Actually, even cloned passports are an issue. They're just one you can't do a lot about very easily.
They're an issue because if you can find someone who looks vaguely like you and clone their passport with or without their cooperation, you can assume their identify. Just alter your features a bit from what is in the picture. If they have medium-long hair, get a buzz cut. If they have no facial hair, grow a bear, mustache. Or vice versa. This is especially effective if you are in a minority in the country you are using the passport, as the "they all look alike" effect will carry you very far. For extra measure you can practice forging their signature.
Yes, it's a less effective exploit, but one that is a lot harder to guard against. Even if you put more biometric data in the passport like fingerprints, retinal scans or even DNA, the realities of passport processing lines make it unlikely you will be caught.
Book 3 was no picnic, but at least it got the plot moving a bit. But even in book 4, I remember being sick and tired of the House and couldn't wait for them to move on. That's one of the really frustrating part of the books. He has these wonderful and amazing environments, but he doesn't have enough plot to go around. Oh, he has enough WORDS to go around. He can definitely write page after page of stuff without actually having anything move forward in the story. So you just wind up sightseeing while waiting for something to happen.
Be prepared to spend the next several months or possibly years on it. I read all the books back to back and found them in dire need of editing. Some posters will probably jump on me and claim it was all about depth, but there was quite a bit of fat in every one of those books. Things that took far too long to develop and had an insane level of verbosity. Just like this post is getting to be...
I know I didn't give a link to the actual law, I rushed the post and didn't see that it wasn't the real deal. But it did have the reference there and a quick googling would have shown you this: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/36/220506.html
Read this first, if you haven't already. There are two very specific exceptions. One is for someone who was using the trademark before the original version of this law was passed in 1950. That's a no-brainer. The other is a VERY targeted exception that only applies to companies located in the state of Washington west of the Cascade Mountains where "operations, sales, and marketing outside of this area are not substantial". Additionally, they must specifically be referring to the Olympic Mountains there.
All of your examples fall under these two narrow exceptions:
Olympic Arms - located in Olympia, WA. emblem includes a mountain.
Olympic Paint - founded in 1938
Olympic College - founded in 1946
Olympic Paint Horses - "Nestled in the 'Rainshadow' of the majestic Olympic Mountains, the beauty of the Cascade Mountains and the charm of a Victorian seaport you will find Olympic Paint Horses."
The Olympic Hopefuls were doomed, even without the tracksuits or admitted similarity. Read the law. It's all there. Or don't believe me and try to start a business with Olympic in the name. Better hope you're in Washington.
The US law is written such that pre-existing businesses are allowed to keep their name and emblems. You just can't start any new business and put the name "Olympic" in it (with a few very specific exceptions). I haven't read the text of the Canadian law but I'm going to assume it's the same.
As described in my other comment, this falls under the exception for pre-existing businesses. The company was founded 12 years before the law was even created.
Olympic Paint and Stain falls under the pre-existing business category, as they were founded in 1938, before the 1950 law.
(2) A person who actually used, or whose assignor actually used, the words or any combination of the words described in subsection (a)(4) of this section, or a trademark, trade name, sign, symbol, or insignia described in subsection (c)(4) of this section, for any lawful purpose before September 21, 1950, is not prohibited by this section from continuing the lawful use for the same purpose and for the same goods or services.
There are a couple of other exceptions (if you're actually referring to a mountain range named Olympic before 1998 or if you only market "in the State of Washington west of the Cascade Mountain range and operations, sales, and marketing outside of this area are not substantial"). But yes, in general you cannot start a business and put the name Olympic in it unless you fall into those strict exceptions.
Considering they passed a special law, prior art really has nothing to do with it. In the US, the Olympics long ago go a heinous law passed that gave them trademark rights on things you couldn't normally trademark. They didn't go so far as the anthem, but you cannot legally put the name "Olympic" in your business. Who cares of the thousands of years of prior art. This came to my attention when they recently forced the band named the Olympic Hopefuls to change. And it was, unfortunately, all very legal of them to do so.
It's the same as using regular gmail. It's on the right side of the screen. The ads are based on contents of your emails (again, just like regular gmail). No ads show up on your actual emails.
I also wish you had the options of both folder and labels in gmail. However, there's a nifty trick to make labels work great in IMAP. Just put a / in the label name. It shows up in IMAP as a folder with subfolder. For example, if I created labels "friends/bob" and "friends/jill", I'd get a main folder "friends" and two subfolders of it, "bob" and "jill." Downside being that you have to use the gmail interface to create the label.
One of my biggest peeves is the glomming together of mail and chat. "All Mail" should not include chats.
As has already been pointed out, the proof of the pudding is in the tasting. GMail has had some downtime, but it's fared FAR better than any comparable for-pay service.
