IANAL, but this sounds like they are planning to make an API for "msRSS", that is: to embrace&extend RSS into a patented, proprietary, "common format" for IE/Outlook/WMP/etc... This would of course lock in their "email/web browser/media player applications", which could help in squashing Firefox,Eudora/Thunderbird,VLC and other "pests", not to mention that it could harm the real RSS because everyone's using msRSS.
How's this for a conspiracy theory? Some key points from the patent, severely stripped: 1.... implement: an RSS platform that is configured to receive and process RSS data... to enable different types of applications to access RSS data that has been received and processed by the RSS platform. 3. The system of claim 1,... to receive and process RSS data in multiple different formats,... configured to convert the multiple different formats into a common format. 10.... a set of APIs... that enable at least one application to access RSS data that has been processed and stored in a feed store; and wherein said at least one application does not understand an RSS format... 18-20. The system of claim 10, wherein said at least one application comprises an email/web browser/media player application.
There are many kinds of patents. 1. A simple (or complicated) way that works in solving some problem or is useful in some way, e.g. Metal wrapping for batteries. 2. An obvious amalgam of earlier inventions, that does not really solve any problems, e.g. knork (which is just a modified http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry_fork anyway ) 3. A relatively simple idea (often a rip-off of earlier ideas) wrapped in obscurity just to make it open enough to make everyone cough up some money for using it. E.g. "Click to buy" 4. etc...
To me - only category 1 is "inventions", and to me, only "inventions" are patentable. Most software patents mentioned on/. go into category 3 - some are in cat 1.
What kids are you talking about?
Most of the kids I know have a natural ability to choose products that are "in", even if they suck in every possible way.
Fads often have nothing to do with quality.
I didn't watch TFV, but sending a popup to the user for every little thing must be too annoying for 90% of users. What happens when you turn it off? How pissed will 90% of users be if you can't turn it off? How does this increase security? Surely things like cache files get written to disk...
I foresee a virus/malware thingie that bombards the "broker" with a random question every 5 seconds.
If you mean free as in free beer - then yes. But don't forget that this beer was included in the (outrageus) entrance fee to a (really crappy) nightclub.
I know this is the standard error message when a mail cannot be sent (when SMTP mail server returns a temporary error (geekspeak: an smtp 400 error)).
I tried this a couple of times with the Eicar test virus, removed the attachment and successfully sent the email. Then I added the virus again and got the error. Finally I tried sending a clean attachment, successfully
This IS what I got when the web interface found a virus.
This is a bit (or a lot) off topic, but when reading about Neanderthals , they: Were short, strong and extremely tough. A lot hairier than humans. Lived in caves. Made sharp tools of stone, notably axes. And so on... All these, and many more similarities, also apply to Tolkien's, Terry Pratchett's and Disney's dwarves.
28-30.000 years are somewere between 1-2000 generations so the facts can get a bit skewed going from parent/grandparent to child about a thousand times.
Any takers on the theory that the 7 little men depicted in the Snow-White are what remains of the Neanderthals?
1) Is because it's full of all kinds of crap: The following is inline javascript to convert http://start.com/3 -> http://www.start.com/3/ (can be seen by "view javascript" in the Firefox Developer Toolbar). This causes an infinite loop in any cache of the page (e.g. google's cache);o) ---------- var p = window.location.pathname; var h = location.href; if (p != "/" && p.indexOf("default.aspx") == -1 && p.charAt(p.length - 1) != '/')
h += '/'; if (location.hostname == "start.com")
h = h.replace("start.com","www.start.com"); if (h != location.href)
location.replace(h); ----------
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IANAL, but this sounds like they are planning to make an API for "msRSS", that is: to embrace&extend RSS into a patented, proprietary, "common format" for IE/Outlook/WMP/etc... This would of course lock in their "email/web browser/media player applications", which could help in squashing Firefox,Eudora/Thunderbird,VLC and other "pests", not to mention that it could harm the real RSS because everyone's using msRSS.
