You, of all the people, are giving Microsoft benefit of the doubt?! Not had your coffee yet, Taco?
Nonsense. If *course* they made changes to the system to foil hackers (described as 'security' chances).
Even the article says "Microsoft has tried several tactics to discourage such hacks."
Microsoft has a *LONG* history of doing this sort of thing, going back to the Dr-Dos days. And, for them, it is a legal and legitimate response to a threat on their business model.
I will never buy, purchase, or patronize any new product or service that uses the prefix 'e'. It's a tag from the days of the dotcom, when electronic hype ruled the market. Now it's all BS. eSuds, eWipes, eFood, eService, eClothes...
eNOUGH!
This is really a dumb solution - better one here.
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Why bother with the wristwatch? Scramdisk (free) and Drivecrypt (commercial) already do this in software, using strong passwords.
1. Use the software to encrypt your disk contents 2. To decrypt (on the fly), you need the password 3. Set your screensaver to lock, with a (different) password.
Voila. Done. Rebooting to get by the screen lock unmounts the drive, rendering it useless.
This is really, really easy. What's the big deal about all this gadgetry nonsense?
The courts rightly recognized that employees should not be able to withhold potentially valuable ideas from their employer, specifically against their employee agreement. Whether the ideas are committed to practice, or written on paper, is irrelevant. He had an idea valuable to his employer, tried to get extra money from it, and when he didn't get an offer good enough, he refused to disclose the idea. What a horrible precedent it would set if Brown had won.
Pinker was absolutely right when he said:
Technology companies are in the business of inventing, and if people are doing it on their own behalf and take it for themselves from the company, the company is not going to stay in business long.
Also vital is this passage:
Lewis believes Brown could have helped his case had he kept an idea log, as inventors do in the patent arena. Establishing that Brown had the idea years before coming to DSC would have contradicted the signed agreement and gone a long way toward establishing Brown's credibility.
Heed his warning. Brown has a tough case to fight, but kudos to him for 'sticking to his guns'. I predict, however, he will lose.
The company attempting to commercialize this needs as much hype as they can get, since they don't seem to have any substantial sales, and are very likely funded by (or will be funded by) VC's and other investors.
Getting an article like this in the press is really just fodder for investors, and possibly future customers. Objective news, it's not - this is just an advertisement for the commercial outfit.
I found some information on the Wayback that I would really like to archive myself - for legally defensive reasons (i.e. trademark use, and to kill patents).
Is there a way to archive sites from the Wayback machine in a clean (linked) way? I tried using standard web downloaders (Webreaper, Offline Explorer), but they didn't work correctly. Their FAQ says it can't be done, but for some reason I don't believe them...:)
I don't agree; the article was clearly making a comparison between ATW and Google, to which Timothy responded by diminishing ATW's claim, clearly to the benefit of Google.
If the article had been about Google indexing it's N-billionth page, do you think Timothy would have quipped something about it's irrelevance? I doubt it. More likely there'd be the usual drooling.
Your comment sounded to me like it was specifically designed to diminish the importance AllTheWeb's claim, in favor of Google. Perhaps it was unintentional, but I doubt it.
I don't know if you're a Google-worshiper, but you certainly ran to its defense when faced with a strong claim from a competing search engine.
God forbid someone presents an objective comparison between Alltheweb and Google. Responses such as "Google is my God" and Timothy's little snip in the article do nothing for anyone really interested in using a useful search engine.
I just used Alltheweb for some common searches I do, and you know what? It found a lot more useful hits than Google did. Yea, imagine that.
But Alltheweb didn't seem to have a cache, which I thought was very useful in Google.
So, come on, folks, give it a chance, and don't jump to conclusions without an objective analysis. The tendency to blindly worship things like google/linux/linus/transmeta is far too common on this site.
The gravitational force is proportional to mass, but goes inversely squared with distance. So any local effect of a gravitational field on a light beam will diminish very quickly with distance. There is no 'light horizon' for the solar system. You could just as easily say that there's enough stuff out there to pull the light beam away from us.
The gravitational force is proportional to mass, but goes inversely squared with distance. So any local effect of a gravitational field on a light beam will diminish very quickly with distance. There is no 'light horizon' for the solar system. You could just as easily say that there's enough stuff out there to pull the light beam away from us.
Almost every appliance I've seen in Edmund is significantly overpriced. No big deal if you just want to grab some lenses or something, but for lasers, cameras, or microscopes, it's best to look elsewhere.
I just downloaded it and started setting it up, and found out that there's no imap support (unless it's seriously buried). A 'serious' email client that won't even do imap support? No thanks. There's no way I'm going back to POP3.
