Maybe this story has something to do with it? Essentially, the entertaiment and tech industries have "struck a deal" which means we won't have CDBTPA, but won't have fair use either.
Have you considered the possibility that they were hired by a group who wants to make the RIAA look more evil (or perhaps are acting on their own), and the RIAA actually has nothing to do with it?
I don't know about anyone else, but I sure as hell aren't wearing any Microsoft product with a metal side touching my skin. My wrist would probably develop a twitch from the "corrective" shocks coming from the watch whenever I sit down at my Linux box...
"He was arrested for credit card fraud" (if a credit card telemarking call)
If I were a spiteful telemarketer (and why wouldn't I be, if my job involved annoying people all day long), wouldn't I, perhaps, make sure this little tidbit of info made it to the credit agency?
Let them give you the spiel, say no POLITELY, and know you helped someone feed their family.
I am under no obligation, moral or otherwise, to make it possible for someone to work in an industry that engages in harassment, regardless of that person's station in life or lack thereof.
A month ago, I paid $60 for a Screen Machine, which answers the phone first with a voice message telling telemarketers to go away.
You mean this Screen Machine? It seems simple to bypass. I assume you can change the access code on it, at least? If not, what happens when the telemarketers figure out your code?
I've had thoughts of rigging up one of the boxes in my home cluster with some kind of telephone interface and doing a kind of screening myself -- known caller ID passes in, changable and individual access codes at a voice prompt otherwise.
So we have this additional port, looks like power or something. Does this mean that a GameCube link cable will be designed that can actually power the GBA? Because the current model doesn't; you need to leave your GBA on batteries when playing linked games. Annoying as all get out.
How is The Brain able to dynamically relink all your existing applications to deal with this transparently, when you File->Open inside of them?
(Assume it uses some crazy undocumented Windows trick) How are we to resolve incompatibilities between The Brain and a software program that has already messed with the Windows file open interface in its own way? Pray, and wait for the two developers to sign mounds of NDAs seems like the only option. And even then, there's no guarantee it's going to get addressed.
Uh, whatever, that just means your that much farther behind the times. These kids born today with 3 Ghz machines will do things we could never imagine.
Yeah, like live in their pop-up happy dungeons and never learn to actually program the damn things.
I have to agree. Computers are "used" in school as:
crutches for lazy teachers ("Just sit in front of this software for a few hours and let it teach you")
glorified typewriters
not much else
Put computers in classrooms as tools where they make sense. Give a student a problem and make the computer and requisite software available to them to solve the problem. A computer is not there to rpelace a teacher, unlike what "educational" software writers seem to think...
ts.com, who "is Europe's leading online ticketing service, enabling venues and promoters throughout the sporting, entertainment and travel industries to sell, market and distribute their tickets directly from their own websites.".
Anyone want to take bets who won't be getting a lot of contracts with RIAA member-backed acts if the RIAA wins this one?
Err, SpamAssassin isn't exactly what I'd call "low overhead". While it's pretty good at what it does, it still has potential to slow my 32MB mail server to a crawl unless I tell spamd to process only one message at a time.
Well, in my case, I used to have a company that I associated with the domain name. I packed it in but think it would be rather silly to have to change my e-mail address and personal website address when so many people already use the one I have.
I realize you did not call for regulation here, but I feel compelled to say that this is precisely why such things that sound like they make sense should not be made into inviolable rules.
You're missing one very important point, which you'd have if you've ever actually checked the IRC protocol. To implement notification in IRC, your client actually sends ISONs to the server at a certain interval; NOTIFY never actually goes to the server itself -- just manages a client-side list. Contrast this with a server that manages the list and sends you the notifications.
Is that spitting hairs? I think so. I think that frankly, it's bullshit. Welcome to the USPTO.
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Only if they don't pay taxes. (Which I admint, Ihaven't checked on.) :-)
Maybe this story has something to do with it? Essentially, the entertaiment and tech industries have "struck a deal" which means we won't have CDBTPA, but won't have fair use either.
