I just think it is nice to know that this software utility allows me to exercise my constitutional right to make fair use backups of my HD-DVDs. The creators of HD-DVDs should all be thrown in prison for violating my civil rights as guaranteed my law.
When I was in college, they called it the "Baggy Pants" treatment... If someone left their account logged in, someone would post something to the newsgroup along the lines of "I have baggy pants!" or something even more creative like "My pants are ooooh sooo baggy..." and they get more creative and outlandish from there...
There is a fine line between censorship and espionage. Clearly, making detailed aerial photos of strategic targets to the enemy is the latter, and google should be taking steps to make sure it does not expose our military assets like this.
I recently celebrated my 5-year service award with a major multinational. At the 5 year mark, i got to go to a special rewards website and choose one from among several token gifts.. there was a pair of GMRS radios there, so that's what I chose. About 3 paychecks later, I had a deduction of $24 for the income tax on the gift, which means they valued the gift at $95... I went to target at found the same pair of radios on sale for $26.99. Hah...
Ok, so he says he bought the domain in 1998 "in good faith." However, he also says that he finally realized his online store "this year," in 2006. What has he been doing with it for the past 7 years? Well, a few clicks over to archive.org will tell you.
March 02, 2000 was the first record that archive.org collected on wargames.com. It's just a "there is no site here" page. Then, in October 2000, it became a "there is no site here" page with a banner ad.
December 2001, he sets up Tomcat, the default installation page. It remains that way until March 2002, at which point it reverts back to a "there is no page here" page, but with links to a few pages, including the Drudge Report and a few others. A flurry of activity in 2002 as he updates and changes the links on the "there is no page here" page. The page remains the same style of "there is no page here"+links until November 2004 (2 years!), at which point is appears he is trying to turn it into a blog about programming. This Blog-like page remains until January 2006, and there is no archive.org update after then.
It seems clear to me that this is not exactly in good faith. Every page in archive.org is "there is no page here" and there is nothing on there having anything to do with selling war-based games, or anything else that would intuitively be related.
This guy is a squatter, plain and simple. My guess is that he heard about the movie filming in early 2006 and someone told him he had better start a legitimate use of the domain or it was likely he would lose it, so he threw something together. It's too bad for him there are so many recorded years of squatting.
It's not making VOIP illegal at all. It is just making VOIP from foreign providers illegal. This is more bullshit Indian nationalism. India is a bunch of hypocrites.
They really do... spin off the O/S company and let it die so they can, like everyone else, focus on cheap consumer electronics that are designed by slave labor in India and manufactured by slave labor in China, then sold for a pittance in America to former software engineers who now work at McDonalds flipping burgers for the CEOs who put everyone in their respective situations.
I have a great idea - in addition to getting rid of the electoral college, let's go ahead and just get rid of the states, too, while we're at it? After all, States' Rights are not important at all in the grand scheme of things. What's even less important is that we have an electoral system that guarantees representation to smaller states and that prevents the more populous states and their groupthink from single-handedly determining the outcome of a presidential election.
The political ignorance of the slashdot community is absolutely frightening. Very few of you seem to understand that, when confronted with an enemy intent upon making you cease to exist, leaving them alone is not going to make them stop. Muslim terrorists do not fight for money or power. They can't be bargained with, they can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity or remorse, and they absolutely will not stop until we are all dead (or until they are crushed in a giant press).
These "progressive" liberal thinkers out there are naïve in the extreme to think that if we capitulate to what we think their desires are, we will make the terrorism problem go away. We tried to ignore the problem for 50 years, and all that accomplished was to embolden them to ever larger and more elaborate attacks. What these people completely fail to understand is that the Muslim terrorists' desire is OUR DEATH and NOTHING ELSE.
but I have a new found respect for WJC. Not only is investment (rather than socialism) the correct way to stimulate change, but he handled the ambush quite well. Even though I don't really think he's being completely honest about his motivations, he did handle himself with dignity.
There is no possible way it only costs $200 to deploy a gas-line broadband method. Because you're placing energy on a metal surface that is in direct contact with an explosive substance, this creates a Div1/Zone0 environment, which is to say that flammable material is present on a continuous basis. This requires all kinds of certifications for the equipment, not the least of which is an "Intrinsically Safe" designation. Not only is the engineering design far more complex (the designer has to guarantee that, under a sudden short or sudden open, there cannot possibly be enough energy released to ignite the atmosphere, and methane has a LOW activation energy), but the certifications are ASSpensive.
I just don't see this happening once they actually start paying attention to the rules... or maybe congress will give them the go ahead to ignore the rules and start leveling cities..
I haven't had a tape or other backup device in what seems like an eternity.. I've lost 2 drives total over the past 5 years, and both incidents went off without a hitch.
