Actually, Poindexter's conviction was reversed by a federal appeals court because he was granted immunity for his testimony before Congress on the Iran-Contra scandal.
So basically, he's still guilty/evil. It doesn't matter that he was granted immunity later for helping out in the case.
The closest they come to this is with the "It's Probably Just The Wind" piece, under the "Domestic Incidents" category. Click through it, and the characters move. Basically, there's a guy and a girl making out in a car. Then a monster sneaks up on them, grabs the guy, and eats him.
Anyone have any idea how much it will cost after the first year?
Probably won't cost more than $49.99/yr., otherwise people will just buy another xbox live kit for the $49.99 price which includes a free year of service.
when is it useful to save scribbles?.... How long do people keep srcribbles? It doesn't seem like it begs for being stored any longer than it takes me to lose it.
According to the 2nd reason of Microsoft's Top 10 Benefits of Tablet PC, by "using a tablet pen and Tablet PC Input Panel, you can write directly on the screen and save your notes in your own handwriting--or convert them to typed text for use in other applications. Therefore, these Tablet PC's will probably come in handy for people who jot down notes at meetings and such, and who might need to refer back to them later.
The companies have not practiced the pricing agreement since 2000. At that time, they agreed in settling a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission that they would refrain from MAP pricing for seven years.
Former FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky said at the time that consumers had been overcharged by $480 million since 1997 and that CD prices would soon drop by as much as $5 a CD as a result.
Yeah right! That has yet to happen. Actually, I believe the reverse has happened -- CD prices have increased by $5 since then.
Actually, 2-day weekend passes are $20.00 each for children under 12 or $40.00 for adults. A Saturday day pass is $12.50 for children (under 12) or $25.00 for adults. And a day pass for Sunday is $10.00 (children under 12) or $20.00 (adults).
" Not gonna happen untill it's as simple to add a file to a CD-R as it is a floppy,..."
We'll get this simplicity with Mount Rainier. From the Mount Rainer FAQ, "The purpose of the proposal made by the Mount Rainier group is to make CD-RW easier to use for data storage and interchange. The changes proposed will enable the operating system support of dragging and dropping data to CD-RW discs. Formatting delays will also be eliminated and the use will be comparable to using a hard disk or a floppy."
My question is: Are there any OSes that natively support Mount Rainier now?
I've found some of the monthly 2600 meetings helpful. They're a good place to go to to meet new people (beats sitting in front of the computer all day), and who knows, you just might learn something useful (or useless).
Okay, if they're gonna be jamming the radio and cellphone signals of protesters and other such undesireables, won't they also be in effect jammng their *own* radio and cellphone signals as well, not to mention those attending the G8?
I've thought about that too, but then I came to the conclusion that if I buy another printer each time the ink runs out, I'll only be getting a printer with half-full cartridges rather than full ones. So in actuality, I'm better off paying the $70 for the replacement cartridges because I'll be getting full ones instead of half-full ones.
"I wonder how much CompUSA/Best Buy/Wiz/etc make off of each cart they sell"
I don't know about CompUSA/Best Buy/etc... but at the (nationwide) office supply retailer I work for (who shall remain nameless), we don't make all that much on them.
For example, HP's 45A inkjet cartridge sells for $29.98. Last I checked, our cost for it (what the company pays for it) is about $26.50. That's little compared to how much HP makes off them, which according to our HP rep. is something like 60% more than what they cost to manufacture.
Judge Says Russia Software Company Can Be Tried By REUTERS
Filed at 9:56 p.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday denied final motions to dismiss a lawsuit against a Russian software company accused of violating a controversial U.S. copyright law that defense lawyers argued is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte in San Jose, California, rejected the argument of lawyers for ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. who said the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act was overly vague, violated free speech rights and infringed on the established right to ``fair use'' of copyrighted material.
Moscow-based ElcomSoft briefly sold a computer program over the Internet last year that allowed people using Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE.O) eBook Reader to circumvent copyright protections so they could copy and print digital books, as well as transfer them to other computers and have the computer read them aloud.
``The DMCA does not eliminate fair use or substantially impair the fair use rights of anyone,'' the judge wrote in a 35-page opinion. ``The fair user may find it more difficult to engage in certain fair uses with regard to electronic books, but nevertheless, fair use is still available.''
In addition, Whyte noted that there has been no generally recognized First Amendment right to make back-up copies of electronic works.
``In short, the statute bans trafficking in any device that bypasses or circumvents a restriction on copying or performing a work,'' regardless of whether it was designed to enable fair use, Whyte said.
