It's getting to be time for a consumer revolt, along with a few decapitations.
What if they threw a Hi-Def party and nobody came?
Or to put it another way, just how many times are you going to let these people pick your pocket? We could just say that what we all have today is already good enough!
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The guy at FreeBSD who is adding wireless support is under contract from wireless companies to do the work.
And I'm sure that someone will think that this just isn't pure. Like the Olympics, which was once ruled that only self-supporting people who could do it for "The Love of the Sport" were worthy.
Personally this is a great move for OSS, and a vote of confidence in the value of freely available Unixs by the companies. I hope it becomes a model for each part of the industry to do more to support their devices (graphic cards, USB plug in devices, you name it) to the free and OSS communities!
I will be disappointed if there is a single negative comment about this aspect of how the work is being funded and getting done!
(Or in their shoes, if they're using an illegal computer. At least there they're trying to restrict the game to skill, including memory, although again a rules change could eliminate the advantage of having a computer.)
The computer is not illegal. There is nothing in the law that makes a computer that simply keeps track of something -- cards played, roulette ball drop position -- illegal. It doesn't change how the game is played. It's only the casinos that want to make you believe otherwise, but people caught with such computers have been cut lose because it's not cheating.
At its crudest level this would stop the appearance of counterfeit chips and would also catch players trying to sneak an extra chip onto their stake upon winning.
You mean these readers are good enough to read the RFID's of chips stacked directly on top of each other? There must be some sort of random delay to prevent collisions. Be interesting to know more about the technology of reading a lot of simultaneous RFID chips in close proximity to each other.
a player laying $5 bets while sitting with $100,000 of chips in his or her pocket. This is certainly no cause for concern in its own right but such behaviour would in the past have caught notorious card counters waiting for the odds to fall in their favour or getting their eye in and honing a system.
Oh, card counters are nororious now? Last time I checked, card counting is not illegal. Casinos will certainly try to keep you from doing it, but it is a skill for an Advantage Player, and not a cheat. It's only PR that tries to tell you otherwise, but the bias in this article is already apparent.
And btw, since when are casinos entitled to know the contents of your pockets? Time to get out the aluminum foil for the pockets.
Subsequent players, one replacing the other at a table, whose bets vary greatly in size but whose chips originate from the same batch could also be identified as potential partners in a system.
I'd say any cheat team will quickly learn to acquire their checks (casino-speak for chips) separately soon enough.
Carol Pride, CIO of Caesars Palace, told silicon.com that many casinos favour chips and playing cards marked around the edges with invisible inks and barcodes, enabling optical monitoring of their movement and authenticity.
Great! The casino's are marking my decks for me now. Well, if a tv camera can see it, then there will be a way for me to see it too. It's not an invisible ink if they can read it.
Say what they want, but there are very few people serving jail time for cheating a casino in this country.
or is this just another political plot to get the Mayor re-elected?
Isn't everything a mayor does a plot to get re-elected? I'll believe in altruism when he's paying for it out of his own pocket, rather than out of the taxpayer's.
OTOH, this would sure reduce the incentive for War Driving. And I would like to know what this will do to existing networks.
The article speculates that this is going to be the reason for the Apple switch, but...
If they're announcing an archtecture this radical at next week's IDF, what are the chances that it will be available and running well in time for Apple's announced timeline for desktops?
Or is Apple going to sell a lesser version first, in which case why haven't they already switched over to selling it to early adopters already. Yes there really are people who buy systems and wait for the applications to arrive later.
So Apple doesn't want people running their OS. What a surprise. Attitudes like that probably explain their current market share.
Here Apple has people wanting to run their OS so badly on Intel hardware that they're hacking apart betas to do it, and running systems with no native applications yet.
A savvy business person might realize that there's an opportunity to be selling the Mac OS now. But not Apple. They'd rather serve lawsuits to try and stop some of their most enthusistic fans. Heaven forbid that we (Apple) ever lose control over who's allowed to run Tiger. The SJ-RDF has got to really be running overtime on this.
It's not trolling or flamebait to speak the truth.
Attention UPS: You've got the marketing opportunity of the year knocking at your door. All you have to do is open it and not be an @$$hole about this kid using your shipping boxes. Heck, this kid should have had his own art exhibit by now.
This is a clear case of reverse engineering of the boxes. Certainly there's an EULA on them somewhere prohibiting such activities.
How long before Ford can sue me because their car appears in a picture I've used to promote my kid's carwashing business?
I sure wish we had courts that would have told FedEx from the beginning that unless he is promoting a non-existent business association with you to his benefit, or your determent -- GO AWAY. YOU HAVEN'T GOT A CASE!
The record companies have too much power - especially Sony. Take the example of Fiona Apple and her third album "Extraordinary Machine" which was completed nearly two years ago and never officially released. It finally leaked out over BT and P2P (yeah), but when a record company can sign you and then bury your work this has gone too far.
Therefore, anything that weakens them is not a bad thing for the world at large.
In a world where even an artist selling 500 copies can make a better profit than a Britney Spears should her latest album sell less than enough to cover whatever six or seven figure advance she's been paid,
An obvious flaw in your argument is that Britney keeps the seven figure advance too. You won't make that much profit on 500 Internet sales.
But for those of you who aren't Britney (thank God there aren't more of her running around) and will never see such advances, it's a good deal.
