Or combine this with one of the other ideas posted here:
1)Take one dish and cover the ribbing on the back with sheets of steel roof flashing.
2)Lay it on the ground as the bottom dish and weld 24" x 3/4" steel pipe pieces vertically all around the outside edge.
3)Bend and weld a ring of square pipe stock around the top of the vertical steel pipes around the diameter of the dish.
4)Choose one point to be the front of the dish and weld two 6" x 1/2" pipes six inches apart on the outside edge of the ring.
5)Weld a 6"x1/4" steel plate on the edge of the second dish.
6)Weld a 6" x 1/2" pipe to the steel plate.
7)Put the second dish on top of the first and align the 6" steel pipes in the front and put a 1/2" steel pin through all three pipes and bend both ends down so it can't easily come loose.
8)Put a heavy-duty latch on the inside at the "back" of the two dishes.
Sure it does! Just make time run backward and we can see all the little radio-photons running toward the transmitter! Or better yet, try and detect the subtle field distortions caused by antennas absorbing radio frequency energy.
Okay Brain! But umm...where are we going to find Superman at this time of night?
Except that it clearly states that it covers "hacked" and "jailbroken" phones in the patent text:
3 . The method of claim 1, wherein determining further comprises: identifying a particular activity performed by the current user that indicates suspicious behavior.
4 . The method of claim 3, wherein the particular activity comprises one or more of hacking the electronic device, jailbreaking the electronic device, unlocking the electronic device, removing a SIM card from the electronic device, and moving at least a predetermined distance away from a synced device.
What they did mind was bnetd ignoring cd key checks and the fact that bnetd was a direct competition to their platform.
While that last part is true the first part is dubious because the bnetd team literally _begged_ them for a way to do cd key checks. They sent repeated correspondence both by email and snail mail and Vivendi ignored them then attacked them when someone else cracked Warcraft and used bnetd to support those clients.
This recent action shows me that I am still quite justified in not buying any Blizzard products due to their company policies and actions.
When I and hundreds of thousands of other tech/admin/etc. people spend literally months worth of accumulated time every year because people who were never trained in the basics constantly click "Punch the Monkey" or "Click to view the nice greeting card!" or click"Your account is locked please run this application to unlock you account again!" I am forced to admit that yes I'd like some agency to require a license to get on computer systems of any type other than a kiosk.
More to the point of the other part of your post - without a license they could buy a locked system that has limited functionality until they get their license to allow them to unlock it and buy other unlocked systems.
Buy an unlocked system for someone else? You lose your license and your systems become locked again.
It's drastic but people who don't get training are causing a great deal of these problems because they don't know any better and expect the system to "just do what I want without me having to know anything"
That is a very good point but honestly they're looking to present a "helpful" marketing image. Blatantly ignoring a competitor cheats the user of a choice from the user's point of view. And when the user finds out they've been cheated they'll go to another vendor.
Better to nip that in the bud in the first place. Then from a marketing standpoint you _know_ that you've covered all the bases.
At least saying "Or you could get a Mac...but who would want one of those." while not good competitor relations would at least touch on the subject and help defuse the customer's irritation when they find out that there was a third choice after all.
...we require hundreds of hours of training (supposedly anyway) to operate a motor vehicle but we require nothing to operate a computer? (Yes I know a computer can't usually kill someone when misused but it still can ruin someone's life.)
AFAIK there should be a training requirement for operating anything other than a kiosk-mode system. _Especially_ basic security.
On some level though that's being handled by learning to use computers in the school system so a large amount of this stuff will fall off when the current generation of offspring come to power. (Though you can also argue that since many of them were trained on Windows the 'sins of the past' so to speak will still haunt us.)
As far as the Dell website is concerned it doesn't even mention Macintosh and regardless of if you love or hate them it's still a glaring omission.
For my money though things like Mint Linux (an Ubuntu flavor) are easy enough for my mother to use and would go a long way towards having to deal with service calls 5 hours away when she runs into a problem. I wouldn't just have her dump her Windows cold though - a dual boot would likely be first.
While I agree that no federal or state mandate can make a parent care about their children there is at least one thing that they _can_ do for those parents that will help.
Make it illegal to hire a person for a 40 hour job and work them 80 hours. Period. No exceptions.
I am of the opinion that a great deal of the problems in parenting are caused by the parents simply not being there for their children. Allowing the parents more time with their kids will vastly improve the lives of all concerned.
