Just because you bought a book that came with sample code doesn't mean you are allowed to use it:
Numerical Recipes (in C, C++, etc), has a restrictive license that only allows you to use the code for personal non-commercial uses. There doesn't seem to be any provision for using those samples in commercial products.
It only reveals the history of their PUBLIC ratings. Unless I read the article wrong, users are also allowed to mark a review as private and have it not show up, apart from in the aggregate for the movie.
A second doctor who could not be reached for comment concluded that the injuries sustained were consistent with those caused by leaving an electric fan on while sleeping.
I think they're on to something here. They cracked the anonymity by using the public movie ratings (and the dates those ratings were made) as a key. If the user has rated enough movies (especially some of the less-often-rated movies) you can uniquely identify which user they are. Once you know which user they are, you have now connected a username to the list of private ratings.
Now, they go one step too far to say that you can determine anything but movie preferences out of a movie rating list. Just because somebody liked or disliked brokeback mountain doesn't mean they are gay or straight, just like their opinion of michael moore movies doesn't give political affiliation.
It will tell you what movies they rented, though, and some people might not be happy having their movie-renting history publicly available.
After that we went to the boston aquarium for a bit, and went out to dinner with the entire Andover staff at some seafood place that apparently is well known but I'm not a boston person so I don't really know what it was. I remember wanting to just read my email and being incredibly uncomfortable the whole time. I've never been a good person dealing with meatspace crowds. I was on the verge of panic the whole night. I had scallops and tried to smile and be polite when I just wanted to hide in the corner. I've still never really dealt with my ability to deal with crowds.
It was probably Legal Seafoods. That's right near the aquarium.
Obviously no company is going to actually go through and send google videos of all the stuff they want to protect, but what they CAN do is identify the videos already on gootube that need to be removed as copyrighted, so they can just use the offending videos as the sample to scan for. Prevent the same video clips from ending up online over and over again.
science be damned, I'm still going to see them the same way I saw them in Jurassic Park, and I'm still going to carry a super soaker of Welch's Grape Juice and raptor-proof my house.
I was very disappointed to hear that they now believe velociraptors had feathers. Not very menacing when they look like tall chickens.
The process of discovering this new feathery information was shown in a lame IMAX documentary called Dinosaurs Alive!, narrated by Michael Douglas. It's playing now in a number of markets as both a 2D and 3D film.
I block ads because often, due to bad page design, the ads actually cover the content of the page or make it impossible to navigate. Usually, this is because the page was designed for internet explorer and nobody bothered to look at it in firefox.
When I wanted to add a cable drop in my room, I opted to pay DirecTV to do the installation, thinking that they would bring a giant ladder and check to make sure that they ran the cable in an appropriate place. Things that I shouldn't be doing in a rental apartment. Oh no. Here's what they did:
They took my personally-owned coax cable and cut the end off it. (I had a 50ft cable running to the jack in the other room as a temporary solution).
Drilled a hole through the wall going outside without even pausing to consider what was in that wall
Dropped the cable down the side of the house
Realized it wasn't long enough and put a coupler on it and added another cable (don't they have SPOOLS OF CABLE on their truck?)
Drilled a hole through the frame of the basement window
Fed the cable haphazardly in to connect to the box.
Attached the cable to the wall by putting a staple THROUGH the cable, trying to take it back out of the cable, giving up, cutting off the excess, and using another staple to go around it.
It was only a matter of time before one of these morons drilled through an electrical line.
How about we use that serial number for some good?
Each iPod makes a connection to the computer and iTunes. Why not have it report its serial number? If your iPod is stolen, you can just report it as stolen and it should render it useless. Would not be very hard for apple to at least institute a list of stolen iPod serial numbers? As it stands, they do nothing about it. I bet that if I stole somebodys iPod I could then go to apple support, register it, and send it back to apple for repairs, no questions asked.
I had never seen Firefly, but I had a lot of friends who were fans of it. We all saw Serenity, and while it was a decent movie, if you asked me a week later what I thought of it, I wouldn't have even been able to recall what it was about.
