When a company forgets to see if an original creator is dead before they try and steal their work. As of late, companies are either patenting things that are beyond stupid or things already done by other people, cept that most of the original creators are dead. Looks like CMGI made a slight mistake. Can you imaging the mood in the board room today.
CEO - "what! he's not dead? who the hell told me he was dead and that there was nothing to stop us?"
Johnson - "Umm, I did sir."
CEO - "Johnson, thats it, I wanted a piece of the easy money/stupid patant pie and you just blew it."
Johnson - " I take it I'm fired then sir?"
CEO - "No, I want you to go kill that guy first, then go and track down every signle geek that belongs to slashdot and kill them so that there will no longer be anyone that might know that this idea isn't original."
It really is a tough call. i think I feel as many parents do, I don't want any kind of child porn real/fake to be legal. I've seen alot of argument that acting murders on tv fall into the same catagory as this fake child porn. Let me say that I can see where these people come from, but it really is different (specialy if you have a child of your own).
I know it seem bias but murder unfortunalty has become almost socialy acceptable to see on tv/read about/see pictures of the sceen in the paper. Yes, people that murder have underlying problems just like pedophiles. But we are already feeding one psycho catagory with tons of media coverage, why start feeding another? Why possibly help create more of these kinds of people. I say, the hell with making fake child porn legal. Our kinds don't need this kind of thing being unleashed.
Apple may have a fanless system, but the heat is still there. Not as much as there used to be, there has been progress made. Only real problem is, not everyone wants a Mac. Alot can be learned from Mac as well though, thanks for pointing out that the pc market isn't the only onw ith low power/heat offerings
Micro fans are pretty cool, they definitly show that over time, everything gets smaller in th IT world. But let's face it, we don't need armies of micro fans cooling our hardware. What we need are better built chips that use less watts and produce less heat. Transmeta's Crusoe processor is a pretty good example. This is the direction we really need to move in. However, it's also nice to know that for the things that will never be able to go low heat, that there is a immerging solution on the way.
It might just be me but suing over IP seems to have become a cliche in the IT world/court system. In the last year Suing over IP become like dumping a whole cow in a pen a rabbid starving animals. Everyone suddenly thought it was easy money and that anything could be considered IP. No it's just another cancer on the court system.
Now with the rant out of the way, do screen shots fall under the same laws as movie screenshots? If so then I can see Nitendo having a small issue over it but in the long run wouldn't it be more free advertisment?
I don't know much about DDOS so if I'm talking out my arse, just ignore me.
Is it possible to trace route the connections the attacks are comming through? If so, would it be possible to find the closest router points to each of the sources and have the controlling IPS become aware of the abuse and filter it out?
I'm sure this must be a very basic way to look at things but if it could be accomplished it might buy enough time to let everyone calm down and think about how to block it rather then having to think franticly which almost always allows for oversight.
My question would have to be what influenced you to take a shot at using linux?
Back when I got into it, it was because I was tired of getting nuked off irc and had heard that only this unknown OS called Linux was what these nuke kiddies were using to do it. So I set off to find out what Linux was and use it to defend myself.
Now, 5 years later. I run IRC servers on it, database servers, use it as a work station and run web servers. I never did get around to learning how to nuke people with it though.
The way I see it, make the source and a binary available and let the developer decide what they want. Screenshots (if the project is far enough that they can be made avail) are always a good thing to have up on the project site. Though I know I miss a good app sometime, as a user, I somtimes make a call on what app I want to use based on how it looks.
A comprimize of having both up wouldn't hurt a thing. In all actuallity, a developer may not have all the binaries and libs required for the project at the time he looks at it, he may base his decision to help on if he can use the app, find a bug, then look in the souce to see if it's something he can fix.
So far from all the reviews I've read, they all say this first generation P4 just isn't worth the buyers effort. First off, the price is enough to scare off most interested folks. Secondly, the benchmarks just haven't been all that great. The chips power comsumption/heat-displacement allows it to fight for the right to be your home heating solution.
My questions would be, now with the new board, will it support the next batch of P4's? One's that can manage SMP? It seams like maybe Asus is jumping the gun just a hair since revised P4's can't be to far around the corner.
Overall the P4 just doesn't add up to be anything but expensive. New chip, new board, new case, new power supply. Thats an aweful lot of new things needed just to get 400Mhz more then the leading compitition. Is it worth it yet? I say no. Things should get very interesting in the next 2 years as we should see the fast approche of the 3Gz mark with offerings from both Intel and AMD and what I think will be the beginning of he desktop server market and the slow end of the desktop pc erra.
