No, that was regular series host Patrick Norton, and that was a kilt.
The kilt was actually a point of contraversy for fans of the show because Patrick used to wear his kilt on a weekly basis, until TechTV management decided that it made bad first impressions and ordered that he stop. He complied, but fan protests demanded the kilt be reinstated. This as led to managment declaring an all-kilt episode where every cast member wore a kilt. Wil's episode was the first time in months Patrick has worn the kilt without a big deal being made of it.
The patent belongs to whomever invented the thing first, not whomever was the first to pay the fee to the USPTO.The problem is, proving you were first is hard.
If Amazon were to patent everything it does, and then publish the fact that they won't enforce the patents, the would would be a better place.
If you unify the office security systems, then the system can require you be wearing your watch in order to unlock the bathroom door... if you left your watch at your desk while you go to the bathroom, you have to go back and get it.
People will carry their key with them if it's required to do everything they want to do away from their desk too.
You know, common movie elements won't understand this "token wristwatch that has a Linux-running microprocessor" thing, so let's dumb it down. How about he gets clubbed in order to get a piece of metal that has been engraved in some semi-random form so that when it's placed into its reader, it causes a door to be unlocked.
"Sensitive data" basically boils down to the one or two directories where you actually save your work to. You don't really need to encrypt your programs or.mp3 files.
There are business analysts (remember what the first four letters of that word are..) who add up all those seconds lost to things like hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del and typing their passwords over a year, then multiply it by the hourly wage to determine how many dollars are wasted by that task. If that step is replaced by a passive process, it theoretically makes employees more effective... YMMV in actual use.
Same thing that happens when you lose your physical key or your pass-card... you change the lock so that the old watch is no longer acceptable, and you get a new watch who is the new keeper of the key.
RFIDs are "dumb" devices. They're like your EZ-Pass in your car, when a radio beam passes through them, they alter the beam to add their "signature" which is uniquely identifyable. This is useful for identity, but nonsense for encryption.
The problem is that if you are within range to "hear" the signal, you get the ID and enough to make a duplicate token. Tardly the model for security. There's no place for encryption here... whatever value is broadcast is the key value.
By requring the token to have a microprocessor, the key never gets broadcast. It's an encrypted conversation between the station and the token, which if properly implemented makes it impossible to have a duplicate token take its place.
If they never ask you to document anything, then its their fault they didn't get any. In the time you would have been documented things, you were doing other "more productive" activities. That's their problem now.
If you were asked to document and didn't, they should have let you go a whole lot sooner. Their failure to keep track of you resulted in unsatistactory work by their standards, but it's too late to turn back the clock on that.
In either situation, they have the option of either figuring it all out on their own, or paying you to come back to get done whatever needed to get done.
You should send the official "protest letter" to your credit card company as soon as you realize that things aren't right. In many cases, there's a time limit to file the protest before the credit card company gets to wash their hands from the transaction.
After the first rejection or ignored request from the "merchant" go straight to the CC issuer.
Any escrow worth its salt will accept the buyer's payment via credit card.
Why is this safer? Because if you don't get the goods, you can call the credit card company for a charge-back. If the escrow is just a scam, they'll be charged-back so many times that Visa and Mastercard will stop working with them, rendering the site useless.
Wiring to a bank account, especially an overseas bank account, opens you up to this kind of trouble. If the scammer is completely outside of the USA, there is nothing American law enforcement can do, and third-world countries usually have enough problems that enforcing laws about "don't scam Americans" are not high on their list.
Nope, it's what the press release was designed to do.
CNN reported that there were 421 burners involved. CNN was wrong. There were 156.
The RIAA's press release used "new accounting math" to turn the 156 actual units into the equal of 421 units of "normal speed" drives, whatever speed the RIAA felt like was normal. CNN took the funny number and reported it with standard units, therefore making the public thinking the operation was close to triple the size it really was.
Are there any all-request format TV or radio music shows that have non-RIAA artists within their domain of acceptable requests? Turn/. loose on their request lines, and let's see what happens.
Radioland is a self-fulfilling system sometimes. Most radio charts factor in radio airplay, and then are taken by the program directors as clues as to what they should be playing.
