Furthemore, you don't have a right to privacy in public
You do have a right not to be harrassed, and in Canadian law, a certain right to personal privacy of one's own body as well. Apparently American law is a bit different in this sense. I've never yet called somebody an idiot on slashdot, but now I think I will. You sir, are an idiot. There is a reason people wear clothes in public, there is a reason we cover our genitalia. If we didn't expect personal privacy in public places, why would we practice (and be expected to practice) wearing clothes in public places?
One of the problems of this case is that law is closed to societal interpretation. If every small detail has to be specified in a law, some idiot is almost almost going to find a loophole. It's implied in society that we have a right not to have our genetalia or undergarments photographed. Common sense unfortunately is often overruled by one law blanketing the lack of specifics in another.
If somebody has a right to photograph up my wife's skirt, I should have a right to kick him in the testicles - phorm
A witness later informed police that she had observed Sorrells videotaping underneath little girls' dresses. Police viewed a copy of the videotape from Sorrells' camcorder and discovered images of children and adults...
Pretty sure underage laws *SHOULD* apply to these cases
This is indeed an excellent point. All somebody would have to do is figure out the location of said camera, wait until a minor in skirt (pantiless) walks over the camera, and blammo... you've got a case against them for underage. I suppose you could set this up too, if you know of a few people 17 3/4 not-quite-eighteen years of age willing to walk over the camera without underwear for case purposes.
The trick I suppose would be identifying if any pictures are underage, but the pink-heart underoos might be a good enough identifier - they'd likely be somebody underage.
Do underage underwear pics count enough to blast the photographer, or does it have to be pantiless?
I have a motorola - Startac phone. The reception is incredibly crappy, the original antenna has a tendency to stick out and snap off, and I've actually managed to crash the phone itself in the web-browser.
I wouldn't brand motorola as good. The phones are rugged - mine's taken a lot of abuse - but they tend to be a bit weaker reception-wise, and the battery life on the older ones was horrible (1.5 days, less than 1 day on analogue).
I've heard mixed reviews on the timeports, they may be better, but look into it first.
Actually, I do believe they may have been behind the original item I saw. The name "Actuality Systems" sounds familiar, and the bubble looks about the same.
$41,000USD is a bit steep for me, but damn this is cool. If it did better than just wireframe (I think it could?) then it would be sweet as a 3d spectrum analyser or as a 3d gaming extension.
In the case where there are multiple viewers. I think the destination of this technology would not only be for gamers or single users, but for presentation and maybe eventually movie-type purposes.
On a side note, the Playdium arcades (Vancouver, Edmonton) had some games like this. The graphics were crappy wolfenstein style, and the view jerked around so much trying to detect head-motion that it made me feel ill. Somebody's working on the concept, but the application isn't ready yet.
This may be a dumb question, but how does the USB device handle the drivers for a particular printer in a direct-connection scenario? Or are drivers not required for USB in general printing functions. It'd be a pain to have to acquire print drivers for my digital camera.
All I want is:
A bubble which I can watch 3d stuff in. Maybe have it mounted on a special table. This would be much truer to 3d, and it would be of dubious value to first-person shooters, 3rd person shooters would be pretty sweet, and strategy games would be absolutely kickass.
As previously mentioned, I *know* that I saw one of these in an arcade years ago. I'm sure somebody should have come up with something better, can anyone find it?
So how much does this DV500 card cost, and - if reasonable - where can one get it. Details, man, details! If it costs $300 then I think I'll just stick with my does-it-all cards or a good 3d card with a cheaper decoded that burns CPU.
Patenting the idea of online auctions probably won't fly. Patenting a precise method in which clients make bids, pay for items, post auctions may be somewhat different, despite how obvious the procedure would have been to most people with any amount of brains.
Hopefully this will still get thrown out though. Making a normal business practice into an E-idea doesn't overrule the fact that it's simply applying a new medium to an existing idea.
Wouldn't that be flauting the judgement, as the court case was over the flaunting of the fixing of retail prices? I wonder if this means we can see a decrease in CD prices now?
I would hope this would be $75.7mil worth of printed CD costs. In this case they could still rub a lot of noses in the dirt by printing $75mil worth of Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys.
I wonder if there's also going to be a clause on whether the product has to be of recent or popular music? Perhaps they will just use this as an opportunity to dump $75mil worth of inventory that didn't sell. A cash refund in some form would be nicer, though I'm not sure how it would be dispersed ($5 return with all new CD's for the next X period?)
Oh yes, either way, none of us will likely be seeing any significant money in any significant form - phorm
Cheque in Canada. One thing bugging me, what happens to those not in the states who have equally been screwed by RIAA price-fixing?
