AFIAK, GPS could really only tell you what city you were in, not your exact street 'location'. And if you want to send really targeted ads...
I thought they could already get your position....
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Isn't position tracking inherent in the idea of a cellphone? Or do they just not have the infistructure.
Its still weird though, I know most americans are lazy, but I still doubt that many of them will go for something that both sends them more addsand reports their position to people or whatever
Just stay away from the Real Media(TM) brand Pager MP3player/pager....
I didn't mean that what you said wasn't true, only that the conclusions you drew were. There may be more brain mass in the aural part of the brain for musicians, but I really doubt that you could say because of it, musicians arn't that good at speaking/writing.
I'd also wonder what's the cause and what's the effect. Do they have more developed audio processing because they're musicians, or do they love music because of their larger lobes. Or, whatever.
Anyway, my problem wasn't with how much of the brain was devoted to audio processing, but rather the conclusion that musicians are not coherent because of it.
Gnutella has some holes that would allow Metallica to find out who's pirating their mp3s (I don't know if Gnutella has any such holes, I'm just speaking hypothetically)
Searching through Gnutella goes through 'gnutellanet', however, filetransfers are a direct connection, so it isn't hard to find out who your sending a file to, or receving from.
I remember reading a bit about the neurology of musicians: how, often, regions of the brain that are 'colonized' by the language and higher cognitive functions are, instead, recruited into the service of audition.
That has got to be the most idiotic thing I've ever heard in my life.
Thank you Lars for backing up my suspicions with hard data.
That, is about the farthest thing from hard data I've ever heard. How was metallica able to 'monitor' everything that happened on napster. It wouldn't be hard for them to find the people serving their data, but, monitoring all communications, unless napster gave them specific access, would be impossible.
Huh? A judge ruling that you can control who has access to private property (which ebay's web servers are) is scary???
A server is not a home, its a server. If Ebay wants to block these guys, they should do it in software, not through litigation. How would you feel if slashdot sued you for using their website? I mean, your post is taking up server space. Even if its just a little...
The authors of viruses can be prosecuted because that code may present a real danger.
Actually, writing a virus isn't illegal, but releasing a virus is. When they finally found the guy who wrote CHS, he wasn't prosecuted because he only wrote it, someone else put it out there. Of course, this was in Taiwan, not the US. And the US is pretty anal about enforcing 'anti-hacking' laws
Think about it like building a bomb. Designing the bomb would be like writing the code, building the bomb would be like compiling it. But you aren't breaking the law until you blow something up.
http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/ - kills spammers dead http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=GZX636 - Get paid to surf
Hrm, am I the only one who finds that.sig ironic? Maybe thats the point.
Anyway, the sales of their sofware were strong, I doubt piracy affected their bottem line very much. The reason they folded was beacuse Eidos backed out of a deal to buy them, since they had spent all their money on daikatana and their stock price collapsed. If you want to blame anyone, blame Eidos or John Romero. Not software piracy.
Well, the artical stated that linux came up over 10,000,000 times in altavista. I don't see how comming up with less pages could be more acurite for a simple word search...
How would it make any money? It would make sense to spin off there entire online-services companies, the whole of MSN along with IE. I could see that.
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I was under the impression that you had to pay if you were going to use it for commercial use
Sun are damn quick about getting security patches out.
Well, I've seen one study. They mesured the amount of security problems, and the time it took to solve them. They mesured linux, windows, and solaris. Windows and linux had hundreds of problems, and Linux was about twice to 3x as fast in getting in patches. In the end, linux had about 56 days in witch there were open problems, and m$ had a hundred or so.
Solaris had seven bugs. And seven hundred days when those bugs were known and open.
Maybe there should be a computer literacy/humor test thet you have to take before getting mod points or something. Some people just have no sense of humor.
Don't be such a paranoid freak. Remember, the Stack for BeOS was written by one guy in one day. An OS can probably be hacked out by a few dedicated coders in a few weeks, add a few months of testing and tweaking and building GUI APIs and you're set for a beta release. And as for the post about 'not anyone finding out', I doubt they tried to keep it secret, more like no one cared.
Anyway the code is GPL'ed so if you want to be paranoid go read and look at the code yourself, not that you'd recognize BSD code if you saw it but...
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AFIAK, GPS could really only tell you what city you were in, not your exact street 'location'. And if you want to send really targeted ads...
Isn't position tracking inherent in the idea of a cellphone? Or do they just not have the infistructure.
Its still weird though, I know most americans are lazy, but I still doubt that many of them will go for something that both sends them more adds and reports their position to people or whatever
Just stay away from the Real Media(TM) brand Pager MP3player/pager....
I didn't mean that what you said wasn't true, only that the conclusions you drew were. There may be more brain mass in the aural part of the brain for musicians, but I really doubt that you could say because of it, musicians arn't that good at speaking/writing.
I'd also wonder what's the cause and what's the effect. Do they have more developed audio processing because they're musicians, or do they love music because of their larger lobes. Or, whatever.
