See what happens when you don't meet your patent quota before month end. You resort asking your interns which comes up with the most ridiculous patents ideas. How about, "a system that increases productivity through collegiate promiscuity" (i.e. going to work)? Someone should patent this so we all have to stay home.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
all the generous contributions by Sun to open source movement (OpenOffice comes to mind)
What is the difference between what IBM is doing to Sun vs what Sun is doing to Micrsoft with OpenOffice? Is that also unfair competition?
IBM is just being smart and try to capitalise on the uncertainty around Sun's future. It's an easier sell to the manager who bought Sun. Gives them an incentive to switch vendors and not lose face.
Just learned that the Russians have also partnered with Santa and he will be using that power to run his operations during the long sun-less winter. Canada is happy about this as most would feel good knowing that Santa is energically self-sufficient and using environmentally friendly technology. We should all have one of those power plants in our back yard. Imagine the BBQs!
Adding a 720p pr0n section might help. I'd pay for some good ANALysed content. Maybe this can be added as part of you internet service provider monthly fee. 0.5% of the invoice goes for YouTube access, otherwise, they block it. Just like a cable tv channel. Hmm, not sure if that's net neutral...
Aren't those folks simply reacting to complaints from other users? After all, a lot of content in Facebook is not private. I guess it's easy to test. Post some porn but don't share it and see how long before it's taken down.
Exactly. Canada is a free country. Any individual can leave Canada freely. It's up to the receiving country to check who is coming in.
To state that the border are unsafe is ridiculous. Point to the matter is this article proving that despite the change in administration, there is still a problem on top when it comes to getting the facts straight. I am disappointed but not surprised.
I'm just hoping these are unknown security exploits we're talking about. On the bright side, our IT shop religiously obeys critical patches. This means we'll get IE 8 soon.
iTunes is great but they should not have monopoly. I think one can almost argue that they have a monopoly. Especially when an artist with not much money wants to promote their own work. They'll be more successfull advertising that their works are available on "iTunes" than anywhere else.
To me it's clear that the RIAA is trying to get people to pay a premium, not for creativity but for the opportunity of making money off other people's creativity. Too much is at stake so they'll take out the big guns.
I think AllofMp3 had the perfect business model and they obviously had the price right.
SAAS turns software into a commodity. For now, companies are being sold on the cheap price per seat when in fact, they are giving up a lot more control than is initially apparent. It might be worth a look for non-mission critical systems but then, why not simply outsource the entire service? I, for one, would not feel confortable handing over any corporate data to a third party.
I thought there for just a second I read Copulation Theory class. But then I remebered I was on slashdot....cause you know, that would have been something to get excited about.
Well ASEA says they makes robots. We should let them know they are not in fact robots. I am with you that the term robot, in my mind as well, conveys the sense of at least partial autonomy. Maybe the right term to use for robots with AI should be automaton but that doesn't sound as good.
It's pointless to compare the two games. It's like saying that polo is not as much fun as soccer because the players hit the ball with a stick and they get to ride horses instead of running.
Personally, I think it's a great idea that needs marketing. Maybe add some sound and light effects and a pin-ball bumper with a laser pointer to guide it and get the shot just right.
I believe Taiwan has not signed the WIPO treaties and are doing just fine. In fact, they are booming economically. They remain very creative even if they have mastered the art of reproducing originals at a lesser cost (or bootlegging).
There's always steganography. You hide your AES encrypted data inside another container which is itself searchable. You'll need to develop clever meta data for the images which would help you search for the contents without revealing the real intention of the search. For example, you hide a letter to your boss in a jpg of man reading a letter. The meta data could say: boss, letter, new project, reading. Well, that may sound like a lot of work, using Google itself for find the source images and a bit of scripting and tagging might make it doable.
...if I tell you a story in French and you don't understand it, you will have no idea what I told you and will not be able to answer questions about my story. However, if you are able to memorize all I told you phonetically I can ask if I said a word or not just by the sound. Yet you don't know exactly what I asked for, nor the meaning of the answer but you are able to answer that question since it doesn't imply meaning.
So a possibility for the OP would be to store the information in a language unknown to anyone but to the poster. This language would need be compatible with the search algorithms used by Google. Not very practical but maybe someone can build on this.
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Maybe some cosmic being was skipping rocks. "Bet I can hit that blue one and make it skip around that star."
See what happens when you don't meet your patent quota before month end. You resort asking your interns which comes up with the most ridiculous patents ideas.
How about, "a system that increases productivity through collegiate promiscuity" (i.e. going to work)? Someone should patent this so we all have to stay home.
Don't despair, I think patents expire. We will look back at this time 200 years from now and wonder "what were we thinking!"
