Fox claims that giving viewers the ability to skip commercials on recorded television shows demonstrates the "clear goal of violating copyrights and destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television ecosystem."
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Just to clear things up. Just because someone comes up with tech you don't like, that doesn't mean that you can claim "copyright violation". If it is okay to record all of it, then it must be okay to record part of it. And before you ask, no you can't file a DMCA takedown notice either.
Oh, and destroying underpinnings is called capitalism. Ask anyone who manufactures buggy whips these days. Oh that's right, automobiles destroyed the buggy industry's underpinnings. I forgot.
Apple vs Samsung. Oracle vs Google. Microsoft vs Motorola.
The thing about the Patent Wars was that it used to be a cold war. Each side with their stockpile of threats. "Yeah we infringe on your patents A,B,C. But you infringe on our patents D,E,F. Let's settle this peaceful-like. And in the meanwhile the little guys who don't have enough clout to get a seat at the table lose out. Innovation stagnates.
But now, aha! It's not a cold war anymore. The Big Guys are fighting! And it will only get worse. Folks, this is going to get seriously ugly as time goes on. This *will* escalate. It has to. Once a shooting war starts the only way to win is to score more damage on your opponents than you receive. And money is the score in this war. Sue me for ten million because of patent X? Fine. I'll sue you for eleven million for patent Y. See you in court!
Which is good for the rest of us. Eventually when the courts are swamped with this nonsense they'll eventually legislate it away. Software patents will someday be on a shelf with buggy whips and other obsolete ideas. When that happens it will be a bad day for all of us. Patent portfolios are valued at billions of dollars for the large players. That's a lot of value to suddenly go *poof*. It will suck, no doubt.
But every day after that will be better and better. But brace yourself for the worst in the meantime. A storm is coming.
Just because everyone jumped in on this and got screwed doesn't mean you can just whine about it and get a do-over. We were all alive and functioning during the dot-bomb where overvalued web companies tanked and billions just dissolved. Just because you have a short memory and don't learn from experience doesn't mean that you should be shielded from the results of your actions.
In other words, suck it up buttercup. You gambled - you lost.
But hey! All is not lost. Maybe I can help you regain some of your lost fortune. You see...I have this friend, a Mr. Mugabe Zombobo in Nigeria, a former chairman of the Unfufu National bank.
I thought Eta Carinae was the one we were supposed to worry about. It blew off an outer layer in the 1800's. It's supermassive and it is due to go any moment now. In fact it may have already blown and we're just waiting for the news.
And near can mean a few different things in space. Which would you prefer, being a foot away from a firecracker or a mile away from a nuclear bomb?
What happened to the horse culture in this country...people used to like their horses, feed them, trust them like beloved pets. This newfangled Model A is going to ruin all that and replace it with a utilitarian object that can't show you affection or eat oats from your hand.
Or to put it another way, humankind has been around for about 200,000 years, and have only had cars for the last 100. I think we'll get over it. We have before.
Why would anyone ever buy a Porsche, or Vette or even a high powered Camero again..if you couldn't take it out on the streets and drive it like you would today?
For the same reason you don't take a horse on the freeway. Progress is funny like that. Things become obsolete.
"A poor man can only afford low quality boots that are $10 and last for about a year. A rich man can afford good boots that cost $60 and will last him for a decade. In that decade, the poor man will have spent more money on boots, and will still have wet feet."
Smarter than an oscilloscope, dumber than a protocol analyzer.
Your answer is correct and informative. And yet will still be totally useless. Because your target audience is a guy who doesn't even know what a logic analyzer is.
Just because today's evolutionary pressures are harder to define, it doesn't mean they are not there. For instance, natural selection will favor people with fast reflexes and better depth perception because most of us drive cars. College graduates are favored because they typically get higher paying jobs and therefore better healthcare.
Keep looking. Evolution isn't done with us yet.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that Autism/Aspergers is partially a function of evolutionary response to a technological lifestyle rather than an agricultural one. Name another genetic diseasethat occasionally provides benefits. I'll betcha Autism spectrum disorders are nothing more than Mother Nature trying out new ideas for human brain version X+1, currently in beta and still a little buggy.
