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Re:Is this really news??? NONope, it's not news anymore, what is news is a small company going after a large one for DMCA copyright violations:
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Coming up next ... Donner Pass at Mars
If the ISS crew can't be trusted to restrain their appetites, what's going to happen on a trip to Mars (where half the crew might be in suspended animation)? Donner Party Cookbook
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Re:"really a tiny minority" or "a million members"
Checking the "About Us" page of an organization's website is not really adequate research to determine the character of an organization. It's more informative to look at their actions, like this. Oh and there's also this little nugget of hypocricy. And, well, Jeff Jarvis deals with the numbers game that PTC tries to play. An organization whose membership is 0.3% of the population producing 99% of the complaints to the FCC seems a little disproportionate. All this is just the tip of the iceburg. The PTC is not the good guys they pretend to be.
Also keep in mind that these are the people who are horribly offended at the hilarious spanking incident on Angel.
What we have here is a case of a few people with no sense of humor capitalizing on a million Americans who don't realize what they're really supporting. -
Garbage can be copyrighted
Maybe yours doesn't - but theirs did.
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What about when an RIAA member gets sued....
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/10/prweb171878
. htm"At issue is the double standard of Univision, one of the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) most prominent members. The RIAA and Univision are quick to bring their financial weight and big-firm legal talent down upon anyone seen to be violating their copyrights, such as music file sharing websites. In fact, both RIAA and Univision have argued in recent court cases that an ISP (website) should have no immunity from a copyright infringement claim on the basis of its asserted 'passive' conduct, and that once an ISP has notice that it is hosting infringing material, it is obligated to police the website for further infringements."
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Re:Patents are the real keyCite?
(Yes, I know not believing everything you read is genereally bad for the karma. So mod me down).
The wonders of google:
CCR5 Mutant Gene Sequence Patented for AIDS diagnoses
Actually this one is more appropriate: Here is another article on a general CCR5 Gene Patent from Human Genome Sciences. This article goes quite in depth w/ regards the consequence of the patent filing on drug research w/ CCR5 inhibitors.
-bloo
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circling vultures
Ever notice how certain groups love to take the NYT as the gospel? Ever think that they sometimes don't have it quite right?
What about this one, where the NYT got hosed like everyone else?
Let us not forget that the NYT sometimes plays dirty games.
And this.
And this.
And this.
Also do not forget the "journalists" that actually fabricate stories.
The fallout.
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Bayesian redux. 0wned by spammers. Not mine.My software attacks the structure of spam, not the content of it.
It allows the user to select the level of filtering desired. All email containing content unwanted by the user is treated as spam. At SpamByte code 0 (which is displayed along with your email address and a notice that 'all email content containing unwanted email will be summarily deleted or reported as spam'), the only spam that gets through will look something like this....
Visit my spam site
http : / / spamsite . example . com
spammer @ spamsite . example . com
It is spam that got past my program's filtering routine but is inconvenient for the user to use. Because it is written like this to evade the filters (in spite of the email sender warning above), the sender must be a spammer and the message can be reported as spam and deleted without further thought. Once this task becomes overwhelming, 'close' your inbox for a while then 'reopen' it later--Let the spammers deal with the bounces of 'unavailable' mailboxes.
And anyway, the one misclassified message mentioned in the article could have been a real email treated as spam, unacceptiable performance in a business or otherwise mission-critical environment.
It was press released on 2004-08-16, one week before the 2004-08-23 date in the article
An earlier version of one of the software programs using a different (now discarded) approach was submitted as a Slashdot story but was rejected. -
I solved the spam problem. Seriously. Interested?Because of posts like this and this, as well as my own exasperation at the email spam/malware problem, I wrote these two programs that make email spam/malware 'almost impossible'. One of them is 100% freeware because the end user email recipient needs an effective, efficient solution to their email spam/malware problems. The companion program, a shareware SMTP mailserver contains the same spam/malware filter as the freeware POP3 email client. The press release for these two programs have yielded at last count the following:
PRESS RELEASE STATISITCS
SpamByte: Game Over, Spammers/Computer Crackers....
BASIC STATISTICS
Statistic Count Description
Reads: 10,688 - This number tells you how many times your press release was accessed from our site and other distribution points where we have the ability to measure a click through. This number does not include the number of journalists that have received your release through email. In addition there are online distribution points that we currently have no ability to track.
