The NRA will be coming to teach you that gun ownership is your right!
"So now you see why owning a fully automatic M16 assult rifle is not only safe, but it protects you and your family"
And now for the... American Tabacco association! yey!
"Hi kids, i know what your thinking, smoking is bad! but im here today to tell you that smoking is ok! theres no prooven link to heart problems!"
Ok everyone, time to get out your Coke books! yes, its time for "Coke is Good For You(tm) Maths!
"If Jimmy drinks one can of Coca Cola(r) and Sammy drinks 1 can of another brand, who will have saved the most money and provided more Coca Cola(r) sponsored computers to their school?"
And now for a special guest whos here to tell you about abstinance
"Ok kids I want you to remember one thing: When you have sex, protected or not, you are playing russian roulette! er whats that? [wisper wisper] Oh im sorry apparently the NRA has informed me that im tainting their organisations image by refering to guns and STD's in the same sentence. Just remember, its not ok to have the feelings your having, and what you do in the privacy of your own home is the Presidents Business!"
After lunch we've got another exciting visitor for you! yes its mr big from Durex Condoms! [Man in a big condom costume walks in]
"Hellooo everyone! Im here to tell you that what the other guy said this morning is all wrong, aslong as you only use Durex(r) extra strong condoms we'll keep you safe!!"
Hi my names Darl McBride, and im from a company called SCO... --
Ok so does anyone now not see a problem with allowing any old corporate interest to be pushed on school kids at the highest bidder and for schools to be essentially bribed when they should be getting enough money to run properly anyway!? AFAIC its the same deal with politicians, bribery is not capitalism!
I'd have come right back at them with "Has any other record label ever ripped off your music and sold it as their own without giving you credit or royalties? How did this make you feel":P
Mine are after nuclear test names (Trinity, Able, Baker etc), that means i get double the weird stares and sometimes a slight shuffle in the other direction. I figured the US tested more than enough nukes to last me a life-time;)
Yes its fair to say that if you agreed to the terms, you are responsible if you break them. But that brings up an interesting point - given that allot of laws these days are there to 'protect the public' maybe there should be some laws or atleast a campaign to make people more aware that these terms and EULA's exist. Maybe it should be a legal requirement that you sign a physical document - that way you would be more inclined to read it (well i say that, but some people will sign anything). What happens when these agreements become stricter? isnt it entirely feasable that someone could literally agree to have the shirt taken off their back without realising? Don't get me wrong, i think if people dont read contracts they deserve what they get, but i also think people like that (which includes me - i've never read a contract in my life) should be protected to some extent. There are many ways this could be done eg creating more general purpose licenses like the GPL - once you've read one, you only have to read the heading of another one and you know its identical, it could also involve the recent idea of icons on software packaging - but on agreements aswell.
Actually i was doing my best to troll, and yes VOIP will become a 'black market' because there is just no way to say "oh those encrypted packets over there, the're VOIP traffic lets tax them"
Are bullets taxed? im pretty sure bullets should have a heavey tax - say 150%? No? thought not, so dont tax the fucking internet you republican dick-head gun toting rednecks!
I've given up on the argument, this man is hell bent on doing what he wants. I don't believe the poll figures, i dont believe the general public has been well informed in any way. I still havnt been told why these cards are a good idea or what they will do out-side some politician bull-shit speak about racism, terrorism and fool-proof identity. At no point has Blunkett given a straight out detailed and logical explanation to this, and if he did i certainly didnt hear it. This man is a fucking moron.
The arrow is restricted by the amount of energy you put in - ie you can easily 'feel' that the force your pulling with will make the arrow embed itself into the nearest tree, or fall to the ground 2 meters away. similarly the car is restricted by the amount of energy put in which could be measured, or just put a stupidly small amount of energy in for a small amount of time and its safe. I dont know why they dont test it, maybe they're the sort of people who build domino's up and then pack them away without knocking them down!
NF: How does the suit effect someone like myself, who uses the JPG format to store images?
