Okay, Realplayer adds an entry to my registry to start it's damn autoupdate thing every time I run it.
From my point of view, that is a problem.
From the point of view of those [expletive deleted] at real networks, the "problem" seems to be that I've found a way to disable their unfettered access to my system for whatever under heaven they want to do.
Now, you say, what does this have to do with server farms and data clusters?
In the present day - not much. Such things require a level of expertise to run such that sleaze of this kind is rare (albeit not unheard of.)
In the near future, when 1 billion people (according to the article) are working at computers? Well, the article implies that this great growth in the computer aided labor sector (term I just made up) will NOT be accompanied by an equal upsurge in available expertise.
Therefore, a lot of people will be running high-economic impact computer-whatevers without the background to comparison shop, or the technical knowhow to disable corporate flack. In fact, this is already happening.
I worry that "intelligently self regulate" will become "intelligently install our software and make sure you pay whatever we decide it is worth" in short order. While they're at it, they'll charge you for the software to police you. Peachy keen.
FTL Travel is probably never going to be a reality - meaning all those green alien women will just have to pine away for Captain K's hot man love.
However, FTL Communications are probably possible, so we can hope that our overweight, velour wearing descendents might at least talk dirty with some green alien women.
Of course, based on today's internet, those green alien women would probably be fat, balding green alien men and green alien FBI agents on green alien sting missions against the sexually deviant human race.
Unfortunately, this proposed FTL method requires you to ship the quantum-coupled-er...thingies from place to place FIRST, which means we'd have to exchange ambassadors with the green aliens FIRST... meaning Captain K is back in the shag house, big time.
And then, the quantum communications might be a bit, well, odd, as you might recieve cryptic messages like this:
Reply from 68.179.57.159: qubits = 256 95% confidence -11fs<time<-4fs, measured from point of transmission, 95% confidence -14fs<time<-6fs, measured from point of reception.
Which is a reply to the following command:
Pinging hotbabes.co.vulcan [68.179.57.159] with 256 qubits of data.
Which you had not yet actually run. Anyone want to suggest changes to TCP/IP that would allow you to handle when acks arrived before the message they acknowledge has been sent? Just asking.
Platform Alliance (TCPA) would, if implemented, fundamentally shift the balance of power between individual and corporate ownership of Congress.
And I thought to myself - is it really that bad?
Of course, the missing line says it all: data -- a debate that is already being played out in U.S. courts and
And that goes too far! Do what you want with my democratic instutions - HANDS OFF MY WAREZ!
began in 1997 trying to address the problem of how to protect copyrighted content... Later, he says, he realized the same technology could be used to protect consumer data from theft or tampering.
Now that's a shocker! Obviously controlling the user was the first goal of their plan, and, uh, it stops viruses was the second. Up to this point, though, they (MS) has been pretty uniform in claiming that protecting the user was their first concern. I'm very surprised to hear them come out and admit this.
I keep forgetting: expect the unexpectedly stupid.
Quoth the poster (heretic108): I worked for the Australian subsidiary of Wang Labs, at the time when Wang was the #2 computer company in Australia.
You go to the user page (ask.slashdot.org/~heretic108 in this case) and read a few articles at random - you can usually find out where someone is from.
Given that you're speaking with an Aussie legislator, I recommend a national sovereignty / defense argument. You should point out that likely rivals in the region of the continent of Oceana - I speak in particular of India - have huge, established software industries that could prove a threat to Australia if Australia doesn't maintain software autonomy. It's okay to be vague, but use some everyday words as if they had some specific technical meaning in terms of "information warfare over the next century."
That ought to persuade the nuevo-Thatcherites in your xenophobic government.
#1 - People were just as empty and banal before they got cellphones, but now they're talking about it so you can hear them.
#2 - Some other factor, not owning a cell phone, causes children with cell phones to do worse in school; I recall a study showing that sexually active teenagers do worse in school (now I can't find it). Sex doesn't make you stupid, teenagers with active sex lives get lower grades for some other reason. Personally, I've never observed much relationship between grades and intelligence, but that is another issue.
#3 - remember when we were kids? Back in the day, young people NEVER crossed against the light and then were blaze when a car almost hit them. Nope; that is one thing I can say with confidence never happened ever.