So, how is this offering from India any different? I could do it in less than 8 to 16 weeks if the customer supplies me the C code to be converted. As in, download/purchase any one of these utilities, run the customer's file through it, and mail it back to them.
Remember Windows Vista? Not finished. The finished version is called Windows 7.
This is Microsoft SOP. There is a shipping date, which shall be met. Functionality and bug fixes will be added later depending on what complaints they get in the press.
Except of course a bunch of lawyers getting wealthy off these two companies. Case in point: The SCO debacle is still ongoing. There are lawyers still wringing cash out of that mess and it's been nearly a decade. And that is some dinky shell company versus IBM. Two giants with deep pockets slugging it out? It will never end. And why should it? Lawyers get paid by the hour.
Ten years from now when this mess is still ongoing it will be a shining example of why our patent system is broken. It protects nothing, can come to no resolutions, stifles innovation and is really nothing more than a toll booth manned by lawyers.
It's all well and good to be a Christian, but this guy is NUTS. Like padded room and Thorazine nuts. If anyone was going to push the jolly candy like button, it would be him or someone like him. He can't discern reality well enough to be trusted.
Certainly the ones outside the States (or at least, mostly immune).
Do you really think that? A dyed-in-the-wool fundamentalist Christian that thinks the Apocalypse is a good thing because he gets to meet his BFF Jesus that day, in charge of the second largest nuclear arsenal in the world?
Hybrids are an alternative for drivers who want to be green, think of diesel as the soot spewing lorries and buses of yesteryear, can't live with the short range and abysmal interior space of of pure electrics, and can afford the price premium.
Well, I'm sure there are some people who feel that way but I'd bet not a lot of hybrid owners do. I own one. A 2007 Prius. I bought it because at the time it was the best decision to conserve gas. I researched the daylights out of my purchase before I bought one. I think you'll find a lot of hybrid owners do the same. It's not really a "joe sixpack" kind of a car in the first place.
This will be the next big green transport. Turbo diesel. Because biodiesel is ridiculously simple to make. And carbon neutral - that'll be important soon here too, once the world gets their collective heads out of their asses and decides to do something about global warming. Diesel will be the next Big Green Thing.
Here, read this. It's a fantastic study on how feasible it would be to switch the USA entirely to algae biodiesel. Unfortunately it is no longer hosted at UNH but the wayback still has a copy. It's a brilliant read and a future I'd like to be a part of.
And I really think things will go that way too someday. Drilling for oil is problematic (Gulf BP disaster for example), not carbon neutral and contributes to global warming, and there is always the specter of "peak oil" lurking about. Someday maybe we'll simply run out of oil. What then? The two best answers are Biodiesel and Hydrogen. Hydrogen is sexy, but problematic. Difficult to store. No existing infrastructure to distribute it. No efficient way to make it. That leaves Biodiesel.
And everyone who buys a diesel helps usher in that future. So yeah, my next car will be a turbodiesel of some sort.
No one gives a motherfuck what you think about anything. You're pissed because someone is making a profit while you eat shit sandwiches with your other open sores buddies. Go fuck yourself, fucktard. Fuck you in the ass!
I hope more open sores projects go this way. Turning that faggot shit into nothing more than a gateway to real code instead of the dick smoker version.
This is actually pretty interesting. This guy has spent a lot of time hating open source projects. "Open sores" - coming up with that means he's been spending a lot of time thinking about/hating open source projects. It's actually fairly clever. And the level of hate is impressive too. "Go fuck yourself, fucktard. Fuck you in the ass!" Usually you only get this level of anger if you shoot someone's dog or something. That's how much this guy hates open source projects.
But - and here's the interesting part - he sounds teenager-ish age. Early 20's at best. "Turning that faggot shit..." That kind of a thing. This is some kid somewhere. But he's mad about something that should only upset CEOs and CTOs, free software eating into a profit margin. What kid of his age cares about that? It's like having Bill and Ted give a state of the union speech.