Have you considered the possibility that they were hired by a group who wants to make the RIAA look more evil (or perhaps are acting on their own), and the RIAA actually has nothing to do with it?
I don't know about anyone else, but I sure as hell aren't wearing any Microsoft product with a metal side touching my skin. My wrist would probably develop a twitch from the "corrective" shocks coming from the watch whenever I sit down at my Linux box...
If I were a spiteful telemarketer (and why wouldn't I be, if my job involved annoying people all day long), wouldn't I, perhaps, make sure this little tidbit of info made it to the credit agency?
Are you trying to be funny, or just trolling?
If it's the former, you're not succeeding.
I am under no obligation, moral or otherwise, to make it possible for someone to work in an industry that engages in harassment, regardless of that person's station in life or lack thereof.
You mean this Screen Machine? It seems simple to bypass. I assume you can change the access code on it, at least? If not, what happens when the telemarketers figure out your code?
I've had thoughts of rigging up one of the boxes in my home cluster with some kind of telephone interface and doing a kind of screening myself -- known caller ID passes in, changable and individual access codes at a voice prompt otherwise.
No, information wants to be anthropomorphized.
So we have this additional port, looks like power or something. Does this mean that a GameCube link cable will be designed that can actually power the GBA? Because the current model doesn't; you need to leave your GBA on batteries when playing linked games. Annoying as all get out.
Looks kind of like my Platinum GameCube. I'm guessing it's plastic. Not to mention magnesium wouldn't come cheap.
Yeah, but I still had several tech books in my bag going home every day from the ISP where I used to work.
How is The Brain able to dynamically relink all your existing applications to deal with this transparently, when you File->Open inside of them?
(Assume it uses some crazy undocumented Windows trick) How are we to resolve incompatibilities between The Brain and a software program that has already messed with the Windows file open interface in its own way? Pray, and wait for the two developers to sign mounds of NDAs seems like the only option. And even then, there's no guarantee it's going to get addressed.
Yeah, like live in their pop-up happy dungeons and never learn to actually program the damn things.
I have to agree. Computers are "used" in school as:
Put computers in classrooms as tools where they make sense. Give a student a problem and make the computer and requisite software available to them to solve the problem. A computer is not there to rpelace a teacher, unlike what "educational" software writers seem to think...
16K. Beat that.
Although I amused that it apparently had a 3.3 MHz processor, yet the PCjr I got next appeared to kick its ass at 4.77.
Your scar is your trigger, it seems.
Maybe Daylight Savings Time hits in the middle?
ts.com, who "is Europe's leading online ticketing service, enabling venues and promoters throughout the sporting, entertainment and travel industries to sell, market and distribute their tickets directly from their own websites.".
Anyone want to take bets who won't be getting a lot of contracts with RIAA member-backed acts if the RIAA wins this one?
Well, if this case has anything to say for precedence, it wouldn't surprise me if China gained that right.
Scary, eh?
Err, SpamAssassin isn't exactly what I'd call "low overhead". While it's pretty good at what it does, it still has potential to slow my 32MB mail server to a crawl unless I tell spamd to process only one message at a time.
And that's only filtering my mail.
Well, in my case, I used to have a company that I associated with the domain name. I packed it in but think it would be rather silly to have to change my e-mail address and personal website address when so many people already use the one I have.
I realize you did not call for regulation here, but I feel compelled to say that this is precisely why such things that sound like they make sense should not be made into inviolable rules.
You're missing one very important point, which you'd have if you've ever actually checked the IRC protocol. To implement notification in IRC, your client actually sends ISONs to the server at a certain interval; NOTIFY never actually goes to the server itself -- just manages a client-side list. Contrast this with a server that manages the list and sends you the notifications.
Is that spitting hairs? I think so. I think that frankly, it's bullshit. Welcome to the USPTO.
Sounds like a job for systrace...
Hmm. I like my Debian boxes. :-)