Completely off topic and a reply to a.sig, but Oh well...
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That reminds me of an English Paper I turned in once. When I started writing it I couldn't think of a title for it, so I just put in a placeholder. Well, I never did get around to thinking of a clever title and replacing that... in fact, I forgot all about it until I got the paper back and there was a big ? next to the words "Clever Title" at the top of the page:).
I couldn't help but start laughing right in the middle of class so I then had to explain to everybody why I was laughing (eg, how stupid I was).
But if SCO's statements turn out to be false, then couldn't all (or at least most) of their current statements be considered slanderous? I'm pretty sure slander is against the law and not cosidered protected under free speach as the slanderer is violating the rights of the slanderee.
[...] it looks more to me like they hope someone else will and that they can then sue them, based on having obtained a patent without actually inventing anything or provide the public any value in return for the patent.
I can't say that I've ever done this, but it seems to me that if your intention was to patent something and hope that somebody else invents it you would want to keep the patent as quiet as possible. Setting up a website to try and advertise it and getting published on the NYT website and/. doesn't really seem to fit that MO. I'm really hoping they are gonna build something like this, if for no other reason that the "cool factor." With my limited knowledge, it certainly seems possible. And if they do, there will be working models to figure out how the device works so one doesn't need to try and decipher what's on file with the patent office when that limited time monopoly expires.
There's a difference between bolstering your immune system and sticking your fingers into a big pile of dog-doo. There are plenty of things I'd rather not touch.
In my expierence (and yes, I've administered both kinds of servers), Novell has a better server product than Microsoft. It is much more stable on much older hardware. Since we migrated to Windows 2000 from Netware 5.1 we've gone from 2 physical servers to 7 at this location. The story is pretty much the same at all our other locations. What new ability did we gain with the 5 additional servers? About another 80 GB of storage space (could have easily been gained by simply buying new hard disks) and DNS (can be done using a 486 and linux). That's right, we bought 5 new servers and the MS server licenses that go along with them to get next to nothing. And in the process, we lost NDS (yes, we have AD, but it's not as good) and ZenWorks (yes, you can get that to run now w/out a Novell server, but we haven't).
Therein lies one of the problems of a representative government.
The only other alternative I can think of (with the exception of going the other direction) is to have a public vote for every issue that comes up. However, I think current precedence would tell us that increasing the number of public votes wouldn't really help anything. Even as it is, the percentage of people in America that even bother showing up to the polls for the big votes (President, Congress, etc.) is extreamly low. Smaller issue votes (local library needs more money, township needs a new clerk, etc.) have pathetic turnouts; so much so that they normally try to include those issues on the "big vote" ballets so there's at least something resmebling public opinion (I'll admit, I've never voted in one of those elections). Having more public votes for small issues (how many votes does Congress hold a year??) will only compound that problem. It will get to the point that only people with a strong opinion one side or the other of the issue show up to the polls and the decision will be made by those people. In our current representitive form a government, it's only those people that bother to write their congressmen. The congressmen and their staff can than take those letters, add in some personal research, and make a decision.
After reading that article and looking at the pretty picture, I'm not sure what the motherboard has to do with anything. From what I can see this is a card which sits between the IDE cable and the harddrive with a USB-like dongle attached to it. Shouldn't that card be able to do the encryption itself? It seems to me that even if this isn't an independent subsystem, it wouldn't take too much work to make it one and start selling just that piece.
As I understand it, the DMCA would probably actually help you in this case. One of the clauses in the DMCA makes it illegal to try and circumvent encryption which would be the only way to get the data off the hard drive w/out the USB key.
So every person who wants to call me has to first listen to a message that tells telemarketers that I don't want their crap? That's an extra 5-10 seconds at least of a legetimate callers time that I have to waste just to keep telemarketers from contacting me. There really is no direct equivalent to a no solicitors sign. What's work really well at keeping door-to-door salesmen away from my front door is living in the middle of nowhere. It's just too far in between houses for solicitors to walk. But even that doesn't work for telephones. I'm a huge fan of the do-not-call list as it allows me to tell all telemarketing companies at once not to cold call me instead of having to do it one at a time and keep track of who I've hold and who hasn't gotten the message yet.
Another sign of the cluelessness of the average phone-spammer is when they call asking for "Mr. and Mrs. $YOURLASTNAME"...and you're still single.
