Unfortunately, yes. Because there are several "levels" of trademarks (geographically), this can happen. I don't know how widespread the "fast food" pizza chain "Little Caesar's Pizza Pizza is, but it's pretty big in this country.
However, there was a guy named Caesar, who had a pizza place near my home town. He never heard of them, nor had they heard of him. Insert clashing of David and Goliath when "Little Caesar's Pizza" had to deal with "Little Caesar's Pizza Pizza."
I can only assume that, because the US is so large, they thought it unreasonable to expect everyone to come up with a unique name. That, or before there was widespread, reliable communication, people had similar names, but no one cared because they couldn't compete with each other. And now, you can't go back and re-do everything.
If I have a company called Fred, based in France and you have a company called Fred based in the US, who gets fred.com?
More imporantly, if I'm in California and I have a Tire business called "Fred" because my name is Fred, and you have a Sewing Machine business in Arizona called "Fred" because your name is Fred, who then gets fred.com? Right now, it's the one with the most money, as they're the ones able to threaten legal action. But, both of us should have equal rights to it. There are a whole host of problems with the current system, based on increasingly granular geographical location and decreasingly granular trades.
Remember when a Trademark only applied to a particular trade?
At our work, we bought some Dells with 45 GB Deskstars and, one by one, they all are dying (mine was dated Aug 2000, but I don't know when we actually got them purchased). Granted I got a bit more use out of mine, but then, I never turn the computer off, so it should have had a LOT less wear and tear.
It can't be all that different than the use of hand-held radios. In fact, I'd bet that they use less power then most hand-helds. And if the antenna is built into their armor, etc. then it can be placed even more optimally than a hand-held. Getting the radiation in your body isn't just bad for the body, it's bad for the signal, too. So, you'd have to figure that they'd be placed for optimal use (which just happens to coincide with minimal abosorbion into the body).
Yes, they could just up the power, but then you start killing your batteries faster.
The big problem with PINs is verifying it. If it's built into the card, then it can either be read or changed. If it's something sent over the wire, then it's just one more thing that can be stolen and then faked. This is the same general problem with any sort of authentication scheme. How do you prove you're you without allowing someone else to find out how to prove that they are you?
The closest one I've heard of is a biometric check that has a lot of information, but only a small part of it is requested (or is it that only a few bits are sent down for comparison? I can't remember). That way, even if the information is intercepted, only a small part of the total information is leaked. Next time, a completely different portion of the information is requested/required. To get any significant portion of the information is a serious time investment. Hopefully, the investment begins to outweigh the benefit, and the information is simply not stolen (because it's too much work).
They really don't care about trying to emulate those interfaces. The people who run systems that don't look like the ads probably wouldn't be fooled even if the dialog box was right for the interface.;-)
Exactly. Sometimes, shit happens to a trademark. Now, if you'll excuse me, the airborne toner from the Xerox machine is making me cry. I'm going to go get a Kleenex and blow my nose. After that, I might just play with my Yo-Yo or my Frisbee.
Hey, at least you knew they are going to pass through. They did the competition for the dune buggy only about 5 miles from my house and I never even knew! I could have watched! But nooooooooooo...I had to find out, later, while watching on TV, that they were practically within walking distance.
Since when has/. claimed to have any relation to journalism? For as long as I've been on here, it's mostly discussion. And discussion is boring without opinions.
Personally, I could see both sides of this: yes, it's nifty hardware in which some people might be interested and it is a potential target for the RIAA. Judging by their past record of at least trying to kill things that threaten their cash flow (like, as mentioned before, what happened with DAT), it's at least something important to consider.
That's actually a really good point. In the same way that vaccinations even help people who don't get them (by recucing the number of potential sources of the illness), this would probably reduce the number of targets enough to make spamming unprofitable.
And, in reality, are the people running non-MS OSs likely to be the ones that actually respond to spam? I'm sure there are, but my guess is that the majority of people who bother to make the conscious decision to get a computer that runs something other than Windows will likely be the type that also thinks before they hit the "reply" button. So, those people don't really need to be "protected" from spam (though I'm sure they'd appreciate it).
Here's my take: the movies were terrible. The stories were good and at least reasonably consistent with each other (you'll never get complete consistency).
A lot of people didn't understand why Ep 1 was such a big deal and thought it was just an excuse for the special effects. But I was pretty convinced that it set the stage quite nicely for things to come. How did the Emperor manage to rise to power the way he did (and disolve the senate as is mentioned)? Ep 2 did a fairly good job of explaining how Anakin allows his emotions to win out over good judgement.
Sure, they might have been slow at times, but it's important to set the stage. The acting was rather marginal and the dialog was horrendous. But the stories themselves were important and explained a lot about Eps 4-6, for me.
And the ads that are displayed are actually likely to be useful. None of this "people who searched for 'Pentium Processors' also bought this->underwear". Yeah, thanks.
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And if I just downloaded the kernel from kernel.org? What then? There's no money to refund and no company who would pay SCO for the illegal code.
Not that I think their claims have any merit, anyway...
Now, wait a minute. Intuit is not putting the spyware in the next version of TurboTax. At least that one worked.
There's a Porn floor? Where is this building? I must find it!
I thought it was "Hey, y'all! Watch this!"
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News for Potheads. Stuff that...uh...what were we talking about?
Unfortunately, yes. Because there are several "levels" of trademarks (geographically), this can happen. I don't know how widespread the "fast food" pizza chain "Little Caesar's Pizza Pizza is, but it's pretty big in this country.
