The story is new. The topic has been discussed here before. That's like calling a story about Microsoft security a dupe just because the topic's been covered (covered ad nauseum in fact). I guess that's why you're anonymous.
Since applying SP2 (and disabling the built in firewall), it seems that Zonealarm (free edition) takes longer to start up when I initially boot up the machine. It's very strange. XP seems to boot faster but then I'm waiting longer for Zonelarm to finish loading. Could it be that Zonealarm is taking the same amount of time as before but before it loaded in the background?
Anyone notice at the website it says it comes with "AOL Office powered by Sun"? Is that a special version of StarOffice? It would be cool if it was. I don't want to speculate though.
I'm not sure if it was your intended purpose, but you have given us a perfect example of what would have won in court and been ruled perfectly legal. This is because the material on the website (cats)would be deemed completely different than Jerry's website.
Someday all X-box games will be very buggy right out of the box because Microsoft will rely on patching. Why bother testing your software when you can release earlier than the competition and just release a downloadable patch? I hope this doesn't upen the floodGates.
Yes it is a four year old issue but... Just recently the book Katie.com was featured on court TV, and then suddently after four years of silence, Katie.com starts getting hammered with traffic and emails again. Katie J. posts an open letter asking for Penguin to apologize or rectify the situation, but instead she gets a call from "somebody's" lawyer (nobody will admit to hiring the lawyer), who asks that she donate the domain to them in the name of good charity. Katie J. then posts another open letter expressing how intinmidated she felt from this rude lawyer. This is when it gets interesting...the Register picks up the story based solely on Katie's open letter style posts, and then Slashdot picks up the Register story. The rest is Slashdot history. And I believe this event should seriously be remembered as one of the greatest moments in the history of this silly little "news for nerds" website.
It makes no sense to buy a computer for a 7 year old, that's going to need upgrades, patches, and is a huge security risk (IE), not to mention it needs to be defragmented regularly as well as the registry cleaned for it to boot with any speed. Why didn't they go with MacOS X? It's secure, stable and REALLY easy to use. Even Linux would have been a better choice because it's also stable, secure and with the right amount of GUI tweaking, easy to use. Both MacOS and Linux require much less maintenance. They both "just work" out of the box, and don't break easily.
To the casual observer that website sure looks like an MSNBC News site. It appears that what they are doing is stealing stories from all over and passing them off as MSNBC News stories. I mean, nobody is fooled into thinking Google News wrote all those stories on it's site, but if you went to this MSN page, it sure looks like it's all from MSNBC News. And we all know that the kind of people who actually visit MSN will think these are MSNBC stories. Granted, they probably aren't breaking any copyright laws here, but it is a bit dubious.
In the Marybeth Peters statement (an eye-opening read that cuts through the paranoia/lies that Slashdot is spoonfeeding you) she says several interesting things. She is not in favor of scrapping the Betamax decision, and makes no mention of it not be strong enough, despite what our editors want you to believe. She says:
These circumstances also help to show why the concerns about the breadth of the
bill are misplaced. As Senator Leahy's floor statement makes clear, those who merely
provide copying technology should not be liable under this bill, because they would lack
indicators of "intentional inducement" like those found in the peer-to-peer context. For
example, the seller of a portable MP3 player does not make it nearly inevitable that the
user will commit copyright infringement just by turning the device on. Rather, several
additional steps must be taken by the user before any potential infringement takes place.
Also, the seller of the portable device is very likely not reliant on building a network like
the peer-to-peer service that is trying to sell advertising, and therefore it typically has no
need to and does not encourage users to become distributors of copyrighted works.
She also says:
In addition, concerns that this bill would affect liability of Internet Service
Providers ("ISPs") are unfounded. Normal activity of an ISP like that defined in the
Section 512 safe harbors could not reasonably be considered intentional inducement.
