In addition, my typing class I took in high school also taught how to properly format letters, signature blocks, punctuation, addresses, etc.
I'm really glad I took that class, as typing is a huge part of my life as a sysadmin/programmer/writer. Like a previous poster noted: Writing code is a small part of what you do as a developer. You have to communicate and document. That is much easier if your thoughts can flow efficiently to the keyboard.
Working with some of my co-workers makes my head hurt as I agonize over watching them either hunt and peck or use the backspace key as frequently as the other keys on the keyboard.
And, as stated above, I learned much more than simply how to type fast.
Maybe if this was a design for an entire infrastructure. But you're talking about using some service to do something... that it's already designed to do. And what happens when twitter no longer exists? Will people in the future be able to even make any sense of this patent? WTF.
According to this logic no invention in the history of computing has ever been novel because it can all just be broken down to "interacting with a computer".
Wow. I think you just figured it out. Computer hardware can be patented. Instructions you feed to it shouldn't be. Same for business processes.
Fixing the patent system: 1) physical devices only (you don't need capital to write a computer program, hence you also don't need any patent protection.) 2) working model within reasonable timeframe, or you lose the patent (you can't patent the warp drive, transporter, etc. and squat on it)
I think I'll leave the SIT tones at the beginning of my voicemail message anyway. The way this reads is for *prerecorded* messages. Not robo-dialing itself, that forwards a pickup to a live telemarketing droid. I'm reading this just from the summary, though, and the article may say otherwise.
This happened right in front of me on the way home one night. The guy behind him reported that he was paying a lot of attention to a little box in his hand...
Give me the features that VOIP providers like vonage provide on a landline, and I'd gladly use it. Granted, you can't do everything, but basics like voice mail, email notification, and all the '*' services (call forwarding, repeat dial while busy, etc) shouldn't cost so much. Give me what vonage does for even $2-$3 more a month, and I'd gladly use my landline again, as that is definitely more reliable in case of power outage, being on a different physical line than my ISP, etc.
Who is going to pay the people who take the time and effort to encode (pirate, if you must use the term) the stuff? Yeah, it's not their original content, but certainly the *value* in the stuff you get from TPB is the format, and that stuff doesn't just magically happen, you know. I mean, if I wanted a permanent copy for myself, I could rent and rip myself. But I have better things to do with my time. And for stuff I only intend to watch once, well, TPB is a better option than blockbuster or netflix.
Perhaps they should have streamlined the app itself, and all of the ribbon trickery wouldn't be necessary. It's a shame that OO.o is yet again aping microsoft's misdirection.
Mountain Bike races. Especially 24 hour events. Yeah, you could clone the leading team, but it would be quite obvious to those physically logging each lap using paper and pencil. It makes timing a lot more accurate and fair, for sure.
RFID, for example, makes the real time scoring system used by Granny Gear possible. So, not only can your friends back home see how your team is doing in real time, but you can also check it yourself as a competitor to see what you need to do to real in the team ahead, and keep the ones behind you at bay.
Even to the unwashed masses, stealing a radio and talking on it certainly are not 'hacking' unless there is social engineering going on for access to something, which doesn't seem to be the case here. Maybe if he'd tried the stolen radio reward scenario first, but then it'd just be theft and/or extortion. No hack or hacking applied here, no matter how much you could try to misuse the word.
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In addition, my typing class I took in high school also taught how to properly format letters, signature blocks, punctuation, addresses, etc.
I'm really glad I took that class, as typing is a huge part of my life as a sysadmin/programmer/writer. Like a previous poster noted: Writing code is a small part of what you do as a developer. You have to communicate and document. That is much easier if your thoughts can flow efficiently to the keyboard.
Working with some of my co-workers makes my head hurt as I agonize over watching them either hunt and peck or use the backspace key as frequently as the other keys on the keyboard.
And, as stated above, I learned much more than simply how to type fast.
