They actually use standalone.exe apps you have to install, and the thing in the article saying that a program is years away from identifying cards onscreen or whatever is ludicrous, because sites don't change how they display the cards.. If you wrote an app to watch a 7-card stud game on a certain site, you could easily just tell your program "this 32 X 48 pattern of pixels is the ace of spades, this one is the 7 of diamonds" and it could easily tell what every other player had by just looking for those patterns. Making a program that can tell this on EVERY site would be hard, but why bother, just make it for one or two of the most popular sites and you're fine.
I equate quoting Henry Rollins with being an asshole.
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It's not fashionable, it's profitable, and that's why the shitty, shitty, super duper ultra-shitty, PC magazines, etc. that people link to on Slashdot as if they're some actual form of legit press, love predicting stuff like crazy.
Wannabe pundits don't get ad dollars or further writing assignments by getting the facts straight and admitting they cannot see the future, they get attention by taking a few small things, extrapolating them into way farther into the future than makes any sense at all, and having people on slashdot and their sites' message boards argue about it.
How is this a flash mob if it's advertised weeks ahead and isn't going to just show up and then disperse quickly? This is just a planned event with no RSVP list, that doesn't make it a flash mob, they're just jumping on that currently-hip (not for long let's hope) name to get attention and feel cool. I'm surprised they didn't actually say "it's a flash mob of metrosexuals!" to really get attention from lazy people who love idiotic hip slang.
Just check the IPs googlebot comes from and ban those if they're not honoring your roots file, that works fine, they have a very set range they use, anything starting with 216.39 or something I think.
Also you don't get slashdotted by just having a (lame) link in the discussion, especvially if it's modded to -1 as this will be, but even if it's at 2. You only get the mad hits from front page links, there isn't a magical thing where any link on any page containing slashdot in it's url gets you 10,000 hits.
"The public service announcement some courageous, publicly minded techie slipped into the broadcast stream exposing [insert favorite president here]'s criminal participation in [insert favorite crime here], against the wishes of both his conglomerate's bosses and the ruling party."... " the Feds might want to know everyone who saw it, so as to begin their search for future revolutionaries and resistence leaders among a smaller subset of the general population".... "Seam [sic] farfetched?"
Not so much farfetched as just a really, really, really bad sci-fi movie. Probably directed by John Travolta.
What am I possibly going to watch on ANY tv station that my wife's divorce lawyer or john ashcroft would need to know about? Are there a lot of channels I don't know about like "the i cheated with my secretary channel" or "only al qaeda lovers should watch this channel" channel? I think you're getting a little over paranoid when you think anyone cares what anyone watches in a country where there are only a few hundred choices on what to watch anyway.
Yeah, I don't think google can scale very well, I mean it's all very well when they have maybe a half dozen people using them per hour like now, running off a few servers in their backroom, but wait till they want to really get some people in.
Not only that, but they're buying songs by CERTAIN bands, and the first band they're helping out is on MATADOR records!!!!! Which is HARDLY an indie, that's so bogus of them. Matador may not be a 100 million dollar corporation yet, but it's the farthest thing from the spirit of indies there is.
I believe it, Fido doesn't work within 15 minutes of MANY cities, or even IN some. Even around toronto, if you go too far north, like 30 or 45 minutes, your coverage will die, it's insane.
Oh my god this is so true, I had to go with fido for their unlimited GPRS, but I have gone to numerous large tourist attractions within an hour of Toronto, and had my phone not work. Fido are terrrrible for coverage, and short-sighted people will probably say something like "yeah but I don't leave toronto/montreal/whever, so it's worth the 2 bucks a month I save", but the one day you go to pick someone up at the airport or something and your car dies and you can't use your phone, you'll feel like a putz. Fido's model is this: cheap pricing (slightly cheaper) but terrible coverage. I only wish they had heard of the "can you hear me now" campaign and how well that had done.
Haha, I don't even HAVE a tivo, much less care what they do! This just is not a matter of patenting something everyone was doing, thought of, etc. etc. Reactionary, reactionary slashdot people, jeez.
Okay, I will help you out: by suggesting you read the article and the patent. That'll help you more than just posting reactionary flamebait on slashdot.
Reactionary FUD. Everyone who sues another company is not SCO-like. People who sue based on nothing are SCO-like, people who sue based on their patents being ripped off wholesale are just responsible.
Audio and video are not that close, read the actual patent, you might as well be saying "well i can look at an orange in my left hand while my right hand picks up another orange", your analogy is about that strong. The patent office may suck, but this one is valid, stop being so reactionary to any patent whatsoever.
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How is that an announcement? It's just someone linking the site, duh.
They actually use standalone .exe apps you have to install, and the thing in the article saying that a program is years away from identifying cards onscreen or whatever is ludicrous, because sites don't change how they display the cards.. If you wrote an app to watch a 7-card stud game on a certain site, you could easily just tell your program "this 32 X 48 pattern of pixels is the ace of spades, this one is the 7 of diamonds" and it could easily tell what every other player had by just looking for those patterns. Making a program that can tell this on EVERY site would be hard, but why bother, just make it for one or two of the most popular sites and you're fine.