If you know nothing about copyright and want a primer, her statement covers the facts. Obviously, this law still creates a slippery slope, but she gives facts making it riduculously clear that Kazaa and others like it are designed to contribute and profit from copyright infringement. For instance, based on her description of the offending behavior, it's clear that Bittorrent, for instance, would have no problem proving it's legal uses, especially since companies like Mandrake and Linspire are using Bittorrent for distribution now. Frankly, if this does pass (and I wrote my reps via the EFF form to ensure it it doesn't) it might not be as bad as some think.
is a bit off, but a good try. Actually the photographer is like the recording studio engineer. He only captures the artists work. You are the artist because you are the model. The photographer captures your work, just as a studio engineer captures the work of the musicians. The studio engineer gets paid for his services but he doesn't own the recordings. The artist, or artist's management (record label) retains rights to the recordings. Unfortunately the analogy doesn't hold up because photographers work by a different set of rules. I agree, it's a load of BS, but it's one of those things that just always been that way.
Reminds me of a book I just finished, Prey, by Micheal Crichton. I that book he brings up the issue of "hackers" releasing a biological virus created using nanotechnology that would behave like a computer virus, attacking people and self-replicating. If you think Microsoft is slow to release patches, imagine how long it would take the CDC to immunize everybody from a brand new man-made virus. Interesting stuff...good book, by the way. Better than Jurassic Park.
Who are these parents taking their 5 year old child to the PG-13 movie? That's why we have movie ratings, folks...pardon me if I sound like a over-conservative moron. It never fails, whenever I go see a movie like Kill Bill, there is always one parent with his/her 3, 4 and 5 year olds in the theatre. I just don't get it. I don't need a baby crying all throughout my movie.
I too subscribe for $12/year. WHile most of the info can be found online, sometimes weeks ago. I like browsing the articles and sometime reading an article about some topic that I would otherwise not think to read about online. Sometime it's good to be spoonfed something new. That's how you learn. I just read an article which I can't recall right now, but I thought to myself "Hey, this is cool and I would never have thought to look it up online."
I also subscribe to FHM, because it's funny, has hot chicks, and I just prefer it to Maxim.
I also get Dr. Dobbs Journal, and C/C++ Users Journal for free and they have nice articles, although they can be over my head sometimes.
The linked article was a little slim on details, but I found the AP article that says that Tarantino was the president of the jury for Palme d'Or, and actress Kathleen Tuner(of Baby Geniuses fame) sits on the panel as well. Plus in other cool news, the AP article says that an edited-together 4-hour complete version of Kill Bill was shown. Can't wait for the special edition DVD on that one.
I just received a package from FedEx. It was delivered to my house when I wasn't home, but they didn't leave it at my doorstep, they left a note. My called me and told me they left a note and that I could pick it up at the local Fedex location after 5pm. I went by and got my box. All I had to do is give and address and name (no ID requested), and initial some sheet, and I got the package. Anybody could have tracked the item online and then just showed up at Fedex and grabbed the package. It's incredibly insecure.
So let me get this straight...nothing actually happened at this Chernobyl place? It's just a town in the middle of nowhere that everyone decided to leave all at once without warning? No. Most of what she wrote is true except the motorcycle part. I don't give two shits how she got in there. I thought the photos were cool, and she ditn't fake those.
You can't go wrong with Eckel's Thinking In C++. You can download it for free.Or buy it. It seems to have been designed for C programmers moving to C++, but for free it makes a great reference (picked up a hardcopy of an old edition on half.com for $3, just because I like hardcopies, although I keep the current softcopy nearby).
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High definition channels, with widescreen programming:
ABC local affiliate
CBS "" (you haven't lived until you've seen CSI:Miami in HD
NBC ""
Fox ""
PBS ""
The WB ""
UPN ""
Discovery HD theatre
HBO-HD (Sopranos in HD, bada-bing, plus all the movies are upconverted to 1080i from their original film source msking them that much nicer than the DVD equivalent at 480p)
Showtime-HD (same as HBO)
INHD and INHD2 (an assortment of various HD programming, sports-looks like your are watching through a window in the luxury box, movies, specials, concerts, IMax movies)
HDnet HDnet Movies (various programming like INHD) HDNets and INHDs are $6 mo. to subscribe. HBO and Showtime are included if you get them regularly. All the other channels are free with digital cable, so there is no additional fee to lease the HD set top box. The only downside is that once you've seen HD you can't go back. Other channels start looking like crap to you.
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The story is new. The topic has been discussed here before. That's like calling a story about Microsoft security a dupe just because the topic's been covered (covered ad nauseum in fact). I guess that's why you're anonymous.
Another one that always bothered me..."worldwide" is one word. So it should be Worldwide Web...as in ww.slashdot.org and not www.
