That would be pretty stupid. It's just an ethernet jack and a wire leading (presumably) underground to some distant POP. It can't be terribly expensive to replace.
Yeah, but the map (see left) shows what looks like a housing development. Those photos are so grainy, you usually can't tell a house from a tee, anyhow.:)
I get Tennessee. (I must admit that I have no experience in converting from sexagesimal to decimal, or vice-versa.) I tried Terraserver, and got Alpha, Tennessee. (It would appear that he's in the middle of a field, or perhaps a low-contrast suburban housing development.:)
Agreed. I'd like to hope that baseball isn't the sort of game where somebody sat down one day and came up with it. Didn't we all invent Calvinball-type games? The best ones involved hitting balls with sticks and running around, IMHO. Baseball seems like a natural occurrence.
Nope, not Cartwright, either. (Unless he came up with the rules as an infant.:) See this weekend's story on this topic, "Early Reference to Baseball Found."
I disagree. Regarding charging for a tallied payment, I must say that sounds suspiciously like a subscription fee, and not at all a micropayment fee. (I'd also addressed this earlier.) That's no more a micropayment fee than the offer from Dr. Dobb's journal that I got today: $1.45 / issue, paying everytime that the total hits $35. (ie, $35 for a two-year subscription.)
I also disagree about the feasability of such a group-aggregated micropament system. Though I think that it's a great idea in concept, I think that most people would hate it from both a privacy and a big-business standpoint. That system would likely require a single business (ie, PayPal) to handle all transactions, creating a little microeconomy, though controlled by a single company. Folks wouldn't like that, as you can well guess. Beyond that, we'd have to get some major credit cards to team up and work together to spread payments amongst themselves, which also sounds suspiciously unlikely.
They're both good ideas, IMHO. It's just that the former is dodging the question of micropayments, and the latter is effectively unworkable. I maintain the necessity of micropayments, and I maintain that it will happen when credit card companies make it possible through reasonable rate structures for merchants.
That's only useful, of course, for ongoing billing. If I just want to read one story on Slashdot ever (ignoring that I'm an uber-geek, addicted to/.:), they'd never make any money off of me. I suspect that many websites would find the same to be true, as many provide one-shot content.
Credit card companies simply won't work with small-transaction systems. Further, it would be a disaster for a company. Let's say/. charges $0.001 / story. I load the front page and get 10 stories, which costs me $0.01. They charge my credit card $0.01. There's a $0.25 transaction fee from CyberCash, a 3% take from the credit card company and, likely, a $0.25 - $0.50 transaction fee from the credit card company, too.
Slashdot, of course, would go out of business within hours on a model like that. Of course, the credit card companies don't want 3% of a 1 cent transaction, either, and likely would not permit Slashdot to make such charges. And that's a shame, because I'd totally sign up for that. If they could bill my card monthly, based on my total views, perhaps that would be a bit less of a disaster (say, $0.60 / month), but we've still got a long way to go. Or, rather, the credit card companies still have a long way to go.
That's great! I've done the same thing to people on several occasions, after they've remotely called quasi-random images off of my sites. A friend of mine had a site using his site's logo as their logo, through the same method. He served them a banner saying "this site blows goats," or something along those lines, for days.
I'm guessing that, if you look at the terms of use of that "made with PHP" logo, it will stipulate that you can't call it off their site. Odds are, they saw you violating their terms, figured they'd have a little fun and pulled the old switcheroo. I know it sucks for you, but it seems fair to me. Once you start using other folks' bandwidth without their permission, I figure they've got the right to determine what data they're going to serve you.
I'm actually not sure what kind of card goes in there. I might be hopelessly out of date, but I remember that when PCMCIA (I guess they're just called PC Cards now) first came out, there was PCMCIA Type I, Type II and Type III. Each one was roughly 2x as thick as the previous. So Type 1 would be flash RAM and that sort of thing, Type 2 would be video and modems, and Type III would be tiny hard drives. Type III was meant to fit in two Type II slots, which, IIRC, is why all machines came with two stacked in that configuration.
So, I was actually speculating that it might be a Type I PCMCIA card. But now thatI think about it, I'll bet those don't even exist.:)
My roommate just got digital cable, which came with a really incredible cable box. It's a Scientific-Atlanta Explorer 3100, which comes with a smartcard slot (PCMCIA sized), s-video output, 2 USB slots, 2MB flash memory, 10MB of DRAM, a 54MIPS Sun MicroSparc RISC processor, DES decryption and a damned fast upstream connection. When we first flip to a channel, the video is digitally distorted for a second or so. (You know, like low-quality RealVideo.) This is because it handles video in an MPEG format. So this has got me thinking -- surely there's some way that I can take this native MPEG video format and export it, presumably via USB, to a hard drive or CD burner or something.