Absolutely no scientific basis in this... but it still seems true
Here's my prejudice: no scientific basis = seems false.
It's a simple rule that prevents me from believing that aliens visit earth and give people enemas.
At the time, the whole millenialist rigamarole, with computers serving as the mark of the beast, had not permeated popular culture.
Then, in this silly movie there are computer programs which get died red in order to show their obsequious obedience to antichrist, I mean to the Master Control Program.
It's an amusing transposition - much more amusing than it was at the time (oh, the commie/atheist/roman computer programs are forcing the christian computer programs to fight in gladiatorial games,) since computers themselves have had a lot of PR as instruments of Satan since then.
Q: Moby's live show has a grand finale where he takes a beam of light to the head and arcs his arm in a similar fashion to the grand finale of Tron... A:... Anytime a work like this can go from one generation to the next, it means something...
Moby was born in 1965. He's 38 years old. Come on.
A lot of non-profits, once they get major industry backing, ally themselves with industry.
I'm glad that Verizon is sticking up for their bottom line in this case - since it will help to keep our society healthy - but that is all they are doing. There is no altruistic component of this action WHATSOEVER; I'm not criticising them for that, 95% of US companies work that way, I'm just saying. If the EFF starts taking Verizon's money - or, even, if they just accept logistical assistance or cooperate in education or lobbying with Verizon, might the EFF be reluctant to raise a holler when Verizon tries something scummy?
You can say that companies ought to be able to build political capital for doing the right thing. To a certain extent, I agree with that - but not in this case, and never with corporate watchdog groups like the EFF.
Seriously, I know he says it is not about money, but he's *really* funny, and he shouldn't be barely scraping by, making humor that's genuine and doesn't answer to anybody, b/c that's clearly what he loves.
After all, we may enjoy satirewire a great deal, but this funny man should be exposed to a wider, less geekocentric audience. Instead of doing a webpage, he should trade his notoriety for a job writing for a sitcom, and make good money while his humor is watered down beyond recognition and his imagination is crushed into dust. Don't be sad because satirewire is gone! Don't be sad, DESPAIR, because the REST of our culture is a soul-destroying wasteland trampling and undermining the human spirit.
Thanks to the provisos of the CHSFUTCATNAGBBA (Congress' head so far up their collective ass they need a glass belly button act) every single copy of WinAmp (and LinAmp, and the players built into Kazaa and windows media player) has been unpdated to include PAM (patent abuse management) which requires all software in existence to obey the directives of anyone with a patent claim, no matter how weak, ill-informed, ill-concieved or unreasonable.
Now - you need to pay them $5 for software that encodes mp3s, per unit. Having bought that license, they claim you need yet another license in order to take files on your computer and send them to other people. Lawyers - do they have a leg to stand on in making such a claim? If I buy real studio 8, can realplayer turn around and announce that I can't put.rm files on my webserver without paying an additional license? I'm confused.
That depends on the individuals involved. But the fact of the matter is that if they're too rigid, they'll get replaced by some start-up that's not. That much is certain. You can't be terribly inefficient, terribly rigid and hang on.
Maybe not, but if you have congress in your pocket you can drag the whole country to hell trying.
Now, filtering out SPAM shouldn't compromise your neutral carrier status - after all, it's a needed step to maintain the health of the network. Likewise, filtering out potentially damaging hackers, like the RIAA.
However, if they're smart, the RIAA is going to use this as ammunition in their struggle to get ISP's neutral carrier status revoked! Or, they are if they have any sense. If the ISP can block access to OUR site (for security reasons) they should block access to that site in china (b/c we tell them too.)
SRA will continue to operate in an independent fashion, however, at least for a while (I think).
Turbolinux will continue to operate in an independent fashion. It's morning, my bad. The irony of mocking someone's bad syntax and then getting words reversed in my own posting is not lost on me.
I'd like to thank Bachoom (the author of the little blurb) for all his excellent work in writing car manuals and stero instructions (Do not to the measurement! There will be a great occurence!) I say this to all my Japanese friends - use the grammer checker, dude.
