Windows Media Player is irrelevant. The article is talking about a codec, not an application. Huge difference. Read the article, then read up on what a codec is.
Well, Knoppix couldn't see my networked printer at all. W2K sees it right away. I have to disagree with you. Maybe, after several hours of guessing what to click, it'd work, but several hours of my time is worth several Windows licenses.
You have to understand... companies do not want business from nutjobs like you because you take more time than you're worth. A http_referrer? Are you nuts? Oh wait. You are. That's not your history... it's just the site that you came from. Virtually every single website does this so they can see where their advertising money is spent the best. I don't think that an http_referrer qualifies as doing "anything" to gather info. It's equivalent to walking into a small store and the owner asking where you heard about them. But, like I said, people like you are very few and far between, so anybody with an online business really would be smart to tell you to take a flying leap. Satisfing a handful of paranoid nutjobs at the expense of knowing where their customers come from is a very bad tradeoff. BTW, have you ever thought of defeating their evil schemes by opening a browser and typing "newegg.com"??
The implication is that hackers are not smart enough to use an exploit until a patch is released that that notifies them about what the exact exploit could possibly be, and how to use it.
Hm. Didn't Janet Jackson force her personal convictions on her viewers?
No, she would've forced her personal convictions on her viewers if she started spouting off about religion. As is she showed a boob. I fail to see how a boob (which more than half of the planet have a pair of) is a "personal conviction".
not to start wars based on fairy tales
Just the fact that almost every major war in the history of the planet has ultimately been because of religion.
Morals exist outside of religion. Every religion is a fairy tale, and to base ones morals on a fairy tale is pure stupidity. (for example: I would never steal magic beans because I may run into an angry giant) Of course, it's accepted in our society, that basing ones' morals on "The Bible" makes sense, but basing ones' morals on "Jack and the Beanstalk" is insane. I contend that basing ones morals on ANY fairy tale, including "The Bible" is insane and has no place in civilized soceity. Religion should be left where it belongs: in the Dark Ages.
It's not abuse... it's just a waste of their money. How is an unenforceable patent going to effect anybody? The potential impact of this patent is literally zero. I can apply for a patent on breathing. I can pay the fees, and be issued a number, but it's not going to do anything at all. I fail to see how getting a useless patent impacts anybody other than their own bottom line.
The reason it's a big deal is because it wasn't a violation of the regs on an 11 PM local channel, it was the Super Bowl halftime show.
And you're point? Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't literally every person on the planet seen, and/or eaten from a feamle breast at one time in their life? A "breast" is such an arbitrary body part, you may as well be talking about exposed elbows.
you think that there are any decency standards that, say, an atheist would/could support?
Yeah, we have the decency not to force our personal convictions on others, not to start wars based on fairy tales. Atheists are going to have much higher decency standards, than say, a Christian, who worships a story in which women are regularly tortured and killed for disobeying their husbands, and gay people are butchered.
And you're 100% wrong. This isn't abuse. They're simply filing a patent. Anybody with enough money can file for a patent. They're not going to be able to use it though. It's unenforceable. Just because they have a patent, doesn't mean that they can use it. Now if they started paying high power attorneys to try to enforce the patent, that's one thing, but just applying means nothing.
Since when has/. been filled with a ton of wannabe patent attorneys?
You can't protest a patent. That's what patent attorneys are for. Just because you can look up a patent doesn't mean that you know shit about how it works. Kinda' like somebody who fires up AOL who decides that they're gonna protest W3C specs because their mom's web page doesn't look right in AOL.
That's great that there's as OSS thingy out there that does this, but it's cryptic, and it doesn't work on W2K. I would *love* to see a nice, integrated MS implementation of this. It'd be very useful in my small business. I would hate to see the OSS group making the OSS version patenting it, because 99% of potential users of something like this would be locked out.
I find this disucssion ridiculous. The/. community, as a whole, tends to be very libertarian, except where MS is involved, then you have 15 year old kids spouting legal decisions. Kids: It's called hypocricy. It's the same thing that the Bush administration is doing right now. Using the law when it suits you, and ignoring it otherwise. Personally, I'm wary of all laws and court decisions that come dwon from ON HIGH because so many of them are shit. So, unless you're in favor of the Patriot Act, the DMCA, all of this anti-gay shit that's going on, stupid patents, bad copyright laws, please, please, shut the fuck up with this "convicted monopolist" shit. It's just stupid.
Microsoft may actually produce something that benefits the community as a whole. Seems incredible, but...wow, if we owe having a *good* email infrastructure to Microsoft, the world will be standing on its head.
Actually, the world already owes MS for making computers cheap and ubiquitous. That's kinda' a big thing that preceeds even the need for spam prevention. MS turned computers from a hobby for a few people to a common household appliance.
I know I'll get modded down, but this guy is probably a product of India's certification schools, that pump out people with degrees, certifications, etc. with the express purpose of getting US tech jobs. They get very real education. I've run into many, many people like this, and worked with them, and they're the same. They may have a degree or certification, but half the Indians I worked with wouldn't know HTML from Cobol.
Quentin Tarantino definitely is in the short list.