... implement: an RSS platform that is configured to receive and process RSS data ... to enable different types of applications to access RSS data that has been received and processed by the RSS platform. ... to receive and process RSS data in multiple different formats, ... configured to convert the multiple different formats into a common format. ... a set of APIs ... that enable at least one application to access RSS data that has been processed and stored in a feed store; and wherein said at least one application does not understand an RSS format ...
How's this for a conspiracy theory?
Some key points from the patent, severely stripped:
1.
3. The system of claim 1,
10.
18-20. The system of claim 10, wherein said at least one application comprises an email/web browser/media player application.
There are many kinds of patents.
/. go into category 3 - some are in cat 1.
1. A simple (or complicated) way that works in solving some problem or is useful in some way, e.g. Metal wrapping for batteries.
2. An obvious amalgam of earlier inventions, that does not really solve any problems, e.g. knork (which is just a modified http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry_fork anyway )
3. A relatively simple idea (often a rip-off of earlier ideas) wrapped in obscurity just to make it open enough to make everyone cough up some money for using it. E.g. "Click to buy"
4. etc...
To me - only category 1 is "inventions", and to me, only "inventions" are patentable.
Most software patents mentioned on
What kids are you talking about? Most of the kids I know have a natural ability to choose products that are "in", even if they suck in every possible way. Fads often have nothing to do with quality.
I didn't watch TFV, but sending a popup to the user for every little thing must be too annoying for 90% of users.
What happens when you turn it off?
How pissed will 90% of users be if you can't turn it off?
How does this increase security? Surely things like cache files get written to disk...
I foresee a virus/malware thingie that bombards the "broker" with a random question every 5 seconds.
Depends on your definition of free.
If you mean free as in free beer - then yes. But don't forget that this beer was included in the (outrageus) entrance fee to a (really crappy) nightclub.
I know this is the standard error message when a mail cannot be sent (when SMTP mail server returns a temporary error (geekspeak: an smtp 400 error)).
I tried this a couple of times with the Eicar test virus, removed the attachment and successfully sent the email.
Then I added the virus again and got the error.
Finally I tried sending a clean attachment, successfully
This IS what I got when the web interface found a virus.
calc.exe.zip is stopped
calc.exe.zip_ and calc.exe.zip.something.else.txt are not
But the thing that annoys me is how they handle viruses. If I try to send a "virus", I get this message...
mail.google.com:
Oops...the system was unable to perform your operation.
Please try again in a few seconds.
Can you be any less informative?
About half the bloggers I know are in need of therapy.
So true...
In my country the PS2 ads have the tagline: "The world's biggest selling DVD player".
My current DVD player is a modded Xbox, and I'm sure I'll buy a PS3 to use mainly as a HDTV DVD/Blu-Ray player.
This is a bit (or a lot) off topic, but when reading about Neanderthals , they:
Were short, strong and extremely tough.
A lot hairier than humans.
Lived in caves.
Made sharp tools of stone, notably axes.
And so on...
All these, and many more similarities, also apply to Tolkien's, Terry Pratchett's and Disney's dwarves.
28-30.000 years are somewere between 1-2000 generations so the facts can get a bit skewed going from parent/grandparent to child about a thousand times.
Any takers on the theory that the 7 little men depicted in the Snow-White are what remains of the Neanderthals?
Flame away...
1) Is because it's full of all kinds of crap: ;o)
z e/wso.php?url=http://www.start.com/3/
The following is inline javascript to convert http://start.com/3 -> http://www.start.com/3/ (can be seen by "view javascript" in the Firefox Developer Toolbar). This causes an infinite loop in any cache of the page (e.g. google's cache)
----------
var p = window.location.pathname;
var h = location.href;
if (p != "/" && p.indexOf("default.aspx") == -1 && p.charAt(p.length - 1) != '/')
h += '/';
if (location.hostname == "start.com")
h = h.replace("start.com","www.start.com");
if (h != location.href)
location.replace(h);
----------
2) It's huge:
Total HTTP Requests: 47
Total Size: 264511 bytes
Total size does not count "externals" (CSS and javascript):
Javascript: 198459 bytes (why 193 KB of JavaScript on a start page?)
CSS: 49063 bytes
Taken from: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analy
1) Because it's javascript you can't even go back to previous searches. Only the last search can be used.