ROTFLMAO. When you start a busniess, ANY business, you need basic liability insurance. This entrepeneurship 101. Otherwise, if something bad happens, even if its not your fault, you could be f00ked.
Well, I remember about a 6 months ago when we discussed a similar story. Shortly afterwards I was listening to NPR on the radio and heard "This program was underwritten by Microsoft", so they are definatley writing checks.
hears the deal pal - my complaint wans't that I don't want to have to use media player. I am quite content with 8.0. The problem I have is being required to upgrade to a DRM'd version on M$ software - especially when the principles of backwards compatibility dictate 8.0 should still work.
But that's M$, they break compatibility in one of two cases:
1) To kill competition
2) It's in THEIR best interests (e.g. not you best interests)
No definititve information, but oddly enough the DNS technical contact is based out of Washington. Coincidence?...
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What does the University get out of this? They have expended hours upon hours of man-power to fix a flaw in a companies software becuase I negativly impacted their ability operate. At the very least there should be some donated hardware. If I were the University President, If the University doesn't get a big donation, I'd take them to court.
But Oppenheim countered that "their arguments have already been addressed by a federal judge -- and they have been rejected. Courts have already ruled that you are not anonymous when you publicly distribute music online."
The above statement presumes that you are already guilty. At the very minimum there should be a hearing to validate that the a supeona is warrented (pun intended).
This weekend, Debian turned 10. To mark the occasion, I've written a retrospective, published at LinuxPlanet. There's also a very nice piece, based in part on my early writings about Debian as well as the retrospective, at internetnews.com."
Today I wrote a comment on Slashdot about the retrospective on Debian on LinuxPlanet.There's also a very nice comment, based in part on my early ideasfrom another slashdot story, it is, as well, retrospective.
You may have had it for a while now, but I had it first you insensitive clod! No pay me $699 dollars or else I will sue you for infringing on my intellectual property!
What is stopping ARN-ald from crushing your little girly-man body with his pumped-up biceps? I mean really, listen to me now and hear me later, how do you expect to beat ARN-ald when are a pathetic little girly-man?
Yes they ARE serious and comitted folks, but that doesn't mean that they are'nt biased. Once while voting at the local voting place, the 'helpers' were not only helping people figure out the process, but also helping them decide to vote for. "Oh you don't want to for him deary, he's the one who approved that landfill on Maple St." This is illegal, but goes on in small towns all across America.
Some enterprising White Hat has to hack one of these machines before election day so that all votes are registered to Alfred E. Newman. Then all we have to do is watch the fireworks.
You really have to differentiate between two main 'types' of music today - The one-hit-wonder versus 'real music'. The RIAA is all upset because they can't sell the one-hit-wonder anymore, people can just download it, listen to it until they are sick of it, wash, rinse, repeat. In this case, I agree with your mp3 categorization.
In the case of real music, that is, music that is a collection of tunes that you like and not just a ploy to get you to pay 17$.99 for 1 song, I disagree. I recently got into punk music, downloaded some tunes from the official pennywise website, and have since bought 3 of their albums to put on my mp3 player. When the music is good and not just a BS marketing ploy, I for one am ready to shell out some cash and I think others probably are too. Part of the reason is that with good music, you turn the corner from casual listener to _fan_ which to me seems to make all the difference.
T-Mobile GSM phones have had this capability for about two years now. The thing is that it is not active on any of the phones due to concerns about customer backlash with the whole tracking thing. Once companies have worked past the acceptence issue, you can expect T-Mobile to active this feature.
6,000 orders * $10 per order * 12 months = a whopping $720,000 per annum. Assuming product is markup up 10%, that gives us a $72,000. Less mainternance costs, less bandwidth costs, less legal fees, how much is really left over?
Is it still a flash mob if it takes place over the phone?
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You laugh, but why not an embedded IC that senses glucose levels and then uses up enough so that your balanced again? Then, you WOULD have to eat a lot of junk food, becuase this kind of system can only use up glucose, it can't create it.
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ROTFLMAO. When you start a busniess, ANY business, you need basic liability insurance. This entrepeneurship 101. Otherwise, if something bad happens, even if its not your fault, you could be f00ked.
Well, I remember about a 6 months ago when we discussed a similar story. Shortly afterwards I was listening to NPR on the radio and heard "This program was underwritten by Microsoft", so they are definatley writing checks.
hears the deal pal - my complaint wans't that I don't want to have to use media player. I am quite content with 8.0. The problem I have is being required to upgrade to a DRM'd version on M$ software - especially when the principles of backwards compatibility dictate 8.0 should still work.
But that's M$, they break compatibility in one of two cases:
1) To kill competition
2) It's in THEIR best interests (e.g. not you best interests)
No definititve information, but oddly enough the DNS technical contact is based out of Washington. Coincidence?...
Registrant:
Sucks, Linux (LINUXSUCKS2-DOM)
LinuxSucks
1 my way
my way, TN 43365
US
Domain Name: LINUXSUCKS.COM
Administrative Contact:
Sucks, Linux (KG4621) linux__sucks@HOTMAIL.COM
LinuxSucks
1 my way
my way, TN 43365
US
(221) 261-3088 fax: (914) 296-1088
Technical Contact:
Go2Net, Inc. (DA3706-ORG) dns-admin@HYPERMART.NET
Go2Net, Inc.
