I live in NYC. Notice that the city isn't banning hoax devices that *look* like geiger counters. They are only banning the real thing. This suggests they are more worried about the real thing getting into the hands of environmental activists than they are about preventing false terror alarms.
Waldenburg isn't the only Arkansas mayoral race with odd results. In the town of Gateway, 199 votes were cast in a mayoral race for a city with only 122 residents. In Pea Ridge, 3997 votes were cast in a mayors race for a city with 3344 residents.
I've got a CD-ROM that is unreadable under Windows XP because a Mac user put the files in a directory containing a '>' character.
If I can turn off Joliet comprehension I'll have access to the files in their original ISO9660 8.3 glory.
It's unfortunate that Microsoft's Joliet driver doesn't realize it's presenting names the OS can't tolerate. Otherwise it could replace the forbidden characters with % escapes before returning them to the OS. Or, alternately, handing the ISO9660 name to the OS if the Joliet name was forbidden by Windows' rules.
"Star Wars", dubbed for comic effect, is a plot element for S. P. Somtow's mid-1980s science fiction short story, "Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes" (collected in _Dragon's Fin Soup_ -- I think -- which is in-print.)
In rural Thailand, silent movie theaters apparently existed into the 1970s, playing recent movies, because it was cheaper to dub them live than to make prints dubbed into Thai.
The characters in Somtow's story can't resist "improving" Star Wars. Much hilarity ensues when an actual alien invasion begins in Thailand.
Lucas is within his...legal... rights to block the dubbed version, as U.S. law would consider it to be a "derivative work", which requires permission. If Thai audiences did get to see live-dubbed versions in the 1970s, I wonder if those would legally be considered derivative works that were licensed by Lucasfilms?
On some parts of the Amtrak system passengers may board without ID. Ticket purchases onboard require ID. Tickets can be purchased by credit card without ID... but tickets purchased with cash require ID.
I'd like to reprint a 1932 work by a priest. He died leaving no heirs. To find the owner, I'd need his will, the agreement he signed with his publisher, etc. This stuff was all lost around WWII.
I own a $500 parcel of Arizona desert. Every year I must pay $13 to the state for taxes, which pays so the government can remember who owns the land.
I find it troubling that intellectual property "needs" automatic free 90 year registration, but real property needs yearly tax payments.
Acting lessons, especially improvisation (comedy or drama).
Acting teaches how to communicate intentions and how to show interest when listening.
Acting can also provide a second social network (with people just as interested in role playing as you, except without silly costumes), with few social interconnections to the tech social networks (so you get to be a social hub.)
To stop spam we must make it so ineffective that it generates no revenue.
One technique is to frighten the average spam respondee. I propose that a white-hat spammer send out an advertisement for Viagra. Everyone who replies gets their full names and city listed on 'impotent-and-small.com'.
[troll] Did AT&T Unix 32V fall into the public domain? The judge said "Plaintiff has failed to demonstrate a likelihood that it can successfully defend its copyright in 32V".
What if SCO's Microsoft-funded strategy is not to FUD Linux, but to revisit that decision and show that 32V did not fall into the public domain, but *became in fact a derivative work of BSD?*
SCO claims to have contracts with IBM that entitle it to incorporate that companies code into its operating systems. We have made fun of such claims, but we haven't seen the contracts. Perhaps SCO really has that right.
Could SCO be trying to show that Linux is also a derivative work of BSD, and thus BSD-licensed (non-GPL encumbered?) [/troll]
My Indian friend tells me there are none. Why not? Cheaper to hire a person!
Here in the West 'robots' have already taken the job of selling icy cold soda. The day a robot can combine a delicious all-beef paddy with special sauce, pickle, and cheese is the day your cushy food service career is over.
As soon as the cost to spam drops just a little bit more folks will wake up.
It costs $100 to send a spam today. What if the cost drops to ten cents? Imagine a future where sending a spam is so cheap that a site could offer a web-form to span the entire globe and support that operation with a few banner ads.
The spam we get now is nothing compared to what we'll see when we get universal access to spam too cheap to meter:
"Timmy Smith (Madison Wisc. USA), come home now. Your mother would like to talk to you!"
"You: on the M14 bus, 7pm, last Thursday. Red hair, red dress. Me: wearing Diesel khakis. Our eyes met, but you got off the bus. Page me at..."
"Who ate the last banana in the fridge!?! I was saving it for dinner! Was it you, Larry (Smith, Detroit Mich. USA)?"
"Pedara Ulan (Kelabit highlands, Borneo Indon.), come home now! Your mother would like to talk to you."
I own a piece of Arizona desert worth $500. I must pay $13 in property taxes every year. The land is completely unimproved so what I'm paying for, in a sense, is police enforcement -- to kick squatters off.
"Steamboat Willie" is a valuable copyright. Disney gets free enforcement of copyright laws on this valuable piece of copyright property. "Steamboat Willie" is more valuable and needs a lot more copyright enforcement than most titles. Disney should pay more for that protection.
