Hell, while they're at it demand that all recording devices be banned from the world!
I wonder if people that read this actually know how close to the truth it is. Sony tried to kill the VCR when it came out. Motion picture studios sued ReplayTV out of existence. Now they're trying to pass the "Induce" act to make it illegal to sell portable players without Digital Rights Management built in. I'm sure the entertainment industry would be perfectly happy if there were no commercially available recorders.
I'm no expert on robots.txt, but it would seem to allow google to use robots to index those pages but not other web crawlers? If that is the case, then maybe that goes to motive, they would want other search engines to index them too. It still doesn't change the fact that they did alter the title to affect at least their own search results.
On the other hand, I don't think Google was doing this on purpose. They're hiring lots of new people and maybe one of them came from a company that did this and he thought it was standard practice, so he used it on his first assignment on his first day. GoogleGuy posted that they were fixing it, but now it seems they are going to make their own people go through the same hoops any other site would have to. Way to go, Google!
I've seen people comment about bringing out of date catalogs into stores and demanding that they get the lower prices and people defending the decision saying that they were misleading customers, but no one has really touched on the heart of why this is different from normal advertising.
If someone advertises their prices in a newspaper, on a billboard, on radio, or sends out a flyer, those prices had better be good while the ad is visibly advertising to the public. If you got a flyer or catalog in the mail a month ago, you shouldn't be surprised if you get into the store and the price has changed. When advertising on a web site, every time someone visits your web page you are publishing it's content to them. They should have the right to expect that the prices are current.
I would expect them to get in trouble just like if they had posted a newspaper ad that day that used old menu prices. Customers had complained that the prices were different than on the web. The owners knew that and did nothing to change it. That would be like intentionally running an ad in the newspaper with the wrong prices because you didn't want to pay someone to edit it.
It seems to me that they are saying that there will be something fundamentally different about their new system that it will not be able to play games that are on current systems. Therefore, if 3rd party developers make a game for the new system, there is no way they could make a similar game on the other systems and vice-versa because the concepts are completely different. Maybe the interface won't be a standard controller (maybe an eye-toy like device, microphone, gloves that know where they are in 3d space and what your fingers are doing, etc.).
Think about it like this... Let's say current consoles are like decks of cards. You can play lots of games with a standard deck of cards (poker, rummy, etc.) and there are different types of cards with their own games (Rook, Uno, etc.). Let's then say that Nintendo's "Revolution" is like a board game. It's very hard to play Risk, Chess, or Axis and Allies with a deck of cards, just like it would be hard to play Poker or Uno as a board game.
Then again maybe they're just using all this vagueness to hype the system before it's out.
At any rate, we are still looking at E3 as a launching pad for the "Revolution" platform, and are deliberating if we should feature the actual console, visuals, or simply illustrate the concept behind it. At the same time, while we are aiming to make some form of a positive impression, we also want to avoid giving away too much, and are therefore currently in a dilemma about the situation. What we are sure of, however, is that fun isn't something that can be expressed in figures, and we are ever mindful of how we can illustrate the difference offered by our particular brand of fun."
Using VoIP really isn't providing a server or services to others outside the premises, unless the person using Comcast was hosting a VoIP server or gateway. This section is meant to prevent people from running servers that will have people outside the premises using Comcast's bandwidth for their own use. If you're running an FTP server, you can have lots of people from other networks using Comcast's bandwidth to trade files. How is VoIP different from running an FTP Client? Consider that the FTP server actually connects back to the client to transfer files before you answer... In the very least, what in that section would lead you to believe that VoIP would be blocked?
Is it just me, or is the formatting a little messed up? In both Firefox 1.0 and Mozilla 1.7.3 the articles on the front page overlap with the sections on the far left. This is only after I log in however. This just started this last week, but for quite a while I have a problem sometimes when reading an article where the text is all garbled up to the left. If I refresh the page it usually fixes itself. Could it be something with certain ads?
