Back when atari2600.org was registered, was the.org TLD only available to non-commercial entities? That would have precluded any action from Atari to take the domain then.
[We] conclude that a transmission that weakens a sound computer system—or, similarly, one that diminishes a plaintiff’s ability to use data or a system—causes damage.
The problem with this is likely that their computer system was not sound, and should not have caused any real damage.
I think you hit the nail on the head, and that may be an important argument in the next appeal.
Are there any/. lawyers who want to file an amicus curiae?
...the listener just wants to be able to hear everything without having to fiddle with the volume every few seconds.
Portable music players have more than enough processing power to do that kind of volume leveling automatically. The artists/engineers/producers can make a product that will sound its best in a good listening environment, and leave the rest to playback.
Calling Android a linux desktop is also a stretch.
He didn't call it a linux desktop; he called it "the linux desktop dream come true". I thought he meant: "Though the hope of an open-source OS widely adopted by non-technical mainstream users didn't happen with Linux for desktop PCs, it did with Android.
There are several circumstances (especially in residential settings) where incandescents really are a better choice than CFLs, but educating people is so much harder than instituting a ban...
Seriously and more to your point: Fluorescents of any kind (unless they have a program-start ballast) tend to fail early when subjected to lots of on-off cycling (like in a closet, hall, or places where we put motion sensors). These are also the places where economic payback time is ridiculously extended due to low hours of operation.
Dimming is also much simpler for incandescents, and actually extends their life greatly, reducing waste. The waste in self-ballasted CFLs is not just glass, mercury and other metals (like rare earth phosphors), it's the ballast electronics.
I'll be glad if the ban is repealed, even if I don't like the reasons behind the repeal.
So there's one apple.computer; one apple.records...
What could possibly go wrong?
The same thing that went wrong with the trademarks. They were different fields of business and Apple Records seemed heavy-handed for suing Apple Computer over the trademark and logo. Not many years later and what do you know? Apple Computer is now selling music.
Makes me wonder if ICANN is smart enough to reserve some words, the way private IP blocks are reserved by IANA. Hopefully they are and hopefully "local", "domain" and "private" are on that list.
If I had to guess, I'd bet there was an account left over at a former employer, but there's no way I would check, even for curiosity. Seems like they might be dumb enough to leave a hole, lucky enough to notice the access, and vicious enough to make a legal issue of it.
I know they were too dumb to disable the notices to my mobile phone when a NAS went into panic 2 months after they laid me off. I called to tell them about the problem before their contract "IT guy" arrived for the day.
If copyright terminates at death, then in cases where the an individual owns copyright in the composition and a corporation owns copyright in the performance/sound recording (very common), the corporation has a vested interest in the premature death of the composer.
Also, corporations never die. They transition to successors and/or assigns.
Thanks for actually mentioning something about Canadian Law!
The story is about Canadian artists bringing a class action suit in a Canadian court against Canadian companies (or at least Canadian business units of global companies). I was getting tired of reading about the RIAA, US statutory royalties, etc.
Really? How often do people leave their keys lying around? Or blindly hand them to a stranger?
A better question would be: "Would people, if given the chance and in the name of convenience, have their cars, home, office and deposit box all keyed alike?" For many, the answer would be yes.
Ultimately it will be pay-where-you go: If you go to a bland, passive text only site that only needs to send you a couple thousand bytes you pay a lot less than a java & flash loaded interactive site.
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Funny that TFA made a bigger deal about fuel cost, clutter, etc., than the public safety benefit to real-time information.
Back when atari2600.org was registered, was the .org TLD only available to non-commercial entities? That would have precluded any action from Atari to take the domain then.
That's just made to look like a tree for artistic effect. The experiment used systematic biomimicry.
[We] conclude that a transmission that weakens a sound computer system—or, similarly, one that diminishes a plaintiff’s ability to use data or a system—causes damage.
The problem with this is likely that their computer system was not sound, and should not have caused any real damage.
I think you hit the nail on the head, and that may be an important argument in the next appeal. Are there any /. lawyers who want to file an amicus curiae?
