Do we need to put Hemos on a suicide watch? First the article on the Milky Way colliding with Andromeda, and now this story, both with references to the sun boiling away in 5 billion years, I'm wondering if he's slipped into some Woody Allen type depression.
A lot of online papers include their classifieds. I haven't been in the market for a house, but I did find my current apartment by checking out the classifieds in our local newspaper. Don't forget to check out that resource, especially if you live in the Chester County, Pennsylvania region.
His site is blocked by SmartFilter at work, saying the site is a "cult or occult" website. Interesting that SmartFilter is aware of something that the slashdot editors can't seem to grasp.
"Normally you might look to Intel for leadership in this area, but Intel really hadn't come up with much of anything that looked like a good replacement yet," said Ditzel.
The reason why Transmeta is looking to AMD is NOT because they hate the evil Intel (AMD is just as much a competetor as Intel), but because AMD has innovated a useful technology.
Thankfully, competition continues to be the driving force in innovation, and in the end, the customers benefit.
I wonder... does an orbit from a launch in the Southern Hemisphere go in the opposite direcion from an orbit launched in the Northern? Kinda like a toilet bowl?
I wonder what the psychological effect is of being treated exclusivly like a child for the first 17 years and 11 months of your life, and then suddenly becoming an adult, able to vote, go to war, etc.
I would think that parenting should involve raising your children so that by the time they are legal adults, they have already been acting adults long before.
If young people are treated like children right up to their 18th birthday, the learning curve of "adulthood" that is forced on them must be incredible.
Whether the two nuts who shot up Columbine were picked-on outcasts or not is not the point. The point is that the media portrayed them as picked-on outcasts, and perhaps Katz contributed to this.
Since the media reported them as misunderstood "outcasts" and not as totally messed up sociopaths, meant that suddenly, everyone who fits the description of a misunderstood outcast was being profiled as a potential killer.
Katz should not be showning the similarities of the killers and everyday geeks, but instead showing the world how we're not all potential murderers.
Couple the fact that new users are not buying computers at such a high rate as before, with this article that has an IBM exec saying here that the newer 1Ghz processors are unnecessary, which would mean that current users won't be needing to replace their computers as often as in the past.
If this is true, then I'm not surprised that companies like Dell are reporting lower than expected earnings.
Having worked as a majority clerk in the Republican primaries, I have a good idea of the checks, double-checks, and triple-checks that go on behind the scenes to verify that the people who are registered to vote are the people who are voting.
It seems to me that the first time online voting is used in local elections, you are going to have every election loser filing complaints with the election boards.
It would be best to restrict online elections to a small number of local races before it's fully implemented into national elections involving millions of people.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26 - A federal judge today granted a temporary injunction barring users from transferring information via electronic networks, pending a trial. The decision marked a major victory for U.S. movie industry, which had targeted networks such as the Internet as a dangerous rival that could short-circuit traditional movie sales and distribution.
U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE Marilyn Hall Patel said it seemed clear that the Internet's millions of users were not all simply engaged in reading news and researching information.
Patel said that members of the Internet were encouraging "wholesale infringing" against the movie industry. Patel noted that 900 million people are expected to be using the Internet by year's end and said "what lures them is the availibity of pirated movies... and pr0n. Hey... get away from my computer!"
When the infringing is of such a wholesale magnitude, the plaintiffs are entitled to enforce their copyrights, Patel said.
Patel's order, which came after a two-minute hearing, instructed network administrators to cease its network operations by midnight Friday PT.
The judge also ordered the Motion Picture Association of America to post a $5 bond requested against any financial losses Internet corporations could suffer from being shut down temporarily.
Vint Cerf, founder of the Internet, responded quickly, announcing that their legal team would work around the clock to appeal the ruling before Patel's Friday deadline.
"We understand the ruling and basis for it," Cerf said. "We disagree with it, and we will continue to work hard between now and Friday to allow Internet users to continue to use our service."
The movie industry, which had targeted the Internet as a high-tech haven for piracy and copyright infringement, was quick to declare victory.
"The decision will pave the way for the future of online music," said I. M. Veryrich, a lawyer representing the RIAA. "This once again establishes that the rules of the road are the same online as they are offline, and sends a strong message to others that they cannot build a network designed to transmit copyrighted work without permission."
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, whose band also sued the Internet, was a bit more blunt in his euphoria.
Hell, yeah... this f*cking rocks!" Ulrich said. "Sharing is such a warm, cuddly, friendly word... this is not sharing, it's duplicating. Down with the Interweb.
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But the injunction is far from the last word in a case that has pitted new technology against old laws and sparked concern among everyone from heavy metal rockers Metallica to America's most powerful corporate directors.
The Internet works by letting user transfer digital information from one computer system to another, without the use of a central server, or "hub". While originally designed to tranfer information between universities and government organizations, it has since become a haven for illegal movie distribution, pornography, and trolls.
The MPAA sued the Internet in December, accusing it of encouraging an unrestrained, illegal, online bazaar. On Wednesday, MPAA attorney I. Makemoney told the court that, as the hearing was going on, 1,400 movies were being downloaded each minute via the Internet. He also added that they were paying him $1000 per hour with money earned from inflated ticket prices.