The purpose of property taxes are to offset the costs of providing services, like law enforcement, for the property. If Copyrights are to be considered Intellectual "Property", they must pay property taxes at their appraised value or forfeit that property.
For a copyright that could be sold on the market for $500, a fair value for copyright should be about $13/year, after the initial grace period of 14 years (perhaps with optional free renewal for another 14).
Although the county has bought the machines it has usually signed a contract making it illegal for them to hire software experts to examine the code.
Even if you could legally look at the code, and had a copy of it, it would be quite difficult to find a well-hidden "bug."
I'd like to announce a simple method of verifying the correctness of voting machines. One simply walks into a polling place on election day, dressed like a Ninja, and steals a machine. Dump the machine in a river and issue a press release claiming that it has been smuggled to Burma for reverse-engineering. If the subsequent invasion of Burma involves more than 1,000 soldiers the machine can be assumed to have been rigged.
Remember, a doctor can prescribe a drug for a different disease than it was originally approved for. This means that a new diet drug, mechanism unknown, is available now.
I think it is the third amendment that applies to the DRM situation:
Amendment III. No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
The state can't require me to provide resources for enforcement technologies. In 1776 the only enforcement technology was the soldier.
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I live in NYC. Notice that the city isn't banning hoax devices that *look* like geiger counters. They are only banning the real thing. This suggests they are more worried about the real thing getting into the hands of environmental activists than they are about preventing false terror alarms.
A few reports of a "funny smell" in the subway is major news even when machines can't detect anything. There have been huge outbreaks of a mysterious "maple sugar smell" [ http://gothamist.com/2007/11/16/as_seen_on_tv_t.php ], and other weird smells that machines can't pick up [ http://gothamist.com/2007/01/08/maple_syrup_was.php ]. A machine isn't needed to start a panic.
My phone takes 25-30 seconds to boot. It's powered by a 104 Mhz ARM-9 32 bit processor. It runs Symbian Series 60. It's a Nokia N-Gage QD.
The boot time is irritating. I will be picking my next phone for fast bootup, not the ability to play Tony Hawk.
CNN's coverage of this story puts it under the 'offbeat news' category: [ http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/11/zero.votes. ap/index.html ], as if this is some colorful rustic joke.
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Waldenburg isn't the only Arkansas mayoral race with odd results. In the town of Gateway, 199 votes were cast in a mayoral race for a city with only 122 residents. In Pea Ridge, 3997 votes were cast in a mayors race for a city with 3344 residents.
http://www.nwaonline.com/articles/2006/11/11/news
Gateway and Pea ridge use machines from Election Systems & Software. I don't know what machines were used in Waldenberg.
I've got a CD-ROM that is unreadable under Windows XP because a Mac user put the files in a directory containing a '>' character.
If I can turn off Joliet comprehension I'll have access to the files in their original ISO9660 8.3 glory.
It's unfortunate that Microsoft's Joliet driver doesn't realize it's presenting names the OS can't tolerate. Otherwise it could replace the forbidden characters with % escapes before returning them to the OS. Or, alternately, handing the ISO9660 name to the OS if the Joliet name was forbidden by Windows' rules.
"Star Wars", dubbed for comic effect, is a plot element for S. P. Somtow's mid-1980s science fiction short story, "Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes" (collected in _Dragon's Fin Soup_ -- I think -- which is in-print.)
...legal... rights to block the dubbed version, as U.S. law would consider it to be a "derivative work", which requires permission. If Thai audiences did get to see live-dubbed versions in the 1970s, I wonder if those would legally be considered derivative works that were licensed by Lucasfilms?
In rural Thailand, silent movie theaters apparently existed into the 1970s, playing recent movies, because it was cheaper to dub them live than to make prints dubbed into Thai.
The characters in Somtow's story can't resist "improving" Star Wars. Much hilarity ensues when an actual alien invasion begins in Thailand.
Lucas is within his
Amtrak, our national railway system, requires ID to ride the train: http://www.amtrak.com/idrequire.html.
On some parts of the Amtrak system passengers may board without ID. Ticket purchases onboard require ID. Tickets can be purchased by credit card without ID... but tickets purchased with cash require ID.
Ten years from now when your pipes break you'll get a tele-operated robot in the mail.
The robot will curse in Hindi as it finds problems.
See Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books.
I'd like to reprint a 1932 work by a priest. He died leaving no heirs. To find the owner, I'd need his will, the agreement he signed with his publisher, etc. This stuff was all lost around WWII.
I own a $500 parcel of Arizona desert. Every year I must pay $13 to the state for taxes, which pays so the government can remember who owns the land.
I find it troubling that intellectual property "needs" automatic free 90 year registration, but real property needs yearly tax payments.
Acting lessons, especially improvisation (comedy or drama).
Acting teaches how to communicate intentions and how to show interest when listening.
Acting can also provide a second social network (with people just as interested in role playing as you, except without silly costumes), with few social interconnections to the tech social networks (so you get to be a social hub.)
