Is anybody else a little wary of yeast cells that can live inside the human body and process blood? They're talking about implanting these inside the body to power pacemakers. I didn't see anything in the article about april fools.
This kind of takes a yeast infection to a whole new level, the original kind is already hard enough to get rid of, and its not systemic. Fungal infections inside the body are very hard to treat because fungi cells are so similar to animal cells and its hard to kill one without harming the other.
I guess its time for the obligatory "I for one welcome our vampiric mono-cellular overlords."
I've been trying to get my cat to play nice with gnu Hurd for a while. It seems like it starts to work, but then starts to ignore all IO and proceeds to SLEEP(3600). I am eagerly awaiting someone who can get a cat Hurd to work.
Its only a matter of time before slashdot comment bots flood the forums, farming EXP and gold and ruining the slashdot economy.
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It runs fantastic on $1350 dells. I've seen it. You just need some work to get it to install. google osx86 sometime. It runs just as well on a dell as it does on a similarly specced mac laptop.
I'm still running my 3 year old toshiba satellite with a centrino pentium M. Not a duo, just the good old dothan core. It cost a $1000 3 years ago, which implies that it was 8 months to a year old when it was released (if it was top of the line). It is still more than enough for everything but the most hard core processing and gaming, though it can do light duty gaming that 90% of casual pc gamers will ask of their pc (it will play wow, but I don't). However, when I need to do heavy duty stuff (movie encoding, gaming, etc) I either walk over to my PC and play with it or use VNC to supervise the encoding process. ($1000 laptop + $1300 pc = functional functionality of any top of the line laptop, but you get 2 computers to toy with, with synergy, the laptop becomes an extra monitor, and with VNC + no-ip.com, you can leverage your desktop's cycles from anywhere with an internet connection)
So, I guess I'm agreeing with the parent post whole-heartedly because I only need the extra top of the line power of my desktop for a few hours each week (not counting gaming), but if I'm traveling, I can live without playing l4d or tf2 or the latest COD game.
Besides, and this will get me modded down, but if you mod me down, i will return stronger than before, etc etc... If I was buying a mac laptop, it wouldn't be for gaming or heavy lifting. It'd be for the light fluff that can be performed just as well on a $300 EEEpc running eeebuntu. Most of what you see people using their computers for in public can be performed just as well on the eeepc as well, so it would follow that most mac users would boot up, play with the toys, and then only use the web browser, email client, and office suite in public.
What do you need a high end mac laptop for? So its there for the 5% of the time that you want to tax the living snot out of your processor? Get a lesser system and let it run overnight. Except that low end macs are more expensive than comparable PC laptops. (a fact ignored by the article)
Also, for when I edit movies, I just boot into my osx86 partition, making my $1300 desktop just as powerful and "useful" as the mac pro quad core that retails for $2400 (and that's only straight specs, because i'm not factoring the cost of my $200 monitor into the equation, i'll ignore the "Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel) [Add $899.00]"), and because I hand selected the parts, I know they're not crap. Generally I edit movies for a few hours after every vacation, drop the finished movie onto my external drive, and then leave osx alone until after the next vacation.
"Names, titles, and short phrases or expressions are not subject to copyright protection. Even if a name, title, or short phrase is novel or distinctive or if it lends itself to a play on words, it cannot be protected by copyright."
Correct, so if you type everything as haiku, the twitter post would be copyrightable, but if you got rid of the line breaks, it wouldn't. That's why I mentioned it. For instance, this common twitter type post would be copyrightable
Going to pee now, I Drank too much beer just now, I will Poop also.
But in the dichotomy, this isn't: Going to pee now, I drank too much beer just now, I will poop also.
