No, MS did not lay out malware/spyware but, given your road analogy, they did not provide for street sweeping after making the road, no great steps have been taken to make it harder for people to turn a MS box into a zombie to spread spam.
Microsoft/Gates usually gets a bad rap on/., but kudos to them for going after the scumbags of the Internet.
Well, if they'd make an OS that wasn't set up as to be easy to "zombie-fi" then I suspect a lot of spam wouldn't even be a worry as I read in wired(or a slashdot link to wired?) that a large minority of spam is sent from hijacked computers running MS OS.
Fix the security hole and a large % of spam goes away.
3. Ownership and Copyright - Ownership and copyrights of submitted works remain with the author/creator in accordance with Linden Lab's standard policies. As a condition of entry, each entrant must give Linden Lab permission to use his or her team's game within Second Life and for all promotional purposes for as long as it wishes and to use his or her name and likeness in connection with any such activities.
So, make a game, you get the copyright and ownership but 2ndL gets the financial benefients (save for the prize money you get.)
Oh yeah, and they get to use your name and likeness (photo of your ugly self) as long as they wish... [I bet some pissed off employee will enjoy your face decorating their dartboard when you win with an idea they should have implemeted themselves]
it would be lost in a sea of restrictively copyrighted stuff
That's like saying "I won't put my high quality thought into a book because it'll get lost in a sea of trashy softporn romance books with half naked men on the cover."
The internet is a great example of viral marketing, if something is found worthy it'll generate buzz as people who find worhty content tell their friends about it (this is how slashdot works.) Eventualy most who are interested in your great website will have seen it or have heard about it or have read a summary about it on slashdot.
I'm going off on a tangent, the point is, publish it or it'll get no traffic. You might not get any trafic anyway, but if it's worthy it'll eventualy get noticed by those who care about the subject. (Don't expect Good Housekeeping types to get too excited about your C++ program, but don't be suprized when slashdot or its imitators come-a-knocking down your webserver.)
The parent says that it's not obvious from the www.yahoo.com page or even the advanced search page that there is any option to search specificly for creative commons content.
This gets moderated as flamebait?
He has one line with a small microsoft rant and the fanboys take this insightful comment and mod it down because some company in Washington Sate, USA, is the butt of a small joke.
Welcome to Slashdot where fanatics squelch the informative.
Before Yahoo did this, you could have put in place of the usual (C) a (CREATIVE COMMONS - This work is in the public domain and the content creator hereby allows...)
Just because YAHOO now has a CC search engine dosen't mean most content creators will know about the CC.
Don't rely on some obscure feature of Yahoo (it's not even linked to ANYWHERE on the front page BTW) to educate people, put your html where your mouth is and get info on your website about the Creative Commons.
Hell, all you have to do is make your image thumbnails link to a webpage displaying the larger image as well as text giving a your permission to use your IP, and a link to a respected Creative Commons website.
look here and notice there's no option to " search specifically for content with unconventional copyright arrangements." That link is what you get when you select ADVANCED options on the yahoo search. How many people even BOTHER to do that?
I mean, the way to yahoo is www.yahoo.com, and a scant few will use the advanced search feature. Think about likely it is for people to end up using "http://search.yahoo.com/cc" instead of "www.yahoo.com"
That's like Microsfot saying the have code with no bloat and fast effecient execution, but hide it inside edlin.exe.
Engadget stated that the phone supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and AAC+ audio files, and a plug-and-play drag-and-drop no-brainer way of transferring files as you please.
Hah, drag and DROP. I can't tell you how many times my cellphones have fallen from ear height (I'm 6'3" tall) to hard surfaces (usualy concrete or asphalt parking lot surfaces.)
I've only killed one cellphone (the display cracked.) Once these things get fast moving precision parts with vital data stored on them a significant addition of DeltaV could ruin the devices. I'm not sure I'm looking forward to a device like this. I'd rather take a flash memory based alternative.
The also have the Alexei Leonov standing ready to launch a rescue attempt incase the Discovery has any problems with its computers, or the leading edge of a wing were to strike a black monolith.
HEY, you stop that right now, unless you want legal trouble. Didn't you know that Nintendo Trademarked Prompt Speculation. You'd be better off to speculate belatedly, like after the product is released.
I have a MP3 player that is CD based. I've yet to find a online music store that will let me use my mp3 player.
