Their patents mention MESSAGING but their US patent drawing http://www.kootol.com/Images/US_Pat_11995343_Figure_52.jpg refers to MASSAGING. Maybe this bloated looking email client they have allegedly invented also does a nice back rub.. ???
Jai Jai Sri Ganesha! The God of luck has answered our prayers!
I recommend everyone use Kootol's patented one-way communication system (email) to send your thoughts on this absurdity to License@kootol.com. Beware; By emailing them, you are infringing on their copyright. Let the spam begin!
Shubh Kaamnaayein, Kootol. You are really going to need it.
I was going to mention what you said "...NLP/AI researchers decades ago, and plain does not work." Thanks for posting that link.
If companies dont want to work together? Failure.
If standards aren't defined within groups working together? Failure.
If anyone thinks "web 2.0" is a technology and not just some media hyped buzzword? Failure.
The ideas behind web 2.0 are nothing new. Ancient thought even.
If you want to stay ahead of the curve, write your own software/web-based applications and then no worries when the big boys pull the plug and/or start charging to use their currently free publicly available API.
Someone buy this kid a dictionary. Not much of an article. Fluidics is nothing new and this article is very non informative, nor does it include any technical surmise or proof of concept expected from an MIT final project.
Ten-to-Fifteen years ago it was, "The richest 1% own 95% of the world's wealth." Theoretically, this new article is stating that the poor are just as poor as they always have been, and the rich are not as rich as they once were. This indictates a rise in the middle class. According to this new study, if you have $6100.00 or more in your bank account, you are among the top 50% of the population in terms of wealth.
It is possible that what we will see in the long term is a shrinking in the divide between the rich and the middle class, thus creating an even bigger gap between the rich and the poor (because the middle class is getting more wealth and leaving the poor behind.) Ultimately, the poor will be "more poor" than they are now, simply because things will cost more than they do now. At any rate, if the the divide between the rich and middle class continues to shrink, and people whom are born poor continue to be successful, and sometimes rich (which we see more and more in the US), then ultimately the term poor (in the US) will simply mean "refuses to work."
I read about this (or similar) device two years ago in a magazine article.
The article stated that a machine that "accurately predicts the position of 20 stars, and the moon, was discovered off the coast of Greece." The article also stated that the gears were made of gold, not bronze. Is this the same machine discussed here on slashdot, or have more than one of this type of ancient device been discovered off of the coast of greece?
Yes, technically anything that performs calculations is consider a computer. Performing calculations is also known as "computing". Even that uber cheap and flimsy solar calculator that Walmart sells for $1.00 is (technically) a computer.
Newt is a politcal newt. A little slithering lizard with no real power. He is a power starved moron with a dictatorship mentality akin to Hitler and Stalin. He has reached his peak and its all down hill for him now. His views are un American and thus America will never give him any real power again. Aside from putting a needed limit on baby's momma checks, his personal agenda was largely a waste of tax payers money, not to mention unconstitutional and unenforceable.
I hardly think 5 sentences can be considered a huge rant.
I am not anti-MS. I never said that MS sucks. I simply refered to their constant "oops" incompetence.
Scour your beloved internet for the many hundreds of articles pointing out the simple fact that Microsoft, in short, gets in a hurry and releases software, documentation, links, emails prematurely. The bottom line to MS employees I intended to make is simple: You are paid 'the big bucks', so kindly check your work before you release it.
Maybe you are the over zealous one. Or maybe you are a MS employee and the truth hurts? Bahahaha I will leave making assumptions to you. You seem to be much better at it than myself.
And a final note, yes, technology is becoming a religion and a way of life. It is how many of us feed our children and keep a roof over our heads.
For a bunch of folks that make some of the largest saleries in the entire world's IT industry, they sure do screw up a lot {read very often; too much}.
I say the world continues to petition Microsoft. Simply assure Microsoft that we [the public at large] have no plans on buying their new product until they can prove its stability and that it conforms to user demands. This would include the stability and accuracy of information they release regarding said product. Otherwise the public could easily ensure that MS does not continue to "make the big bucks".
