I dunno. Looks like some competition is shaping up. It's a shame that the point of the competition looks to be the determination of the greatest evil...
The link seemed to stop working shortly after I typed it in... Filtering of some kind? I doubt it, but if you do the search, you can still see the image this points to only five down in the list.
So you don't mind completely sacrifcing your privacy and/or rights to anything you post to a Yahoo mailing list?
From the Yahoo Groups Terms of Service:
Yahoo does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Service. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant Yahoo the following world-wide, royalty free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:
With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of Yahoo! Clubs and Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purposes of providing and promoting the specific Yahoo! Club or Yahoo! Group to which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo removes such Content from the Service.
With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible area of the Service other than Yahoo! Clubs or Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo removes such Content from the Service.
With respect to Content other than photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service other than Yahoo! Clubs or Yahoo! Groups, the perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
In plain talk, Yahoo claims not to own anything you put up on a Geocities webpage, or post to a Yahoo-owned ML, *but* they retain the right to use anything and everything you post in any and every way they see fit.
Post your original novel to a Yahoo E-group? You just gave all rights to your novel to Yahoo. Period.
Yahoo! was a bright light in all the dim confusion of the internet, circa 1994. They helped coin the term 'Search Engine', and created a wonderful place where you could find just about any site you wanted, any time you wanted. What advertisting there was was never intrusive. What you wanted to find you could, at least before the massive growth of the internet over the last decade. To many, Yahoo was as much a 'home' on the internet as there was.
Now...
Yahoo is a corporate behemoth, almost, but not quite as reviled as Microsoft. They are quick to settle upon 'Intellectual Property' and fire off lawsuits as if they were free. Remember Geocities? Yahoo Geocities. Remember E-Groups? Yahoo Groups. A quick and nimble company created by two guys out of their dorm room is now one of the most feared corporate instituations on the planet.
I really don't know jack about Anime(I mostly ingore it), and it seems that I pretty much hate all the popular Anime films I've seen(Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Princess Moanoke), I really have no basis for comparison to give anyone who doesn't know about Robotech(those people do exist) an informed opinion as to quality of this series versus other movies/TV progs, because I think most are pretty weak.
Could anyone recommend some Anime Titles? I was thinking of renting the Gundam titles and Cowboy Bebop, but outside of those none of the titles at my local store caught my eye.
You do have a *very* narrow cross-section for comparison. I consider myself a (pathetic) otaku and the only title I *don't* agree with you here on is Princess Mononoke.
While it doesn't shoot any fireworks off for me, you *should* try Cowboy Bebop. It's a pretty well done series. If you like it, you might consider Trigun, which is similiar in tone, if more comedic.
If you were to try to use the same cell size in a place like Texas, you'd be putting up more cell towers than there are people.
Good god almighty, y'all better beleive we got cell towers all over the friggin' place. Worse, because it's so flat in the Texas Panhandle, you can't go from one place to the other without actually being in visual range of a cell tower.
My mother, who had a CIS degree, felt she was going nowhere and missing out on promotion in her government job because she 'wasn't qualified' to manage other individuals or the business aspects of her field of expertise.
Since she got her MBA, she has lost or quit most of her tech duties and now manages projects, works on software budgets, etc...
I listen to Java zealots defend their chosen language day in and day out as the best possible lanuguage for any possible application. They tout its speed, portability, and power.
What they fail to recognize is that Java application environments are horrible. For example: I hate trying to set up any of the Freenet software, just because of the pain in the ass involved in making sure I have the fastest/best/non-proprietary Java VM installed. There are many more examples of people developing software that relies of Java.
If you have any sense at all, DO NOT TEACH Java as an application language, just because that means the rest of us will have to use crappy JVM-dependant apps once your students find their way into the real world. Use C, C++ if you prefer to get your students wet in OOP before structured programing, or Perl, which offers both kinds of environments.
Installing or running an application should never be more difficult than writing one.
How would you feel if after spending a few hours downloading pr0n and mp3's from Usenet, you started getting adds for 'Hot Teen Slut Warehouse' and 'Columbia Record Club'?
Targeted advertising is cool so long as the companies doing so are targeting people they beleive are likely to watch their show, rather than targeting me based directly on what I watch.
I suspect that the most important aspect of this decision will not be in home searches, but in the precidents it sets for future cases about illegal search and seizure of data. Hands off my PC, peachfuzz...
Now, that being said, it's surprisingly easy for cops to get a warrant for anything they want to do, at least in Texas. This will only protect people from 'sweeps'. If the cops decided you're growing pot in the back room, they'll get the warrant with little or no effort, even if you're growing normal, non-skunky veggies, or have a tanning bed.
