This reminds me a bit of the Barbi issues brought up by Mattel. Mattel didn't appreciate the ways in which Barbi was being (mis)used in certain situations and successfully sued to have it stopped. Is there any potential for copyright violation here since the author is including the legos in a published work? I know legos has had a generally positive outlook on users hacking their products so it's probable that Legos wouldn't sue, but is it potentially within thir rights?
Isn't that him in that Nissan car commercial (I think it's Nissan). It shows a shot of him pretty quickly riding in the car with some mild electronic music playing over the top, but I'm pretty sure it's him. Can anyone back me up on this?
I use so many SSL certs that I became a reseller for InstantSSL. It basically costs $200 and you get the ability to generate all the certificates you want without first providing business licenses. It also costs about $8 less, too. There's also zero turn around time...I get the completed cert immediately. It's *extremely* convenient but it kind of defeats the concept of a trusted source.
It's not the governments that are maintaining the infrastructure of the Internet. Especially not the state governments who would be benefiting from Internet taxation. So you're saying we should tax the Internet and give the money to who? AT&T? MCI? Maybe Internet taxation would have saved the Woldcom situation, right?
It's been stated that Doom 3 won't run at full frame rate on any of today's existing hardware. Does a card like this change that situation? What types of advances in graphics cards are going to be necessary to play Doom 3 at it's fullest potential?
So with all the spam, now the Iraqui leaders get a chance to help all those Nigerians get money out of the country. I bet they also have 12 inch penises, have overcome hairloss, and have lost 10 pounds just this past week. What are we trying to do...create a race of wealthy, well hung, rich guys to fight against?
I saw this story on Wired a couple days ago. I already filled out the form online to join the settlement group. It was a suprisingly simple process...name, address, email address and click accept on a few things. You don't even need a recipt. Here's the link for those interested.
For some reason when I submitted this EXACT same story a few days ago it was rejected in under 10 minutes. Oh well, can't win 'em all.
One of my biggest frustrations is having to explain to customers the difference between an experienced programmer who develops web applications and the community college level web "designer" with a cracked copy of Photoshop and Dreamweaver who's going around town. I do a lot of work with hotels and overall the owners/managers are woefully computer/Internet illiterate. When asked, some of my clients don't even know what browser they're running. I kind of like the idea of some certifications to bring some legitimacy to the profession but faced with the ignorance of the unwashed masses, I'm not sure how much good it will do. If they don't have enough knowledge to even know the basics, how are they going to know enough to look for a particular certification? In the larger corporate world, I feel like it will be just another buzzword for recruiters. MCSE? A+? We already know that those titles don't necessarily imply proficiency. I think a union would be better than just another acronym/certification, but there's so many issues with that. Maybe we could talk the Teamsters into co-opting the computer industry. Then we'd start to see some change.
Disney is now lobbying to retroactively extend copyright laws to cover the dinosaurs. Although dinosaurs have fallen into the public domain, Disney believes that their new copyright on them will lead to greater innovation in the field of reptiles. After all, who else is creating Dinosaurs(TM) any more?
An insider at Disney has leaked the fact that the Dinosaurs(TM) are part of a copyright army that will be used to enforce Disney's intellectual property claims. Lawerence Lessig beware...if you see a Dinoasur(TM)...run!
I strongly believe that the path to better accessability lies in the creation of better screen reader technology. There is absolutely no way that the billions of pages online are going to be retouched to make them accessable. The battle has, to a large degree, already been lost. Don't get me wrong...I'm all in favor of producing compliant pages, but I wonder what percentage of the Internet is compliant today? We're never going to clean up the mess. There are too many mediocre and amateure web developers out there who don't even know what the W3C is. Forget converting the developers and instead focus on efforts to create the uber-screenreader. Something capabale of navigating through the web applications we're using today. I do lots of work for hotels and with their reservation systems in particular. Do you have any idea how hard it is to book a hotel room with a screen reader? or a plane ticket, or anything. It's a joke.
This is the perfect area for open source software. I also think that this would be the perfect place for the goverment to get involved. Not in legislation but in funding. The government seems very interested in passing laws to ensure equal access but isn't it about time they write a check to make equal access on the Internet a reality. One perfect piece of software will solve this entire problem for everybody.
Great one more thing for the telcos to screw up. I'm sure that ADSL2 means 2x the wait and 2x the cost. I'm already looking at my calendar and setting aside a week to wait for them to show up. I'm sure they'll have to make twice as many trips out for line tests and the techs will be twice as ignorant of the technology involved. In Soviet Russia, I bet they get it installed quicker.
