"We're looking for the best return we can, and we think the focus should be on IP licensing (and enforcement)."
I think that statement (esp. adding "enforcement" to it) as well as this summary of the NY Times article by the author caused the OP to make the allegations.
... company executives were spending too much time and energy "in publicity and debate" with open source advocates about Linux, rather than focusing on legal strategy.
According to those two statements, one could conclude that legal action is all Baystar is looking for.
According to TFA, the company that's scanning the prints, then passes the scans off to the G5s that has the filtering software on them. All of the processing is then done by them. The article mentions already having cleaned up several DVDs (Gone With the Wind, Citizen Cane, North by Norhtwest) and working on the Star Wars and James Bond tranfers. The submitter made it seem as if the technology is just now blooming, but TFA indicates that it's already been operating for a few years now. The article really is an interesting read, though.
Point is this is only useful to people who still use obsolete older web browsers like IE.
My first encounter with a Quick Search feature was back when I used IE as my primary browser. I'm sure there are others that remember the add-on pack Web Accessories for Internet Explorer 5. It let you do the same thing, assign a shortcut, replace the %s for the search term. I don't know who did it first, but I first learned about it through IE. I do prefer Firefox now, though.
As a side note, MS's tool (which is not being developed further) cut off the length of the URL you could use to a very unusable length of characters. To circumvent this, you had to do some registry editing to get the URL in there.
I believe this technology is needed to be pursued greatly. The unwanted traffic that anybody running a website or FTP server sees generated everyday in his server logs is enough to make port knocking a necessity.
I wonder though. If port knocking is to become popular, will it be able to work through all of the blocked ports resulting from the excessive worm attacks?
I agree that the Zip drive was successful, but there were many other technologies fighting for that same "SuperDisk" market at the time when CDs were still too expensive to be practical and the floppy disk was too small and slow to be useful.
I remember all the technologies out there like Imation SuperDisk or Castlewood Orb. I used to be rooting for the Orb drive to win the market and become the standard. At the time (1999) I think it could have been a killer product. It used hard-drive-type platters in a reasonably sized cartridge, with a 2.2 GB disk going for about $20. Also, reviews said that the drives were a lot faster than Zip disk.
But now, like you said, with CD burners and their media being so cheap and decently quick, plus the addition of Mt. Rainier to the RW drives, Zip clones have no more reasons to hang around. And from what I've heard, Iomega can't even get CD drives right.
Something that Iomega has been battling for years is the high cost of their media versus the need for a new portable standard medium. Zip, Jaz, etc... have failed before not only because they were too costly, but because there were still too many other choices to make it a common standard. While those wars raged, the home user market was sneaked upon and stolen by USB flash drives.
The only real battleground for Iomega is the medium-level server market.
So, presumably, if I purchased items from MI, for my mother in MD, the use tax has no effect. This law seems to break apart far too easily to be applied to Internet shopping, IMO.
It's tough to say how much you are supposed to pay, even if you *had* kept track of your Internet purchases.
I moved from a Maryland to Michigan in December 2003. If I were to count all of my Internet purchases for 2003 on my MI taxes (which requires the use tax) then, I would be paying for mostly MD purchases (which, to my knowledge, does not). So, just divide it up before and after, right?
Not that simple. Around the time I was moving, I was purchasing a lot of last minute things on the Internet. Many of which, I ordered in MD, but received in MI. Or, the transaction was initiated in MD, but by the time the money was transferred, I had already moved.
Don't taxes frustrate people enough without introducing state taxes like this?
If you aren't looking to use the firewall, it looks like it's pretty easy to turn it off.
In the Forceware screenshot it shows a line labeled "Firewall Setup: Change firewall profiles including turning Firewall on/off." But, I guess if price was an issue, and you the firewall kept you from getting it, I could see that. Seems to me, this would be cheaper than a spare system in the closet. I guess you would have to test it with the firewall on/off to know if it was stealing your cycles, though.
The ForceWare software that comes with it looks semi-decent. I like how it has a built in statistics graph for the firewall, too.
You can't trust "unsubscribe" links, as all they do is confirm that you read your email.:P
I know this reply is too late to bed modded anything, but I'll say it anyway.
Last August, I had been getting way too much spam in my main mailbox. I had heard that unsubscribing just backfired and gives you even more mail, so I never did it. Then, after deleting 15-30 spam messages per day-- every day-- I decided that the spam couldn't get too much worse than this (yes, I know it can, but the point is I was sick of it). I had also read a few months prior to this in Maximum PC's article on spam that the spammers "swear the unsubscribe links work" even though they also recommended to not use them. I decided to give unsubscriptions a try.
