The founding fathers realized however that this is crap, newspapers and citizens need to be able to report the truth no matter how damaging it is to public figures.
Are you saying, then, that in America it's not libel if it isn't lying? Or, what exactly does this last line imply?
Hmm.. what I remember from the last time this came up was that it would only affect Microsoft's ActiveX implimentation. Opera and Mozilla both use the origional Netscape Plugin Architecture (compatible with netscape 4.7x still, I believe) which is not affected by this patent.
Plugins are used in many applications, and they don't simpley have a patent on plugins. They have a patent on the way Active X does things. Whether it proves valid in court or not, I don't care. I don't like Active X.
Look back on the origional mention.. that's what I got out of it, at least..
with most C/R systems, if you send an e-mail to someone, they go on a temporary white list for a few days, or sometimes on a perminant white list. This allows them to reply to you (with a C/R Challange, for example) without having to face a challange from you.
We assume that if you sent the person an e-mail, they probably aren't a spammer.
For every legitmate message you receive, 24 other people had to look at a spam you sent them
Let's assume that of those 192 messages, none were spam. Now your statement is valid, as 24 people had to look at a C/R generated e-mail for every 8 he recieved. Those people should have replied, since none of it was spam, and they weren't sent unsollicidated C/R e-mails. They wrote him and his service replied back asking if they were real people. Not spam, just how the system works.
Now let's assume that of those 192 messages all were spam. For every 8 e-mails he recieved 0 people had to read spam from him. Why? Because, that's why! How many spam e-mails have you recieved that had valid reply-to addresses? Or valid from addresses, for that matter? If the C/R is sent to a non-existant addresses, NOBODY reads it. It's just gone.
Now, like you said, of those 192 e-mails, some sent from legitimate sources but either a) the C/R e-mail was sent into their spam folder, so they never got it or b) they were confused and didn't know what to do with it. Those cases are likely few and only in these cases can the C/R responses even be considered annoying. Otherwise they're just useful.
Something about letting any idiot [blog] write the [blog] news just doesn't [blog] sound like a reliable [blog] newsource to me.
Wikipedia is a neat idea, cause I think people will avoid editing a topic they don't feel they actually are an expert on, but the news is an entirely different matter. Look to blogging for examples
What would be the point of encrypting Bittorrent? With Bittorrent you connect to a network sharing the file you are downloading only. Everyone has the same file. All the RIAA has to do connect to the network (just like you do) and search for a file (again, the same way you do)
Once they start downloading the file, they can keep a log of ALL ip addresses they connect to. Azurues and other popular clients already give you that information, I'm sure Exeem clients (even if they were encrypted) would still give it to you. Waste does.
Waste only has potential because the network is invite only. Waste has potential to be safe because it's small. Encrypted bitorrent would have to be open invite. ANYTHING open invite is insecure. Sure, with an encrpyted bittorrent, someone couldn't just listen in from the outside, but it really wouldn't be hard to get on the inside.
Google cache links display their cached destination in the link...
You can float your mouse over the "linky" to the google cache and Firefox (or any other respectable webbrowser that doesn't disable the status bar by default) will show that the link displays "mediaportal.sourceforge.net".
I agree.. This is utterly horrible. But, since it's skinnable, hopefulyl that means we'll be able to use FireFox skins shortly (you can probably just modify the current ones and tell them to work with netscape)
you can so kindly donate those unwanted AOL cd's to this cause...
Maybe t's just cause I moved to a less populated area, but it seems AOL has REALLY cut back on their CD mailing. I only see them at Walmart in the "Free Take one. What the hell, take 6, nobody wants them" bin. This project has been on going for 3 years now and they're only a 1/3 of the way there. By the time they get 1million CDs, AOL won't be sending them anymore and it'll have been all for naught.
It's interesting. For a while now coral has been rather poor about being able to recover slashdotted content. I've even coralized links in the mysterious future and coral wasn't able to load them, even though I could fine directly.
On the same token, Mirrordot.com sure doesn't do a very good job of "solving the slashdot effect" most of the time.
If you look right now " Presently sustaining 14 parallel Slashdottings. Far out! Click on the ? link to do a Google search of the linked text." but most of those slashdottings are NOT mirrored but retain the origional links. How is this useful?
Just downloaded and isntalled the demo... It uses wad files. Didn't realize anything but Doom used those...
It actually looks rather tasteful. Technology definately doesn't seem up to the times, and what I saw in the demo really looked a lot like the recreation animations that they play on The Learning Channel, but with detailed ballastics analysis etc, it looks kinda neat.
I'm not sure it's proper to make it a competative event, but it looks like it'll make a pretty convincing argument if Joe Blow 14yr old can match the Warren Report on his 50th try, then Oswald probably could on his first... Again, I'm really not sure I'm comfortable thinking of this as a game someone would play for fun, but as an educational tool it looks rather interesting.
