Slashback: :CueCat, Exercise, Wormage 381
When pranksters float your trial balloons for you. ninenet writes "A follow-up on the story posted earlier on Slashdot ... The RIAA has now officially stated that the claims of an elaborate P2P worm are 'a complete hoax.' A story on eWeek quotes an RIAA spokesman as saying, "Someone forwarded the message to us and that was the first we heard or read about it.""
<Location>,<location>,<location > A few days ago, we mentioned the interesting geographic lookup / markup system of GeoURL. Joshua Schachter, the fellow who runs GeoURL (and editor of memepool, to boot), writes with "some responses of mine to comments posted:
Q: "Why not use the WHOIS database for address information?"A: GeoURL is geographic content markup. Nobody cares where your server is - where are YOU? That said, I'm waiting for someone to hook their GPS into their web page and keep GeoURL updated.
This way different URLs can have different coordinates, as well.
Q: "Blah blah blah blah privacy."
A: If you want privacy, don't put your location on your web page.
Q: "You're evil and you're going to steal this information and go private, just like CDDB did."
A: The content is marked up on the pages and not entered into my database. Anyone could easily write a similar service (and I hope they do.)
I plan to create a page containing lessons learned and useful code snippets for other people who would like to implement similar stuff."
Most importantly, I hope this helps the development of distributed speed-trap logging and mapping!
Making this up would be too easy. An anonymous reader writes "Egomaniacal former Dot.Bomb 'entrepreneur' J. Jovan Philyaw has escaped the asylum and is back with even bigger delusions of grandeur. When last we saw him, J.J. was trying to shove the misbegotten :CueCat/:CRQ combination on unsuspecting users. Now, he's apparently writing a couple of books, selling his 'power crystals' that adorned the offices of Digital:Convergence, and changing his name: his sites refer to him now as J. Hutton Pulitzer. Apparently the utter and complete failure of Digital:Convergence (loss of at least $185M) hasn't dented his ego one bit. In his bio, he actually compares himself to Thomas Edison. A hilarious must-read for those who followed the :CueCat debacle (and for those of us who worked there)."
I hope all these things can be adapted for recumbents. Jamie Briant writes: "Saw your update to the slashdot story on games for exercise bikes. I'm a developer for exertris.com that makes a bike with LCD screen built in, which we sell primarily to gyms, but you can buy in the UK at Harrods. We write and tune the games specifically to motivate you to exercise."
haiku (Score:5, Funny)
but instead there will be worms
From bad to evil.
Now we're screwed.... (Score:5, Funny)
"Thanks for the idea though!"
Re:Now we're screwed.... (Score:4, Interesting)
So, the RIAA is finding out about stuff p2p? I hope their lawyers sue them.
Heaven forbid, I check out a band I haven't heard before I buy their CD.
Actually, comparing himself to Thomas Edison (Score:5, Insightful)
Edison was a jerk (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Edison was a jerk (Score:5, Informative)
He was on the wrong side of developing just about every technological idea that his name is attached to. He was one of the first to develop the phonograph, but insisted on tubes instead of disks, no matter what the market said. Edison did not invent the incandescent light bulb, he refined the gas and filament for longer life. Etc.
Just because you haven't heard this before or it deflates one of your personal sacred cows doesn't make it flamebait. American history texts in high school are so far off on every other topic, I'm amazed that they spelled Edison's name right.
Edison's real genius was in securing IP and marketing his IP so that others would license it. He was doing that years before that became a high tech business plan for us to discuss on
Regards,
Ross
Re:Edison was a jerk (Score:3)
Re:Edison was a jerk (Score:5, Interesting)
Bill Gates and future history (Score:3, Interesting)
I protested, and thought about the question over Christmas dinner. Afterwords, I gave him my answer. "If you want to talk about 'connecting the world' Bill Gates isn't your man. You should be talking about Jon Postal, who authored most of the specifications for the internet." The response... "Bill Gates is the one who brought it to the masses." (The Christmas gathering ended shortly thereafter -- a bit earlier than usual.)
Thinking about it a bit more, a better answer might have been Tim Berners Lee for WWW or, to counter "...the one who brought it to the masses...," I could have responded with Marc Andresen, main author of Mosaic and Netscape, which is what really fueled the internet explosion.
So, It seems that the history of the future has already been rewritten, and Bill Gates invented it all.