Slashdot Mirror
Must be the ones to start
To mould a new reality
Closer to the heart
Interesting when I match your sig to today's /. fortune cookie:
Everyone's in a high place when you're on your knees.
I can live without this amazing invention -- especially because I'm not making any money from it -- just aggravation.
Some people just truly don't have a clue.
What if they threw a Hi-Def party and nobody came?
Or to put it another way, just how many times are you going to let these people pick your pocket? We could just say that what we all have today is already good enough! .
But they didn't speed up their website, which won't load at all now.
And I'm sure that someone will think that this just isn't pure. Like the Olympics, which was once ruled that only self-supporting people who could do it for "The Love of the Sport" were worthy.
Personally this is a great move for OSS, and a vote of confidence in the value of freely available Unixs by the companies. I hope it becomes a model for each part of the industry to do more to support their devices (graphic cards, USB plug in devices, you name it) to the free and OSS communities!
I will be disappointed if there is a single negative comment about this aspect of how the work is being funded and getting done!
The computer is not illegal. There is nothing in the law that makes a computer that simply keeps track of something -- cards played, roulette ball drop position -- illegal. It doesn't change how the game is played. It's only the casinos that want to make you believe otherwise, but people caught with such computers have been cut lose because it's not cheating.
among the millions of stupid players
At its crudest level this would stop the appearance of counterfeit chips and would also catch players trying to sneak an extra chip onto their stake upon winning.
You mean these readers are good enough to read the RFID's of chips stacked directly on top of each other? There must be some sort of random delay to prevent collisions. Be interesting to know more about the technology of reading a lot of simultaneous RFID chips in close proximity to each other.
a player laying $5 bets while sitting with $100,000 of chips in his or her pocket. This is certainly no cause for concern in its own right but such behaviour would in the past have caught notorious card counters waiting for the odds to fall in their favour or getting their eye in and honing a system.
Oh, card counters are nororious now? Last time I checked, card counting is not illegal. Casinos will certainly try to keep you from doing it, but it is a skill for an Advantage Player, and not a cheat. It's only PR that tries to tell you otherwise, but the bias in this article is already apparent.
And btw, since when are casinos entitled to know the contents of your pockets? Time to get out the aluminum foil for the pockets.
Subsequent players, one replacing the other at a table, whose bets vary greatly in size but whose chips originate from the same batch could also be identified as potential partners in a system.
I'd say any cheat team will quickly learn to acquire their checks (casino-speak for chips) separately soon enough.
Carol Pride, CIO of Caesars Palace, told silicon.com that many casinos favour chips and playing cards marked around the edges with invisible inks and barcodes, enabling optical monitoring of their movement and authenticity.
Great! The casino's are marking my decks for me now. Well, if a tv camera can see it, then there will be a way for me to see it too. It's not an invisible ink if they can read it.
Say what they want, but there are very few people serving jail time for cheating a casino in this country.
Now that's funny.
Or to put it another way, only if you're Howard Dean.
This sounds like nothing more than a DIY micro-cell, for people who feel the cell towers provided by the phone company aren't already good enough.
Isn't everything a mayor does a plot to get re-elected? I'll believe in altruism when he's paying for it out of his own pocket, rather than out of the taxpayer's.
OTOH, this would sure reduce the incentive for War Driving. And I would like to know what this will do to existing networks.
If they're announcing an archtecture this radical at next week's IDF, what are the chances that it will be available and running well in time for Apple's announced timeline for desktops?
Or is Apple going to sell a lesser version first, in which case why haven't they already switched over to selling it to early adopters already. Yes there really are people who buy systems and wait for the applications to arrive later.
Here Apple has people wanting to run their OS so badly on Intel hardware that they're hacking apart betas to do it, and running systems with no native applications yet.
A savvy business person might realize that there's an opportunity to be selling the Mac OS now. But not Apple. They'd rather serve lawsuits to try and stop some of their most enthusistic fans. Heaven forbid that we (Apple) ever lose control over who's allowed to run Tiger. The SJ-RDF has got to really be running overtime on this.
It's not trolling or flamebait to speak the truth.
So it has hit CNN, ABC, the New York Times. Obviously this worm is part of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy!
If the entire Internet was dumbed down to meet the restrictions of every government on the world together, there would be no content at all.
Can we start proposing passengers for the first flight yet?
You get a 1:1 relationship and everybody leaves happy.
Maybe in addition to the $10 fee, MS will require Apple to bundle Internet Explorer with every iPod sold.
It may be a toaster,
But is it a video toaster?
Hope the first release drivers aren't corked this time around.
Attention UPS: You've got the marketing opportunity of the year knocking at your door. All you have to do is open it and not be an @$$hole about this kid using your shipping boxes. Heck, this kid should have had his own art exhibit by now.
How long before Ford can sue me because their car appears in a picture I've used to promote my kid's carwashing business?
I sure wish we had courts that would have told FedEx from the beginning that unless he is promoting a non-existent business association with you to his benefit, or your determent -- GO AWAY. YOU HAVEN'T GOT A CASE!
Here is the lock (Dell)
Take as long as you want with them.
YOU DID WHAT?!?!?!
Therefore, anything that weakens them is not a bad thing for the world at large.
An obvious flaw in your argument is that Britney keeps the seven figure advance too. You won't make that much profit on 500 Internet sales.
But for those of you who aren't Britney (thank God there aren't more of her running around) and will never see such advances, it's a good deal.
And how hard can it be to get a JCB card, especially when you have a bank account and family in Japan?