I got a pretty sweet sony Atrac player, which used memory sticks. It was tiny, and although it could only hold about 2 hours of music, I liked it. But the requirement of ATRAC really made it much less usefull. It would take an hour or so to fill a memory stick up with music, when it would have only taken a few minutes to copy over mp3s.
Sony is shooting themselves in the foot here, I don't understand why they are so obsessed with ATRAC. Especialy given they cell CD players that can play MP3 files off CD-ROMs.
Look. It's up to the people who own ipods to do whatever they want with them, not Apple. Real is giving iPod owners choice, while Apple wants to lock them into iTMS forever. Apple is the badguy here, not real.
This isn't stealing, or hacking, or cracking, or anything else. It's reverse engineering, a practice that is protected under the DMCA. In the Woz/Linus/ESR sense of the word, though, this is hacking. Maybe that's what apple was complaining about.
The DMCA makes reverse engineering for interoperability (which is exactly what real did) explicitly legal. Apple has no case under the DMCA, unless they can prove that real's software prevents their copy-protection from working.
you can't fault Apple for using a law on the books - passed by Congress (unanimously [loc.gov] by the Senate), and signed into law by President Clinton - to protect its own business interests. If you don't like the DMCA, or aspects of copyright law in general, work to change the law(s), but don't fault companies or individuals for conducting themselves within the bounds
Of course you can. Before the DMCA was written, reverse engineering for interoperability was common, and legal. After the DMCA was written, guess what, it's still legal, in fact the text of the DMCA makes this explicitly legal. The authors of the DMCA were very careful to make sure that this kind of activity was legal. So of course we can take apple to task for trying to use the DMCA to prevent something even the authors knew was important.
Given the text of the DMCA, we can also take apple to task for the exact same kind of uncompetitive activity that we always complain about with Microsoft. In this case, starting a lawsuit for no good reason (since real isn't breaking any law) just to make trouble for their competition.
Actually, it seems like it works by recording IR signals as audio, and then re-broadcasting by playing the sounds. Actually that's kind of interesting.
But, it would work with any Mp3 player, so it's a little annoying that they focused on the iPod exclusively, when any digital audio player would work.
It would also be a HUGE pain in the ass to actualy use, especialy if you've already got a pocket PC that could do all that already without all the work...
In the case of a multibillion dollar search engine company with dozens, if not hundreds, of trademark applications worldwide, you would think they would perform a small federal trademark search (my firm charges $300).
Wow, I wish I could charge $300 for doing a quick search here
>"Froogles" was an attempt to make people think of "Google"
More likely, it was an attemp to get a domain name that sounded anything like the word frugal. I mean come on, have you ever tried to get a relevant domain name? I really wish there was an easier way to query owners of unused domains to see if they'd be willing to sell.
Google dosn't have a trademark on 'oogle' and the only other 'oogle' serice they have is froogle. In fact, the reason this site is called "froogles" is probably because most other variations were taken.
froogles.com has an alexa ranking of more then four million, which means almost no one uses it. froogles.com may have been there longer, but almost no one uses it.
Not saying that they shouldn't be allowed to use the domain. But he obviously isn't making to much money off of it.
That baystar and RBC haven't been sued by their stockholders for not doing their due diligence. I mean, come on. I don't know if baystar is publicly traded or not but I'd be surprised of RBC wasn't.
The DMCA makes reverse engineering for interoperabilityexplicitly legal. There are a lot of ignorant companies out there suing under the DMCA, but I doubt apple would be one of them.
When I first started my site a search for "autopr0n" returned nothing. Then, for a while, it was the first result on a search for "autopr0n". I actually got a lot of hits that way. (Maybe people forgot what tld I had? that wouldn't explain all the searches for "auotp0rn.com", though. Most likely it was people using the google toolbar or something. Anyway).
Then google 'devaluated' blogs and other things to prevent googlebombing. It knocked AP down to the bottom, when doing a search for "autopr0n". The first results were basically garbage. Sites with no content at all, sometimes with a link to my site! AP is back to the number one result on a search for "autopr0n" now, but it was really annoying.
Beyond that, google has been getting a lot worse over the years, for a lot of searches. Bleh.
Actually I was reading that a Kerry win would boost different sectors of the economy, most notably Health Care and education. While bush's economic plans help things like mining and the like. Interestingly, the industries that Kerry's plans would help employ more people...