After reading all the criticisms of the ad, I havent bothered even looking at it. Sounds like it unanimously sucks. Reminds me of word.. which also sucks. And Open Office.. well, I have been on linux since it came out and have tried OOffice a few times through the years. Give us a shout when it actually works well. So far as I can tell, and aside from it being free, its not any better than word.
I say the teachers can do whatever they want. If you don't like it, transfer to some other crap school where you probably won't graduate anyway.
This isnt news.
Lets talk about the truth at U of Memphis aka TIGER HIGH. Lets talk about how the faculty ignores expired Visa's in the name of profits for the state. It happens all the time.. and so far they've only busted a few people.
example:
Mahmoud Maawad a University of Memphis student and pilot-wannabe with a passion for flying small planes or an Arab terrorist looking to duplicate the suicide missions of 9/11?
Federal prosecutors in Memphis aren't saying, but on Thursday they asked a U.S. magistrate to hold Maawad, 29, whose email logon is pilot747, held without bond until trial. U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Thomas Anderson agreed with Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Parker, and Maaward becomes the second Memphis resident of Arab descent to be held without bond because of investigations by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. In April, Rafat Mawlawi was jailed in a separate investigation in which prosecutors have linked him to Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida.
Mahmoud Maawad was charged with wire fraud and using a false Social Security number, but authorities now say he was visiting online chatrooms and Web sites supporting radical Sunni Muslim organizations and Al Queda leaders in Iraq.
HOMELAND SECURITY IS A JOKE, and so is this "laptop news". Hardly news.
What exactly is the difference between US liberalism and Canadian Liberalism?
I am an American that has [very briefly] lived in Canada before, and have since visited there a few times. However, I still don't understand the difference.. didn't realize there was a difference.
Government agencies have been snooping through packets the whole time.. the only difference is now they can do it without "guilt" thanks to new relative laws. It is easy to do.. even in 1989, a 15 year old kid could hack into something like the JANET (Yugoslavian Packet Switching Network) and rule supreme unnoticed.
The truth is that society hasnt changed that much over the last few thousand years.. it is just getting easier to persecute folks for their "sins".
Sure sure. . . crime and terrorism and child porn. Certainly most people in their right mind are against child porn. I certainly would consider taking justice into my own hands if someone were to put my children in such a situation. And, yes, terrorism is terrorism. Whether you are a CIA contractor torturing prisoners, a soldier killing innocent civilians 'accidentally', or even the real deal Jihad warrior with your holy cruise missile buried deep in sand, terrorism is terrorism.
However, this is just a big scam for governments to launder more money. Child porn will not be reduced but they will certainly say that they reduced it by 25% as soon as they get a few more scapegoats for the new 'program'. Agencies will claim that it has helped decrease crime and terrorism by some arbitrary percentage. The only real solution is the Muslim extremist approach. It will save all countries extreme amounts of money. Hang child porn sickos in the middle of town and broadcast it on TV nationally. If you think this would be inhumane, then obviously you have never been molested or had gangs kidnap your little sister and threaten to kill her if you testify. You want to stop crime? feed the poor and hungry! Maybe the world needs a new Marie Antoinette to hang as well. Want to stop terrorism? Its simple. Stop creating it. Quit financing wars and switching sides every 20 years to hedge your bets. It has nothing to do with the internet. Say bye bye to all those tax dollars - they wont be used to help you or anyone you know!
could someone aside from google get financed and do something "interesting"?
:)
I doubt google is in any way financing slashdot but I remember the days when slashdot featured the more arcane news than it does now. Though this post is not one of them, many of these google posts that I've seen on slashdot lately I saw days before they are slashdotted on other sites. Sure, "Slashdot: IT is what IT is" but I remember what it used to be too.. you know what I'm sayin'?
My advise, please don't take this as a diss. Google seems great, as is Slashdot but some folks I think are just reposting google related news for their imaginary karma points or whatever you get on here when you post. Reposting easy to find info is easy slash karma. But does that make you slash-enlightened? probably not.
