I was wondering about that myself, since otherwise how does the blogger justify possession of the media card in the first place (what's the moral difference between stealing the property of a previous occupant of the cab and stealing something out of the cab that belongs to the driver or the cab company?), but apparently it's too late to find out without hunting up a cache somewhere. Below is a copy and paste of the site from a few minutes ago (with formatting destroyed by the process, of course).
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I Found Some Of Your Life
That's It
September 2004 Current Posts
Monday, September 20, 2004 That's It Sorry folks.
Contact: ifsoyl at gmail.com
[Thank you for all of the emails. I took the site down pre-emptively. I have not yet heard from the owner of the card. I will try to let you know.
Let me be very clear that I never intended to hurt or embarrass anyone. While I understand that this is a somewhat naive position to maintain, you must understand that the scope of this project grew far beyond my expectations in a very short period of time.
That having been said, I would like to formally apologize to all of those who were unknowingly involved.
Finally - yes, the celebrity was Vanilla Ice.]
posted by jordan | 7:11 PM
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Of course anything involving Vanilla Ice was bound to end badly so it's just as well.
"The technique was used to an even greater extent in some of the TV series, e.g. Space:1999, that followed on with the resurgence of popularity of SF after Star Wars."
Wasn't Space:1999 the show with Martin Landau and Barbara Bain? That went on the air back around '69, '70, '71. Perhaps you were thinking of Battlestar Galactica?
"I'm envisioning Martha Stuart meets Kevin Mitnick"
Why? Are you expecting Kevin to violate parole and get sent back inside?
Re:Files they've just taken and not bought or dele
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"...because the studios only get half of the box office - the theatres get the other half, nominally anyways..."
Not even close. The longer a theater runs a particular movie the more of the box office they get to keep but even after weeks the studios still get over 90%. Movies are loss leaders, for the theater, that they use to get people into what is really a popcorn store.
"...repackaging their libraries first for tape during the transition from 33rpms to LP records, LPs to cassette tape, and cassette tape to CDs..."
Actually 33s and LPs are the same thing, but you're right about them selling the same thing over and over on different media.
"I paid $300 for my copy of Mozilla and in fact when I installed it it confused which hard drive was what so it formatted my 40 gig as a 2 gig and left my 2 gig primary hard drive alone."
Speaking of the Freedom of Information act, I was quite surprised 3 or 4 weeks ago to see a newspaper article where it was reported that one of the key sponsors of the act was then Representative Donald Rumsfeld. Go figure.
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Actually I think the "more prim" pronunciation is a New England thing.
"I'm Suing Penguin Books...For infringing on my rights as author and publisher of the book "165.193.128.72"."
I think Katie Jones should author and publish a book about Linux and the Internet and call it Penguin.com and then let Penguin spout off about freedom of speech.
Of course the problem there is that a lot of licensed electricians, although quite knowledgeable and proficient with 60 Hz power wiring, don't know the stuff, besides the safety part, which you need to know about low voltage wiring, or at least about the particular type of wiring with which you're working. (Here's a hint: If it involves high frequencies or a wide frequency band, there's stuff they might not have covered in electrician's school.)
"Mind you that (1) and (2) don't exist in today's TVs or monitors..."
Not as vacuum tubes, no, but the circuits (and the need for them) still exist, they're just implemented with semiconductors nowadays. You can still get X-rays out of the big bottle, though, if you screw up a repair.
"In color television receivers, x-rays may be emmitted from three possible sources: (1) the high voltage regulator tube; (2) the high voltage rectifier tube; and (3) the picture tube."
page 419 Television Simplified by Milton S. Kiver and Milton Kaufman, seventh edition, 1973, Delmar Publishers
It was, of course, a running joke as we wrestled with the content of that book that we'd hate to have to learn it from the unsimplified version.
If Sal sent those threats via e-mail, then one could argue the possibility of those messages having gone through some part of the phone system and having crossed state lines. Should be enough to make it legal for the FBI to get involved. (Whether they can be bothered to is another question entirely.)
To protect your account you should have paid the $10 (and only that) and told the seller not to bother to ship the item (i.e., told him where he could put it).
My point remains valid. If the computer is looking for a reply spoken in "keyboard", it won't get it from a mouse. If it just wants a 5 volt pulse that's a different situation. Of course in that case you don't even need a mouse, it's just a convenient way of passing current.
If the public pays to protect the work from unauthorized copying for a set amount of time in order to be able to copy it after that time, does that mean that the government cannot collect any sort of property or intangibles tax on the work from the copyright holder during the period of copyright? What about tax on the income derived from the work during that period?
