Ya know, maybe Americans should import this holiday. We could go one step further, and say we completed Guy's noble work by kicking the King out of America.;)
Um, the only thing *civilized* governments fear is people in the streets (not a correction to the quote, a correction to the idea). Take China, for instance. People marched in the street, and even stood up to tanks. Then they got mowed down by machine gun fire and were run over by the tanks.
Try this quote, instead: "Power comes from the end of a gun." Considering that quote is from someone who actually seized power over a country with hundreds of millions of people and not a wide-eyed visionary novelist, I think it delivers a more powerful statement.
Don't think of it as paying $10 to download songs, think of it as paying $10 for a customizable radio station(s). If Napster sells their service this way, people won't be upset or shocked when they can't hear the songs anymore.
And remember, people do pay for radio, already, either with satellite radio or over digital cable channels. I'm not sure of the popularity or profitability of either service, but maybe Napster can have a lower overhead than either and still make a buck this way.
That was damn Insightful. Kinda reminds me of the professors in college who exort you to question authority, then get snippy when you tell them they're full of shit.
Wish I had some Mod points for you, but there you go.
Depends on how Apple does it. Note claim 5: 5. The method of claim 3 or claim 4 wherein said method of accessing said World Wide Web incorporates secure, encrypted transmission.
If your transmission is unencrypted, it falls outside the scope of this patent.
Also, they keep referring to the "World Wide Web". I assume this means accessing a local server via port 514 (shell) instead of 80 (http) would fall outside the scope, too, but am not sure.
What about people who have their own domains, like me, and can't afford to pay the ~$1000 someone like Verisign is likely to charge for this service? Suddenly I have to drop the domain I've been using for years and get an Earthlink account just to send email?
Actually, IE is free as in lunch. As in, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
To use IE, you have to use Windows. Windows costs money. Ergo, IE costs money (since it's part of the OS, and you cannot get the two seperately). The cost of it is hidden, just like the cost of the free lunch is hidden within the cost of the beers you buy to assuage your sudden thirst, brought on by the extra salt in your free sandwiche and free chips.
Well, since I remember clearly the President's speech (since I was watching it in my tent, with some of the guys with whom I was deployed), he did say "major combat operations". It could be that the press release that was sent out by the White House had an "abbreviated" version of this phrase, and it wasn't until traitors, er, Democrats, started whining about terrorist attacks in Iraq that the Administration felt it neccessary to make clear which level of combat operations were finished.
You're right, and I agree. I just think you shouldn't dismiss money because it's inherited, because all traits (favorable, unfavorable, or neutral) are. Sounds like you're dismissing it more because it's neutral, though you're point about poor people having more kids would indicate it's actually an unfavorable trait.
Actually, it was more along the lines of "the Secretary of State of Florida is right, the FL SC should've stayed out of it, now let the woman do her damn job."
"Bullshit. Having money is no indication whatsoever of fitness, because most of the time it's inherited."
Agree with most of what you wrote, but I had to sacrifice modding this discussion to comment on this: natural selection works because favorable traits are passed on to the next generation, and unfavorable traits impede having another generation. Just like you inherited the ability to reason and speak from your parents, and these abilities make you more fit than a chimpanzee, for example, then having money passed on to you by your parents would make you more fit than a poor sharecropper in Alabama.
Of course, money is just a tool, so I can't see it being an actual evolutionary advantage. It's just that you shouldn't dismiss it solely because it's inherited, because all other traits are, too.
LOL, that was great! Some dumbass Web master misquotes a speech when writing a summary for a headline, and suddenly the White House is engaged in rewriting history? Geez, you're paranoid.
The stated problem was that spammers were artificially inflated the results of Google searches by having bots link to their site from numberous blogs. So if bloggers excluded Google from indexing their sites, the problem would go away.
Though you're right, it's at best a temporary, technological, solution to a long term, societal, problem.
Gee, how about bloggers just figure out how to create a file which doesn't allow robots to index their site. Maybe name it something easy to remember, like robots.txt?
Jesus Christ on a pogo-stick, I know the average blogger is a complete egoistic bastard, but are they completely brain dead, too?
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Ya know, maybe Americans should import this holiday. We could go one step further, and say we completed Guy's noble work by kicking the King out of America. ;)
Yes, we're much better off over here in the Colonies. Our policians never lie, cheat, or steal.
Correction: the Byzantine Empire splintered from the Roman. The Ottoman Turks came later.
Um, the only thing *civilized* governments fear is people in the streets (not a correction to the quote, a correction to the idea). Take China, for instance. People marched in the street, and even stood up to tanks. Then they got mowed down by machine gun fire and were run over by the tanks.
