You'd be surprised what Congress would and has fallen for. You've gotta love this sentence from the article:
One proposed remedy being debated by record label executives is federal legislation requiring used-CD retailers to pay royalties on secondary sales of albums.
How far gone is our government when record label executives are debating whether or not to have federal legislation enacted?!
Uh, how the heck would you set up your layout without tables? For instance, how would you generate a page that looks like Slashdot without using nested tables?
It really wouldn't be all that hard to redesign this layout without using tables for the major page structure. At it's simplest you've basically got a single, fixed-width column running down the left side and a content area that takes up the remaining page width, with a header and footer and little bit of margin around the edges. Even the nested threading of the comments and replies wouldn't be all that hard to replicate.
I also don't understand how they can claim that web designers should design a single page that can be used both on desktops and handhelds. OK, maybe if it's just plain text that would work. But any more complicated layout is going to have to be redesigned completely for a handheld.
The idea is that if you mark up the content of your page structurally and use CSS to create the layout, a device can display the content as best as it's able. Not that a handheld will reproduce the exact same layout as the desktop, but that it is able to present the information in a way that is appropriate for a handheld.
If some iMac owner accidently puts one of these CD's in the drive and send the thing to kingdom come, didn't Sony just damage their computer with malicious intent?
Not that I agree in any way shape or form, but Sony's defense will likely be something along the lines of:
"A sanding pad from a rotary sander will damage your CD-ROM drive, but they don't even put labels on those. At least we told you not to put our disk in your computer. It's not our fault if you didn't disassemble the jewel case to read the fine print we printed under the CD tray in reverse pig latin."
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The other point is that they don't mention how they arrived at that 13,000 terawatt figure... is that the average instantaneous energy levels? Maybe it's the annual cumulative total?
A watt is a measure of power, which is energy over time (specifically, joules per second). So basically they're saying that the moon receives 13,000 terajoules of energy from the sun every second.
That would be circumstantial evidence at best. The fact that your Web server recorded a request for a given resource -- even a moderately unique one (such as a URL crafted specifically for that email message) -- doesn't prove anything other than a request was made for that resource. There's nothing in your server logs that says the intended recipient opened the email message, or even, for that matter, that the email message was opened at all.
For the sake of argument, let's take for granted that searching from the location bar is something we really want to implement, and you want to allow your users to configure their browser to search using a variety of available engines.
Because you have no control over the interface to these other engines your only logical choice is something like what Netscape's doing -- send a uniform query back to a single place that you control, where it can be parsed and sent to the appropriate place in the appropriate form. Otherwise, you get into needing to update your browser if/whenever any search engine changes its query interface.
Of course, I'm sure this post will only be read by very few people, and almost certainly not modded up to be of any interest...
For crying out loud, even the people who claim to have read the document clearly don't understand it. This is not a NASA doc, it was put out by the ISS Multilateral Crew Operations Panel, and signed by the five major participating space organizations (US, Canadian, Russian, European, and Japanese).
Sure, you can wonder whether everyone will follow the rules, but it's not like NASA's dictating who gets to go. This was/is a collaborative document.
Maybe next time you'll think to get a patent. How hard could it be?
You: I'd like a patent for my "Method and process for circumventing the expenditure of $30 for the acquisition of a case by making a total mess of my desk and failing to dust, to boot," please.
USPTO Clerk: Sounds pretty complicated. OK, here you go.
If you're not going to read the article before you post, at least have the decency to read the/. summary:
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not only can you now have 10 MB Ethernet over Cat3, Cat2, Cat1, try lamp power cord, battery jumper terminals, barbed wire, etc. [emphasis mine]
The whole point is that Cisco's technology does -- in theory, at least -- take advantage of existing physical connections. Whether this is actually useful for practical implementation, as another poster questions, is a separate issue. If the press release says 5,000 ft., you can probably safely assume that that is the current upper bound.
