If I had to count on one company to stand up and fight for personal privacy, human rights and not bow down to political pressures, it would have to be teh Google.
After the head-scratching stopped, a Microsoft spokesman told me, they concluded that the story was not true.
How do we know Ed Bott's comment is not a hoax too? He just said a MS spokesman told him so, but where's the source?
I believe the real story is, MS did invent this Play-Once DVD, however due to huge amount of negative comments from Slashdot, they pulled a PR spin, and instructed that spokesman to tell Ed that it's a hoax.
Decrem expects to make money from running Google ads, as well as getting so-called affiliate fees for referring users to commercial sites such as Amazon.com (AMZN ). Moreover, he envisions getting money from other Web services, such as blogging or photo-sharing services, that might pay Flock for sign-ups sent their way from the Flock software.
Testers struck pieces of metal to simulate gunshots. REDOWL quickly aimed its infrared camera and laser rangefinder at the source of the noise, just as it did in tests at a Medfield gun range.
If this is the case, this RedOwl can easily be fooled where there are multiple gunshots, especially in a battle field.
While system could fire back at an enemy, it would be dangerous to have a weapon-toting robot that could open fire on its own. You need to have a man in the loop.
By the time a man reacts, the sniper could have fled, or worse, fired another shot at him.
With so much at stake, it's not surprising that this will eventually involve the Supreme Court. However if this is once again ruled against them, they will have serious problem.
Spammers spam because they think they have the freedom to spam, and the only way to stop this is to take away their freedom, ie some jail time.
Failing that, I thought the fine is a bit small, but sooner or later, people will find the "threshold" fine to impose, which basically make the whole spamming business unprofitable.
I thought the most important feature is to prevent theft? Well, a notebook bag isn't going to prevent theft, but a normal-looking back will prevent thieves from realising you're carrying a notebook.
Like any company, the decision to do something relies to this something's profitability. Given that Google is not responsible to its shareholders, this cannot be more true.
So what can Google profit from a browser? Can it add its Text Ads to the browser, will users accept yet-another "advertisement" browser?
The degradation is not indiscriminate but takes place through a process that is controlled in detail so that the proteins to be broken down at any given moment are given a molecular label, a 'kiss of death', to be dramatic. The labelled proteins are then fed into the cells' "waste disposers", the so called proteasomes, where they are chopped into small pieces and destroyed.
Isn't this similar to the way OO languages are doing, create an object, use it and dispose it.
Actuall, isn't this the way we are doing things on a daily basis? It's interesting to find out that even our body is unknowingly doing almost the same process.
Maybe Microsoft will patent its Blue Screen Of Death interface, so nobody else can display an error on screen without a license. I'm sure MS has prior art to that:)
The rerouted IP address provides content to the user machine in which at least a majority of the content is different from that expected to be obtained by the user machine
How about showing the requested page as is (for example google.com goes to google's homepage) but with a DHTML overlay or framing to indicate this is the only page to go until the user's properly authenticated?
What I don't like about Flash is its inability to easily and quickly be turned off (or on). This plugin really plugged in and it's difficult to pull out.
Flash might have its use in mobile device, like those little Flash games. However I would rather see Flash as a console-type application, that one can turn on and run games with it, instead of an invisible and annoying plug-in that appears everywhere.
Is POD limited to certain books? At the moment, some out-of-print books are commanding huge price tags, what happens when you can now print a copy of the 'last copy found on earth' book?
Another way is to serialize all POD books, so someone will always get the F(irst)P(rint)!
Maybe your buddy has been sitting on 10,000 MSFT shares? So if MS bought somebody big, he wins and takes $100 and continues to sit on MSFT shares; if you won, you take away $100, but he's now getting $30,000 dividend. Win-Win situation.
Anyone trying to access such a site would be presented with a message reading "Website not found"
If BT has gone to the extend to block access, why can't they put in a message to warn of such illegal activities? Or is BT blocking access 'secretly' and hopes the 'problems' will go away?
This memo is a bit old to take it seriously, but looking at the OSS-Attack as a whole, I wonder if OSS community has enough resources to win the battle?
It's all good to talk about prior art, this and that, but please remember to destroy a competitor, you don't necessarily have to win the lawsuit, sometimes you just need to be resourceful enough to drag on and throw money at the case.
It's like poker games, you might have the best cards but if you don't have enough money to call and raise, how many times can you win?
With PHP5, PHP langauge is very useful and powerful now, is this the turning point that gives the creators the idea that it can actually be used to make a profit the other way?
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Here's another site which may help Chinese users receiving censored Google results via email.
If I had to count on one company to stand up and fight for personal privacy, human rights and not bow down to political pressures, it would have to be teh Google.
Meanwhile, Chinese users please click here.
Wow! Eastern limb of the Indonesian archipelago, near Australia, which is close to New Zealand, which is where LOTR was shot.
1. Most ads are taking too long to download. Even if I have broadband, I would rather use it on somewhere useful.
2. Most ads are too big and intrusive.
3. Most ads are irrelevant.
See the trend? That explains why Googld Ads is so successful.
