Perhaps Intel could build another internet... and move all the dot coms there. I mean the real dot coms. People with a commercial tax id and a willingness to pay a tax to subsidise this new infrastructure.
When living in Ohio this is the tactic I would employ. I'm living in Georgia now. An associate has been complaining about a car with it's windows smashed in, that was left in his neighborhood. He called the police. They didn't do anything. I suggested that he phone them up again. This time report that someone is urinating on the vehicle in question. I figure that when the cop comes around to check for the pisser/child mollester that they'll notice the car and get the wheeles turning, so to speak.
It's okay to post a story on slashdot that brings down some website w/ a story that you're interested in reading. But when it brings down the website that talks about bringing down a website this is "blogspamming"? Then what is the former? Innocent bunch of folks w/ a good idea spamming?
How did this post get rated a 5 anyway? Should have been -1 offtopic.
"It's a growing problem and one that we take very seriously, and one that we think has a very destructive impact and potential." says FBI supervisory special agent Frank Harrill.
Hello!! They're just figuring this out? --The Dude
I would think that if it's legal for you to library what you purchased, that you could grab a copy online. I could also see the argument that if the origional was vinal that the copy should come from a vinal source.
I've always thought that it would be nice if I could buy a liscense to a album or song. That way I could pay a nominal fee to obtain copies in different formats.
But how do you stop folks from grabbing a bunch of copies... and reselling or trading and what not.
I guess my problem is that I assume everyone is honest. RIAA assumes everyone is dishonest.
'I've never had a situation like this before, where there are powerful plaintiffs and powerful lawyers on one side and then a whole slew of ordinary folks on the other side,'
Hey All,
Where is the ACLU in all of this? Are they too busy fighting for the rights of NAMBLA?
I can't begin to say how happy I am to hear that Best Buy is getting theirs!!
Personally I've been missled by their sales associates. I purchased a 40gig Nomad MP3 player. At the time of purchase the sales associate said that I should buy a service plan. His argument was that the batteries are expensive to replace. And with the service plan I just bring in the device and they replace the battery.
Sounded resonable.
Six months later the battery dies. I bring back the unit and explain that I had the service plan and that I needed a replacement battery. I was told that Best Buy would only replace the entire unit.
Oh and by the way... We don't carry that unit any more. We'd be happy to give you some money that you can spend in Best Buy on another MP3 player.
What! Crazy! I bought that item on sale. There's no way I can get something comperable and maintain the value of purchasing something on sale.
Okay... Refund the money I spent on this service plan. It is clearly designed so that I can never utilize it.
Best Buy's response: NO
I ended up having to pay $40 for another battery. Which, by the way, is what I spent on the service plan.
I will never... ever... ever... purchase anything from Best Buy ever agian.
"Nintendo has patented key console online gaming features."
Exactly,
Would it make more sense to say "claimed panents for" vs. patented? I was under the impression that the patent office didn't issue a patent, so much as, they recorded your claim. Patents can be claimed by other means. I was under the impression that any patent claim can also be contested.
"PC games will never go away, but if the market keeps shrinking due to the increasing ease of piracy... then the number and quality of games will almost certainly decrease."
Hey All,
It seems to me that there is this myth in every market around the world... It goes something like this... "If people couldn't setal our stuff, everyone would run out and pay cold hard cash; even if they had to sell their own plasma."
I pay for everything I use/enjoy. And I don't have a problem w/ ppl trying to secure their assets. I just think it's a bit naive to think that markets will explode in size as a result. Cause, if the youth doesn't have the money... they just don't have the money.
However, both of those factors make their business model unstable.
Remember xBox independence day?
Micro$oft wigs were flipping over this.
If folks were to start to use the xBox for anything other then it's intended purpose Micro$oft Game Studios would sink faster then the Titanic.
This may sound like more fiction then fact.
But I seem to remember a certain eMail appliance that was bankrupted 'cause folks realized that it was just a PC w/o the benefit of a OS. Geeks came to the rescue w/ a Linux installation HowTo. People start to buy the eMail appliance... but not the eMail subscription. Company goes bankrupt! It happened!
I for one am disappointed in him because of the "team activities" quote.
I miss the cooperative mode of Doom (1).
For me...
