"Look to Singapore for prior art. An article at http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/2239 suggests that *many* places have done this. I'm sure that IBM has added some "non-obvious" twist to an obvious idea."
God I hope it's the Spanish Inquisition. Nothing obvious about that!
IBM thinks it has a good idea, adding insult to injury?
There's no joke here. Their parent is funny enough. I could add nothing to this to make it any more funny. Wow.
This is exactly the same thing that's done with the on-ramp lights in Los Angeles, only here with toll roads there is a pricing scheme just like the Vegas hotels.
How is this not an obvious, yet ignorably stupid, idea?
I except the flamebait label, sure. But the truth is that people are investing in a major way in spam and bot nets. Spam continues as long as email as we know it exists. Just because you block spam by the TB each day means nothing. It's using not gone, but swept under the carpet. But, that truth doesn't seem to bother people. To make them give up we would really have to give up on email as we know it. It's time email was replaced with something that works better. I don't have that idea, but someone does.
That's about it. People who use email are foolish. It's been taken over greatly by spam. Of all the great ways to remove SPAM I've seen posted anywhere in the world, not using email is the smartest. Anything else keeps the spammers happy to keep trying.
I'm getting tried to typing this over and over, but I must. We can do something about this. Somewhere in the whole of the Internet there must be a good leader or someone with great ideas on what we can do about an over reaching government or, at least, one that has lost it's way. We are the to branch of government, We The People. Once there was spine enough in the population of the US to get made about an increase in tea tax. Oh, I know it was a complicated issue, but people did seem to have a hell of allot more spine. I don't think anything illegal need be done, but I'm sure that there must be brains enough somewhere in this world do so something about this.
Q: How to start?
Q: What can we do collectively?
Q: Should Rob run for political office?
Let's hear ideas and not complaints. Whining dumb person or smart do-gooder?
People need to do what it takes, and until that happens they are enjoying all of this...feeling safer.
Liberty and Freedom for all should be more important than any of us, or for enough of us to use our time off to avoid the TV and think about the good we can do. No one of us can do a damned thing. You more than most, I see. Collectively we can. Collectively we can do more good. Collectively we can do more than piss and moan about we can can't do alone. Nothing is worse in this world than your question asking what people should do. What should do? They should lead a course of action, not wait for others to tell them what to do. We need leaders not a see of followers. We need people who value Liberty and Freedom more and anything else.
I'm talking to you. What would you do? Are you a leader in your town? What are you doing? Put anything up on a web? Join a political party and provide support for a candidate who supports Liberty. Or you can do what you are doing now, which is to support all the crap that is happening.
You are correct. People to over use the Nazis and Hitler to falsely create fear and panic. It's the new "Boy Who Cried Wholf."
I should have thought. But it's hard to find a different parallel that adds up to the same thing. Do you, or don't you honestly think that this sort of monitoring would have been something Hitler's government would have loved? I think it would have been a perfect fit. It's not a knee-jerk reaction or a cry of "Wolf". I really honestly think he would have liked it.
The American public and media will react to the lack of sexiness in this story with the kind of outrage you might express when you see a long line at the grocery store checkout. Americans will sit on their increasing asses and watch it all happen, and unlike the frog in the beaker, American will turn up the heat all on their own. You only need to utter the nine from 9/11 and they scream "How much can I give you to feel safe again!?" (I borrowed that from Family Guy)
In any case, stop you damned moaning?! This story is false because it fails to ask you what the f**k you are going to do about it? If nothing you are the problem! I'm going to do the norm. Write a litter. How that hell is this the "Home of the free?" Were monitored more than a Jewish school in Germany in the 1930's. Okay, Hitler was bad, and he was worse than this, but he sure would have thought it a damned nice item.
I'm not even going to insult you by listing all we've lost in freedoms. That would be whining. Lost. That sure as hell is the wrong word. we gave away freedoms like offerings to a pagan god(and not one of the cool ones). We burned them by the bushel. Can you buy a house without showing ID? How easy is it to wire funds. Oh, we'll catch a few, but we'll have to except being tracked watched and ID'ed any time we want to do something.
All that, rather than solving the problem. All the fuss. All the paranoia. All the tracking, monitoring, and so on. It's got the be the biggest sexual fetish for the inner fascist bubbling to the surface of America.
