You are not allowed to listen to it if it is lent out. That would be a requirement. If you listen to it while it is lent out, "shame on you." If you must listen to the CD, legally, then you would (like in the example of selling stock that his been borrowed against), use the system to acquire a right to listen to it.
There is a good hole in this system. I can tell it that I physically own 50 copies of all the top 100 CDs out there. I will be paid $0.01 for each play from my (nonexistant) copies. I, "the supercriminal that I am", will earn money for giving away the virtual rights to something that I do not own. I'm sure it isn't a huge money incentive, but it does give incentive for people to lie. For whatever this is worth.
Onto a cross with the netflix model, this could be interesting. Think about Netflix, but instead of physically sending DVDs through the mail, it makes them available for download to broadband users. And then add to that system that the DVD doesn't just have to be in the company's inventory, but users can give up usage rights (of existing titles) to the central server for it to be farmed out to other users. [Or a more complex system where a user could actually upload a different DVD to put into the system.] I'd love it.
You could control the download quality setting, perhaps. With broadband, either way, you're going to beat the time it takes for Netflix to ship you a DVD. So it is like netflix... only faster. And potentially less wait for hot titles. And a chance to earn money on your existing DVDs.
> For an academic project, I need to analyse a > lot of USENET data.
Are you SURE you're prepared for that much data? And the costs for just storing that much data? Not to mention manipulating it? I think you'd need an academic project just to analyze that factor alone.
"Getting ahold of the information" was probably quite easy. They just logged onto Kazaa and sent an instant message to the user accounts of the people listed, waited for people to respond. Then they worked them into giving them a call. Simple investigative techniques, most likely.
You know, trying cardio at the desk never really did it for me. I took a different approach some years ago. I worked out. But instead of going for the goal of burning calories, I went to increase muscle bulk. I think a good side effect of that is, even when you're not doing much, you're burning way more calories when you've got bigger muscles than someone else would. (And I am emphasising muscle size and strength, not definition and endurance here.)
But really. Cut the beer. Switch to diet pop. You can't generate excess capacity (extra food, beer, pop) and expect it to go nowhere.
Actually, the paintball brings up an interesting notion. Instead of launching the projectile itself, you could go back to the more common solenoid type device. That could be used to launch paintballs, without the need for compressed canisters. (Or to simply replace air pump rifles.)
I know that home-built EMP devices have been the topic on Slashdot before. But I've been thinking that, since it is just electronic components, the parts needed to build an EMP gun/bomb can be brought through screening and onto an airplane. (Not fully assembled, mind you, so that it is a little less suspicious.)
It seems to me that this could result in a catastrophic event (takeoff/landing?), although I don't know the actual results of what one of these would end up doing. Anyone?
I like this feature this most. Won't this give large SMP activity a boost on Linux, letting it scale up even better to a larger number of processors with less of a penalty?
I mean, I dislike spammers just as much as the next guy. But why is this a newsworthy story? Allegedly, someone posts a message about their anti-spam product on an anti-spamming message board. The claim is made that the poster is a spammer. So the story becomes that a spammer posts an advert to an anti-spamming message board.
Aside from it being a bit uncooth, why is this suddenly The Hunt for Red October? Sure, it was kind of a stupid thing, but what's the big wreck that I should be rubbernecking over?
For every problem, there is a single answer which is simple, direct, and of course, completely wrong. This is it.
The answer is to get a company that will act as a broker (aka wrapper aka condom) for you. They are in the US and they complete the transaction. That company abstract your strange and foreigness and allows you to interract with regular American companies who have no idea how to deal with overseas sales, or simply refuse to.
Of course, anyone starting such a company would have plenty of risks, and it really see problems in trying to scale it up. But it certainly would be useful.
I think it is evident that Sun Microsystems likes this because they see it as a way to sell servers. They appear to have put their rubber stamp on this. Of course, wasn't it McNealy who said words to the effect of privacy is dead?
Sounds more like privacy stands in the way of profit.
You are correct, David. The most you can do is *threaten* someone overseas, unless you're willing to put a lot of time and money into the problem. (Although I found someone else's comment about the language barrier to be funny.)
I publish a number of arcade documents under the Open Content license. Some people have used the license fairly. One person blatently stole a bunch of stuff for a commercial site. Worse, they were in England.
I'm pleased to say that he went to bat for me and, as a third party, convinced the other person to take down the material, where I as an individual was unsuccessful.
I'll look into the Creative Commons, but I'm sorry to see this go.
