"This geek doesn't even own a printer. He works to and for screen almost exclusively."
Occasionally you need to write to your MP though, and you can't cut-n-paste with a fountain pen. Although you're right, my printer is in a cupboard somewhere, rather than being left connected to the computer (or plugged into a 60% efficient transformer that's warm even when it's not being used)
"she didn't have the right to take the domain name that was the name of the company. Where are they supposed to have their website then?"
They have their website in the same place that McDonalds farm gets when McDonalds "shitty pseudo-restaurant" takes their company name as a domain name.
i.e. there're a lot more company names in the world than there are domain names, and until ICANN fixes that, then people (such as lucas nurserys, and anyone with the name of McDonald) just have to live with not being able to get the domain they want.
"since many people assume companyname.com will work"
Many people can have the same trademark, only one of them can have the.com
Of course you can't assume that trademarkedname.com will work -- that's why people have been asking ICANN for years to get a proper set of top-level domains. For any of this crap to work, it needs to be possible to register shell.oil.uk instead of having to resort to shell.com
"Or we could just keep it in mind and calculate it ourselves. Are we not geeks?!;-)"
The geeks amongst us are still using 10-year-old printers, and not planning to buy another one until there's a "standard" ink cartridge that's supported by at least 4 manufacturers across the whole range of their printers.
"Get a windows CD Boot Reboot Install Reboot Install some more Reboot Continue installation Reboot Register windows installation Change a setting Reboot bah"
"since when was "using a computer to commit a crime" a crime?"
It was news about a year ago (maybe less) -- it's just an excuse to treble the punishment for no good reason. At the time, people noted that pretty much everything uses a computer (paying by visa, etc.), but others noted that the U.S.' main industry now is prisons, so they can only benefit from inventing stupid "crimes".
The question that's going to bug you is, is it a crime if you use a computer to commit a crime, when that crime is of using a computer to commit a crime?
Imagine the "$PREVIOUS_IDEA...using an internet" method of inventing things for a patent, then extend it to "$PREVIOUS_CRIME...using a computer"
If that's not enough of a circular argument for you, then see the story about the girl being arrested for "resisting arrest"... nice one if you can get away with it?
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"The proceeds of a stamp would likely find its way into his pocket, I'm sure."
Okay, I propose an alternative, and I'm not going to patent it.
Sender wants to send you an email, they have to spend 10 seconds trying to crack X-Box keys.
"Taking something away from someone else and threatening not to return it until they give you money, that's extortion."
Even if you own the thing that you're taking away?
"He built up the site so that we would rely on it so much and would pay him," Hackel said. "(But) that content belongs to all of us."
(cough), Bullshit. Somebody built a personal site, on their own webserver, wrote their own content in their own time, with their own domain name. How exactly is it a crime for somebody to stop running their website?
From the response he got, that sounds like a red-flag for anyone considering doing business with Macomb County. Got a payment dispute? These people are happy to put you in jail because of it.
There are some things that might sound like a good idea at the time (we're the judge, jury, and jailor, let's arrest him), but eventually lead to nobody wanting to work with you again. Let's hope their other subcontractors notice and consider the possibility of cheating by Macomb County when they decide to bid for their next contract.
"If so, its quite well known it links to copyrightten articles all the time."
The alternative being what? To link to articles more than 90 years old, or those written by the US government?
Presume that was the spelling you meant, because I doubt most people would describe slashdot articles as copywritten (having been laid out by a copy writer), rather than "copyrighted"
Might be worth offering a web-application sometime, you could host lots of peoples' offsite logs, just like remote backup except without the bandwidth.
Other than that, looks like you'll need a spare PC.
"This is not a "next-generation" email client review if it does not include Microsoft Outlook 2003"
Okay, KDE, Ximian, and Mozilla each offered the reviewer a free copy of their email programs, so that he could write the review. I don't know about Opera, but I'm guessing the cost is minimal for a copy of the program.
Now, unless Microsoft offered him a copy of Outlook2003 free for review, then why should that be included? Do any of the hardware sites pay full-price to review things? Would they buy a product that they disliked, just to put a review on their website?
If someone charges $88 for their email program, it's not going to get reviewed as often as someone who gives away free copies. Simple as that.
"They'll put a fire-axe right through it, and pump water in."
More likely they'll start spraying CO2 through the grille -- it's more efficient, it doesn't let any extra oxygen into the fire, and it doesn't involve touching a bonnet with a fire underneath it.
"One EMP burst and every automobile that has an Engine Control Computer within range of the EMP is dead."
