More to the point, when Firefox 1.x has been out as long as 6 has been, THAT's when this article becomes valuable, but it's rubbish until then. Since IE 6 is nearing the end of it's product life, and things are still left unsolved, I feel pretty sorry for IE users, and blessed and happy that I'm using a browser that's patched all the time on a consistent basis.
TIVO has attempted to suggest the flags are a bug. While TIVO admits to making the technology available and active, not a single content provider is using it. That said: I do think it's a bad idea.
As a TIVO owner, I have to insist that TIVO needs to remove this technology because content flags that require a time frame within which to watch the show defeats the purpose of my purchasing a TIVO in the first place. I'm their customer because I could timeshift on my terms. NOT theirs. Not Fox's. Not NBC's.
I also want the ability to transfer it to another medium. If I lose that, TIVO loses me as a customer and no amount of lifetime memberships and HDTV versions of TIVO at a discounted rate will prevent me from leaving.
If TIVO does not remove this feature, I will reconsider remaining a TIVO Customer, and both TIVO and all the content providers lose a "captive" audience member.
But when you show stupid jiggle-physics and scantily-clad girls cooing and moaning and wriggling, you show yourselves for what you really are: sex-crazed children. And don't think for a minute that the mainstream media doesn't pick up on this.
You know what? I really don't think the mainstream media cares. In fact, I'd say if they were interested, they'd harp on that fact, which would not only sell the product to sex-craved adults and children, but also make them money. Sex makes you watch TV. It makes those same sex crazed individuals hunger for more sex-crazed shows.
Sex sells and you're not getting away from it by whining about it. You have to change the dynamics. It comes down to a community deciding that it won't sell and you not buying what they're shoveling on TV in the way of programming, the game itself or discussing in the TV news programs. Change the dynamics and you'll stop the chain, but no amount of legislation or public outcry will do it. You have to act by voting with your eyeballs, your "values" and your wallet.
And I've come out with my own customer agreement. It goes like this:
"Thank you for reviewing this EULA. This agreement is automatically agreed to by Blizzard/Vivendi selling their product to this user through any intermediary of their choosing, and predates any agreement or EULA Blizzard/Vivendi may attempt to provide to the user for use of their software or services. The sale of any Blizzard created product to this user prohibits the seller and the programming source company or companies from interfering with this particular customer's fair use of said product. The user is not required to use, purchase or participate in Bilzzard's Battle.net service in any way shape or form for networked and non-networked use so long as there is any kind of server software provided by the enthusiast community here or abroad. The customer regrets establishing this EULA and further regrets any legal inconvenience this may cause Bilzzard/Vivendi. This agreement is irrevocable within the United States and abroad unless the user agrees that Blizzard provides a better, less draconian agreement allowing the law abiding enthusiast community that will let them enjoy their fine product."
Considering the IE DOM/CSS support is so screwed up it, making IE LOOK and ACT like Firefox won't replace IE's crappy support of basic standards. At least I can depend on Firefox.:P
Patrick Zevo, "Toys" (1992): I can't even eat. The food keeps touching. I like military plates, I'm a military man, I want a military meal. I want my string beans to be quarantined! I like a little fortress around my mashed potatoes so the meatloaf doesn't invade my mashed potatoes and cause mixing in my plate! I HATE IT when food touches! I'm a military man, you understand that? And don't let your food touch either, please?
>My sources say that Jobs is going to use Intel's cryptographic > technology called LaGrande to make sure OS X will only boot on > Apple-branded hardware. This is a similar technique to the one >that Microsoft used to make sure Linux could not be loaded on > Xbox.
This is a brilliant strategy. You see Microsoft doing their thing, you see Google doing their thing. MS has whatever they have (Active X) and Google doing Ajax...and Apple doing Dashboard widgets.
Want to merge the two and bring cool tools to your service? But Konfabulator. You give jobs to the development team and get all the Konfabulator Krazies developing new tools for your service. You can be as beta as you want, just build tools for us. We can call the whole thing YahooOS.
"Now that old people have been provided with this outstanding exo-skeleton, I believe churches and other organizations should purchase one of these for each of our elderly. Consequently, we are increasing the retirement age of our elderly to 95. Clearly they are now capable of serving others and will be less of a drain on Social Security."
-GW Bush
I think you're on to something. What if one of these comets isn't what you think it is? Is sending an explosive device flying towards it's surface with the purpose of blowing a hole in it to see what's inside a good idea?
What if there are people/beings or space-gods inside? Or Daleks?
Well, technically you're right. He's an idiot, but if the guy's winning cases, and forcing people to NOT use "Stealth" in product names, that's way out of line. I wouldn't mind the laws being reformed to permit words that are common to the english language for the last 50-100 years to be exempt from Trademarking. THAT will shut the guy up once and for all and not to be wasting the court's time.
