"This one in particular was a warning for the air intake on a fighter jet."
Then we're talking a sticker that has to stay on past Mach 1 in subzero temperatures enduring the UV exposure at 40k feet. Or was it just a normal sticker?
You can't copyright ideas, and you can't prevent people from seeing your open source ideas. Unless you can show it is the exact same code that was simply processed, what's the problem? If your 15 minutes worth of code is so important to your business plan, maybe you should go closed source.
Can this be used in court by other victims of the RIAA? If they aren't even doing enough groundwork to know what kind of computer the people they are suing are using, this severly damages their other cases.
"People who amass collections of in excess of 1,000 mp3s (of songs they do not posses on CD) are by no stretch of the imagination "victims"."
OH, well then if thats what YOU say, then case closed. No need to go to court or anything silly like that. Lets just have a form that we fill out when we want to blame someone of something. Well run the form by you to sign, and then we can go down to the courthouse and collect our money a few days later.
Do you or people like you have any idea what a court is for? I mean its 2003, do we have to explain one more time a legal system that is hundreds of years old. Isn't this what grade school is for.
"Then tell me what makes you think this kid wouldn't absolutely love being in a Star Wars movie."
I think the kid has learned a lot about the world in the past year. I think it would be pretty safe to assume he now hates starwars seeing as how it was used as a tool to ridicule him for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of people.
I don't recall the part where he showed the tape off to all his friends or authorized its exploitation for profit on the web.
So the whole goal of life is to achieve popularity? Maybe in a teen's world.
You have to pick the lesser of two evils. Would you rather be a condescending prick with cash , or a poor laughing stock for the rest of your life. Would your rather people view you with disdain or mockery?
Keep in mind that this video has generated millions. Radio stations and web sites are using it to drive traffic to their web sites. This kid doesn't see any of that.
I can't believe people are so naive. Give him a part in a movie? Are you sure just because that is your fantasy that it is everyone else's fantasy? You already think of the guy as someone to be pitied, which is easy since you've already had your fun and yucked it up with your friends sitting around the monitor. You think that once he makes it to the set, dressed up in glorious Star Wars regalia, standing next to Mace Windu, it will be a euphoric triumph of this kid's narrow starwars themed universe. Why don't you just send him some fucking Han Solo underroos instead. Save the Star wars part for some mental patients.
If I were that kid, I would want nothing short of revenge. I would sue the hell out of their parents, take their house, make them live in a shitty aparetment. I would buy a porche with their money and drive it to school everyday, passing by the kids new getto digs just out of spite no matter how far out of the way. I would buy a video camera and set it up across the street from their apartment, and put the video feed on the internet. I would start a corp and hire a team of lawers to sue the fuck out of every radio station that so much as mentioned the video on the air. You would do all this too, this is real retribution.
Tech support sucks because people don't want you touching their Porn Station 9000, aka company laptop. Thats sound like a good idea from a sanitary standpoint. Note to users: I will not sit on your lap to work on your computer. MOVE.
Employee: You guys gonna help me?
Nick Burns: Show me what you're doing..
Employee: Well, I'm trying to save it.. so I downloaded it..
Nick Burns: Uh-huh.
Employee:..and then I pushed..
Nick Burns: Yeah.
Employee:..this button, and I..
Nick Burns: Uh-huh. Yeah. MOVE! God, do you run the Internet on this thing? It looks like it's got a 28.8, or something! [ techies laugh ]
Jingle: "'Cause he's Nick Burns, your Company Computer Guy!"
There's lots of people here in America who love killing and even some that make it their life's work. They practice their trade everyday hoping that soon they will be able to use their skills to accomplish their mission.
Nothing to be ashamed of really, unless someone looks in your freezer or under the porch.
Last I heard they were only issuing subpoenas to get names/addresses from IP numbers. I haven't read anything about suing expect those four cases a couple months ago.
I stopped reading the review at this point and knew I would not like the book:
"The pressure sends up chunks of C-60 (Fullerene) with glyphs on them."
This is like a Tom Clancy book out this week about a "new kind of war" and the terrorist threat.
Or this is like a harry potter book where harry dabbles with St Johns Wort and Ginsing.
Can you say trendy? Please authors expand your circle of knowledge beyond everyone elses before writing a fiction book. This writer probably even managed to fit in nanotech somewhere.
Why is that sad? I guess you need to explain your definition of nation and humanity.
Nations are formed to represent the will of a certain subset of living humans. Humanity, on the otherhand, is the state of being human, which I would exprect to be the sum of all qualities of humans. You can't pick out a nation and say "these people represent all of humanity" because they don't. But you can pick out a random human and use him/her as a model of humanity.