Even though I am a techie who suffers from CTS, I can confirm that meat packers in particular are subject to RSI. Living in Northwest Texas, I reside within commuting distance of one of the largest beef-packing factories in the nation and know many people who work there. Any one 'on the cutting line' who does not eventually complain about arm, wrist, and hand pains from repetive use of electric knives and saws is an oddity.
Of course, with that many elective knives and saws, quite a few of these people also complain of missing appendages and nightmares about body parts in the ground beef...
that being said, not all people believe in free speech. those who don't probably shouldn't join...
George Bush is on record as saying 'There should be limits to freedom'.
The case in Michigan is the purest example of this, and the reason why it's important to fight for the rights of individual speech, even if those rights are held by someone who is a raving nutbar.
The Michigan COPA pretty firmly tried to put the kibosh on the internet sex thing. A national version, such as what John Ashcroft, that judgemental prick, is harping about would face the same fight. "Put internet sex-peddlers in prison, for the sake of the children".
Okay, so they outlaw internet porn or make it so difficult to get to that it might as well have been outlawed. What's next? Outlawing internet literature? How about all that nasty 'slash' fanfiction out there. That's pornographic, right? How about the vast amount of R and X rated Anime fanfiction? (Guilty!: http://www.furinkan.net/fanfic) We can use the first law as a precident to set the second to outlaw explicit text on the internet. Then, how about any kind of webpage that could even vaguely be construed as 'obscene'? That's a pretty broad category, which just about anyone could put any thought, image, or speech they didn't like into. It's also one we're allowing our congress to try to outlaw over and over again.
Personally, I'd rather deal with racism, sexism, and/or religious intolerance than lose my freedom of speech to speak out against them.
Not necessarily. You just need intelligent omni-directional receivers.
For example, I have a network of 5 lights, each with a flourescent tube and 360degree receiver. Each tube broadcasts a packet on a tokenring like schedule. One part of the packet is instructions for passing the token, the next part of the packet is data. Wash, rinse, repeat, around the ring.
While the article talked about broadcast applications, this style of communication would be ideal for small general purpose lans.
My company just bought 60 high dollar cubicles for a new customer support office we just built. Each and every one of those cubes has built in data/phone/electric, which kinda negates the idea I'm about to espouse, but each and every one of them also has a 3' flourescent lamp and accompanying ballast.
I've 'retrofitted' my signifcantly older cube with a $10 flourescent tube. I'm certain it wouldn't be that difficult to replace the ballast with one of those mentioned in the article.
I can pay however much ($5.00 US wasn't it? I don't think the article said) to Napster for the privalege of using their once free service, which does nothing more than let me trade MP3's with other users who are doing the same.
I currently have a $19.95/month service through Newsfeeds (http://www.newsfeeds.com) that gives me high speed (50-80 k/s) access to about a dozen different NNTP servers, each of which is dedicated to a different topic or service, such as MP3's, Multimedia (All the fansubbed anime you can stomach!), Discussion w/Spamfilter, Anonymous postting, etc...
Being that MP3's on Usenet are typically ripped and encoded by people who know what they're doing, and the feed from Newsfeeds is usually pretty complete and error free, *and* I get to download several hundred megabytes of anime, movies, and the discussion groups I visit every day, I think I'm getting a better deal.
If they are 'for free use', why are they so concerned about competition, then? If they didn't intend to sell this product, even at some time in the future, why did they bother patenting the methods it uses?
Slashdot Mirror
I dunno. Looks like some competition is shaping up. It's a shame that the point of the competition looks to be the determination of the greatest evil...
The link seemed to stop working shortly after I typed it in... Filtering of some kind? I doubt it, but if you do the search, you can still see the image this points to only five down in the list.
Type in Anna Kournikova....
Get This
Security through obscurity is no security.
No matter how FUBAR'd your router/switch/firewall configuration is, it's still no serious obstacle to crackers, Robin.
What's not to like?
So you don't mind completely sacrifcing your privacy and/or rights to anything you post to a Yahoo mailing list?
From the Yahoo Groups Terms of Service:
Yahoo does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Service. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant Yahoo the following world-wide, royalty free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:
With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of Yahoo! Clubs and Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purposes of providing and promoting the specific Yahoo! Club or Yahoo! Group to which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo removes such Content from the Service.
With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible area of the Service other than Yahoo! Clubs or Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo removes such Content from the Service.
