They are trying to convict that mom of a felony for violating the MySpace Terms of Service when she had the fake profile that allegedly resulted in a girl committing suicide.
Yes, felony violation of the computer hacking law, not a violation of an inducing suicide law (they might be doing that also though).
In most cases I'd say pulling the offending item makes more sense than a counter-notice,
Except having a DMCA take down notice against you (actually your content, but it is considered to be against you too) is treated by many providers as proof you are guilty of infringement (!) unless you file a counter-notice (and don't get sued and lose) and repeat "infringments" will have them terminate your account and ban you (presumably for life, even under a different account - You Tube and eBay have both supposedly done this). A misterpretation to the repeat infringment provision of the DMCA.
So not fighting is a strike against you, and enough (sometimes 2) and you are banned for life.
With unlimited service being capped at 250 GB, that leaves an inconsistency.
Namely unlimited means even infinite use is acceptable.
To avoid this, infinity has now been redefined to be equal to 268435456000.
This eliminates any legal problems with the unlimited service from Comcast.
It also significantly helps with the national debt, as nothing can exceed infinity. It isn't so bad now, and we can spend and spend and spend and never worry about it getting bigger, because, by definition, it can't! We can afford to go to war with Iran (and Syria, and Canada and Mexico and New Mexico,...), and give unlimited Federally funded Internet to everyone in the country, and make people on both sides of the political fence happy.
Also, division by zero is now allowed, 1/0 = 268435456000. Oh happy day!!!
There will be a new IEEE floating point specification coming out soon based on this new mathematical fact.
We have 111 years of accepted precedent when it comes to redefining mathematical fact, Indiana made PI equal to 3 back in 1897.
My favorite symbols of accomplishment have pictures of dead Presidents on them.
Though I don't usually keep them around (except for one with Jefferson on it) because I can get things from other people in exchange for giving them to them.
Although if there was some interesting prize (not a plastic bracelet) that I could earn just by doing my job well or taking on a couple of extra tasks (beta-testing, whatever), I may be tempted.
Copyright doesn't really matter here, since even the Republicans were only trying to extend it (as the Constitution requires, for a "limited time") until the end of the Universe. (ha ha)
And once they flip the switch, no one here should be sad, since they'll be no more copyright, RIAA, software patents or Microsoft Windows ever again....
Between income tax, sales tax, gasoline tax, and the taxes which raise the price of other products, over half of what I make is going to the government!
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I agree wholeheartedly.
A computer "deciding" to do something makes me want to grab the power cord and then we'll see who is in control!
Those 4 points you made should be part of any UI design criteria (Windows fails on all 4 btw).
Besides, you can always reverse engineer the Windows drivers under the DMCA interoperability exception.
Would you trust the next five years of your life to your interpretation of that law?
Courts seem to ignore the exceptions in that law - you could be in for a very painful 5 years in Federal PMITA prison!
Don't hire the 3rd guy, he is a DMCA violator!
(1/2 kidding)
The Las Vegas, NV zip code will have you pegged better than anything else.
I hope to God you haven't become an atheist! Especially a materialist atheist who believes consciousness is gone when the body dies?
Does the radio station go away when your radio breaks? Or just your ability to hear it?
The immediate risk is really small, because it requires that the US Treasury goes broke.
Don't worry, Bush still has time to get that done!
He's really close to succeeding!
And they make more money than you'd think.
They aren't all low fares. Some cities are expensive, and fares get higher the less time between buying and flying.
I had to fly once on short notice with them. OUCH!
Usually they are cheap, but I was subsidizing quite a few people's cheap fares that day.
Right, we should get rid of stocks and trust our economy to something more stable, such as mortgage backed securities.
They are trying to convict that mom of a felony for violating the MySpace Terms of Service when she had the fake profile that allegedly resulted in a girl committing suicide.
Yes, felony violation of the computer hacking law, not a violation of an inducing suicide law (they might be doing that also though).
Are you against day traders?
In most cases I'd say pulling the offending item makes more sense than a counter-notice,
Except having a DMCA take down notice against you (actually your content, but it is considered to be against you too) is treated by many providers as proof you are guilty of infringement (!) unless you file a counter-notice (and don't get sued and lose) and repeat "infringments" will have them terminate your account and ban you (presumably for life, even under a different account - You Tube and eBay have both supposedly done this). A misterpretation to the repeat infringment provision of the DMCA.
So not fighting is a strike against you, and enough (sometimes 2) and you are banned for life.
The O. J. Simpson filesystem!
With unlimited service being capped at 250 GB, that leaves an inconsistency.
Namely unlimited means even infinite use is acceptable.
To avoid this, infinity has now been redefined to be equal to 268435456000.
This eliminates any legal problems with the unlimited service from Comcast.
It also significantly helps with the national debt, as nothing can exceed infinity. It isn't so bad now, and we can spend and spend and spend and never worry about it getting bigger, because, by definition, it can't! We can afford to go to war with Iran (and Syria, and Canada and Mexico and New Mexico, ...), and give unlimited Federally funded Internet to everyone in the country, and make people on both sides of the political fence happy.
Also, division by zero is now allowed, 1/0 = 268435456000. Oh happy day!!!
There will be a new IEEE floating point specification coming out soon based on this new mathematical fact.
We have 111 years of accepted precedent when it comes to redefining mathematical fact, Indiana made PI equal to 3 back in 1897.
Let us all rejoice!
but to add insult to injury the individual will owe for the corporate legal team's time (think 7 figures)
I believe courts only award attorney's fees to the plaintiff in trademark cases in extraordinary situations.
I.e. it is rare, and only when a mark has been used in bad faith.
Anyone have any examples?
I'm surprised they dun't tell the Democrats to not only stay, but to take down the boards on the windows, and to go surfing.
After all, it would've helped Bush.
For the BOFH types you could do what was done in this story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4396831.stm
Last year, there was only one case where one of those transactions was from a stolen credit card number.
That you know of.
There could be literally hundreds of undetected and/or unreported cases.
My favorite symbols of accomplishment have pictures of dead Presidents on them.
Though I don't usually keep them around (except for one with Jefferson on it) because I can get things from other people in exchange for giving them to them.
Although if there was some interesting prize (not a plastic bracelet) that I could earn just by doing my job well or taking on a couple of extra tasks (beta-testing, whatever), I may be tempted.
How about a merit based pay increase?
That is the best "prize".
Also check this out:
http://www.cheniere.org/books/aids/ch4.htm
Read THIS:
http://www.svpvril.com/svpnotes/QUATERNION_5037.html
What about those NOT on this planet?
Copyright doesn't really matter here, since even the Republicans were only trying to extend it (as the Constitution requires, for a "limited time") until the end of the Universe. (ha ha)
And once they flip the switch, no one here should be sad, since they'll be no more copyright, RIAA, software patents or Microsoft Windows ever again....
(just kidding, we hope).
Do you work for Microsoft?
Intend to do?
How about, are already doing?
Between income tax, sales tax, gasoline tax, and the taxes which raise the price of other products, over half of what I make is going to the government!