The cash settlement will be paid to the 43 states. The companies also agreed to distribute $75.7 million worth of CDs to public entities and nonprofit organizations in all 50 states.
From this it sounds like they're giving out CD's instead of cash. Shitty deal, 'cause they'll probably just give out worthless CD's anyhow. We can have RIAA coasters to go along with the AOL ones.
Regardless, sounds like a good arguement against the "P2P is the reason nobody buys CD's"
Depends on how anal the boss, and how much contradicting his viewpoints delays my bonus or pay raise. Luckily I've had few anal-retentive bosses, but often in big companies it's do-as-they-do:-)
NMA: The previous post was most as a humourous note anyhow.
Despite for some reason being marked 0, I do believe this user echos what many of us think. Unless most/.'ers have harder heads than roofs (maybe only the moderators). Reminds me of a line from Harry Potter:
We could be killed, or worse, expelled!
She has *got* to get her priorities straight
Hockey: It's a Canadian game. Not, it's a game Canada made, but a game Canadians love and tend to center their lives around
Basketball: Did we really invent this? I remember something about lacrosse being originally a Native sport from Canada, never realized we invented basketball too.
Wonder if anyone would be successful on a topic of factual "who invented what" for popular recreation and technology. Last time I heard Americans were trying to steal credit from us for the Telephone/telegraph (Mr. Bell is the man for this, sorry guys)
Among some of the reforms sought, is higher fees for the initial processing fee, higher fees for more than 20 claims, higher fees for the more work
Charging more money and telling us it's good, because it helps reduce bad patents... uhhhhnnn, ya.
They are trying to crack down on abundant claims and too-technical jargon which they claim overworks the examiners, reduces the quality of the patent, and other things
Better idea, rather than charge the general public more, why not have a contractual counter/penalty charge implicit for those who try to copyright things that are already existant, very obvious, or in use, by crouching them in so much technical crapspeak that they pass simply because nobody can understand them.
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This is OT, but it's annoying the heck out of me:
Anybody know why as soon as my IE window opens on this article I can't select anything with the mouse? I keep getting a little hand. Works fine on any window until I point to this URL
Since there's no hyperlink, it's bloody annoying to have to type in the top (IE6)
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Sounds good to me. Winter is coming, I'll just slap an Itanium in and turn off my space heater this winter.
Seriously though, if the chips take this much power, is this peak or average? If the average load is anywhere near this, anybody using this is going to see a rather nice jump in their power bills.
As long as it's not the afformentioned $400 pringles can then yes. It's nice to see that the government is taking an active role in wireless security - shows they recognise the issues - and that they do sometimes realize that a $2000 extension antenna from online is sometimes not as good as a do-it-yourself pringles can setup. Maybe some of them read slashdot. Actually, a lot of them probably read slashdot... they're probably reading this comment right now.
Of course, I'm Canadian. I think the government here still thinks a toilet costs $9000 - phorm
Are you sure this isn't a hoax? Has anybody verified it elsewhere other than the given URL's?
I could see a whole whack of legal issues of this. It looks like a tough ploy to push students towards buying XP, as it's quite likely a lot of the PC's (laptops etc) won't work in 98.
I'm not sure that "freedom of os" falls in "freedom of choice", but very likely it will be brought up. Out of all the windows, I've found 2k to be the nicest for crashing, and with a lot less security issues than the other MS operating systems.
In other solutions, putting a well configured *nix router or VPN box between the campus and the 2k machines would likely mask what O/S is being used, what info would they be gathering over the network that tells them who is on 2k anyways?
Sounds awesome. I'd be quite interested in this project myself, please post it to slashdot when working:-)
I suppose the user will need to connect the mini-itx to the appropriate terminals, then simply enter his car make/model/year and it the rest will be done by freediag? I could help with an apache-webpage based interface, if you need assistance?
From what I can see of this, it's basically something like a cross-platform PCanywhere or something similar? For linux I'm probably just as happy to use SSH, I don't really need a GUI for remote operations. Can anybody suggest why I would use VNC instead of just PCAnywhere/SSH, or is it just a cool tool to use?
*Note: We are using PCAnywhere at work, if this does the job without the cost, I might just argue a switch.
We had a guy that left his remote-desktop control on. It took him 15 minutes to figure out why his mouse kept jumping away from where he was trying to click, lots of fun - phorm
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Furthemore, you don't have a right to privacy in public
You do have a right not to be harrassed, and in Canadian law, a certain right to personal privacy of one's own body as well. Apparently American law is a bit different in this sense. I've never yet called somebody an idiot on slashdot, but now I think I will. You sir, are an idiot. There is a reason people wear clothes in public, there is a reason we cover our genitalia. If we didn't expect personal privacy in public places, why would we practice (and be expected to practice) wearing clothes in public places?