Nothing was better then being in a lab full of friends...
Laughing about Frags...
And cheering when we beat back the baddies !!!
Still.
I did a quick google search to see what I would find. The University of Washington seems to think this topic is important enough to have a set of web pages devoted to guidelineing eMail destruction.
It seems that if you keep it too long you're hanging your self when a public records request comes along. Excerpt below:
"One person at the UW whose email was recently requested had 45,000 messages; another had the equivalent of 1.4 million pieces of paper. With this kind of volume, responding to a request is time-consuming and expensive."
They go on to advise:
"The key is to organize your email so you can delete it in a timely manner. Keeping all your email has costs, as does deleting email too soon. It is worth learning which messages should be kept and taking the trouble to save and delete them systematically."
The fact that a university has a "Records Retention Schedule" should be of no surprise. But it still gets a bit of a chuckle out of me.
It's an amuseing read: http://www.washington.edu/computing/windows /issue2 8/saved.html
With an estimated world population of 6 Billion.
And a projected population of 9 Billion in 2050.
We would be the generation worried about being "alone".
I got my information here:
http://www.prb.org/datafind/datafinder.htm
"... his company would not assert its formidable patent portfolio against the Linux kernel and strongly advocated others to promise the same..."
I'm not a lawyer but...
I'm under the impression that a patent is only as good as your ability and willingness to enforce it. That is to say, if you don't enforce your patent with one entity, you can't enforce it with any entity. To say that to say that your company has 'no intention' of exercising it's patents against one organization, is to say that the patents will not be used against any organization; making the patents useless.
It would seem, to make a promise of this scale would be bad for one's patent portfolio. More over, wouldn't it be bad legal advise to give to other organizations?
I would think that the more appropriate action would be to explicitly grant licenses to use these patents.
"The Degree Confluence Project's goal is to visit every latitude and logitude degree integer intersection..."
Hey There...
As often happens I've come across a word I just don't understand.
As often as this happens...
My wife seems to know what that word, does, infact, mean.
Confluence, she says.
I think that they mean intersection.
"Clearly."
(Smart. Yet obtuse.)
I think confluence denotes a set of rivers or streams. Do they only mean to say intersections of waterways?
"Clearly not."
So I head over to dictionary.com.
con.flu.ence (n.):
1a) A flowing together of two or more streams.
1b) The point of juncture of such streams.
1c) The combined stream formed by this juncture.
2) A gathering, flowing, or meeting together at one juncture or point:
"A confluence of negative events conspired to bring down bond prices" (Michael Gonzalez).
So I guess the question is:
I can see the intent for the use of the word.
But to me it seems like a bit of a stretch.
More of a literary license.
Yes. The question:
Do I simply require access to a better dictionary?
We were told that someone looking for intelligent life may search for bovine gas!
That is, cow toot.
They would go on to say,
this composes a significant portion of the spectrum coming from this planet.
Magnificent!
We blame the cows for our flatulence.
And then in similar egocentric fashion...
we assume that intelligent life will seek us out based on this thing...
we avoid to the point...
that we need to blame it on the cows:)
Slashdot Mirror
Wouldn't it be nice if dot com meant something?
... and move all the dot coms there. I mean the real dot coms. People with a commercial tax id and a willingness to pay a tax to subsidise this new infrastructure.
Perhaps Intel could build another internet
Just a thought,
--The Dude
I tend to agree,
When living in Ohio this is the tactic I would employ. I'm living in Georgia now. An associate has been complaining about a car with it's windows smashed in, that was left in his neighborhood. He called the police. They didn't do anything. I suggested that he phone them up again. This time report that someone is urinating on the vehicle in question. I figure that when the cop comes around to check for the pisser/child mollester that they'll notice the car and get the wheeles turning, so to speak.
Cheers,
--The Dude
Thanks for the explaination! ;)
The sub-text from the original message was lost on me.
Cheers,
--The Dude
Blog spammer?
I don't know that I understand?
It's okay to post a story on slashdot that brings down some website w/ a story that you're interested in reading. But when it brings down the website that talks about bringing down a website this is "blogspamming"? Then what is the former? Innocent bunch of folks w/ a good idea spamming?
How did this post get rated a 5 anyway? Should have been -1 offtopic.
