So what if someone who calls me can never call again?
There are 22.9 million businesses in the US. Do I have to tell every one individually (most of whom have a problem identifying themselves unless you pretend to be interested in buying their crap) that I don't want them to call??
As for the unlisted number crap, once you give your number to any company, your number is fair game. There is no regulation stating that they are not allowed to call unlisted numbers.
Oh, and by the way, get a clue. There is nothing in the constitution referring to the forcing of a person to be subject to a barrage of commercial speech in the privacy of their own home.
bzzt...wrong answer!
Sorry, but there are 22.9 million businesses in the US alone.
Why do people insist that I should be required to receive a phone call from every one of those 23 million business just to tell them that I'm not interested and to not call me again?
Simple. This list will save them the time and money by them not to call someone who could give a rats ass about what they are selling.
If the day comes when every single phone number in the US is on the DNC list, it's a wake up call to the fact that their business model is outdated. (if only the RIAA would get the hint)
I don't think you are correct.
As a matter of fact, This SourceForge project was shut down for exactly this reason.
The incredibly innovative software programming marvel that is covered by the patent? SCREEN SCRAPING A FRIGGIN TEXT FILE!
Sorry for the yelling. This subject really pisses me off.:(
Gee, so the basis for the charges against the man in the article were just made up?
Read this amendment to H.R. 1104:
Rep. Pence offered an amendment on Thursday, March 27, 2003; it was agreed to by voice vote. The amendment makes it a criminal act to knowingly use a misleading domain name with the intent to deceive a person into viewing obscenity on the Internet. Also makes it a criminal act to knowingly use a misleading domain name with the intent to deceive a minor into viewing material on the Internet that is harmful to minors. A domain name that includes a word or words to indicate the sexual content of the site is not considered misleading.
No, they don't dare do this.
It's a federal offence to redirect a misspelling to a porn site as it's "illegal to deceive children into viewing harmful material". This is a provision of the "Amber Alert" legislation and will land you in jail for 4 years. Relevant Link
You have it 100% correct. I've done the exact same thing and haven't bought a CD is years.
The only downloaded music I have is from emusic.com
Now I can spend all my extra money on smokes.
It shouldn't be too difficult. Most countries armed forces are arranged in the same manner.
Army=land, Navy=sea, Air Force=air + Stargate, Marines=All of the above and does all the real work on a fraction of the budget.:)
You need to give them something to thing about:
If 95% of the hits are IE, that leaves 5% that are not using IE and are prevented from using the site. Now tell them to look at the percentage of hits that result in a paying customer (likely a fraction of a percent unless you're a defacto standard site like Amazon et al). So if they get 50000 hits, and their "customer" rate is 0.8% then that's 400 customers but since they omit 5% of hits, they only get 380 customers instead. Scale to larger numbers for more eye-opening results.
Basically, they are forcing themselves to lose 5% of their customers. And if they are selling something that's actually useful, those 5% are more likely to appreciate their product and aren't just mindless AOL "surfers" who only make $5/hour and are just wasting your customers bandwidth.
I don't know if there's a similar mod for the BEFW's but if you have a WAP11 (v2.2) there is a hack where you can flash it with the DLINK dwl-900ap+ firmware as they use the same hardware.
The firmware for the dwl-900ap+ is very reliable, has more features than the WAP11 v2.2 and has a much nicer web interface.
In addition, Linksys is terrible about updates and haven't released a firmware update since Dec. 2002 whereas DLink is still updating theirs.
Another nice modern variant on the coreware there is found at IBM called RoboCode.
You write Java robots that battle each other by controlling movement, gun turret and radar turret. A great way to learn Java, be mentally stimulated and is entertaining to watch.
Unfortunately, with the copyright periods being extended so long, the material will only be of (ancient) historical interest. The 98 percent of copyrighted works that are unpublished and should be on there, unfortunately, gets to sit collecting dust instead of benefitting mankind.
Actually the reason for the patent process *is* to grant a temporary monopoly on the invention for a short period of time. The idea was to give the inventor incentive and time to bring his invention to the rest of the world.
