Virus are not protected by copyright, patents etc.
Sure they are. See, a "virus" is a program, and the source code is copyrightable, and patentable as well. Otherwise there'd be no point to the second half of your post, anyone could just use Phoenix BIOS as their own.
Every virus I've written is copyrighted to me. Now, I don't consider them viruses. Some spyware and anti-virus software will identify them as viruses, because the code will behave in viral like ways such as deleting files and making registry changes... but well that's what my IE cache/history cleaner is meant to do. Since I wrote it and have the source code printed out, it's covered by copyright. The only reason it's not patented is because there's too much prior art.
November 1991 WordPerfect released its first Windows word processor, 18 months after Microsoft released Windows 3.0 and never fully recovered from this late start.
Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released May, 1990. Millions of people ignored it. April 1992 Windows 3.1 was released and that's when people took notice.
WordPerfect for Windows 5.1 was released in 1991, before the release of Windows 3.1.
I grew up with model rockets. They are still available... but unfortunately with urban sprawl there's nowhere to launch them anymore, at least in the NY burbs. It used to be that you could find a nice field, wave at the farmer and launch your rockets. Nowadays you just look wrong across someone's property and they've got the police on the way. Times have changed since those carefree days.
Well, there's was split per se, but a huge rift exists. The "software developer" side blossomed in the past few years to include anyone who did anything with "code", using the term lightly. Most of the "software developers" I know have never stepped inside a Radio Shack, much less wielded a soldering iron.
Once I added the cost of photo paper and cartridges, it was more expensive than developing the pics.
Printing on the printer costs me more, yes, almost twice as much as printing at the store. However, if you consider 250 pictures taken on vacation, I might want to print 10 of them as 8"x10", total cost about $20. Developing 250 pictures would cost at least $80, and I'd only get 4"x6"s, plus an additional $10 to get the 10 I want blown up to 8"x10" *after* I get the original prints back. The cost comes from not having to develop and print every single picture.
Not to mention the convenience of not having to drive to the photo lab, to wait for the lone employee to serve the three people in front of you, the frustration of being told yesterday was a holiday and the pictures would not be ready until the next day...
Wow, there's the answer. This guy knows way too much; he must have some direct connection to the databases which store knowledge in the Matrix. Yet he can't find the spoon since the spoon is a construct of the matrix and isn't real... woah.
When they run an MRI on him, they're gonna see a big metal spike in his brain.
Most people lose it after a few months, usually sooner, or totally forget about it. Two years is a long time.
You have any data to back this up? I have every single receipt going back five years for tax and insurance purposes. Most responsible adults keep records for at least two year, most for at least three.
Oh, and here is another fact: In the zebrafish, despite their retinas being much more complex and sophisticated than ours, can repair their retinas from damage whereas we are currently screwed if our retinas go bad.
Not to mention that human retinas are inverted. It's amazing that inverted eyes didn't end up as an evolutionary dead end, that they were able to evolve into what they are regardless of the inverted wiring. Simply amazing. Maybe that's why our ancestors left the oceans, to get away from the fishes and squids that could see much better with "verted" eyes.
I remember, because I always seem to get stuck driving behind them. Apparenlty they think they're still driving Model T's because they don't go over 30mph. And turn off the blinker already!
IIRC someone in the UK came up with the mathmatic
formula for parallel parking a car perfectly.
Heh heh... reminds me of a couch impossibly stuck in a stairwell.
Formulas for parking cars will be written to assume cars are solid, unmovable objects; of course who wants the program to cause contact and damage their cars? But in reality, cars are not completely immobile; you can back into a car and push it for a couple of inches. Moving forward, you can push that car for a few more inches, thus giving you much more room to maneuver into the parking spot. Well, anyway that's the way most people park in NYC, parking in spots where no computer would possibly squeeze you in.
This device automatically parks the car, maneuvering the Prius backward and into the space
This won't work in NYC. I'm sure the programmers, living in a land where you immediately fix anything bigger than a microscratch, wouldn't allow the car to be parked in any spot where you don't have a good margin of error in terms of clearance.