Not to wholeheartedly defend NamePlanet, since they own a few domains that I'd like to get my hands on, but I don't think you can really call offering people free email addresses cybersquatting. They are using the domains to conduct business, and I'm sure they have more than a couple of users who are happy that they don't have to spend their own money to have their own name as their email address.
Yeah, and I hear the major grocery store chains are going to sue homeless people for going to soup kitchens to get food that everyone else has to pay for.
Of course, police love to do things like this to people they know won't be convicted because the police know that his equipment will be seized. He will likely never see any of his 7 computers or "hacking books" ever again no matter what happens because it will be filed as evidence.
The Salem PD apparently has something of a known history of questionable search and seizure while squeaking out of the consequences, too. See this excerpt from an Eagle-Tribune article back in October:
Charging that Salem police officers engaged in actions that "should shock any citizen of the United States," a federal magistrate has recommended that police be barred from seizing items from a local pawn shop unless they secure a search warrant.
However, the judge denied a request by Rockingham Trading Post and its owners, Michael Kalil and Victor Giaimo, to prevent the town from prosecuting them in state court.
He stated that by law they have to be certified to a certain accuracy, and the machines in Florida are over 99.9% accurate. He said something like it will get maybe 2 votes in a MILLION wrong.
Sure, they might only get two votes out of a million wrong, but that's only because the machines throw out ballots that they can't read, even if those ballots would be clearly readable by a human. That would be like me claiming to be 100% acurate at mind-reading, but the only person's mind I'll read is my own.
So this is what happens when you take both the red and blue pills... You get stuck somewhere between the "Real World" of cool hardware and software and the "Matrix" hell controlled by the likes of Amazon and the USPTO.
Other services may send out advertising with your messages, but they don't go so far as to attach paragraphs of endorsement written in the first person, making it look as if the user wrote them -- much less not actually mention that they're doing it.
Scientists have developed a new synthetic substance that is one million times lighter than steel and four hundred times as strong. This new substance can be used to manufacture everything from massive skyscrapers to car bumpers. Of course, a cubic inch would cost approximately the GNP of Bolivia and take seven and a half generations to produce.
Don't be expecting those new polyflourocyanomanganatecarbon polymer snow boards anytime soon
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George Orwell's "1984" got one thing wrong: it's industry, not the government, that's now playing the role of Big Brother.
But if you consider that more and more Industry is the government then maybe he wasn't quite so wrong after all.
You'd be surprised what Congress would and has fallen for. You've gotta love this sentence from the article:
How far gone is our government when record label executives are debating whether or not to have federal legislation enacted?!
It really wouldn't be all that hard to redesign this layout without using tables for the major page structure. At it's simplest you've basically got a single, fixed-width column running down the left side and a content area that takes up the remaining page width, with a header and footer and little bit of margin around the edges. Even the nested threading of the comments and replies wouldn't be all that hard to replicate.
The idea is that if you mark up the content of your page structurally and use CSS to create the layout, a device can display the content as best as it's able. Not that a handheld will reproduce the exact same layout as the desktop, but that it is able to present the information in a way that is appropriate for a handheld.
Here's a portion of the AI code that was leaked:
Maybe the FTC should just switch to Mozilla so they wouldn't have to deal with these unwanted popups.
If some iMac owner accidently puts one of these CD's in the drive and send the thing to kingdom come, didn't Sony just damage their computer with malicious intent?
Not that I agree in any way shape or form, but Sony's defense will likely be something along the lines of:
The other point is that they don't mention how they arrived at that 13,000 terawatt figure... is that the average instantaneous energy levels? Maybe it's the annual cumulative total?
A watt is a measure of power, which is energy over time (specifically, joules per second). So basically they're saying that the moon receives 13,000 terajoules of energy from the sun every second.
How does scoring more points on your gameboy increase your reproductive fitness?
Those Verizon Wireless ads seem to make it pretty clear that people who are better at sending text messages get all the hot chicks.
That would be circumstantial evidence at best. The fact that your Web server recorded a request for a given resource -- even a moderately unique one (such as a URL crafted specifically for that email message) -- doesn't prove anything other than a request was made for that resource. There's nothing in your server logs that says the intended recipient opened the email message, or even, for that matter, that the email message was opened at all.
