even if there isn't a legal definition of spyware, as long as the people doing the labelling have a definition, they should be able to get away with it. for example: lets say i make a two lists of software, i call the first list "List A" and this contains all the programs that i like. and i make another list "List B" and put all the programs that i think are crap in this list. then on my website, i say "Program X" is classified as "List B" software. i don't see how the creaters of Program X could say that i was doing anything wrong. likewise, i can rename "List A" to "Good Software" and "List B" to "Crapware". in this case, i still can't see how the makers of Program X could do anything, i've just applied the label "Crapware" to anything that _i_think_ is crap. so couldn't the anti-spyware people do the same thing? they just need to say "we define spyware as any program that does A, B, and/or C." then they can make a list of software that does A, B, and/or C and have the title of that list be "Spyware".
i'd say go even one step farther. hire a person who specializes in HCI (human computer interaction). i know a bunch of people who have graduated with phd's in psychology that have gone to industry as hci people and do this exact thing. they may be a bit expensive, but they are really good at their job. they'll save you a bunch of time, they already know where to look for problems. plus they can speak to both the developer and the user in their own languages. if the submitter's goal is to develop a custom UI for a specific job, then general rules (like those from joel, or apple, or gnome, or...) will not work, you need to taylor the ui to this specific job, and an hci person will do that most efficiently.
proably someone else got it first. i try to put a new one in as soon as i'm notified that someone else got it, but there can be hours of lag if i'm away from the computer.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
freedom of speech applies only to the government. microsoft, or anyone, is allowed to block whatever they want. just like your employer can make you sign a NDA (which limits your right to speak about what you know).
that sounds like a fun project. you're probably right that an lcd (while hard to read in the sun) is probably the most versitile way to display all the gauges and dtc's and everything, you might also want to consider going analog. i'm in the middle of a project on my old '89 toyota which predated obd-ii. but i still can get a bunch of information from the outputs of the ecu. i don't have the cool obd-ii plug that you'll have access to, so i need to splice in the actual wires coming out of the ecu, but that's not hard. what i'm working on is building circuts that measure things like the average voltage being sent to the injectors, or reading the voltage coming from the AFM or the O2S and things like that. then i'm displaying them on analog gauges. my original goal was to create a gauge that would show me real time fuel milage (easy with obd-ii), i just do it by measuring rpm, and the average voltage going to the injectors. then knowing the cc/min of the injector and what gear i'm in (i put a little sensor on my gear shift) i can calculate the fuel milage and output a voltage proportional to it. it's really cool to have an analog gauge that sweeps around as you drive. i think it looks much better than having digital readouts.
just about every speedometer from 1996 (in the US at least) has been software controlled. they're not the old cable-attached-to-the-transmission type anymore. it's all speed sensors that go to the ecu that output a voltage to the speedometer. so there's nothing realy different with what the original poster wants to do. i don't see how it couldn't be legal.
because I prefer not to give the place I have my car loan $6.00 every month for "online processing fee". My mortgage their $7.00 online processing fee, and the electric company their $4.95 processing fee.
you may just want to write them a letter. i hate using paper checks and don't use them for any of my bills anymore. i just call any place that chargest a 'processing fee' or what not and tell them that i'd like to pay online but i know that it's cheaper for them to process an online payment than a paper payment and that i want the fee waived. it's worked every time. they'd rather have the electronic payment because it's cheaper for them.
Broadcasters can't be expected to continue broadcasting in both digital and analogue standards permenently; never mind the waste in bandwidth. So just how else would you recommend the transition be done?
what about making it backwards compatible? i know it's harder to design things this way, but it eases transitions. like when they switched from black and white to color. the color signal was designed so that it was really black and white plus some extra color information. that way black and white tv's could still (and still do to this day) work with the same signal that's sent to the color tv. this way broadcasters could easily switch to color signals and when people were ready they could upgrade and all was well. i bet a similar thing could have been done with HD, but since i'm not an EE, i won't speculate as to how.
i didn't know that they moved 4runner assembly over here. i always though that it was just the pickups and camrys that are made here and everything else is made in japan. i always thought it was funny that toyota makes their pickups in the us and ford makes theirs in mexico.
but you need to transfer enough for it to be counted as part of a movie. all data is just numbers. say that i give you a 32bit number, that can't be illegal? let's say you got 1 billion people to each give you 1 32bit number, and then you concatenated those numbers into one long number, and then used a video player to read those numbers and turn them into video.
that's just like getting a bunch of people to each give you a word and you assemble it into a book. it can't be illegal for me to tell you that the first word on page 72 is "the".
i'm not trying to justify illegal copying of copyrighed material, but there's got to be a point where you're not really distributing anything that actually resembles copyrighted material.
