The English will be able to enjoy their Efficeon Chips!
That joke is so bad, I'm questioning if I should post it.
Ahhh, whatever!
Will receive email for work.
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I'd like to simply see SMTP updated to require work. On establishing a connection, a recipient should be able to give the sender a task to complete that takes a second or two. The recipient will only accept the mail once the work unit has been done. This would make it too slow to send spam, by making it simply too processor intensive. Legitimate users would be unaffected.
I'm glad you mentioned gasoline. A US gallon is 4500 millilitres. That would be 7,650 uk pounds work. That's about $11,475 per gallon for inkjet ink.
Bear in mind how much it costs to find, drill for, extract, transport, refine, transport again and use gasoline. The only think complex about printer ink is the packaging. That must be less than a buck a shot, including the print head!
Your honor, how was I to know the system would fail? I fully expected the car to stop. How was I to know that my late husband's sun-block also absorbed the radar signals? I'm gonna sue the company!
It has come to our attention that you used the phrases "Bill Gates", "Slashdot", "SCO" and "pigs fly" in your recent post.
We represent www.pigsfly.com, and your unauthorized use of pigsfly's trade secret mark copright thingy is completely unacceptable. Please correct this infraction immediately, or we will tell Bill Gates, SCO, and Slashdot.
It is NOT illegal. All these stores have a business presence in the states involved. Businesses that have no business presence ina state still don't have to charge taxes - but those businesses which have a store or distribution center in a state have a business presence and are required to get a sales and use tax permit in that state and charge sales taxes for anything to be sold or used in that state.
If the RIAA doesn't know who the person is, how do they know the person unlawfully downloaded the music? That person may be legally entitled to possess copies of those 600 tracks as they may already own the CDs. For all they know, this person may be a record company employee!
I certainly feel I am doing nothing wrong if I download tracks I already own on CD, and I certainly own right to play more than 600 tracks. More like 6000!
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So what you're saying is that companies that don't have $10M loose change to put in escrow can't file patents?
I think a better solution would be to require the applicant to file a research showing examples of similar prior inventions, and how the invention they're applying for is unique. If a prior art becomes available the owner of the prior art can then hold the applicant liable for damages, based on the applicant's investment/return rather than the prior art's return (so the penalty relates to the amount made through mischief)
imho
A much closer prior art example...
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...is ewtoo and Playground (pgplus.ewtoo.org). These are telnet-based chat systems that allow people to inquire, and be informed automatically by creating lists, of the connection status of other users, and to exchange messages with them.
ewtoo (and cheeseplant's house) were running from '92, and the source of Playground+ is available at http://pgplus.ewtoo.org - PG was released in 96 as a quite late derivitive.
There are hundreds of these talkers and many are far order than ICQ, and still run today - eg: telnet://valdemar.org:2345
So yes, there is prior art that exactly matches this patent to the smallest detail.
In a shock move, the MPAA closed several University research departments this afternoon, in a series of commando-style raids.
"It's tantamount to theft" said Hilarity Rosen. "People sharing video and film clips like this without paying? It's immoral, unjust and illegal! Luckily, we caught the equivalent of 7,562 illegal viewers. (Well, we caught 17, but they all had VERY fast connections!)
In other news, Microsoft tommorow will announce a new DSigital Rights system for P2P video, called "PayNow!"
The biggest problem is this though...you cannot take rights away from Americans. Prohibition taught us that.
Interesting. Prohibition taught me that the Government CAN take away my rights. They did then. Many peoples' rights were taken away during McCarthyism. And many peoples' rights are being taken away right now. It's all a case of what is politically popular and unopposable at the time.
If you argue for example that terrorist detainees should get a fair trial, you will be laughed down, even though that is what is 'right' under the Constitution, for example.
Think about your reaction to the above point. Why do you feel the way you do?
If you have a Tivo and get the SciFi channel, you're paying either DirecTV or a cable company to receive the channel. DirecTV and cable companies pay the channel to distribute the programming on their network, so SciFi channel gets paid.
In fact, I think it is offensive that I pay over $50/month to see these channels, and then have to pay again by watching advertising - they're making me pay twice! I'm subsidising all the people who pay only once! Argh!
I mean really. If I pay $50, and half of that goes to the channels, and 25% of my viewing is the SciFi channel, well, I'm paying them $6.25/month. And as I have a TiVo, they KNOW which channels I watch and can credit the correct channels and pay accordingly.
This ticket is a license to watch one movie. You may occupy one seat. Due to recent problems with piracy, this cinema has installed a DRM enforcement facility. Your memory of the film will be erased when you leave the cinema, to prevent you violating our intellectual property rights by telling people what you saw. The wearing of hats or sunglasses constitute use of a circumvention device, the penalty set forth being life imprisonment.
I betcha Scientology has been pushing for this. It's only because they, bizarrely, claim copyright on their "biblical texts" that they're able to sue protesters for copyright infringement. The works should have started going public domain in ~2023, but now it looks like it'll be ~2043. Very disappointing.
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The right to freedom of speech includes the right to freedom FROM speech.
I suppose you think we should leave Operating System development to Microsoft, too? :)
The English will be able to enjoy their Efficeon Chips!
That joke is so bad, I'm questioning if I should post it.
Ahhh, whatever!
I'd like to simply see SMTP updated to require work. On establishing a connection, a recipient should be able to give the sender a task to complete that takes a second or two. The recipient will only accept the mail once the work unit has been done.
This would make it too slow to send spam, by making it simply too processor intensive. Legitimate users would be unaffected.
