Agreed. I'm not defending Apple. Like I said, I hate them. At the same time unless the first company actually had a product in mind when they applied for the trademark, then its exploitative. I hope they win.
I didn't say that they did have any extra rights, but it is pretty obvious what they do and that makes them vulnerable to squatters, like the unnamed company in the article. For what it is worth, I hate Apple.
So what we have is ACME Inc that isnt even named files a trademark on "iPad" knowing full well that Apple prefixes all their products with an i. They do this on the off chance that Apple ever comes out with an "iPad" and they would be able to sue for big bucks. Fujitsu realizes the same thing and tries to put their own trademark on "iPad", but is blocked because someone else already owns it. Now Apple announces a real iPad and Fujitsu is pissed because they don't really own the trademark yet but want sue someone, and ACME Inc hasn't said anything about the trademark that they already own. gotta love patent/trademark squatters.
It's great that everybody here has the right to share their opinion and all, but when the facts fly in the face of the opinions, then you just need to shut up and admit you're wrong.
That goes against the entire progressive mentality though!
So the "separation of church and state" that atheists harp about so often works to remove "In God We Trust" and voluntary prayers in schools, but when it comes to private family life it isn't applicable?
It mentions that the first offense was of actual kids. That means it was real kiddie porn. Under those circumstances you should only need one offense to get thrown into the slammer.
I didn't realize either that the plugin list was sent out, nor the screen resolution, nor what fonts are enabled. What is the purpose of all that? Taking a look at the plugins I have installed, I'm also surprised at some of them. Hulu Desktop Integration? I thought the purpose of a standalone was so it didnt need to integrate. 2007 Microsoft Office plug in for Netscape Navigator? WTF?
With noscript enabled I came up as one out of around 1400, with noscript disabled I was completely unique out of the 19000 tests done so far. I'm special.
Another 10,000 files on my computer regularly sending autoupdate requests and using my internet connection at random times without my knowledge! I HATE autoupdate functions that run an applet in the background (java, acrobat reader, etc). Is it really too much to ask to only do a version check when I run the program, or put it in the task scheduler to run an applet occasionally rather than keep another process alive at all times?
I'm likely missing something, but I thought that pretty much any nonprofit use qualified as fair use. This is obviously distinguishing use (like using it in a home video) from distribution (like torrent).
You are assuming that people can read "access denied" in under 2 seconds. From my experience, if it is on a computer screen (real or in a movie) people read and understand at half their normal levels. "Any key" anybody?
My mother was watching a new show the other day and showed me a little bit of it. Long story short, a bodyguard was on a plane that had been damaged and was on fire. The pilots were both dead. He (having no flight experience, but thats another story) turns the plan (a commercial airliner) upside down so that the pressure differences will kill the fire that is billowing from the bottom of the plane. Whatever.. The worst part was that turning the plane upside down supposedly froze the flight control computer. The person the bodyguard is protecting is a computer programer (who happened to discover the "skeleton key" to the internet that could bypass any security system/firewall/encryption). This l33t h4x0r has the idea to "download the flight control computer onto her laptop" because it is so much more uber powerful than the "old 800mhz celeron" used in the plane itself. The entire thing was ridiculous, but the screens of the laptop as they were doing all this were the hilarious. The scary part is my mom ate it all up and loved the show.
Or just a server where all monitors are just blind terminals and both terminals identify themselves via short range signals (RFID) and sends a signal to start piping output for user X off of display Y and onto display Z.
Thats what is called a personal interest story. Emotionally moving. Full of fluff. Ultimately pointless. Note he didn't damage or disable anything. The tanks stopped of their own accord to spare him. They could have just as easily ran him over and that be the end of the story.
I disagree. I doubt that it would have been possible even in the Clinton era to pass legislation to block free speech online. That's a pretty big assumption.
How many starving, unarmed slaves are needed to take out a tank? At some point, revolution from within becomes impossible regardless of the numerical advantage. Even the US had foreign allies, and more importantly, an armed citizenship existing before the beginning of the revolution.
There is a very simple way to prevent 100% of brute force attacks. Permenant/temporary lockout after 3 failed attempts. Its a lot harder to make 100 million guesses when you can only make 3 per day.
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Agreed. I'm not defending Apple. Like I said, I hate them. At the same time unless the first company actually had a product in mind when they applied for the trademark, then its exploitative. I hope they win.
I didn't say that they did have any extra rights, but it is pretty obvious what they do and that makes them vulnerable to squatters, like the unnamed company in the article. For what it is worth, I hate Apple.