It's all creative accounting. Are we absolutely sure Sony doesn't get a tax break, or for that matter not have to pay their creditors if they say it's a loss? Sony will say it took $499 to make and it really takes $100 to make in a country where the US, Japan, etc. can't verify the actual cost of manufacture?
I'd rather have Congress fix themselves before fixing the internet, considering they certainly can't change or fix something that exists across the world. Theoretically, they can at minimum fix themselves first.
Regardless of that -- I refuse to believe that the entire country's net has to become a firewalled, ultra-secure state in order for anyone to feel safe, or for us to have "freedom". It is my belief that both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights demand and expect that we are to be citizens of the world, participating in the world. NOT a self-jailer.
For Pete's sake, this service Google's offering just hasn't been out as long as the others have. All the other services looked this bad when they first started out, so damnit, don't whine about it.
You: "Hi, I'm [mumble mumble] the new outgoing email reader..." eMail Room Orienter: "You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it's a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o'clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get an email voucher, outgoing articles provide an email voucher. Move any article without an email voucher and they dock you. Letter size a green email voucher, oversize a yellow email voucher, parcel size a maroon email voucher. Wrong color email voucher and they dock you! 6787049A/6. That is your employee number. It will not be repeated! Without your employee number you cannot get your paycheck. Inter-office mail is code 37, intra-office mail 37-3, outside mail is 3-37. Code it wrong and they dock you! This has been your orientation. Is there anything you do not understand, is there anything you understand only partially? If you have not been fully oriented, you must file a complaint with personnel. File a faulty complaint and they dock you! And they read your email!"
He probably didn't do any damage, the system was probably wide open, or rather as wide open as it can be and it's still the military.
There's big difference in pointing out $1 billion (or even $1 million) worth of holes you could drive a truck through, vs actually torching machines, hard drives, destroying data etc.
If he's any kind of reasonable hacker, he didn't do anything but look...right?
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More to the point, when Firefox 1.x has been out as long as 6 has been, THAT's when this article becomes valuable, but it's rubbish until then. Since IE 6 is nearing the end of it's product life, and things are still left unsolved, I feel pretty sorry for IE users, and blessed and happy that I'm using a browser that's patched all the time on a consistent basis.
Simple. They're being paid to add that feature, or it's part of an agreement to get schedules and schedule coordination from that content provider.
Or they're doing this to get something new from them and this is what they're doing in exchange.
TIVO has attempted to suggest the flags are a bug. While TIVO admits to making the technology available and active, not a single content provider is using it. That said: I do think it's a bad idea.
As a TIVO owner, I have to insist that TIVO needs to remove this technology because content flags that require a time frame within which to watch the show defeats the purpose of my purchasing a TIVO in the first place. I'm their customer because I could timeshift on my terms. NOT theirs. Not Fox's. Not NBC's.
I also want the ability to transfer it to another medium. If I lose that, TIVO loses me as a customer and no amount of lifetime memberships and HDTV versions of TIVO at a discounted rate will prevent me from leaving.
If TIVO does not remove this feature, I will reconsider remaining a TIVO Customer, and both TIVO and all the content providers lose a "captive" audience member.
You know what? I really don't think the mainstream media cares. In fact, I'd say if they were interested, they'd harp on that fact, which would not only sell the product to sex-craved adults and children, but also make them money. Sex makes you watch TV. It makes those same sex crazed individuals hunger for more sex-crazed shows.
Sex sells and you're not getting away from it by whining about it. You have to change the dynamics. It comes down to a community deciding that it won't sell and you not buying what they're shoveling on TV in the way of programming, the game itself or discussing in the TV news programs.
Change the dynamics and you'll stop the chain, but no amount of legislation or public outcry will do it. You have to act by voting with your eyeballs, your "values" and your wallet.
And I've come out with my own customer agreement.
It goes like this:
"Thank you for reviewing this EULA. This agreement is automatically agreed to by Blizzard/Vivendi selling their product to this user through any intermediary of their choosing, and predates any agreement or EULA Blizzard/Vivendi may attempt to provide to the user for use of their software or services. The sale of any Blizzard created product to this user prohibits the seller and the programming source company or companies from interfering with this particular customer's fair use of said product. The user is not required to use, purchase or participate in Bilzzard's Battle.net service in any way shape or form for networked and non-networked use so long as there is any kind of server software provided by the enthusiast community here or abroad. The customer regrets establishing this EULA and further regrets any legal inconvenience this may cause Bilzzard/Vivendi. This agreement is irrevocable within the United States and abroad unless the user agrees that Blizzard provides a better, less draconian agreement allowing the law abiding enthusiast community that will let them enjoy their fine product."
Considering the IE DOM/CSS support is so screwed up it, making IE LOOK and ACT like Firefox won't replace IE's crappy support of basic standards. At least I can depend on Firefox. :P
Patrick Zevo, "Toys" (1992): I can't even eat. The food keeps touching. I like military plates, I'm a military man, I want a military meal. I want my string beans to be quarantined! I like a little fortress around my mashed potatoes so the meatloaf doesn't invade my mashed potatoes and cause mixing in my plate! I HATE IT when food touches! I'm a military man, you understand that? And don't let your food touch either, please?
