That URL does not have to be http. It could well be mailto: or data: or gopher: or whatever.
Based on my (admittedly hazy) understanding, it has to be HTML over HTTP, because the web server that's identified has to include a special <link> tag in the web page that identifies the identity server that says who's authorized to "claim" that URL.
The shady guy standing next to you in line (or the cashier who double-swipes) doesn't care about legal charges now. Why would he care in this future where he can steal your card wirelessly?
Blocking people from doing security patches means more infected computers on the Internet, and better odds that one will find a paying customer to infect.
I think software activation is unethical also, but I'll save that debate for another day.
I agree that he shouldn't be proud of himself for "inventing" the claims in that patent, but I disagree that he's a coward. A coward would have deleted the negative messages, not left them in plain sight.
If you're of the camp that believes prison is for rehabilitation, enhanced freedom could be used as an effective tool to accomplish that. Prisoners that can be tracked wherever they are in prison is a necessary requirement to grant this enhanced freedom.
On the other hand, if you think prison is punishment, look at the transmitters as yet another way to make sure everybody is accounted for, and a way to gather evidence for crimes in the building.
Sorry to reply to my own post. I forgot where I was going with that. The point is, you can assume that almost everything you download has copyright protection - the only exceptions are works created in countries that require registration and works in the public domain (either because they're too old or the holder waived his or her copyright).
You have no way to know when downloading something that it is has a copyright.
If you live in the United States (and presumably at least some other countries), a work gains copyright protection when it's fixed in its first tangible form, regardless of whether it's signed, has a (C) on it, or anything else. This means that I hold the copyright to this comment, and I could even register it for copyright for the current fee ($20 last I checked). Registration just gains you additional choices for pursuing damages in court.
(Incidentally, this is why we need the fair use laws that the RIAA and friends are trying to kill. If we didn't have them, I'd be infringing your copyright by copying a substantial portion of your comment into mine.)
You may be "voting" even though you don't realize it. Many digital cable boxes now phone home with logs of what you watch, down to the second. If you have a TiVo, Nielsen knows not only what you watch, but when you watch it.
I'm not licensed, but I did study for the test at one point. Another prohibited transmission is "messages in codes or ciphers intended to obscure the meaning thereof." That means even if he wasn't a business, SSH is out, right?
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Many of the people who are taking time off will be doing so by calling in sick. Workers who call in sick usually get paid. Not only does your company have to pay you for seeing Star Wars, but they also have to pay whoever is covering for you. That means they are paying double for the same amount of work, and possibly less (since your sub probably has his or her own work to do also).
note: the CC companies always require it for in person transactions
Not true. A signature is always enough to please Visa and MasterCard (PDF). In fact, MasterCard explicitly says in 9.11.2:
A merchant must not refuse to complete a MasterCard card transaction solely because a cardholder who has complied with the conditions for presentment of a card at the POI refuses to provide additional identification information,
Merchants that ask you for photo ID (except when you haven't signed your card) are not complying with credit card company rules, and may in fact be breaking them.
For any Apple employees reading this, thanks for taking a step toward DRM-free media. Seriously. I hope one day you bury FairPlay for good, so I can finally open my wallet and buy an iPod from you.
There have been a number of software products based on the Post-It concept, such as 3M's own app (which includes an ability to transfer notes using XML) and Apple's Stickies.
I'm curious: do fellow Slashdotters find these programs helpful versus other ways of keeping track of snippets of information, such as e-mail?
I've had too much trouble getting X working on Linux during my experiments. Windows and Apple are far, far ahead of Linux in the GUI department.
I continue to experiment with Linux on a different computer. Maybe someday...
They run those obnoxious commercials before movies at the theatres telling us why pirating is bad, and wasting our time, despite the people guilty of these acts are the ones at home watching the movies on their computers, not the ones who paid $11 so they can sit through the movie.
I accept all your points except this one. The anti-piracy commercials before the movie (which I hate too, by the way) do two things: they discourage teenagers who might be thinking about videotaping the movie, and they add a little guilt to the conscience of people who might consider downloading an illegal copy of the next movie.
The bounty of an Xbox seems somewhat ironic. If you crack a web server sold by a convicted monopolist known for the lack of security in its products, you get to give them money (indirectly) by winning one of their game consoles?
Wouldn't a better prize be something from Sony or Nintendo?
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There ain't no suggestion: "Put a Ritz on top of a Ritz."
Internet cafes in China, for example, are painfully slow... I have been in cafes where it feels like the entire room is sharing a single dial-up connection.
I confess that these aren't the best examples, mainly because I had trouble with words like "mapping." However, this patent seems "obvious" to me, a person who most people consider to be "skilled in the art."