Granted that this has been posted before, it's still the best hack I've seen for the old atari's. With X-mas just around the corner, wouldn't it be great to give/recieve one of these? Some people like me have tons of old Atari carts but no working console to enjoy them on.
Maybe if we hit this guy's site enough, he'll get the idea that we want these things.
The stupid patent generator will be targeted to large companies looking to patent anything they can before someone else does. The generator functions by using a large database of some existing patents and a whole lot of dumb ideas. The MySQL string (which I have also patented) used to perform this does so by fragmenting the existing patents and combining parts from the Dumb ideas table. End result is a new patent idea that is both stupid and possibly effective at creating lawsuits that will jam up the corts years.
Small Print
All patents generated by the "Stupid Patent Generator" will thereby become patented property of Stupid Patent Generator Inc. and it's respective owners
A chain of events that would be nice.
1. B&N gives Amazon the finger
2. BT's hyperlink claim kills Amazons 1 click patent.
3. The 1968 Stanford University film blows BT's claims all to hell.
4. CmdrTaco Super Hero extrordinair finds a method to stop stupid pantents and patents the process.
Our friendly neighbors over at Salon have This similar article up in which they even go as far as taking a light hearted jab at slashdot not having anything about the topic matter up by they time of their posting. They also mention something about being opinionated, but thats just their opinion I'm sure.
I mean X-ray's of course. This sounds like a good way for surgens to operate on area's with less need of X-rays first which could give the doc's just enough extra time to save a life or two. Could also be good for other medical inspections, rather then take a biopsy of you stomache, lets inject it with this and peer right into it and have a look-see. "ahh, had the tuna plate huh"
no matter what the company, you will find those that praise or flame them. As for getting back a server that still suffered from the same problem, bad show on VA's part. Not to mention the slothlyness shown in getting it to you. However, going to a platform that they don't support doesn't win you the nobel prise either. Typicly there are reasons that a company doesn't support things. Always make damn sure how something like that can effect your warrenty. Not to mention, get it in writting.
Every company I've delt with has given me an equal share of great service right along with the crappy. It's just how things work. You can't please everyone all the time. But don't you wish they'd still try?
If I read the article correctly, then as long as some part of the network was in passed through the effected boundries, then MI5 would be able to gain access to all the keys. I'm gathering that from the statement shown by PSIX that they would ahve to mvoe their operation completly out of england.
Once this is actually in effect, it will be interesting to see if the Brittish internet market takes a large hit and becomes somewhat of a dirty little island that you venture to at your own risk.
There is one Linux friendly ISP out there that I know of. FreeInet is similar to NetZero in which is uses ad interface for the service. However, it can be bypassed in windows with just a regualr dial-up connection which means that Linux users can also follow suit. Now with this method, this also means that you are bypassing how the company stays in business, so if you must have free internet access and you bypass the ad interface for FreeInet then please do the right thing and at least spend some time each day on their homesite clicking on some adds.
I know, it may be boring, it may seem stupid, but there really arn't too many Free ISP's that are Linux friendly. Let's try and help those that are, and maybe in return, more companies will follow suit. The Linux community is to large to be ignored completly.
As much as I would hate to see apple make such a stupid move. There may be some truth to it. According to apple's webpage on the PowerCube's graphics they will be using the rage 128. Really bad move on apple's part me thinks.
Sounds like a great idea, porting over something this nice for linux/unix. But like I've already seen, my question would be, when can it actually be expected, and just how well supported will it really be? If it's really supported, or just works like it supposed to, then his would be a great utility for backing up mail servers, or nfs servers or any signle purpose style servers.
However, the ability to use it as a source of making DVD movies under linux would be nice a well. I'm not up to speed if there is really anything out there for linux that allows you to make DVD movies.
All in all, it still seems like a bit of vapor hides this ware. We'll just have to wait and see I guess.
Mainly, we all know there is a large enough problem with Cyber-Squatting. Adding another TLD would be like adding another log to the fire. At the same time, are there enough TLD's still left out there to go around for much longer? More TLD's will be added in the future I'm sure, but something like.gnu as great as it sounds, would more likely become a target of ridicule, or an arguing point for those that want TLD's added like.MS or.BSD.
Maybe TLD's like.FND (Foundation),.COL (Collection) or.HAB (Habitat). Something like that is more the direction TLD's should take. Then again, who the hell knows what NSI will do.