Babelfish translation of the story itself (his link) is pretty incomprehensible - don't bother, but let me clarify: SRA bought the entire company, 100% of the stock. SRA will continue to operate in an independent fashion, however, at least for a while (I think).
Does Turbolinux have any debts, or was all the venture capital stock purchases?
We can all agree that TurboLinux inc. was a financial failure of epic proportions (distro was good, I think). The question is - did SRA make a good buy for their $1 million dollars? I don't know much about SRA, but they seem to provide Linux-based consultancy in Japan, where Turbolinux is a very popular distro. If their core consultancy (and training? I can barely read japanese - the corporate babble on the SRA website is utterly incomprehensible) business is viable at all, and TLinux remains popular in Japan, I think this was an excellent buy.
I agree that there's a niche market that wants a Rio, but, for the vast majority of computer users (including mahself) they don't compare in portability, utility or price to mp3/CD players. I have another brand of Rio-like device (I never use it anymore so I can't even find it) which was about $200; my mp3/CD player was fifty bucks - and, should the need arise, it also plays CDs.
I can't see how any of these devices can compete with that in a market large enough for a company like Sony to give a damn, and I certainly wouldn't pay $99 for a Rio. Maybe two years ago, when skip protection on CD/mp3 players didn't work for some inexplicable reason, it would have been a going proposition, but not today.
Whoever set up this site displays most of the technical skills of their new arch-enemies (the RIAA.)
I can download these songs with DAP without messing around - this means, among other things, that it doesn't check refering URLs; I'd geuss there'll be fifty sites leeching their content by this time tomorrow.
I was thinking three different sorts of translation.
Rotating up and down moves the cursor up and down.
Rotating around the axis perpendicular with the ground moves the cursor side to side.
To get depth, you tilt the entire mouse - you spin it around the axis parallel with it's own
That is to say - the point in space the mouse is "pointing at" is good enough to specify a two dimensional location.
If the mouse can tell when it is upside down, that can specify a depth.
Now.... I'm far from certain that I really understand how this mouse works. I'm prepared to hear that I'm smoking crack.
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If you add another gyroscope (perpendicular to the first one) you have a three dimensional mouse.
Now, the big advantage of a three dimensional mouse doesn't come into play with present technology; the big trick with three dimensional mice would come up if you could map O directly onto the spatial centers of the subject's.... er, user's, brain. This is not as hard as you might hope... er, think. However, experiments with monkey's controlling a pixel notwithstanding, reading someone's nervous system to get I is gonna be pretty quirky and unreliable. Therefore, you want a three dimensional mouse.
Oh, and, also: You won't notice any problems unless your on the computer straight for 8 hours a day.
Who the hell does he think buys gyroscopic mice?!?!?! Okay, some of the same yuppies who buy Parka's good to -40* Centigrade and never Manhattan. They buy them. Mostly, however, it's people who use their computers all the time! Using your computer for eight hours at a stretch isn't good for you (and ever single person on slashdot should stop doing it!) but I need it as an option, and I don't need to have to replace my mouse at 3 AM in order to keep working.
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Cell phones don't cause brain cancer. Does this mean researching the effect of high voltage power lines is a waste of time?
Lunatics believe that aliens visit earth on a regular basis to indulge their twisted ass fetish. When we look for evidence of martian microbes, are we just encouraging them (lunatics, not martians)?
This contrail weather effect is good science - the deviation they've identified in temperatures is statistically significant. Now, that isn't proof; statistically significant variations do arise by chance, and you can certainly get a stistically significant result that confuses the real causality (Less people Drove around Sep 11th, did that cause a significant local drop in CO2? Is this an incidental effect of overall climate change? So on and so forth.) However, just because it isn't proven, we can't dismiss it either (personally, I think contrails probably do effect the weather,) just because there are loonies who believe something similar.
Dentist: What? Patient: I 'ed, doo oo ekek e to tahk! Dentist: I can't understand you. Patient: Tak jis kra ow o ny nouh. Dentist: Oh, okay (removes stuff from patient's mouth.) Patient: I said, how do you expect me to talk with this crap in my mouth? Dentist: I don't, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!
$100 gets 10 million addresses. It costs $3,000 to send these 10 million messages. Let's assume a capital outlay of $3,100 per week, which seems reasonable.
