One right you're completely forgetting in this example is the "right to refuse service", which is posted in nearly every McDonalds I've been in. If they decide that you're being a nuisance, they can ask you to leave the property, and if you don't comply, they can charge you with trespassing, which will be the charge they bring you up on in court. I hardly believe that McDonalds will blink twice about losing your money. (Good luck on your boycott! I think it's working!)
If you then post those potentially damaging pictures in your blog, then you again, will be sued by the McDonalds corporation for that, probably for defamation or slander. You don't have the right to post them, even if they are true.
Many stores (especially grocery or department stores) have a no camera policy, or "electronic recording device" policy posted near the front door. They too, have the right to kick your ass out onto the curb and ban you from their store for life.
On that episode of Seinfeld, the Soup Nazi had every right to ban Elaine, even though she did nothing wrong. Next!
They won't stop you from calling your buddy at CostCo, but they will stop you from posting those prices online, if you do it enough. Once you start relaying prices out of the store, they can do anything they want to get you out of the door.
Your rights do not end at the door, but a set of restrictions do come into effect when you walk into a store. Nearly every business is private, and what goes on inside that business is private.
In every example you have provided, you are in the wrong, and those businesses have every right to kick you out and sue you if you're dumb enough to post it onto your blog.
This is terribly bad news for Stephen King. I guess it's a good thing he retired, what with no longer being able to write a believable story about possessed cars...
I guess he better go back to walking country roads... no scratch that...
I think DirecPC would qualify as the first and longest... a 22,000 mile uplink to a satellite, followed by a 22,000 mile downlink to a base station. just because your access point's in the sky still makes it wireless, right?
If two-way is your game, then Starband is probably the first, and tied for the distance...
About the only thing we don't do for our students that you're doing is installing Outlook. We depend on the web-based mail client for that.
* We use Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, and no administrative password is necessary for what we do. * We have a method of installing printers so everybody sees the same ones- no scripts or profiles needed, it requires 3-4 extra steps per printer. Contact me if you want to know how. * Ctrl-Alt-Del is the only option on campus. It's amazing what students will pick up when they're given no options.:)
It is definitely more work to do this from the beginning, and if recent budget constraints are not working in your favor, it is nearly impossible to change. However, we feel that our students benefit a lot from having a single login id, a single password, and secure access to all their network resources from anywhere on campus.
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>People are using trash cans and recycling bins as an excuse not to do proper backups!
I've seen worse!
I have seen users put stuff into their Recycle Bin just because it's a convenient "folder" on their desktop (And yes, the "My Documents" folder was there as well, but was completely ignored.)
The inherent flaw in this solution was demonstrated when one of our helpdesk guys needed more disk space to install some patches, and emptied the Recycle bin - and erased months of work. Now, the obvious common-sense moral of this story should be, "If you play with fire, eventually you will get burned."
However, common sense does not rule here. We don't educate our administrators, presumably because they're infallible. Instead a new policy was drafted saying we have to backup the Recycle Bins on all administrative boxes and the "Trash" folders in all the Mailboxes daily.
Just to play devil's advocate, I could read this patent as saying that they deliver different content to different TLD's - which is not the reason why domain names and country codes were created. TLD's were just created to give a user a human-readable internet address.
From what I can tell, this patent makes use of already existing data in a previously unknown way. IN a nutshell, if you browsed to a certain page using this technology, you would see "color" if you were browsing from the US, and "colour" if browsing from a computer with a domainname in the UK. I would imagine this concept could be extended to automatic translations of webpages (all those Japanese pages would automatically be babel-ized to English as we viewed it from the US), and many other interesting ways, each could stem from this patent (and earning the inventor their royalties they are due.)
Finally, this patent was filed almost 4 years ago. This could definitely have been the first case of differing content by domain name.
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of books... Some of these books, such as many Stephen King books, feature a ton of gory details that are as bad as any videogame.
