If you want to download this trailer, not only must you sign-up for an account, give personal details etc, but you have to be running Internet Explorer on Windows, in minumum-security mode, to allow them to install software on your machine (ActiveX?) before you can view the trailer.
Who was it who said "don't double-click on exe files from untrusted sources"?
"There has got to be prior art on this. Didn't Yahoo do this before 2000 (when the patent was filed)?"
Apparently prior art only counts if it's in a patent or printed industry journal. Patent examiners don't live in the real-world, so any real-world usages of things being patented are unlikely to be taken into consideration.
After all, if it hasn't been published in a journal it hasn't been invented, right?
Favorite programming language? It is like asking you to pick your favorite painful dental procedure. The answer should be the one that will do what is needed with the best cost and least pain.
train ticket machines [in the UK] do take notes, so I assume they're still afflicted. They take credit card/switch too though
I think a change of currency is the last thing our train-ticket machines need to worry about! Last time I checked, fully half of them were completely broken through complete lack of maintenance.
I think there are limits to how far the rest of the world should feel obligated to go to make things more convenient for the crippled.
Yes, blind people can't use paper money. That's sucks if you're blind, but most people aren't. And changing the money to make it "blind-friendly" by making the bills different sizes or adding braille would greatly inconvenience everybody else. Money-handling tools and systems aren't set up to deal with bills of different sizes, and bills with embossed seals or braille on them won't stack the way flat bills do, so practically every cash-handling system would have to be redesigned.
The blind just have to suck this one up, I'm afraid.
I'd never normally wish a crippling industrial accident on anyone, but in this case...
When you're making the paper, you can emboss any pattern you like. That's what watermarking is all about (variable-thickness paper in the shape of the queen's head) -- it shouldn't be much of a problem to include raised patterns the same way.
"that's a special kind of ink in those markers.[for checking currency]"
Am I just thinking like a cracker here, or would it not be easier to counterfeit the detection pen, replacing the one in the store with one which always marks red? Until such time as they test the pen on white paper, that store would become vulnerable to currency printed without the official ink.
"Just imagine your coins having all the same color/size/weight!!"
The americans don't use coins: their currency is so low that they have notes for £0.60, and anything smaller than that is just coins which aren't worth the metal they're made from.
"Someone corect me if I am wrong, but couldn't the transceiver be built with hardware filters on those bands and thus sidestep the issue of broadcast interference? I know this is not as nice as having a fully programmable software radio transmitter, but otherwise I really don't see the FCC granting any kind of production licensing for these."
Translated:
This is really cool. Can't we cripple it to protect existing interests?
It's a pretty dumb idea at the best of times to map trademarks onto domain names. Even in one country (even one US state), the same word can be trademarked by an unlimited number of companies, in different businesses.
And.com is international or multinational commercial. So even if a trademark holder in the US can claim they should have trademark.co.us, how does that help them with a.com attempt? There are no international trademarks, so how can a local trademark be seen as claim to international namespace?
And yes, if you consider a US trademark to be a 'right' to own the.com, then so are the relevant trademark holders in a hundred other countries. The list of people with trademark x is becoming fairly large for them all to have a claim on one domain.
Time for some sensible domain names. www.acme.oil and www.acme.shop.ca.us and www.acme.financials and www.acme.law and www.acme.shipping and www.acme.kids and www.acme.home.uk and www.acme.suppliers.police.au would all solve this problem at a stroke.
Spacecraft are not like airliners. They're not as safe. But people still use them; they're used less often than airliners, and they do more work when they are used.
But yes, the Space Shuttle does need to give way to newer and better spacecraft. If anyone still knows how to build them. Perhaps the Russians and Germans can help.
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If you want to download this trailer, not only must you sign-up for an account, give personal details etc, but you have to be running Internet Explorer on Windows, in minumum-security mode, to allow them to install software on your machine (ActiveX?) before you can view the trailer.
Who was it who said "don't double-click on exe files from untrusted sources"?
"There has got to be prior art on this. Didn't Yahoo do this before 2000 (when the patent was filed)?"
Apparently prior art only counts if it's in a patent or printed industry journal. Patent examiners don't live in the real-world, so any real-world usages of things being patented are unlikely to be taken into consideration.
After all, if it hasn't been published in a journal it hasn't been invented, right?
"anyone else get the impression this is a proactive anti "piracy" move by the music and movie monopolists?"
Anyone want to write a version which only trashes machines when the local domain is vivendi.com?
Favorite programming language? It is like asking you to pick your favorite painful dental procedure. The answer should be the one that will do what is needed with the best cost and least pain.
"Wow, I'm sure this posting violates the Patriot Act. Better pack your bags and pick your favorite pair of clean underwear."
