How do you explain to a small child not to stare into a laser beam? The little guy in one of the last pictures obviously couldn't read or understand that safety label.
I wonder how long it will be until Mr. Haraguchi breaks a trillion
He won't live long enough
Presuming you started counting the instant you were born, and that you lived for 80 years, and that you could recite 10 digits per second, you'd still only get to 25 billion digits or so before you died.
Sour grapes is when you don't actually acomplish what you set out to do.
Don't confuse a single sucess with continous sucess. For all you know Mr. Cuban was trying to build his own video distribution phenomenon, perhaps one *AA friendly, and failed mersably. Whooped up-on by a bunch of half-ass, punk-kid, pirates called YouTube.
I run a business where I pay for my bandwidth as well as the salaries of the people who manage it. 40% of email is spam and it costs me $250k a year to manage it.
While there may not be any physical harm arising from this action there is most certainly economic harm. So what is it then, stealing or trespassing? I say both.
according to the US Supreme Court, piracy is NOT theft.
They clearly distinguished between copyright infringement and theft in a 1985 case, where they said, "(copyright infringement) does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud... The infringer invades a statutorily defined province guaranteed to the copyright holder alone. But he does not assume physical control over copyright; nor does he wholly deprive its owner of its use."
I think any lawyer worth his salt would realize that the entire patent was bullshit and accordingly built in one or more In the event of patent invalidation, dispute etc, all fees are still be long to us into the Licenses.
First of all, how many bad debts can these peers handle? Large corporations have enough cash to handle bad or delayed debts.
From the ArticleThe charge-off rate--the percentage of loans written off as uncollectible--for consumer loans, including credit cards, hovered between 2.3% and 3.2% in 2005, according to the Federal Reserve. Though Zopa assumes a bad debt rate of 3.4% for its higher risk borrowers and a 1.3% rate on average, its actual bad debt rate to date is 0.05%.
Unlike other successful P2P services, this model is entering a market where existing businesses are making a living out of it.
It really is tiresome to see people constantly ask "what's the special sauce" when in many instances it is clearly "nothing".
Sometimes good people use good methods to build well conceived applications that work precisely as their audience expects they should. Because these well-formed applications do not fail randomly, scale well and are easily supported marketing and business types presume that there absolutely must be something patentable in the mix.
One of the reasons I loath the term "Web 2.0" is because people presume there is some new wave of innovation occuring in application development when every Slashdot reader know's this isn't true.
Technologies mature, standards mature and hopefully people mature. The result is better software, not an abundance of new and novel special sauces.
Slashdot Mirror
What kind of junior-league ignorance is this, do you not read the news? Just because it's written down somewhere doesn't mean shit.
How do you explain to a small child not to stare into a laser beam? The little guy in one of the last pictures obviously couldn't read or understand that safety label.
I wonder how long it will be until Mr. Haraguchi breaks a trillion
He won't live long enough
Presuming you started counting the instant you were born, and that you lived for 80 years, and that you could recite 10 digits per second, you'd still only get to 25 billion digits or so before you died.
86400 sec/day * 365.25 day/year * 80 yrs/life * 10 digits/sec = 25B digits/life
1. Fast
2. Cheap
3. Good.
Pick two.
lol
Sour grapes is when you don't actually acomplish what you set out to do.
Don't confuse a single sucess with continous sucess. For all you know Mr. Cuban was trying to build his own video distribution phenomenon, perhaps one *AA friendly, and failed mersably. Whooped up-on by a bunch of half-ass, punk-kid, pirates called YouTube.
I use to sound like that in high school when somebody totally whooped my ass in a competition I felt was important.
Take down all the copyrighted stuff, hire a bunch of lawyers, relax. Sounds easy enough to me. Perhaps I am a moron.
that can get mired down any number of ways.
Interest rates are the key to advertising speding in both sectors.
... and check out Bill's comment on patents and copyright.
... has better sources, a more appealing layout and no advertising.
Thanks for comin' out.
7. ... No porn, ... 'Nuff said.
Yup, no porn over here, none under here, I can't find any porn over here either.
and there is no way they can harm you
I run a business where I pay for my bandwidth as well as the salaries of the people who manage it. 40% of email is spam and it costs me $250k a year to manage it.
While there may not be any physical harm arising from this action there is most certainly economic harm. So what is it then, stealing or trespassing? I say both.
Seriously, I'm curious to know.
I hope more people hear you.
Is the Prohibition of the 21st Century.
Audiograbber is great too.
according to the US Supreme Court, piracy is NOT theft.
They clearly distinguished between copyright infringement and theft in a 1985 case, where they said, "(copyright infringement) does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud... The infringer invades a statutorily defined province guaranteed to the copyright holder alone. But he does not assume physical control over copyright; nor does he wholly deprive its owner of its use."
Mod parent up, this is meat of the matter and the only truth to consider.
Why not write a decent article with those details in it in the first place? I'm on a news hunt, not a research project.
Surely the contractor was incompetent enough to use standard frequencies and plain-text protocols easily reverse engineered by the Slashdot crew.
We should start a contest to see how many of these things one person can collect by hijacking the command/control signals.
One of these things will turn up [lost|missing|stolen] one day. The next day, the concept discussed in Snow Crash will start to become a reality.
Please, please, please LAPD launch a few more planes, the contention for really-real LA porn is just too much for all the planes you lost already
I think any lawyer worth his salt would realize that the entire patent was bullshit and accordingly built in one or more In the event of patent invalidation, dispute etc, all fees are still be long to us into the Licenses.
First of all, how many bad debts can these peers handle? Large corporations have enough cash to handle bad or delayed debts.
From the Article The charge-off rate--the percentage of loans written off as uncollectible--for consumer loans, including credit cards, hovered between 2.3% and 3.2% in 2005, according to the Federal Reserve. Though Zopa assumes a bad debt rate of 3.4% for its higher risk borrowers and a 1.3% rate on average, its actual bad debt rate to date is 0.05%.
Unlike other successful P2P services, this model is entering a market where existing businesses are making a living out of it.
Exactly
It really is tiresome to see people constantly ask "what's the special sauce" when in many instances it is clearly "nothing".
Sometimes good people use good methods to build well conceived applications that work precisely as their audience expects they should. Because these well-formed applications do not fail randomly, scale well and are easily supported marketing and business types presume that there absolutely must be something patentable in the mix.
One of the reasons I loath the term "Web 2.0" is because people presume there is some new wave of innovation occuring in application development when every Slashdot reader know's this isn't true.
Technologies mature, standards mature and hopefully people mature. The result is better software, not an abundance of new and novel special sauces.
Could the power company start to brown-out network providers they compete with for broadband customers?