Recently, I was convinced to sit down and watch all of firefly. I really enjoyed it. Then I watched Serenity again. It was like I was watching a completely different movie!
Seeing the movie by itself, you don't really get attached to the characters like you do in the TV show. [Spoiler] When Wash and Shepherd die, you don't really feel badly about that in the movie, because you didn't really know them. Shepherd especially, he wasn't much more than a background character.[/Spoiler]
> date --date="Mar 10 15:00:00 UTC 2007" Sat Mar 10 10:00:00 EST 2007 > date --date="Mar 11 15:00:00 UTC 2007" Sun Mar 11 11:00:00 EDT 2007
This won't set your clock or anything, it just does the timezone conversion from UTC and displays the results according to the local timezone you have selected.
The judge ruled, 'To impose a duty under these circumstances for MySpace to confirm or determine the age of each applicant, with liability resulting from negligence in performing or not performing duty, would of course stop MySpace's business in its tracks and close this avenue of communication.'"
So you're telling me that you had a chance to finally get rid of the atrocity that is MySpace and you DIDN'T???
Exactly. I didn't miss the point, though, I was saying that the second chance was the tactic to make you pay $49 instead of the much-lower price you were sitting at before the fake-bidder came along. You did explain it quite well though, I hope some of the nay-sayers will understand it now.
And to who says "don't complain about it, maximum bid is the maximum you are willing to spend, so you shouldn't be upset about spending it":
What sense does it make to have a store where I can go to say "I'd like to pay somewhere between $10 and $100 for this item" and have them immediately charge me $100? The "Maximum Bid" is so that you don't have to sit in front of the computer for the full 5 days of an auction. It's like having somebody bidding on your behalf that knows when to stop. It doesn't mean that they should be allowed to scare up the bids to make you pay more when you were already winning.
Buyers come to eBay looking for a deal, sellers come to eBay looking to make a profit. Somebody is going to lose out here. It's just too bad that there's no equivalent cheating tactic that buyers can use to keep the prices low.
Let's say there's an auction for an item you want. Nobody has bid on it, yet, so you throw in a $50 bid. You would pay $50 for it, but for the moment, it's sitting at the $10 starting price.
You end up winning the auction for exactly $50. Is it because the other guy only wanted to spend $49.50 and you happen to have outbid him? No, it's because the shill bidder put in increasingly higher bids until they outbid you, then canceled the bid saying "oops, I put in the wrong amount". Or they keep the bid, default on the payment, and the seller will use eBay's "Second Chance" bid to allow you to pay for it at your previous bid (which was the $49 or whatever).
If the seller wants to guarantee a minimum price, they should use the reserve price. Or better yet, use the STARTING BID. You're not fooling anyone listing an item at $1 and then setting a reserve for $30, just start it at $30. If it's worth $30, somebody will buy it. In my opinion you should be required the validate by address, credit card, bank account or other form before you are allowed to have an eBay account. That way fraudulent bidders can be held accountable.
That's why you get a bugmenot plugin for firefox. Whenever you see a login box that bothers you, you right click and pick "login with bugmenot". It does all the work of looking up a name+password for you.
> it will only result in _exactly_ the crap we were just trying to avoid, > namely stupid "shell game" drivers that don't actually help anything at > all, and move code into user space instead.
Why is this bad? Separating out the kernel-space open source code from the binary blob is the only way to really ensure that the module will work with any kernel version. NVidia does it right, it works and it's binary. I don't even notice that it's not all open source because the kernel part is and compiles when I install it. Having that wrapper might not make it very fast, but it does at least WORK, and is supportable.
I'm frankly a little tired of devices that say they are supported, when they provide a binary-only module for one specific kernel version of RedHat.
Unfortunately, dropping binary module support in the kernel won't fix the problem. The real big players will just forward-port the support of those binary blobs into newer kernels, and now instead of just having to deal with binary drivers, we have to deal with distributions having different code support in the kernel. And who wants the commercial linux distributions to be more flexible than the free ones? Not I!
My name is Chris Stevens and I like to whine because I dropped my Motorola RAZR and it broke.