If they did support it, I'd certainly consider dumping Netscape/Moz for The Bat.
What it comes down to is that the etymotics do have better sound quality, but their 'cancellation' is non-existant - they're simply passive 'sound blockers'. They don't negate the sound waves at all.
They're really just well designed earplugs. They do block sound, but they do NOT 'cancel' it. So their efficacy at lower frequencies (such as plane rumble) is not very good.
You're right that active noise cancellation doesn't work very well for high frequencies - but passive blocking does. So the Sony's gave me the best of both worlds - solid cancellation at low frequencies, and effective blocking of sound at higher frequencies.
Especially for air travelers - Sony makes some earbud noice cancelling headphones, the NC10. Their performance is much better than Bose's, and since they're so tiny, you can just slip them into you shirt pocket, rather than having to lug a huge package around with you (the Bose ones are HUGE).
And, as I recall, Bose headphones have a pretty severe feedback problem. If you cover the port (say, by falling asleep and rolling over), you're welcomed to a delightful, ear-piercing shriek! So much for noise cancellation.
Oh yea, the Sony's are less than half the price, too. I've been using a pair for years.
While secret use cannot be used to negate a patent, it can, in fact, be used to steal a patent. In the US, patent rights go to the first to invent, not the first to patent.
I was really unimpressed with the trailer; it seemed like they devised one of the most generic plots possible, threw some famous people at it, and bought themselves some expensive, but rather unimaginative, CGI. The result is fodder for the masses and the die-hard fans, with a perfect marketing opportunity for McDonalds tie-ins.
Lucas and his ilk really had the chance to take the high road here with these new Star Wars movies, and use his energy to create something imaginative, unique, and compelling. Instead he cranked out more fodder, really for nothing more than to continue milking money out of the franchise. Looks like it's continuing.
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You, of all the people, are giving Microsoft benefit of the doubt?! Not had your coffee yet, Taco?
Nonsense. If *course* they made changes to the system to foil hackers (described as 'security' chances).
Even the article says "Microsoft has tried several tactics to discourage such hacks."
Microsoft has a *LONG* history of doing this sort of thing, going back to the Dr-Dos days. And, for them, it is a legal and legitimate response to a threat on their business model.
An arms race will ensue..
I said *new* products. email and emacs are exempt. I don't use emacs anyhow.
I will never buy, purchase, or patronize any new product or service that uses the prefix 'e'. It's a tag from the days of the dotcom, when electronic hype ruled the market. Now it's all BS. eSuds, eWipes, eFood, eService, eClothes...
eNOUGH!
Why bother with the wristwatch? Scramdisk (free) and Drivecrypt (commercial) already do this in software, using strong passwords.
1. Use the software to encrypt your disk contents
2. To decrypt (on the fly), you need the password
3. Set your screensaver to lock, with a (different) password.
Voila. Done. Rebooting to get by the screen lock unmounts the drive, rendering it useless.
This is really, really easy. What's the big deal about all this gadgetry nonsense?
The courts rightly recognized that employees should not be able to withhold potentially valuable ideas from their employer, specifically against their employee agreement. Whether the ideas are committed to practice, or written on paper, is irrelevant. He had an idea valuable to his employer, tried to get extra money from it, and when he didn't get an offer good enough, he refused to disclose the idea. What a horrible precedent it would set if Brown had won.
Pinker was absolutely right when he said:
Technology companies are in the business of inventing, and if people are doing it on their own behalf and take it for themselves from the company, the company is not going to stay in business long.
Also vital is this passage:
Lewis believes Brown could have helped his case had he kept an idea log, as inventors do in the patent arena. Establishing that Brown had the idea years before coming to DSC would have contradicted the signed agreement and gone a long way toward establishing Brown's credibility.
Heed his warning. Brown has a tough case to fight, but kudos to him for 'sticking to his guns'. I predict, however, he will lose.
I'll have to agree, based on what I know about them. From $0.05 to $24, and back to $0.45, all without profit or real sales, is quite a ride.
There's quite an active discussion of them over at the Reging bull stock chat site.
A very long but extremely informative post about these financial issues is here.
The company attempting to commercialize this needs as much hype as they can get, since they don't seem to have any substantial sales, and are very likely funded by (or will be funded by) VC's and other investors.
Getting an article like this in the press is really just fodder for investors, and possibly future customers. Objective news, it's not - this is just an advertisement for the commercial outfit.
And those who can't teach, teach teachers.
Duh. I wasn't asking about saving one page, but an entire site.
I found some information on the Wayback that I would really like to archive myself - for legally defensive reasons (i.e. trademark use, and to kill patents).
