I think the idea is you put a small number of high payout machines in a highly visible place, and the rest of the machines payout far less. Pull em in with the high visibility low number stuff, suck em dry with the machines that aren't already taken...
30 seconds? Really? To scan 65000 or so ports? You're full of shit. I bit bucket your port scan, and it takes a hell of a lot longer than that. Assuming you wait just 1second for a reply on any given port, its gonna take you 65000 seconds to map my IP address. Think about it...
I wonder if the M$ guy that filed this patent got the idea from having to hold the power button down on his desktop for more than 5 seconds all the time?
I absolutely have to agree. I drive an older model BMW. Even when I have to replace something expensive on it, like the driveshaft ($500), I'm still waaaay ahead of my neighbor. He has a $50,000 Jeep, his payments are in the $700/month range. So I keep spending about $1000/year on repairs, and avoid the nasty new car payments.
I think you would find that most states have legal gambling, most of the time in the form of a lottery. Not to mention all of the native american run casinos.
Also, you don't need a precedent to overturn a gambling law, you just need to pass a bill. Its a vote thing, not a legal issue.
TIVO should team up with WalMart. Whenever a commercial comes up, and is for a product that you want, you could push the thumbs up button and purchase that item. Get stuff shipped right to your home. Advertisers would piss themselves for this type of service.
I need to be able to put my thumb on the side of a book, flip through and feel the breeze in my face while watching the pages go by...
Thats a good point. Jog dials go a long way to helping with this. What I think would work well with something like this is a small slide that moves nearly the entire length of the device, that you can also push from side to side for single page adjustments.
I absolutely agree. Where I work we have a CISCO access server with T1s used for dialup access, it replaced some M$ RAS server about 5 years ago. I havn't been able to get one person to stop calling it a RAS server. Hell, they even call the RADIUS server a RAS server for that matter...
New Rule! You can only drive something you can push at least 10 feet on a smooth level surface, unless you take the type of course required to obtain a class C drivers license (or whatever it is that professional truck drivers have).
First, the library did purchase a copy of the book, they don't make any copies themselves.
I said I was putting MP3s I had legally purchased up on a P2P site so I could download them from somewhere else.
Second, it would cost more to photocopy most books than to buy them. Thats irrelevant for the point of my question...
OTOH you can also check out CDs from your local library and copy them fairly cheaply, but the library has demonstrated significant non-infringing use for several decades.
My point exactly. If I put an MP3 I OWN LEGALLY on a P2P site, how am I different from a library? Does the fact that I am intending to use the P2P service for a non-infringing use make it legal for me to do it?
Implement it in combination with a onetime type password arrangement. You look up what the series of knocks is supposed to be on your secureID card (or whatever), then knock in the combination it tells you to use. Tie it in with the server you want to get into, and the port you actually connect to for ssh can be different every time.
IE, secureID says sequence is "1234 1441 1114 5123", you knock on the first three, and 5123 is the ssh port activated for you only.
How does a library get out of this type of "illegal distribution" mess? Someone can go in and photocopy and entire book, which I'm pretty sure is outside of fair use. It seems like just the person that actually made the illegal copy would be guilty of performing an illegal act thought, and not the library.
With respect to the DRM files, I'm not suggesting that the person that puts them up cracks them. I'm suggesting they put up files that are protected by DRM, and so unless the downloader actually breaks the DRM, they would be useless. Nevermind the fact that a lot of the DRM tech out there is trivial to circumvent.
Oh come on, how hard is it to create an invoice? I wouldn't feel bad at all about faking an invoice to return a product that was sold to me under false pretenses.
So I wonder if I could form an LLC, and make it clear that the computer belongs to the company. Then they would be suing my company, which I really hold no personal stake in. So what if I have to shut it down, its just a sham anyway.
You know what I think is actually going on with SCO? I think the lawfirms that work for some of the big companies that are being sued approached SCO in the first place. They offered SCO $50k to bring a suit against IBM, NOVELL, whoever, full well knowing that their client would require their services which could be billed into the millions.
Funny, I enjoyed reading his blog, much more than many of the articles posted here. I'll probably remember much of his story, and likely be able to retell it to people when the subject comes up. Thats pretty good communication if you ask me. Just because his grammar isn't up to snuff doesn't mean his communication skills are lacking.
Isn't there something in copyright law that says if you don't actively defend your copyright, you lose it. So if they sat back and ignored people copying their software they could lose the right to prevent people from doing stuff with it?
Well, this is for the bloodstream, so it wouldn't do much for urine tests. Also, isn't THC stored in fatty tissues, and released over time? If so, that would make this next to useless for that purpose.
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I think the idea is you put a small number of high payout machines in a highly visible place, and the rest of the machines payout far less. Pull em in with the high visibility low number stuff, suck em dry with the machines that aren't already taken...
I wonder if the application was uber compressed down to only 100 bytes too?
30 seconds? Really? To scan 65000 or so ports? You're full of shit. I bit bucket your port scan, and it takes a hell of a lot longer than that. Assuming you wait just 1second for a reply on any given port, its gonna take you 65000 seconds to map my IP address. Think about it...
