As a frequent reader of the HTML newsgroups (and the daily battle over specs and accessibility), I remember that someone mentioned a new law in Australia that all sites must be accessible to anyone with a computer and modem, as part of a disability law. And as a result, several sites did have to shut down to compily with this law.
Hmm, Intel wanting another lawsuit?
(Remember, it's ok to offer something like video or audio that you need certain requirements for, as long as you have either duplicated the content in a more accessible format (text), or if its unnecessary to get to the content).
My poor 486!:-) But seriously, I've been running the net equilvalent of MST3K for the last several years, and I don't expect the art of misting to die off with the end of the series. Web Site #9 can be found here.
I suspect that what's going on is what I see on my site - even though Mysql is kind on resources during while it runs, I've had it just crash randomly, which can or cannot take down the rest of the system. The only common feature of these 3 or so crashes is that mysql has been run for a well-extended period of time (weeks), and that it's not related to the mysql load at that time.
The big difference here that I think most are seeing is that in the case of ajax and veronica and pokey is that these are single words, that alone or out of visual context, then it's hard to infer if they are names, products, or just generic words. On the other hand "Toys-R-Us" is a trademark *phrase*. Take that out of context, and you still know it refers to the toy manufactures. Same thing with "america on-line", "apple computers", etc. The phrase is obviously connected with the company or product. But a single word is hard to narrow down, especially if it has prior use or is an established word in a language.
Mind you, I think there's a better way to settle the dispute ("To ToysRGus, please add a notification on your site that you are not affliated with Toys-R-Us, and please provide a link to our site...") than plain old stripping the domain name away, but...
Just wish this was a state with a little bit more weight in terms of computer consumer buying power (like CA, TX, any New England state, etc...) Although I truely doubt that Intel will just ignore AZ's ban, and sell to the other 49 states unabaited.
At least I'm glad to see both people at the national and state levels standing up for personal privacy and the net.
While real pinball is very hard to simulate on the computer, I'll shamelessly plug the Pro Pinball series from Empire Games (http://www.propinball.com), which has some of the most realistic pinball play on a PC in a long time (Compared to the recent Microsoft Pinball package of 'classic' tables, this kicks major booty). Unfortunately, the 3 games run only under windows, but that's to be expected.
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Read the article closely - the writing seems to imply that Archie Comics went after the site because they were expected it to be a porn site based on the presence of a nude baby in a bathtub (Which is certainly a valid concern). If veronica.org was that, and continued to exist without Archie Comics intervention, then the name "Veronica" would have been diluted, and Archie would have lost it's hold on that trademark. This, IMO, is definitely a valid concern for trademark laywers. And in the resolution of this issue, the venorica.org holder stated that the site is not porn, and the Archie people are happy now. Ideally, the situation could have been handled better -- a causal inspection of the site would have yielded the intent as a showoff page for a baby girl, and not a porn site; Archie could have sent an email asking the holder about the content, and as a small jesture, to provide a pointer to vernonica.com to prevent mix ups, and then all would have been well, and Archie would not have embrassed itself.
Constrast this with the pokey.org fiasco a while back, where the lawyers were going after the use of the name for a clean site. That was ended after the Gumby founder stepped in and said it was ok (Hmm, another party doing the legal work for the actual creator -- sound familiar, anyone??).
Of course, I wish that the vision that the average Joe User would never have to know an IP or URL really existed -- then these trademark hassles over domain names would be futile. Unfortunately, the web got popular too soon for this to work out.
I would think that the *safety* of air travel on Jan 1, 2000 would be 'safer' than being on the ground. (Let's ignore the logistics of flight scheduling, seating, luggage, etc, that are affected by the economic side of y2k). The key thing here is the air traffic control system - I know that the US system is either due or recently loops on it's internal clock, and while not on Y2K, it's a similar problem with digit placeholders. Secondly, unless they are stupid, i'd think that if there are any time-based chips or operators in a plane, they would be ignorant of the date, and thus, not y2k affected. Of course, this part I'm not sure about, but reportly, plane safety is a non-y2k concern. (Just getting to your plane, on the other hand...)
