NHL Locks Out Players; Season in Jeopardy (AP)
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Flash-Memory MP3 Players: Portable Audio
Players Offer Music To Go, On The Cheap
Flash-Memory MP3 Players: Portable Audio
Players Offer Music To Go, On The Cheap
05/26/2004 06:02 AMThe Rio Cali is our favorite player of the bunch -- hands-down. This
player is especially appealing for its great functionality and
excellent interface design. By Mathew Honan, Macworld (via
MyAppleMenu)
22 day run on Jeopardy!
22 day run on Jeopardy!
07/01/2004 03:32 PM
How long can he
go? Jeopardy streak hits $697760 for 21 consecutive days.
This guys is simply amazing to
watch. He's had more airtime than
some tv stars. Any bets to how long he can go?
Flu Season! Wabbit Season!
Flu Season! Wabbit Season!
12/02/2003 01:03 AMEverybody in southern California seems to be falling ill, so I'm sure
it won't be too long before I'm KO'ed as well. Perhaps if I keep
enough green "liquid death" (read: NyQuil) coursing through my veins,
the bugs will remain at bay? Taste is the first thing to go when I get
sick - which would explain my sense of humor as of late. I've moved my
home office mini-television into the bedroom in preparation for the
inevitable. Even if I don't become the next witless victim, I'll be
able to fall asleep to Drew Carey reruns and wake up to Battlestar
Girlactica promos. With red hot Wi-Fi, I'm also able to stay connected
while under the covers. Adventure Elf, here I come!...
JEOPARDY! Online
JEOPARDY! Online
07/23/2004 09:38 PMAlex €śIn the form of a question please€ť Trebek .. tonight is (almost
definitely) the night! .. my favorite game show .. Jeopardy contestant
.. Wheel of Fortune .. Jeopardy! online .. show's website .. these
guys .. Jeopardy! .. Jeopardy
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911 Operator's Job in Jeopardy Over Nap
(AP)
911 Operator's Job in Jeopardy Over Nap
(AP)
08/05/2004 03:57 PMAP - After 10 years on the job at Anne Arundel County's 911 call
center, Louis Gerber's alleged two-minute snooze may get him a written
reprimand or, even, fired.
Tour De Jeopardy
Tour De Jeopardy
07/21/2004 11:01 AMhello, excellence. and kottke.
Utopia in jeopardy
Utopia in jeopardy
04/14/2004 01:08 PMSalt Lake City rejects plans to participate in the large-scale
fiber-optic network, casting doubt on the project's future.
Ken Jennings to be back on Jeopardy
Ken Jennings to be back on Jeopardy
01/03/2005 05:55 PMTechnocrat.net Jan 3 2005 9:48PM GMT
Jeopardy contestant has so far won 26
games and $868,960
Jeopardy contestant has so far won 26
games and $868,960
07/08/2004 08:30 PMThe Man Who Knew Too Much .. describes his
play
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Jeopardy - The stupid cheat
Jeopardy - The stupid cheat
08/11/2004 11:56 AMAlthough I hadn't watched Jeopardy in maybe 20 years, a couple of
weeks ago I watched a few featuring Ken Jennings, the million-dollar
smart guy. Very impressive. And it struck me how they're cheating...
Watch some reruns before Jennings was on. The questions were much
easier. Having dumber questions favors any contestant who is
outlandishly smarter than the others. So, while it's not quite
cheating, it does tilt the board toward Jennings and lets him run up
$50,000 daily totals leaving the other contestants with nothing but a
snapshot of Alex Trebeck and a tune they can't get out of...
Nomic World: By the players, for the
players
Nomic World: By the players, for the
players
05/26/2004 03:15 PM
[This is an edited version of the talk I gave last fall at the
State of Play
conference.]
I'm sort of odd-man-out in a Games and Law conference, in that my
primary area of inquiry isn't games but social software. Not only am I
not a lawyer, I don't even spend most of my time thinking about game
problems. I spend my time thinking about software that supports group
interaction across a fairly wide range of social patterns.
So, instead of working from case law out, which has been a theme here
(and here's where I insert the "I am not a lawyer" disclaimer) I'm
going to propose a thought experiment looking from the outside in.
And I want to pick up on something that Julian [Dibbell] said earlier
about game worlds: 'users are the state.' The thought experiment I
want to propose is to agree with that sentiment, and to ask "How far
can we go in that direction?"
Instead of looking for the places where game users are currently suing
or fighting one another, forcing the owners of various virtual worlds
to deal with these things one crisis at a time, I want to ask the
question "What would happen if we wanted to build a world where we
maximized the amount of user control? What would that look like?"
I'm going to make that argument in three pieces. First, I'm going to
do a little background on group structure and the tension between the
individual and the group. Then I want to contrast briefly governance
in real and virtual worlds. Finally I want to propose a thought
experiment on placing control of online spaces in the hands of the
users.