Tarantino would make a pile of shit that nobody would watch. Tarantino is the most overrated, overhyped director of our time. He's a one trick pony who's time was already past when he did Pulp Fiction. Sure, he's cutting edge for the unwashed masses that think that "Titanic" and "Gladiator" were great movies, but for those of us who know movies, he's a film school hack. Leave directing to real directors... like Luc Bresson.
That's happening now. A good geek friend of mine is working on it. He's starting with suing junk faxers, and once that's in place, he's tackling spammers. I figure that he could make a very very good living just by suing junk faxers and spammers. I'll be helping with publicity once he has a good system in place.
The article is great and all, but it doesn't mention if this method is actually being implemented anywhere yet. So, yeah, great theory, but I want to see it in practice.
that'd undermine the trust people have in their system.
You're saying that there's trust now? When I see Ebay, I see a lot of professional buyers and sellers and scammers. The interface is a nightmare (last time I tried to sell something, I remember logging in about 3-4 times, I think). It's full of acronyms that Ebay geeks only know. It's really not for public consumption any more, in my opinion. I don't think that a lot of people really do trust Ebay in the first place.
All drug dealers and call people who commit fraud should go to jail
Well, thank you, Mr. Ashcroft. I personally think that drugs laws are illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral. I do NOT believe that people should go to jail for selling drugs. But, thanks for your Nazi-esque input!
Nah. I want one for free... like Knoppix, Red Hat, Open Office, etc. I want a bunch of OSS people to build one and give it away. It'd save me a LOT of money. Oh yeah, and it should be good enough not to require support. I don't want to pay for support, either.
That's assuming that Knoppix even has support for the hardware being tested. That's a big "if". That's a pretty poor way to test hardware, if you ask me.
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People stupid enough to diagnose their own health problems based on shit they see on the web should either 1. Die from misdiagnosis or 2. Fail to breed because they become basket cases. I mean really... The web is a nifty little toy for communicating with friends, buying commodity items, and reading the AP wire or checking the weather, but health stuff? No way. That's insane. Of course, these are the same people who seek legal advice on Slashdot...
Yeah, well, what if I'm walking through the park and I just feel like talking to a friend? Who says that YOU have the right to silence? It's a public park, you selfish bastard. Part of being in public is dealing with other people. If you don't like it, go buy your own piece of land, and you can do whatever you want in it.
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Windows Media Player is irrelevant. The article is talking about a codec, not an application. Huge difference. Read the article, then read up on what a codec is.
Oh yeah, and it's "skeptical".
Well, Knoppix couldn't see my networked printer at all. W2K sees it right away. I have to disagree with you. Maybe, after several hours of guessing what to click, it'd work, but several hours of my time is worth several Windows licenses.
You have to understand... companies do not want business from nutjobs like you because you take more time than you're worth. A http_referrer? Are you nuts? Oh wait. You are. That's not your history... it's just the site that you came from. Virtually every single website does this so they can see where their advertising money is spent the best. I don't think that an http_referrer qualifies as doing "anything" to gather info. It's equivalent to walking into a small store and the owner asking where you heard about them. But, like I said, people like you are very few and far between, so anybody with an online business really would be smart to tell you to take a flying leap. Satisfing a handful of paranoid nutjobs at the expense of knowing where their customers come from is a very bad tradeoff. BTW, have you ever thought of defeating their evil schemes by opening a browser and typing "newegg.com"??
The implication is that hackers are not smart enough to use an exploit until a patch is released that that notifies them about what the exact exploit could possibly be, and how to use it.
Hm. Didn't Janet Jackson force her personal convictions on her viewers?
No, she would've forced her personal convictions on her viewers if she started spouting off about religion. As is she showed a boob. I fail to see how a boob (which more than half of the planet have a pair of) is a "personal conviction".
not to start wars based on fairy tales
Just the fact that almost every major war in the history of the planet has ultimately been because of religion.
Morals exist outside of religion. Every religion is a fairy tale, and to base ones morals on a fairy tale is pure stupidity. (for example: I would never steal magic beans because I may run into an angry giant) Of course, it's accepted in our society, that basing ones' morals on "The Bible" makes sense, but basing ones' morals on "Jack and the Beanstalk" is insane. I contend that basing ones morals on ANY fairy tale, including "The Bible" is insane and has no place in civilized soceity. Religion should be left where it belongs: in the Dark Ages.
It's not abuse... it's just a waste of their money. How is an unenforceable patent going to effect anybody? The potential impact of this patent is literally zero. I can apply for a patent on breathing. I can pay the fees, and be issued a number, but it's not going to do anything at all. I fail to see how getting a useless patent impacts anybody other than their own bottom line.
The reason it's a big deal is because it wasn't a violation of the regs on an 11 PM local channel, it was the Super Bowl halftime show.
And you're point? Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't literally every person on the planet seen, and/or eaten from a feamle breast at one time in their life? A "breast" is such an arbitrary body part, you may as well be talking about exposed elbows.
you think that there are any decency standards that, say, an atheist would/could support?
