Excuse me but, I don't recall London's "Ring of Steel" stopping the attempted car bombings a week ago. And these were carried out in stolen cars, for which the London license plate monitoring software should have immediately flagged.
How about an infinitely patient, loving, sex-bot to help everyone over the anxiety of their first few hundred experiences? After all, sex sells, meaning that you can finance the cost of robots for a lot of other functions, if it includes sex as well.
as soon as it actually happens I hope they put up a nice big donation button on The Bay so I can contribute to a civil suit.
I don't want a Donate button, I want an Invest button. I want to invest in the fees towards a civil suit, in order to have a share of the winnings after the suit is won. This could be more of a sure thing than the stock market.
It's scary that Sweden can blacklist any site for the whole country just by putting it on a single list. I don't think even China is that powerful with their own population.
Are you now listed as a criminal because you tried to visit an alleged child porn site? That's even more scary.
No new standard will be any more acceptable for all uses than the 80-column standard has been. And, btw, that dates back to the Hollerith (IBM) punched card, which far predates the VT-100. And you don't even discuss whether or not to stick with fixed pitch, versus proportional spacing, characters.
My prediction: Any new standard you could come up with today would be obsolete far faster than the 80-column standard has managed. And besides, over 80 characters on a standard letter-sized paper line is hard to read, so why don't we just leave it as it is?
How is it that the Chinese are so good about keeping out what they don't want their culture to learn about the rest of the freedom loving world, and so incredibly lousy about keeping in what they shouldn't be spreading to anyone else?
It's a great idea, but why should you have to pay extra for it? You're saving T-Mobile precious air-time minutes, and paying for the privilege! If you make half your calls from home over your own WiFi broadband connection, you're really overpaying now.
Now suppose that every time we have an idea that we think is 'obvious' but that hasn't been done before, or something we think would be interesting but don't have the money to create -- that we blogged about that idea, tagging it as 'prior art'
Then all those great ideas, or at least many of them, would never get done at all because nobody could make money out of it? How many of your great thoughts that you can't pursue yourself do you want to see spiked for everyone?
Looks like it's time to register and start using iApple. AFAIK, Apple is yet to utilize this trademark, and just a couple days ago paid 7 figures for iPhone.com.
And yes, Google is completely wrong -- and evil -- here!
any sense of right and wrong includes punishment. however, the punishment must always be less severe than the crime itself. otherwise, you do not have justice, you have revenge
And just what have you got against revenge? There's a few thousand terrorists around the world that death after torture is still too good for them.
Can you say "entrapment" boys and girls? I knew you could.
By the very fact that the MPAA didn't attempt to take down the site, it implies that it's operating legally.
By them making themselves easy to find and offering you an opportunity that you don't find elsewhere, you may well be tempted to try something you'd never try otherwise.
Is fraud an acceptable enforcement tactic? Seems to me that if they offer downloads, and are contracted by the movie studios to do exactly this, than any downloads from them are de facto legal.
And if they spy on your computer otherwise with software that doesn't clearly indicate this in the license agreement, doesn't The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act come into play? Could MediaSentry go down Big Time over this little misstep?
which will have implications for developments in nano-optics, high-temperature superconductors, and the fundamental understanding of chemical reactions on surfaces
Does it also defeat cancer, cure the common cold, disintegrate warts, and eliminate smelly feet? It seems like a lot of big claims are being made for something just discovered.
This demonstration has to do more than turn a wheel. It needs to turn a wheel, attached to a generator, creating enough current to light up a light bulb, all in a sealed enclosure.
Don't get excited over this. It certainly causes Global Warming, and hence will be banned by next Tuesday. Also, it's impossible to patent (PTO rules forbid patents for perpetual motion), so nobody will be able to make money off of this.
It's the loonies on the left that will fight this tooth-and-nail. I remember when Cold Fusion looked like it might actually happen. Clean, cheap energy in almost unlimited amounts. What happened? Jeremy Rifkin led the charge that any such development would be The Worst Thing Possible, because it would lead to more people since we would be able to make previously uninhabitable areas not only inhabitable, but even comfortable. I expect no less now.
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Excuse me but, I don't recall London's "Ring of Steel" stopping the attempted car bombings a week ago. And these were carried out in stolen cars, for which the London license plate monitoring software should have immediately flagged.
How about an infinitely patient, loving, sex-bot to help everyone over the anxiety of their first few hundred experiences? After all, sex sells, meaning that you can finance the cost of robots for a lot of other functions, if it includes sex as well.
With all the other problems in the world, why not spend this energy overcoming IED's and leftover land mines, rather than capchas.
Past time for it, actually.
Check my phone messages, e-mail, and run logs, for any problems from the previous night's processing.
I don't want a Donate button, I want an Invest button. I want to invest in the fees towards a civil suit, in order to have a share of the winnings after the suit is won. This could be more of a sure thing than the stock market.
Are you now listed as a criminal because you tried to visit an alleged child porn site? That's even more scary.
Cover him with high efficiency solar cells.
My prediction: Any new standard you could come up with today would be obsolete far faster than the 80-column standard has managed. And besides, over 80 characters on a standard letter-sized paper line is hard to read, so why don't we just leave it as it is?
Every time a record company issues a takedown notice like this, God downloads another song to all the P2P networks.
Was that same, single song in all 100 videos taken down? Either this guy REALLY likes this song, or somebody has WAY OVERREACTED.
How is it that the Chinese are so good about keeping out what they don't want their culture to learn about the rest of the freedom loving world, and so incredibly lousy about keeping in what they shouldn't be spreading to anyone else?
Catagorize this under Rip-Off.
Looks like an ongoing game of Whack-a-Mole.
Then all those great ideas, or at least many of them, would never get done at all because nobody could make money out of it? How many of your great thoughts that you can't pursue yourself do you want to see spiked for everyone?
That's what they said about the immigration bill in the United States Senate too.
And yes, Google is completely wrong -- and evil -- here!
And just what have you got against revenge? There's a few thousand terrorists around the world that death after torture is still too good for them.
By the very fact that the MPAA didn't attempt to take down the site, it implies that it's operating legally.
By them making themselves easy to find and offering you an opportunity that you don't find elsewhere, you may well be tempted to try something you'd never try otherwise.
I think that qualifies as entrapment.
And if they spy on your computer otherwise with software that doesn't clearly indicate this in the license agreement, doesn't The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act come into play? Could MediaSentry go down Big Time over this little misstep?
Does it also defeat cancer, cure the common cold, disintegrate warts, and eliminate smelly feet? It seems like a lot of big claims are being made for something just discovered.
This demonstration has to do more than turn a wheel. It needs to turn a wheel, attached to a generator, creating enough current to light up a light bulb, all in a sealed enclosure.
Nothing to see, move along, move along, move along, move along, move along, move along...
It's the loonies on the left that will fight this tooth-and-nail. I remember when Cold Fusion looked like it might actually happen. Clean, cheap energy in almost unlimited amounts. What happened? Jeremy Rifkin led the charge that any such development would be The Worst Thing Possible, because it would lead to more people since we would be able to make previously uninhabitable areas not only inhabitable, but even comfortable. I expect no less now.
To paraphrase a phrase I once heard, I'd say about you:
He mined the power of Slashdot.