License Information on GIF and Other LZW-based Technologies "After expiration of the U.S. LZW patent on June 20, 2003, liability for patent infringement will occur only if an infringing act with respect to a product or service (e.g., developing, selling, offering to sell, making, using, distributing, downloading, exporting and/or importing) occurs in a country where the LZW patent has not expired.
Since each country has its own patent laws and rules regarding what constitutes patent infringement, effected persons may wish to seek advice from their own legal counsel."
" The senator, a composer who earned $18,000 last year in song writing royalties, acknowledged Congress would have to enact an exemption for copyright owners from liability for damaging computers"
Apparently nothing. It will really suck when your new $60,000 Sun Server gets hosed because someone put a copy of the latest backstreet boys music on it.
This is a disturbing trend. The same problem exists with genetically altered pets as with genetically modified foods. There is the potential (and its likely) that the GM version is more hardy than the natural version
Guess what... 100% of your food has been genetically modified!!! Do you think farmers just plant crops at random? The strains that die are never replanted while the ones that survive are sold to other farmers. Every year weaker strains go extinct and stronger varieties that have evolved defenses and that have the best traits from many strains become more prominent. This has happened every year since the beginning of modern agriculture. Now we can speed this up so that evolution that took thousands of years and caused millions to starve can occur in a lab in under a year.
t is illegal in most (all?) countries to interfere with the driver and/or the car's controls.
Really? Every time I try to lock up my brakes my car prevents me from doing so (ABS). When I try to fishtail around a turn my vehicle prevents me from doing so (VSC).
Check out shops like Large Animal Games - these places have amazing ideas, there is basically no channel for them to sell their wares.
This is where Sony can make inroads against Nintendo with their upcoming handheld. Include a 32MB+ CF card (or built in memory) that can transfer games you download online, via USB cable to the handheld. All of the big name games will be in the stores, but you will have tons of independent games to make the system more attractive.
Question: How many ADD children does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: Hey, letâ(TM)s go ride bikes!
FOR PARENTS WHO ARE DRUGGING THEIR CHILDREN
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Working with ADHD?
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"Too many children are being labeled for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and improperly placed on psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall to be 'calmed down,' according to House testimony. Most child-health specialists agree that about 2% of schoolchildren 'are so pervasively overactive or inattentive that they are very difficult for anyone to manage.' But up to 17% of schoolchildren are being labeled for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, said Dr. William B. Carey, director of behavioral pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia." --The Washington Times - 9 Jun 2003
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David Neeleman is the CEO of JetBlue Airways. He has now been told that he has ADD. He didnâ(TM)t take drugs. I wonder where he would be today if his parents had forced Ritalin on him. Most probably not the head of a profitable airline. NYTimes - ADHD - Neeleman
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"They made a list of the most common symptoms of emotional discomfiture of children; those which bother teachers and parents most, and in a stroke that could not be more devoid of science or Hippocratic motive--termed them a 'disease.' Twenty five years of research, not deserving of the term 'research.,' has failed to validate ADD/ADHD as a disease. Tragically--the "epidemic" having grown from 500 thousand in 1985 to between 5 and 7 million today--this remains the state of the 'science' of ADHD." adhdfraud.com
Amazon Tuesday patented the first pan-European standard for software patents. European representatives in Brussels declined to comment on the new Amazon patent.
There is no legal reason for a company to make modchips and therefore anyone mass producing them can be shutdown by Nintendo in a second
They can only shut them down if they are distributing them with Nintendo bios software already loaded on them. Otherwise they are simply selling a piece of hardware. There are plenty of places that legally sell xbox and ps2 mod chips such as easybuy2000.
Download this if you own the game and want to exercise your legal right to "make one copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT solely for backup or archival purposes."
"We have to subsidize the price of the hybrid technology," said Prabhakar Patil, chief program engineer for the hybrid Escape, set to go on sale late this year. "We feel it's important to get in the market for this technology and get feedback from customers."
The first hybrid Escapes will be sold to fleet customers, while a version for retail buyers won't be available until the middle of next year.
QNX pronounced like "queue nicks" is a commercial operating system that runs on intel processors, mainly the 386, 486, and Pentium, and their clones, such as MD, Nat Semiconductor, Cyrix, and SGS Thompson.
The simple answer is that QNX is a realtime, microkernel, preemptive, prioritized, message passing, network distributed, multitasking, multiuser, fault tolerant operating system. This is a "true" microkernel, with the largest QNX kernel to date being less than 10K.
The QNX/Neutrino microkernel is about 32K, but can run standalone, something the QNX4 microkernel cannot. The QNX/Neutrino microkernel + process manager is about 64K, which is half the size of the QNX4 microkernel + process manager, and it does more.
