Since our current legal system is so far gone from any sense of sanity or morality, I guess all we can hope for is that it gets more byzantine until it collapses and is no longer viable.
Hopefully that day will come sooner rather than later.
Civil courts create as much injustice as they stop, or perhaps even more.
Maybe he wants a google.slashdot.org with it's own horrible color scheme and possibly a new slogan (such as "Politics for Nerds" on the political section).
There is a difference between using something DEFENSIVELY versus OFFENSIVELY.
Using IP law to mitigate harm caused by IP law is a good thing. It shouldn't be necessary, one shouldn't have to use copyright against people and companies who use copyright to harm. But it is.
Their hardware probably uses software to do what it needs to do.
It is easier to sell hardware for $100 than it is to sell software at that price.
Sell software that costs $1 per unit total (marginal cost is not zero, don't believe the hype) for $10, make $9 profit.
Sell $25 worth of hardware (including normal mouse stuff, microcontroller, code - heck, it could BE a normal mouse hardware-wise with just different firmware) for $100, make $75.
www.wellsfargo.com.nu (new) www.wellsfargo.com.na (new site for North America) www.wellsfargo.com.bank.na (Wells Fargo Bank NA is an official name for them or one of their divisions). www.wellsfargo.las-vegas.nv.us (local site)
or something of that nature.
Some people might think citibank is citybank and that wellsfargo is wellfargo or wellsfargoe, or bankofamerica is bankamerica (the real B of A did register this one - good move) or bankemerica (owned apprently by "typo vultures") or some such.
There is adding locations, country codes, typos, etc. Make something seem official enough and many people will believe it, especially if it is something in the mail saying to access our NEW, UPDATED, BETTER website.
If you send out an invoice for something to 100 companies, you'll likely get paid by a couple of them for services or goods you never rendered. Sad but true.
I get spams with totally misspelled bank names and overall atrocious spelling and grammar claiming to be my bank and telling me to give them my account info (as part of a security check, isn't that ironic) or they'll suspend it.
I don't fall for it, but enough people must or else those fraudulent spams would not exist.
He'll probably respond that he is saving people from burning in Hell, and thus such actions are justified, just as I would be justified in breaking one's window and dragging them out of their house if it was on fire and they were unconscious.
Do you confirm by phone all the prices in ads before you go there?
Is that the customer's responsibility?
Why not also say if I go to a store, I shouldn't expect the prices on the shelves to be right and I should use the price scanners to check even items that are clearly marked or on a clearly marked shelf in case the info on the shelf is wrong, or else not complain if the price at the register is higher.
How anti-consumer can you be?
I don't usually like lawsuits, judgements for plaintiffs, gov't fines, etc. I am a libertarian on a lot of these issues. I also don't support heavy handed Internet regulation.
But sometimes you just gotta put your foot down and draw a line in the sand. Unfair business practices are illegal (in many cases - should be in all cases, but isn't) and rightfully so, even on the Internet.
NZ 3000 is US $2,209.49, CDN $2,715.84, UKP 1,153.56, EURO 1,670.68 (for the benefit of people in other countries)
(thanks to xe.com for the conversions)
Not a small amount, a fine that definitely has a sting, but not huge for most business, and apparently fair considering the facts.
The court costs of NZ 260 seem somewhat reasonable considering the fine (under 10%).
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Right, people are going to tell ORACLE no...
Larry Ellison is almost as big as Bill Gates, piss him off and the civil libertarians and the combined power and money easily exceed what Bill has.
Smart people don't screw with the Oracle empire.
Think other countries will stop the US?
Did they stop the US DVDCCA from imposing the Content Scrambling System and region codes? No.
Did Norway, a sovereign nation, arrest one of its citizens because the Motion Picture Association of America wanted them to? Yes.
Other countries love to hate and mock us in public, but make shady deals with us in private. Scary but true.
Maybe Google can buy out OSTG and we can have a slashdot.google.com or geeknews.google.com. :)
One can usually stay employed by adding new features to programs.
As they get more and more bloated, there is more and more maintenance work too.
Since our current legal system is so far gone from any sense of sanity or morality, I guess all we can hope for is that it gets more byzantine until it collapses and is no longer viable.