Reverse-engineering is legal in the U.S., check out Sony v. Connectix. They reverse-engineered the Playstation bios to create an emulator on the computer and Sony took them to court and lost. They were copying the Sony bios into their emulator and even using parts of Sony's bios to debug their own and while designing their own. A lot of it had to do with the work beingn the bios, whose operation was mostly utilitarian to support the hardware.
The unpaid tax was $20 per carton, the cigarettes only cost $15 per carton. Yes, that's a 130% tax. I think that taxing things differently is stupid and confusing, but that's where the government sticks it to us. If you added up all the taxes you pay on everything in a year, you'd probably be actually making less than 1/2 of what you think you're making, especially if you take into account all the money your employer pays that you don't even find out about.
Just looking at my phone bill, there are at least 6 taxes. Federal Universal Serv Fund, Federal Universal Serv Fund Private Line, School Infrastructure Tax, Federal Tax, State Tax, and Federal Access charge. I need a phone so I just go ahead and pay the bill, but doesn't the state and federal government already make enough money by taxing my income and everything I buy?
Cigarettes are a fat target. They are something you don't need, a lot of people don't use. Also the media has demonized their use. No one but smokers care and both parties want more money so you don't really have an option to voice your dissent come election day. This seems an awful lot like what King George was doing back in 1776, maybe we should dump some cigarretes in Boston Harbor...
What exactly does that mean? If you dial '911' in the UK, do you get called back by someone saying "You have dialled an incorrect number"? That's awfully strange.
Better yet, let's work on a patch for 6 months without telling anyone and pray that no one has figured it out except for the guy that reported it to us, l33thmr69. Then when we announce the vulnerability the same day we release the patch, we will look good in a security study.
Why is this rated insightful? Should we all give up our computers and stop posting on/. so we can spend our money on these interests instead? The SLI setup is not the new, most expensive thing out there. What the author was talking about was getting a board that supports SLI and a cheap (at least 1/2 price of the top-of-the-line) video card. Then, when it's time to upgrade, get another cheap video card to add on instead of getting a new one and throwing away or selling the old. So instead of paying $400 for a video card now and $400 for one for the next upgrade, he'll spend $200 now and $200 when it's time to upgrade.
Cause we are the Aqua Teens! Gotta love a game where you can pick up and throw practically anything and it explodes on the ground.
I think ATHF would make a great platformer, you have three unique characters to play and lots of enemies. Maybe it could be like GTA and you could drive the "Danger Car" around town on missions. They are detectives after all:)
The court has put a lot of trust in the ability of a dog to only sniff out illegal material. I don't see how the same could be true about packet sniffers. They would only be as good as the algorithms behind them. If someone has the words "murder", "kill", or "drugs" in an email, they could just as easily be talking about a computer game or an article they read in a newspaper. The authorities would have no reason to read that email based on that alone. The only problem is that if they decide to take this course of action, no one would know they were searching emails or reading innocent ones. We would only hear about the criminals caught using the tactic, not the illicit affairs the copsread about or Uncle Bob's hemmoroids the whole station had a good laugh at.
I was pulled over for speeding, it was a speed trap on a detour I was using for the first time and not familiar with the speed limits. Even though it was on the outskirts of town with a corn field on one side, the speed limit was 35 I guess. I came over a hill and then there was a cop waving me to the side of the road for doing 44. I stopped and he asked for my license. I undid my seatbelt right in front of him in order to get my wallet out of my back pocket. He came back with the ticket and the gall to just "warn" me for the seatbelt violation. Jeezus...
I was driving at night and turned south down this section of highway 65/69. I saw cop turn after me from the other direction, so I was definitely paying attention to the speed limit signs. This section of road was a little wierd though, the speed limit changed from 45 to 55 to 45 to 55 and back to 45. He pulled me over for doing 57 in a 45 until I politely reminded him that if I was doing 57 it was in the 55 zone, I was watching the signs closely. I don't think he realized what the speed limit was or even that it changed.
