Me too. But, you lucky bastard, 32K of core? Jaysus you must have had one rich school board, we had 8K. You say
Dimension x[64][64]
In Fortran and it blew up right there. Disappoiting as it was typed in directly from the Mccraken book.
Oh and there's a small error in St. Craig of the list bit in TFA: the 1133 was not a computer, the 1130 was, the 1132 was a printer and the 1133 was a mux of some sort.
I miss those switches and blinky lights. I do not miss the puched cards. Heady stuff for a 13 yr old back in the day.
"CL provides editorial control - it sorts and categorizes the advertisements. It publishes in that it amalgamates ads and makes them public (which Bell does not). It actively edits the content of the site. CL is not a common carrier. (That's how BBS systems remained common carriers, there was no editing or moderation of posts, while Prodigy was ruled to not be a common carrier - they did provide mechanisms for editing and moderation.)"
Prodidy was deemed not to be a common carrier - fair enough, private carrier - because it employed a staff of editors that would monitor content and delete it where it felt appropriate.
Compuserve did not do this and was afforded private carrier status.
CL does not monitor or remove posts, rather the user comminity does. Cl merely provides the infrastructure for this to be possible.
This makes it much more aligned to our tradition definition of private carrier than a publisher.
In Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., a New York court held that the Prodigy commercial on-line information services company rendered itself liable for defamatory statements carried over one of its electronic bulletin boards, because it actively assumed the task of monitoring the messages and held itself out as exercising editorial control:
By actively utilizing technology and manpower to delete notes from its computer bulletin boards on the basis of offensiveness and "bad taste," for example, Prodigy is clearly making decisions as to content and such decisions constitute editorial control. . . . Based on the foregoing, this Court is compelled to conclude that for the purposes of Plaintiffs' claims in this action, Prodigy is a publisher rather than a distributor. . . . Prodigy's conscious choice, to gain the benefits of editorial control, has opened it up to a greater liability than CompuServe and other computer networks that make no such choice.
In Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe, Inc., a court gladly exempted an on-line information services provider from liability by choosing a "hands-off" approach to content:
CompuServe has no more editorial control over such a publication than does a public library, book store, or newsstand, and it would be no more feasible for CompuServe to examine every publication it carriers for potentially defamatory statements than it would be for any distributor to do so . ... Technology is rapidly transforming the information industry. A computerized database is the functional equivalent of a more traditional news vendor . . .
Shakespeare's Tribute to Lawyers As has been often proven over the centuries, Shakespeare was right: if tyranny is to prevail, tyrants must first kill all the lawyers.... www.howardnations.com/shakespeare.html - 32k - Cached - Similar pages
Anybody who does not understand the bards quote ought not to be representing himself in court, methinks.
If a newspaper prints discriminatory ads they're liable as they e3xercise editorial control. Thet know what they're printing and (in theory) know what they're allowed to print. They're a publisher.
If I pin up an ad for a house to rent in a super market and then when somebody enquires via the telephone and I say I only want 19 yr old blond nymphomaniacs as tennants, can you sue the phone company? No. Why? As a common carrier Bell cannot control what is being said.
CL is a common carrier, not a publisher your honour. Move to dismiss.
"They're calling for the eradication of Israel, not Jews in general, aren't they?"
I can comment on this from an experience I had.
In 1984-85 I worked for a company in Los Angeles that was funded by the Royal Saudi family to build bilingual English/Arabic computers. S-100, CP/M, they ran WordStar and MS Basic that we reverse engineered to be bilingual. Modifying the video board to do 29 characters with 6 forms of each and modifiers was no mean fet and I still have nighmares about justifying text when lam and aleph are adjacent, never mind the hamza diacritic.
There were about 30 employees. Me, my boss and the hardware guy were the only non-Muslims and the only technical people.
My boss was Jewish, although non-practicing. The Muslims were all quite devout.
The hardware guy was fired for being a moron, rightly so, my boss, a software guy backfilled for him. He was a smart fucker.
Now, truth be told, you didn't have to look far to see lots of anti-Isreal and anti-UK cartoons. The place was fucking rife with them in the desks of the lowest paid workers.
