what they really wanted to say with the domain is: totedtong.com (== running a secret society or fraternal organization especially of Chinese in the U.S. formerly notorious for gang warfare ). Government officials, prepare your SWAT teams...ohh, but how... they ARE the totedtong....ahh well, time to get the first coffee of the day:))
was arrested last week and charged with 13 counts of felony for the theft of an estimated $450,000 worth of "Star Wars"-related material from his ex-employer
Is it a certain a percentage of the revenues? I mean, if the movie had proved to be a complete flop and would have generated negative revenue for Lucas Film. Say minus $420 million dollars, should Lucas Film actually pay the ex-employer for stealing it:))
in my very uneducated opinion, the whole DMCA is based on wrong foundation. IMHO, it is utterly stupid to try and define what exactly, technically you can do to software - or hardware - that you purchased. I mean, if the legislative forces really think this the correct way to fix things, then there should be the "Oil Painting Copyright Act" and "Ceramic Copyright Act". I think I have said this in some other thread as well, but..after 100 years all these legislators will be crying in their graves when they realize that software is no different and that they cannot just do the easy DMCA-kludge fix to serve needs of specific companies.
I found some info on the HW of Nomad II which might very similar to this new product, from this creative.products.nomad thread:
This looks to be the case. Inside the unit is a Cirrus Logic CPU (model:
EP7212-CV-D EP AWAFED0007 ARM) which seems to be the heart of the unit.
The chip is a processor that even has support for Windows CE. It handles
audio decompression and even the LCD display. On Cirrus Logic's
site you can find sample binaries for the processor that are "C and ARM
assembly". They look nothing like the Nomad II firmware in the exe.
Also inside the unit is one flash memory chip and one static memory
chip. (Intel Flash TE28F800 B3BA90 U0160740A, and an ISSI
IS62LV12816LL-70T CA894500P 0002)
...so it might be possible to make it run something else, or atleast mod the functionality - but it would be a huge task to make it actually do something useful. Not worth the trouble, I guess.
Are they available? Atleast these specs tell very little. Anyway, I was thinking whether it would have the HW to run a real OS. I guess it must. If so, someone could throw in a small footprint Linux and make it support ogg. And ofcourse, it would not be just a jukebox anymore.
> I'm at school right now and I'm playing UO at home^^
Uh, can you hear *ban*, RUSH home, UO moderators are closing your account right now. Ever heard that they kind of dislike unattended macroing (and that they might also be rather active slashdot readers).;) ?
Now, a real challenge would be to port Diablo II to run inside.... The original tetris. Or even better: port tetris to run inside the bricks - ohh, but that's already done.
LONDON, England -- A newlywed man has been jailed for four months after playing a game of Tetris on his mobile phone during the flight back from his honeymoon
Should the owner already start making coffee for the AOL lawyers:) Domain name "takeovers" like this are insane. If your company happens to be known with a three letter name, does that automatically mean you can takeover anything which ends to these magic three letters. If so, I will make one company that's called A, another with name B, and third called...erm... D:)?
So I quess, CD-RD (CD-ReDamage) will be the next big hit.
a new encryption method ties itself specifically to the physical structure and characteristics of each disk
This unique system will naturally allow you to damage your CD-RD to match the characteristics of the original perfectly. Once you are waiting for this product, why don't you brute force your ILLEGAL copies to get the same effect.
Only 16 percent of computer users we sampled this year reported they were free from any virus attack
If you asked the same question in an European country or in the US, the result would be "84 percent of computer users reported 'Huh?!' when asked whether their computer had been infected by a virus during the year". The environment is naturally much more hostile there in China, with over 90% piracy rate. It is actually a small miracle that "infected computers percentage" is lower than piracy rate.
> It allows "CD quality" digital signals to be simulcast
Try searching for example/. for "CD quality", just in the "stories" part this string is matched hundreds of times. When did "CD quality" become the standard for excellent sound quality. And why? Is it because you can call anything to be of "CD quality" - if your quality prooves to be crap, then just select a lousy CD.
Although this might sound like a joke, it would be interesting to back-trace whether someone or some organisation started marketing this standard actively some time in the recent history. Or is just an accident?
Scientists say 50 grammes of sugar would keep a 40-watt light bulb lit for eight hours.
Now, what I will do, is to just connect this liposuction device with me and their innovation, turn my fat into hydrogen and fuel my car. I assume my excess kgs of excess fat will take me to whereever I want. Haha! Here we come McDonald's!
Every time when something like this happens, it makes me think what is so different in making computers or software compared to producing food,cars and comdoms for example. I can "mod" my car, boat or socks as much as I want - atleast as long it remains secure for me and others. Also, I can glue my socks and condoms together if I want - I don't know if that's wise, but I can. So, why is it illegal to glue this chip and the device together - or to sell this chip.