"It is the most egregious case of massive copyright infringement that has ever existed," Makemoney said. He added, "Do you like my new Porche? It's better than my two other ones. And more red."
900 Million Users
Internet lawyers argued that personal copying of files is protected by federal "fair use" laws, and that it encourages the quick distribution of these files in a manner quicker than floppy disks.
They said its service should be considered a non-infringing use as defined by the precedent-setting Sony Betamax case. In that case, the movie industry tried to quell the development of VCRs, claiming they would be used primarily to make illegal copies of copyrighted movies. The movie industry lost the battle, but Makemoney said the Internet did not meet the same criteria as VCRs, since they can't make a deal with the Internet in the same way that they did with the VCR makers.
He also said it was hard to envision applying the "fair use" principle to a worldwide network of some 900 million users.
The movie industry has made the Internet the focus of a long-running dispute between copyright owners and thise who believe information of all sorts should be traded freely.
"All of this litigation is really setting the groundwork for what is going to the future of information," said Larry Iser, an intellectual property attorney.
A SETTLEMENT IS UNLIKELY
The heavy metal band Metallica has been particularly outspoken against the Internet. Metallica sued the Internet for copyright infringement after the band found more than 300,000 users trading their songs online.
In response, one company, Napster, blocked access for more than 30,000 of those users identified by Metallica, but new people log on daily and continue trading the band's music.
The RIAA estimates that song-swapping via Napster by an estimated 20 million people worldwide has cost the music industry more than $300 million in lost sales, and now they can't feed their children, and they have to buy the house with only two garages.
But some research suggests that the Internet file transfers may not be so bad for the movie industry after all.
A recent study of more than 2,200 online music fans by Jupiter Communications suggests that users of Napster and other music-sharing programs are 45 percent more likely to increase their music purchasing than fans who aren't trading digital bootlegs online.
Both sides now must gird for the next step in the battle, a full trial over the future of movies and copyright law.
Many industry analysts expect the legal pressure to boost efforts on both sides to come to some sort of compromise which will extend copyright protection to information which is distributed over the Internet.
But Patel disagrees with that. "I think that a settlement, frankly, is unlikely, since I get paid more to let these things go as long as possible." Patel said.
I wouldn't consider this the appropriate forum for theological questions. But if you care to, email me personally and I would love to see if I can point you in the right direction.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, that was it. Little Alvie Singer (Woody Allen) wouldn't do his school work because "the universe is expanding".
Do we need to put Hemos on a suicide watch? First the article on the Milky Way colliding with Andromeda, and now this story, both with references to the sun boiling away in 5 billion years, I'm wondering if he's slipped into some Woody Allen type depression.
Also, if you live in the Philadelphia region, The Philadelphia Inquirer has their own classifieds with real estate listings.
"My son, for example, plays this game called 'I'm Going In,'" Esnouf said. "He spends all Sunday morning shooting people on the computer."
For a company spokesperson, that's a rather unPC thing to say when talking about the benefits that computers have given us.
His site is blocked by SmartFilter at work, saying the site is a "cult or occult" website. Interesting that SmartFilter is aware of something that the slashdot editors can't seem to grasp.
"Normally you might look to Intel for leadership in this area, but Intel really hadn't come up with much of anything that looked like a good replacement yet," said Ditzel.
The reason why Transmeta is looking to AMD is NOT because they hate the evil Intel (AMD is just as much a competetor as Intel), but because AMD has innovated a useful technology.
Thankfully, competition continues to be the driving force in innovation, and in the end, the customers benefit.
I wonder... does an orbit from a launch in the Southern Hemisphere go in the opposite direcion from an orbit launched in the Northern? Kinda like a toilet bowl?
I would think that parenting should involve raising your children so that by the time they are legal adults, they have already been acting adults long before. If young people are treated like children right up to their 18th birthday, the learning curve of "adulthood" that is forced on them must be incredible.
Since the media reported them as misunderstood "outcasts" and not as totally messed up sociopaths, meant that suddenly, everyone who fits the description of a misunderstood outcast was being profiled as a potential killer.
Katz should not be showning the similarities of the killers and everyday geeks, but instead showing the world how we're not all potential murderers.
If this is true, then I'm not surprised that companies like Dell are reporting lower than expected earnings.
Dang it! You mean this really cool Fossil titanium watch that I bought is going to be worthless?
Small Wonder. You can watch whole episodes of the show here. It's amazing how people waste their time
Having worked as a majority clerk in the Republican primaries, I have a good idea of the checks, double-checks, and triple-checks that go on behind the scenes to verify that the people who are registered to vote are the people who are voting.
It seems to me that the first time online voting is used in local elections, you are going to have every election loser filing complaints with the election boards.
It would be best to restrict online elections to a small number of local races before it's fully implemented into national elections involving millions of people.
Why can't they legally treat software as a work of art, protecting the author from whatever abuses that the users may come up with for their software?
I wonder if they're going to get that fast talking guy to be in the commericals, like with the old Micro Machines.
