Here in Canada we have some pretty oppressive child porn laws. Writing a story, or painting pictures depicting sex with people who may be minors is considered child pornography.
Aqua wrote a song about Barbie. These people are calling themselves Barbie. The Barbies tribe has clearly (IMHO) named themselves after the doll from Mattel, and have adopted similar "little girlish" imagery. That's a trademark infraction.
I'm allowed writing anything I like about Ford without stepping on theit trademark rights. But if I start painting Ford logos on Ladas and reselling them, I might get in trouble! This is a similar situation -- Mattel is just protecting Barbie's good name.
Would some moderator with half a brain please moderate this back up? This is not flame bait. It's a comment about a feature of the language.
(If you want a flame, though, how about this? Why the fuck does the lameness filter kick in when I use "Flamebait???" for the subject??? Apparently two question marks is ok, but three is lame. Who the fuck came up with such a lame lameness filter???)
They just make up some horribly restrictive license ala Microsoft's Kerberos
It's fine to bash MS for their faults, but please don't make up new ones. MS never released their Kerberos source in any form. They never claimed that it was open source in any way whatsoever.
A better comparison would be the Sun Community License.
This is not a patent, dammit. It's a trademark. They're completely different types of IP.
A patent protects an invention or process. A trademark protects the marks which identify a business or its products. In this case, the company treats their tennis balls to smell like freshly cut grass. The trademark protection basically protects them from somebody else trying to pass off their tennis balls as this other company's. I agree that it's a silly thing to trademark, but it's NOT A PATENT.
Since this isn't breaking news (other sources had articles about it on Monday), it would be nice if/. invested a bit of time investigating these stories first. Sorry if I sound a bit bitter, but it's been a long time since/. was the first place I saw something really cool. Other sites tend to beat them to the punch, and provide better coverage to boot. That's unfortunate, because I really like the/. format.
Despite what the poster said, this probably won't be appearing in Macs 'soon'. SOI requires redesigning the entire chip -- it's not just a different manufacturing process. The Register (everyone's favourite source of fun rumours!) has a much more techinically detailed article.
It's a shame that/. relies so heavily on zdnet for stories. They're always technically weak. The Register isn't always accurate, but at least they're not writing for PHBs.
Borland cannot prevent you from doing whatever you like with code which you've written. I suspect that this restriction only applies to code which is generated by Borland wizards or other code generation tools.
It still seems like a strange restriction, but it shouldn't affect the production of free software as long as you write it yourself.
That would be fine if roblimo argued that Slashdot is a common carrier. But he argued that it's a free speech issue, which it isn't.
Microsoft didn't ask Slashdot to remove comments which were critical of the company. They asked Slashdot to remove articles which violated Microsoft's legitimate copyright.
It's nice to see someone making sense. Roblimo's response was somewhat puzzling.
While telling people where to find copies of a document is, arguably, a free speech issue, posting verbatim copies of a copyrighted work clearly isn't.
If I posted a list of 100 stolen credit card numbers to Slashdot, would they remove that?
Hard as it may be to believe, the American Bill of Rights doesn't apply to the rest of the world. This incident took place in Australia. I suspect that they have a similar exemption for parody, but it's {arrog|ignor}ant to assume that your 1st Ammendment applies in other countries.
Uh...The Dragonball is a 680x0 series. 68328 to be exact. These have got other neat stuff in them like RS-242, IRDA, PCMCIA(?) and video, but the core is a 68000.
Sorry, but how can you claim that his standpoint on relativism is incorrect?? The whole point of relativism is that there is no absolute right or wrong. If you're a relativist then you can't (by definition) claim that somebody else's views are incorrect. They're just different from yours. That's the whole point, isn't it?
That's why no serious modern philosopher espouses relativism. A relativist can't make any interesting arguments, since you can't legitimately disagree with anybody else!
I like HTML because it fast, easily searchable, and viewable by standard Web browsing software, which virtually every computer already has installed nowadays.
HTML is only easily searchable if your doc is stored in one big HTML document! AFAIK none of the popular browsers can search multiple HTML documents in any reasonable fashion.
PDF, for all its faults, is at least searchable, and handles large documents much better than HTML does.
Actually, this is Andover's site. Taco is essentially an editor who's job depends on the advertising revenue generated by this site. If he starts ignoring the interests of his customers (us!) then he's going to either lose his job and/or drive/. out of business.
If the stock market is a non-story, then it should always be a non-story. Slashdot often posts articles about Taco's favourite company's IPO'ing. If it's going to carry any financial news, then then stories about the tech bubble bursting are certainly Slahsdot-worthy.
This story impacts all of us. If tech stocks don't recover it means that there will be less money for start ups to do cool things! How many exciting companies are going to sink because they've lost all their capital?
Won't somebody think of the children!? -- Helen Lovejoy
Read the article! This is NOT a new TLD. It's a country code. It doesn't violate any RFCs.
It's not a new idea, either. Tuvalu sold their domain once before (but the deal fell through) and Togo, Niue and the Christmas Islands have all sold their's, too. I heard that there have been offers to buy Turkmenistan's TLD, too (.tm) but I don't know if they've sold.
Tuvalu already sold their TLD to Information.CA of Toronto in 1998. The company offered them $50M up front. I seem to remember that they didn't actually have any money, and the deal fell apart.