Personaly I find this to be a very odd play for AMD. I guess I would have to ask if maybe the reason for it is that the chips arn't as stable as advertized? Or now that AMD has stolen the spot light a bit from Intel, are they picking up Intels bad habbits?
Either way I see it becomming a sore spot fast. I've been a loyal AMD consumer and overclocker but I guess I knew this would happen at some point. It would be too esay to make your own 1ghz chip with those chips and the new Asus board. Not to mention alot cheaper.
I agree with some previous posts that there is a comparison of computers to tv. I'd have to agree to a certain point. But my point is that it will never matter what the object is in the classroom, someone is going to complain. They have complained about everything from calculators and now computers. No matter the teaching aid used, there will always be someone against it simply cause they feel that they didn't have that when they were in school and they don't see it's place in the classroom.
Times change, and so should people. No you can't block your children from everything on the internet. But how many of you site your children infront of the TV while you make dinner or do laundry? Do you think your children arn't exposed to some of the very same things? Or is the TV just more socialy accepted? Why not, they felt the same way when TV's started replacing radio's.
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Todays american society is one of the worst places for the technology to fall on. As a prime example, when that statement is made, does it not anger you. Jon isn't attacking any one person, but the ppl of america as a whole. Over all the general attitude in america sucks. We are a very dangerous society with our great notion of superiority over everything. This project would be better served by a representitive from every country that can be involved working on this, or something of that fashion.
While a rep from every country could cause nothing to get done in the end, that might be alright. Who's to say that we definitly got the gnome mapping correct. The human race has made mistakes before, we are bound to make them again. I think there should be some movement on the project, but that it should be very slow.
Jon may have added a very urgent and sharp tone to the article, but he also made a few good points. This is something we should watch. "Yeah, too bad that 1940s Germany didn't get a hold of this information" Todays private industry has the ability to make Hitler look like Santa Clause. The weight of resposability of this project is enough for the entire world to feel. The human race would be wise to choose carefully what it does with it.
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When a company forgets to see if an original creator is dead before they try and steal their work. As of late, companies are either patenting things that are beyond stupid or things already done by other people, cept that most of the original creators are dead. Looks like CMGI made a slight mistake. Can you imaging the mood in the board room today.
CEO - "what! he's not dead? who the hell told me he was dead and that there was nothing to stop us?"
Johnson - "Umm, I did sir."
CEO - "Johnson, thats it, I wanted a piece of the easy money/stupid patant pie and you just blew it."
Johnson - " I take it I'm fired then sir?"
CEO - "No, I want you to go kill that guy first, then go and track down every signle geek that belongs to slashdot and kill them so that there will no longer be anyone that might know that this idea isn't original."
CEO - "Then kill yourself for being stupid."
It really is a tough call. i think I feel as many parents do, I don't want any kind of child porn real/fake to be legal. I've seen alot of argument that acting murders on tv fall into the same catagory as this fake child porn. Let me say that I can see where these people come from, but it really is different (specialy if you have a child of your own).
I know it seem bias but murder unfortunalty has become almost socialy acceptable to see on tv/read about/see pictures of the sceen in the paper. Yes, people that murder have underlying problems just like pedophiles. But we are already feeding one psycho catagory with tons of media coverage, why start feeding another? Why possibly help create more of these kinds of people. I say, the hell with making fake child porn legal. Our kinds don't need this kind of thing being unleashed.
Apple may have a fanless system, but the heat is still there. Not as much as there used to be, there has been progress made. Only real problem is, not everyone wants a Mac. Alot can be learned from Mac as well though, thanks for pointing out that the pc market isn't the only onw ith low power/heat offerings
Micro fans are pretty cool, they definitly show that over time, everything gets smaller in th IT world. But let's face it, we don't need armies of micro fans cooling our hardware. What we need are better built chips that use less watts and produce less heat. Transmeta's Crusoe processor is a pretty good example. This is the direction we really need to move in. However, it's also nice to know that for the things that will never be able to go low heat, that there is a immerging solution on the way.
It might just be me but suing over IP seems to have become a cliche in the IT world/court system. In the last year Suing over IP become like dumping a whole cow in a pen a rabbid starving animals. Everyone suddenly thought it was easy money and that anything could be considered IP. No it's just another cancer on the court system.
Now with the rant out of the way, do screen shots fall under the same laws as movie screenshots? If so then I can see Nitendo having a small issue over it but in the long run wouldn't it be more free advertisment?