I attempted to build a two-wheel self balancing robot similar to this one using the lego mindstorms kit. I had a large metal ball that would roll in a cylinder and hit sensors at either end allowing the robot to adjust when it was tilting. Unfortunately the motors could never respond quick enough to prevent the machine from falling over.
I have given several of these kits as gifts, great gift for teenagers and unemployed tech workers.
this huge $44Trillion debt that is going to bite us in the ass in the next few years especially with these tax cuts,
The Federal Gov't budget was $2.1 Trillion for 2002. The tax cuts are $35 Billion/yr.
In comparison $75 Billion/yr goes to family farmers who have been obsolete for 40 years now, $344 Billion for defense, $460 Billion for Social Security and $850 Billion for welfare programs.
Here is a good graph showing national debt as % of gdp. We are not any worse off then we were in the '90s or the '60s.
The 2003 Senate Energy Bill (enter S.14 into "bill number") thomas.loc.gov offers loan guarantees for the construction of 7 new nuclear reactors in the US, as well as a new $1.1Billion nuclear plant in Idaho to produce hydrogen. If these are steps you want taken, you should write a letter to your Senators telling them how much your vote depends on their support of this bill.
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Note, this only applies to the patent in the US.
License Information on GIF and Other LZW-based Technologies
"After expiration of the U.S. LZW patent on June 20, 2003, liability for patent infringement will occur only if an infringing act with respect to a product or service (e.g., developing, selling, offering to sell, making, using, distributing, downloading, exporting and/or importing) occurs in a country where the LZW patent has not expired.
Since each country has its own patent laws and rules regarding what constitutes patent infringement, effected persons may wish to seek advice from their own legal counsel."
What ever happens when someone at a record label royally screws up and fries the hard drive of someone with legiminate copies of MP3's
/ 20030617/ap_on_hi_te/downloading_music
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap
" The senator, a composer who earned $18,000 last year in song writing royalties, acknowledged Congress would have to enact an exemption for copyright owners from liability for damaging computers"
Apparently nothing. It will really suck when your new $60,000 Sun Server gets hosed because someone put a copy of the latest backstreet boys music on it.
Software piracy is so wide-spread that it could seriously destroy the U.S.'s economic backbone.
I wonder what % of WinXP users are using a pirated copy? I do not know a single person who has a purchased copy of this OS.
Maybe someone could figure it out using available figures.
According to google (http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html)
32% - WinXP
33% - Win98
Has MS sold enough copies of WinXP to account for that #?
A certain site Torrentse_visitor_stats that a lot of "pirates" visit has WinXP use at 65% and Win98 at 5% among 70,000 unique visitors.
All very interesting.
Bwahaha. The domain registration expired last month and some pr0n site snatched it up and pointed it to their site.
So Orrin Hatch was auditioning for the job when he said the RIAA should be able to "destroy" peoples computers?
All the more reason to stop wasting $50 a pop for new games and instead building a stand alone mame machine to play those old tried and true ones.
Easy. Launch another sling above it...
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10061
This is how you can do it.
This is a disturbing trend. The same problem exists with genetically altered pets as with genetically modified foods. There is the potential (and its likely) that the GM version is more hardy than the natural version
Guess what... 100% of your food has been genetically modified!!! Do you think farmers just plant crops at random? The strains that die are never replanted while the ones that survive are sold to other farmers. Every year weaker strains go extinct and stronger varieties that have evolved defenses and that have the best traits from many strains become more prominent. This has happened every year since the beginning of modern agriculture. Now we can speed this up so that evolution that took thousands of years and caused millions to starve can occur in a lab in under a year.
"the umpires association has filed a complaint about the system's unreliability and incapability to replace the human 3-D, real-time view."
In other news, the UAW has declared that robots are unable to replace humans' unique 3d peception in the construction of automobiles.
t is illegal in most (all?) countries to interfere with the driver and/or the car's controls.
Really? Every time I try to lock up my brakes my car prevents me from doing so (ABS). When I try to fishtail around a turn my vehicle prevents me from doing so (VSC).
$4 levy on blank digital media such as CD-ROMs.
So I assume blank DVD's have a levy of $28 since they store ~7x the data?
Now a spindle of 100 CDR's will be $420 instead of $20?
Will a spindle of 100 DVD-R's be $3000?
I suppose I will have to begin importing DVDR's instead of Heroin into Sweden now.
Check out shops like Large Animal Games - these places have amazing ideas, there is basically no channel for them to sell their wares.
This is where Sony can make inroads against Nintendo with their upcoming handheld. Include a 32MB+ CF card (or built in memory) that can transfer games you download online, via USB cable to the handheld. All of the big name games will be in the stores, but you will have tons of independent games to make the system more attractive.
Hell, I already get all of my GBA games that way
ADHD is real, it's here, so please, even if you don't have it, please respect it for what it is.
nih.gov/adhd
What Causes ADHD?
Health professionals stress that since no one knows what causes ADHD...