How can people justify making a federal case out of videogame rentals when the local library is peddling similar material to the same audience? Sure it isn't as graphic, but I know that some books were very effective at portraying the details...
Hey, whatever. Maybe this will get kids to read again, and this will really shorten the lines at the arcade for Tekken...
You were the "First" customer just like me, and yes, at first it did blow. The 180 was horrible. That's why Dish Networks replaced EVERY SINGLE SYSTEM it made with the newer, better one (Model 360).
They never "stopped making you buy a PC w/it". That was the Skyblaster model sold exclusively at Radio Shack (or Radio CRAP! as you would no doubt call it). And, they introduced the models at the same time.
And Dish does not own it and is not "selling" it back to Starband, it was a joint partnership. Dish is just backing out of the partnership, and not selling the Starband. This will get Tech Support back to Starband, where it will no doubt improve.
With the latest software, and the latest hardware, both of which are given to you free of charge, Starband is a great solution for those who are looking for high speed web surfing, which is what it advertises.
If you are a "power user", want to do mucho P2P, hack your high school, or spam a ton of people with get rich schemes, I would agree with Mr. Coward and suggest getting a local wireless solution. I don't live in the range of any Wireless, so I have to use Starband.
In the future, do some more research before flipping a lid. I can't believe you got modded *up* for that post... And if you want to flame something, go ahead and flame the fact that there aren't any Linux drivers for Starband yet, even though it's "supported"...
"The USB modem is huge, around the size of a flatbed scanner. (this was a year ago, maybe it's smaller now)"
That was the old Model 180 (which could fit easily under your monitor). The newest Starband is the Model 360, which is the size of a cable modem now, and sits on it's side, reducing the footprint by a ton. If you had an older 180, you were required to replace it with the 360 last last year.
Is there serious sentiment? I think so, they've been banning violent games for years. They also have extremely strict gun laws, including a very long background check on all people who want to buy a gun.
Hmm. Making violent games illegal didn't help. Making guns hard to get didn't help. What's left? Helping the kid out before they go crazy and wack off their school? Nah... Maybe we can ban something else. Maybe we can blame his parents. That way we can rest assured we don't have to do anything to prevent this from happening again.
Intel is between a rock and a hard place. The way copyright laws work today, if they don't vigorously oppose every possible trademark violation, it's legally impossible to go after the ones that do actually violate their trademark (e.g. if AMD started an "Athlon Inside" compaign). You can't pick and choose your enemies - you have to fight everybody.
However, they're looking like complete buttholes, a huge Fortune 100 company going after a charity. I can imagine when both names are allowed to coexist, Intel will do everything they can to make this go away quickly.
To be honest, I don't think Intel wants to win this fight. They just want to get the legal decision, win or lose. I'm pretty sure that Intel will make some pretty massive contributions to them after this is over.
Everybody seems to think that this is the "speed record", when the real speed records have to be happening behind the locked doors of the U.S. Government. Some person in-the-know at Sandia or in NORAD is probably laughing at us, saying "Gigahertz! LOL!!!"
Well, all it takes to undermine this is for another hardware manufacturer to make a "Advanced Audio CD XP", tout it as being better than CD's, put a DVD laser and electronics in their players, and some DVD quality audio in the discs. Make it so that it won't fit into/play in computer drives. Make it so that the only way to play it is to buy a special box, plug it into a telephone line in the back of the box, and a credit card in the front. Just think. You don't have to pay for a CD, all you have to do is pick one up, and pay $1 whenever you want to listen to a song.
What is stopping Sony and other hardware manufacturers from doing something underhanded as this? I mean, Sony already tried doing this with MiniDisc (1). And does everyone remember DivX (2)? Even though they both failed, there's going to be somebody who is in bed with the RIAA attempting to screw us all over with seductive advertising and hundreds of conformist pop artists backing them up...
