It would depend on what you have them say. If they end up promoting a product that's an out right scam then yes it would hurt their credibility. If they are promoting the latest Internet commercial produced by TacoBell with a talking dog I doubt it will hurt it much.
I've always had the same belief based on experience that databases shouldn't be virtualized. However, recently I was thinking about experimenting with adding in drives dedicated to the database and only the database. I'm not a hardware guy and it's been years since I was a real sys admin so my thinking may be completely off. Would that be feasible? I'm not talking about a little database for a wordpress blog either. I'm talking about a database with hundreds of millions of rows in several different tables.
Just because you're sure you can win doesn't mean you will. Just because you're right doesn't mean you'll win. Just because you're getting screwed over and it's blatantly obvious to anyone with a brain doesn't mean you will win. I'm not exactly sure where you've been for the last 20 years, but things have changed a lot.
Believe it or not there are honorable lawyers left. They're rare, but they do exist. Unfortunately, they seem to be poor while the less honorable ones seem to profiting. I do know a couple and they've done a lot of good keeping innocent people out of jail and if they think the client is honestly guilty they generally won't take their case. Which is why they're normally broke, because the innocent people aren't the ones with the money. We even have one here on/. he goes by the handle NYCountyLawyer. I'd consider him an honorable lawyer.
Okay, this petition is stupid and will only hurt the small guy. Say for example I work really hard on something and get a patent. Time goes on and I'm making money with the patent and all is well until a big company starts infringing on it. I could sue the company. I have the 100k it takes to even start the case. but unfortunately I my lawyers aren't as good, because I don't have the 10 lawyers they have working on it. They end up wining and it would put me out of business.
In the current setting I'd be out lawyer fees. In the new setting I'd be completely screwed even if I was seeking a reasonable amount. A reasonable amount could add up to quite a lot if the infringement is big enough. For example I'm selling my product and license out the technology for say $100 per reproduction. If they only infringed 100 times it's not that bad, but if it's mass infringement with millions of reproductions it's quite a lot, but still a fair number.
I could get behind this if there was a stipulation of "Unless you're actively using the patent in a product" or something along those lines. That would be enough to stop the trolls and not completely screw people who are using patents the way they should be.
I didn't pull the $100k number out of my ass either. I'm in the process of getting a patent on some items and I was told by more than one lawyer that's the starting fee (it varied a bit but that was the lowest figure) for litigation. I wanted to see if it was even worth pursuing, because if I can't afford to defend it what's the point in getting it? I guess I could have my name on a patent and that's pretty cool, but I don't know if it's $12k cool. I think I'm going to end up applying, because even if everything goes to heck I can always put it in my resume and it might be enough to make it standout.
I'd still rather have CenturyLink service at 7Mbps than comcast. I can do whatever I want (no incoming or outgoing port restrictions) with CenturyLink and get a static ip on a regular home account.
The people who want it in this state are in a very small minority. The state would probably file a lawsuit or start some other legal action to stop it if is only Harry Reid stopping it.
I get that it needs to be stored somewhere, but the residence of that place need to approve it. You shouldn't be able to force something on a population that doesn't want it and that's the main problem. The majority of the people here don't want it.
I don't pirate movies, music, or software, but I'd be more than happy to try and figure out how to stop this. I haven't looked into it much, but I will. I seriously doubt it'll be hard to combat them, but it'll be fun figuring it out.
This will fall under what I call "affiliate marketing laws" and the FTC is very serious about them. Go read their website (the ftc) and you'll see how many people and companies they've sued recently.
If I pay for my own antenna, hook it up to a server, record everything it can possible pickup, and then retransmit it to myself would that be illegal? If it's not then why would me renting all the equipment to do that be illegal? It sounds like that's basically what you're doing when you use their service.
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It would depend on what you have them say. If they end up promoting a product that's an out right scam then yes it would hurt their credibility. If they are promoting the latest Internet commercial produced by TacoBell with a talking dog I doubt it will hurt it much.
I hacked the gibson.