The court basically said that the dog would only sniff out illegal material. The court said that the cop could be walking down the street and if he smells pot in someone's pants, the cop can then search them.
Would you argue that the police should also have ignored blood dripping from the trunk?
Again, that is plain unaided sight of the policeman. This instance would equate more to the cop wiping your car down with that stuff and using a special light to detect if blood had been cleaned off.
The only reason to bring the dog out of the car is because you are looking for drugs. Police can (I've heard stories) put their finger in an evidence bag and wipe it on the trunk. Pull out the dog and surprise, he smells dope and the cops get to search the trunk. Say they find $5,000 you just won at blackjack. Now it's confiscated because it's obviously drug money even though you don't have any drugs.
I've never heard of such a thing, but I cracked open the case and sure enough there was a fan attached to my processor. That must be used to cool it down. I've just had a great idea! Wish some extra cooling, I may be able to increase the clock speed of my processor! I think I just invented a new thing, maybe I should patent it. What should I call it? Since I'm going "Over" the normal "Clock" speed of my processor, I think I'll call it "clock-overing"! I'll try to clock-over my processor tonight and if it works, I'll be in the money!
There are two major issues. One is IP (Intellectual Property) but I'm comfortable with what's in Windows Forms.
Sounds like he is saying the "IP" issue is that he's worried that Windows Forms would infringe someone else's IP, but he's pretty comfortable with what's in Windows Forms. What about the rest of the.NET framework?
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Yep, my bad... Sony came out with the Betamax recorder and was sued by Universal City Studios which owned the rights to many television broadcasts.
Apple: Uh, we don't sell those anymore.
Me: What do you mean?!?! You're going to make me beg for them? That's totally absurd.
Apple: I'm sorry sir.
Me: I didn't want to pay for a color monitor, but fine. Give me 10 Apple IIIcs.
Apple: [sigh]
On the other hand, I don't think Google was doing this on purpose. They're hiring lots of new people and maybe one of them came from a company that did this and he thought it was standard practice, so he used it on his first assignment on his first day. GoogleGuy posted that they were fixing it, but now it seems they are going to make their own people go through the same hoops any other site would have to. Way to go, Google!
Except for Attempted Murder, Attempted Robbery, etc...
If someone advertises their prices in a newspaper, on a billboard, on radio, or sends out a flyer, those prices had better be good while the ad is visibly advertising to the public. If you got a flyer or catalog in the mail a month ago, you shouldn't be surprised if you get into the store and the price has changed. When advertising on a web site, every time someone visits your web page you are publishing it's content to them. They should have the right to expect that the prices are current.
I would expect them to get in trouble just like if they had posted a newspaper ad that day that used old menu prices. Customers had complained that the prices were different than on the web. The owners knew that and did nothing to change it. That would be like intentionally running an ad in the newspaper with the wrong prices because you didn't want to pay someone to edit it.
Think about it like this... Let's say current consoles are like decks of cards. You can play lots of games with a standard deck of cards (poker, rummy, etc.) and there are different types of cards with their own games (Rook, Uno, etc.). Let's then say that Nintendo's "Revolution" is like a board game. It's very hard to play Risk, Chess, or Axis and Allies with a deck of cards, just like it would be hard to play Poker or Uno as a board game.
Then again maybe they're just using all this vagueness to hype the system before it's out.
Using VoIP really isn't providing a server or services to others outside the premises, unless the person using Comcast was hosting a VoIP server or gateway. This section is meant to prevent people from running servers that will have people outside the premises using Comcast's bandwidth for their own use. If you're running an FTP server, you can have lots of people from other networks using Comcast's bandwidth to trade files. How is VoIP different from running an FTP Client? Consider that the FTP server actually connects back to the client to transfer files before you answer... In the very least, what in that section would lead you to believe that VoIP would be blocked?
Where does that come from? There's nothing in the definition that says that, editors can censor a book, TV producers can censor their shows, etc.
