In Japan have been shopping for just a normal scanner for an OS X based laptop. Have yet to find small scanner that has native OS X support, and am unwilling to start native mode when scanning. Epson seems to have started releasing some drivers (see May 15th article at http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=14217), good luck.
Everyone (including Intel's braindead legal drones) seem to have a mistaken underlying assumption that the requirement to defend trademarks is a requirement to beat the crap out of anyone that uses anything similar regardless of the domain, or how small they are. Intel should have merely sent these guys a piece of paper giving them a non-revokable free license to use the "yoga inside" name as long as it was not used in a technology related enterprise or with similar presentation (e.g. no labeling the inmates with little "@ yoga inside"squares on their foreheads or commercials yellow robed guys in helmets jumping around in commercials, with a "yoga inside! om, om, om, om!" catch tune). This would have given them ammunition for any future battle with true violators, and would have done it at no cost the little people they apparently don't mind stomping on. My guess these types of antics keep a couple of extra people on the legal team employed... I'd be interested who in their public relations team is consulted. Someone either approved it or didn't bother to ask. Would nice to see that person on the street. Buy AMD in the meantime.
Although marginally more expensive in legal terms, it would appear that the door is still open to an attack in Texas. What they are missing, is the cost in goodwill from the community. Write them at sales@unicomsi.com (or the email address of your choice, but good luck finding one on their site), and help them understand what it would mean to their sales and employment to be a pariah.
Microsoft, in their wisdom, have devoloped a feature we call
"DumbTags" that adds Microsoft chosen links to your pages based on
keywords. They have thoughtfully added an opt-out feature, and you
can be protected from having your readership redirected by your
friends in Redmond if you merely manually update every page and
script on your site to include this meta tag:
There are a number of valid reasons to reject this opt-out model,
and this page explores the possibility of engineering DumbTag free
swaths of the internet.
Suggestions
Lets consider how DumbTags might be made opt-in through
technological means.
Perl: Change the HTML generation modules such as CGI.pm to
automatically add the protection unless the meta tag is defined.
PHP: Add a preprocessing phase where the protective
tag is automatically inserted into head blocks?
Web Servers, Proxy Servers: addition of a default filter
that adds the protective meta tag automatically to pages unless overridden.
Server users could of course turn off this feature...
Tools
Automated Removal: We are looking for links to programs that
can traverse directories and automatically update static HTML files
with protection.
Advocacy
What you can do to stop DumbTags:
Add the meta tags to your pages and scripts.
Don't forget to call them DumbTags.
Tell your friends.
Lobby your favorite tool makers to provide automated protection to
your works.
Don't use products that implement them.
Please send feedback, suggestions, and comments to shaun@atrium.com.
There is a search interface to Google that allows for Microsoft free searches (http://www.atrium.com/msfree.html). Microsoft related sites have an option to be included in search results of this interface if they change the spelling of "microsoft" in their pages.
Among other services, Bloomberg provides a private mail service that is commonly used in the financial industry. About a year or so ago, they put in place filters that disallowed mail with the "wrong" words, with a message about inappropriate business language. As if an analyst is not intelligent enough to use different language wiht his key customer or his buddy from high school at another firm. This filter was imposed on all firms uniformly, with no way to turn this "function" off. However, the user soon learned to write "that research report is b+u+l+l+s+h+i+t", or "Micheal Bloomberg can s*u*c*k my d*i*c*k". Another facist attempt to restrict the thoughts you can have and express thwarted.
Havent run up against the Chocolate Chip problem, but have seen weir results elsewhere. A recent reproducable exampl? Searching for "word lists" on Dogpile gives in one section:
Search engine: Dogpile Web Catalog found 3,710 documents. The query string sent was word lists
Displaying first 10 documents.
1. word lists - 10,000,000 words in over 130 categories word lists - click here for the largest archives on the internet www.wordlists.com - TouchPlanet Communications - CA
Clicking through and it is soon clear that wordlists.com went out of the word list business and into the adult content index business...
CDs here in Japan sell for around $25-$32. There is NO discounting. No, this is not a cultural thing, but is legal, enshrined in so-called 'fair trade' laws that prohibit discounting domestic CDs, records, books, and newspapers. This is one of the key reasons that e-commerce is being hobbled in Japan, as there is no incentive to buy CDs or books over the net (fixed price + shipping > fixed price), and these are typical first purchases that get consumers comfortable with the process.
Given that CD buyers often are buying whole CDs to get certain key tracks, the 350 yen price makes a certain sick sense. Of course Sony is on crack and you can only feel for innocents that end up buying the cripple-ware players they are making...
Congratulations! Although Dad has passed away, here is his letter! By the way, the Filmore Mortuary has 20% off on cremations this week, with FREE SHIPPING!
