I almost hate to suggest this, but maybe we need a vchip for radios. Broadcasters could then transmit a rating code and the listener could then decide what they wished to hear and no one would accidentally run across objectionable material. If you tune into a show that has a rating other than what was set, maybe the radio could play Feelings over and over again.
Manufacturers could even add password protection to the rating settings, but I don't really think that would be necessary.
Yeah, and if you were really as smart as the inventor, you'd have patented it
first.
I figure that if I can (and did) come with it independently, then it must be obvious. The fact that the inventor chose to pursue a patent has no bearing on whether it is obvious or not.
This is not a case of hearing about an idea and saying "Oh that's obvious". This is a case of lot's of people (not just me) saying "I've been doing that for years."
Actually this is a bloody good patent, one that actually makes sense and is worth patenting.
Yes. If it wasn't so bloody obvious.
I personally have been using $ToDo, $Review, and $Kludge comments in my code for a while now. I only recently started using a perl script to extract them. I guess that makes me in violation of the patent.
But the real question is... who's to know? This seems like an in-house development tool (that's how I use it). It's not like this going to show up in a shipping product (well I guess it could in some development tool).
Good pics indeed. I had hoped to do something similar myself, but being in the pacific northwest I didn't have that option... damn and it is sunny today too.
I too was disappointed by the main article's linked pics. There are some good ones at NASA as you might expect.
I would think the Secret Service would be more interested in catching who is doing the counterfeiting in the USA.
But it costs money and manpower to investigate such cases. I'm thinking that this technology is intended to reduce the number of casual counterfeiting crimes that need investigating.
What's to stop you from just photoshoping out the five magic circles? I doubt that the average cashier will notice their absence.
The determined counterfeiter will find a way around any deterrent. I'm guessing that this technology is intended to dissuade the casual first time counterfeiter.
Well if I didn't know better, I'd think that Mr. McCaw got his idea from a Robert X. Cringely column. Or maybe it's just Business Week's choice of calling it a disruptive technology.
Too bad he didn't get all the details right. As far as I can tell, it certainly would be disruptive to my wallet. At 40-50 dollars/month this is obviously not aimed at your average consumer. I do a lot of commuting by ferry and would love to be able to spend some of that time online, but I'm not about to double my monthly ISP expenses to do so.
So this appears to be aimed primarily at business users... but that makes me wonder why the choice of Jacksonville and St Cloud as test cities? Is there some high-tech corridors in these cities that I don't know about?
I'd love wireless access everywhere, but it seems like Cringely has the more feasible solution.
If anyone has been to Seattle's Experience Music Project (assuming the outside appearence didn't scare you away), this could be used as a replacement for the MEG devices that they provide. I could see using this to point at an exhibit and getting bluetooth audio streamed to your phone. Might be useful for museums that don't have Paul Allen's deep pockets.
If they want to prosecute someone for forceably boarding a sea vessel (most likely enroute from Taiwan to the US) and robbing them of their cases of packaged music materials. I say "Go for it!"
Just think, if it weren't for BASIC and BillG / PaulA's early implemetation of it, Microsoft might not be where it is today. Oh well, I'm not going to hold that against it... I'll be sure to have a drink in BASIC's honor tonight.
... the only people who would get the songs in the first place were the ones who drink Pepsi to begin with...
You're forgetting another group... those that drink Coke. Or those like me that really don't have a preference (Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi are about equal in my opinion). So I have a choice of $1.29 and no free song or $1.29 and a possible free song. Of course, there are ways of increasing your odds
Still, I'm shocked as well by the 5 million out of 100 million redemptions.
Want a new hard drive? Set it next to your computer and it works.
But what happens when I set it next to two or three computers? Who gets it? If it's just an extension of wired USB... that disk isn't going to like multiple clients modifying the FAT!
Not to take away from the idea... but I don't think it is going to be as simple as just bringing devices within proximity of a computer.