I don't know much about DDOS so if I'm talking out my arse, just ignore me.
Is it possible to trace route the connections the attacks are comming through? If so, would it be possible to find the closest router points to each of the sources and have the controlling IPS become aware of the abuse and filter it out?
I'm sure this must be a very basic way to look at things but if it could be accomplished it might buy enough time to let everyone calm down and think about how to block it rather then having to think franticly which almost always allows for oversight.
My question would have to be what influenced you to take a shot at using linux?
Back when I got into it, it was because I was tired of getting nuked off irc and had heard that only this unknown OS called Linux was what these nuke kiddies were using to do it. So I set off to find out what Linux was and use it to defend myself.
Now, 5 years later. I run IRC servers on it, database servers, use it as a work station and run web servers. I never did get around to learning how to nuke people with it though.
The way I see it, make the source and a binary available and let the developer decide what they want. Screenshots (if the project is far enough that they can be made avail) are always a good thing to have up on the project site. Though I know I miss a good app sometime, as a user, I somtimes make a call on what app I want to use based on how it looks.
A comprimize of having both up wouldn't hurt a thing. In all actuallity, a developer may not have all the binaries and libs required for the project at the time he looks at it, he may base his decision to help on if he can use the app, find a bug, then look in the souce to see if it's something he can fix.
Just my thoughts as a user.
So far from all the reviews I've read, they all say this first generation P4 just isn't worth the buyers effort. First off, the price is enough to scare off most interested folks. Secondly, the benchmarks just haven't been all that great. The chips power comsumption/heat-displacement allows it to fight for the right to be your home heating solution.
My questions would be, now with the new board, will it support the next batch of P4's? One's that can manage SMP? It seams like maybe Asus is jumping the gun just a hair since revised P4's can't be to far around the corner.
Overall the P4 just doesn't add up to be anything but expensive. New chip, new board, new case, new power supply. Thats an aweful lot of new things needed just to get 400Mhz more then the leading compitition. Is it worth it yet? I say no. Things should get very interesting in the next 2 years as we should see the fast approche of the 3Gz mark with offerings from both Intel and AMD and what I think will be the beginning of he desktop server market and the slow end of the desktop pc erra.
Joint venture with Train for a home heating system
Showing a kid firing up Quake 3 and at the same time all the lgihts in the house start to dim
Use the Dog from the Gico commercials that in the heat suit to carry the PIV on screen
Have the Blue Guys Vs the Bunny Men in a game of Hot potato using the PIV Chip rather then a Potato
Granted that this has been posted before, it's still the best hack I've seen for the old atari's. With X-mas just around the corner, wouldn't it be great to give/recieve one of these? Some people like me have tons of old Atari carts but no working console to enjoy them on.
Maybe if we hit this guy's site enough, he'll get the idea that we want these things.
The stupid patent generator will be targeted to large companies looking to patent anything they can before someone else does. The generator functions by using a large database of some existing patents and a whole lot of dumb ideas. The MySQL string (which I have also patented) used to perform this does so by fragmenting the existing patents and combining parts from the Dumb ideas table. End result is a new patent idea that is both stupid and possibly effective at creating lawsuits that will jam up the corts years.
Small Print
All patents generated by the "Stupid Patent Generator" will thereby become patented property of Stupid Patent Generator Inc. and it's respective owners
A chain of events that would be nice.
1. B&N gives Amazon the finger
2. BT's hyperlink claim kills Amazons 1 click patent.
3. The 1968 Stanford University film blows BT's claims all to hell.
4. CmdrTaco Super Hero extrordinair finds a method to stop stupid pantents and patents the process.
Our friendly neighbors over at Salon have This similar article up in which they even go as far as taking a light hearted jab at slashdot not having anything about the topic matter up by they time of their posting. They also mention something about being opinionated, but thats just their opinion I'm sure.
Whats the possability that gates has taken a liking to the borg/gates img used here on slashdot and is attempting to make chips for implants?
I mean X-ray's of course. This sounds like a good way for surgens to operate on area's with less need of X-rays first which could give the doc's just enough extra time to save a life or two. Could also be good for other medical inspections, rather then take a biopsy of you stomache, lets inject it with this and peer right into it and have a look-see. "ahh, had the tuna plate huh"
no matter what the company, you will find those that praise or flame them. As for getting back a server that still suffered from the same problem, bad show on VA's part. Not to mention the slothlyness shown in getting it to you. However, going to a platform that they don't support doesn't win you the nobel prise either. Typicly there are reasons that a company doesn't support things. Always make damn sure how something like that can effect your warrenty. Not to mention, get it in writting.