Get over it. If you wanted durable, you wouldn't have picked the RAZR. It's pretty obvious to everyone else that it wasn't meant to be durable. Why don't you get a cell phone the size and weight of your precious IBM XT and tell me what you think.
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Just because you bought a book that came with sample code doesn't mean you are allowed to use it:
Numerical Recipes (in C, C++, etc), has a restrictive license that only allows you to use the code for personal non-commercial uses. There doesn't seem to be any provision for using those samples in commercial products.
It only reveals the history of their PUBLIC ratings. Unless I read the article wrong, users are also allowed to mark a review as private and have it not show up, apart from in the aggregate for the movie.
A second doctor who could not be reached for comment concluded that the injuries sustained were consistent with those caused by leaving an electric fan on while sleeping.
I think they're on to something here. They cracked the anonymity by using the public movie ratings (and the dates those ratings were made) as a key. If the user has rated enough movies (especially some of the less-often-rated movies) you can uniquely identify which user they are. Once you know which user they are, you have now connected a username to the list of private ratings.
Now, they go one step too far to say that you can determine anything but movie preferences out of a movie rating list. Just because somebody liked or disliked brokeback mountain doesn't mean they are gay or straight, just like their opinion of michael moore movies doesn't give political affiliation.
It will tell you what movies they rented, though, and some people might not be happy having their movie-renting history publicly available.
How is this not an obvious use of apache mod_rewrite??
After that we went to the boston aquarium for a bit, and went out to dinner with the entire Andover staff at some seafood place that apparently is well known but I'm not a boston person so I don't really know what it was. I remember wanting to just read my email and being incredibly uncomfortable the whole time. I've never been a good person dealing with meatspace crowds. I was on the verge of panic the whole night. I had scallops and tried to smile and be polite when I just wanted to hide in the corner. I've still never really dealt with my ability to deal with crowds.
It was probably Legal Seafoods. That's right near the aquarium.
Obviously no company is going to actually go through and send google videos of all the stuff they want to protect, but what they CAN do is identify the videos already on gootube that need to be removed as copyrighted, so they can just use the offending videos as the sample to scan for. Prevent the same video clips from ending up online over and over again.
science be damned, I'm still going to see them the same way I saw them in Jurassic Park, and I'm still going to carry a super soaker of Welch's Grape Juice and raptor-proof my house.
I was very disappointed to hear that they now believe velociraptors had feathers. Not very menacing when they look like tall chickens.
The process of discovering this new feathery information was shown in a lame IMAX documentary called Dinosaurs Alive!, narrated by Michael Douglas. It's playing now in a number of markets as both a 2D and 3D film.
I block ads because often, due to bad page design, the ads actually cover the content of the page or make it impossible to navigate. Usually, this is because the page was designed for internet explorer and nobody bothered to look at it in firefox.
It was only a matter of time before one of these morons drilled through an electrical line.
It's amazing/disturbing what people will do in video responses on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W13Wj34Lpt3
Looks like somebody else has prior art for the idea of using blogs as prior art.
So that narrows your list down to zero. Makes it easy to pick.
How about we use that serial number for some good?
Each iPod makes a connection to the computer and iTunes. Why not have it report its serial number? If your iPod is stolen, you can just report it as stolen and it should render it useless. Would not be very hard for apple to at least institute a list of stolen iPod serial numbers? As it stands, they do nothing about it. I bet that if I stole somebodys iPod I could then go to apple support, register it, and send it back to apple for repairs, no questions asked.
At least he doesn't have to show up at 1am like his sister does!
...requesting both individuals to be present for a deposition on Tuesday April 17, 2008, in plaintiff's law office at 9:00 am and 1:00 am respectively
From the defendant's motion to quash plaintiff's subpeona:
I agree 100%
I had never seen Firefly, but I had a lot of friends who were fans of it. We all saw Serenity, and while it was a decent movie, if you asked me a week later what I thought of it, I wouldn't have even been able to recall what it was about.
Recently, I was convinced to sit down and watch all of firefly. I really enjoyed it. Then I watched Serenity again. It was like I was watching a completely different movie!
