Apple shouldn't have blundered with this patent oversight,
The problem is they'd have to patent just about everything or clear that it isn't covered.
Imagine how high the bar for entry into any technology market if you have to pay a small army of patent attorneys, clerks, paper shufflers, pencil pushers, etc., to make sure your butt is covered.
The more complex the device, and an MP3 player is a complex device, the worse this gets.
if a court would allow a business/individual to sue macromedia for the inconvience and the stealing of privacy? Basically, they are trying to inspect your system in the same fashion that MS does (check your EULA; MS has rights to your system and all that is on it, including your data).
I expect the aim of Macromedia is to prevent you going around and doing something preposterous as showing movies on your laptop, collecting admission and selling popcorn. Now doesn't that sound absolutely stupid? Then there's probably some wavelength we're not seeing their actual thoughts and marketing directions. They say Single User License, and evidently they really mean it. Maybe they mean you to actually license it if you are using it in a business setting for a presentation (revenue streams can appear very tiny to those of us on the outside of business, but it's something else entirely to see the 000's on those purchasing reqs.)
Spy on us from at home, inside your operating system, whenever it connects to the internet? Well, I know some ET on this box is trying to phone home, I just haven't been able to find the process that's trying. Any ideas?
They should jail this idiot for a long time and confiscate all the money he earnt doing this.
Getting rid of him won't help much. Other tards will soon follow his lead. Death penalty for anybody that does this?
Wait until he rats on the people who pay him, then put them all in the same cell.
"Diabl0 says his worms "spread only for money" and hints that the motive was receiving commissions from installing spyware on infected computers."
Because he's stealing THEIR business model! =)
Whose business model? Who is actually doing the paying? Some low-life add-popper, or the companies who make so much money on virii/worm erradication that they can buy naming rights to stadia?
I still think the really story is what these guys will say, assuming they talk and don't have some mob death threat hanging overy their heads.
That it is going to take us 50,000 years to send a probe to pluto and back? Wow. So much for the dreams of a child going into space:(
52005 AD: War Was Beginning...
No, wait, so this probe comes back, right? And on this probe are all these names. And when the people then find them they'll think, "So these are the bastards who used up all the oil!" and they'll have our names and construct a big Wall of Shame covered with them, see? And they'll ban these evil names from being used and rename anyone who has them.
This guy's been out of business for months. He was indicted today, but shutdown months ago.
Exactly. What I alluded to was the action of his actual arrest causing a dip in activity of other spammers, rather like everyone runs onto the beach when a shark attacks, never mind they are well aware that sharks are in the water at all times.
This was clarified in a reply to one of the above posts.
Doesn't seem likely this had anything to do with your recent drop in spam.
Actually it does. The big drops happened earlier this year, but every time there is an arrest it seems there's a dip, as if all the spammers have taken notice and are limiting their visibility, until they feel the threat to them has passed, or they determine to take their profits and quit while ahead.
I have no doubt that it'll pick right up again, within the next ten days.
Now, I freely admit that I don't have a clue about how prescriptions are handled, but isn't 72,000 prescriptions just a little much?...
It obviously had to be done electronically (Or else he would have had to write an awful lot)
The guy must have been a speed-writing champion.
On July 9th I fell and broke my collar bone (clavicle, to you pedants) 4 days before a planned trip from California to Michigan. I travelled, with my trusty pain killers, but found I was running low. My parents took me to a local Doc-In-A-Box and I tried to get a renewal or refill. Nothing doing. They wouldn't honor a prescription unless it came from a neighboring state. (So Michigan probably wouldn't honor these NJ prescriptions for painkillers, eh?)
Further, the doctor on duty practically glared at me, as I was from California and trying to get my hands on more Vicodin, as we all know people from California are not to be trusted with a painkiller which can leave you sleepy and a feeling like your head caved in by a blunt object as it's addicting. I got something else, not as effective and managed the rest of my trip and return flight with some suffering.
From ABC News:
A Minnesota man considered one of the world's most prolific e-mail spammers was indicted on more than a dozen federal charges related to the operation of his business, Xpress Pharmacy Direct.
