I could see the FBI paying some millions of dollars for a dedicated system like this... I mean, since they have that known terrorist photo database or whatever, they might want to improve performance...
Of course, I would hope that the FBI would properly configure the servers if they were to buy this. They accidentally forget to change the server from images.google.com (or something similar) to terrorists.fbi.gov, and all of a sudden, your granny is a known terrorist. Oh no!
Exactly. It's like how Win32 developers today have their install scripts (NSIS or whatever they choose to use) write default configuration settings to the registry. The/etc directory is like the registry, but more flexible. He's not saying to require the end user to create a new configuration setting in/etc/nicety (or even use the GUI configuration tool to do that), he's saying to have the developer include a shell script or something in their.rpm,.deb, or Makefile's install section that automatically configure the setting to one that the developer found to be optimal. And if the developer didn't, the nicety kernel module would go with a default one, set in the kernel. No action by the end user necessary whatsoever.
No. While a large source of energy would result in heat, global warming is caused by an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, coming from sources such as burnt fossil fuels (like coal power plants). If a large source of energy like this were to become available for cheap, it would potentially replace coal and oil power plants. In addition, an abundance of electricity would drive down the cost of hydroelectrolysis, allowing us to make hydrogen fuel for cheaper than gasoline. The net result would instead be global warming going away, not worsening, as you say.
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Why would you have a "terrorist attack" code for a traffic warning system? Okay, so I can see how maybe they might close off streets for emergency personnel, but couldn't you just leave the code at that - "Roads Closed"? I mean, if you go telling drivers that there's a terrorist attack ahead of you, they're going to panic, freak out, and maybe get into a car wreck.
Sorry to disappoint you, but if this is anything like the giant squid (and it probably is), it has ammonia in it to help resist deep-water pressure. That would make it taste terrible (and probably toxic, too). Besides, who would come to a restaurant that smelled like they put window cleaner in their hot-and-sour soup?
I know you're joking, but I thought I'd point this out...
I can think of a few places that might want that... just imagine, 990lbs of deep-fried calamari... *drools*.
Although giant squids do have ammonia, which makes them inedible... what about these colossals? It would suck to bite into a piece of calamari and taste ammonia...
Too bad it's going to a museum - I'm hungry now.
The way I see it is this:
Microsoft only has it's two cash cows. They've proven themselves unable to really improve on it at all. Therefore, they aren't really innovative, are they?
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but patents are intended to protect innovative tech, right? Okay, so, if MS can't be innovative, they shouldn't have any new patents.
Anyway, not sure where I was going with that, but I did see something in the article that sounded suspicious to me, a quote from Ginsburg:
Ginsburg grabbed her question out of the air and thrust it toward Joseffer, who fumbled with it for a bit before attempting an answer. "One side is telling us it's the component that's supplied [to the foreign replicator], whether it's the master disk or the object code," she said. "And the other side says this is just like a blueprint, like a mold, like a template. Can a blueprint be patented? Can a mold be patented?"
Now, that sounds like it might do away with patents on the positioning of the input button, etc., but I can think of software that's not necessarily a "blueprint." Eh, that's just me being paranoid...
DOWN WITH SOFTWARE PATENTS!!!
Look back to your original EULA. Almost every EULA I've ever seen has said something about "The company reserves the right to modify this End User License Agreement at any time, with or without any notice." I'm not sure if the "with or without notice" part will stand in court, but otherwise I don't see any problem with it. If I don't like the new terms, I simply stop using the software and securely erase all copies of it off my hard drive.
Another truism however, is that if online reports are correct, not a single game - of any genre - has sold as much as Super Mario Bros 3. Being that we're in an industry which is largely built on forward thinking, it may be productive to look to the past for lessons in improving the present and future of games - and this includes looking in classic game designs and ideas.
Good idea! Now, let's take Super Mario, who sold well, and combine him with a gun, which also sold really well, and what do we get? MEGA SALES! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!...I believe there is a Flash game somewhat like that somewhere.
