From the [f]A: "It's a nice idea," [Swiss nuclear waste scientest Ian] McKinley told New Scientist, "but I wouldn't buy shares in a company selling this process quite yet."
Hey, Ian, are you nuts? That's like saying "Computers are a nice idea, but I wouldn't buy shares in that IBM automated typewriter company just yet."
Right now would be the best time to invest in a company that has a chance of developing this technology. Give it 20 or 30 years, and you'll be sitting pretty -- assuming, of course, that you've also invested in the company's competitors and otherwise diversified.
For crying out loud... I thought day-trading went out with the dot-com bust. I guess some people never learn...
What sentence would you recommend in the hypothetical case I proposed?
I'm no fan of punishing tree-abusers more strongly than people-abusers. In fact, it really gets me mad when someone gets probation or a light sentence for killing with a car (especially if they're a football player), but someone gets thrown in jail for putting an ostrich to sleep the old-fashioned way.
But as far as determining an "appropriate" sentence... please keep in mind that this happened here in Texas, where justice can be a bit capricious. Heck, if Toby Keith had his way, he's be strung up from the remaining branches of the tall oak tree... for all the people to see...
The article is a few paragraphs, and you wouldn't be asking this question if you had read it.
I did RT[f]A, and I can't find the answer to my question in those few paragraphs. I suspect I'm missing something... but what? Could you please elaborate?
Oh, you're AC... you'll never even *see* this message, much less reply to it. So much for doing something about "dumb as we want it to be."
In 1989, a vandal used a strong poison and nearly killed the Treaty Oak, a 500-year-old Live Oak said to be the place where Stephen F. Austin signed a treaty with the local Native American tribes. Heroic efforts (funded by H. Ross Perot) went into saving the tree, but nobody knew if they would be successful.
To preserve the tree's legacy, it was "cloned" -- several still-living branches were rooted just as the parent poster described. One of these trees is now growing next to the original. It's clearly an exact genetic duplicate, and if that's not a clone, I don't now what is.
I agree with the parent poster -- what's the big deal? Why can't they just cut off a branch of the Methuselah tree and root it?
By the way, the story of the Treaty Oak has a happy ending. Despite fears that it would only be good for commemorative pen sets, the tree made a comeback, and started bearing acorns again in 1997 -- 8 years after the attack. Seedlings are now available, for "just" $125 bucks.
The poisoner, on the other hand, likely had a bit rougher time -- 9 years in a Texas state prison. No word on the fate of his acorns...
Scientists have taken seedlings from the world's oldest tree, a 4,768-year-old bristlecone pine named Methuselah, and plan on plan on altering them to make them clones
Looks like they've already gotten off to a good start, by cloning the words in the article. *rimshot*
(Isn't anyone going to welcome our new Bristlecone masters?)
I think the parent poster "got it", but I'm seeing way too many comments to this story that don't.
From the story: Expect texting to be banned by the MPAA in the near future.
From the F'ing A: [crickets chirping]
In case there's any question, allow me to spell it out: the last sentence of the Slashdot story is supposed to be funny. As in "how silly, next they'll be banning texting. ha ha ha!"
On the other hand, we *could* be paranoid and say that the real reason theaters want to install cell-phone jammers is to prevent teenyboppers from telling their friends how bad "Jiggly" J.Lo sucked. But that would be as silly as the Secret Service tracking the homeless.
Example: Would you have someone from your team to look for part number XXXXXXX?
Bad example. In defense of "effective-enough communications", I'd like to point out that the error you highlighted didn't detract from my understanding of the message.
I can understand how someone in a hurry (or without a college-level education) could add the "to" and put "look" in the infinitive. In fact, if I go to look at the sentence long enough, it looks just fine!
I don't play Grammarian very often, but you've got a valid (if offtopic) point. But you really don't go far enough:
Use whatever style you want in email or IM...
I disagree with this premise, because "practice makes perfect" only works if you're practicing perfectly (you can thank my daughter's piano teacher for that one). I don't care if it's email, IM, or a sticky-note on your monitor... what's it going to hurt to do it right?
Of course, my 12-year-old just rolls her eyes when I tell her to write her emails in complete sentences. I ph33r for the fate of the next generation.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I did a search on "tetrachromatic" and found a very interesting article in Slate, describing three up-and-coming vision-enhancement technologies: surgical correction to 20/10 (available now), CCD implants with direct transmission to the brain (give it 10-20 years), and gene-therapy generation of a fourth type of photoreceptor (pie in the sky, like the Internet was).