Do something to stop it, or I'm pointing at you and saying "You are all for it. You are fascism's little cheerleader, By saying nothing. You did this."
Canada paid for the patents. Blame them. it's time the US has a "War On Canada"! Why not? The US dollar is shrinking fast, and the Canadian dollar is looking better and better. We need to tap into that. I say they're hiding Weapons Of Mass Litigation, or WMLs! Canada give up your WML, or we of the US will get on the web, try and figure out where in the world you are and who your leads are, followed by a "Mission Accomplished" photo op, then a little "Shock and Awe" and to save time we'll install shredders at the US Treasury too. You don't want to mess with the US, we're armed with pure unfiltered stupidity, and you can't argue with that!:)
This is close enough to make their idea seem even more obvious. Using path into to pass arguments to a program? Didn't the very first version of Cold Fusion do this? I recall see similar stunts pulled back at Wired/Hotwored.com back in 1996.
I do recall the CCVS product, and also the shopping mall product. Damn good stuff at the time.
So, you remember the "good" old days when PHP allow you to start your while with "while (1 == 1):"
Path info is the information beyond the end of a URL. I've often used extra text at the end of a URL to search or check which page. I'm not sure when Apache's PATH_INFO variable was first introduced, but I first started using it back in 1998 I believe. Lately I have had a better idea, AliasMatch. I use that directive use a single script to front either an application or an entire site, or even multiple sites.
AliasMatch "^/[^\.]*$" "/some/php/file.php"
Within PHP you can choose a page to display based on the URL called, or you can display a search page if nothing is found.
I'll have to see if I can locate an good prior art to match this. I sure hope this 1-Search patent does not have to stand for long.
Quest for truth, or barring that a nice steaming pile of confession!
What is this really doing for the American people. Lose of respect for those looking to advance their careers by "whatever mean", lose respect for the system, making us all safer from people who rent a hotel room after a pilot checks out. As a slightly moral people I would like to think we'd want the truth, not a "confess or your baby sister gets raped" document.
Like it or not this very well might be what America stands for and what the people support for whatever measure of temporary safety it might make them feel they have.
To me this is nonsense and crap. The judge should have not let that item slip from public view. Someone needs to be exposed, retrained, or fired. We don't need cheap gimmicks like they used in this case. I like to think we are both smarter and more inventive than that.
I never agreed to listen to each radio ad, watch every commercial on TV, gaze at every billboard, listen to each sales pitch on the phone, or look at their ads. They've never even asked me nicely to do so. Since, they don't care, why should I? I never read ads, and never click them. And if net neutrality is at an end, they'll need to pay to use my line.:)
Seriously, give me a reason to look at the ad and I will. Right now it's stuff I don't want, don't care about, and never will, presented in a manor that is beyond unattractive, time consuming, and detracts from the content. You'd think that if you made your money from ads you'd want to give a person a good reason to look at them.
PLUS! Not all ads are honest. I don't know anything about the person who put the ad up, and if it's anything like my inbox they only want to improve my sex life, or sell me drugs from Canada. So I'm immoral for not viewing crap from scammers and ads which I have never clicked on and never will?
This guys needs to rent Fight Club, then lose the loser job, get rid of all his stuff. His homework tomorrow is to pick a fight with a complete stranger.
Advertisers are trying hard to track you and employee ever more aggressive methods to do so. Is that right? I'm not blocking any ads, I'm blocking the method of tracking me. Let me see the ad while blocking and I'm fine with that. There is also the added benefit of not having to wait. Ads really do slow pages down allot. There is more to this issues, but I don't have time. Again I don't mind the ad, but their using my bandwidth, time, and computer to try to invade my privacy. It is right? Is it moral?
The argument as to why OOXML are good or bed, vs ODF, aside there is a matter of history to think of. Microsoft can't be 100% evil, it's just hard to hire people like that and expect them to function. So I agree we should not jump on MS for everything. But to be fair they do have a history. I worked at a company that, as a result of taking MS at their word(and poor management, which took MS at their word) they went under. I famous line uttered in the meeting some 8 months before things got bad was "Come on, Microsoft would never screw us!" This was spoken by the person we'd hired from Apple after they downsized, which seemed to have something to do with being screwed by Microsoft.
