Imagine trying to catch a spy network that uses this instead of deaddrops or other means. heck. anyone you touch, shakehands with, or even PASS could be someone throwing data around...
Maybe THIS is the "Force" that Lucas invented... a network Aura giving power, "feeling" things around you... heh
There should be (and may actually be) a statute of limitations saying that if you patent something and don't actually use your patent AND/OR enforce it in a certain time period that you should LOSE the patent.
The idea of selling stuff online isn't new and shouldn't be a patentable idea.
I can imagine that back in caveman days some shmuck patented the "wheel". Every single idea based on it is now his and we owe him 1.4 qua-zillion clams.
Fnaly a useful laundromat upgrade
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This is a grea idea. Someone is INNOVATING. It's about freakin time.
The possibilities for foul play are kind of interesting though... if you can hack into the network, you can make a machine FLOOD itself with soap and ruin the clothing inside. Or at least have em start and stop randomly... lol I can see the next washer virus wreaking havoc on laundromats!
I asked that question of my fav online station. They told me $0.007 per song per listener.
This adds up to around a dollar per day per listener for an 8 hour day (assuming 15+ songs per hour).
Add the fact that the web allows for so many listeners (hundreds or thousands at any one time), ADD bandwidth/equipment fees and it gets very expensive to do online radio per day. For the big ad driven stations who are supplemented by broadcast it may be no big deal. But smaller stations have little or no income and simply cannot support the system.
Britney sells to pre-teen girls because of her fame and looks. Britney sells to pre-teen guys because her boobs and the way she moves turns them into piles of hormone ridden waste.
NSYNC... lol reverse the description lines... ('cept they don't have boobs) heh
They aren't even the ones creating or selling music. What a freakin crock!
These people just want money.
These tactics surpass microsofts bullying business tactics by far. I don't see a difference between this and using force to maintain a monopoly. RIAA is basically ensuring that the music industry as it is now is and will be the ONLY major player. Screw consumers, screw artists.
I love how you wand to ban thesymptom and not the root of the problem, andtolerating stuff that is not harmful (like annoying kids/dogs/people) is one thing... tolerating porn is not an option.
I agree that using ones own resources, everyone should be able to have access to all information.
BUT (here's where I differ) Using MY resources so that a child can view porn is unacceptable *to me*. Thats pretty much the most simple way I can put it.
And just as everyone is entitled to defend their opinion, I am entitled to join with millions like me and force my opinion into law. It happens everyday and it's incredibly hypocritical to applaud the forcing of laws that you like and then to turn around and whine when one passes that you don't like.
Ohh and by the way, research has shown that pornography and its messages are involved in shaping attitudes and encouraging behavior that can harm individual users and their families. Pornography use is often viewed in secret, which creates deception within marriages that can lead to divorce in some cases. In addition, pornography promotes the allure of adultery, prostitution and unreal expectations that can result in dangerous promiscuous behavior. reference
It's not healthy for anyone, much less children. Seems like the kids are the most important thing when people want things done, but when they disagree, kids are just another road-block to be stepped on.
I agree, and yet, the problem lies here and now and we need to attend to it.
If we don't filter what can we do? make adult access and child access? or if we follow that into the future, we'd have "porn rooms" at libraries. Places where adults can go to view the non-limited sites. thats not where I want my money going.
CNN "say that the law takes an inappropriate one-size-fits-all approach that treats children and adults the same"
Let me tell you why this is total BS. The problem is NOT just kids and the problem is NOT just "protection".
Some of the problem is adults whacking off in libraries looking at porn. We can protect the kids from that by banning porn altogether.
Another problem is state funds. I for one never want to see my tax dollars being use *even once* for viewing crap like porn. So ban it. If our excuse is that in blocking porn we may also block some other "protected" speech, then we are obviously just making excuses.
That CNN report is one side of the story, and doesn't even mention the other side.
"denies poor people without home computers the same full access to information as their wealthier neighbors"
This is just a case of them furthering their agenda by trying to get poor people on their side.
What about the millions of Americans (including the poor) that don't want their children subject to pornography? Libraries are public places, public funded, and they should be treated as such. If we'd simply apply the decency laws to libraries like we do to our city streets, we'd solve the problem.
Tell me why anyone would defend porn? It makes no sense.
One thing that I see frequently here is the stupid snide comments by posters/slashdot admins.
This one is "...and Sim Invading Iraq to Keep Approval Ratings High."