For their first experiment, they want to give a third color receptor to monkeys. Then, it's our turn:
There are weirder possibilities, too. In their first four-cone experiment, the Neitzes think they would engineer a photopigment sensitive in the visible light spectrum (probably in the gap between our current blue and green cones). But they could also make a cone receptive in the infrared zone. If the cones were to become too sensitive to infrared light, though, we would start "seeing" our own body heat, and that would blur our vision. But if you could engineer cones that were somewhat sensitive to the infrared spectrum, we might have extraordinary night vision -- without goggles, street lights, or surgery.
There aren't any guarantees of what will happen, or if our brains will even accept the presence of another color, but a quick Google found that tetrachromatic vision is not at all uncommon in the animal kingdom... there's no reason to think we can't adapt.
I wonder if I'd have the guts to try it. I think so, especially after I'm retired and don't have to worry about it affecting my income-generating potential. But why stop at four colors? Give me IR, UV... heck, give me the real high-end and I'll contract myself out to NASA!
* "All three [signals] are equally sensitive to blue light, two have expanded ranges that include green and yellow light, and the third signal includes sensitivity to red light."
* "While these paradigms of primary colors have worked well for human printing and light uses for over a century, it is likely that the three primary colors are not descriptive of the world, but rather an artifact of our eyes, the tools we use to perceive the world."
* "The real world does not have primary colors!"
He also discusses how the world would be perceived differently if we evolved a fourth cone, sensitive in the UV region. Very cool stuff!
Interestingly, though, he's no longer teaching science, and details the reasons on his site. Anyone who's ever been driven crazy in a class taught by a guy named simply "Coach" (and who on this site hasn't?) will sympathize with this good teacher's plight.
Feh! Home Despot employs mostly part-time henchmen and won't accept government contracts (and don't let anyone tell you otherwise). Plus, their web site is little more than a home page with links to blank pages, and worst of all, they don't have a favicon.ico! How can you take a site seriously without a favicon?
But seriously, folks... I did *not* expect villainsupply.com to be a real link! Too cool... in an evil sort of way, that is. Wonder if Amazon.com knows about their "Evil Amazon.com" link?
I can't belive no one else noticed this obligatory 80s reference...
Actually, it's Your Moderation Points At Work: something like 15 of the first 20 (non-troll) comments were lame Short Circuit jokes, including my own (though mine got modded up to +5, Interesting by moderators who missed the joke!).
Read at -1 to see Slashdot groupthink in all its duplicitous glory.
... the moderation system is broken. it's not my fault nobody modded it offtopic.
I wouldn't say that the moderation system is broken... just that it's amusing to watch in the same way that the California recall elections are amusing to watch. As long as nothing important is at stake. [smirk]
Really, though, I think it works. It's not perfect, nor should it be -- just like the old quote about democracy not being perfect, just better than anything else we've come up with. A "perfect" moderation system would function about as effectively as Soviet-style communism: fair to all in theory, but completely unworkable in the real world.
And hey, sometimes I, too, forget to check "No Karma Bonus" when I post. So sue me! No, SCO, not you.
It's getting better and better. After getting a couple of "Overrated" wimp-out mods (and losing the Karma Bonus), the has-a-clue "Funny" mods are now tied with the what-were-they-smoking "Interesting" mods. Unfortunately, the total has now dropped to 3, but it's still (mystifyingly) "Interesting".
I did read, though, that some moderators now give out "Interesting" instead of "Funny", because "Funny" doesn't give you Karma anymore. Somehow, I don't think that's the case here.
Other mods out of the woodwork: the factual description of lightning's effects got modded Funny. Huh? I think the moderator meant that mod for the one below it ("the other 20% develop superpowers").
I can't freakin believe this got modded as Interesting. I wish I could mod moderations as Funny.
I 'bout fell out of my chair when I saw the moderations coming in. Not just once, but twice before the first Funny, resulting in (at least for the moment) a "+5, Interesting" for a Short Circuit reference.
Fortunately for the M1s, the M2s probably won't follow the link, either.
I saw a documentary on this subject back in the '80s. As I recall, the all-terrain robots were quite impressive, but subject to major, non-reversable programming glitches when subjected to large electro-magnetic fields (such as lightning strikes).
