Under the Taco regime, we told women who showed up with female-indicating names to go get a gender neutral name in order to avoid sexual harassment problems. Celebrities could show up from time to time when their knowledge was useful... such as the ten Disney Music artists who powered user account "AnalogHole".
Apple's made up of 1% dead people like Jobs and the other founders. Woz is still alive as a result of retiring early... everybody else had too much info in their brain for the size of their head.
Windows Phone comes with Microsoft Windows as a desktop cousin, a Windows-based app store, MSN for content, Bing for search, Outlook for e-mail, SkyDrive for storage... Android comes with Chromium as a desktop cousin, a Google app store, Google's partners for content, Google for search, GMaill for e-mail, Google Drive for storage... iOS comes with MacOS as a desktop cousin, a xCode based app store, iPhone-customized sites for content, Yahoo for search, iCloud/.me for e-mail, iCould for storage....
It sure is hard to come up with a new OS... you start with GNU Linux then add your own custom programs. Just like when there's a lot of Linux distros for different uses, it's hard to attract users to an OS that doesn't have the apps yet, and hard to get developers to work with your OS for not enough users.
Oh, the trouble when all four carriers are allocated the same amount of bandwidth yet customers use them all unevenly. Let's all pile on to T-Mobile... wait a second, that makes them the #1 and therefore sucks as bad as AT&T used to... now it's Verizon's turn... would these people please learn how to ask FCC for more?
This is still more secure than the printed raised numbers system. There's already "person wasn't there" schemes in place to detect a copy of a card, and I assume that'll still be in place even if a radiation device can fool the payment sensor.
FDIC/NCUA requires that the banks know who they have deposits from and gave loans to, and BitCoin is designed to be anonymous. Lost BitCoins are like lost cash, and exchanges not lasting long prove how illiquid this "currency" is.
We've been talking BitCoin for years now... it paid billions or even a trillion to the guy who came up with it, who never identified and then disappeared. BitCoins were never convertible to dollars, just things like pizza. People who converted their whole wealth to BItCoins couldn't get money back, and there wasn't enough of an economy to meet all needs.
Third-party exchanges like the one we're discussing now are going to have problems, and not be backed up like MasterCard and Visa. This is like a bank saying everybody's money is frozen due to a system changeover... it's the kind of thing that makes customers want to leave, but there's no move possible. Buyer Beware of these scams in the future.
There's a reason they put windows on a bus... sudden starting/stopping can be damaging to a person. Even in a driverless car, there still needs to be an ability to see the stoplights to know when the car is going to slow down.
Just remember how hard it was when you were a kid that couldn't see the road. Your parents had to say "whoa" and "go" to signal you to adjust yourself.
Television is currently testing rooms 3/4 filled with displays at the walls... see how easily they redecorate the same room between GSN's The Pyramid and The Chase.
Screens are essential. They create a window into the virtual environment with a bezel around it to prove you're jumping into something not really there.
Ambient is the name of a data service that broadcasts easily-agreed-upon facts like stock quotes and sports scores and stats and weather nowcasts and AccuWeather forecasts. Marc, you need to call this new concept something else.
American tech metal (copper) designers are faced with know-nothings in the front office... they confuse customers about the price of gold (you don't pay the "spot price", you pay the "CEA price" when you're making copper for electronics) among other things. I caught one I was working for that didn't write a valid quote for months because gold moved, and their calculation didn't.
Back some time ago, Master went to Slashdot to claim they needed some information security about lock-breaking methods otherwise it'd be game over for locks. New cars today come without physical keys and rely on an RFID-like chip that when close enough unlocks the car. Most important things are now locked with PIN-locks or card locks rather than key locks.
It's basically game over for the products under the Master line... repeated combo locks and key locks just didn't last until today.
It's taking information that you have to pay for, and making it free or at least not paying the owner of the copyright what's due. It's the act of taking something that requires payment and not paying, and that's a form of theft.
I've lost something here.... we had the Happy Birthday debates here on Slashdot in the early 2000s as part of coverage of copyright, the illegal Napster, and discussion of DRM that later turned into the watermarking we use today...
How did the Happy Birthday story end?... somebody with an archive deeper than what's available on slashdot.org can answer that.
Does this movie happen to be based on the made-for TV movie Pixel Perfect from 1999?... it was about a guy who created a computer character girlfriend and then had to write the program that kept himself in love as real women rejected him.
Some people thought I was in that situation... see AIM was huge as we were mostly using modems to communicate, and it turns out a real ex-girlfriend of mine was posing for videos to become a dynamic script-able virtual character. That hasn't been released yet... and scares me greatly. It's weird seeing the girl you know outside the bezels walking around and affecting your Word document. Office 2000's Microsoft Agent/Office Assistant was cartoon characters based on the same concept.
Oh, my lead question returns a "NO!"... never-mind.
Loser pays is a typical court strategy in other places to convince losing plaintiffs to not waste the judge's time. It's common elsewhere, and occasionally happens here.
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Under the Taco regime, we told women who showed up with female-indicating names to go get a gender neutral name in order to avoid sexual harassment problems. Celebrities could show up from time to time when their knowledge was useful... such as the ten Disney Music artists who powered user account "AnalogHole".