So for smaller artists, the game is like this: Can't be on the charts without getting airplay, can't get airplay without being on the charts.
The RIAA's "service" to artists is that they give them the mass media thrust into fame. Getting your video played on TRL means that people who never heard of you will see you... a small handful will like you, and buy your CD, posters, T-shirt, etc.
Of course, any artist endorsed by the Slashdot community would likely have to committ that the song we request be open source, lest they turn around and sign an RIAA deal with their newfound popularity. The goal would to prove to artists that "it can be done." Forget about CD revenues, just get your music in front of a lot of people and they'll make you a star.. and stars are already making a lot of money from non-CD sources.
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PHP is intended for run-in-the-browser apps, and really does not have much in the way of support for anything that doesn't. In exchange for direct functions to send HTTP headers and cookies, you basically give up the ability to "control" the host computer.
PHP is not a be-all language, and it'd turn ugly quickly if they tried to force it to be one.
But the porn industry money is not in the hands of five mega-companies like the mass media industry is. Therefore, companies are being sued one-by-one and each company has to decide whether it is worth it to risk everything on a lawsuit defense.
Worst of all, the defense organization is charging members exactly the same fees they'd pay if they just give up... they save no money by fighting this, and only risk losing and being bankrupted. It's a hard call for the individual owners to make.
It's that kind of logic that these twerps are hoping for...
The problem with it is that if a porn site loses the patent cases first, then when they go after AOL Time Warner and friends they can point to their porn case victories. Content doesn't mater in the patent. If it's a violation of the patent to transfer a.mpg of porn, it's a violation to transfer a.mpg of a religious gathering too.
This sets up a horrible sitation for the big content owners. If they throw their weight into this case, they're gonna get labeled as supporting porn. If they stay out of this case, they're gonna get hit hard with patent claims of their own...
And then once the big guys go down, well, are their any forms of digital media on your site?
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HotBot Returns
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Hotbot never was a search engine. From the day it launched, it did nothing but provide Inktomi's results. (Inktomi has always had the odd business model of powering other people's sites while refusing to run an inktomi.com serach engine for themselves.)
Over time, other parters have come and gone, but there has never been a true Hotbot search engine.
Yes, but my original point a few posts up the chain is that the co-relation is between a old site with a high present Google standing being able to gain more links than a new site which by definition starts with no standing in Google.
It doesn't support your point. In fact the abstract says "The rate of acquisition of new links is probably proportional to the number of links the site already has, because the more links a site has, the more visible it becomes and the more new links it will get." Yes, new sites have the ability to quickly get a lot of links, but without the benefit of being mentioned by the existing media, it's hard to get the visibility which is required to get the links.
We're only a DNS record hack away from that going haywire...
Re:Google and HotBot Google have different results
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Let's just say HotBot is not the site you should be using if you're looking for p0rn.
Hotbot appears to have a more-strict sexual content filter than Google.com, so when you have both sites set to their default setting for smut-removal, virtually every keyword will see more striken results on Hotbot Google than plan Google. However, if you turn off the filter on both sites, you will recieve identical result counts.
However, if you repeat the search with HotBot's "Block Offensive Content" feature set to its lowest setting, Ouchy The Clown is reinstated.
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HotBot Returns
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I'm not convinced these guys have gotten the word that you have to do something that's really worthwhile to make money on the web now.
Unfortunately, you don't.
The deal here is simple. HotBot resigns from the search engine game, and serves as a redirector to the survivors. When you do a Google search via HotBot, Google's AdWords ads appear at the top and sides just like on Google. HotBot's owners get to take a cut of Google's ad revenue from such ads.
CDNow is doing the same thing. They've pulled out of the music-selling business, and now simply have become a glorified Amazon.com Affiliate. If you type CDNow.com into your URL bad expecting the old site, you get a music-focused view of Amazon.com, and CDNow takes a cut from anything you buy when you enter Amazon.com in through their door/
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No, that was regular series host Patrick Norton, and that was a kilt.