Microsoft has a motive. That is everything. One motive has been to control file formats, to the end that it makes them money. They are motivated by profit. Microsoft is the smartest company in the world at insuring they make money. They were forced kicking and screaming into supporting HTML, no matter their public face. The last thing they need is for users to have a path to a different set of office applications. Do you really think that all this work on OOXML is intended to lose MS money AND give their office applications the kiss of death? They are smart when it comes to making money and they have a plan to make money from this, or why the big push? Something, sure as hell, stinks. It stinks big time, when they rig the ISO vote.
But if you can see that MS has no grand plan being OOXML to hurt people I would not mind hearing it, but I am never going to think for a second that you have the slightest understanding of the cunning and tactics, nor do I think you can stoop to that level for long enough to think like they do. But give it your best shot and tell me why you think MS would just give the store away?
I dislike allot of the cruft that has come to pass over time. I think it would be good to start with basic rights, as outlined in the plane speaking portion of the constitution, the Bill of Rights. I would like to see less money and power centralized, as that leads to many problems and corruption. As I see it. With most of the power at a lower level, such as the state level, we have a much better chance of holding people accountable. I'm not for getting rid of the FDA, or anything like that.
I'm also a bit amazed by the people allowing their reps to spend their social security retirement account money, without raising a single objection, that has led to any action. And after allowing that they still expect to be paid. One generation should not be allow to place a huge burden on the next, or sell them into virtual slavery by way of taxing them to repay national debt. Any generation should be trying to leave something more to the next. Something other that a huge bills.
I'm met liberals, that they talk of liberation. I've met conservatives, but never heard them speak of conservation.
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How can we trigger this effect all the time?
"Look to Singapore for prior art. An article at http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/2239 suggests that *many* places have done this. I'm sure that IBM has added some "non-obvious" twist to an obvious idea."
God I hope it's the Spanish Inquisition. Nothing obvious about that!
I don't think they want to stimulate anything other than their income.
Also, a trillion dollar hooker couldn't stiffen this sagging economy.
IBM thinks it has a good idea, adding insult to injury?
There's no joke here. Their parent is funny enough. I could add nothing to this to make it any more funny. Wow.
This is exactly the same thing that's done with the on-ramp lights in Los Angeles, only here with toll roads there is a pricing scheme just like the Vegas hotels.
How is this not an obvious, yet ignorably stupid, idea?
1) End Fedral Income Tax on earned income
...
2) End double taxation
3) Remind that a single branch of government sits above all three. The People.
4) Reduce all spending on the fedral level to a minimum.
5) Reduce the army to only defending US soil
6) Make it extremely easy to fire government employees.
7) Take no pay.
8) Create mobile HQ and work from each of the 50 states for 90 days each.
9) Return money and power to states, but still help them remind as united as ever
10) Return to the gold standard, making our currency golden again.
11) Put lenders of any kind on notice that people are more important than their bottom lines, and will be treated that way.
12) Most likely, I'd be shoot, if so skip 13.
13) Resign. Leave them wanting more.
14)
It's just the oldest story in the book. Reminds me of so many clerical error in the old USSR. :)
Clearly I've been modded by a spammer.
I except the flamebait label, sure. But the truth is that people are investing in a major way in spam and bot nets. Spam continues as long as email as we know it exists. Just because you block spam by the TB each day means nothing. It's using not gone, but swept under the carpet. But, that truth doesn't seem to bother people. To make them give up we would really have to give up on email as we know it. It's time email was replaced with something that works better. I don't have that idea, but someone does.
No really.
Holey crap! This is the old geek version of "Get off my lawn!"
That's about it. People who use email are foolish. It's been taken over greatly by spam. Of all the great ways to remove SPAM I've seen posted anywhere in the world, not using email is the smartest. Anything else keeps the spammers happy to keep trying.
I'm getting tried to typing this over and over, but I must. We can do something about this. Somewhere in the whole of the Internet there must be a good leader or someone with great ideas on what we can do about an over reaching government or, at least, one that has lost it's way. We are the to branch of government, We The People. Once there was spine enough in the population of the US to get made about an increase in tea tax. Oh, I know it was a complicated issue, but people did seem to have a hell of allot more spine. I don't think anything illegal need be done, but I'm sure that there must be brains enough somewhere in this world do so something about this.
Q: How to start?
Q: What can we do collectively?