Is this likely to happen? No. We've worshiped at the mighty Altar of Profit for so long that we can see no other way. Creative things aren't worth anything supposedly because they don't immediately generate money.
It's sad really. I always thought of the US as one of the most creative places on the planet from diversity if nothing else. But we're killing that for the almighty dollar and in the end it will leave us a third world nation in crumbling decay.
Except that they have NO US OFFICES or employees. That means they are NOT operating in the US. They are are foreign company doing business outside the country and much as you'd like to paint it otherwise the only courts that _might_ have an jurisdiction are federal ones.
And even then likely only if the government gets involved.
You can argue about them not showing up in court all you want but they did not show up in court because they knew the Illinois court had NO jurisdiction on their actions. Read their take on it here:
Spamhaus is a FOREIGN company doing business on FOREIGN land. They have no need to show up for a court appearance in what amounts to a provincial court in another country.
If e360 had been based in Upper Monrovia or some similarly remote place other than the US this would have never have flown. And even if it had flown due to judge-shopping they would still be right to ignore it due to jurisdiction. The only reason this has gotten this far is that the US court system is broken and arrogant enough to think it applies to the entire world.
Got a problem with a foreign company doing business on their own soil? Take it up with your government. _Your_ courts have no jurisdiction to prosecute.
With so many new internet and computing technologies emerging, and with the spin of legal jargon, it's no wonder that judges really dont know how to rule.
I expect more of these types scratch-your-head judgments until the courts get a junk-mail bin for their cases.
When I think we'll finally start to see some sanity in all this is when the people of the next generation who are more tech savvy get into judicial positions. They will have grown up all their lives with technology and and have at least some idea how it works. Then we'll likely start to see less of these odd judgments.
Spamhaus, like any other RBL, has a removal procedure that e360 could have used. Provided e360 could prove they weren't spammers Spamhaus likely would have removed them from the database without issue and without cost.
So why didn't e360 try that? I see no info that they tried that at all. (Likely because they couldn't prove they weren't spamming people.) Instead they just sued Spamhaus in an effort to dry them up and get them out of the way.
As the summary pointed out Spamhaus is a voluntary service. Nobody is being forced to use Spamhaus. So why on earth should Spamhaus be forced to pay any damages at all? It's just insane that upon going through the court system _twice_ someone didn't ask "Well e360 can you prove you aren't spamming people?".
Anecdotal note: Many many moons ago there used to be an RBL named the BLARS Block List.
What Blars (yes it was a handle for an actual person) would do is block whole netblocks and then anybody who would complain he'd charge $250/hour to get removed IF he chose to do so. And you would be charged the fee even if he chose not to unblock you. So looking at that right there shows you what I consider the openly worst of behavior for an RBL service. Spamhaus is definitely not that.
Actually if we're talking solar path lights some of them are actually fairly bright and last the entire evening using two LEDs and two batteries.
In theory you could take a bunch of them without the ground spikes, punch holes in a tin roof, and install them so the solar panel is on the outside while the light is on the inside. (Sealing the roof for leaks obviously)
Do that with enough of them and you have bright enough light to read at night.
And since you can buy a brace of them cheap at local big-box stores the manufacturing cost for these has got to be pretty inexpensive. Buying a bunch of these would be a considerably cheaper solution than this new "lightbulb".
As a manager, I can tell you its this sort of short-sightedness that will buy you a one way ticket to the street.
1 month to launch? Sure, no problem, we'll give you a 10k per year raise.
And then we'll show you the exit a week or two after launch.
You think you're irreplaceable?
I think every time I post a new position I get 100 candidates more qualified than your dumbass.
And your attitude is the exact reason why I'm leaving I/T if I can do it. People who work their ass off should be rewarded and NOT replaced. Why? Because if you reward them and keep them they'll work their ass off for you AGAIN and AGAIN.
Just because you don't want LAN play doesn't mean others don't want it. And just because you're okay with being treated like a criminal behind the scenes doesn't mean everyone else is. It doesn't matter if the stuff is in a single player or multiplayer game the results are the same.
You don't get to play the game unless the company in questions ALLOWS you to use what YOU ALREADY HAVE PAID FOR AND OWN.
The longer people let companies get away with putting in DRM like this the more restrictive it will get. Until you have...rentalware.
