> The effect seems similar to if somebody simply copied an entire page off of your site (I'm not sure if it's actually more serious than this), but it's easier to do because you're just keeping a small table of redirections.
The key here is that only googlebot is redirected. If you simply copied someone else's site, everyone would still get the info they were looking for. However, if you only redirect googlebot, you can redirect others to whatever you want.
> Vonage coming back and saying that the 75 year-old homeowner should have read the terms is bull.
A 75 year old early adopter with broadband?
> Part of their setup procedures should include 911 dialing. If no one at Vonage had realized this before they suck...
Part of the setup *does* involve setting up 911. If you choose to skip it, how is this Vonage's fault?
Vonage service is portable. They really don't know where your phone is. You can take your ATA with you to China, plug into a broadband connection, and send and receive calls as if your were in San Francisco. You absolutely must tell them where your phone is located for them to integrate with 911. They give the user every reasonable opportunity to set it up.
The Terms of Service is not the only place the 911 info is located. It's at the TOP of the features page (across two columns with a read table heading), it's on the "about vonage" page, and they have multiple FAQs.
> If you had a product, wouldn't you want to be able to control where it is advertised?
Would I want to? Sure, power is great! Could I? No way. Let's pretend I have a movie, but some particular critic doesn't like the movie and gives it thumbs down. Do I have the right to tell that critic not to "advertise" my movie? No. Or was McDonalds able to stop all the free "advertising" in Super Size Me? No.
It's not like Linus had never heard of source control. He had, and he felt that using something like CVS would have made him *less* productive, because he would have had to spend more time wrangling with the system trying to rename files and such.
BitKeeper was written for the way Linus works (literally-- Larry worked with him to make it so), so it had all the inherent advantages of any source control, but the added advantage that Linus didn't have to adapt himself to the software.
>... but all this does is shift the pollution elsewhere.
That's not exactly true. Power plants are always producing power whether or not you use it, so as long as you charge in off-peak hours (which most people would), you are decreasing total pollution.
And look, here's even more FUD from EDS, a Case Study of Linux. Look at what they found:
Low-Cost Solution Saves More Than Money
The new Linux environment provides a level of security and stability unavailable elsewhere. Because it is open-source software, it also offers significant cost savings on licensing and allows EDS to provide faster, more responsive support because programming problems can be diagnosed and repaired more quickly.
They've been having "Free Scoop Night" for a few years now, generally on our about May 1. Last year I believe it was April 30 because May 1 was a Saturday. This year, May 1 is a Sunday. They probably don't like giving free icecream on weekends...
The usual free scoop night doesn't require a coupon or registration or anything...
I thought the whole idea of the V-chip was so that if you want to censor your child's TV, you can. With the V-chip in place, I don't see why broadcast television even needs to have decency regulations any longer (beyond having accurate V-chip ratings).
And how many people watched Firefly? I think his point is that Trek has a built-in audience, but it should be done right. It should *not* be YATS, it should be interesting and original SciFi, but set in the Trek universe.
For one thing, get rid of the damned Sitcom Law of Preservation where every episode ends where it began. Kill a few non-red shirts for once.
> entirely to defend against litigation, as against "submarine" patents like those used in Eolas v. Microsoft.
The problem is that Eolas wasn't a competitor of MicroSoft, they are simply a patent portfolio company. If Sun came after MS and sued for patent infringement, then MS would be able to retaliate with its own patents. But what can you do to a portfolio company? They don't actually make anything, so they aren't violating any patents.
Further, if MS justs wants "defense", then why are they pushing so hard for software patents in Europe. Why aren't *they* leading the fight to abolish software patents entirely? If their only concern was defense, wouldn't they be in a better situation if everyone were disarmed? Wouldn't they save a lot of money if they didn't have to patent everything?
Oh, and if the VFAT patent licensure wasn't a submarine patent, I don't know what is.
> If a Treo 650 can handle WiFi, that's a selling point and likely to result in more sales.
But the people selling the devices are really selling cellular service. If you can use WiFi, you can use VoIP for free rather than the cellular minutes. It has been alleged that it was Sprint that explicitly asked PalmOne to not provide WiFi drivers for the Treo 650.
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They've been too busy spending the last 10 years justifying why they don't need any of these things.
> The effect seems similar to if somebody simply copied an entire page off of your site (I'm not sure if it's actually more serious than this), but it's easier to do because you're just keeping a small table of redirections.
The key here is that only googlebot is redirected. If you simply copied someone else's site, everyone would still get the info they were looking for. However, if you only redirect googlebot, you can redirect others to whatever you want.
> Vonage coming back and saying that the 75 year-old homeowner should have read the terms is bull.
A 75 year old early adopter with broadband?
> Part of their setup procedures should include 911 dialing. If no one at Vonage had realized this before they suck...