Luckily I don't live in a fascist country.
Shouldn't that be
"What the fuck do you think you are doing".
That's the way mine goes.
I can only hope to see a hall-full of thousands of her fans, booing "what the fuck do you think you're doing" over any attmpted song at a concert.
Is there anyone else in the world dumb enough to publically and personally insult every one of their customers?
(yes, customers. Those are the people using P2p. The people downloading songs are the same people who buy those same songs)
"If dollar bills were like computer software..."
Please type the 30-digit registration number which came on the disposable plastic wrapper of these dollars... Do you accept the license agreement?
"Here's the webcast [moneyfactory.com] of it. It's about a half hour long, and in WM format."
WindowMaker has a video player?
Gold?
"I just would feel too guilty and icky to even enjoy the extra $30"
Buy a Microsoft product with it.
train ticket machines [in the UK] do take notes, so I assume they're still afflicted. They take credit card/switch too though
I think a change of currency is the last thing our train-ticket machines need to worry about! Last time I checked, fully half of them were completely broken through complete lack of maintenance.
I think there are limits to how far the rest of the world should feel obligated to go to make things more convenient for the crippled.
Yes, blind people can't use paper money. That's sucks if you're blind, but most people aren't. And changing the money to make it "blind-friendly" by making the bills different sizes or adding braille would greatly inconvenience everybody else. Money-handling tools and systems aren't set up to deal with bills of different sizes, and bills with embossed seals or braille on them won't stack the way flat bills do, so practically every cash-handling system would have to be redesigned.
The blind just have to suck this one up, I'm afraid.
I'd never normally wish a crippling industrial accident on anyone, but in this case...
A raised pattern? On a linen bill?
When you're making the paper, you can emboss any pattern you like. That's what watermarking is all about (variable-thickness paper in the shape of the queen's head) -- it shouldn't be much of a problem to include raised patterns the same way.
they haven't changed the size?! Why is it that no blind people have sued over this?
'Cos they can't read the treasury website.
The fact that the US violated no UN Security Council resolutions borders on a mere technicality.
But more relevantly...
You'd think that someone with the ability to print money, plus the ability to require anybody in the country to give them money on demand...
You'd think they'd manage to stay out of debt?
"that's a special kind of ink in those markers.[for checking currency]"
Am I just thinking like a cracker here, or would it not be easier to counterfeit the detection pen, replacing the one in the store with one which always marks red? Until such time as they test the pen on white paper, that store would become vulnerable to currency printed without the official ink.
"Just imagine your coins having all the same color/size/weight!!"
The americans don't use coins: their currency is so low that they have notes for £0.60, and anything smaller than that is just coins which aren't worth the metal they're made from.
"Someone corect me if I am wrong, but couldn't the transceiver be built with hardware filters on those bands and thus sidestep the issue of broadcast interference? I know this is not as nice as having a fully programmable software radio transmitter, but otherwise I really don't see the FCC granting any kind of production licensing for these."
Translated:
This is really cool. Can't we cripple it to protect existing interests?
It's a pretty dumb idea at the best of times to map trademarks onto domain names. Even in one country (even one US state), the same word can be trademarked by an unlimited number of companies, in different businesses.
.com is international or multinational commercial. So even if a trademark holder in the US can claim they should have trademark.co.us, how does that help them with a .com attempt? There are no international trademarks, so how can a local trademark be seen as claim to international namespace?
.com, then so are the relevant trademark holders in a hundred other countries. The list of people with trademark x is becoming fairly large for them all to have a claim on one domain.
And
And yes, if you consider a US trademark to be a 'right' to own the
Time for some sensible domain names. www.acme.oil and www.acme.shop.ca.us and www.acme.financials and www.acme.law and www.acme.shipping and www.acme.kids and www.acme.home.uk and www.acme.suppliers.police.au would all solve this problem at a stroke.
Feynman
Spacecraft are not like airliners. They're not as safe. But people still use them; they're used less often than airliners, and they do more work when they are used.
But yes, the Space Shuttle does need to give way to newer and better spacecraft. If anyone still knows how to build them. Perhaps the Russians and Germans can help.
"An anti-popup web article that uses popup advertising!"
Did it? Hands up who saw these alleged popups?
"Hopefully it will still block those audio pop-ups "that can't be turned off."
It's at times like this you're glad that 90% of clueless webeditors haven't even heard of your browser.
"My C/R setup (TMDA) automatically put anyone I send email to on my whitelist; therefore I'd get their challenge message."
Okay, what happens when someone sends spam "from" someone on your whitelist?
"Let it be noted that Microsoft already had SQL SP3 out which fixed the problem before it ever occurred"
Let it be noted that SQL SP3 caused production machines to break.