Noonan: We had a chat with the legal department and they said that targeting everyday users would be very difficult, we're going after the big boys first, and then we will see. I know that SCO is working on a technology to handle mass litigation and the RIAA has been using a prototype with some promising results. Some laywers are saying that this is going to be the hot ticket next year - mass litigation and end user licensing, but for the moment we're gonna stick with the corporations.
NF: What exactly is the problem?
Noonan: Our technology, which we bought back in the 80's has been used without permission for nearly 20 years, we figured that if we slept on it and let the corporations build up big then we could harvest the money off them and we'd be rolling in it!
NF: It sounds like you are going after people who are using your technology to make money.
Noonan: Heh yeah, well ya know, they're the ones we can milk the most.
NF: Would a free software program that stores images in JPG format, like the GIMP, be violating your IP rights by using JPG?
Noonan: Im certainly not going to stick my dick in the pie right now and give you an answer to that, I need to talk to my PR department first, but as i said, in the future we may go for a solution using SCO's Litigation Server technology.
Ah but imagine the possibilities when the AI wont hand over your money to a robber! Although at some points its going to have to make the decision between "give me your money or i shoot your users brains out" - the ultimate turing test!
Read the article but still not sure how it would stop a man-in-the-middle? True it would require that you disrupted communication but thats feasable - eg if someone is using their card on their cell-phone, kick in a cell-phone jammer as soon as the person speaks into the card, the card still plays the sound for you to record it but it doesnt get through the call? it could also work the same way on a comprimised computer or malicious web-site (think IE browser bug that allows your active-x to hi-jack someone elses)?
People have to remember that the transaction isnt secure until its been made.
Idiot leaders: Lets do it like this Expert Geeks: NOOO ANYTHING BUT THAT Idiot leaders: Yes! do it like this! Expert Geeks: This is very very stupid and will go very wrong.
BANG: the space shuttle blows up, the nuclear reactor goes critical, the virus gets released, the entire network goes down, the power dies, the system cant be updated without costing millions, the software crashes, false positives and negatives happen, the security is by-passed etc.
Will this book be banned under the DMCA? Will the author be held without trial or media attention? Will the new European DMCA laws mean even Europe can't read it? find out in next weeks exciting episode of "When Fucking Corporate Asswipes Dictate Stupid Laws to Corrupt Senators!"
More often than not the patent is designed by the most expensive lawyers in town to be as general purpose as they can get away with, and the poor engineer who's expected to design a product that violates this patent must spend hours figuring out an obscure way to do the same thing. Is preserving the market for mechanical calculating devices a good thing??
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{since one typically is not so interested simply in the song "Baby One More Time" but in Britney Spears' particular rendition of "Baby One More Time"}
Actually i think most people couldnt care less who sings some catchy melody, thats why people hum songs - its generally not the singer we want to hear its the song.
We have to ask ourselves "Whats more important, preventing copyright violations, or giving people freedom of speech" and even though it might be a simple answer to you and me and the bill of rights and many other human rights conventions, the RIAA thinks its copyright, and their vote is worth more than ours.
Coolio the rap-bot will hunt down y'all punks who been tradin da songs and cap u in da head!
Where do we draw the line here? Is it ok to swap CD's with friends and let them copy them? would police really go to the length of busting people for that? no then what happens if you give friends copies of your music online - say by emailing an mp3? will that still get you in jail? i think not! Even if filesharing gets pushed further back to the point where people chat on IM before sharing songs (In a totally encrypted manner) then thats what will happen and the government and RIAA can keep their fucking noses out of my private conversations. You could kinda parallel this with drug dealing and prostitution, police regularly pretend to be customers so they can make a bust and theres no way to tell whos who, but close the gap abit and make sure you keep a tight-knit network of friends and the police will have a hard time getting in. So where do you draw the line? would the RIAA like to believe they can bust two friends looking over eachothers music collection?