My local library has an extensive selection of Newspaper prints, magazine periodicals, etc in searchable online formats that can be accessed from home. The only limitation is that you can only view 2 at a time, you can't view them if too many other people are also looking at it, and you can't copy/paste the articles.
Why couldn't the LoC just do this with things after 1923?
And if not, couldn't they still post a picturized version? Even if it's essentially digitized microfilm, there's still a lot more you can do with a digital copy than with a microfilm (such as save where you left off, bookmark, backup in case of fire etc.)
I don't understand why the text HAS to be selectable... That's cooler, but it shouldn't need to be a requirement.
And I quote The local library has every edition of the local papers on microfilm, and I suppose they could put it all on DVD too.. When does it become a copyright issue?
which really is quite interesting. Why is it not a copyright issue for the local library to do it, while it is for the national library?
Then again, it would be a handy program to have if you're expecting a knock on your door from a cops' battering ram.
Heard of the undelete command? How about Norton Unerase or RunTime's GetDataBack?
Even if you did a low level format, it's not hard for a lab technition to recover the data. You'd need something that wrote random data to the entire disk multiple times, not something you could do if they were at your door.
Does this mean we will soon have telescopes outside of our homes soon to pick up high definition TV signals instead of our current 18 inch dishes?"
Well, maybe, but only if they start broadcasting our TV from Mars.
Seriously, though, the sniplet author does have a point. DSS broadcasters have always wanted to be able to target subscribers directly rather than broadcasting swaths across the whole country. Right now people only need to defeat the encryption, which we all know happens eventually. If they could target each individual customer to within even a 6ft diameter, neighbors won't be able to leech subscribers signals even if they could decrypt it.
I'm sure it's still cost prohibitive right now, but that's where they want to go and probably, they'll get their eventually.
This was cool the first time we saw it and, while not an exact dupe, this is just a group of people doing exactly what Max already did... only this time it's 2.5gigapixes instead of just 1 gigapixel.
Are we going to keep posting every time someone takes a 2.5megapixel camera and stiches the results together into an even higher resolution print?
Slashdot Mirror
Asimo's been in the works for a while. It's been autonomous since the P3 (not pentium) in 1993.
Check out their history.
And Xerox made the Laser printer, GUI, and computer mouse...
Maybe that's the difference between Japanese and American companies... American companies give up and stick to photocopiers.
The founding fathers realized however that this is crap, newspapers and citizens need to be able to report the truth no matter how damaging it is to public figures.
Are you saying, then, that in America it's not libel if it isn't lying? Or, what exactly does this last line imply?
Hmm.. what I remember from the last time this came up was that it would only affect Microsoft's ActiveX implimentation. Opera and Mozilla both use the origional Netscape Plugin Architecture (compatible with netscape 4.7x still, I believe) which is not affected by this patent.
Plugins are used in many applications, and they don't simpley have a patent on plugins. They have a patent on the way Active X does things. Whether it proves valid in court or not, I don't care. I don't like Active X.
Look back on the origional mention.. that's what I got out of it, at least..
with most C/R systems, if you send an e-mail to someone, they go on a temporary white list for a few days, or sometimes on a perminant white list. This allows them to reply to you (with a C/R Challange, for example) without having to face a challange from you.
We assume that if you sent the person an e-mail, they probably aren't a spammer.
For every legitmate message you receive, 24 other people had to look at a spam you sent them
Let's assume that of those 192 messages, none were spam. Now your statement is valid, as 24 people had to look at a C/R generated e-mail for every 8 he recieved. Those people should have replied, since none of it was spam, and they weren't sent unsollicidated C/R e-mails. They wrote him and his service replied back asking if they were real people. Not spam, just how the system works.
Now let's assume that of those 192 messages all were spam. For every 8 e-mails he recieved 0 people had to read spam from him. Why? Because, that's why! How many spam e-mails have you recieved that had valid reply-to addresses? Or valid from addresses, for that matter? If the C/R is sent to a non-existant addresses, NOBODY reads it. It's just gone.
Now, like you said, of those 192 e-mails, some sent from legitimate sources but either a) the C/R e-mail was sent into their spam folder, so they never got it or b) they were confused and didn't know what to do with it. Those cases are likely few and only in these cases can the C/R responses even be considered annoying. Otherwise they're just useful.
Something about letting any idiot [blog] write the [blog] news just doesn't [blog] sound like a reliable [blog] newsource to me.
Wikipedia is a neat idea, cause I think people will avoid editing a topic they don't feel they actually are an expert on, but the news is an entirely different matter. Look to blogging for examples
What would be the point of encrypting Bittorrent? With Bittorrent you connect to a network sharing the file you are downloading only. Everyone has the same file. All the RIAA has to do connect to the network (just like you do) and search for a file (again, the same way you do)
Once they start downloading the file, they can keep a log of ALL ip addresses they connect to. Azurues and other popular clients already give you that information, I'm sure Exeem clients (even if they were encrypted) would still give it to you. Waste does.
