Back when I had a SNES I had a game called Pilotwings that had a segment with a rocketbelt in it. The trick was to fly around and touch a lot of floating colored balls and fly through moving hoops without falling into the water or touching the ground.
It would have to be a pretty sophisticated belt in that game, though, as its fuel reserves kept the wearer aloft for a couple of minutes.
What scares me is how secretive everything seems with this story. No-one except the FBI knows anything about how this whole thing came down.
I just can't believe that school administrators weren't warned about the illegal activity and given the opportunity to shut it down themselves. All I can guess is that the FBI figured that if they gave the school a big embarrassing black eye it would serve as a warning to administrators of districts across the country to crack down on their own students.
I bet you have more Star Wars figurines than I do, too.
If it turns out my karma is better than yours, will your brain commit hara-kiri?
No, my brain doesn't have one of those little Japanese suicide swords. My brain tried to buy one at the cutlery store at the mall but its credit card got declined.
But part of the problem with having your AOL address on your website is all the spam you invite by putting it there.
I'm actually more in favor of using a webform that leaves the email address completely off the site altogether. That works for me pretty well. People can contact me without my having to leave either my ISP or my domain-based address for spambots to find.
And my brain screams about everything. You should hear how it screams during my morning commute every day.
This reminds me of a funny thing a commentator on NPR said a few years ago, "Having aol.com in your email address is the online equivalent of wearing a Members Only jacket."
What really makes me cringe is when I see an AOL address on the website of someone who owns his or her own domain name. Why can't you just use your domain name email? Why would you admit that you're an AOL subscriber? my brain screams.
Some people will happily drink soda or juice through what is, in fact, a coffee stirrer. Much smaller than a straw, but it acts enough like a straw to make it useful, even though the transfer rate is considerably slower.
Wondering about licensing and grammar
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I wonder how licensing will work for software installed on such a computer.
Will software makers insist that multiple licenses be bought for software that will be used by two users simultaneously?
And speaking of things being equal, I feel a Grammar Raid coming on...
"Magic Twin looks like a pretty unique solution..." the article says. Why do people insist on qualifying the word unique? Something is either unique or it isn't. An object cannot be "somewhat unique" or "almost totally unique." The word means one of a kind, and without equal. Something either has equals or it doesn't.
Grammar Slammer Bammer slam Igor tomorrow, for sure!
This story reminds me of the yarn that Lister spins in Red Dwarf. "My mate Petersen once brought a pair of shoes with artificial intelligence. Smart Shoes, they were called. It was a neat idea. No matter how blind drunk you were, they would always get you home. Then he got ratted one night in Oslo, and woke up the next morning in Burma."
I just have to jump in and be the first one to make the reference to Sir Bedevere's remark at the end of what could only be assumed to be a lengthy explanation to King Arthur, "...and that, my Liege, is how we know the earth to be banana shaped."
Imagine if he'd said, "...and that, my Liege, is how we know the universe to be shaped like a trumpet." Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones might have been Nobel Prize candidates.
At the risk of sounding overly optimistic, I'm hoping that once Microsoft starts losing some of its dominance, it will strike back with its patent portfolio, which will draw increasing public attention to the problems with patents. When a two-bit, one-man operation like PanIP slings lawsuits around at mom-and-pop operations nationwide, that scarcely draws a whisper, but a behemoth like Microsoft using the patent system to unfairly crush competitors and keep alternatives away from the computing public? That, I'm hoping, will draw enough complaints from everyday people that Congress might actually do something at some point. If Linux on the desktop can start to carry the cachet that the Mac does, an attempt by Microsoft to stem the tide by using ill-gotten patent will, I hope, mobilize the general public to fight back and call for broader patent office reform.
Is email considered a telecommunications medium? If I'm a two-party consent state, and someone sends me an email without included or implied permission to save it, am I required to delete it from my server and my hard drive after I've read it?
Hey, couldn't this be used to fight off an RIAA lawsuit? Could making a record of a Kazaa user's IP address without that user's consent be illegal in a two-party consent state?
I think a safe bet would be anything from WWI or earlier is public domain.
I bet that song "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal," is public domain. Just about any early ragtime piece would be, I think, like the Scott Joplin stuff. The song "The Entertainer," for instance, is copyright 1902, and stuff that old is certainly public domain, despite Disney's best efforts.
