chicken.coop, but that would involve starting up some kind of cooperative farm, which goes directly against my no-chicken-droppings-in-the-house policy.
Prosecution: You're being charged with murder. Jon: Murder? With my computer? Prosecution: Uh, did we say murder? We meant assault. Jon: All I did was write a program! Prosecution: Internet Fraud! Exactly what we meant to say. Jon: How is viewing a DVD on linux fraud? Prosecution: What's linux? Jon: A free operating system. Prosecution: No such thing! We're charging you with Theft and "Intent to View DVDs on Stolen System"!
Yikes, one would hope there's a forthcoming patch in the works
Isn't that this whole thing got started in the first place? Instead of a security patch they should release a "zero security" patch. If they're consistent, using the powers of reverse psychology it will be the most secure system ever developed.
Uh, did you actually read the linked article? I'm not sure which off-the-shelf chips you are referring to, but the processor is a custom design which was simulated in hardware on an FPGA. Probably a lot of the hardware besides the processor was also custom. I did a similar project when I was in school, and we used almost entirely custom-designed chips (due to necessity of interfacing with a custom bus, etc.) with a little bit of 7400-series logic which was availabe even 40 years ago, albeit in a slightly different form factor.
Put simply the average detective's case load is way too high to worry about a $3k fraud. When you have more work to do than you can possibly do, what do you tackle first? The case that gives you the biggest bang for your buck. I.e. cases involving fraud of *large* amounts of money, murder, drugs, etc.
Tivo has pretty good Linux-based PVR software. It seems the/. crowd has somehow forgotten that Tivo is linux-based, or else we wouldn't be seeing stories like this. Basically the German company developed a product like DirecTivo. How original and innovative.
Why don't you take a look at T-Mobile's Hotspots in many Starbucks. They make you sign up for an account with a credit card, although I imagine the phone company could just bill you like they do with your regular phone bill. I use this all the time as it can sometimes be difficult to find decent high-speed internet access when I am travelling.
The gain from a chip and antennae embedded on a chip isn't going to be that great. Intel's mainly doing it for internal purposes. If you want any sort of range, add-ons and accessories are the only way to go, and I foresee absolutely no change in that.
Well, not exactly. What they are working on is the capability to seamlessly integrate wifi (and other radio) functions into any chip without any added cost.
Integrating radios into chips is more than just an engineering accomplishment. It has profound consequences for the devices and services that make use of those chips. The most obvious advantage is price. When the addition of wireless communications to a device adds negligible cost to the device, there's no reason not to do so. Eventually, predicts Kahn, "communications is going to become essentially free."
Another advantage of building RF capabilities into CPUs is that wireless devices will have newfound smarts, because they will be able to take advantage of the computational power of the microprocessor. They will be able to sense and adapt to whatever wireless networks are within range. Such flexibility initially adds costs. If the goal is to build a radio that handles one frequency band and protocol, the best solution may be a hard-wired, special-purpose chip. Move to two radios, then three, and the advantage begins to dissipate. At some point, the flexible solution always wins. And not just because there isn't space in a handset for four radio chipsets. Volume is everything in chip production, because fabs and equipment represent the bulk of the costs. A chip that goes into 100 million devices may be cheaper than one built for only 10 million, even though it's more complex inside.
1. protaganist witnesses/writes/experiences something they shouldn't have. 2. Bad Guys find out and try to kill protaganist. 3. Government agency gets involved on behalf of Bad Guys. 4. Protaganist comes through by threatening to reveal Bad Guy secrets to world.
It wouldn't make any difference. Since he wrote a completely different story, unless Crichton used *extremely* similar elements in his book (e.g. characters, places, etc. all have the same names, and your text was clearly used as a source material, with only small revisions) the reuse of the same idea is not a copyright violation. That's what patents are for, but patents don't cover artistic works, so you're basically SOL.
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Ugh. Timeline is a horrible book. There was no character development, the entire plot was dead obvious from the very beginning. I kept hanging on hoping for a twist...it never came. Not to mention the quality of the writing in general just wasn't up to par, although that will make no difference in a movie adaptation. I've really enjoyed some of Crichton's other novels, particularly Andromeda Strain, but Timeline seemed like he wasn't really interested in writing so much as trying to meet some contractual obligation.