Cheers,
--The Dude
"meaning more products to make & manage = net gain of IT jobs in the US"
Do these jobs pay above minimum wage?
--The Dude
"It's a growing problem and one that we take very seriously, and one that we think has a very destructive impact and potential." says FBI supervisory special agent Frank Harrill.
Hello!! They're just figuring this out?
--The Dude
LOL,
... couldn't we come up with some pig latin naming scheme to throw them off the sent?
Pretty funny.
But this only works if RIAA and gang are simply looking for song titles. I thought they were looking for file checksums and what not?
If they were only looking for file names
Cheers,
--The Dude
Hey There,
... and reselling or trading and what not.
I would think that if it's legal for you to library what you purchased, that you could grab a copy online. I could also see the argument that if the origional was vinal that the copy should come from a vinal source.
I've always thought that it would be nice if I could buy a liscense to a album or song. That way I could pay a nominal fee to obtain copies in different formats.
But how do you stop folks from grabbing a bunch of copies
I guess my problem is that I assume everyone is honest. RIAA assumes everyone is dishonest.
Shrug,
--The Dude
'I've never had a situation like this before, where there are powerful plaintiffs and powerful lawyers on one side and then a whole slew of ordinary folks on the other side,'
Hey All,
Where is the ACLU in all of this? Are they too busy fighting for the rights of NAMBLA?
Cheers,
--The Dude
I can't begin to say how happy I am to hear that Best Buy is getting theirs!!
... We don't carry that unit any more. We'd be happy to give you some money that you can spend in Best Buy on another MP3 player.
...
... ever ... ever ... purchase anything from Best Buy ever agian.
Personally I've been missled by their sales associates. I purchased a 40gig Nomad MP3 player. At the time of purchase the sales associate said that I should buy a service plan. His argument was that the batteries are expensive to replace. And with the service plan I just bring in the device and they replace the battery.
Sounded resonable.
Six months later the battery dies.
I bring back the unit and explain that I had the service plan and that I needed a replacement battery. I was told that Best Buy would only replace the entire unit.
Oh and by the way
What! Crazy!
I bought that item on sale. There's no way I can get something comperable and maintain the value of purchasing something on sale.
Okay
Refund the money I spent on this service plan. It is clearly designed so that I can never utilize it.
Best Buy's response: NO
I ended up having to pay $40 for another battery.
Which, by the way, is what I spent on the service plan.
I will never
ever.
--The Dude
"Nintendo has patented key console online gaming features."
Exactly,
Would it make more sense to say "claimed panents for" vs. patented? I was under the impression that the patent office didn't issue a patent, so much as, they recorded your claim. Patents can be claimed by other means. I was under the impression that any patent claim can also be contested.
Cheers,
--The Dude
Damn stupid social interaction!
"(if you are lucky enough to have one already)." How does one get in on the invite avalanche? --The Dude
"PC games will never go away, but if the market keeps shrinking due to the increasing ease of piracy... then the number and quality of games will almost certainly decrease."
... It goes something like this ... "If people couldn't setal our stuff, everyone would run out and pay cold hard cash; even if they had to sell their own plasma."
... they just don't have the money.
Hey All,
It seems to me that there is this myth in every market around the world
I pay for everything I use/enjoy. And I don't have a problem w/ ppl trying to secure their assets. I just think it's a bit naive to think that markets will explode in size as a result. Cause, if the youth doesn't have the money
Cheers,
--The Dude
100% ...
... but not the eMail subscription. Company goes bankrupt! It happened!
However, both of those factors make their business model unstable.
Remember xBox independence day?
Micro$oft wigs were flipping over this.
If folks were to start to use the xBox for anything other then it's intended purpose Micro$oft Game Studios would sink faster then the Titanic.
This may sound like more fiction then fact.
But I seem to remember a certain eMail appliance that was bankrupted 'cause folks realized that it was just a PC w/o the benefit of a OS. Geeks came to the rescue w/ a Linux installation HowTo. People start to buy the eMail appliance
Cheers,
-- The Dude
Okay ...
... ... ...
I for one am disappointed in him because of the "team activities" quote.
I miss the cooperative mode of Doom (1).