Re:Edison was a jerk (Score:5, Interesting)
One of the easiest ways to verify his status as a jerk is to read pretty much any biography of Tesla.
Tesla invented a ton of technologies that we use everyday, like AC electricity and flourescent lighting. Because he wasn't the greatest businessperson, many of them were stolen by people like Edison (who he worked for briefly).
Most people think of Edison as a great inventor. I think of him as a thief who was so bent on discrediting Tesla's AC electricity in favour of his own DC that he used it to electrocute a bunch of animals to death on film.
Re:Edison was a jerk (Score:3, Interesting)
Otherwise:
1. Cylinders instead of disks on the phonograph - dead on the money. Look at the old pictures from the first advertisements for the new gadget in the history books. See disks there? Nope. Not if Edisons name is mentioned anywhere close.
2. AC vs DC. Dead on the money as well. Dunno about him not understanding it but there is more then enough info about Westighouse out there and Tesla as well to confirm this.
3. Layers - dead on the money as well.
4. Also, as far as I know he was the first to invent the cubicle sweatshop for engineering. There are more then enough historical references that show how work in his labs was organised. He was the first person to hire engineers and designers in quantities instead of going for quality with a small design team the way people like Brunel, Eifel, etc did.
Re:Edison was a jerk (Score:3)
"But I read it on the Internet...it must be true!"
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Re:Edison was a jerk (Score:4, Informative)
Edison did what every other inventor has done, made improvements on other ideas and combined ideas to create new inventions.
The American high school textbook hagiographies of Edison are easily explained by the role of school boards in choosing text books. Better not have anything in there that might upset a board member, no matter how loony. So don't tell the kids that the war of 1812 was about invading Canada and that the US lost, oh no it was about Britain impressing alleged US citizens and ended in a draw. When it comes to the civil war pretend that the South was unjustly attacked by the North, forget about the fact that the war was started by the South and was all about extending slavery to Texas and the Californias.
Just about every country has ludicrously biased school textbooks. The British ones are pretty hilarious, victory after victory against the French until the loss of Calais appears in a footnote. The German textbooks are reasonably accurate - they were written by the Allied powers.
Edison did some amazing stuff. He also did some pretty nasty and spiteful stuff, like opposing AC current and trashing Tessla to promote his own scheme. Edison invented the electric chair as part of his marketting campaign for DC - the chair used AC.
Re:Edison was a jerk (Score:2, Funny)
And it really backfired -- the execution went so horribly, disgustingly wrong that people thought "well, if it's *that* hard to kill someone with AC on *purpose*, I guess it doesn't seem so dangerous to have it in my home."
And so AC took off.
Re:Edison was a jerk (Score:3, Interesting)
Completely off topic, but I really wish that was so. When I did History GCSE it was ALL about the flipping industrial revolution and the poor old farmers. International politics barely got a lookin, let alone wars with the French. It's far more politically correct to study the economics of the weaving industry, or medieval farming methods.
If something interesting happened at some point in British history, you can be guaranteed it will not appear in a reasonably advanced history course.
Edison invented the electric chair as part of his marketting campaign for DC - the chair used AC.
He went around electrocuting elephants as well I think. Well, it just goes to show, in case of FUD vs market economics, the market usually wins.
Re:Edison was a jerk (Score:5, Informative)
impress
tr.v. impressed, impressing, impresses
1. To compel (a person) to serve in a military force.
2. To seize (property) by force or authority; confiscate.
so "impressing US sailors" in this instance means "capturing US sailors and forcing them into the British Navy."
Re:Edison was a jerk (Score:2)
Somewhere between what one side believes and what the other side believes lies the truth. You're both right and you're both wrong. I sincerely hope nobody's making decisions based on what you guys are saying today until they've gotten some more objective info.
Re:Edison was a jerk (Score:5, Interesting)
This thread is totally on the money on Edison. There's an ironic twist [cobbles.com] to the Edison story that bears interestingly in this discussion.
It seems that Edison owned several patents on the technology behind filmmaking, and exacted brutal licensing on virtually every aspect of the industry. The pressure was so unreasonable that the burgeoning movie industry of the early 20th century was forced out of what was then the center of filmmaking - the east coast. They needed a place to shoot their pirate criminal outlaw movies that was far away from Edison and his patent police. Also important was that they be close to the Mexican border so that they could take their copyright criminal tools out of the country should Edison's goons show up.
