What about those of us that sell things that do not involve physically delivering something to the buyer? This includes mainly unlock codes for shareware and things of that nature.
Most of the time, in those cases, you don't have any idea what state or even what country someone is coming from, especially with.com and other formerly US-only TLDs showing up outside the US. Getting a user's address only to charge them a sales tax if they're in the US (there'd be no other reason for it) is only going to get people to start lying and/or not going through with the purchase in the first place.
Under the heading "Bad Words," Gershenfeld offers a snide but useful summary of many high-tech pop-sci buzzwords, showing how they get misused by people who don't understand their real content or context.
Does this list include "hacker"? IMNQHO, that should be at the top of the list.
The only thing seamless about M$ is where things shouldn't be that way. DRM and the OS are only one... how about their browser and the OS. When the browser crashes, the OS goes down with it. Why? Because they are way too integrated.
The cable techs that came out and installed my RR modem probably couldn't have gotten that far. The last one that came out (to replace a fried modem) needed MY help to uninstall AIM, etc. from his work machine. His son put it on there or something...
To this day, I keep humoring the idiots on the national help desk that think I have a Windows box connected to the thing, until I can get to local support where the guys actually have a clue.
It may be a good thing for those that want to settle for a smaller pipe to save a few bucks. Me, I want to keep the same service I have now (such as it is) for the price I'm currently paying.
The direction to go for this, though, is to offer scaled down service for a smaller price. Not to lower service or raise prices (god forbid they do both) for existing customers, and censor content as they see fit.
Who do they think they are? Microsoft? Communists? Nazis? All of the above?
They're just wearing their mental blinders, that's all. The same ones that keep eBay from seeing legit CD-Rs and let Larry Lockwood think he invented e-commerce.
IANAL, but wouldn't the numbered list of items in the first referenced patent have to all apply in order to validate it in the case of an individual site? I mean, if that weren't the case then, just going by what the first part of the Claims section of the patent says, any web site with a search function would be vulnerable as well.
One point in that section reads:
5. The search system according to claim 1, wherein said graphical and textual information are stored on a CD-ROM disc.
Wouldn't this invalidate any claims of infringement if the owner of a site did not take their live content from CD-ROMs or back up their data onto CD-ROMs?
Agreed. According to the wording of the patent, it's specifying dialup terminals connecting directly to a private data processing center, not through any kind of common communications network (outside of telephones). There have been systems like that before (mid-80s probably), but for the most part they don't exist anymore since the Internet has taken off.
It seems like PanIP is just trying to rehash interpretations of their vague patents to apply them to technologies that they neither envisioned or invented (if indeed they thought of this in the late 80s) in order to line their pockets a little more.
...if SearchKing is pulling this "RIAA" or "MPAA" act for a hidden reason. Think about it... even if their page rank were purposefully dropped, it'll probably be right back up there tomorrow with all of this publicity and links from pages talking about the lawsuit.
Someone already has. It's called APC, for Alternative PHP Cache. It's an open source PHP bytecode cache. I don't know if it works with PHP running as a CGI program or not, but the website doesn't say that it doesn't, so...
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe it was a failed experiment?
"Doh! We Slashdotted the database..."
Way too early for me, apparently... swap the "move" and "updating of this".
Is it just me, or is the RSS headline list currently way behind? Did the updating of this break in the move?
"I am the collective."
UNO-mon?
Nah... that's another money thing altogether, for licensing if nothing else.
Shake ->
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What about those of us that sell things that do not involve physically delivering something to the buyer? This includes mainly unlock codes for shareware and things of that nature.
.com and other formerly US-only TLDs showing up outside the US. Getting a user's address only to charge them a sales tax if they're in the US (there'd be no other reason for it) is only going to get people to start lying and/or not going through with the purchase in the first place.
Most of the time, in those cases, you don't have any idea what state or even what country someone is coming from, especially with
The only thing seamless about M$ is where things shouldn't be that way. DRM and the OS are only one... how about their browser and the OS. When the browser crashes, the OS goes down with it. Why? Because they are way too integrated.
The cable techs that came out and installed my RR modem probably couldn't have gotten that far. The last one that came out (to replace a fried modem) needed MY help to uninstall AIM, etc. from his work machine. His son put it on there or something...
To this day, I keep humoring the idiots on the national help desk that think I have a Windows box connected to the thing, until I can get to local support where the guys actually have a clue.
That would only happen if one of those executives pt links to pr0n sites on the page.
<sarcasm>Of course, that would never happen. All executives are clean and honest.</sarcasm>
It may be a good thing for those that want to settle for a smaller pipe to save a few bucks. Me, I want to keep the same service I have now (such as it is) for the price I'm currently paying.
The direction to go for this, though, is to offer scaled down service for a smaller price. Not to lower service or raise prices (god forbid they do both) for existing customers, and censor content as they see fit.
Who do they think they are? Microsoft? Communists? Nazis? All of the above?
Where each canister would contain what... an XML document?
They're just wearing their mental blinders, that's all.
The same ones that keep eBay from seeing legit CD-Rs and let Larry Lockwood think he invented e-commerce.
One point in that section reads: Wouldn't this invalidate any claims of infringement if the owner of a site did not take their live content from CD-ROMs or back up their data onto CD-ROMs?
...that .fr is suddenly the country code for Germany.
The original index of freedom of the press is on a French server. An article ABOUT it was published in Germany.
Keep going down... you'll find land. :-)
It may not be DRY, though, but it's land
That only means I won't get sued for my comment :-)
I never said I was PC (politically constrained)...
1) Read the article
2) Are you BLIND???
Agreed. According to the wording of the patent, it's specifying dialup terminals connecting directly to a private data processing center, not through any kind of common communications network (outside of telephones). There have been systems like that before (mid-80s probably), but for the most part they don't exist anymore since the Internet has taken off.
It seems like PanIP is just trying to rehash interpretations of their vague patents to apply them to technologies that they neither envisioned or invented (if indeed they thought of this in the late 80s) in order to line their pockets a little more.
How do you know he hasn't? Thanks to good ol' PATRIOT...
...if SearchKing is pulling this "RIAA" or "MPAA" act for a hidden reason. Think about it... even if their page rank were purposefully dropped, it'll probably be right back up there tomorrow with all of this publicity and links from pages talking about the lawsuit.
The RIAA (along with the MPAA) has at least one senator and probably other lawmakers on their payroll. M$ doesn't.
Someone already has. It's called APC, for Alternative PHP Cache. It's an open source PHP bytecode cache. I don't know if it works with PHP running as a CGI program or not, but the website doesn't say that it doesn't, so...
Reminds me of the end of Robocop 2...
"Well, she did pick the brain."