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Now THIS is pure entertainment! Loads more fun than the stupid catscan device.Quote:
Originally posted by SavagePenguin:
A humble (hahaha!) computer tech uses booze and a scorpion to create science! http://savagepenguin.ontap.com/scorpio.htm
Savage, you are my hero! https://forums.windrivers.com/
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GeekGirl
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http://slashdot.org/search.pl
Type in cuecat and hit search.
You'll learn lots............
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Time is a great teacher,
but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
i just picked my two up yesterday...i dont intend to use em for what they were meant for. >shrug< i just wanna *play* with em.
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prompt$p$g [dos = elite]
I'm not sure, but I have followed all the websites, and I feel that we are wrong. Just because the product was given way doesn't give us the right to reverse engineer it. Lets look at it:
I have a phone, and think I could make something else usefull of it, so I tear it apart and create this hot new gadget. No prob right?
Now what if I was a company who had a phone and did the same. Now I, as a company, have a hot new gadget, but didn't do any of the research to create it. In the business world, they would have to pay for those IP rights (royalties) or be sued. Even if they gave it away for free.
This can be same as what we are doing here. Just because we give our hacks away for free, someone could then take it, market it and make money off CueCat. If CueCat doesn't defend themselves at our level, when a company does take it, CueCat will forfeit the right to fight it then.
Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE to tinker and think that we are doing OK here. But, if we come up with something, I think we have a responsibility to involve CueCat in it. I am not a lawyer, but I am principle-centered and know that it would peave me to have my hard work stolen. I mean, if someone bought my computers, then took my label off and put theirs on and resold them, I would be upset, wouldn't you?
>>I was discussing this with a freind and had this argument, which counters my last staement. What about cars. If you buy a ford mustang, hotrod it, and then sell it (Saleen comes to mind) for 2-5 times the original cost, do you have to pay royalties to Ford. No. Same here then, right. Boy is this a can of worms.
[This message has been edited by CondoPC (edited October 10, 2000).]
Sorry about the wrong posting.
The cue cat does not need ANY software installed to work as a regular barcode reader. The output is text however it is in a base64/XOR encoding. It can be decrypted and used in programs, webpages, etc. Although this is not the intent of the reader
I'm stopping after work today to grab one, then I'm gonna walk out the door and smash it on the sidewalk right outside Radio****Shack !!!
(I wander what the little teenage geek employee will do?)
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WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO TODAY?......Not that it matters, because Micrsoft will crash on the way there!!!
The part that pisses me off is that the info they collect they plan on selling. Check out there sister site http://www.digitaldemographics.com/services/index.html
"DigitalDemographics' parallel mission is to gather demographic and psychographic information from our :CRQ users, subscribers, and :CueCat device users. Our goal is two-fold."
Where does it say they are going to do that in the EULA??
I don't mean to flame "CondoPC" but Ma Bell dosen't sell the info she gathers listening in to what we say on the phone. (The government might but that is a whole differant thread)
[This message has been edited by TheLow1 (edited October 10, 2000).]
The spelling tests I failed in second grade DID come back to haunt me!
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You guys ALL forgot to mention the major security breach that company had. Now my email and all my info has been spammed to thousands of companies dying to send me their garbage and actually think I will read or consider all their offers. You know, since I am a "consumer" and all. I wish I never installed that d$#m software!!!!! I have 5 cats. I took apart 3 of them. One is actually pluged in and in use as a night light. The final one....I don't know if this is the VERY definition of irony.....but my real feline friend, "Patches", a calico 6 yr old cat had it in pieces in under 5 minutes flat!!!! I threw it down on the floor and let her have it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://forums.windrivers.com/
Cat vs. :cat
Cat won. :cat lost, but with everyone's information! https://forums.windrivers.com/
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Do one thing everyday that scares you!
gadget95:
It isn't necessary to decrypt the data either. By simply jumpering two solder pads, you can turn the thing into a standard barcode reader that outputs unencrypted, straight ascii.
[This message has been edited by braybk (edited October 10, 2000).]
This is all too funny. It is great how a large company tries to screw the average pc user with a "big brother" device and ends up giving us techheads a great toy to play with and probably a lot of business when the software/hardware goobers computers
Ain't it grand
Gumby
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There are no computer problems that an arc welder and a blowtorch won't fix
Wired magazine sent me one for free around 2 months ago. I haven't used it yet though. It's just an advertisment scheme.
No offense taken, I agree with you. But we do live in a different age now, where data is now the new "Gold Rush". I hate the idea of others knowing and tracking what I do, but I fear it will only get worse. Check out www.digitalangel.netQuote:
Originally posted by TheLow1:
I don't mean to flame "CondoPC" but Ma Bell dosen't sell the info she gathers listening in to what we say on the phone. (The government might but that is a whole differant thread)
....and you thought it was only going to be your computer info they wanted.
http://www.geocities.com/hofmonstr.rm/
over clock your cue cat
braybk: can you explain how to short the toys out so that they'll read straight ascii? i've got...enough...to experiment with and have to got try this.
thanks
Thanks. I enjoyed making it. I just finished part 2. I didn't drink quite as much the second time.Quote:
Originally posted by Renee:
Now THIS is pure entertainment!
I'm doing a third version where I plan on building a better mouse trap. Anyone know how far apart I should put two nails (connected to pos & neg of a cut extension cord?). Mouse completes the circuit, and poof!
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