>here in the U.S. the punishment is supposed to fit the crime
The punishment will fit the crime. Crackers deprive us of time and money, and shouldn't we punish them by taking the same away from them? How many years of work did the writers of Code Red and Nimda take away from the poor system administrators who were affected?
>any other nonviolent, arguably victimless crime that carries no statute of limitations and can get you life in prison.
What about treason? In some cases, treason can be victimless, but it'll still get you put to death if you're caught.
It has been done at my school. All they had to do was block the port that K/M uses, and voila, no more p2p. Supposedly, they dropped our bandwidth usage by over 90%.
There is no way to tell K/M to use a different port, at least from what I saw. Whatever happened to the old goals of the Internet, sharing files freely from computer to computer?
I hope Hemos is parodying the article. The grammar on that is mangled beyond anything I've ever seen on THG before. I suppose the grammar checker didn't survive this test either...
I suppose this sentencing has something to do with the SIN-flood attacks hitting my school right now. It's disrupted one of our classes today... Anybody else get hit by some luser h@x()r script kiddies who were bored during study hall?
I disagree... It seems easy to encode cartoons using a color index method, but MPEG does not do that.
MPEG2 and 4 work best when encoding blends from color to another, and reduces the number of steps in-between to something people won't notice. MPEG sucks at this. There are very few subtle variations in colors and as a result, the encoding is horribly distorted and pixelated, especially when you get a lot of panning, or writing on the chalkboard.
Well, just to clarify, a couple of episodes have a laugh track during portions. These are generally parodies of sitcoms, such as when they made fun of "Married... with Children"....
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One right you're completely forgetting in this example is the "right to refuse service", which is posted in nearly every McDonalds I've been in. If they decide that you're being a nuisance, they can ask you to leave the property, and if you don't comply, they can charge you with trespassing, which will be the charge they bring you up on in court. I hardly believe that McDonalds will blink twice about losing your money. (Good luck on your boycott! I think it's working!)
If you then post those potentially damaging pictures in your blog, then you again, will be sued by the McDonalds corporation for that, probably for defamation or slander. You don't have the right to post them, even if they are true.
Many stores (especially grocery or department stores) have a no camera policy, or "electronic recording device" policy posted near the front door. They too, have the right to kick your ass out onto the curb and ban you from their store for life.
On that episode of Seinfeld, the Soup Nazi had every right to ban Elaine, even though she did nothing wrong. Next!
They won't stop you from calling your buddy at CostCo, but they will stop you from posting those prices online, if you do it enough. Once you start relaying prices out of the store, they can do anything they want to get you out of the door.
Your rights do not end at the door, but a set of restrictions do come into effect when you walk into a store. Nearly every business is private, and what goes on inside that business is private.
In every example you have provided, you are in the wrong, and those businesses have every right to kick you out and sue you if you're dumb enough to post it onto your blog.
This one of the stories at CNN.com today:
Most believe drivers, not cars, are biggest danger
This is terribly bad news for Stephen King. I guess it's a good thing he retired, what with no longer being able to write a believable story about possessed cars...
I guess he better go back to walking country roads... no scratch that...
I think DirecPC would qualify as the first and longest... a 22,000 mile uplink to a satellite, followed by a 22,000 mile downlink to a base station. just because your access point's in the sky still makes it wireless, right?
If two-way is your game, then Starband is probably the first, and tied for the distance...
From a public school perspective:
:)
About the only thing we don't do for our students that you're doing is installing Outlook. We depend on the web-based mail client for that.
* We use Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, and no administrative password is necessary for what we do.
* We have a method of installing printers so everybody sees the same ones- no scripts or profiles needed, it requires 3-4 extra steps per printer. Contact me if you want to know how.
* Ctrl-Alt-Del is the only option on campus. It's amazing what students will pick up when they're given no options.
It is definitely more work to do this from the beginning, and if recent budget constraints are not working in your favor, it is nearly impossible to change. However, we feel that our students benefit a lot from having a single login id, a single password, and secure access to all their network resources from anywhere on campus.