Anyway, my problem wasn't with how much of the brain was devoted to audio processing, but rather the conclusion that musicians are not coherent because of it.
It may not be as fast/whatever as C++, but the tools are free, and its way better then visual basic
Gnutella has some holes that would allow Metallica to find out who's pirating their mp3s (I don't know if Gnutella has any such holes, I'm just speaking hypothetically)
Searching through Gnutella goes through 'gnutellanet', however, filetransfers are a direct connection, so it isn't hard to find out who your sending a file to, or receving from.
I remember reading a bit about the neurology of musicians: how, often, regions of the brain that are 'colonized' by the language and higher cognitive functions are, instead, recruited into the service of audition.
That has got to be the most idiotic thing I've ever heard in my life.
Thank you Lars for backing up my suspicions with hard data.
That, is about the farthest thing from hard data I've ever heard. How was metallica able to 'monitor' everything that happened on napster. It wouldn't be hard for them to find the people serving their data, but, monitoring all communications, unless napster gave them specific access, would be impossible.
Let me just say that, after today, I will never ever criticize any of the slashdot authors again for grammar / linguistic errors.
You have never done that before, ether.
If I stole an empty pop-can from your house to get the rebate on it, would you care.
If hacked the bank and transfered one million dolars from you, would you care?
Where do you draw the line? I don't, but obviously you can draw it somewhere
[NetPD] pulled a number out of their collective asses..
That would make him ignorent.
(Now, if the search engine provider doesn't respect the ROBOTS.TXT exclusions, I say go after them with legal means.)
no, then you ban their IP. It isn't that hard.
Actualy, if I remember correctly, eBay did this, then the other guys sued them
Huh? A judge ruling that you can control who has access to private property (which ebay's web servers are) is scary???
A server is not a home, its a server. If Ebay wants to block these guys, they should do it in software, not through litigation. How would you feel if slashdot sued you for using their website? I mean, your post is taking up server space. Even if its just a little...
This is moronic.
The authors of viruses can be prosecuted because that code may present a real danger.
Actually, writing a virus isn't illegal, but releasing a virus is. When they finally found the guy who wrote CHS, he wasn't prosecuted because he only wrote it, someone else put it out there. Of course, this was in Taiwan, not the US. And the US is pretty anal about enforcing 'anti-hacking' laws
Think about it like building a bomb. Designing the bomb would be like writing the code, building the bomb would be like compiling it. But you aren't breaking the law until you blow something up.
http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/ - kills spammers dead
.sig ironic? Maybe thats the point.
http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=GZX636 - Get paid to surf
Hrm, am I the only one who finds that
Anyway, the sales of their sofware were strong, I doubt piracy affected their bottem line very much. The reason they folded was beacuse Eidos backed out of a deal to buy them, since they had spent all their money on daikatana and their stock price collapsed. If you want to blame anyone, blame Eidos or John Romero. Not software piracy.
Come on, try to hack my 31337 firewall!
Why are you hosting a copy of my site on your firewall box!!! Damn it, take it down or I'm going to sue you for copyright infringement!!!
(btw, if anyone didn't get it, that was a joke...)
Mozill has been rendering pages since before m9. Don't tell me what I've seen with my own eyes isn't true.
Sure, sure, Mozilla is "coming" but considering how late it is already,
Dude, mozilla has been out and rendering pages for months. Milestone 16 works really well for just about anything you might want.
Well, the artical stated that linux came up over 10,000,000 times in altavista. I don't see how comming up with less pages could be more acurite for a simple word search...
How would it make any money? It would make sense to spin off there entire online-services companies, the whole of MSN along with IE. I could see that.
I was under the impression that you had to pay if you were going to use it for commercial use
Sun are damn quick about getting security patches out.
Well, I've seen one study. They mesured the amount of security problems, and the time it took to solve them. They mesured linux, windows, and solaris. Windows and linux had hundreds of problems, and Linux was about twice to 3x as fast in getting in patches. In the end, linux had about 56 days in witch there were open problems, and m$ had a hundred or so.
Solaris had seven bugs. And seven hundred days when those bugs were known and open.
Its bussness to bussness. Just be glad they're not saying 'intrabussness e-commerce' or something like that...
What a crappy job of moderation. "Troll"??? WTF?
Maybe there should be a computer literacy/humor test thet you have to take before getting mod points or something. Some people just have no sense of humor.
And Linux used to be a poor emulation of Unix, what's your point?
Anyway, the major diffrence is that this is GPL'd, meaning that people can hack on it, unlike BeOS.
BSD removed that advert clause. There was a slashdot story about it like, a couple months ago.
Don't be such a paranoid freak. Remember, the Stack for BeOS was written by one guy in one day. An OS can probably be hacked out by a few dedicated coders in a few weeks, add a few months of testing and tweaking and building GUI APIs and you're set for a beta release. And as for the post about 'not anyone finding out', I doubt they tried to keep it secret, more like no one cared.
Anyway the code is GPL'ed so if you want to be paranoid go read and look at the code yourself, not that you'd recognize BSD code if you saw it but...