Can Slashdot concede that Microsoft-funded studies will come out in favor of Windows being better, and that some non-Microsoft-funded studied will come out in favor of Linux, and stop wasting our time with this banter?
It's not what the customer pays the RIAA, it's what Yahoo pays the RIAA, really.
For example, suppose for a minute (I'm pulling these numbers out of thin air) that Yahoo pays the RIAA $1 per song, having decided that they average about 4.5 downloads per month per customer. If you downloaded 100 songs, it still costs you $5, but the RIAA would make $100. Thus the RIAA could claim $100.
You could make a case for the damages being whatever Yahoo pays the RIAA, but I think it's up to a jury / the judge to decide if that'd work or not.
I can't speak for other places, but in New Hampshire, license 'numbers' follow a predicatable form -- if I know your first name, the first letter of your first name, and your DOB, I can tell you your license number. (In 99.9% of cases; the last digit gets incremented if it's a duplicate.)
I can't honestly say I check it frequently, but looking at the license number provides a good quick check that the card isn't a blatant fake ID.
If part of your license is covered over, I'd be really suspicious of what you were up to.
I'm not sure if it's out of annoyance, or if it's just him answering very concisely.
In an age where politicans answer questions with irrelevant blather, I'm starting to appreciate getting a one-sentence answer as opposed to an eloquent speech of no real substance.
Why does everyone copy-and-paste whole articles? You're not passing it off as your own -- you linked to it and said who it was by -- but it still seems a bit like plagarism. Why not just give a link, and maybe a summary?
I don't have a VoIP line yet, but my understanding is that most VoIP providers give you their 'box' (called an ATA), that you plug your phone line and Ethernet into. Most, however, sit between your LAN and your cable modem, I guess, and prioritize your VoIP traffic. Or so I understand.
I've thought for a while of pulling in a Vonage line, but keeping my home POTS line too.
What I'm interested in doing with Asterisk isn't necessarily having 2852085092209384 phone lines coming into my house, but doing extension-to-extension calling at home. It's a pain to have to walk downstairs to talk to someone.
"Search results are only retained for a limited amount of time.Your search results have either been deleted, or the file has been updated with new information."
It's easy to find it again, but why are they doing it this way? Why can't we just have thomas.loc.gov/search.php?query=real%20id or whatnot, so that it'd always work? Or better yet, the ability to link to the text of a bill.
I don't expect to see a decision in this case until Social Security runs out of funds.
C'mon, SCO can't go through so much stuff that fast!
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But his point is... Couldn't I post something saying "I give you my permission to hack slashdot.org"? You have no way of knowing that I'm authorized to give you that permission. (In fact, it's pretty clear I don't.)
Taking it one step further... I could give you permission to hack my website, but I'm on a shared server, so my hosting company would not be pleased with either of us.
We can assume that it's okay. But assuming it's okay to do something normally illegal is a pretty bad idea.
I was trying this out a bit, and have to admit that it's cool that something like this exists at all.
However, I think it would be better if it were able to realize what the 'background' was and filter it out. (Though I couldn't begin to guess how you'd do this.)
For example, I searched for this image. Many of the results are of something completely different, such as a white jet. Which is nothing like a camo helicopter. But the sky and the ground are pretty similar, and I think that's how it's matching.
It's incredible that we got this far, but I think there's still a long ways to go before it's at the stage where you put in an image, and are awed at how quickly it works.
Also note that I'd tend to think this would exponentially more difficult than searching HTML files, so it might be much more expensive to implement large-scale.
Cable TV is 'analog' -- there's basically 100 different 'radio' signals travelling on the wire, just as there are through the air. Ethernet, OTOH, is digital -- there's voltage or there isn't. I believe the Internet portion is modulated as RF, but I wouldn't swear to it.
I'm no expert either, so if someone comes along and offers a different explanation, they're probably right.
I don't have any idea where I'm remembering this from, but I seem to recall that, in international waters, you're bound by the laws of whatever country you're from, or whatever country the vessel is registered in, or whatnot.
I'm not sure getting 3 miles away from the coast puts you into a magical, law-free, no man's land.
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I thought the petrol-filled flourescent lights blew up during the duel.
Can Slashdot concede that Microsoft-funded studies will come out in favor of Windows being better, and that some non-Microsoft-funded studied will come out in favor of Linux, and stop wasting our time with this banter?
But maybe Mozilla.org should know a thing or two about web browsers?
It's not what the customer pays the RIAA, it's what Yahoo pays the RIAA, really.
For example, suppose for a minute (I'm pulling these numbers out of thin air) that Yahoo pays the RIAA $1 per song, having decided that they average about 4.5 downloads per month per customer. If you downloaded 100 songs, it still costs you $5, but the RIAA would make $100. Thus the RIAA could claim $100.
You could make a case for the damages being whatever Yahoo pays the RIAA, but I think it's up to a jury / the judge to decide if that'd work or not.