The BETA part means that they will change features around and rejigger the interface as they see fit. This does not hamper your ability to use it. It also does not prevent you from transferring your mail over to another provider should you stop liking it in the future.
Yes, but the OP was also under the wrong impression that Google Apps is not intended for home users.
The thing is that it satisfies every single need the OP has. It's free, as reliable as anything else you'll find, supports IMAP and has a decent webmail interface to boot. The only reason not to go with it is if you have some kind of objection to the company.
My comment about UTC was that it was the "fix" for DST (at least as far as software development). I wasn't applying UTC to the leap seconds question. I was pointing out that DST was simply a mapping question. Leap seconds is more of a definition question.
Actually, the gp wasn't "obviously" anything and was being very vague. In fact, now that I look at it they said leap year, which is almost a non-sequitur considering the context.
I also don't get the point of you talking about getting everyone you interact with to use UTC. If your wish is that you would get everyone GLOBALLY to abolish any kind of DST, good luck with that. It's simply not going to happen so it seems to be a moot point even talking about it. As long as there is a good way to record the time, what do you really expect to happen?
DST can be "fixed" by recording time in UCT. No such "fix" exists for leap seconds. With leap seconds, you're getting down to the fundamentals of how time is recorded, not how it is translated to local time.
You mean the flash version of this site, or the original site? I assume it detects if you're on the iPhone/iPod. If you're on a normal browser, you get the links from the full site.
Either you are joking, or you've never actually used the site. It is not the non-flash version of Homestar Runner. It is a podcast of the most recent strongbad email, starting in 2007. You can't get to any of the shorts, full cartoons, games or the other rest of the Homestar Runner website. And it was done by converting the flash files movies, which took away all the interactivity that is a big part of the emails.
Plus it was discontinued in January.
This is starting to remind me of the logic of Apple claiming the iPhone can access the whole internet...
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Actually, even cloned passports are an issue. They're just one you can't do a lot about very easily.
They're an issue because if you can find someone who looks vaguely like you and clone their passport with or without their cooperation, you can assume their identify. Just alter your features a bit from what is in the picture. If they have medium-long hair, get a buzz cut. If they have no facial hair, grow a bear, mustache. Or vice versa. This is especially effective if you are in a minority in the country you are using the passport, as the "they all look alike" effect will carry you very far. For extra measure you can practice forging their signature.
Yes, it's a less effective exploit, but one that is a lot harder to guard against. Even if you put more biometric data in the passport like fingerprints, retinal scans or even DNA, the realities of passport processing lines make it unlikely you will be caught.
Book 3 was no picnic, but at least it got the plot moving a bit. But even in book 4, I remember being sick and tired of the House and couldn't wait for them to move on. That's one of the really frustrating part of the books. He has these wonderful and amazing environments, but he doesn't have enough plot to go around. Oh, he has enough WORDS to go around. He can definitely write page after page of stuff without actually having anything move forward in the story. So you just wind up sightseeing while waiting for something to happen.
Be prepared to spend the next several months or possibly years on it. I read all the books back to back and found them in dire need of editing. Some posters will probably jump on me and claim it was all about depth, but there was quite a bit of fat in every one of those books. Things that took far too long to develop and had an insane level of verbosity. Just like this post is getting to be...
I know I didn't give a link to the actual law, I rushed the post and didn't see that it wasn't the real deal. But it did have the reference there and a quick googling would have shown you this:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/36/220506.html
Read this first, if you haven't already. There are two very specific exceptions. One is for someone who was using the trademark before the original version of this law was passed in 1950. That's a no-brainer. The other is a VERY targeted exception that only applies to companies located in the state of Washington west of the Cascade Mountains where "operations, sales, and marketing outside of this area are not substantial". Additionally, they must specifically be referring to the Olympic Mountains there.
All of your examples fall under these two narrow exceptions:
The Olympic Hopefuls were doomed, even without the tracksuits or admitted similarity. Read the law. It's all there. Or don't believe me and try to start a business with Olympic in the name. Better hope you're in Washington.
PS: Here's a link to yet another lawsuit by the IOC:
http://seattletrademarklawyer.com/blog/2008/7/31/olympic-cellars-and-usoc-settle-olympic-trademark-dispute.html
Basically, you had someone who fit the exception on being in WA, but they started selling outside the area. They got smacked down and forced to limit their marketing to what the law says. And here is a link about the demise of a company mentioned by another poster, Olympic Recordings:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/BlabberMouth.Net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=41620
The US law is written such that pre-existing businesses are allowed to keep their name and emblems. You just can't start any new business and put the name "Olympic" in it (with a few very specific exceptions). I haven't read the text of the Canadian law but I'm going to assume it's the same.
