Oh god, I thought it was a reference to the Mac's long-time serial ports (no, really!). The idea of serial numbers never crossed my mind. Now, who's going to give me a super-geek card?
I'm with you on this! Whenever I see descriptions of how faster than light communication creates paradoxes, I can never grasp what it is. OK, so these two events happen at these times and the photons from them arrive at two observers in different orders. So what? If the observers belive that photons travel at infinite speed, then they will both come to different conclusions about the order of the events. But that's their error.
"It's a scam. If they really intended to give you the discount, they'd have an "instant rebate", meaning a price-cut in the store."
Damn good point, because the instant rebates are the ones the store sends off, so if those aren't redeemed, you have an angry store whom you owe thousands and who won't just ignore the matter.
I don't have a very high opinion of software patents, but I have to play devil's advocate and ask, are software patents in general beneficial while we only hear of exceptions where things go very wrong? How would one go about seriously answering this question, anyway?
It'd be nice if the computer could somehow detect the user entering this information, perhaps by knowing it already and detecting any entry of it (perhaps using a hash so the computer couldn't be made to spill its secrets, either by other users or malware).
I don't get the point of the system you describe. The final transaction, that of you giving the piece of paper for the item you want to buy, sounds very much like how it works in most places, where you hand a piece of paper (money) for the item you want to buy. What am I missing here?
On the other hand, defense of liberty has to start somewhere. If it can't start at something small and relatively safe like this, where can it? Practice with small issues like this is a good way for someone to become comfortable with defending the things that really matter.
Doesn't matter much (IMO, IANAL) since copyright defaults to "you can't use another person's work", so for something released only under GPL, if the GPL isn't found to relate to copyright (as in, "it's a contract only"), then you have no way of modifying/distributing the GPL work without infringing.
Code theft is trivial to detect: just see if your code is missing. Please, can't even Slashdot get the terms consistently correct? This is not about theft at all; it's about a tool that helps find copyright infringement.
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More like the magenetic wire recorder, which used wire instead of tape.
Not if it's a government doing it to you. In that case, it's good for you!
I think the freedom of things living on our skin should be respected!!! I'm all for GPLv4.
"While our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not."
I'd hate it if broadcast television started dropping calls. Hmmm.
Oh god, I thought it was a reference to the Mac's long-time serial ports (no, really!). The idea of serial numbers never crossed my mind. Now, who's going to give me a super-geek card?
I'm with you on this! Whenever I see descriptions of how faster than light communication creates paradoxes, I can never grasp what it is. OK, so these two events happen at these times and the photons from them arrive at two observers in different orders. So what? If the observers belive that photons travel at infinite speed, then they will both come to different conclusions about the order of the events. But that's their error.
"and well, Internet Exploder is just plain terrible at everything."
Hey, it's great at being terrible at everything (else)! That's something the other guys probably won't ever catch up on.
"It's a scam. If they really intended to give you the discount, they'd have an "instant rebate", meaning a price-cut in the store."
Damn good point, because the instant rebates are the ones the store sends off, so if those aren't redeemed, you have an angry store whom you owe thousands and who won't just ignore the matter.
Don't worry, they'll issue $100 in real credit in a few weeks. See Google.
"a plane can always find the most depopulated areas to fly over. Trucks and trains don't have that option."
They could always create a new depopulated area to drive through...
I don't have a very high opinion of software patents, but I have to play devil's advocate and ask, are software patents in general beneficial while we only hear of exceptions where things go very wrong? How would one go about seriously answering this question, anyway?
TMonks, your comment will come to haunt you in the future. Hundreds of Slashdot readers will mock you in the years to come.
Oh, I thought the group was called "F**k Islam". Color me surprised that anyone on Slashdot would care to protect my innocent eyes from the word FUCK.
It'd be nice if the computer could somehow detect the user entering this information, perhaps by knowing it already and detecting any entry of it (perhaps using a hash so the computer couldn't be made to spill its secrets, either by other users or malware).
I don't get the point of the system you describe. The final transaction, that of you giving the piece of paper for the item you want to buy, sounds very much like how it works in most places, where you hand a piece of paper (money) for the item you want to buy. What am I missing here?
"The optical sensor is similar to that used in scanners, allowing for notes or business cards to be scanned by the screen itself. "
Darn, I guess Penn & Teller's Vidi-Kopy gag can't be considered fiction anymore.
On the other hand, defense of liberty has to start somewhere. If it can't start at something small and relatively safe like this, where can it? Practice with small issues like this is a good way for someone to become comfortable with defending the things that really matter.
I live in America, the Continent of the Apathetic, but eh whatever.
And that those who would like to use whatever you have patented might not trust your claim that you won't sue them in the future.
Sucks to live in the US if you fly on planes regularly, apparently. Maybe they could eliminate the theatrics...
But you can misaddress a joke.
"This opens our eyes to the possibility of exchanging DNA between unrelated species and changing our understanding of the evolutionary process."
There, fixed that for you. Us finding out about something doesn't mean it didn't exist before we knew, as much as we like to believe.
Your honor, a tiny portion RAM log of the time in question
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2007.08.28 15:40 set bit 1243434
2007.08.28 15:40 set bit 1243435
2007.08.28 15:40 cleared bit 1243436
2007.08.28 15:40 set bit 1243437
Obviously guilty!
Doesn't matter much (IMO, IANAL) since copyright defaults to "you can't use another person's work", so for something released only under GPL, if the GPL isn't found to relate to copyright (as in, "it's a contract only"), then you have no way of modifying/distributing the GPL work without infringing.
Code theft is trivial to detect: just see if your code is missing. Please, can't even Slashdot get the terms consistently correct? This is not about theft at all; it's about a tool that helps find copyright infringement.