Perhaps this can be a catalyst for other tech companies opposing this bill; we can hope it could cause enough bad PR for companies that are supporting CISPA that they reverse their position.
What will this do to Facebook's future IPO when potential investors see a "maverick" CEO who does what he wants without consulting the board? I can't imagine a lot of fund managers will like the idea of putting billions of dollars at stake with someone like Zuckerberg spending huge sums of money without getting input from people who already own a large percentage of the company.
How does Zuckerberg own only 28% of the stock but have 57% of the voting rights? Are there really that many non-voting shareholders?
Yeah, that is a bunch of bullshit. According to that, he could be charged with it. Lets just hope that it doesn't get passed, and the DMCA is overturned. (I can hope for the best, right?)
This is assuming the ATA doesn't pass. Otherwise it should read Lifetime in prison with no chance of parole.
Actually, it wouldn't. He already did it, well before the law was (would be) passed. He can't be charged with something that didn't exist at the time, thats protected by the Constitution. It's called Ex Post Facto (Latin for "After the Fact"). Here is an article discribing it.
That wierd episode... actually a movie - Star Trek: First Contact. Zephram Cochran Invents warp drive sometime during World War III on Earth (about 2060ish) (He's also the one that they showed the video of during the launch ceremony of the ship saying the line "to boldy go...").
Anyways, in First Contact, the crew of the Enterprise (the new E ship) followed the borg back through time, because they were going to try to destroy the humans at thier weakest point during history.
Q: Why does ITR sometimes show all zeros or strange numbers?
A: We are currently working on a complete re-write and overhaul of the ITR system to provide much more detailed and accurate information more quickly and reliably. During this transition phase, there may be rare occurrences when the data reported by ITR looks "strange" for an hour or so. Please bear with us during this transition, as we are certain that the new ITR (to be released sometime near the end of September) will be well worth the wait!
So, it appears that it could be that, and not this worm.
I'm watching Fox News Channel, and I keep seeing footage of a Taxi thats covered in debris, that has an IBM "Peace Love Linux" ad on it. Has anyone else noticed this?
On another note, I hope as many people as possible can be rescued, and the brave men and women of the NYPD and FD that gave thier lives to save people today.
"Computer hackers who prey upon unsuspecting schools, striking fear in the hearts of entire communities with threats of violence, cannot go unpunished"
Doesn't that sound like a cheezy line out of the movie Hackers? I mean, come on! What would you be more afraid of: Someone makes a threat on a schools web page (that hardly anyone ever visits if it's k-12), or grafitti in the bathroom stall? And no one even cares what people write in the stalls...
How can some cracker breaking in to a schools web server and defacing a page "strike fear into the hearts of the entire community?" This makes me so glad I'm no longer in High School. (Hopefully by the time most of us go to college we're above this)
In the Begining was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson (ISBN: 0380815931) is a good book about the history and evolution of the user interface, as well as a good read.
What happens when someone who had a bad day and got one too many SPAM emails, finds out that the spammer is from his/her city, hunts them down and kills them? And, they leave a message that says they killed them because they sent spam. What will spammers think when someone else does it again, and again, and again? Could that mean the end of spam?
Disclaimer: I'm not going to do this, it's just a thought.
Actually, they ARE subject to the GPL, as 50 other people pointed out. If you link your non-GPLed program to GPLed code, it is not an indepentant program. Thats the problem the author has. They are linking to GPLed code, which the GPL forbids.
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How did CmdrTaco manage to get both the Diablo II and the Diablo II Expansion betas? Does Blizzard give out betas to people who run geek websites so that they get free advertising? Or is he just incredibly lucky?
Hate to tell you, but there can be a Q, because they have been around forever... there were several TNG shows that mentioned this, and also a book written that had Q and Kirk in it. Also, the reason why TOS didn't have cool technology like the later series did, is because they didn't have the budget. The studios thought it would be a waste of money and thats why it was cancelled after the second season. The original Star Trek didn't catch on until after they were done filming the series. I think that it's great that the Star Trek series will go on, and hopefully it will have a better plotline than Voyager.
Well, if you went back in time, and you changed almost ANYTHING to advance technology beyond what it should have been, all of us would cease to exist, because then you wouldn't have been where you were to go back into mideval times. Sorry.
Just a thought, but couldn't you mail an empty, UNSEALED envelope, and then 10 years down the line, after someone else came up with a profitable idea, write a letter and stick it in the envelope and seal it. Then take them to court, claiming that you thought of it first?
I think that if you were using the same device for output and input in your car, you could just have the input channel (mic) filter out what was going over the output to the speakers before it would decode the voice. That way, it would just have what you said, no matter how loud the music is. Just a thought, but I think that would work.