Could someone (maybe a senator?) explain to me: if the entire purpose of patents is to promote innovation and provide an incentive to innovate then WTF does any new innovation require the inventor to spend 3 years to check that it doesnt infringe 10,000 patents? In the computer world things change on a weekly basis, can we _please_ make patents expire much much faster and stop all this stupid non-sense with people having ownership of ideas that play a totally obvious role in our lifes or where infact covered by another idea: case study: pop-up windows! dont make me fucking laugh this should have been thrown out of court within 30 seconds, one click shopping:
ME: Hi, SHOPKEEPER: Hey Theo how can i help you? ME: id like this and that please, SHOPKEEPER: Certainly ill charge it to your tab?
now if you came into MY court with this patent mr amazon i would fucking get down from my stand and BEAT YOU WITH MY GAVEL! fuck you!
I see a big market for a roughly palm pilot sized gadget similar to this but it would be very cheap and loosing it wouldnt be a big deal, inside it would be a dumb terminal with a cheap low-powered wireless connection. The usefulness would come from its ability to connect to other things and use them as hosts (this needs quite abit of companies working together) for example it could connect to the phone in your pocket and thus become the interface to your phone (it would send back the position you pressed on the screen), and would obviously be able to access the net etc and view things stored on your phone - including books you'd downloaded, it could also interface with mp3 players, cameras etc etc. Public places like airports could have a stack of them at the entrance - you pick one up and the host computer can tell you where you are and where you need to go (it knows what wireless 'cell' you're in) and give you something to read while waiting, you dump it on a stack as you board the plane and its durable enough that the cleaners can dunk them in disinfectant before returning them to the entrance. It can naturally can tell if you try to steal it (although its cheap so no big deal) and if you really wanted to be big brother you could require people carry one and enter a code regularly to proove they still have it. This would be the ultimate disposable device.
yep its abit like sinclairs electric car frenzy, and theres geeky and theres geeky!:P I think it might be useful for transport around a campus or warehouse and maybe for tourists in certain areas. And certainly as a toy/gimick.
Slashdot Mirror
The NRA will be coming to teach you that gun ownership is your right!
"So now you see why owning a fully automatic M16 assult rifle is not only safe, but it protects you and your family"
And now for the... American Tabacco association! yey!
"Hi kids, i know what your thinking, smoking is bad! but im here today to tell you that smoking is ok! theres no prooven link to heart problems!"
Ok everyone, time to get out your Coke books! yes, its time for "Coke is Good For You(tm) Maths!
"If Jimmy drinks one can of Coca Cola(r) and Sammy drinks 1 can of another brand, who will have saved the most money and provided more Coca Cola(r) sponsored computers to their school?"
And now for a special guest whos here to tell you about abstinance
"Ok kids I want you to remember one thing: When you have sex, protected or not, you are playing russian roulette! er whats that? [wisper wisper] Oh im sorry apparently the NRA has informed me that im tainting their organisations image by refering to guns and STD's in the same sentence. Just remember, its not ok to have the feelings your having, and what you do in the privacy of your own home is the Presidents Business!"
After lunch we've got another exciting visitor for you! yes its mr big from Durex Condoms! [Man in a big condom costume walks in]
"Hellooo everyone! Im here to tell you that what the other guy said this morning is all wrong, aslong as you only use Durex(r) extra strong condoms we'll keep you safe!!"
Hi my names Darl McBride, and im from a company called SCO...
--
Ok so does anyone now not see a problem with allowing any old corporate interest to be pushed on school kids at the highest bidder and for schools to be essentially bribed when they should be getting enough money to run properly anyway!? AFAIC its the same deal with politicians, bribery is not capitalism!
I'd have come right back at them with "Has any other record label ever ripped off your music and sold it as their own without giving you credit or royalties? How did this make you feel" :P
I guess its a step up from soviet russia, over there School Programs fund the MPAA!