I always kind of figured that Lindows would have to cave eventually. Microsoft is just too big and powerful to square off with over the name of a product, and I'm surprised that someone would create a name so obviously based on Microsoft's main product without considering the fact that the software giant would be almost forced to take legal action.
Instead of Lindos, how about Lindros? They could use the handsome face of the Canadian-born New York Ranger as their logo, but what slogan would they use? Maybe something about hacking?
I guess I'd better go buy my surgeon a PS2 or an XBox just to be on the safe side. Actually, I think his medical malpractice insurance company already sent him one.
I was at the Erie County Fair in Hamburg, NY, when I walked up to a vendor who sells Buffalo-style chicken fingers. "Sorry," he told me, "we just had to shut down, there's no power." I couldn't believe it. I just thought maybe a circuit had blown somewhere and a few of the food vendors had no electricity. Then I heard some guy nearby get off his cell phone and say to his wife, "Yeah, he said power's out all over the place, from New York City up into Canada." We were desperate for more news. My companions and I bopped around the fair trying to find out what happened, and finally we just gave up and decided to head home, since the fair was closing at sundown since there were not going to be lit up after dark. One of my companions wanted to know if the power was still on at home, and I just said to her, "Call home with your cell and see if the answering machine comes on," which she did. The power was indeed on at home. So, we all headed home and watched the TV news coverage of the massive blackout in disbelief.
Bruce Springsteen is singing, in the song, to a girlfriend or ex-girlfriend, one whom he accuses of getting her kicks from "driving" him "down." So, logically, I wrote my sig as if there's one specific girl who mods down my posts out of spite.
The article likens Linux to the proverbial tortoise, and that gets me to thinking that we should update the famous Aesop fable of the tortoise and the hare to reflect today's reality.
How about this...
Just as the tortoise has crossed the finish line, the hare, waking up and realizing he's lost the race as a result of his own indolence and brash overconfidence, files suit against the tortoise for infringing on his intellectual property, foremost of which is the hare's exclusive rights to using one's legs for forward movement.
The tortoise, facing mounting legal bills and declining support from the other animals, nearly all of whom think the hare's claims are overly broad and invalid but are afraid of being similarly targeted by the hare's legal campaign for the use of their own legs, is forced to settle out of court, concede defeat in the race, and to pay a nominal licensing fee to continue using his own legs.
The hare, and his lawyers, win the race after all.
Hey, if the memory stick were actually swallowed and then passed through the scammer's digestive system, and the Gardai waited it out and retrieved it from the loo, and it still worked, think what a great marketing slogan the manufacturer could make from that.
Tough enough to pass through the guts of a scammer!
If this story turns out to be a hoax, I'll be sorely disappointed. The thought of one of these 419 scammers desperately trying to break free of the grasp of the police in order to run back and hit a kill switch on his notebook computer makes my nipples explode with delight.
Everyone already knows that The Lion King was a ripoff of Hamlet.
The first time I saw The Lion King I was thinking of Hamlet, too, with the whole king-killed-by-his-brother idea. But I think that it's different enough from Hamlet that it doesn't really rate as a ripoff. I mean, Scar doesn't ply Simba's mother with gifts and marry her (at least, not where the audience can see), and, unlike Claudius, he invites the kingdom's enemies (the hyenas) to move in and help him take over. Claudius, in Hamlet, continues to ward off his brother's enemy, Fortinbras, rather than enlisting the aid of the ambitious young Norwegian prince.
Simba doesn't stick around and plot to avenge his father the way Hamlet does, either.
In the words of Sir Widebottom, "I could go on, but why."
I have to say that Akira is such a cool movie that I'm surprised Disney hasn't ripped off the way they ripped off Kimba the Jungle Emperor when they made The Lion King.
Uh-oh, did I just jinx it? Is there going to be a Disneyfied ripoff of Akira on the way now?
Slashdot Mirror
Back when I had a SNES I had a game called Pilotwings that had a segment with a rocketbelt in it. The trick was to fly around and touch a lot of floating colored balls and fly through moving hoops without falling into the water or touching the ground.
It would have to be a pretty sophisticated belt in that game, though, as its fuel reserves kept the wearer aloft for a couple of minutes.
