When the shipments become safe, it should make an order for some more and have it delivered when I get home. Oh.. and it should also make sure to order more milk as it checks against the sell before date.
Alot of those car stereos are starting to come with remotes to control everyhting now. Having worked in the business for quite some time I have seen the progression from the small buttons, then to a few offering remotes to almost all offering remotes. The latest craze? Your in-dash stereo has built in touchscreen features to control volume, your menu and other controls and even some that offer full motion video. It should only be a matter of time before your cell phone gets activated with it, no matter of service provider and it's all hands free.
I'm sorry... I promise to never do it again. Sorry for filling inboxes full of useless, yet amusing, crap. But HAH! I had my toes crossed! It doesn't count!
Some people might not have even known that owning the cards were legal. When presented with such a demanding document to "settle or else" it makes most people scared. And you're right.. most people will settle just to make it go away... However, if you are under the impression that it's illegal to own such a device.. they have records you purchased it, etc.. Of course you would settle!
"As someone is the market for cable/satellite service I had been looking for a way to really differentiate between Dish Network and DirectTV. I think my decision has now been made. Or, does Dish Network also like to sue people?"
Well... Are you looking to purchase the Smart Card readers? I am not sure I understand your question based upon the topic at hand. Are you simply comparing 2 satellite companies based upon their lawsuit ratio?
IANAL, so, the obvious question that arises is... Will those that settled be able to turn around and sue DirecTV? I know they settled, however, when they signed the settlement paperwork it was under false pretenses. Meaning that the people that bought the equipment probably thought it was illegal (at the time) to own it and settled to avoid further prosecution. I'm sure many didn't bother to contact a lawyer to determine their rights, but after such a change in policy I could see it happening. I mean DirecTV all but admitted that they were going after these people that might have had legitimate uses for it.
If we timed our stories right we could pull this all off as the/. effect...
Let's see so far today.. We had a report on Yahoo... They're down. A report to a virus linked to Symantec.. they are up and down. We always link to Google, they are having problems... wooo. Now we just need another patent from Microsoft to bring them down... which by my records shouldn't be too long.
Well... I couldn't get the Symantec site to come up.. Is Anyone else having similar problems?
After searching Google news and other sources I could not find a similar story anywhere besides this similar story posted on ZDnet Australia. The only problem is that it was dated back 10 February 2004. Not sure if it's the same story... or same worm but worth a read for those that cannot get out to Symantec.
What's the use of extending patents beyond their current lifespan? If the invention is great enough it will make the inventor enough money from it's licensing.
I managed to get a copy of the PDF file.. I have no way to mirror it and Google's cache isn't working of it so here's what I could grab. Anyways.. if you want to see the questions (minus pictures..)
1. Battleships - 5 points; 5 point bonus
Locate the position of the 10-ship fleet in the grid. The fleet is shown to the right of the grid: one 4-unit battleship, two 3-unit cruisers, three 2-unit destroyers, and four 1-unit submarines. Each segment of a ship occupies a single
cell. Ships are oriented either horizontally or vertically, and they do not touch each other, not even diagonally. The
numbers on the right and bottom edges of the grid reveal the total number of ship segments that appear in each
respective row or column. (For solving purposes, ignore the letters above and the numbers left of the grid.)
2. Pentomino Division - 5 points
Divide each of the six shapes into two pieces so that each of the 12 Pentominoes (shown at right) is used exactly
once. The Pentominoes can be rotated and/or reflected.
Answer: Enter the letters pairs corresponding to each of the six original shapes.
3. Dutch Segway - 5 points
Which of the numbered drawings is an exact mirror image of the drawing in the upper left?
4. Corral - 20 points; 5 point bonus
Draw a single closed loop along the grid lines so that all the numbered squares are inside the loop. Additionally, each number equals the count of interior squares that are directly in line (horizontally or vertically) with that number's square, including the square itself. In the example, the square containing the 4 is directly in line with two squares above it and one square to its right. Including the square itself, the total count is four.
5. Rotator Mosaic - 20 points
Divide the grid (along the grid lines) into exactly 10 symmetric pieces (each appearing unchanged if rotated 180,
including its shape and the pattern of any white or black disks).
6. A to Z Crisscross - 25 points; 5 point bonus
Place the 19 words into the grid in crisscross style (words appear either across or down, and all words formed in
the grid appear in the word list), so that there are exactly 26 word intersections--each in one of the highlighted
squares. Additionally, each of the letters from A to Z appears exactly once in the highlighted squares.
P2P System: You decide what you listen to
RIAA "Advertisment System": They decide what you listen to
That is the critical difference
Yeah.. but you also have the same choice not to download that particular song just as much as you do to change the radio station. Plus, if you want to listen to something else, you more than likely have access to a CD player.
They want us to listen to this music. However, we still have to make up our own minds about whether we like it enough to buy the entire album or not. Wouldn't the record labels perhaps save their advertising dollars by promoting a special download of Avril's song somewhere? Instead we get to have this song shoved to our, already bleeding, ears.
This article is talking about PDAs and portable devices. Not really so much as networked PCs. For example, if AWAY from your LAN, it would be a lot easier to simply "picK" from their PDA a picture or file and then drop it into your handheld. This is better than the contrary, email it to me, here is my email.