- More at http://www.shirky.com/writings/nomic.html
Free iBook Program May Be in Jeopardy
Free iBook Program May Be in Jeopardy
06/05/2005 11:59 PMThe largest laptop program in the history of public education may be
in jeopardy after a county commissioner filed suit to stop the school
district from distributing more Apple iBooks. Former Cobb County,
Georgia Commissioner Butch Thompson is accusing the local school
district of misusing taxpayer money.
Trademark Woes: Is Gmail in Jeopardy
Trademark Woes: Is Gmail in Jeopardy
08/17/2004 11:39 AMSource: Search Engine Guide - Despite launching the Gmail service to
the public on March 31st, Google failed to file trademark rights for
the term Gmail until April 7th, after three other companies had filed
for a trademark on the...
Tiger Woods reign at No. 1 in jeopardy
Tiger Woods reign at No. 1 in jeopardy
06/17/2004 12:08 AMSeattletimes.nwsource.com - Wed Jun 16, 07:25 am GMT
Ken Jennings's total Jeopardy! winnings
Ken Jennings's total Jeopardy! winnings
09/08/2004 12:20 PM
Cory Doctorow:
Kottke's posted a hot tip from someone who claims to have been in the
studio audience when Ken Jennings's Jeopardy! winning streak broke --
click for a spoiler with his total earnings and the length of his
streak.
Link
Whew: HTML View/Source Not in Jeopardy
Whew: HTML View/Source Not in Jeopardy
08/27/2004 01:27 PMBrendan Eich offers welcome reassurances in a posting entitled
"Ev
eryone remain calm" -- an explanation of the (thankfully)
short-lived idea to remove the ability to view the HTML source code of
a Mozilla-based Web page. He says, in part:
Throughout
the explosive growth of the web, View / Source has played a crucial
role, hard to appreciate if you dumb down your user model based on
myopic hindsight and a static analysis of the majority cohort of "end
users".
Anyway, I wanted to reassure everyone, from our top Gecko hackers to
interested web developers to enthusiastic surfers, that Firefox is not
about to implode into a bare-bones, ultra-minimalist browser that
those important hackers, et al., can't use. Firefox cannot be "all
things to all people" without at least some people having to configure
an extension or two, but the default features should support the
crucial user bases.
(Via Dave Winer)Rooftop Report: Jeopardy Updates
Archives
Rooftop Report: Jeopardy Updates
Archives
07/24/2004 06:11 PMThe Day is Mine, Trebek .. KenJen's
stats
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Jeopardy to jealousy: Mardi Gras music
Jeopardy to jealousy: Mardi Gras music
05/28/2004 06:27 PMMorgan Hill Times,CA-3 hours ago ... Neither Greg Kihn or Gin Blossoms
have dedicated websites but can be found by entering their names into
a search engine such as Yahoo!, Google or Lycos. ...
Jeopardy champ passes $1 million mark
Jeopardy champ passes $1 million mark
07/13/2004 08:24 PM1 Punch, 2 Prosecutions, No Double
Jeopardy, Justices Rule
1 Punch, 2 Prosecutions, No Double
Jeopardy, Justices Rule
04/19/2004 04:36 PMThe Supreme Court ruled today that Billy Jo Lara could be tried twice
for what might seem to be the same crime.
"Jason Kottke thinks he knows when Ken
Jennings finally loses on Jeopardy."
"Jason Kottke thinks he knows when Ken
Jennings finally loses on Jeopardy."
09/09/2004 08:36 AMCanadian involvement in Mars mission in
jeopardy as hopes for orbiter fade
Canadian involvement in Mars mission in
jeopardy as hopes for orbiter fade
12/07/2003 06:30 PMCanadian Press via Canada.com Dec 7 2003 5:12PM ET
The Man Who Knew Too Much - The Tour de
France pales next to the Jeopardy!
juggernaut. By Dana Stevens
The Man Who Knew Too Much - The Tour de
France pales next to the Jeopardy!
juggernaut. By Dana Stevens
07/09/2004 03:14 AMFCC locks down US TV
FCC locks down US TV
11/05/2003 10:34 PMBroadcast flag approved
BerkeleyDB-Locks-0_3
BerkeleyDB-Locks-0_3
07/10/2004 05:50 PMBerkeleyDB-Locks-0_4
BerkeleyDB-Locks-0_4
07/10/2004 05:50 PMDRM locks onto your desktop
DRM locks onto your desktop
04/20/2004 07:11 AMZDNet Apr 20 2004 11:49AM GMT
IBM locks in VMware through 2007
IBM locks in VMware through 2007
05/19/2004 09:01 AMEmbrace and extend with EMC
China Locks Up Net Dissident
China Locks Up Net Dissident
11/01/2003 06:22 AMChinese security agents have detained civil servant Du Daobin, whose
essays are banned by Beijing on the Internet, for 'subverting state
power.' It's all part of China's intensified crackdown on online
dissent.