I wonder if the M$ guy that filed this patent got the idea from having to hold the power button down on his desktop for more than 5 seconds all the time?
I absolutely have to agree. I drive an older model BMW. Even when I have to replace something expensive on it, like the driveshaft ($500), I'm still waaaay ahead of my neighbor. He has a $50,000 Jeep, his payments are in the $700/month range. So I keep spending about $1000/year on repairs, and avoid the nasty new car payments.
I think you would find that most states have legal gambling, most of the time in the form of a lottery. Not to mention all of the native american run casinos.
Also, you don't need a precedent to overturn a gambling law, you just need to pass a bill. Its a vote thing, not a legal issue.
TIVO should team up with WalMart. Whenever a commercial comes up, and is for a product that you want, you could push the thumbs up button and purchase that item. Get stuff shipped right to your home. Advertisers would piss themselves for this type of service.
BTW, I hate WalMart.
I need to be able to put my thumb on the side of a book, flip through and feel the breeze in my face while watching the pages go by...
Thats a good point. Jog dials go a long way to helping with this. What I think would work well with something like this is a small slide that moves nearly the entire length of the device, that you can also push from side to side for single page adjustments.
There was no startship troopers movie, just a decent shower scene.
Don't forget ISC, I hear their stuff gets used a lot...
I absolutely agree. Where I work we have a CISCO access server with T1s used for dialup access, it replaced some M$ RAS server about 5 years ago. I havn't been able to get one person to stop calling it a RAS server. Hell, they even call the RADIUS server a RAS server for that matter...
If this was just some guys blog I'd have to agree, but this dork was paid for this review. What a bunch of utter nonsense.
On second thought, this guy is a genious. He just wrote, "Ooh, look, its shiny and red!", and got paid for it.
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You can only drive something you can push at least 10 feet on a smooth level surface, unless you take the type of course required to obtain a class C drivers license (or whatever it is that professional truck drivers have).
First, the library did purchase a copy of the book, they don't make any copies themselves.
I said I was putting MP3s I had legally purchased up on a P2P site so I could download them from somewhere else.
Second, it would cost more to photocopy most books than to buy them. Thats irrelevant for the point of my question...
OTOH you can also check out CDs from your local library and copy them fairly cheaply, but the library has demonstrated significant non-infringing use for several decades.
My point exactly. If I put an MP3 I OWN LEGALLY on a P2P site, how am I different from a library? Does the fact that I am intending to use the P2P service for a non-infringing use make it legal for me to do it?
Implement it in combination with a onetime type password arrangement. You look up what the series of knocks is supposed to be on your secureID card (or whatever), then knock in the combination it tells you to use. Tie it in with the server you want to get into, and the port you actually connect to for ssh can be different every time.
IE, secureID says sequence is "1234 1441 1114 5123", you knock on the first three, and 5123 is the ssh port activated for you only.
How does a library get out of this type of "illegal distribution" mess? Someone can go in and photocopy and entire book, which I'm pretty sure is outside of fair use. It seems like just the person that actually made the illegal copy would be guilty of performing an illegal act thought, and not the library.
With respect to the DRM files, I'm not suggesting that the person that puts them up cracks them. I'm suggesting they put up files that are protected by DRM, and so unless the downloader actually breaks the DRM, they would be useless. Nevermind the fact that a lot of the DRM tech out there is trivial to circumvent.
Is it illegal to put mp3s you have legally purchased on a P2P network, and then download them from somewhere else, say at work?
Would it be legal to put their DRM files (which I understand are trivial to break) up on the P2P network so you can download them from somewhere else?
In fact, it is perfectly legal to download music off the internet. It is against copyright law to share it, which is what they were doing.
Huh? What?
So if I go to a library and photocopy a book in its entirety, the library is at fault for sharing it, not me for photocopying it?
Oh come on, how hard is it to create an invoice? I wouldn't feel bad at all about faking an invoice to return a product that was sold to me under false pretenses.
So I wonder if I could form an LLC, and make it clear that the computer belongs to the company. Then they would be suing my company, which I really hold no personal stake in. So what if I have to shut it down, its just a sham anyway.
I think the award would have to go to pretty much anyone with a last name ending in "stien" in Germany in the 40s...
You know what I think is actually going on with SCO? I think the lawfirms that work for some of the big companies that are being sued approached SCO in the first place. They offered SCO $50k to bring a suit against IBM, NOVELL, whoever, full well knowing that their client would require their services which could be billed into the millions.
Funny, I enjoyed reading his blog, much more than many of the articles posted here. I'll probably remember much of his story, and likely be able to retell it to people when the subject comes up. Thats pretty good communication if you ask me. Just because his grammar isn't up to snuff doesn't mean his communication skills are lacking.
Isn't there something in copyright law that says if you don't actively defend your copyright, you lose it. So if they sat back and ignored people copying their software they could lose the right to prevent people from doing stuff with it?
Well, this is for the bloodstream, so it wouldn't do much for urine tests. Also, isn't THC stored in fatty tissues, and released over time? If so, that would make this next to useless for that purpose.