I understand made use of electronic voting machines manufactured by Diebold. Their CEO pledged to do whatever was in his power to swing the election towards George. Interesting... Plus the exit polls seemed to suggest a different winner.
It may be a good idea for someone smarter than me to scrape all that data from CNN and put it into a more usable format. I looked around (not too hard) for the exit poll data in downloadable form, but i didn't see it. It may be worth having that data mirrored so that cnn can't take it away from us. i'm sure in the next 4 years it'll be fun to do analysis on that data.
i've always been a huge fan of dana design (www.danadesign.com). i have a day pack that i have used every day (similar to: http://www.danadesign.com/packs/access/salish.asp) for the past 6 years, and two huge packs for week-long backpacking trips (http://www.danadesign.com/packs/arc/astralplane.a sp). everything is warrentied for life. the only thing they don't cover is animal damage. i've tested the warrenty a couple of times, and they'll send me the replacement parts in two days or so, and they don't require me to send the broken stuff back, they're great to deal with. i got my girlfriend the dana design messenger bag (http://www.danadesign.com/packs/street/ti.asp) and she's been using it everyday for about a year and it still looks as good as new. you'll probably pay more than $50, but it's worth it if you never ever need to buy another bag. i'd suggest the "suit" model. (http://www.danadesign.com/packs/street/suit.asp)
If this ever happens to you do not ever attempt to turn the ignition all the way off... In most cases you will lose both your power steering and your power braking. Make sure that you keep it at least on partially as most cars will not lose total power this way.
nope, turning off the ignition just cuts the power to the coil. if the engine is still connected to the wheels through the transmission then it'll keep spinning. if it's spinning, then it'll still create a vacuum to power the brakes, and the pulley will still be turning the power steering pump. it's just like if you take your foot off the gas while going down hill - the wheels will try to push the engine and the vacuum will slow you down. if you turn off the ignition, you'll also not be igniting the fuel so you'll get slowed even quicker.
ah ha! i'm not crazy. i thought it was only happening to me. i could even log into different computers and firefox wouldn't open the message. but it was only 1 message. once i opened it in IE, it worked. i told gmail about the problem, but they didn't seem to care.
we'll we could always go with a year (pre/post)fix to the level. that way, for example, we know that in any given year the midrange computer is 5 and others will scale from 0-10. so today's "level 5-04" could be eqivalent to next year's "level 3-05" and so on. i like the idea of labelling the computers by level as long as there is some standard that maps levels to actual equipment. once evil corporations can get away with just calling something "level n" then they'll put the cheapest possible products in there. just look what they do with benchmarks now (and those atleast have some physical meaning).
but if it's patented then you still have legal problems. if it's also encrypted (and something as simple as xor can be considered encryption) then you have dmca issues.
but the hardware will treat all devices as "not trusted" unless the (microsoft) OS says "this user is trusted" open the device. the problem isn't that devices (or users) aren't trusted by the OS, it's that the hardware is enforcing the trust. and that to beable to talk to the hardware you'll need to license the protocol or something from microsoft, which will lock out open source/free solutions.
yeah, i know that. it's just that the dumb jury wouldn't know that. and we all know guns are evil and only evil people would have guns. it's just too bad that logic really doesn't work in the justice system.
my vote is 12 gauge. as my brother told me when i was picking out guns: "with a 12 gauge if for some reason you happen to miss, it'll be so loud they'll shit their pants and run." although my.40 cal glock would be fun too, the trouble with that though, is to ensure the safety of neighbors and stuff you need the frangible bullets and then the DA will go after you for using "cop killers". i hope i never have to leave colorado though, they have the best laws for defending your property. it was on the news not long ago that some farmer shot a guy running from his property and it was ok because the guy robbed him.
