A couple years back I was just finishing up a batch of spaghetti -- I dumped the cooked spaghetti + boiling water into a strainer in the sink, served it up and proceeded to eat it.
About halfway through the meal, as the fork was on its way to my mouth, I noticed a metallic looking blob slide down a noodle. Naturally I'm like WTF... I look into my pasta and see lots of these tiny blobs throughout my dinner. It turns out that someone put a thermometer on a shelf above the sink, and it somehow fell and shattered into it -- right underneath where I put the strainer.
You should check out the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The ECPA act of 1986 may apply to the collection of surfing habits, and I know it appiles to email intercepting, screen recorders, etc.
My school had the same problem with software called Altiris Vision. I took the matter into my own hands, and removed the Registry key that ran the program on Startup, and was expelled from the district. It was probably for the better.
I'm re-uploading the page I did on the ECPA. You can get it here.
Wouldn't MSN's dish be more expensive, as it has to transmit to a satellite, as well as receive from one? I know handheld GPS units talk to satellites, but in the case of beaming LOTS of data, wouldn't it require somewhat more complex (and more expensive) technology?
Slashdot previously reported that the Federal's 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
determined that computer code IS expressive speech. From the ruling:
Because computer source code is an expressive means for the exchange of information and ideas about computer programming, we hold that it is protected by the First Amendment.
That was in April. Did Kaplan not consider this ruling in his decision? I'm no legal expert, but to me it seems that that law should take precedence over Kaplan's ruling. Perhaps somebody can enlighten me as to how the April ruling is related to today's?
Would you rather have AOL not deliver a linux client at all? Sure, there may be tons of clones out there for unix platforms, but at least AOL's heart is in the right place.
How cool it is to see somebody actually pushing themselves to the max to achieve their dream.
I do worry about his safety though. I wonder what his chances, statistically, are for surviving. It kinda upsets me how some posters to this site are joking about his body being obliterated into millions of pieces... its a real person, you know.
I don't think that releasing the source code to Windows would really harm Microsoft at all. At first I thought the idea would be absurd, thinking it would never work.
Say MS did, in fact, release the Windows source code, but still charged for it:
1) Microsoft wouldn't lose any money by selling less copies - Windows makes its money from Windows being bundeled on new systems. With broadband becoming more and more popular, it would be just as easy to "steal" the OS anyway.
2) Microsoft has the legal muscle to keep in check the folks who don't follow their "MPL" somehow.
3) Of course, the open source aspect of it would probably lead it to substantial improvements. Anyone who has a brain and knows what open source did for Linux can figure that out.
I really don't see any way that Microsoft could *directly* be hurt by releasing the Windows source. They would no longer have the advantage of using their "secret" API functions, but those days are over, anyway.
I don't see how you folks are disturbed by this. They are just offering another product, not forcing it upon you. I don't understand why, when AOL comes up with some idea, everybody's first thought is "evil" or "scary".
All it does is broaden the market. There is probably a way to hack those 17 buttons to your pleasing, so don't fret.
Personally, I think it would be an AWEFUL waste of an established satellite network to just burn it up. It's not like it costs money to just have them orbit for a while.
Yes, we know that many aspects of the film were unrealistic. But then again, so was Star Wars, and you folks dedicate an entire Slashdot topic to that. I can't seem to recall you ever complaining about how light-sabers were scientifically impossible.
Instead, you just enjoyed what Star Wars had to offer, which is what you should have done with m2m.
Mission to Mars was a movie with enormous potential, but didn't use all of it. I, for one, had been waiting since November to see the movie, especially with my interest in space travel. The only parts that really got to me started right after meeting the alien. Up until that point, every was within my boundaries of corniness.
Yeah, I could have blasted every aspect of it like you guys did, but why bother? I just watched the damn movie and happened to enjoy it.
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Many of those "dipshits" you are talking about rely exclusively on public transportation and/or are too poor to just up and leave.
A couple years back I was just finishing up a batch of spaghetti -- I dumped the cooked spaghetti + boiling water into a strainer in the sink, served it up and proceeded to eat it.
... I look into my pasta and see lots of these tiny blobs throughout my dinner. It turns out that someone put a thermometer on a shelf above the sink, and it somehow fell and shattered into it -- right underneath where I put the strainer.
About halfway through the meal, as the fork was on its way to my mouth, I noticed a metallic looking blob slide down a noodle. Naturally I'm like WTF
I have no idea how much I ate.
Here's an another online chat/interview from 2 years ago conducted by ABCNews.com with the same guy.
A Chat with Seth Shostak: Listening for E.T.