Well, the main reason it got so popular was that it had a clean interface, and good results. During the dot-com boom, search sites just got insane. Remember the TV ads for iwon.com? It became an obvious cash grab All the sites wanted to be 'portals' and shove paid crap in front of the users face.
but google wasn't like that. And it had good results. Thats why it was so popular.
Every search engine is mostly like google now, but so many people have google set as their start page (or use the google toolbar or whatever) that they have a virtual lock on the market. Not that they don't deserve it (and it's much more fluid then, say, OSes).
But the reason while this IPO is so 'hot' is because Google has been in business for a long time and makes money.
FYI The the nation that produces the most spam is the Good Ole USA. Just because this scam is popular in Nigera dosn't mean that most nigerian's are scam artists. A couple of months ago over 500 scammers were arrested. Of course slashdot decided not to publish the story.
Once you figure out how to host lots of downloads for free, without annoying advertising, give them a call, I'm sure they'd love to hear from you because that 90s business model just didn't work after VC funding ran out:
Well it was sent around the office, and I made a comment about never being able to trust anything off the internet, and guess what, that was a hoax too.
It was? Do you have any documentation for that claim? It would seem to be rather difficult to get the photos she did without actualy going there...
Because it seems like you don't. A vigilante is someone who tries to bring people to justice by working outside of the law. The key here is that they are doing something which they belive is moraly right.
From your description, it sounds like someone just... grabbed some published information and started threatening people with it. There's no indication in your writeup that this person was even trying to do something 'good'.
Woke up from a nap one day and my vision was foggy. I convinced my mom to take me to the hospital (I was in middle school or something) but by the time I got to see anyone, the eyes were fine. But then they wouldn't let me leave because had to check to make sure my retnas were not detached.
I'm not sure if I'm remembering correctly, but arn't most glasses, and even contacts treated to reduce glare? The "increase" might simply be what a "normal" person would see.
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I got a pretty sweet sony Atrac player, which used memory sticks. It was tiny, and although it could only hold about 2 hours of music, I liked it. But the requirement of ATRAC really made it much less usefull. It would take an hour or so to fill a memory stick up with music, when it would have only taken a few minutes to copy over mp3s.
Sony is shooting themselves in the foot here, I don't understand why they are so obsessed with ATRAC. Especialy given they cell CD players that can play MP3 files off CD-ROMs.
Look. It's up to the people who own ipods to do whatever they want with them, not Apple. Real is giving iPod owners choice, while Apple wants to lock them into iTMS forever. Apple is the badguy here, not real.
This isn't stealing, or hacking, or cracking, or anything else. It's reverse engineering, a practice that is protected under the DMCA. In the Woz/Linus/ESR sense of the word, though, this is hacking. Maybe that's what apple was complaining about.
The DMCA makes reverse engineering for interoperability (which is exactly what real did) explicitly legal. Apple has no case under the DMCA, unless they can prove that real's software prevents their copy-protection from working.
you can't fault Apple for using a law on the books - passed by Congress (unanimously [loc.gov] by the Senate), and signed into law by President Clinton - to protect its own business interests. If you don't like the DMCA, or aspects of copyright law in general, work to change the law(s), but don't fault companies or individuals for conducting themselves within the bounds
Of course you can. Before the DMCA was written, reverse engineering for interoperability was common, and legal. After the DMCA was written, guess what, it's still legal, in fact the text of the DMCA makes this explicitly legal. The authors of the DMCA were very careful to make sure that this kind of activity was legal. So of course we can take apple to task for trying to use the DMCA to prevent something even the authors knew was important.
Given the text of the DMCA, we can also take apple to task for the exact same kind of uncompetitive activity that we always complain about with Microsoft. In this case, starting a lawsuit for no good reason (since real isn't breaking any law) just to make trouble for their competition.
Any idea what the whole thing about him dying on the lexus owners club site was about? Just a cynical attempt to get more money?
Actually, it seems like it works by recording IR signals as audio, and then re-broadcasting by playing the sounds. Actually that's kind of interesting.
But, it would work with any Mp3 player, so it's a little annoying that they focused on the iPod exclusively, when any digital audio player would work.
It would also be a HUGE pain in the ass to actualy use, especialy if you've already got a pocket PC that could do all that already without all the work...
