That's not my understanding of what happened. From the finding document:
Making this failure more egregious, not only did Righthaven fail to identify Stephens Media as an interested party in this suit, the Court believes that Righthaven failed to disclose Stephens Media as an interested party in any of its approximately 200 cases filed in this District
So the issue is not that Righthaven doesn't own the copyright as much as they failed to acknowledge the fact that they were not the copyright holders. It would be more like paying a third party law firm to file a lawsuit without them mentioning you paid them to do so.
Which is interesting in that the response starts with "We built our network from the ground up for a single purpose: making any website faster and safer".
Which seems to stand in stark contrast to the premise of the article, which is that they didn't intend to make web sites faster. So which is it?
Further, I think that even if it prevents spam, it likely only delays it. In the article there is a quote that says: "“We challenged an engineer on our staff to sniff a packet of data to see if there was an email address inside of it. Then we wanted to know if we could replace it with a bit of JavaScript and bring it back so that it couldn’t be harvested.”"
This approach does seem to work, but one has to wonder how long it will be before this is detected and the Javascript is executed to obtain the address. This is only spam prevention by obscurity. I guess it works for now, but if it becomes too common it will fail.
The GPL says nothing about not being able to charge money to distribute GPL licensed software. The GPL actually specifically permits this. The problem is that the software in question is according to other posters, *not* GPL, but rather some other license that prohibits selling it.
While I agree in principal, I disagree in practice. Your argument is that if the dentist or doctor does a good job, then he/she will not have any complaints. I think most would accept though that there are some people that will never be satisfied. Also, doctors, and dentists, like people, can make mistakes and have bad days sometimes.
One could take the attitude that the only hope is that the positive reviews outweigh the negative reviews. Some may be uncomfortable with this though and may try to prevent negative reviews from happening in the first place. Both approaches have been tried and the results often vary.
As another poster mentioned, the dental and medical fields are a particular challenge when it comes to this issue because doctors and dentists are bound my privacy restrictions that patients aren't. Patients can make whatever claims they want and doctors are unable to respond. They do not have the choice to respond with facts - a choice that most companies in other industries would have.
This is an inherent problem with Internet based rating systems. When you rely on these rating systems, you are taking the advice of random people on the Internet. That person may be a sensible person. Or they may be the owner of the establishment in question. Or they may be the owner of a competing establishment. We know all about that here on Slashdot. I don't know how intelligent/unintelligent people are if/when they critically process the reviews themselves.
In the meantime, you confirm to the spammer that you actually read the email by following their (presumably) unique link and they start sending more emails.
HSPA 7.2 is... supposedly 7.2 megabit/sec. I'm assuming marketing is advertising 2 gigabits rather than the much smaller 250 megabyte number... If they really offered 2 gigabytes, I'm sure they'd advertise "16 gigabits" for obvious appeal.
iPods (and apparently all Apple devices) munge filenames on the devices so that you are forced to install a music management application like iTunes. Apple chose not to follow the standard that every other device manufacturer was using and went their own proprietary route.
While I see a lot of objections to this, there is a lot of truth in it. As part of my job I do CAD drawings of steel structures. Metric is super convenient - you can make a plate 100mm x 100mm x 6mm. I can draw that all day long.
The problem comes when we actually send those drawings off to the shop. Since all the materials (and I'm actually in Canada and not the US) are in metric, the fab shop will either charge you a lot more, or will use a plate that is 102mm x 102mm x 6.3mm. Sometimes these differences can be ignored, but sometimes they add up and will make the design not work quite right because the holes won't line up.
Nuts and bolts are the same story - metric bolts are a lot harder to come by, whereas you can get imperial ones quite readily.
Even with government jobs (which are always in metric) and other projects that are in metric, the advantages of metric are lost to a huge extent because you still have architects/others who are innately designing the building in imperial and converting. You will see things that are 6096mm long which if you were actually thinking in metric, you would make 6000. Again, the materials are often available in 20' lengths and not the metric sizes.
This move has to be made, but it's one of those things where people will have to suck it up and do it, IMO, because although there is short term pain, there are long term gains to be had.
I assumed that "after that her replacement was the one that recieved a shiny new one" implied that she was fired and somebody else was hired in her stead. Maybe I read too much into it.
It's all relative. It does routinely get hot in the summer around here. Hot enough that some people find their cars more comfortable if they tint their windows.
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You must be on a netbook. You seem to have missed the last six words of his post.
That's not my understanding of what happened. From the finding document:
Making this failure more egregious, not only did Righthaven fail to identify
Stephens Media as an interested party in this suit, the Court believes that Righthaven failed to
disclose Stephens Media as an interested party in any of its approximately 200 cases filed in this
District
So the issue is not that Righthaven doesn't own the copyright as much as they failed to acknowledge the fact that they were not the copyright holders. It would be more like paying a third party law firm to file a lawsuit without them mentioning you paid them to do so.
Which is interesting in that the response starts with "We built our network from the ground up for a single purpose: making any
website faster and safer".
