The company in January told Reuters that it was not on the block. "The company is not looking to be sold, the management is not looking to step out. It's simply not true," a Napster spokesman said on Jan. 23.
NAPSTER HQ
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES
January 31, 2006
We are sad to report that the same spokesman was seen earlier today being taken out by stretcher crying, "It can't be...it's simply not true! It's not truuuuuueeee!!"
Napster will neither confirm or deny anything until the stock price hits double digits.
...posted about StarForce, a harmful technology used by game companies to restrict their customers' freedom. StarForce attempts to stop game customers from copying their property, but it has the side-effects of destabilizing and crashing the computers on which it is installed.
If I told you once, I have told you a thousand times - NEVER mess with STAR FORCE!
Microsoft would not say how many customers are affected, but said it is likely only a "small fraction" of Office users.
Well, a small fraction could still end up in the millions of users.
Hooray for the little guy with the million dollar patent. According to GeekNewz.com, Carlos Armando Amado patented it in 1990, and tried to sell it to Microsoft 2 years later. Microsoft looked into it, didn't buy it, but used its technology anyway in Excel 95-2002.
Good thing he waited.
LiveJournal is offering a free permanent account and possibly other prizes
Rumours are the other prizes include books on forming lasting interpersonal relationships, 7-day trips to Club Med, and the book 'Romance for Dummies.'
Why are these items just for 'developing' nations? I see this as a potential item for anyone who can't afford an expensive phone. Of course there will still be the high-end models, but for the masses there will always be a need for inexpensive tech.
People drive to work, sit all day, eat high calorie meals, go home drink and eat more high calorie meals. Then they get on the internet or play games or watch TV & movies, then go to bed.
REPEAT.
Food is cheap, bad food is cheaper. Its easy to get into a rut where you inevetably gain weight, it is just part of our work / tv culture.
When oil was cheap there was no incentive to look at alternatives
I beg to differ, air pollution has always been a problem and many people I know would prefer to save money on fuel, no matter how cheap it was.
I understand that there may have been little incentive for most people, but there was still the concern that the oil would eventually run out and that it was not necessarily a good thing to be exporting so much oil from a chaotic Middle East, Venezuela and far away Norway.
If there is a more efficient way to produce energy, why not do it?
Why do we still drive cars that use an internal combustion engine and only get 30 miles per gallon?
Simple, with our current economy and infrastructure it is more profitable to very influential energy companies this way. And since our current President and Vice President are very close to these energy companies, you will see very little in the way of change.
Let's hope the X-prize will be a catalyst for widespread use of new types of renewable energy.
Starting with Chapter 6, the "Practical" bit from the books title starts to kick in quite strongly. If its a book with both theoretical and real world information that you want, then the coming chapters are really going to quench your thirst.
Whoa, for a minute there I thought this was a book about WINE.
In2Movies will use Arvato's new platform, called GNAB to deliver movies. GNAB adds security features onto the movies so they can't be pirated, makes sure the movie owners get paid each time a consumer on In2Movies buys a movie, and routes the movies through computers owned by In2Movies' users.
According to this article, GNAB is not really P2P. Any wagers as to how long it will be until GNAB is cracked?
There's plenty of Milhouse to go around.
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Mitnick on OSS
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...it's worth mentioning that Schwartz has speculated on exciting things in the past (such as porting Solaris to IBM's Power) that we subsequently never heard another thing about.
You can find out if you just use the Schwartz - trust your feelings, let go.
Is it even possible to reverse global warming? If every bad emission was to stop today all of a sudden, would it take hundreds of years to start having an effect?
Hopefully, something can be done to slow or stop its progress. I don't see the world stopping all its emissions suddenly, maybe people will have to directly see its negative impact for them to start caring/thinking about this problem.
...will serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, during which he'll be subject to electronic monitoring through special software installed on his computer
Looks like they have finally found a legal use for the Sony Rootkit.
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The company in January told Reuters that it was not on the block. "The company is not looking to be sold, the management is not looking to step out. It's simply not true," a Napster spokesman said on Jan. 23.
NAPSTER HQ
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES
January 31, 2006
We are sad to report that the same spokesman was seen earlier today being taken out by stretcher crying,
"It can't be...it's simply not true! It's not truuuuuueeee!!"
Napster will neither confirm or deny anything until the stock price hits double digits.
...posted about StarForce, a harmful technology used by game companies to restrict their customers' freedom. StarForce attempts to stop game customers from copying their property, but it has the side-effects of destabilizing and crashing the computers on which it is installed.
If I told you once, I have told you a thousand times - NEVER mess with STAR FORCE!
And Gates just fired off an email about their upcoming Open Source version of Windows that will pack in twice the features and speed as Goobuntu.