My mom says she that she's gotten calls numerous times where they asked for me and when she told them I wasn't home they'd responce with "Oh, well is this Mrs. Steenhagen?" The proper answer to that question, of course, is yes... she is in fact married to my father, thus making her Mrs. Steenhagen. She is not, however, the person the telemarketer is looking for. In fact, that person doesn't currently exist!!
Yes, I have. I've also heard that its effectiveness is decreasing because the telemarketing companies are realizing what's going on and changing their tactics... kinda remindes my of another well hated industry (*cough* SPAM *cough*). Did they ever think that maybe if somebody doesn't want to be called and bothered, they probably are going to be resentful of any company that tries to do so and not buy their products. Heck, even if I were intested in a product somebody were trying to sell me over the phone I wouldn't buy it simply out of spite. I'd find somebody else to it, or something similar (maybe even better), from.
I agree with the general case, however, it differs from what we have here. First of all, in the case of a "No Solicitors" sign, the "no solicitors" sign is posted by the individual, and not in a government-maintained and paid-for database.
I have a "No Solicitors" sign setting next to my telephone, but you can't see that when you pull a random phone number from some database and attempt to call me, can you? The national DNC list is actually very similar to the "No Solictors" sign on the front gate. I decide that I don't want calls, so I post a sign (by visiting donotcall.gov). As the salesperson walks up to my front gate, they have to look and see if there's a sign there (eg, check the database). If there is (my number is listed), they have to walk to the next house (eg, NOT CALL ME!!). I'm failing to see the difference.
Maybe I don't truely understand what a real role player is, but I think this may be one thing LucasArts did right w/Star Wars Galaxies... they acutally made professions for people how just want to chat. If your biggest goal is to sit around and talk the whole time, become an Entertainer and hang out in the Cantina. And while you're there, you can get music/dance/image design Expierence Points and advance in that skill. Or if you'd rather wander around and kill stuff, you can choose the Brawler/Marksmen type professions.
Either way, I find it fun:)... But this is also the first RPG type game I've ever tried.
I saw another person reply that you can in Mozilla but not in OE, but I've never tried in either. I won't use Outlook Express because I don't like it and it's open to too many (eg all) of IE's security holes (as somebody else mentioned). With Mozilla Mail, however, instead of turning of HTML mail you can instead disable everything that's harmful about (eg, JavaScript and remote images). I personally like (and do) this as you can still read the message. Most clients (read Outlook) generate horrid HTML that would be a real pain to read through/around.
As much as I hate Outlook/Exchange, I do recognize that there are some nice features. What you mentioned being one (some?) of them. Another is instant delivery. I've heard the proticol is a mess (and believe it) but it's really nice that when I get a new message the server notifies Outlook instead of having Outlook poll for new messages.
I can easily read mails sent to me from trusted users with clueless clients and still not pull images from spammer servers.
I can get the same effect in Mozilla by doing to Edit -> Preferences and within that panel going to Privacy & Security -> Images and checking the box that says Do not load remote images in Mail & Newsgroups messages. Now I can still read HTML messages w/out another click (of course I have JavaScript turned off in MailNews!!) but still not verify my address w/spammers.
That's the way it sounds to me, especially after reading a link I saw in another post about a site that received this letter. The contents of that letter would actually be quite funny, if it weren't so serious. SBC seems to believe that because they sent this letter the only decision Museum Tour has left is which license to purchase. SBC is even nice enough to tell Museum Tour how much money they'll owe... just as soon as Museum Tour sends SBC a copy of their 2002 revenues.
This basically means that any well designed web site is in violation of this patent (consistancy is part of web design 101, right?). Frames, SSI, CGI, PHP, etc. only help designers violate this patent.
I almost wish I was an SBC customer... I'd love to call and cancel some service from them right now.
Actually, that sound to me like if you run another OS on your computer (eg, dual boot) then you are no longer licensed to use Windows. So now anybody who dual boots becomes a pirate, whether or not they paid for Windows. This clause would successfully make the majority of linux users, including those that tried to be above board and pay for software where it was required (eg, windows), pirates.
And don't forget about the opposite problem: We don't have a kickback option on that product so why should we post it? There's also the problem of reputability... people would start questioning if it was really that cool or if slashdot just got a favoriable deal on it.