It would be fascinating to know exactly why this kid hates open source so much. Did Richard Stallman run over his grandma or something? Was he a fifteen year old Wunderkind that had a million dollar startup that got shot down because someone put a similar app on SourceForge? Was his mother frightened by a picture of Linus Torvalds while she was pregnant with him?
"A report emerged last week from a security researcher claiming Microsoft’s Xbox lacked important security features that might protect owners who sell used consoles from having personal information stolen. Ashley Podhradsky of Drexel University claimed to have purchased a used Xbox console and used readily available hacking tools to recover the prior owner’s credit card number and other personal information. “Microsoft does a great job of protecting their proprietary information, but they don’t do a great job of protecting the user’s data,” Podhradsky said at the time.
Microsoft has since responded to the researcher’s claims, stating that they are likely inaccurate."
And it's not a common practice to log down telnet traffic. Anyone who gets your telnet password is probably sniffing maliciously.
Yeah, that is the most likely scenario. But I work in embedded design. And even though we've screamed to have two networks in the office it hasn't happened. So that means DUT and the office computers are on the same net. I've had to work on ethernet drivers that were malfunctioning. So I downloaded Ethereal (now Wireshark) to debug.
And was immediately and completely horrified at what I saw.
The very next thing I did was to set up a proxy server at home and get zebedee working (windows environment - ssh would have been difficult) and proxy everything I do.
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Fox claims that giving viewers the ability to skip commercials on recorded television shows demonstrates the "clear goal of violating copyrights and destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television ecosystem."
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Just to clear things up. Just because someone comes up with tech you don't like, that doesn't mean that you can claim "copyright violation". If it is okay to record all of it, then it must be okay to record part of it. And before you ask, no you can't file a DMCA takedown notice either.
Oh, and destroying underpinnings is called capitalism. Ask anyone who manufactures buggy whips these days. Oh that's right, automobiles destroyed the buggy industry's underpinnings. I forgot.
Apple vs Samsung. Oracle vs Google. Microsoft vs Motorola.
The thing about the Patent Wars was that it used to be a cold war. Each side with their stockpile of threats. "Yeah we infringe on your patents A,B,C. But you infringe on our patents D,E,F. Let's settle this peaceful-like. And in the meanwhile the little guys who don't have enough clout to get a seat at the table lose out. Innovation stagnates.
But now, aha! It's not a cold war anymore. The Big Guys are fighting! And it will only get worse. Folks, this is going to get seriously ugly as time goes on. This *will* escalate. It has to. Once a shooting war starts the only way to win is to score more damage on your opponents than you receive. And money is the score in this war. Sue me for ten million because of patent X? Fine. I'll sue you for eleven million for patent Y. See you in court!
Which is good for the rest of us. Eventually when the courts are swamped with this nonsense they'll eventually legislate it away. Software patents will someday be on a shelf with buggy whips and other obsolete ideas. When that happens it will be a bad day for all of us. Patent portfolios are valued at billions of dollars for the large players. That's a lot of value to suddenly go *poof*. It will suck, no doubt.
But every day after that will be better and better. But brace yourself for the worst in the meantime. A storm is coming.
Just because everyone jumped in on this and got screwed doesn't mean you can just whine about it and get a do-over. We were all alive and functioning during the dot-bomb where overvalued web companies tanked and billions just dissolved. Just because you have a short memory and don't learn from experience doesn't mean that you should be shielded from the results of your actions.
In other words, suck it up buttercup. You gambled - you lost.
But hey! All is not lost. Maybe I can help you regain some of your lost fortune. You see...I have this friend, a Mr. Mugabe Zombobo in Nigeria, a former chairman of the Unfufu National bank.
I thought Eta Carinae was the one we were supposed to worry about. It blew off an outer layer in the 1800's. It's supermassive and it is due to go any moment now. In fact it may have already blown and we're just waiting for the news.
And near can mean a few different things in space. Which would you prefer, being a foot away from a firecracker or a mile away from a nuclear bomb?