I equate quoting Henry Rollins with being an asshole.
It's not fashionable, it's profitable, and that's why the shitty, shitty, super duper ultra-shitty, PC magazines, etc. that people link to on Slashdot as if they're some actual form of legit press, love predicting stuff like crazy.
Wannabe pundits don't get ad dollars or further writing assignments by getting the facts straight and admitting they cannot see the future, they get attention by taking a few small things, extrapolating them into way farther into the future than makes any sense at all, and having people on slashdot and their sites' message boards argue about it.
I think you meant to say "it was a fuckwit joke". And yes, yes it was.
He means he wishes he could swear, not wishes he could replace his swearing.
How is this a flash mob if it's advertised weeks ahead and isn't going to just show up and then disperse quickly? This is just a planned event with no RSVP list, that doesn't make it a flash mob, they're just jumping on that currently-hip (not for long let's hope) name to get attention and feel cool. I'm surprised they didn't actually say "it's a flash mob of metrosexuals!" to really get attention from lazy people who love idiotic hip slang.
Just check the IPs googlebot comes from and ban those if they're not honoring your roots file, that works fine, they have a very set range they use, anything starting with 216.39 or something I think.
Also you don't get slashdotted by just having a (lame) link in the discussion, especvially if it's modded to -1 as this will be, but even if it's at 2. You only get the mad hits from front page links, there isn't a magical thing where any link on any page containing slashdot in it's url gets you 10,000 hits.
Wow, they sell jammers? That is terrible, so disruptive and bad, it's just wrong. Where do you buy those by the way?
a big SUV with a satellite TV conection is USEFUL??
"The public service announcement some courageous, publicly minded techie slipped into the broadcast stream exposing [insert favorite president here]'s criminal participation in [insert favorite crime here], against the wishes of both his conglomerate's bosses and the ruling party." ... ....
" the Feds might want to know everyone who saw it, so as to begin their search for future revolutionaries and resistence leaders among a smaller subset of the general population"
"Seam [sic] farfetched?"
Not so much farfetched as just a really, really, really bad sci-fi movie. Probably directed by John Travolta.
What am I possibly going to watch on ANY tv station that my wife's divorce lawyer or john ashcroft would need to know about? Are there a lot of channels I don't know about like "the i cheated with my secretary channel" or "only al qaeda lovers should watch this channel" channel? I think you're getting a little over paranoid when you think anyone cares what anyone watches in a country where there are only a few hundred choices on what to watch anyway.
They were only going to release 20% of shares or so anyway. Also, what you suggest is utterly ludicrous anyway.
Yeah, I don't think google can scale very well, I mean it's all very well when they have maybe a half dozen people using them per hour like now, running off a few servers in their backroom, but wait till they want to really get some people in.
Not only that, but they're buying songs by CERTAIN bands, and the first band they're helping out is on MATADOR records!!!!! Which is HARDLY an indie, that's so bogus of them. Matador may not be a 100 million dollar corporation yet, but it's the farthest thing from the spirit of indies there is.
Well get on with it then, hurry up and annex us, I'm tired of paying so damn much for cell phones!!
I believe it, Fido doesn't work within 15 minutes of MANY cities, or even IN some. Even around toronto, if you go too far north, like 30 or 45 minutes, your coverage will die, it's insane.
Wait, who has 1x? I don't know much about it, is it good, better than gprs?
Oh my god this is so true, I had to go with fido for their unlimited GPRS, but I have gone to numerous large tourist attractions within an hour of Toronto, and had my phone not work. Fido are terrrrible for coverage, and short-sighted people will probably say something like "yeah but I don't leave toronto/montreal/whever, so it's worth the 2 bucks a month I save", but the one day you go to pick someone up at the airport or something and your car dies and you can't use your phone, you'll feel like a putz. Fido's model is this: cheap pricing (slightly cheaper) but terrible coverage. I only wish they had heard of the "can you hear me now" campaign and how well that had done.
You have used a non-digital VCR to pause live tv? Are you magic?
Haha, I don't even HAVE a tivo, much less care what they do! This just is not a matter of patenting something everyone was doing, thought of, etc. etc. Reactionary, reactionary slashdot people, jeez.
Okay, I will help you out: by suggesting you read the article and the patent. That'll help you more than just posting reactionary flamebait on slashdot.
Reactionary FUD. Everyone who sues another company is not SCO-like. People who sue based on nothing are SCO-like, people who sue based on their patents being ripped off wholesale are just responsible.
Audio and video are not that close, read the actual patent, you might as well be saying "well i can look at an orange in my left hand while my right hand picks up another orange", your analogy is about that strong. The patent office may suck, but this one is valid, stop being so reactionary to any patent whatsoever.