While agreeing with defense lawyers that computer code can be speech and thus protected by the First Amendment, the judge found that in enacting the DMCA, the U.S. Congress sought to ban code not because of what it says but because of what it does.
The case is seen as a crucial test of the DMCA, which civil rights advocates and software programmers say gives copyright owners broader rights than they have over non-digital material, at the expense of individual rights to legitimate users.
Movie studios and record labels argue that the law is necessary to prevent unauthorized copying of films and music over the Internet, where digital material is easily downloaded and swapped.
FREE SPEECH PROTECTIONS OF CODE
``In the digital age, more and more conduct occurs through the use of computers and over the Internet. Accordingly, more and more conduct occurs through ``speech'' by way of messages typed onto a keyboard or implemented through the use of computer code when the object code commands computers to perform certain functions,'' Whyte said.
``The mere fact that this conduct occurs at some level through expression does not elevate all such conduct to the highest levels of First Amendment protection,'' he said.
``The DMCA does not burden substantially more speech than is necessary to achieve the government's asserted goals of promoting electronic commerce, protecting copyrights and preventing electronic piracy,'' Whyte said.
A federal prosecutor declined to comment on the ruling. Meanwhile, defense lawyer Joseph Burton, of the San Francisco law firm of Duane Morris, said it is likely he will appeal the ruling.
``It's difficult to understand how, without digital tools, you can achieve fair use of digital material,'' Burton said from a hotel room in Chicago. ``To me that's a paradox.''
The programmer who wrote the product at the heart of the case was released with the promise that charges would be dropped against him in exchange for his testimony.
Dmitry Sklyarov, 27, returned home in December and vowed to return to testify in support of his employer. He was arrested last July after speaking at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas.
A hearing is scheduled for May 20 at which the court is expected to set a trial date. ElcomSoft faces $2.25 million in fines if convicted.
The judge previously denied two other defense motions to dismiss the case.
Sharman Networks should just save themselves the hassle/trouble/headaches and forget about taking any action. The genie's been let out of its bottle. With over 80,000 downloads so far (not to mention the thousands of/.ers), this thing is gonna spread like wildfire.
Slashdot Mirror
So basically, he's still guilty/evil. It doesn't matter that he was granted immunity later for helping out in the case.
The closest they come to this is with the "It's Probably Just The Wind" piece, under the "Domestic Incidents" category. Click through it, and the characters move. Basically, there's a guy and a girl making out in a car. Then a monster sneaks up on them, grabs the guy, and eats him.
That's because he found himself nodding off during parts of the movie
Probably won't cost more than $49.99/yr., otherwise people will just buy another xbox live kit for the $49.99 price which includes a free year of service.
According to the 2nd reason of Microsoft's Top 10 Benefits of Tablet PC, by "using a tablet pen and Tablet PC Input Panel, you can write directly on the screen and save your notes in your own handwriting--or convert them to typed text for use in other applications. Therefore, these Tablet PC's will probably come in handy for people who jot down notes at meetings and such, and who might need to refer back to them later.
Eh, couldn't hurt.
Wired news is also running a story about this.
So will they be using Sioux Linux?
Former FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky said at the time that consumers had been overcharged by $480 million since 1997 and that CD prices would soon drop by as much as $5 a CD as a result.
Yeah right! That has yet to happen. Actually, I believe the reverse has happened -- CD prices have increased by $5 since then.
Actually, 2-day weekend passes are $20.00 each for children under 12 or $40.00 for adults. A Saturday day pass is $12.50 for children (under 12) or $25.00 for adults. And a day pass for Sunday is $10.00 (children under 12) or $20.00 (adults).
And it's the same with MSN. But then again, should I be surprised?
check out the Region Codes page over at OpenDVD.org for a fairly good explanation.
We'll get this simplicity with Mount Rainier. From the Mount Rainer FAQ, "The purpose of the proposal made by the Mount Rainier group is to make CD-RW easier to use for data storage and interchange. The changes proposed will enable the operating system support of dragging and dropping data to CD-RW discs. Formatting delays will also be eliminated and the use will be comparable to using a hard disk or a floppy."
My question is: Are there any OSes that natively support Mount Rainier now?
Yeah, I read about this too. It was in an issue (can't remember which one) of Maxim magazine.
Hmmm? So that explains why we've all seen so many posts with pour speling and grammar.
I've found some of the monthly 2600 meetings helpful. They're a good place to go to to meet new people (beats sitting in front of the computer all day), and who knows, you just might learn something useful (or useless).
