Seriously, who would retain control over this group? This is the same Yahoo that recently released an anti-spyware toolbar that not only plays favorites with detection, but outright ignores (regardless of settings) certain products that Yahoo has a financial tie to. The last time people tried to agree on a consortium promising to certify apps as "spyware free", it failed miserably for the same reasons - the model of selling such a certification provides a clear financial incentive geared toward certifying products/companies rather than rejecting them.
BTW - although I'm sure they just meant it as an example, the "10NES" copyright case would have no bearing on developing your own clone console, unless you were specifically designing said console to reject unlicensed cartridges as the actual NES did. The CIC chips on the cartridges authenticate the cart to an official NES, but have no internal connection to the ROMs - failure of the console to implement the authentication would have no effect on playability (you can verify this by cutting the clock pin to the CIC chip in the console*...and play unlicensed carts:) .
*ironically, this is the same method used in many of the CueCat hacks.
Imaging device? I haven't RTFPA yet, but it sounds pretty broad.
How many years ago did someone write a program that would allow you to scan an in-store product using a free CueCat barcode reader attached to your laptop and query Google about it? I wish I could find that link now.
"character sequences representing the custom emoticons can be transmitted in the message instead of the custom emoticons in order to preserve performance of text messaging. At the receiving end, the character sequences are replaced by their corresponding custom emoticons"
Trillian already does this, there are at least 50 builtin emoticons that can be selected with the mouse or typed; the sequence is sent as a characters and replaced with a graphic icon at the other end. It gets annoying sometimes as any 'complex' piece of communication (with symbols and nested parentheses, etc.) often comes out at the other end full of pigs or smiley faces wearing sunglasses...
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Sounds like mirrors aren't the only thing that will get polished today.
Given the text of the article blurb ("If I want more information, I can press thumbs up and have my email address sent to the advertiser"), I expected the body of this post to be 'AM'.
Actually, knowing John Carpenter, it's probably based on some bizarre and not-well-understood alien technology, and will ultimately sprout limbs and forcibly impregnate itself into the hapless driver...
Blatant copy or not, the "invention" is so obvious, it's almost impossible NOT to run afoul of the alleged patent claims. In fact, I did it yesterday. The whole reason I'm at the office on a sunday reading slashdot is (because it's bloody hot today in Boston, my office is air conditioned and my house isn't...but the other reason is...) because I just yesterday built a power/signal cradle for my Nomad Zen, and needed to scrounge the lab for some connectory bits I can use to fake a Pioneer IP-BUS connector.
Most likely, the only thing keeping me from being a damn dirty patent infringer today is that it's a Nomad, not an Ipod, and that I don't have to go through an FM transmitter. But when my friend brings her iRiver on a roadtrip with me next week and wants to plug it and her little (battery/USB powered) FM transmitter into my cradle's 5v power bus....
Something really disturbing me about this campaign (aside from the "directly circument the user's explicit cookie settings by hiding backups in Macromedia's PIE and using them to restore deleted cookies") is the mention of coming after the anti-ad/spy/malware industry. Many of these products are aimed at the privacy conscious, and while you're scanning a hard drive anyway, it's quick and painless to throw in deletion of common common ad-network cookies. Are the marketeers going to pout and stamp around acting disappointed and call it a day, or will they start sending cease-and-desists?
It will be interesting to see how they'll go along those lines, particularly following the recent Symantec / Hotbar suit.
Either the perv is paying for the site, and if there's no new content he stops paying, or if it's a free site, the advertizer stops paying.
Who advertises on a kiddie porn site? (And why aren't they in jail?)
Technically though, the example you cited counters your point...a new perv visiting the site increases traffic stats, and reduces the necessity for the site owner to "do something" (e.g. create/post new kiddie porn) to revive dwindling traffic numbers.
Slashdot Mirror
Two words: Raisin box
Not too long ago I had one of those little boxes of raisins for the first time since I was a young 'un, and it still works..
...you call the telemarketers, but here in America, you ask someone to ask the telemarketers to call you ASAP.
I was soooo hoping for some pictures of the most daring/oblivious of our kind
what you say?
Seriously, who would retain control over this group? This is the same Yahoo that recently released an anti-spyware toolbar that not only plays favorites with detection, but outright ignores (regardless of settings) certain products that Yahoo has a financial tie to. The last time people tried to agree on a consortium promising to certify apps as "spyware free", it failed miserably for the same reasons - the model of selling such a certification provides a clear financial incentive geared toward certifying products/companies rather than rejecting them.