I guess this business is just so young, maybe 50 years of serious computer/software business so far, that these failures are just result of immaturity. In my opinion there is nothing so different in this industry of ours and it should just follow the same rules as with everything else - with only minor changes.
It seems that plenty of these robot projects are now beginning to be able "to act and get around independently" - atleast for specific purposes. But is there projects that would have looked at this from the different "ant" perspective. I mean, that the bots would build a co-operative network and use distributed intelligence to achieve the task most efficient possible way. I don't know anything about the matter - but I would think that the 2nd does not need the first - ie. we would not need to have a robot that can work independently before we can have many robots than can work co-operatively. (Just think about your local nerd, but him near computer - great, make him decide what to eat or come to a meeting in time (core dump) - with co-operation he/she might actually achieve these tasks)).
I have been following closely the adoptation of open source within European Union lately. It seems they are working, studying and experimenting this in many fronts. Here is some of the European Union efforts related to open source. Openchallenge (which I am related to) has also received very positive feedback from European Union officials.
It is interesting to see where we are in say after 10 more years.
Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Cairo, Bangkok, Beijing, Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi, Jakarta, Karachi, Manila, Seoul, Shanghai, London, Moscow...maybe a few more.
I have to run Windows at work to be able to communicate with the Windows world without problems. It is Microsoft that should pay me for their "security", I waste atleast 5 hours per week booting this stupid machine after every stupid critical security update that requires a stupid reboot after every damn install. This is the only option I have to keep the system atleast somewhat "secure".
I understand that a system needs patches, but is it really so hard to make an operating system whose maximum uptime is limited to 2-3 days because of the stupid required reboots. I know a couple of such operating systems.
I am sorry, but you will need to rewrite the whole damn thing.
>That would be great but all of the challenges suck in my opinion
The good part is that you can submit a better one. You must have a need for some software that you have always wanted but are not capable of producing yourself?
Look, some research money awarded to all the recent slashdot topics
Some of these might have actually got a pull from/. in getting the award. How about pulling one of these open source challenges as well? There seems to be a lot of interest for a Linux API for the Synaptic cPad for example - still it missing.
Ok, that was a bad example as I was talking about companies before. Anyway, there is many of these charity organisations doing this. I guess XS Tronix is the biggest COMPANY doing mobile phone recycling in Europe.
>You create a military-like death zone around
> the platform, say going out 50 miles in all directions
Did you forget that you do not need to only cover the land area? You need to look up (and you need VERY big googles) and cover every inch in that direction as well.
Think of the space elevator structure as a 100,000-km-long highway that will require ongoing maintenance and repair," says Smitherman. It will stretch 2.5 times Earth's circumference.
How many gazillion of billions do you think it will cost. If not by any accident, how many terrorists does it take to blow it up? There just is not and cannot be such big amount of capital tied into one physical place. It might be possible to build it - once, if you find someone who is ready to BURN that money. Someone who invested all his money into a dot.com in 1999 is worth economics nobel prize compared to this.
Discarded cellphones are a goldmine
on
Discarded Cell Phones
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
...and this is very old news:
Unwanted mobile phones are still valuable they contain precious
metals such as silver (Ag), gold (Au) and Palladium (Pd), as well as copper
(Cu) and plastics that can be recycled
There are actually plenty of companies making money, if not fortune, by ripping of valuable materials from the old phones - here's one. They are for now atleast a gold - and a silver mine. I quess you will find out this in US as well, as your mobile phone penetration goes high enough for this "mining business" to turn valuable - they need masses of cell phones for it to be profitable.
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what they really wanted to say with the domain is: totedtong.com (== running a secret society or fraternal organization especially of Chinese in the U.S. formerly notorious for gang warfare ). Government officials, prepare your SWAT teams...ohh, but how... they ARE the totedtong....ahh well, time to get the first coffee of the day :))
Is it a certain a percentage of the revenues? I mean, if the movie had proved to be a complete flop and would have generated negative revenue for Lucas Film. Say minus $420 million dollars, should Lucas Film actually pay the ex-employer for stealing it :))
in my very uneducated opinion, the whole DMCA is based on wrong foundation. IMHO, it is utterly stupid to try and define what exactly, technically you can do to software - or hardware - that you purchased. I mean, if the legislative forces really think this the correct way to fix things, then there should be the "Oil Painting Copyright Act" and "Ceramic Copyright Act". I think I have said this in some other thread as well, but..after 100 years all these legislators will be crying in their graves when they realize that software is no different and that they cannot just do the easy DMCA-kludge fix to serve needs of specific companies.