You must be new here. Most Slashdot stories have already been posted.
I can't speak for other places, but in New Hampshire, license 'numbers' follow a predicatable form -- if I know your first name, the first letter of your first name, and your DOB, I can tell you your license number. (In 99.9% of cases; the last digit gets incremented if it's a duplicate.)
I can't honestly say I check it frequently, but looking at the license number provides a good quick check that the card isn't a blatant fake ID.
If part of your license is covered over, I'd be really suspicious of what you were up to.
I don't know about in New York, but it's been speculated that Reilly's going to run for governor of Massachusetts in the next election.
Something like this might look really good in a campaign.
The real question is... Why has your administrator disabled firefox?
I'm not sure if it's out of annoyance, or if it's just him answering very concisely.
In an age where politicans answer questions with irrelevant blather, I'm starting to appreciate getting a one-sentence answer as opposed to an eloquent speech of no real substance.
If you need three column inches of obituary, you can bash that out in two phone calls and five minutes of writing
It took me a minute to figure out why you needed two calls for an obituary, but I think I got it:
1.) Hitman
2.) Someone to "find" the body
Why does everyone copy-and-paste whole articles? You're not passing it off as your own -- you linked to it and said who it was by -- but it still seems a bit like plagarism. Why not just give a link, and maybe a summary?
I don't have a VoIP line yet, but my understanding is that most VoIP providers give you their 'box' (called an ATA), that you plug your phone line and Ethernet into. Most, however, sit between your LAN and your cable modem, I guess, and prioritize your VoIP traffic. Or so I understand.
I've thought for a while of pulling in a Vonage line, but keeping my home POTS line too.
What I'm interested in doing with Asterisk isn't necessarily having 2852085092209384 phone lines coming into my house, but doing extension-to-extension calling at home. It's a pain to have to walk downstairs to talk to someone.
I've seen a lot of heated controversy over this. What I'm curious about is:
* How will giving us a new ID with the same information as my drivers' license help anything?
* Why is this a bad thing?
I'm sure there are good reasons for both, I just haven't seen anything but blind faith that it's somehow better, or wild, unfounded paranoia.
You'd think, though, that someone in Congress would be asking these questions?
"Search results are only retained for a limited amount of time.Your search results have either been deleted, or the file has been updated with new information."
It's easy to find it again, but why are they doing it this way? Why can't we just have thomas.loc.gov/search.php?query=real%20id or whatnot, so that it'd always work? Or better yet, the ability to link to the text of a bill.
Because AOL's CDs are intended to get you to switch over to their service. They make money if you use AOL.
Microsoft wouldn't gain a thing -- sure, it'd be the right thing to do. But this won't bring in (many) new customers.
The first match is "Rumor has it that gossip is a problem"
Maybe that was a pun, but anyone else find it incredibly ironic?
There's an extension already (RiteOfTongue) that does spell-checking in forms in Firefox. I don't have it installed myself, but it's out ther.e
I don't see the problem with the Firefox icon, BTW.
I don't expect to see a decision in this case until Social Security runs out of funds.
C'mon, SCO can't go through so much stuff that fast!
But his point is... Couldn't I post something saying "I give you my permission to hack slashdot.org"? You have no way of knowing that I'm authorized to give you that permission. (In fact, it's pretty clear I don't.)
Taking it one step further... I could give you permission to hack my website, but I'm on a shared server, so my hosting company would not be pleased with either of us.
We can assume that it's okay. But assuming it's okay to do something normally illegal is a pretty bad idea.
I was trying this out a bit, and have to admit that it's cool that something like this exists at all.
However, I think it would be better if it were able to realize what the 'background' was and filter it out. (Though I couldn't begin to guess how you'd do this.)
For example, I searched for this image. Many of the results are of something completely different, such as a white jet. Which is nothing like a camo helicopter. But the sky and the ground are pretty similar, and I think that's how it's matching.
It's incredible that we got this far, but I think there's still a long ways to go before it's at the stage where you put in an image, and are awed at how quickly it works.
Also note that I'd tend to think this would exponentially more difficult than searching HTML files, so it might be much more expensive to implement large-scale.
Cable TV is 'analog' -- there's basically 100 different 'radio' signals travelling on the wire, just as there are through the air. Ethernet, OTOH, is digital -- there's voltage or there isn't. I believe the Internet portion is modulated as RF, but I wouldn't swear to it.
I'm no expert either, so if someone comes along and offers a different explanation, they're probably right.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought 'Car95' or 'CarNT'.
I never realized how dated this joke was; it sounds like Win95 was new when this came out! (And on that note, Win95 was a multi-user OS?)
But 3 miles is way more than 200 nanometers.
I don't have any idea where I'm remembering this from, but I seem to recall that, in international waters, you're bound by the laws of whatever country you're from, or whatever country the vessel is registered in, or whatnot.
I'm not sure getting 3 miles away from the coast puts you into a magical, law-free, no man's land.