With respect to Content other than photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service other than Yahoo! Clubs or Yahoo! Groups, the perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
In plain talk, Yahoo claims not to own anything you put up on a Geocities webpage, or post to a Yahoo-owned ML, *but* they retain the right to use anything and everything you post in any and every way they see fit.
Post your original novel to a Yahoo E-group? You just gave all rights to your novel to Yahoo. Period.
Yahoo! was a bright light in all the dim confusion of the internet, circa 1994. They helped coin the term 'Search Engine', and created a wonderful place where you could find just about any site you wanted, any time you wanted. What advertisting there was was never intrusive. What you wanted to find you could, at least before the massive growth of the internet over the last decade. To many, Yahoo was as much a 'home' on the internet as there was.
Now...
Yahoo is a corporate behemoth, almost, but not quite as reviled as Microsoft. They are quick to settle upon 'Intellectual Property' and fire off lawsuits as if they were free. Remember Geocities? Yahoo Geocities. Remember E-Groups? Yahoo Groups. A quick and nimble company created by two guys out of their dorm room is now one of the most feared corporate instituations on the planet.
Okay, Google, what did Yahoo do wrong here?
- Aiming proxies
- Campers
- Lusers who complain about packet latency
- Hundreds, if not thousands of lame imitations
- Massive hardware requirements for *every* game, regardless of genre
- Game developers who are more concerned with game-engine mechanics than gameplay
- dozens of lame gaming comics
- CTF jokes
- Daikatana
Need I go on?"What was that?"
"Ah, just another script kiddie trying to DOS the database."
"I don't understand. He just upped and exploded."
"Yeah, his quantum computer heated up to the temperature of a supernova and then collapsed in on itself like a black hole. Happens all the time."
"Really?"
"You should see it when they try to encode movies with DivX!"
Could anyone recommend some Anime Titles? I was thinking of renting the Gundam titles and Cowboy Bebop, but outside of those none of the titles at my local store caught my eye.
You do have a *very* narrow cross-section for comparison. I consider myself a (pathetic) otaku and the only title I *don't* agree with you here on is Princess Mononoke.
While it doesn't shoot any fireworks off for me, you *should* try Cowboy Bebop. It's a pretty well done series. If you like it, you might consider Trigun, which is similiar in tone, if more comedic.
Also try :
If you were to try to use the same cell size in a place like Texas, you'd be putting up more cell towers than there are people.
Good god almighty, y'all better beleive we got cell towers all over the friggin' place. Worse, because it's so flat in the Texas Panhandle, you can't go from one place to the other without actually being in visual range of a cell tower.
"911, what's your emergency?"
"Please, you have to help us. My husband was just driving the car, when he passed out. I got the car stopped, but he's not breathing!"
"Ma'am, can you perform CPR on your husband?"
"I think so..."
"Okay, my computer can't tell where your cellphone is located, so I need you to tell me where you are so I can dispatch an ambulance."
"I'm on InterstaHAHAHA. Y04 F0n 4@s b33n H4XX0red! I AM L33t!!!"
Well, I'm certainly not a momma's boy...
My mother, who had a CIS degree, felt she was going nowhere and missing out on promotion in her government job because she 'wasn't qualified' to manage other individuals or the business aspects of her field of expertise.
Since she got her MBA, she has lost or quit most of her tech duties and now manages projects, works on software budgets, etc...
I listen to Java zealots defend their chosen language day in and day out as the best possible lanuguage for any possible application. They tout its speed, portability, and power.
What they fail to recognize is that Java application environments are horrible. For example: I hate trying to set up any of the Freenet software, just because of the pain in the ass involved in making sure I have the fastest/best/non-proprietary Java VM installed. There are many more examples of people developing software that relies of Java.
If you have any sense at all, DO NOT TEACH Java as an application language, just because that means the rest of us will have to use crappy JVM-dependant apps once your students find their way into the real world. Use C, C++ if you prefer to get your students wet in OOP before structured programing, or Perl, which offers both kinds of environments.
Installing or running an application should never be more difficult than writing one.
How would you feel if after spending a few hours downloading pr0n and mp3's from Usenet, you started getting adds for 'Hot Teen Slut Warehouse' and 'Columbia Record Club'?
Targeted advertising is cool so long as the companies doing so are targeting people they beleive are likely to watch their show, rather than targeting me based directly on what I watch.
I suspect that the most important aspect of this decision will not be in home searches, but in the precidents it sets for future cases about illegal search and seizure of data. Hands off my PC, peachfuzz...
Now, that being said, it's surprisingly easy for cops to get a warrant for anything they want to do, at least in Texas. This will only protect people from 'sweeps'. If the cops decided you're growing pot in the back room, they'll get the warrant with little or no effort, even if you're growing normal, non-skunky veggies, or have a tanning bed.
Even though I am a techie who suffers from CTS, I can confirm that meat packers in particular are subject to RSI. Living in Northwest Texas, I reside within commuting distance of one of the largest beef-packing factories in the nation and know many people who work there. Any one 'on the cutting line' who does not eventually complain about arm, wrist, and hand pains from repetive use of electric knives and saws is an oddity.
Of course, with that many elective knives and saws, quite a few of these people also complain of missing appendages and nightmares about body parts in the ground beef...
that being said, not all people believe in free speech. those who don't probably shouldn't join...
George Bush is on record as saying 'There should be limits to freedom'.
The case in Michigan is the purest example of this, and the reason why it's important to fight for the rights of individual speech, even if those rights are held by someone who is a raving nutbar.
The Michigan COPA pretty firmly tried to put the kibosh on the internet sex thing. A national version, such as what John Ashcroft, that judgemental prick, is harping about would face the same fight. "Put internet sex-peddlers in prison, for the sake of the children".
Okay, so they outlaw internet porn or make it so difficult to get to that it might as well have been outlawed. What's next? Outlawing internet literature? How about all that nasty 'slash' fanfiction out there. That's pornographic, right? How about the vast amount of R and X rated Anime fanfiction? (Guilty!: http://www.furinkan.net/fanfic) We can use the first law as a precident to set the second to outlaw explicit text on the internet. Then, how about any kind of webpage that could even vaguely be construed as 'obscene'? That's a pretty broad category, which just about anyone could put any thought, image, or speech they didn't like into. It's also one we're allowing our congress to try to outlaw over and over again.
Personally, I'd rather deal with racism, sexism, and/or religious intolerance than lose my freedom of speech to speak out against them.
Join the ACLU: https://secure20.client-mail.com/aclulink/forms/jo in.shtml
Lawyers may grow on trees, but it costs at least $100 a day to go to the orchard.
Uhhh... That's nothing like the 68k emluation layer that Apple bungled so badly in MacOS 7.x is it?
Not necessarily. You just need intelligent omni-directional receivers.
For example, I have a network of 5 lights, each with a flourescent tube and 360degree receiver. Each tube broadcasts a packet on a tokenring like schedule. One part of the packet is instructions for passing the token, the next part of the packet is data. Wash, rinse, repeat, around the ring.
While the article talked about broadcast applications, this style of communication would be ideal for small general purpose lans.
My company just bought 60 high dollar cubicles for a new customer support office we just built. Each and every one of those cubes has built in data/phone/electric, which kinda negates the idea I'm about to espouse, but each and every one of them also has a 3' flourescent lamp and accompanying ballast.
I've 'retrofitted' my signifcantly older cube with a $10 flourescent tube. I'm certain it wouldn't be that difficult to replace the ballast with one of those mentioned in the article.
Can anyone say 'Lan Party'?
I can pay however much ($5.00 US wasn't it? I don't think the article said) to Napster for the privalege of using their once free service, which does nothing more than let me trade MP3's with other users who are doing the same.
I currently have a $19.95/month service through Newsfeeds (http://www.newsfeeds.com) that gives me high speed (50-80 k/s) access to about a dozen different NNTP servers, each of which is dedicated to a different topic or service, such as MP3's, Multimedia (All the fansubbed anime you can stomach!), Discussion w/Spamfilter, Anonymous postting, etc...
Being that MP3's on Usenet are typically ripped and encoded by people who know what they're doing, and the feed from Newsfeeds is usually pretty complete and error free, *and* I get to download several hundred megabytes of anime, movies, and the discussion groups I visit every day, I think I'm getting a better deal.
Feel free to disagree, however...
If they are 'for free use', why are they so concerned about competition, then? If they didn't intend to sell this product, even at some time in the future, why did they bother patenting the methods it uses?
Call IPIX or drop them an email and ask them why they are picking on OSS developers:
Stu Roberson
iPIX
3160 Crow Canyon Road, 4th floor
San Ramon, CA 94583
ph: (925) 242.4050
Email: stu.roberson@ipix.com
Missy Acosta
Ackermann Public Relations
1111 Northshore Drive, Suite N-400
Knoxville, TN 37917-4046
Phone: (865) 584.0550
Fax:(865) 588.3009
Email: macosta@ackermannpr.com
Cathy Hay
Morgen-Walke
380 Lexington Ave
New York, NY
Phone: (212) 850-5679
Email: chay@morgenwalke.com