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Slashback: Disputes, Clones, Audio
Needed: One referee. Quixotic1 writes "A small company I work for has discovered that a domain name has been registered with their U.S.-trademarked (since 1980) name. Requests to the owner of the site (a U.S. citizen) have gone unanswered, so we're now moving on to filing an ICANN dispute. There was a query last week about inexpensive alternatives to the $1000+ UDRP arbiters. The discussion ended up revolving around whether the author had a valid claim or not, but I'd still like to know -- are there inexpensive alternatives?"
I bet there's money to be made if someone can come up with cheaper means of settling such disputes.
Store in the ammunition box. leonbrooks writes "Recently, images from a presentation by Microsoft Belgium were published on the web. The presentation made some startling (for Microsoft) concessions to Open Source, then set about FUDding the GPL into the ground. I whacked together a point-by-point answer to the anti-GPL FUD. Happy linking ..."
Tithe 10 percent. Luke Francl writes "Inspired by Lawrence Lessig's OSCON remarks, Lessig's Challenge is a way for people concerned by the attempts by the entertainment industry to close off the net to fight back. The challenge is to spend more on those who fight for the open network than you do on its enemies. Since it appeared on Slashdot last month, 10 people have joined me and we've raised over $2300 for good causes (organizations like the EFF, the ACLU, the FSF, along with free software/open source programmers and online artists). And that's just the ones I know about! Cory Doctorow wrote to tell me that many people were inspired by the challenge to join the EFF. ... Check out the list of suggested recipients."
Like obsidian, and coal, and dirt ... salimfadhley writes "Today BBC Radio 4 began serialising Phillip Pullman's popular "Dark Materials" trilogy. The beeb will be broadcasting one episode per week, with a RA stream of the latest episode that can be found on the promotional site. You can find "The Golden Compass" (called "Northern Lights" in Europe) on the website now. This stream will be replaced with episode 2 next Saturday.
The Dark Materials series was originally intended as children's fiction, however owing to excellent storytelling and a significantly darker theme than Harry Potter, has done rather well in U.S. and UK adult market.
The central premise of the series is that God is evil, a celestial impostor who pretends to have created the universe and who so intensely hates flesh and blood that he wants people to live a repressed, joyless existence. Unsurprisingly this theme has upset fundamentalist Christians."
Unfamiliar? Read the Slashdot review of the trilogy.
The clones I meet are mostly in pairs. PizzaFace writes "The Washington Post reports that the Raelian clone claim echoes a hoax of 25 years ago. And while we have better technology now for testing the claim quickly, there is still room for deception, and some people don't trust the science (and pseudoscience) reporter the Raelians appointed to test their claim."
It's located here.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
- Douglas Adams
The guy they asked to do the independant tests wasn't allowed access to the clone, so he has stated it is quite possibly a hoax. More can be found at google news
What you're talking about is the reason for the Lesser General Public License.
.com is a short way of referring to .com.us , .com is expanded by DNS to .com.us . Read the history of the DNS. It was intended primarly COMmercial use, and because it was a US arpanet development, they didnt want to type.us all the time so they just shortened it to .com . simple.
If you want worldwide you should use .INT that is what it was set aside for.
The top-level domain for international organizations is .ORG. The .INT TLD is designed for international treaty organizations such as ISO, WTO, WIPO, etc.
Will I retire or break 10K?
The review is more than slightly mis-stated.
The books draw on various religious beliefs to populate plot elements (including pseudo-Gnostic views, Christianity, and "secular" physics), but also draws on some pagan mythology, and a healthy dose of just good old made-up stuff.
There's a somewhat anti-Church theme in there as well, and definitely an anti-Authority theme.
It's a fun read. I'd recommend it. (I'd also recommend Chronicles of Narnia for the entertainment value, though. If your kids aren't exposed to it, they won't build up the antibodies)...
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?
www.fogbound.net
In this case, the company should have noticed beforehand, and then fired and sued the developer and the manager(s) too for incompetence, conspiracy against the company, lying to superiors, and whatever else their lawyers can come up with.
Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all....
--Thomas J. Kopp
If you take ten million lines of GPL code and add a
single line of proprietary code, the result is GPL.
If you take ten million lines of proprietary code and
add a single line of GPL code, the result is still GPL.
Utilizing GPL code is thermodynamically irreversable,
just like utilizing fire. Sometimes it makes economic
sense to do so, sometimes not.
>;k
Definitely worth checking out, however get the UK editions if you can. The US edition (at least the one I have) is missing the quotations at the beginning of each chapter (Milton, that sort of thing). It's also been very badly translated into US English - spelling changes are fine, but when you get English characters in a parallel England giving "golden dollars" to each other it not only detracts from the scene he's painting but insults the intelligence of the reader. (The original text is "golden crowns"). There are a lot of examples of this kind of thing and once you've started to spot them they break the flow of the text horribly.
What would Lemmy do?
The scenario makes no mention of the registrant's goal. Given the details provided, there's no ethical reason to claim the domain from this guy. If they have a real complaint, then fine. If not, they should quit whining.
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.