1. A method in a computer system for exchanging information between users of web sites, the method comprising:
providing a mapping between a first web site and a second web site; Slashdot includes an RSS feed that My Yahoo! knows how to read;
when a first user accesses the first web site, providing a web page of the first web site; When I visit http://www.slashdot.org/, the Slashdot web server gives me a web page;
receiving information from the first user; and I submit an article;
storing the received information based on the provided mapping; and Slashdot publishes the article;
when a second user accesses the second web site, providing a web page of the second web site; When my friend Jane Doe visits http://my.yahoo.com/, the Yahoo! server gives her a web page;
retrieving the stored information based on the provided mapping; and Yahoo! pulls Slashdot's RSS feed;
providing a display of the retrieved information so that the first and second users can exchange information. Jane can now read my post. If Jane submits a story to Slashdot, I could similarly read her post.
9. A method in a computer system for controlling the exchange of information between users of web pages, the method comprising:
receiving an indication of a web page from a first user computer; I decide I want to visit Slashdot, but I'm behind a firewall. I tell the proxy server to retrieve http://www.slashdot.org/ for me;
retrieving the web page from a first web server; The proxy server retrieves Slashdot;
sending the retrieved web page to the first user computer; The proxy server sends Slashdot to my computer;
retrieving information associated with the web page, the retrieved information having been previously received from second user computer when accessing a web page of a second web server; and My previously-mentioned friend Jane pulls the RSS feed from Slashdot via My Yahoo!;
sending the retrieved information to the first user computer. And she sends it to me via IM.
16. A method in a computer system for accessing information associated with a web page, the method comprising:
in response to sending the request, receiving the first web page; and Yahoo! sends me back a web page from their server;
receiving information associated with the first web page, the information being previously entered by a user when accessing a second web page, the information having been entered separately from the second web page. Yahoo! shows me my page, with the pages and modules I told them to put on my page at some earlier time via their configuration page.
I haven't used it myself, but it's causing extreme difficulties for a good friend of mine. She's given up trying to get her computer online and uses library and lab computers instead.
Slashdot Mirror
That URL does not have to be http. It could well be mailto: or data: or gopher: or whatever.
Based on my (admittedly hazy) understanding, it has to be HTML over HTTP, because the web server that's identified has to include a special <link> tag in the web page that identifies the identity server that says who's authorized to "claim" that URL.
The shady guy standing next to you in line (or the cashier who double-swipes) doesn't care about legal charges now. Why would he care in this future where he can steal your card wirelessly?
Yes.
Blocking people from doing security patches means more infected computers on the Internet, and better odds that one will find a paying customer to infect.
I think software activation is unethical also, but I'll save that debate for another day.
but killing the thread is just plain cowardly.
I agree that he shouldn't be proud of himself for "inventing" the claims in that patent, but I disagree that he's a coward. A coward would have deleted the negative messages, not left them in plain sight.
If you're of the camp that believes prison is for rehabilitation, enhanced freedom could be used as an effective tool to accomplish that. Prisoners that can be tracked wherever they are in prison is a necessary requirement to grant this enhanced freedom.
On the other hand, if you think prison is punishment, look at the transmitters as yet another way to make sure everybody is accounted for, and a way to gather evidence for crimes in the building.
Sorry to reply to my own post. I forgot where I was going with that. The point is, you can assume that almost everything you download has copyright protection - the only exceptions are works created in countries that require registration and works in the public domain (either because they're too old or the holder waived his or her copyright).
You have no way to know when downloading something that it is has a copyright.
If you live in the United States (and presumably at least some other countries), a work gains copyright protection when it's fixed in its first tangible form, regardless of whether it's signed, has a (C) on it, or anything else. This means that I hold the copyright to this comment, and I could even register it for copyright for the current fee ($20 last I checked). Registration just gains you additional choices for pursuing damages in court.
(Incidentally, this is why we need the fair use laws that the RIAA and friends are trying to kill. If we didn't have them, I'd be infringing your copyright by copying a substantial portion of your comment into mine.)
IANAL.
You may be "voting" even though you don't realize it. Many digital cable boxes now phone home with logs of what you watch, down to the second. If you have a TiVo, Nielsen knows not only what you watch, but when you watch it.
I'm not licensed, but I did study for the test at one point. Another prohibited transmission is "messages in codes or ciphers intended to obscure the meaning thereof." That means even if he wasn't a business, SSH is out, right?
Many of the people who are taking time off will be doing so by calling in sick. Workers who call in sick usually get paid. Not only does your company have to pay you for seeing Star Wars, but they also have to pay whoever is covering for you. That means they are paying double for the same amount of work, and possibly less (since your sub probably has his or her own work to do also).
That's because Visa (linked in my grandparent post) clearly says they are then supposed to force you to sign the credit card after they check your ID.
I realize it doesn't work like this in the real world, but the standards are clear.