Actually, I taught a few PHP classes to Jr High students (in 2001 and 2002.) The Jr High kids picked PHP up faster than the DEGREED engineers that I taught the same class to that same year.
I am finally happy with the advent of XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0. I can easily build a site that looks the same in any browser and passes all validation tests. I think the community is slowly headed in the right direction.
The bottom line is that Microsoft (IE) needs to follow *the* standards instead of following 'their own set of standards', which are substandard in my opinion.
"what do you think is the impact of a US government overtly practicing cyberspace warfare? And what are the US's legal limitations?"
* The only difference is that now the US government will admit they are involved in "cyberspace warfare". The truth is that there is no real cyber war. There is no cyberspace. William Gibson can verify this as fact.
The US can barely even help its own during a natural disaster, what makes you think that homeland security creates safety, or that the US government is actually ready for a REAL cyber war? The truth? The US would lose if it happened today.
* There are no legal limitations to what the US government may choose to do with the internet. The US government financed the birth of the internet via the DARPA projects, therefore, it makes sense to assume that they will do whatever they want with the technology.
* One point that has not been made is that the new mission statement is also a potential sales/marketing tactic to woo techies to join their high tech organization. Re-enlistment is at a major low-point for all the military branches. They'll do anything to convince kids to "get out of the hood by joining the army".. this new mission statement helps them to more easily target rich white kids.
The USAF could barely keep 15 year old kids from illegally accessing their network in the [early] nineties. Let's hope the new mission statement defines a new level of network security. Too bad they don't give civilian jobs to over qualified non-degreed self-taught IT professionals. If they did, they may then find themselves protected by people that actually care to defend.
I have a domain that I have owned since October, 1999. I registered purposefully with false information simply because it was allowed. It is really no one's business who I am or what I own. Though, yes, I was once a hacker and publisher of a questionable electronic magazine [Digital Murder], my aim was never of a criminal intent. I feel that it is my right to be able to say whatever I want and be allowed to at least ~attempt~ to safeguard my privacy. I am an American and I registered it with an American Registrar. However, the rules are changing daily. The government is just scared because they know... well.. like Jim Morrison said, "They got the guns but we got the numbers.. We're gonna win, yeah, if we try. COME ON!"
The government can kiss my ass for all I care. Wasting money on such a stupid study. I could have told them that and saved them who knows how much taxpayer dollars! The US Government has turned into a money laundering joke.
Um.. let's see.. yes, since the fifties, when corporate life really took hold in this country. The following quote comes to mind, author unknown;
"In China, the government controls the corporations. In the US, corporations control the government."
Digital Murder Forever.
If you need that for your girlfriend, maybe you should get a new girlfriend instead of spending the hundreds to keep tabs on her.
Aside from that... hmmm... calling your dog with your phone.. probably the dumbest idea I've heard about in a long time. All these talented and underpaid people in the world just barely scraping by and then there is some jerk out there that throws hundreds of dollars at a cell phone dog collar? Anyone that buys one of these should be run over by their own SUV. If you think this product may be of interest to you, please do the world a favor and kill yourself now.
I ran Slackware Linux w/ 1.0.7 kernel on a pentium 90 w/ 64MB RAM 10+ years ago with 48 analog MODEMS plugged into it through cyclades boards.
Currently, I have a P60 w/ CMD460 bug AND Pentium F00F bug, 40M RAM running the latest FreeBSD stable. It has been online 24/7 since October 2000. I tried to run Linux on it but none of the distros (at the time) would allow you to install unless you installed more memory.
I dont see how this got slashdotted. Old news.. DSL has been out for a while now.. I wish that DSL put dates in their change log.