70-80% of my spam used to come from this guy. It seems every time one of these weasels gets hauled in there's a dip in spam. In the past two days my spammage has dropped to a trickle. The past three nights total spam: 173, 43, 17
Also from ABC News:
The indictment against Christopher William Smith, 25, was unsealed Wednesday after he was arrested at his home in Prior Lake. Dr. Philip Mach, 47, of Franklin Park, N.J., and Bruce Jordan Lieberman, 45, from Farmingdale, N.Y., were also charged in the indictment, federal prosecutors said.
<Nelson Muntz*>
Ha hah!
</Nelson Muntz>
Smith allegedly had a doctor issue 72,000 prescriptions in the space of one year
Which just goes to prove to be a really big drug dealer you need a computer and connections, not just to hang out in your Accura in McDonald's parking lot late at night.
* Nelson Muntz appears in this posting courtesy Twentieth Century Fox and Matt Groening.
Because people don't backup on the network once a night and you go to a normal person and you ask them to do that they will stare at you with a blank face. Then if you show them how to do it the face will become more blank.
And Heaven forbid, the single drive on their computer goes 'ERK!' or 'EEEEEEEEE!' and that blank face will become very animated about how it's someone elses fault that they are screwed.
Forgive my ignorance, but why on earth would anyone want RAID on their laptop? If you really need to protect your data, nightly backups should be quite sufficient.
Because people want convenience (read: are lazy) and want to just turn on and off and never worry about until smoke comes out, but a tech (with a big S on his blue Spandex) says, "Nothing to worry about! Thanks to RAID!"
The extra drive will just make your battery last a little less longer, so you can turn your snarling, foaming visage to purchasing and rant about how you need a $*&@#! laptop with a bigger battery.
I don't know why people feel the need to eat during movies anyway. I think they do it mainly out of tradition.
It's something that seems to just fit. And for the money it's about what you get at McD's or other fast food for around the same money. As I understand it, theaters don't make much on the gate, they're counting on the concession stand to make their money so the faster they can shepherd people through and the more they can sell the better the bottom line.
I get a bit grumpy when I see people working a concession stand in a horribly inefficient manner. Hey, have one do the register and drink and another do the popcorn, you can move those people through like greased pigs.
On the topic of grease, I can't stand that fake butter. Gives me headaches and stomach aches. I saw an ad in a theater trade publication, "Maximize your profit with Sun Gold Butter Replacement blah blah blah" Yeah, it's all about profit. Too bad, that's the one thing likely to turn me off $4.50 for a bag of popcorn.
but definitely noisy children and noisy people talking during the majority of the movie.
Yeah, those people laughing at the plot holes in War of the Worlds were a bit over the top.
"Ha ha ha! If the power in everything is out, why is the guy's camcorder still working? Hey, ever notice everytime they need a clear path to drive through there is one? Why would aliens bury war machines centuries ago when they simply could have taken over then without a fight?" etc.
Seriously, good effects can't overcome a weak script and bad acting. When was the last time you heard collective oos and aahs? There were certainly applause at the end of March of the Penguins. (a curious phenom, applauding a screen.)
Let me see, which would I rather do: spend $30+ on a movie ticket, popcorn, and a drink just so I can watch the latest subpar selection of movies at a time set by the theater and have popcorn thrown at me by 13 year old cell phone wielding children, OR pick up whatever movie from the redbox for $0.99 (or DVD rentals through the mail) and a drink and popcorn from the local store all for less than $5 and watch it on my widescreen in the comfort of my own home. Tough call.
You haven't explained why movie theaters are obsolete. All you have done is vent a bunch of issues you have with them. For me, the price of $30 for an evening out to see a film is a steal compared to the price of a widescreen TV and decent home entertainment system, particularly if I only see 10 movies a year. (Actually I catch the matinees and pay much less than $30, but that only further underscores the economic lopsidedness of the argument)
What you reall want is to see a film WORTHY of watching in such an environment, whether on your deluxe Home Entertainment Center or the local Bijou -- That's what's really at issue this year, a bunch of duds. Probably one of the most popular films, not necessarily in cattle herding terms, but enjoyment, is March of the Penguins. That speaks volumes. You also expect the theater management to do something to block cell phones. Have to asked to see the manager and complained, or do you just grumble a lot then make postings on/. and hope the theater managers of the world happen by it and repent?
