and I'd owe someone $100 in a matter of minutes !!!
Wow! I'm glad they didn't give
"Digital Convergence"
Remember the CueCat? Well the company that made them went after hackers who were interested in their products. Now they are out of business and in major debt.
You know this is the result of some jackass in the legal dept. or the board room. Usually, Sony is pretty cool about this stuff. But, if they wage war with their customers (especially the ones who encourage other people to buy products) then AIBO isn't goint to last long.
Who the hell needs a $1500 robot dog anyway?