What happened to the horse culture in this country...people used to like their horses, feed them, trust them like beloved pets. This newfangled Model A is going to ruin all that and replace it with a utilitarian object that can't show you affection or eat oats from your hand.
Or to put it another way, humankind has been around for about 200,000 years, and have only had cars for the last 100. I think we'll get over it. We have before.
Considering that 360 can only run signed executables, and that IE9 is actually the safest web browser around
Right on, you tell them! Those keys are impossible to get at. Totally safe!
Why would anyone ever buy a Porsche, or Vette or even a high powered Camero again..if you couldn't take it out on the streets and drive it like you would today?
For the same reason you don't take a horse on the freeway. Progress is funny like that. Things become obsolete.
"A poor man can only afford low quality boots that are $10 and last for about a year. A rich man can afford good boots that cost $60 and will last him for a decade. In that decade, the poor man will have spent more money on boots, and will still have wet feet."
Smarter than an oscilloscope, dumber than a protocol analyzer.
Your answer is correct and informative. And yet will still be totally useless. Because your target audience is a guy who doesn't even know what a logic analyzer is.
I really did laugh a bit when I read your post. Mostly because it reminded me of an old joke.
Ok that was a fascinating post. Thanks for that.
Just because today's evolutionary pressures are harder to define, it doesn't mean they are not there. For instance, natural selection will favor people with fast reflexes and better depth perception because most of us drive cars. College graduates are favored because they typically get higher paying jobs and therefore better healthcare.
Keep looking. Evolution isn't done with us yet.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that Autism/Aspergers is partially a function of evolutionary response to a technological lifestyle rather than an agricultural one. Name another genetic disease that occasionally provides benefits. I'll betcha Autism spectrum disorders are nothing more than Mother Nature trying out new ideas for human brain version X+1, currently in beta and still a little buggy.
C code to SoC.
So, how is this offering from India any different? I could do it in less than 8 to 16 weeks if the customer supplies me the C code to be converted. As in, download/purchase any one of these utilities, run the customer's file through it, and mail it back to them.
Pretty simple.
Remember Windows Vista? Not finished. The finished version is called Windows 7.
This is Microsoft SOP. There is a shipping date, which shall be met. Functionality and bug fixes will be added later depending on what complaints they get in the press.
Another believer in trickle down economics, I see.
I still don't understand how we put up with it.
Because you have to. Because you can't afford your own lobbyist.
Except of course a bunch of lawyers getting wealthy off these two companies. Case in point: The SCO debacle is still ongoing. There are lawyers still wringing cash out of that mess and it's been nearly a decade. And that is some dinky shell company versus IBM. Two giants with deep pockets slugging it out? It will never end. And why should it? Lawyers get paid by the hour.
Ten years from now when this mess is still ongoing it will be a shining example of why our patent system is broken. It protects nothing, can come to no resolutions, stifles innovation and is really nothing more than a toll booth manned by lawyers.
No, not privy to any quirk. But from watching him he's a "true believer", in the tent revival sense of the phrase. He really believes God puts a soul in a fertilized egg, for instance. He thinks Satan - the actual literary character Satan - is in charge of colleges, universities, and Protestants. He said that the JFK speech about the separation of church and state "almost made him throw up." He believes in intelligent design and doesn't believe in evolution, and tried to make it into law.
It's all well and good to be a Christian, but this guy is NUTS. Like padded room and Thorazine nuts. If anyone was going to push the jolly candy like button, it would be him or someone like him. He can't discern reality well enough to be trusted.
That's my opinion - take it for what it's worth.
Certainly the ones outside the States (or at least, mostly immune).
Do you really think that? A dyed-in-the-wool fundamentalist Christian that thinks the Apocalypse is a good thing because he gets to meet his BFF Jesus that day, in charge of the second largest nuclear arsenal in the world?
Still think you're immune?
Hybrids are an alternative for drivers who want to be green, think of diesel as the soot spewing lorries and buses of yesteryear, can't live with the short range and abysmal interior space of of pure electrics, and can afford the price premium.