Estimated Pickup: 117 - This number estimates the number of times your press release was picked up by a media outlet. This does not tell you how many times your story appears in the media. It simply attempts to estimate media interest of your release.
Prints: 1 - This is the number of times that someone has printed your press release. We measure this by the number of times that the "printer friendly version" link is pressed. In reality, only a small percentage of users actually click this link before printing a release.
Forwards: 0 - This is the number of times that someone has forwarded your press release to a third party using the link on your press release.
Because of the Boulder Pledge and my unwillingness to become a spammer myself to promote these two programs, I ask you all this question: Will you reward my efforts and purchase my shareware mailserver program after trying it out first? When properly installed and configured, see for yourself how it blocks spammers altogether or 'safes' hostile email content and clearly and symbolically identifies the message's 'spamlike' attributes on the email message 'Subject: 'line. Email containing content unwanted by the recipient is automatically 'deleted' and *NEVER* appears in their inbox! In doing so, you will help reduce email spam and malware and reward my efforts to provide you the tools to do so. If both programs were in wide use on the internet, spam and malware would be 'almost impossible' to distribute.
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam. -
Re:www.fallwellsucks.com
[blank]sucks.com websites have been losing pretty steadily lately. One of the best ones is where Full Sail Real World Education took out a WIPO case against www.fullsailsucks.com.
Read about the case here...
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Eh just go to Vegas
Don't forget to read 23 Reasons Google Can Become a Penny Stock... (see also RZ)...
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/.ed to oblivion
That was fast. Less than 5 posts and the machine is melted.
Well here's a press release on the product. I like the part about it "vaguely resembling a Klingon space ship".
Check it here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/6/prwebxml13509 7.php
Oh and of course the Google cache of the melted tritium.co.uk box: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:TSbW7tvLA14J:ww w.tritium.co.uk/ -
Re:Google SEO Challenge
SEO Challenge article states that there are now over 125,000 web pages spidered by Google.
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SEO Press Release
Here is the Google SEO Challenge Press Release on PRWeb.
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I thought this very interesting
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Top 10 Reasons Not to Buy Google Stock10 Reasons not to Buy Google Stock
Too bad you mod'ed as Troll
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Needs a little more fact-checking...
They need to check their facts a little better. The article claims that Nintendo created and released the SongBoy adapter for the Gameboy.
It was in fact made by a third party and resulted in a lawsuit and settlement. -
Re:Over and Over and OverYou can't sue the government generally, or it's agents, unless Congress gives you permission.
(IANAL but...) I'm not sure where this comes from. It's quite easy to sue various forms of government and government agents, such as the police (false arrest, rights violations), prosecutors (prosecutorial misconduct), Congress , and various federal agencies.
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They should follow in the footsteps of...
They should follow in the footsteps of SCO & send a cease & desist letter to everyone who uses third-level URLs... and naturally, they would need to provide a time-limited offer to license this 'intellectual property' for say, 5% of a company's networth, in exchange for (limited) immunity from the forthcoming lawsuit.
Even SCO would appreciate the effort when they received their cease & desist notice from Nizza...
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Re:Let's make this a press release!
Is anyone or their linux-related company a member of any wire associations? Some anti-FUD articles really need to be filed as a press release, specifically mentioning SCOX.
PR Web is a good start. Knock yourself out.
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Re:Source Code Escrow Helps Prevent This
Fort Knox Escrow was purchased by Iron Mountain. Appears that DSI Technology Escrow Services handles that stuff now.
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Protect yourself use Earthstation 5
p2p thats anonymous and encrypted check out
Earthstation 5.
See their
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Men are from Mars
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Re:Backdoor
You don't even need GPS for this
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Re:Poor lawyers
> Fist off these are NOT all kids who are 20-25.
I Never claimed that they were all in that age bracket, just that the article said that those that were, got better paying jobs (on the average) than the older ones. 62% of their jobs were in the private sector with a median salary of 90K.
> Actually, thing have gotten much worse.
Beg your pardon? Let's look at the full quote:
"This 28th consecutive report documents the first decrease in the employment rate of new law graduates since 1993, with a figure of 90% of graduates for whom employment status was known. This compares with a figure of 91.5% for the prior year, and is evidence of the effect of the general economic downturn on the employment market for new law school graduates."
Much worse? Please! Name one other sector that has it better.