The web pages that I had published are gone, but I'm working on something new. An Arcade Gameroom Design Information website. I need to change my OC license links... they're bad. But take a look! And, yes, "cox.net" is COX cable.;)
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[b]Have you considered what would happen if you lost the case?[/b] [i]I have nightmares about it. We're talking about the utter destruction of our company. But really, we have no place else to go. This is a balls-to-the-wall strategy. All or nothing. But it isn't like I can't jump ship if things go sour.[/i]
[b]Do you plan to sell Linux ever again?[/b] [i]Don't be silly. That is a low-return activity. Our job will be to shake people down for money. That's a high-return activity.[/i]
[b]Would you actually like to be bought?[/b] [i]God, yes! We'd love to be bought out. But it isn't going to happen whatsoever. Given that, it is best that I said that we don't want to be bought out, because it makes our case look that much stronger.[/i]
I enjoy proactively destroying patents by talking about ideas, often obvious, in public. That way, a nice web search, and *boom*! Your tattoo printer isn't all that novel. Serves them right for trying to patent something kind of obvious.
Speaking of obvious, using skin pores to determine location of a printing device, or the relative stretch of skin would be an obvious positioning and print density technique. Obvious.
Is if this was adapted into a tattoo gun. Just wave it over the skin, and have a permanent (or temporary might be more marketable) tattoo placed on the body. Anything you can dream up or download could be printed onto the skin.
"Oh, these people said they didn't want to be bothered with commercial telemarketing. I completely understand. Wow! I bet they'd love to hear about our non-profit organization and help us. They didn't say anything about not wanting calls from us, and I bet they'll actually thank us for raising the awareness of our organization!"
> Uh, yeah, that's gonna hurt--up until now > they've had a lot of trouble finding me.
That's the case I'm in. I've got an unlisted number, and I guard who I give it to... especially companies. If I put my telephone number on a do-not-call registry, I'm publishing it out and making it ripe for harvest. If I don't put it on the registry, I'm still safe, for a time.
Kind of a sucky catch-22. In order to not be telemarketed to, I can't put myself on the no-telemarketing list.
Think about this for a second, folks. You're helping the government compile a list that anyone but 'protected telemarketers' can call. The regular telemarketers have to grab the list, and weed the numbers out of their databases.
Now think about this. The government is supplying a list of telephone numbers. There exists 'protected telemarketers'. If you were a protected telemarketer, what would you do?
You got it. Download the list, and you've got yourself a database of active telephone nubmers to start calling. All for free. "Thanks for giving us your number, chump. Now me and my buddies can call all we want."
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You are not allowed to listen to it if it is lent out. That would be a requirement. If you listen to it while it is lent out, "shame on you." If you must listen to the CD, legally, then you would (like in the example of selling stock that his been borrowed against), use the system to acquire a right to listen to it.
There is a good hole in this system. I can tell it that I physically own 50 copies of all the top 100 CDs out there. I will be paid $0.01 for each play from my (nonexistant) copies. I, "the supercriminal that I am", will earn money for giving away the virtual rights to something that I do not own. I'm sure it isn't a huge money incentive, but it does give incentive for people to lie. For whatever this is worth.
Onto a cross with the netflix model, this could be interesting. Think about Netflix, but instead of physically sending DVDs through the mail, it makes them available for download to broadband users. And then add to that system that the DVD doesn't just have to be in the company's inventory, but users can give up usage rights (of existing titles) to the central server for it to be farmed out to other users. [Or a more complex system where a user could actually upload a different DVD to put into the system.] I'd love it.
You could control the download quality setting, perhaps. With broadband, either way, you're going to beat the time it takes for Netflix to ship you a DVD. So it is like netflix... only faster. And potentially less wait for hot titles. And a chance to earn money on your existing DVDs.
> For an academic project, I need to analyse a
> lot of USENET data.
Are you SURE you're prepared for that much data? And the costs for just storing that much data? Not to mention manipulating it? I think you'd need an academic project just to analyze that factor alone.
"Getting ahold of the information" was probably quite easy. They just logged onto Kazaa and sent an instant message to the user accounts of the people listed, waited for people to respond. Then they worked them into giving them a call. Simple investigative techniques, most likely.
You know, trying cardio at the desk never really did it for me. I took a different approach some years ago. I worked out. But instead of going for the goal of burning calories, I went to increase muscle bulk. I think a good side effect of that is, even when you're not doing much, you're burning way more calories when you've got bigger muscles than someone else would. (And I am emphasising muscle size and strength, not definition and endurance here.)
But really. Cut the beer. Switch to diet pop. You can't generate excess capacity (extra food, beer, pop) and expect it to go nowhere.
Thank you for bringing that up. Isn't that part of the UCC?
Actually, the paintball brings up an interesting notion. Instead of launching the projectile itself, you could go back to the more common solenoid type device. That could be used to launch paintballs, without the need for compressed canisters. (Or to simply replace air pump rifles.)
I know that home-built EMP devices have been the topic on Slashdot before. But I've been thinking that, since it is just electronic components, the parts needed to build an EMP gun/bomb can be brought through screening and onto an airplane. (Not fully assembled, mind you, so that it is a little less suspicious.)
It seems to me that this could result in a catastrophic event (takeoff/landing?), although I don't know the actual results of what one of these would end up doing. Anyone?