No LAN play and the way the company has acted over the years means I won't be buying this even though I desperately want to play it.
Let me point out something important - no LAN play means that you are dealing with a lighter form of the same DRM that Ubisoft is using. It starts with "no LAN play" and then goes to "Must always be connected to Battlenet." and ends with "My game won't play because I can't authenticate every 10 minutes."
Stand up and put your money where your mouth is or these companies will walk all over you.
I do believe that's about the most balanced reporting of this whole fiasco...
But the fact that they forced him into jail to give up the passwords and smeared him with a shit-colored PR campaign and false court claims tells me that very likely the man has been railroaded beyond reason.
I stand by my original assertion - even if you leave I/T or whatever job you are doing and become a goat herder in the mountains somewhere the organization you used to work for can now effectively claim you did something wrong and land you in jail with no hope of preventing it.
Yes but they let him go (or at least suspended him) when he wouldn't give them the passwords. At that point the proper and _sane_ management move is to replace the person and physically change all the passwords. (If you have physical access to a box you can change the passwords.)
Instead they chose to waste the city's money and everyone's time by having him arrested and going to court.
That means as far as I'm concerned that no matter if you get suspended or let go or whatever you are still beholding to that company.
To me that's unacceptable.
This whole courtroom scene is the results of an exercise in idiocy not by Childs who was following policy but by his upper level management people.
This is a really really really bad precedent...
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What this really all comes down to is that once a company fires you or lets you go you are still obligated to that company.
I don't care if it's a government organization or a corporation as far as I'm concerned once they let you go there should be no more ties to anyone from either side.
I guess it's true...the shackles don't come off even if they put you back in the general population.
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Incredibly cool! I hope we can work towards growing solar panels soon!
That said until I see it on a website to be purchased I'm going to stick with regular solar cells.
So much of this extremely cool tech just never seems to reach the shopping cart so to speak.
Or combine this with one of the other ideas posted here:
:-)
1)Take one dish and cover the ribbing on the back with sheets of steel roof flashing.
2)Lay it on the ground as the bottom dish and weld 24" x 3/4" steel pipe pieces vertically all around the outside edge.
3)Bend and weld a ring of square pipe stock around the top of the vertical steel pipes around the diameter of the dish.
4)Choose one point to be the front of the dish and weld two 6" x 1/2" pipes six inches apart on the outside edge of the ring.
5)Weld a 6"x1/4" steel plate on the edge of the second dish.
6)Weld a 6" x 1/2" pipe to the steel plate.
7)Put the second dish on top of the first and align the 6" steel pipes in the front and put a 1/2" steel pin through all three pipes and bend both ends down so it can't easily come loose.
8)Put a heavy-duty latch on the inside at the "back" of the two dishes.
Behold! Tank Sled!
Sure it does! Just make time run backward and we can see all the little radio-photons running toward the transmitter! Or better yet, try and detect the subtle field distortions caused by antennas absorbing radio frequency energy.
Okay Brain! But umm...where are we going to find Superman at this time of night?
Except that it clearly states that it covers "hacked" and "jailbroken" phones in the patent text:
3 . The method of claim 1, wherein determining further comprises: identifying a particular activity performed by the current user that indicates suspicious behavior.
4 . The method of claim 3, wherein the particular activity comprises one or more of hacking the electronic device, jailbreaking the electronic device, unlocking the electronic device, removing a SIM card from the electronic device, and moving at least a predetermined distance away from a synced device.
What they did mind was bnetd ignoring cd key checks and the fact that bnetd was a direct competition to their platform.
While that last part is true the first part is dubious because the bnetd team literally _begged_ them for a way to do cd key checks. They sent repeated correspondence both by email and snail mail and Vivendi ignored them then attacked them when someone else cracked Warcraft and used bnetd to support those clients.
This recent action shows me that I am still quite justified in not buying any Blizzard products due to their company policies and actions.
Fine. Whatever. You guys are right and I'm wrong. Were I able to delete the post I would.
I think I'm just going to lurk from now on and keep my opinions to myself.
When I and hundreds of thousands of other tech/admin/etc. people spend literally months worth of accumulated time every year because people who were never trained in the basics constantly click "Punch the Monkey" or "Click to view the nice greeting card!" or click"Your account is locked please run this application to unlock you account again!" I am forced to admit that yes I'd like some agency to require a license to get on computer systems of any type other than a kiosk.
