(Chrysler is the only large American car company that has even half a clue when it comes to styling (but that's not saying much).
It will be interesting to see if Chrysler continues to produce good looking cars since their relationship with Daimler has ended. GM's problem with styling is manifold, but at least some of it goes to internal politics.
Why is that comma there?
It uses, lasers to project the image
I thought that we had editors to check for this sort of, thing. Gasp, you weren't supposed to see that comma, its a comma chameleon.
No, really, it uses COMMA LASERs to project the image. COMMA being the acronym for Common Object Methodology Metamodel Architecture.
If they ask for something within 48 hours and know what that means, then they deserve what they get.
If they ask for something within 48 hours and expect something usable, it is up to you to educate them.
Wait wait, this is a school. We WANT big brother in our schools. This basically tracks students as they pass through doorways. So the teacher will not have to call roll, write it down every class period, and waste 5 minutes. You will see how much time a student actually spends in a classroom. This system wont provide any more information about a student than an observant teacher could provide, but it allows the teacher to do more... teaching. An amazing concept, teachers teaching.
If your users don't trust you, you're out of business.
Unfortunately, this shows that the users do not know enough not to trust online services. Also unfortunately, (often) the only way to remove yourself from the grasp of these people is to opt out of their services, which is bad business and bad service.
Isnt there a principle of law that says that if you do not exercise your rights (or enforce statutes or somesuch) every time you become aware of an infringement, you lose those rights (or the statute becomes un-enforceable)? Im not trying to be contrary here, Im just trying to figure out how these guys can claim to be lawyers.
Im not sure why, but on many news/radio sites the real media stream is better quality than the windows or mp3 streams. I would suppose that the quality per bandwidth would be the same, but Im not sure. Maybe I just have cheap speakers.
From TFA By instantiating the object and invoking a specific method and attacker is able to corrupt process memory and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the browser..
Seems simple, just assign the browser ring 3 security. Oh wait, its Windows (and the user is Administrator with no password).
Not directly, but it is possible to put conditions on the making of copies of the pages, and all people browsing the net necessarily make copies in order to do so. The issue would be whether they had managed to accomplish this and that they were even trying.
If they were trying to do this the wouldn't the EULA read something more like:
As the hold of copyright on this "website" {insert legalese explaining "website"}, we authorize "web users" {insert legalese explaining "web users"} to use common web browsers to interpret the "source" {insert yada yada}, however we do not authorize "web users" to make or view a temporary copy of said "source" for any purpose.
What really gets me is the fact that the ?agreement? in question isn't even up to professional writing standards, much less the standards of a legal document.
No, copyright could easily work
copyright could be used to prevent copying and distribution of the source, but viewing the source would not be protected by copyright.
Copyright, Service Mark, Trademark, and Patent IP rights are secured by the US government. Securing your IP rights involves registering the content of your IP with the USPTO. The only copyright they cold claim on viewing the source of their code (even at the loosest reading of copyright law) would be any pages that are not in the first 10 or last 10 pages of code for each copyrighted work.
The only Intellectual Property law that would permit Dozier Internet law to keep their source secret is "Trade Secret" protection, and they explicitly remove themselves from this protection with this phrase: "We don't presently conduct e-commerce activities in the sense of accepting registrations or providing private access to a protected area of our website." Trade Secret protection explicitly requires access to such secrets to be limited, authorized, and secure. Dozier, you struck out.
This EULA and website is by and for fanboys.
intimately familiar with the "hacking" industry What hacking industry?
We make no representations, express or implied, concerning the functionality, security, or technical integrity of the button, and while the button is hosted by you and merely links to our site, we still provide the button solely on an "as is" basis. The phrase "the button" is defined two paragraphs later, and poorly at that.
We do not permit you to view such code since we consider it to be our intellectual property protected by the copyright laws. Very very disingenuous. Copyright law protects against....COPYING! (not viewing; ever heard of this new technology called THE PRINTED WORD?). Also it is nearly universally refered to as copyright law, not "the copyright laws"
Dozier Internet Law, P.C. obviously has the capability to immediately react to such misappropriation, The word obviously has no legal value, and is out of place in an EULA. The whole point of an EULA is to make an agreement explicit in every detail.
Of course, we do not sell any of the information collected on our website. Again "Of course" has no place in an EULA
Businesses of the Internet, hear my cry: Do not use 15 year olds as your legal counsel!
This is the real issue here. The best way to get $$ from people is to get real information about real people. IMHO, this was the whole point of the set-your-price venture. To get information about their customers, get them signed up for newsletters (however you may feel about them), and get licensed media in the hands of fans. You may not like it, but advertising works, and will continue to work, and for every person who entered their email and didn't uncheck the little box, Radiohead gets another potential sale.
This is the kind of question that always needs to be asked, whenever a technology promises to do something 'cleaner'. Oftentimes the new technology is more expensive, requires more processing, more raw materials, and sometimes more dangerous materials.
The material works. The only question is, Will it be cost-feasible to employ this plastic? In future as carbon trading opens up and becomes a market reality in more places, the answer will probably be yes.
Also, to be filed under Something gained in translation:
"analysed the material, which was initially engineered by Ho Bum Park"
Or maybe file it under 3rd grade humour.
No, no, no. Windows automagically does all kinds of crap. Especially with explorer, which for most intents and purposes is also Internet Explorer. Windows does many many things for the user that are 'nice', but really compromise security. With a culture of obfuscation-as-security and a growing codebase you HAVE to expect vulnerabilities.
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This keyboard weighs more than most laptops and as much as many desktops. Truly incredible.
Well, evolution isn't really all that good at creating new things, but is very good at retaining good designs.
Perhaps grandparent meant eternal energy instead of infinite.
