That's it - that's the frikkin' exploit! How the f*** is open source software supposed to be more secure when bugs like this creep into a post 1.x release!
I probably don't know the difference between 'specs' and 'standards' but if you read Theodore's mail you would realize he's actually belittling people who religiously follow specs (Mozilla/Firefox?) and that he doesn't really have a problem if people violate specs (Internet Explorer)!
The death of DRM is imminent. It might take some time... but it'll come for sure.
Picture this - all mobile manufacturers will start shipping DRM enabled phones. Manufacturers will tie-up with content providers, and most of the content being provided will be DRMed.
After a sizeable number of consumers are stuck with DRMed schmuck which makes them pay $$$ for every time they press a button on the phone... there'll be a HUGE demand for a non-DRMed phone.
At that point of time if any company comes up with a non-DRMed phone with enough non-DRMed content to make the consumer moderately happy - it will strike gold!
For this to work - consumers need to unhappy about DRM... that's almost like a social revolution - and revolutions take time!
Seriously! A couple of years ago I distinctly remember getting myself an account on GMail... which was the free e-mail service that came with garfield.com
When someone told me that Google is about to release it's own mail service called GMail I didn't believe him!
1. A method of selecting at least one track from a plurality of tracks stored in a computer-readable medium of a portable media player configured to present sequentially a first, second, and third display screen on the display of the media player, the plurality of tracks accessed according to a hierarchy, the hierarchy having a plurality of categories, subcategories, and items respectively in a first, second, and third level of the hierarchy, the method comprising:
selecting a category in the first display screen of the portable media player;
displaying the subcategories belonging to the selected category in a listing presented in the second display screen;
selecting a subcategory in the second display screen;
displaying the items belonging to the selected subcategory in a listing presented in the third display screen; and
accessing at least one track based on a selection made in one of the display screens.
For a minute, just forget the part about a "portable media player".
Imagine a drive-in fast food joint with a touch screen display. The first "display" on the touch screen display is a list which says: (a) Beverages (b) Fast Food (c) Desserts categories in first display screen
The guy at the counter presses (b) Fast Food and the second "display" on the touch screen display is a list which says: (a) Burgers (b) Pizzas (c) Hot Dogs subcategories belonging to the selected category on the second display screen
The guy preses (a) Burgers and the third "display" on the touch screen display is a list which says: (a) Chicken Burger (b) Fish Burger (c) Potato Burger with Cheese items belonging to the selected subcategory on the third display screen
The guy presses (b) Fish Burger and a small device "outputs" a fish burger neatly wrapped and packed. accessing the selection made
Just replace fast food joint's touch screen interface with portable media player. How the fuck is this novel and non-obvious?!
Heck, I should just rephrase Creative's patent and get one for Fast Food Joints!!
Apple should drag them to court and blast their balls off... there's plenty of prior art out there (not only iPod - any frikkin' GUI out there!)
I probably understood it incorrectly. But, if your understanding is correct, Perfect 10 is expecting Google to police copyright for them. Instead of suing the people who're ripping their photos and placing them on their websites, they're suing Google - a search engine, whose basic job is to index *all* the content available publicly on the net.
I think Google took the right decision by not acceding to their request. It's not their job to evaluate whether copyrights are being violated or not. They might start getting a 100 odd requests to remove websites from their index just coz someone thinks those websites are in violation of copyright!
It's actually more insane (insaner?) than I thought!!
It seems they're in a habit of getting free publicity. From TFA:
Perfect 10's lawsuit against Google is similar to one it filed against Amazon.com in July. In that suit, Perfect 10 makes similar allegations against Amazon's A9 search engine.
If they're so damn pissed with their images turning up on search engines, why don't they just pull them off 'public' access. I mean put them under an area accessible only after someone logs in.
Based on your response, I am *assuming* that you are female.
Well, you seem to be pretty pissed at the *general* interpretation of the term 'intelligent', otherwise your views make perfect sense.
Summarizing what you said, men are *generally* good at technical stuff and analysis, whereas women are good at nurturing and social interaction. Different traits are required for dealing with different situation, and thus, someon who's 'intelligent' in a particular situation might be incredibly dumn in another situation and vice versa.
So, I guess, the crux here is not whether women are more 'intelligent' than men, but exactly *how* you define intelligence.