The basis given in the article for the decision seems more than a little questionable, though:
ING Direct no more physically handles or holds my funds placed in their service than PayPal does, yet they fall under the FDIC umbrella.
For the sake of argument, let's take for granted that searching from the location bar is something we really want to implement, and you want to allow your users to configure their browser to search using a variety of available engines.
Because you have no control over the interface to these other engines your only logical choice is something like what Netscape's doing -- send a uniform query back to a single place that you control, where it can be parsed and sent to the appropriate place in the appropriate form. Otherwise, you get into needing to update your browser if/whenever any search engine changes its query interface.
Of course, I'm sure this post will only be read by very few people, and almost certainly not modded up to be of any interest...
For crying out loud, even the people who claim to have read the document clearly don't understand it. This is not a NASA doc, it was put out by the ISS Multilateral Crew Operations Panel, and signed by the five major participating space organizations (US, Canadian, Russian, European, and Japanese).
Sure, you can wonder whether everyone will follow the rules, but it's not like NASA's dictating who gets to go. This was/is a collaborative document.
Maybe next time you'll think to get a patent. How hard could it be?
You: I'd like a patent for my "Method and process for circumventing the expenditure of $30 for the acquisition of a case by making a total mess of my desk and failing to dust, to boot," please.
USPTO Clerk: Sounds pretty complicated. OK, here you go.
If you're not going to read the article before you post, at least have the decency to read the /. summary:
The whole point is that Cisco's technology does -- in theory, at least -- take advantage of existing physical connections. Whether this is actually useful for practical implementation, as another poster questions, is a separate issue. If the press release says 5,000 ft., you can probably safely assume that that is the current upper bound.
Not to wholeheartedly defend NamePlanet, since they own a few domains that I'd like to get my hands on, but I don't think you can really call offering people free email addresses cybersquatting. They are using the domains to conduct business, and I'm sure they have more than a couple of users who are happy that they don't have to spend their own money to have their own name as their email address.
Sounds a lot like my stock options, but I'm sure as heck stuck with them.
I tried that line with PEPCO, but they still made me pay my bill.
Yeah, and I hear the major grocery store chains are going to sue homeless people for going to soup kitchens to get food that everyone else has to pay for.
What also amuses me is my new hobby: I now send the postage-page envelopes back from junk mailers. Empty. Eat that! 30 cents out of your pocket!
Even more fun: Tape the envelope or reply card to a brick before you mail it.
Of course, police love to do things like this to people they know won't be convicted because the police know that his equipment will be seized. He will likely never see any of his 7 computers or "hacking books" ever again no matter what happens because it will be filed as evidence.
The Salem PD apparently has something of a known history of questionable search and seizure while squeaking out of the consequences, too. See this excerpt from an Eagle-Tribune article back in October:
He stated that by law they have to be certified to a certain accuracy, and the machines in Florida are over 99.9% accurate. He said something like it will get maybe 2 votes in a MILLION wrong.
Sure, they might only get two votes out of a million wrong, but that's only because the machines throw out ballots that they can't read, even if those ballots would be clearly readable by a human. That would be like me claiming to be 100% acurate at mind-reading, but the only person's mind I'll read is my own.
You don't really expect @Home to come out saying that their service is dangerous, do you?
Hey come pay us $40 a month so someone can break into your computer and steal your credit card numbers!
Throw in some livestock and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Where do you think all the methane came from in the first place?
So this is what happens when you take both the red and blue pills... You get stuck somewhere between the "Real World" of cool hardware and software and the "Matrix" hell controlled by the likes of Amazon and the USPTO.
Other services may send out advertising with your messages, but they don't go so far as to attach paragraphs of endorsement written in the first person, making it look as if the user wrote them -- much less not actually mention that they're doing it.
No kidding. I can see it now:
Don't be expecting those new polyflourocyanomanganatecarbon polymer snow boards anytime soon