A "positive response rate" of 0.1% to 1% is expected. Say 0.1%, since this scam is especially egregious, that's 10,000 responses per week, is 10,000 suckers per 60 * 24 * 7 = 10,080 minutes.
That means a sucker is born every minute (every 59.52 seconds, actually), which we already knew.
A quick google search turns up this:
Decisions of a federal court of appeals must be followed by all of the district courts located within that circuit. District courts outside that circuit, however, are not bound by such decisions. Further, one district court does not have to follow the rulings of any other district court. A court is bound only by the decisions of higher courts that have direct jurisdiction over it. This is the concept of precedent. Because it is the highest court in the country, all courts must follow precedent established by the United States Supreme Court.
Yes, the site that is from is directed at HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. In the future, you might do a little research to see if the thing you dispute is common knowledge, before asking for a source.
Yes, but the rulings of federal courts only apply within their own jurisdiction, which is geographical.
This is a FEDERAL law, there is a FEDERAL court is eastern missouri that ruled that the law is unconstitutional - which means it is unconstitutional, but only in eastern missouri. In southern California, a different FEDERAL court, which might or might not agree with the judge in eastern missouri, would have to strike the law down.
Phone calls take place, in legal terms, at the location of the person who gets the phone call. For now, let's assume faxes work the same way.
So, the ruling (pointed to by the person to whome I respond) might apply to all of the faxes that Fax.com sent to Eastern Missouri, which may have contributed to the fine, but not to the others. Other courts may (or may not) be advised by this ruling - it is only binding precedent in Eastern Missouri, and coming from a district court, it isn't very strong.
The company itself is in Alisa Viejo; so, unless someone in the District for Southern California, on the 9th circuit has ruled the TCPA unconstitutional, they definitely have no blanket protection. If Faxes take place at the point of transmission, this ruling provides them no protection at all.
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Okay, Realplayer adds an entry to my registry to start it's damn autoupdate thing every time I run it.
From my point of view, that is a problem.
From the point of view of those [expletive deleted] at real networks, the "problem" seems to be that I've found a way to disable their unfettered access to my system for whatever under heaven they want to do.
Now, you say, what does this have to do with server farms and data clusters?
In the present day - not much. Such things require a level of expertise to run such that sleaze of this kind is rare (albeit not unheard of.)
In the near future, when 1 billion people (according to the article) are working at computers? Well, the article implies that this great growth in the computer aided labor sector (term I just made up) will NOT be accompanied by an equal upsurge in available expertise.
Therefore, a lot of people will be running high-economic impact computer-whatevers without the background to comparison shop, or the technical knowhow to disable corporate flack. In fact, this is already happening.
I worry that "intelligently self regulate" will become "intelligently install our software and make sure you pay whatever we decide it is worth" in short order. While they're at it, they'll charge you for the software to police you. Peachy keen.
Why didn't you argue you with the guy who thinks we'll probably move faster than light?
Now, to the important question - my science is bad, but IS IT FUNNY?
FTL Travel is probably never going to be a reality - meaning all those green alien women will just have to pine away for Captain K's hot man love.
However, FTL Communications are probably possible, so we can hope that our overweight, velour wearing descendents might at least talk dirty with some green alien women.
Of course, based on today's internet, those green alien women would probably be fat, balding green alien men and green alien FBI agents on green alien sting missions against the sexually deviant human race.
Unfortunately, this proposed FTL method requires you to ship the quantum-coupled-er...thingies from place to place FIRST, which means we'd have to exchange ambassadors with the green aliens FIRST... meaning Captain K is back in the shag house, big time.
And then, the quantum communications might be a bit, well, odd, as you might recieve cryptic messages like this:
Reply from 68.179.57.159: qubits = 256 95% confidence -11fs<time<-4fs, measured from point of transmission, 95% confidence -14fs<time<-6fs, measured from point of reception.
Which is a reply to the following command:
Pinging hotbabes.co.vulcan [68.179.57.159] with 256 qubits of data.
Which you had not yet actually run. Anyone want to suggest changes to TCP/IP that would allow you to handle when acks arrived before the message they acknowledge has been sent? Just asking.