One time we found a package of Hebrew National salami in the fridge. We thought this was odd and asked the President who was the most approachable affable guy there. He explained the Arab position on Jesw thus:
"We have no problem with the Jews... they worship the same God as we and the Christians do. We are brothers that way and we are all a sephardic race from common ancestors. But, we have a political problem with Israel. If we had a problem with Jews we wouldn't have hired your boss. We just don't care about that, but, Israel is another issue, it's our land and we want back. I cannot visit the land where 300 years of my relatives are buried because it's now controlled by Jews who were born in Europe, given them by the English, because Baron Rothschild held a mortgage to some English Lords house; he went back on a promise for Arabian independance [1] and made Israel. This is what we object to".
That's really what he said. And to be sure "Death to Zion" was commonplace in those cartoons, I never saw "Death to Jews". In other words, the hatred, which is very real, is based on geopolitics, not race or religion.
I was treated rather rudely by a few of the, uh, less educated ones till it was explained I was Welsh, not English. Then they were fine.
An Arab newspaper has called for 12 cartoons to further the holocost-didn't-happen idea and dare the west to print them. These would be illegal here in Canada (as would presumably the orignal Danish cartoons).
Do I decry the lack of free speech that lets this happen? No, there is never unlimited free speech - you can't yell "Fire!" in a crowded movie theatre in America or Canada and certain speech in the US is illegal (state secrets, libel, slander etc.).
Given that unlimited free speech does not exist anywhere the question then becomes where you draw the line.
Who wants to be the next to die over a fucking cartoon? In an ideal world there is unlimited free speech. In practical terms this is not the case. The Danish publication of these cartoons was pretty stupid IMO. What good came of that?
[1] They're referring to the true story behind "Lawrence of Arabia".
People should keep track of what they spend getting their windows pc unfucked. They might notice that in many cases they spend more in 1, 2 or 3 years so buy a Mac G4 dual off ebay which is more than enough for most people.
Hey Dad, you listening?
promise her anything but give her...
on
Vonage IPO
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· Score: 1
(no tv here)
VONE-idge? Sounds like BONE-idge, a term I've heard my 17 year old kid use...but not when his girlfirend is around.
Jah, so, nice weather you haff here in Palo Alto, it vos pretty cold in Germany zis moring. So, here are zee keys to your new V12 and we put some nice wheels and tires on it.
As a followup book also read "How to write Windows apps that don't suck" from Apple Computer.
Every year I look at the new crop of windows apps and just shake my head.
Every year they get worse and do less and I was much more productive 10 years ago using stone age win 3.11 16-bit tools. Back then you had to know how to program computers to write a program. Now any drooling moron can drag'n'drool his way to time wasting bloated 20 meg programs that don't actually work to compete in the sandbox with 10 others jsut like it.
My computer is just not ready for a 7 MB "Hello world" app.
Yeah, hence why the headline read "Wasp Larvae Feed on Zombie Roaches" instead of simply "Wasp Larvae Feed on Roaches". This particular mechanism is the interesting aspect of this article."
No, wasp larvae feed on zombie roaches, wasp parents smoke roaches, that's where they got the "lay eggs in zombie roach" idea from.
"Hey Louise, not that roach the other one... LOUISE, STAY AWAY FROM THE RED END... Louise? Oh damn."
I get 300 an hour to each of my 5 accounts and sam doubles every 6 months still. The Can Spam act has done nothing to alter the rise of spam from what I've seen.
I've been on the net since the mid 80's and the spam problem today is the biggest problem with the net I've seen.
Seriously. Plus, something smells funny. Jones Day is the lawfirm that got ICANN into debt. They gave them $3M credit and kept going. ICANN still owes them money. Without reading it I'd expect subtle implications that Jones Day should "be involved" and "get lots of billable hours".
This of this report as an MS "windows is better than Linux" paper.
Slashdot Mirror
No no he's right. Apple switches to windows.
Then Microsoft swtches to OSX.
Hoo ya, hellyababy. Pardon me while I change my shorts.
On the one hand the net can kill relationships. OTOH then there's craigslist. Kill all you want, we'll make more. It's a nice little ecosystem.
Me too. But, you lucky bastard, 32K of core? Jaysus you must have had one rich school board, we had 8K. You say
Dimension x[64][64]
In Fortran and it blew up right there. Disappoiting as it was typed in directly from the Mccraken book.
Oh and there's a small error in St. Craig of the list bit in TFA: the 1133 was not a computer, the 1130 was, the 1132 was a printer and the 1133 was a mux of some sort.