Digital theaters are on the way and the bar for getting a "film" on the local screen will be less an issue, except where those are in collusion with Hollywood and MPAA to keep the bar up there against independent film.
Theaters offer an environment I could only manage if I won the lottery, which I've so far failed to do. So for my $ it's still a good deal, as long as there is something WORTHY of my time and money. Hollywood is part of your problem, not just the tired remakes, but the fact you have very little variation in performers. We've gotten away from ugly, but talented people who made the great movies of the golden age, to a bunch of look alikes who don't vary from one film to the next, Tom Cruise as an example. Hollywood likes "safe bets" and has therefore cut out a lot of the real character that made films so interesting in the past, because the found the public was just fine with vanilla. Problem is, too much vanilla acting has made it all dull.
Support independent cinema. Most of the best films I've seen in the past 5 years were at the Nickelodeon or Del Mar theaters in my city. Find and give your custom to those where you live.
...someone will mirror the laser beam to blast his face off. We don't need to get ourselves into more trouble with any country, even if the suggestion comes from a private religious extremist.
Remember Ralph Reed? He left the CC to work quiety around the backdoors of Washington. Consider that the original name for operation Iraqi Freedom was called (regretably) some sort of Crusade. Mistake? I wonder, really.
These kinds of lasers would be so handy for picking off people like Bin Laden, all we need is line of sight. Sadly this could be used against anyone else "inconvenient."
Wasn't there a movie about this, where is eventually was space baced and did a giant Jiffy Pop in someone's living room?
OK, only 150kW planned, should be ready by 2007, but can shoot down missiles. There was a time I thought the Homeworld defense fighter was the most unrealistic thing devised. Maybe not.
So did I.
The way things are going, despite assurances from the Whitehouse that they don't agree with him one bit, it'll be piloted by Pat Robertson.
Hanging, drawing and quartering, firing squad, dragged over hot coals, disemboweling with a rusty scythe, electic chair and forced slashdot metamoderation too harsh a sentence for those spam and collaborate with spammers?
"the shelf life can be prolonged and create additional revenue for the publisher not generated by the retail channel"
Sure, very nice, keep pumping air into a product as long as possible since you don't have to compete for shelf space with other games, or heck even your newest offerings, but there's an opportunity here -- The opportunity to keep your bloddy piece of junk bug-fixed. Do you suppose they'll seize the opportunity?
Finally! A reason to beat up the geeky kid next door and take his stuff (in real life).
Which is probably what the geeky kid next door to you is thinking at this moment.
I don't honestly know whether to laugh or cry at the vision of two geeks attempting to figure out how to throw a punch or swing a piece of sports equipment (cricket bat, baseball bat, hockey stick, lacrosse stick, etc.) at each other all the while berating each other "all your base are belong to us!", "y3r m0th3r i5 pwn3d!", etc. over cards.
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The problem is they'd have to patent just about everything or clear that it isn't covered.
Imagine how high the bar for entry into any technology market if you have to pay a small army of patent attorneys, clerks, paper shufflers, pencil pushers, etc., to make sure your butt is covered.
The more complex the device, and an MP3 player is a complex device, the worse this gets.
Patent reform is overdue.
And as it goes with most wars, it's the peasants who suffer (in this case consumers.) Competition is good, using patents in a nuclear war game isn't.
But what next, from NetHack can we expect Nintendo to patent?
I expect the aim of Macromedia is to prevent you going around and doing something preposterous as showing movies on your laptop, collecting admission and selling popcorn. Now doesn't that sound absolutely stupid? Then there's probably some wavelength we're not seeing their actual thoughts and marketing directions. They say Single User License, and evidently they really mean it. Maybe they mean you to actually license it if you are using it in a business setting for a presentation (revenue streams can appear very tiny to those of us on the outside of business, but it's something else entirely to see the 000's on those purchasing reqs.)