Is this deal any more real? It doesn't sound like DotTV is putting any cash up front at all.
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I wonder what child porn is, in Sealand?
Here in Canada we have some pretty oppressive child porn laws. Writing a story, or painting pictures depicting sex with people who may be minors is considered child pornography.
What's Sealand's definition?
/peter
Except the domain name, for $350,000. He claims that was a joke, but it looks like that's what caught Mattel's attention in the first place.
You're right, though. If the site is non-commercial then Mattel's case is weaker.
I'm allowed writing anything I like about Ford without stepping on theit trademark rights. But if I start painting Ford logos on Ladas and reselling them, I might get in trouble! This is a similar situation -- Mattel is just protecting Barbie's good name.
Would some moderator with half a brain please moderate this back up? This is not flame bait. It's a comment about a feature of the language.
(If you want a flame, though, how about this? Why the fuck does the lameness filter kick in when I use "Flamebait???" for the subject??? Apparently two question marks is ok, but three is lame. Who the fuck came up with such a lame lameness filter???)
/peter
Browse at '1'. All the trolls just disappear.
/peter
It's fine to bash MS for their faults, but please don't make up new ones. MS never released their Kerberos source in any form. They never claimed that it was open source in any way whatsoever.
A better comparison would be the Sun Community License.
This is not a patent, dammit. It's a trademark. They're completely different types of IP.
A patent protects an invention or process. A trademark protects the marks which identify a business or its products. In this case, the company treats their tennis balls to smell like freshly cut grass. The trademark protection basically protects them from somebody else trying to pass off their tennis balls as this other company's. I agree that it's a silly thing to trademark, but it's NOT A PATENT.
/peter
Since this isn't breaking news (other sources had articles about it on Monday), it would be nice if /. invested a bit of time investigating these stories first. Sorry if I sound a bit bitter, but it's been a long time since /. was the first place I saw something really cool. Other sites tend to beat them to the punch, and provide better coverage to boot. That's unfortunate, because I really like the /. format.
It's a shame that /. relies so heavily on zdnet for stories. They're always technically weak. The Register isn't always accurate, but at least they're not writing for PHBs.
It still seems like a strange restriction, but it shouldn't affect the production of free software as long as you write it yourself.
Except for those users who have an automatic score of -2. Slashdot censors certain users, which could be considered to be editorial control.
That would be fine if roblimo argued that Slashdot is a common carrier. But he argued that it's a free speech issue, which it isn't.
Microsoft didn't ask Slashdot to remove comments which were critical of the company. They asked Slashdot to remove articles which violated Microsoft's legitimate copyright.
/peter
It's nice to see someone making sense. Roblimo's response was somewhat puzzling.
While telling people where to find copies of a document is, arguably, a free speech issue, posting verbatim copies of a copyrighted work clearly isn't.
If I posted a list of 100 stolen credit card numbers to Slashdot, would they remove that?
/peter
Unplug it.
Sorry, but how can you claim that his standpoint on relativism is incorrect?? The whole point of relativism is that there is no absolute right or wrong. If you're a relativist then you can't (by definition) claim that somebody else's views are incorrect. They're just different from yours. That's the whole point, isn't it?
That's why no serious modern philosopher espouses relativism. A relativist can't make any interesting arguments, since you can't legitimately disagree with anybody else!
/peter
HTML is only easily searchable if your doc is stored in one big HTML document! AFAIK none of the popular browsers can search multiple HTML documents in any reasonable fashion.
PDF, for all its faults, is at least searchable, and handles large documents much better than HTML does.
There are still tons left.
/. sucks.
slashslashdot.* is still available. Somebody could turn that into a good "News for Serial Killers. Stuff That Splatters" web site.
antislashdot.* is available too. The site for people who think
Or you could just take suckdot.org. I'm surprised nobody took this one after the suck.com parody.
But dot[dot[dot[...]]].* are all taken up to 5 dots. So's quux.net. You can't have that one.
If anyone uses one of these and IPOs and makes a fortune, can you buy me a sports car? Thanks!
/peter
Actually, this is Andover's site. Taco is essentially an editor who's job depends on the advertising revenue generated by this site. If he starts ignoring the interests of his customers (us!) then he's going to either lose his job and/or drive /. out of business.
If the stock market is a non-story, then it should always be a non-story. Slashdot often posts articles about Taco's favourite company's IPO'ing. If it's going to carry any financial news, then then stories about the tech bubble bursting are certainly Slahsdot-worthy.
This story impacts all of us. If tech stocks don't recover it means that there will be less money for start ups to do cool things! How many exciting companies are going to sink because they've lost all their capital?
Thanks for the support, icebalm. Looks like they got you, too. I've just about given up on /.
/peter
Read the article! This is NOT a new TLD. It's a country code. It doesn't violate any RFCs.
It's not a new idea, either. Tuvalu sold their domain once before (but the deal fell through) and Togo, Niue and the Christmas Islands have all sold their's, too. I heard that there have been offers to buy Turkmenistan's TLD, too (.tm) but I don't know if they've sold.
Tuvalu already sold their TLD to Information.CA of Toronto in 1998. The company offered them $50M up front. I seem to remember that they didn't actually have any money, and the deal fell apart.
Is this deal any more real? It doesn't sound like DotTV is putting any cash up front at all.
/peter