You don't want to give it away, of course. Sigh.
Gloria Foster, the actress who played the Oracle, died last weekend. She finished most of her role in the sequels.
May she rest in peace...
Link
I would have, but man, did I ever have to piss!
You should check out the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The ECPA act of 1986 may apply to the collection of surfing habits, and I know it appiles to email intercepting, screen recorders, etc.
My school had the same problem with software called Altiris Vision. I took the matter into my own hands, and removed the Registry key that ran the program on Startup, and was expelled from the district. It was probably for the better.
I'm re-uploading the page I did on the ECPA. You can get it here.
Hope that helps.
-Andrew
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It's been demonstrated time and time again. Simple, seemingly common sense IP issues are often misinterpretted by our court system.
This can probably be partly attributed to the fact that most Judges are > 50 years old. Their minds are cemented in a pre-internet age, it seems.
This will definately not be the last time a stupid IP/Internet law decision is made. What can be done?
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Wouldn't MSN's dish be more expensive, as it has to transmit to a satellite, as well as receive from one? I know handheld GPS units talk to satellites, but in the case of beaming LOTS of data, wouldn't it require somewhat more complex (and more expensive) technology?
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That was in April. Did Kaplan not consider this ruling in his decision? I'm no legal expert, but to me it seems that that law should take precedence over Kaplan's ruling. Perhaps somebody can enlighten me as to how the April ruling is related to today's?
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Would you rather have AOL not deliver a linux client at all? Sure, there may be tons of clones out there for unix platforms, but at least AOL's heart is in the right place.
How cool it is to see somebody actually pushing themselves to the max to achieve their dream.
I do worry about his safety though. I wonder what his chances, statistically, are for surviving. It kinda upsets me how some posters to this site are joking about his body being obliterated into millions of pieces... its a real person, you know.
would a boot log be posted as a story :)
I don't think that releasing the source code to Windows would really harm Microsoft at all. At first I thought the idea would be absurd, thinking it would never work.
Say MS did, in fact, release the Windows source code, but still charged for it:
1) Microsoft wouldn't lose any money by selling less copies - Windows makes its money from Windows being bundeled on new systems. With broadband becoming more and more popular, it would be just as easy to "steal" the OS anyway.
2) Microsoft has the legal muscle to keep in check the folks who don't follow their "MPL" somehow.
3) Of course, the open source aspect of it would probably lead it to substantial improvements. Anyone who has a brain and knows what open source did for Linux can figure that out.
I really don't see any way that Microsoft could *directly* be hurt by releasing the Windows source. They would no longer have the advantage of using their "secret" API functions, but those days are over, anyway.
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Brief: jozz.com
Detailed: jozz.com
They have a year from today if they don't appeal. But, they will. If they still lose their appeals, they will have exactly 1 year to do the splitup.
:P
This has got to be a bad day for Bill Gates
>>but with their technology sharing with Transmeta >>and AMD can we expect to see this enhancement in >>their chips?
Does it really matter? I mean, heck, normal processors seem to work just fine for me. What advantage do these chips have?
What the hell is propaganda? Where is the link? Where is the background information?
I don't see how you folks are disturbed by this. They are just offering another product, not forcing it upon you. I don't understand why, when AOL comes up with some idea, everybody's first thought is "evil" or "scary".
All it does is broaden the market. There is probably a way to hack those 17 buttons to your pleasing, so don't fret.
This article here seems to say otherwise.
Personally, I think it would be an AWEFUL waste of an established satellite network to just burn it up. It's not like it costs money to just have them orbit for a while.
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Yes, we know that many aspects of the film were unrealistic. But then again, so was Star Wars, and you folks dedicate an entire Slashdot topic to that. I can't seem to recall you ever complaining about how light-sabers were scientifically impossible.
Instead, you just enjoyed what Star Wars had to offer, which is what you should have done with m2m.
Mission to Mars was a movie with enormous potential, but didn't use all of it. I, for one, had been waiting since November to see the movie, especially with my interest in space travel. The only parts that really got to me started right after meeting the alien. Up until that point, every was within my boundaries of corniness.
Yeah, I could have blasted every aspect of it like you guys did, but why bother? I just watched the damn movie and happened to enjoy it.
-Andrew
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I actually liked that music. Yeah, it was different, but it somewhat showed the stress of the situation. I thought it was cool.
Slashdot / Andover / VA Linux could benefit projects like this and Mozilla.org so much....
but they dont.
If anyone is interested, I've written an article on the release on Betanews.com:
Here.
Pavlov increased drawing performance on Linux by at least 2x, scrolling by 5x.
Worth looking at.