Besides, if you start taking the religion of a race of robots as oppression... I really don't know what to tell you. I don't think the religion's the problem at that point. heh.
For a while, one of Monsanto's locations was really close to where I live.... I'd hate to see what happens if one of their "special" seeds were to have wafted down the road...
One would think, that with the immense brainpower of the slashdot community, and the people themselves, they could come up with a more interesting, and perhaps amusing 503 page.
Where US corporations change CIVIL cases into CRIMINAL cases. What the FUCK is wrong with building a tool to decrypt something?! Now I guess they'll have to take the decoder rings out of cereal boxes now, huh. Or like, stop hammer makers from making hammers, 'cause like, they could be used to pound someone's head in.
*smirk* I hate the DOJ. I can't wait until we (the generation/group of people that has two braincells to rub together) get into seniority. I'm sure that once people get the message that this is fucking STUPID (and people with a bit more integrity [if that ever happens]), these kinds of actions and these kinds of laws will be outlawed.
Or maybe I'm just being idealistic. I just can't apathy get the best of me, 'cause I know if it's just that easy for Skylarov to say something and go to jail, then I might be next for something stupid. Oh well.:-/
The fact is, is that I believe the corporations assess the possibility for theoretical damages (Decreased revenue for an archaic archival system is hardly damages in my mind) before the threat of theoretical damages even comes. Then they get all pissy and sue someone. And of course, they lead out the propaganda "Don't Steal Books!" and we end up stealing more of them.
Anyways, yeah. Wasn't this ebook software the Skylarov made only able to be used on ebooks that one already owned to port it to a different format? (such as a palm ebook or others?) That's my understanding. And if it's true, what are the damages then?!?! That's fair use! WTF!
Okay. I'm preaching to the choir here. Nevermind.
Oh, and if Adobe sues over peanuts like ebooks, then they need to get to the people that pirate things like Photoshop and Illustrator and Pagemaker and Premiere (which are a helluvalot more likely to be pirated than stupid ebooks, c'mon!):D
It was created by someone and it allowed you to watch the progress of a little robot-thingy, and it would create different versions of itself and continue allowing itself to be able to walk, move, sense stuff, you know... Anybody know where that was?
Knowing that BSD and other *nix systems usually don't like hard power-downs (this may have changed since the last time I used linux), would they really be the best things to be using in embedded devices? I mean, I know windows is the end-all be-all of EVIL(TM) operating systems, but hard-crashes and hard-rebooting them wouldn't damage them as badly as the horror stories I've heard about *nix systems. Just a question.
If I buy this POS, erhm, SACD player, will the discs I get for it not just have one or two decent tracks and the rest of it SHIT?!?! 'Cause that's the ONLY reason why I don't buy CDs nowadays.
All those college students won't have to spend money on the microwave. They can just get this for their Ramen consumption....::drool:: Raaaaaaamen.
Or just think, they get the technology cheap enough, and they can put it on cans and stuff and have self-cooking ramen and soups to begin with.
I can't wait.
See, now, I'd have something witty and poignant to put here, and waste somebody's time by having them read this, but of course, the site is buggy and won't let me in...
Hehe. Yeah. Even though I dual-boot with Windows98 and Mandrake 8.0, I use StarOffice instead of MS Office, because of the fact that I think it's much better to have something free than it is to pay 200 dollars for an upgrade version of a piece of software... Oh, well. And, it works the same, and you can export and import MS Office documents into it very easily. So, what's the point of using anything other than it? Oh, well... (Yeah, I forgot that StarOffice isn't exactly open-source, as much so as others, but it's a good example of non-MS software.)
But hey, I like all of the games that come with Linux and the drivers better anyway. They're less buggy because people that have the smarts can actually f_ck with the code and get it working perfectly for their needs. Of course, Microsoft has to have hundreds of minions working on one problem... And they take so long to get everything fixed because of the fact that they don't have the ability to decode their own obfuscated pieces of crap.
Long live open-source. Down with MicroSoft's monopoly on everything. I, for one, am getting sick of them trying to take over every market. I mean, I go to the bookstore, and I go over to the reference section. Guess what I find? Encarta Encyclopedias and Encarta dictionarys (both proudly brandishing the MicroSoft logo...). It's getting me physically sick, most of the time, 'cause I don't want to see them everywhere. Can't they just leave us alone? They disavow one of the main tenants of capitalism: The ability of us NOT to buy their products.