Yeah, we have the decency not to force our personal convictions on others, not to start wars based on fairy tales. Atheists are going to have much higher decency standards, than say, a Christian, who worships a story in which women are regularly tortured and killed for disobeying their husbands, and gay people are butchered.
Full marks to Microsoft for blatent patent abuse.
/. been filled with a ton of wannabe patent attorneys?
And you're 100% wrong. This isn't abuse. They're simply filing a patent. Anybody with enough money can file for a patent. They're not going to be able to use it though. It's unenforceable. Just because they have a patent, doesn't mean that they can use it. Now if they started paying high power attorneys to try to enforce the patent, that's one thing, but just applying means nothing.
Since when has
You can't protest a patent. That's what patent attorneys are for. Just because you can look up a patent doesn't mean that you know shit about how it works. Kinda' like somebody who fires up AOL who decides that they're gonna protest W3C specs because their mom's web page doesn't look right in AOL.
That's great that there's as OSS thingy out there that does this, but it's cryptic, and it doesn't work on W2K. I would *love* to see a nice, integrated MS implementation of this. It'd be very useful in my small business. I would hate to see the OSS group making the OSS version patenting it, because 99% of potential users of something like this would be locked out.
I find this disucssion ridiculous. The /. community, as a whole, tends to be very libertarian, except where MS is involved, then you have 15 year old kids spouting legal decisions. Kids: It's called hypocricy. It's the same thing that the Bush administration is doing right now. Using the law when it suits you, and ignoring it otherwise. Personally, I'm wary of all laws and court decisions that come dwon from ON HIGH because so many of them are shit. So, unless you're in favor of the Patriot Act, the DMCA, all of this anti-gay shit that's going on, stupid patents, bad copyright laws, please, please, shut the fuck up with this "convicted monopolist" shit. It's just stupid.
Microsoft may actually produce something that benefits the community as a whole. Seems incredible, but...wow, if we owe having a *good* email infrastructure to Microsoft, the world will be standing on its head.
Actually, the world already owes MS for making computers cheap and ubiquitous. That's kinda' a big thing that preceeds even the need for spam prevention. MS turned computers from a hobby for a few people to a common household appliance.
I know I'll get modded down, but this guy is probably a product of India's certification schools, that pump out people with degrees, certifications, etc. with the express purpose of getting US tech jobs. They get very real education. I've run into many, many people like this, and worked with them, and they're the same. They may have a degree or certification, but half the Indians I worked with wouldn't know HTML from Cobol.
Quentin Tarantino definitely is in the short list.
Tarantino would make a pile of shit that nobody would watch. Tarantino is the most overrated, overhyped director of our time. He's a one trick pony who's time was already past when he did Pulp Fiction. Sure, he's cutting edge for the unwashed masses that think that "Titanic" and "Gladiator" were great movies, but for those of us who know movies, he's a film school hack.
Leave directing to real directors... like Luc Bresson.
That's happening now. A good geek friend of mine is working on it. He's starting with suing junk faxers, and once that's in place, he's tackling spammers. I figure that he could make a very very good living just by suing junk faxers and spammers. I'll be helping with publicity once he has a good system in place.
The article is great and all, but it doesn't mention if this method is actually being implemented anywhere yet. So, yeah, great theory, but I want to see it in practice.
Just tell the interviewer that "shit happens". They'll understand. Worked for me!
that'd undermine the trust people have in their system.
You're saying that there's trust now? When I see Ebay, I see a lot of professional buyers and sellers and scammers. The interface is a nightmare (last time I tried to sell something, I remember logging in about 3-4 times, I think). It's full of acronyms that Ebay geeks only know. It's really not for public consumption any more, in my opinion. I don't think that a lot of people really do trust Ebay in the first place.
All drug dealers and call people who commit fraud should go to jail
Well, thank you, Mr. Ashcroft. I personally think that drugs laws are illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral. I do NOT believe that people should go to jail for selling drugs. But, thanks for your Nazi-esque input!
Nah. I want one for free... like Knoppix, Red Hat, Open Office, etc. I want a bunch of OSS people to build one and give it away. It'd save me a LOT of money. Oh yeah, and it should be good enough not to require support. I don't want to pay for support, either.
That's exactly what I was going to suggest. Now how do I tell these OSS programmers to get to work building me a good, free POS system?
That's assuming that Knoppix even has support for the hardware being tested. That's a big "if". That's a pretty poor way to test hardware, if you ask me.
People stupid enough to diagnose their own health problems based on shit they see on the web should either 1. Die from misdiagnosis or 2. Fail to breed because they become basket cases. I mean really... The web is a nifty little toy for communicating with friends, buying commodity items, and reading the AP wire or checking the weather, but health stuff? No way. That's insane. Of course, these are the same people who seek legal advice on Slashdot...
Yeah, well, what if I'm walking through the park and I just feel like talking to a friend? Who says that YOU have the right to silence? It's a public park, you selfish bastard. Part of being in public is dealing with other people. If you don't like it, go buy your own piece of land, and you can do whatever you want in it.
Nah, covert jamming is a lot funnier.
It sure is. If you're a pussy.