Waste only has potential because the network is invite only. Waste has potential to be safe because it's small. Encrypted bitorrent would have to be open invite. ANYTHING open invite is insecure. Sure, with an encrpyted bittorrent, someone couldn't just listen in from the outside, but it really wouldn't be hard to get on the inside.
It's not for XBox... It's for Windows. It's a PORT of a program that origionated on the XBox.
Interesting... However, the link REALLY DOES go to the cache of the website. That's how I was able to get to the mediaportal website...
Good to know, however.
Google cache links display their cached destination in the link...
You can float your mouse over the "linky" to the google cache and Firefox (or any other respectable webbrowser that doesn't disable the status bar by default) will show that the link displays "mediaportal.sourceforge.net".
The software is a port of the homebrew Xbox Media Center software which requires a Modded Xbox to run
It doesnt' require an XBox. It's a PORT of software that requireD an XBox...
Search on Google ;) It's the top one...
I agree.. This is utterly horrible. But, since it's skinnable, hopefulyl that means we'll be able to use FireFox skins shortly (you can probably just modify the current ones and tell them to work with netscape)
Downloading much faster via the Coral Cache Link, so I thought I'd post it.
Just avoid the rooms with the *CIA_Chanserv* bot running
you can so kindly donate those unwanted AOL cd's to this cause...
Maybe t's just cause I moved to a less populated area, but it seems AOL has REALLY cut back on their CD mailing. I only see them at Walmart in the "Free Take one. What the hell, take 6, nobody wants them" bin. This project has been on going for 3 years now and they're only a 1/3 of the way there. By the time they get 1million CDs, AOL won't be sending them anymore and it'll have been all for naught.
It's interesting. For a while now coral has been rather poor about being able to recover slashdotted content. I've even coralized links in the mysterious future and coral wasn't able to load them, even though I could fine directly.
On the same token, Mirrordot.com sure doesn't do a very good job of "solving the slashdot effect" most of the time.
If you look right now " Presently sustaining 14 parallel Slashdottings. Far out!
Click on the ? link to do a Google search of the linked text." but most of those slashdottings are NOT mirrored but retain the origional links. How is this useful?
Just downloaded and isntalled the demo... It uses wad files. Didn't realize anything but Doom used those...
It actually looks rather tasteful. Technology definately doesn't seem up to the times, and what I saw in the demo really looked a lot like the recreation animations that they play on The Learning Channel, but with detailed ballastics analysis etc, it looks kinda neat.
I'm not sure it's proper to make it a competative event, but it looks like it'll make a pretty convincing argument if Joe Blow 14yr old can match the Warren Report on his 50th try, then Oswald probably could on his first...
Again, I'm really not sure I'm comfortable thinking of this as a game someone would play for fun, but as an educational tool it looks rather interesting.
My local library has an extensive selection of Newspaper prints, magazine periodicals, etc in searchable online formats that can be accessed from home. The only limitation is that you can only view 2 at a time, you can't view them if too many other people are also looking at it, and you can't copy/paste the articles.
Why couldn't the LoC just do this with things after 1923?
And if not, couldn't they still post a picturized version? Even if it's essentially digitized microfilm, there's still a lot more you can do with a digital copy than with a microfilm (such as save where you left off, bookmark, backup in case of fire etc.)
I don't understand why the text HAS to be selectable... That's cooler, but it shouldn't need to be a requirement.
I think you missed the opint of his question...
And I quote The local library has every edition of the local papers on microfilm, and I suppose they could put it all on DVD too.. When does it become a copyright issue?
which really is quite interesting. Why is it not a copyright issue for the local library to do it, while it is for the national library?
Then again, it would be a handy program to have if you're expecting a knock on your door from a cops' battering ram.
Heard of the undelete command? How about Norton Unerase or RunTime's GetDataBack?
Even if you did a low level format, it's not hard for a lab technition to recover the data. You'd need something that wrote random data to the entire disk multiple times, not something you could do if they were at your door.
Now a self destructing laptop on the other hand would prevent data recovery.
Does this mean we will soon have telescopes outside of our homes soon to pick up high definition TV signals instead of our current 18 inch dishes?"
Well, maybe, but only if they start broadcasting our TV from Mars.
Seriously, though, the sniplet author does have a point. DSS broadcasters have always wanted to be able to target subscribers directly rather than broadcasting swaths across the whole country. Right now people only need to defeat the encryption, which we all know happens eventually. If they could target each individual customer to within even a 6ft diameter, neighbors won't be able to leech subscribers signals even if they could decrypt it.
I'm sure it's still cost prohibitive right now, but that's where they want to go and probably, they'll get their eventually.
This was cool the first time we saw it and, while not an exact dupe, this is just a group of people doing exactly what Max already did... only this time it's 2.5gigapixes instead of just 1 gigapixel.
Are we going to keep posting every time someone takes a 2.5megapixel camera and stiches the results together into an even higher resolution print?