Try this quote, instead: "Power comes from the end of a gun." Considering that quote is from someone who actually seized power over a country with hundreds of millions of people and not a wide-eyed visionary novelist, I think it delivers a more powerful statement.
Wow, you kinda sounded like some conservatives talking about Islam there, for a second.
Don't think of it as paying $10 to download songs, think of it as paying $10 for a customizable radio station(s). If Napster sells their service this way, people won't be upset or shocked when they can't hear the songs anymore.
And remember, people do pay for radio, already, either with satellite radio or over digital cable channels. I'm not sure of the popularity or profitability of either service, but maybe Napster can have a lower overhead than either and still make a buck this way.
That was damn Insightful. Kinda reminds me of the professors in college who exort you to question authority, then get snippy when you tell them they're full of shit.
Wish I had some Mod points for you, but there you go.
The link is broken, because it's not a link. It's just text in your comment. A link would have anchor tags surrounding it.
Jesus Christ, there a lot of lazy people on this site. How damn hard is it to put "<a href=foobar.org>" and "</a>" around your damn "links"??
I thought devices had to cover all of the claims of a patent to be infringing? Is this not the case?
Depends on how Apple does it. Note claim 5:
5. The method of claim 3 or claim 4 wherein said method of accessing said World Wide Web incorporates secure, encrypted transmission.
If your transmission is unencrypted, it falls outside the scope of this patent.
Also, they keep referring to the "World Wide Web". I assume this means accessing a local server via port 514 (shell) instead of 80 (http) would fall outside the scope, too, but am not sure.
This isn't about private handgun ownership, it's about a company deciding that you don't need to read articles and opinions they don't like.
What about people who have their own domains, like me, and can't afford to pay the ~$1000 someone like Verisign is likely to charge for this service? Suddenly I have to drop the domain I've been using for years and get an Earthlink account just to send email?
Good description of the /. crowd. You forgot one element, though: the group who already has their own tinfoil hats.
"Now where'd I leave that can of lighter fluid..."
Last I saw it, it was next to your stapler.
It's even more so in the book, where two characters talk about using BSD.
Actually, IE is free as in lunch. As in, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
To use IE, you have to use Windows. Windows costs money. Ergo, IE costs money (since it's part of the OS, and you cannot get the two seperately). The cost of it is hidden, just like the cost of the free lunch is hidden within the cost of the beers you buy to assuage your sudden thirst, brought on by the extra salt in your free sandwiche and free chips.
Well, since I remember clearly the President's speech (since I was watching it in my tent, with some of the guys with whom I was deployed), he did say "major combat operations". It could be that the press release that was sent out by the White House had an "abbreviated" version of this phrase, and it wasn't until traitors, er, Democrats, started whining about terrorist attacks in Iraq that the Administration felt it neccessary to make clear which level of combat operations were finished.
You're right, and I agree. I just think you shouldn't dismiss money because it's inherited, because all traits (favorable, unfavorable, or neutral) are. Sounds like you're dismissing it more because it's neutral, though you're point about poor people having more kids would indicate it's actually an unfavorable trait.
Actually, it was more along the lines of "the Secretary of State of Florida is right, the FL SC should've stayed out of it, now let the woman do her damn job."
"Bullshit. Having money is no indication whatsoever of fitness, because most of the time it's inherited."
Agree with most of what you wrote, but I had to sacrifice modding this discussion to comment on this: natural selection works because favorable traits are passed on to the next generation, and unfavorable traits impede having another generation. Just like you inherited the ability to reason and speak from your parents, and these abilities make you more fit than a chimpanzee, for example, then having money passed on to you by your parents would make you more fit than a poor sharecropper in Alabama.
Of course, money is just a tool, so I can't see it being an actual evolutionary advantage. It's just that you shouldn't dismiss it solely because it's inherited, because all other traits are, too.
LOL, that was great! Some dumbass Web master misquotes a speech when writing a summary for a headline, and suddenly the White House is engaged in rewriting history? Geez, you're paranoid.
...it was posted on Slashdot!
The stated problem was that spammers were artificially inflated the results of Google searches by having bots link to their site from numberous blogs. So if bloggers excluded Google from indexing their sites, the problem would go away.
Though you're right, it's at best a temporary, technological, solution to a long term, societal, problem.
Name one, then list how what it does is the same as the methods listed in the patent.
Gee, how about bloggers just figure out how to create a file which doesn't allow robots to index their site. Maybe name it something easy to remember, like robots.txt?
Jesus Christ on a pogo-stick, I know the average blogger is a complete egoistic bastard, but are they completely brain dead, too?