Unlike software patents, the patents in the paragraph above cover tangible things (pigments, dispersants, dyes, and formulations). They can be circumvented and you can prove if you are infringing or not with some straightforward lab tests. Some simplistic examples: If HP has a patent on an ink that is 25% A, 50% B, and 25% C, I can sell an ink that is 50% A, 30% B, and 20% C and not infringe. If the dye molecule in HP's material patent absorbs at 590-610 nm and the dye molecule I sell absorbs at 550-585 nm, I am not infringing. Smart companies change the competitor's formula just enough to avoid violating patents, while being able to have approximately the same performance.
You're missing a very subtle, yet important part here.
If the dye molecule in HP's material patent absorbs at 590-610nm, and the dye molecule I sell also absorbs at 590-610nm, I am not necessarily infringing.
You cannot patent the perceptive qualities of a material. This is why you cannot patent a perfume or fragrance. If my molecule is physically different than HP's molecule, it is not infringing even if it has the identical perceptive qualities of the HP molecule.
Was a 932C back in 2000, this after my 695 died a horrible death while trying to print out 10 copies of my 100+ page Master's Thesis without a break... I only use it for color needs and photos as I have a nice Oki B4200 "laser" printer for B&W stuff... oddly, that little Oki, which was $239 when I bought it, has gone through 5000 pages w/o needing any maintenance whatsoever, or even a new toner cart for that matter. With inkjets, they have you buying ink about every 300-400 pages, so I would have gone through over $300 in ink on the 932 by now. I'd say the laser printer has paid for itself...
Toner carts for the Oki are only about $30, too...
My windows XP pro box started with 512MB, which wasn't nearly enough. So, I went to 1GB, and things got better, but the hard disk still thrashed from time to time. So, I went to 2GB and the system finally seemed like it was starting up faster and running more freely.
I'm actually very glad I went to 2GB, because X-plane takes 900MB of RAM if you let it:)
Nah this was a long time ago. It may have been "cutting edge" research then, but nowadays the average 3rd grade advanced calculus student could figure it out in their head. All you have to do is take an arbitrary object in 3-space, chop the volume up into little 3D blocks that can be represented by known equations, test the incident field in those little blocks by integrating the interaction of the incident field with the material and shape of the block, and calculate the far-field by performing a fourier transform on the resulting solution matrix. Piece of cake, as long as you don't forget that the incident field at a given block is the sum of the incident plane wave and the scattered nearfields from the other blocks in the mesh:)
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I just think it is nice to know that this software utility allows me to exercise my constitutional right to make fair use backups of my HD-DVDs. The creators of HD-DVDs should all be thrown in prison for violating my civil rights as guaranteed my law.
When I was in college, they called it the "Baggy Pants" treatment... If someone left their account logged in, someone would post something to the newsgroup along the lines of "I have baggy pants!" or something even more creative like "My pants are ooooh sooo baggy..." and they get more creative and outlandish from there...
There is a fine line between censorship and espionage. Clearly, making detailed aerial photos of strategic targets to the enemy is the latter, and google should be taking steps to make sure it does not expose our military assets like this.
now....
You send them to a competitor... duhhhh!
I recently celebrated my 5-year service award with a major multinational. At the 5 year mark, i got to go to a special rewards website and choose one from among several token gifts.. there was a pair of GMRS radios there, so that's what I chose. About 3 paychecks later, I had a deduction of $24 for the income tax on the gift, which means they valued the gift at $95... I went to target at found the same pair of radios on sale for $26.99.
Hah...
Ok, so he says he bought the domain in 1998 "in good faith." However, he also says that he finally realized his online store "this year," in 2006. What has he been doing with it for the past 7 years? Well, a few clicks over to archive.org will tell you.
March 02, 2000 was the first record that archive.org collected on wargames.com. It's just a "there is no site here" page. Then, in October 2000, it became a "there is no site here" page with a banner ad.
December 2001, he sets up Tomcat, the default installation page. It remains that way until March 2002, at which point it reverts back to a "there is no page here" page, but with links to a few pages, including the Drudge Report and a few others. A flurry of activity in 2002 as he updates and changes the links on the "there is no page here" page. The page remains the same style of "there is no page here"+links until November 2004 (2 years!), at which point is appears he is trying to turn it into a blog about programming. This Blog-like page remains until January 2006, and there is no archive.org update after then.
It seems clear to me that this is not exactly in good faith. Every page in archive.org is "there is no page here" and there is nothing on there having anything to do with selling war-based games, or anything else that would intuitively be related.
This guy is a squatter, plain and simple. My guess is that he heard about the movie filming in early 2006 and someone told him he had better start a legitimate use of the domain or it was likely he would lose it, so he threw something together. It's too bad for him there are so many recorded years of squatting.
It's not making VOIP illegal at all. It is just making VOIP from foreign providers illegal. This is more bullshit Indian nationalism. India is a bunch of hypocrites.
>> Hillary will cancel all space programs when she gets elected.
