Texas Court Blocks Screen-Scraper

An anonymous reader writes "A Texas court has granted American Airlines an injunction against Farechaser to stop them from using a screen-scraper to copy airfare information from their website in violation of the terms and conditions. In a stunning display of hypocrisy, Farechase.com's own terms and conditions prohibit users from doing to them exactly what they are doing to AA.com. The EFF is involved, but it's unclear whether they're supporting the enforceability of a website's terms and conditions or Farechase's right to violate them."

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sp beotch

[subk]

woot. karma is for pussies

If you criticize, you'RE a TERRORIST !!

[Anonymous Coward]

Chronology of Events

Seymour Hersh writes an article in The New Yorker:
A Hawk's Business: Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan Khashoggi?

Ricard Perle, on Wolf Blitzer's, show calls Seymour Hersh a terrorist

Read the interesting comments with historical comparisons at Talkingpointsmemo.com

More details available at: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:
Richard Perle brands journalist Seymour Hersh a "terrorist"

Cheers,
W00t

There's an article in the New Yorker magazine by
Seymour Hersh that's just coming out today in which
he makes a serious accusation against you that you
have a conflict of interest in this because you're
involved in some business that deals with homeland
security, you potentially could make some money if,
in fact, there is this kind of climate that he
accuses you of proposing. Let me read a quote from
the New Yorker article, the March 17th issue, just
out now. "There is no question that Perle believes
that removing Saddam from power is the right thing
to do. At the same time, he has set up a company
that may gain from a war."

PERLE: I don't believe that a company would gain
from a war. On the contrary, I believe that the
successful removal of Saddam Hussein, and I've
said this over and over again, will diminish the
threat of terrorism. And what he's talking about
is investments in homeland defense, which I think
are vital and are necessary. Look, Sy Hersh is the
closest thing American journalism has to a
terrorist, frankly.

BLITZER: Well, on the basis of -- why do you say
that? A terrorist?

PERLE: Because he's widely irresponsible. If you
read the article, it's first of all, impossible
to find any consistent theme in it. But the
suggestion that my views are somehow related for
the potential for investments in homeland
defense is complete nonsense.

BLITZER: But I don't understand. Why do you
accuse him of being a terrorist?

PERLE: Because he sets out to do damage and he
will do it by whatever innuendo, whatever
distortion he can -- look, he hasn't written a
serious piece since Maylie (ph).

BLITZER: All right. We're going to leave it right there

Get Your Unilateral War On Iraq On

Re:MOD THIS DIPSHIT DOWN.

[Anonymous Coward]

Some would say so, but they usually get nailed as flamebait.

Room for two

[Glonoinha]

*Please
*HTML
*class
*,
*thanks.

I say we enroll you both in an English and Grammar class while we are at it. Spelled 'take' correctly, I will give you credit for that.

Room for one

[Hayzeus]

The grammar in the second AC posting is flawless. Plus -- and this is only a guess -- the author is probably possessed of extraordinary intelligence and rugged good looks. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

Liberals block Saddam-Scraper

[Anonymous Coward]

"If Saddam Hussein fails to comply and we fail to act or
we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet
more opportunities to develop his program of weapons of
mass destruction and continue to press for the release of
sanctions and ignore the commitments he's made? Well, he
will conclude that the international community's lost its
will. He will then conclude that he can go right on doing
more to build an arsenal of devastating destruction. If we
fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow
in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow. The stakes
could not be higher. Some way, someday, I guarantee you he'll
use the arsenal."
-President Bill Clinton in 1998

Re:Texas court decision? (OT, I know...)

[Dark Lord Seth]

That robot thing rules btw :) Had fun driving around and talking to the owner a bit ;)

Regional Air vs. National Air

[Dukeofshadows]

My gripe is with the overpaid pilots of national airlines as they were reporting from local media here, particularly United airlines after it declared bankruptcy. Regional airlines can't afford that kind ot overpay, hence why I said they were loving this economy. AirTran, Braniff, JetBlue et. al don't seem to have this problem since they don't have the outlandish contracts. Thanks for the info on piloting aircraft. Best of luck to your friend.

Re:Nationalization of airlines

[fucksl4shd0t]

Now tell me again why pilots are overpaid?

Ok, try this one on.

1. They spend on average 8 hours a week with your kids, daily. Most parents spend about that time as well, or less.
2. Your kids really trust them and the information they are given by them. They get in trouble when they don't.
3. Your kids look up to them and try to behave like them.
4. Like it or not, your kids will learn morality from them, as well as you.

Considering that your kids (and mine) are the future of this world, would you feel comfortable paying their teachers a pilot's salary or teacher's salary? Mind you, too many mistakes by the adults in your kids lives can cause your kids to go throwing bombs and shooting up the school and stuff. Don't believe me? Read this

yeah, I know. That's just reactionary crap I just said. Fuck it. :)