A guy's getting sued into oblivion by a group specifically formed to create and manage layers of patent-holding shell companies.. and the group's getting away with making tons of money hiding the true owners of patents and confusing the public because American patent law is so screwed. Care yet.
The Supreme Court can't make laws, they can only decide their constitutionality. They're wrong for not striking down libel laws, but Congress is the one at fault (for once). Yes I say for once.. people on slashdot seem to love the courts, keeping insane laws mostly in check.. how about this quote from McCarthyism:
Eleven leaders of the Communist Party were charged and convicted under the Smith Act in 1949. Ten defendants were given sentences of five years and the eleventh was sentenced to three years. All of the defense attorneys were cited for contempt of court and were also given prison sentences.
By far the most disgusting period in American history.. courts making up their own laws and charging people with contempt of court as a way to enforce them. People actually panicked about water florination! "Campaigners asserted that it was part of an international Jewish, Roman Catholic or psychiatric conspiracy intended to establish United Nations-run concentration camps in the United States." Anyway, a bit off-topic.
Darn right it sounds obvious enough, how haven't they known this before? You'd easily be able to tell by just pushing your fingernail into it at different positions down its length....
Yes such a good thing, just what the world needs. And he's being sued. I can't for the life of me figure out how this sort of thing happens; it's in the CONSTITUTION for crying out loud that congress can't make laws restricting speech. And-- oh there's a law restricting speech. And another, and another. Makes me want to become a judge just so that I can mobilize the US marshals and incarcerate every single member of congress indefinitely for constitutional violations.
The first half of your post is random bullcrap. Why exact location via gps? Why at all? Did you just trip and fall on your keyboard and accidentally type those letters? Better say yes because that's the least retarded way you could have come up with that nonsense. People install folding@home, how does that make them too lazy to install firefox? What? And all of your vaporware is vaporware because it's completely retarded. A free software license that requires you to purchase a license? What! Hur dur why not just buy paid software then. Your language specification is a joke. Your language learning is terrible, what are you supposed to do just guess?
Holy crap you're retarded, obviously e commerce sites have warehouses and call centers and at least tax records filed somewhere, they're not just a hundredth of a virtual server and a single envelope in one guy's mailbox every month. If your e commerce site is about that big then yes just stick with.net.
Well obviously real equipment is much better for detecting subtle data like.. "yes my dissertation was on mapping a square-meter arc of the solid surface of the inner core and matching it to a known fractal patten..." but for aggregating cool statistics and things it's nifty.
OK but I don't think you're grasping how great the unreliability would be for any sort of localized quake warning system. But it would work on a far larger level.. say, if there are 20 wiimotes in a square mile and 19 of them are shaking, find the average sensitivity and use that to color the pixel representing that square mile in a map of the United States. Zoom out. It would be fascinating to see what that map looks like.
And there should be absolutely no rules what-so-EVER about owning trademarked domains. I mean, there should be rules, like that you can't own a thousand domain names, but connecting it to real-world American trademark law is just retarded. If I'm in mexico and google hasn't translated to spanish yet because it's the 90s, I should be able to register google.mx and offer a spanish-language google results translator or something.. I'd love to see TLDs being created for web communities and someone putting up google.4chan which is identical to google.com except the o's have nipples. People take trademarks too seriously and those serious business laws should stay the heck away from my internet...
that would be VERY unreliable data.. laptops sit on desks when they're not being lugged around, but wiimotes? On carpets with kids running around, or god forbid on couches.
I definitely don't mind anyone spying on my accelerometer.. besides, this definitely has some mass appeal. You're contributing to something that could really help people, not just crunch numbers for (what's the word you used oh yeah) VAPORWARE research. Plus it doesn't tear up your CPU at night. I'd be concerned about coordinated pranks, like thousands of 4channers all shaking their computers making the system think theres an apocalypse coming:)
I don't mind that.. I'm impressed by.org or.net websites that refuse to register the.com.. it's always taken by some squatter but when I get the squatter page I'm not annoyed, I think "those guys are hardcore"
...which should use different domains. Dot com is for commercial websites. It ticks me off to no end when websites name themseves.com when they have no off-internet existence whatsoever. Use.net if you can't stay away from making up a lame website name to be all legitimate like a business, or if you're a one-man development group (cough Flash developing houses). Use.name for personal sites. Use.info if you're just looking for a cheap DNS entry like I am.
No T1 directly into my dorm.. unless you're at MIT chances are you're starved for bandwidth and have to sleep during the day and game all night to get any decent pings.
Playing with nerf guns seems like a pretty awesome alternative to the rather boring "get as many neurons as possible to fire in my pleasure center over the course of 4 years".
