Just nit-picking, but Scopes initially lost the case ($100 fine, woo!). Later the Tennessee Supreme Court reversed it, but only on technical grounds. Hardly a decisive legal victory.
Hopefully any victory over SCO will leave a smoking hole in the ground and no one will admit to ever having had the slightest thing to do with them--but that's just my little hope and dream.:^)
"This is not spam. You used our telepathic psycik opt-in system."
When you can trace the spam back to their server, what's to debate? On my equipment, I am judge, jury and executioner. They can send all the mail they want--it just won't pass customs at my border.
Argh! Bastard! I spent a number of weeks.. adapting.. the Tapper sound routines to our coin-op game hardware, and those tunes are permanently engraved in my brain. Just the mere mention of Tapper will cue the space-bar tune on repeat for the rest of the day.
It was a nice piece of software. The hardware was vanilla: sound dedicated Z80 talking to a bunch of 8910 sound chips, command port from the game Z80, funky filters that didn't do much. The software was a MIDI-like control program. I still have the ROM image somewhere, converting to a MIDI file should be too hard. Must Have More Tapper Music!
Microsoft has always provided free SDKs when it's in their best interest to do so. Like their big-assed speech/telephony SAPI SDK. Think about it: It generates interest and works with their development tools on their OS, how can they lose?
I'm surprised that no one has trademarked SmartPhone before Microsoft. (Then again, MS never let anything like that slow them down when they trademarked Windows.)
Smartphone 2003 can use a security prompt for unsigned applications
Smartphone 2003 can use a security policy that, when turned on, causes a prompt to appear that asks the user whether to accept the installation or execution of an unsigned application.
Considering Microsoft's record of allowing users to bogger themselves by running(!) unsafe email in Outlook, with only the protection of a yes/no prompt, I'm sure we can look forward to many phone phollies in the phuture.
If the spammer wants your money, he's eventually going to have to give you a way to contact him. And any cheque or credit-card transaction will leave a paper-trail.
You should tell that to Louisiana spammer Ronnie Scelson, he seems to think that it's okay. But then he also thinks spamming is okay, and that Scooby-Doo is very deep.
You're making the assumption that they actually have any penis pills to send out. Wasn't that 20-something spammer in NY/NJ taking the money and not shipping anything? (Betting that no one is going to complain too loudly that they got ripped off and have a tiny little.. brain.)
You have to be careful. You might be given a drug which directly stimulates the mauve center of your brain: A total over-powering sensation of mauve. Or maybe Barry Manilow.
I have my doubts too. If a superconductor suddenly converts into a heat-producing wire, I don't see why there isn't an almighty bang as it then converts into plasma. Even a ceramic, conductor one moment, insulator the next would have some heat, I would think. They do say that they use a number of parallel circuits, but...
Somehow I doubt that this is an installed, tested, and shipping product--good timing on the announcement however.:^P
One of the articles points out that this is a problem with most circuit breakers--the current just arcs across the open switch.
Their gizmo, "a matrix fault current limiter", just increases the resistance without arcing (and a number of parallel circuits to decrease power gradually). I dunno, I don't think I'd want to stand too close to it when it loses superconductivity. Keeping power circuits at 77 K will take some serious cooling!
They were supposed to have protection systems to prevent a cascade failure like this. Making the protection systems fancier isn't going to help too much if they don't install/maintain them properly.
Or as Kosh said, "Once the blackout begins, it is too late to order pizza."
It's also manditory that dumbasses don't tie all the circuits up by making useless calls to each other. All "Hello. Yeah, I just called to say that I'm on the bus" types calls should be canceled, and if people do have to call all their friends to ask them if they have power, keep the calls short.
You might want to do a search on "Tiny Basic". After BillG wrote his snooty anti-piracy letter way back when, some of the first open source projects were a number of Tiny Basic interpreters. (It's how Dr. Dobb's got its start.)
They were slow and limited, but playing with them and extending them was a great way to learn. After those came the Small C compilers--never looked back.
If by '"pure" basic', you mean Microsoft, that's probably correct, however I'm pretty sure DTSS BASIC 6th edition (i.e. original) had full subroutine calls (and was compiled).
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Hopefully any victory over SCO will leave a smoking hole in the ground and no one will admit to ever having had the slightest thing to do with them--but that's just my little hope and dream. :^)
When you can trace the spam back to their server, what's to debate? On my equipment, I am judge, jury and executioner. They can send all the mail they want--it just won't pass customs at my border.
Rule #1: Spammers always lie.
Rule #2: When a spammer seems to be telling the truth, see rule #1.
I hope I didn't miss anything important.
Actually he lost 50 times. He lost another 50 times betting on the instant replay.
It was a nice piece of software. The hardware was vanilla: sound dedicated Z80 talking to a bunch of 8910 sound chips, command port from the game Z80, funky filters that didn't do much. The software was a MIDI-like control program. I still have the ROM image somewhere, converting to a MIDI file should be too hard. Must Have More Tapper Music!
My One Line Blog has been running that story for days now. :^P
10a. Nothing is useless if we can charge you a licence fee for it.
Like this one
Free as in tarbaby. The first hit is free. :^)
I'm surprised that no one has trademarked SmartPhone before Microsoft. (Then again, MS never let anything like that slow them down when they trademarked Windows.)
If the spammer wants your money, he's eventually going to have to give you a way to contact him. And any cheque or credit-card transaction will leave a paper-trail.
You should tell that to Louisiana spammer Ronnie Scelson, he seems to think that it's okay. But then he also thinks spamming is okay, and that Scooby-Doo is very deep.
There are at least a couple big name spammers based in Louisiana: Ronnie Scelson and Bubba Catts. Shutting them down would be a good start.
You're making the assumption that they actually have any penis pills to send out. Wasn't that 20-something spammer in NY/NJ taking the money and not shipping anything? (Betting that no one is going to complain too loudly that they got ripped off and have a tiny little .. brain.)
You have to be careful. You might be given a drug which directly stimulates the mauve center of your brain: A total over-powering sensation of mauve. Or maybe Barry Manilow.
Somehow I doubt that this is an installed, tested, and shipping product--good timing on the announcement however. :^P
At a guess, since they "valve" the current rather than just chopping it, they can dampen out the inductive kick that a circuit breaker gets.
As for using superconductors for the whole line or generator coils, I think they need to keep their switch at 77 K.
Their gizmo, "a matrix fault current limiter", just increases the resistance without arcing (and a number of parallel circuits to decrease power gradually). I dunno, I don't think I'd want to stand too close to it when it loses superconductivity. Keeping power circuits at 77 K will take some serious cooling!
Or as Kosh said, "Once the blackout begins, it is too late to order pizza."
It's also manditory that dumbasses don't tie all the circuits up by making useless calls to each other. All "Hello. Yeah, I just called to say that I'm on the bus" types calls should be canceled, and if people do have to call all their friends to ask them if they have power, keep the calls short.
They were slow and limited, but playing with them and extending them was a great way to learn. After those came the Small C compilers--never looked back.
If by '"pure" basic', you mean Microsoft, that's probably correct, however I'm pretty sure DTSS BASIC 6th edition (i.e. original) had full subroutine calls (and was compiled).
Hmm, a network card for my MC-10 micro Coco, it'll just have to wait until after I do the LCD display.