thanks for the heads up on the booby-trapping, i never thought it would be illegal, i guess i'll just make it look like an ongoing construction project, surely i'm allowed to have boards with nails in while doing construction?:)
i know you said you don't want to hurt anyone, but i figure if they're in your house, they have no rights (and luckily the state of colorado agrees with me). anyway, when i was little i saw one of the death wish movies on tv. one thing charles bronsen did was put a board with nails sticking out underneath the windows. i really like that idea and have done that by my basement windows which are the ones someone would use to break in. they're covered by some paper so you really can't see them. i'm sure jumping in the basement and landing on them would deter someone from continuing their planned robbery due to massive bleeding.
i think you should go one step farther and make it mandatory to vote. of course, it would be valid to cast and empty ballot to say "i don't trust any of the idiots enough to vote for one." but you should at least have to say that and take part in choosing the government.
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Actually, depending on the cost, why not deploy these in our own country? Especially if they are safe.
because nuclear power is cheap and the utilities don't want their stock to go down when they annouce that they'll be adding nuclear to their system. check the history, any time anyone announces adding nukes, their stock goes down. i don't have time now to do the googling myself, but it's there.
plus you have all the brain dead americans that think nuke==bad and the "don't want that in my backyard" syndrome. give me a personal nuke plant, i'll put it in my basement, i don't care. they're safe. maybe we should come up with a new name for nuke plants, just like they chagned "nmr" to "mri" becuase "nuclear" (or nucular) was scary.
You gotta be kidding. You must go to the ostrich school of nuclear waste disposal, just bury it, out of sight out of mind, trust us it will be OK.
what about putting it back in the uranium mines that the fuel came from? it was just stitting there being radioactive before we mined it, so the land wasn't terribly useful. just put the unusable waste back where it came from.
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even if there isn't a legal definition of spyware, as long as the people doing the labelling have a definition, they should be able to get away with it. for example: lets say i make a two lists of software, i call the first list "List A" and this contains all the programs that i like. and i make another list "List B" and put all the programs that i think are crap in this list. then on my website, i say "Program X" is classified as "List B" software. i don't see how the creaters of Program X could say that i was doing anything wrong. likewise, i can rename "List A" to "Good Software" and "List B" to "Crapware". in this case, i still can't see how the makers of Program X could do anything, i've just applied the label "Crapware" to anything that _i_think_ is crap. so couldn't the anti-spyware people do the same thing? they just need to say "we define spyware as any program that does A, B, and/or C." then they can make a list of software that does A, B, and/or C and have the title of that list be "Spyware".
i'd say go even one step farther. hire a person who specializes in HCI (human computer interaction). i know a bunch of people who have graduated with phd's in psychology that have gone to industry as hci people and do this exact thing. they may be a bit expensive, but they are really good at their job. they'll save you a bunch of time, they already know where to look for problems. plus they can speak to both the developer and the user in their own languages. if the submitter's goal is to develop a custom UI for a specific job, then general rules (like those from joel, or apple, or gnome, or...) will not work, you need to taylor the ui to this specific job, and an hci person will do that most efficiently.
proably someone else got it first. i try to put a new one in as soon as i'm notified that someone else got it, but there can be hours of lag if i'm away from the computer.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
freedom of speech applies only to the government. microsoft, or anyone, is allowed to block whatever they want. just like your employer can make you sign a NDA (which limits your right to speak about what you know).
that sounds like a fun project. you're probably right that an lcd (while hard to read in the sun) is probably the most versitile way to display all the gauges and dtc's and everything, you might also want to consider going analog. i'm in the middle of a project on my old '89 toyota which predated obd-ii. but i still can get a bunch of information from the outputs of the ecu. i don't have the cool obd-ii plug that you'll have access to, so i need to splice in the actual wires coming out of the ecu, but that's not hard. what i'm working on is building circuts that measure things like the average voltage being sent to the injectors, or reading the voltage coming from the AFM or the O2S and things like that. then i'm displaying them on analog gauges. my original goal was to create a gauge that would show me real time fuel milage (easy with obd-ii), i just do it by measuring rpm, and the average voltage going to the injectors. then knowing the cc/min of the injector and what gear i'm in (i put a little sensor on my gear shift) i can calculate the fuel milage and output a voltage proportional to it. it's really cool to have an analog gauge that sweeps around as you drive. i think it looks much better than having digital readouts.