Here in NYC it's common for the driver to back in until they feel their car make contact with the one behind. Then drive forward until they kiss the car in front. Then back. And front. And back, etc until you squeeze into the spot... leaving plenty of dings and scratches... but that's parking in NYC for ya.
Me, I have a half-dozen computers sitting under my desk, all generating a lot of heat. If the ambient temp is too high, my legs are sweating and I'm falling asleep. So what's comfortable for those in a wide open reception area is roasting me alive in my cube.
Until they can control the ambient temperature to small regions of each floor, let's keep the temp on the cool side; you can always put on a jacket.
Seriously, who else actually needs a camera phone?
You find uses for it. For example, the other day, I noticed I lost one of my hub caps on my car. I'd originally bought them in Target, but knowing they have several similar looking models, I take a pic of the ones I have so I can match them and have a few spares.
Along the same lines, my GF asks me to pick up some haircare/ facial/ random feminine product. They all look the same to me, so I grab the bottle/can/box and take a pic. Also, fresh herbs and spices... I can't tell sage from sawgrass... and grocery shelves aren't always marked, so pics help a lot.
I'm at the library, looking for several books. I use the terminal to look them up, find the details, but can't print because the printer's out of paper. So for each book I take a pic of the number and location.
I see something interesting in the newspaper or magazine that I want to look into later; take a snapshot of the title to remind me.
Quick pic of a map so I have a general idea where I'm going.
There are plenty of uses for a camera phone, just gotta be creative.
Running an aplication without the use of an OS... uh-huh. Exactly *how* this application is supposed to run is beyond my imagination. The parent said boot and connect to a google-like service without an OS. That's entirely possible through PXE. Once you connect, your system downloads a minimal linux OS, and *then* runs the applications on the service.
would you really store your sensitive data on a public system? Sure, that's why we have strong encryption.
What if it's compromized? Like home machines don't get 'pwned' now? Their data is probably better off on some major service that actively takes steps to ensure system integrity. Crashes are no different.
And paying for something that's free now?
As for paying, well that's been tried before, free pc if you subscribe to a service; that didn't go over too well with people, so that's about the only part that would be a problem.
Except for the fact that it's Illegal, I agree with ya.;)
The FCC reg says it's illegal to block or jam the SIGNAL going to a cell phone. If you turn off the phone, it still has the ability to receive the signal, you're doing nothing to interfere with that. You did prevent the phone from responding to that signal... but that's not prohibited by the law, is it?
Do you want to use the antivirus product of a company whose network goes down due to a virus?
Any company's computers, even the best AV writers, are vulnerable to 1st day infections. Any company could get slammed if an unknown virus is introduced directly into their networks. So what would matter to me is not that they were taken down, but how quickly they are able to get their systems back online. That's indicative of how quickly they can get updates online and out to the rest of us who may be suffering the same fate.
Does this make any sense to anyone?
These companies are moving offshore to escape US privacy laws. So the solution is for the US to enact tougher privacy laws?
Sure it makes sense... if you're a politician. Fix any problem with more legislation! More laws! More special committees! More money from special interests! The guy who submitted the story is probably a politician.
So we just need to find a way to turn Walmart agains Microsoft and watch the explosions and carnage the ensues. Smiley the price slasher vs. MS Bob and Clippy?
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Virus are not protected by copyright, patents etc.
Sure they are. See, a "virus" is a program, and the source code is copyrightable, and patentable as well. Otherwise there'd be no point to the second half of your post, anyone could just use Phoenix BIOS as their own.
Every virus I've written is copyrighted to me. Now, I don't consider them viruses. Some spyware and anti-virus software will identify them as viruses, because the code will behave in viral like ways such as deleting files and making registry changes... but well that's what my IE cache/history cleaner is meant to do. Since I wrote it and have the source code printed out, it's covered by copyright. The only reason it's not patented is because there's too much prior art.
