Souceforge.net is okay because they don't control the.net TLD. If Sourceforge was owned by Verisign... eh, uhm, that's so scary I don't even wanna think about that.
The patent's more specific than that... their patent is a TLD operator selling people not true domains, but instead 3rd level web domains paired with matching 2nd level e-mail services. It's a specific product that they developed for.md that seems to have been duplicated by.name... the good news is that this only effects those who hold.name addresses,.com,.net,.org,.us, etc. can still go to sleep tonight...
According to CNET, these were the people responsible for launching the.md TLD in the USA to represent "medical doctor" when in reality,.md belongs to the Republic of Moldova. These people are definitely not scared of ruining Internet conventions when they stand in the way of a quick buck.
However, the one thing we can relax on is that this doesn't affect.com,.net,.org,.edu,.us etc., just.name because what the patent covers is selling a 3rd-level domain for web use that equates to a username on the 2nd-level domain's mailserver. (If the registrant of john.doe.name gets the john@doe.name e-mail address... and an unrelated jane.doe.name gets jane@doe.name, and the registrar of.name is keeping doe.name, smith.name, jones.name, etc. for this kind of reselling... that's what the patent covers.)
So, this isn't exactly a sky-is-falling situation, but it's shysters trying to make a quick buck off of patent law....
Yes, but South Park has always used a cheap 2D CG to simulate the original construction paper effects. It's the style of the show that carried into the movie.
Even The Simpsons is mostly computer drawn, with what hand animation work is still left done overseas, and with the exception of one particular special segment is entirely 2D.
Nearly Anime is also 2D... "3D Anime" almost seems like a contradiction in terms.
But notice that Disney has no entry in the adults-only animation sphere. Well, they tried, Touchstone (a Disney unit) was involved in The Critic. But, simply put, the legendary Disney brand can't do adults-only projects. And that's what's moving in the 2D animation world...
"Bomb" is a relative term in the movie industry. A truely flop or bomb or dud movie is defined as a movie that cannot make in gross revenues what it cost to produce. Computer technology is reaching the point where it's soon going to be cheaper to produce a Pixar movie than to pay hand animators to make a 2d movie...
If Walt Disney were alive today, he likely wouldn't recognize the company that has his name. Roy Disney certainly doesn't think so...
The Disney of today is not a pure family-friendly company by any means. The "Disney brand name" is reserved for G-rated projects only, but companies such as Touchstone Entertainment and Miramax Pictures exist under the Disney company's ownership to publish PG to R-rated fare. Everything that goes out over The Disney Channel is family friendly, but you can't say the same about ABC.
And from that view of the world, it's easy to see why 2D animation is out the door. It's not a money-maker today.
The original Disney works are living on borrowed time right now. Mickey Mouse quietly celebrated his 75th birthday this year. Why didn't the Disney theme parks hold a big celebration for that event like they do for every other excuse to hold a big celebration? Because 75 years old used to be the retirement age for copyrights, until the Sonny Bono Copyright Extention Act made it 95 years. The company knows that they're not going to be able to get extentions forever, so they've already started to diversify while they still can...
Because they're in Canada and are pricing to the CAN$ unit, the price from a US$-spending American's point of view is going to constantly be bouncing... just wait for the exchange rates to get better and they'll be cheaper than iTunes...
What's misleading is the claim that they're the first to do what they do, implying that nobody else has done it better. In truth, Magnatune provides a source file that can be downgraded to a high quality MP3 if you desire to do so, while this service is claiming to be the first to provide high quality MP3s...
Magnatune provides the technically better file, Bleep provides the ready-to-use file that most people would convert their Magnatune files anyway... so Bleep's claim of "first" is pushing aside Magnatune on only a technicality, not a dramatic difference.
It'll likely report to the operating systems as a single "logical disk". Of course, they could throw a gigabit networking port in the back and call it a "file server" as well.
I don't think a cloned SpeedPass would last very long... If Mobil doesn't detect strange account activity, the user most certainly will. Notice that everywhere you can use a SpeedPass, there's a security camera. It's just a matter of pulling the tape to get a suspect photo... and quite likely also the plates on their vehicle.
So, even if it does turn out to be easy to duplicate, it'd still be hard to use a cloned SpeedPass and get away with it.
If you notice how close you have to get your keychain to the pump at a Mobil station, you'll see that you have to pratically touch the sign with the keychain to get it to read. Therefore, there's a pretty good security against unauthorized reading in just plain the physics of the situation.
Besides, the actual credit card number isn't on the tag, simply a tag ID value that converts back to a credit card on file at SpeedPass headquarters. This creates an extra layer of transaction approval, as Mobil can quickly notice "Hey, that tag can't be both in Texas and Maine 15 minutes appart..." among other things. Tracking the thieves would also become a very trivial task, since gas being put into a car would usually reveal a license plate to a security camera.
I remember a day when e-mail was nearly Spam-free, and Spammers only got away with it once. That was back in the mid-90s on the Prodigy Interactive Service, before they had opened their mail system to the Internet. When there was a closed system that required a vaild credit card to open a master account, and accounts who abused the e-mail system could be terminated without any appeal, spam existed but was very rare and quickly dealt with whenever it sprouted.