>People are using trash cans and recycling bins as an excuse not to do proper backups!
I've seen worse!
I have seen users put stuff into their Recycle Bin just because it's a convenient "folder" on their desktop (And yes, the "My Documents" folder was there as well, but was completely ignored.)
The inherent flaw in this solution was demonstrated when one of our helpdesk guys needed more disk space to install some patches, and emptied the Recycle bin - and erased months of work. Now, the obvious common-sense moral of this story should be, "If you play with fire, eventually you will get burned."
However, common sense does not rule here. We don't educate our administrators, presumably because they're infallible. Instead a new policy was drafted saying we have to backup the Recycle Bins on all administrative boxes and the "Trash" folders in all the Mailboxes daily.
Beauty, eh?
Not bad..
They're back up! They recovered from the "Slashdot effect" by posting a link to the Google cache of their site.
Simple. Yet ingeneous.
Just to play devil's advocate, I could read this patent as saying that they deliver different content to different TLD's - which is not the reason why domain names and country codes were created. TLD's were just created to give a user a human-readable internet address.
From what I can tell, this patent makes use of already existing data in a previously unknown way. IN a nutshell, if you browsed to a certain page using this technology, you would see "color" if you were browsing from the US, and "colour" if browsing from a computer with a domainname in the UK. I would imagine this concept could be extended to automatic translations of webpages (all those Japanese pages would automatically be babel-ized to English as we viewed it from the US), and many other interesting ways, each could stem from this patent (and earning the inventor their royalties they are due.)
Finally, this patent was filed almost 4 years ago. This could definitely have been the first case of differing content by domain name.
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of books... Some of these books, such as many Stephen King books, feature a ton of gory details that are as bad as any videogame.
How can people justify making a federal case out of videogame rentals when the local library is peddling similar material to the same audience? Sure it isn't as graphic, but I know that some books were very effective at portraying the details...
Hey, whatever. Maybe this will get kids to read again, and this will really shorten the lines at the arcade for Tekken...
Getting a good signal (>80%) is very easy if you have a digital signal meter. If you aren't getting a good connection, contact your installer.
Also, make sure there are no obstructions in the way of the signal, and that you are using RG-6 cable for both feeds.
A good sturdy base is also required.
You were the "First" customer just like me, and yes, at first it did blow. The 180 was horrible. That's why Dish Networks replaced EVERY SINGLE SYSTEM it made with the newer, better one (Model 360).
They never "stopped making you buy a PC w/it". That was the Skyblaster model sold exclusively at Radio Shack (or Radio CRAP! as you would no doubt call it). And, they introduced the models at the same time.
And Dish does not own it and is not "selling" it back to Starband, it was a joint partnership. Dish is just backing out of the partnership, and not selling the Starband. This will get Tech Support back to Starband, where it will no doubt improve.
With the latest software, and the latest hardware, both of which are given to you free of charge, Starband is a great solution for those who are looking for high speed web surfing, which is what it advertises.
If you are a "power user", want to do mucho P2P, hack your high school, or spam a ton of people with get rich schemes, I would agree with Mr. Coward and suggest getting a local wireless solution. I don't live in the range of any Wireless, so I have to use Starband.
In the future, do some more research before flipping a lid. I can't believe you got modded *up* for that post... And if you want to flame something, go ahead and flame the fact that there aren't any Linux drivers for Starband yet, even though it's "supported"...
That was the old Model 180 (which could fit easily under your monitor). The newest Starband is the Model 360, which is the size of a cable modem now, and sits on it's side, reducing the footprint by a ton. If you had an older 180, you were required to replace it with the 360 last last year.
Is there serious sentiment? I think so, they've been banning violent games for years. They also have extremely strict gun laws, including a very long background check on all people who want to buy a gun.