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That reminds me of an English Paper I turned in once. When I started writing it I couldn't think of a title for it, so I just put in a placeholder. Well, I never did get around to thinking of a clever title and replacing that... in fact, I forgot all about it until I got the paper back and there was a big ? next to the words "Clever Title" at the top of the page
I couldn't help but start laughing right in the middle of class so I then had to explain to everybody why I was laughing (eg, how stupid I was).
+5 Insightful? Please. Funny, maybe, but I think not (completely overdone and not that funny to begin with). Certainly not insightful.
But if SCO's statements turn out to be false, then couldn't all (or at least most) of their current statements be considered slanderous? I'm pretty sure slander is against the law and not cosidered protected under free speach as the slanderer is violating the rights of the slanderee.
I think.
Maybe I'm not doing something right, but when I visit gooogle.com I get to the Google search engine.
I can't say that I've ever done this, but it seems to me that if your intention was to patent something and hope that somebody else invents it you would want to keep the patent as quiet as possible. Setting up a website to try and advertise it and getting published on the NYT website and
I'm really hoping they are gonna build something like this, if for no other reason that the "cool factor." With my limited knowledge, it certainly seems possible. And if they do, there will be working models to figure out how the device works so one doesn't need to try and decipher what's on file with the patent office when that limited time monopoly expires.
There's a difference between bolstering your immune system and sticking your fingers into a big pile of dog-doo. There are plenty of things I'd rather not touch.
I'll admit to not being suprised by the existance of the two words in the same headline... it's the ordering that caught me off gaurd.
In my expierence (and yes, I've administered both kinds of servers), Novell has a better server product than Microsoft. It is much more stable on much older hardware. Since we migrated to Windows 2000 from Netware 5.1 we've gone from 2 physical servers to 7 at this location. The story is pretty much the same at all our other locations. What new ability did we gain with the 5 additional servers? About another 80 GB of storage space (could have easily been gained by simply buying new hard disks) and DNS (can be done using a 486 and linux). That's right, we bought 5 new servers and the MS server licenses that go along with them to get next to nothing. And in the process, we lost NDS (yes, we have AD, but it's not as good) and ZenWorks (yes, you can get that to run now w/out a Novell server, but we haven't).
The only other alternative I can think of (with the exception of going the other direction) is to have a public vote for every issue that comes up. However, I think current precedence would tell us that increasing the number of public votes wouldn't really help anything. Even as it is, the percentage of people in America that even bother showing up to the polls for the big votes (President, Congress, etc.) is extreamly low. Smaller issue votes (local library needs more money, township needs a new clerk, etc.) have pathetic turnouts; so much so that they normally try to include those issues on the "big vote" ballets so there's at least something resmebling public opinion (I'll admit, I've never voted in one of those elections). Having more public votes for small issues (how many votes does Congress hold a year??) will only compound that problem. It will get to the point that only people with a strong opinion one side or the other of the issue show up to the polls and the decision will be made by those people. In our current representitive form a government, it's only those people that bother to write their congressmen. The congressmen and their staff can than take those letters, add in some personal research, and make a decision.
After reading that article and looking at the pretty picture, I'm not sure what the motherboard has to do with anything. From what I can see this is a card which sits between the IDE cable and the harddrive with a USB-like dongle attached to it. Shouldn't that card be able to do the encryption itself? It seems to me that even if this isn't an independent subsystem, it wouldn't take too much work to make it one and start selling just that piece.
As I understand it, the DMCA would probably actually help you in this case. One of the clauses in the DMCA makes it illegal to try and circumvent encryption which would be the only way to get the data off the hard drive w/out the USB key.
So every person who wants to call me has to first listen to a message that tells telemarketers that I don't want their crap? That's an extra 5-10 seconds at least of a legetimate callers time that I have to waste just to keep telemarketers from contacting me. There really is no direct equivalent to a no solicitors sign. What's work really well at keeping door-to-door salesmen away from my front door is living in the middle of nowhere. It's just too far in between houses for solicitors to walk. But even that doesn't work for telephones. I'm a huge fan of the do-not-call list as it allows me to tell all telemarketing companies at once not to cold call me instead of having to do it one at a time and keep track of who I've hold and who hasn't gotten the message yet.