More to the point of the other part of your post - without a license they could buy a locked system that has limited functionality until they get their license to allow them to unlock it and buy other unlocked systems.
Buy an unlocked system for someone else? You lose your license and your systems become locked again.
It's drastic but people who don't get training are causing a great deal of these problems because they don't know any better and expect the system to "just do what I want without me having to know anything"
See my post above.
That is a very good point but honestly they're looking to present a "helpful" marketing image. Blatantly ignoring a competitor cheats the user of a choice from the user's point of view. And when the user finds out they've been cheated they'll go to another vendor.
Better to nip that in the bud in the first place. Then from a marketing standpoint you _know_ that you've covered all the bases.
At least saying "Or you could get a Mac...but who would want one of those." while not good competitor relations would at least touch on the subject and help defuse the customer's irritation when they find out that there was a third choice after all.
...we require hundreds of hours of training (supposedly anyway) to operate a motor vehicle but we require nothing to operate a computer? (Yes I know a computer can't usually kill someone when misused but it still can ruin someone's life.)
AFAIK there should be a training requirement for operating anything other than a kiosk-mode system. _Especially_ basic security.
On some level though that's being handled by learning to use computers in the school system so a large amount of this stuff will fall off when the current generation of offspring come to power. (Though you can also argue that since many of them were trained on Windows the 'sins of the past' so to speak will still haunt us.)
As far as the Dell website is concerned it doesn't even mention Macintosh and regardless of if you love or hate them it's still a glaring omission.
For my money though things like Mint Linux (an Ubuntu flavor) are easy enough for my mother to use and would go a long way towards having to deal with service calls 5 hours away when she runs into a problem. I wouldn't just have her dump her Windows cold though - a dual boot would likely be first.
While I agree that no federal or state mandate can make a parent care about their children there is at least one thing that they _can_ do for those parents that will help.
Make it illegal to hire a person for a 40 hour job and work them 80 hours. Period. No exceptions.
I am of the opinion that a great deal of the problems in parenting are caused by the parents simply not being there for their children. Allowing the parents more time with their kids will vastly improve the lives of all concerned.
Is this likely to happen? No. We've worshiped at the mighty Altar of Profit for so long that we can see no other way. Creative things aren't worth anything supposedly because they don't immediately generate money.
It's sad really. I always thought of the US as one of the most creative places on the planet from diversity if nothing else. But we're killing that for the almighty dollar and in the end it will leave us a third world nation in crumbling decay.
Except that they have NO US OFFICES or employees. That means they are NOT operating in the US. They are are foreign company doing business outside the country and much as you'd like to paint it otherwise the only courts that _might_ have an jurisdiction are federal ones.
And even then likely only if the government gets involved.
You can argue about them not showing up in court all you want but they did not show up in court because they knew the Illinois court had NO jurisdiction on their actions. Read their take on it here:
http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/statement.lasso?ref=3
Then read a breakdown from 2006 by Groklaw here:
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2006102700261694
Spamhaus is a FOREIGN company doing business on FOREIGN land. They have no need to show up for a court appearance in what amounts to a provincial court in another country.
If e360 had been based in Upper Monrovia or some similarly remote place other than the US this would have never have flown. And even if it had flown due to judge-shopping they would still be right to ignore it due to jurisdiction. The only reason this has gotten this far is that the US court system is broken and arrogant enough to think it applies to the entire world.
Got a problem with a foreign company doing business on their own soil? Take it up with your government. _Your_ courts have no jurisdiction to prosecute.
With so many new internet and computing technologies emerging, and with the spin of legal jargon, it's no wonder that judges really dont know how to rule.
I expect more of these types scratch-your-head judgments until the courts get a junk-mail bin for their cases.
When I think we'll finally start to see some sanity in all this is when the people of the next generation who are more tech savvy get into judicial positions. They will have grown up all their lives with technology and and have at least some idea how it works. Then we'll likely start to see less of these odd judgments.
Spamhaus, like any other RBL, has a removal procedure that e360 could have used. Provided e360 could prove they weren't spammers Spamhaus likely would have removed them from the database without issue and without cost.
So why didn't e360 try that? I see no info that they tried that at all. (Likely because they couldn't prove they weren't spamming people.) Instead they just sued Spamhaus in an effort to dry them up and get them out of the way.
