When I click on the link to apple.slashdot.org (and ask.slashdot.org, etc.), it always gives me the.shtml page that requires login, and then when I read the stories the formatting is wrong until I find the article.pl link at the top of the story. Editors - if you're reading - pls fix, thx.
Restraint of trade is exactly the issue here. Region coding is the best example of an "agreement, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade" I have ever heard of! It does need to be stopped before the kind of crap you describe, though I am skeptical that region-locked ethernet etc. could ever work in the market.
Fortunately some countries (e.g. New Zealand) have already banned it.
Yes it will. Postmen quit and retire all the time. Productivity improvements can always save labor, even if union rules mean you can't save as much as you might have in a non-union shop (but you also might not have workers as skilled or loyal).
USPS in particular will find this useful, but it needs to be a helluva lot cheaper than $8K or $13K or whatever to make sense even for them, methinks.
if you think someone will pay $137,000 for this thing. That's the price of a Porsche! For a scooter? Even a really, really, REALLY NICE scooter? I don't think so.
I think this is a highly suspect auction. At present three units are up on Amazon, very close together in price - $13,000, $13,100, $13,988. And the profits go to Dean Kamen's own foundation, "to inspire an appreciation of science and technology in young people, their schools, and their communities."
What if it is really just there to prove to investors that people are willing to pay the price of a small car for a motorized scooter? And what if someone linked to Kamen, or Kamen himself, were placing some of those bids at strategic prices like $13K?
As an American taxpayer, I can tell you I'm thrilled with the prospect of page-widening crapfloods, goatse.cx links, flamewars, and (really sweet) marriage proposals on federalregister.gov. Bring it on!
Also give credit to the increasingly loud calls for software liability. More and more experts and industry groups and
advisory panels are supporting the notion that software be held to the same liability rules as any other consumer
product. It makes no sense that Firestone can produce a tire with a systemic flaw and be liable, while Microsoft can
produce an operating system with a new systemic flaw discovered every week and not be liable. I think Gates sees
this liability juggernaut on the horizon, and is doing his best to dodge it.
Software liability would be a disaster for free software, right? Okay, everyone wants Microsoft to have to pay for Nimda/CodeRed/Melissa/ILOVEYOU, but I don't suspect that the authors of Sourceforge (for example) would want to be liable for someone losing his code due to a buffer overflow. Schneier is right on many things, but he is 100% wrong on this one.
Developers can treat Passport as an object in their code and instantly make use of a thoroughly tested and validated service that works just fine with 160 million user accounts around the globe. Such reuse not only speeds deployment of applications but also increases their reliability after delivery.
Only a guy who makes his living selling Microsoft manuals would have the chutzpah to say that in public. May I have some of what he is smoking?
I always just say "Agent! Human! Agent!" and then hit zero repeatedly when these come up. They are NEVER but NEVER accurate enough, and they are a huge waste of time. I remember when Moviefone tried them for a little while -- it was a disaster as the thing was completely unusable.
Sorry, but there is no substitute for a human at the other end of the line. Charge more if you have to, but answer the phone!
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When I click on the link to apple.slashdot.org (and ask.slashdot.org, etc.), it always gives me the .shtml page that requires login, and then when I read the stories the formatting is wrong until I find the article.pl link at the top of the story. Editors - if you're reading - pls fix, thx.
Well, it is published by AOL Time Warner, which owns Warner Music. Consider the source.
I'm just sayin'.
it's Bondi Blue
Sony is evil too
Fortunately some countries (e.g. New Zealand) have already banned it.
Your comment is boring. Please post an interesting comment.
Bestill my beating heart!
Don't forget Accuracy in Media, the right's (fairly wacko) answer to FAIR. One man's "corporatized reporting" is another's "liberal media," I guess.
USPS in particular will find this useful, but it needs to be a helluva lot cheaper than $8K or $13K or whatever to make sense even for them, methinks.
if you think someone will pay $137,000 for this thing. That's the price of a Porsche! For a scooter? Even a really, really, REALLY NICE scooter? I don't think so.
What if it is really just there to prove to investors that people are willing to pay the price of a small car for a motorized scooter? And what if someone linked to Kamen, or Kamen himself, were placing some of those bids at strategic prices like $13K?
It worked for Scientology, after all.
You'll get GNUDE .. perfect for viewing and manipulating, um, photos.
You're lucky they were using safety film! Remember that scene in Cinema Paradiso where the guy had to cut the film when it caught on fire?
And should be treated as such, even if he didn't do the popular thing and smash Starbucks windows. That he got away with it is the injustice here.
As an American taxpayer, I can tell you I'm thrilled with the prospect of page-widening crapfloods, goatse.cx links, flamewars, and (really sweet) marriage proposals on federalregister.gov. Bring it on!
Offtopic, but who cares?
And don't forget the famous Oracle Breakable After All article on slashdot, famous for a certain offtopic post...
The flight attendants might give you some trouble however.
Software liability would be a disaster for free software, right? Okay, everyone wants Microsoft to have to pay for Nimda/CodeRed/Melissa/ILOVEYOU, but I don't suspect that the authors of Sourceforge (for example) would want to be liable for someone losing his code due to a buffer overflow. Schneier is right on many things, but he is 100% wrong on this one.
Once again: congrats!
Developers can treat Passport as an object in their code and instantly make use of a thoroughly tested and validated service that works just fine with 160 million user accounts around the globe. Such reuse not only speeds deployment of applications but also increases their reliability after delivery.
Only a guy who makes his living selling Microsoft manuals would have the chutzpah to say that in public. May I have some of what he is smoking?
(and best wishes too, mainly to override the LOUD CONGRATULATIONS FILTER)
that is so sweet. I was wondering if something like this would happen today ... cute!
Sorry, but there is no substitute for a human at the other end of the line. Charge more if you have to, but answer the phone!