Regardless of what aspects of humanity come into play in manned spaceflight, it doesn't change reasons a nation chooses to engage in it. No nation ever launched a rocket thinking, "Gee I hope this rocket lives up the aspirations and dreams of mankind."
"US companies have to hire scarce US workers at higher pay."
Hey, thats the whole point. Where have you been. There is no scarcity of unemployed US workers. Theres 4 million unemployed people that the government will admit to. In addition new jobless claims are over 400k.
Ah, well, it only too so long for the first "If you can't compete globally humans, tough luck" troll
H1-B: First, outsourcing doesn't have to mean 'to a foreign country" as you put it. Its pretty obvious the poster meant outsourcing to H1-B holders which would be within the US. Nice try though, No points. Second, hiring managers don't have to know an applicants legal status, its obvious who just got off the boat. Finally, you get what you pay for. Period. And the "best" doesn't compete for slave jobs with wages broken down by corruption. MDs in New York make $20k, you think "the best" are fighting to get in there?
Listen, there is cool geek and there is dumb geek. This story is DUMB geek. Its just a movie. Get over it. who cares who recognized what was on the screen. A whole movie (with hot chicks even) and all you can dwell on is what was on the terminal screen?
If you got excited because you recognized what was on the terminal, what does that say about you. 1. You recognized a familiar pattern. 2. That was enough to get you excited 3. You immediately wanted to relay this information to everyone else in the theater by yelping, cheering, whatever. Instead why don't you just stay home, wear your trenchcoat and shaders, and jump off the roof trying to fly like so many before you have.
Quicken 2003 is shit. It takes 3 minutes to start up, Crawls when it is running, and tries to send all your bank statements to Quicken.com.
I guess they figure its better to have people pirate their software as long as they can keep mining people financial information. What they don't know is that nobody wants to use Quicken 2003 even for free.
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"This one in particular was a warning for the air intake on a fighter jet."
Then we're talking a sticker that has to stay on past Mach 1 in subzero temperatures enduring the UV exposure at 40k feet. Or was it just a normal sticker?
You can't copyright ideas, and you can't prevent people from seeing your open source ideas. Unless you can show it is the exact same code that was simply processed, what's the problem? If your 15 minutes worth of code is so important to your business plan, maybe you should go closed source.
Builders vs Takers. Its easier to take than to make.
Maybe Verisign should build their own "commercial" network.
"Such a pity, comrade"
haha, straight up trolling in FORBES magazine. I could write a nice troll for forbes if they need writers.
Seriously, I don't care if companies dump open source altogether. Their loss.
Can this be used in court by other victims of the RIAA? If they aren't even doing enough groundwork to know what kind of computer the people they are suing are using, this severly damages their other cases.
ISPs just resell for phone and cable companies for anything other than dialup.
"People who amass collections of in excess of 1,000 mp3s (of songs they do not posses on CD) are by no stretch of the imagination "victims"."
OH, well then if thats what YOU say, then case closed. No need to go to court or anything silly like that. Lets just have a form that we fill out when we want to blame someone of something. Well run the form by you to sign, and then we can go down to the courthouse and collect our money a few days later.
Do you or people like you have any idea what a court is for? I mean its 2003, do we have to explain one more time a legal system that is hundreds of years old. Isn't this what grade school is for.
"Then tell me what makes you think this kid wouldn't absolutely love being in a Star Wars movie."
I think the kid has learned a lot about the world in the past year. I think it would be pretty safe to assume he now hates starwars seeing as how it was used as a tool to ridicule him for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of people.
I don't recall the part where he showed the tape off to all his friends or authorized its exploitation for profit on the web.
So the whole goal of life is to achieve popularity? Maybe in a teen's world.
You have to pick the lesser of two evils. Would you rather be a condescending prick with cash , or a poor laughing stock for the rest of your life. Would your rather people view you with disdain or mockery?
Keep in mind that this video has generated millions. Radio stations and web sites are using it to drive traffic to their web sites. This kid doesn't see any of that.
I can't believe people are so naive. Give him a part in a movie? Are you sure just because that is your fantasy that it is everyone else's fantasy? You already think of the guy as someone to be pitied, which is easy since you've already had your fun and yucked it up with your friends sitting around the monitor. You think that once he makes it to the set, dressed up in glorious Star Wars regalia, standing next to Mace Windu, it will be a euphoric triumph of this kid's narrow starwars themed universe. Why don't you just send him some fucking Han Solo underroos instead. Save the Star wars part for some mental patients.
If I were that kid, I would want nothing short of revenge. I would sue the hell out of their parents, take their house, make them live in a shitty aparetment. I would buy a porche with their money and drive it to school everyday, passing by the kids new getto digs just out of spite no matter how far out of the way. I would buy a video camera and set it up across the street from their apartment, and put the video feed on the internet. I would start a corp and hire a team of lawers to sue the fuck out of every radio station that so much as mentioned the video on the air. You would do all this too, this is real retribution.
