In the same category, I heard a really funny story (potential urban ledgen) about a guy selling reports on-line that detailed the ill effects of marijuana. Ended up that he was selling them for $20 to $30 so that his customers could by pot from him with their credit cards via Pay Pal!
First off, this is outrageous! Not like I haven't been made aware of China's repression tactics and such before, but it's still amazes me.
So, from the article: But blanket censorship is reserved for extreme situations, and this fact reflects its long-standing dilemma: while it desperately wants to control the flow of news and opinion, especially dissent, it also wants an open, modern and efficient economy, including a state-of-the-art telecom and information infrastructure.
Wow! The statement that they're reserving censorship for 'extreme' situations is so bogus. Look at what they're doing! They're flat out trying to set up a fear driven filter system that would let them block a SINGLE WORD from entering ANY MEDIA source in the country! The idea that they could do this is amazing, and the fact that they're actually accomplishing it is even more so.
And as for an open economy, how the hell do you do that if the citizens can't participate? I suppose people get mind-numbed enough that even government driven mis-information is better than nothing, but at some point it becomes pointless doesn't it? The government will be forcing the economy down faster than it can grow.
Oh yeah, and... The authorities seem to have asked the websites to add the term Sars to the long list of banned words....
ASKED!?! PFFFFFFFT!
Don't get me wrong. Yes, I'm an American living in the U.S. No, I have no idea what it would take to actually run a country with such a huge population. But, I'm fairly certain this isn't going to help anyone and will eventually be the govt's down fall. I try not to be judgemental, but I just can't believe that this kind of stuff is for the good of the people.
First off, this mortifies me. I don't think I'll ever purchase another bit/byte of comercial music media... OK, on to the question:
So this kid setteled and the RIAA agreed to obsolve him of any wrong doing. I'm assuming this means he can continue to operate his site as is without modification, since he got to pay them 12k to agree that he didn't do anything (ridiculous!!!). So, assuming he doesn't have to stop what he was doing, does the fact that they agreed that he did no wrong keep them from being able to sue him for the same thing again?
Absolutely! I do that now. But, I want it all digital without the need to scan the notes from tree corpses to get them in a digital format. And I want to get rid of the need to transfer data from a digital recorder to a PC before sending the meeting audio out to all the participants. Like I said, I could do all of this with my existing laptop. A tablet device would just get me closer to my ideal situation for this type of need. And that's not even mentioning all of the other use I'd get out of it.
My $.02: Besides just the general coolness of being able to read e-docs like you would read the newspaper or a book, my biggest use for something like this would be for all of the meetings, requirement gathering sesions, reviews, etc. I have to attend.
Something I've wanted to do for a long time is have an application or set of apps to record audio from a meeting (this thing has a built in microphone) and have a handy note pad to hand write notes on at the same time (I'm talking pages and pages of notes, diagrams, etc.). Most of the PDAs I've tried are too small for my taste and are cumbersome when taking lots of notes or don't have enough memory for the amount of audio I'd like to record (maybe with external media?). My laptop doesn't have a microphone (easy to resolve though), but my biggest issues with taking a laptop to meetings is typing on it is kind of annoying for everybody and you always have the screen between you and people across a table from you.
Obviously this could be done with M$ OS and software. But, that's where the big coolness factor comes in. Add in the shear number of *nix tools that I normally use to do other things simultaniously while in meetings on my laptop and I think it'd rock! I think I just convinced myself to buy one!;-)
I know it's not good manners to reply to my own posts, but did anyone read through the Google (and other search engines and companies) law suit that this guy filed? Amazing!
He basically alleges that he lost tons of revenue and incurred damages to his brand because other companies that paid for advertising and ranking using keywords such as "pets" and "warehouse" unfairly got more hits/click throughs than his site. He sues the copanies that paid for the advertising AND the search engines like there was some giant conspiracy to undermine his business.
Woner if there are any complaints of people receiveing two headed animals or puppies that ate children from this guy? He's gone and slipped off the edge of reality...