The result? Hollywood, CA. A litle fact I like to remember when they hurl hypocrisy about IP criminals.
What's up with the name change? (Score:5, Funny)
Might as well have changed it to Max Power
Re:What's up with the name change? (Score:5, Interesting)
"Kids, as of this moment, Lionel Hutz no longer exists. Say hello to Miguel Sanchez!"
Seriously, though. I've got a few of those CueCats. A father of a friend runs a soup kitchen, and I helped hack together a barcoded ID card system to keep track of who visited and how often. Cuecats were perfect because they were free and really easy to write software for!
Still in service, as far as I know.
=Smidge=
Any more still out there? (Score:4, Interesting)
A few? I went into a Radio Shack recently and asked if they still had any cue cats left. I was working on a project idea. They came back with a box of about twenty of them with a requirement that if I want them, I have to take a box of about 30 special TV cables (another DC flop) with them or else it's no deal.
So I loaded up the back seat with the stuff. Now after spaying a few for use on my home PCs, I still got the rest of them in my basement.
hehe.... maybe I ought to hold on to them till they become popular on eBay
Re:Any more still out there? (Score:2)
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl
I'm going to hold on to mine, just for the usability factor. I'm sure I'll find _something_ to do with it. Hell, now that Fritz Ganter has released: Batchelor [kraftvoll.at], I'll probably just end up using it to replace my non-existent girlfriend.
Now if only it could cook...
Re:What's up with the name change? (Score:5, Funny)
Cool--it's like a library card for food!
Actually, the first time I read the post, I missed the phrase "barcoded ID card"--I wondered whether you had to have someone hold the homeless folks down while you tattooed them with a barcode, or if you just slipped a tranquilizer into their soup.
Re:What's up with the name change? (Score:5, Funny)
Doesn't beat the guy I met yesterday who changed his name to "Big Daddy." No lie.
Re:What's up with the name change? (Score:5, Funny)
But nothing beats this guy [love22.com].
Love-22 is a street performer in Key West, who legally changed his name, and prints up his own 22-dollar bills, which have been used (mostly at backwoods convenience stores and gas stations) for currency more than 500 times in the past 22 years.
I met this guy once... Looooooooooopy!
-T
Re:What's up with the name change? (Score:4, Funny)
My own story: I work retail. So, one day this guy comes in and buys a few things. Pulls out his credit card to pay. I have him sign the slip, and when I look at the signature, it looks for all the world like a smiling mushroom. I do a double-take and ask for his ID. He shows me his driver's license, with the name "mushroom [last name redacted]" on it, and again, the smiling mushroom for the signature. I had no reason to do otherwise at that point, so I accepted it. Turned out it was legit... never came back bad, and he came in a couple more times in the following months. I was truly amazed.
Re:What's up with the name change? (Score:5, Funny)
Judge: Hmm. "Hercules Rockefeller". "Rembrandt Q. Einstein".
"Handsome B. Wonderful". Huh, I'm going to give you the only
name you spelt correctly. From this day forward, your name
shall be
[cut to a shot of Lisa, reading from a sheet of paper on the
Simpsons' couch]
Lisa: "Max Power"?
Source: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/AABF09 [snpp.com]. Hope that helped.
Who in blazes named that company? (Score:5, Funny)
Now, how the heck do you say that? "Digital Colon Convergence"?
Kinda makes you cringe. I wonder how many investors thought their money was going to some kind of medical equipment company ("Yeah, Jack, that Q-CAT is even better than normal CATs, it uses that internet thingy that is so hot right now").
Re:Who in blazes named that company? (Score:5, Funny)
I dunno... Seems better than Digital Colon Divergence [goatse.cx]!
Re:Who in blazes named that company? (Score:2)
I'm pretty sure that's just a fancy name for a manual rectal examination. Doctors just gave it a fancier name so that they could bill more for it.
RIAA and Outlook (Score:5, Funny)
And of course in that message they opened in Outlook contained a virus that began to "infect" the "napster bombs" they send out which in turn infect illegally traded mp3s and infect 95% of a p2p network. The plot thickens...
-Foxxz
paranoia (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:paranoia (Score:3, Informative)
I've said it before, I'll say it again.. (Score:5, Funny)
Make it display porn! I'm not kidding! Imagine the effect this would have on our lives!