Apple Changes The iPod Locks
Apple Changes The iPod Locks
12/17/2004 06:27 PMThere's a bigger question at stake here, and eventually Apple is
going to have to address it. The music industry wants a unified
digital standard. By Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes
Microsoft Locks Up OEM Support for NAS
Microsoft Locks Up OEM Support for NAS
05/24/2004 09:17 AMBuoyed by support from key partners, Microsoft (Quote, Chart) said
Monday it has taken its feature pack for consolidating data from
Exchange Server 2003 on network attached storage (NAS) (define)
devices running Windows Storage Server 2003 to general availability.
Original equipment manufacturers EMC (Quote, Chart), Dell and HP
(Quote, Chart) will be offering the feature pack on their NAS devices.
The goal is to help customers boost return on investment by
consolidating files and data stored on Exchange Server 2003.
DRM Locks Out Library Patrons?
DRM Locks Out Library Patrons?
12/26/2004 11:03 PMDRM
at Its Worst? Here's a Prime Example
"DRM is actually a part of Microsoft’s Windows XP
operating system and has been for a while, but it wasn’t until I
picked up a DVD recently that I witnessed the ugly and very user
unfriendly side of DRM in person. The DVD in question, T2: Extreme
DVD, produced by Artisan Home Entertainment Inc., is a two-dvd disk
set, which holds a digitally optimized version of the T2 movie on one
disk, and a high definition version of the same movie on the second
disk, encoded in WMV9 format....
Unfortunately, after trying to play the DVD back with Windows Media
Player 9, I couldn’t get it to work. For some reason I needed to
install a 3rd party application, InterActual Player, that was required
to play back the content. I was a bit surprised as to why I needed to
install InterActual Player as it clearly says Windows Media Player 9
on the cover. Why can’t I simply play the content back without
having to install yet another application? But then it became quickly
apparent that I did not only have to install and download an update
for the InterActual Player over the internet in order to facilitate
playback, but would also need to acquire a license. So obviously the
WMV9 content on the DVD was protected by DRM and could only be
unlocked after connecting to the license server to obtain a license,
which it failed to do. I was surprised to find that it failed to give
me a license as it had determined that my physical location was not in
the US or Canada. Apparently the content was only to be played back in
either one of these countries and nowhere else. After routing my IP
address through an anonymous proxy server in the US I however managed
to unlock the content just as well and was presented with a license
agreement I had to agree to prior to being able to play the content
back.
That agreement, amongst other things, stated that I could only play
back the content for a period of five days, on the computer I
installed the InterActual Player application onto, after which I had
to re-acquire a license. To be honest that really pissed me off, I
spent about an hour trying to play back a disc I legitimately bought
and went as far as installing and updating a 3rd party application to
my system that would allow me to do so, and now I’m only being given
a temporary license, where’s my rights as a consumer?... Shame on
you Artisan Home Entertainment Inc. and may this serve as a prime
example of DRM at its worst." [Hardware Analysis, via Slashdot]
I wonder if any libraries bought this title. Unfortunately, looking in
just my local catalog,
SWAN,
some did. I wonder how their patrons are faring trying to access these
features. Would
you go through all of that
to watch a movie? I sure wouldn't.
Whatever did happen to fair use and the right of first sale in the
digital world? I miss them.
Microsoft Locks Up XML Patent
Microsoft Locks Up XML Patent
02/12/2004 12:52 PMThe software giant lands another XML patent, which will bolster its
.NET development scheme.
VMWare locks down Windows
VMWare locks down Windows
09/20/2004 04:34 AMZDNet UK Sep 20 2004 7:26AM GMT
China Locks Up VoIP Provider
China Locks Up VoIP Provider
07/08/2004 12:33 PMIf you thought that US VoIP providers were having trouble because
everyone wants to regulate them, just look at the situation in China.
A man who was accused of the crime of offering VoIP in China now
faces five years in jail. The government is pissed
off because they believe he "stole" approximately $1 million in phone
call fees that would have gone straight to the government controlled
phone monopolies. See how much easier it is to run an inefficient
business when you're the government and you can just throw the best
competitors in jail?
Aladdin locks down smart cards
Aladdin locks down smart cards
02/10/2004 02:35 AMUnreal update locks on target
Unreal update locks on target
04/09/2004 03:55 PMUnreal Tournament 2004 establishes its credentials as one of the
premier FPS games.
Addition of IPSec locks down 2.6 kernel
Addition of IPSec locks down 2.6 kernel
01/17/2004 10:45 PMVeriSign locks in security acquisition
VeriSign locks in security acquisition
12/17/2003 12:17 AMThe company plans to announce that it has signed an agreement to
acquire Guardent, a privately held provider of managed security
services, for $140 million in stock and cash.
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