Kudos to everyone who predicted just this. Microsoft doesn't get any money for driving a potential customer away (i.e. tomtom is now a customer of microsoft's patent portfolio), they also get to play with tomtom's patents to better their products. Why does anybody get alarmed when there's a patent suit between two PRODUCTIVE companies? Microsoft is not a pure patent troll, they make more money through using patents than licensing fees. It seems like that cross-licensing agreements rarely start out with a nice sitdown, but are negotiated in court nowadays:/
Names, titles, and short phrases or expressions are not subject to copyright protection. Even if a name, title, or short phrase is novel or distinctive or if it lends itself to a play on words, it cannot be protected by copyright. The Copyright Office cannot register claims to exclusive rights in brief combinations of words such as:
* Names of products or services
* Names of businesses, organizations, or groups (including the name of a group of performers)
* Names of pseudonyms of individuals (including pen name or stage name)
* Titles of works
* Catchwords, catchphrases, mottoes, slogans, or short advertising expressions
* Mere listings of ingredients, as in recipes, labels, or formulas. When a recipe or formula is accompanied by explanation or directions, the text directions may be copyrightable, but the recipe or formula itself remains uncopyrightable.
Its not long enough, the snippets would have to be sufficiently expressive to be copyrightable. Like an entire haiku might be copyrightable, but a sentence, idea, thought, or word is not. Otherwise you have copyright law protecting slogans and phrases (the work of trademark law).
Is standing naked in a softcore pose a sexual act? How about showering naked? I'm assuming that the kinds of pictures sent were underage versions of what can be found through foobies.com (a NSFW softcore link nexus).
I'm not certain what kinds of pictures were sent, but for a legal example of the type of pictures I'm talking about, see the above referenced Virgin Killer album art. That picture would be child classified as child porn, but there is no explicit or implicit act of sex pictured.
I was thinking about that earlier. Who exactly are we protecting these children from? I'm thinking of the children when I don't believe that dropping them onto a sexual offender's list for life is the best thing for them or the community. I think that the law should be changed where either the subject or the guardians of the subject should be able to press charges against the one who took the pictures, provided that the guardian was not the one who took them or influenced the kids to take them (to prevent sick parents exploiting their kids). No parent in their right mind is going to press charges against their kid who sends pics to a boyfriend/girlfriend.
If the subject can not be found, then burn the witch.
Hopefully, if hell freezes over and the laws change to reflect the above, the law will be set up in such a way to prevent the exploitation of children instead of allow for the legal prosecution of children.
that argument would take a hell of a lot of prettying up to get past all but the most stoneheaded of judges. I'm sure that there's plenty of case law to cite when answering motions involving baseless accusations, and that would come out during the settlement hearings of a properly administrated case. If the judge had an inkling of sense, they would lean heavily on the **AA to drop the case during this phase before hundreds of thousands of dollars would be spent by the plaintiff. Sure you might make the right expert witness a couple grand richer, but that's what cost shifting is for.
I wonder how much these subjects were paid to play these games for 50 hours a week? Where do i sign up for these game studies? Although it would really suck if i was assigned to the sims group...
I'd love to see that argument show up in court. or even in bark letters. Preponderance of evidence just isn't on the **AA's side. It'd be like accusing someone who liked to go to gun shows of shooting holes in your walls, you have no evidence of gun ownership, use, or connection beyond browsing the stalls. That kind of argument would get thrown out of court, and if that was the basis of their case, they'd likely be on the hook for a juicy counter suit.
Besides, I think that facebook would be better at spreading knowledge of this than the previous limewire, kazaa, and bittorrent communities.
The real threat is to facebook. If torrent sites can be taken down in the US for merely pointing to caches of copyrighted material, is facebook susceptable to the same threats and action as was taken against torrentspy.com?
Perhaps this is intentional on TPB's part, in that if facebook becomes just as guilty of file sharing as trackers and torrent repositories, they might fight back harder than the small sites and possibly change the way the **AA's do things. Or, they'll comply with big content and take actions that are obvious to the average user and filter/remove the TPB links.
I'm just thinking that we're probably a month and a half away from the largest DMCA sweep yet as facebook cleanses itself of these links. (though how the **AA's identify the individual links for takedown requests posted by me will be interesting as i have no **AA friends).