Is it just me, or is the formatting a little messed up? In both Firefox 1.0 and Mozilla 1.7.3 the articles on the front page overlap with the sections on the far left. This is only after I log in however. This just started this last week, but for quite a while I have a problem sometimes when reading an article where the text is all garbled up to the left. If I refresh the page it usually fixes itself. Could it be something with certain ads?
Reverse-engineering is legal in the U.S., check out Sony v. Connectix. They reverse-engineered the Playstation bios to create an emulator on the computer and Sony took them to court and lost. They were copying the Sony bios into their emulator and even using parts of Sony's bios to debug their own and while designing their own. A lot of it had to do with the work beingn the bios, whose operation was mostly utilitarian to support the hardware.
Just looking at my phone bill, there are at least 6 taxes. Federal Universal Serv Fund, Federal Universal Serv Fund Private Line, School Infrastructure Tax, Federal Tax, State Tax, and Federal Access charge. I need a phone so I just go ahead and pay the bill, but doesn't the state and federal government already make enough money by taxing my income and everything I buy?
Cigarettes are a fat target. They are something you don't need, a lot of people don't use. Also the media has demonized their use. No one but smokers care and both parties want more money so you don't really have an option to voice your dissent come election day. This seems an awful lot like what King George was doing back in 1776, maybe we should dump some cigarretes in Boston Harbor...
What exactly does that mean? If you dial '911' in the UK, do you get called back by someone saying "You have dialled an incorrect number"? That's awfully strange.
Better yet, let's work on a patch for 6 months without telling anyone and pray that no one has figured it out except for the guy that reported it to us, l33thmr69. Then when we announce the vulnerability the same day we release the patch, we will look good in a security study.
Of course it's only a newspaper article, and in the Seattle Times no less :)
Why is this rated insightful? Should we all give up our computers and stop posting on /. so we can spend our money on these interests instead? The SLI setup is not the new, most expensive thing out there. What the author was talking about was getting a board that supports SLI and a cheap (at least 1/2 price of the top-of-the-line) video card. Then, when it's time to upgrade, get another cheap video card to add on instead of getting a new one and throwing away or selling the old. So instead of paying $400 for a video card now and $400 for one for the next upgrade, he'll spend $200 now and $200 when it's time to upgrade.
I think ATHF would make a great platformer, you have three unique characters to play and lots of enemies. Maybe it could be like GTA and you could drive the "Danger Car" around town on missions. They are detectives after all :)
The images wouldn't only affect your computer, but your brain as well. I hope virus writers never figure that one out!
The court has put a lot of trust in the ability of a dog to only sniff out illegal material. I don't see how the same could be true about packet sniffers. They would only be as good as the algorithms behind them. If someone has the words "murder", "kill", or "drugs" in an email, they could just as easily be talking about a computer game or an article they read in a newspaper. The authorities would have no reason to read that email based on that alone. The only problem is that if they decide to take this course of action, no one would know they were searching emails or reading innocent ones. We would only hear about the criminals caught using the tactic, not the illicit affairs the copsread about or Uncle Bob's hemmoroids the whole station had a good laugh at.
The court basically said that the dog would only sniff out illegal material. The court said that the cop could be walking down the street and if he smells pot in someone's pants, the cop can then search them.
The only reason to bring the dog out of the car is because you are looking for drugs. Police can (I've heard stories) put their finger in an evidence bag and wipe it on the trunk. Pull out the dog and surprise, he smells dope and the cops get to search the trunk. Say they find $5,000 you just won at blackjack. Now it's confiscated because it's obviously drug money even though you don't have any drugs.
I've never heard of such a thing, but I cracked open the case and sure enough there was a fan attached to my processor. That must be used to cool it down. I've just had a great idea! Wish some extra cooling, I may be able to increase the clock speed of my processor! I think I just invented a new thing, maybe I should patent it. What should I call it? Since I'm going "Over" the normal "Clock" speed of my processor, I think I'll call it "clock-overing"! I'll try to clock-over my processor tonight and if it works, I'll be in the money!