What scares me is how secretive everything seems with this story. No-one except the FBI knows anything about how this whole thing came down.
I just can't believe that school administrators weren't warned about the illegal activity and given the opportunity to shut it down themselves. All I can guess is that the FBI figured that if they gave the school a big embarrassing black eye it would serve as a warning to administrators of districts across the country to crack down on their own students.
I have a lower Slashdot ID than you!
I bet you have more Star Wars figurines than I do, too.
If it turns out my karma is better than yours, will your brain commit hara-kiri?
No, my brain doesn't have one of those little Japanese suicide swords. My brain tried to buy one at the cutlery store at the mall but its credit card got declined.
But part of the problem with having your AOL address on your website is all the spam you invite by putting it there.
I'm actually more in favor of using a webform that leaves the email address completely off the site altogether. That works for me pretty well. People can contact me without my having to leave either my ISP or my domain-based address for spambots to find.
And my brain screams about everything. You should hear how it screams during my morning commute every day.
This reminds me of a funny thing a commentator on NPR said a few years ago, "Having aol.com in your email address is the online equivalent of wearing a Members Only jacket."
What really makes me cringe is when I see an AOL address on the website of someone who owns his or her own domain name. Why can't you just use your domain name email? Why would you admit that you're an AOL subscriber? my brain screams.
Some people will happily drink soda or juice through what is, in fact, a coffee stirrer. Much smaller than a straw, but it acts enough like a straw to make it useful, even though the transfer rate is considerably slower.
I wonder how licensing will work for software installed on such a computer.
Will software makers insist that multiple licenses be bought for software that will be used by two users simultaneously?
And speaking of things being equal, I feel a Grammar Raid coming on...
"Magic Twin looks like a pretty unique solution..." the article says. Why do people insist on qualifying the word unique? Something is either unique or it isn't. An object cannot be "somewhat unique" or "almost totally unique." The word means one of a kind, and without equal. Something either has equals or it doesn't.
Grammar Slammer Bammer slam Igor tomorrow, for sure!
This story reminds me of the yarn that Lister spins in Red Dwarf. "My mate Petersen once brought a pair of shoes with artificial intelligence. Smart Shoes, they were called. It was a neat idea. No matter how blind drunk you were, they would always get you home. Then he got ratted one night in Oslo, and woke up the next morning in Burma."
I just have to jump in and be the first one to make the reference to Sir Bedevere's remark at the end of what could only be assumed to be a lengthy explanation to King Arthur, "...and that, my Liege, is how we know the earth to be banana shaped."
Imagine if he'd said, "...and that, my Liege, is how we know the universe to be shaped like a trumpet." Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones might have been Nobel Prize candidates.
At the risk of sounding overly optimistic, I'm hoping that once Microsoft starts losing some of its dominance, it will strike back with its patent portfolio, which will draw increasing public attention to the problems with patents. When a two-bit, one-man operation like PanIP slings lawsuits around at mom-and-pop operations nationwide, that scarcely draws a whisper, but a behemoth like Microsoft using the patent system to unfairly crush competitors and keep alternatives away from the computing public? That, I'm hoping, will draw enough complaints from everyday people that Congress might actually do something at some point. If Linux on the desktop can start to carry the cachet that the Mac does, an attempt by Microsoft to stem the tide by using ill-gotten patent will, I hope, mobilize the general public to fight back and call for broader patent office reform.
Is email considered a telecommunications medium? If I'm a two-party consent state, and someone sends me an email without included or implied permission to save it, am I required to delete it from my server and my hard drive after I've read it?
Hey, couldn't this be used to fight off an RIAA lawsuit? Could making a record of a Kazaa user's IP address without that user's consent be illegal in a two-party consent state?
...are there even public domain songs anymore?
I think a safe bet would be anything from WWI or earlier is public domain.
I bet that song "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal," is public domain. Just about any early ragtime piece would be, I think, like the Scott Joplin stuff. The song "The Entertainer," for instance, is copyright 1902, and stuff that old is certainly public domain, despite Disney's best efforts.
It is not the Microsoft you idiot, it is the law. You Linux idiots can not omit the law. You are screwing up the Linux for your own ego.
How about not screwing up the English language?
I always kind of figured that Lindows would have to cave eventually. Microsoft is just too big and powerful to square off with over the name of a product, and I'm surprised that someone would create a name so obviously based on Microsoft's main product without considering the fact that the software giant would be almost forced to take legal action.
