One doesn't need to reverse engineer one-click technology. Anyone with a year's experience in programming could write it. And by saying a year I'm being conservative. That's one of the reason it's such a stupid patent.
What if Apple spends all this money on one-click shopping and then Amazon gives in to the public and releases the patent? It would be another bad move on Apple's part.
In order for that complaint to be upheld against everyone else, Mattel would have to complain in court against everyone else. This isn't like a criminal case where someone is prosecuted for breaching a specific piece of legislation, this is a case of Mattel pointing to a couple of discrete individuals and saying to the court, "Help us out with these guys, stop what they're doing," and the court has done precisely that without stopping anyone else from doing whatever it is that they happen to be doing.
Interesting. So say the same scenario happened, but I was incorporated. Now, if I understand it, corporations are seperate legal entities. So, if they take the corporation to court and the court tells the corporation to cease and desist, what's to stop me from creating a new corporation and continuing to do what I'm doing (ad infinitum)?
So, if I read this article correctly, they're saying that all the distances they spout off are just estimations? I'm not talking about estimations like 96 million miles (no one believes the sun is exactly 96 million miles away, but apparently they could be way off on some of these estimations.
On the other hand, astrologers will have to go back and redo their all those horoscopes.
After the recent turn of events on slashdot, it could have been Hemos. Maybe the hackers weren't as benign as we were led to believe. It's the classic switch and bait. Tell them we broke in and how we did it. While they're scrambling around trying to patch the holes, they'll never noticed we swapped names.
And now for a public service announcement from Jon "CmdrTaco" Katz...
Everyone claims to be a 'straight A student' and yet I see so much mediocrity.
There's a reason for this. The school system teaches facts rather than thinking skills (espcially critical thinking). So you have a bunch of yahoos who go through school who can memorize a few dates and do good on tests, but have no practical experience. At one point in time, this may have not been a bad thing. Times have changed drastically though, and the educational system has not caught up. This is a dangerous time to have a faulty educational system.
I can't imagine that people are leaving the field in great numbers. Something must have driven them to the technical field in the first place. And with the world so driven by technology, there's bound to be fewer and fewer non-technical jobs as time goes by.
And certainly it's a big mistake to churn people through college. We don't need less trained people entering the field, we need more trained people. This means focusing on real world solutions and not the toy problems that colleges seems to want to focus on. This is akin to adding more people to a late project, except on a different scale. If corporations have to spend more time training the newbies, then corporations will experience a negative effect due to their technical departments, not a positive one.
If corporations are going to pay me to learn, then why not go to college one or two years, get hired by a company and have them pay me to learn what I need to know? That sounds like a sweet deal to me.
It stands for Super Terminating Machine. It's everything the T-1000 wanted to be, but wasn't. The T-1000 could have taken the tunneling method to kill John Connor. Instead of hunting John down, like a prototypical mimetic polyalloy, he simply shoots a sliver of himself into his mark. Then while John is running around the country with Linda and Uncle Bob, the T-1000 is tunneling his way through John's internal orgrans. Cyberdyne stock goes way up and ushers in the birth of The Matrix.
Charlie Babbage: Ok, Raymond. The next object we need to find is a pair of underwear. Where are we headed off to? Raymond Babbage: Latitude 82 82" 82' N, 41 27" 17' W Charlie Babbage: Are you sure, Ray? Raymond Babbage: Yea. Definitely 82, 82, 82. Charlie Babbage: Do you know where that is, Ray? Raymond Babbage: Yea, 82, 82, 82. Charlie Babbage: Where is that, Ray? Raymond Babbage: 400 Oak Street.
Definitely 400 Oak Street.
I bet this guy is going to get a medal, a plaque, and an article. That's it. When he could've had 10 mil just like that.. I demand that the bank gives him the award of... one million dollars!
Choas would ensue. People would quit their jobs and devote their time to trying to make the perfect score. They would, of course be competing with all the script kiddies, who'd have a day or two head start on them. The hard core programmers could demand lots more money (because all the other programmers went on some Cyber Gold Rush). Microsoft would have a hard time trying to peddle their certifications (because, after all, who has time to study - I have a bank to crack). Since the script kiddies are preoccupied, Norton would lose millions in antivirus software sales.
We'd have to call in Bruce Willis - The world's best deep core driller.
I've always feared that the banks were not secure. That's why I keep all my money in my mattress. Of course, all those coins make the bed lumpy, but you get used to it eventually.
