I have the perfect plan. Calculate out exactly the percentage of people that will never return the rebate form. Then figure out the amount you need to multiply the cost of the item if you offer it for free with rebate. Be sure to charge slightly more, and you're bound to come out ahead!
(They still owe me for my $100 optical mouse. Which broke.)
Share the wealth, post the sig2dats for the 6 songs you found if they are good quality. (Can't understand why they wouldn't do that at the website... afraid of appearing to lend legitimacy to Kazaa? Dunno.)
The key would be for the offloading to not depend on the site in question. 20 minutes isn't enough to contact the person in question and get a mirror set up, but it would be just enough to download any large binary files from the site, generate P2P fingerprints for them, and store those fingerprints in either a network (ok) or within slashdot itself (better, but good luck convincing them of it!)
Hold it down to one message per post. We'll send your younger self 10 of the highest-moderated questions and post your answers as soon as we get them back.
Might want to factor in such things as rent-a-coder sites. If you have a problem with an open source project, you have the option to put the fix up for bidding. And believe me, thare are a LOT of smart coders out there. Of course, you trade reliability for cost.
The judge cited that southwest.com doesn't block access to concrete spaces, like the fast-finger dial-in for "WWTBAMillionaire" does.
Um. If the tickets are cheaper online than calling up (In telephone Jane voice: please note that special, Internet only fares are avilable on your website...), than it sure as heck IS blocking access to a physical place... the plane!
So at what point (if any) could Google be considered part of the infrastructure of the Web... If they just outright stopped linking to a given site, is that still their right? Could they ever get widely enough used that it would no longer be their right to arbitrarily influence page rankings? (I see a whole fleet of lawsuits lining up unless the Judge slams this one hard...)
P3P told me (email) that they had been working on a standard way to represent the rights that a program is granted when you download and run it... a computer readable EULA just concerned with privacy.
If the EULAs are copyrighted, I don't think it would be too hard to start a database of EULA "elements", specific items within EULAs. (We have the right to install brilliant on your soon-to-be-borg system, etc.) Then all you would have in the database is the list of "elements" that a EULA contained.
Besides, you'd want to do this anyhow, to track when various elements first appeared! True, the building of the EULA elements would be pretty stepp at first, but I'm guessing that after parsing out 10 EULAs, you'd have grabbed and identified most of the common points anyhow. Then you could do fun things like "Elements 5.x, 6.x are standard across all Microsoft Office products after 2001..."
IMHO: You'd want to build it in a parsed format anyhow, regardless of copyright concerns, or it won't be any fun.
He has had this software out for a while, I've tried to play with it. NOT easy stuff to pick up and figure out the guts, the source code wasn't meant for your average curious person with coding skills. (Non-OO C code, not that many comments.)
To tell the truth, I'm amazed this hasn't been snapped up by some of the digital camera manufacturers. I know Canon already has a panoramic "helper" that shows part of your last image so you can position the next one.... imagine if it had a built in "Hold down the button and wave your camera around a bit to take a wild angle pic"
Slashdot Mirror
I have the perfect plan. Calculate out exactly the percentage of people that will never return the rebate form. Then figure out the amount you need to multiply the cost of the item if you offer it for free with rebate. Be sure to charge slightly more, and you're bound to come out ahead!
(They still owe me for my $100 optical mouse. Which broke.)
The freeware package - PAYBACK v1.0 - is available from www.backfiresecurity.co.uk in both PC and Mac formats.
Or the postmodern version of rock - paper -scissors:
Kitten, tinfoil, microwave.
(Think about it.)
Share the wealth, post the sig2dats for the 6 songs you found if they are good quality. (Can't understand why they wouldn't do that at the website... afraid of appearing to lend legitimacy to Kazaa? Dunno.)
Don't get me wrong, I agree that technically, it can be done.
But are you really going to be able to get the guy on the phone in 20 minutes? (Especially for some smaller site that just made it big.)
The key would be for the offloading to not depend on the site in question. 20 minutes isn't enough to contact the person in question and get a mirror set up, but it would be just enough to download any large binary files from the site, generate P2P fingerprints for them, and store those fingerprints in either a network (ok) or within slashdot itself (better, but good luck convincing them of it!)
File:program320_dl.mov4 KB
Length:28798899Bytes,2812
UUHash:=HNBKAxJJb7mD6JjLFZyHlZL1528=
Low bandwidth version. (kazaa sig2dat)
Or any other version of a P2P sig for it?
Hold it down to one message per post. We'll send your younger self 10 of the highest-moderated questions and post your answers as soon as we get them back.
So the damage of someone going in, looking at your files, and making you loose trust in your systems was "large?"
As opposed to, say... the damage of someone going in and erasing everything they could?
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http://www.geocities.com/elifarley/macf
Might want to factor in such things as rent-a-coder sites. If you have a problem with an open source project, you have the option to put the fix up for bidding. And believe me, thare are a LOT of smart coders out there. Of course, you trade reliability for cost.
The judge cited that southwest.com doesn't block access to concrete spaces, like the fast-finger dial-in for "WWTBAMillionaire" does. Um. If the tickets are cheaper online than calling up (In telephone Jane voice: please note that special, Internet only fares are avilable on your website...), than it sure as heck IS blocking access to a physical place... the plane!
So at what point (if any) could Google be considered part of the infrastructure of the Web... If they just outright stopped linking to a given site, is that still their right? Could they ever get widely enough used that it would no longer be their right to arbitrarily influence page rankings? (I see a whole fleet of lawsuits lining up unless the Judge slams this one hard...)
P3P told me (email) that they had been working on a standard way to represent the rights that a program is granted when you download and run it... a computer readable EULA just concerned with privacy.
If the EULAs are copyrighted, I don't think it would be too hard to start a database of EULA "elements", specific items within EULAs. (We have the right to install brilliant on your soon-to-be-borg system, etc.) Then all you would have in the database is the list of "elements" that a EULA contained.
Besides, you'd want to do this anyhow, to track when various elements first appeared! True, the building of the EULA elements would be pretty stepp at first, but I'm guessing that after parsing out 10 EULAs, you'd have grabbed and identified most of the common points anyhow. Then you could do fun things like "Elements 5.x, 6.x are standard across all Microsoft Office products after 2001..."
IMHO: You'd want to build it in a parsed format anyhow, regardless of copyright concerns, or it won't be any fun.
Nope. Videobrush got boutght by IPIX, and IPIX shut it down. You can't get a copy for love no money. (I got a copy tho.)
He has had this software out for a while, I've tried to play with it. NOT easy stuff to pick up and figure out the guts, the source code wasn't meant for your average curious person with coding skills. (Non-OO C code, not that many comments.)
To tell the truth, I'm amazed this hasn't been snapped up by some of the digital camera manufacturers. I know Canon already has a panoramic "helper" that shows part of your last image so you can position the next one.... imagine if it had a built in "Hold down the button and wave your camera around a bit to take a wild angle pic"