Platform Alliance (TCPA) would, if implemented, fundamentally shift
... Later, he says, he realized the same technology could be used to protect consumer data from theft or tampering.
the balance of power between individual and corporate ownership of
Congress.
And I thought to myself - is it really that bad?
Of course, the missing line says it all:
data -- a debate that is already being played out in U.S. courts and
And that goes too far! Do what you want with my democratic instutions - HANDS OFF MY WAREZ!
began in 1997 trying to address the problem of how to protect copyrighted content
Now that's a shocker!
Obviously controlling the user was the first goal of their plan, and, uh, it stops viruses was the second. Up to this point, though, they (MS) has been pretty uniform in claiming that protecting the user was their first concern. I'm very surprised to hear them come out and admit this.
I keep forgetting: expect the unexpectedly stupid.
Quoth the poster (heretic108):
I worked for the Australian subsidiary of Wang Labs, at the time when Wang was the #2 computer company in Australia.
You go to the user page (ask.slashdot.org/~heretic108 in this case) and read a few articles at random - you can usually find out where someone is from.
Given that you're speaking with an Aussie legislator, I recommend a national sovereignty / defense argument. You should point out that likely rivals in the region of the continent of Oceana - I speak in particular of India - have huge, established software industries that could prove a threat to Australia if Australia doesn't maintain software autonomy. It's okay to be vague, but use some everyday words as if they had some specific technical meaning in terms of "information warfare over the next century."
That ought to persuade the nuevo-Thatcherites in your xenophobic government.
#1 - People were just as empty and banal before they got cellphones, but now they're talking about it so you can hear them.
...
#2 - Some other factor, not owning a cell phone, causes children with cell phones to do worse in school; I recall a study showing that sexually active teenagers do worse in school (now I can't find it). Sex doesn't make you stupid, teenagers with active sex lives get lower grades for some other reason. Personally, I've never observed much relationship between grades and intelligence, but that is another issue.
#3 - remember when we were kids? Back in the day, young people NEVER crossed against the light and then were blaze when a car almost hit them. Nope; that is one thing I can say with confidence never happened ever.
Absolutely no scientific basis in this
but it still seems true
Here's my prejudice:
no scientific basis = seems false.
It's a simple rule that prevents me from believing that aliens visit earth and give people enemas.
Of course, as it turns out, it's very funny.
... Anytime a work like this can go from one generation to the next, it means something ...
At the time, the whole millenialist rigamarole, with computers serving as the mark of the beast, had not permeated popular culture.
Then, in this silly movie there are computer programs which get died red in order to show their obsequious obedience to antichrist, I mean to the Master Control Program.
It's an amusing transposition - much more amusing than it was at the time (oh, the commie/atheist/roman computer programs are forcing the christian computer programs to fight in gladiatorial games,) since computers themselves have had a lot of PR as instruments of Satan since then.
Q: Moby's live show has a grand finale where he takes a beam of light to the head and arcs his arm in a similar fashion to the grand finale of Tron... A:
Moby was born in 1965. He's 38 years old. Come on.
A lot of non-profits, once they get major industry backing, ally themselves with industry.
I'm glad that Verizon is sticking up for their bottom line in this case - since it will help to keep our society healthy - but that is all they are doing. There is no altruistic component of this action WHATSOEVER; I'm not criticising them for that, 95% of US companies work that way, I'm just saying. If the EFF starts taking Verizon's money - or, even, if they just accept logistical assistance or cooperate in education or lobbying with Verizon, might the EFF be reluctant to raise a holler when Verizon tries something scummy?
You can say that companies ought to be able to build political capital for doing the right thing. To a certain extent, I agree with that - but not in this case, and never with corporate watchdog groups like the EFF.
Seriously, I know he says it is not about money, but he's *really* funny, and he shouldn't be barely scraping by, making humor that's genuine and doesn't answer to anybody, b/c that's clearly what he loves.
After all, we may enjoy satirewire a great deal, but this funny man should be exposed to a wider, less geekocentric audience. Instead of doing a webpage, he should trade his notoriety for a job writing for a sitcom, and make good money while his humor is watered down beyond recognition and his imagination is crushed into dust.
