OpenOffice should sue for "unlauterer Wettbewerb". A competitor of theirs is using scare tactics to dissuade people from distributing OpenOffice. It's as if Burger King employees disguised as FDA inspectors raided a Mac Donald, showed phony badges, and told all customers standing in line that the hamburgers were infested with salmonella...
To those flaming against these "evil patentmongers", in this instance it may actually be a good thing:
Just think about why we had the problem with antibiotic-resistant staph in the first place: overuse of antibiotics. While in the old days antibiotics where reserved for serious diseases, nowadays, they are prescribed for the smallest flu and the faintest cough.
Keeping this new wonder medicine patented will ensure that it will stay expensive enough that it will only be used when really needed. Or else we might get some Antibiotic resistant staph antibiotic antibiotic resistant staph...
[I'd say the U.S. mistimed its Afghanistan venture, though, since the Taliban had enough time to actively seek out and destroy that giant Buddha relic.]
Actually, the distruction of that relic happened months before September 11th...
The last time I checked "america" wasn't spelled with a "k."
You're right. It's not spelled with one k. It's actually spelled with three k:
Amerikkka.
The country were being black is considered to be almost as bad as thinking independantly...
Btw, did you know why there are weapons inspections in Iraq, but none in North Korea?
Easy: North Korea does have weapons of mass destruction (nukes) while Iraq does not. And the last thing you want to do is to corner a country which has weapons of mass destruction, especially if you are a Coward such as Bush.
welcome to america.. we have so many laws we can put you in prison for a long time for any reason we want.... but if you want to get off light.. kill or rape someone... those are our lower crimes.
Just kill the RIAA goon that caught you sharing the files... you'll get to do less prison time, and you've made the world a better place too!
But then the best thing about Google IMO is the 'Google Groups'. It's often more useful than websites due to less advertising - people don't try to stuff Groups searches to point to their newsgroup adverts.
Never had a problem with their website search either. Google has become pretty good in detecting intentional "stuffing", and downgrades the relevant sites accordingly. Usually the top few matches that come up are pretty relevant to the query.
Wasn't it "64'er", a German magazine about the Commodore 64 (which was really popular in Germany at the time). Of course, to users of a home computer with only 64k of RAM, the PC's memory barrier of 640K would have seemed God-like...
Or maybe it was Chip (at the time, a serious computing magazine, now just a roll of MSFT TP...)
True, but if Visa and Mastercard cheat the merchant, it's fairly obvious, and easy to sue.
However, Peppercoin has the power to cheat in a very subtle and unprovable way.
Due to the randomization, no merchant gets his due exactly. Some get more, some get less. Initially, the ones that get less are likely to complain, especially if they get much less. Peppercoin takes note about which of the merchants that got less didn't complain... The next month, those that didn't complain get treated to a slightly lower ratio than the one promised. As it is essentially a random process, it is very hard to prove that any deviation from average is intentional. Especially if you are careful not to overdo it. And as Peppercoin specifically choses those merchants that didn't complain, the probability is quite high that these didn't even notice.
But the beauty is that the merch hasn't done a lot of bookkeeping either. Neat!
The merchant still does need to do more detailed bookkeeping in order to keep an eye on the random number generator, so that he can complain loudly in case it's biased to obviously in Peppercoin's favor. Not doing any local accounting would be highly foolish!
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Once the media started reporting that terrorists are using infrasound weapons, any momentary nausea could cause people to get scared and possibly more nauseous.
That's one trait they share with chemical weapons. Had it not been for the spectre of Bin Laden, the 21 might still be alive!
I can't believe you actually get paid to do this...
Every self-respecting geek slacks off at work by makeing an extended Slashdot break (which usually starts right after the coffee break, and lasts until the next coffee break...). Every geek, except those geeks whose job it is to read Slashdot!
An interesting thing I read in a paper on this subject, was that after a year or so of strengthening the cable, you could lift a second ribbon for another space elevator, etc....
This would significantly reduce the appeal for attack that a single space elevator would have.
That assumes that the only reason why the terrorists would attack the ribbon would be to disrupt its operation. However, in reality, terrorists would attack the ribbon for its potential to wreak havoc. If a terrorist blows up a dam, he doesn't do it to deprive nearby cities of drinking water or electricity. He does it to provoke a flooding catastrophe!
Although Highlift's website downplays the effects of a ribbon rupture, somehow I've trouble believing them. If the cable is strong enough to hold up, wouldn't it also be strong enough to slice everything in half that it encounters on its way down? As anybody having worked on a ship can attest, a rope under tension packs a helluva lot of destructive energy, which is released all at once when it snaps. It'll certainly do much more damage than "loose sheets of newspapers".
Buy any laptop you want. But buy it on credit. "Forget" to pay the last installment, which just "happens" to be the price of the windows licence, and instead just mail your licence certificate via certified mail...
If they rat you out to credit reporting agencies, contest.