Every company I've delt with has given me an equal share of great service right along with the crappy. It's just how things work. You can't please everyone all the time. But don't you wish they'd still try?
If I read the article correctly, then as long as some part of the network was in passed through the effected boundries, then MI5 would be able to gain access to all the keys. I'm gathering that from the statement shown by PSIX that they would ahve to mvoe their operation completly out of england.
Once this is actually in effect, it will be interesting to see if the Brittish internet market takes a large hit and becomes somewhat of a dirty little island that you venture to at your own risk.
There is one Linux friendly ISP out there that I know of. FreeInet is similar to NetZero in which is uses ad interface for the service. However, it can be bypassed in windows with just a regualr dial-up connection which means that Linux users can also follow suit. Now with this method, this also means that you are bypassing how the company stays in business, so if you must have free internet access and you bypass the ad interface for FreeInet then please do the right thing and at least spend some time each day on their homesite clicking on some adds.
I know, it may be boring, it may seem stupid, but there really arn't too many Free ISP's that are Linux friendly. Let's try and help those that are, and maybe in return, more companies will follow suit. The Linux community is to large to be ignored completly.
As much as I would hate to see apple make such a stupid move. There may be some truth to it. According to apple's webpage on the PowerCube's graphics they will be using the rage 128. Really bad move on apple's part me thinks.
Sounds like a great idea, porting over something this nice for linux/unix. But like I've already seen, my question would be, when can it actually be expected, and just how well supported will it really be? If it's really supported, or just works like it supposed to, then his would be a great utility for backing up mail servers, or nfs servers or any signle purpose style servers.
However, the ability to use it as a source of making DVD movies under linux would be nice a well. I'm not up to speed if there is really anything out there for linux that allows you to make DVD movies.
All in all, it still seems like a bit of vapor hides this ware. We'll just have to wait and see I guess.
Mainly, we all know there is a large enough problem with Cyber-Squatting. Adding another TLD would be like adding another log to the fire. At the same time, are there enough TLD's still left out there to go around for much longer? More TLD's will be added in the future I'm sure, but something like .gnu as great as it sounds, would more likely become a target of ridicule, or an arguing point for those that want TLD's added like .MS or .BSD.
.FND (Foundation), .COL (Collection) or .HAB (Habitat). Something like that is more the direction TLD's should take. Then again, who the hell knows what NSI will do.
Maybe TLD's like
Personaly I find this to be a very odd play for AMD. I guess I would have to ask if maybe the reason for it is that the chips arn't as stable as advertized? Or now that AMD has stolen the spot light a bit from Intel, are they picking up Intels bad habbits?
Either way I see it becomming a sore spot fast. I've been a loyal AMD consumer and overclocker but I guess I knew this would happen at some point. It would be too esay to make your own 1ghz chip with those chips and the new Asus board. Not to mention alot cheaper.
I agree with some previous posts that there is a comparison of computers to tv. I'd have to agree to a certain point. But my point is that it will never matter what the object is in the classroom, someone is going to complain. They have complained about everything from calculators and now computers. No matter the teaching aid used, there will always be someone against it simply cause they feel that they didn't have that when they were in school and they don't see it's place in the classroom.
Times change, and so should people. No you can't block your children from everything on the internet. But how many of you site your children infront of the TV while you make dinner or do laundry? Do you think your children arn't exposed to some of the very same things? Or is the TV just more socialy accepted? Why not, they felt the same way when TV's started replacing radio's.
Todays american society is one of the worst places for the technology to fall on. As a prime example, when that statement is made, does it not anger you. Jon isn't attacking any one person, but the ppl of america as a whole. Over all the general attitude in america sucks. We are a very dangerous society with our great notion of superiority over everything. This project would be better served by a representitive from every country that can be involved working on this, or something of that fashion.
While a rep from every country could cause nothing to get done in the end, that might be alright. Who's to say that we definitly got the gnome mapping correct. The human race has made mistakes before, we are bound to make them again. I think there should be some movement on the project, but that it should be very slow.
Jon may have added a very urgent and sharp tone to the article, but he also made a few good points. This is something we should watch. "Yeah, too bad that 1940s Germany didn't get a hold of this information" Todays private industry has the ability to make Hitler look like Santa Clause. The weight of resposability of this project is enough for the entire world to feel. The human race would be wise to choose carefully what it does with it.