Spy on us from at home, inside your operating system, whenever it connects to the internet? Well, I know some ET on this box is trying to phone home, I just haven't been able to find the process that's trying. Any ideas?
So how would they feel about Wine?
And thank god I'm only watching the game, controlling it...
Hello! New business model!
"Hello, Dewey, Cheatem & Howe Attorneys at Law"
Wait until he rats on the people who pay him, then put them all in the same cell.
Whose business model? Who is actually doing the paying? Some low-life add-popper, or the companies who make so much money on virii/worm erradication that they can buy naming rights to stadia?
I still think the really story is what these guys will say, assuming they talk and don't have some mob death threat hanging overy their heads.
un..deux..trois! CRASH
Diab10: wtf :p
Police: j00 r u|\|d3r 4rr35t, m0|\|513ur! :p
Diab10: u c4n't kn0ck? i'11 1053 my d3p05it, 100k 4t th4t d00r! r3ck3d! :(
Police: s0rry m0|\|513ur, w3 s4a11 g0 b4ck 0ut5id3 4nd try 4g4in, 0iu? :)
Diab10: w311, 0k.
Police: <kn0ck kn0ck kn0ck> Diab10: wtf, wh0 r u? :p
Police: <13 p01ic3>
Diab10: g0 4w4y, i'm n07 h0m3 :p
Police: <s4cr3 b13u, 332 g0t 4w4y!> >:(
Diab10: :)
Police: <w4it 4 s3c0nd...>
52005 AD: War Was Beginning...
No, wait, so this probe comes back, right? And on this probe are all these names. And when the people then find them they'll think, "So these are the bastards who used up all the oil!" and they'll have our names and construct a big Wall of Shame covered with them, see? And they'll ban these evil names from being used and rename anyone who has them.
So... why sould I want that kind of posterity?
Exactly. What I alluded to was the action of his actual arrest causing a dip in activity of other spammers, rather like everyone runs onto the beach when a shark attacks, never mind they are well aware that sharks are in the water at all times.
This was clarified in a reply to one of the above posts.
Actually it does. The big drops happened earlier this year, but every time there is an arrest it seems there's a dip, as if all the spammers have taken notice and are limiting their visibility, until they feel the threat to them has passed, or they determine to take their profits and quit while ahead.
I have no doubt that it'll pick right up again, within the next ten days.
The guy must have been a speed-writing champion.
On July 9th I fell and broke my collar bone (clavicle, to you pedants) 4 days before a planned trip from California to Michigan. I travelled, with my trusty pain killers, but found I was running low. My parents took me to a local Doc-In-A-Box and I tried to get a renewal or refill. Nothing doing. They wouldn't honor a prescription unless it came from a neighboring state. (So Michigan probably wouldn't honor these NJ prescriptions for painkillers, eh?)
Further, the doctor on duty practically glared at me, as I was from California and trying to get my hands on more Vicodin, as we all know people from California are not to be trusted with a painkiller which can leave you sleepy and a feeling like your head caved in by a blunt object as it's addicting. I got something else, not as effective and managed the rest of my trip and return flight with some suffering.
Smith allegedly had a doctor issue 72,000 prescriptions in the space of one year
Which just goes to prove to be a really big drug dealer you need a computer and connections, not just to hang out in your Accura in McDonald's parking lot late at night.
* Nelson Muntz appears in this posting courtesy Twentieth Century Fox and Matt Groening.
And Heaven forbid, the single drive on their computer goes 'ERK!' or 'EEEEEEEEE!' and that blank face will become very animated about how it's someone elses fault that they are screwed.
Because people want convenience (read: are lazy) and want to just turn on and off and never worry about until smoke comes out, but a tech (with a big S on his blue Spandex) says, "Nothing to worry about! Thanks to RAID!"