Don't know how the Final Thoughts site passed the/. quality control... looking at the site I noticed the FinalThoughts.com is a patent-pending technology line. Guess the my dad should license the technology before leaving a letter in the desk drawer, which is apparently what the service provides. Does anyone know if the pending patent just covers death, or any triggered or delayed mail?
The terms of use are also pretty hilarious. In addition to claiming to be binding without agreement [i.e. just by visiting the site] and freely modifiable retroactively (section 15), if they screw up and lose your final messages of love (or whatever), it looks like your heirs can get back the $5 or whatever they charged you, which should be comforting (section 10).
Guess I should patent virtual prayers, thats probably still up for grabs.
At long last! One question though. If programs protected under this license end up being used in Linux distributions, what keeps you from strutting around telling everyone to call it Bastard/Linux?
If I libel Joe Blow and you link to my libelous site, are you libeling? If I use copyrighted material without permission on my site and you link to it, are you in violation of copyright? If a search engine returns a link to a DVD hack site, has it violated trade secrets? If I link to ToysRUs and they are hit by your class-action lawsuit, will you name me in the suit? If you mention to me a site that is run by the mob(lets call it a verbal link), can your car be impounded under RICO? If I've lusted after my neighbor's wife in public on my page, and you link to it, will you go to hell?
These questions point out the ridiculous nature of allegations that a link equates to responsibility for content seen in this and the DVD hack case...
Not only impossible to get delivery, but also actually impossible to cancel orders. Got so pissed, I posted my experience online at http://www.atrium.com/toysrussucks.html . There was no service, and I believe that the unreasonable burden put on customers may in some cases be actionable.
The opening line of the article reads: "Richard Stallman is one of the original developers of what became the Linux OS..." That explains all of those emacs references in the kernel code! I'd be interested in seeing how many people see a parallel of RMS's attempts to take credit for Linux (oops, sorry, I meant GNU/Linux [not]). RMS does want to be paid, just in the coin of his choice. As long as the patent law is enforced in an inappropriate manner, companies would be stupid to do otherwise. The boycott of Amazon is lame.
Cut off from Chinese contribution funds, Bore is confronted with an opportunity to encourage spendthrift (in a political sense) tech firms to increase their bribes to public officials^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ H^H^H^H^H^H campain contributions. After all, look at what constant hounding got for charity!
While the author's original philosophers stone piece was of interest, the follow up site is a poster child of metaphysics gone bad. Appying the filter of the verification principle (statements not a tautology or emperically verifyable are meaningless) to the work leaves relatively little, and of that the bits on cognitive limits imposed by language and culture has in fact been previously noticed, as recently as 400-something-BC by Buddha. See just about any of the 1,400 years of writings on this for details.
Would be a moot point if 10,000 slashdotters put this tag in their sites:
D&D? What about Empire of the Petal Throne?
on
D&D Movie on The Way
·
· Score: 1
Always thought that TSR screwed up the transition from D&D to AD&D. Empire of the Petal Throne was way cooler, and much more suited to the silver screen. Check out the visuals at the Tekumel site.
Slashdot Mirror
In Japan have been shopping for just a normal scanner for an OS X based laptop. Have yet to find small scanner that has native OS X support, and am unwilling to start native mode when scanning. Epson seems to have started releasing some drivers (see May 15th article at http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=14217), good luck.
Everyone (including Intel's braindead legal drones) seem to have a mistaken underlying assumption that the requirement to defend trademarks is a requirement to beat the crap out of anyone that uses anything similar regardless of the domain, or how small they are. Intel should have merely sent these guys a piece of paper giving them a non-revokable free license to use the "yoga inside" name as long as it was not used in a technology related enterprise or with similar presentation (e.g. no labeling the inmates with little "@ yoga inside"squares on their foreheads or commercials yellow robed guys in helmets jumping around in commercials, with a "yoga inside! om, om, om, om!" catch tune). This would have given them ammunition for any future battle with true violators, and would have done it at no cost the little people they apparently don't mind stomping on. My guess these types of antics keep a couple of extra people on the legal team employed... I'd be interested who in their public relations team is consulted. Someone either approved it or didn't bother to ask. Would nice to see that person on the street. Buy AMD in the meantime.
Although marginally more expensive in legal terms, it would appear that the door is still open to an attack in Texas. What they are missing, is the cost in goodwill from the community. Write them at sales@unicomsi.com (or the email address of your choice, but good luck finding one on their site), and help them understand what it would mean to their sales and employment to be a pariah.
Microsoft, in their wisdom, have devoloped a feature we call "DumbTags" that adds Microsoft chosen links to your pages based on keywords. They have thoughtfully added an opt-out feature, and you can be protected from having your readership redirected by your friends in Redmond if you merely manually update every page and script on your site to include this meta tag:
<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" CONTENT="TRUE">
There are a number of valid reasons to reject this opt-out model, and this page explores the possibility of engineering DumbTag free swaths of the internet.Suggestions
Lets consider how DumbTags might be made opt-in through technological means.