Bear in mind how much it costs to find, drill for, extract, transport, refine, transport again and use gasoline. The only think complex about printer ink is the packaging. That must be less than a buck a shot, including the print head!
I notice the 6th is a Sunday. It would have to be, so all the children can do it without missing school.
No. I got "Dilbert", which is just as bad...
You don't like seatbelts, and you claim to have exceptional response skills.
It is for people like you, who think they're great drivers so don't pay attention, that this system was developed.
I can see it now...
Your honor, how was I to know the system would fail? I fully expected the car to stop. How was I to know that my late husband's sun-block also absorbed the radar signals? I'm gonna sue the company!
I think Slashdot in particular would benefit a LOT from having a right to reply. :o)
Oh, wait!
Dear Mister Silver,
It has come to our attention that you used the phrases "Bill Gates", "Slashdot", "SCO" and "pigs fly" in your recent post.
We represent www.pigsfly.com, and your unauthorized use of pigsfly's trade secret mark copright thingy is completely unacceptable. Please correct this infraction immediately, or we will tell Bill Gates, SCO, and Slashdot.
Or something! Muahahaha!
This item has been designed to defeat your Constitutional rights. This item will not allow you to make a back-up.
So what you are saying is you think it is wrong for a child to watch an adult looking at another naked adult?
Next you'll say it's wrong for an adult to look at their naked child.
Soon, they will pass laws that it is illegal to be born naked!
Nudity is only notable in that it is a purely learned sensitivity. I imagine it is too much to ask you to get over it?
It is NOT illegal. All these stores have a business presence in the states involved. Businesses that have no business presence ina state still don't have to charge taxes - but those businesses which have a store or distribution center in a state have a business presence and are required to get a sales and use tax permit in that state and charge sales taxes for anything to be sold or used in that state.
If the RIAA doesn't know who the person is, how do they know the person unlawfully downloaded the music? That person may be legally entitled to possess copies of those 600 tracks as they may already own the CDs. For all they know, this person may be a record company employee!
I certainly feel I am doing nothing wrong if I download tracks I already own on CD, and I certainly own right to play more than 600 tracks. More like 6000!
So what you're saying is that companies that don't have $10M loose change to put in escrow can't file patents?
I think a better solution would be to require the applicant to file a research showing examples of similar prior inventions, and how the invention they're applying for is unique. If a prior art becomes available the owner of the prior art can then hold the applicant liable for damages, based on the applicant's investment/return rather than the prior art's return (so the penalty relates to the amount made through mischief)
imho
...is ewtoo and Playground (pgplus.ewtoo.org). These are telnet-based chat systems that allow people to inquire, and be informed automatically by creating lists, of the connection status of other users, and to exchange messages with them.
ewtoo (and cheeseplant's house) were running from '92, and the source of Playground+ is available at http://pgplus.ewtoo.org - PG was released in 96 as a quite late derivitive.
There are hundreds of these talkers and many are far order than ICQ, and still run today - eg: telnet://valdemar.org:2345
So yes, there is prior art that exactly matches this patent to the smallest detail.
In a shock move, the MPAA closed several University research departments this afternoon, in a series of commando-style raids.
"It's tantamount to theft" said Hilarity Rosen. "People sharing video and film clips like this without paying? It's immoral, unjust and illegal! Luckily, we caught the equivalent of 7,562 illegal viewers. (Well, we caught 17, but they all had VERY fast connections!)
In other news, Microsoft tommorow will announce a new DSigital Rights system for P2P video, called "PayNow!"
The biggest problem is this though...you cannot take rights away from Americans. Prohibition taught us that.
Interesting. Prohibition taught me that the Government CAN take away my rights. They did then. Many peoples' rights were taken away during McCarthyism. And many peoples' rights are being taken away right now. It's all a case of what is politically popular and unopposable at the time.
If you argue for example that terrorist detainees should get a fair trial, you will be laughed down, even though that is what is 'right' under the Constitution, for example.
Think about your reaction to the above point. Why do you feel the way you do?
It can record two shows simultaneously. You can even watch a previously recorded show while it records the other two.
So NERR!
If you have a Tivo and get the SciFi channel, you're paying either DirecTV or a cable company to receive the channel. DirecTV and cable companies pay the channel to distribute the programming on their network, so SciFi channel gets paid.
In fact, I think it is offensive that I pay over $50/month to see these channels, and then have to pay again by watching advertising - they're making me pay twice! I'm subsidising all the people who pay only once! Argh!
I mean really. If I pay $50, and half of that goes to the channels, and 25% of my viewing is the SciFi channel, well, I'm paying them $6.25/month. And as I have a TiVo, they KNOW which channels I watch and can credit the correct channels and pay accordingly.
Does anyone have any actual figures on this?
I was sure he was joking, until I got to "Zech Harvey, MCSE", and now I'm filled with a dreadful uncertainty!
This ticket is a license to watch one movie. You may occupy one seat. Due to recent problems with piracy, this cinema has installed a DRM enforcement facility. Your memory of the film will be erased when you leave the cinema, to prevent you violating our intellectual property rights by telling people what you saw. The wearing of hats or sunglasses constitute use of a circumvention device, the penalty set forth being life imprisonment.
Enjoy your film.
I betcha Scientology has been pushing for this. It's only because they, bizarrely, claim copyright on their "biblical texts" that they're able to sue protesters for copyright infringement. The works should have started going public domain in ~2023, but now it looks like it'll be ~2043. Very disappointing.
Yes, you are. :o)