If there's one dirty Reb state that an educated Yankee can still justifiably harbor a deep hatred for, it's Texas. It really is like a whole other country... and the rest of America wishes to God it were.
One historical note: Texans were deeply divided during the Civil War:
The convention, which assembled in Austin on January 28, 1861, was dominated by secessionists. On February 1 the delegates adopted an ordinance of secession by a vote of 166 to 8. This ordinance was approved by the voters of the state, 46,153 to 14,747, on February 23. The convention reassembled in early March, declared Texas out of the Union, and adopted a measure uniting the state with other Southern states in the newly formed Confederate States of America. Governor Houston, who refused to recognize the authority of the convention to take this action, refused to take an oath of allegiance to the new government, whereupon the convention declared the office of governor vacant and elevated Lieutenant Governor Edward Clark to the position. President Lincoln offered to send troops to assist Houston if he would resist the convention, but Houston rejected the offer rather than bring on civil conflict within the state. He retired to his home in Huntsville, where he died on July 26, 1863.
However, as for "like a whole other country"... the feeling is mutual.:)
While we're at it, I'm beginning to think this whole "rule of law" thing is going too far, myself. It does nothing for the sense of "vengeance" human societies were founded upon for millennia.
Though you were making a point, and weren't seriously advocating total anarchy, it's notable that there are plenty of folks who do want to go back to the "good ol days". Here are the lyrics to a current country hit by Toby Keith and Willie Nelson:
Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree, Round up all of them bad boys, hang them high in the street for all the people to see...
The song, Beer For My Horses, goes on to say, "It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground."
I'd love to think that the NASCAR set(*) sees the song as a satire of our country's desire for simple solutions to complex problems. But I can't convince myself that it's so... and given Toby Keith's discography, I'm not sure he *did* mean it as a satire.
(*) No, I don't think all NASCAR fans are redneck anarchists. It's just the quickest metaphor I could find at the moment.
by FarrisGoldstein (694412) on 10:43 PM -- Friday August 01 2003 Working on it now. Should be done in a few days
Any progress so far? Enquiring minds want to know!
Re:More than Perseids... Mars too!
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Perseid Shower
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Mars will be closer to our planet than it's been in nearly 60,000 years...
This is working as a reasonably good line to get my daughter's friends to look up at the sky. However, our fellow Slashdotters have pointed out in previous discussions (too lazy to link, sorry) that it's not really that much closer than the planet gets every 14 years or so.
It's still very, very cool, though. We just moved out to the sticks, and the full moon and Mars together are a great sight. Plus, 14 years ago (age 23), I wasn't paying much attention to the stars. 14 years before that (age 9), I was the age of one of my kids now... so hopefully, they're getting a good start.
I read a short story long ago -- ok, it was in the '80s, I'll redefine "long ago" when I reach 200.
In this tongue-in-cheek story, humanity had conquered both death and aging -- but not accidents. It wasn't long before nobody was willing to do anything dangerous at all, especially something as high-risk as bearing children!
In one scene, the Queen of England is shown a baby, and recoils in horror -- nobody has *had* a baby in decades, and the wiggly, smelly, whiney bundle is just too much for her.
Finally, there are only two people left on the entire decaying planet. One is female, and the other is the very first "immortal" ever to undergo the treatment. The good news is that he's male, but the bad news is that he went through the therapy before puberty, making him unable to reproduce. She rides off on her bicycle to explore the wilds of China, and he never hears from her again.
I never quite understood why people attach so much importance to the score.
Mostly, it's the difference between this:
Re:Druids? (Score:0) by Li0n (110271)
and this:
Re:Druids? (Score:2) by RobertB-DC (622190)
I've done some experimenting, and the Comments and Moderation FAQ turns out to be right on the money. Post good stuff early, get modded up, and you go from a starting score of 1 to "bonus" 2. Get modded down, and you go from a starting score of 1 to 0 to never-to-be-seen -1. That really happens, and I've got the banned IP address to prove it.:P
On the other hand, this answer pretty much sums up why you shouldn't give a crap.
From the R'ing The FA department: David Boies' law firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, represents SCO. Boies represented former Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 election recount and tried the U.S. antitrust case against Microsoft.
Wow. Now if that isn't a stellar assortment of huge wins! I'm sure President Gore, who was so helpful in pursuing the now-completed Microsoft breakup, will be happy that his old friend is ensuring that SCO gets what they deserve for their valuable contributions to Linux.
