Let me get this straight -- if they take a "bait" car and leave it in a parking lot unlocked, with the keys in it, and running, and some idiot kid decides to go for joyride, it's not entrapment. But if someone googles for "illegal kiddie porn" on the internet, finds a site, and downloads from it, in full knowledge that to do so is illegal, that's entrapment? I suggest you ask a lawyer to define entrapment for you. If I remember correctly, it is an attempt by law enforcement to induce a person to do something they would not otherwise have done."
Oh, and read the rest of the post. I was NOT advocating arresting people for downloading porn. I was only advocating the creation of "honeypot" porn sites as a way getting leads on people that should be investigated further. If viewing pictures of crimes led to actually committing crimes, then a lot of "Law and Order" fans would be in jail, wouldn't they?
If reading about polygamy, rape, incest, and murder makes people more likely to commit those crimes, then shouldn't reading of the Bible be banned?
No, you shouldn't arrest people for having a statistically higher propensity to commiting crimes. But, if you can show that they are more likely to commit crimes, that WOULD justify keeping a closer eye on them, wouldn't it? Certainly, if I was an agency gung-ho on tracking down paedophiles, I would put up a site offering material designed to appeal to them, then try to trace the downloads. This is what I don't understand -- how can anybody buy this stuff without suspecting that they are being set up? If half the dealers of porn, drugs, prostitution, or other illegal merchandise were actually law enforcement sting operations, wouldn't that stop any rational person from buying?
Huh? I've never been in a Fry's where the person I asked questions of knew anymore about the product than I did. And their insistence on trying to bullshit me when they didn't know what they were talking about was somewhat annoying. Of course, that was years ago, and they might be able to attact better people in a down job market.
Good point. I already have a box of Linux software purchased from Caldera (for about $50) sitting on my shelf. They are now telling me I need to pay them another $1399 to use that software? Doesn't that give me grounds for a consumer fraud lawsuit against SCO?
Two better words: Sovereign Immunity. You can't sue the government without the government's permission. Suing the very people that own the courts that are charged with enforcing your dubious intellectual property claims is just asking to be slapped down. SCO has clearly crossed over the line from chutzpah to insanity; they deserve to be treated just as you would the guy in the tinfoil hat shouting obscenities on the street corner. Just walk on by and ignore 'em. (And clutch tightly to your purse.)
None of those embedded devices have multiple processors, therefore they could not possibly be using the multple processor support that is the basis of the IBM lawsuit. Your trying to combat illogic with logic here; a better strategy would be to ignore them, at least until they attempt to substatiate a basis for their claims. How serious would Microsoft take you if you told them "I want $1 for every copy of Windows you ship because I claim it contains code derived from code that I own the copyright on. Oh, and by the way, I can't tell you what code that is because it's a trade secret!" I'm pretty sure you'd be quickly escorted off site...
Seems like suing the very people who are in charge of making your business model work (the US Federal government is the only body that could possibly enforce their ridiculous claims) would be a rather self-defeating move. Doesn't the law of sovereign immunity apply here? What judge is going to hand over billions of dollars to these scoundrels? What federal judge is going to risk setting a precedent that would give these claims some legitmacy, knowing that they would only use the precedent to go after the judges own paycheck? This is definately beginning to look like the corporate equivalent of a "death-by-cop" suicide.
Just Cisco? Try Sharp, HP, and several other multi-billion dollar companies that are currently shipping Electronics devices based on Linux 2.4... If, as Inder Singh claims, this "is extortion based on fraud" then I think it's about time to start pressing criminal charges against Mr. McBride. If nothing else, he is deliberately attempting to depress the stock valuations of many of the largest companies in the US, through fraudulent claims in the media. Doesn't that subject him to arrest for securities fraud?
Given enough compute power, you could probably even brute force "creativity" and "thinking outside the box" e.g. by generating every possible idea, then selectively filtering out the usefull ones. In other words, given 1000 monkeys at a thousand typewriters for a thousand years, one of them would eventually patent 1-click online shopping.
If it was in hex I wouldn't have had to look it up; unfortunately I'm not as well versed in binary, and it was easier to just look it up in an ASCII table than do the binary to hex to ASCII translation... that would have actually required getting out a pen and paper!
Ok, how many of you actually looked up the "If you can read this, you belong here" T-shirt to confirm that it actually said "Slashdot.org"??? If you did, then you DEFINATELY belong here!
Well, how are they going to sustain their business model of paying radio stations millions to promote their new albums with the pirates are getting all the profits? If this continues, people will be forced to listen to music they actually like, rather than whatever the RIAA decides to force down their throats!
It's also an order of magnitude more difficult to implement (due to problems like recovering lost tokens) and was limited by spec. to 16Mbits/second, with a higher proportion of those bits devoted to overhead. Oh, and chipsets to do Token Ring were an order of magnitude more expensive. Token Ring is to Ethernet as Steam Engines are to Internal Combustion engines -- yes, if they'd put as much time, energy, and money into developing Token Ring as they have into Ethernet, it would be a better technology than Ethernet (mostly because like you said, worse case packet delivery time is deterministic). But they haven't!
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Oh, and read the rest of the post. I was NOT advocating arresting people for downloading porn. I was only advocating the creation of "honeypot" porn sites as a way getting leads on people that should be investigated further. If viewing pictures of crimes led to actually committing crimes, then a lot of "Law and Order" fans would be in jail, wouldn't they?