That being said, I've never seen where it was intended to cover a method of doing business. It should only apply to a manufacturing method.
That's comparing apples to oranges.
The 200,000 shares were for Caldera, where the 7003 (giving 15003 shares total) were for SCO. You need to find out how Caldera stock was converted to SCO stock when Caldera was bought out.
Not sure about the $0.001 per share. Maybe it was his christmas bonus or something.
Back when you wrote programs for the Apple ][e, you know what hardware you were writing for. Every machine pretty much had the same thing. Yet even on the early IBMs you had to take into account that they could be running mono, cga or (rich people) ega and all from different manufacturers who has varying degrees of "compatability" in a young environment and young dev tools.
Fast forward to today and multiply this by the hundreds or thousands of different pieces of hardware all from different manufacturers all writing "drivers" with different levels of compliance and reliability stacked on top of the myriad of 3rd party/OS APIs that you use all based on standards (or not) that are open to interpretation...add other variables ad nauseum
Sometime I find it amazing that things work as well as they do.
...But such a condition (DB in RAM) will make his product pretty much obsolete.
The Prevayler Project is a RAM-only Java persistence project that works and is so simple not a single bug has been found in the production release.
3000 times faster that MySQL (9000 times faster than Oracle) even with the database in caches entirely in RAM simply because of the JDBC overhead that is eliminated .
The only sticking points I've seen are:
1. Normal PC's boards generally will only take 1GB of RAM. Sure there are thos expensive Sun machines...
2. Querying objects in an efficient manner.
3. Others, but I've gotta take a dump real bad...
Look closer...Spaces UI is actually done using Swing. Just meticulously hand-crafted to be visually appealing and responsive. The soon-to-be-released beta should be even better.
Actually, it *is* impossible to break if it's truly a one time pad.
Since the is no repetition over the length of the message, all keys are the same length as the message and therefore trying all possible keys will yield all possible combinations of messages of that length and you have no way of knowing what the message is.
i.e. Is 46adab8bd51c187c7cab9e =
ATTACKATDAWN
or
ATTACK TODAY
With a proper OTP you *can't* know.
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So what if someone who calls me can never call again?
There are 22.9 million businesses in the US.
Do I have to tell every one individually (most of whom have a problem identifying themselves unless you pretend to be interested in buying their crap) that I don't want them to call??
As for the unlisted number crap, once you give your number to any company, your number is fair game. There is no regulation stating that they are not allowed to call unlisted numbers.
Oh, and by the way, get a clue. There is nothing in the constitution referring to the forcing of a person to be subject to a barrage of commercial speech in the privacy of their own home.
bzzt...wrong answer!
Sorry, but there are 22.9 million businesses in the US alone.
Why do people insist that I should be required to receive a phone call from every one of those 23 million business just to tell them that I'm not interested and to not call me again?
Simple. This list will save them the time and money by them not to call someone who could give a rats ass about what they are selling.
If the day comes when every single phone number in the US is on the DNC list, it's a wake up call to the fact that their business model is outdated. (if only the RIAA would get the hint)
I don't think you are correct.
:(
As a matter of fact, This SourceForge project was shut down for exactly this reason.
The incredibly innovative software programming marvel that is covered by the patent?
SCREEN SCRAPING A FRIGGIN TEXT FILE!
Sorry for the yelling. This subject really pisses me off.
Read this amendment to H.R. 1104:
No, they don't dare do this.
It's a federal offence to redirect a misspelling to a porn site as it's "illegal to deceive children into viewing harmful material". This is a provision of the "Amber Alert" legislation and will land you in jail for 4 years.
Relevant Link
I'm surprised Winona Ryder ain't on the list.
You have it 100% correct. I've done the exact same thing and haven't bought a CD is years.
The only downloaded music I have is from emusic.com
Now I can spend all my extra money on smokes.
This one's shorter: http://tinyurl.com/ly8g
It shouldn't be too difficult. :)
Most countries armed forces are arranged in the same manner.
Army=land, Navy=sea, Air Force=air + Stargate, Marines=All of the above and does all the real work on a fraction of the budget.