If Yahoo, MSN, and Earthlink all joined together to form an "invitation only" e-mail club, and each took responsibilty for patroling its own user base, the world would be a whole lot closer to a spam-free place. "Pink contracts" would not be tolerated, as the entire ISP would risk being expelled from the club, and therefore not be able to offer functional inter-network e-mail service. Remember, the Internet is nothing but a network formed by joining other networks... nobody has to honor the requests of other networks, however.
Yeah, but the point is to avoid using the word Viagra correctly, instead putting in strings like "V*I*A*G*R*A", "V14Gr4", "V - I = A - G = R - A", and anything else they can think of to try to avoid string traps.
The solution to randomness is to spell check and grammar check incoming e-mail, and consider violations as cause to ad points to the score indicating that it's spam-like.
Sure, a few strange words might be a name that's not in the filter yet, but pure gibberish should be a red flag that either somebody's cat walked on the keyboard, or there's spam going on here. Heavy use of "non-spam" words can override to indicate it's good mail... but a poorly composed mail that doesn't use language seen in friendly mail is highly likely to be spam....
who gives an advance screening of a movie to a B-movie actor?
The people who run the Oscar awards. See, members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences are only supposed to vote on categories in which they've seen all of the movies. Giving an advanced video to a B-level actor is basically slipping $10 in their pockets, they don't actually have to go to a theater and pay the retail price to see the movie.
There was a big uproar a couple years ago when the studios considered accross the board banning the practice because of the piracy-source issues. The eventual outcome was that only Oscar voters would get screeners, all other awards (such as the Screen Actors Guild) would be left out in the cold. This lead to several of the smaller pre-Oscar awards giving up the ghost.
The fact that Caridi's copy is the one that leaked doesn't prove that he did it, but it proves that only his copy's chain of custody needs to be investigated, because it was clearly that one.
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If the abuse of the .md TLD was documented first, then that would create prior art that'd make .name doomed from the start...
Souceforge.net is okay because they don't control the .net TLD. If Sourceforge was owned by Verisign... eh, uhm, that's so scary I don't even wanna think about that.
The patent's more specific than that... their patent is a TLD operator selling people not true domains, but instead 3rd level web domains paired with matching 2nd level e-mail services. It's a specific product that they developed for .md that seems to have been duplicated by .name... the good news is that this only effects those who hold .name addresses, .com, .net, .org, .us, etc. can still go to sleep tonight...
According to CNET, these were the people responsible for launching the .md TLD in the USA to represent "medical doctor" when in reality, .md belongs to the Republic of Moldova. These people are definitely not scared of ruining Internet conventions when they stand in the way of a quick buck.
.com, .net, .org, .edu, .us etc., just .name because what the patent covers is selling a 3rd-level domain for web use that equates to a username on the 2nd-level domain's mailserver. (If the registrant of john.doe.name gets the john@doe.name e-mail address... and an unrelated jane.doe.name gets jane@doe.name, and the registrar of .name is keeping doe.name, smith.name, jones.name, etc. for this kind of reselling... that's what the patent covers.)
However, the one thing we can relax on is that this doesn't affect
So, this isn't exactly a sky-is-falling situation, but it's shysters trying to make a quick buck off of patent law....
SCO not coming up with proof is not a news story... it's something that's been going on for quite a while.
Yeah, how well is it doing at getting the part time job to pay off its graduate education like the real students are doing?
Yes, but South Park has always used a cheap 2D CG to simulate the original construction paper effects. It's the style of the show that carried into the movie.
Even The Simpsons is mostly computer drawn, with what hand animation work is still left done overseas, and with the exception of one particular special segment is entirely 2D.
Nearly Anime is also 2D... "3D Anime" almost seems like a contradiction in terms.
But notice that Disney has no entry in the adults-only animation sphere. Well, they tried, Touchstone (a Disney unit) was involved in The Critic. But, simply put, the legendary Disney brand can't do adults-only projects. And that's what's moving in the 2D animation world...
Twenty more years, and they'll let him out of the water tower!
Nah, that's the Warner Brothers, Yakko and Wakko, and of course the Warner Sister, Dot. They escaped the water tower in the mid-90s.
"Bomb" is a relative term in the movie industry. A truely flop or bomb or dud movie is defined as a movie that cannot make in gross revenues what it cost to produce. Computer technology is reaching the point where it's soon going to be cheaper to produce a Pixar movie than to pay hand animators to make a 2d movie...
If Walt Disney were alive today, he likely wouldn't recognize the company that has his name. Roy Disney certainly doesn't think so...
The Disney of today is not a pure family-friendly company by any means. The "Disney brand name" is reserved for G-rated projects only, but companies such as Touchstone Entertainment and Miramax Pictures exist under the Disney company's ownership to publish PG to R-rated fare. Everything that goes out over The Disney Channel is family friendly, but you can't say the same about ABC.