If reading about polygamy, rape, incest, and murder makes people more likely to commit those crimes, then shouldn't reading of the Bible be banned?
Yes, Ford Prefect
You don't mention your religious beleifs on your web page, so could you answer one simple question: vi or emacs?
136 == "almost 200"???
No, you shouldn't arrest people for having a statistically higher propensity to commiting crimes. But, if you can show that they are more likely to commit crimes, that WOULD justify keeping a closer eye on them, wouldn't it? Certainly, if I was an agency gung-ho on tracking down paedophiles, I would put up a site offering material designed to appeal to them, then try to trace the downloads. This is what I don't understand -- how can anybody buy this stuff without suspecting that they are being set up? If half the dealers of porn, drugs, prostitution, or other illegal merchandise were actually law enforcement sting operations, wouldn't that stop any rational person from buying?
Add to this "chimps have been known to eat other chimps" and you have to ask, did the DNA come from the animal in question, or from it's dinner?
More like "not-so-hot" ape...
Huh? I've never been in a Fry's where the person I asked questions of knew anymore about the product than I did. And their insistence on trying to bullshit me when they didn't know what they were talking about was somewhat annoying. Of course, that was years ago, and they might be able to attact better people in a down job market.
patents != trademarks
Good point. I already have a box of Linux software purchased from Caldera (for about $50) sitting on my shelf. They are now telling me I need to pay them another $1399 to use that software? Doesn't that give me grounds for a consumer fraud lawsuit against SCO?
Two better words: Sovereign Immunity. You can't sue the government without the government's permission. Suing the very people that own the courts that are charged with enforcing your dubious intellectual property claims is just asking to be slapped down. SCO has clearly crossed over the line from chutzpah to insanity; they deserve to be treated just as you would the guy in the tinfoil hat shouting obscenities on the street corner. Just walk on by and ignore 'em. (And clutch tightly to your purse.)
That pretty much sums up the SCO situation, doesn't it?
None of those embedded devices have multiple processors, therefore they could not possibly be using the multple processor support that is the basis of the IBM lawsuit. Your trying to combat illogic with logic here; a better strategy would be to ignore them, at least until they attempt to substatiate a basis for their claims. How serious would Microsoft take you if you told them "I want $1 for every copy of Windows you ship because I claim it contains code derived from code that I own the copyright on. Oh, and by the way, I can't tell you what code that is because it's a trade secret!" I'm pretty sure you'd be quickly escorted off site...
Seems like suing the very people who are in charge of making your business model work (the US Federal government is the only body that could possibly enforce their ridiculous claims) would be a rather self-defeating move. Doesn't the law of sovereign immunity apply here? What judge is going to hand over billions of dollars to these scoundrels? What federal judge is going to risk setting a precedent that would give these claims some legitmacy, knowing that they would only use the precedent to go after the judges own paycheck? This is definately beginning to look like the corporate equivalent of a "death-by-cop" suicide.
Just Cisco? Try Sharp, HP, and several other multi-billion dollar companies that are currently shipping Electronics devices based on Linux 2.4... If, as Inder Singh claims, this "is extortion based on fraud" then I think it's about time to start pressing criminal charges against Mr. McBride. If nothing else, he is deliberately attempting to depress the stock valuations of many of the largest companies in the US, through fraudulent claims in the media. Doesn't that subject him to arrest for securities fraud?
Some where a market research guy is salivating...
Don't replace SMTP! Then I'll have to learn a completely new set of commands to type into telnet every time I want to send an email!
Do ALL humans have souls? Even (shudder) Darl McBride?
Given enough compute power, you could probably even brute force "creativity" and "thinking outside the box" e.g. by generating every possible idea, then selectively filtering out the usefull ones. In other words, given 1000 monkeys at a thousand typewriters for a thousand years, one of them would eventually patent 1-click online shopping.
Can those of us with Diabetes now sell our excess blood sugar to the power grid?
No.Iteadit.??? Oh, I get it... you can translate binary to ASCII in your head, but your spelling is as bad as most other
If it was in hex I wouldn't have had to look it up; unfortunately I'm not as well versed in binary, and it was easier to just look it up in an ASCII table than do the binary to hex to ASCII translation... that would have actually required getting out a pen and paper!
Ok, how many of you actually looked up the "If you can read this, you belong here" T-shirt to confirm that it actually said "Slashdot.org"??? If you did, then you DEFINATELY belong here!
Well, how are they going to sustain their business model of paying radio stations millions to promote their new albums with the pirates are getting all the profits? If this continues, people will be forced to listen to music they actually like, rather than whatever the RIAA decides to force down their throats!
It's also an order of magnitude more difficult to implement (due to problems like recovering lost tokens) and was limited by spec. to 16Mbits/second, with a higher proportion of those bits devoted to overhead. Oh, and chipsets to do Token Ring were an order of magnitude more expensive. Token Ring is to Ethernet as Steam Engines are to Internal Combustion engines -- yes, if they'd put as much time, energy, and money into developing Token Ring as they have into Ethernet, it would be a better technology than Ethernet (mostly because like you said, worse case packet delivery time is deterministic). But they haven't!