Okay, if they're gonna be jamming the radio and cellphone signals of protesters and other such undesireables, won't they also be in effect jammng their *own* radio and cellphone signals as well, not to mention those attending the G8?
Their website reads: "SomaFM: killed by the RIAA. June 20, 2002. With CARP royalties of $500 a DAY, SomaFM cannot continue broadcasting."
So I guess that means you'll be installing Windows on it then?
I've thought about that too, but then I came to the conclusion that if I buy another printer each time the ink runs out, I'll only be getting a printer with half-full cartridges rather than full ones. So in actuality, I'm better off paying the $70 for the replacement cartridges because I'll be getting full ones instead of half-full ones.
I don't know about CompUSA/Best Buy/etc... but at the (nationwide) office supply retailer I work for (who shall remain nameless), we don't make all that much on them.
For example, HP's 45A inkjet cartridge sells for $29.98. Last I checked, our cost for it (what the company pays for it) is about $26.50. That's little compared to how much HP makes off them, which according to our HP rep. is something like 60% more than what they cost to manufacture.
Wait a minute. I thought Al Gore created the Internet?
Judge Says Russia Software Company Can Be Tried
By REUTERS
Filed at 9:56 p.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday denied final motions to dismiss a lawsuit against a Russian software company accused of violating a controversial U.S. copyright law that defense lawyers argued is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte in San Jose, California, rejected the argument of lawyers for ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. who said the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act was overly vague, violated free speech rights and infringed on the established right to ``fair use'' of copyrighted material.
Moscow-based ElcomSoft briefly sold a computer program over the Internet last year that allowed people using Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE.O) eBook Reader to circumvent copyright protections so they could copy and print digital books, as well as transfer them to other computers and have the computer read them aloud.
``The DMCA does not eliminate fair use or substantially impair the fair use rights of anyone,'' the judge wrote in a 35-page opinion. ``The fair user may find it more difficult to engage in certain fair uses with regard to electronic books, but nevertheless, fair use is still available.''
In addition, Whyte noted that there has been no generally recognized First Amendment right to make back-up copies of electronic works.
``In short, the statute bans trafficking in any device that bypasses or circumvents a restriction on copying or performing a work,'' regardless of whether it was designed to enable fair use, Whyte said.
While agreeing with defense lawyers that computer code can be speech and thus protected by the First Amendment, the judge found that in enacting the DMCA, the U.S. Congress sought to ban code not because of what it says but because of what it does.
The case is seen as a crucial test of the DMCA, which civil rights advocates and software programmers say gives copyright owners broader rights than they have over non-digital material, at the expense of individual rights to legitimate users.
Movie studios and record labels argue that the law is necessary to prevent unauthorized copying of films and music over the Internet, where digital material is easily downloaded and swapped.
FREE SPEECH PROTECTIONS OF CODE
``In the digital age, more and more conduct occurs through the use of computers and over the Internet. Accordingly, more and more conduct occurs through ``speech'' by way of messages typed onto a keyboard or implemented through the use of computer code when the object code commands computers to perform certain functions,'' Whyte said.
``The mere fact that this conduct occurs at some level through expression does not elevate all such conduct to the highest levels of First Amendment protection,'' he said.
``The DMCA does not burden substantially more speech than is necessary to achieve the government's asserted goals of promoting electronic commerce, protecting copyrights and preventing electronic piracy,'' Whyte said.
A federal prosecutor declined to comment on the ruling. Meanwhile, defense lawyer Joseph Burton, of the San Francisco law firm of Duane Morris, said it is likely he will appeal the ruling.
``It's difficult to understand how, without digital tools, you can achieve fair use of digital material,'' Burton said from a hotel room in Chicago. ``To me that's a paradox.''
The programmer who wrote the product at the heart of the case was released with the promise that charges would be dropped against him in exchange for his testimony.
Dmitry Sklyarov, 27, returned home in December and vowed to return to testify in support of his employer. He was arrested last July after speaking at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas.
A hearing is scheduled for May 20 at which the court is expected to set a trial date. ElcomSoft faces $2.25 million in fines if convicted.
The judge previously denied two other defense motions to dismiss the case.
Sharman Networks should just save themselves the hassle/trouble/headaches and forget about taking any action. The genie's been let out of its bottle. With over 80,000 downloads so far (not to mention the thousands of /.ers), this thing is gonna spread like wildfire.
If I'm not mistaken, I think you'll be able to find your "big time computer guru" somewhere in Redmond, Washington.
Wasn't he also the one who said that 640Kb memory should be enough for everybody?