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It's a little known secret that Slashdot is really just a coverup for Fibonacci expansion. Some plot to take over the stock market or some such thing. You think those karma points are handed out randomly? No sir. There's meaning behind those there numbers. Why do you think logged in users start at 1 and non logged in users start at 0? Think about it.
But don't tell anyone.
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There was a big scam with the phone companies doing something similar. Seems some phone companies called themselves "It doesn't matter" and "Whatever", etc. When they'd ask you what phone company you wanted, if you replied "It doesn't matter", then you were automatically given them as your long distance company.
I'm actually surprised it's taken the net this long to come up with this scam.
All we need is an object bigger than the black hole, to plug it up.
As an aside, do things in the northern hemisphere of the universe flush one way down a black hole, while in the southern hemisphere, they flush the other?
I just hope the new Batman won't be trying to solve math riddles
That's exactly what the new one is about. It seems that after The Riddler's last crushing defeat, he's been going to community college at night in an attempt to add something to his already extensive repertoire.
You do not understand it correctly. Back to boot-camp with you. Get down and give me 20 recitations of CatB.
Well, I read it on netscape.com when they first decided to release source code, so there must have been some validity to it at the time. Of course, now several years later, the story (or philosophy) might have changed. They had the official let's kick it into 2nd gear speech on their web page.
Boot camp, eh? I can see it now: Free that memory! No dangling pointers! Move it! Move it!
If I understand it correctly, their choice to release the source code, was to expand the user base. How has this been going for them? What percentage of users actually use Netscape?
I cannot imagine that the average user would be lured to using a package, simply because the source code is available. I only know two people who use it, and one of them uses IE most of the time. Do Linux users see Netscape as an attractive option (is it even available for Linux)?
Nice picture by the way. Do I have to put up NetNanny for the youngsters?
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The mouse only costs $10. The other $49 is for the priviledge of using one-click ordering.
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One doesn't need to reverse engineer one-click technology. Anyone with a year's experience in programming could write it. And by saying a year I'm being conservative. That's one of the reason it's such a stupid patent.
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What if Apple spends all this money on one-click shopping and then Amazon gives in to the public and releases the patent? It would be another bad move on Apple's part.
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Soon, I'll be able to buy Apple with one click.
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In order for that complaint to be upheld against everyone else, Mattel would have to complain in court against everyone else. This isn't like a criminal case where someone is prosecuted for breaching a specific piece of legislation, this is a case of Mattel pointing to a couple of discrete individuals and saying to the court, "Help us out with these guys, stop what they're doing," and the court has done precisely that without stopping anyone else from doing whatever it is that they happen to be doing.
Interesting. So say the same scenario happened, but I was incorporated. Now, if I understand it, corporations are seperate legal entities. So, if they take the corporation to court and the court tells the corporation to cease and desist, what's to stop me from creating a new corporation and continuing to do what I'm doing (ad infinitum)?
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So, if I read this article correctly, they're saying that all the distances they spout off are just estimations? I'm not talking about estimations like 96 million miles (no one believes the sun is exactly 96 million miles away, but apparently they could be way off on some of these estimations.
On the other hand, astrologers will have to go back and redo their all those horoscopes.
--
After the recent turn of events on slashdot, it could have been Hemos. Maybe the hackers weren't as benign as we were led to believe. It's the classic switch and bait. Tell them we broke in and how we did it. While they're scrambling around trying to patch the holes, they'll never noticed we swapped names.
And now for a public service announcement from Jon "CmdrTaco" Katz...
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Everyone claims to be a 'straight A student' and yet I see so much mediocrity.
There's a reason for this. The school system teaches facts rather than thinking skills (espcially critical thinking). So you have a bunch of yahoos who go through school who can memorize a few dates and do good on tests, but have no practical experience. At one point in time, this may have not been a bad thing. Times have changed drastically though, and the educational system has not caught up. This is a dangerous time to have a faulty educational system.
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I can't imagine that people are leaving the field in great numbers. Something must have driven them to the technical field in the first place. And with the world so driven by technology, there's bound to be fewer and fewer non-technical jobs as time goes by.
And certainly it's a big mistake to churn people through college. We don't need less trained people entering the field, we need more trained people. This means focusing on real world solutions and not the toy problems that colleges seems to want to focus on. This is akin to adding more people to a late project, except on a different scale. If corporations have to spend more time training the newbies, then corporations will experience a negative effect due to their technical departments, not a positive one.
