Hey wait a second. Does this mean that if I find that I possess a gene sequence patented by some evil mega-corp, that I have to pay up or destroy myself?
Man....I thought the bad part of my day happened when I only got two creams with my coffee!
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
"So can you imagine if you give the stuff (in untargeted form) to a person? Within 24 hours, we will just fall apart,'' Penninger said."
He is implying here that the cell membranes are transparent to the AIF trigger enzyme (if there is one). One could engineer a virus that uses a multiple antigen trigger to a initiate a programmed mutation that would allow the virus to build up it's numbers before switching to AIF trigger enzyme production.
Such a virus could also be equipped with an internal AIF trigger enzyme payload that would be released into any t-cell that managed to get a hold of it. Quite a bitter pill, huh?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
"...it could potentially open the discovery of a true fountain of youth."
OR...it could potentially be turned into the most potent bio-weapon in the history of mankind, destroying all animal life on this planet with an unprecedented LD100 rating.
All that is needed is to engineer a virus to deliver the chemical key to activate this gene systemically.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Yes...But NO ONE will buy the hardware that blocks IP at the computer. People buy computers to do stuff. They don't buy computers that don't do the stuff they want to do. When the hardware initiative fails, the IP nazis will march on washington with the target being your ISP. And remember, you have no constitutional right to use cryptography.
Do not underestimate the evil that greed can promulgate.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
On the whole, Computing Consumers are not stupid. I cannot say the same for the Corporate IP delusionals.
These products will end up in landfills worldwide, unopened, just like the majority of Circuit City's Divix boxes.
Sadly, the logical result of this failure will be that the Infotainment Nazis will focus their attention to the last remaining assaultable link in the IP hemmorage problem: the broadband ISP. They will reach out to their paid Senators and ask for the ISP Safe Harbor provisions of the DCMA be modified so they can force all ISPs to have Carnivore style filters installed on their networks.
It is now time to call for the end of copyright.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Yes, one could intrepret it that way, but there is, as usual in life, more to this than meets the eye.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." is the excuse I gave to my daughter for many years for NOT buying her a video game console. Although I finally gave in last year, I am pleased to report that this tactic has resulted in a thirteen year old that reads voraciously and at a college level. She also is highly computer literate and actually reads Slashdot from time to time.
If you like, you can quote me too. I have several others:
"The problem with ignorance is that you can never be sure that you're not afflicted with it."
"Often, the difference in being labeled a 'Heretic' or a 'Visionary' is your sense of timing."
"My Three Rules:
One. Take control of your environment.
Two. Question Authority.
Three. Be the best, or you'll never get away with one and two.
"People who obsess about the Sigs of others can bite me."
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
The absolute BEST you can hope for is "Copy Encumbrance" or "Copy Inconvenience" or "Copy Reduction". But NEVER will your digital content be "Protected".
Digitize it, and they will crack.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Taxation is the governments way of invoking compulsory financial support to fund the development and maintenance of societal infrastructure, i.e. roads, schools, hospitals etc. that are required to support the physical presence of brick and mortar merchants, employers, employees and customers.
Taxing online or virtual merchants would be unfair and unethical because these merchants place no such (or at best insignificant) demands upon the infrastructure.
Where is the justification for these taxes?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I Agree, but the "BetaMax Effect" is in play here.
The "BetaMax Effect" is when we stupid Americans buy anything labeled "Bigger This, Faster That or Better Something" without regard to the whole picture.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Now the GAMES BEGIN and we all get to watch and laugh while the RIAA and Judge Patel start to pull their hair out!
The "Morph Naming" has already begun and the RIAA will soon run afoul of a LEGITIMATE copyright holder who WANTS their stuff shared on Napster for marketing reasons.
You see, the FILE NAME HAS NO DIRECT ASSOCIATION with the CONTENTS of the file. This is the MAJOR fundamental error that the computer ignorant Judge Patel made in her injunction. The RIAA will soon DEMAND a title be banned because someone used it as a file name to an RIAA enforced work, but... it will also be the LEGITIMATE TITLE of a work that is freely being shared.
Mark my words RIAA, YOU WILL BE SUED OVER THIS AND SOONER THAN YOU THINK!
To everyone else, the ONLY WAY to end this intellectual property madnes is to REPEAL ALL COPYRIGHT LAW!.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
The government does not get to decide what a literary work is, you do.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
The Father of the Solar Sail....
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Solar Sails
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· Score: 4
I was fortunate enough to be in Russia several years ago (as part of a NASA contract) and got to meet and work with Professor Vladimir Syromyatnikov, the father of the Solar Sail, who is one of the most gracious and intelligent men I have ever met. He is truly a brilliant mechanical engineer. His genderless docking collar design is a work of poetry in steel.
The good professor was kind enough to invite me up to his apartment one day to talk over lunch and meet his wife and family.