Mine are after nuclear test names (Trinity, Able, Baker etc), that means i get double the weird stares and sometimes a slight shuffle in the other direction. I figured the US tested more than enough nukes to last me a life-time ;)
Yes its fair to say that if you agreed to the terms, you are responsible if you break them. But that brings up an interesting point - given that allot of laws these days are there to 'protect the public' maybe there should be some laws or atleast a campaign to make people more aware that these terms and EULA's exist. Maybe it should be a legal requirement that you sign a physical document - that way you would be more inclined to read it (well i say that, but some people will sign anything). What happens when these agreements become stricter? isnt it entirely feasable that someone could literally agree to have the shirt taken off their back without realising? Don't get me wrong, i think if people dont read contracts they deserve what they get, but i also think people like that (which includes me - i've never read a contract in my life) should be protected to some extent. There are many ways this could be done eg creating more general purpose licenses like the GPL - once you've read one, you only have to read the heading of another one and you know its identical, it could also involve the recent idea of icons on software packaging - but on agreements aswell.
Actually i was doing my best to troll, and yes VOIP will become a 'black market' because there is just no way to say "oh those encrypted packets over there, the're VOIP traffic lets tax them"
Are bullets taxed? im pretty sure bullets should have a heavey tax - say 150%? No? thought not, so dont tax the fucking internet you republican dick-head gun toting rednecks!
I've given up on the argument, this man is hell bent on doing what he wants. I don't believe the poll figures, i dont believe the general public has been well informed in any way. I still havnt been told why these cards are a good idea or what they will do out-side some politician bull-shit speak about racism, terrorism and fool-proof identity. At no point has Blunkett given a straight out detailed and logical explanation to this, and if he did i certainly didnt hear it. This man is a fucking moron.
The arrow is restricted by the amount of energy you put in - ie you can easily 'feel' that the force your pulling with will make the arrow embed itself into the nearest tree, or fall to the ground 2 meters away. similarly the car is restricted by the amount of energy put in which could be measured, or just put a stupidly small amount of energy in for a small amount of time and its safe. I dont know why they dont test it, maybe they're the sort of people who build domino's up and then pack them away without knocking them down!
NF: How does the suit effect someone like myself, who uses the JPG format to store images?
Noonan: We had a chat with the legal department and they said that targeting everyday users would be very difficult, we're going after the big boys first, and then we will see. I know that SCO is working on a technology to handle mass litigation and the RIAA has been using a prototype with some promising results. Some laywers are saying that this is going to be the hot ticket next year - mass litigation and end user licensing, but for the moment we're gonna stick with the corporations.
NF: What exactly is the problem?
Noonan: Our technology, which we bought back in the 80's has been used without permission for nearly 20 years, we figured that if we slept on it and let the corporations build up big then we could harvest the money off them and we'd be rolling in it!
NF: It sounds like you are going after people who are using your technology to make money.
Noonan: Heh yeah, well ya know, they're the ones we can milk the most.
NF: Would a free software program that stores images in JPG format, like the GIMP, be violating your IP rights by using JPG?
Noonan: Im certainly not going to stick my dick in the pie right now and give you an answer to that, I need to talk to my PR department first, but as i said, in the future we may go for a solution using SCO's Litigation Server technology.
Ah but imagine the possibilities when the AI wont hand over your money to a robber! Although at some points its going to have to make the decision between "give me your money or i shoot your users brains out" - the ultimate turing test!
Read the article but still not sure how it would stop a man-in-the-middle? True it would require that you disrupted communication but thats feasable - eg if someone is using their card on their cell-phone, kick in a cell-phone jammer as soon as the person speaks into the card, the card still plays the sound for you to record it but it doesnt get through the call? it could also work the same way on a comprimised computer or malicious web-site (think IE browser bug that allows your active-x to hi-jack someone elses)?
People have to remember that the transaction isnt secure until its been made.
Oh baby yeah! Let me litigate your intellectual property! mmmm show me your code!
Oh yeah! my stock is going up! yeah my stock is so hard! suck it! pump it then suck it!
Whats worse - buying this, or not buying it because its techically the wrong size?
Well come on over to England! we've been enjoying rip-off prices for years!
This seems to happen time and time again:
Idiot leaders: Lets do it like this
Expert Geeks: NOOO ANYTHING BUT THAT
Idiot leaders: Yes! do it like this!
Expert Geeks: This is very very stupid and will go very wrong.
BANG: the space shuttle blows up, the nuclear reactor goes critical, the virus gets released, the entire network goes down, the power dies, the system cant be updated without costing millions, the software crashes, false positives and negatives happen, the security is by-passed etc.
