For the most part, you raise a good point... but I think that the regular argument is more along the lines of poor administration of the patent system. I can't argue with people functioning within the framework of the system, I can only complain about the system itself. That's my right and responsibility.
I know you said it's a joke, but I'm already thinking... there has to be a private identifier in the glasses... and some 15 year old will figure out how to change the ID dynamically for a pirated work. Man, if I could figure out something foolproof. Then all that's left is choosing what color I want my Ferrari to be.
I'd have to say that, though I don't personally like or use them, I think I could hand over a >=RH8 or Mandrake box to my mother. She'd need the same help configuring an email client and getting her connected to our network that she would with a Windows machine. The only thing she wouldn't like is the occasional, but inevitable, inconsistancy generated by her Windows using friends when they send things like slide shows made as ".scr"s. We know better, all she knows is that it doesn't work until she calls me.
After all the anti-business sentiment around slashdot nowadays, I'm surprised to hear someone say that! Maybe someday soon we'll have astronauts on slashdot complaining about the fat cats at the top taking bonuses while the astronauts get laid off.:)
I expect that the interception of this wireless communication is considered the same way the military has always considered previous communication lines... like radio. The stakes just seem to get higher and higher.
Oh c'mon now. Not only do alot of players use corked bats... but like Sammy needed a corked bat against TB. We ARE talking about the worst team in baseball.
Wow, I had never heard of this. What a yuppie pasttime. What happened to putting on a pack, and hiking AWAY from technology? I guess, too each their own. But being an old school eagle scout... I'm in that lady's husband's camp. Go flyfishing or something. Don't take the video game out in the parks with you.
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For the most part, you raise a good point... but I think that the regular argument is more along the lines of poor administration of the patent system. I can't argue with people functioning within the framework of the system, I can only complain about the system itself. That's my right and responsibility.
...to know that the trash-talking enemy I just blew up was probably wearing Abercrombie.
You mean like, I shouldn't worry about the government recording my phonecalls if I've never broken the law?
Or I shouldn't worry about having cameras placed in my house if I'd never commit a crime in it?
Or maybe they could perform random audits of my household, because I shouldn't have to worry about them finding anything if I'm not a criminal.
Good luck with that. Lemme know how it goes.
I know you said it's a joke, but I'm already thinking... there has to be a private identifier in the glasses... and some 15 year old will figure out how to change the ID dynamically for a pirated work. Man, if I could figure out something foolproof. Then all that's left is choosing what color I want my Ferrari to be.
Aside from being really boring, that site is a total ripoff of hotornot.com... only with shitty, blurry photos of fat asses.
We did have too many problems with Compaq. Sony laptops were paperweights.
Still putting together flakey hardware?
Honestly, they've never been too much more reliable than any others. Except for Fujitsu laptops. Those have always been f'n junk.
I'd have to say that, though I don't personally like or use them, I think I could hand over a >=RH8 or Mandrake box to my mother. She'd need the same help configuring an email client and getting her connected to our network that she would with a Windows machine. The only thing she wouldn't like is the occasional, but inevitable, inconsistancy generated by her Windows using friends when they send things like slide shows made as ".scr"s. We know better, all she knows is that it doesn't work until she calls me.
Maybe faster... but not necessarily more reliable or useful.
Actually, I just heard a funny story about this. The local K9 training team left a target hand laying on a construction site recently.
After all the anti-business sentiment around slashdot nowadays, I'm surprised to hear someone say that! Maybe someday soon we'll have astronauts on slashdot complaining about the fat cats at the top taking bonuses while the astronauts get laid off. :)
I expect that the interception of this wireless communication is considered the same way the military has always considered previous communication lines... like radio. The stakes just seem to get higher and higher.
That's informative. Someone mod this up!
Sure, mod me down... but I was right. :)
we see and endless string of prior art postings?
Thank you for pointing that out. Sounds like one of my code errors, just waiting to happen. I'll fix it now. :)
Oh c'mon now. Not only do alot of players use corked bats... but like Sammy needed a corked bat against TB. We ARE talking about the worst team in baseball.
They must have been sewing copies of the source for DeCSS.
I thought there was some law about people's trash that made it fair game? I'm from Illinois though.
And Jamaica might be about to develop a nuclear weapon... maybe. Yeah, hold your breath.
Wow, I had never heard of this. What a yuppie pasttime. What happened to putting on a pack, and hiking AWAY from technology? I guess, too each their own. But being an old school eagle scout... I'm in that lady's husband's camp. Go flyfishing or something. Don't take the video game out in the parks with you.
Uhm, tupperware and ammo boxes laying in the park IS litter. His argument is neither insulting or ignorant.
Wasn't everyone throwing a fit about N.Korea doing this, in a slashdot article this week?