Let's ship that on a plane over China (a plane that's a clunker but we put "Secret spyplane" in Chinese on it so that they want to shoot it down), and then, they see the weird bot, they try to reverse engineer it, and we turn it on! WOO! See what happens when you mess with us Americans!
...But seriously, folks, I think we should have some semblance of order in this day and age. How come we have to deal with these sorts of things cluttering up eBay? I mean, this doesn't fall under free speech or anything. I mean, this thing could potentially (if not already) be a deadly weapon. But hey. I guess it could get those cows off of your lawn easily. Hehe.
::bounces off::...Or it may be that I'm just high on Jolt Cola.
Hehe. Aren't they open-source this time? Hehe. I don't know... If it's USB 2, then I guess it would just build on the original USB drivers, putting additional pieces of code in there to make it have faster throughput...
But hey, I don't like the idea of Intel's muscle-ing in on the high-bandwidth bandwagon, anyway. 12Mbps is good enough for a lot of things (Hey, I still have my Iomega Predator [which works on Linux] on USB...), and Firewire's just as fast, and has the ability to work with other devices without a central computer. So, what's the point? The advantages of IEEE1394 far outweigh those of Intel's new product.::shrug::
I don't know if I would want for this sort of thing to be in any surveillance-needing part of the government. I mean, NASA's okay, and so is the USFS, but... I don't know...
If you strapped an IR sensor, a night-vision sensor, and god-knows-what kinds of sensors onto the thing, you could have quite a machine. And with the fact that the government likes to have these things "just in case", I think the temptation for them to use them just for the hell of it is pretty great. I'd be afraid if these things got extremely widespread...
Or maybe I've just reread Orwell too often.::shrugs:: Snoogans.
1) No message to be delivered to an ENUM unless it's from another ENUM
If this is supposed to be a combined phonenumber/faxnumber/emailaddy, then... How could you tell if it's an ENUM if it's supposed to integrate with the other facets of communication? Couldn't someone just track down what phonenumber/faxnumber/emailaddy it's attached to and get around it by using the "old-style" technology? I wouldn't think it would be TOO hard.::Shrug::
3) Allow ENUM users to set 'privacy policies' on their ENUM, including 'no unsolicited promotional material'. Sending spam to an ENUM in defiance of applicable policies to be a criminal offense.
Yeah, that would be feasible, IF IT WORKED. See, the thing is, is that, even though there is statewide (and I heard that the US gov't is workin on legislation there too) against spamming, there isn't any way to stop it. I mean, if there was a way to deny people the right to spoof their email address, then it'd be easier to identify, track down, and prosecute people that are doing this. But, the thing is, is that you can spoof email addresses, making it hard to even find out who SENT the email in the first place.
::Shrug:: But hey, like the posting said. Didn't even CompuServe get the idea that we shouldn't use numbers? Eh. Snoogans.
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szcx: Although you meant that to be whimsical, I'm seriously wondering how you could get that to work. I've seen textmode Quake, but I've heard all that is is a skin for Quake. Is there a way to make a 3d textmode thing? Like old ASCII-type graphics, only 3d? I wonder...
...If it was, what demographic would use it? I guess two different kinds: People that would be like, "Whoa, cool!" and those of us who remember the old days of ASCII art before JPEGs and CompuServe GIFs. Heh.
That'd be fun. I'd buy that kind of product.
PS: I guess if it was in more than one color, that'd be cool too;-)
And, a lot of the tools that people use, including the VCD player (at least the ones I've seen) were built to those specs off of VB.
::shrug:: Doesn't seem too impossible to me, considering the Xbox is supposed to run off of a modified NT kernel. I've also heard that the programming package for it is a modified PC game-creating engine that MS uses.
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Ha, and of course the first few links to that google search have been taken down due to "unreliable/biased" sources. Good one!
Always the subject of debate, eh?
:(
Why not just call 'em all hackers and let things like adjectives sort 'em out.
Oh, wait! That'd get people to stop being righteously indignant, and we can't have that.
Right after the G and before the D.
I think it's the "oh."
Besides, if you start taking the religion of a race of robots as oppression... I really don't know what to tell you. I don't think the religion's the problem at that point. heh.
Perhaps. But it's a slow server, too.
For a while, one of Monsanto's locations was really close to where I live. ... I'd hate to see what happens if one of their "special" seeds were to have wafted down the road...