I always thought 42 years ought to be enough.
After the head-scratching stopped, a Microsoft spokesman told me, they concluded that the story was not true.
How do we know Ed Bott's comment is not a hoax too? He just said a MS spokesman told him so, but where's the source?
I believe the real story is, MS did invent this Play-Once DVD, however due to huge amount of negative comments from Slashdot, they pulled a PR spin, and instructed that spokesman to tell Ed that it's a hoax.
Decrem expects to make money from running Google ads, as well as getting so-called affiliate fees for referring users to commercial sites such as Amazon.com (AMZN ). Moreover, he envisions getting money from other Web services, such as blogging or photo-sharing services, that might pay Flock for sign-ups sent their way from the Flock software.
Is it Opera all over again in terms of its business model?
Or does it sound like a legalized spyware?
What would site owners feel if a browser is competing for Google Ads and referral bonuses with them?
Testers struck pieces of metal to simulate gunshots. REDOWL quickly aimed its infrared camera and laser rangefinder at the source of the noise, just as it did in tests at a Medfield gun range.
If this is the case, this RedOwl can easily be fooled where there are multiple gunshots, especially in a battle field.
While system could fire back at an enemy, it would be dangerous to have a weapon-toting robot that could open fire on its own. You need to have a man in the loop.
By the time a man reacts, the sniper could have fled, or worse, fired another shot at him.
Interestingly SonyBMG is blaming Apple for the lack of support.
I think this situation is bound to happen, when your right hand doesn't know what your left hand is doing.
With so much at stake, it's not surprising that this will eventually involve the Supreme Court. However if this is once again ruled against them, they will have serious problem.
Why did he settle instead of going all the way?
Spammers spam because they think they have the freedom to spam, and the only way to stop this is to take away their freedom, ie some jail time.
Failing that, I thought the fine is a bit small, but sooner or later, people will find the "threshold" fine to impose, which basically make the whole spamming business unprofitable.
I thought the most important feature is to prevent theft? Well, a notebook bag isn't going to prevent theft, but a normal-looking back will prevent thieves from realising you're carrying a notebook.
Is this AI at all?
Like any company, the decision to do something relies to this something's profitability. Given that Google is not responsible to its shareholders, this cannot be more true.
So what can Google profit from a browser? Can it add its Text Ads to the browser, will users accept yet-another "advertisement" browser?
The degradation is not indiscriminate but takes place through a process that is controlled in detail so that the proteins to be broken down at any given moment are given a molecular label, a 'kiss of death', to be dramatic. The labelled proteins are then fed into the cells' "waste disposers", the so called proteasomes, where they are chopped into small pieces and destroyed.
Isn't this similar to the way OO languages are doing, create an object, use it and dispose it.
Actuall, isn't this the way we are doing things on a daily basis? It's interesting to find out that even our body is unknowingly doing almost the same process.
Geez, I would hate to be that one (1).
Maybe Microsoft will patent its Blue Screen Of Death interface, so nobody else can display an error on screen without a license. I'm sure MS has prior art to that :)
The rerouted IP address provides content to the user machine in which at least a majority of the content is different from that expected to be obtained by the user machine
How about showing the requested page as is (for example google.com goes to google's homepage) but with a DHTML overlay or framing to indicate this is the only page to go until the user's properly authenticated?
Wow thanks for the advice, it did the job. I never know -f removes all flash-related stuffs. I'll use rm -i to remove Internet Explorer now.
What I don't like about Flash is its inability to easily and quickly be turned off (or on). This plugin really plugged in and it's difficult to pull out.
Flash might have its use in mobile device, like those little Flash games. However I would rather see Flash as a console-type application, that one can turn on and run games with it, instead of an invisible and annoying plug-in that appears everywhere.
Is POD limited to certain books? At the moment, some out-of-print books are commanding huge price tags, what happens when you can now print a copy of the 'last copy found on earth' book?
Another way is to serialize all POD books, so someone will always get the F(irst)P(rint)!
Maybe your buddy has been sitting on 10,000 MSFT shares? So if MS bought somebody big, he wins and takes $100 and continues to sit on MSFT shares; if you won, you take away $100, but he's now getting $30,000 dividend. Win-Win situation.
Anyone trying to access such a site would be presented with a message reading "Website not found"
If BT has gone to the extend to block access, why can't they put in a message to warn of such illegal activities? Or is BT blocking access 'secretly' and hopes the 'problems' will go away?
This memo is a bit old to take it seriously, but looking at the OSS-Attack as a whole, I wonder if OSS community has enough resources to win the battle?
It's all good to talk about prior art, this and that, but please remember to destroy a competitor, you don't necessarily have to win the lawsuit, sometimes you just need to be resourceful enough to drag on and throw money at the case.
It's like poker games, you might have the best cards but if you don't have enough money to call and raise, how many times can you win?
With PHP5, PHP langauge is very useful and powerful now, is this the turning point that gives the creators the idea that it can actually be used to make a profit the other way?