Since applying SP2 (and disabling the built in firewall), it seems that Zonealarm (free edition) takes longer to start up when I initially boot up the machine. It's very strange. XP seems to boot faster but then I'm waiting longer for Zonelarm to finish loading. Could it be that Zonealarm is taking the same amount of time as before but before it loaded in the background?
Anyone notice at the website it says it comes with "AOL Office powered by Sun"? Is that a special version of StarOffice? It would be cool if it was. I don't want to speculate though.
I'm not sure if it was your intended purpose, but you have given us a perfect example of what would have won in court and been ruled perfectly legal. This is because the material on the website (cats)would be deemed completely different than Jerry's website.
Someday all X-box games will be very buggy right out of the box because Microsoft will rely on patching. Why bother testing your software when you can release earlier than the competition and just release a downloadable patch? I hope this doesn't upen the floodGates.
Yes it is a four year old issue but... Just recently the book Katie.com was featured on court TV, and then suddently after four years of silence, Katie.com starts getting hammered with traffic and emails again. Katie J. posts an open letter asking for Penguin to apologize or rectify the situation, but instead she gets a call from "somebody's" lawyer (nobody will admit to hiring the lawyer), who asks that she donate the domain to them in the name of good charity. Katie J. then posts another open letter expressing how intinmidated she felt from this rude lawyer. This is when it gets interesting...the Register picks up the story based solely on Katie's open letter style posts, and then Slashdot picks up the Register story. The rest is Slashdot history. And I believe this event should seriously be remembered as one of the greatest moments in the history of this silly little "news for nerds" website.
It makes no sense to buy a computer for a 7 year old, that's going to need upgrades, patches, and is a huge security risk (IE), not to mention it needs to be defragmented regularly as well as the registry cleaned for it to boot with any speed. Why didn't they go with MacOS X? It's secure, stable and REALLY easy to use. Even Linux would have been a better choice because it's also stable, secure and with the right amount of GUI tweaking, easy to use. Both MacOS and Linux require much less maintenance. They both "just work" out of the box, and don't break easily.
...but everybody's so excited about their Gameboy Advance killer.
You don't like his opinion...so sue him.
To the casual observer that website sure looks like an MSNBC News site. It appears that what they are doing is stealing stories from all over and passing them off as MSNBC News stories. I mean, nobody is fooled into thinking Google News wrote all those stories on it's site, but if you went to this MSN page, it sure looks like it's all from MSNBC News. And we all know that the kind of people who actually visit MSN will think these are MSNBC stories. Granted, they probably aren't breaking any copyright laws here, but it is a bit dubious.
Apparently he has no girlfriend...folks always said if you didn't stop you'd go blind.
In the Marybeth Peters statement (an eye-opening read that cuts through the paranoia/lies that Slashdot is spoonfeeding you) she says several interesting things. She is not in favor of scrapping the Betamax decision, and makes no mention of it not be strong enough, despite what our editors want you to believe. She says:
These circumstances also help to show why the concerns about the breadth of the bill are misplaced. As Senator Leahy's floor statement makes clear, those who merely provide copying technology should not be liable under this bill, because they would lack indicators of "intentional inducement" like those found in the peer-to-peer context. For example, the seller of a portable MP3 player does not make it nearly inevitable that the user will commit copyright infringement just by turning the device on. Rather, several additional steps must be taken by the user before any potential infringement takes place. Also, the seller of the portable device is very likely not reliant on building a network like the peer-to-peer service that is trying to sell advertising, and therefore it typically has no need to and does not encourage users to become distributors of copyrighted works.
She also says:
In addition, concerns that this bill would affect liability of Internet Service Providers ("ISPs") are unfounded. Normal activity of an ISP like that defined in the Section 512 safe harbors could not reasonably be considered intentional inducement.
If you know nothing about copyright and want a primer, her statement covers the facts. Obviously, this law still creates a slippery slope, but she gives facts making it riduculously clear that Kazaa and others like it are designed to contribute and profit from copyright infringement. For instance, based on her description of the offending behavior, it's clear that Bittorrent, for instance, would have no problem proving it's legal uses, especially since companies like Mandrake and Linspire are using Bittorrent for distribution now. Frankly, if this does pass (and I wrote my reps via the EFF form to ensure it it doesn't) it might not be as bad as some think.