For as awesome as NewYorkCountryLawyer is with technical/legal issues, I think he didn't do precisely what you did yourself. Its the same for me, it takes me to the torrent page instead of the.torrent download. All it is is a specially crafted URL that instructs facebook to ask for your login, (or sample your cookies/authenticated sessions) and post the link to your profile. Nothing more.
I always thought that the facebook link was a sort of civil disobedience type deal at worst, or at best, a humorous poke at how every site on the planet has Digg this, facebook this, mixx it, etc attached to every page generated.
Learn how AT&T is taking the existing fiber that's going into your home today and turning it into the vehicle that's delivering all your entertainment to your television, computer and phone.
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What It Is
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Fiber is glass or plastic hair thin threads that deliver data over a network. The threads are bound tightly together and use waves of light to transmit the data.
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I've been following storm, and that has dropped off the face of slashdot, and other worms, this latest conflicker is getting an article once or twice a week, but unless i missed something, how does one prevent/detect/remove these worms? All the news articles seem to think that its a foregone conclusion that your (or someone you care about) system WILL BE ASSIMILATED. I run windows, but I practice safe browsing ( I wrap that rascal by not downloading willy nilly, using outlook for e-mail, and use no-script and abp in firefox, all of which is running on an up to date windows XP build running behind a NAT router), am I infected? Will AVG tell me if I am? Would NAV or {other antivirus} tell me?
So, anybody else want to lug a desktop PC around? Not sure if those figures tie with laptops or what, but I know that I used to hang out in the computer lab so that I wouldn't have to lug around my laptop everywhere.
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Is anybody else a little wary of yeast cells that can live inside the human body and process blood? They're talking about implanting these inside the body to power pacemakers. I didn't see anything in the article about april fools.
This kind of takes a yeast infection to a whole new level, the original kind is already hard enough to get rid of, and its not systemic. Fungal infections inside the body are very hard to treat because fungi cells are so similar to animal cells and its hard to kill one without harming the other.
I guess its time for the obligatory "I for one welcome our vampiric mono-cellular overlords."
I've been trying to get my cat to play nice with gnu Hurd for a while. It seems like it starts to work, but then starts to ignore all IO and proceeds to SLEEP(3600). I am eagerly awaiting someone who can get a cat Hurd to work.
Its only a matter of time before slashdot comment bots flood the forums, farming EXP and gold and ruining the slashdot economy.
It runs fantastic on $1350 dells. I've seen it. You just need some work to get it to install. google osx86 sometime. It runs just as well on a dell as it does on a similarly specced mac laptop.
I'm still running my 3 year old toshiba satellite with a centrino pentium M. Not a duo, just the good old dothan core. It cost a $1000 3 years ago, which implies that it was 8 months to a year old when it was released (if it was top of the line). It is still more than enough for everything but the most hard core processing and gaming, though it can do light duty gaming that 90% of casual pc gamers will ask of their pc (it will play wow, but I don't). However, when I need to do heavy duty stuff (movie encoding, gaming, etc) I either walk over to my PC and play with it or use VNC to supervise the encoding process. ($1000 laptop + $1300 pc = functional functionality of any top of the line laptop, but you get 2 computers to toy with, with synergy, the laptop becomes an extra monitor, and with VNC + no-ip.com, you can leverage your desktop's cycles from anywhere with an internet connection)
So, I guess I'm agreeing with the parent post whole-heartedly because I only need the extra top of the line power of my desktop for a few hours each week (not counting gaming), but if I'm traveling, I can live without playing l4d or tf2 or the latest COD game.
Besides, and this will get me modded down, but if you mod me down, i will return stronger than before, etc etc... If I was buying a mac laptop, it wouldn't be for gaming or heavy lifting. It'd be for the light fluff that can be performed just as well on a $300 EEEpc running eeebuntu. Most of what you see people using their computers for in public can be performed just as well on the eeepc as well, so it would follow that most mac users would boot up, play with the toys, and then only use the web browser, email client, and office suite in public.