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In my opinion, Bluetooth has failed because it is trying to be a wireless USB. Got a USB keyboard or mouse? There's a Bluetooth wireless alternative. But that is not where Bluetooth excels.
The real power behind Bluetooth is the ability to participate in dynamic short range ad-hoc networks. Walk into a Starbucks and place/pay for an order via Bluetooth. Want to know where the heck you are? Query the nearest Bluetooth enabled milepost. Need to print a map? Send it to the nearest Bluetooth printing kiosk.
Of course you can't do any of these things today. Why not? Because everyone only sees it (Bluetooth) as a wireless USB! (What's dynamic or ad-hoc about a keyboard for kris-sake?).
So I say... bring on wireless USB, let it take its proper role and then maybe we can use Bluetooth they way it was intended.
My favorite part of the PDF...
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where it says: "printed on acid-free paper"
Acid-free indeed!
And is it just me or did other's think the file was corrupted thanks to the weird horizontal lines on the cover?
I guess there would need to be some incentive to choose the.sex TLD. Perhaps a lower level of liability. I could see some indecency laws being leveraged against non-.sex sites exposing themselves to under age viewers.
I understand the issues (more or less) but I just can't find it within myself to giveup on an adult oriented TLD. I sure would feel better turning my kids loose on google for school research if I knew there was an easy way to filter out obviously objectionable content.
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I almost hate to suggest this, but maybe we need a vchip for radios. Broadcasters could then transmit a rating code and the listener could then decide what they wished to hear and no one would accidentally run across objectionable material. If you tune into a show that has a rating other than what was set, maybe the radio could play Feelings over and over again.
Manufacturers could even add password protection to the rating settings, but I don't really think that would be necessary.
Yeah, and if you were really as smart as the inventor, you'd have patented it first.
I figure that if I can (and did) come with it independently, then it must be obvious. The fact that the inventor chose to pursue a patent has no bearing on whether it is obvious or not.
This is not a case of hearing about an idea and saying "Oh that's obvious". This is a case of lot's of people (not just me) saying "I've been doing that for years."
Actually this is a bloody good patent, one that actually makes sense and is worth patenting.
Yes. If it wasn't so bloody obvious.
I personally have been using $ToDo, $Review, and $Kludge comments in my code for a while now. I only recently started using a perl script to extract them. I guess that makes me in violation of the patent.
But the real question is... who's to know? This seems like an in-house development tool (that's how I use it). It's not like this going to show up in a shipping product (well I guess it could in some development tool).
Good pics indeed. I had hoped to do something similar myself, but being in the pacific northwest I didn't have that option... damn and it is sunny today too.
I too was disappointed by the main article's linked pics. There are some good ones at NASA as you might expect.
If you're on the planet and it's making a transit of the Sun, you can't see it. Think about it...
I am. And I think someone needs a smack with a humor-by-four.
I would think the Secret Service would be more interested in catching who is doing the counterfeiting in the USA.
But it costs money and manpower to investigate such cases. I'm thinking that this technology is intended to reduce the number of casual counterfeiting crimes that need investigating.
What's to stop you from just photoshoping out the five magic circles? I doubt that the average cashier will notice their absence.
The determined counterfeiter will find a way around any deterrent. I'm guessing that this technology is intended to dissuade the casual first time counterfeiter.
Well if I didn't know better, I'd think that Mr. McCaw got his idea from a Robert X. Cringely column. Or maybe it's just Business Week's choice of calling it a disruptive technology.
Too bad he didn't get all the details right. As far as I can tell, it certainly would be disruptive to my wallet. At 40-50 dollars/month this is obviously not aimed at your average consumer. I do a lot of commuting by ferry and would love to be able to spend some of that time online, but I'm not about to double my monthly ISP expenses to do so.
So this appears to be aimed primarily at business users... but that makes me wonder why the choice of Jacksonville and St Cloud as test cities? Is there some high-tech corridors in these cities that I don't know about?