November 1991 WordPerfect released its first Windows word processor, 18 months after Microsoft released Windows 3.0 and never fully recovered from this late start.
Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released May, 1990. Millions of people ignored it. April 1992 Windows 3.1 was released and that's when people took notice.
WordPerfect for Windows 5.1 was released in 1991, before the release of Windows 3.1.
I grew up with model rockets. They are still available... but unfortunately with urban sprawl there's nowhere to launch them anymore, at least in the NY burbs. It used to be that you could find a nice field, wave at the farmer and launch your rockets. Nowadays you just look wrong across someone's property and they've got the police on the way. Times have changed since those carefree days.
I didn't get the memo. When did the split occur?
Well, there's was split per se, but a huge rift exists. The "software developer" side blossomed in the past few years to include anyone who did anything with "code", using the term lightly. Most of the "software developers" I know have never stepped inside a Radio Shack, much less wielded a soldering iron.
Zip up all your files
Encrypt with GPG/PGP
Rename to "Olsen Twins Nude - XXX.zip"
Upload on Kazaa
What if all my files are pics of the Olsen Twins Nude? Do I have to upload them as "Linux Kernel 2.8 (preview)"?
Punchcards? Hah, I have my pictures mime-encoded and fired on clay tablets.
Once I added the cost of photo paper and cartridges, it was more expensive than developing the pics.
Printing on the printer costs me more, yes, almost twice as much as printing at the store. However, if you consider 250 pictures taken on vacation, I might want to print 10 of them as 8"x10", total cost about $20. Developing 250 pictures would cost at least $80, and I'd only get 4"x6"s, plus an additional $10 to get the 10 I want blown up to 8"x10" *after* I get the original prints back. The cost comes from not having to develop and print every single picture.
Not to mention the convenience of not having to drive to the photo lab, to wait for the lone employee to serve the three people in front of you, the frustration of being told yesterday was a holiday and the pictures would not be ready until the next day...
Dude, there is no spoon.
Wow, there's the answer. This guy knows way too much; he must have some direct connection to the databases which store knowledge in the Matrix. Yet he can't find the spoon since the spoon is a construct of the matrix and isn't real... woah.
When they run an MRI on him, they're gonna see a big metal spike in his brain.
Most people lose it after a few months, usually sooner, or totally forget about it. Two years is a long time.
You have any data to back this up? I have every single receipt going back five years for tax and insurance purposes. Most responsible adults keep records for at least two year, most for at least three.
What is that the plot of the next Tom Cruise movie?
Oh, and here is another fact: In the zebrafish, despite their retinas being much more complex and sophisticated than ours, can repair their retinas from damage whereas we are currently screwed if our retinas go bad.
Not to mention that human retinas are inverted. It's amazing that inverted eyes didn't end up as an evolutionary dead end, that they were able to evolve into what they are regardless of the inverted wiring. Simply amazing. Maybe that's why our ancestors left the oceans, to get away from the fishes and squids that could see much better with "verted" eyes.
Oh yes, how could ANY of us not remember that!
I remember, because I always seem to get stuck driving behind them. Apparenlty they think they're still driving Model T's because they don't go over 30mph. And turn off the blinker already!
What better way to do so by regressing back to your childhood...
Because now I can be charged as an adult.
Why would anyone need to use a search engine to look for porn? I mean, doesn't one out of every three spam messages have a link to some new porn site?
Type any word into the address bar, and chances are it'll link to some porn site. Misspell any popular website and likewise you'll see porn.
Nobody has to search for it, it's pretty hard to avoid.
IIRC someone in the UK came up with the mathmatic formula for parallel parking a car perfectly.
Heh heh... reminds me of a couch impossibly stuck in a stairwell.
Formulas for parking cars will be written to assume cars are solid, unmovable objects; of course who wants the program to cause contact and damage their cars? But in reality, cars are not completely immobile; you can back into a car and push it for a couple of inches. Moving forward, you can push that car for a few more inches, thus giving you much more room to maneuver into the parking spot. Well, anyway that's the way most people park in NYC, parking in spots where no computer would possibly squeeze you in.