Why use mobile phones? It's a way to help us verify that an account is being created by a real person, and that one person isn't creating thousands of accounts. We want to keep our system as spam-free as possible, and making sure accounts are used by real people is one way to do that.
I guess this is the way M$ writes code... throwing in the (c) symbol much before anything! Put a US. Patent Pending notice and you've hit the nail on the head!
Why doesn't the RIAA try the M$ strategy of "catching 'em young?" College kids can't afford the money for buying the overprices CDs. But college is *the time* when you develop a taste for music.
Why doesn't the RIAA give CDs, etc. at a lower price/free to college students and universities and charge the salaried class which can afford them?
Not exactly. Don't you think the entire system as implemented currently is overly simplified?
All the domain->IP address mapping can be stored in hash tables and depending on certain criteria (probably geographical location of hosts) portions of the hash table can be distributed.
Can't this entire TLD business be eliminated altogether. Why can't there be free form hostnames - I think we've come across a long way to build nameservers & client libraries to support it. It will be a big hassle, but it could be pigyybacked with IPv6 and deployed along with it.
True - they'll probably lose in court. But Google will get a *lot* of bad publicity and it might end up hurting the major source of revenue of the company we so dearly love!
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This is exactly why Open Source is better! How long would it have taken to uncover such a debatable feature in a closed source product?
It's a really sad day when sick 'jokes' like this get rated "100% Funny"
Nandz.
Those were three!
I probably don't know the difference between 'specs' and 'standards' but if you read Theodore's mail you would realize he's actually belittling people who religiously follow specs (Mozilla/Firefox?) and that he doesn't really have a problem if people violate specs (Internet Explorer)!
Confused?
Nandz.
1. Their website does not mention *anything* about the break-in
2. The first link thrown up by a Google search for "opensuse hack" is a thread on suselinuxsupport.de that, apparently, has been deleted!
Nandz.
Drew> I don't think that word means what you think it means.
I presume you're talking about 'imminent'. From dictionary.com imminent means:
So I guess I had used it in the right sense.
Nandz.
The death of DRM is imminent. It might take some time... but it'll come for sure.
Picture this - all mobile manufacturers will start shipping DRM enabled phones. Manufacturers will tie-up with content providers, and most of the content being provided will be DRMed.
After a sizeable number of consumers are stuck with DRMed schmuck which makes them pay $$$ for every time they press a button on the phone... there'll be a HUGE demand for a non-DRMed phone.
At that point of time if any company comes up with a non-DRMed phone with enough non-DRMed content to make the consumer moderately happy - it will strike gold!
For this to work - consumers need to unhappy about DRM... that's almost like a social revolution - and revolutions take time!
Nandz.
Didn't Google see this coming?
Nandz.
Seriously! A couple of years ago I distinctly remember getting myself an account on GMail... which was the free e-mail service that came with garfield.com
When someone told me that Google is about to release it's own mail service called GMail I didn't believe him!
Seriously... anyone with the same mileage?
Nandz.
From the patent's first independent claim:
1. A method of selecting at least one track from a plurality of tracks stored in a computer-readable medium of a portable media player configured to present sequentially a first, second, and third display screen on the display of the media player, the plurality of tracks accessed according to a hierarchy, the hierarchy having a plurality of categories, subcategories, and items respectively in a first, second, and third level of the hierarchy, the method comprising:
selecting a category in the first display screen of the portable media player;
displaying the subcategories belonging to the selected category in a listing presented in the second display screen;
selecting a subcategory in the second display screen;
displaying the items belonging to the selected subcategory in a listing presented in the third display screen; and
accessing at least one track based on a selection made in one of the display screens.
For a minute, just forget the part about a "portable media player".
Imagine a drive-in fast food joint with a touch screen display. The first "display" on the touch screen display is a list which says:
(a) Beverages
(b) Fast Food
(c) Desserts
categories in first display screen
The guy at the counter presses (b) Fast Food and the second "display" on the touch screen display is a list which says:
(a) Burgers
(b) Pizzas
(c) Hot Dogs
subcategories belonging to the selected category on the second display screen
The guy preses (a) Burgers and the third "display" on the touch screen display is a list which says:
(a) Chicken Burger
(b) Fish Burger
(c) Potato Burger with Cheese
items belonging to the selected subcategory on the third display screen
The guy presses (b) Fish Burger and a small device "outputs" a fish burger neatly wrapped and packed.
accessing the selection made
Just replace fast food joint's touch screen interface with portable media player. How the fuck is this novel and non-obvious?!