Instead of Lindos, how about Lindros? They could use the handsome face of the Canadian-born New York Ranger as their logo, but what slogan would they use? Maybe something about hacking?
I guess I'd better go buy my surgeon a PS2 or an XBox just to be on the safe side. Actually, I think his medical malpractice insurance company already sent him one.
I was at the Erie County Fair in Hamburg, NY, when I walked up to a vendor who sells Buffalo-style chicken fingers. "Sorry," he told me, "we just had to shut down, there's no power." I couldn't believe it. I just thought maybe a circuit had blown somewhere and a few of the food vendors had no electricity. Then I heard some guy nearby get off his cell phone and say to his wife, "Yeah, he said power's out all over the place, from New York City up into Canada." We were desperate for more news. My companions and I bopped around the fair trying to find out what happened, and finally we just gave up and decided to head home, since the fair was closing at sundown since there were not going to be lit up after dark. One of my companions wanted to know if the power was still on at home, and I just said to her, "Call home with your cell and see if the answering machine comes on," which she did. The power was indeed on at home. So, we all headed home and watched the TV news coverage of the massive blackout in disbelief.
Bruce Springsteen is singing, in the song, to a girlfriend or ex-girlfriend, one whom he accuses of getting her kicks from "driving" him "down." So, logically, I wrote my sig as if there's one specific girl who mods down my posts out of spite.
Hey, are you her?
You BITCH!
I want my records back!
I WANT MY RECORDS BACK!
The article likens Linux to the proverbial tortoise, and that gets me to thinking that we should update the famous Aesop fable of the tortoise and the hare to reflect today's reality.
How about this...
Just as the tortoise has crossed the finish line, the hare, waking up and realizing he's lost the race as a result of his own indolence and brash overconfidence, files suit against the tortoise for infringing on his intellectual property, foremost of which is the hare's exclusive rights to using one's legs for forward movement.
The tortoise, facing mounting legal bills and declining support from the other animals, nearly all of whom think the hare's claims are overly broad and invalid but are afraid of being similarly targeted by the hare's legal campaign for the use of their own legs, is forced to settle out of court, concede defeat in the race, and to pay a nominal licensing fee to continue using his own legs.
The hare, and his lawyers, win the race after all.
NIMH stands for "Not in my house," like when someone wants to build a landfill in your living room.
It certainly would fit in with the surreal humor of Python.
What a great story!
Hey, if the memory stick were actually swallowed and then passed through the scammer's digestive system, and the Gardai waited it out and retrieved it from the loo, and it still worked, think what a great marketing slogan the manufacturer could make from that.
Tough enough to pass through the guts of a scammer!
If this story turns out to be a hoax, I'll be sorely disappointed. The thought of one of these 419 scammers desperately trying to break free of the grasp of the police in order to run back and hit a kill switch on his notebook computer makes my nipples explode with delight.
Everyone already knows that The Lion King was a ripoff of Hamlet.
The first time I saw The Lion King I was thinking of Hamlet, too, with the whole king-killed-by-his-brother idea. But I think that it's different enough from Hamlet that it doesn't really rate as a ripoff. I mean, Scar doesn't ply Simba's mother with gifts and marry her (at least, not where the audience can see), and, unlike Claudius, he invites the kingdom's enemies (the hyenas) to move in and help him take over. Claudius, in Hamlet, continues to ward off his brother's enemy, Fortinbras, rather than enlisting the aid of the ambitious young Norwegian prince.
Simba doesn't stick around and plot to avenge his father the way Hamlet does, either.
In the words of Sir Widebottom, "I could go on, but why."
I have to say that Akira is such a cool movie that I'm surprised Disney hasn't ripped off the way they ripped off Kimba the Jungle Emperor when they made The Lion King.
Uh-oh, did I just jinx it? Is there going to be a Disneyfied ripoff of Akira on the way now?
The following should be read out loud in a high, squeaky, Megan Mullaly style voice:
Oh, no, not the Janus browser!
That evil Judge Reinhold was going to use it to destroy the Internet and kill the president!
Thank God Scott Bakula and Kris Kristofferson showed up and saved us! Or was Kris Kristofferson the bad guy?