In the USA, each party pays their own costs no matter what happens. However, in the UK, if you file an action and it does not win, then you have to pay the costs for the other party. So, at the best, they can force them in the UK legal system, and because the spammer is not in the UK, they can seek the spammer puts up security for costs (to ensure they pay if they don't win). Thus the spammer would never touch the UK system as they would end up loosing the money they pay their lawyers, plus the cost for spamhaus to defend it. ps... IANAL - anymore.
How does the tax/fee work if you are getting your phone service from another country? Vonage already has a strong market in the UK (they do have VAT there however). It will not take too long before some VoIP provider just moves off shore and then is able to offer even cheaper service without the fees. We just love off shore solutions in the USA! Besides that, this whole VoIP battle is a serious race to the bottom with it getting cheaper and cheaper (then free). Once it hits free, 30%/65%/100% tax on free is still nothing. They have bigger problems than taxes if they are worried about revenues. For instance, if you have a free service that is supported by ads. Then you pay zero taxes on the free service and derive money from other sources such as advertising (it also makes billing easier). The FCC gets nothing, you still get to profit off the ads, and the users get free VoIP. Step 1. By pass FCC fee Step 2. Offer service that makes money...profit:)
The whole concepts of documents, views, folders and forms make total sense once you get your head around it. Also, for a business person, they are so much easier to get than relational data. It also has simple actions for most business type stuff and it is dead easy to create a new database from a template. A good IT department can provide the users a selection of templates to base their ideas on. If you let the business users prototype some solutions, you will probably be able to help them take it to the next level and really solve their problems.
So is safari.orelly.com evil also?
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It is hard to know what is the right thing to do. Although, I want to support my local stores and community, I also don't want to use up trees. So is buying online and reading online better than buying a mass published book from a local store?
If you live in the Java world, the best way to protect yourselves is to have an object to relational layer between your code and the database. http://www.hibernate.org/ is a neat way (but there are many others). This removes a lot of the ties to the vendor's database so that if MySQL were to do something stupid, your code is safe. There are most certainly layers like this for other languages - I am not sure it seems hard enough just to keep up with Java.
Yes, a few people like you will click around looking.
However, if you get users that are clicking thousands of sites, and just buring through clicks on totally random sites, this would be cause for concern.
However, I tend to agree that it is a flawed business model. There is no real way to guarantee that a users is real and not a bot.
It will be interesting to see if all this will impact on google's revenue.
Is there any service that advertising can pool their useless clicks?
To an advertiser, a useless click is a click that hits the adwords landing page and little (or nothing else) and does not mean a sale. If these bogus clicks could then be processed at a 3rd party auditing house, then fraud could be detected and each member could then complain to google about bogus clicks.
I am sure someone must have thought of this already - I just can't find it listed on google:(
I work with a nonprofit public access TV station and we are looking for video scheduling system to broadcast our local channel.
We have a very limited budget and if there is an open source solution or a software solution that allows us to use inexpensive PC hardware, that would be ideal.
We will be producing a content ourselves (probably via a macintosh as well as from video tape through traditional video editing means). So, I would imagine that we would rip the video all to hard disk, download the video files produced o the macintosh and then schedule it to be played back. We only have one channel to fill so the system does not need to be too fancy. When we are not playing content, we have a public services board that displays a little slide show of what is going on in the town. I can see some of these PVRs allow you to show photo slides through your TV - this idea would work well if we could automate when the slide would show and when and what videos would show.
The system now is not software based at all. We have a controlling box that does nothing more than turn on video tapes and switch to show that tape. We program the video switching device when to rewind, when to play and when to stop - so to my mind doing this all on a computer should not be that much different and I hope it would not cost too much while giving us more flexibility. Once it was software based, we could control it and automate it from there.
However, the question is where to start and if any of the open source PVR can do some of the job with little or no coding changes.
Also, if anyone has experience with building your own PVR in the Concord, MA area - please send us an email.
Also, Wikis tend to be a very simple collaboration tool much like the earlier versions of IBM QuickPlace (now Team Workplace).
Offline is a big issue until you get broadband in the air. If you have to fly or visit a non-internet friendly place, it is very nice to have a selective replica of your important data with you.
Irony would be if MSN(BC) blamed windows. For instance, here they were saying that the problem with the FAA UNIX to windows migration was not software (windows) but the lack of testing and maintenance. They say that the system required regular maintenance (in windows I think this means rebooting) but I am sure there is probably more to it than that. However, I don't see that MSNBC is being Ironic - there is nothing anti-Microsoft or anti-windows that could be taken from this. In fact, it is right on the correct spin factor you would expect. Here they are saying the recent bad press associated with a public outage from a UNIX to windows migration was not a problem with buggy windows but a problem with management of the system.
but if you want to live in constant fear of your neigbour, then please sit back, watch FOX news, vote for Bush, buy a few big guns, and keep away from any Mike Moore movies. I would pefer to live in a trusting society that has open networks that I can borrow when I open up my laptop.