What DOES cost Dell is paying some Support person to sit on the phone with some whacko who has a hair up his butt about MS.
Ok, so it would be cost effective for them to give in as quickly as possible to said wacko, so he will waste as little of their precious time as possible. So, does anybody have an explanation why they resist so much if somebody asks for a refund? (although, to be fair to Dell: if you're persistent, you usually can get your refund..., but why do you have to be so persisten to get it?)
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OpenOffice should sue for "unlauterer Wettbewerb". A competitor of theirs is using scare tactics to dissuade people from distributing OpenOffice. It's as if Burger King employees disguised as FDA inspectors raided a Mac Donald, showed phony badges, and told all customers standing in line that the hamburgers were infested with salmonella...
Just think about why we had the problem with antibiotic-resistant staph in the first place: overuse of antibiotics. While in the old days antibiotics where reserved for serious diseases, nowadays, they are prescribed for the smallest flu and the faintest cough.
Keeping this new wonder medicine patented will ensure that it will stay expensive enough that it will only be used when really needed. Or else we might get some Antibiotic resistant staph antibiotic antibiotic resistant staph...
Actually, the distruction of that relic happened months before September 11th...
You're right. It's not spelled with one k. It's actually spelled with three k:
Amerikkka.
The country were being black is considered to be almost as bad as thinking independantly...
Btw, did you know why there are weapons inspections in Iraq, but none in North Korea?
Easy: North Korea does have weapons of mass destruction (nukes) while Iraq does not. And the last thing you want to do is to corner a country which has weapons of mass destruction, especially if you are a Coward such as Bush.
Just kill the RIAA goon that caught you sharing the files... you'll get to do less prison time, and you've made the world a better place too!
And once Overture has bought up all search engines that matter, they'll transform them into giant advertising portals...
Never had a problem with their website search either. Google has become pretty good in detecting intentional "stuffing", and downgrades the relevant sites accordingly. Usually the top few matches that come up are pretty relevant to the query.
Sorry, couldn't resist...
Suddenly SQL injection is no longer the worst problem you face when you use Sequelserver...
W00t! W00t!
Or maybe it was Chip (at the time, a serious computing magazine, now just a roll of MSFT TP...)
Bon appetit!
True, but if Visa and Mastercard cheat the merchant, it's fairly obvious, and easy to sue.
However, Peppercoin has the power to cheat in a very subtle and unprovable way.
Due to the randomization, no merchant gets his due exactly. Some get more, some get less. Initially, the ones that get less are likely to complain, especially if they get much less. Peppercoin takes note about which of the merchants that got less didn't complain... The next month, those that didn't complain get treated to a slightly lower ratio than the one promised. As it is essentially a random process, it is very hard to prove that any deviation from average is intentional. Especially if you are careful not to overdo it. And as Peppercoin specifically choses those merchants that didn't complain, the probability is quite high that these didn't even notice.
The merchant still does need to do more detailed bookkeeping in order to keep an eye on the random number generator, so that he can complain loudly in case it's biased to obviously in Peppercoin's favor. Not doing any local accounting would be highly foolish!
That's one trait they share with chemical weapons. Had it not been for the spectre of Bin Laden, the 21 might still be alive!
Never had any problems like this. But then, I usually do my tax declaration on paper...
Especially if you use that computer to do your taxes...
Every self-respecting geek slacks off at work by makeing an extended Slashdot break (which usually starts right after the coffee break, and lasts until the next coffee break...). Every geek, except those geeks whose job it is to read Slashdot!
Indeed, no site can resist a double slashdotting...
... who got stuck with the 100 Mhz CPU!
Don't worry. I resubmitted the story five times; with a little bit of luck we may get a trifecta with no interloper before the day is over!
Isn't this a duplicate? Hey, just submitted it again, we'll see whether we can get that in triplicate!
This would significantly reduce the appeal for attack that a single space elevator would have.
That assumes that the only reason why the terrorists would attack the ribbon would be to disrupt its operation. However, in reality, terrorists would attack the ribbon for its potential to wreak havoc. If a terrorist blows up a dam, he doesn't do it to deprive nearby cities of drinking water or electricity. He does it to provoke a flooding catastrophe!
Although Highlift's website downplays the effects of a ribbon rupture, somehow I've trouble believing them. If the cable is strong enough to hold up, wouldn't it also be strong enough to slice everything in half that it encounters on its way down? As anybody having worked on a ship can attest, a rope under tension packs a helluva lot of destructive energy, which is released all at once when it snaps. It'll certainly do much more damage than "loose sheets of newspapers".
If they rat you out to credit reporting agencies, contest.
Remember: possession is half of the law!
Ok, so it would be cost effective for them to give in as quickly as possible to said wacko, so he will waste as little of their precious time as possible. So, does anybody have an explanation why they resist so much if somebody asks for a refund? (although, to be fair to Dell: if you're persistent, you usually can get your refund..., but why do you have to be so persisten to get it?)