Don't be sad because satirewire is gone! Don't be sad, DESPAIR, because the REST of our culture is a soul-destroying wasteland trampling and undermining the human spirit.
Thanks to the provisos of the CHSFUTCATNAGBBA (Congress' head so far up their collective ass they need a glass belly button act) every single copy of WinAmp (and LinAmp, and the players built into Kazaa and windows media player) has been unpdated to include PAM (patent abuse management) which requires all software in existence to obey the directives of anyone with a patent claim, no matter how weak, ill-informed, ill-concieved or unreasonable.
.rm files on my webserver without paying an additional license? I'm confused.
Now - you need to pay them $5 for software that encodes mp3s, per unit. Having bought that license, they claim you need yet another license in order to take files on your computer and send them to other people. Lawyers - do they have a leg to stand on in making such a claim? If I buy real studio 8, can realplayer turn around and announce that I can't put
That depends on the individuals involved. But the fact of the matter is that if they're too rigid, they'll get replaced by some start-up that's not. That much is certain. You can't be terribly inefficient, terribly rigid and hang on.
Maybe not, but if you have congress in your pocket you can drag the whole country to hell trying.
Help, lawyers!
Now, filtering out SPAM shouldn't compromise your neutral carrier status - after all, it's a needed step to maintain the health of the network. Likewise, filtering out potentially damaging hackers, like the RIAA.
However, if they're smart, the RIAA is going to use this as ammunition in their struggle to get ISP's neutral carrier status revoked! Or, they are if they have any sense. If the ISP can block access to OUR site (for security reasons) they should block access to that site in china (b/c we tell them too.)
Scary.
Choke. Sorry.
SRA will continue to operate in an independent fashion, however, at least for a while (I think).
Turbolinux will continue to operate in an independent fashion. It's morning, my bad. The irony of mocking someone's bad syntax and then getting words reversed in my own posting is not lost on me.
I'd like to thank Bachoom (the author of the little blurb) for all his excellent work in writing car manuals and stero instructions (Do not to the measurement! There will be a great occurence!) I say this to all my Japanese friends - use the grammer checker, dude.
Babelfish translation of the story itself (his link) is pretty incomprehensible - don't bother, but let me clarify: SRA bought the entire company, 100% of the stock. SRA will continue to operate in an independent fashion, however, at least for a while (I think).
Does Turbolinux have any debts, or was all the venture capital stock purchases?
We can all agree that TurboLinux inc. was a financial failure of epic proportions (distro was good, I think). The question is - did SRA make a good buy for their $1 million dollars? I don't know much about SRA, but they seem to provide Linux-based consultancy in Japan, where Turbolinux is a very popular distro. If their core consultancy (and training? I can barely read japanese - the corporate babble on the SRA website is utterly incomprehensible) business is viable at all, and TLinux remains popular in Japan, I think this was an excellent buy.
I agree that there's a niche market that wants a Rio, but, for the vast majority of computer users (including mahself) they don't compare in portability, utility or price to mp3/CD players. I have another brand of Rio-like device (I never use it anymore so I can't even find it) which was about $200; my mp3/CD player was fifty bucks - and, should the need arise, it also plays CDs.
I can't see how any of these devices can compete with that in a market large enough for a company like Sony to give a damn, and I certainly wouldn't pay $99 for a Rio. Maybe two years ago, when skip protection on CD/mp3 players didn't work for some inexplicable reason, it would have been a going proposition, but not today.
Whoever set up this site displays most of the technical skills of their new arch-enemies (the RIAA.)
I can download these songs with DAP without messing around - this means, among other things, that it doesn't check refering URLs; I'd geuss there'll be fifty sites leeching their content by this time tomorrow.
I was thinking three different sorts of translation.
Rotating up and down moves the cursor up and down.
Rotating around the axis perpendicular with the ground moves the cursor side to side.
To get depth, you tilt the entire mouse - you spin it around the axis parallel with it's own
That is to say - the point in space the mouse is "pointing at" is good enough to specify a two dimensional location.
If the mouse can tell when it is upside down, that can specify a depth.
Now.... I'm far from certain that I really understand how this mouse works. I'm prepared to hear that I'm smoking crack.