Look at the bright side, at least hell would have frozen over, pigs would be flying, and MONKEYS WOULD BE FLYING OUT OF MY ASS.
They really do... spin off the O/S company and let it die so they can, like everyone else, focus on cheap consumer electronics that are designed by slave labor in India and manufactured by slave labor in China, then sold for a pittance in America to former software engineers who now work at McDonalds flipping burgers for the CEOs who put everyone in their respective situations.
The point you're missing is that, with Dems in charge of both houses of congress, we'll be out of Iraq by March.
I have a great idea - in addition to getting rid of the electoral college, let's go ahead and just get rid of the states, too, while we're at it? After all, States' Rights are not important at all in the grand scheme of things. What's even less important is that we have an electoral system that guarantees representation to smaller states and that prevents the more populous states and their groupthink from single-handedly determining the outcome of a presidential election.
The political ignorance of the slashdot community is absolutely frightening. Very few of you seem to understand that, when confronted with an enemy intent upon making you cease to exist, leaving them alone is not going to make them stop. Muslim terrorists do not fight for money or power. They can't be bargained with, they can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity or remorse, and they absolutely will not stop until we are all dead (or until they are crushed in a giant press).
These "progressive" liberal thinkers out there are naïve in the extreme to think that if we capitulate to what we think their desires are, we will make the terrorism problem go away. We tried to ignore the problem for 50 years, and all that accomplished was to embolden them to ever larger and more elaborate attacks. What these people completely fail to understand is that the Muslim terrorists' desire is OUR DEATH and NOTHING ELSE.
but I have a new found respect for WJC. Not only is investment (rather than socialism) the correct way to stimulate change, but he handled the ambush quite well. Even though I don't really think he's being completely honest about his motivations, he did handle himself with dignity.
It's much easier to charge some soccer mom $200 to install her wireless access point and PC card than it is to steal $200 from an ATM...
There is no possible way it only costs $200 to deploy a gas-line broadband method. Because you're placing energy on a metal surface that is in direct contact with an explosive substance, this creates a Div1/Zone0 environment, which is to say that flammable material is present on a continuous basis. This requires all kinds of certifications for the equipment, not the least of which is an "Intrinsically Safe" designation. Not only is the engineering design far more complex (the designer has to guarantee that, under a sudden short or sudden open, there cannot possibly be enough energy released to ignite the atmosphere, and methane has a LOW activation energy), but the certifications are ASSpensive.
I just don't see this happening once they actually start paying attention to the rules... or maybe congress will give them the go ahead to ignore the rules and start leveling cities..
Hah, think again. A little bit of custom programming and voila!
[eric@ie-ap eric]$ rm -rf *
rm: What are you doing, dave? This is highly irregular.
Try `rm --help' for more information.
[eric@ie-ap eric]$
Why do I suddenly feel like going shopping at IKEA?
I haven't had a tape or other backup device in what seems like an eternity.. I've lost 2 drives total over the past 5 years, and both incidents went off without a hitch.
You're missing a very subtle, yet important part here.
If the dye molecule in HP's material patent absorbs at 590-610nm, and the dye molecule I sell also absorbs at 590-610nm, I am not necessarily infringing.
You cannot patent the perceptive qualities of a material. This is why you cannot patent a perfume or fragrance. If my molecule is physically different than HP's molecule, it is not infringing even if it has the identical perceptive qualities of the HP molecule.
Was a 932C back in 2000, this after my 695 died a horrible death while trying to print out 10 copies of my 100+ page Master's Thesis without a break... I only use it for color needs and photos as I have a nice Oki B4200 "laser" printer for B&W stuff... oddly, that little Oki, which was $239 when I bought it, has gone through 5000 pages w/o needing any maintenance whatsoever, or even a new toner cart for that matter. With inkjets, they have you buying ink about every 300-400 pages, so I would have gone through over $300 in ink on the 932 by now. I'd say the laser printer has paid for itself...
Toner carts for the Oki are only about $30, too...
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My windows XP pro box started with 512MB, which wasn't nearly enough. So, I went to 1GB, and things got better, but the hard disk still thrashed from time to time. So, I went to 2GB and the system finally seemed like it was starting up faster and running more freely.
:)
I'm actually very glad I went to 2GB, because X-plane takes 900MB of RAM if you let it
Or use one partition on a Raid-0 array...
If that's a chick, then my name is RuPaul
Nah this was a long time ago. It may have been "cutting edge" research then, but nowadays the average 3rd grade advanced calculus student could figure it out in their head. All you have to do is take an arbitrary object in 3-space, chop the volume up into little 3D blocks that can be represented by known equations, test the incident field in those little blocks by integrating the interaction of the incident field with the material and shape of the block, and calculate the far-field by performing a fourier transform on the resulting solution matrix. Piece of cake, as long as you don't forget that the incident field at a given block is the sum of the incident plane wave and the scattered nearfields from the other blocks in the mesh :)