The kilt was actually a point of contraversy for fans of the show because Patrick used to wear his kilt on a weekly basis, until TechTV management decided that it made bad first impressions and ordered that he stop. He complied, but fan protests demanded the kilt be reinstated. This as led to managment declaring an all-kilt episode where every cast member wore a kilt. Wil's episode was the first time in months Patrick has worn the kilt without a big deal being made of it.
I'm waiting for the pi-click shopping patent. :)
The patent belongs to whomever invented the thing first, not whomever was the first to pay the fee to the USPTO.The problem is, proving you were first is hard.
If Amazon were to patent everything it does, and then publish the fact that they won't enforce the patents, the would would be a better place.
LoJack is invisible. I think you mean The Club.
If you unify the office security systems, then the system can require you be wearing your watch in order to unlock the bathroom door... if you left your watch at your desk while you go to the bathroom, you have to go back and get it.
People will carry their key with them if it's required to do everything they want to do away from their desk too.
You know, common movie elements won't understand this "token wristwatch that has a Linux-running microprocessor" thing, so let's dumb it down. How about he gets clubbed in order to get a piece of metal that has been engraved in some semi-random form so that when it's placed into its reader, it causes a door to be unlocked.
I know... call it The Key
"Sensitive data" basically boils down to the one or two directories where you actually save your work to. You don't really need to encrypt your programs or .mp3 files.
There are business analysts (remember what the first four letters of that word are..) who add up all those seconds lost to things like hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del and typing their passwords over a year, then multiply it by the hourly wage to determine how many dollars are wasted by that task. If that step is replaced by a passive process, it theoretically makes employees more effective... YMMV in actual use.
Same thing that happens when you lose your physical key or your pass-card... you change the lock so that the old watch is no longer acceptable, and you get a new watch who is the new keeper of the key.
RFIDs are "dumb" devices. They're like your EZ-Pass in your car, when a radio beam passes through them, they alter the beam to add their "signature" which is uniquely identifyable. This is useful for identity, but nonsense for encryption. The problem is that if you are within range to "hear" the signal, you get the ID and enough to make a duplicate token. Tardly the model for security. There's no place for encryption here... whatever value is broadcast is the key value. By requring the token to have a microprocessor, the key never gets broadcast. It's an encrypted conversation between the station and the token, which if properly implemented makes it impossible to have a duplicate token take its place.
If they never ask you to document anything, then its their fault they didn't get any. In the time you would have been documented things, you were doing other "more productive" activities. That's their problem now.
If you were asked to document and didn't, they should have let you go a whole lot sooner. Their failure to keep track of you resulted in unsatistactory work by their standards, but it's too late to turn back the clock on that.
In either situation, they have the option of either figuring it all out on their own, or paying you to come back to get done whatever needed to get done.
You should send the official "protest letter" to your credit card company as soon as you realize that things aren't right. In many cases, there's a time limit to file the protest before the credit card company gets to wash their hands from the transaction.
After the first rejection or ignored request from the "merchant" go straight to the CC issuer.
Any escrow worth its salt will accept the buyer's payment via credit card. Why is this safer? Because if you don't get the goods, you can call the credit card company for a charge-back. If the escrow is just a scam, they'll be charged-back so many times that Visa and Mastercard will stop working with them, rendering the site useless. Wiring to a bank account, especially an overseas bank account, opens you up to this kind of trouble. If the scammer is completely outside of the USA, there is nothing American law enforcement can do, and third-world countries usually have enough problems that enforcing laws about "don't scam Americans" are not high on their list.
Nope, it's what the press release was designed to do.
CNN reported that there were 421 burners involved. CNN was wrong. There were 156.
The RIAA's press release used "new accounting math" to turn the 156 actual units into the equal of 421 units of "normal speed" drives, whatever speed the RIAA felt like was normal. CNN took the funny number and reported it with standard units, therefore making the public thinking the operation was close to triple the size it really was.
Are there any all-request format TV or radio music shows that have non-RIAA artists within their domain of acceptable requests? Turn /. loose on their request lines, and let's see what happens.
Radioland is a self-fulfilling system sometimes. Most radio charts factor in radio airplay, and then are taken by the program directors as clues as to what they should be playing.