I was recently stopped when taking an old PII home to some work. I pointed out that if they were worried about this little PII with a 4Gb hard disk - they should be really worred about the P4 laptop with the 60Gb HDD that I carry back and forth everyday.
We should all comply with their wishes. Do not search, use the word, talk about, or buy anything that has that trademark. Also Google and other search engines should remove any references to their trademark and supress any search results, news and links containing their trademark.
Then see if they really want to keep suing over this.
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Re:Can we use the law against them and sue them?
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They will not need to issue the action, just download the song. Once they have downloaded the song, they have breached *your* copyright and owe you the fine. Your terms of copy is that only private individuals not associated with RIAA or a major record label, can download your songs - all the others are not allowed and can be sued.
When Ray Ozzie was at Iris Associates, Microsoft was showing the power of Windows NT by running a Notes server on it. It does not all have to be about some holy OS war - it can be about the technology from time to time.
Can we use the law against them and sue them?
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If they are happy to download the music to see if it belongs to them, consider the mistake if it did not. If someone has a name similar to that of their artist (or not), records some copyright material to mp3 and then puts it on the network. The condition is it is free for anyone to download, except the major record labels, their employees, agents, contractors or affiliates. By virtue of their copyright laws, they are not allowed to download it (aka steal it) and are subject to $1500 or $150,000 fine if they do.
All we need to do then is monitor the downloads of this mp3, and then sue the RIAA when they download it. If there is more than 216 of us doing this, then we can easily outweigh their laws and settle this similar to how the large companies settle patent lawsuits, you lower your weapons and we lower ours.
If you need a phone in Europe, buy a SIM card when you get there. In most other places, incoming calls are free. As a result, if you get a prepaid SIM card that lasts a month, people can call you and you won't burn through your allowance. All you need is a cheap GSM phone - $400 is way too much. You can buy them outright (unlocked - which is important) for under $150 (I paid $300 for a fancy one in Madrid last time I was there and my previous phone died on me).
That would mean that I could pay about 20 cents to watch a 30 min show and see it in 20 min. I would save my sanity from the really stupid ads and save time. That is worth 20 cents.
The only problem, is that pay per view costs much more than 20 cents and I am already paying a monthly fee for box. Can I just cut some useless channels instead?
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In the USA, each party pays their own costs no matter what happens. However, in the UK, if you file an action and it does not win, then you have to pay the costs for the other party. So, at the best, they can force them in the UK legal system, and because the spammer is not in the UK, they can seek the spammer puts up security for costs (to ensure they pay if they don't win). Thus the spammer would never touch the UK system as they would end up loosing the money they pay their lawyers, plus the cost for spamhaus to defend it.
ps... IANAL - anymore.
How does the tax/fee work if you are getting your phone service from another country? Vonage already has a strong market in the UK (they do have VAT there however). It will not take too long before some VoIP provider just moves off shore and then is able to offer even cheaper service without the fees. We just love off shore solutions in the USA! ...profit :)
Besides that, this whole VoIP battle is a serious race to the bottom with it getting cheaper and cheaper (then free). Once it hits free, 30%/65%/100% tax on free is still nothing.
They have bigger problems than taxes if they are worried about revenues.
For instance, if you have a free service that is supported by ads. Then you pay zero taxes on the free service and derive money from other sources such as advertising (it also makes billing easier). The FCC gets nothing, you still get to profit off the ads, and the users get free VoIP.
Step 1. By pass FCC fee
Step 2. Offer service that makes money
The whole concepts of documents, views, folders and forms make total sense once you get your head around it. Also, for a business person, they are so much easier to get than relational data.
It also has simple actions for most business type stuff and it is dead easy to create a new database from a template.
A good IT department can provide the users a selection of templates to base their ideas on. If you let the business users prototype some solutions, you will probably be able to help them take it to the next level and really solve their problems.
It is hard to know what is the right thing to do. Although, I want to support my local stores and community, I also don't want to use up trees. So is buying online and reading online better than buying a mass published book from a local store?
You can still submit them with this Lotusscript agent:
p am-to-spamcop-from-lotus.html
http://ianconnor.blogspot.com/2006/05/reporting-s
If you live in the Java world, the best way to protect yourselves is to have an object to relational layer between your code and the database.
http://www.hibernate.org/ is a neat way (but there are many others). This removes a lot of the ties to the vendor's database so that if MySQL were to do something stupid, your code is safe.
There are most certainly layers like this for other languages - I am not sure it seems hard enough just to keep up with Java.
Yes, a few people like you will click around looking.
However, if you get users that are clicking thousands of sites, and just buring through clicks on totally random sites, this would be cause for concern.
However, I tend to agree that it is a flawed business model. There is no real way to guarantee that a users is real and not a bot.
It will be interesting to see if all this will impact on google's revenue.
Is there any service that advertising can pool their useless clicks?
:(
To an advertiser, a useless click is a click that hits the adwords landing page and little (or nothing else) and does not mean a sale. If these bogus clicks could then be processed at a 3rd party auditing house, then fraud could be detected and each member could then complain to google about bogus clicks.