The post is good, the info is good, but the un-needed political whine just removes "good" from the whole thing. No matter what the slant, I'd like to get decent info without biased whining on either side.
On the game side of the story, I think this is the most common sense ideas anyone has had in years. The military is expensive and doesn't generate money, so why not use the obvious skills in the military to make money? Just like Tom Clancy getting into realism gaming, the Army probably has a lot of great gaming ability in there somewhere.
Probably being tight just because they can. Sometimes, it's just simple greed and money-mongering.
Time Warner in the US has threatened and may yet put bandwidth caps, and I know for a fact that if they do they will lose a lot of customers. For $45 per month, the end user here wants a real benefit. I'm not paying double + $5 for internet connection just for speed. the word "unlimited" is why I'm here. I've dropped other ISP's just for telling me that I can't be online for a week straight.
I believe that if the AU Government will allow the free market to work, then unlimited fast bandwidth will end up being everywhere for a decent price. If every Aussie is angry at the ISP, it's a wide open door for a new ISP with no capping to come in and make a lot of money.
To sum up my comment, it seems almost like complaining about star wars is fashionable lately, and I hate it.
Frankly Episode II wasn't the best movie I've seen or even the best Star Wars movie i've seen, but it did not suck.
I think it's stupid to expect perfection in Star Wars. The originals weren't perfect, and the new movies won't be either, but perfect or not, they are still better than most of the movies coming out these days. Lucas is locked into the story no matter what does. He must follow the storyline because these movies already have prequels and sequels. IMHO this is something to take into account when critizing the movie.
Complaints about Jar-Jar and CGI are pathetic excuses. These are complaints merely for the sake of complaining. ILM's effects are still some of the best in the industry, and Jar-Jar was so small of a part that I can't believe anyone would focus on that rather than focusing on the myriad of other *GOOD* things.
There is a lot of truth in the replies, and a lot of stupidity as well.
The unescapable fact is that every Chinese attempt at reliable (non-exploding) space adventure failed, until they started spying, *buying*, and stealing. You can find this out by reading on China's space program.
That's not to say that they're stupid, it may be the economic or social structure or something else for all I know. Chinese prove they're no more stupid then the average human.
One thing I see a lot of in the replies here are the assumptions that in my comment I meant that Chinese were stupid. However, we all know that assuming is stupid, reading between the lines is prone to false results.
If I said it, I meant it, if I did not say it, then I didn't mean it. Period.
get it?
I personally think the Chinese will succeed.
Why? Because they are not truly communist. China is successful in business, which is capitalism. They speak highly of communist ideals, they enforce them socially, but not in business. The outside world (everyone else) is willing to buy from and sell to China, and China is willing to buy and sell in return. There are rich and poor in China. There are weathly people, people who require capitalism to sustain their wealth. This isn't the wonderful equality we all hear about communism is it? The rich living off the backs of the poor?
China will succeed, and well they should, they've got a lot invested in becoming the biggest and best nation on earth. Right now they are not the best nation *IMHO* mainly because of their lack of respect for human life and freedom.
Others may consider those two things to be unimportant, but I experience life and freedom everyday and I think I can't live or be free without them..:O)
Chinese have vision, but vision doesn't cut it.
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The Chinese couldn't successfully launch a rocket into orbit before their spies stole US technology that gave them a 10+ year boost.
I doubt with their current setup that they could actually succeed, but then all they have to do is steal more tech from the US, and that shouldn't be very hard considering how open and naive the US is.
"(such as internal combustion engines) which are responsible for half of the world's carbon dioxide pollution"
Baloney. PROVE IT, offer SOME proof, don't just say BS like that. Non-facts stated as facts are becoming more common.
I wish when people spewed this BS, that they'd also mention that true sciencists don't agree with the doom and gloom scare tactics preferred by extreme environmentalists.
Just because you are insensitive to people's pain and suffering, doesn't mean everyone else is. Mr. Katz should not have used this tragedy in such a way.
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Imagine trying to catch a spy network that uses this instead of deaddrops or other means. heck. anyone you touch, shakehands with, or even PASS could be someone throwing data around...
Maybe THIS is the "Force" that Lucas invented... a network Aura giving power, "feeling" things around you... heh
I think the guy will lose.
There should be (and may actually be) a statute of limitations saying that if you patent something and don't actually use your patent AND/OR enforce it in a certain time period that you should LOSE the patent.
The idea of selling stuff online isn't new and shouldn't be a patentable idea.