I got a CD based player because it offers 700mb at a time, and with a 50 pack of CDs I've got 3.5gb of mp3 playing for only $70 (CDRs+MP3/CD Walkman.)
In my car the CD Changer (10 disks) is also a mp3 machin, I've got 7GB at my fingertips (and well integrated into my head unit) for only $300 ($525 if you count the head unit.)
The current systems of online music sales are totaly worthless to me because of the DRM built in. My CD changer can't connect to the internet and validate a current subscription. It can't do DRM.
My only options for mp3s are to rip my conventionaly recorded tracks, download free(legal) tracks from the internet, or go to the darkside and run the risk of RIAA lawsuits.
This reminds me of a friend who was so thrilled to return to South Africa (she'd vacationed there before.) She commented on how improved things are for the "african-americans" there sense her last visit.
So why isn't the US bringing democracy to Saudi Arabia, China, Iran, Nepal, or North Korea?
Because people bitch when we go take part in some "european war" (WWII and the un-named air-war Clinton waged in eastern Europe) or some "baby killing" in S.E. Asia, or a "war for oil" (Desert Shield/Storm and the Opreation Iraqi Liberation[o.i.l. yes I know this is a joke])
Folks like yourself bitch about the costs of protecting and spreading freedom, then use the fact that freedom isn't a universal condition to make arguments that sound like "Why help Iraq[now]France[way back] if not Iran[now]Eastern Europe under Soviet occupation[way back]"
Critisims for the action, and when the action comes, more whines about why the action didn't happen everywhere.
And, you think this is something new? Everyone has complained about this, going way back to "geeze, this is the same old story we heard when he were listeing to the radio. Why did we spend all this money on a tv for?"
So, when someone today goes "All this crap on cable is the same old crap we used to see n network tv. Why did we spend all this money on a cable subscription for?"
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No, MS did not lay out malware/spyware but, given your road analogy, they did not provide for street sweeping after making the road, no great steps have been taken to make it harder for people to turn a MS box into a zombie to spread spam.
Well, if they'd make an OS that wasn't set up as to be easy to "zombie-fi" then I suspect a lot of spam wouldn't even be a worry as I read in wired(or a slashdot link to wired?) that a large minority of spam is sent from hijacked computers running MS OS.
Fix the security hole and a large % of spam goes away.
Just plain old ENTERPRISE.
But, think of it... J. Franks, M. Sirits (Riker and Troi) plus a snake? This is the show with Tipol(sp?) and de-con jell?
I think I'll tune in for that episode!
So, make a game, you get the copyright and ownership but 2ndL gets the financial benefients (save for the prize money you get.)
Oh yeah, and they get to use your name and likeness (photo of your ugly self) as long as they wish... [I bet some pissed off employee will enjoy your face decorating their dartboard when you win with an idea they should have implemeted themselves]
That's like saying "I won't put my high quality thought into a book because it'll get lost in a sea of trashy softporn romance books with half naked men on the cover."
The internet is a great example of viral marketing, if something is found worthy it'll generate buzz as people who find worhty content tell their friends about it (this is how slashdot works.) Eventualy most who are interested in your great website will have seen it or have heard about it or have read a summary about it on slashdot.
I'm going off on a tangent, the point is, publish it or it'll get no traffic. You might not get any trafic anyway, but if it's worthy it'll eventualy get noticed by those who care about the subject.
(Don't expect Good Housekeeping types to get too excited about your C++ program, but don't be suprized when slashdot or its imitators come-a-knocking down your webserver.)
Moderation 50% Flamebait
The parent says that it's not obvious from the www.yahoo.com page or even the advanced search page that there is any option to search specificly for creative commons content.
This gets moderated as flamebait?
He has one line with a small microsoft rant and the fanboys take this insightful comment and mod it down because some company in Washington Sate, USA, is the butt of a small joke.
Welcome to Slashdot where fanatics squelch the informative.
Just because YAHOO now has a CC search engine dosen't mean most content creators will know about the CC.
Don't rely on some obscure feature of Yahoo (it's not even linked to ANYWHERE on the front page BTW) to educate people, put your html where your mouth is and get info on your website about the Creative Commons.
Hell, all you have to do is make your image thumbnails link to a webpage displaying the larger image as well as text giving a your permission to use your IP, and a link to a respected Creative Commons website.
I don't know about that...
look here and notice there's no option to " search specifically for content with unconventional copyright arrangements."