That doesn't mean the movie can't be good, though. Since typically 90% of a book gets chopped out and rewritten anyway, it could actually redeem the book, although I won't hold my breath given the last couple of JP movies.
Apparently you're not familiar with how much DVDs (especially the Ghibli DVDs) cost in Japan.
A typicaly Miyazaki DVD goes for over 4000 yen (~$30 given current exchange rates) at most retail stores, slightly under that if you shop around for a "discount" place online or go somewhere like Don Quixote.
That's still a 5000-6000 yen difference between what they paid and what they're asking for. I suspect that the amount might actually be some "padding" to take into account the typically very small awards most lawsuit winners end up receiving. I remember seeing a news story about a town where entire families have been mutilated and diseased due to the presence of a chemical plant dumping straight into the ocean (they had a pipe running straight from the factory to the shore) where each victim ended up with ~$10k for a lifetime of heinous suffering and deformity.
I happened to be in Japan when this DVD was released and picked it up, took it home and watched it, and never noticed anything but my TV auto-adjusts the color balance. I also saw it in the theater when it came out in Japan, but it was so long before the DVD release that I can't really remember if there was a tint or not.
Sounds of 165 dB would cause a person's hair to catch fire from the frictional heating caused by air undergoing such intense compression and expansion.
You know, that sounds way more fun that cooling some ice cream. Or maybe I've been playing too many videogames.
Everyone they distribute the price information to beforehand is under a Non-Disclosure Agreement. By leaking the price information beforehand, that party (e.g. the newspaper) is liable for damages. Considering it's Walmart, and that they made over a billion dollars in sales over that weekend, the damages are likely to be quite large. It's my guess that Walmart is merely trying to get FatWallet to disclose what they know about who leaked the information, so that they can turn around and sue the appropriate party for damages. God knows FatWallet doesn't have any money.
A contract forced on one party by another, with no negotiation whatsoever, is never a real legally-binding contract, no matter how many times the powerless party is forced to click "I Agree".
It's not forced on anyone. There are two buttons: "agree" and "disagree" (or something like that). If you disagree with the license, you don't have to play the game. The whole point of a contract is to manage the exchange of X for Y. With EQ, you are giving up your rights to reverse engineer, sell your character, and God knows what else, in exchange for being able to play in a really big chatroom where you also get to kill giant spiders.
The idea that one researcher was able to bring the network down doesn't pass the sniff test. If this researcher was able to swamp the entire campus network from a single workstation it would suggest to me bad design. The fact that the network did not recover on its own and could not be recovered quickly by direction intervention pretty much proves to me the design was faulty.
I had to reread this a couple of times. It looks to me like you're saying that it couldn't be a single application because that would indicate a poorly designed network, then go on to say the network was poorly designed.
Yeah, but you post on/. so you must be a liberal tech hippy. I'll bet you like Star Wars, gadgets, and computers! Oh, and dressing up in women's lingerie.
That's funny, I know plenty of people who use AOL because they have local dialups all over the world, and sell local services in many countries besides the US. I have friends in Japan, for example, who subscribe to AOL Japan.
The only other company I know of that has local dialups all over the world is AT&T Global Network which is the one I use, because I don't want to risk installing AOL on my machine even though they have much better coverage.
p.s. there are foreign-language versions of TW's popular magazines like Time, etc. So, the argument that the print magazines are US-only is not true.
I still get the print version of Aviation Week every, uh...week. While some of the stories in aviationnow.com and the magazine overlap, they each have unique material that makes both versions relevant and useful.
Although now that I have 802.11b and can carry my notebook/PDA into the toilet and still maintain a good internet connection, their days might be numbered.;-)
What do you suppose was the name of the guy who founded Nissan Motors?
I think you should be able to use your own name any way you like. If I also happen to enjoy selling cars or whatever, it's just tough shit if there happens to be a company with that name, too. There are already non-compete laws to deal with that, anyway.
Oh, so all those folks in Hampton, VA, Sunnyvale, CA, etc. are just students and professors? puhleeze
Have you ever actually been to NASA Langley or any of the other design centers? There's a LOT of people working there, full time, on real projects. Sure *some* of them are contractors, or grad students on loan, but most are NASA employees.