"Wow, he's cute! He must view porn a lot."
Hurry up, Diet Coke has utterly failed me.
Re:I've said it before, I'll say it again.. (Score:2)
Re:I've said it before, I'll say it again.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I've said it before, I'll say it again.. (Score:4, Funny)
They won't fall. Assuming the the porn's decent, they'll have a kickstand!
oh no .. (Score:2)
That would be some hard exercise.
the bio (Score:5, Interesting)
"impressive" (Score:4, Funny)
Royal German Ancestry meine Hinterteile.
-J
Re:the bio (Score:2, Funny)
And here I thought all the whackjobs were Tesla fans. (Tesla the inventor, I mean, not the Canadian hair metal band.)
Re:the bio (Score:3, Insightful)
Shit, dude, if I give away my inventions, can I achieve "unprecedented market saturation" too?
Re:the bio (Score:2, Funny)
"Endumbened". I'll have to remember that one. The correct term, I believe, is "demoronised [fourmilab.ch] - but I like yours too.
Heh. There's definitely something pompous about using a first initial and middle name. Particularly if the first initial is J. Odd.
I wonder if J in this case is short for Jabba the.
Re:the bio (Score:2, Insightful)
Smells like BS to me...
Re:the bio (Score:2, Interesting)
Hey, my ancestry goes back to 1942, on both sides of my family. So for that matter does anyone's the only difference is whether you know who it was or not. 1492 is not all that far back either, my ancestors fought at the battle of Hastings (both sides) in 1066 but there are folk whose pedigrees go back to whatever date you argue for the Yellow Emperor of China.
Of course it is all bollocks since genealogy tends to follow the male line and in practice it is only the female line whose accuracy can be assured. Adultery is not a modern invention, no matter who you are between 5% and 10% of your ancestors were bastards. If the gap between generations is 25 years that makes 20 generations since 1492, meaning that Pulitzer's chance of being legitimately descended from the royal family at no better than 35% with 12% being a more likely value.
speaker/panelist at such prestigious educational institutions as Harvard Business School, Stanford University, The Cato Institute, University of Michigan, University of Texas,
You have got to be pretty desperate if you end up putting the Cato Institute down on your speaking resume. Bit insensitive to put crank tank financed by rich rightwing crackpots to promote partisan views ahead of Michigan and Texas Universities though.
Re:the bio (Score:3, Informative)
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-- Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelly
Re:pretty tame ego ... (Score:5, Interesting)
So we all hate Bill Gates. Apparently for being ruthlessly successful at exploiting the (fairly) free, capitalist system we all hold dear. We're constantly shocked at the audacity of Microsoft, and Bill is the epitome of the evil that company represents.
This is a guy who (with his wife) is in the process of donating $24 Billion to good causes. Not frat house good causes, not pussyfooting PC good causes. He has set up a well-run foundation (you know, managment and accountability) to see that money put to use combatting aids in India, that sort of thing.
$24 Billion is more than most developed countries in the world will put into that sort of work in our lifetimes.
But we do enjoy banging on that "He tried to squash Netscape!", because that's a) more important and b) surely nothing to do with how we like to run things?
The wrong place to point it out, maybe, but it's fun to sit back and reflect on the irony sometimes.
Re:pretty tame ego ... (Score:2)
Re:pretty tame ego ... (Score:5, Interesting)
This could be a discussion about, oh, bio-engineered hamsters or the moons of Neptune, and you'd still get the pathetic Microsoft non-sequitur.
Why? Because someone with mod points will probably think it's funny.
BTW, welcome to Slashdot. Or something.
Re:pretty tame ego ... (Score:2)
Are you surprised that there's a constant arms race between those seeking to regulate "fairly" and those seeking to preserve their advantage?
If so, why are you surprised?
ah, you are confused. (Score:2)
Are you surprised that there's a constant arms race between those seeking to regulate "fairly" and those seeking to preserve their advantage?
No, I understand freedom. If it were not for bogus software patents and outrageous copyright abuse, fostered in part by Mr. Gates, M$ would be nothing today. There is no such thing as "fair" regulation, there can only be the prevention of criminal abuse if we are free.
Re:ah, you are confused. (Score:2)
(I realise there's a flippant answer to that, which you can use if you like. But if you give an actual answer, be careful you don't end up appealing to God as the source of all moral truth, unless you intend to.)