(Although, ironically, SCO may indeed get just what they deserve...)
Even just a php or cgi page that generated links with *suspicious words* but nothing of interest. No actual person would use them, but the DMCA bots would see a jackpot
We would need more than just links. Plenty of web pages have links to, say Pac-Man fan pages.
What we'd need are links to valid.exe or.zip files containing just enough code to trip up the bots. I don't know enough about the ROMs, but surely there are non-copyrightabble headers or text strings contained within any game ROM. Juciciously placed, you could have a.exe that appears to the bot to be the real thing, as far as its limited intelligence can determine.
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From the [f]A:
"It's a nice idea," [Swiss nuclear waste scientest Ian] McKinley told New Scientist, "but I wouldn't buy shares in a company selling this process quite yet."
Hey, Ian, are you nuts? That's like saying "Computers are a nice idea, but I wouldn't buy shares in that IBM automated typewriter company just yet."
Right now would be the best time to invest in a company that has a chance of developing this technology. Give it 20 or 30 years, and you'll be sitting pretty -- assuming, of course, that you've also invested in the company's competitors and otherwise diversified.
For crying out loud... I thought day-trading went out with the dot-com bust. I guess some people never learn...
What sentence would you recommend in the hypothetical case I proposed?
I'm no fan of punishing tree-abusers more strongly than people-abusers. In fact, it really gets me mad when someone gets probation or a light sentence for killing with a car (especially if they're a football player), but someone gets thrown in jail for putting an ostrich to sleep the old-fashioned way.
But as far as determining an "appropriate" sentence... please keep in mind that this happened here in Texas, where justice can be a bit capricious. Heck, if Toby Keith had his way, he's be strung up from the remaining branches of the tall oak tree... for all the people to see...
I think the guy probably considers himself lucky.
You should be ashamed.
What, did I wet the bed?
The article is a few paragraphs, and you wouldn't be asking this question if you had read it.
I did RT[f]A, and I can't find the answer to my question in those few paragraphs. I suspect I'm missing something... but what? Could you please elaborate?
Oh, you're AC... you'll never even *see* this message, much less reply to it. So much for doing something about "dumb as we want it to be."
In 1989, a vandal used a strong poison and nearly killed the Treaty Oak, a 500-year-old Live Oak said to be the place where Stephen F. Austin signed a treaty with the local Native American tribes. Heroic efforts (funded by H. Ross Perot) went into saving the tree, but nobody knew if they would be successful.
To preserve the tree's legacy, it was "cloned" -- several still-living branches were rooted just as the parent poster described. One of these trees is now growing next to the original. It's clearly an exact genetic duplicate, and if that's not a clone, I don't now what is.
I agree with the parent poster -- what's the big deal? Why can't they just cut off a branch of the Methuselah tree and root it?
By the way, the story of the Treaty Oak has a happy ending. Despite fears that it would only be good for commemorative pen sets, the tree made a comeback, and started bearing acorns again in 1997 -- 8 years after the attack. Seedlings are now available, for "just" $125 bucks.
The poisoner, on the other hand, likely had a bit rougher time -- 9 years in a Texas state prison. No word on the fate of his acorns...
Scientists have taken seedlings from the world's oldest tree, a 4,768-year-old bristlecone pine named Methuselah, and plan on plan on altering them to make them clones
Looks like they've already gotten off to a good start, by cloning the words in the article. *rimshot*
(Isn't anyone going to welcome our new Bristlecone masters?)
I think the parent poster "got it", but I'm seeing way too many comments to this story that don't.
From the story:
Expect texting to be banned by the MPAA in the near future.
From the F'ing A:
[crickets chirping]
In case there's any question, allow me to spell it out: the last sentence of the Slashdot story is supposed to be funny. As in "how silly, next they'll be banning texting. ha ha ha!"
On the other hand, we *could* be paranoid and say that the real reason theaters want to install cell-phone jammers is to prevent teenyboppers from telling their friends how bad "Jiggly" J.Lo sucked. But that would be as silly as the Secret Service tracking the homeless.
Oh, bad example. Sorry.
Example:
Would you have someone from your team to look for part number XXXXXXX?
Bad example. In defense of "effective-enough communications", I'd like to point out that the error you highlighted didn't detract from my understanding of the message.