I miss those switches and blinky lights. I do not miss the puched cards. Heady stuff for a 13 yr old back in the day.
By the time I've added a 3rd or 4th conference caller I can't hear anybody very well. Anybody else notice this?
If it's not just me then this means the AMD ones may work and the Intel ones are unusable.
Golly, now there's a shock.
"Vehement * Behemoth = Vehemoth?"
Except in Germany where it's Vermouth.
Jah.
Prodidy was deemed not to be a common carrier - fair enough, private carrier - because it employed a staff of editors that would monitor content and delete it where it felt appropriate.
Compuserve did not do this and was afforded private carrier status.
CL does not monitor or remove posts, rather the user comminity does. Cl merely provides the infrastructure for this to be possible.
This makes it much more aligned to our tradition definition of private carrier than a publisher.
http://www.mttlr.org/volthree/frieden_art.html
In Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., a New York court held that the Prodigy commercial on-line information services company rendered itself liable for defamatory statements carried over one of its electronic bulletin boards, because it actively assumed the task of monitoring the messages and held itself out as exercising editorial control:
In Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe, Inc., a court gladly exempted an on-line information services provider from liability by choosing a "hands-off" approach to content:
Move to dismiss.
Google much?
...
Shakespeare's Tribute to Lawyers
As has been often proven over the centuries, Shakespeare was right: if tyranny
is to prevail, tyrants must first kill all the lawyers.
www.howardnations.com/shakespeare.html - 32k - Cached - Similar pages
Anybody who does not understand the bards quote ought not to be representing himself in court, methinks.
(IANAL)
If a newspaper prints discriminatory ads they're liable as they e3xercise editorial control. Thet know what they're printing and (in theory) know what they're allowed to print. They're a publisher.
If I pin up an ad for a house to rent in a super market and then when somebody enquires via the telephone and I say I only want 19 yr old blond nymphomaniacs as tennants, can you sue the phone company? No. Why? As a common carrier Bell cannot control what is being said.
CL is a common carrier, not a publisher your honour. Move to dismiss.
That's EXACTLY whay happened here in Canada. Normally -20, -30 and -40C is the norm for February here (-44 last year at which C and F are the same).
This year it rained for the firrt week of February nearly every day. And December was unually warm.
Normally there is a foot of snow everywhere. Last week on a trip around the area I noticed an abundance of green lawns with small patches of old snow.
It's cold again now, but this was very very unusual.
"Research from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K."
And of course it's still 55F in most living rooms in East Anglia in Norwich, U.K.
The first three are already true. I'm not sure about the fourth.
The problem isn't the theory, it's the implementation.
"How old is this patent that AT&T owns? The article does not seem to say."
Uh yeah, ABOUT that. I have a feeling it's fairly old, like mid to late 80's.
Did you ever see AT&T's slowscan videophones back then? I don't think anybody ever bought one but they were for sale in stores.
" If MPEG-4 or something like it existed before the patent was filed, that would be an example of prior art."
Hey I remember seeing an implementatio of what would fall under these patents twentry years ago. There were these cool videophon... oh shit.
" I just think its cool being able to purchase computers that used to cost tens of thousands of dollars for a couple hundred bucks."
That's cause you haven't actually done it.
I have a few bigass suns in my barn I picked up, 4 yrs old for like 2 cents on the dollar. Lots of cpus, ram and disk.
Like I said, they're sitting in the barn now. My not so recent IBM 1U servers are way faster and use a tiny fraction of the power.
The Suns would be ok space heaters if they wern't so damn noisy.
"you dont see Americans rioting every time they do it, now do ya?"
No, but I saw them loot antiquities in Bagdad instead.
"They're calling for the eradication of Israel, not Jews in general, aren't they?"
I can comment on this from an experience I had.
In 1984-85 I worked for a company in Los Angeles that was funded by the Royal Saudi family to build bilingual English/Arabic computers. S-100, CP/M, they ran WordStar and MS Basic that we reverse engineered to be bilingual. Modifying the video board to do 29 characters with 6 forms of each and modifiers was no mean fet and I still have nighmares about justifying text when lam and aleph are adjacent, never mind the hamza diacritic.
There were about 30 employees. Me, my boss and the hardware guy were the only non-Muslims and the only technical people.
My boss was Jewish, although non-practicing. The Muslims were all quite devout.