Slashdot Mirror
Their patents mention MESSAGING but their US patent drawing http://www.kootol.com/Images/US_Pat_11995343_Figure_52.jpg refers to MASSAGING. Maybe this bloated looking email client they have allegedly invented also does a nice back rub.. ??? Jai Jai Sri Ganesha! The God of luck has answered our prayers! I recommend everyone use Kootol's patented one-way communication system (email) to send your thoughts on this absurdity to License@kootol.com. Beware; By emailing them, you are infringing on their copyright. Let the spam begin! Shubh Kaamnaayein, Kootol. You are really going to need it.
I believe this may have been mentioned a few years ago in an RFC. .safe TLD is a waste of time and money, 'nuff said.
I was going to mention what you said "...NLP/AI researchers decades ago, and plain does not work." Thanks for posting that link.
If companies dont want to work together? Failure.
If standards aren't defined within groups working together? Failure.
If anyone thinks "web 2.0" is a technology and not just some media hyped buzzword? Failure.
The ideas behind web 2.0 are nothing new. Ancient thought even.
If you want to stay ahead of the curve, write your own software/web-based applications and then no worries when the big boys pull the plug and/or start charging to use their currently free publicly available API.
Someone buy this kid a dictionary. Not much of an article. Fluidics is nothing new and this article is very non informative, nor does it include any technical surmise or proof of concept expected from an MIT final project.
I agree. This is complete BS. This article is bad make believe hype.
Ten-to-Fifteen years ago it was, "The richest 1% own 95% of the world's wealth." Theoretically, this new article is stating that the poor are just as poor as they always have been, and the rich are not as rich as they once were. This indictates a rise in the middle class. According to this new study, if you have $6100.00 or more in your bank account, you are among the top 50% of the population in terms of wealth.
It is possible that what we will see in the long term is a shrinking in the divide between the rich and the middle class, thus creating an even bigger gap between the rich and the poor (because the middle class is getting more wealth and leaving the poor behind.) Ultimately, the poor will be "more poor" than they are now, simply because things will cost more than they do now. At any rate, if the the divide between the rich and middle class continues to shrink, and people whom are born poor continue to be successful, and sometimes rich (which we see more and more in the US), then ultimately the term poor (in the US) will simply mean "refuses to work."
I read about this (or similar) device two years ago in a magazine article. The article stated that a machine that "accurately predicts the position of 20 stars, and the moon, was discovered off the coast of Greece." The article also stated that the gears were made of gold, not bronze. Is this the same machine discussed here on slashdot, or have more than one of this type of ancient device been discovered off of the coast of greece?
Yes, technically anything that performs calculations is consider a computer. Performing calculations is also known as "computing". Even that uber cheap and flimsy solar calculator that Walmart sells for $1.00 is (technically) a computer.
Newt is a politcal newt. A little slithering lizard with no real power. He is a power starved moron with a dictatorship mentality akin to Hitler and Stalin. He has reached his peak and its all down hill for him now. His views are un American and thus America will never give him any real power again. Aside from putting a needed limit on baby's momma checks, his personal agenda was largely a waste of tax payers money, not to mention unconstitutional and unenforceable.
I hardly think 5 sentences can be considered a huge rant. I am not anti-MS. I never said that MS sucks. I simply refered to their constant "oops" incompetence. Scour your beloved internet for the many hundreds of articles pointing out the simple fact that Microsoft, in short, gets in a hurry and releases software, documentation, links, emails prematurely. The bottom line to MS employees I intended to make is simple: You are paid 'the big bucks', so kindly check your work before you release it. Maybe you are the over zealous one. Or maybe you are a MS employee and the truth hurts? Bahahaha I will leave making assumptions to you. You seem to be much better at it than myself. And a final note, yes, technology is becoming a religion and a way of life. It is how many of us feed our children and keep a roof over our heads.
For a bunch of folks that make some of the largest saleries in the entire world's IT industry, they sure do screw up a lot {read very often; too much}. I say the world continues to petition Microsoft. Simply assure Microsoft that we [the public at large] have no plans on buying their new product until they can prove its stability and that it conforms to user demands. This would include the stability and accuracy of information they release regarding said product. Otherwise the public could easily ensure that MS does not continue to "make the big bucks".