Novak 3 involves a lawsuit against Novak as the result of a defamatory message that was posted claiming a Bar Complaint was pending on November 2001 against John Benn. A judgment has been rendered against Novak in that case.
So he's going off suing people because they are (I assume rightfully) complaining about his poor business practices in a public forum. Then he publicly defamates a LAWYER'S character and loses the whole business!!! What an ultra maroon! It's big time poetic justice that Mr. Benn will get his $50,000 settlement from the obliteration of the brand.
I think I'm missing your meaning here. Don't "refills" and "recharching" kind of mean the same thing in respect to fuel cells? Or are you implying that you'd want to be able to plug your fuel cell into an electrical source some how to recharge/refuel it? Would'nt that kind of defeat the purpose? Clue me in.
Not sure if it counts, but I take at least one, sometimes 2 or 3 disposable butane lighters (Bic, etc) on US commercial flights all the time. They're under pressure and pretty combustable. Try running over one in a car or just footbal spiking one on the cement sometime.
I smoke (yeah, yeah, I know), so I know I took one on a flight around 2 weeks after 9/11 without it being mentioned or questioned by security. As a matter of fact, I'd never even thought of that being an issue until this thread. On that note what's to stop someone from starting a big fire on a plane with their handy Bic and that stack of Magazines they keep in the overhead? Thanks for the paranoid episode!!!:-)
That's just great! Now when I honk and politely wave (the international hand sign for "your # 1" of course) at the soccer Mom driving 40 mph on the freeway in front of me whilst applying her make-up and talking on her cell phone, she'll be able to immediately retalliate by tossing her handy fuel cell communication grenade at me through the sun roof on her 5 mpg SUV!
What's next? Kids running around with self pumping Super Soakers powered by napalm!!?!?
This whole 802.11 home brew stuff is pretty interesting. I live less than a mile away from a buddy of mine and have been kicking around the idea of setting up our own little wireless lan using something like this (doubt I'll be building the antenna out of floppies though). Ran across this: Reach Out and Touch Someone. Warning: Engmish!
One of the funniest things about the aricle is him going door to door offering to pay for DSL service to get help with the expirement. Most people turned him down! Show's how paranoid and distrustfull we've become (not surprising)... And man if he'd been caught peeping around at houses with his binoculars or telescopes! The big problem I have is that it took him $1400 to get it going. Seems like it could be done way cheaper to me.
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Check out Embedded Linux/Microcontoller project I've never tried it personally, but looks promissing. Don't know about support for the older platforms you're talking about though. Gives you somewhere to start though.
Some very usefull tools that I've used on newer Palm devices with net connectivity: Top Gun SSH - Works pretty good for remote shell access. PalmVNC - Decent VNC implementation for the Palm.
Not *nix on the Palm, but gives you good access to remote systems.
...a security vulnerability is a flaw within a software system that can cause it to work contrary to its documented design...
This is an interesting definition now isn't it? Does this mean that all undocumented behavior is considered a security flaw? If so, we all better get busy. We've got about 15 million vulnerabilities to disclose just for M$ Word alone!!!!
Agreed, especially if the infringement is really at the circuit design level. I'm no EE, but I would think that'd be fairly easy to prove. A lot easier than SCO's potential "Look, all their for loops use a variable named 'i' just like ours!".
I heard this song on the radio today and thought "This should be the SCO anthem!".
In the words of the great Don Henley:
Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody's pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry
We can do "The Innuendo"
We can dance and sing
When it's said and done we haven't told you a thing
We all know that Crap is King
Give us dirty laundry!
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Heh... He said:
"...pooly implemented..."
AGREED!
Sorry. Couldn't help it...
Ha! A guy jumps out from behind the mail box and starts laying into the mail man with a baseball bat for delivering junk mail.
Or better yet, a war dialer that imediately starts to dialing all of the executives of the tele-marketing company that interrupted you during dinner.