I often think about that afternoon and in particular, one corner of his living room where his television set was placed. There, atop the tv was a VCR and yup, you guessed it, the clock was blinking "12:00". To this day, whenever I need to assess my own failings, I just remind myself "Even Rocket Scientists can't do everything".
Please don't defile my appreciation of the Simpsons with a marketing campaign based upon your fundamentally immoral and privacy invasive CueCat product.
If you should proceed against my wishes, at least pick a more appropriate character. I suggest an endorsement from Montgomery Burns would be more in the spirit of your product.
Toodles.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
...Having to go back to your slimey neighborhood auto dealer to buy a 1 month "Vacation License" so you can drive your car out of your "Designated Purchase Region".
Give's a WHOLE new meaning to the term 'lube job', don't it?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
All content protection schemes are based upon one or more secrets created by a small group of people that represent a finite amount of intellectual capitol.
Once a content protection scheme is released to the world, a VASTLY greater, and in some ways unlimited, amount of intellectual capitol is brought to bear upon cracking it's secrets.
The fallacy continuously proffered by the content-protection "industry", is that "our PHD's are the best money can buy". Sadly, this is irrelevant.
ALL OF THESE SCHEMES ARE ARTIFACTS OF HUMAN INVENTION, AND HENCE, ARE SUBJECT TO COMPRIMISE BY OTHER HUMANS.
It is time for our society to abandon this childish game of intellectual protectionism and one-upsmanship and realize that COPYRIGHT is no longer a viable moral OR legal concept.
I have spoken. No further posts are required.
-END TRANSMISSION-
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I've been thinking about this very option for a couple of days now.
Essentially, you preserve copyright, but you legally render it non-transferrable, non-assignable. This would allow the artist to preserve and control ownership and distribution rights while tearing down the media monopolies and their governmentally corruptive influnces.
Furthermore, the internet's destructive effect on content control forces the artist to trade on their celebrity and not their work product, which is of course an already proven economic model and rewards excellence where deserved.
Are we genuises, or what?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Slashdot Mirror
Hey wait a second. Does this mean that if I find that I possess a gene sequence patented by some evil mega-corp, that I have to pay up or destroy myself?
Man....I thought the bad part of my day happened when I only got two creams with my coffee!
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
"So can you imagine if you give the stuff (in untargeted form) to a person? Within 24 hours, we will just fall apart,'' Penninger said."
He is implying here that the cell membranes are transparent to the AIF trigger enzyme (if there is one). One could engineer a virus that uses a multiple antigen trigger to a initiate a programmed mutation that would allow the virus to build up it's numbers before switching to AIF trigger enzyme production.
Such a virus could also be equipped with an internal AIF trigger enzyme payload that would be released into any t-cell that managed to get a hold of it. Quite a bitter pill, huh?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
"...it could potentially open the discovery of a true fountain of youth."
OR...it could potentially be turned into the most potent bio-weapon in the history of mankind, destroying all animal life on this planet with an unprecedented LD100 rating.
All that is needed is to engineer a virus to deliver the chemical key to activate this gene systemically.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Yup...you guessed it... 3-D Pr0n IS ON THE WAY!!!!...
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Yes...But NO ONE will buy the hardware that blocks IP at the computer. People buy computers to do stuff. They don't buy computers that don't do the stuff they want to do. When the hardware initiative fails, the IP nazis will march on washington with the target being your ISP. And remember, you have no constitutional right to use cryptography.
Do not underestimate the evil that greed can promulgate.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
On the whole, Computing Consumers are not stupid. I cannot say the same for the Corporate IP delusionals.
These products will end up in landfills worldwide, unopened, just like the majority of Circuit City's Divix boxes.
Sadly, the logical result of this failure will be that the Infotainment Nazis will focus their attention to the last remaining assaultable link in the IP hemmorage problem: the broadband ISP. They will reach out to their paid Senators and ask for the ISP Safe Harbor provisions of the DCMA be modified so they can force all ISPs to have Carnivore style filters installed on their networks.
It is now time to call for the end of copyright.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
"And thus the Holy Grail of the Hollywood InfoTainment Digeratti was found to have yet another dent upon it's glistening face. And it was good."
"And the Open Source Angels did sing with rejoice in their hearts and lo thier song carried upon the net...'YOU CANNOT SECURE DIGITAL CONTENT'"
shutdown -now
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Yes, one could intrepret it that way, but there is, as usual in life, more to this than meets the eye.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." is the excuse I gave to my daughter for many years for NOT buying her a video game console. Although I finally gave in last year, I am pleased to report that this tactic has resulted in a thirteen year old that reads voraciously and at a college level. She also is highly computer literate and actually reads Slashdot from time to time.
If you like, you can quote me too. I have several others:
"The problem with ignorance is that you can never be sure that you're not afflicted with it."
"Often, the difference in being labeled a 'Heretic' or a 'Visionary' is your sense of timing."
"My Three Rules:
One. Take control of your environment.
Two. Question Authority.
Three. Be the best, or you'll never get away with one and two.
"People who obsess about the Sigs of others can bite me."