You would need to be extremely precise for that to work. The masses of the model planets would have to be PERFECTLY scaled. Do we actually know for a fact the masses of all the other planets, and can we make something that precise?
Then you have to consider the gravitational effect of the asteroid belt. Do we know the mass of that, too? That might affect the model when put in use.
Any conclusions made from this experiment would be debated over endlessly because of this...
I can see a lot of parents buying this bundle rather than the PS3 for the same price:
# The "And A Friend" bundle ( $600 ):
$250 - Wii
$260 - 2 DS Lites
$90 - extra Wii-mote and 2 retro controllers (estimate)
This would be perfect for those common families that make up so much of America with two kids... the two DSs will keep them from constantly saying "Are we there yet?" in the car, and that Wii will keep them entertained at home. And you get all that for the same price of a PS3...
From the article: From early on, a small group of programmers at Direct Revenue focused on how to protect their employer's programs once they were lodged in a computer, current and former employees say. The team called itself Dark Arts after the term for evil magic in the Harry Potter series. One of the biggest threats Dark Arts addressed came from competing software. The presence of multiple spyware programs can so cripple a computer that no ads manage to get seen.
In my opinion, spyware that purposely damages other software without user consent(even if the target software is spyware) is really just a virus, trojan, or something like that. Seriously, these people need to just chill out and stop screwing with everyone's PCs.
Wait a minute here - the FBI has ABSOLUTELY no business monitoring chat rooms on the Internet, that is totally outside of its jurisdiction.
Says who? If they were public chat rooms on a public network(i.e. Freenode), I don't see any reason why the FBI shouldn't be allowed to monitor the chat rooms.
Now if it was a private server, and they brute-forced passwords or anything like that, now that would be different...
Now, wait a minute. How do you know the Navy isn't going to allow others to use their patent? Maybe they are just getting that patent to protect themselves from licensing fees of other companies who might otherwise claim such a patent in the future? I can't see the Navy actually taking someone to court for "damages" - I mean, seriously, does the Navy make a profit off of commercially selling firewalls?
Hmmm... Searching through the USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office), I found 12 patents held by eBay: authenticating email(#7072944), "Information presentation and management in an online trading environment"(#7007076), monitoring and auto-notification of irregular transactions(#6944599), using a flag to show order status(#6859787), "generic attribute database system"(#6778993), "System and method to control sending of unsolicited communications relating to a plurality of listings in a network-based commerce facility"(#6748422) (gee, hmm, that somehow sounds like a patent on spam... or would that be solicited? I forget), ANOTHER patent with the same title as #7007076(#6732161), ANOTHER generic attribute database(#6604107), method for communicating search results(#6523037), method to verify identity in an online auction(#6466917), and TWO MORE patents about the presentation with the same title(#6415320 & #6058417). Thats a LOT of attributes and displays... imagine if someone like Microsoft tried to patent read-only files.
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I could see the FBI paying some millions of dollars for a dedicated system like this... I mean, since they have that known terrorist photo database or whatever, they might want to improve performance... Of course, I would hope that the FBI would properly configure the servers if they were to buy this. They accidentally forget to change the server from images.google.com (or something similar) to terrorists.fbi.gov, and all of a sudden, your granny is a known terrorist. Oh no!
Exactly. It's like how Win32 developers today have their install scripts (NSIS or whatever they choose to use) write default configuration settings to the registry. The /etc directory is like the registry, but more flexible. He's not saying to require the end user to create a new configuration setting in /etc/nicety (or even use the GUI configuration tool to do that), he's saying to have the developer include a shell script or something in their .rpm, .deb, or Makefile's install section that automatically configure the setting to one that the developer found to be optimal. And if the developer didn't, the nicety kernel module would go with a default one, set in the kernel. No action by the end user necessary whatsoever.
No. While a large source of energy would result in heat, global warming is caused by an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, coming from sources such as burnt fossil fuels (like coal power plants). If a large source of energy like this were to become available for cheap, it would potentially replace coal and oil power plants. In addition, an abundance of electricity would drive down the cost of hydroelectrolysis, allowing us to make hydrogen fuel for cheaper than gasoline. The net result would instead be global warming going away, not worsening, as you say.