So what I'm wondering is if the same good hacking that's enabled MPEG captures from Tivo will permit capturing video from these fancy digital cable boxen.
-Waldo
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Actually, you wouldn't even need to pipe the flourescent light through your optical mouse.
I'm poking around on the back of my system, but I just don't see anything like that. Digital video, S Video, Firewire, USB, some audio ports... But a "parallel port?" Maybe that's some fancy new thing that my Apples don't have yet?
I was just about to install OS X on my iMac. I really wanted to run YDL 2.0, but it's been such a long wait. No doubt the resulting product is fantastic, but it got to be a little much.
OTOH, some might argue that those elements did exist in the story, and not as inventions of the readers, but as subconscious inventions of your own mind. As a writer of a family of writers, we've all been accused of the very things that you were accused of. Sometimes we write them off as nuts, but just as often, our conclusion is that they're right, and that we inserted that element into the story unintentionally.
Bennett Haselton has also lied to you. He's still talking on Usenet (news.admin.net-abuse.email. Drop in some time!). He is being clued in by many folk as we speak, while continuing to spread disinformation. Talk with someone else from PeaceFire to confirm Bennet's allegations. We (tinw) just don't belive him anymore.
Your argument presumes that at the time that Peacefire began hosting with Media3, that it was already blocked by MAPS. I believe that to be incorrect, though only Bennett can confirm that for certain.
You can claim that Bennett is wrong, but don't call him a liar.
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That would be pretty stupid. It's just an ethernet jack and a wire leading (presumably) underground to some distant POP. It can't be terribly expensive to replace.
-Waldo
Yeah, but the map (see left) shows what looks like a housing development. Those photos are so grainy, you usually can't tell a house from a tee, anyhow. :)
-Waldo
I get Tennessee. (I must admit that I have no experience in converting from sexagesimal to decimal, or vice-versa.) I tried Terraserver, and got Alpha, Tennessee. (It would appear that he's in the middle of a field, or perhaps a low-contrast suburban housing development. :)
-Waldo
Agreed. I'd like to hope that baseball isn't the sort of game where somebody sat down one day and came up with it. Didn't we all invent Calvinball-type games? The best ones involved hitting balls with sticks and running around, IMHO. Baseball seems like a natural occurrence.
-Waldo
Nope, not Cartwright, either. (Unless he came up with the rules as an infant. :) See this weekend's story on this topic, "Early Reference to Baseball Found."
-Waldo
I disagree. Regarding charging for a tallied payment, I must say that sounds suspiciously like a subscription fee, and not at all a micropayment fee. (I'd also addressed this earlier.) That's no more a micropayment fee than the offer from Dr. Dobb's journal that I got today: $1.45 / issue, paying everytime that the total hits $35. (ie, $35 for a two-year subscription.)
I also disagree about the feasability of such a group-aggregated micropament system. Though I think that it's a great idea in concept, I think that most people would hate it from both a privacy and a big-business standpoint. That system would likely require a single business (ie, PayPal) to handle all transactions, creating a little microeconomy, though controlled by a single company. Folks wouldn't like that, as you can well guess. Beyond that, we'd have to get some major credit cards to team up and work together to spread payments amongst themselves, which also sounds suspiciously unlikely.
They're both good ideas, IMHO. It's just that the former is dodging the question of micropayments, and the latter is effectively unworkable. I maintain the necessity of micropayments, and I maintain that it will happen when credit card companies make it possible through reasonable rate structures for merchants.
-Waldo
That's only useful, of course, for ongoing billing. If I just want to read one story on Slashdot ever (ignoring that I'm an uber-geek, addicted to /. :), they'd never make any money off of me. I suspect that many websites would find the same to be true, as many provide one-shot content.
-Waldo
Credit card companies simply won't work with small-transaction systems. Further, it would be a disaster for a company. Let's say /. charges $0.001 / story. I load the front page and get 10 stories, which costs me $0.01. They charge my credit card $0.01. There's a $0.25 transaction fee from CyberCash, a 3% take from the credit card company and, likely, a $0.25 - $0.50 transaction fee from the credit card company, too.