Judge shuts down the Internet
... this is not sharing, it's duplicating. Down with the Interweb.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26 - A federal judge today granted a temporary injunction barring users from transferring information via electronic networks, pending a trial. The decision marked a major victory for U.S. movie industry, which had targeted networks such as the Internet as a dangerous rival that could short-circuit traditional movie sales and distribution.
U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE Marilyn Hall Patel said it seemed clear that the Internet's millions of users were not all simply engaged in reading news and researching information.
Patel said that members of the Internet were encouraging "wholesale infringing" against the movie industry. Patel noted that 900 million people are expected to be using the Internet by year's end and said "what lures them is the availibity of pirated movies... and pr0n. Hey... get away from my computer!"
When the infringing is of such a wholesale magnitude, the plaintiffs are entitled to enforce their copyrights, Patel said.
Patel's order, which came after a two-minute hearing, instructed network administrators to cease its network operations by midnight Friday PT.
The judge also ordered the Motion Picture Association of America to post a $5 bond requested against any financial losses Internet corporations could suffer from being shut down temporarily.
Vint Cerf, founder of the Internet, responded quickly, announcing that their legal team would work around the clock to appeal the ruling before Patel's Friday deadline.
"We understand the ruling and basis for it," Cerf said. "We disagree with it, and we will continue to work hard between now and Friday to allow Internet users to continue to use our service."
The movie industry, which had targeted the Internet as a high-tech haven for piracy and copyright infringement, was quick to declare victory.
"The decision will pave the way for the future of online music," said I. M. Veryrich, a lawyer representing the RIAA. "This once again establishes that the rules of the road are the same online as they are offline, and sends a strong message to others that they cannot build a network designed to transmit copyrighted work without permission."
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, whose band also sued the Internet, was a bit more blunt in his euphoria.
Hell, yeah... this f*cking rocks!" Ulrich said. "Sharing is such a warm, cuddly, friendly word
CLOSELY WATCHED DEBATE
But the injunction is far from the last word in a case that has pitted new technology against old laws and sparked concern among everyone from heavy metal rockers Metallica to America's most powerful corporate directors.
The Internet works by letting user transfer digital information from one computer system to another, without the use of a central server, or "hub". While originally designed to tranfer information between universities and government organizations, it has since become a haven for illegal movie distribution, pornography, and trolls.
The MPAA sued the Internet in December, accusing it of encouraging an unrestrained, illegal, online bazaar. On Wednesday, MPAA attorney I. Makemoney told the court that, as the hearing was going on, 1,400 movies were being downloaded each minute via the Internet. He also added that they were paying him $1000 per hour with money earned from inflated ticket prices.
"It is the most egregious case of massive copyright infringement that has ever existed," Makemoney said. He added, "Do you like my new Porche? It's better than my two other ones. And more red."
900 Million Users
Internet lawyers argued that personal copying of files is protected by federal "fair use" laws, and that it encourages the quick distribution of these files in a manner quicker than floppy disks.
They said its service should be considered a non-infringing use as defined by the precedent-setting Sony Betamax case. In that case, the movie industry tried to quell the development of VCRs, claiming they would be used primarily to make illegal copies of copyrighted movies. The movie industry lost the battle, but Makemoney said the Internet did not meet the same criteria as VCRs, since they can't make a deal with the Internet in the same way that they did with the VCR makers.
He also said it was hard to envision applying the "fair use" principle to a worldwide network of some 900 million users.
The movie industry has made the Internet the focus of a long-running dispute between copyright owners and thise who believe information of all sorts should be traded freely.
"All of this litigation is really setting the groundwork for what is going to the future of information," said Larry Iser, an intellectual property attorney.
A SETTLEMENT IS UNLIKELY
The heavy metal band Metallica has been particularly outspoken against the Internet. Metallica sued the Internet for copyright infringement after the band found more than 300,000 users trading their songs online.
In response, one company, Napster, blocked access for more than 30,000 of those users identified by Metallica, but new people log on daily and continue trading the band's music.
The RIAA estimates that song-swapping via Napster by an estimated 20 million people worldwide has cost the music industry more than $300 million in lost sales, and now they can't feed their children, and they have to buy the house with only two garages.
But some research suggests that the Internet file transfers may not be so bad for the movie industry after all.
A recent study of more than 2,200 online music fans by Jupiter Communications suggests that users of Napster and other music-sharing programs are 45 percent more likely to increase their music purchasing than fans who aren't trading digital bootlegs online.
Both sides now must gird for the next step in the battle, a full trial over the future of movies and copyright law.
Many industry analysts expect the legal pressure to boost efforts on both sides to come to some sort of compromise which will extend copyright protection to information which is distributed over the Internet.
But Patel disagrees with that. "I think that a settlement, frankly, is unlikely, since I get paid more to let these things go as long as possible." Patel said.
Would two flywheels with opposite rotational directions fixed to the same object cancel the effects of each other out?
I wouldn't consider this the appropriate forum for theological questions. But if you care to, email me personally and I would love to see if I can point you in the right direction.