Why do they have to dial 1? In Toronto and Vancouver (Canada) they have had their area codes overlaid for quite some time and they only have to dial 10 digits.
It won't be long before the telemarketers find a way around these things. As the phone company will always use the same "This number is not in service" recording, the diallers will just do a voice analysis of what comes after the tones.
As I do some work for telemarketing companies, the best way to stop unwanted calls is to pressure your federal government to create a nation-wide do not call list. This was proposed here in Canada and is getting good reception by the people on both ends of the telemarketing call. Already some states in the US do this (Oregon I believe)
Mr. Carlin (the lawyer on the Barney side) sent me a similar letter in January. A few months earlier, my Geocites site was removed without any explanation from Geocities.
It seems that they went for higher profile sites first, particularily the ones that criticized the educational content of the show. I just decided to take the site down and not try to bother fighting it as I'm in Canada and don't have the time or the resources to fight this.
You can view the whole letter here. Maybe if enough people protest, I'll put the site back up somewhere else. However, if you look through Yahoo's Barney section here, you'll see plenty of infringement on the fan pages. The fan pages are much more blantantly infringing than any of the stuff I put up. Don't they have to threaten everybody that infringes, or else it won't hold up in court?
Yahoo has delisted many of the now removed sites under the "Anti-Barney" category. At one time there were close to 20 of them.
I just bought an ATI All-in-wonder that does the same thing as the TIVO. It's not rocket science, the tuner writes to an MPEG file (at the end of the file) while the MPEG player reads the file somewhere in the middle.
The UNIX more command does the same thing. If, for example, you do a "find | more", you can read the contents at the start of the file (pipe) while the end of it is still being written. "tail -f" can be loosely argued as doing the same thing.
With our current copy-protection technology for digital content that is downloaded, no matter what type of encryption it uses it always has to be decrypted before it reaches the display driver. In theory, someone could hack apart the video driver and capture the unencrypted video stream to a file. With this new technology, the decryption is hardware based and there is no unencrypted stream to be captured anywhere.
This would effectively prevent casual copying and will encourage movie studios to make their movies downloadable. Of course, it will be several years before this standard is implemented, and it will be years before the home user has enough bandwidth and storage space for a reasonably sized movie collection.
I just did my civic duty and meta-moderated, but I came across one slight problem. I noticed a post that had been moderated as "redundant". Since these are random postings to random stories, I have no way of telling if they were really redundant. That could leave a loophole if anyone wanted to abuse the system.
Any security store will sell an automatic switcher (or multiplexer) for less than the cost of 5 or 6 capture cards. If you set it to switch every 5 seconds or so, you can sync the computer to capture a frame every 5 seconds. You can get the high frame rate for the manager by getting a cheap TV and splitting the output of the switcher between the TV and the capture card.
The distance can be achieved by using an NTSC signal from the cameras.
If I was the leader of an evil foreign government, I'd just buy 300 single Pentium II 500's (which are individually legal to export), put Linux and Beowulf on them, and voila! Legally exportable supercomputer.
I just noticed that they misspelled "Silicon" as "Silican" for their "pseudo-mark" entry. Let's just hope they proofread their software better than their trademark applications:-)
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Why do they have to dial 1? In Toronto and Vancouver (Canada) they have had their area codes overlaid for quite some time and they only have to dial 10 digits.
It won't be long before the telemarketers find a way around these things. As the phone company will always use the same "This number is not in service" recording, the diallers will just do a voice analysis of what comes after the tones.
As I do some work for telemarketing companies, the best way to stop unwanted calls is to pressure your federal government to create a nation-wide do not call list. This was proposed here in Canada and is getting good reception by the people on both ends of the telemarketing call. Already some states in the US do this (Oregon I believe)
It seems that they went for higher profile sites first, particularily the ones that criticized the educational content of the show. I just decided to take the site down and not try to bother fighting it as I'm in Canada and don't have the time or the resources to fight this.
You can view the whole letter here. Maybe if enough people protest, I'll put the site back up somewhere else. However, if you look through Yahoo's Barney section here, you'll see plenty of infringement on the fan pages. The fan pages are much more blantantly infringing than any of the stuff I put up. Don't they have to threaten everybody that infringes, or else it won't hold up in court?
Yahoo has delisted many of the now removed sites under the "Anti-Barney" category. At one time there were close to 20 of them.
The UNIX more command does the same thing. If, for example, you do a "find | more", you can read the contents at the start of the file (pipe) while the end of it is still being written. "tail -f" can be loosely argued as doing the same thing.
This would effectively prevent casual copying and will encourage movie studios to make their movies downloadable. Of course, it will be several years before this standard is implemented, and it will be years before the home user has enough bandwidth and storage space for a reasonably sized movie collection.
I just did my civic duty and meta-moderated, but I came across one slight problem. I noticed a post that had been moderated as "redundant". Since these are random postings to random stories, I have no way of telling if they were really redundant. That could leave a loophole if anyone wanted to abuse the system.
The distance can be achieved by using an NTSC signal from the cameras.
If I was the leader of an evil foreign government, I'd just buy 300 single Pentium II 500's (which are individually legal to export), put Linux and Beowulf on them, and voila! Legally exportable supercomputer.
I just noticed that they misspelled "Silicon" as "Silic a n" for their "pseudo-mark" entry. Let's just hope they proofread their software better than their trademark applications :-)