One of the problems of this case is that law is closed to societal interpretation. If every small detail has to be specified in a law, some idiot is almost almost going to find a loophole. It's implied in society that we have a right not to have our genetalia or undergarments photographed. Common sense unfortunately is often overruled by one law blanketing the lack of specifics in another.
If somebody has a right to photograph up my wife's skirt, I should have a right to kick him in the testicles - phorm
A witness later informed police that she had observed Sorrells videotaping underneath little girls' dresses. Police viewed a copy of the videotape from Sorrells' camcorder and discovered images of children and adults...
Pretty sure underage laws *SHOULD* apply to these cases
This is indeed an excellent point. All somebody would have to do is figure out the location of said camera, wait until a minor in skirt (pantiless) walks over the camera, and blammo... you've got a case against them for underage. I suppose you could set this up too, if you know of a few people 17 3/4 not-quite-eighteen years of age willing to walk over the camera without underwear for case purposes.
The trick I suppose would be identifying if any pictures are underage, but the pink-heart underoos might be a good enough identifier - they'd likely be somebody underage.
Do underage underwear pics count enough to blast the photographer, or does it have to be pantiless?
So it's OK to violate somebody's rights and violate their privacy so long as the violation is being done on an unidentified basis?
I have a motorola - Startac phone. The reception is incredibly crappy, the original antenna has a tendency to stick out and snap off, and I've actually managed to crash the phone itself in the web-browser.
I wouldn't brand motorola as good. The phones are rugged - mine's taken a lot of abuse - but they tend to be a bit weaker reception-wise, and the battery life on the older ones was horrible (1.5 days, less than 1 day on analogue).
I've heard mixed reviews on the timeports, they may be better, but look into it first.
Actually, I do believe they may have been behind the original item I saw. The name "Actuality Systems" sounds familiar, and the bubble looks about the same.
$41,000USD is a bit steep for me, but damn this is cool. If it did better than just wireframe (I think it could?) then it would be sweet as a 3d spectrum analyser or as a 3d gaming extension.
In the case where there are multiple viewers. I think the destination of this technology would not only be for gamers or single users, but for presentation and maybe eventually movie-type purposes.
On a side note, the Playdium arcades (Vancouver, Edmonton) had some games like this. The graphics were crappy wolfenstein style, and the view jerked around so much trying to detect head-motion that it made me feel ill. Somebody's working on the concept, but the application isn't ready yet.
This may be a dumb question, but how does the USB device handle the drivers for a particular printer in a direct-connection scenario? Or are drivers not required for USB in general printing functions. It'd be a pain to have to acquire print drivers for my digital camera.
All I want is:
A bubble which I can watch 3d stuff in. Maybe have it mounted on a special table. This would be much truer to 3d, and it would be of dubious value to first-person shooters, 3rd person shooters would be pretty sweet, and strategy games would be absolutely kickass.
As previously mentioned, I *know* that I saw one of these in an arcade years ago. I'm sure somebody should have come up with something better, can anyone find it?
So how much does this DV500 card cost, and - if reasonable - where can one get it. Details, man, details! If it costs $300 then I think I'll just stick with my does-it-all cards or a good 3d card with a cheaper decoded that burns CPU.
Patenting the idea of online auctions probably won't fly. Patenting a precise method in which clients make bids, pay for items, post auctions may be somewhat different, despite how obvious the procedure would have been to most people with any amount of brains.
Hopefully this will still get thrown out though. Making a normal business practice into an E-idea doesn't overrule the fact that it's simply applying a new medium to an existing idea.
Wouldn't that be flauting the judgement, as the court case was over the flaunting of the fixing of retail prices? I wonder if this means we can see a decrease in CD prices now?
I would hope this would be $75.7mil worth of printed CD costs. In this case they could still rub a lot of noses in the dirt by printing $75mil worth of Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys.
I wonder if there's also going to be a clause on whether the product has to be of recent or popular music? Perhaps they will just use this as an opportunity to dump $75mil worth of inventory that didn't sell. A cash refund in some form would be nicer, though I'm not sure how it would be dispersed ($5 return with all new CD's for the next X period?)
Oh yes, either way, none of us will likely be seeing any significant money in any significant form - phorm
Cheque in Canada. One thing bugging me, what happens to those not in the states who have equally been screwed by RIAA price-fixing?
The cash settlement will be paid to the 43 states. The companies also agreed to distribute $75.7 million worth of CDs to public entities and nonprofit organizations in all 50 states.
From this it sounds like they're giving out CD's instead of cash. Shitty deal, 'cause they'll probably just give out worthless CD's anyhow. We can have RIAA coasters to go along with the AOL ones.