This looks to be the case. Inside the unit is a Cirrus Logic CPU (model: EP7212-CV-D EP AWAFED0007 ARM) which seems to be the heart of the unit. The chip is a processor that even has support for Windows CE. It handles audio decompression and even the LCD display. On Cirrus Logic's site you can find sample binaries for the processor that are "C and ARM assembly". They look nothing like the Nomad II firmware in the exe. Also inside the unit is one flash memory chip and one static memory chip. (Intel Flash TE28F800 B3BA90 U0160740A, and an ISSI IS62LV12816LL-70T CA894500P 0002)
Are they available? Atleast these specs tell very little. Anyway, I was thinking whether it would have the HW to run a real OS. I guess it must. If so, someone could throw in a small footprint Linux and make it support ogg. And ofcourse, it would not be just a jukebox anymore.
Uh, can you hear *ban*, RUSH home, UO moderators are closing your account right now. Ever heard that they kind of dislike unattended macroing (and that they might also be rather active slashdot readers). ;) ?
LONDON, England -- A newlywed man has been jailed for four months after playing a game of Tetris on his mobile phone during the flight back from his honeymoon
Should the owner already start making coffee for the AOL lawyers :) Domain name "takeovers" like this are insane. If your company happens to be known with a three letter name, does that automatically mean you can takeover anything which ends to these magic three letters. If so, I will make one company that's called A, another with name B, and third called ...erm... D :)?
All I can say is thank you. These details made my day :)
a new encryption method ties itself specifically to the physical structure and characteristics of each disk
This unique system will naturally allow you to damage your CD-RD to match the characteristics of the original perfectly. Once you are waiting for this product, why don't you brute force your ILLEGAL copies to get the same effect.
If you asked the same question in an European country or in the US, the result would be "84 percent of computer users reported 'Huh?!' when asked whether their computer had been infected by a virus during the year". The environment is naturally much more hostile there in China, with over 90% piracy rate. It is actually a small miracle that "infected computers percentage" is lower than piracy rate.
Try searching for example /. for "CD quality", just in the "stories" part this string is matched hundreds of times. When did "CD quality" become the standard for excellent sound quality. And why? Is it because you can call anything to be of "CD quality" - if your quality prooves to be crap, then just select a lousy CD.
Although this might sound like a joke, it would be interesting to back-trace whether someone or some organisation started marketing this standard actively some time in the recent history. Or is just an accident?
Scientists say 50 grammes of sugar would keep a 40-watt light bulb lit for eight hours.
Now, what I will do, is to just connect this liposuction device with me and their innovation, turn my fat into hydrogen and fuel my car. I assume my excess kgs of excess fat will take me to whereever I want. Haha! Here we come McDonald's!
I guess this business is just so young, maybe 50 years of serious computer/software business so far, that these failures are just result of immaturity. In my opinion there is nothing so different in this industry of ours and it should just follow the same rules as with everything else - with only minor changes.
Ummm. 1975?
It seems that plenty of these robot projects are now beginning to be able "to act and get around independently" - atleast for specific purposes. But is there projects that would have looked at this from the different "ant" perspective. I mean, that the bots would build a co-operative network and use distributed intelligence to achieve the task most efficient possible way. I don't know anything about the matter - but I would think that the 2nd does not need the first - ie. we would not need to have a robot that can work independently before we can have many robots than can work co-operatively. (Just think about your local nerd, but him near computer - great, make him decide what to eat or come to a meeting in time (core dump) - with co-operation he/she might actually achieve these tasks)).
It is interesting to see where we are in say after 10 more years.
Finally, some use for the smog.
I understand that a system needs patches, but is it really so hard to make an operating system whose maximum uptime is limited to 2-3 days because of the stupid required reboots. I know a couple of such operating systems.
I am sorry, but you will need to rewrite the whole damn thing.
The good part is that you can submit a better one. You must have a need for some software that you have always wanted but are not capable of producing yourself?
Some of these might have actually got a pull from /. in getting the award. How about pulling one of these open source challenges as well? There seems to be a lot of interest for a Linux API for the Synaptic cPad for example - still it missing.
Ok, that was a bad example as I was talking about companies before. Anyway, there is many of these charity organisations doing this. I guess XS Tronix is the biggest COMPANY doing mobile phone recycling in Europe.
> the platform, say going out 50 miles in all directions
Did you forget that you do not need to only cover the land area? You need to look up (and you need VERY big googles) and cover every inch in that direction as well.
How many gazillion of billions do you think it will cost. If not by any accident, how many terrorists does it take to blow it up? There just is not and cannot be such big amount of capital tied into one physical place. It might be possible to build it - once, if you find someone who is ready to BURN that money. Someone who invested all his money into a dot.com in 1999 is worth economics nobel prize compared to this.
Unwanted mobile phones are still valuable they contain precious metals such as silver (Ag), gold (Au) and Palladium (Pd), as well as copper (Cu) and plastics that can be recycled
There are actually plenty of companies making money, if not fortune, by ripping of valuable materials from the old phones - here's one. They are for now atleast a gold - and a silver mine. I quess you will find out this in US as well, as your mobile phone penetration goes high enough for this "mining business" to turn valuable - they need masses of cell phones for it to be profitable.