999 Third Ave, Ste 4700
Seattle, WA 98104
US
206.447.1595F fax: - - - - - 206.447.1625
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Record created on 09-Oct-2002.
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NS2.HYPERMART.NET 206.29.192.47
Funny that you mention this. I just noticed this today as well and sent them an email about it. Anyone who cares should do the same.
Send to:
ombudsman@npr.org
nprhelp@npr.org
Fax: (202) 513-3329
Snail mail:
635 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20001
What does the University get out of this? They have expended hours upon hours of man-power to fix a flaw in a companies software becuase I negativly impacted their ability operate. At the very least there should be some donated hardware. If I were the University President, If the University doesn't get a big donation, I'd take them to court.
In the US, you are innocent until proven guilty.
But Oppenheim countered that "their arguments have already been addressed by a federal judge -- and they have been rejected. Courts have already ruled that you are not anonymous when you publicly distribute music online."
The above statement presumes that you are already guilty. At the very minimum there should be a hearing to validate that the a supeona is warrented (pun intended).
My first reaction was, did they drop it because of community pressure or because it was ineffective?
But after two years, it yielded no positive identifications and no arrests
Unfortunatly, this is not a victory. When the technology is ready, it will be back.
...Newsgroups read YOU!
This weekend, Debian turned 10. To mark the occasion, I've written a retrospective, published at LinuxPlanet. There's also a very nice piece, based in part on my early writings about Debian as well as the retrospective, at internetnews.com."
Today I wrote a comment on Slashdot about the retrospective on Debian on LinuxPlanet.There's also a very nice comment, based in part on my early ideasfrom another slashdot story, it is, as well, retrospective.
I've had this idea for quite a while now
You may have had it for a while now, but I had it first you insensitive clod! No pay me $699 dollars or else I will sue you for infringing on my intellectual property!
Thanks for the tip, Steve!
At Sandia National Laboratories, new "smart" machines can accurately infer your intents and help you to take better decisions or avoid mistakes.
Boy, once IBM gets its day in court, McBride will wish they had one of these...
Is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing segway sightings? I saw two here in town within a two week time frame. (1 looked like a knock-off tho).
I saw Dean give a talk at MIT about a year ago and he did the whole thing while standing on a segway. Seemed like the most natural thing in the world.
You insensitive clod!!! I 'dont have legs!
Its 20GB* drive can carry over 5,000 songs ...
*1 GB equals 1,000,000,000 bytes
Why do people have such a hard time wraping their heads around the fack that 1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes?
Let's review:
1GB = 1024 MB = 1024 * 1024 KB = 1024 * 1024 *1024 bytes
OR
2^30 = 2^10 * 2^20 = 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^10
This lesson was brought to you today by the letters P H B
Dear pathetic little girly-man,
What is stopping ARN-ald from crushing your little girly-man body with his pumped-up biceps? I mean really, listen to me now and hear me later, how do you expect to beat ARN-ald when are a pathetic little girly-man?
Sincerely,
Hanz & Franz
Yes they ARE serious and comitted folks, but that doesn't mean that they are'nt biased. Once while voting at the local voting place, the 'helpers' were not only helping people figure out the process, but also helping them decide to vote for. "Oh you don't want to for him deary, he's the one who approved that landfill on Maple St." This is illegal, but goes on in small towns all across America.
Some enterprising White Hat has to hack one of these machines before election day so that all votes are registered to Alfred E. Newman. Then all we have to do is watch the fireworks.
You really have to differentiate between two main 'types' of music today - The one-hit-wonder versus 'real music'. The RIAA is all upset because they can't sell the one-hit-wonder anymore, people can just download it, listen to it until they are sick of it, wash, rinse, repeat. In this case, I agree with your mp3 categorization.
In the case of real music, that is, music that is a collection of tunes that you like and not just a ploy to get you to pay 17$.99 for 1 song, I disagree. I recently got into punk music, downloaded some tunes from the official pennywise website, and have since bought 3 of their albums to put on my mp3 player. When the music is good and not just a BS marketing ploy, I for one am ready to shell out some cash and I think others probably are too. Part of the reason is that with good music, you turn the corner from casual listener to _fan_ which to me seems to make all the difference.
BTW: Pennywise is a non-RIAA band.
T-Mobile GSM phones have had this capability for about two years now. The thing is that it is not active on any of the phones due to concerns about customer backlash with the whole tracking thing. Once companies have worked past the acceptence issue, you can expect T-Mobile to active this feature.
6,000 orders * $10 per order * 12 months = a whopping $720,000 per annum. Assuming product is markup up 10%, that gives us a $72,000. Less mainternance costs, less bandwidth costs, less legal fees, how much is really left over?
I have 2, C++ and Java in a Nutshell. Really, what else does a code Guru need?
Is it still a flash mob if it takes place over the phone?
You laugh, but why not an embedded IC that senses glucose levels and then uses up enough so that your balanced again? Then, you WOULD have to eat a lot of junk food, becuase this kind of system can only use up glucose, it can't create it.