And not even in the legal sense, either!
Wrong; he used punctuation. :)
One would think, that with the immense brainpower of the slashdot community, and the people themselves, they could come up with a more interesting, and perhaps amusing 503 page.
Where US corporations change CIVIL cases into CRIMINAL cases. What the FUCK is wrong with building a tool to decrypt something?! Now I guess they'll have to take the decoder rings out of cereal boxes now, huh. Or like, stop hammer makers from making hammers, 'cause like, they could be used to pound someone's head in.
:-/
*smirk* I hate the DOJ. I can't wait until we (the generation/group of people that has two braincells to rub together) get into seniority. I'm sure that once people get the message that this is fucking STUPID (and people with a bit more integrity [if that ever happens]), these kinds of actions and these kinds of laws will be outlawed.
Or maybe I'm just being idealistic. I just can't apathy get the best of me, 'cause I know if it's just that easy for Skylarov to say something and go to jail, then I might be next for something stupid. Oh well.
The fact is, is that I believe the corporations assess the possibility for theoretical damages (Decreased revenue for an archaic archival system is hardly damages in my mind) before the threat of theoretical damages even comes. Then they get all pissy and sue someone. And of course, they lead out the propaganda "Don't Steal Books!" and we end up stealing more of them.
:D
Anyways, yeah. Wasn't this ebook software the Skylarov made only able to be used on ebooks that one already owned to port it to a different format? (such as a palm ebook or others?) That's my understanding. And if it's true, what are the damages then?!?! That's fair use! WTF!
Okay. I'm preaching to the choir here. Nevermind.
Oh, and if Adobe sues over peanuts like ebooks, then they need to get to the people that pirate things like Photoshop and Illustrator and Pagemaker and Premiere (which are a helluvalot more likely to be pirated than stupid ebooks, c'mon!)
It was created by someone and it allowed you to watch the progress of a little robot-thingy, and it would create different versions of itself and continue allowing itself to be able to walk, move, sense stuff, you know... Anybody know where that was?
Knowing that BSD and other *nix systems usually don't like hard power-downs (this may have changed since the last time I used linux), would they really be the best things to be using in embedded devices? I mean, I know windows is the end-all be-all of EVIL(TM) operating systems, but hard-crashes and hard-rebooting them wouldn't damage them as badly as the horror stories I've heard about *nix systems. Just a question.
If I buy this POS, erhm, SACD player, will the discs I get for it not just have one or two decent tracks and the rest of it SHIT?!?! 'Cause that's the ONLY reason why I don't buy CDs nowadays.
... n0w 1 c4n u5e my 1337sp33k f0r a l3g171m473 pup0se. w007!! ... But seriously, that really seems a stupid thing for yahoo to do...
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I think that, with all the eccentricity I claim to have, I should've done that first! I mean, damn. I'm losing my edge. (g)
But, anyways. Yeah. I like it.
Now, for someone to make one out of grilled-cheese sandwiches... Or maybe tuna. That would be cool.
Am I the only one that had to look up just about every acronym in that entire headline? ^_~
All those college students won't have to spend money on the microwave. They can just get this for their Ramen consumption. ... ::drool:: Raaaaaaamen.
Or just think, they get the technology cheap enough, and they can put it on cans and stuff and have self-cooking ramen and soups to begin with.
I can't wait.
See, now, I'd have something witty and poignant to put here, and waste somebody's time by having them read this, but of course, the site is buggy and won't let me in...
What a pile of bullshit.
Hehe. Yeah. Even though I dual-boot with Windows98 and Mandrake 8.0, I use StarOffice instead of MS Office, because of the fact that I think it's much better to have something free than it is to pay 200 dollars for an upgrade version of a piece of software... Oh, well. And, it works the same, and you can export and import MS Office documents into it very easily. So, what's the point of using anything other than it? Oh, well... (Yeah, I forgot that StarOffice isn't exactly open-source, as much so as others, but it's a good example of non-MS software.)
But hey, I like all of the games that come with Linux and the drivers better anyway. They're less buggy because people that have the smarts can actually f_ck with the code and get it working perfectly for their needs. Of course, Microsoft has to have hundreds of minions working on one problem... And they take so long to get everything fixed because of the fact that they don't have the ability to decode their own obfuscated pieces of crap.