You are really worried about appearing manly while using an Apple product? Kind of a lost cause at that point anyway.
earlier filing by another company
So what we have is ACME Inc that isnt even named files a trademark on "iPad" knowing full well that Apple prefixes all their products with an i. They do this on the off chance that Apple ever comes out with an "iPad" and they would be able to sue for big bucks. Fujitsu realizes the same thing and tries to put their own trademark on "iPad", but is blocked because someone else already owns it. Now Apple announces a real iPad and Fujitsu is pissed because they don't really own the trademark yet but want sue someone, and ACME Inc hasn't said anything about the trademark that they already own.
gotta love patent/trademark squatters.
Its not a magnetic stripe. In Europe they have actual chips embedded in the cards like RFID.
It's great that everybody here has the right to share their opinion and all, but when the facts fly in the face of the opinions, then you just need to shut up and admit you're wrong.
That goes against the entire progressive mentality though!
That is actually rather well said. Should not have been modded troll.
So the "separation of church and state" that atheists harp about so often works to remove "In God We Trust" and voluntary prayers in schools, but when it comes to private family life it isn't applicable?
It mentions that the first offense was of actual kids. That means it was real kiddie porn. Under those circumstances you should only need one offense to get thrown into the slammer.
I didn't realize either that the plugin list was sent out, nor the screen resolution, nor what fonts are enabled. What is the purpose of all that?
Taking a look at the plugins I have installed, I'm also surprised at some of them. Hulu Desktop Integration? I thought the purpose of a standalone was so it didnt need to integrate. 2007 Microsoft Office plug in for Netscape Navigator? WTF?
With noscript enabled I came up as one out of around 1400, with noscript disabled I was completely unique out of the 19000 tests done so far. I'm special.
Thank you for clarifying that waters formula is h2o. I am sure that most of the slashdot crowd would not have been aware of that.
What if it sold for $20 million per kilo?
There is a similar plugin for WMP
Another 10,000 files on my computer regularly sending autoupdate requests and using my internet connection at random times without my knowledge!
I HATE autoupdate functions that run an applet in the background (java, acrobat reader, etc). Is it really too much to ask to only do a version check when I run the program, or put it in the task scheduler to run an applet occasionally rather than keep another process alive at all times?
I'm likely missing something, but I thought that pretty much any nonprofit use qualified as fair use. This is obviously distinguishing use (like using it in a home video) from distribution (like torrent).
You are assuming that people can read "access denied" in under 2 seconds. From my experience, if it is on a computer screen (real or in a movie) people read and understand at half their normal levels. "Any key" anybody?
My mother was watching a new show the other day and showed me a little bit of it. Long story short, a bodyguard was on a plane that had been damaged and was on fire. The pilots were both dead. He (having no flight experience, but thats another story) turns the plan (a commercial airliner) upside down so that the pressure differences will kill the fire that is billowing from the bottom of the plane. Whatever..
The worst part was that turning the plane upside down supposedly froze the flight control computer. The person the bodyguard is protecting is a computer programer (who happened to discover the "skeleton key" to the internet that could bypass any security system/firewall/encryption). This l33t h4x0r has the idea to "download the flight control computer onto her laptop" because it is so much more uber powerful than the "old 800mhz celeron" used in the plane itself. The entire thing was ridiculous, but the screens of the laptop as they were doing all this were the hilarious. The scary part is my mom ate it all up and loved the show.
At least now that geocities has been shut down they dont.
Or just a server where all monitors are just blind terminals and both terminals identify themselves via short range signals (RFID) and sends a signal to start piping output for user X off of display Y and onto display Z.
Why wouldnt that work?
Thats what is called a personal interest story. Emotionally moving. Full of fluff. Ultimately pointless.
Note he didn't damage or disable anything. The tanks stopped of their own accord to spare him. They could have just as easily ran him over and that be the end of the story.
I disagree. I doubt that it would have been possible even in the Clinton era to pass legislation to block free speech online. That's a pretty big assumption.
How many starving, unarmed slaves are needed to take out a tank?
At some point, revolution from within becomes impossible regardless of the numerical advantage. Even the US had foreign allies, and more importantly, an armed citizenship existing before the beginning of the revolution.
There is a very simple way to prevent 100% of brute force attacks. Permenant/temporary lockout after 3 failed attempts. Its a lot harder to make 100 million guesses when you can only make 3 per day.
already is