As the summary pointed out Spamhaus is a voluntary service. Nobody is being forced to use Spamhaus. So why on earth should Spamhaus be forced to pay any damages at all? It's just insane that upon going through the court system _twice_ someone didn't ask "Well e360 can you prove you aren't spamming people?".
Anecdotal note: Many many moons ago there used to be an RBL named the BLARS Block List.
What Blars (yes it was a handle for an actual person) would do is block whole netblocks and then anybody who would complain he'd charge $250/hour to get removed IF he chose to do so. And you would be charged the fee even if he chose not to unblock you. So looking at that right there shows you what I consider the openly worst of behavior for an RBL service. Spamhaus is definitely not that.
Actually if we're talking solar path lights some of them are actually fairly bright and last the entire evening using two LEDs and two batteries.
In theory you could take a bunch of them without the ground spikes, punch holes in a tin roof, and install them so the solar panel is on the outside while the light is on the inside. (Sealing the roof for leaks obviously)
Do that with enough of them and you have bright enough light to read at night.
And since you can buy a brace of them cheap at local big-box stores the manufacturing cost for these has got to be pretty inexpensive. Buying a bunch of these would be a considerably cheaper solution than this new "lightbulb".
As a manager, I can tell you its this sort of short-sightedness that will buy you a one way ticket to the street. 1 month to launch? Sure, no problem, we'll give you a 10k per year raise. And then we'll show you the exit a week or two after launch. You think you're irreplaceable? I think every time I post a new position I get 100 candidates more qualified than your dumbass.
And your attitude is the exact reason why I'm leaving I/T if I can do it. People who work their ass off should be rewarded and NOT replaced. Why? Because if you reward them and keep them they'll work their ass off for you AGAIN and AGAIN.
MPEG-LA better not mess with the BBC. They've got the Doctor on their side!
I award you one Sonic Internets. :-)
Just because you don't want LAN play doesn't mean others don't want it. And just because you're okay with being treated like a criminal behind the scenes doesn't mean everyone else is. It doesn't matter if the stuff is in a single player or multiplayer game the results are the same.
You don't get to play the game unless the company in questions ALLOWS you to use what YOU ALREADY HAVE PAID FOR AND OWN.
The longer people let companies get away with putting in DRM like this the more restrictive it will get. Until you have...rentalware.
Do you really want rentalware?
No LAN play and the way the company has acted over the years means I won't be buying this even though I desperately want to play it.
Let me point out something important - no LAN play means that you are dealing with a lighter form of the same DRM that Ubisoft is using. It starts with "no LAN play" and then goes to "Must always be connected to Battlenet." and ends with "My game won't play because I can't authenticate every 10 minutes."
Stand up and put your money where your mouth is or these companies will walk all over you.
I do believe that's about the most balanced reporting of this whole fiasco...
But the fact that they forced him into jail to give up the passwords and smeared him with a shit-colored PR campaign and false court claims tells me that very likely the man has been railroaded beyond reason.
I stand by my original assertion - even if you leave I/T or whatever job you are doing and become a goat herder in the mountains somewhere the organization you used to work for can now effectively claim you did something wrong and land you in jail with no hope of preventing it.
THAT is where this is all going.
Once a company man always a company man.
Yes but they let him go (or at least suspended him) when he wouldn't give them the passwords. At that point the proper and _sane_ management move is to replace the person and physically change all the passwords. (If you have physical access to a box you can change the passwords.)
Instead they chose to waste the city's money and everyone's time by having him arrested and going to court.
That means as far as I'm concerned that no matter if you get suspended or let go or whatever you are still beholding to that company.
To me that's unacceptable.
This whole courtroom scene is the results of an exercise in idiocy not by Childs who was following policy but by his upper level management people.
What this really all comes down to is that once a company fires you or lets you go you are still obligated to that company.
I don't care if it's a government organization or a corporation as far as I'm concerned once they let you go there should be no more ties to anyone from either side.
I guess it's true...the shackles don't come off even if they put you back in the general population.
To the average person the fact that they are among the groups that are smaller than others in Washington matters very little if at all.
To the mouse the building is still infinitely tall regardless if it's 25 stories or 100.
> Here's a thought... Corporations have some of the rights of human beings...
In the USA they have property rights. That's all.
They sure as hell at like they have more than that.