It will be interesting to see if Chrysler continues to produce good looking cars since their relationship with Daimler has ended.
GM's problem with styling is manifold, but at least some of it goes to internal politics.
yup... sugar radiation.
If they ask for something within 48 hours and know what that means, then they deserve what they get.
If they ask for something within 48 hours and expect something usable, it is up to you to educate them.
Wait wait, this is a school. We WANT big brother in our schools. This basically tracks students as they pass through doorways. So the teacher will not have to call roll, write it down every class period, and waste 5 minutes. You will see how much time a student actually spends in a classroom. This system wont provide any more information about a student than an observant teacher could provide, but it allows the teacher to do more ... teaching. An amazing concept, teachers teaching.
Unfortunately, this shows that the users do not know enough not to trust online services. Also unfortunately, (often) the only way to remove yourself from the grasp of these people is to opt out of their services, which is bad business and bad service.
Does hurriedly photoshopped mspaint-style art count, or do you want genuine blurry photographic evidence http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/194195main_A-ssc2007-17a1-330.jpg?
Isnt there a principle of law that says that if you do not exercise your rights (or enforce statutes or somesuch) every time you become aware of an infringement, you lose those rights (or the statute becomes un-enforceable)? Im not trying to be contrary here, Im just trying to figure out how these guys can claim to be lawyers.
Im not sure why, but on many news/radio sites the real media stream is better quality than the windows or mp3 streams. I would suppose that the quality per bandwidth would be the same, but Im not sure. Maybe I just have cheap speakers.
From TFA By instantiating the object and invoking a specific method and attacker is able to corrupt process memory and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the browser..
Seems simple, just assign the browser ring 3 security. Oh wait, its Windows (and the user is Administrator with no password).
Not directly, but it is possible to put conditions on the making of copies of the pages, and all people browsing the net necessarily make copies in order to do so. The issue would be whether they had managed to accomplish this and that they were even trying.
If they were trying to do this the wouldn't the EULA read something more like:
As the hold of copyright on this "website" {insert legalese explaining "website"}, we authorize "web users" {insert legalese explaining "web users"} to use common web browsers to interpret the "source" {insert yada yada}, however we do not authorize "web users" to make or view a temporary copy of said "source" for any purpose.
What really gets me is the fact that the ?agreement? in question isn't even up to professional writing standards, much less the standards of a legal document.
No, copyright could easily work
copyright could be used to prevent copying and distribution of the source, but viewing the source would not be protected by copyright.
Copyright, Service Mark, Trademark, and Patent IP rights are secured by the US government. Securing your IP rights involves registering the content of your IP with the USPTO. The only copyright they cold claim on viewing the source of their code (even at the loosest reading of copyright law) would be any pages that are not in the first 10 or last 10 pages of code for each copyrighted work.
Whoever modded offtopic, this is from the public citizen blog. its not the best, but its not offtopic.
http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2007/10/you-hereby-agre.html
The only Intellectual Property law that would permit Dozier Internet law to keep their source secret is "Trade Secret" protection, and they explicitly remove themselves from this protection with this phrase: "We don't presently conduct e-commerce activities in the sense of accepting registrations or providing private access to a protected area of our website." Trade Secret protection explicitly requires access to such secrets to be limited, authorized, and secure. Dozier, you struck out.
This EULA and website is by and for fanboys.
intimately familiar with the "hacking" industry
What hacking industry?
We make no representations, express or implied, concerning the functionality, security, or technical integrity of the button, and while the button is hosted by you and merely links to our site, we still provide the button solely on an "as is" basis.
The phrase "the button" is defined two paragraphs later, and poorly at that.
We do not permit you to view such code since we consider it to be our intellectual property protected by the copyright laws.
Very very disingenuous. Copyright law protects against....COPYING! (not viewing; ever heard of this new technology called THE PRINTED WORD?). Also it is nearly universally refered to as copyright law, not "the copyright laws"
Dozier Internet Law, P.C. obviously has the capability to immediately react to such misappropriation,
The word obviously has no legal value, and is out of place in an EULA. The whole point of an EULA is to make an agreement explicit in every detail.
Of course, we do not sell any of the information collected on our website.
Again "Of course" has no place in an EULA
Businesses of the Internet, hear my cry: Do not use 15 year olds as your legal counsel!
This is the real issue here. The best way to get $$ from people is to get real information about real people. IMHO, this was the whole point of the set-your-price venture. To get information about their customers, get them signed up for newsletters (however you may feel about them), and get licensed media in the hands of fans. You may not like it, but advertising works, and will continue to work, and for every person who entered their email and didn't uncheck the little box, Radiohead gets another potential sale.
5 years hard time eh. *rimshot*
This is the kind of question that always needs to be asked, whenever a technology promises to do something 'cleaner'. Oftentimes the new technology is more expensive, requires more processing, more raw materials, and sometimes more dangerous materials.
The material works. The only question is, Will it be cost-feasible to employ this plastic? In future as carbon trading opens up and becomes a market reality in more places, the answer will probably be yes.
Also, to be filed under Something gained in translation:
"analysed the material, which was initially engineered by Ho Bum Park"
Or maybe file it under 3rd grade humour.
Report this /fs:fat32 /v:nocrap
format c:
Seriously the only thing that happens when Microsoft products try to guess what you are thinking is annoyance.
The other problem is that the people who write copy, market, and sell this stuff have no idea what they are offering.
First the dollar and now this?! Is Canada the new America?
No, no, no. Windows automagically does all kinds of crap. Especially with explorer, which for most intents and purposes is also Internet Explorer. Windows does many many things for the user that are 'nice', but really compromise security. With a culture of obfuscation-as-security and a growing codebase you HAVE to expect vulnerabilities.