Regardless, sounds like a good arguement against the "P2P is the reason nobody buys CD's"
The RIAA made me do it - phorm
Depends on how anal the boss, and how much contradicting his viewpoints delays my bonus or pay raise. Luckily I've had few anal-retentive bosses, but often in big companies it's do-as-they-do :-)
NMA: The previous post was most as a humourous note anyhow.
Also on the end of the mail host, and the bandwidth hosts, who have to process this crap through their servers.
On an individual user basis, no big deal, small money. On a millions of users getting tons of spam
Full agreement here. Well said.
Despite for some reason being marked 0, I do believe this user echos what many of us think. Unless most /.'ers have harder heads than roofs (maybe only the moderators). Reminds me of a line from Harry Potter:
We could be killed, or worse, expelled!
She has *got* to get her priorities straight
Hmmmm.... they're all ASP pages, I'm sure that means they would never use an MS solution if there were something more secure and free...
Hey, wait a second... what kind of servers do ASP pages usually run from...?
Hockey: It's a Canadian game. Not, it's a game Canada made, but a game Canadians love and tend to center their lives around
Basketball: Did we really invent this? I remember something about lacrosse being originally a Native sport from Canada, never realized we invented basketball too.
Wonder if anyone would be successful on a topic of factual "who invented what" for popular recreation and technology. Last time I heard Americans were trying to steal credit from us for the Telephone/telegraph (Mr. Bell is the man for this, sorry guys)
Among some of the reforms sought, is higher fees for the initial processing fee, higher fees for more than 20 claims, higher fees for the more work
Charging more money and telling us it's good, because it helps reduce bad patents... uhhhhnnn, ya.
They are trying to crack down on abundant claims and too-technical jargon which they claim overworks the examiners, reduces the quality of the patent, and other things
Better idea, rather than charge the general public more, why not have a contractual counter/penalty charge implicit for those who try to copyright things that are already existant, very obvious, or in use, by crouching them in so much technical crapspeak that they pass simply because nobody can understand them.
This is OT, but it's annoying the heck out of me:
l d=0&commentsort=0&tid=118&mode=thread&pid=4355834# 4357297
Anybody know why as soon as my IE window opens on this article I can't select anything with the mouse? I keep getting a little hand. Works fine on any window until I point to this URL
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=41021&thresho
Since there's no hyperlink, it's bloody annoying to have to type in the top (IE6)
Sounds good to me. Winter is coming, I'll just slap an Itanium in and turn off my space heater this winter.
Seriously though, if the chips take this much power, is this peak or average? If the average load is anywhere near this, anybody using this is going to see a rather nice jump in their power bills.
Every time I turn on my PC the lights dim - phorm
As long as it's not the afformentioned $400 pringles can then yes. It's nice to see that the government is taking an active role in wireless security - shows they recognise the issues - and that they do sometimes realize that a $2000 extension antenna from online is sometimes not as good as a do-it-yourself pringles can setup. Maybe some of them read slashdot. Actually, a lot of them probably read slashdot... they're probably reading this comment right now.
Of course, I'm Canadian. I think the government here still thinks a toilet costs $9000 - phorm
Are you sure this isn't a hoax? Has anybody verified it elsewhere other than the given URL's?
I could see a whole whack of legal issues of this. It looks like a tough ploy to push students towards buying XP, as it's quite likely a lot of the PC's (laptops etc) won't work in 98.
I'm not sure that "freedom of os" falls in "freedom of choice", but very likely it will be brought up. Out of all the windows, I've found 2k to be the nicest for crashing, and with a lot less security issues than the other MS operating systems.
In other solutions, putting a well configured *nix router or VPN box between the campus and the 2k machines would likely mask what O/S is being used, what info would they be gathering over the network that tells them who is on 2k anyways?
Sounds awesome. I'd be quite interested in this project myself, please post it to slashdot when working :-)
I suppose the user will need to connect the mini-itx to the appropriate terminals, then simply enter his car make/model/year and it the rest will be done by freediag? I could help with an apache-webpage based interface, if you need assistance?
phormix at phormix dot com
From what I can see of this, it's basically something like a cross-platform PCanywhere or something similar? For linux I'm probably just as happy to use SSH, I don't really need a GUI for remote operations. Can anybody suggest why I would use VNC instead of just PCAnywhere/SSH, or is it just a cool tool to use?
*Note: We are using PCAnywhere at work, if this does the job without the cost, I might just argue a switch.
We had a guy that left his remote-desktop control on. It took him 15 minutes to figure out why his mouse kept jumping away from where he was trying to click, lots of fun - phorm