What do you need a high end mac laptop for? So its there for the 5% of the time that you want to tax the living snot out of your processor? Get a lesser system and let it run overnight. Except that low end macs are more expensive than comparable PC laptops. (a fact ignored by the article)
Also, for when I edit movies, I just boot into my osx86 partition, making my $1300 desktop just as powerful and "useful" as the mac pro quad core that retails for $2400 (and that's only straight specs, because i'm not factoring the cost of my $200 monitor into the equation, i'll ignore the "Apple LED Cinema Display (24" flat panel) [Add $899.00]"), and because I hand selected the parts, I know they're not crap. Generally I edit movies for a few hours after every vacation, drop the finished movie onto my external drive, and then leave osx alone until after the next vacation.
You know that the first product is going to rebrand the "I" to mean "integrated" and charge $800 for the first device.
from the copyright office's circulation 34.
"Names, titles, and short phrases or expressions are not subject to copyright protection. Even if a name, title, or short phrase is novel or distinctive or if it lends itself to a play on words, it cannot be protected by copyright."
Correct, so if you type everything as haiku, the twitter post would be copyrightable, but if you got rid of the line breaks, it wouldn't. That's why I mentioned it. For instance, this common twitter type post would be copyrightable
Going to pee now,
I Drank too much beer just now,
I will Poop also.
But in the dichotomy, this isn't:
Going to pee now, I drank too much beer just now, I will poop also.
Kudos to everyone who predicted just this. Microsoft doesn't get any money for driving a potential customer away (i.e. tomtom is now a customer of microsoft's patent portfolio), they also get to play with tomtom's patents to better their products. Why does anybody get alarmed when there's a patent suit between two PRODUCTIVE companies? Microsoft is not a pure patent troll, they make more money through using patents than licensing fees. It seems like that cross-licensing agreements rarely start out with a nice sitdown, but are negotiated in court nowadays :/
from the cache page.
Names, titles, and short phrases or expressions are not subject to copyright protection. Even if a name, title, or short phrase is novel or distinctive or if it lends itself to a play on words, it cannot be protected by copyright. The Copyright Office cannot register claims to exclusive rights in brief combinations of words such as:
* Names of products or services
* Names of businesses, organizations, or groups (including the name of a group of performers)
* Names of pseudonyms of individuals (including pen name or stage name)
* Titles of works
* Catchwords, catchphrases, mottoes, slogans, or short advertising expressions
* Mere listings of ingredients, as in recipes, labels, or formulas. When a recipe or formula is accompanied by explanation or directions, the text directions may be copyrightable, but the recipe or formula itself remains uncopyrightable.
Its not long enough, the snippets would have to be sufficiently expressive to be copyrightable. Like an entire haiku might be copyrightable, but a sentence, idea, thought, or word is not. Otherwise you have copyright law protecting slogans and phrases (the work of trademark law).
The copyrightable expression circulation (circ 34) is currently down, but its normally found here: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ34.html
Is standing naked in a softcore pose a sexual act? How about showering naked? I'm assuming that the kinds of pictures sent were underage versions of what can be found through foobies.com (a NSFW softcore link nexus).
I'm not certain what kinds of pictures were sent, but for a legal example of the type of pictures I'm talking about, see the above referenced Virgin Killer album art. That picture would be child classified as child porn, but there is no explicit or implicit act of sex pictured.
I was thinking about that earlier. Who exactly are we protecting these children from? I'm thinking of the children when I don't believe that dropping them onto a sexual offender's list for life is the best thing for them or the community. I think that the law should be changed where either the subject or the guardians of the subject should be able to press charges against the one who took the pictures, provided that the guardian was not the one who took them or influenced the kids to take them (to prevent sick parents exploiting their kids). No parent in their right mind is going to press charges against their kid who sends pics to a boyfriend/girlfriend.
If the subject can not be found, then burn the witch.
