If the author of the software had simply deleted the software itself
Back in the days when we were cracking Commodore 64 games, I remember there was one game that did something similar.
The game floppy had its write-protect notch covered, as with most commercial software. We played around with the disk, changed some things, and then tried to run the game.
It turns out that the very first thing the program did was to attempt to format the floppy disk!! Of course, for most users nothing happened, because of the write-protect tab. But we had to go back to the store to get another copy. (First thing we did after that was to take out the format command.)
Is anyone else suprised by how bad diebold's coders are?
It should be surprising to most people, because Diebold is one of the largest makers of automated bank machines. When was the last time an ATM counted wrong?
Conspiracy theorists, now increasing in numbers, are not surprised, because the bank clients want accuracy and security while the Republican election clients don't.
Widely quoted examples:
- Jeb Bush, unconcerned about 2002 Florida touch-screen election debacle, says "What is it with Democrats having a hard time voting?"
- Diebold CEO says he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
I don't see why the record companies don't have control if the vocals aren't included.
Because they are recording companies.
(And to clarify, it's not just the vocals -- it's the particular recording, usually including vocals.)
The record company owns the recording, not the composition. To sell the record, the record company must licence the song from the composer (who is often not the performer in question.)
As an example, let's take the song "Remember (Walking in the Sand)", originally performed by the Shangri-Las, and written by George Morton. It was since covered by Patsy Cline, the Beach Boys and Aerosmith, among others.
If you wanted the Aerosmith version as your ringtone, you'd have to licence it from whoever owns that Aerosmith recording, and from whoever now owns the rights to the composition... but not from the Shangri-Las' right-holders, because you're not using their recording.
If you just wanted the song itself as a midi file in your phone, you don't have to pay anything to Aerosmith's label, nor to the Beach Boys' label, nor to the Shangri-Las' label -- because you're not using those recordings. You just have to pay whoever now owns George Morton's composition rights (provided the copyright hasn't lapsed) because that's all you're using.
I totally agree. This is going to be as one sided as when they had Smokey the Bear in the schools.
That campaign was COMPLETELY one sided, and had no place in the education system. There's lots to be said in favour of forest fires, but you wouldn't think so by asking people brainwashed by Smokey the Bear.
if you're not smart enough to spell a word, you're not smart enough to use it either.
If you're not smart enough to capitalize your sentences and "I", or to be consistent in your use of single or double quotes, you're not smart enough to put down other people.
You are, however, smart enough to post on Slashdot.
(You are not smart enough to be insulted by this.)
... that sure was the longest commercial for the aerospace industry that I've ever seen.
It was about 20% launch coverage, and 80% ads, clips and interviews about the launch company and their customers.
I have an Uncle who was absolutely convinced that the Mars rover had snapped a picture of a "Martian Cat" with big "martian-looking" eyes and then thought for sure the government was covering it up by removing all the copies of the "World Weekly News" from the stands before anyone else could buy a copy. The obvious fact that the store sold out is perhaps even more depressing though. Who buys that crap? Oh yeah, my Uncle.
I only buy the World Weekly News to laugh at the kind of people that buy that paper.
but people in the gaming industry are far more likely to be extremely interested in and excited by their particular job than someone in most other tech fields.
That is exactly what makes it unique to the gaming industry. I was in the video game industry from the gameboy through the PlayStation, and usually we put in the extra uncompensated hours because we loved the game. We WANTED to make the game better. I'm glad I'm on my own now, and wouldn't want to go back to those conditions, but at the same time I'm glad for all those years. It builds character!
Yeah, everybody in tech fields has deadlines. It's just easier to be exploited if you're working on something fun.
Just a note, poster did not use blockquote tags, nor any tags for that matter. He/she used spaces. Spaces! Remember using spaces, when all we had was a monospaced font?
Poster probably doesn't use HTML tags at all. On that note, slashdot should have a quick help page that explains how to use each of the allowed tags, easily accessible from the Post Comment page. Put a button or link next to the list of tags. People would italicize more if they saw how easy it is.
Bert's high-voltage equipment takes up most of his screened-in porch (from the looks of things, his wife drew a line at the sliding door?there's a clear border between tidy suburban house and chaotic suburban lab). Bert begins the coin-shrinking process by wrapping a quarter in copper wire and bolting the leads to copper bus bars, which are connected, by way of a triggered spark gap, to a 600-pound bank of 12,000-volt capacitors. A bulletproof blast shield encloses the coin and coil, and a high-voltage power supply charges up the capacitors. The only thing holding back the several thousand joules of energy stored in the capacitors is the tiny space between the spark gap's two brass discs.
Pressing a switch triggers the spark gap, which releases the entire charge through the coil in 25 millionths of a second. This creates a huge magnetic field, which induces a current and then a magnetic field inside the coin, which in turn pushes back against the field outside. The repulsion force between these two fields crushes the metal, instantly taking a quarter down to the size of a dime. A large amount of energy discharged in a short amount of time usually entails an explosion, and in this case the copper coil is blown apart with a brilliant flash and a satisfying bang. And, yes, the report is sharper than any drum, proving that you really can hit something as hard with magnetic force as you can with a drumstick.