Jesus, man, baseball's barely a sport, it's more of a game...like chess. Math doesn't even reach that level of athletic competition.
is a bit off, but a good try. Actually the photographer is like the recording studio engineer. He only captures the artists work. You are the artist because you are the model. The photographer captures your work, just as a studio engineer captures the work of the musicians. The studio engineer gets paid for his services but he doesn't own the recordings. The artist, or artist's management (record label) retains rights to the recordings. Unfortunately the analogy doesn't hold up because photographers work by a different set of rules. I agree, it's a load of BS, but it's one of those things that just always been that way.
Reminds me of a book I just finished, Prey, by Micheal Crichton. I that book he brings up the issue of "hackers" releasing a biological virus created using nanotechnology that would behave like a computer virus, attacking people and self-replicating. If you think Microsoft is slow to release patches, imagine how long it would take the CDC to immunize everybody from a brand new man-made virus. Interesting stuff...good book, by the way. Better than Jurassic Park.
Who are these parents taking their 5 year old child to the PG-13 movie? That's why we have movie ratings, folks...pardon me if I sound like a over-conservative moron. It never fails, whenever I go see a movie like Kill Bill, there is always one parent with his/her 3, 4 and 5 year olds in the theatre. I just don't get it. I don't need a baby crying all throughout my movie.
I am so getting tired of the eThis and iThat. I have a suggestion to these marketing types coming up with the names. How about fYou.
I too subscribe for $12/year. WHile most of the info can be found online, sometimes weeks ago. I like browsing the articles and sometime reading an article about some topic that I would otherwise not think to read about online. Sometime it's good to be spoonfed something new. That's how you learn. I just read an article which I can't recall right now, but I thought to myself "Hey, this is cool and I would never have thought to look it up online."
I also subscribe to FHM, because it's funny, has hot chicks, and I just prefer it to Maxim.
I also get Dr. Dobbs Journal, and C/C++ Users Journal for free and they have nice articles, although they can be over my head sometimes.
The linked article was a little slim on details, but I found the AP article that says that Tarantino was the president of the jury for Palme d'Or, and actress Kathleen Tuner (of Baby Geniuses fame) sits on the panel as well. Plus in other cool news, the AP article says that an edited-together 4-hour complete version of Kill Bill was shown. Can't wait for the special edition DVD on that one.
I just received a package from FedEx. It was delivered to my house when I wasn't home, but they didn't leave it at my doorstep, they left a note. My called me and told me they left a note and that I could pick it up at the local Fedex location after 5pm. I went by and got my box. All I had to do is give and address and name (no ID requested), and initial some sheet, and I got the package. Anybody could have tracked the item online and then just showed up at Fedex and grabbed the package. It's incredibly insecure.
So let me get this straight...nothing actually happened at this Chernobyl place? It's just a town in the middle of nowhere that everyone decided to leave all at once without warning?
No. Most of what she wrote is true except the motorcycle part. I don't give two shits how she got in there. I thought the photos were cool, and she ditn't fake those.
When I read where the author was from I thought it sounded familiar. Olin College of Engineering is non-accredited.
You can't go wrong with Eckel's Thinking In C++. You can download it for free. Or buy it. It seems to have been designed for C programmers moving to C++, but for free it makes a great reference (picked up a hardcopy of an old edition on half.com for $3, just because I like hardcopies, although I keep the current softcopy nearby).
High definition channels, with widescreen programming:
ABC local affiliate
CBS "" (you haven't lived until you've seen CSI:Miami in HD
NBC ""
Fox ""
PBS ""
The WB ""
UPN ""
Discovery HD theatre
HBO-HD (Sopranos in HD, bada-bing, plus all the movies are upconverted to 1080i from their original film source msking them that much nicer than the DVD equivalent at 480p)
Showtime-HD (same as HBO)
INHD and INHD2 (an assortment of various HD programming, sports-looks like your are watching through a window in the luxury box, movies, specials, concerts, IMax movies)
HDnet HDnet Movies (various programming like INHD)
HDNets and INHDs are $6 mo. to subscribe. HBO and Showtime are included if you get them regularly. All the other channels are free with digital cable, so there is no additional fee to lease the HD set top box. The only downside is that once you've seen HD you can't go back. Other channels start looking like crap to you.