I can understand how someone in a hurry (or without a college-level education) could add the "to" and put "look" in the infinitive. In fact, if I go to look at the sentence long enough, it looks just fine!
I don't play Grammarian very often, but you've got a valid (if offtopic) point. But you really don't go far enough:
Use whatever style you want in email or IM...
I disagree with this premise, because "practice makes perfect" only works if you're practicing perfectly (you can thank my daughter's piano teacher for that one). I don't care if it's email, IM, or a sticky-note on your monitor... what's it going to hurt to do it right?
Of course, my 12-year-old just rolls her eyes when I tell her to write her emails in complete sentences. I ph33r for the fate of the next generation.
For their first experiment, they want to give a third color receptor to monkeys. Then, it's our turn:
There aren't any guarantees of what will happen, or if our brains will even accept the presence of another color, but a quick Google found that tetrachromatic vision is not at all uncommon in the animal kingdom... there's no reason to think we can't adapt.
I wonder if I'd have the guts to try it. I think so, especially after I'm retired and don't have to worry about it affecting my income-generating potential. But why stop at four colors? Give me IR, UV... heck, give me the real high-end and I'll contract myself out to NASA!
There's an excellent source of information about what "three primary colors" actually means at of Dave Trapp's Sequim (WA) Schools science department site. There's a relatively simple explanation of how color vision works, then a facinating and highly detailed in-depth discussion of the issue.
Some interesting notes from Mr. Trapp:
* "All three [signals] are equally sensitive to blue light, two have expanded ranges that include green and yellow light, and the third signal includes sensitivity to red light."
* "While these paradigms of primary colors have worked well for human printing and light uses for over a century, it is likely that the three primary colors are not descriptive of the world, but rather an artifact of our eyes, the tools we use to perceive the world."
* "The real world does not have primary colors!"
He also discusses how the world would be perceived differently if we evolved a fourth cone, sensitive in the UV region. Very cool stuff!
Interestingly, though, he's no longer teaching science, and details the reasons on his site. Anyone who's ever been driven crazy in a class taught by a guy named simply "Coach" (and who on this site hasn't?) will sympathize with this good teacher's plight.
Feh! Home Despot employs mostly part-time henchmen and won't accept government contracts (and don't let anyone tell you otherwise). Plus, their web site is little more than a home page with links to blank pages, and worst of all, they don't have a favicon.ico! How can you take a site seriously without a favicon?
But seriously, folks... I did *not* expect villainsupply.com to be a real link! Too cool... in an evil sort of way, that is. Wonder if Amazon.com knows about their "Evil Amazon.com" link?
I can't belive no one else noticed this obligatory 80s reference...
Actually, it's Your Moderation Points At Work: something like 15 of the first 20 (non-troll) comments were lame Short Circuit jokes, including my own (though mine got modded up to +5, Interesting by moderators who missed the joke!).
Read at -1 to see Slashdot groupthink in all its duplicitous glory.
... the moderation system is broken. it's not my fault nobody modded it offtopic.
I wouldn't say that the moderation system is broken... just that it's amusing to watch in the same way that the California recall elections are amusing to watch. As long as nothing important is at stake. [smirk]
Really, though, I think it works. It's not perfect, nor should it be -- just like the old quote about democracy not being perfect, just better than anything else we've come up with. A "perfect" moderation system would function about as effectively as Soviet-style communism: fair to all in theory, but completely unworkable in the real world.
And hey, sometimes I, too, forget to check "No Karma Bonus" when I post. So sue me! No, SCO, not you.
It's getting better and better. After getting a couple of "Overrated" wimp-out mods (and losing the Karma Bonus), the has-a-clue "Funny" mods are now tied with the what-were-they-smoking "Interesting" mods. Unfortunately, the total has now dropped to 3, but it's still (mystifyingly) "Interesting".
I did read, though, that some moderators now give out "Interesting" instead of "Funny", because "Funny" doesn't give you Karma anymore. Somehow, I don't think that's the case here.
Other mods out of the woodwork: the factual description of lightning's effects got modded Funny. Huh? I think the moderator meant that mod for the one below it ("the other 20% develop superpowers").
I can't freakin believe this got modded as Interesting. I wish I could mod moderations as Funny.
I 'bout fell out of my chair when I saw the moderations coming in. Not just once, but twice before the first Funny, resulting in (at least for the moment) a "+5, Interesting" for a Short Circuit reference.