Part of the setup *does* involve setting up 911. If you choose to skip it, how is this Vonage's fault?
Vonage service is portable. They really don't know where your phone is. You can take your ATA with you to China, plug into a broadband connection, and send and receive calls as if your were in San Francisco. You absolutely must tell them where your phone is located for them to integrate with 911. They give the user every reasonable opportunity to set it up.
The Terms of Service is not the only place the 911 info is located. It's at the TOP of the features page (across two columns with a read table heading), it's on the "about vonage" page, and they have multiple FAQs.
If you want to move a single application back and forth across displays, you're looking for xmove.
> If you had a product, wouldn't you want to be able to control where it is advertised?
Would I want to? Sure, power is great! Could I? No way. Let's pretend I have a movie, but some particular critic doesn't like the movie and gives it thumbs down. Do I have the right to tell that critic not to "advertise" my movie? No. Or was McDonalds able to stop all the free "advertising" in Super Size Me? No.
And I posted about it here.
And it wasn't a day later, their case study was up when the article first hit slashdot.
It's not like Linus had never heard of source control. He had, and he felt that using something like CVS would have made him *less* productive, because he would have had to spend more time wrangling with the system trying to rename files and such.
BitKeeper was written for the way Linus works (literally-- Larry worked with him to make it so), so it had all the inherent advantages of any source control, but the added advantage that Linus didn't have to adapt himself to the software.
Other advantages:
Less explosive (diesel has a much higher flash point)
Effecient when engine is idling
Disadvantage (due primarily to the higher flash point):
Harder to start in the cold
Engines need to be larger
These disadvantages are mostly disappearing in modern diesel engines.
> ... but all this does is shift the pollution elsewhere.
That's not exactly true. Power plants are always producing power whether or not you use it, so as long as you charge in off-peak hours (which most people would), you are decreasing total pollution.
Pay no attention to the OS behind the curtain.
> Every state has collection procedures. If they didn't, the civil justice system would serve no purpose at all.
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And how much of the $33million dollar damages has OJ paid?
http://www.news.uiuc.edu/biztips/01/04bankrupt.ht
There is a reason OJ moved to Florida after losing the "wrongful death" civil suit...
They've been having "Free Scoop Night" for a few years now, generally on our about May 1. Last year I believe it was April 30 because May 1 was a Saturday. This year, May 1 is a Sunday. They probably don't like giving free icecream on weekends...
The usual free scoop night doesn't require a coupon or registration or anything...
I thought the whole idea of the V-chip was so that if you want to censor your child's TV, you can. With the V-chip in place, I don't see why broadcast television even needs to have decency regulations any longer (beyond having accurate V-chip ratings).
And how many people watched Firefly? I think his point is that Trek has a built-in audience, but it should be done right. It should *not* be YATS, it should be interesting and original SciFi, but set in the Trek universe.
For one thing, get rid of the damned Sitcom Law of Preservation where every episode ends where it began. Kill a few non-red shirts for once.
> entirely to defend against litigation, as against "submarine" patents like those used in Eolas v. Microsoft.
The problem is that Eolas wasn't a competitor of MicroSoft, they are simply a patent portfolio company. If Sun came after MS and sued for patent infringement, then MS would be able to retaliate with its own patents. But what can you do to a portfolio company? They don't actually make anything, so they aren't violating any patents.
Further, if MS justs wants "defense", then why are they pushing so hard for software patents in Europe. Why aren't *they* leading the fight to abolish software patents entirely? If their only concern was defense, wouldn't they be in a better situation if everyone were disarmed? Wouldn't they save a lot of money if they didn't have to patent everything?
Oh, and if the VFAT patent licensure wasn't a submarine patent, I don't know what is.
Install the slashfix extension.
...and when I opened the link, Firefox told me it had prevented latimes.com from opening a popup.
I have to move my mouse to find it. I use unclutter which hides the mouse after it's been idle.
Add to that list the fact that bloggers were able to recreate the document in Word with default settings that was virtually a pixel-by-pixel match.
Speakeasy also offers VoIP and does claim that using their own network gives them better Quality of Service (QOS).
And yes, you can only use your Speakeasy VoIP connection with the DSL line it was installed on and you cannot move to any old IP address.
I have Speakeasy, but I still use Vonage for VoIP (without QOS complaints).
> I haven't read TFA all the way through yet
And now you know why people always say RTFA...
> If a Treo 650 can handle WiFi, that's a selling point and likely to result in more sales.
But the people selling the devices are really selling cellular service. If you can use WiFi, you can use VoIP for free rather than the cellular minutes. It has been alleged that it was Sprint that explicitly asked PalmOne to not provide WiFi drivers for the Treo 650.
There's also a famous scene in Lawrence of Arabia where someone gets trapped in dry quicksand.