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In another part of this thread, this was also mentioned. Government agincies HAVE to provde you with documentation on how it's going to be used. Private business doesn't, and if you don't want to give it to them, they don't have to give you an apartment. I am very reluctant to give my SSN to a business, but I do tend to trust government agincies.
Apogee's license says that I can't make a negative review of thier software. Well, here goes:
Most Apogee software sucks. I didn't like any of the old games like Duke Nukem or Commander Keen, and I don't like any of the software they're producing now. It plain out sucks. I've played better games on my Atarti.
A note to Apogee Lawyers: Go ahead and try to stop me or other people from doing this. You'll get laughed out of court, or it will eventually get appealed to the Supreme Court, and all or part of UCITA will be ruled unconstitutional. If you want to make a test case of me, email me and I'll be glad to cooperate.
I learned to program with BASIC, specifically, QBASIC on an MS-DOS machine. I don't think that Windows 98 comes with QBASIC anymore, at least mine didn't. It's a relativly easy language to learn, and once they become proficent, they'll want to be able to do more things, and that will lead them to higher level languages.
I don't know if I missed anyone else saying this, but here goes.
I don't think this company is trademarking the smell of fresh cut grass. You couldn't do that. How do people link the smell of fresh cut grass to your company or proudct? They can't, unless there is some other link. I think what these people are doing is they are trademarking tennis balls that smell like fresh cut grass. No one else has manufactured tennis balls that smell like that. They are the first to do it, and that is a way that links the smell of fresh cut grass to the tennis balls they sell.
In the article, it said they tested a number of different smells, and most of them were related to different surfaces you can play tennis on. When you play on blacktop or whatever now, the ball will have the smell of fresh cut grass, making the court smell like that. That is unique and original, and can be trademarked.
I know for a fact that a TI-86 can play WAV files. The file has to be rather small (40k) and the player can be had from ticalc.org. All you have to do is use the computer-calculator link, send it, and run the program. A small speaker (PC speaker or something) needs to be hooked up to the link port. It sounds really shitty, though. The things are only 8MHz (I think) but they can be overclocked to 12MHz, but the battery life goes down.
The problem was having LILO boot off of something that is higher on the disk than the 1024th cyl. If you're only booting linux, this should be no problem, but if you're a newbie, and you have your Windows partition that is 13GBs, your / partition will definatley be above the 1024 limit. This enables LILO to boot off of root partitions that are located higher than 1024 cyl.
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Perhaps this can be a catalyst for other tech companies opposing this bill; we can hope it could cause enough bad PR for companies that are supporting CISPA that they reverse their position.
One can dream...
From the list of risk factors:
29. Viruses, hacking, phishing and malware. Oh my.
At least someone has a sense of humor.
What will this do to Facebook's future IPO when potential investors see a "maverick" CEO who does what he wants without consulting the board? I can't imagine a lot of fund managers will like the idea of putting billions of dollars at stake with someone like Zuckerberg spending huge sums of money without getting input from people who already own a large percentage of the company.
How does Zuckerberg own only 28% of the stock but have 57% of the voting rights? Are there really that many non-voting shareholders?
On a side note, isn't Kevin Poulsen (the author of the article) some notourious (ex)computer criminal that was charged with espoinage? The Watchman : The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen by Jonathan Littman was the book I read about it. Is this the same guy?
Actually, it wouldn't. He already did it, well before the law was (would be) passed. He can't be charged with something that didn't exist at the time, thats protected by the Constitution. It's called Ex Post Facto (Latin for "After the Fact"). Here is an article discribing it.
Anyways, in First Contact, the crew of the Enterprise (the new E ship) followed the borg back through time, because they were going to try to destroy the humans at thier weakest point during history.
Gartner believes that this rewriting will not occur before year-end 2002 (0.8 probability).
That's an 80% chance of NOT happening by year-end 2002.
Q: Why does ITR sometimes show all zeros or strange numbers?
A: We are currently working on a complete re-write and overhaul of the ITR system to provide much more detailed and accurate information more quickly and reliably. During this transition phase, there may be rare occurrences when the data reported by ITR looks "strange" for an hour or so. Please bear with us during this transition, as we are certain that the new ITR (to be released sometime near the end of September) will be well worth the wait!
So, it appears that it could be that, and not this worm.
On another note, I hope as many people as possible can be rescued, and the brave men and women of the NYPD and FD that gave thier lives to save people today.
Doesn't that sound like a cheezy line out of the movie Hackers? I mean, come on! What would you be more afraid of: Someone makes a threat on a schools web page (that hardly anyone ever visits if it's k-12), or grafitti in the bathroom stall? And no one even cares what people write in the stalls...