In the case of a multibillion dollar search engine company with dozens, if not hundreds, of trademark applications worldwide, you would think they would perform a small federal trademark search (my firm charges $300).
Wow, I wish I could charge $300 for doing a quick search here
>"Froogles" was an attempt to make people think of "Google"
More likely, it was an attemp to get a domain name that sounded anything like the word frugal. I mean come on, have you ever tried to get a relevant domain name? I really wish there was an easier way to query owners of unused domains to see if they'd be willing to sell.
Google dosn't have a trademark on 'oogle' and the only other 'oogle' serice they have is froogle. In fact, the reason this site is called "froogles" is probably because most other variations were taken.
froogles.com has an alexa ranking of more then four million, which means almost no one uses it. froogles.com may have been there longer, but almost no one uses it.
Not saying that they shouldn't be allowed to use the domain. But he obviously isn't making to much money off of it.
Well, traffic to autopr0n is like 1/3rd "unix" (not counting OSX), and 99% of that is Linux
That baystar and RBC haven't been sued by their stockholders for not doing their due diligence. I mean, come on. I don't know if baystar is publicly traded or not but I'd be surprised of RBC wasn't.
The DMCA makes reverse engineering for interoperability explicitly legal. There are a lot of ignorant companies out there suing under the DMCA, but I doubt apple would be one of them.
When I first started my site a search for "autopr0n" returned nothing. Then, for a while, it was the first result on a search for "autopr0n". I actually got a lot of hits that way. (Maybe people forgot what tld I had? that wouldn't explain all the searches for "auotp0rn.com", though. Most likely it was people using the google toolbar or something. Anyway).
Then google 'devaluated' blogs and other things to prevent googlebombing. It knocked AP down to the bottom, when doing a search for "autopr0n". The first results were basically garbage. Sites with no content at all, sometimes with a link to my site! AP is back to the number one result on a search for "autopr0n" now, but it was really annoying.
Beyond that, google has been getting a lot worse over the years, for a lot of searches. Bleh.
Actually I was reading that a Kerry win would boost different sectors of the economy, most notably Health Care and education. While bush's economic plans help things like mining and the like. Interestingly, the industries that Kerry's plans would help employ more people...
Ford and GM have a combined market cap of about 55 billion, while google will have a market cap 3.3 billion.
Well, the main reason it got so popular was that it had a clean interface, and good results. During the dot-com boom, search sites just got insane. Remember the TV ads for iwon.com? It became an obvious cash grab All the sites wanted to be 'portals' and shove paid crap in front of the users face.
but google wasn't like that. And it had good results. Thats why it was so popular.
Every search engine is mostly like google now, but so many people have google set as their start page (or use the google toolbar or whatever) that they have a virtual lock on the market. Not that they don't deserve it (and it's much more fluid then, say, OSes).
But the reason while this IPO is so 'hot' is because Google has been in business for a long time and makes money.
FYI The the nation that produces the most spam is the Good Ole USA. Just because this scam is popular in Nigera dosn't mean that most nigerian's are scam artists. A couple of months ago over 500 scammers were arrested. Of course slashdot decided not to publish the story.
Once you figure out how to host lots of downloads for free, without annoying advertising, give them a call, I'm sure they'd love to hear from you because that 90s business model just didn't work after VC funding ran out:
It's called bittorent.
Well it was sent around the office, and I made a comment about never being able to trust anything off the internet, and guess what, that was a hoax too.
It was? Do you have any documentation for that claim? It would seem to be rather difficult to get the photos she did without actualy going there...
Because it seems like you don't. A vigilante is someone who tries to bring people to justice by working outside of the law. The key here is that they are doing something which they belive is moraly right.
From your description, it sounds like someone just... grabbed some published information and started threatening people with it. There's no indication in your writeup that this person was even trying to do something 'good'.
Well, a scalple can kill you too, but that wouldn't mean I'd want to avoid all surgery.
Woke up from a nap one day and my vision was foggy. I convinced my mom to take me to the hospital (I was in middle school or something) but by the time I got to see anyone, the eyes were fine. But then they wouldn't let me leave because had to check to make sure my retnas were not detached.
I'm not sure if I'm remembering correctly, but arn't most glasses, and even contacts treated to reduce glare? The "increase" might simply be what a "normal" person would see.