Long live open-source. Down with MicroSoft's monopoly on everything. I, for one, am getting sick of them trying to take over every market. I mean, I go to the bookstore, and I go over to the reference section. Guess what I find? Encarta Encyclopedias and Encarta dictionarys (both proudly brandishing the MicroSoft logo...). It's getting me physically sick, most of the time, 'cause I don't want to see them everywhere. Can't they just leave us alone? They disavow one of the main tenants of capitalism: The ability of us NOT to buy their products.
Oh, well, I rant this early in the morning.
...Need sleep...
Let's ship that on a plane over China (a plane that's a clunker but we put "Secret spyplane" in Chinese on it so that they want to shoot it down), and then, they see the weird bot, they try to reverse engineer it, and we turn it on! WOO! See what happens when you mess with us Americans!
...Or it may be that I'm just high on Jolt Cola.
...But seriously, folks, I think we should have some semblance of order in this day and age. How come we have to deal with these sorts of things cluttering up eBay? I mean, this doesn't fall under free speech or anything. I mean, this thing could potentially (if not already) be a deadly weapon. But hey. I guess it could get those cows off of your lawn easily. Hehe.
::bounces off::
Hehe. Aren't they open-source this time? Hehe. I don't know... If it's USB 2, then I guess it would just build on the original USB drivers, putting additional pieces of code in there to make it have faster throughput...
::shrug::
But hey, I don't like the idea of Intel's muscle-ing in on the high-bandwidth bandwagon, anyway. 12Mbps is good enough for a lot of things (Hey, I still have my Iomega Predator [which works on Linux] on USB...), and Firewire's just as fast, and has the ability to work with other devices without a central computer. So, what's the point? The advantages of IEEE1394 far outweigh those of Intel's new product.
Snootchie-Bootchies.
I don't know if I would want for this sort of thing to be in any surveillance-needing part of the government. I mean, NASA's okay, and so is the USFS, but... I don't know...
::shrugs:: Snoogans.
If you strapped an IR sensor, a night-vision sensor, and god-knows-what kinds of sensors onto the thing, you could have quite a machine. And with the fact that the government likes to have these things "just in case", I think the temptation for them to use them just for the hell of it is pretty great. I'd be afraid if these things got extremely widespread...
Or maybe I've just reread Orwell too often.
1) No message to be delivered to an ENUM unless it's from another ENUM
::Shrug::
If this is supposed to be a combined phonenumber/faxnumber/emailaddy, then... How could you tell if it's an ENUM if it's supposed to integrate with the other facets of communication? Couldn't someone just track down what phonenumber/faxnumber/emailaddy it's attached to and get around it by using the "old-style" technology? I wouldn't think it would be TOO hard.
3) Allow ENUM users to set 'privacy policies' on their ENUM, including 'no unsolicited promotional material'. Sending spam to an ENUM in defiance of applicable policies to be a criminal offense.
Yeah, that would be feasible, IF IT WORKED. See, the thing is, is that, even though there is statewide (and I heard that the US gov't is workin on legislation there too) against spamming, there isn't any way to stop it. I mean, if there was a way to deny people the right to spoof their email address, then it'd be easier to identify, track down, and prosecute people that are doing this. But, the thing is, is that you can spoof email addresses, making it hard to even find out who SENT the email in the first place.
::Shrug:: But hey, like the posting said. Didn't even CompuServe get the idea that we shouldn't use numbers? Eh. Snoogans.
...Random? Heh.
szcx: Although you meant that to be whimsical, I'm seriously wondering how you could get that to work. I've seen textmode Quake, but I've heard all that is is a skin for Quake. Is there a way to make a 3d textmode thing? Like old ASCII-type graphics, only 3d? I wonder...
;-)
...If it was, what demographic would use it? I guess two different kinds: People that would be like, "Whoa, cool!" and those of us who remember the old days of ASCII art before JPEGs and CompuServe GIFs. Heh.
That'd be fun. I'd buy that kind of product.
PS: I guess if it was in more than one color, that'd be cool too
Uhm, Sega Dreamcast runs off of Windows CE.
And, a lot of the tools that people use, including the VCD player (at least the ones I've seen) were built to those specs off of VB.
::shrug:: Doesn't seem too impossible to me, considering the Xbox is supposed to run off of a modified NT kernel. I've also heard that the programming package for it is a modified PC game-creating engine that MS uses.
But, of course, I could be wrong. Heh.