Perl: Change the HTML generation modules such as CGI.pm to automatically add the protection unless the meta tag is defined.
PHP: Add a preprocessing phase where the protective tag is automatically inserted into head blocks?
Web Servers, Proxy Servers: addition of a default filter that adds the protective meta tag automatically to pages unless overridden. Server users could of course turn off this feature...
Tools
Automated Removal: We are looking for links to programs that can traverse directories and automatically update static HTML files with protection.
Advocacy
What you can do to stop DumbTags:
Please send feedback, suggestions, and comments to shaun@atrium.com.
From www.atrium.com/dumbtags.html
There is a search interface to Google that allows for Microsoft free searches (http://www.atrium.com/msfree.html). Microsoft related sites have an option to be included in search results of this interface if they change the spelling of "microsoft" in their pages.
Among other services, Bloomberg provides a private mail service that is commonly used in the financial industry. About a year or so ago, they put in place filters that disallowed mail with the "wrong" words, with a message about inappropriate business language. As if an analyst is not intelligent enough to use different language wiht his key customer or his buddy from high school at another firm. This filter was imposed on all firms uniformly, with no way to turn this "function" off. However, the user soon learned to write "that research report is b+u+l+l+s+h+i+t", or "Micheal Bloomberg can s*u*c*k my d*i*c*k". Another facist attempt to restrict the thoughts you can have and express thwarted.
Search engine: Dogpile Web Catalog found 3,710 documents.
The query string sent was word lists
Displaying first 10 documents.
1. word lists - 10,000,000 words in over 130 categories word lists - click here for the largest archives on the internet www.wordlists.com - TouchPlanet Communications - CA
Clicking through and it is soon clear that wordlists.com went out of the word list business and into the adult content index business...
Given that CD buyers often are buying whole CDs to get certain key tracks, the 350 yen price makes a certain sick sense. Of course Sony is on crack and you can only feel for innocents that end up buying the cripple-ware players they are making...
Don't know how the Final Thoughts site passed the /. quality control... looking at the site I noticed the FinalThoughts.com is a patent-pending technology line. Guess the my dad should license the technology before leaving a letter in the desk drawer, which is apparently what the service provides. Does anyone know if the pending patent just covers death, or any triggered or delayed mail?
The terms of use are also pretty hilarious. In addition to claiming to be binding without agreement [i.e. just by visiting the site] and freely modifiable retroactively (section 15), if they screw up and lose your final messages of love (or whatever), it looks like your heirs can get back the $5 or whatever they charged you, which should be comforting (section 10).
Guess I should patent virtual prayers, thats probably still up for grabs.
At long last! One question though. If programs protected under this license end up being used in Linux distributions, what keeps you from strutting around telling everyone to call it Bastard/Linux?
In solidarity from Tokyo,
Aladdin Sane
These questions point out the ridiculous nature of allegations that a link equates to responsibility for content seen in this and the DVD hack case...
Not only impossible to get delivery, but also actually impossible to cancel orders. Got so pissed, I posted my experience online at http://www.atrium.com/toysrussucks.html . There was no service, and I believe that the unreasonable burden put on customers may in some cases be actionable.
The opening line of the article reads: "Richard Stallman is one of the original developers of what became the Linux OS..." That explains all of those emacs references in the kernel code! I'd be interested in seeing how many people see a parallel of RMS's attempts to take credit for Linux (oops, sorry, I meant GNU/Linux [not]). RMS does want to be paid, just in the coin of his choice. As long as the patent law is enforced in an inappropriate manner, companies would be stupid to do otherwise. The boycott of Amazon is lame.
Cut off from Chinese contribution funds, Bore is confronted with an opportunity to encourage spendthrift (in a political sense) tech firms to increase their bribes to public officials^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ H^H^H^H^H^H campain contributions. After all, look at what constant hounding got for charity!
Seems to consistantly hang Netscape 4.61 (Linux 2.2.10, SuSE 6.2) on hitting the 'run' button.
While the author's original philosophers stone piece was of interest, the follow up site is a poster child of metaphysics gone bad. Appying the filter of the verification principle (statements not a tautology or emperically verifyable are meaningless) to the work leaves relatively little, and of that the bits on cognitive limits imposed by language and culture has in fact been previously noticed, as recently as 400-something-BC by Buddha. See just about any of the 1,400 years of writings on this for details.
Would be a moot point if 10,000 slashdotters put this tag in their sites:
Always thought that TSR screwed up the transition from D&D to AD&D. Empire of the Petal Throne was way cooler, and much more suited to the silver screen. Check out the visuals at the Tekumel site.