Hmm, the name sounds familiar...where has Slashdot heard that name before?
:) .
BTW - although I'm sure they just meant it as an example, the "10NES" copyright case would have no bearing on developing your own clone console, unless you were specifically designing said console to reject unlicensed cartridges as the actual NES did. The CIC chips on the cartridges authenticate the cart to an official NES, but have no internal connection to the ROMs - failure of the console to implement the authentication would have no effect on playability (you can verify this by cutting the clock pin to the CIC chip in the console*...and play unlicensed carts
*ironically, this is the same method used in many of the CueCat hacks.
That's harsh. I've been trying to avoid (b) for some time now, but it just keeps getting me in more and more trouble with the IRS...
Please ensure adequate thermal shielding around the valves (tubes) so that my pocket doesn't get hot.
Does anyone asking a computer to fix them up with someone actually need to be told this? ;-)
Imaging device? I haven't RTFPA yet, but it sounds pretty broad.
How many years ago did someone write a program that would allow you to scan an in-store product using a free CueCat barcode reader attached to your laptop and query Google about it? I wish I could find that link now.
5) Objective achived,
It was even funnier when I misread that as "archived"
Or 1000 of them and a roll of Duct tape.
Crap, am I the only one still using "WirelessUSB"?*
* a more correct description would be "wireless serial port"; it does not actually implement any USB stuff.
So in reality, it's Opera spoofing Mozilla 4.0 spoofing MSIE 6.0 spoofing Opera...
Disclaimer: Not Finnish. But yeah, I've found that I only hack while single. While not single, I am too busy doing...other things.
(...and yes, back to hacking at the moment, grumble...)
(D)umbass?
"character sequences representing the custom emoticons can be transmitted in the message instead of the custom emoticons in order to preserve performance of text messaging. At the receiving end, the character sequences are replaced by their corresponding custom emoticons"
Trillian already does this, there are at least 50 builtin emoticons that can be selected with the mouse or typed; the sequence is sent as a characters and replaced with a graphic icon at the other end. It gets annoying sometimes as any 'complex' piece of communication (with symbols and nested parentheses, etc.) often comes out at the other end full of pigs or smiley faces wearing sunglasses...
Sounds like mirrors aren't the only thing that will get polished today.
Given the text of the article blurb ("If I want more information, I can press thumbs up and have my email address sent to the advertiser"), I expected the body of this post to be 'AM'.
Actually, knowing John Carpenter, it's probably based on some bizarre and not-well-understood alien technology, and will ultimately sprout limbs and forcibly impregnate itself into the hapless driver...
Blatant copy or not, the "invention" is so obvious, it's almost impossible NOT to run afoul of the alleged patent claims. In fact, I did it yesterday. The whole reason I'm at the office on a sunday reading slashdot is (because it's bloody hot today in Boston, my office is air conditioned and my house isn't...but the other reason is...) because I just yesterday built a power/signal cradle for my Nomad Zen, and needed to scrounge the lab for some connectory bits I can use to fake a Pioneer IP-BUS connector.
Most likely, the only thing keeping me from being a damn dirty patent infringer today is that it's a Nomad, not an Ipod, and that I don't have to go through an FM transmitter. But when my friend brings her iRiver on a roadtrip with me next week and wants to plug it and her little (battery/USB powered) FM transmitter into my cradle's 5v power bus....
I hate them because they blink.
Something really disturbing me about this campaign (aside from the "directly circument the user's explicit cookie settings by hiding backups in Macromedia's PIE and using them to restore deleted cookies") is the mention of coming after the anti-ad/spy/malware industry. Many of these products are aimed at the privacy conscious, and while you're scanning a hard drive anyway, it's quick and painless to throw in deletion of common common ad-network cookies. Are the marketeers going to pout and stamp around acting disappointed and call it a day, or will they start sending cease-and-desists?
It will be interesting to see how they'll go along those lines, particularly following the recent Symantec / Hotbar suit.
Either the perv is paying for the site, and if there's no new content he stops paying, or if it's a free site, the advertizer stops paying.
Who advertises on a kiddie porn site? (And why aren't they in jail?)
Technically though, the example you cited counters your point...a new perv visiting the site increases traffic stats, and reduces the necessity for the site owner to "do something" (e.g. create/post new kiddie porn) to revive dwindling traffic numbers.
That's an interesting spin on things.
Just to nitpick a bit, most of the professional photographers I know use the various plugins to Photoshop to work with RAW images
So, they're not being forced to buy Photoshop?