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As a frequent reader of the HTML newsgroups (and
the daily battle over specs and accessibility),
I remember that someone mentioned a new law in
Australia that all sites must be accessible to
anyone with a computer and modem, as part of a disability law. And as a result, several sites did have to shut down to compily with this law.
Hmm, Intel wanting another lawsuit?
(Remember, it's ok to offer something like video
or audio that you need certain requirements for,
as long as you have either duplicated the content
in a more accessible format (text), or if its
unnecessary to get to the content).
My poor 486! :-) But seriously, I've been running the net equilvalent of MST3K for the last several years, and I don't expect the art of misting to die off with the end of the series. Web Site #9 can be found here.
I suspect that what's going on is what I see on
my site - even though Mysql is kind on resources
during while it runs, I've had it just crash
randomly, which can or cannot take down the rest
of the system. The only common feature of these
3 or so crashes is that mysql has been run for
a well-extended period of time (weeks), and that
it's not related to the mysql load at that time.
The big difference here that I think most are seeing is that in the case of ajax and veronica
and pokey is that these are single words, that
alone or out of visual context, then it's hard
to infer if they are names, products, or just
generic words. On the other hand "Toys-R-Us"
is a trademark *phrase*. Take that out of context, and you still know it refers to the
toy manufactures. Same thing with "america
on-line", "apple computers", etc. The phrase is
obviously connected with the company or product.
But a single word is hard to narrow down, especially if it has prior use or is an
established word in a language.
Mind you, I think there's a better way to settle
the dispute ("To ToysRGus, please add a notification on your site that you are not
affliated with Toys-R-Us, and please provide a
link to our site...") than plain old stripping the domain name away, but...
Just wish this was a state with a little bit
more weight in terms of computer consumer buying
power (like CA, TX, any New England state, etc...)
Although I truely doubt that Intel will just ignore AZ's ban, and sell to the other 49 states
unabaited.
At least I'm glad to see both people at the national and state levels standing up for
personal privacy and the net.
While real pinball is very hard to simulate on the
computer, I'll shamelessly plug the Pro Pinball
series from Empire Games (http://www.propinball.com), which has some of the most realistic pinball play on a PC in a long time (Compared to the recent Microsoft Pinball package
of 'classic' tables, this kicks major booty).
Unfortunately, the 3 games run only under windows,
but that's to be expected.
Read the article closely - the writing seems to
imply that Archie Comics went after the site because they were expected it to be a porn site
based on the presence of a nude baby in a bathtub
(Which is certainly a valid concern). If veronica.org was that, and continued to exist without Archie Comics intervention, then the
name "Veronica" would have been diluted, and Archie would have lost it's hold on that trademark. This, IMO, is definitely a valid
concern for trademark laywers. And in the
resolution of this issue, the venorica.org holder
stated that the site is not porn, and the Archie
people are happy now. Ideally, the situation could have been handled better -- a causal inspection of the site would have yielded the intent as a showoff page for a baby girl, and not
a porn site; Archie could have sent an email asking the holder about the content, and as a
small jesture, to provide a pointer to
vernonica.com to prevent mix ups, and then all
would have been well, and Archie would not have
embrassed itself.
Constrast this with the pokey.org fiasco a while
back, where the lawyers were going after the
use of the name for a clean site. That was
ended after the Gumby founder stepped in and
said it was ok (Hmm, another party doing the
legal work for the actual creator -- sound familiar, anyone??).
Of course, I wish that the vision that the average
Joe User would never have to know an IP or URL
really existed -- then these trademark hassles
over domain names would be futile. Unfortunately,
the web got popular too soon for this to work out.
I would think that the *safety* of air travel on
Jan 1, 2000 would be 'safer' than being on the
ground. (Let's ignore the logistics of flight
scheduling, seating, luggage, etc, that are affected
by the economic side of y2k). The key thing here
is the air traffic control system - I know that
the US system is either due or recently loops on
it's internal clock, and while not on Y2K, it's a similar
problem with digit placeholders. Secondly, unless
they are stupid, i'd think that if there are any time-based chips or operators in a plane, they would be ignorant of the date, and thus, not y2k affected. Of course, this part I'm not sure about, but reportly, plane safety is a non-y2k concern. (Just getting to your plane, on the other hand...)