The hardware guy was fired for being a moron, rightly so, my boss, a software guy backfilled for him. He was a smart fucker.
Now, truth be told, you didn't have to look far to see lots of anti-Isreal and anti-UK cartoons. The place was fucking rife with them in the desks of the lowest paid workers.
One time we found a package of Hebrew National salami in the fridge. We thought this was odd and asked the President who was the most approachable affable guy there. He explained the Arab position on Jesw thus:
"We have no problem with the Jews... they worship the same God as we and the Christians do. We are brothers that way and we are all a sephardic race from common ancestors. But, we have a political problem with Israel. If we had a problem with Jews we wouldn't have hired your boss. We just don't care about that, but, Israel is another issue, it's our land and we want back. I cannot visit the land where 300 years of my relatives are buried because it's now controlled by Jews who were born in Europe, given them by the English, because Baron Rothschild held a mortgage to some English Lords house; he went back on a promise for Arabian independance [1] and made Israel. This is what we object to".
That's really what he said. And to be sure "Death to Zion" was commonplace in those cartoons, I never saw "Death to Jews". In other words, the hatred, which is very real, is based on geopolitics, not race or religion.
I was treated rather rudely by a few of the, uh, less educated ones till it was explained I was Welsh, not English. Then they were fine.
An Arab newspaper has called for 12 cartoons to further the holocost-didn't-happen idea and dare the west to print them. These would be illegal here in Canada (as would presumably the orignal Danish cartoons).
Do I decry the lack of free speech that lets this happen? No, there is never unlimited free speech - you can't yell "Fire!" in a crowded movie theatre in America or Canada and certain speech in the US is illegal (state secrets, libel, slander etc.).
Given that unlimited free speech does not exist anywhere the question then becomes where you draw the line.
Who wants to be the next to die over a fucking cartoon? In an ideal world there is unlimited free speech. In practical terms this is not the case. The Danish publication of these cartoons was pretty stupid IMO. What good came of that?
[1] They're referring to the true story behind "Lawrence of Arabia".
People should keep track of what they spend getting their windows pc unfucked. They might notice that in many cases they spend more in 1, 2 or 3 years so buy a Mac G4 dual off ebay which is more than enough for most people.
Hey Dad, you listening?
(no tv here)
...but not when his girlfirend is around.
VONE-idge? Sounds like BONE-idge, a term I've heard my 17 year old kid use
I always wondered what it costs to put a banner ad on EVERY WEBPAGE ON THE KNOWN INTERNET.
Now I know.
Jah, so, nice weather you haff here in Palo Alto, it vos pretty cold in Germany zis moring. So, here are zee keys to your new V12 and we put some nice wheels and tires on it.
Now, about zaht webzite?
As a followup book also read "How to write Windows apps that don't suck" from Apple Computer.
Every year I look at the new crop of windows apps and just shake my head.
Every year they get worse and do less and I was much more productive 10 years ago using stone age win 3.11 16-bit tools. Back then you had to know how to program computers to write a program. Now any drooling moron can drag'n'drool his way to time wasting bloated 20 meg programs that don't actually work to compete in the sandbox with 10 others jsut like it.
My computer is just not ready for a 7 MB "Hello world" app.
Yeah, hence why the headline read "Wasp Larvae Feed on Zombie Roaches" instead of simply "Wasp Larvae Feed on Roaches". This particular mechanism is the interesting aspect of this article."
No, wasp larvae feed on zombie roaches, wasp parents smoke roaches, that's where they got the "lay eggs in zombie roach" idea from.
"Hey Louise, not that roach the other one... LOUISE, STAY AWAY FROM THE RED END... Louise? Oh damn."
Asking Darth Cerf about new tlds is like asking the RIAA about downloading techniques.
I get 300 an hour to each of my 5 accounts and sam doubles every 6 months still. The Can Spam act has done nothing to alter the rise of spam from what I've seen.
I've been on the net since the mid 80's and the spam problem today is the biggest problem with the net I've seen.
"Is the submitter on drugs?"
Seriously. Plus, something smells funny. Jones Day is the lawfirm that got ICANN into debt. They gave them $3M credit and kept going. ICANN still owes them money. Without reading it I'd expect subtle implications that Jones Day should "be involved" and "get lots of billable hours".
This of this report as an MS "windows is better than Linux" paper.
You were getting low on TP, right?