My mom says she that she's gotten calls numerous times where they asked for me and when she told them I wasn't home they'd responce with "Oh, well is this Mrs. Steenhagen?" The proper answer to that question, of course, is yes... she is in fact married to my father, thus making her Mrs. Steenhagen. She is not, however, the person the telemarketer is looking for. In fact, that person doesn't currently exist!!
Yes, I have. I've also heard that its effectiveness is decreasing because the telemarketing companies are realizing what's going on and changing their tactics... kinda remindes my of another well hated industry (*cough* SPAM *cough*). Did they ever think that maybe if somebody doesn't want to be called and bothered, they probably are going to be resentful of any company that tries to do so and not buy their products. Heck, even if I were intested in a product somebody were trying to sell me over the phone I wouldn't buy it simply out of spite. I'd find somebody else to it, or something similar (maybe even better), from.
I have a "No Solicitors" sign setting next to my telephone, but you can't see that when you pull a random phone number from some database and attempt to call me, can you? The national DNC list is actually very similar to the "No Solictors" sign on the front gate. I decide that I don't want calls, so I post a sign (by visiting donotcall.gov). As the salesperson walks up to my front gate, they have to look and see if there's a sign there (eg, check the database). If there is (my number is listed), they have to walk to the next house (eg, NOT CALL ME!!). I'm failing to see the difference.
Maybe I don't truely understand what a real role player is, but I think this may be one thing LucasArts did right w/Star Wars Galaxies... they acutally made professions for people how just want to chat. If your biggest goal is to sit around and talk the whole time, become an Entertainer and hang out in the Cantina. And while you're there, you can get music/dance/image design Expierence Points and advance in that skill. Or if you'd rather wander around and kill stuff, you can choose the Brawler/Marksmen type professions.
:) ... But this is also the first RPG type game I've ever tried.
Either way, I find it fun
I probably don't need to mention that Mozilla can spoof, too :)
Anyway, I only spoof if I have to (for this very reason). And truth be told, I haven't had to in quite some time.
I saw another person reply that you can in Mozilla but not in OE, but I've never tried in either. I won't use Outlook Express because I don't like it and it's open to too many (eg all) of IE's security holes (as somebody else mentioned). With Mozilla Mail, however, instead of turning of HTML mail you can instead disable everything that's harmful about (eg, JavaScript and remote images). I personally like (and do) this as you can still read the message. Most clients (read Outlook) generate horrid HTML that would be a real pain to read through/around.
As much as I hate Outlook/Exchange, I do recognize that there are some nice features. What you mentioned being one (some?) of them. Another is instant delivery. I've heard the proticol is a mess (and believe it) but it's really nice that when I get a new message the server notifies Outlook instead of having Outlook poll for new messages.
I can get the same effect in Mozilla by doing to Edit -> Preferences and within that panel going to Privacy & Security -> Images and checking the box that says Do not load remote images in Mail & Newsgroups messages. Now I can still read HTML messages w/out another click (of course I have JavaScript turned off in MailNews!!) but still not verify my address w/spammers.
Besides that, have you ever tried to give a stripper a $1 coin... it just doesn't seem like it would have the same effect ;)
That's the way it sounds to me, especially after reading a link I saw in another post about a site that received this letter. The contents of that letter would actually be quite funny, if it weren't so serious. SBC seems to believe that because they sent this letter the only decision Museum Tour has left is which license to purchase. SBC is even nice enough to tell Museum Tour how much money they'll owe... just as soon as Museum Tour sends SBC a copy of their 2002 revenues.
This basically means that any well designed web site is in violation of this patent (consistancy is part of web design 101, right?). Frames, SSI, CGI, PHP, etc. only help designers violate this patent.
I almost wish I was an SBC customer... I'd love to call and cancel some service from them right now.
Actually, that sound to me like if you run another OS on your computer (eg, dual boot) then you are no longer licensed to use Windows. So now anybody who dual boots becomes a pirate, whether or not they paid for Windows. This clause would successfully make the majority of linux users, including those that tried to be above board and pay for software where it was required (eg, windows), pirates.
And don't forget about the opposite problem: We don't have a kickback option on that product so why should we post it? There's also the problem of reputability... people would start questioning if it was really that cool or if slashdot just got a favoriable deal on it.
This was discussed, and even worked on for a while, but was eventually rejected. I go agree that it would be nice to have, however.
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http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471