How can some cracker breaking in to a schools web server and defacing a page "strike fear into the hearts of the entire community?" This makes me so glad I'm no longer in High School. (Hopefully by the time most of us go to college we're above this)
In the Begining was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson (ISBN: 0380815931) is a good book about the history and evolution of the user interface, as well as a good read.
What happens when someone who had a bad day and got one too many SPAM emails, finds out that the spammer is from his/her city, hunts them down and kills them? And, they leave a message that says they killed them because they sent spam. What will spammers think when someone else does it again, and again, and again? Could that mean the end of spam?
Disclaimer: I'm not going to do this, it's just a thought.
Actually, they ARE subject to the GPL, as 50 other people pointed out. If you link your non-GPLed program to GPLed code, it is not an indepentant program. Thats the problem the author has. They are linking to GPLed code, which the GPL forbids.
How did CmdrTaco manage to get both the Diablo II and the Diablo II Expansion betas? Does Blizzard give out betas to people who run geek websites so that they get free advertising? Or is he just incredibly lucky?
Hate to tell you, but there can be a Q, because they have been around forever... there were several TNG shows that mentioned this, and also a book written that had Q and Kirk in it. Also, the reason why TOS didn't have cool technology like the later series did, is because they didn't have the budget. The studios thought it would be a waste of money and thats why it was cancelled after the second season. The original Star Trek didn't catch on until after they were done filming the series. I think that it's great that the Star Trek series will go on, and hopefully it will have a better plotline than Voyager.
Well, if you went back in time, and you changed almost ANYTHING to advance technology beyond what it should have been, all of us would cease to exist, because then you wouldn't have been where you were to go back into mideval times. Sorry.
Just a thought, but couldn't you mail an empty, UNSEALED envelope, and then 10 years down the line, after someone else came up with a profitable idea, write a letter and stick it in the envelope and seal it. Then take them to court, claiming that you thought of it first?
Did anyone else load the front page, read the headline of this story, then read what department it's from and burst out laughing?
I think that if you were using the same device for output and input in your car, you could just have the input channel (mic) filter out what was going over the output to the speakers before it would decode the voice. That way, it would just have what you said, no matter how loud the music is. Just a thought, but I think that would work.
In another part of this thread, this was also mentioned. Government agincies HAVE to provde you with documentation on how it's going to be used. Private business doesn't, and if you don't want to give it to them, they don't have to give you an apartment. I am very reluctant to give my SSN to a business, but I do tend to trust government agincies.
Apogee's license says that I can't make a negative review of thier software. Well, here goes:
Most Apogee software sucks. I didn't like any of the old games like Duke Nukem or Commander Keen, and I don't like any of the software they're producing now. It plain out sucks. I've played better games on my Atarti.
A note to Apogee Lawyers: Go ahead and try to stop me or other people from doing this. You'll get laughed out of court, or it will eventually get appealed to the Supreme Court, and all or part of UCITA will be ruled unconstitutional. If you want to make a test case of me, email me and I'll be glad to cooperate.
I learned to program with BASIC, specifically, QBASIC on an MS-DOS machine. I don't think that Windows 98 comes with QBASIC anymore, at least mine didn't. It's a relativly easy language to learn, and once they become proficent, they'll want to be able to do more things, and that will lead them to higher level languages.
I don't know if I missed anyone else saying this, but here goes.
I don't think this company is trademarking the smell of fresh cut grass. You couldn't do that. How do people link the smell of fresh cut grass to your company or proudct? They can't, unless there is some other link. I think what these people are doing is they are trademarking tennis balls that smell like fresh cut grass. No one else has manufactured tennis balls that smell like that. They are the first to do it, and that is a way that links the smell of fresh cut grass to the tennis balls they sell.
In the article, it said they tested a number of different smells, and most of them were related to different surfaces you can play tennis on. When you play on blacktop or whatever now, the ball will have the smell of fresh cut grass, making the court smell like that. That is unique and original, and can be trademarked.
I know for a fact that a TI-86 can play WAV files. The file has to be rather small (40k) and the player can be had from ticalc.org. All you have to do is use the computer-calculator link, send it, and run the program. A small speaker (PC speaker or something) needs to be hooked up to the link port. It sounds really shitty, though. The things are only 8MHz (I think) but they can be overclocked to 12MHz, but the battery life goes down.
The problem was having LILO boot off of something that is higher on the disk than the 1024th cyl. If you're only booting linux, this should be no problem, but if you're a newbie, and you have your Windows partition that is 13GBs, your / partition will definatley be above the 1024 limit. This enables LILO to boot off of root partitions that are located higher than 1024 cyl.