Re:spoken like a true american (Score:3, Funny)
on excercising games (Score:5, Interesting)
For those who complains that there is insufficient stuff for your hands to do because "nobody dances like that", there is also ParaParaParadise or somesuch that focuses on the hands. If you follow *exactly* what the person do onscreen, it actually gets pretty fancy.
Moreover, in Japan I have seen some boxing games where you would put on a pair of gloves and hit targets as they come up; at least one of them is themed after "Fist of the Northern Star." Also gives you quite a cardiovascular workout after a while.
Then we have the horse-riding ones... While looking silly, those gets tiring!
Another "all the rage" game is a drumming one. The Playstation version is not so tiring, but in the arcade with big drums and relatively heavy sticks, they can get interesting mighty quick (since for fast tracks you have to accelerate a fairly massy stick to the drum at high frequency).
In ESPN-zone in downtown Chicago, there is also a rock-climbing thingy. Nobody can afford one on their own, but that's probably the most physically engaging "game" I have ever played.
so... no reason to stick just to the bikes, y'all.
Re:on excercising games (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't mind anaerobic exercise, which is what you get if you do something for an extended duration, like jog, or ride a bike.
I like the concept of immersing a game into a bike. I'm thinking about putting rotary encoders on my bike's handlebars and pedals, and mounting it to a frame. I should be able to rig up some box that translates the signals into something the Linux kernel joystick drivers can use. Maybe I can set up Need For Speed III under Wine.
Re:on excercising games (Score:4, Interesting)
They've got some super-ultra-whatever DanceDanceRevolution. Dunno where it's from. I don't speak furrin.
They've got ParaParaParadise
They've got some boxing game (not Fist of the Northern Star. I wish.)
No drumming.
And like ten different (lame) alternative-input device games. I guess arcades realized that the only way to make someone pay $1 for a game was to make it something that you couldn't do on your PS2 - which has to be more than just a bigger CPU now... so *everything* is six feet wide, features a chair, and makes you look like a dumbass.
There was some river rafting game where the whole point was to paddle as fast as possible to avoid some whirlpool... then steer to the next whirlpool. Fun to watch fat kids sweat.
There was some motion-capture golf game. No stick. You swing your hands as if you were holding a golf club. Seems like that'd be impossible without tactile feedback.
My favorite will always be the shooters. I try to get my exercise... uh... with my girlfriend.
Re:on excercising games (Score:2)
tmi TMI!!!
not so much exercise on a bull. (Score:2)
Boong-Ga Boong-Ga (spank 'em) (Score:2)
Don't forget Boong-Ga Boong-Ga (spank 'em) [highwaygames.com], the Japanese spanking-themed video game.
Re:on excercising games (Score:4, Informative)
The Korean knock-off is called Pump It Up, and it's produced by Andamiro [andamiro.co.kr]. It is more difficult, but in my opinion it's not as fun as DDR. The song selection isn't very good. Another Korean knock-off, Techno Motion [f2.co.kr], basically builds off the Andamiro formula, which says "More arrows *must* mean more fun!" There's also Stepping Selection [ign.com], by Jaleco, which is the system that is the basis for Britney's Dance Beat [ign.com]. That's a pretty loathsome game there.
Para Para Paradise, for the uninformed, uses five vertically positioned infrared beams placed in a pentagon shape around you. Similarly to DDR, you follow the arrows on the screen and break the light beams at the appropriate time. You don't have to use your feet, unlike DDR - Any body part will do. The orientation of the arrows makes it so that you have to rotate and twist more often, frequently making upper-body motions more efficient and viable. It's named Para Para Paradise because the motions you perform in the game are similar to a type of Japanese karaoke bar dancing called "parapara".
For a good combination of both DDR and Para Para Paradise, try DanceManiax/Dance Freaks [konami.co.jp]. These games have sensors on the front of the machine which you can place your hands/arms/knees/whatever over or under, and foot panels on the bottom similar to DDR.
Bemani makes a lot of other good stuff too (Like Beatmania!), but it's not exercise-oriented, and so I won't mention it here. For anyone interested in Bemani products, take a look at BemaniStyle.com [bemanistyle.com] and DDRFreak [ddrfreak.com].