People don't really understand how most technology works in the first place. So, if the company doesn't print "radioactive source inside" on the side of the phone, nobody will know the difference anyway.
You could tell folks that the thing runs on a pixie dust generator (converting freely available pixie dust from the air into electricy) and I'll bet if you said it with a straight face at least 50% would believe you.
That's not quite true. There are a few different ways to skin a legal cat. Art Buchwald managed to successfully sue Paramount when they refused to hand over a portion of the successful film "Coming to America".
The breach of contract challenge to the SPD of Paramount Studios in the Buchwald case revolved around a theory of unconscionability. Art Buchwald and his partner, Alan Bernheim, sued Paramount Studios for breach of a written agreement to pay for the use of Buchwald's treatment It's A Crude, Crude World as the basis for the Eddie Murphy film Coming To America. Buchwald's contract with Paramount called for him to be paid a portion of net profits, using Paramount's SPD. The case was tried to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Harvey Schneider in three phases. In the first phase, the court found that Paramount had used the Buchwald treatment to make Coming To America; in the second phase, the court found that portions of the Paramount SPD were unconscionable under California law; and in the third phase, the court awarded damages in favor of Buchwald and Bernheim of $900,000, based upon its reformulation of the contract after finding portions to be unconscionable.
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chicken.coop, but that would involve starting up some kind of cooperative farm, which goes directly against my no-chicken-droppings-in-the-house policy.
Prosecution: You're being charged with murder.
Jon: Murder? With my computer?
Prosecution: Uh, did we say murder? We meant assault.
Jon: All I did was write a program!
Prosecution: Internet Fraud! Exactly what we meant to say.
Jon: How is viewing a DVD on linux fraud?
Prosecution: What's linux?
Jon: A free operating system.
Prosecution: No such thing! We're charging you with Theft and "Intent to View DVDs on Stolen System"!
Isn't that this whole thing got started in the first place? Instead of a security patch they should release a "zero security" patch. If they're consistent, using the powers of reverse psychology it will be the most secure system ever developed.
Uh, did you actually read the linked article? I'm not sure which off-the-shelf chips you are referring to, but the processor is a custom design which was simulated in hardware on an FPGA. Probably a lot of the hardware besides the processor was also custom. I did a similar project when I was in school, and we used almost entirely custom-designed chips (due to necessity of interfacing with a custom bus, etc.) with a little bit of 7400-series logic which was availabe even 40 years ago, albeit in a slightly different form factor.
Put simply the average detective's case load is way too high to worry about a $3k fraud. When you have more work to do than you can possibly do, what do you tackle first? The case that gives you the biggest bang for your buck. I.e. cases involving fraud of *large* amounts of money, murder, drugs, etc.
Tivo has pretty good Linux-based PVR software. It seems the /. crowd has somehow forgotten that Tivo is linux-based, or else we wouldn't be seeing stories like this. Basically the German company developed a product like DirecTivo. How original and innovative.
Why don't you take a look at T-Mobile's Hotspots in many Starbucks. They make you sign up for an account with a credit card, although I imagine the phone company could just bill you like they do with your regular phone bill. I use this all the time as it can sometimes be difficult to find decent high-speed internet access when I am travelling.
Well, not exactly. What they are working on is the capability to seamlessly integrate wifi (and other radio) functions into any chip without any added cost.
From this article:
1. protaganist witnesses/writes/experiences something they shouldn't have.
2. Bad Guys find out and try to kill protaganist.
3. Government agency gets involved on behalf of Bad Guys.
4. Protaganist comes through by threatening to reveal Bad Guy secrets to world.
It wouldn't make any difference. Since he wrote a completely different story, unless Crichton used *extremely* similar elements in his book (e.g. characters, places, etc. all have the same names, and your text was clearly used as a source material, with only small revisions) the reuse of the same idea is not a copyright violation. That's what patents are for, but patents don't cover artistic works, so you're basically SOL.
Ugh. Timeline is a horrible book. There was no character development, the entire plot was dead obvious from the very beginning. I kept hanging on hoping for a twist...it never came. Not to mention the quality of the writing in general just wasn't up to par, although that will make no difference in a movie adaptation. I've really enjoyed some of Crichton's other novels, particularly Andromeda Strain, but Timeline seemed like he wasn't really interested in writing so much as trying to meet some contractual obligation.