:)
Is there a way to archive sites from the Wayback machine in a clean (linked) way? I tried using standard web downloaders (Webreaper, Offline Explorer), but they didn't work correctly. Their FAQ says it can't be done, but for some reason I don't believe them...
Anyone have advice? Thanks.
I don't agree; the article was clearly making a comparison between ATW and Google, to which Timothy responded by diminishing ATW's claim, clearly to the benefit of Google.
If the article had been about Google indexing it's N-billionth page, do you think Timothy would have quipped something about it's irrelevance? I doubt it. More likely there'd be the usual drooling.
Your comment sounded to me like it was specifically designed to diminish the importance AllTheWeb's claim, in favor of Google. Perhaps it was unintentional, but I doubt it.
I don't know if you're a Google-worshiper, but you certainly ran to its defense when faced with a strong claim from a competing search engine.
God forbid someone presents an objective comparison between Alltheweb and Google. Responses such as "Google is my God" and Timothy's little snip in the article do nothing for anyone really interested in using a useful search engine.
I just used Alltheweb for some common searches I do, and you know what? It found a lot more useful hits than Google did. Yea, imagine that.
But Alltheweb didn't seem to have a cache, which I thought was very useful in Google.
So, come on, folks, give it a chance, and don't jump to conclusions without an objective analysis. The tendency to blindly worship things like google/linux/linus/transmeta is far too common on this site.
Meant as a response to http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=33380&cid=3606 402
re-posted there. Parent = -1 redundant
+1 informative?
The gravitational force is proportional to mass, but goes inversely squared with distance. So any local effect of a gravitational field on a light beam will diminish very quickly with distance. There is no 'light horizon' for the solar system. You could just as easily say that there's enough stuff out there to pull the light beam away from us.
Complete bunk.
+1 informative?
The gravitational force is proportional to mass, but goes inversely squared with distance. So any local effect of a gravitational field on a light beam will diminish very quickly with distance. There is no 'light horizon' for the solar system. You could just as easily say that there's enough stuff out there to pull the light beam away from us.
Complete bunk.
How about that horrid bug that extends the width of the window data by a factor of 8, making it impossible to read?
Does Slashdot want me to just waste more time at work or what?!
Almost every appliance I've seen in Edmund is significantly overpriced. No big deal if you just want to grab some lenses or something, but for lasers, cameras, or microscopes, it's best to look elsewhere.
So if I can't reboot, how am I supposed to recover from Windows crashes?
I just downloaded it and started setting it up, and found out that there's no imap support (unless it's seriously buried). A 'serious' email client that won't even do imap support? No thanks. There's no way I'm going back to POP3.
If they did support it, I'd certainly consider dumping Netscape/Moz for The Bat.
I tried these out when I was shopping for mine.
What it comes down to is that the etymotics do have better sound quality, but their 'cancellation' is non-existant - they're simply passive 'sound blockers'. They don't negate the sound waves at all.
They're really just well designed earplugs. They do block sound, but they do NOT 'cancel' it. So their efficacy at lower frequencies (such as plane rumble) is not very good.
You're right that active noise cancellation doesn't work very well for high frequencies - but passive blocking does. So the Sony's gave me the best of both worlds - solid cancellation at low frequencies, and effective blocking of sound at higher frequencies.
Especially for air travelers - Sony makes some earbud noice cancelling headphones, the NC10. Their performance is much better than Bose's, and since they're so tiny, you can just slip them into you shirt pocket, rather than having to lug a huge package around with you (the Bose ones are HUGE).
And, as I recall, Bose headphones have a pretty severe feedback problem. If you cover the port (say, by falling asleep and rolling over), you're welcomed to a delightful, ear-piercing shriek! So much for noise cancellation.
Oh yea, the Sony's are less than half the price, too. I've been using a pair for years.
While secret use cannot be used to negate a patent, it can, in fact, be used to steal a patent. In the US, patent rights go to the first to invent, not the first to patent.
What's the difference between an MIT mechanical engineer and and MIT civil engineer?
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Mechanical engineers build weapons, and civil engineers build targets.
Ha!
Fine, mod me down because you don't agree. But..
I was really unimpressed with the trailer; it seemed like they devised one of the most generic plots possible, threw some famous people at it, and bought themselves some expensive, but rather unimaginative, CGI. The result is fodder for the masses and the die-hard fans, with a perfect marketing opportunity for McDonalds tie-ins.
Lucas and his ilk really had the chance to take the high road here with these new Star Wars movies, and use his energy to create something imaginative, unique, and compelling. Instead he cranked out more fodder, really for nothing more than to continue milking money out of the franchise. Looks like it's continuing.
Disappointing.