I've seen that GeoURL in action... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I've seen that GeoURL in action... (Score:2)
I would also be scared, and feel an irrational urge to move 1,000 miles away.
Re:I've seen that GeoURL in action... (Score:2, Informative)
Then, uh, you didn't see GeoURL in action at all.
You saw, I assume, some sort of IP-to-geographic-location reverse lookup tool, which is a different thing completely.
GeoURL doesn't tell YOU where you are; you tell IT. You put META tags in your web page with your geographic coordinates. It crawls the page, finds them, and adds you to the database. You can be as accurate or as inaccurate as you wish.
For those concerned about privacy: well, why would you add the coordinates to your publicly accessible web page if you didn't want people to know them? Only possible answer: you are stupid. If you don't add the coordinates, GeoURL will have no idea where you are and, in fact, won't care. Where's the issue?
Re:I've seen that GeoURL in action... (Score:2)
GEOUrl (Score:5, Interesting)
1. don't participate - it ain't mandatory, so you have no reason to bitch.
2. lie - hell, it could even help. make it look like you live someplace glamorous rather than in the basement of your parent's house in Poughkeepsie.
I fail to see a problem here.
Re:GEOUrl (Score:2)
excercise (Score:3, Funny)
Philyaw: wheres the evidence? (Score:2)
So how exactly do we know that Philyaw is Pulitzer? Nothing I saw jumped out at me as a firm connection. Same with the crystals; where is the connection? They could be for sale by GW for all we know.
The Pulitzer site [jhuttonpulitzer.com] claims the company has been around since 1988. And the story was posted by an AC. Hmmm. I smell bullshit. Problem is I can't tell where the smell is coming from. Anyone else?
Re:Philyaw: wheres the evidence? (Score:5, Informative)
100 patents? Yeah right. (Score:3, Interesting)
What a loser.
RIAA's Teenybopper Fans (Score:2)
Gobbles' previous security advisories (Score:2, Interesting)
Eh, I don't know what they're reading, but just about every previous Gobbles advisory looks like that. The trademark Theo bashing, poor grammar, and other things. Most likely false, but most likely them.
Is Jovan Anti-AC (Score:3, Funny)
fastest adoption?? (Score:2, Funny)
Wow, that sure is something. The free Cuecat alledgedly outpaced a bunch of things that cost alot of money.
I doubt it's true anyhow.
The CueDil^H^H^HCat (Score:2, Funny)
It's come true, it's come true!
The CueCat wasn't great as a barcode reader, but my girlfriend finds it very pleasurable. Sometimes, we even plug it into the Internet (of course, using an AntiVirus program--you never know).
This ties all the names together (Score:2, Informative)
JJ Phylaw's email address is emailjovan@yahoo.com.
The email for JH Pulitzer is also emailjovan@yahoo.com!
Here are the whois records:
Registrant:
DIGITALCONVERGENCE, INC (DIGITALCONVERGENCE4-DOM)
9101 N CENTRAL EXPY STE 600
DALLAS, TX 75231-5926
US
Domain Name: DIGITALCONVERGENCE.COM
Administrative Contact:
Mathews, Dave (DM205) dmathews@HOTMAIL.COM
DaveMathews.com
213 Missing Way
Dallas, TX 75222
530-684-9988 (FAX) 530-579-7759
Technical Contact:
Network Operations (NO59-ORG) dmathews@HOTMAIL.COM
DigitalConvergence
9101 N Central EXPY STE 600
Dallas, TX 75231
USA
530-684-9988
Fax- 530-579-7759
Domain Name.......... museumcrystals.com
Creation Date........ 2002-02-07
Registration Date.... 2002-02-07
Expiry Date.......... 2003-02-07
Organisation Name.... J. Jovan Philyaw
Organisation Address. 9101 N. Central Expy 6th Floor
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Dallas
Organisation Address. 75231
Organisation Address. TX
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES
Admin Name........... J. Jovan Philyaw
Admin Address........ 9101 N. Central Expy 6th Floor
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ Dallas
Admin Address........ 75231
Admin Address........ TX
Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
Admin Email.......... emailjovan@yahoo.com
Admin Phone.......... 214-292-6000
Admin Fax............