In the same category, I heard a really funny story (potential urban ledgen) about a guy selling reports on-line that detailed the ill effects of marijuana. Ended up that he was selling them for $20 to $30 so that his customers could by pot from him with their credit cards via Pay Pal!
Enterprising minds...
I'm renaming my $1.00 version paper money to $20.00 as we speak...
First off, this is outrageous! Not like I haven't been made aware of China's repression tactics and such before, but it's still amazes me.
So, from the article:
But blanket censorship is reserved for extreme situations, and this fact reflects its long-standing dilemma: while it desperately wants to control the flow of news and opinion, especially dissent, it also wants an open, modern and efficient economy, including a state-of-the-art telecom and information infrastructure.
Wow! The statement that they're reserving censorship for 'extreme' situations is so bogus. Look at what they're doing! They're flat out trying to set up a fear driven filter system that would let them block a SINGLE WORD from entering ANY MEDIA source in the country! The idea that they could do this is amazing, and the fact that they're actually accomplishing it is even more so.
And as for an open economy, how the hell do you do that if the citizens can't participate? I suppose people get mind-numbed enough that even government driven mis-information is better than nothing, but at some point it becomes pointless doesn't it? The government will be forcing the economy down faster than it can grow.
Oh yeah, and... The authorities seem to have asked the websites to add the term Sars to the long list of banned words....
ASKED!?! PFFFFFFFT!
Don't get me wrong. Yes, I'm an American living in the U.S. No, I have no idea what it would take to actually run a country with such a huge population. But, I'm fairly certain this isn't going to help anyone and will eventually be the govt's down fall. I try not to be judgemental, but I just can't believe that this kind of stuff is for the good of the people.
First off, this mortifies me. I don't think I'll ever purchase another bit/byte of comercial music media... OK, on to the question:
So this kid setteled and the RIAA agreed to obsolve him of any wrong doing. I'm assuming this means he can continue to operate his site as is without modification, since he got to pay them 12k to agree that he didn't do anything (ridiculous!!!). So, assuming he doesn't have to stop what he was doing, does the fact that they agreed that he did no wrong keep them from being able to sue him for the same thing again?
Absolutely! I do that now. But, I want it all digital without the need to scan the notes from tree corpses to get them in a digital format. And I want to get rid of the need to transfer data from a digital recorder to a PC before sending the meeting audio out to all the participants. Like I said, I could do all of this with my existing laptop. A tablet device would just get me closer to my ideal situation for this type of need. And that's not even mentioning all of the other use I'd get out of it.
My $.02: Besides just the general coolness of being able to read e-docs like you would read the newspaper or a book, my biggest use for something like this would be for all of the meetings, requirement gathering sesions, reviews, etc. I have to attend.
;-)
Something I've wanted to do for a long time is have an application or set of apps to record audio from a meeting (this thing has a built in microphone) and have a handy note pad to hand write notes on at the same time (I'm talking pages and pages of notes, diagrams, etc.). Most of the PDAs I've tried are too small for my taste and are cumbersome when taking lots of notes or don't have enough memory for the amount of audio I'd like to record (maybe with external media?). My laptop doesn't have a microphone (easy to resolve though), but my biggest issues with taking a laptop to meetings is typing on it is kind of annoying for everybody and you always have the screen between you and people across a table from you.
Obviously this could be done with M$ OS and software. But, that's where the big coolness factor comes in. Add in the shear number of *nix tools that I normally use to do other things simultaniously while in meetings on my laptop and I think it'd rock! I think I just convinced myself to buy one!
I know it's not good manners to reply to my own posts, but did anyone read through the Google (and other search engines and companies) law suit that this guy filed? Amazing!
He basically alleges that he lost tons of revenue and incurred damages to his brand because other companies that paid for advertising and ranking using keywords such as "pets" and "warehouse" unfairly got more hits/click throughs than his site. He sues the copanies that paid for the advertising AND the search engines like there was some giant conspiracy to undermine his business.
Woner if there are any complaints of people receiveing two headed animals or puppies that ate children from this guy? He's gone and slipped off the edge of reality...