Hopefully, if hell freezes over and the laws change to reflect the above, the law will be set up in such a way to prevent the exploitation of children instead of allow for the legal prosecution of children.
that argument would take a hell of a lot of prettying up to get past all but the most stoneheaded of judges. I'm sure that there's plenty of case law to cite when answering motions involving baseless accusations, and that would come out during the settlement hearings of a properly administrated case. If the judge had an inkling of sense, they would lean heavily on the **AA to drop the case during this phase before hundreds of thousands of dollars would be spent by the plaintiff. Sure you might make the right expert witness a couple grand richer, but that's what cost shifting is for.
I wonder how much these subjects were paid to play these games for 50 hours a week? Where do i sign up for these game studies? Although it would really suck if i was assigned to the sims group...
I'd love to see that argument show up in court. or even in bark letters. Preponderance of evidence just isn't on the **AA's side. It'd be like accusing someone who liked to go to gun shows of shooting holes in your walls, you have no evidence of gun ownership, use, or connection beyond browsing the stalls. That kind of argument would get thrown out of court, and if that was the basis of their case, they'd likely be on the hook for a juicy counter suit.
Besides, I think that facebook would be better at spreading knowledge of this than the previous limewire, kazaa, and bittorrent communities.
The real threat is to facebook. If torrent sites can be taken down in the US for merely pointing to caches of copyrighted material, is facebook susceptable to the same threats and action as was taken against torrentspy.com?
Perhaps this is intentional on TPB's part, in that if facebook becomes just as guilty of file sharing as trackers and torrent repositories, they might fight back harder than the small sites and possibly change the way the **AA's do things. Or, they'll comply with big content and take actions that are obvious to the average user and filter/remove the TPB links.
I'm just thinking that we're probably a month and a half away from the largest DMCA sweep yet as facebook cleanses itself of these links. (though how the **AA's identify the individual links for takedown requests posted by me will be interesting as i have no **AA friends).
For as awesome as NewYorkCountryLawyer is with technical/legal issues, I think he didn't do precisely what you did yourself. Its the same for me, it takes me to the torrent page instead of the .torrent download. All it is is a specially crafted URL that instructs facebook to ask for your login, (or sample your cookies/authenticated sessions) and post the link to your profile. Nothing more.
I always thought that the facebook link was a sort of civil disobedience type deal at worst, or at best, a humorous poke at how every site on the planet has Digg this, facebook this, mixx it, etc attached to every page generated.
The guy who was knocking had an AT&T shirt.
From ATT's site for stuff available for my area.
" Fiber
Learn how AT&T is taking the existing fiber that's going into your home today and turning it into the vehicle that's delivering all your entertainment to your television, computer and phone.
*
What It Is
*
Fiber is glass or plastic hair thin threads that deliver data over a network. The threads are bound tightly together and use waves of light to transmit the data.
"
We're getting ATT FiOS in our area soon, I might have to give them a call if this is true and not just marketing.
gah, there's a typo. I actually pipe everything to Gmail.
(*not using outlook)
I've been following storm, and that has dropped off the face of slashdot, and other worms, this latest conflicker is getting an article once or twice a week, but unless i missed something, how does one prevent/detect/remove these worms? All the news articles seem to think that its a foregone conclusion that your (or someone you care about) system WILL BE ASSIMILATED. I run windows, but I practice safe browsing ( I wrap that rascal by not downloading willy nilly, using outlook for e-mail, and use no-script and abp in firefox, all of which is running on an up to date windows XP build running behind a NAT router), am I infected? Will AVG tell me if I am? Would NAV or {other antivirus} tell me?
Wikipedia has info on how to detect and remove using most major antivirus running the latest update. But why don't the news-writers seem to recognize this? Why must every infection be a death sentence to support some nefarious plot with your unwitting computer?
So essentially the UN has done what it always does? Merely say what some countries are thinking in legalese?
So, anybody else want to lug a desktop PC around? Not sure if those figures tie with laptops or what, but I know that I used to hang out in the computer lab so that I wouldn't have to lug around my laptop everywhere.
I know, I just wish that people read the subject before firing off a reply.