I've always had the same belief based on experience that databases shouldn't be virtualized. However, recently I was thinking about experimenting with adding in drives dedicated to the database and only the database. I'm not a hardware guy and it's been years since I was a real sys admin so my thinking may be completely off. Would that be feasible? I'm not talking about a little database for a wordpress blog either. I'm talking about a database with hundreds of millions of rows in several different tables.
They have an irrational fear of right turns?
Just because you're sure you can win doesn't mean you will. Just because you're right doesn't mean you'll win. Just because you're getting screwed over and it's blatantly obvious to anyone with a brain doesn't mean you will win. I'm not exactly sure where you've been for the last 20 years, but things have changed a lot.
Believe it or not there are honorable lawyers left. They're rare, but they do exist. Unfortunately, they seem to be poor while the less honorable ones seem to profiting. I do know a couple and they've done a lot of good keeping innocent people out of jail and if they think the client is honestly guilty they generally won't take their case. Which is why they're normally broke, because the innocent people aren't the ones with the money. We even have one here on /. he goes by the handle NYCountyLawyer. I'd consider him an honorable lawyer.
Okay, this petition is stupid and will only hurt the small guy. Say for example I work really hard on something and get a patent. Time goes on and I'm making money with the patent and all is well until a big company starts infringing on it. I could sue the company. I have the 100k it takes to even start the case. but unfortunately I my lawyers aren't as good, because I don't have the 10 lawyers they have working on it. They end up wining and it would put me out of business.
In the current setting I'd be out lawyer fees. In the new setting I'd be completely screwed even if I was seeking a reasonable amount. A reasonable amount could add up to quite a lot if the infringement is big enough. For example I'm selling my product and license out the technology for say $100 per reproduction. If they only infringed 100 times it's not that bad, but if it's mass infringement with millions of reproductions it's quite a lot, but still a fair number.
I could get behind this if there was a stipulation of "Unless you're actively using the patent in a product" or something along those lines. That would be enough to stop the trolls and not completely screw people who are using patents the way they should be.
I didn't pull the $100k number out of my ass either. I'm in the process of getting a patent on some items and I was told by more than one lawyer that's the starting fee (it varied a bit but that was the lowest figure) for litigation. I wanted to see if it was even worth pursuing, because if I can't afford to defend it what's the point in getting it? I guess I could have my name on a patent and that's pretty cool, but I don't know if it's $12k cool. I think I'm going to end up applying, because even if everything goes to heck I can always put it in my resume and it might be enough to make it standout.
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I'd still rather have CenturyLink service at 7Mbps than comcast. I can do whatever I want (no incoming or outgoing port restrictions) with CenturyLink and get a static ip on a regular home account.
CenturyLink dsl kicks ass where I live and it's a lot faster than 7Mbps. The fastest it goes here is 40Mbps.
The people who want it in this state are in a very small minority. The state would probably file a lawsuit or start some other legal action to stop it if is only Harry Reid stopping it.
I get that it needs to be stored somewhere, but the residence of that place need to approve it. You shouldn't be able to force something on a population that doesn't want it and that's the main problem. The majority of the people here don't want it.
He got banned?
It must be lonely in your world.
Depends on what they have to lose and how strong the belief in what their doing is.
If that's all it is rofl at them. That will be so easy to defend against it wasn't even worth them writing the code to do it in the first place.
I don't pirate movies, music, or software, but I'd be more than happy to try and figure out how to stop this. I haven't looked into it much, but I will. I seriously doubt it'll be hard to combat them, but it'll be fun figuring it out.
This will fall under what I call "affiliate marketing laws" and the FTC is very serious about them. Go read their website (the ftc) and you'll see how many people and companies they've sued recently.
Dodge the worm.
That's funny, because on my Android I don't get the mobile version. I thought there wasn't one.
Who cares it's a chance to bash apple! Lets not facts get in the way.
If I pay for my own antenna, hook it up to a server, record everything it can possible pickup, and then retransmit it to myself would that be illegal? If it's not then why would me renting all the equipment to do that be illegal? It sounds like that's basically what you're doing when you use their service.
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Not sure which part says it's Debian. I have a feeling I got trolled.
I agree development would continue and life would go. It just wouldn't be the same with out Pat though.
He's fine now and has been for a while. He got sick because of poor oral hygiene.