...how is it theft of service?
It's easier to get your creative fix on the network vs. tinkering with new ideas.
Maybe if this was a design for an entire infrastructure. But you're talking about using some service to do something ... that it's already designed to do. And what happens when twitter no longer exists? Will people in the future be able to even make any sense of this patent? WTF.
email, sms, a web page, FINGER (that's all twitter really is), etc etc. It's all been done before, and done better.
Wow. I think you just figured it out. Computer hardware can be patented. Instructions you feed to it shouldn't be. Same for business processes.
Fixing the patent system:
1) physical devices only (you don't need capital to write a computer program, hence you also don't need any patent protection.)
2) working model within reasonable timeframe, or you lose the patent (you can't patent the warp drive, transporter, etc. and squat on it)
what jumps out at me first, is that the non-word 'blogging' is used in this patent. WTF, over? Good or not, I expect better from IBM's patents.
I think I'll leave the SIT tones at the beginning of my voicemail message anyway. The way this reads is for *prerecorded* messages. Not robo-dialing itself, that forwards a pickup to a live telemarketing droid. I'm reading this just from the summary, though, and the article may say otherwise.
If Fox uses them to determine what shows to keep, either they are flawed, or the general population is retarded. Oh. Wait.
Perhaps executives should troll popular websites and such to see what the viewers themselves have to say instead?
This happened right in front of me on the way home one night. The guy behind him reported that he was paying a lot of attention to a little box in his hand...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28154298@N05/sets/72157605928214101/detail/
Give me the features that VOIP providers like vonage provide on a landline, and I'd gladly use it. Granted, you can't do everything, but basics like voice mail, email notification, and all the '*' services (call forwarding, repeat dial while busy, etc) shouldn't cost so much. Give me what vonage does for even $2-$3 more a month, and I'd gladly use my landline again, as that is definitely more reliable in case of power outage, being on a different physical line than my ISP, etc.
Who is going to pay the people who take the time and effort to encode (pirate, if you must use the term) the stuff? Yeah, it's not their original content, but certainly the *value* in the stuff you get from TPB is the format, and that stuff doesn't just magically happen, you know. I mean, if I wanted a permanent copy for myself, I could rent and rip myself. But I have better things to do with my time. And for stuff I only intend to watch once, well, TPB is a better option than blockbuster or netflix.
NAT is not a security feature. *sigh*
Indeed. Sell the things for $5 a pop. Let us then rip/encode/tag as we ourselves see fit. Oh well.
Is there anything it *can*?
Where?
Pets are less equipped to find ways to escape abuse than children are. So which is worse, Hmmm?
Perhaps they should have streamlined the app itself, and all of the ribbon trickery wouldn't be necessary. It's a shame that OO.o is yet again aping microsoft's misdirection.
...had advertisers not become so obnoxious. There is no going back. They did this to themselves.
s/real in/reel in/ it's early, and I'm still recovering from defcon :-)
Mountain Bike races. Especially 24 hour events. Yeah, you could clone the leading team, but it would be quite obvious to those physically logging each lap using paper and pencil. It makes timing a lot more accurate and fair, for sure.
RFID, for example, makes the real time scoring system used by Granny Gear possible. So, not only can your friends back home see how your team is doing in real time, but you can also check it yourself as a competitor to see what you need to do to real in the team ahead, and keep the ones behind you at bay.
Yup. And it will be quite simple to re-badge my expensive steak as bubble gum (that was a defcon presentation about 3 years ago...)
finger, irc, etc...
Because, you know, the only thing that relies on DNS is users browsing web pages.
Even to the unwashed masses, stealing a radio and talking on it certainly are not 'hacking' unless there is social engineering going on for access to something, which doesn't seem to be the case here. Maybe if he'd tried the stolen radio reward scenario first, but then it'd just be theft and/or extortion. No hack or hacking applied here, no matter how much you could try to misuse the word.