just about every speedometer from 1996 (in the US at least) has been software controlled. they're not the old cable-attached-to-the-transmission type anymore. it's all speed sensors that go to the ecu that output a voltage to the speedometer. so there's nothing realy different with what the original poster wants to do. i don't see how it couldn't be legal.
because I prefer not to give the place I have my car loan $6.00 every month for "online processing fee". My mortgage their $7.00 online processing fee, and the electric company their $4.95 processing fee.
you may just want to write them a letter. i hate using paper checks and don't use them for any of my bills anymore. i just call any place that chargest a 'processing fee' or what not and tell them that i'd like to pay online but i know that it's cheaper for them to process an online payment than a paper payment and that i want the fee waived. it's worked every time. they'd rather have the electronic payment because it's cheaper for them.
Broadcasters can't be expected to continue broadcasting in both digital and analogue standards permenently; never mind the waste in bandwidth. So just how else would you recommend the transition be done?
what about making it backwards compatible? i know it's harder to design things this way, but it eases transitions. like when they switched from black and white to color. the color signal was designed so that it was really black and white plus some extra color information. that way black and white tv's could still (and still do to this day) work with the same signal that's sent to the color tv. this way broadcasters could easily switch to color signals and when people were ready they could upgrade and all was well. i bet a similar thing could have been done with HD, but since i'm not an EE, i won't speculate as to how.
it's gotta be the segway. afterall wasn't "it" supposed to revolutize our lives? :)
i didn't know that they moved 4runner assembly over here. i always though that it was just the pickups and camrys that are made here and everything else is made in japan. i always thought it was funny that toyota makes their pickups in the us and ford makes theirs in mexico.
Can you be sued for only transferring part?
Yes. Any other questions?
but you need to transfer enough for it to be counted as part of a movie. all data is just numbers. say that i give you a 32bit number, that can't be illegal? let's say you got 1 billion people to each give you 1 32bit number, and then you concatenated those numbers into one long number, and then used a video player to read those numbers and turn them into video.
that's just like getting a bunch of people to each give you a word and you assemble it into a book. it can't be illegal for me to tell you that the first word on page 72 is "the".
i'm not trying to justify illegal copying of copyrighed material, but there's got to be a point where you're not really distributing anything that actually resembles copyrighted material.
I understand made use of electronic voting machines manufactured by Diebold. Their CEO pledged to do whatever was in his power to swing the election towards George. Interesting... Plus the exit polls seemed to suggest a different winner.
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It may be a good idea for someone smarter than me to scrape all that data from CNN and put it into a more usable format. I looked around (not too hard) for the exit poll data in downloadable form, but i didn't see it. It may be worth having that data mirrored so that cnn can't take it away from us. i'm sure in the next 4 years it'll be fun to do analysis on that data.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/st
i've always been a huge fan of dana design (www.danadesign.com). i have a day pack that i have used every day (similar to: http://www.danadesign.com/packs/access/salish.asp) for the past 6 years, and two huge packs for week-long backpacking trips (http://www.danadesign.com/packs/arc/astralplane.a sp). everything is warrentied for life. the only thing they don't cover is animal damage. i've tested the warrenty a couple of times, and they'll send me the replacement parts in two days or so, and they don't require me to send the broken stuff back, they're great to deal with. i got my girlfriend the dana design messenger bag (http://www.danadesign.com/packs/street/ti.asp) and she's been using it everyday for about a year and it still looks as good as new. you'll probably pay more than $50, but it's worth it if you never ever need to buy another bag. i'd suggest the "suit" model. (http://www.danadesign.com/packs/street/suit.asp)
If this ever happens to you do not ever attempt to turn the ignition all the way off... In most cases you will lose both your power steering and your power braking. Make sure that you keep it at least on partially as most cars will not lose total power this way.