How about the inductive charger on the Sonicare electric toothbrush 10+ years ago?
...don't expect your page to show up in search results above other sites that have signed up.
...the listener just wants to be able to hear everything without having to fiddle with the volume every few seconds.
Portable music players have more than enough processing power to do that kind of volume leveling automatically. The artists/engineers/producers can make a product that will sound its best in a good listening environment, and leave the rest to playback.
I thought this was going to be about the socio- and psychological impacts.
On Google Earth, I checked image history at the area (Coordinates 2420'39.79"N, 5419'38.43"E) and found:
Jul 13, 2004: Nothing
Oct 7 2005: H, most of A
Sept 12, 2007: HA, part of MAD
Jul 13, 2009, All letters excavated, but water not in MAD yet.
This would actually get a lot of people to upgrade.
Upgraders are not who MS is aiming to please. It's manufacturers.
Calling Android a linux desktop is also a stretch.
He didn't call it a linux desktop; he called it "the linux desktop dream come true". I thought he meant: "Though the hope of an open-source OS widely adopted by non-technical mainstream users didn't happen with Linux for desktop PCs, it did with Android.
There are several circumstances (especially in residential settings) where incandescents really are a better choice than CFLs, but educating people is so much harder than instituting a ban...
Seriously and more to your point: Fluorescents of any kind (unless they have a program-start ballast) tend to fail early when subjected to lots of on-off cycling (like in a closet, hall, or places where we put motion sensors). These are also the places where economic payback time is ridiculously extended due to low hours of operation.
Dimming is also much simpler for incandescents, and actually extends their life greatly, reducing waste. The waste in self-ballasted CFLs is not just glass, mercury and other metals (like rare earth phosphors), it's the ballast electronics.
I'll be glad if the ban is repealed, even if I don't like the reasons behind the repeal.
Of course even saying that I have to wonder why the federal government was going to buy a projector for a planetarium. Couldn't they get donations?
They did. The $900k from the federal govt. was just a fraction of the total renovation cost. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-adler-projector-13-mar13,0,257762.story
So there's one apple.computer; one apple.records...
What could possibly go wrong?
The same thing that went wrong with the trademarks. They were different fields of business and Apple Records seemed heavy-handed for suing Apple Computer over the trademark and logo. Not many years later and what do you know? Apple Computer is now selling music.
Makes me wonder if ICANN is smart enough to reserve some words, the way private IP blocks are reserved by IANA. Hopefully they are and hopefully "local", "domain" and "private" are on that list.
I think you & Godfather missed c0...'s point: If the content being produced is of no interest, the delivery method doesn't matter.
If I had to guess, I'd bet there was an account left over at a former employer, but there's no way I would check, even for curiosity. Seems like they might be dumb enough to leave a hole, lucky enough to notice the access, and vicious enough to make a legal issue of it. I know they were too dumb to disable the notices to my mobile phone when a NAS went into panic 2 months after they laid me off. I called to tell them about the problem before their contract "IT guy" arrived for the day.
Tell me which corporation would murder artists to get access to the works?
The one that already has rights to the recordings.
If copyright terminates at death, then in cases where the an individual owns copyright in the composition and a corporation owns copyright in the performance/sound recording (very common), the corporation has a vested interest in the premature death of the composer. Also, corporations never die. They transition to successors and/or assigns.
Thanks for actually mentioning something about Canadian Law! The story is about Canadian artists bringing a class action suit in a Canadian court against Canadian companies (or at least Canadian business units of global companies). I was getting tired of reading about the RIAA, US statutory royalties, etc.
Really? How often do people leave their keys lying around? Or blindly hand them to a stranger?
A better question would be: "Would people, if given the chance and in the name of convenience, have their cars, home, office and deposit box all keyed alike?" For many, the answer would be yes.
...CNN Money considers Amazon as a "website".
To a certain extent, you can create your own graphs with Hans Rosling's software from http://www.gapminder.org/
Ultimately it will be pay-where-you go: If you go to a bland, passive text only site that only needs to send you a couple thousand bytes you pay a lot less than a java & flash loaded interactive site.