You have 'contaminated' me.
I will no longer be able to code a buffer reading algorithm with an overflow bug without violating Microsoft's IP.
Twenty years ago The Dead Kennedys album "In God We Trust, Inc" (cassette tape version) came with the notice:
"Home taping is killing big entertainment industry profits, we left side two blank so you can help."
I believe the album was released in 1981.
To stop spam we must make it so ineffective that it generates no revenue.
One technique is to frighten the average spam respondee. I propose that a white-hat spammer send out an advertisement for Viagra. Everyone who replies gets their full names and city listed on 'impotent-and-small.com'.
According the the vendor's PDF, the XA/21 runs on IBM AIX6000, SUN Solaris, or Motorola AIX.
Not SCO.
"Happy Birthday" is public domain. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/5/112441/628
The story you reference, Melancholy Elephants, can be read at http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___ 1.htm.
[troll]
Did AT&T Unix 32V fall into the public domain? The judge said "Plaintiff has failed to demonstrate a likelihood that it can successfully defend its copyright in 32V".
What if SCO's Microsoft-funded strategy is not to FUD Linux, but to revisit that decision and show that 32V did not fall into the public domain, but *became in fact a derivative work of BSD?*
SCO claims to have contracts with IBM that entitle it to incorporate that companies code into its operating systems. We have made fun of such claims, but we haven't seen the contracts. Perhaps SCO really has that right.
Could SCO be trying to show that Linux is also a derivative work of BSD, and thus BSD-licensed (non-GPL encumbered?)
[/troll]
IBM's trackpoint mouse does this and has been shipping for several years.
t ml
http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/healthycomputing/indev.h
I have both IBM and Microsoft mice, and I prefer the scroll wheel. It requires less effort to go really fast for short distances.
Internet Explorer (5.5) supports horizontal scrolling with the trackpoint on the mouse, but Mozilla (1.4) does not.
Have you ever seen a Coke machine in India?
My Indian friend tells me there are none. Why not? Cheaper to hire a person!
Here in the West 'robots' have already taken the job of selling icy cold soda. The day a robot can combine a delicious all-beef paddy with special sauce, pickle, and cheese is the day your cushy food service career is over.
Want fries with that?
As soon as the cost to spam drops just a little bit more folks will wake up.
..."
It costs $100 to send a spam today. What if the cost drops to ten cents? Imagine a future where sending a spam is so cheap that a site could offer a web-form to span the entire globe and support that operation with a few banner ads.
The spam we get now is nothing compared to what we'll see when we get universal access to spam too cheap to meter:
"Timmy Smith (Madison Wisc. USA), come home now. Your mother would like to talk to you!"
"You: on the M14 bus, 7pm, last Thursday. Red hair, red dress. Me: wearing Diesel khakis. Our eyes met, but you got off the bus. Page me at
"Who ate the last banana in the fridge!?! I was saving it for dinner! Was it you, Larry (Smith, Detroit Mich. USA)?"
"Pedara Ulan (Kelabit highlands, Borneo Indon.), come home now! Your mother would like to talk to you."
I own a piece of Arizona desert worth $500. I must pay $13 in property taxes every year. The land is completely unimproved so what I'm paying for, in a sense, is police enforcement -- to kick squatters off.
"Steamboat Willie" is a valuable copyright. Disney gets free enforcement of copyright laws on this valuable piece of copyright property. "Steamboat Willie" is more valuable and needs a lot more copyright enforcement than most titles. Disney should pay more for that protection.
The purpose of property taxes are to offset the costs of providing services, like law enforcement, for the property. If Copyrights are to be considered Intellectual "Property", they must pay property taxes at their appraised value or forfeit that property.
For a copyright that could be sold on the market for $500, a fair value for copyright should be about $13/year, after the initial grace period of 14 years (perhaps with optional free renewal for another 14).
Although the county has bought the machines it has usually signed a contract making it illegal for them to hire software experts to examine the code.
Even if you could legally look at the code, and had a copy of it, it would be quite difficult to find a well-hidden "bug."
I'd like to announce a simple method of verifying the correctness of voting machines. One simply walks into a polling place on election day, dressed like a Ninja, and steals a machine. Dump the machine in a river and issue a press release claiming that it has been smuggled to Burma for reverse-engineering. If the subsequent invasion of Burma involves more than 1,000 soldiers the machine can be assumed to have been rigged.
"... the zonisamide group lost 14.1 pounds of body weight versus 2.2 pounds for the group on placebo."
Remember, a doctor can prescribe a drug for a different disease than it was originally approved for. This means that a new diet drug, mechanism unknown, is available now.
I think it is the third amendment that applies to the DRM situation:
Amendment III. No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
The state can't require me to provide resources for enforcement technologies. In 1776 the only enforcement technology was the soldier.
I'll raise you 50 cubits, Starbuck!
Image from http://www.katee-sackhoff.com/ "an unofficial website" for the new future Starbuck.
How is "Phssthpok" pronounced?