That link is what you get when you select ADVANCED options on the yahoo search. How many people even BOTHER to do that?
I mean, the way to yahoo is www.yahoo.com, and a scant few will use the advanced search feature. Think about likely it is for people to end up using "http://search.yahoo.com/cc" instead of "www.yahoo.com"
That's like Microsfot saying the have code with no bloat and fast effecient execution, but hide it inside edlin.exe.
Niven's Ringowrld "sunflowers" in man-made form. Cool.
Boy, are you misinformed.
Apparently the machines run the matrix on x86 processors, not Motorolla gear. Sorry.
Hah, drag and DROP. I can't tell you how many times my cellphones have fallen from ear height (I'm 6'3" tall) to hard surfaces (usualy concrete or asphalt parking lot surfaces.)
I've only killed one cellphone (the display cracked.) Once these things get fast moving precision parts with vital data stored on them a significant addition of DeltaV could ruin the devices. I'm not sure I'm looking forward to a device like this. I'd rather take a flash memory based alternative.
Then again, perhaps broadband may kill the DVD star...
ugh, just mod me down now.
You've got it all wrong, let me set you right...
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The also have the Alexei Leonov standing ready to launch a rescue attempt incase the Discovery has any problems with its computers, or the leading edge of a wing were to strike a black monolith.
Fujitsu lists the following key features and specifications for the U-Scan Shopper:
* Processor -- 400 MHz Intel XScale
* Memory -- 64 or 128 MB SDRAM; 32 MB Flash
* Display:
o 6.5-inch reflective TFT LCD with VGA resolution
o CCFL backlight with software controls
o Temperature-based contrast compensation
* Wireless -- 802.11b or g; built-in 2.4 GHz antenna
* Scanning -- 2D imager
* Power:
o Main -- 2 6V, 7.2 aH sealed lead acid batteries in locked case
o Backup -- rechargeable lithium ion
o Piezo motion sensor implements power standby mode
Let me tell you, I'd take this thing over the metal wire carts I see stores provide around here!
The proof is here
Photos? As of 0130 Pacific this is what the website looks like to Firefox users:
Forbidden
Your client is not allowed to access the requested object.
Sheish, wonder if they treat IE users the same way.
HEY, you stop that right now, unless you want legal trouble. Didn't you know that Nintendo Trademarked Prompt Speculation. You'd be better off to speculate belatedly, like after the product is released.
a cheap 640x480 LED
I've got a buch of LEDs around, and they're all 1x1. Where do I get these high resolution LEDs you've got?
I have a MP3 player that is CD based. I've yet to find a online music store that will let me use my mp3 player.
I got a CD based player because it offers 700mb at a time, and with a 50 pack of CDs I've got 3.5gb of mp3 playing for only $70 (CDRs+MP3/CD Walkman.)
In my car the CD Changer (10 disks) is also a mp3 machin, I've got 7GB at my fingertips (and well integrated into my head unit) for only $300 ($525 if you count the head unit.)
The current systems of online music sales are totaly worthless to me because of the DRM built in. My CD changer can't connect to the internet and validate a current subscription. It can't do DRM.
My only options for mp3s are to rip my conventionaly recorded tracks, download free(legal) tracks from the internet, or go to the darkside and run the risk of RIAA lawsuits.
This reminds me of a friend who was so thrilled to return to South Africa (she'd vacationed there before.) She commented on how improved things are for the "african-americans" there sense her last visit.
So why isn't the US bringing democracy to Saudi Arabia, China, Iran, Nepal, or North Korea?
Because people bitch when we go take part in some "european war" (WWII and the un-named air-war Clinton waged in eastern Europe) or some "baby killing" in S.E. Asia, or a "war for oil" (Desert Shield/Storm and the Opreation Iraqi Liberation[o.i.l. yes I know this is a joke])
Folks like yourself bitch about the costs of protecting and spreading freedom, then use the fact that freedom isn't a universal condition to make arguments that sound like "Why help Iraq[now]France[way back] if not Iran[now]Eastern Europe under Soviet occupation[way back]"
Critisims for the action, and when the action comes, more whines about why the action didn't happen everywhere.
And, you think this is something new? Everyone has complained about this, going way back to "geeze, this is the same old story we heard when he were listeing to the radio. Why did we spend all this money on a tv for?"
So, when someone today goes "All this crap on cable is the same old crap we used to see n network tv. Why did we spend all this money on a cable subscription for?"