I can imagine that back in caveman days some shmuck patented the "wheel". Every single idea based on it is now his and we owe him 1.4 qua-zillion clams.
This is a grea idea. Someone is INNOVATING. It's about freakin time.
The possibilities for foul play are kind of interesting though... if you can hack into the network, you can make a machine FLOOD itself with soap and ruin the clothing inside. Or at least have em start and stop randomly... lol I can see the next washer virus wreaking havoc on laundromats!
hope they're not powered my IIS.
I asked that question of my fav online station.
They told me $0.007 per song per listener.
This adds up to around a dollar per day per listener for an 8 hour day (assuming 15+ songs per hour).
Add the fact that the web allows for so many listeners (hundreds or thousands at any one time), ADD bandwidth/equipment fees and it gets very expensive to do online radio per day. For the big ad driven stations who are supplemented by broadcast it may be no big deal. But smaller stations have little or no income and simply cannot support the system.
Britney sells to pre-teen girls because of her fame and looks. Britney sells to pre-teen guys because her boobs and the way she moves turns them into piles of hormone ridden waste.
NSYNC... lol reverse the description lines... ('cept they don't have boobs) heh
They aren't even the ones creating or selling music. What a freakin crock!
These people just want money.
These tactics surpass microsofts bullying business tactics by far. I don't see a difference between this and using force to maintain a monopoly. RIAA is basically ensuring that the music industry as it is now is and will be the ONLY major player. Screw consumers, screw artists.
Pisses me off.
What with all the hubbub and hype about the other OSS databases, I'd never heard of SAP before today.
Sounds like a decent product...
Nero Rocks.
I highly recommend it
This is a good comment, Thanks :O)
screw karma :O)
Of course it'll be moderated down.
this is the best thing I've seen here yet.
NOT ALL CENSORSHIP IS BAD.
I love how you wand to ban thesymptom and not the root of the problem, andtolerating stuff that is not harmful (like annoying kids/dogs/people) is one thing... tolerating porn is not an option.
http://www.enough.org/justharmlessfun.pdf
I agree that using ones own resources, everyone should be able to have access to all information.
BUT (here's where I differ)
Using MY resources so that a child can view porn is unacceptable *to me*. Thats pretty much the most simple way I can put it.
And just as everyone is entitled to defend their opinion, I am entitled to join with millions like me and force my opinion into law. It happens everyday and it's incredibly hypocritical to applaud the forcing of laws that you like and then to turn around and whine when one passes that you don't like.
Ohh and by the way, research has shown that pornography and its messages are involved in shaping attitudes and encouraging behavior that can harm individual users and their families. Pornography use is often viewed in secret, which creates deception within marriages that can lead to divorce in some cases. In addition, pornography promotes the allure of adultery, prostitution and unreal expectations that can result in dangerous promiscuous behavior.
reference
It's not healthy for anyone, much less children.
Seems like the kids are the most important thing when people want things done, but when they disagree, kids are just another road-block to be stepped on.
I agree, and yet, the problem lies here and now and we need to attend to it.
If we don't filter what can we do? make adult access and child access? or if we follow that into the future, we'd have "porn rooms" at libraries. Places where adults can go to view the non-limited sites. thats not where I want my money going.
CNN "say that the law takes an inappropriate one-size-fits-all approach that treats children and adults the same"
Let me tell you why this is total BS. The problem is NOT just kids and the problem is NOT just "protection".
Some of the problem is adults whacking off in libraries looking at porn. We can protect the kids from that by banning porn altogether.
Another problem is state funds. I for one never want to see my tax dollars being use *even once* for viewing crap like porn. So ban it. If our excuse is that in blocking porn we may also block some other "protected" speech, then we are obviously just making excuses.
That CNN report is one side of the story, and doesn't even mention the other side.
"denies poor people without home computers the same full access to information as their wealthier neighbors"
This is just a case of them furthering their agenda by trying to get poor people on their side.
What about the millions of Americans (including the poor) that don't want their children subject to pornography? Libraries are public places, public funded, and they should be treated as such. If we'd simply apply the decency laws to libraries like we do to our city streets, we'd solve the problem.
Tell me why anyone would defend porn?
It makes no sense.
For a few (million) bucks we can try to turn it back on and get more info. (no sarcasm)
They've tried this stuff in the past and it works as often as not. I think NASA should try to contact every spacecraft thats ever been launched.
Never know what you'll find.