I opened every spam mail, going straight to the unsubscribe link every time, and typing in my e-mail address, etc...
I noticed that after opening the unsubscribe links, many of them are sent by the same company and use the same unsubscribe page (whether legitimately or not, is something else altogether).
I did this process religiously for about 4-5 weeks straight. By the second week, I noticed a considerable decrease in my spam. By the fourth week, I had no unwanted e-mail, and it was refreshing. I'm sure there are some people out there who have a story about getting screwed ove by the unsubscribe links, but this is my story, and it's true.
great! I always ask questions. nice... now I'm going to get even more grief!
I love this scene in my head:
TSA Official: Sit down over there, sir.
Passenger: Hey, how's it going?
TSA Official: This guy's raisin' questions over here!
[TSA security team tackles passenger]
Passenger: What'd I do?
TSA Official: Oh, two now! You must think you're pretty tough.
Passenger: Can't I just make conversation?
TSA Official: Hey! Are you trying to make me angry?
[TSA security team members all look at TSA Official]
TSA Official:... What?
[TSA security team tackles TSA Official]
People always complain about Apple, but does Microsoft make anything that's not overpriced? Hardware, software, it doesn't matter.
Not to throw water on this whole discussion, but the article points to Microsoft as making the software. Creative and other companies are making the hardware, which is probably where most of the cost comes from.
The members of the NFC Forum envisage that their technology will be used to manage connections to both active and passive devices...
and get raided by MPAA & RIAA.
Well, Sony is one of the members of the forum, and both the MPAA & RIAA represent Sony, so they should have some sway to DRM the tech and to prevent the RIAA from preventing its adoption.
Then again, Sony is notorious for backing technology that is a great idea (and perhaps superior technology), but too strict enforcement of its patents prevented them from still being used today (see Betamax, miniDisc, SACD, Bjork, etc...)
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I think that statement (esp. adding "enforcement" to it) as well as this summary of the NY Times article by the author caused the OP to make the allegations.
According to those two statements, one could conclude that legal action is all Baystar is looking for.
According to TFA, the company that's scanning the prints, then passes the scans off to the G5s that has the filtering software on them. All of the processing is then done by them. The article mentions already having cleaned up several DVDs (Gone With the Wind, Citizen Cane, North by Norhtwest) and working on the Star Wars and James Bond tranfers. The submitter made it seem as if the technology is just now blooming, but TFA indicates that it's already been operating for a few years now. The article really is an interesting read, though.
I thought some other company developed CDs based on corn already to cut down on plastic waste.
Point is this is only useful to people who still use obsolete older web browsers like IE.
My first encounter with a Quick Search feature was back when I used IE as my primary browser. I'm sure there are others that remember the add-on pack Web Accessories for Internet Explorer 5. It let you do the same thing, assign a shortcut, replace the %s for the search term. I don't know who did it first, but I first learned about it through IE. I do prefer Firefox now, though.
As a side note, MS's tool (which is not being developed further) cut off the length of the URL you could use to a very unusable length of characters. To circumvent this, you had to do some registry editing to get the URL in there.
I wonder though. If port knocking is to become popular, will it be able to work through all of the blocked ports resulting from the excessive worm attacks?
I remember all the technologies out there like Imation SuperDisk or Castlewood Orb. I used to be rooting for the Orb drive to win the market and become the standard. At the time (1999) I think it could have been a killer product. It used hard-drive-type platters in a reasonably sized cartridge, with a 2.2 GB disk going for about $20. Also, reviews said that the drives were a lot faster than Zip disk.
But now, like you said, with CD burners and their media being so cheap and decently quick, plus the addition of Mt. Rainier to the RW drives, Zip clones have no more reasons to hang around. And from what I've heard, Iomega can't even get CD drives right.
Something that Iomega has been battling for years is the high cost of their media versus the need for a new portable standard medium. Zip, Jaz, etc... have failed before not only because they were too costly, but because there were still too many other choices to make it a common standard. While those wars raged, the home user market was sneaked upon and stolen by USB flash drives.
The only real battleground for Iomega is the medium-level server market.
So, presumably, if I purchased items from MI, for my mother in MD, the use tax has no effect. This law seems to break apart far too easily to be applied to Internet shopping, IMO.