I'd love wireless access everywhere, but it seems like Cringely has the more feasible solution.
saving 5-7$ on used music isn't worth it
Saving the 5 to 7 dollars may not be worth it, but keeping an RIAA member from getting 15 or more of my dollars sure as hell is.
If anyone has been to Seattle's Experience Music Project (assuming the outside appearence didn't scare you away), this could be used as a replacement for the MEG devices that they provide. I could see using this to point at an exhibit and getting bluetooth audio streamed to your phone. Might be useful for museums that don't have Paul Allen's deep pockets.
What about us over here in the USA? We like Monty Python as much as the next bloke! When do we get our hands on the free BBC archives?
Don't make us come over there and liberate your asses!
If they want to prosecute someone for forceably boarding a sea vessel (most likely enroute from Taiwan to the US) and robbing them of their cases of packaged music materials. I say "Go for it!"
So the feds will have no way of knowing for sure if it was me or someone else downloading child porn...
You'll excuse me if I choose not to risk taking the fall for someone else's transgressions... I'll keep my networks closed, thank you very much.
so you're talking about doubling our grain production for the alcohol you want to use.
Sounds easier than doubling the number of dinosaurs that died.
It gets even better if you spell it in caps and stand back a ways!
politicians... FLICKERING MIND
Just think, if it weren't for BASIC and BillG / PaulA's early implemetation of it, Microsoft might not be where it is today. Oh well, I'm not going to hold that against it... I'll be sure to have a drink in BASIC's honor tonight.
You're forgetting another group... those that drink Coke. Or those like me that really don't have a preference (Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi are about equal in my opinion). So I have a choice of $1.29 and no free song or $1.29 and a possible free song. Of course, there are ways of increasing your odds
Still, I'm shocked as well by the 5 million out of 100 million redemptions.
Want a new hard drive? Set it next to your computer and it works.
But what happens when I set it next to two or three computers? Who gets it? If it's just an extension of wired USB... that disk isn't going to like multiple clients modifying the FAT!
Not to take away from the idea... but I don't think it is going to be as simple as just bringing devices within proximity of a computer.
In my opinion, Bluetooth has failed because it is trying to be a wireless USB. Got a USB keyboard or mouse? There's a Bluetooth wireless alternative. But that is not where Bluetooth excels.
The real power behind Bluetooth is the ability to participate in dynamic short range ad-hoc networks. Walk into a Starbucks and place/pay for an order via Bluetooth. Want to know where the heck you are? Query the nearest Bluetooth enabled milepost. Need to print a map? Send it to the nearest Bluetooth printing kiosk.
Of course you can't do any of these things today. Why not? Because everyone only sees it (Bluetooth) as a wireless USB! (What's dynamic or ad-hoc about a keyboard for kris-sake?).
So I say... bring on wireless USB, let it take its proper role and then maybe we can use Bluetooth they way it was intended.
where it says: "printed on acid-free paper"
Acid-free indeed!
And is it just me or did other's think the file was corrupted thanks to the weird horizontal lines on the cover?
I guess there would need to be some incentive to choose the .sex TLD. Perhaps a lower level of liability. I could see some indecency laws being leveraged against non-.sex sites exposing themselves to under age viewers.
I understand the issues (more or less) but I just can't find it within myself to giveup on an adult oriented TLD. I sure would feel better turning my kids loose on google for school research if I knew there was an easy way to filter out obviously objectionable content.
Check out this page made of RSS feeds...
Say... that wouldn't happen to be a site that you run, Mr. DealSites, would it?
I'm not against self promotion, but at least label it as such.
They must have been serving up pr0n or something with that many hits! No wonder they were so pissed when the site got taken down.
Of course, it's too bad the sites not still up, a link in slashdot could have gotten them 3.5 million in one day!
Well either they fixed it or I'm just too lame to see it. Actually, that statement probably doesn't need to be an exclusive or...
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See what's possibleThere. Was that so painful? If you're going to plagerize the article, you might as well plagerize the ad too!