If corporations are going to pay me to learn, then why not go to college one or two years, get hired by a company and have them pay me to learn what I need to know? That sounds like a sweet deal to me.
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I've heard that if you want to pre-order one, you better pay in advance, as it isn't looking good.
Oh, now there's a glowing example of optimism. Hold on. I'll go get my check book.
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"We got a rude awakening today and we thought...'Let's make this clearer for the consumers'"
OK, great. We've won that war. Can slashdot do an article on firing Ballmer and giving me his job?
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It stands for Super Terminating Machine. It's everything the T-1000 wanted to be, but wasn't. The T-1000 could have taken the tunneling method to kill John Connor. Instead of hunting John down, like a prototypical mimetic polyalloy, he simply shoots a sliver of himself into his mark. Then while John is running around the country with Linda and Uncle Bob, the T-1000 is tunneling his way through John's internal orgrans. Cyberdyne stock goes way up and ushers in the birth of The Matrix.
--
Charlie Babbage: Ok, Raymond. The next object we need to find is a pair of underwear. Where are we headed off to?
Raymond Babbage: Latitude 82 82" 82' N, 41 27" 17' W
Charlie Babbage: Are you sure, Ray?
Raymond Babbage: Yea. Definitely 82, 82, 82.
Charlie Babbage: Do you know where that is, Ray?
Raymond Babbage: Yea, 82, 82, 82.
Charlie Babbage: Where is that, Ray?
Raymond Babbage: 400 Oak Street. Definitely 400 Oak Street.
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I bet this guy is going to get a medal, a plaque, and an article. That's it. When he could've had 10 mil just like that.. I demand that the bank gives him the award of... one million dollars!
Choas would ensue. People would quit their jobs and devote their time to trying to make the perfect score. They would, of course be competing with all the script kiddies, who'd have a day or two head start on them. The hard core programmers could demand lots more money (because all the other programmers went on some Cyber Gold Rush). Microsoft would have a hard time trying to peddle their certifications (because, after all, who has time to study - I have a bank to crack). Since the script kiddies are preoccupied, Norton would lose millions in antivirus software sales.
We'd have to call in Bruce Willis - The world's best deep core driller.
--
I've always feared that the banks were not secure. That's why I keep all my money in my mattress. Of course, all those coins make the bed lumpy, but you get used to it eventually.
--
It's a little known secret that Slashdot is really just a coverup for Fibonacci expansion. Some plot to take over the stock market or some such thing. You think those karma points are handed out randomly? No sir. There's meaning behind those there numbers. Why do you think logged in users start at 1 and non logged in users start at 0? Think about it.
But don't tell anyone.
--
There was a big scam with the phone companies doing something similar. Seems some phone companies called themselves "It doesn't matter" and "Whatever", etc. When they'd ask you what phone company you wanted, if you replied "It doesn't matter", then you were automatically given them as your long distance company.
I'm actually surprised it's taken the net this long to come up with this scam.
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All we need is an object bigger than the black hole, to plug it up.
As an aside, do things in the northern hemisphere of the universe flush one way down a black hole, while in the southern hemisphere, they flush the other?
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That latest word, is that the budget will be 3.14 million.
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I just hope the new Batman won't be trying to solve math riddles
That's exactly what the new one is about. It seems that after The Riddler's last crushing defeat, he's been going to community college at night in an attempt to add something to his already extensive repertoire.
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Maybe this time, Batman will beat the bad guy by differentiating him.
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Sure. You can Lego news at this site.
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What if you're playing musical chairs? It would just ruin the whole game.
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You do not understand it correctly. Back to boot-camp with you. Get down and give me 20 recitations of CatB.
Well, I read it on netscape.com when they first decided to release source code, so there must have been some validity to it at the time. Of course, now several years later, the story (or philosophy) might have changed. They had the official let's kick it into 2nd gear speech on their web page.
Boot camp, eh? I can see it now: Free that memory! No dangling pointers! Move it! Move it!
--
If I understand it correctly, their choice to release the source code, was to expand the user base. How has this been going for them? What percentage of users actually use Netscape?
I cannot imagine that the average user would be lured to using a package, simply because the source code is available. I only know two people who use it, and one of them uses IE most of the time. Do Linux users see Netscape as an attractive option (is it even available for Linux)?
Nice picture by the way. Do I have to put up NetNanny for the youngsters?
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