After reading all the criticisms of the ad, I havent bothered even looking at it. Sounds like it unanimously sucks. Reminds me of word.. which also sucks. And Open Office.. well, I have been on linux since it came out and have tried OOffice a few times through the years. Give us a shout when it actually works well. So far as I can tell, and aside from it being free, its not any better than word.
Harry Harrison had a suggestion for such an alternative in his novel, Soylent Green. yum!
'nuff said
I say the teachers can do whatever they want. If you don't like it, transfer to some other crap school where you probably won't graduate anyway.
This isnt news.
Lets talk about the truth at U of Memphis aka TIGER HIGH. Lets talk about how the faculty ignores expired Visa's in the name of profits for the state. It happens all the time.. and so far they've only busted a few people.
example:
Mahmoud Maawad a University of Memphis student and pilot-wannabe with a passion for flying small planes or an Arab terrorist looking to duplicate the suicide missions of 9/11?
Federal prosecutors in Memphis aren't saying, but on Thursday they asked a U.S. magistrate to hold Maawad, 29, whose email logon is pilot747, held without bond until trial. U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Thomas Anderson agreed with Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Parker, and Maaward becomes the second Memphis resident of Arab descent to be held without bond because of investigations by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. In April, Rafat Mawlawi was jailed in a separate investigation in which prosecutors have linked him to Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida.
Mahmoud Maawad was charged with wire fraud and using a false Social Security number, but authorities now say he was visiting online chatrooms and Web sites supporting radical Sunni Muslim organizations and Al Queda leaders in Iraq.
HOMELAND SECURITY IS A JOKE, and so is this "laptop news". Hardly news.
Quick question..
What exactly is the difference between US liberalism and Canadian Liberalism?
I am an American that has [very briefly] lived in Canada before, and have since visited there a few times. However, I still don't understand the difference.. didn't realize there was a difference.
Can anyone provide insight into this?
Piss me off? Wow! Those are harsh words. I wouldn't say I'm pissed off. Far from it, in fact. Ah well.
Government agencies have been snooping through packets the whole time.. the only difference is now they can do it without "guilt" thanks to new relative laws. It is easy to do.. even in 1989, a 15 year old kid could hack into something like the JANET (Yugoslavian Packet Switching Network) and rule supreme unnoticed.
The truth is that society hasnt changed that much over the last few thousand years.. it is just getting easier to persecute folks for their "sins".
Sure sure. . . crime and terrorism and child porn. Certainly most people in their right mind are against child porn. I certainly would consider taking justice into my own hands if someone were to put my children in such a situation. And, yes, terrorism is terrorism. Whether you are a CIA contractor torturing prisoners, a soldier killing innocent civilians 'accidentally', or even the real deal Jihad warrior with your holy cruise missile buried deep in sand, terrorism is terrorism.
However, this is just a big scam for governments to launder more money. Child porn will not be reduced but they will certainly say that they reduced it by 25% as soon as they get a few more scapegoats for the new 'program'. Agencies will claim that it has helped decrease crime and terrorism by some arbitrary percentage. The only real solution is the Muslim extremist approach. It will save all countries extreme amounts of money. Hang child porn sickos in the middle of town and broadcast it on TV nationally. If you think this would be inhumane, then obviously you have never been molested or had gangs kidnap your little sister and threaten to kill her if you testify. You want to stop crime? feed the poor and hungry! Maybe the world needs a new Marie Antoinette to hang as well. Want to stop terrorism? Its simple. Stop creating it. Quit financing wars and switching sides every 20 years to hedge your bets. It has nothing to do with the internet. Say bye bye to all those tax dollars - they wont be used to help you or anyone you know!
could someone aside from google get financed and do something "interesting"?
:)
I doubt google is in any way financing slashdot but I remember the days when slashdot featured the more arcane news than it does now. Though this post is not one of them, many of these google posts that I've seen on slashdot lately I saw days before they are slashdotted on other sites. Sure, "Slashdot: IT is what IT is" but I remember what it used to be too.. you know what I'm sayin'?