Registrant:
J. Hutton Pulitzer (JYDPHRZAUD)
5001 Spring Valley Road, 400E
Dallas, TX 75244-3910
US
Domain Name: JHUTTONPULITZER.COM
Administrative Contact:
J. Hutton Pulitzer (CWGSDZSMJO) emailjovan@yahoo.com
J. Hutton Pulitzer
5001 Spring Valley Road, 400E
Dallas, TX 75244-3910
US
972.383.1344 fax: 123 123 1234
makes you wonder (Score:2, Funny)
people who worked for dot.bombs... (Score:2, Funny)
The people--from the CEOs to the Unix sysadmins--who worked for dot-coms with phony business plans should ALL take responsibility for the current sorry state of the economy.
i-Tee Case mentioned a few days ago.. (Score:2, Interesting)
I wrote to the I-Tee case manufacturer [lope.com.tw] the other day after reading this article [slashdot.org] on Slashdot..
A few of the article's commentors mentioned that they hadn't received a response from them after emailing them themselves for prices, distribution, etc.. I guess I got lucky..
Here's there response:
Dear Mr. J. Johansen (I'm not Mr. DeCSS),
Thank you for your e-mail.
At present we don't have distributor in USA.
If you want to be our distributor in USA, we offer our
best competitive price based on F.O.B. Yantian China
as following:
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Anyone have $25,150+ lying around?
RIAA, GOBBLES, etc... (Score:2)
The claims were certainly possible... but not quite plausible.
An excerpt from the book comments page... (Score:4, Funny)
Date: 1/14/2003 6:42 pm CST
Dear Mr. Pulitzer/Philyaw,
Being interested in patents in general, I took notice in your bio the fact that you have 100 patents. I went and looked them up and found that according to the USPTO you have what looks like 3 or 4 (didn't bother looking through each one). You might want to point out this oversight to them. It's quite irresponsible of them to lose track of 96 patents.
Or perhaps you filed for them somewhere else, maybe Turkey?
Garth
You fools! (Score:2)
Of course the RIAA would deny it!
I'm off to put tinfoil hats on my mp3 collection.
Seriously, though, if I'm the RIAA, I no comment this one - just for the sheer fun of it.
I keep expecting... (Score:2)
Virtual exercise bike at Pro Club in Redmond (Score:4, Interesting)
It was pretty absorbing and one could get quite a workout without realizing it. Playing against the AI was tough, since it never got fatigued.
The games demoed on the Exertris are all 2d and (strangely) oriented left-to-right. Strange, since according to their web site Bill Gates was showcasing them at CES. Obviously he hadn't turned up at his local gym to do some research.
Now you tell me?! (Score:2)
Dallas Observer article about Philyaw/Pulitzer guy (Score:4, Informative)
It's short, funny, and worth a read [dallasobserver.com]. And it mentions uses a Simpsons reference to advance the story, so it's got to be cool.
Because this article will be off the front page soon, meaning nobody is going to see it, I'll post this little tidbit in my journal as well. That way the Teeming Horde (i.e., my fans) will get a chance to read and laugh and live and love!
Re:In case of Slashdotting (Score:2)
One of the more creative AC trolls...
At least, I've not seen it done before...
Re:CUECAT (Score:5, Funny)
In fact, here's a picture [66.186.8.206] to prove I was part of the moron revolution.
Re:CUECAT (Score:2, Informative)
Re:CUECAT (Score:4, Insightful)
The idea wasn't stupid, just their marketing and business plan.
radio shack (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:CUECAT (Score:4, Funny)
I have pictures... somewhere...
Ahhh, college years...
Re:CUECAT (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:CUECAT (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh, and guess what? The school made several stops to various Radio Shacks a few years ago and currently has nine CueCats that they plan to use on the library terminals. Nine. They read Code 128 for free, what more could you want?
Re:License? (Score:3, Informative)
And yes, I am aware that not all OSS licenses are equal, but few school administrators care.
Re:Gobbles (Score:2)
He's the retarded turkey, right? Timmy!
Re:Gobbles (Score:2, Informative)
Actually, Gobbles Security are one of the most active, and largest, exploit groups hanging around the "Security" field at the moment. They have a knack for Pissing off Theo DeRaadt.
You can see the posting to bugtraq from them on the SecurityFocus website.
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/306476 [securityfocus.com]Re:Gobbles (Score:2, Insightful)
This is an infection vector that security "experts" are not taking sufficiently seriously.
Re:well... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:J. Hutton Pulitzer (Score:2)