>My sources say that Jobs is going to use Intel's cryptographic
> technology called LaGrande to make sure OS X will only boot on
> Apple-branded hardware. This is a similar technique to the one
>that Microsoft used to make sure Linux could not be loaded on
> Xbox.
Well THAT worked well didn't it?
XBox Linux
It took all of what, 6 weeks before Linux was loaded on an XBox?
There's no way SONY was going to be able to account for Brittney Spears forever!!!
Maybe now stinky music will be given a rest eh?
This is a brilliant strategy. You see Microsoft doing their thing, you see Google doing their thing. MS has whatever they have (Active X) and Google doing Ajax...and Apple doing Dashboard widgets.
Want to merge the two and bring cool tools to your service? But Konfabulator. You give jobs to the development team and get all the Konfabulator Krazies developing new tools for your service. You can be as beta as you want, just build tools for us. We can call the whole thing YahooOS.
OOOOOhhh.... I CAN'T WAIT for their take on this to show up in Red vs Blue.
"Sarge?"
"Yeah!"
"Is that you up on that billboard?"
"Yeah!"
"What are you doing to that donkey?"
This just in:
"Now that old people have been provided with this outstanding exo-skeleton, I believe churches and other organizations should purchase one of these for each of our elderly. Consequently, we are increasing the retirement age of our elderly to 95. Clearly they are now capable of serving others and will be less of a drain on Social Security."
-GW Bush
I think you're on to something. What if one of these comets isn't what you think it is? Is sending an explosive device flying towards it's surface with the purpose of blowing a hole in it to see what's inside a good idea?
What if there are people/beings or space-gods inside? Or Daleks?
Well, technically you're right. He's an idiot, but if the guy's winning cases, and forcing people to NOT use "Stealth" in product names, that's way out of line. I wouldn't mind the laws being reformed to permit words that are common to the english language for the last 50-100 years to be exempt from Trademarking. THAT will shut the guy up once and for all and not to be wasting the court's time.
Betcha Ol Bill's afraid of the radiation...C'mon Bill, what's a little radiation! It's healthy for ya Bill, just like Windows...
Who the heck was the idiot who gave this guy the rights to a common word in the English language that's been used for well over a hundred years.
I don't care if it's a "product name" he's trademarked. Use in any other format that is not his product IS.OUR.RIGHT.
Time to reform trademark law.
And let me guess..."Wired" meant one line came into the school and it's on the principal's secretary's desk.
"Yay! It's Wired! The Puerto Ricans are Wired!"
It's all creative accounting. Are we absolutely sure Sony doesn't get a tax break, or for that matter not have to pay their creditors if they say it's a loss? Sony will say it took $499 to make and it really takes $100 to make in a country where the US, Japan, etc. can't verify the actual cost of manufacture?
I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!
I'd rather have Congress fix themselves before fixing the internet, considering they certainly can't change or fix something that exists across the world. Theoretically, they can at minimum fix themselves first.
Regardless of that -- I refuse to believe that the entire country's net has to become a firewalled, ultra-secure state in order for anyone to feel safe, or for us to have "freedom". It is my belief that both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights demand and expect that we are to be citizens of the world, participating in the world. NOT a self-jailer.
For Pete's sake, this service Google's offering just hasn't been out as long as the others have. All the other services looked this bad when they first started out, so damnit, don't whine about it.
I shall always think of directories as folders, even as my brain makes a rediculous zerbert-sound.
Long live the folder.
Bring on the Blue Man Group RED GUYS IN APPLE SUITS!
What a vision. It's like mixing Fruit of the Loom and Riverdance.
You: "Hi, I'm [mumble mumble] the new outgoing email reader..."
eMail Room Orienter:
"You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it's a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o'clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get an email voucher, outgoing articles provide an email voucher. Move any article without an email voucher and they dock you. Letter size a green email voucher, oversize a yellow email voucher, parcel size a maroon email voucher. Wrong color email voucher and they dock you! 6787049A/6. That is your employee number. It will not be repeated! Without your employee number you cannot get your paycheck. Inter-office mail is code 37, intra-office mail 37-3, outside mail is 3-37. Code it wrong and they dock you! This has been your orientation. Is there anything you do not understand, is there anything you understand only partially? If you have not been fully oriented, you must file a complaint with personnel. File a faulty complaint and they dock you! And they read your email!"
He probably didn't do any damage, the system was probably wide open, or rather as wide open as it can be and it's still the military.
There's big difference in pointing out $1 billion (or even $1 million) worth of holes you could drive a truck through, vs actually torching machines, hard drives, destroying data etc.
If he's any kind of reasonable hacker, he didn't do anything but look...right?
right???