You are 100% correct, of course. But just like there are several delineations of acids, as you pointed out, we could have different ways to define ethers and alcohols.
I would argue that the carbon atoms in simple alcohols don't actually do anything, except hold all the functional groups together. It's the backbone. In most reactions involving alcohols, all we see is bonding to the entire molecule, or at most one or more functional group substitutions. There are chain cracking reactions, of course, but in these cases we are not really looking at an "alcohol" reaction.
In that sense, water is definitely an alcohol, in that it reacts in the same way that (say) ethanol does. A similar but weaker argument could be made for ethers.
As for water being an acid, HOH most definitely "dissolves" in water, circular definitions aside. Liquid water is an equilibrium mixture of HOH, OH- and H3O+.
I prefer the name hydranol. All alcohols have an OH- radical which gives them their properties. So hydranol would be an alcohol that has a single hydrogen atom instead of the usual carbon.
How about dihydryl ether? An ether is an oxygen with (usually!) a carbon chain on both sides. Dihydryl ether would then be the simplest of ethers.
The dihydryl ether name is really pushing it, but I would say that calling
water hydranol is a little less incorrect than calling it dihydrogen
monoxide. Water behaves more like a simple alcohol than an oxide salt.
Here's two more names: "Look out for that
dangerous hydroxic acid!" (OH- acid = OH- + H+)
"Don't worry, I'll
neutralize it with this hydronium base." (H3O+ with OH-, actually makes
2H2O)
In reality, water behaves a little like each of these chemical groups. It really is an alcohol, an acid, a base, and even ionic (when dissociated). This is what makes water have so many useful properties.
Interestingly, it turns out that water molecules bond with eachothersomewhat covalently, not just with hydrogen bonds as previously thought.
Wait a second. $150 Canadian -- that's like twenty bucks, right?
That would be funny, if the present U.S. financial mismanagement and the resulting weak U.S dollar hadn't been driving the Canadian dollar to new heights. Eighty cents and climbing. Maybe it will surpass the US$ again, as it did in the seventies.
The Loonie is so strong now, that it's negatively affecting our trade with the U.S. It's so strong that something has to be done quickly.
Having said all that, Vancouver is a great place to hold a conference.
I think we're going to be disappointed when we take tourist trips out to the far planets.
*All* the images that we've seen, from telescopes through Voyager through Cassini, were exposed for a long time (meaning longer than a second). Were we to actually look at the gas giant planets and their moons with our eyes, they'd be pretty dim. We might get some nice views if we turn all the spaceship lights down, and let our eyes get accustomed to the dark, but I doubt any detail of Pluto would be visible.
I don't have the energy to work out the actual lux levels; I only barely had the energy to write this post.
Associated Press is finally picking up the story (see here)
Diebold Inc. sent "cease and desist" letters after the documents and internal e-mails, allegedly stolen by a hacker, were distributed on the Internet. Recipients of the letters included computer programmers, students at colleges including Swarthmore and at least one Internet provider.
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The game floppy had its write-protect notch covered, as with most commercial software. We played around with the disk, changed some things, and then tried to run the game.
It turns out that the very first thing the program did was to attempt to format the floppy disk!! Of course, for most users nothing happened, because of the write-protect tab. But we had to go back to the store to get another copy. (First thing we did after that was to take out the format command.)
We were annoyed but respectful.
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Widely quoted examples:
- Jeb Bush, unconcerned about 2002 Florida touch-screen election debacle, says "What is it with Democrats having a hard time voting?"
- Diebold CEO says he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
- etc.
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Because they are recording companies.
(And to clarify, it's not just the vocals -- it's the particular recording, usually including vocals.)
The record company owns the recording, not the composition. To sell the record, the record company must licence the song from the composer (who is often not the performer in question.)
As an example, let's take the song "Remember (Walking in the Sand)", originally performed by the Shangri-Las, and written by George Morton. It was since covered by Patsy Cline, the Beach Boys and Aerosmith, among others.
If you wanted the Aerosmith version as your ringtone, you'd have to licence it from whoever owns that Aerosmith recording, and from whoever now owns the rights to the composition... but not from the Shangri-Las' right-holders, because you're not using their recording.
If you just wanted the song itself as a midi file in your phone, you don't have to pay anything to Aerosmith's label, nor to the Beach Boys' label, nor to the Shangri-Las' label -- because you're not using those recordings. You just have to pay whoever now owns George Morton's composition rights (provided the copyright hasn't lapsed) because that's all you're using.
yo.
I totally agree. This is going to be as one sided as when they had Smokey the Bear in the schools.
That campaign was COMPLETELY one sided, and had no place in the education system. There's lots to be said in favour of forest fires, but you wouldn't think so by asking people brainwashed by Smokey the Bear.