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
What happened to the doctrine of Prior Restraint?
Worse, this is yet ANOTHER example where the flawed legal concept of "Intellectual Property" is being twisted into a tool of destruction.
Intellectual Property must die!
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
There is NO SUCH THING!
MPAA, RIAA... Release your DENIAL!
The absolute BEST you can hope for is "Copy Encumbrance" or "Copy Inconvenience" or "Copy Reduction". But NEVER will your digital content be "Protected".
Digitize it, and they will crack.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Can you also buy a rifle with a scope?
Just wondering.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Taxation is the governments way of invoking compulsory financial support to fund the development and maintenance of societal infrastructure, i.e. roads, schools, hospitals etc. that are required to support the physical presence of brick and mortar merchants, employers, employees and customers.
Taxing online or virtual merchants would be unfair and unethical because these merchants place no such (or at best insignificant) demands upon the infrastructure.
Where is the justification for these taxes?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I Agree, but the "BetaMax Effect" is in play here.
The "BetaMax Effect" is when we stupid Americans buy anything labeled "Bigger This, Faster That or Better Something" without regard to the whole picture.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Terra-Transistor Processors + Terra-Terra-byte Storage + IBM's Quantum Teleportation = "Beam Me Up Scotty"
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Have it assemble a file from pieces like collecting shells on the beach.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Now the GAMES BEGIN and we all get to watch and laugh while the RIAA and Judge Patel start to pull their hair out!
The "Morph Naming" has already begun and the RIAA will soon run afoul of a LEGITIMATE copyright holder who WANTS their stuff shared on Napster for marketing reasons.
You see, the FILE NAME HAS NO DIRECT ASSOCIATION with the CONTENTS of the file. This is the MAJOR fundamental error that the computer ignorant Judge Patel made in her injunction. The RIAA will soon DEMAND a title be banned because someone used it as a file name to an RIAA enforced work, but... it will also be the LEGITIMATE TITLE of a work that is freely being shared.
Mark my words RIAA, YOU WILL BE SUED OVER THIS AND SOONER THAN YOU THINK!
To everyone else, the ONLY WAY to end this intellectual property madnes is to REPEAL ALL COPYRIGHT LAW!.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Just add a filename like:
_COPYRIGHT_2001_GENERALEMERGENCY
The government does not get to decide what a literary work is, you do.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I was fortunate enough to be in Russia several years ago (as part of a NASA contract) and got to meet and work with Professor Vladimir Syromyatnikov, the father of the Solar Sail, who is one of the most gracious and intelligent men I have ever met. He is truly a brilliant mechanical engineer. His genderless docking collar design is a work of poetry in steel.
The good professor was kind enough to invite me up to his apartment one day to talk over lunch and meet his wife and family.
I often think about that afternoon and in particular, one corner of his living room where his television set was placed. There, atop the tv was a VCR and yup, you guessed it, the clock was blinking "12:00". To this day, whenever I need to assess my own failings, I just remind myself "Even Rocket Scientists can't do everything".
You can email the professor at:
vladimir.syromyatnikov@rsce.nasa.ru
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Posted to the D:C web site:
Please don't defile my appreciation of the Simpsons with a marketing campaign based upon your fundamentally immoral and privacy invasive CueCat product.
If you should proceed against my wishes, at least pick a more appropriate character. I suggest an endorsement from Montgomery Burns would be more in the spirit of your product.
Toodles.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
All your appliance are belong to us!
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Just imagine...
Give's a WHOLE new meaning to the term 'lube job', don't it?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
All content protection schemes are based upon one or more secrets created by a small group of people that represent a finite amount of intellectual capitol.
Once a content protection scheme is released to the world, a VASTLY greater, and in some ways unlimited, amount of intellectual capitol is brought to bear upon cracking it's secrets.
The fallacy continuously proffered by the content-protection "industry", is that "our PHD's are the best money can buy". Sadly, this is irrelevant.
ALL OF THESE SCHEMES ARE ARTIFACTS OF HUMAN INVENTION, AND HENCE, ARE SUBJECT TO COMPRIMISE BY OTHER HUMANS.
It is time for our society to abandon this childish game of intellectual protectionism and one-upsmanship and realize that COPYRIGHT is no longer a viable moral OR legal concept.
I have spoken. No further posts are required.
-END TRANSMISSION-
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Then I sit back and laugh while NORAD tries to track them boogers.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I've been thinking about this very option for a couple of days now.
Essentially, you preserve copyright, but you legally render it non-transferrable, non-assignable. This would allow the artist to preserve and control ownership and distribution rights while tearing down the media monopolies and their governmentally corruptive influnces.
Furthermore, the internet's destructive effect on content control forces the artist to trade on their celebrity and not their work product, which is of course an already proven economic model and rewards excellence where deserved.
Are we genuises, or what?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
PseudoCode Example:
AudioByte = &HA0:
Poke SoundcardAddress, AudioByte:
God, I love the internet.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --