Dont moderate me offtopic, you FUCKING ASSHOLES! That was clearly meant to be FLAMEBAIT! Stupid fucking CRACK-SMOKING MODERATORS!!! Ill fucking kill you all!!
Patents, unlike trademarks, remain enforceable until they expire. They can wait as long as they want to pursue the case. (Trademarks, on the otherhand, are different. If a company allows a trademark to go unprotected, they lose the trademark. This has happened, for example, to Kleenex, and nearly to things like Xerox and Spam.) Theyre going after Prodigy now, I would guess, since Prodigy is one of the first companies to use hyperlinking? They are only doing it now because they claim to have recently discovered this patent in their portfolio (right).
Their patent probably is invalid anyway, since hyperlinking was invented even before they patented it, so its all moot.
And if this is tied into some kind of automatic payment system, you get charged 10,000 times whatever the computer rang each one of those IDs up as. (Oops, tag 0x00A0128E90CF3300FE45A200 looked like a 30" TV tag 0xFFF5648E90CF33CB0A12FF45 was a new laptop)
The EM pulse does not have to be that large. Some of those anti-theft tags are already RF devices, and they get deactivated when they go over the scanner at the checkout by getting blasted by a relatively-weak EM pulse.
Minor technicalities. Rename your license a Software Vendor License Agreement or something. And include it in the HTTP request when you download their software. About as much chance of someone at the download site seeing that as an end-user having read the complete EULA during an install, right? Click, click, click.:)
Linux is a copy of a proprietary OS, Unix, which was invented by a monopolistic company, AT&T. Miguel pointed this out in the email, if you actually read it. Most free software has been free re-implementations of closed software or technologies.
And exact phrases by "quoting it." However, it seems once the search runs out of exact phrases it falls back to a simple AND match just so it can provide you with something.
Heh, this network is pretty open after all, now isnt it? Just connect to someones address on port 1214 and you get a nice HTML table of all their shared* files. Proceed to download.
* Yes, its just their SHARED FILES. As about 50,214,678.5 people have already said. All this thing is doing is dumping an index of their SHARED FILES over an HTTP connection on port 1214.
So, now if they go out of business, their software eventually becomes unusable because there will be no central server to get updated codes if users ever lose theirs.
Why waste my time on something I only see for 15 seconds every six months? I used to make startup screens for my Macintosh, but then again my best uptime there was 6 days
Since when does the DMCA force people to use this software? It only forces people to not reverse-engineer the software they are using.
What would be more realistic (but still rather bizarre) would be receiving a piece of mail that has JavaScript or some other executable in it, that, when opened, downloads images or cookies or other web bugs, and claims that trying to stop it or intercept the connections is a violation of the DMCA.
Hello! I send you this file in order to have your advice!
By opening this message, you have agreed to allow SIRCAM~1.EXE to install itself on your computer and periodically send copies of files in your Documents Folder to selected users from your address book. Any attempt to intercept, block or otherwise try to circumvent this behavior is a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA").
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Dont moderate me offtopic, you FUCKING ASSHOLES! That was clearly meant to be FLAMEBAIT! Stupid fucking CRACK-SMOKING MODERATORS!!! Ill fucking kill you all!!
Hey, you FUCKING ASSHOLES! Moderate me HARDER, dammit! Do it! Do it! ...Feh. Bunch of FUCKING IDIOTS.
FUCK YOU. Yeah, that's right. You heard me. FUCK YOU! Twice, even. Idiots.
In 1966 these 8,000+ electronic signatures would have filled up a warehouse of magnetic drums. I think that would have sufficient effect. :)
It is now safe to turn off the Internet
What, you mean like Lawrence Lessig? Or the EFF?
This is Slashdot, dont try to think like that. Just sit back and enjoy the ride
Patents, unlike trademarks, remain enforceable until they expire. They can wait as long as they want to pursue the case. (Trademarks, on the otherhand, are different. If a company allows a trademark to go unprotected, they lose the trademark. This has happened, for example, to Kleenex, and nearly to things like Xerox and Spam.) Theyre going after Prodigy now, I would guess, since Prodigy is one of the first companies to use hyperlinking? They are only doing it now because they claim to have recently discovered this patent in their portfolio (right).
Their patent probably is invalid anyway, since hyperlinking was invented even before they patented it, so its all moot.
Not only is it spaghetti code, now its entangled. Nice!
And if this is tied into some kind of automatic payment system, you get charged 10,000 times whatever the computer rang each one of those IDs up as. (Oops, tag 0x00A0128E90CF3300FE45A200 looked like a 30" TV tag 0xFFF5648E90CF33CB0A12FF45 was a new laptop)
The EM pulse does not have to be that large. Some of those anti-theft tags are already RF devices, and they get deactivated when they go over the scanner at the checkout by getting blasted by a relatively-weak EM pulse.
Minor technicalities. Rename your license a Software Vendor License Agreement or something. And include it in the HTTP request when you download their software. About as much chance of someone at the download site seeing that as an end-user having read the complete EULA during an install, right? Click, click, click. :)
Linux is a copy of a proprietary OS, Unix, which was invented by a monopolistic company, AT&T. Miguel pointed this out in the email, if you actually read it. Most free software has been free re-implementations of closed software or technologies.
Linus should read Slashdot.
And exact phrases by "quoting it." However, it seems once the search runs out of exact phrases it falls back to a simple AND match just so it can provide you with something.
Heh, this network is pretty open after all, now isnt it? Just connect to someones address on port 1214 and you get a nice HTML table of all their shared* files. Proceed to download.
* Yes, its just their SHARED FILES. As about 50,214,678.5 people have already said. All this thing is doing is dumping an index of their SHARED FILES over an HTTP connection on port 1214.
So, now if they go out of business, their software eventually becomes unusable because there will be no central server to get updated codes if users ever lose theirs.
Last time the paper was 8MB, now its 15MB. Next time it should be at least 30MB. NASA putting their funds to good work, I see.
Youre assuming most of those viewers are intelligent enough to know theyre being insulted.
Why waste my time on something I only see for 15 seconds every six months? I used to make startup screens for my Macintosh, but then again my best uptime there was 6 days
FreeBDSM?
Ah, you said client, not server. This would be a much more serious problem.
What would be more realistic (but still rather bizarre) would be receiving a piece of mail that has JavaScript or some other executable in it, that, when opened, downloads images or cookies or other web bugs, and claims that trying to stop it or intercept the connections is a violation of the DMCA.
Only way to get his message out? Hasnt this guy heard of spamming? ;)
Why bother? These two kind websites made him some nice offsite backups for him. :)
Hopefully these docs are floating about FreeNet/GNUtella/$LATEST_P2P_CRAZE also.