Microsoft would not say how many customers are affected, but said it is likely only a "small fraction" of Office users.
Well, a small fraction could still end up in the millions of users.
Hooray for the little guy with the million dollar patent. According to GeekNewz.com, Carlos Armando Amado patented it in 1990, and tried to sell it to Microsoft 2 years later. Microsoft looked into it, didn't buy it, but used its technology anyway in Excel 95-2002.
Good thing he waited.
LiveJournal is offering a free permanent account and possibly other prizes
Rumours are the other prizes include books on forming lasting interpersonal relationships, 7-day trips to Club Med, and the book 'Romance for Dummies.'
"although the shared bookmarks thing creates unholy lust in my heart"
dear god do you ever need to get out more....
Nah man, its cool - some bookworms have an understanding about sharing, and prefer not to be in a binding relationship.
Friedums just anoder werd for nuthin lef 2 looze, and nuthin aint werth nuthin but it's Frie.
:(
I'm so dam Ronery
Moreover, the press release goes out of its way to note that implementation of ODF is still on target for an effective date of January 1, 2007
They got on a horse and rode through town and declared, "The ODF are coming, the ODF are coming!"
Why are these items just for 'developing' nations? I see this as a potential item for anyone who can't afford an expensive phone. Of course there will still be the high-end models, but for the masses there will always be a need for inexpensive tech.
People drive to work, sit all day, eat high calorie meals, go home drink and eat more high calorie meals.
Then they get on the internet or play games or watch TV & movies, then go to bed.
REPEAT.
Food is cheap, bad food is cheaper. Its easy to get into a rut where you inevetably gain weight, it is just part of our work / tv culture.
When oil was cheap there was no incentive to look at alternatives
I beg to differ, air pollution has always been a problem and many people I know would prefer to save money on fuel, no matter how cheap it was.
I understand that there may have been little incentive for most people, but there was still the concern that the oil would eventually run out and that it was not necessarily a good thing to be exporting so much oil from a chaotic Middle East, Venezuela and far away Norway.
If there is a more efficient way to produce energy, why not do it?
Why do we still drive cars that use an internal combustion engine and only get 30 miles per gallon?
Simple, with our current economy and infrastructure it is more profitable to very influential energy companies this way. And since our current President and Vice President are very close to these energy companies, you will see very little in the way of change.
Let's hope the X-prize will be a catalyst for widespread use of new types of renewable energy.
Starting with Chapter 6, the "Practical" bit from the books title starts to kick in quite strongly. If its a book with both theoretical and real world information that you want, then the coming chapters are really going to quench your thirst.
Whoa, for a minute there I thought this was a book about WINE.
When VeriSign was asked why they were handed control of all dotcom domains until 2012, they replied, "Why? Because ICANN!"
Unfortunately it's only noon and now you've awakened my desire to get slammed over lunch.
Funny, Paris Hilton told me the exact same thing last week after just 2 bites in to my lunch at Spago.
In2Movies will use Arvato's new platform, called GNAB to deliver movies. GNAB adds security features onto the movies so they can't be pirated, makes sure the movie owners get paid each time a consumer on In2Movies buys a movie, and routes the movies through computers owned by In2Movies' users.
According to this article, GNAB is not really P2P. Any wagers as to how long it will be until GNAB is cracked?
Separated at birth?
the genes which make someone analytical may also impair their social and communication skills
Trudy: "William is such a smart guy, but just couldn't carry on a good conversation."
Mel: "I know, but he really can't help it, its in his genes."
...it's worth mentioning that Schwartz has speculated on exciting things in the past (such as porting Solaris to IBM's Power) that we subsequently never heard another thing about.
You can find out if you just use the Schwartz - trust your feelings, let go.
Worse, he was a Hollywood guy, and had barely touched a computer during the nearly two decades he oversaw Warner Brothers with Robert A. Daly.
This was because someone mistakenly told him that he could get a virus from his PC.
Is it even possible to reverse global warming? If every bad emission was to stop today all of a sudden, would it take hundreds of years to start having an effect?
Hopefully, something can be done to slow or stop its progress. I don't see the world stopping all its emissions suddenly, maybe people will have to directly see its negative impact for them to start caring/thinking about this problem.
...will serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, during which he'll be subject to electronic monitoring through special software installed on his computer
Looks like they have finally found a legal use for the Sony Rootkit.
Free 411 and LD on Skype
Just passing this along the information superhighway.
I have a black-berry and I'm just not disciplined enough to utilize the device to it's full potential.
;)
And who said opposing thumbs made us primates so much more advanced?
under pressure from crackberry-addicted Congressmen, may be moving to invalidate NTP's patents
I don't know about you, but I don't want any addicts making my laws.