You need to give them something to thing about: If 95% of the hits are IE, that leaves 5% that are not using IE and are prevented from using the site.
Now tell them to look at the percentage of hits that result in a paying customer (likely a fraction of a percent unless you're a defacto standard site like Amazon et al). So if they get 50000 hits, and their "customer" rate is 0.8% then that's 400 customers but since they omit 5% of hits, they only get 380 customers instead. Scale to larger numbers for more eye-opening results.
Basically, they are forcing themselves to lose 5% of their customers. And if they are selling something that's actually useful, those 5% are more likely to appreciate their product and aren't just mindless AOL "surfers" who only make $5/hour and are just wasting your customers bandwidth.
I don't know if there's a similar mod for the BEFW's but if you have a WAP11 (v2.2) there is a hack where you can flash it with the DLINK dwl-900ap+ firmware as they use the same hardware.
The firmware for the dwl-900ap+ is very reliable, has more features than the WAP11 v2.2 and has a much nicer web interface.
In addition, Linksys is terrible about updates and haven't released a firmware update since Dec. 2002 whereas DLink is still updating theirs.
...but if Mozilla is all you use, you won't be going to BuyMusic.com
Another nice modern variant on the coreware there is found at IBM called RoboCode.
You write Java robots that battle each other by controlling movement, gun turret and radar turret. A great way to learn Java, be mentally stimulated and is entertaining to watch.
Unfortunately, with the copyright periods being extended so long, the material will only be of (ancient) historical interest. The 98 percent of copyrighted works that are unpublished and should be on there, unfortunately, gets to sit collecting dust instead of benefitting mankind.
Actually the reason for the patent process *is* to grant a temporary monopoly on the invention for a short period of time. The idea was to give the inventor incentive and time to bring his invention to the rest of the world. That being said, I've never seen where it was intended to cover a method of doing business. It should only apply to a manufacturing method.
That's comparing apples to oranges.
The 200,000 shares were for Caldera, where the 7003 (giving 15003 shares total) were for SCO. You need to find out how Caldera stock was converted to SCO stock when Caldera was bought out.
Not sure about the $0.001 per share. Maybe it was his christmas bonus or something.
Hell, the only reason I read the topic was I though it was about simplex locks...if I has only known...now my friggin' head hurts!
Back when you wrote programs for the Apple ][e, you know what hardware you were writing for. Every machine pretty much had the same thing. Yet even on the early IBMs you had to take into account that they could be running mono, cga or (rich people) ega and all from different manufacturers who has varying degrees of "compatability" in a young environment and young dev tools.
Fast forward to today and multiply this by the hundreds or thousands of different pieces of hardware all from different manufacturers all writing "drivers" with different levels of compliance and reliability stacked on top of the myriad of 3rd party/OS APIs that you use all based on standards (or not) that are open to interpretation...add other variables ad nauseum
Sometime I find it amazing that things work as well as they do.
...But such a condition (DB in RAM) will make his product pretty much obsolete.
The Prevayler Project is a RAM-only Java persistence project that works and is so simple not a single bug has been found in the production release.
3000 times faster that MySQL (9000 times faster than Oracle) even with the database in caches entirely in RAM simply because of the JDBC overhead that is eliminated .
The only sticking points I've seen are:
1. Normal PC's boards generally will only take 1GB of RAM. Sure there are thos expensive Sun machines...
2. Querying objects in an efficient manner.
3. Others, but I've gotta take a dump real bad...
Look closer...Spaces UI is actually done using Swing. Just meticulously hand-crafted to be visually appealing and responsive. The soon-to-be-released beta should be even better.
Actually, it *is* impossible to break if it's truly a one time pad. Since the is no repetition over the length of the message, all keys are the same length as the message and therefore trying all possible keys will yield all possible combinations of messages of that length and you have no way of knowing what the message is. i.e. Is 46adab8bd51c187c7cab9e = ATTACKATDAWN or ATTACK TODAY With a proper OTP you *can't* know.
HP already had their own platform that they could have developed into a full-fledged Media Center that was based on Linux. HP DE100C
with open source published here. I think the merger has had a negative impact on HP's attitude towards open source.