Seeing the movie by itself, you don't really get attached to the characters like you do in the TV show. [Spoiler] When Wash and Shepherd die, you don't really feel badly about that in the movie, because you didn't really know them. Shepherd especially, he wasn't much more than a background character.[/Spoiler]
There are already microphones attached to telephone poles in high crime areas of Chicago to detect gunshots and alert police: wired.com
> date --date="Mar 10 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
Sat Mar 10 10:00:00 EST 2007
> date --date="Mar 11 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
Sun Mar 11 11:00:00 EDT 2007
This won't set your clock or anything, it just does the timezone conversion from UTC and displays the results according to the local timezone you have selected.
The judge ruled, 'To impose a duty under these circumstances for MySpace to confirm or determine the age of each applicant, with liability resulting from negligence in performing or not performing duty, would of course stop MySpace's business in its tracks and close this avenue of communication.'"
So you're telling me that you had a chance to finally get rid of the atrocity that is MySpace and you DIDN'T???
Exactly. I didn't miss the point, though, I was saying that the second chance was the tactic to make you pay $49 instead of the much-lower price you were sitting at before the fake-bidder came along. You did explain it quite well though, I hope some of the nay-sayers will understand it now.
And to who says "don't complain about it, maximum bid is the maximum you are willing to spend, so you shouldn't be upset about spending it":
What sense does it make to have a store where I can go to say "I'd like to pay somewhere between $10 and $100 for this item" and have them immediately charge me $100? The "Maximum Bid" is so that you don't have to sit in front of the computer for the full 5 days of an auction. It's like having somebody bidding on your behalf that knows when to stop. It doesn't mean that they should be allowed to scare up the bids to make you pay more when you were already winning.
Buyers come to eBay looking for a deal, sellers come to eBay looking to make a profit. Somebody is going to lose out here. It's just too bad that there's no equivalent cheating tactic that buyers can use to keep the prices low.
Let's say there's an auction for an item you want. Nobody has bid on it, yet, so you throw in a $50 bid. You would pay $50 for it, but for the moment, it's sitting at the $10 starting price.
You end up winning the auction for exactly $50. Is it because the other guy only wanted to spend $49.50 and you happen to have outbid him? No, it's because the shill bidder put in increasingly higher bids until they outbid you, then canceled the bid saying "oops, I put in the wrong amount". Or they keep the bid, default on the payment, and the seller will use eBay's "Second Chance" bid to allow you to pay for it at your previous bid (which was the $49 or whatever).
If the seller wants to guarantee a minimum price, they should use the reserve price. Or better yet, use the STARTING BID. You're not fooling anyone listing an item at $1 and then setting a reserve for $30, just start it at $30. If it's worth $30, somebody will buy it. In my opinion you should be required the validate by address, credit card, bank account or other form before you are allowed to have an eBay account. That way fraudulent bidders can be held accountable.
That's why you get a bugmenot plugin for firefox. Whenever you see a login box that bothers you, you right click and pick "login with bugmenot". It does all the work of looking up a name+password for you.
> it will only result in _exactly_ the crap we were just trying to avoid,
> namely stupid "shell game" drivers that don't actually help anything at
> all, and move code into user space instead.
Why is this bad? Separating out the kernel-space open source code from the binary blob is the only way to really ensure that the module will work with any kernel version. NVidia does it right, it works and it's binary. I don't even notice that it's not all open source because the kernel part is and compiles when I install it. Having that wrapper might not make it very fast, but it does at least WORK, and is supportable.
I'm frankly a little tired of devices that say they are supported, when they provide a binary-only module for one specific kernel version of RedHat.
Unfortunately, dropping binary module support in the kernel won't fix the problem. The real big players will just forward-port the support of those binary blobs into newer kernels, and now instead of just having to deal with binary drivers, we have to deal with distributions having different code support in the kernel. And who wants the commercial linux distributions to be more flexible than the free ones? Not I!
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My name is Chris Stevens and I like to whine because I dropped my Motorola RAZR and it broke.
Get over it. If you wanted durable, you wouldn't have picked the RAZR. It's pretty obvious to everyone else that it wasn't meant to be durable. Why don't you get a cell phone the size and weight of your precious IBM XT and tell me what you think.