One regular nuclear blast, and all the drivers within range are dead. But some people still hope that that's not going to happen within the lifetime of their car, or within range of where they're driving.
"could -one- of you browser whippersnappers please add a 'save browser state/restore browser state' function to whatever the browser de jour happens to be?"
How does "Bookmark this group of tabs" sound? If you're using lots of windows, then tabs may well be _as_ convenient to use tabs for them instead, plus it lets you organise them in all sorts of new ways, such as bookmarking them all at once...
Some things might fail through no fault of the browser (i.e. login sessions will timeout), but it's certainly useful if you've got a lot of unread reviews and articles open and want to come back to them tomorrow.
"You are aware of the Flash Click to View plugin?"
Compared to right-clicking and "block images from this server", it's a bit of a hack at best. Imagine being able to right-click and "block 'application/flash' from this server... Or being able to go to mozilla, tools, flash sites and see which sites it's enabled for, or being able to turn it on and off in the preferences menu...
I installed click-to-view, then had to install privoxy as well when I realised it only blocked object and not embed (or vice-versa), and it's a bit of a pain to enable flash again for websites that don't work without Flash. Although not as much of a pain as having to view Flash animations.
"If the term [of patents] is too short or non-existent, you'll get less new products than now."
Because having to sell their products at the market price with competition is too much for these companies to cope with? Without an artificial* monopoly on a whole market segment, they'd just give up on the (same number of) potential customers, and do something else instead?
Nobody likes freeloaders, but isn't the company who's been handed a license to price-gouge just as much of a freeloader as the company who develops a product inspired by their competitors?
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"statistics references would be more helpful"
Only just started, but you can update the book if you're in a "let's help someone" mood one night:
http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Statistics
"This geek doesn't even own a printer. He works to and for screen almost exclusively."
Occasionally you need to write to your MP though, and you can't cut-n-paste with a fountain pen. Although you're right, my printer is in a cupboard somewhere, rather than being left connected to the computer (or plugged into a 60% efficient transformer that's warm even when it's not being used)
"she didn't have the right to take the domain name that was the name of the company. Where are they supposed to have their website then?"
They have their website in the same place that McDonalds farm gets when McDonalds "shitty pseudo-restaurant" takes their company name as a domain name.
i.e. there're a lot more company names in the world than there are domain names, and until ICANN fixes that, then people (such as lucas nurserys, and anyone with the name of McDonald) just have to live with not being able to get the domain they want.
"since many people assume companyname.com will work"
.com
Many people can have the same trademark, only one of them can have the
Of course you can't assume that trademarkedname.com will work -- that's why people have been asking ICANN for years to get a proper set of top-level domains. For any of this crap to work, it needs to be possible to register shell.oil.uk instead of having to resort to shell.com
"Or we could just keep it in mind and calculate it ourselves. Are we not geeks?! ;-)"
The geeks amongst us are still using 10-year-old printers, and not planning to buy another one until there's a "standard" ink cartridge that's supported by at least 4 manufacturers across the whole range of their printers.
"Get a windows CD
Boot
Reboot
Install
Reboot
Install some more
Reboot
Continue installation
Reboot
Register windows installation
Change a setting
Reboot
bah"
You forgot the video drivers.
"using third party stuff could void your warranty."
Quick poll then, how many people have needed the warranty on their printer, having used it for long enough to get through the first cartridge?
If you can't do a search for recipes, maybe your browser is blocking cookies?
Can't they film the end of the 3rd LotR book before starting on the hobbit?
"since when was "using a computer to commit a crime" a crime?"
It was news about a year ago (maybe less) -- it's just an excuse to treble the punishment for no good reason. At the time, people noted that pretty much everything uses a computer (paying by visa, etc.), but others noted that the U.S.' main industry now is prisons, so they can only benefit from inventing stupid "crimes".
The question that's going to bug you is, is it a crime if you use a computer to commit a crime, when that crime is of using a computer to commit a crime?
Imagine the "$PREVIOUS_IDEA...using an internet" method of inventing things for a patent, then extend it to "$PREVIOUS_CRIME...using a computer"
If that's not enough of a circular argument for you, then see the story about the girl being arrested for "resisting arrest"... nice one if you can get away with it?
"The proceeds of a stamp would likely find its way into his pocket, I'm sure."
Okay, I propose an alternative, and I'm not going to patent it.
Sender wants to send you an email, they have to spend 10 seconds trying to crack X-Box keys.
"Taking something away from someone else and threatening not to return it until they give you money, that's extortion."
Even if you own the thing that you're taking away?