Why would you have a "terrorist attack" code for a traffic warning system? Okay, so I can see how maybe they might close off streets for emergency personnel, but couldn't you just leave the code at that - "Roads Closed"? I mean, if you go telling drivers that there's a terrorist attack ahead of you, they're going to panic, freak out, and maybe get into a car wreck.
Sorry to disappoint you, but if this is anything like the giant squid (and it probably is), it has ammonia in it to help resist deep-water pressure. That would make it taste terrible (and probably toxic, too). Besides, who would come to a restaurant that smelled like they put window cleaner in their hot-and-sour soup? I know you're joking, but I thought I'd point this out...
I can think of a few places that might want that... just imagine, 990lbs of deep-fried calamari... *drools*. Although giant squids do have ammonia, which makes them inedible... what about these colossals? It would suck to bite into a piece of calamari and taste ammonia... Too bad it's going to a museum - I'm hungry now.
Look back to your original EULA. Almost every EULA I've ever seen has said something about "The company reserves the right to modify this End User License Agreement at any time, with or without any notice." I'm not sure if the "with or without notice" part will stand in court, but otherwise I don't see any problem with it. If I don't like the new terms, I simply stop using the software and securely erase all copies of it off my hard drive.
You would need to be extremely precise for that to work. The masses of the model planets would have to be PERFECTLY scaled. Do we actually know for a fact the masses of all the other planets, and can we make something that precise?
Then you have to consider the gravitational effect of the asteroid belt. Do we know the mass of that, too? That might affect the model when put in use.
Any conclusions made from this experiment would be debated over endlessly because of this...
This would be perfect for those common families that make up so much of America with two kids... the two DSs will keep them from constantly saying "Are we there yet?" in the car, and that Wii will keep them entertained at home. And you get all that for the same price of a PS3...
From the article:
From early on, a small group of programmers at Direct Revenue focused on how to protect their employer's programs once they were lodged in a computer, current and former employees say. The team called itself Dark Arts after the term for evil magic in the Harry Potter series. One of the biggest threats Dark Arts addressed came from competing software. The presence of multiple spyware programs can so cripple a computer that no ads manage to get seen.
In my opinion, spyware that purposely damages other software without user consent(even if the target software is spyware) is really just a virus, trojan, or something like that. Seriously, these people need to just chill out and stop screwing with everyone's PCs.
Wait a minute here - the FBI has ABSOLUTELY no business monitoring chat rooms on the Internet, that is totally outside of its jurisdiction.
Says who? If they were public chat rooms on a public network(i.e. Freenode), I don't see any reason why the FBI shouldn't be allowed to monitor the chat rooms. Now if it was a private server, and they brute-forced passwords or anything like that, now that would be different...
Now, wait a minute. How do you know the Navy isn't going to allow others to use their patent? Maybe they are just getting that patent to protect themselves from licensing fees of other companies who might otherwise claim such a patent in the future? I can't see the Navy actually taking someone to court for "damages" - I mean, seriously, does the Navy make a profit off of commercially selling firewalls?
Hmmm... Searching through the USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office), I found 12 patents held by eBay: authenticating email(#7072944), "Information presentation and management in an online trading environment"(#7007076), monitoring and auto-notification of irregular transactions(#6944599), using a flag to show order status(#6859787), "generic attribute database system"(#6778993), "System and method to control sending of unsolicited communications relating to a plurality of listings in a network-based commerce facility"(#6748422) (gee, hmm, that somehow sounds like a patent on spam... or would that be solicited? I forget), ANOTHER patent with the same title as #7007076(#6732161), ANOTHER generic attribute database(#6604107), method for communicating search results(#6523037), method to verify identity in an online auction(#6466917), and TWO MORE patents about the presentation with the same title(#6415320 & #6058417). Thats a LOT of attributes and displays... imagine if someone like Microsoft tried to patent read-only files.