One thing that I see frequently here is the stupid snide comments by posters/slashdot admins.
This one is "...and Sim Invading Iraq to Keep Approval Ratings High."
The post is good, the info is good, but the un-needed political whine just removes "good" from the whole thing. No matter what the slant, I'd like to get decent info without biased whining on either side.
On the game side of the story, I think this is the most common sense ideas anyone has had in years. The military is expensive and doesn't generate money, so why not use the obvious skills in the military to make money? Just like Tom Clancy getting into realism gaming, the Army probably has a lot of great gaming ability in there somewhere.
And Epic... well they've proven themselves.
Probably being tight just because they can.
Sometimes, it's just simple greed and money-mongering.
Time Warner in the US has threatened and may yet put bandwidth caps, and I know for a fact that if they do they will lose a lot of customers. For $45 per month, the end user here wants a real benefit. I'm not paying double + $5 for internet connection just for speed. the word "unlimited" is why I'm here. I've dropped other ISP's just for telling me that I can't be online for a week straight.
I believe that if the AU Government will allow the free market to work, then unlimited fast bandwidth will end up being everywhere for a decent price. If every Aussie is angry at the ISP, it's a wide open door for a new ISP with no capping to come in and make a lot of money.
Money talks.
To sum up my comment, it seems almost like complaining about star wars is fashionable lately, and I hate it.
Frankly Episode II wasn't the best movie I've seen or even the best Star Wars movie i've seen, but it did not suck.
I think it's stupid to expect perfection in Star Wars. The originals weren't perfect, and the new movies won't be either, but perfect or not, they are still better than most of the movies coming out these days. Lucas is locked into the story no matter what does. He must follow the storyline because these movies already have prequels and sequels. IMHO this is something to take into account when critizing the movie.
Complaints about Jar-Jar and CGI are pathetic excuses. These are complaints merely for the sake of complaining. ILM's effects are still some of the best in the industry, and Jar-Jar was so small of a part that I can't believe anyone would focus on that rather than focusing on the myriad of other *GOOD* things.
There is a lot of truth in the replies, and a lot of stupidity as well.
:O)
The unescapable fact is that every Chinese attempt at reliable (non-exploding) space adventure failed, until they started spying, *buying*, and stealing. You can find this out by reading on China's space program.
That's not to say that they're stupid, it may be the economic or social structure or something else for all I know. Chinese prove they're no more stupid then the average human.
One thing I see a lot of in the replies here are the assumptions that in my comment I meant that Chinese were stupid. However, we all know that assuming is stupid, reading between the lines is prone to false results.
If I said it, I meant it, if I did not say it, then I didn't mean it. Period.
get it?
I personally think the Chinese will succeed.
Why? Because they are not truly communist. China is successful in business, which is capitalism. They speak highly of communist ideals, they enforce them socially, but not in business. The outside world (everyone else) is willing to buy from and sell to China, and China is willing to buy and sell in return. There are rich and poor in China. There are weathly people, people who require capitalism to sustain their wealth. This isn't the wonderful equality we all hear about communism is it? The rich living off the backs of the poor?
China will succeed, and well they should, they've got a lot invested in becoming the biggest and best nation on earth. Right now they are not the best nation *IMHO* mainly because of their lack of respect for human life and freedom.
Others may consider those two things to be unimportant, but I experience life and freedom everyday and I think I can't live or be free without them..
The Chinese couldn't successfully launch a rocket into orbit before their spies stole US technology that gave them a 10+ year boost.
I doubt with their current setup that they could actually succeed, but then all they have to do is steal more tech from the US, and that shouldn't be very hard considering how open and naive the US is.
"(such as internal combustion engines) which are responsible for half of the world's carbon dioxide pollution"
Baloney. PROVE IT, offer SOME proof, don't just say BS like that. Non-facts stated as facts are becoming more common.
I wish when people spewed this BS, that they'd also mention that true sciencists don't agree with the doom and gloom scare tactics preferred by extreme environmentalists.
I'm not saying that.
What I am saying is that the USA is more successful and it should NOT stoop to meet a lower standard just so people will like it.
You sound offended that someone has stated a fact.
BMW is a better car than 90% of it's competitors.
Does that sound arrogant? Yes, but is it true? Yes.
Who cares how it sounds?
I'd rather hear the truth *even if it hurts*, than to hear lies.
Just because you are insensitive to people's pain and suffering, doesn't mean everyone else is.
Mr. Katz should not have used this tragedy in such a way.