Fortunately for the M1s, the M2s probably won't follow the link, either.
Shotgun Moderation... gotta love it.
I saw a documentary on this subject back in the '80s. As I recall, the all-terrain robots were quite impressive, but subject to major, non-reversable programming glitches when subjected to large electro-magnetic fields (such as lightning strikes).
One historical note: Texans were deeply divided during the Civil War:However, as for "like a whole other country"... the feeling is mutual.
Though you were making a point, and weren't seriously advocating total anarchy, it's notable that there are plenty of folks who do want to go back to the "good ol days". Here are the lyrics to a current country hit by Toby Keith and Willie Nelson:The song, Beer For My Horses, goes on to say, "It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground."
I'd love to think that the NASCAR set(*) sees the song as a satire of our country's desire for simple solutions to complex problems. But I can't convince myself that it's so... and given Toby Keith's discography, I'm not sure he *did* mean it as a satire.
(*) No, I don't think all NASCAR fans are redneck anarchists. It's just the quickest metaphor I could find at the moment.
by FarrisGoldstein (694412) on 10:43 PM -- Friday August 01 2003
Working on it now. Should be done in a few days
Any progress so far? Enquiring minds want to know!
Mars will be closer to our planet than it's been in nearly 60,000 years...
This is working as a reasonably good line to get my daughter's friends to look up at the sky. However, our fellow Slashdotters have pointed out in previous discussions (too lazy to link, sorry) that it's not really that much closer than the planet gets every 14 years or so.
It's still very, very cool, though. We just moved out to the sticks, and the full moon and Mars together are a great sight. Plus, 14 years ago (age 23), I wasn't paying much attention to the stars. 14 years before that (age 9), I was the age of one of my kids now... so hopefully, they're getting a good start.
I, for one...
by Anonymous Coward
don't give out anything that would identify me online, if I can possibly avoid it.
Something tells me that this discussion is going to have a *lot* of AC posts...
I read a short story long ago -- ok, it was in the '80s, I'll redefine "long ago" when I reach 200.
In this tongue-in-cheek story, humanity had conquered both death and aging -- but not accidents. It wasn't long before nobody was willing to do anything dangerous at all, especially something as high-risk as bearing children!
In one scene, the Queen of England is shown a baby, and recoils in horror -- nobody has *had* a baby in decades, and the wiggly, smelly, whiney bundle is just too much for her.
Finally, there are only two people left on the entire decaying planet. One is female, and the other is the very first "immortal" ever to undergo the treatment. The good news is that he's male, but the bad news is that he went through the therapy before puberty, making him unable to reproduce. She rides off on her bicycle to explore the wilds of China, and he never hears from her again.
Alright, someone... name that story!
I never quite understood why people attach so much importance to the score.
:P
Mostly, it's the difference between this:
Re:Druids? (Score:0)
by Li0n (110271)
and this:
Re:Druids? (Score:2)
by RobertB-DC (622190)
I've done some experimenting, and the Comments and Moderation FAQ turns out to be right on the money. Post good stuff early, get modded up, and you go from a starting score of 1 to "bonus" 2. Get modded down, and you go from a starting score of 1 to 0 to never-to-be-seen -1. That really happens, and I've got the banned IP address to prove it.
On the other hand, this answer pretty much sums up why you shouldn't give a crap.
From the R'ing The FA department:
David Boies' law firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, represents SCO. Boies represented former Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 election recount and tried the U.S. antitrust case against Microsoft.
Wow. Now if that isn't a stellar assortment of huge wins! I'm sure President Gore, who was so helpful in pursuing the now-completed Microsoft breakup, will be happy that his old friend is ensuring that SCO gets what they deserve for their valuable contributions to Linux.
(Although, ironically, SCO may indeed get just what they deserve...)
Even just a php or cgi page that generated links with *suspicious words* but nothing of interest. No actual person would use them, but the DMCA bots would see a jackpot
.exe or .zip files containing just enough code to trip up the bots. I don't know enough about the ROMs, but surely there are non-copyrightabble headers or text strings contained within any game ROM. Juciciously placed, you could have a .exe that appears to the bot to be the real thing, as far as its limited intelligence can determine.
We would need more than just links. Plenty of web pages have links to, say Pac-Man fan pages.
What we'd need are links to valid
Just think... a honeytoken for the rest of us!