This device automatically parks the car, maneuvering the Prius backward and into the space
This won't work in NYC. I'm sure the programmers, living in a land where you immediately fix anything bigger than a microscratch, wouldn't allow the car to be parked in any spot where you don't have a good margin of error in terms of clearance.
Here in NYC it's common for the driver to back in until they feel their car make contact with the one behind. Then drive forward until they kiss the car in front. Then back. And front. And back, etc until you squeeze into the spot... leaving plenty of dings and scratches... but that's parking in NYC for ya.
Me, I have a half-dozen computers sitting under my desk, all generating a lot of heat. If the ambient temp is too high, my legs are sweating and I'm falling asleep. So what's comfortable for those in a wide open reception area is roasting me alive in my cube.
Until they can control the ambient temperature to small regions of each floor, let's keep the temp on the cool side; you can always put on a jacket.
Seriously, who else actually needs a camera phone?
You find uses for it. For example, the other day, I noticed I lost one of my hub caps on my car. I'd originally bought them in Target, but knowing they have several similar looking models, I take a pic of the ones I have so I can match them and have a few spares.
Along the same lines, my GF asks me to pick up some haircare/ facial/ random feminine product. They all look the same to me, so I grab the bottle/can/box and take a pic. Also, fresh herbs and spices... I can't tell sage from sawgrass... and grocery shelves aren't always marked, so pics help a lot.
I'm at the library, looking for several books. I use the terminal to look them up, find the details, but can't print because the printer's out of paper. So for each book I take a pic of the number and location.
I see something interesting in the newspaper or magazine that I want to look into later; take a snapshot of the title to remind me.
Quick pic of a map so I have a general idea where I'm going.
There are plenty of uses for a camera phone, just gotta be creative.
Running an aplication without the use of an OS ... uh-huh. Exactly *how* this application is supposed to run is beyond my imagination.
The parent said boot and connect to a google-like service without an OS. That's entirely possible through PXE. Once you connect, your system downloads a minimal linux OS, and *then* runs the applications on the service.
would you really store your sensitive data on a public system?
Sure, that's why we have strong encryption.
What if it's compromized?
Like home machines don't get 'pwned' now? Their data is probably better off on some major service that actively takes steps to ensure system integrity. Crashes are no different.
And paying for something that's free now?
As for paying, well that's been tried before, free pc if you subscribe to a service; that didn't go over too well with people, so that's about the only part that would be a problem.
Except for the fact that it's Illegal, I agree with ya. ;)
The FCC reg says it's illegal to block or jam the SIGNAL going to a cell phone. If you turn off the phone, it still has the ability to receive the signal, you're doing nothing to interfere with that. You did prevent the phone from responding to that signal... but that's not prohibited by the law, is it?
Do you want to use the antivirus product of a company whose network goes down due to a virus?
Any company's computers, even the best AV writers, are vulnerable to 1st day infections. Any company could get slammed if an unknown virus is introduced directly into their networks. So what would matter to me is not that they were taken down, but how quickly they are able to get their systems back online. That's indicative of how quickly they can get updates online and out to the rest of us who may be suffering the same fate.
Does this make any sense to anyone? These companies are moving offshore to escape US privacy laws. So the solution is for the US to enact tougher privacy laws?
Sure it makes sense... if you're a politician. Fix any problem with more legislation! More laws! More special committees! More money from special interests! The guy who submitted the story is probably a politician.
I plan to be the first person to cause a fender-bender from a chatroom.
Just to let you know you misspelled "porn".
They installed the switch backwards.
Then, shouldn't the switch have been triggered by *acceleration* and fired the chute right after takeoff?
So we just need to find a way to turn Walmart agains Microsoft and watch the explosions and carnage the ensues. Smiley the price slasher vs. MS Bob and Clippy?
You mean something like this?"