What, exactly, is the philosophical justification for usurping someone's ownership of their work after the passage of a certain amount of time?
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I was wondering about that myself, since otherwise how does the blogger justify possession of the media card in the first place (what's the moral difference between stealing the property of a previous occupant of the cab and stealing something out of the cab that belongs to the driver or the cab company?), but apparently it's too late to find out without hunting up a cache somewhere. Below is a copy and paste of the site from a few minutes ago (with formatting destroyed by the process, of course).
I Found Some Of Your Life
That's It
September 2004
Current Posts
Monday, September 20, 2004
That's It
Sorry folks.
Contact: ifsoyl at gmail.com
[Thank you for all of the emails. I took the site down pre-emptively. I have not yet heard from the owner of the card. I will try to let you know.
Let me be very clear that I never intended to hurt or embarrass anyone. While I understand that this is a somewhat naive position to maintain, you must understand that the scope of this project grew far beyond my expectations in a very short period of time.
That having been said, I would like to formally apologize to all of those who were unknowingly involved.
Finally - yes, the celebrity was Vanilla Ice.]
posted by jordan | 7:11 PM
Of course anything involving Vanilla Ice was bound to end badly so it's just as well.
And it's a '58 model so it'll have really cool tailfins!
Wasn't Space:1999 the show with Martin Landau and Barbara Bain? That went on the air back around '69, '70, '71. Perhaps you were thinking of Battlestar Galactica?
Why? Are you expecting Kevin to violate parole and get sent back inside?
Not even close. The longer a theater runs a particular movie the more of the box office they get to keep but even after weeks the studios still get over 90%. Movies are loss leaders, for the theater, that they use to get people into what is really a popcorn store.
"...repackaging their libraries first for tape during the transition from 33rpms to LP records, LPs to cassette tape, and cassette tape to CDs..."
Actually 33s and LPs are the same thing, but you're right about them selling the same thing over and over on different media.
A browser that can format a hard drive?
Then why is he using a PC and MS?
With Democrats like Zell Miller, who needs Republicans?
Speaking of the Freedom of Information act, I was quite surprised 3 or 4 weeks ago to see a newspaper article where it was reported that one of the key sponsors of the act was then Representative Donald Rumsfeld. Go figure.
Actually I think the "more prim" pronunciation is a New England thing.
He could find plenty to do those two years fixing the last of those rebadged Conner drives
I think Katie Jones should author and publish a book about Linux and the Internet and call it Penguin.com and then let Penguin spout off about freedom of speech.
Schematics are nice (wish I could get them for some of the BX mobos I've got lying around here), but you're still screwed if you can't get the parts.
Of course the problem there is that a lot of licensed electricians, although quite knowledgeable and proficient with 60 Hz power wiring, don't know the stuff, besides the safety part, which you need to know about low voltage wiring, or at least about the particular type of wiring with which you're working. (Here's a hint: If it involves high frequencies or a wide frequency band, there's stuff they might not have covered in electrician's school.)
Not as vacuum tubes, no, but the circuits (and the need for them) still exist, they're just implemented with semiconductors nowadays. You can still get X-rays out of the big bottle, though, if you screw up a repair.
I'd sooner trust my computer to the average TV service tech than my TV to the average computer tech.
Fortunately I know enough about both to have a good chance of being able to recover from either.
It was, of course, a running joke as we wrestled with the content of that book that we'd hate to have to learn it from the unsimplified version.
It's actually very well written for a textbook.
That wasn't the Twilight Zone, it was Outer Limits. TZ was hosted by Jan Sterling.
Perhaps not, but with this crowd it'll no doubt get something "up".
Actually, there are so many frustrated horndogs around here that it's surprising a female can even visit this site without getting "knocked up".
:-)
It happened back in the days of -Slashdot. I think it was running on Slash version -1.1.3 at the time. My user ID # back then was -5733.
Wasn't it the original Socket 4 Pentium 60s and 66s that had the floating point errors, rather than the Socket 5 75s, 90s, and 100s?
If Sal sent those threats via e-mail, then one could argue the possibility of those messages having gone through some part of the phone system and having crossed state lines. Should be enough to make it legal for the FBI to get involved. (Whether they can be bothered to is another question entirely.)
To protect your account you should have paid the $10 (and only that) and told the seller not to bother to ship the item (i.e., told him where he could put it).
My point remains valid. If the computer is looking for a reply spoken in "keyboard", it won't get it from a mouse. If it just wants a 5 volt pulse that's a different situation. Of course in that case you don't even need a mouse, it's just a convenient way of passing current.
What, exactly, is the philosophical justification for usurping someone's ownership of their work after the passage of a certain amount of time?