I like this feature this most. Won't this give large SMP activity a boost on Linux, letting it scale up even better to a larger number of processors with less of a penalty?
Actually, I did both.
I'm not saying this is necessarily an invalid story. Only that I don't find any insight into what makes this story noteworthy.
I think if you felt a little more convinction, you wouldn't have AC'd your response.
I mean, I dislike spammers just as much as the next guy. But why is this a newsworthy story? Allegedly, someone posts a message about their anti-spam product on an anti-spamming message board. The claim is made that the poster is a spammer. So the story becomes that a spammer posts an advert to an anti-spamming message board.
Aside from it being a bit uncooth, why is this suddenly The Hunt for Red October? Sure, it was kind of a stupid thing, but what's the big wreck that I should be rubbernecking over?
For every problem, there is a single answer which is simple, direct, and of course, completely wrong. This is it.
The answer is to get a company that will act as a broker (aka wrapper aka condom) for you. They are in the US and they complete the transaction. That company abstract your strange and foreigness and allows you to interract with regular American companies who have no idea how to deal with overseas sales, or simply refuse to.
Of course, anyone starting such a company would have plenty of risks, and it really see problems in trying to scale it up. But it certainly would be useful.
I think it is evident that Sun Microsystems likes this because they see it as a way to sell servers. They appear to have put their rubber stamp on this. Of course, wasn't it McNealy who said words to the effect of privacy is dead?
Sounds more like privacy stands in the way of profit.
Yup. BTW, you've got a SCARY mug.
You are correct, David. The most you can do is *threaten* someone overseas, unless you're willing to put a lot of time and money into the problem. (Although I found someone else's comment about the language barrier to be funny.)
I publish a number of arcade documents under the Open Content license. Some people have used the license fairly. One person blatently stole a bunch of stuff for a commercial site. Worse, they were in England.
;)
I'm pleased to say that he went to bat for me and, as a third party, convinced the other person to take down the material, where I as an individual was unsuccessful.
I'll look into the Creative Commons, but I'm sorry to see this go.
The web pages that I had published are gone, but I'm working on something new. An Arcade Gameroom Design Information website. I need to change my OC license links... they're bad. But take a look! And, yes, "cox.net" is COX cable.
Correct. I got too used to some other message boards which insists on square brackets instead of the angle brackets. Like everyone else, I should preview.
[b]Have you considered what would happen if you lost the case?[/b]
[i]I have nightmares about it. We're talking about the utter destruction of our company. But really, we have no place else to go. This is a balls-to-the-wall strategy. All or nothing. But it isn't like I can't jump ship if things go sour.[/i]
[b]Do you plan to sell Linux ever again?[/b]
[i]Don't be silly. That is a low-return activity. Our job will be to shake people down for money. That's a high-return activity.[/i]
[b]Would you actually like to be bought?[/b]
[i]God, yes! We'd love to be bought out. But it isn't going to happen whatsoever. Given that, it is best that I said that we don't want to be bought out, because it makes our case look that much stronger.[/i]
I enjoy proactively destroying patents by talking about ideas, often obvious, in public. That way, a nice web search, and *boom*! Your tattoo printer isn't all that novel. Serves them right for trying to patent something kind of obvious.
Speaking of obvious, using skin pores to determine location of a printing device, or the relative stretch of skin would be an obvious positioning and print density technique. Obvious.
No. That'd be pretty damn cool, actually!
Is if this was adapted into a tattoo gun. Just wave it over the skin, and have a permanent (or temporary might be more marketable) tattoo placed on the body. Anything you can dream up or download could be printed onto the skin.
This sounds really bad.
In a good kinda way.
You've got to think like a telemarketer.
"Oh, these people said they didn't want to be bothered with commercial telemarketing. I completely understand. Wow! I bet they'd love to hear about our non-profit organization and help us. They didn't say anything about not wanting calls from us, and I bet they'll actually thank us for raising the awareness of our organization!"
> Uh, yeah, that's gonna hurt--up until now
> they've had a lot of trouble finding me.
That's the case I'm in. I've got an unlisted number, and I guard who I give it to... especially companies. If I put my telephone number on a do-not-call registry, I'm publishing it out and making it ripe for harvest. If I don't put it on the registry, I'm still safe, for a time.
Kind of a sucky catch-22. In order to not be telemarketed to, I can't put myself on the no-telemarketing list.
So, I'm wondering. If a company outsources to a non-domestic telemarketing firm, do they have to follow the American no-call database?
Think about this for a second, folks. You're helping the government compile a list that anyone but 'protected telemarketers' can call. The regular telemarketers have to grab the list, and weed the numbers out of their databases.
Now think about this. The government is supplying a list of telephone numbers. There exists 'protected telemarketers'. If you were a protected telemarketer, what would you do?
You got it. Download the list, and you've got yourself a database of active telephone nubmers to start calling. All for free. "Thanks for giving us your number, chump. Now me and my buddies can call all we want."