I've had a dedicated server for about 5 years now. For the first 4.5 yeas I was on Hurricane Electric. H.E. has got to be the crappiest host in the world. They were great when I first started with them but made absolutely no advances in their servce or technology in 4.5 years. When they told me they couldn't install lib-mcrypt because it was too hard, I knew it was time to move. I've been with ProHosters for close to 6 months now and I think it was the best decision of my life. Realtime 24/7 support via their own IRC channel and super-smart people working there. They totally work their asses off for you. I have a dedicated RedHat box. I get 100 GB/month transfer with $1.50/GB over and they manage it for me. It costs me $300/month which is pretty normal for a dedicated machine.
There is obiviously a lot of emphasis in coaxing web developers into making their sites 508 compliant. To me, this seems like the difficult and inherently flawed approach. There is never going to be 100% compliance when you have billions of pages on the Internet. Wouldn't it be easier and more efficient to invest all the time and resources involved into simply writing better screen reading software. Sure, it's probably a difficult task, but so was putting an man on the moon and sequencing the human genome. This is not un-solvable and it clearly seems like case where one piece of perfect software could fix the issue for everyone, developers and disabled alike. Also this appears to be the perfect place for open source software. So now onto the actual question. What are 1 or 2 of the major technical issues preventing such a piece of software from existing. Are there any Section 508 open source screen reader projects in development? And, if funding is the question, do you believe that this is something that the goverment should underwrite to help with Internet compliance of the laws that they passed?
No disrespect toward Joe Clark, but where are the responses for that William Shatner Ask Slashdot? I hope this isn't going to be another 5 year mission...
I remember TV/movies promising that _eventually_ we'd carry out all our wars through virtual simulation. Maybe we could have a simIraq scenario here where nobody gets their hands dirty. Oh wait..I see that on TV every night already. It's called CNN.
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Your publication of these sale prices is a clear violation of the DMCA. The next knock at your door will be gun toting FBI agents. You're in a world of hurt now, buddy....
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Is he trying to launch a rocket or or blonde? Does he think he has to look like Lance Bass to get into space?
If they ever catch the guy that did this, I'm sure the news will give us all the "let's throw him in the Slammer" puns we can stomach.
This reminds me a bit of the Barbi issues brought up by Mattel. Mattel didn't appreciate the ways in which Barbi was being (mis)used in certain situations and successfully sued to have it stopped. Is there any potential for copyright violation here since the author is including the legos in a published work? I know legos has had a generally positive outlook on users hacking their products so it's probable that Legos wouldn't sue, but is it potentially within thir rights?
Some of us already LIKE black coffee...don't go messing it up for us you insensitive clod! I like my coffee like I like my women...bitter.
Isn't that him in that Nissan car commercial (I think it's Nissan). It shows a shot of him pretty quickly riding in the car with some mild electronic music playing over the top, but I'm pretty sure it's him. Can anyone back me up on this?
I use so many SSL certs that I became a reseller for InstantSSL. It basically costs $200 and you get the ability to generate all the certificates you want without first providing business licenses. It also costs about $8 less, too. There's also zero turn around time...I get the completed cert immediately. It's *extremely* convenient but it kind of defeats the concept of a trusted source.
It's not the governments that are maintaining the infrastructure of the Internet. Especially not the state governments who would be benefiting from Internet taxation. So you're saying we should tax the Internet and give the money to who? AT&T? MCI? Maybe Internet taxation would have saved the Woldcom situation, right?
It's been stated that Doom 3 won't run at full frame rate on any of today's existing hardware. Does a card like this change that situation? What types of advances in graphics cards are going to be necessary to play Doom 3 at it's fullest potential?
Just Sue It.
So with all the spam, now the Iraqui leaders get a chance to help all those Nigerians get money out of the country. I bet they also have 12 inch penises, have overcome hairloss, and have lost 10 pounds just this past week. What are we trying to do...create a race of wealthy, well hung, rich guys to fight against?
I saw this story on Wired a couple days ago. I already filled out the form online to join the settlement group. It was a suprisingly simple process...name, address, email address and click accept on a few things. You don't even need a recipt. Here's the link for those interested.
For some reason when I submitted this EXACT same story a few days ago it was rejected in under 10 minutes. Oh well, can't win 'em all.
One of my biggest frustrations is having to explain to customers the difference between an experienced programmer who develops web applications and the community college level web "designer" with a cracked copy of Photoshop and Dreamweaver who's going around town. I do a lot of work with hotels and overall the owners/managers are woefully computer/Internet illiterate. When asked, some of my clients don't even know what browser they're running. I kind of like the idea of some certifications to bring some legitimacy to the profession but faced with the ignorance of the unwashed masses, I'm not sure how much good it will do. If they don't have enough knowledge to even know the basics, how are they going to know enough to look for a particular certification? In the larger corporate world, I feel like it will be just another buzzword for recruiters. MCSE? A+? We already know that those titles don't necessarily imply proficiency. I think a union would be better than just another acronym/certification, but there's so many issues with that. Maybe we could talk the Teamsters into co-opting the computer industry. Then we'd start to see some change.