And from that view of the world, it's easy to see why 2D animation is out the door. It's not a money-maker today.
The original Disney works are living on borrowed time right now. Mickey Mouse quietly celebrated his 75th birthday this year. Why didn't the Disney theme parks hold a big celebration for that event like they do for every other excuse to hold a big celebration? Because 75 years old used to be the retirement age for copyrights, until the Sonny Bono Copyright Extention Act made it 95 years. The company knows that they're not going to be able to get extentions forever, so they've already started to diversify while they still can...
Because they're in Canada and are pricing to the CAN$ unit, the price from a US$-spending American's point of view is going to constantly be bouncing... just wait for the exchange rates to get better and they'll be cheaper than iTunes...
What's misleading is the claim that they're the first to do what they do, implying that nobody else has done it better. In truth, Magnatune provides a source file that can be downgraded to a high quality MP3 if you desire to do so, while this service is claiming to be the first to provide high quality MP3s...
Magnatune provides the technically better file, Bleep provides the ready-to-use file that most people would convert their Magnatune files anyway... so Bleep's claim of "first" is pushing aside Magnatune on only a technicality, not a dramatic difference.
It even goes further than that... because that's unformatted capacity. Put your favorite file system in, and the capacity gets even smaller.
Still, it goes down as the current record holder for biggest "portable" storage unit...
All USB 2 devices can down-step to USB 1.1, so they'd have to go out of their way not to be USB 1.1 compatible.
How would you go about RAIDing these things?
Software based, of course.
It'll likely report to the operating systems as a single "logical disk". Of course, they could throw a gigabit networking port in the back and call it a "file server" as well.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any promise that you're allowed to use all of those ports at once...
I don't think a cloned SpeedPass would last very long... If Mobil doesn't detect strange account activity, the user most certainly will. Notice that everywhere you can use a SpeedPass, there's a security camera. It's just a matter of pulling the tape to get a suspect photo... and quite likely also the plates on their vehicle.
So, even if it does turn out to be easy to duplicate, it'd still be hard to use a cloned SpeedPass and get away with it.
If you notice how close you have to get your keychain to the pump at a Mobil station, you'll see that you have to pratically touch the sign with the keychain to get it to read. Therefore, there's a pretty good security against unauthorized reading in just plain the physics of the situation.
Besides, the actual credit card number isn't on the tag, simply a tag ID value that converts back to a credit card on file at SpeedPass headquarters. This creates an extra layer of transaction approval, as Mobil can quickly notice "Hey, that tag can't be both in Texas and Maine 15 minutes appart..." among other things. Tracking the thieves would also become a very trivial task, since gas being put into a car would usually reveal a license plate to a security camera.
I remember a day when e-mail was nearly Spam-free, and Spammers only got away with it once. That was back in the mid-90s on the Prodigy Interactive Service, before they had opened their mail system to the Internet. When there was a closed system that required a vaild credit card to open a master account, and accounts who abused the e-mail system could be terminated without any appeal, spam existed but was very rare and quickly dealt with whenever it sprouted.
If Yahoo, MSN, and Earthlink all joined together to form an "invitation only" e-mail club, and each took responsibilty for patroling its own user base, the world would be a whole lot closer to a spam-free place. "Pink contracts" would not be tolerated, as the entire ISP would risk being expelled from the club, and therefore not be able to offer functional inter-network e-mail service. Remember, the Internet is nothing but a network formed by joining other networks... nobody has to honor the requests of other networks, however.
Zero. Code is not something that should be e-mailed anywhere I'm around. :)
Yeah, but the beauty of /. is the moderation system that sorts the 5% you do actually want to read out...
Yeah, but the point is to avoid using the word Viagra correctly, instead putting in strings like "V*I*A*G*R*A", "V14Gr4", "V - I = A - G = R - A", and anything else they can think of to try to avoid string traps.
The solution to randomness is to spell check and grammar check incoming e-mail, and consider violations as cause to ad points to the score indicating that it's spam-like.
Sure, a few strange words might be a name that's not in the filter yet, but pure gibberish should be a red flag that either somebody's cat walked on the keyboard, or there's spam going on here. Heavy use of "non-spam" words can override to indicate it's good mail... but a poorly composed mail that doesn't use language seen in friendly mail is highly likely to be spam....
who gives an advance screening of a movie to a B-movie actor?
The people who run the Oscar awards. See, members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences are only supposed to vote on categories in which they've seen all of the movies. Giving an advanced video to a B-level actor is basically slipping $10 in their pockets, they don't actually have to go to a theater and pay the retail price to see the movie.
There was a big uproar a couple years ago when the studios considered accross the board banning the practice because of the piracy-source issues. The eventual outcome was that only Oscar voters would get screeners, all other awards (such as the Screen Actors Guild) would be left out in the cold. This lead to several of the smaller pre-Oscar awards giving up the ghost.
The fact that Caridi's copy is the one that leaked doesn't prove that he did it, but it proves that only his copy's chain of custody needs to be investigated, because it was clearly that one.