Also, comparing the 2002 report and the 2001 report shows that the median salary of lawyers' first jobs in the private sector rose from 80K to 90K.
> Salaries were inflated SKY HIGH due to the tech bubble
The "tech bubble" burst around April 2000. Please compare the pre-burst 2/2000 survey with the post-burst 2/2001 survey and the middle-of-economic-slowdown 2/2002 survey.
> such, that $125 is going to be the intro level salary for SPECIALIZED lawyers a looong time.
Please explain how can a lawyer fresh out of law school be SPECIALIZED?
Please explain why, in your opinion, lawyers' salaries are different from the salaries of other people, which have fallen since 2000.
> In addition there have been a great number of layoffs and not too many golden parachutes.
For example, Dechert's DC office let go of 9 first years (Right before their christmas party, no less!) this past December. And there has been belt tightening all around.
Nine? Wow... Now for some perspective:
Nortel has announced a total of 52,000 layoffs in the 18 months prior to September 2002. Lucent has turfed 50,910 and Motorola Inc. 42,910.
The bottom line is: in Feb 2002, 90% of law school graduates of 2001 were employed. 57.8% of them obtained their first job in private practice.
> But lets not forget that the $125 is for specialized LARGE FIRM lawyers ONLY.
Recent graduates are not "specialized". Also, the article states:
"Although salaries at large firms generally did not increase beyond the $125,000 level, the increasing frequency of salaries at this level widened the salary differential between private and public sector jobs." (emphasis mine)
Even if ignore the $125K figure, the $90K median in private practice is still impressive.
> Also, they work 60-80 hours a week!
Source please!
According to this article: "The typical Philadelphia lawyer works about 51 hours per week".
Another article (sorry, lost the source) describes lawyers that are expected to generate 2000 billable hours/year as being severely overworked.
Also, the fact that lawyers bill their clients for X hours, does not mean that they actually worked that amount of time.
> To recap- 1- they are graduates who are probably older than you who are NOT KIDS
According to the survey, most of the best paid ones are.
> they are not fresh out of college, they are fresh out of LAW school
Not being a native English speaker, I thought that the term "college" could be applied to law school as well. Would the term "fresh out of university" be more acceptable?
> with another 100k+ debt, who will have to work at least 60 hours a week.
Source please!
>If they have it so great- why aren't YOU going to law school?!
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What a Loon
He is also trying to sell the concept of a film at this address
Why don't we just ask him what he is up to? His email address is: dervoron@linkeseite.zzn.com -
Reviewer a shill or a nut
Egad, this woman does like this book. No fewer than 13 reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (repeated here and here), 14?.
My first thought was the Denise M. Clark was a shill, but if she is, she's incompetant. By using the same name over and over, it becomes easy to track her down. My next thought was that she was a UFO nut trying to spread the word. Possible, but she has reviewed many other books.
My new theory is that she's desperately trying for fame through the unlikely technique of publishing reviews on as many sites as possible. (Check out her web page, "The on-line home of author/reviewer Denise M. Clark". Either that, or she's a space alien here to prepare us for use as slaves and food for her hideous grey masters. If it's the former, she's wasting our time. If it's the latter, I suppose that would could as news for nerds.
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Re:Not the first time
It's not the first time on Gameboy, either. There's been an mp3 player available for the gameboy for about THREE YEARS now. =) The first thing I found on Google about it was an news article from PR Web about how Nintendo and the company that made it settled some lawsuit 2 years ago: SongBoy Lawsuit
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Here are some linksThe AS&E Company home page: http://www.as-e.com
A previous Slashdot article on this: http://slashdot.org/articles/99
A previous CNN article (from 1997): http://cnn.com/TECH/9702/11/body.scanner s/
A previous PRWeb article (from 1998): http://www.prweb.com/releases/1998Having a relative that works with this company, and does the installations, I can tell you that their equipment is used primarily to search vehicles for drugs and weapons, not people. Some of their major installations are on the US/mexico border, and South Africa.
The vast majority of their sales are of their vehicle scanning units. They have very few of the BodySearch scanners in use. Most of those are also at "border patrol" facilities, and are intended more as "cavity search" methods than as a general search.
Furthermore, you are almost always given the choice whether or not to be scanned. Take your pick: black and white scan that shows little to no detail? Or rubber glove full body cavity search? I think it's an obvious choice.