That doesn't mean the movie can't be good, though. Since typically 90% of a book gets chopped out and rewritten anyway, it could actually redeem the book, although I won't hold my breath given the last couple of JP movies.
A typicaly Miyazaki DVD goes for over 4000 yen (~$30 given current exchange rates) at most retail stores, slightly under that if you shop around for a "discount" place online or go somewhere like Don Quixote.
That's still a 5000-6000 yen difference between what they paid and what they're asking for. I suspect that the amount might actually be some "padding" to take into account the typically very small awards most lawsuit winners end up receiving. I remember seeing a news story about a town where entire families have been mutilated and diseased due to the presence of a chemical plant dumping straight into the ocean (they had a pipe running straight from the factory to the shore) where each victim ended up with ~$10k for a lifetime of heinous suffering and deformity.
I happened to be in Japan when this DVD was released and picked it up, took it home and watched it, and never noticed anything but my TV auto-adjusts the color balance. I also saw it in the theater when it came out in Japan, but it was so long before the DVD release that I can't really remember if there was a tint or not.
You know, that sounds way more fun that cooling some ice cream. Or maybe I've been playing too many videogames.
Everyone they distribute the price information to beforehand is under a Non-Disclosure Agreement. By leaking the price information beforehand, that party (e.g. the newspaper) is liable for damages. Considering it's Walmart, and that they made over a billion dollars in sales over that weekend, the damages are likely to be quite large. It's my guess that Walmart is merely trying to get FatWallet to disclose what they know about who leaked the information, so that they can turn around and sue the appropriate party for damages. God knows FatWallet doesn't have any money.
It's not forced on anyone. There are two buttons: "agree" and "disagree" (or something like that). If you disagree with the license, you don't have to play the game. The whole point of a contract is to manage the exchange of X for Y. With EQ, you are giving up your rights to reverse engineer, sell your character, and God knows what else, in exchange for being able to play in a really big chatroom where you also get to kill giant spiders.
I had to reread this a couple of times. It looks to me like you're saying that it couldn't be a single application because that would indicate a poorly designed network, then go on to say the network was poorly designed.
Yeah, but you post on /. so you must be a liberal tech hippy. I'll bet you like Star Wars, gadgets, and computers! Oh, and dressing up in women's lingerie.
You free thinkers are all alike.
That's funny, I know plenty of people who use AOL because they have local dialups all over the world, and sell local services in many countries besides the US. I have friends in Japan, for example, who subscribe to AOL Japan.
The only other company I know of that has local dialups all over the world is AT&T Global Network which is the one I use, because I don't want to risk installing AOL on my machine even though they have much better coverage.
p.s. there are foreign-language versions of TW's popular magazines like Time, etc. So, the argument that the print magazines are US-only is not true.
I still get the print version of Aviation Week every, uh...week. While some of the stories in aviationnow.com and the magazine overlap, they each have unique material that makes both versions relevant and useful.
;-)
Although now that I have 802.11b and can carry my notebook/PDA into the toilet and still maintain a good internet connection, their days might be numbered.
What do you suppose was the name of the guy who founded Nissan Motors?
I think you should be able to use your own name any way you like. If I also happen to enjoy selling cars or whatever, it's just tough shit if there happens to be a company with that name, too. There are already non-compete laws to deal with that, anyway.
hundreds?
As a prostitue I'm offended!
Oh, so all those folks in Hampton, VA, Sunnyvale, CA, etc. are just students and professors? puhleeze
Have you ever actually been to NASA Langley or any of the other design centers? There's a LOT of people working there, full time, on real projects. Sure *some* of them are contractors, or grad students on loan, but most are NASA employees.
People don't really understand how most technology works in the first place. So, if the company doesn't print "radioactive source inside" on the side of the phone, nobody will know the difference anyway.
You could tell folks that the thing runs on a pixie dust generator (converting freely available pixie dust from the air into electricy) and I'll bet if you said it with a straight face at least 50% would believe you.
From this article about the practice (written from a legal perspective) called "Less than Zero".
Duh! Because the Hubble was faked, too!
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