I am sure someone must have thought of this already - I just can't find it listed on google
I work with a nonprofit public access TV station and we are looking for video scheduling system to broadcast our local channel.
We have a very limited budget and if there is an open source solution or a software solution that allows us to use inexpensive PC hardware, that would be ideal.
We will be producing a content ourselves (probably via a macintosh as well as from video tape through traditional video editing means). So, I would imagine that we would rip the video all to hard disk, download the video files produced o the macintosh and then schedule it to be played back. We only have one channel to fill so the system does not need to be too fancy. When we are not playing content, we have a public services board that displays a little slide show of what is going on in the town. I can see some of these PVRs allow you to show photo slides through your TV - this idea would work well if we could automate when the slide would show and when and what videos would show.
The system now is not software based at all. We have a controlling box that does nothing more than turn on video tapes and switch to show that tape. We program the video switching device when to rewind, when to play and when to stop - so to my mind doing this all on a computer should not be that much different and I hope it would not cost too much while giving us more flexibility. Once it was software based, we could control it and automate it from there.
However, the question is where to start and if any of the open source PVR can do some of the job with little or no coding changes.
Also, if anyone has experience with building your own PVR in the Concord, MA area - please send us an email.
http://www.concordtv.org/
Also, Wikis tend to be a very simple collaboration tool much like the earlier versions of IBM QuickPlace (now Team Workplace).
Offline is a big issue until you get broadband in the air. If you have to fly or visit a non-internet friendly place, it is very nice to have a selective replica of your important data with you.
Irony would be if MSN(BC) blamed windows. For instance, here they were saying that the problem with the FAA UNIX to windows migration was not software (windows) but the lack of testing and maintenance. They say that the system required regular maintenance (in windows I think this means rebooting) but I am sure there is probably more to it than that. However, I don't see that MSNBC is being Ironic - there is nothing anti-Microsoft or anti-windows that could be taken from this. In fact, it is right on the correct spin factor you would expect. Here they are saying the recent bad press associated with a public outage from a UNIX to windows migration was not a problem with buggy windows but a problem with management of the system.
but if you want to live in constant fear of your neigbour, then please sit back, watch FOX news, vote for Bush, buy a few big guns, and keep away from any Mike Moore movies. I would pefer to live in a trusting society that has open networks that I can borrow when I open up my laptop.
That is the linberal party rather than the labour party.
I was recently stopped when taking an old PII home to some work. I pointed out that if they were worried about this little PII with a 4Gb hard disk - they should be really worred about the P4 laptop with the 60Gb HDD that I carry back and forth everyday.
And they "negotiated" one of Queensland's biggest export market - sugar.
It seems that with America's sweet tooth, this would be the biggest part of any free trade.
A spoon full of sugar would make the laws a little more acceptable.
Seems like free trade - crappy laws for crappy tv.
http://www.oxygen.com/neighbours/?slot=nav
> In Texas, as long as one party knows the
> conversation is being recorded, it's legal.
Then you are in the clear.
If you have the jabber server there, it does the logging, then you can have the chats saved.
I guess texas colocation providers now have an added advantage over the new england providers...
We should all comply with their wishes. Do not search, use the word, talk about, or buy anything that has that trademark. Also Google and other search engines should remove any references to their trademark and supress any search results, news and links containing their trademark.
Then see if they really want to keep suing over this.
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They will not need to issue the action, just download the song. Once they have downloaded the song, they have breached *your* copyright and owe you the fine. Your terms of copy is that only private individuals not associated with RIAA or a major record label, can download your songs - all the others are not allowed and can be sued.
When Ray Ozzie was at Iris Associates, Microsoft was showing the power of Windows NT by running a Notes server on it. It does not all have to be about some holy OS war - it can be about the technology from time to time.
If they are happy to download the music to see if it belongs to them, consider the mistake if it did not.
If someone has a name similar to that of their artist (or not), records some copyright material to mp3 and then puts it on the network. The condition is it is free for anyone to download, except the major record labels, their employees, agents, contractors or affiliates. By virtue of their copyright laws, they are not allowed to download it (aka steal it) and are subject to $1500 or $150,000 fine if they do.
All we need to do then is monitor the downloads of this mp3, and then sue the RIAA when they download it. If there is more than 216 of us doing this, then we can easily outweigh their laws and settle this similar to how the large companies settle patent lawsuits, you lower your weapons and we lower ours.
They should sue the other sites for letting him have a red hat.
If you need a phone in Europe, buy a SIM card when you get there. In most other places, incoming calls are free. As a result, if you get a prepaid SIM card that lasts a month, people can call you and you won't burn through your allowance.
All you need is a cheap GSM phone - $400 is way too much. You can buy them outright (unlocked - which is important) for under $150 (I paid $300 for a fancy one in Madrid last time I was there and my previous phone died on me).
That would mean that I could pay about 20 cents to watch a 30 min show and see it in 20 min. I would save my sanity from the really stupid ads and save time. That is worth 20 cents.
The only problem, is that pay per view costs much more than 20 cents and I am already paying a monthly fee for box. Can I just cut some useless channels instead?