It only loads the game that the customer has to purchase from blizzard anyway. What are you going to do sue Microsoft for "copying" applications into memory? And you're right, it's just a game, so why ruin the guy's financial success with court action?
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A guy's getting sued into oblivion by a group specifically formed to create and manage layers of patent-holding shell companies.. and the group's getting away with making tons of money hiding the true owners of patents and confusing the public because American patent law is so screwed. Care yet.
Darn right it sounds obvious enough, how haven't they known this before? You'd easily be able to tell by just pushing your fingernail into it at different positions down its length....
Yes such a good thing, just what the world needs. And he's being sued. I can't for the life of me figure out how this sort of thing happens; it's in the CONSTITUTION for crying out loud that congress can't make laws restricting speech. And-- oh there's a law restricting speech. And another, and another. Makes me want to become a judge just so that I can mobilize the US marshals and incarcerate every single member of congress indefinitely for constitutional violations.
The first half of your post is random bullcrap. Why exact location via gps? Why at all? Did you just trip and fall on your keyboard and accidentally type those letters? Better say yes because that's the least retarded way you could have come up with that nonsense. People install folding@home, how does that make them too lazy to install firefox? What? And all of your vaporware is vaporware because it's completely retarded. A free software license that requires you to purchase a license? What! Hur dur why not just buy paid software then. Your language specification is a joke. Your language learning is terrible, what are you supposed to do just guess?
Holy crap you're retarded, obviously e commerce sites have warehouses and call centers and at least tax records filed somewhere, they're not just a hundredth of a virtual server and a single envelope in one guy's mailbox every month. If your e commerce site is about that big then yes just stick with .net.
My laptop gets really hot when used heavily for awhile.. yes thermal stress destroys components
Every child jumping at once... blow out volcano craters all around the world and sink the crust to the bottom of the mantle :D
Well obviously real equipment is much better for detecting subtle data like.. "yes my dissertation was on mapping a square-meter arc of the solid surface of the inner core and matching it to a known fractal patten..." but for aggregating cool statistics and things it's nifty.
OK but I don't think you're grasping how great the unreliability would be for any sort of localized quake warning system. But it would work on a far larger level.. say, if there are 20 wiimotes in a square mile and 19 of them are shaking, find the average sensitivity and use that to color the pixel representing that square mile in a map of the United States. Zoom out. It would be fascinating to see what that map looks like.
And there should be absolutely no rules what-so-EVER about owning trademarked domains. I mean, there should be rules, like that you can't own a thousand domain names, but connecting it to real-world American trademark law is just retarded. If I'm in mexico and google hasn't translated to spanish yet because it's the 90s, I should be able to register google.mx and offer a spanish-language google results translator or something.. I'd love to see TLDs being created for web communities and someone putting up google.4chan which is identical to google.com except the o's have nipples. People take trademarks too seriously and those serious business laws should stay the heck away from my internet...
Well they're actually a commercial site..
that would be VERY unreliable data.. laptops sit on desks when they're not being lugged around, but wiimotes? On carpets with kids running around, or god forbid on couches.
I definitely don't mind anyone spying on my accelerometer.. besides, this definitely has some mass appeal. You're contributing to something that could really help people, not just crunch numbers for (what's the word you used oh yeah) VAPORWARE research. Plus it doesn't tear up your CPU at night. I'd be concerned about coordinated pranks, like thousands of 4channers all shaking their computers making the system think theres an apocalypse coming :)
I don't mind that.. I'm impressed by .org or .net websites that refuse to register the .com.. it's always taken by some squatter but when I get the squatter page I'm not annoyed, I think "those guys are hardcore"
...which should use different domains. Dot com is for commercial websites. It ticks me off to no end when websites name themseves .com when they have no off-internet existence whatsoever. Use .net if you can't stay away from making up a lame website name to be all legitimate like a business, or if you're a one-man development group (cough Flash developing houses). Use .name for personal sites. Use .info if you're just looking for a cheap DNS entry like I am.
Maybe slashdot should be worried about scaring off customers with its stupid lingo in the title..
hmm 7%.. verisign is just trying to catch up with the rate of inflation :)
_IT IS A JOKE_
I don't care what kind of battery life it gets; if it's not user-replaceable it's not worth it.
But they literally have the right to copy their own show (that's the meaning of copyright) so how is it illegal for them? And how is DRM free?
No T1 directly into my dorm.. unless you're at MIT chances are you're starved for bandwidth and have to sleep during the day and game all night to get any decent pings.
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Playing with nerf guns seems like a pretty awesome alternative to the rather boring "get as many neurons as possible to fire in my pleasure center over the course of 4 years".
It only loads the game that the customer has to purchase from blizzard anyway. What are you going to do sue Microsoft for "copying" applications into memory? And you're right, it's just a game, so why ruin the guy's financial success with court action?