Can Any Other Conditions Produce These Symptoms?
The fact is, many things can produce these behaviors.
Does that seem to warrant placing 17% of children on a mind-altering drug?
Ritalin is just the laudanum of the 21st century.
Question: How many ADD children does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: Hey, letâ(TM)s go ride bikes!
"Too many children are being labeled for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and improperly placed on psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall to be 'calmed down,' according to House testimony. Most child-health specialists agree that about 2% of schoolchildren 'are so pervasively overactive or inattentive that they are very difficult for anyone to manage.' But up to 17% of schoolchildren are being labeled for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, said Dr. William B. Carey, director of behavioral pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia." --The Washington Times - 9 Jun 2003
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David Neeleman is the CEO of JetBlue Airways. He has now been told that he has ADD. He didnâ(TM)t take drugs. I wonder where he would be today if his parents had forced Ritalin on him. Most probably not the head of a profitable airline.
NYTimes - ADHD - Neeleman
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"They made a list of the most common symptoms of emotional discomfiture of children; those which bother teachers and parents most, and in a stroke that could not be more devoid of science or Hippocratic motive--termed them a 'disease.' Twenty five years of research, not deserving of the term 'research.,' has failed to validate ADD/ADHD as a disease. Tragically--the "epidemic" having grown from 500 thousand in 1985 to between 5 and 7 million today--this remains the state of the 'science' of ADHD."
adhdfraud.com
Cyberphobia among the old guard
Bill Oreilly seems to be suffering from this also:
The reason these net people get away with all kinds of stuff is that they work for no one...This, of course, is dangerous, but it symbolizes what the Internet is becoming...The Internet has become a sewer...So which is the bigger threat to America? The big companies or the criminals at the computer?
He wrote this article because people are talking about how terrible the ratings are for his radio show.
Amazon Tuesday patented the first pan-European standard for software patents. European representatives in Brussels declined to comment on the new Amazon patent.
There is no legal reason for a company to make modchips and therefore anyone mass producing them can be shutdown by Nintendo in a second
They can only shut them down if they are distributing them with Nintendo bios software already loaded on them. Otherwise they are simply selling a piece of hardware. There are plenty of places that legally sell xbox and ps2 mod chips such as easybuy2000.
They are not publicly available to everyone, but are said to be hosted on private warez FTP sites.
The.Legend.Of.Zelda.Gamecube.torrent
Download this if you own the game and want to exercise your legal right to "make one copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT solely for backup or archival purposes."
Here is an article from March: Ford to sell hybrid Escape SUV at a loss
"We have to subsidize the price of the hybrid technology," said Prabhakar Patil, chief program engineer for the hybrid Escape, set to go on sale late this year. "We feel it's important to get in the market for this technology and get feedback from customers."
The first hybrid Escapes will be sold to fleet customers, while a version for retail buyers won't be available until the middle of next year.
1) What is QNX?
QNX pronounced like "queue nicks" is a commercial operating system that runs on intel processors, mainly the 386, 486, and Pentium, and their clones, such as MD, Nat Semiconductor, Cyrix, and SGS Thompson.
The simple answer is that QNX is a realtime, microkernel, preemptive, prioritized, message passing, network distributed, multitasking, multiuser, fault tolerant operating system. This is a "true" microkernel, with the largest QNX kernel to date being less than 10K.
The QNX/Neutrino microkernel is about 32K, but can run standalone, something the QNX4 microkernel cannot. The QNX/Neutrino microkernel + process manager is about 64K, which is half the size of the QNX4 microkernel + process manager, and it does more.
The best part is when they put in a gym that has showers so you are expected to practically live there.
I attempted to build a two-wheel self balancing robot similar to this one using the lego mindstorms kit. I had a large metal ball that would roll in a cylinder and hit sensors at either end allowing the robot to adjust when it was tilting. Unfortunately the motors could never respond quick enough to prevent the machine from falling over.
I have given several of these kits as gifts, great gift for teenagers and unemployed tech workers.
this huge $44Trillion debt that is going to bite us in the ass in the next few years especially with these tax cuts,
The Federal Gov't budget was $2.1 Trillion for 2002. The tax cuts are $35 Billion/yr.
In comparison $75 Billion/yr goes to family farmers who have been obsolete for 40 years now, $344 Billion for defense, $460 Billion for Social Security and $850 Billion for welfare programs.
Here is a good graph showing national debt as % of gdp. We are not any worse off then we were in the '90s or the '60s.
The 2003 Senate Energy Bill (enter S.14 into "bill number") thomas.loc.gov offers loan guarantees for the construction of 7 new nuclear reactors in the US, as well as a new $1.1Billion nuclear plant in Idaho to produce hydrogen. If these are steps you want taken, you should write a letter to your Senators telling them how much your vote depends on their support of this bill.