So for smaller artists, the game is like this: Can't be on the charts without getting airplay, can't get airplay without being on the charts.
The RIAA's "service" to artists is that they give them the mass media thrust into fame. Getting your video played on TRL means that people who never heard of you will see you... a small handful will like you, and buy your CD, posters, T-shirt, etc.
Of course, any artist endorsed by the Slashdot community would likely have to committ that the song we request be open source, lest they turn around and sign an RIAA deal with their newfound popularity. The goal would to prove to artists that "it can be done." Forget about CD revenues, just get your music in front of a lot of people and they'll make you a star.. and stars are already making a lot of money from non-CD sources.
PHP is intended for run-in-the-browser apps, and really does not have much in the way of support for anything that doesn't. In exchange for direct functions to send HTTP headers and cookies, you basically give up the ability to "control" the host computer.
PHP is not a be-all language, and it'd turn ugly quickly if they tried to force it to be one.
But the porn industry money is not in the hands of five mega-companies like the mass media industry is. Therefore, companies are being sued one-by-one and each company has to decide whether it is worth it to risk everything on a lawsuit defense.
Worst of all, the defense organization is charging members exactly the same fees they'd pay if they just give up... they save no money by fighting this, and only risk losing and being bankrupted. It's a hard call for the individual owners to make.
Both patent and copyright laws need to be reformed... stat.
It's that kind of logic that these twerps are hoping for...
.mpg of porn, it's a violation to transfer a .mpg of a religious gathering too.
The problem with it is that if a porn site loses the patent cases first, then when they go after AOL Time Warner and friends they can point to their porn case victories. Content doesn't mater in the patent. If it's a violation of the patent to transfer a
This sets up a horrible sitation for the big content owners. If they throw their weight into this case, they're gonna get labeled as supporting porn. If they stay out of this case, they're gonna get hit hard with patent claims of their own...
And then once the big guys go down, well, are their any forms of digital media on your site?
Hotbot never was a search engine. From the day it launched, it did nothing but provide Inktomi's results. (Inktomi has always had the odd business model of powering other people's sites while refusing to run an inktomi.com serach engine for themselves.) Over time, other parters have come and gone, but there has never been a true Hotbot search engine.
Yes, but my original point a few posts up the chain is that the co-relation is between a old site with a high present Google standing being able to gain more links than a new site which by definition starts with no standing in Google.
Is this your study?
It doesn't support your point. In fact the abstract says "The rate of acquisition of new links is probably proportional to the number of links the site already has, because the more links a site has, the more visible it becomes and the more new links it will get." Yes, new sites have the ability to quickly get a lot of links, but without the benefit of being mentioned by the existing media, it's hard to get the visibility which is required to get the links.
We're only a DNS record hack away from that going haywire...
Let's just say HotBot is not the site you should be using if you're looking for p0rn.
Hotbot appears to have a more-strict sexual content filter than Google.com, so when you have both sites set to their default setting for smut-removal, virtually every keyword will see more striken results on Hotbot Google than plan Google. However, if you turn off the filter on both sites, you will recieve identical result counts.
Google search for "clown" leads to "Ouchy The Clown" whose site has been declared "Mature Content" by Google
Hotbot's Google search for "clown" skips the #1 hit to move to the site for Insane Clown Posse.
However, if you repeat the search with HotBot's "Block Offensive Content" feature set to its lowest setting, Ouchy The Clown is reinstated.
I'm not convinced these guys have gotten the word that you have to do something that's really worthwhile to make money on the web now.
Unfortunately, you don't.
The deal here is simple. HotBot resigns from the search engine game, and serves as a redirector to the survivors. When you do a Google search via HotBot, Google's AdWords ads appear at the top and sides just like on Google. HotBot's owners get to take a cut of Google's ad revenue from such ads.
CDNow is doing the same thing. They've pulled out of the music-selling business, and now simply have become a glorified Amazon.com Affiliate. If you type CDNow.com into your URL bad expecting the old site, you get a music-focused view of Amazon.com, and CDNow takes a cut from anything you buy when you enter Amazon.com in through their door/