Not true. A signature is always enough to please Visa and MasterCard (PDF). In fact, MasterCard explicitly says in 9.11.2:
Merchants that ask you for photo ID (except when you haven't signed your card) are not complying with credit card company rules, and may in fact be breaking them.
I'd settle for lossy DRM-free music.
For any Apple employees reading this, thanks for taking a step toward DRM-free media. Seriously. I hope one day you bury FairPlay for good, so I can finally open my wallet and buy an iPod from you.
Pine speaks IMAP and POP, and there is most likely a port for your operating system. Have you considered installing it locally?
There have been a number of software products based on the Post-It concept, such as 3M's own app (which includes an ability to transfer notes using XML) and Apple's Stickies.
I'm curious: do fellow Slashdotters find these programs helpful versus other ways of keeping track of snippets of information, such as e-mail?
I've had too much trouble getting X working on Linux during my experiments. Windows and Apple are far, far ahead of Linux in the GUI department. I continue to experiment with Linux on a different computer. Maybe someday...
They run those obnoxious commercials before movies at the theatres telling us why pirating is bad, and wasting our time, despite the people guilty of these acts are the ones at home watching the movies on their computers, not the ones who paid $11 so they can sit through the movie.
I accept all your points except this one. The anti-piracy commercials before the movie (which I hate too, by the way) do two things: they discourage teenagers who might be thinking about videotaping the movie, and they add a little guilt to the conscience of people who might consider downloading an illegal copy of the next movie.
How about because Outlook is a Windows program, and (apparently) Evolution isn't?
If I'm wrong, correct me, because I'd love to see what Evolution is all about.
The bounty of an Xbox seems somewhat ironic. If you crack a web server sold by a convicted monopolist known for the lack of security in its products, you get to give them money (indirectly) by winning one of their game consoles?
Wouldn't a better prize be something from Sony or Nintendo?
There ain't no suggestion: "Put a Ritz on top of a Ritz."
No, silly. That's Oreos.
Internet cafes in China, for example, are painfully slow... I have been in cafes where it feels like the entire room is sharing a single dial-up connection.
Are you sure they weren't?
I confess that these aren't the best examples, mainly because I had trouble with words like "mapping." However, this patent seems "obvious" to me, a person who most people consider to be "skilled in the art."
1. A method in a computer system for exchanging information between users of web sites, the method comprising:
providing a mapping between a first web site and a second web site;
Slashdot includes an RSS feed that My Yahoo! knows how to read;
when a first user accesses the first web site,
providing a web page of the first web site;
When I visit http://www.slashdot.org/, the Slashdot web server gives me a web page;
receiving information from the first user; and
I submit an article;
storing the received information based on the provided mapping; and
Slashdot publishes the article;
when a second user accesses the second web site,
providing a web page of the second web site;
When my friend Jane Doe visits http://my.yahoo.com/, the Yahoo! server gives her a web page;
retrieving the stored information based on the provided mapping; and
Yahoo! pulls Slashdot's RSS feed;
providing a display of the retrieved information so that the first and second users can exchange information.
Jane can now read my post. If Jane submits a story to Slashdot, I could similarly read her post.
9. A method in a computer system for controlling the exchange of information between users of web pages, the method comprising:
receiving an indication of a web page from a first user computer;
I decide I want to visit Slashdot, but I'm behind a firewall. I tell the proxy server to retrieve http://www.slashdot.org/ for me;
retrieving the web page from a first web server;
The proxy server retrieves Slashdot;
sending the retrieved web page to the first user computer;
The proxy server sends Slashdot to my computer;
retrieving information associated with the web page,
the retrieved information having been previously received from second user
computer when accessing a web page of a second web server; and
My previously-mentioned friend Jane pulls the RSS feed from Slashdot via My Yahoo!;
sending the retrieved information to the first user computer.
And she sends it to me via IM.
16. A method in a computer system for accessing information associated with a web page, the method comprising:
sending a request for a first web page; and
I visit http://my.yahoo.com/;
in response to sending the request,
receiving the first web page; and
Yahoo! sends me back a web page from their server;
receiving information associated with the first web page,
the information being previously entered by a user when accessing a second web page,
the information having been entered separately from the second web page.
Yahoo! shows me my page, with the pages and modules I told them to put on my page at some earlier time via their configuration page.
It's not possible to Google bomb on Slashdot - all comments have rel="nofollow" added. Thanks for playing, though.
It's called Cisco Clean Access.
I haven't used it myself, but it's causing extreme difficulties for a good friend of mine. She's given up trying to get her computer online and uses library and lab computers instead.
BTW, if you're paying for your music by buying CD's why do you care who's getting sued for copyright infringement.
Because I believe 10,000 lawsuits by the same entity in the span of less than two years indicates that something is broken in the legal system.