"He built up the site so that we would rely on it so much and would pay him," Hackel said. "(But) that content belongs to all of us."
(cough), Bullshit. Somebody built a personal site, on their own webserver, wrote their own content in their own time, with their own domain name. How exactly is it a crime for somebody to stop running their website?
From the response he got, that sounds like a red-flag for anyone considering doing business with Macomb County. Got a payment dispute? These people are happy to put you in jail because of it.
There are some things that might sound like a good idea at the time (we're the judge, jury, and jailor, let's arrest him), but eventually lead to nobody wanting to work with you again. Let's hope their other subcontractors notice and consider the possibility of cheating by Macomb County when they decide to bid for their next contract.
"Profit should be the first and foremost goal of any company.
Why?"
Because he's an American
Why does the human want a cup of tea?
"If so, its quite well known it links to copyrightten articles all the time."
The alternative being what? To link to articles more than 90 years old, or those written by the US government?
Presume that was the spelling you meant, because I doubt most people would describe slashdot articles as copywritten (having been laid out by a copy writer), rather than "copyrighted"
HowTo: remote logging in Linux
Might be worth offering a web-application sometime, you could host lots of peoples' offsite logs, just like remote backup except without the bandwidth.
Other than that, looks like you'll need a spare PC.
"This is not a "next-generation" email client review if it does not include Microsoft Outlook 2003"
Okay, KDE, Ximian, and Mozilla each offered the reviewer a free copy of their email programs, so that he could write the review. I don't know about Opera, but I'm guessing the cost is minimal for a copy of the program.
Now, unless Microsoft offered him a copy of Outlook2003 free for review, then why should that be included? Do any of the hardware sites pay full-price to review things? Would they buy a product that they disliked, just to put a review on their website?
If someone charges $88 for their email program, it's not going to get reviewed as often as someone who gives away free copies. Simple as that.
"They'll put a fire-axe right through it, and pump water in."
More likely they'll start spraying CO2 through the grille -- it's more efficient, it doesn't let any extra oxygen into the fire, and it doesn't involve touching a bonnet with a fire underneath it.
"One EMP burst and every automobile that has an Engine Control Computer within range of the EMP is dead."
One regular nuclear blast, and all the drivers within range are dead. But some people still hope that that's not going to happen within the lifetime of their car, or within range of where they're driving.
"I hope you don't let him use just any old blinker fluid when you can get KaleCo High Quality Synthetic Blinker Fluid for just $5.99."
Do you connect those with monster Hi-Fi cables? You can almost hear the extra clarity.
"Not to mention that many companies block the IM ports as a security risk..."
Strangely, they don't block email as a security risk, despite the amount of trouble it's caused...
Now if only the virus-scanners would detect and remove Outlook Express..
"I hate not being able to interact with anything for a few seconds whenever a tab is loading in the background."
Just watch the entire computer grind to a halt if one of those tabs has Java in it...
I bought 50 sticks of 128meg PC-133 for about $16.00 a stick in '02. Can't buy it for that now.
Could be worse, you could have got 67 x 256Mb PC133 RAM chips for $95 australian
"could -one- of you browser whippersnappers please add a 'save browser state/restore browser state' function to whatever the browser de jour happens to be?"
How does "Bookmark this group of tabs" sound? If you're using lots of windows, then tabs may well be _as_ convenient to use tabs for them instead, plus it lets you organise them in all sorts of new ways, such as bookmarking them all at once...
Some things might fail through no fault of the browser (i.e. login sessions will timeout), but it's certainly useful if you've got a lot of unread reviews and articles open and want to come back to them tomorrow.
"You are aware of the Flash Click to View plugin?"
Compared to right-clicking and "block images from this server", it's a bit of a hack at best. Imagine being able to right-click and "block 'application/flash' from this server... Or being able to go to mozilla, tools, flash sites and see which sites it's enabled for, or being able to turn it on and off in the preferences menu...
I installed click-to-view, then had to install privoxy as well when I realised it only blocked object and not embed (or vice-versa), and it's a bit of a pain to enable flash again for websites that don't work without Flash. Although not as much of a pain as having to view Flash animations.
"If the term [of patents] is too short or non-existent, you'll get less new products than now."
Because having to sell their products at the market price with competition is too much for these companies to cope with? Without an artificial* monopoly on a whole market segment, they'd just give up on the (same number of) potential customers, and do something else instead?
Nobody likes freeloaders, but isn't the company who's been handed a license to price-gouge just as much of a freeloader as the company who develops a product inspired by their competitors?
* what a slur on that word, it's hardly an art