nope, turning off the ignition just cuts the power to the coil. if the engine is still connected to the wheels through the transmission then it'll keep spinning. if it's spinning, then it'll still create a vacuum to power the brakes, and the pulley will still be turning the power steering pump. it's just like if you take your foot off the gas while going down hill - the wheels will try to push the engine and the vacuum will slow you down. if you turn off the ignition, you'll also not be igniting the fuel so you'll get slowed even quicker.
ah ha! i'm not crazy. i thought it was only happening to me. i could even log into different computers and firefox wouldn't open the message. but it was only 1 message. once i opened it in IE, it worked. i told gmail about the problem, but they didn't seem to care.
we'll we could always go with a year (pre/post)fix to the level. that way, for example, we know that in any given year the midrange computer is 5 and others will scale from 0-10. so today's "level 5-04" could be eqivalent to next year's "level 3-05" and so on. i like the idea of labelling the computers by level as long as there is some standard that maps levels to actual equipment. once evil corporations can get away with just calling something "level n" then they'll put the cheapest possible products in there. just look what they do with benchmarks now (and those atleast have some physical meaning).
what's the benefit of filling a tire with propane?
but if it's patented then you still have legal problems. if it's also encrypted (and something as simple as xor can be considered encryption) then you have dmca issues.
but the hardware will treat all devices as "not trusted" unless the (microsoft) OS says "this user is trusted" open the device. the problem isn't that devices (or users) aren't trusted by the OS, it's that the hardware is enforcing the trust. and that to beable to talk to the hardware you'll need to license the protocol or something from microsoft, which will lock out open source/free solutions.
yeah, i know that. it's just that the dumb jury wouldn't know that. and we all know guns are evil and only evil people would have guns. it's just too bad that logic really doesn't work in the justice system.
my vote is 12 gauge. as my brother told me when i was picking out guns: "with a 12 gauge if for some reason you happen to miss, it'll be so loud they'll shit their pants and run." although my .40 cal glock would be fun too, the trouble with that though, is to ensure the safety of neighbors and stuff you need the frangible bullets and then the DA will go after you for using "cop killers". i hope i never have to leave colorado though, they have the best laws for defending your property. it was on the news not long ago that some farmer shot a guy running from his property and it was ok because the guy robbed him.
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thanks for the heads up on the booby-trapping, i never thought it would be illegal, i guess i'll just make it look like an ongoing construction project, surely i'm allowed to have boards with nails in while doing construction?
i know you said you don't want to hurt anyone, but i figure if they're in your house, they have no rights (and luckily the state of colorado agrees with me). anyway, when i was little i saw one of the death wish movies on tv. one thing charles bronsen did was put a board with nails sticking out underneath the windows. i really like that idea and have done that by my basement windows which are the ones someone would use to break in. they're covered by some paper so you really can't see them. i'm sure jumping in the basement and landing on them would deter someone from continuing their planned robbery due to massive bleeding.
i think you should go one step farther and make it mandatory to vote. of course, it would be valid to cast and empty ballot to say "i don't trust any of the idiots enough to vote for one." but you should at least have to say that and take part in choosing the government.
Actually, depending on the cost, why not deploy these in our own country? Especially if they are safe.
because nuclear power is cheap and the utilities don't want their stock to go down when they annouce that they'll be adding nuclear to their system. check the history, any time anyone announces adding nukes, their stock goes down. i don't have time now to do the googling myself, but it's there.
plus you have all the brain dead americans that think nuke==bad and the "don't want that in my backyard" syndrome. give me a personal nuke plant, i'll put it in my basement, i don't care. they're safe. maybe we should come up with a new name for nuke plants, just like they chagned "nmr" to "mri" becuase "nuclear" (or nucular) was scary.
"Burying it is perfectly safe"
You gotta be kidding. You must go to the ostrich school of nuclear waste disposal, just bury it, out of sight out of mind, trust us it will be OK.
what about putting it back in the uranium mines that the fuel came from? it was just stitting there being radioactive before we mined it, so the land wasn't terribly useful. just put the unusable waste back where it came from.