As described in my other comment, this falls under the exception for pre-existing businesses. The company was founded 12 years before the law was even created.
Yes, RLY.
Olympic Paint and Stain falls under the pre-existing business category, as they were founded in 1938, before the 1950 law.
(2) A person who actually used, or whose assignor actually used, the words or any combination of the words described in subsection (a)(4) of this section, or a trademark, trade name, sign, symbol, or insignia described in subsection (c)(4) of this section, for any lawful purpose before September 21, 1950, is not prohibited by this section from continuing the lawful use for the same purpose and for the same goods or services.
There are a couple of other exceptions (if you're actually referring to a mountain range named Olympic before 1998 or if you only market "in the State of Washington west of the Cascade Mountain range and operations, sales, and marketing outside of this area are not substantial"). But yes, in general you cannot start a business and put the name Olympic in it unless you fall into those strict exceptions.
Did I miss when Greece was admitted into the US?
I'm talking about in the US, because I'm talking about a US law.
Yes. Money. Yes. Irrelevant. Apathy.
Considering they passed a special law, prior art really has nothing to do with it. In the US, the Olympics long ago go a heinous law passed that gave them trademark rights on things you couldn't normally trademark. They didn't go so far as the anthem, but you cannot legally put the name "Olympic" in your business. Who cares of the thousands of years of prior art. This came to my attention when they recently forced the band named the Olympic Hopefuls to change. And it was, unfortunately, all very legal of them to do so.
Here's the law:
http://www.inta.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=187&Itemid=59&getcontent=1
Here's a story on the band:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1507047/20050805/index.jhtml
Especially at Boggle!
So what you're saying, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that it's done by... magic?
Any sufficiently advanced Arthur C. Clarke quote is indistinguishable from omniscience.
It's the same as using regular gmail. It's on the right side of the screen. The ads are based on contents of your emails (again, just like regular gmail). No ads show up on your actual emails.
I also wish you had the options of both folder and labels in gmail. However, there's a nifty trick to make labels work great in IMAP. Just put a / in the label name. It shows up in IMAP as a folder with subfolder. For example, if I created labels "friends/bob" and "friends/jill", I'd get a main folder "friends" and two subfolders of it, "bob" and "jill." Downside being that you have to use the gmail interface to create the label.
One of my biggest peeves is the glomming together of mail and chat. "All Mail" should not include chats.
As has already been pointed out, the proof of the pudding is in the tasting. GMail has had some downtime, but it's fared FAR better than any comparable for-pay service.
The BETA part means that they will change features around and rejigger the interface as they see fit. This does not hamper your ability to use it. It also does not prevent you from transferring your mail over to another provider should you stop liking it in the future.
Yes, but the OP was also under the wrong impression that Google Apps is not intended for home users.
The thing is that it satisfies every single need the OP has. It's free, as reliable as anything else you'll find, supports IMAP and has a decent webmail interface to boot. The only reason not to go with it is if you have some kind of objection to the company.
Why should BR be able to leap straight to sub $100 pricing when DVD didn't ?
Simple - because it has to compete with DVD.
Err, no. Just because I got the reference doesn't mean it's not an obscure one.
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My comment about UTC was that it was the "fix" for DST (at least as far as software development). I wasn't applying UTC to the leap seconds question. I was pointing out that DST was simply a mapping question. Leap seconds is more of a definition question.
Actually, the gp wasn't "obviously" anything and was being very vague. In fact, now that I look at it they said leap year, which is almost a non-sequitur considering the context.
I also don't get the point of you talking about getting everyone you interact with to use UTC. If your wish is that you would get everyone GLOBALLY to abolish any kind of DST, good luck with that. It's simply not going to happen so it seems to be a moot point even talking about it. As long as there is a good way to record the time, what do you really expect to happen?
DST can be "fixed" by recording time in UCT. No such "fix" exists for leap seconds. With leap seconds, you're getting down to the fundamentals of how time is recorded, not how it is translated to local time.
Should IT Unionize?
Yes. Why? Because I'm getting really tired of this question appearing on slashdot at least once a year. Uncle.
You mean the flash version of this site, or the original site? I assume it detects if you're on the iPhone/iPod. If you're on a normal browser, you get the links from the full site.
Either you are joking, or you've never actually used the site. It is not the non-flash version of Homestar Runner. It is a podcast of the most recent strongbad email, starting in 2007. You can't get to any of the shorts, full cartoons, games or the other rest of the Homestar Runner website. And it was done by converting the flash files movies, which took away all the interactivity that is a big part of the emails.
Plus it was discontinued in January.
This is starting to remind me of the logic of Apple claiming the iPhone can access the whole internet...