Slashdot, of course, would go out of business within hours on a model like that. Of course, the credit card companies don't want 3% of a 1 cent transaction, either, and likely would not permit Slashdot to make such charges. And that's a shame, because I'd totally sign up for that. If they could bill my card monthly, based on my total views, perhaps that would be a bit less of a disaster (say, $0.60 / month), but we've still got a long way to go. Or, rather, the credit card companies still have a long way to go.
-Waldo
I set it up as a pop-under ad on my sites.
That's great! I've done the same thing to people on several occasions, after they've remotely called quasi-random images off of my sites. A friend of mine had a site using his site's logo as their logo, through the same method. He served them a banner saying "this site blows goats," or something along those lines, for days.
I'm guessing that, if you look at the terms of use of that "made with PHP" logo, it will stipulate that you can't call it off their site. Odds are, they saw you violating their terms, figured they'd have a little fun and pulled the old switcheroo. I know it sucks for you, but it seems fair to me. Once you start using other folks' bandwidth without their permission, I figure they've got the right to determine what data they're going to serve you.
-Waldo
Yeah, what he said!
:)
(Wrote the author of said story.
-Waldo
I'm actually not sure what kind of card goes in there. I might be hopelessly out of date, but I remember that when PCMCIA (I guess they're just called PC Cards now) first came out, there was PCMCIA Type I, Type II and Type III. Each one was roughly 2x as thick as the previous. So Type 1 would be flash RAM and that sort of thing, Type 2 would be video and modems, and Type III would be tiny hard drives. Type III was meant to fit in two Type II slots, which, IIRC, is why all machines came with two stacked in that configuration.
:)
So, I was actually speculating that it might be a Type I PCMCIA card. But now thatI think about it, I'll bet those don't even exist.
-Waldo
The first thing that I'd do is install Bleem.
-Waldo
My roommate just got digital cable, which came with a really incredible cable box. It's a Scientific-Atlanta Explorer 3100, which comes with a smartcard slot (PCMCIA sized), s-video output, 2 USB slots, 2MB flash memory, 10MB of DRAM, a 54MIPS Sun MicroSparc RISC processor, DES decryption and a damned fast upstream connection. When we first flip to a channel, the video is digitally distorted for a second or so. (You know, like low-quality RealVideo.) This is because it handles video in an MPEG format. So this has got me thinking -- surely there's some way that I can take this native MPEG video format and export it, presumably via USB, to a hard drive or CD burner or something.
So what I'm wondering is if the same good hacking that's enabled MPEG captures from Tivo will permit capturing video from these fancy digital cable boxen.
-Waldo
Actually, you wouldn't even need to pipe the flourescent light through your optical mouse.
-Waldo
I'm poking around on the back of my system, but I just don't see anything like that. Digital video, S Video, Firewire, USB, some audio ports... But a "parallel port?" Maybe that's some fancy new thing that my Apples don't have yet?
-Waldo
...has a wonderful algorithm for finding the day of the week for any year in history that you can do in your head.
That should read "...that one can do in one's head." I could no sooner do that in my head than I could give birth.
-Waldo
OK, not forever, but until 2028. Just follow this link.
-Waldo
So if an event occurred over x days ago, although most of us may be unfamiliar with it, it's not valid /. material? I say it's news.
This kid made a great attempt at making a frickin' low-grade nuclear reactor out of duct tape. I'd say that we've got the "nerd" part covered.
Troll.
-Waldo
Charles H. Hinton's "An Episode of Flatland"
I was just about to install OS X on my iMac. I really wanted to run YDL 2.0, but it's been such a long wait. No doubt the resulting product is fantastic, but it got to be a little much.
I'll install promptly!
-Waldo
OTOH, some might argue that those elements did exist in the story, and not as inventions of the readers, but as subconscious inventions of your own mind. As a writer of a family of writers, we've all been accused of the very things that you were accused of. Sometimes we write them off as nuts, but just as often, our conclusion is that they're right, and that we inserted that element into the story unintentionally.
-Waldo
Bennett Haselton has also lied to you. He's still talking on Usenet (news.admin.net-abuse.email. Drop in some time!). He is being clued in by many folk as we speak, while continuing to spread disinformation. Talk with someone else from PeaceFire to confirm Bennet's allegations. We (tinw) just don't belive him anymore.
Your argument presumes that at the time that Peacefire began hosting with Media3, that it was already blocked by MAPS. I believe that to be incorrect, though only Bennett can confirm that for certain.
You can claim that Bennett is wrong, but don't call him a liar.
-Waldo
Well excuuuuse me for not posting earlier.
;)
-Waldo