The "crime" here would be if you were to market and advertise a product as having features not yet implemented. This not only a crime in the legal sence but is also unethical. Not that any mega-corp in America today would do such a thing...not that i'm cynical or anything.
No you not the only one. Heck, I gotta got to the bathroom RIGHT NOW thanks to you writing that jingle down. Oddly enough the Detrol isn't so bad...especially if you are pulling one of those ALL NIGHTERS at your local bar and don't want to have to stop your 12 ounce curls long enough to make it to the can.
Ouch! Granted from what you linked it looks like it's only been used to change the language of signposts, but still. I kind of doubt it would be used in the manner that U.S. Governmenat would (ab)use the same legislation.
I'll tell you what. You can move down here and deal with DMCA the **AA's the FBI and CIA and all the other alphabet soup...in my house and i'll take your house in Canada.
For all the people involved in it's construction. I helped in the construction. Wouldn't have known about it if not for the Slashdot article. I don't doubt the Linpack score. Allthough the e-mail I got about the reception said the score wasen't supposed to come out for another week or so. Anybody know what went on in the reception?
mck
This seems like an advertisement...
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for the cities they are in. Not only that you pay them money for it. I'm not paying 100 bucks for a self guided tour around a city.
This reminds me of a promotion they did in the 80s with the cans of coke. If it was a winner it had a spring loaded thingy in it that would pop out a bill (5-10-20) something like that.
There was a counterweight in the bottom of the can that contained some kind of liquid...so it would act (sound like liquid and water would condense on the outside of the can) like a normal can. There were two problems with this however. The first one I figured out when I won once. The winning cans could be detected because they had filled the can from the bottom and put a silver sticker over the filling hole. The second problem was they didn't always work. Some kid got sick from drinking the "filler" liquid.
They ended up pulling the promo...but not before I had searched through every six pack of Coke I could find. I made a fortune in a couple of hours at a grocery store. Too bad I spent all the cash on candy and baseball cards...
heh. I almost went to jail for this once. I reqested a C-note from an atm inside a grocery store. The ATM made the clicking sound like it was going to give me my money but never did...and the money slot stayed open. I went to the tape isle in the store and got a roll of duct tape and encased that machine in duct-tape.
The bank that owned the machine never gave me back my ATM card. They called the police on me...but I had already left.
Are you kidding me? When Phish played Hampton a while back tickets were going for thousands of dollars. Heck even the festival they did this summer was 150+ a ticket! Plus I don't know what to think about this story.
If you want to read PKD, i think his best stuff was from the late 60's early 70's. The short stories from the 50's and early 60's feel like quick thoughts that PKD was shooting out on the fly, stuff he was thinking through on his way to later full thoughts.
I wish i had heard this before I got the book I am currenty reading. Oddly enough I just put the book down to check my mail and wandered over to slashdot. It's a reprint of short stories that piggybacked on the release of Minority Report to the theater. Covers the years 54-64. I agree that some of the stories in this time period could be taken further, they are definatly worth the read. Especially if you have 1/2 to an hour to kill and don't want to start a whole book. I have yet to pick up one of his novels...any suggestions? Of what I've read it's excellent sci-fi...way way ahead of it's time.
I hate to say it but you could build a hacked X-box for that price (249.95). Granted it's not going to be wireless but you get a game system and a dvd player.
And of course most importantly it would run linux...
I don't think so. The photo I'm talking about (the only one where it's possible to see the plates) has obviously been altered. There is what looks like a rectangle of blur over where the plates are. If you zoom out to regular size...even with it being a cheep throw away camera the picture looks clear enough to where you should be able to pick out the plates.
Had it been me chased by someone in a Jag I would have *made sure* that I got the plate numbers.
If you zoom in photo that has the car in the driveway the plates have been blured out. Why is that? I kinda wanted to play with the Jag's plate numbers.
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The "crime" here would be if you were to market and advertise a product as having features not yet implemented. This not only a crime in the legal sence but is also unethical. Not that any mega-corp in America today would do such a thing...not that i'm cynical or anything.
McK
Even the mirrors are slashdotted. I want pictures!
No you not the only one. Heck, I gotta got to the bathroom RIGHT NOW thanks to you writing that jingle down. Oddly enough the Detrol isn't so bad...especially if you are pulling one of those ALL NIGHTERS at your local bar and don't want to have to stop your 12 ounce curls long enough to make it to the can.
Ouch! Granted from what you linked it looks like it's only been used to change the language of signposts, but still. I kind of doubt it would be used in the manner that U.S. Governmenat would (ab)use the same legislation.