Q: Should Rob run for political office?
Let's hear ideas and not complaints. Whining dumb person or smart do-gooder?
...anything to you. Ask Harry Buttle.
People need to do what it takes, and until that happens they are enjoying all of this...feeling safer.
Liberty and Freedom for all should be more important than any of us, or for enough of us to use our time off to avoid the TV and think about the good we can do. No one of us can do a damned thing. You more than most, I see. Collectively we can. Collectively we can do more good. Collectively we can do more than piss and moan about we can can't do alone. Nothing is worse in this world than your question asking what people should do. What should do? They should lead a course of action, not wait for others to tell them what to do. We need leaders not a see of followers. We need people who value Liberty and Freedom more and anything else.
I'm talking to you. What would you do? Are you a leader in your town? What are you doing? Put anything up on a web? Join a political party and provide support for a candidate who supports Liberty. Or you can do what you are doing now, which is to support all the crap that is happening.
You are correct. People to over use the Nazis and Hitler to falsely create fear and panic. It's the new "Boy Who Cried Wholf."
I should have thought. But it's hard to find a different parallel that adds up to the same thing. Do you, or don't you honestly think that this sort of monitoring would have been something Hitler's government would have loved? I think it would have been a perfect fit. It's not a knee-jerk reaction or a cry of "Wolf". I really honestly think he would have liked it.
The American public and media will react to the lack of sexiness in this story with the kind of outrage you might express when you see a long line at the grocery store checkout. Americans will sit on their increasing asses and watch it all happen, and unlike the frog in the beaker, American will turn up the heat all on their own. You only need to utter the nine from 9/11 and they scream "How much can I give you to feel safe again!?" (I borrowed that from Family Guy)
In any case, stop you damned moaning?! This story is false because it fails to ask you what the f**k you are going to do about it? If nothing you are the problem! I'm going to do the norm. Write a litter. How that hell is this the "Home of the free?" Were monitored more than a Jewish school in Germany in the 1930's. Okay, Hitler was bad, and he was worse than this, but he sure would have thought it a damned nice item.
I'm not even going to insult you by listing all we've lost in freedoms. That would be whining. Lost. That sure as hell is the wrong word. we gave away freedoms like offerings to a pagan god(and not one of the cool ones). We burned them by the bushel. Can you buy a house without showing ID? How easy is it to wire funds. Oh, we'll catch a few, but we'll have to except being tracked watched and ID'ed any time we want to do something.
All that, rather than solving the problem. All the fuss. All the paranoia. All the tracking, monitoring, and so on. It's got the be the biggest sexual fetish for the inner fascist bubbling to the surface of America.
Do something to stop it, or I'm pointing at you and saying "You are all for it. You are fascism's little cheerleader, By saying nothing. You did this."
My...God! That insidious! You've won...this time. Damn you CANADA!!!!!!
Canada paid for the patents. Blame them. it's time the US has a "War On Canada"! Why not? The US dollar is shrinking fast, and the Canadian dollar is looking better and better. We need to tap into that. I say they're hiding Weapons Of Mass Litigation, or WMLs! Canada give up your WML, or we of the US will get on the web, try and figure out where in the world you are and who your leads are, followed by a "Mission Accomplished" photo op, then a little "Shock and Awe" and to save time we'll install shredders at the US Treasury too. You don't want to mess with the US, we're armed with pure unfiltered stupidity, and you can't argue with that! :)
This is close enough to make their idea seem even more obvious. Using path into to pass arguments to a program? Didn't the very first version of Cold Fusion do this? I recall see similar stunts pulled back at Wired/Hotwored.com back in 1996.
I do recall the CCVS product, and also the shopping mall product. Damn good stuff at the time.
So, you remember the "good" old days when PHP allow you to start your while with "while (1 == 1):"
Path info is the information beyond the end of a URL. I've often used extra text at the end of a URL to search or check which page. I'm not sure when Apache's PATH_INFO variable was first introduced, but I first started using it back in 1998 I believe. Lately I have had a better idea, AliasMatch. I use that directive use a single script to front either an application or an entire site, or even multiple sites.
AliasMatch "^/[^\.]*$" "/some/php/file.php"
Within PHP you can choose a page to display based on the URL called, or you can display a search page if nothing is found.