If I had one of these I would drive through Iraq shouting "All Your Base Are Mine" over the bullhorn.
Disney is now lobbying to retroactively extend copyright laws to cover the dinosaurs. Although dinosaurs have fallen into the public domain, Disney believes that their new copyright on them will lead to greater innovation in the field of reptiles. After all, who else is creating Dinosaurs(TM) any more?
An insider at Disney has leaked the fact that the Dinosaurs(TM) are part of a copyright army that will be used to enforce Disney's intellectual property claims. Lawerence Lessig beware...if you see a Dinoasur(TM)...run!
I strongly believe that the path to better accessability lies in the creation of better screen reader technology. There is absolutely no way that the billions of pages online are going to be retouched to make them accessable. The battle has, to a large degree, already been lost. Don't get me wrong...I'm all in favor of producing compliant pages, but I wonder what percentage of the Internet is compliant today? We're never going to clean up the mess. There are too many mediocre and amateure web developers out there who don't even know what the W3C is. Forget converting the developers and instead focus on efforts to create the uber-screenreader. Something capabale of navigating through the web applications we're using today. I do lots of work for hotels and with their reservation systems in particular. Do you have any idea how hard it is to book a hotel room with a screen reader? or a plane ticket, or anything. It's a joke.
This is the perfect area for open source software. I also think that this would be the perfect place for the goverment to get involved. Not in legislation but in funding. The government seems very interested in passing laws to ensure equal access but isn't it about time they write a check to make equal access on the Internet a reality. One perfect piece of software will solve this entire problem for everybody.
Great one more thing for the telcos to screw up. I'm sure that ADSL2 means 2x the wait and 2x the cost. I'm already looking at my calendar and setting aside a week to wait for them to show up. I'm sure they'll have to make twice as many trips out for line tests and the techs will be twice as ignorant of the technology involved. In Soviet Russia, I bet they get it installed quicker.
I've had a dedicated server for about 5 years now. For the first 4.5 yeas I was on Hurricane Electric. H.E. has got to be the crappiest host in the world. They were great when I first started with them but made absolutely no advances in their servce or technology in 4.5 years. When they told me they couldn't install lib-mcrypt because it was too hard, I knew it was time to move. I've been with ProHosters for close to 6 months now and I think it was the best decision of my life. Realtime 24/7 support via their own IRC channel and super-smart people working there. They totally work their asses off for you. I have a dedicated RedHat box. I get 100 GB/month transfer with $1.50/GB over and they manage it for me. It costs me $300/month which is pretty normal for a dedicated machine.
ProHosters
There is obiviously a lot of emphasis in coaxing web developers into making their sites 508 compliant. To me, this seems like the difficult and inherently flawed approach. There is never going to be 100% compliance when you have billions of pages on the Internet. Wouldn't it be easier and more efficient to invest all the time and resources involved into simply writing better screen reading software. Sure, it's probably a difficult task, but so was putting an man on the moon and sequencing the human genome. This is not un-solvable and it clearly seems like case where one piece of perfect software could fix the issue for everyone, developers and disabled alike. Also this appears to be the perfect place for open source software. So now onto the actual question. What are 1 or 2 of the major technical issues preventing such a piece of software from existing. Are there any Section 508 open source screen reader projects in development? And, if funding is the question, do you believe that this is something that the goverment should underwrite to help with Internet compliance of the laws that they passed?
No disrespect toward Joe Clark, but where are the responses for that William Shatner Ask Slashdot? I hope this isn't going to be another 5 year mission...
At 24 hours, I don't think "Ode to Joy" is really appropriate anymore.
Then again, isn't an ode a song or poem in remembrance to something lost? In that case it may be all too fitting.
What's more addictive than crack???
Well, I think you answered your own question...it's The Sims.
Maybe you'll just develop SimPulsive Behavior. (TM)
I remember TV/movies promising that _eventually_ we'd carry out all our wars through virtual simulation. Maybe we could have a simIraq scenario here where nobody gets their hands dirty. Oh wait..I see that on TV every night already. It's called CNN.
Your publication of these sale prices is a clear violation of the DMCA. The next knock at your door will be gun toting FBI agents. You're in a world of hurt now, buddy....
Posting an mpeg on the front page of /. How cruel is that?! A lot more than their rocket is going to crash.