Only *I* can prevent forest fires? Come on.
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Because you didn't try a patent search?
They have four patents (one design) dating back to 2001. The first was filed in 1998.
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If you're not smart enough to capitalize your sentences and "I", or to be consistent in your use of single or double quotes, you're not smart enough to put down other people.
You are, however, smart enough to post on Slashdot.
(You are not smart enough to be insulted by this.)
yo.
No, $0.0000001 would be one hundred nanopayments, actually.
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Commercial != amateur.
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I only buy the World Weekly News to laugh at the kind of people that buy that paper.
Oh wait...
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That is exactly what makes it unique to the gaming industry. I was in the video game industry from the gameboy through the PlayStation, and usually we put in the extra uncompensated hours because we loved the game. We WANTED to make the game better. I'm glad I'm on my own now, and wouldn't want to go back to those conditions, but at the same time I'm glad for all those years. It builds character!
Yeah, everybody in tech fields has deadlines. It's just easier to be exploited if you're working on something fun.
yo.
yo.
Poster probably doesn't use HTML tags at all. On that note, slashdot should have a quick help page that explains how to use each of the allowed tags, easily accessible from the Post Comment page. Put a button or link next to the list of tags. People would italicize more if they saw how easy it is.
yo.
Bert's high-voltage equipment takes up most of his screened-in porch (from the looks of things, his wife drew a line at the sliding door?there's a clear border between tidy suburban house and chaotic suburban lab). Bert begins the coin-shrinking process by wrapping a quarter in copper wire and bolting the leads to copper bus bars, which are connected, by way of a triggered spark gap, to a 600-pound bank of 12,000-volt capacitors. A bulletproof blast shield encloses the coin and coil, and a high-voltage power supply charges up the capacitors. The only thing holding back the several thousand joules of energy stored in the capacitors is the tiny space between the spark gap's two brass discs.
Pressing a switch triggers the spark gap, which releases the entire charge through the coil in 25 millionths of a second. This creates a huge magnetic field, which induces a current and then a magnetic field inside the coin, which in turn pushes back against the field outside. The repulsion force between these two fields crushes the metal, instantly taking a quarter down to the size of a dime. A large amount of energy discharged in a short amount of time usually entails an explosion, and in this case the copper coil is blown apart with a brilliant flash and a satisfying bang. And, yes, the report is sharper than any drum, proving that you really can hit something as hard with magnetic force as you can with a drumstick.
yo.
I would argue that the carbon atoms in simple alcohols don't actually do anything, except hold all the functional groups together. It's the backbone. In most reactions involving alcohols, all we see is bonding to the entire molecule, or at most one or more functional group substitutions. There are chain cracking reactions, of course, but in these cases we are not really looking at an "alcohol" reaction.
In that sense, water is definitely an alcohol, in that it reacts in the same way that (say) ethanol does. A similar but weaker argument could be made for ethers.
As for water being an acid, HOH most definitely "dissolves" in water, circular definitions aside. Liquid water is an equilibrium mixture of HOH, OH- and H3O+.
yo.
How about dihydryl ether? An ether is an oxygen with (usually!) a carbon chain on both sides. Dihydryl ether would then be the simplest of ethers.
The dihydryl ether name is really pushing it, but I would say that calling water hydranol is a little less incorrect than calling it dihydrogen monoxide. Water behaves more like a simple alcohol than an oxide salt.
Here's two more names: "Look out for that dangerous hydroxic acid!" (OH- acid = OH- + H+)
"Don't worry, I'll neutralize it with this hydronium base." (H3O+ with OH-, actually makes 2H2O)
In reality, water behaves a little like each of these chemical groups. It really is an alcohol, an acid, a base, and even ionic (when dissociated). This is what makes water have so many useful properties.
Interestingly, it turns out that water molecules bond with eachother somewhat covalently, not just with hydrogen bonds as previously thought.
yo.
yo.
That would be funny, if the present U.S. financial mismanagement and the resulting weak U.S dollar hadn't been driving the Canadian dollar to new heights. Eighty cents and climbing. Maybe it will surpass the US$ again, as it did in the seventies.
The Loonie is so strong now, that it's negatively affecting our trade with the U.S. It's so strong that something has to be done quickly.
Having said all that, Vancouver is a great place to hold a conference.
yo.
Significant achievements [GOOD] in this area could revolutionize [IS] the information searching field. [THIS].
yo.
*All* the images that we've seen, from telescopes through Voyager through Cassini, were exposed for a long time (meaning longer than a second). Were we to actually look at the gas giant planets and their moons with our eyes, they'd be pretty dim. We might get some nice views if we turn all the spaceship lights down, and let our eyes get accustomed to the dark, but I doubt any detail of Pluto would be visible.
I don't have the energy to work out the actual lux levels; I only barely had the energy to write this post.
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Heh... and several million /. readers...
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