If you add another gyroscope (perpendicular to the first one) you have a three dimensional mouse.
Now, the big advantage of a three dimensional mouse doesn't come into play with present technology; the big trick with three dimensional mice would come up if you could map O directly onto the spatial centers of the subject's.... er, user's, brain. This is not as hard as you might hope... er, think. However, experiments with monkey's controlling a pixel notwithstanding, reading someone's nervous system to get I is gonna be pretty quirky and unreliable. Therefore, you want a three dimensional mouse.
Oh, and, also:
You won't notice any problems unless your on the computer straight for 8 hours a day.
Who the hell does he think buys gyroscopic mice?!?!?! Okay, some of the same yuppies who buy Parka's good to -40* Centigrade and never Manhattan. They buy them. Mostly, however, it's people who use their computers all the time! Using your computer for eight hours at a stretch isn't good for you (and ever single person on slashdot should stop doing it!) but I need it as an option, and I don't need to have to replace my mouse at 3 AM in order to keep working.
Just by reading something, you become infected!
For example,
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Cell phones don't cause brain cancer. Does this mean researching the effect of high voltage power lines is a waste of time?
Lunatics believe that aliens visit earth on a regular basis to indulge their twisted ass fetish. When we look for evidence of martian microbes, are we just encouraging them (lunatics, not martians)?
This contrail weather effect is good science - the deviation they've identified in temperatures is statistically significant. Now, that isn't proof; statistically significant variations do arise by chance, and you can certainly get a stistically significant result that confuses the real causality (Less people Drove around Sep 11th, did that cause a significant local drop in CO2? Is this an incidental effect of overall climate change? So on and so forth.) However, just because it isn't proven, we can't dismiss it either (personally, I think contrails probably do effect the weather,) just because there are loonies who believe something similar.
Dentist: What?
Patient: I 'ed, doo oo ekek e to tahk!
Dentist: I can't understand you.
Patient: Tak jis kra ow o ny nouh.
Dentist: Oh, okay (removes stuff from patient's mouth.)
Patient: I said, how do you expect me to talk with this crap in my mouth?
Dentist: I don't, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!
My numbers come from here.
$100 gets 10 million addresses. It costs $3,000 to send these 10 million messages. Let's assume a capital outlay of $3,100 per week, which seems reasonable.
A "positive response rate" of 0.1% to 1% is expected. Say 0.1%, since this scam is especially egregious, that's 10,000 responses per week, is 10,000 suckers per 60 * 24 * 7 = 10,080 minutes.
That means a sucker is born every minute (every 59.52 seconds, actually), which we already knew.
I'm capped, so I can't whore.
A quick google search turns up this:
Decisions of a federal court of appeals must be followed by all of the district courts located within that circuit. District courts outside that circuit, however, are not bound by such decisions. Further, one district court does not have to follow the rulings of any other district court. A court is bound only by the decisions of higher courts that have direct jurisdiction over it. This is the concept of precedent. Because it is the highest court in the country, all courts must follow precedent established by the United States Supreme Court.
Yes, the site that is from is directed at HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. In the future, you might do a little research to see if the thing you dispute is common knowledge, before asking for a source.
Yes, but the rulings of federal courts only apply within their own jurisdiction, which is geographical.
This is a FEDERAL law, there is a FEDERAL court is eastern missouri that ruled that the law is unconstitutional - which means it is unconstitutional, but only in eastern missouri. In southern California, a different FEDERAL court, which might or might not agree with the judge in eastern missouri, would have to strike the law down.
Phone calls take place, in legal terms, at the location of the person who gets the phone call. For now, let's assume faxes work the same way.
So, the ruling (pointed to by the person to whome I respond) might apply to all of the faxes that Fax.com sent to Eastern Missouri, which may have contributed to the fine, but not to the others. Other courts may (or may not) be advised by this ruling - it is only binding precedent in Eastern Missouri, and coming from a district court, it isn't very strong.
The company itself is in Alisa Viejo; so, unless someone in the District for Southern California, on the 9th circuit has ruled the TCPA unconstitutional, they definitely have no blanket protection. If Faxes take place at the point of transmission, this ruling provides them no protection at all.