The extra drive will just make your battery last a little less longer, so you can turn your snarling, foaming visage to purchasing and rant about how you need a $*&@#! laptop with a bigger battery.
"phenominal cosmic power, itty-bitty battery"
It's something that seems to just fit. And for the money it's about what you get at McD's or other fast food for around the same money. As I understand it, theaters don't make much on the gate, they're counting on the concession stand to make their money so the faster they can shepherd people through and the more they can sell the better the bottom line.
I get a bit grumpy when I see people working a concession stand in a horribly inefficient manner. Hey, have one do the register and drink and another do the popcorn, you can move those people through like greased pigs.
On the topic of grease, I can't stand that fake butter. Gives me headaches and stomach aches. I saw an ad in a theater trade publication, "Maximize your profit with Sun Gold Butter Replacement blah blah blah" Yeah, it's all about profit. Too bad, that's the one thing likely to turn me off $4.50 for a bag of popcorn.
Yeah, those people laughing at the plot holes in War of the Worlds were a bit over the top.
"Ha ha ha! If the power in everything is out, why is the guy's camcorder still working? Hey, ever notice everytime they need a clear path to drive through there is one? Why would aliens bury war machines centuries ago when they simply could have taken over then without a fight?" etc.
Seriously, good effects can't overcome a weak script and bad acting. When was the last time you heard collective oos and aahs? There were certainly applause at the end of March of the Penguins. (a curious phenom, applauding a screen.)
What you reall want is to see a film WORTHY of watching in such an environment, whether on your deluxe Home Entertainment Center or the local Bijou -- That's what's really at issue this year, a bunch of duds. Probably one of the most popular films, not necessarily in cattle herding terms, but enjoyment, is March of the Penguins. That speaks volumes. You also expect the theater management to do something to block cell phones. Have to asked to see the manager and complained, or do you just grumble a lot then make postings on /. and hope the theater managers of the world happen by it and repent?
Digital theaters are on the way and the bar for getting a "film" on the local screen will be less an issue, except where those are in collusion with Hollywood and MPAA to keep the bar up there against independent film.
Theaters offer an environment I could only manage if I won the lottery, which I've so far failed to do. So for my $ it's still a good deal, as long as there is something WORTHY of my time and money. Hollywood is part of your problem, not just the tired remakes, but the fact you have very little variation in performers. We've gotten away from ugly, but talented people who made the great movies of the golden age, to a bunch of look alikes who don't vary from one film to the next, Tom Cruise as an example. Hollywood likes "safe bets" and has therefore cut out a lot of the real character that made films so interesting in the past, because the found the public was just fine with vanilla. Problem is, too much vanilla acting has made it all dull.
Support independent cinema. Most of the best films I've seen in the past 5 years were at the Nickelodeon or Del Mar theaters in my city. Find and give your custom to those where you live.
Remember Ralph Reed? He left the CC to work quiety around the backdoors of Washington. Consider that the original name for operation Iraqi Freedom was called (regretably) some sort of Crusade. Mistake? I wonder, really.
These kinds of lasers would be so handy for picking off people like Bin Laden, all we need is line of sight. Sadly this could be used against anyone else "inconvenient."
Wasn't there a movie about this, where is eventually was space baced and did a giant Jiffy Pop in someone's living room?
So did I.
The way things are going, despite assurances from the Whitehouse that they don't agree with him one bit, it'll be piloted by Pat Robertson.
Sure, very nice, keep pumping air into a product as long as possible since you don't have to compete for shelf space with other games, or heck even your newest offerings, but there's an opportunity here -- The opportunity to keep your bloddy piece of junk bug-fixed. Do you suppose they'll seize the opportunity?
Enter CTS
Which is probably what the geeky kid next door to you is thinking at this moment.
I don't honestly know whether to laugh or cry at the vision of two geeks attempting to figure out how to throw a punch or swing a piece of sports equipment (cricket bat, baseball bat, hockey stick, lacrosse stick, etc.) at each other all the while berating each other "all your base are belong to us!", "y3r m0th3r i5 pwn3d!", etc. over cards.