$1200 is the amount I've spent on batteries for my sony cybershot. 2-AA Last about 8 minutes.
"We did it in the middle of the night so we could destroy buildings without killing people."
Nice GUESS. Heres another one.
The US bombed in the middle of the night to enhance fear and confusion, or as they put it, shock and awe.
Damn, tech support sucks.
Tech support sucks because people don't want you touching their Porn Station 9000, aka company laptop. Thats sound like a good idea from a sanitary standpoint. Note to users: I will not sit on your lap to work on your computer. MOVE.
Employee: You guys gonna help me?
Nick Burns: Show me what you're doing..
Employee: Well, I'm trying to save it.. so I downloaded it..
Nick Burns: Uh-huh.
Employee:
Nick Burns: Yeah.
Employee:
Nick Burns: Uh-huh. Yeah. MOVE! God, do you run the Internet on this thing? It looks like it's got a 28.8, or something! [ techies laugh ]
Jingle: "'Cause he's Nick Burns, your Company Computer Guy!"
There's lots of people here in America who love killing and even some that make it their life's work. They practice their trade everyday hoping that soon they will be able to use their skills to accomplish their mission.
Nothing to be ashamed of really, unless someone looks in your freezer or under the porch.
Last I heard they were only issuing subpoenas to get names/addresses from IP numbers. I haven't read anything about suing expect those four cases a couple months ago.
I stopped reading the review at this point and knew I would not like the book:
"The pressure sends up chunks of C-60 (Fullerene) with glyphs on them."
This is like a Tom Clancy book out this week about a "new kind of war" and the terrorist threat.
Or this is like a harry potter book where harry dabbles with St Johns Wort and Ginsing.
Can you say trendy? Please authors expand your circle of knowledge beyond everyone elses before writing a fiction book. This writer probably even managed to fit in nanotech somewhere.
I realize that RIAA has subpoenaed all these peoples info, but how many lawsuits have they filed?
"These servers are for real sysadmins, and to run real server applications, not a GUI."
Dude, get over yourself. Thats all.
Why is that sad? I guess you need to explain your definition of nation and humanity.
Nations are formed to represent the will of a certain subset of living humans. Humanity, on the otherhand, is the state of being human, which I would exprect to be the sum of all qualities of humans. You can't pick out a nation and say "these people represent all of humanity" because they don't. But you can pick out a random human and use him/her as a model of humanity.
Regardless of what aspects of humanity come into play in manned spaceflight, it doesn't change reasons a nation chooses to engage in it. No nation ever launched a rocket thinking, "Gee I hope this rocket lives up the aspirations and dreams of mankind."
"US companies have to hire scarce US workers at higher pay."
Hey, thats the whole point. Where have you been. There is no scarcity of unemployed US workers. Theres 4 million unemployed people that the government will admit to. In addition new jobless claims are over 400k.
Ah, well, it only too so long for the first "If you can't compete globally humans, tough luck" troll
H1-B: First, outsourcing doesn't have to mean 'to a foreign country" as you put it. Its pretty obvious the poster meant outsourcing to H1-B holders which would be within the US. Nice try though, No points. Second, hiring managers don't have to know an applicants legal status, its obvious who just got off the boat. Finally, you get what you pay for. Period. And the "best" doesn't compete for slave jobs with wages broken down by corruption. MDs in New York make $20k, you think "the best" are fighting to get in there?
The problem with Bicyclists is that they stay on the car side of the white stripe on the 55 mph state highway.
" so do you think that all bicycles should be off the road?"
If there is an adjacent bike path or shoulder and the speed limit is 45, absolutely. Unless the bicyclists can pedal 45 mph.
Listen, there is cool geek and there is dumb geek. This story is DUMB geek. Its just a movie. Get over it. who cares who recognized what was on the screen. A whole movie (with hot chicks even) and all you can dwell on is what was on the terminal screen?
If you got excited because you recognized what was on the terminal, what does that say about you. 1. You recognized a familiar pattern. 2. That was enough to get you excited 3. You immediately wanted to relay this information to everyone else in the theater by yelping, cheering, whatever. Instead why don't you just stay home, wear your trenchcoat and shaders, and jump off the roof trying to fly like so many before you have.
"Matrix, the new superman."
Quicken 2003 is shit. It takes 3 minutes to start up, Crawls when it is running, and tries to send all your bank statements to Quicken.com.
I guess they figure its better to have people pirate their software as long as they can keep mining people financial information. What they don't know is that nobody wants to use Quicken 2003 even for free.