For me
Nothing was better then being in a lab full of friends
Laughing about Frags
And cheering when we beat back the baddies !!!
Cheers,
-- The Dude
You apparently have to have a chat with the makers of the xBox ;)
"digital radio that can timeshift"
... record ... but no fast forward?
Hey There,
I see rewind
What's going on?
Did someone at the FCC tell them that fast forward would bankrupt the radio industry?
Cheers,
-- The Dude
I have to agree with you,
s /issue2 8/saved.html
Still.
I did a quick google search to see what I would find. The University of Washington seems to think this topic is important enough to have a set of web pages devoted to guidelineing eMail destruction.
It seems that if you keep it too long you're hanging your self when a public records request comes along. Excerpt below:
"One person at the UW whose email was recently requested had 45,000 messages; another had the equivalent of 1.4 million pieces of paper. With this kind of volume, responding to a request is time-consuming and expensive."
They go on to advise:
"The key is to organize your email so you can delete it in a timely manner. Keeping all your email has costs, as does deleting email too soon. It is worth learning which messages should be kept and taking the trouble to save and delete them systematically."
The fact that a university has a "Records Retention Schedule" should be of no surprise. But it still gets a bit of a chuckle out of me.
It's an amuseing read:
http://www.washington.edu/computing/window
Cheers,
--The Dude
"Are We Alone in the Universe?"
With an estimated world population of 6 Billion.
And a projected population of 9 Billion in 2050.
We would be the generation worried about being "alone".
I got my information here:
http://www.prb.org/datafind/datafinder.htm
Cheers,
--The Dude
"... his company would not assert its formidable patent portfolio against the Linux kernel and strongly advocated others to promise the same ..."
...
I'm not a lawyer but
I'm under the impression that a patent is only as good as your ability and willingness to enforce it. That is to say, if you don't enforce your patent with one entity, you can't enforce it with any entity. To say that to say that your company has 'no intention' of exercising it's patents against one organization, is to say that the patents will not be used against any organization; making the patents useless.
It would seem, to make a promise of this scale would be bad for one's patent portfolio. More over, wouldn't it be bad legal advise to give to other organizations?
I would think that the more appropriate action would be to explicitly grant licenses to use these patents.
Cheers,
--The Dude
"The Degree Confluence Project's goal is to visit every latitude and logitude degree integer intersection ..."
...
...
Hey There
As often happens I've come across a word I just don't understand.
As often as this happens
My wife seems to know what that word, does, infact, mean.
Confluence, she says.
I think that they mean intersection.
"Clearly."
(Smart. Yet obtuse.)
I think confluence denotes a set of rivers or streams. Do they only mean to say intersections of waterways?
"Clearly not."
So I head over to dictionary.com.
con.flu.ence (n.):
1a) A flowing together of two or more streams.
1b) The point of juncture of such streams.
1c) The combined stream formed by this juncture.
2) A gathering, flowing, or meeting together at one juncture or point:
"A confluence of negative events conspired to bring down bond prices" (Michael Gonzalez).
So I guess the question is:
I can see the intent for the use of the word.
But to me it seems like a bit of a stretch.
More of a literary license.
Yes. The question:
Do I simply require access to a better dictionary?
Cheers,
--The Dude
Hey There,
... ... ...
... ... ;)
What the needed to do was
supply a image as input
and have the thing
A) Translate it to b&w
B) Have the EAS automatically draw it
Kind of like the novelty of
translating an image to
ascii
Cheers,
--The Dude
Hey There,
...
... :)
:)
I see far too many similarities
w/ StarTrek Voyager!
Stranded in another galaxy.
Female in charge.
Has to deal w/ the challenges of being cut off from home.
As well as, the difficulites of being the "woman"
in charge.
Don't get me wrong,
I hope it doesn't suck,
--The Dude
Hey There,
...
... ... :)
I remember back in the day
We were told that someone looking for intelligent life may search for bovine gas!
That is, cow toot.
They would go on to say,
this composes a significant portion of the spectrum coming from this planet.
Magnificent!
We blame the cows for our flatulence.
And then in similar egocentric fashion
we assume that intelligent life will seek us out based on this thing...
we avoid to the point
that we need to blame it on the cows
Cheers,
--The Dude