Well, I'm sure there are some people who feel that way but I'd bet not a lot of hybrid owners do. I own one. A 2007 Prius. I bought it because at the time it was the best decision to conserve gas. I researched the daylights out of my purchase before I bought one. I think you'll find a lot of hybrid owners do the same. It's not really a "joe sixpack" kind of a car in the first place.
And now we have cars like these on the way. 60mpg, decent acceleration, and about half the price.
This will be the next big green transport. Turbo diesel. Because biodiesel is ridiculously simple to make. And carbon neutral - that'll be important soon here too, once the world gets their collective heads out of their asses and decides to do something about global warming. Diesel will be the next Big Green Thing.
Here, read this. It's a fantastic study on how feasible it would be to switch the USA entirely to algae biodiesel. Unfortunately it is no longer hosted at UNH but the wayback still has a copy. It's a brilliant read and a future I'd like to be a part of.
And I really think things will go that way too someday. Drilling for oil is problematic (Gulf BP disaster for example), not carbon neutral and contributes to global warming, and there is always the specter of "peak oil" lurking about. Someday maybe we'll simply run out of oil. What then? The two best answers are Biodiesel and Hydrogen. Hydrogen is sexy, but problematic. Difficult to store. No existing infrastructure to distribute it. No efficient way to make it. That leaves Biodiesel.
And everyone who buys a diesel helps usher in that future. So yeah, my next car will be a turbodiesel of some sort.
Ok thanks for that, I didn't know who Metcalfe was.
No one gives a motherfuck what you think about anything. You're pissed because someone is making a profit while you eat shit sandwiches with your other open sores buddies. Go fuck yourself, fucktard. Fuck you in the ass!
I hope more open sores projects go this way. Turning that faggot shit into nothing more than a gateway to real code instead of the dick smoker version.
This is actually pretty interesting. This guy has spent a lot of time hating open source projects. "Open sores" - coming up with that means he's been spending a lot of time thinking about/hating open source projects. It's actually fairly clever. And the level of hate is impressive too. "Go fuck yourself, fucktard. Fuck you in the ass!" Usually you only get this level of anger if you shoot someone's dog or something. That's how much this guy hates open source projects.
But - and here's the interesting part - he sounds teenager-ish age. Early 20's at best. "Turning that faggot shit..." That kind of a thing. This is some kid somewhere. But he's mad about something that should only upset CEOs and CTOs, free software eating into a profit margin. What kid of his age cares about that? It's like having Bill and Ted give a state of the union speech.
It would be fascinating to know exactly why this kid hates open source so much. Did Richard Stallman run over his grandma or something? Was he a fifteen year old Wunderkind that had a million dollar startup that got shot down because someone put a similar app on SourceForge? Was his mother frightened by a picture of Linus Torvalds while she was pregnant with him?
Microsoft says Xbox hacking claims are ‘unlikely’.
"A report emerged last week from a security researcher claiming Microsoft’s Xbox lacked important security features that might protect owners who sell used consoles from having personal information stolen. Ashley Podhradsky of Drexel University claimed to have purchased a used Xbox console and used readily available hacking tools to recover the prior owner’s credit card number and other personal information. “Microsoft does a great job of protecting their proprietary information, but they don’t do a great job of protecting the user’s data,” Podhradsky said at the time.
Microsoft has since responded to the researcher’s claims, stating that they are likely inaccurate."
So what do you do if you see a sign in the road that says "Danger - Bridge Out"? Plow on saying "nobody can control me!"
Because wars cost less than healthcare.
And it's not a common practice to log down telnet traffic. Anyone who gets your telnet password is probably sniffing maliciously.
Yeah, that is the most likely scenario. But I work in embedded design. And even though we've screamed to have two networks in the office it hasn't happened. So that means DUT and the office computers are on the same net. I've had to work on ethernet drivers that were malfunctioning. So I downloaded Ethereal (now Wireshark) to debug.
And was immediately and completely horrified at what I saw.
The very next thing I did was to set up a proxy server at home and get zebedee working (windows environment - ssh would have been difficult) and proxy everything I do.