McK
So you are new here aren't you? Welcome to Slashdot.
McK
I'll tell you what. You can move down here and deal with DMCA the **AA's the FBI and CIA and all the other alphabet soup...in my house and i'll take your house in Canada.
McK
get past the first level without eating enough painkillers to kill Rush Limbaugh.
mck
For all the people involved in it's construction. I helped in the construction. Wouldn't have known about it if not for the Slashdot article. I don't doubt the Linpack score. Allthough the e-mail I got about the reception said the score wasen't supposed to come out for another week or so. Anybody know what went on in the reception?
mck
for the cities they are in. Not only that you pay them money for it. I'm not paying 100 bucks for a self guided tour around a city.
mck
This reminds me of a promotion they did in the 80s with the cans of coke. If it was a winner it had a spring loaded thingy in it that would pop out a bill (5-10-20) something like that.
There was a counterweight in the bottom of the can that contained some kind of liquid...so it would act (sound like liquid and water would condense on the outside of the can) like a normal can. There were two problems with this however. The first one I figured out when I won once. The winning cans could be detected because they had filled the can from the bottom and put a silver sticker over the filling hole. The second problem was they didn't always work. Some kid got sick from drinking the "filler" liquid.
They ended up pulling the promo...but not before I had searched through every six pack of Coke I could find. I made a fortune in a couple of hours at a grocery store. Too bad I spent all the cash on candy and baseball cards...
McK
heh. I almost went to jail for this once. I reqested a C-note from an atm inside a grocery store. The ATM made the clicking sound like it was going to give me my money but never did...and the money slot stayed open. I went to the tape isle in the store and got a roll of duct tape and encased that machine in duct-tape.
The bank that owned the machine never gave me back my ATM card. They called the police on me...but I had already left.
mck
I wish I liked phish, cause then I could get it.
Are you kidding me? When Phish played Hampton a while back tickets were going for thousands of dollars. Heck even the festival they did this summer was 150+ a ticket! Plus I don't know what to think about this story.
I don't know about that I have verizon DSL and the service suc
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If you want to read PKD, i think his best stuff was from the late 60's early 70's. The short stories from the 50's and early 60's feel like quick thoughts that PKD was shooting out on the fly, stuff he was thinking through on his way to later full thoughts.
I wish i had heard this before I got the book I am currenty reading. Oddly enough I just put the book down to check my mail and wandered over to slashdot. It's a reprint of short stories that piggybacked on the release of Minority Report to the theater. Covers the years 54-64. I agree that some of the stories in this time period could be taken further, they are definatly worth the read. Especially if you have 1/2 to an hour to kill and don't want to start a whole book. I have yet to pick up one of his novels...any suggestions? Of what I've read it's excellent sci-fi...way way ahead of it's time.
mck
I don't think I would admit that on a public forum.
mck
I hate to say it but you could build a hacked X-box for that price (249.95). Granted it's not going to be wireless but you get a game system and a dvd player.
And of course most importantly it would run linux...
McK
thank you. wish i had mod points give out. you have not lived until you do a night of Irish Carbombs....2-3 and your well on your way to drunk...
guiness, jamison and baileys...
oooo my head....
repeat after me "I will never drink that much again as long as i..."
When the story is never "light" on details...
McK
I don't think so. The photo I'm talking about (the only one where it's possible to see the plates) has obviously been altered. There is what looks like a rectangle of blur over where the plates are. If you zoom out to regular size...even with it being a cheep throw away camera the picture looks clear enough to where you should be able to pick out the plates.
Had it been me chased by someone in a Jag I would have *made sure* that I got the plate numbers.
McK
If you zoom in photo that has the car in the driveway the plates have been blured out.
Why is that? I kinda wanted to play with the Jag's plate numbers.
McK
"They were smoking straight, unadulterated cash, rolled-up like a joint."
90%+ of all U.S. paper currency shows traces of cocaine. So I guess they were smoking the Benji type crack. C-Note smack
McK
Hmm...I never heard anything from McDonalds lawyers...
dang
McKenzie
"I even did coke with him."
"He and his freinds seemed a little shady, but who doesn't in the small business world."
So are you saying this dude was in Coke sales? Maybe the rocket belt is now being used for import purposes?
McK
I agree. If you look down a bit further you will find (4114297) a post that got modded up for the same comment?!!?
Aghh! when I first looked it was a +2 now it's a +3 in a matter of 5 seconds. Dang I wish I had mod points today.
McK
I bet Deep Blue couldn't take him!
McK