I hope the ruler in the photo is in centimeters and not inches. Otherwise we'll need to make room for all those Australian refugees. Scary shit!
I was paraphrasing this guy:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
Every gun, bomber, particle weapon made, means less money for those who need to go to college to make better, smarter bombs.
They have limited hardware types to consider so it might a smaller job than DirectX.
all the generous contributions by Sun to open source movement (OpenOffice comes to mind)
What is the difference between what IBM is doing to Sun vs what Sun is doing to Micrsoft with OpenOffice? Is that also unfair competition?
IBM is just being smart and try to capitalise on the uncertainty around Sun's future. It's an easier sell to the manager who bought Sun. Gives them an incentive to switch vendors and not lose face.
Just learned that the Russians have also partnered with Santa and he will be using that power to run his operations during the long sun-less winter. Canada is happy about this as most would feel good knowing that Santa is energically self-sufficient and using environmentally friendly technology. We should all have one of those power plants in our back yard. Imagine the BBQs!
Adding a 720p pr0n section might help. I'd pay for some good ANALysed content. Maybe this can be added as part of you internet service provider monthly fee. 0.5% of the invoice goes for YouTube access, otherwise, they block it. Just like a cable tv channel. Hmm, not sure if that's net neutral...
Aren't those folks simply reacting to complaints from other users? After all, a lot of content in Facebook is not private. I guess it's easy to test. Post some porn but don't share it and see how long before it's taken down.
Exactly. Canada is a free country. Any individual can leave Canada freely. It's up to the receiving country to check who is coming in.
To state that the border are unsafe is ridiculous. Point to the matter is this article proving that despite the change in administration, there is still a problem on top when it comes to getting the facts straight. I am disappointed but not surprised.
MS probably thought nobody would care about Windows 7. Especially with the new series of Apple's I'm a Mac ads.
I'm just hoping these are unknown security exploits we're talking about. On the bright side, our IT shop religiously obeys critical patches. This means we'll get IE 8 soon.
iTunes is great but they should not have monopoly. I think one can almost argue that they have a monopoly. Especially when an artist with not much money wants to promote their own work. They'll be more successfull advertising that their works are available on "iTunes" than anywhere else.
To me it's clear that the RIAA is trying to get people to pay a premium, not for creativity but for the opportunity of making money off other people's creativity. Too much is at stake so they'll take out the big guns.
I think AllofMp3 had the perfect business model and they obviously had the price right.
Crossing fingers.
SAAS turns software into a commodity. For now, companies are being sold on the cheap price per seat when in fact, they are giving up a lot more control than is initially apparent. It might be worth a look for non-mission critical systems but then, why not simply outsource the entire service?
I, for one, would not feel confortable handing over any corporate data to a third party.
I thought there for just a second I read Copulation Theory class. But then I remebered I was on slashdot. ...cause you know, that would have been something to get excited about.
Why would a competent sysadmin even design a network hooked to the general internet to begin with if security is an absolute must?
... maybe because of Internet banking? Risk, cost or convenience, pick two.
Well ASEA says they makes robots. We should let them know they are not in fact robots. I am with you that the term robot, in my mind as well, conveys the sense of at least partial autonomy. Maybe the right term to use for robots with AI should be automaton but that doesn't sound as good.
It's pointless to compare the two games. It's like saying that polo is not as much fun as soccer because the players hit the ball with a stick and they get to ride horses instead of running.
Personally, I think it's a great idea that needs marketing. Maybe add some sound and light effects and a pin-ball bumper with a laser pointer to guide it and get the shot just right.
Post a video if you find one.
I believe Taiwan has not signed the WIPO treaties and are doing just fine. In fact, they are booming economically. They remain very creative even if they have mastered the art of reproducing originals at a lesser cost (or bootlegging).
Brainstorming here...
There's always steganography. You hide your AES encrypted data inside another container which is itself searchable. You'll need to develop clever meta data for the images which would help you search for the contents without revealing the real intention of the search. For example, you hide a letter to your boss in a jpg of man reading a letter. The meta data could say: boss, letter, new project, reading.
Well, that may sound like a lot of work, using Google itself for find the source images and a bit of scripting and tagging might make it doable.
...if I tell you a story in French and you don't understand it, you will have no idea what I told you and will not be able to answer questions about my story. However, if you are able to memorize all I told you phonetically I can ask if I said a word or not just by the sound. Yet you don't know exactly what I asked for, nor the meaning of the answer but you are able to answer that question since it doesn't imply meaning.
So a possibility for the OP would be to store the information in a language unknown to anyone but to the poster. This language would need be compatible with the search algorithms used by Google. Not very practical but maybe someone can build on this.
Is Coward the only member of Anonymous? That's not much of a threat.