However, there was a guy named Caesar, who had a pizza place near my home town. He never heard of them, nor had they heard of him. Insert clashing of David and Goliath when "Little Caesar's Pizza" had to deal with "Little Caesar's Pizza Pizza."
I can only assume that, because the US is so large, they thought it unreasonable to expect everyone to come up with a unique name. That, or before there was widespread, reliable communication, people had similar names, but no one cared because they couldn't compete with each other. And now, you can't go back and re-do everything.
If I have a company called Fred, based in France and you have a company called Fred based in the US, who gets fred.com?
More imporantly, if I'm in California and I have a Tire business called "Fred" because my name is Fred, and you have a Sewing Machine business in Arizona called "Fred" because your name is Fred, who then gets fred.com? Right now, it's the one with the most money, as they're the ones able to threaten legal action. But, both of us should have equal rights to it. There are a whole host of problems with the current system, based on increasingly granular geographical location and decreasingly granular trades.
Remember when a Trademark only applied to a particular trade?
But...but...what about the obligitory
"Can you imagine just ONE of these?!?"
At our work, we bought some Dells with 45 GB Deskstars and, one by one, they all are dying (mine was dated Aug 2000, but I don't know when we actually got them purchased). Granted I got a bit more use out of mine, but then, I never turn the computer off, so it should have had a LOT less wear and tear.
It can't be all that different than the use of hand-held radios. In fact, I'd bet that they use less power then most hand-helds. And if the antenna is built into their armor, etc. then it can be placed even more optimally than a hand-held. Getting the radiation in your body isn't just bad for the body, it's bad for the signal, too. So, you'd have to figure that they'd be placed for optimal use (which just happens to coincide with minimal abosorbion into the body).
Yes, they could just up the power, but then you start killing your batteries faster.
I think that it's just the whole point of puns, not jokes in general. :-)
Subscribers can turn that off.
Oh. I sit corrected.
Mmmmm...tasty foot...
He's probably a subscriber. They get to read the story early, you know.
:-)
Actually, no. There would have been an asterisk by the username if that were the case. But that was my first thought, too.
The big problem with PINs is verifying it. If it's built into the card, then it can either be read or changed. If it's something sent over the wire, then it's just one more thing that can be stolen and then faked. This is the same general problem with any sort of authentication scheme. How do you prove you're you without allowing someone else to find out how to prove that they are you?
The closest one I've heard of is a biometric check that has a lot of information, but only a small part of it is requested (or is it that only a few bits are sent down for comparison? I can't remember). That way, even if the information is intercepted, only a small part of the total information is leaked. Next time, a completely different portion of the information is requested/required. To get any significant portion of the information is a serious time investment. Hopefully, the investment begins to outweigh the benefit, and the information is simply not stolen (because it's too much work).
They really don't care about trying to emulate those interfaces. The people who run systems that don't look like the ads probably wouldn't be fooled even if the dialog box was right for the interface. ;-)
I guess it's just zero indexed... :-)
Exactly. Sometimes, shit happens to a trademark. Now, if you'll excuse me, the airborne toner from the Xerox machine is making me cry. I'm going to go get a Kleenex and blow my nose. After that, I might just play with my Yo-Yo or my Frisbee.
The four Rs of computing (at least, lately):
;-)
Retry
Reboot
Reinstall
Repeat
Hey, at least you knew they are going to pass through. They did the competition for the dune buggy only about 5 miles from my house and I never even knew! I could have watched! But nooooooooooo...I had to find out, later, while watching on TV, that they were practically within walking distance.
a bit of opinionated journalism
/. claimed to have any relation to journalism? For as long as I've been on here, it's mostly discussion. And discussion is boring without opinions.
Since when has
Personally, I could see both sides of this: yes, it's nifty hardware in which some people might be interested and it is a potential target for the RIAA. Judging by their past record of at least trying to kill things that threaten their cash flow (like, as mentioned before, what happened with DAT), it's at least something important to consider.
If you think the Windows path that lead up to Windows ME wasn't just a series of "fixes" to MS-DOS 1.0, you're kidding yourself.
My favorite:
"Hello?" *pause* "911, what is your emergency?"
"Uh...uh..."
"911, do you have an emergency?"
"Uh...this is...uh...[name] with [company]...uh...we thought this was a house."
"No, you've just called 911. Take this number out of the list."
"Uh...yeah...okay. Sorry."
That's actually a really good point. In the same way that vaccinations even help people who don't get them (by recucing the number of potential sources of the illness), this would probably reduce the number of targets enough to make spamming unprofitable.
And, in reality, are the people running non-MS OSs likely to be the ones that actually respond to spam? I'm sure there are, but my guess is that the majority of people who bother to make the conscious decision to get a computer that runs something other than Windows will likely be the type that also thinks before they hit the "reply" button. So, those people don't really need to be "protected" from spam (though I'm sure they'd appreciate it).
Here's my take: the movies were terrible. The stories were good and at least reasonably consistent with each other (you'll never get complete consistency).
A lot of people didn't understand why Ep 1 was such a big deal and thought it was just an excuse for the special effects. But I was pretty convinced that it set the stage quite nicely for things to come. How did the Emperor manage to rise to power the way he did (and disolve the senate as is mentioned)? Ep 2 did a fairly good job of explaining how Anakin allows his emotions to win out over good judgement.
Sure, they might have been slow at times, but it's important to set the stage. The acting was rather marginal and the dialog was horrendous. But the stories themselves were important and explained a lot about Eps 4-6, for me.
And the ads that are displayed are actually likely to be useful. None of this "people who searched for 'Pentium Processors' also bought this->underwear". Yeah, thanks.