From the link:
Novak 3 involves a lawsuit against Novak as the result of a defamatory message that was posted claiming a Bar Complaint was pending on November 2001 against John Benn. A judgment has been rendered against Novak in that case.
So he's going off suing people because they are (I assume rightfully) complaining about his poor business practices in a public forum. Then he publicly defamates a LAWYER'S character and loses the whole business!!! What an ultra maroon! It's big time poetic justice that Mr. Benn will get his $50,000 settlement from the obliteration of the brand.
...reek of sex appeal...have gorgeous curves...feminine touches...Oooo...
;-)
I think I'm going to go be alone with my Mac for a bit...
I apologize in advance, but, Huh, huh, huh, they said Checking the progress of Uranus".
I think I'm missing your meaning here. Don't "refills" and "recharching" kind of mean the same thing in respect to fuel cells? Or are you implying that you'd want to be able to plug your fuel cell into an electrical source some how to recharge/refuel it? Would'nt that kind of defeat the purpose? Clue me in.
Not sure if it counts, but I take at least one, sometimes 2 or 3 disposable butane lighters (Bic, etc) on US commercial flights all the time. They're under pressure and pretty combustable. Try running over one in a car or just footbal spiking one on the cement sometime.
:-)
I smoke (yeah, yeah, I know), so I know I took one on a flight around 2 weeks after 9/11 without it being mentioned or questioned by security. As a matter of fact, I'd never even thought of that being an issue until this thread. On that note what's to stop someone from starting a big fire on a plane with their handy Bic and that stack of Magazines they keep in the overhead? Thanks for the paranoid episode!!!
That's just great! Now when I honk and politely wave (the international hand sign for "your # 1" of course) at the soccer Mom driving 40 mph on the freeway in front of me whilst applying her make-up and talking on her cell phone, she'll be able to immediately retalliate by tossing her handy fuel cell communication grenade at me through the sun roof on her 5 mpg SUV!
What's next? Kids running around with self pumping Super Soakers powered by napalm!!?!?
I tried to control myself...I swear!
Fremch is what you learn AFTER French, but you can only take it during Period 6 & 9...
This whole 802.11 home brew stuff is pretty interesting. I live less than a mile away from a buddy of mine and have been kicking around the idea of setting up our own little wireless lan using something like this (doubt I'll be building the antenna out of floppies though).
Ran across this: Reach Out and Touch Someone. Warning: Engmish!
One of the funniest things about the aricle is him going door to door offering to pay for DSL service to get help with the expirement. Most people turned him down! Show's how paranoid and distrustfull we've become (not surprising)... And man if he'd been caught peeping around at houses with his binoculars or telescopes! The big problem I have is that it took him $1400 to get it going. Seems like it could be done way cheaper to me.
Check out Embedded Linux/Microcontoller project I've never tried it personally, but looks promissing. Don't know about support for the older platforms you're talking about though. Gives you somewhere to start though.
Some very usefull tools that I've used on newer Palm devices with net connectivity:
Top Gun SSH - Works pretty good for remote shell access.
PalmVNC - Decent VNC implementation for the Palm.
Not *nix on the Palm, but gives you good access to remote systems.
...a security vulnerability is a flaw within a software system that can cause it to work contrary to its documented design...
This is an interesting definition now isn't it? Does this mean that all undocumented behavior is considered a security flaw? If so, we all better get busy. We've got about 15 million vulnerabilities to disclose just for M$ Word alone!!!!
Agreed, especially if the infringement is really at the circuit design level. I'm no EE, but I would think that'd be fairly easy to prove. A lot easier than SCO's potential "Look, all their for loops use a variable named 'i' just like ours!".
I heard this song on the radio today and thought "This should be the SCO anthem!".
In the words of the great Don Henley:
Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody's pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry
We can do "The Innuendo"
We can dance and sing
When it's said and done we haven't told you a thing
We all know that Crap is King
Give us dirty laundry!
The whole thing applies...