Apple's made up of 1% dead people like Jobs and the other founders. Woz is still alive as a result of retiring early... everybody else had too much info in their brain for the size of their head.
Four down, zero to go...
Netbook? They stopped making those when they stopped distributing Windows XP!
Let's look at the grid...
Windows Phone comes with Microsoft Windows as a desktop cousin, a Windows-based app store, MSN for content, Bing for search, Outlook for e-mail, SkyDrive for storage...
Android comes with Chromium as a desktop cousin, a Google app store, Google's partners for content, Google for search, GMaill for e-mail, Google Drive for storage...
iOS comes with MacOS as a desktop cousin, a xCode based app store, iPhone-customized sites for content, Yahoo for search, iCloud/.me for e-mail, iCould for storage....
New player? You've got a lot of work to do....
It sure is hard to come up with a new OS... you start with GNU Linux then add your own custom programs. Just like when there's a lot of Linux distros for different uses, it's hard to attract users to an OS that doesn't have the apps yet, and hard to get developers to work with your OS for not enough users.
Oh, the trouble when all four carriers are allocated the same amount of bandwidth yet customers use them all unevenly. Let's all pile on to T-Mobile... wait a second, that makes them the #1 and therefore sucks as bad as AT&T used to... now it's Verizon's turn... would these people please learn how to ask FCC for more?
I thought "Cyanogen" was a new chemical for the battery supply....
Intercept isn't impersonation... just only understanding the protocol doesn't allow you to make a duplicate card.
This is still more secure than the printed raised numbers system. There's already "person wasn't there" schemes in place to detect a copy of a card, and I assume that'll still be in place even if a radiation device can fool the payment sensor.
FDIC/NCUA requires that the banks know who they have deposits from and gave loans to, and BitCoin is designed to be anonymous. Lost BitCoins are like lost cash, and exchanges not lasting long prove how illiquid this "currency" is.
We've been talking BitCoin for years now... it paid billions or even a trillion to the guy who came up with it, who never identified and then disappeared. BitCoins were never convertible to dollars, just things like pizza. People who converted their whole wealth to BItCoins couldn't get money back, and there wasn't enough of an economy to meet all needs.
Third-party exchanges like the one we're discussing now are going to have problems, and not be backed up like MasterCard and Visa. This is like a bank saying everybody's money is frozen due to a system changeover... it's the kind of thing that makes customers want to leave, but there's no move possible. Buyer Beware of these scams in the future.
There's a reason they put windows on a bus... sudden starting/stopping can be damaging to a person. Even in a driverless car, there still needs to be an ability to see the stoplights to know when the car is going to slow down.
Just remember how hard it was when you were a kid that couldn't see the road. Your parents had to say "whoa" and "go" to signal you to adjust yourself.
This is bad research, somebody cut their funding!
They need to clear some things like IPv6 before "Internet of Things" can work...
Television is currently testing rooms 3/4 filled with displays at the walls... see how easily they redecorate the same room between GSN's The Pyramid and The Chase.
Screens are essential. They create a window into the virtual environment with a bezel around it to prove you're jumping into something not really there.
Ambient is the name of a data service that broadcasts easily-agreed-upon facts like stock quotes and sports scores and stats and weather nowcasts and AccuWeather forecasts. Marc, you need to call this new concept something else.
American tech metal (copper) designers are faced with know-nothings in the front office... they confuse customers about the price of gold (you don't pay the "spot price", you pay the "CEA price" when you're making copper for electronics) among other things. I caught one I was working for that didn't write a valid quote for months because gold moved, and their calculation didn't.
Security is "stuff that matters". Information security requires some level of physical security.
Master is protected by expired patents.... they try to threaten out people who are like them, they don't have anything good to offer anymore.
Back some time ago, Master went to Slashdot to claim they needed some information security about lock-breaking methods otherwise it'd be game over for locks. New cars today come without physical keys and rely on an RFID-like chip that when close enough unlocks the car. Most important things are now locked with PIN-locks or card locks rather than key locks.
It's basically game over for the products under the Master line... repeated combo locks and key locks just didn't last until today.
but copyright infringement isn't theft.
It's taking information that you have to pay for, and making it free or at least not paying the owner of the copyright what's due. It's the act of taking something that requires payment and not paying, and that's a form of theft.
I've lost something here.... we had the Happy Birthday debates here on Slashdot in the early 2000s as part of coverage of copyright, the illegal Napster, and discussion of DRM that later turned into the watermarking we use today...
How did the Happy Birthday story end?... somebody with an archive deeper than what's available on slashdot.org can answer that.
Does this movie happen to be based on the made-for TV movie Pixel Perfect from 1999?... it was about a guy who created a computer character girlfriend and then had to write the program that kept himself in love as real women rejected him.
Some people thought I was in that situation... see AIM was huge as we were mostly using modems to communicate, and it turns out a real ex-girlfriend of mine was posing for videos to become a dynamic script-able virtual character. That hasn't been released yet... and scares me greatly. It's weird seeing the girl you know outside the bezels walking around and affecting your Word document. Office 2000's Microsoft Agent/Office Assistant was cartoon characters based on the same concept.
Oh, my lead question returns a "NO!"... never-mind.
Loser pays is a typical court strategy in other places to convince losing plaintiffs to not waste the judge's time. It's common elsewhere, and occasionally happens here.