Heck, I should just rephrase Creative's patent and get one for Fast Food Joints!!
Apple should drag them to court and blast their balls off... there's plenty of prior art out there (not only iPod - any frikkin' GUI out there!)
Nandz.
I probably understood it incorrectly. But, if your understanding is correct, Perfect 10 is expecting Google to police copyright for them. Instead of suing the people who're ripping their photos and placing them on their websites, they're suing Google - a search engine, whose basic job is to index *all* the content available publicly on the net.
I think Google took the right decision by not acceding to their request. It's not their job to evaluate whether copyrights are being violated or not. They might start getting a 100 odd requests to remove websites from their index just coz someone thinks those websites are in violation of copyright!
It's actually more insane (insaner?) than I thought!!
Nandz.
It seems they're in a habit of getting free publicity. From TFA:
Perfect 10's lawsuit against Google is similar to one it filed against Amazon.com in July. In that suit, Perfect 10 makes similar allegations against Amazon's A9 search engine.
If they're so damn pissed with their images turning up on search engines, why don't they just pull them off 'public' access. I mean put them under an area accessible only after someone logs in.
Heck, there's robots.txt...
Nandz.
It seems the real issue would be the (ab)use of the DMCA... it seems to be the weirdest and most destructive of laws I have ever seen!
Nandz.
Based on your response, I am *assuming* that you are female.
Well, you seem to be pretty pissed at the *general* interpretation of the term 'intelligent', otherwise your views make perfect sense.
Summarizing what you said, men are *generally* good at technical stuff and analysis, whereas women are good at nurturing and social interaction. Different traits are required for dealing with different situation, and thus, someon who's 'intelligent' in a particular situation might be incredibly dumn in another situation and vice versa.
So, I guess, the crux here is not whether women are more 'intelligent' than men, but exactly *how* you define intelligence.
Nandz.
RTFA!
Why use mobile phones? It's a way to help us verify that an account is being created by a real person, and that one person isn't creating thousands of accounts. We want to keep our system as spam-free as possible, and making sure accounts are used by real people is one way to do that.
Nandz.
I've used Linux at work and at home for years. No "MS updating", no "anti-virus", etc.
Why the hell is this "Insightful?"
Nandz.
First time I've seen someone referring to designers, programmers, and users in the female form!
Strange!
Nandz.
I guess this is the way M$ writes code... throwing in the (c) symbol much before anything! Put a US. Patent Pending notice and you've hit the nail on the head!
Nandz.
Why doesn't the RIAA try the M$ strategy of "catching 'em young?" College kids can't afford the money for buying the overprices CDs. But college is *the time* when you develop a taste for music.
Why doesn't the RIAA give CDs, etc. at a lower price/free to college students and universities and charge the salaried class which can afford them?
Nandz.
With less than 10 comments on this article this thing must be Dead and Decomposed by now!
Seriouslym, anyone using HP operating systems out there?
Nandz.
Not exactly. Don't you think the entire system as implemented currently is overly simplified?
All the domain->IP address mapping can be stored in hash tables and depending on certain criteria (probably geographical location of hosts) portions of the hash table can be distributed.
Nandz.
Can't this entire TLD business be eliminated altogether. Why can't there be free form hostnames - I think we've come across a long way to build nameservers & client libraries to support it. It will be a big hassle, but it could be pigyybacked with IPv6 and deployed along with it.
So we could have websites like: http://intel.inside/ OR http://intel-inside/ (who needs dots other than http://slash./ )
It could work better for branding as well!
Nandz.
True - they'll probably lose in court. But Google will get a *lot* of bad publicity and it might end up hurting the major source of revenue of the company we so dearly love!
Nandz.
Q: How many IBM Processors does it take to execute a job?
:-)
A: Four. Three to hold it down, and one to rip it's head off.
Rephrase:
Q: How many IBM processers does it take to execute Jobs?
A: Four. Three to hold him down and one to rip his head off!
Yeah - I know it's lame
Nandz.