I'll have to see if I can locate an good prior art to match this. I sure hope this 1-Search patent does not have to stand for long.
Quest for truth, or barring that a nice steaming pile of confession!
What is this really doing for the American people. Lose of respect for those looking to advance their careers by "whatever mean", lose respect for the system, making us all safer from people who rent a hotel room after a pilot checks out. As a slightly moral people I would like to think we'd want the truth, not a "confess or your baby sister gets raped" document.
Like it or not this very well might be what America stands for and what the people support for whatever measure of temporary safety it might make them feel they have.
To me this is nonsense and crap. The judge should have not let that item slip from public view. Someone needs to be exposed, retrained, or fired. We don't need cheap gimmicks like they used in this case. I like to think we are both smarter and more inventive than that.
I never agreed to listen to each radio ad, watch every commercial on TV, gaze at every billboard, listen to each sales pitch on the phone, or look at their ads. They've never even asked me nicely to do so. Since, they don't care, why should I? I never read ads, and never click them. And if net neutrality is at an end, they'll need to pay to use my line. :)
Seriously, give me a reason to look at the ad and I will. Right now it's stuff I don't want, don't care about, and never will, presented in a manor that is beyond unattractive, time consuming, and detracts from the content. You'd think that if you made your money from ads you'd want to give a person a good reason to look at them.
PLUS! Not all ads are honest. I don't know anything about the person who put the ad up, and if it's anything like my inbox they only want to improve my sex life, or sell me drugs from Canada. So I'm immoral for not viewing crap from scammers and ads which I have never clicked on and never will?
This guys needs to rent Fight Club, then lose the loser job, get rid of all his stuff. His homework tomorrow is to pick a fight with a complete stranger.
Advertisers are trying hard to track you and employee ever more aggressive methods to do so. Is that right? I'm not blocking any ads, I'm blocking the method of tracking me. Let me see the ad while blocking and I'm fine with that. There is also the added benefit of not having to wait. Ads really do slow pages down allot. There is more to this issues, but I don't have time. Again I don't mind the ad, but their using my bandwidth, time, and computer to try to invade my privacy. It is right? Is it moral?
The argument as to why OOXML are good or bed, vs ODF, aside there is a matter of history to think of. Microsoft can't be 100% evil, it's just hard to hire people like that and expect them to function. So I agree we should not jump on MS for everything. But to be fair they do have a history. I worked at a company that, as a result of taking MS at their word(and poor management, which took MS at their word) they went under. I famous line uttered in the meeting some 8 months before things got bad was "Come on, Microsoft would never screw us!" This was spoken by the person we'd hired from Apple after they downsized, which seemed to have something to do with being screwed by Microsoft.
Microsoft has a motive. That is everything. One motive has been to control file formats, to the end that it makes them money. They are motivated by profit. Microsoft is the smartest company in the world at insuring they make money. They were forced kicking and screaming into supporting HTML, no matter their public face. The last thing they need is for users to have a path to a different set of office applications. Do you really think that all this work on OOXML is intended to lose MS money AND give their office applications the kiss of death? They are smart when it comes to making money and they have a plan to make money from this, or why the big push? Something, sure as hell, stinks. It stinks big time, when they rig the ISO vote.
But if you can see that MS has no grand plan being OOXML to hurt people I would not mind hearing it, but I am never going to think for a second that you have the slightest understanding of the cunning and tactics, nor do I think you can stoop to that level for long enough to think like they do. But give it your best shot and tell me why you think MS would just give the store away?
I reserve the right to be completely wrong.
I dislike allot of the cruft that has come to pass over time. I think it would be good to start with basic rights, as outlined in the plane speaking portion of the constitution, the Bill of Rights. I would like to see less money and power centralized, as that leads to many problems and corruption. As I see it. With most of the power at a lower level, such as the state level, we have a much better chance of holding people accountable. I'm not for getting rid of the FDA, or anything like that.
I'm also a bit amazed by the people allowing their reps to spend their social security retirement account money, without raising a single objection, that has led to any action. And after allowing that they still expect to be paid. One generation should not be allow to place a huge burden on the next, or sell them into virtual slavery by way of taxing them to repay national debt. Any generation should be trying to leave something more to the next. Something other that a huge bills.
I'm met liberals, that they talk of liberation. I've met conservatives, but never heard them speak of conservation.