It's tough to say how much you are supposed to pay, even if you *had* kept track of your Internet purchases.
I moved from a Maryland to Michigan in December 2003. If I were to count all of my Internet purchases for 2003 on my MI taxes (which requires the use tax) then, I would be paying for mostly MD purchases (which, to my knowledge, does not). So, just divide it up before and after, right?
Not that simple. Around the time I was moving, I was purchasing a lot of last minute things on the Internet. Many of which, I ordered in MD, but received in MI. Or, the transaction was initiated in MD, but by the time the money was transferred, I had already moved.
Don't taxes frustrate people enough without introducing state taxes like this?
If you aren't looking to use the firewall, it looks like it's pretty easy to turn it off.
In the Forceware screenshot it shows a line labeled "Firewall Setup: Change firewall profiles including turning Firewall on/off." But, I guess if price was an issue, and you the firewall kept you from getting it, I could see that. Seems to me, this would be cheaper than a spare system in the closet. I guess you would have to test it with the firewall on/off to know if it was stealing your cycles, though.
The ForceWare software that comes with it looks semi-decent. I like how it has a built in statistics graph for the firewall, too.
Imagine Hitler yelling that last paragraph at the top of his lungs.
Wasn't that funny?If your job was to surf for extreme porn all day, is it still considered slacking if your boss catches you browsing softcore?
The only plausible name I could think of is "m3 0wnz j00n10r"
Kellogg's Corn Flakes should be avoided by women who are, or may become, pregnant.
Ask your doctor if Kellogg's Corn Flakes are right for you.
Isn't Expedia MS free, now?
You can't trust "unsubscribe" links, as all they do is confirm that you read your email. :P
I know this reply is too late to bed modded anything, but I'll say it anyway.
Last August, I had been getting way too much spam in my main mailbox. I had heard that unsubscribing just backfired and gives you even more mail, so I never did it. Then, after deleting 15-30 spam messages per day-- every day-- I decided that the spam couldn't get too much worse than this (yes, I know it can, but the point is I was sick of it). I had also read a few months prior to this in Maximum PC's article on spam that the spammers "swear the unsubscribe links work" even though they also recommended to not use them. I decided to give unsubscriptions a try.
I opened every spam mail, going straight to the unsubscribe link every time, and typing in my e-mail address, etc...
I noticed that after opening the unsubscribe links, many of them are sent by the same company and use the same unsubscribe page (whether legitimately or not, is something else altogether).
I did this process religiously for about 4-5 weeks straight. By the second week, I noticed a considerable decrease in my spam. By the fourth week, I had no unwanted e-mail, and it was refreshing. I'm sure there are some people out there who have a story about getting screwed ove by the unsubscribe links, but this is my story, and it's true.
great! I always ask questions. nice... now I'm going to get even more grief!
I love this scene in my head:TSA Official: Sit down over there, sir.
Passenger: Hey, how's it going?
TSA Official: This guy's raisin' questions over here!
[TSA security team tackles passenger]
Passenger: What'd I do?
TSA Official: Oh, two now! You must think you're pretty tough.
Passenger: Can't I just make conversation?
TSA Official: Hey! Are you trying to make me angry?
[TSA security team members all look at TSA Official]
TSA Official:
[TSA security team tackles TSA Official]
People always complain about Apple, but does Microsoft make anything that's not overpriced? Hardware, software, it doesn't matter.
Not to throw water on this whole discussion, but the article points to Microsoft as making the software. Creative and other companies are making the hardware, which is probably where most of the cost comes from.The members of the NFC Forum envisage that their technology will be used to manage connections to both active and passive devices...
and get raided by MPAA & RIAA.
Well, Sony is one of the members of the forum, and both the MPAA & RIAA represent Sony, so they should have some sway to DRM the tech and to prevent the RIAA from preventing its adoption.
Then again, Sony is notorious for backing technology that is a great idea (and perhaps superior technology), but too strict enforcement of its patents prevented them from still being used today (see Betamax, miniDisc, SACD, Bjork, etc...)
however, they must have some kind of backup plan.
Backup plan:MS, enjoy paying the money
Yeah, I'm sure money is sooo scarce for Microsoft."A fine?!? This could ruin us!"
I wish it could make a bigger impact on their finances.
Then again with the current economy you might have no other choice but to swallow it (or go work at Mickey-Dees).
But can I have an alert set to send me a text message when the fries are done?What happened to Joe User?
Didn't that Larissa girl dump him for some other loser?