Slashdot Mirror
When the shipments become safe, it should make an order for some more and have it delivered when I get home. Oh.. and it should also make sure to order more milk as it checks against the sell before date.
I'm sorry... I promise to never do it again. Sorry for filling inboxes full of useless, yet amusing, crap. But HAH! I had my toes crossed! It doesn't count!
Some people might not have even known that owning the cards were legal. When presented with such a demanding document to "settle or else" it makes most people scared. And you're right.. most people will settle just to make it go away... However, if you are under the impression that it's illegal to own such a device.. they have records you purchased it, etc.. Of course you would settle!
Well... Are you looking to purchase the Smart Card readers? I am not sure I understand your question based upon the topic at hand. Are you simply comparing 2 satellite companies based upon their lawsuit ratio?
IANAL, so, the obvious question that arises is... Will those that settled be able to turn around and sue DirecTV? I know they settled, however, when they signed the settlement paperwork it was under false pretenses. Meaning that the people that bought the equipment probably thought it was illegal (at the time) to own it and settled to avoid further prosecution. I'm sure many didn't bother to contact a lawyer to determine their rights, but after such a change in policy I could see it happening. I mean DirecTV all but admitted that they were going after these people that might have had legitimate uses for it.
Let's see so far today.. We had a report on Yahoo... They're down. A report to a virus linked to Symantec.. they are up and down. We always link to Google, they are having problems... wooo. Now we just need another patent from Microsoft to bring them down... which by my records shouldn't be too long.
After searching Google news and other sources I could not find a similar story anywhere besides this similar story posted on ZDnet Australia. The only problem is that it was dated back 10 February 2004. Not sure if it's the same story... or same worm but worth a read for those that cannot get out to Symantec.
What's the use of extending patents beyond their current lifespan? If the invention is great enough it will make the inventor enough money from it's licensing.
Which is why all the previous posts say "oh, it sucks he wont be making anymore money off RFID", "hes so unlucky".
The password is "world".. without the quotes of course.
1. Battleships - 5 points; 5 point bonus
Locate the position of the 10-ship fleet in the grid. The fleet is shown to the right of the grid: one 4-unit battleship, two 3-unit cruisers, three 2-unit destroyers, and four 1-unit submarines. Each segment of a ship occupies a single cell. Ships are oriented either horizontally or vertically, and they do not touch each other, not even diagonally. The numbers on the right and bottom edges of the grid reveal the total number of ship segments that appear in each respective row or column. (For solving purposes, ignore the letters above and the numbers left of the grid.)
2. Pentomino Division - 5 points
Divide each of the six shapes into two pieces so that each of the 12 Pentominoes (shown at right) is used exactly once. The Pentominoes can be rotated and/or reflected. Answer: Enter the letters pairs corresponding to each of the six original shapes.
3. Dutch Segway - 5 points
Which of the numbered drawings is an exact mirror image of the drawing in the upper left?
4. Corral - 20 points; 5 point bonus
Draw a single closed loop along the grid lines so that all the numbered squares are inside the loop. Additionally, each number equals the count of interior squares that are directly in line (horizontally or vertically) with that number's square, including the square itself. In the example, the square containing the 4 is directly in line with two squares above it and one square to its right. Including the square itself, the total count is four.
5. Rotator Mosaic - 20 points
Divide the grid (along the grid lines) into exactly 10 symmetric pieces (each appearing unchanged if rotated 180, including its shape and the pattern of any white or black disks).
6. A to Z Crisscross - 25 points; 5 point bonus
Place the 19 words into the grid in crisscross style (words appear either across or down, and all words formed in the grid appear in the word list), so that there are exactly 26 word intersections--each in one of the highlighted squares. Additionally, each of the letters from A to Z appears exactly once in the highlighted squares.
Do you actually think that there are 200,000 slashdotters that actually click links to RTFA? Let reduce that number down a bit.. say 5?
Soo.. Whats new about it? More importantly, whats been added? Does it come pre-installed with Duke Nuken Forever? *ducks*
... that the entire /. community is a bunch of newbies?
His last week stats are:
Something is off... Unless his spams contain attachments, this says that each of his emails were 17 MB in size each.
I mean 17.73708.. This is /. afterall. :)
After the ruling, Judge Kimball stood up and shouted, "It's not a tumor!" to a bunch of stunned kids in a classro... oh sorry wrong story.
If this book is reflective of the way I meta-moderate, it should be a breeze!
They want us to listen to this music. However, we still have to make up our own minds about whether we like it enough to buy the entire album or not. Wouldn't the record labels perhaps save their advertising dollars by promoting a special download of Avril's song somewhere? Instead we get to have this song shoved to our, already bleeding, ears.
I was talking federal jobs... Hell, even going into the military would offer you hiring bonuses based off of your background.
I hate loading Adobe's bloatware... I meant to post as AC anyways. Damn... lay off.
Is finding security holes a good idea?
Writing Security Considerations Sections
This article is talking about PDAs and portable devices. Not really so much as networked PCs. For example, if AWAY from your LAN, it would be a lot easier to simply "picK" from their PDA a picture or file and then drop it into your handheld. This is better than the contrary, email it to me, here is my email.