Which seems to stand in stark contrast to the premise of the article, which is that they didn't intend to make web sites faster. So which is it?
Further, I think that even if it prevents spam, it likely only delays it. In the article there is a quote that says: "“We challenged an engineer on our staff to sniff a packet of data to see if there was an email address inside of it. Then we wanted to know if we could replace it with a bit of JavaScript and bring it back so that it couldn’t be harvested.”"
This approach does seem to work, but one has to wonder how long it will be before this is detected and the Javascript is executed to obtain the address. This is only spam prevention by obscurity. I guess it works for now, but if it becomes too common it will fail.
The GPL says nothing about not being able to charge money to distribute GPL licensed software. The GPL actually specifically permits this. The problem is that the software in question is according to other posters, *not* GPL, but rather some other license that prohibits selling it.
While I agree in principal, I disagree in practice. Your argument is that if the dentist or doctor does a good job, then he/she will not have any complaints. I think most would accept though that there are some people that will never be satisfied. Also, doctors, and dentists, like people, can make mistakes and have bad days sometimes.
One could take the attitude that the only hope is that the positive reviews outweigh the negative reviews. Some may be uncomfortable with this though and may try to prevent negative reviews from happening in the first place. Both approaches have been tried and the results often vary.
As another poster mentioned, the dental and medical fields are a particular challenge when it comes to this issue because doctors and dentists are bound my privacy restrictions that patients aren't. Patients can make whatever claims they want and doctors are unable to respond. They do not have the choice to respond with facts - a choice that most companies in other industries would have.
This is an inherent problem with Internet based rating systems. When you rely on these rating systems, you are taking the advice of random people on the Internet. That person may be a sensible person. Or they may be the owner of the establishment in question. Or they may be the owner of a competing establishment. We know all about that here on Slashdot. I don't know how intelligent/unintelligent people are if/when they critically process the reviews themselves.
In the meantime, you confirm to the spammer that you actually read the email by following their (presumably) unique link and they start sending more emails.
HSPA 7.2 is ... supposedly 7.2 megabit/sec. I'm assuming marketing is advertising 2 gigabits rather than the much smaller 250 megabyte number... If they really offered 2 gigabytes, I'm sure they'd advertise "16 gigabits" for obvious appeal.
You know what happens when you assume...
Spectrum is limited, but you can gain a lot from shrinking your cell size so you can reuse the same spectrum more.
See above.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Math students don't deal with numbers. Often though, science students and other disciplines do.
What is a smart phone or tablet for if not to play games while you're on the toilet?
Any volunteers to be the guard?
What? You mean the hosting provider doesn't *really* have unlimited stocks of hard drives to host people's data for $10 a month?
iPods (and apparently all Apple devices) munge filenames on the devices so that you are forced to install a music management application like iTunes. Apple chose not to follow the standard that every other device manufacturer was using and went their own proprietary route.
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-PHP6-Wrox-Programmer/dp/0470395095
While I see a lot of objections to this, there is a lot of truth in it. As part of my job I do CAD drawings of steel structures. Metric is super convenient - you can make a plate 100mm x 100mm x 6mm. I can draw that all day long.
The problem comes when we actually send those drawings off to the shop. Since all the materials (and I'm actually in Canada and not the US) are in metric, the fab shop will either charge you a lot more, or will use a plate that is 102mm x 102mm x 6.3mm. Sometimes these differences can be ignored, but sometimes they add up and will make the design not work quite right because the holes won't line up.
Nuts and bolts are the same story - metric bolts are a lot harder to come by, whereas you can get imperial ones quite readily.
Even with government jobs (which are always in metric) and other projects that are in metric, the advantages of metric are lost to a huge extent because you still have architects/others who are innately designing the building in imperial and converting. You will see things that are 6096mm long which if you were actually thinking in metric, you would make 6000. Again, the materials are often available in 20' lengths and not the metric sizes.
This move has to be made, but it's one of those things where people will have to suck it up and do it, IMO, because although there is short term pain, there are long term gains to be had.
I assumed that "after that her replacement was the one that recieved a shiny new one" implied that she was fired and somebody else was hired in her stead. Maybe I read too much into it.
Of course they do - scroll up to the top of the page - the article is above all the comments.
And a reminder to never rely on somebody else to wipe your data.
*shrug*
It's all relative. It does routinely get hot in the summer around here. Hot enough that some people find their cars more comfortable if they tint their windows.
In cold climates it can get quite hot in the summer.
Compare:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/statistics/CL6158350/caon0696 - Toronto weather
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/statistics/C02744/usca0982 - San Diego weather
The summer highs aren't that different.
Indeed. Using it for balloons at parties is much more justifiable.
posting from my phone... =)
Ahhh... that explains why you're standing and not sitting.
They could then stop anyone else manufacturing and selling suitable screwdrivers them to the public.
Hmmm... that's a somewhat interesting question. Can they do so? Wouldn't they have to patent the screwdriver too?
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