My advise, please don't take this as a diss. Google seems great, as is Slashdot but some folks I think are just reposting google related news for their imaginary karma points or whatever you get on here when you post. Reposting easy to find info is easy slash karma. But does that make you slash-enlightened? probably not.
Actually, I taught a few PHP classes to Jr High students (in 2001 and 2002.) The Jr High kids picked PHP up faster than the DEGREED engineers that I taught the same class to that same year.
I am finally happy with the advent of XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0. I can easily build a site that looks the same in any browser and passes all validation tests. I think the community is slowly headed in the right direction.
The bottom line is that Microsoft (IE) needs to follow *the* standards instead of following 'their own set of standards', which are substandard in my opinion.
"what do you think is the impact of a US government overtly practicing cyberspace warfare? And what are the US's legal limitations?" * The only difference is that now the US government will admit they are involved in "cyberspace warfare". The truth is that there is no real cyber war. There is no cyberspace. William Gibson can verify this as fact. The US can barely even help its own during a natural disaster, what makes you think that homeland security creates safety, or that the US government is actually ready for a REAL cyber war? The truth? The US would lose if it happened today. * There are no legal limitations to what the US government may choose to do with the internet. The US government financed the birth of the internet via the DARPA projects, therefore, it makes sense to assume that they will do whatever they want with the technology. * One point that has not been made is that the new mission statement is also a potential sales/marketing tactic to woo techies to join their high tech organization. Re-enlistment is at a major low-point for all the military branches. They'll do anything to convince kids to "get out of the hood by joining the army".. this new mission statement helps them to more easily target rich white kids. The USAF could barely keep 15 year old kids from illegally accessing their network in the [early] nineties. Let's hope the new mission statement defines a new level of network security. Too bad they don't give civilian jobs to over qualified non-degreed self-taught IT professionals. If they did, they may then find themselves protected by people that actually care to defend.
I put Web 2.0 right next to the RSS toilet paper printer and AJAX. Web 2.0 matters because some buzzword slinging sales guy says so!
I have a domain that I have owned since October, 1999. I registered purposefully with false information simply because it was allowed. It is really no one's business who I am or what I own. Though, yes, I was once a hacker and publisher of a questionable electronic magazine [Digital Murder], my aim was never of a criminal intent. I feel that it is my right to be able to say whatever I want and be allowed to at least ~attempt~ to safeguard my privacy. I am an American and I registered it with an American Registrar. However, the rules are changing daily. The government is just scared because they know ... well.. like Jim Morrison said, "They got the guns but we got the numbers.. We're gonna win, yeah, if we try. COME ON!"
The government can kiss my ass for all I care. Wasting money on such a stupid study. I could have told them that and saved them who knows how much taxpayer dollars! The US Government has turned into a money laundering joke.
Um.. let's see.. yes, since the fifties, when corporate life really took hold in this country. The following quote comes to mind, author unknown; "In China, the government controls the corporations. In the US, corporations control the government." Digital Murder Forever.
If you need that for your girlfriend, maybe you should get a new girlfriend instead of spending the hundreds to keep tabs on her.
Aside from that... hmmm... calling your dog with your phone.. probably the dumbest idea I've heard about in a long time. All these talented and underpaid people in the world just barely scraping by and then there is some jerk out there that throws hundreds of dollars at a cell phone dog collar? Anyone that buys one of these should be run over by their own SUV. If you think this product may be of interest to you, please do the world a favor and kill yourself now.
I ran Slackware Linux w/ 1.0.7 kernel on a pentium 90 w/ 64MB RAM 10+ years ago with 48 analog MODEMS plugged into it through cyclades boards. Currently, I have a P60 w/ CMD460 bug AND Pentium F00F bug, 40M RAM running the latest FreeBSD stable. It has been online 24/7 since October 2000. I tried to run Linux on it but none of the distros (at the time) would allow you to install unless you installed more memory. I dont see how this got slashdotted. Old news.. DSL has been out for a while now.. I wish that DSL put dates in their change log.