Expert Geeks: See! we fucking told you idiots!
Anyone care to add some examples here?
Will this book be banned under the DMCA? Will the author be held without trial or media attention? Will the new European DMCA laws mean even Europe can't read it? find out in next weeks exciting episode of "When Fucking Corporate Asswipes Dictate Stupid Laws to Corrupt Senators!"
More often than not the patent is designed by the most expensive lawyers in town to be as general purpose as they can get away with, and the poor engineer who's expected to design a product that violates this patent must spend hours figuring out an obscure way to do the same thing. Is preserving the market for mechanical calculating devices a good thing??
This is surely a witches book and must be burnt!
{since one typically is not so interested simply in the song "Baby One More Time" but in Britney Spears' particular rendition of "Baby One More Time"}
Actually i think most people couldnt care less who sings some catchy melody, thats why people hum songs - its generally not the singer we want to hear its the song.
We have to ask ourselves "Whats more important, preventing copyright violations, or giving people freedom of speech" and even though it might be a simple answer to you and me and the bill of rights and many other human rights conventions, the RIAA thinks its copyright, and their vote is worth more than ours.
Coolio the rap-bot will hunt down y'all punks who been tradin da songs and cap u in da head!
Where do we draw the line here? Is it ok to swap CD's with friends and let them copy them? would police really go to the length of busting people for that? no then what happens if you give friends copies of your music online - say by emailing an mp3? will that still get you in jail? i think not! Even if filesharing gets pushed further back to the point where people chat on IM before sharing songs (In a totally encrypted manner) then thats what will happen and the government and RIAA can keep their fucking noses out of my private conversations. You could kinda parallel this with drug dealing and prostitution, police regularly pretend to be customers so they can make a bust and theres no way to tell whos who, but close the gap abit and make sure you keep a tight-knit network of friends and the police will have a hard time getting in. So where do you draw the line? would the RIAA like to believe they can bust two friends looking over eachothers music collection?
Could someone (maybe a senator?) explain to me: if the entire purpose of patents is to promote innovation and provide an incentive to innovate then WTF does any new innovation require the inventor to spend 3 years to check that it doesnt infringe 10,000 patents? In the computer world things change on a weekly basis, can we _please_ make patents expire much much faster and stop all this stupid non-sense with people having ownership of ideas that play a totally obvious role in our lifes or where infact covered by another idea: case study: pop-up windows! dont make me fucking laugh this should have been thrown out of court within 30 seconds, one click shopping:
ME: Hi,
SHOPKEEPER: Hey Theo how can i help you?
ME: id like this and that please,
SHOPKEEPER: Certainly ill charge it to your tab?
now if you came into MY court with this patent mr amazon i would fucking get down from my stand and BEAT YOU WITH MY GAVEL! fuck you!
damit patents piss me off so much.
I see a big market for a roughly palm pilot sized gadget similar to this but it would be very cheap and loosing it wouldnt be a big deal, inside it would be a dumb terminal with a cheap low-powered wireless connection. The usefulness would come from its ability to connect to other things and use them as hosts (this needs quite abit of companies working together) for example it could connect to the phone in your pocket and thus become the interface to your phone (it would send back the position you pressed on the screen), and would obviously be able to access the net etc and view things stored on your phone - including books you'd downloaded, it could also interface with mp3 players, cameras etc etc. Public places like airports could have a stack of them at the entrance - you pick one up and the host computer can tell you where you are and where you need to go (it knows what wireless 'cell' you're in) and give you something to read while waiting, you dump it on a stack as you board the plane and its durable enough that the cleaners can dunk them in disinfectant before returning them to the entrance. It can naturally can tell if you try to steal it (although its cheap so no big deal) and if you really wanted to be big brother you could require people carry one and enter a code regularly to proove they still have it. This would be the ultimate disposable device.
yep its abit like sinclairs electric car frenzy, and theres geeky and theres geeky! :P I think it might be useful for transport around a campus or warehouse and maybe for tourists in certain areas. And certainly as a toy/gimick.