Hmm. Making violent games illegal didn't help. Making guns hard to get didn't help. What's left? Helping the kid out before they go crazy and wack off their school? Nah... Maybe we can ban something else. Maybe we can blame his parents. That way we can rest assured we don't have to do anything to prevent this from happening again.
Intel is between a rock and a hard place. The way copyright laws work today, if they don't vigorously oppose every possible trademark violation, it's legally impossible to go after the ones that do actually violate their trademark (e.g. if AMD started an "Athlon Inside" compaign). You can't pick and choose your enemies - you have to fight everybody.
However, they're looking like complete buttholes, a huge Fortune 100 company going after a charity. I can imagine when both names are allowed to coexist, Intel will do everything they can to make this go away quickly.
To be honest, I don't think Intel wants to win this fight. They just want to get the legal decision, win or lose. I'm pretty sure that Intel will make some pretty massive contributions to them after this is over.
Does this violate the DMCA in some way?
Electrical Tape and Styrofoam vs. Steel Strips and Copper bowls- Which do you trust when overclocking your spare P4's?
Everybody seems to think that this is the "speed record", when the real speed records have to be happening behind the locked doors of the U.S. Government. Some person in-the-know at Sandia or in NORAD is probably laughing at us, saying "Gigahertz! LOL!!!"
Makes me wonder...
Well, all it takes to undermine this is for another hardware manufacturer to make a "Advanced Audio CD XP", tout it as being better than CD's, put a DVD laser and electronics in their players, and some DVD quality audio in the discs. Make it so that it won't fit into/play in computer drives. Make it so that the only way to play it is to buy a special box, plug it into a telephone line in the back of the box, and a credit card in the front. Just think. You don't have to pay for a CD, all you have to do is pick one up, and pay $1 whenever you want to listen to a song.
What is stopping Sony and other hardware manufacturers from doing something underhanded as this? I mean, Sony already tried doing this with MiniDisc (1). And does everyone remember DivX (2)? Even though they both failed, there's going to be somebody who is in bed with the RIAA attempting to screw us all over with seductive advertising and hundreds of conformist pop artists backing them up...
And third time's a charm...
WHERE DO YOU WORK! COme on, you can tell us...
>here in the U.S. the punishment is supposed to fit the crime
The punishment will fit the crime. Crackers deprive us of time and money, and shouldn't we punish them by taking the same away from them? How many years of work did the writers of Code Red and Nimda take away from the poor system administrators who were affected?
>any other nonviolent, arguably victimless crime that carries no statute of limitations and can get you life in prison.
What about treason? In some cases, treason can be victimless, but it'll still get you put to death if you're caught.
It has been done at my school. All they had to do was block the port that K/M uses, and voila, no more p2p. Supposedly, they dropped our bandwidth usage by over 90%.
There is no way to tell K/M to use a different port, at least from what I saw. Whatever happened to the old goals of the Internet, sharing files freely from computer to computer?
LOL!
I hope Hemos is parodying the article. The grammar on that is mangled beyond anything I've ever seen on THG before. I suppose the grammar checker didn't survive this test either...
I suppose this sentencing has something to do with the SIN-flood attacks hitting my school right now. It's disrupted one of our classes today... Anybody else get hit by some luser h@x()r script kiddies who were bored during study hall?
Put it on a quad UltraSparc 2 server w/ 4 GB of RAM, and it works a little bit faster...
Make that a whole bunch faster.
I disagree... It seems easy to encode cartoons using a color index method, but MPEG does not do that.
MPEG2 and 4 work best when encoding blends from color to another, and reduces the number of steps in-between to something people won't notice. MPEG sucks at this. There are very few subtle variations in colors and as a result, the encoding is horribly distorted and pixelated, especially when you get a lot of panning, or writing on the chalkboard.
Well, just to clarify, a couple of episodes have a laugh track during portions. These are generally parodies of sitcoms, such as when they made fun of "Married... with Children"....