Hopefully that day will come sooner rather than later.
Civil courts create as much injustice as they stop, or perhaps even more.
Maybe he wants a google.slashdot.org with it's own horrible color scheme and possibly a new slogan (such as "Politics for Nerds" on the political section).
.slashdot.org will at least work.
BTW, anything
Such as this:
http://usa.homeland.security.slashdot.org/
You forgot trade secrets.
"I'm not writing buggy code, I'm adding tracking technology to detect theft of the intellectual property!" :)
:)
I'll keep that one in mind next time I write something that breaks.
That wouldn't work in the USA.
:)
Here we consider "10 drummers drumming" a Christmas gift!
+1, Funny
"Open source" is pragmatic and becoming more widespread and accepted, even by capitialist publications such as Forbes and big companies such as IBM.
"Free software" is ideological, and not taken seriously by many.
These are the facts.
Freedom is all well and good, but there is a time to TONE DOWN THE RHETORIC! so people will listen to you and not tune you out.
There is a difference between using something DEFENSIVELY versus OFFENSIVELY.
Using IP law to mitigate harm caused by IP law is a good thing. It shouldn't be necessary, one shouldn't have to use copyright against people and companies who use copyright to harm. But it is.
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The lawyers wouldn't accept that.
It would make it too easy for someone to say they accidently "accepted" the EULA and thus possibly hurt its enforceability.
Yeah, you meant it as a joke, but you'll get a serious reply.
I had a keyboard bouncing on me. It wasn't that old, and I was too cheap, lazy and pissed off to get a new one.
I patched the linux kernel to ignore the same key being pressed within a certain time period.
It worked beautifully.
Their hardware probably uses software to do what it needs to do.
It is easier to sell hardware for $100 than it is to sell software at that price.
Sell software that costs $1 per unit total (marginal cost is not zero, don't believe the hype) for $10, make $9 profit.
Sell $25 worth of hardware (including normal mouse stuff, microcontroller, code - heck, it could BE a normal mouse hardware-wise with just different firmware) for $100, make $75.
It could say visit our new/updated/local site at:
www.wellsfargo.com.nu (new)
www.wellsfargo.com.na (new site for North America)
www.wellsfargo.com.bank.na (Wells Fargo Bank NA is an official name for them or one of their divisions).
www.wellsfargo.las-vegas.nv.us (local site)
or something of that nature.
Some people might think citibank is citybank and that wellsfargo is wellfargo or wellsfargoe, or bankofamerica is bankamerica (the real B of A did register this one - good move) or bankemerica (owned apprently by "typo vultures") or some such.
There is adding locations, country codes, typos, etc. Make something seem official enough and many people will believe it, especially if it is something in the mail saying to access our NEW, UPDATED, BETTER website.
If you send out an invoice for something to 100 companies, you'll likely get paid by a couple of them for services or goods you never rendered. Sad but true.
I get spams with totally misspelled bank names and overall atrocious spelling and grammar claiming to be my bank and telling me to give them my account info (as part of a security check, isn't that ironic) or they'll suspend it.
I don't fall for it, but enough people must or else those fraudulent spams would not exist.
You should have wrote one for him.
/bin/bash
#!
echo -n Repairing and optimizing database...
sleep 5
echo done
exit 0
What if someone sends you (via postal mail) a fake letter or statement purporting to be from your bank?
Which would be what?
:)
That making money should be as hard as pulling teeth?
They focus on things like sex, drinking, smoking, bad words and homosexuality, but ignore things like lying, cheating, stealing, and greed.
Sometimes they don't ignore those bad things, but embrace them. Remember the Jim and Tammy Faye Baker scandal?
He'll probably respond that he is saving people from burning in Hell, and thus such actions are justified, just as I would be justified in breaking one's window and dragging them out of their house if it was on fire and they were unconscious.
Would you prefer morality to be defined as that which helps to propage the DNA of oneself, one's tribe, and one's species?
Ironically you'd have to be as pro-life as the fundamentalists are, but for a different reason.
Even Slashdot?
In companies, mail may need to be kept for legal reasons.
Mozilla just proved it is unusable for the corporate world.
Sad.
Do you confirm by phone all the prices in ads before you go there?
Is that the customer's responsibility?
Why not also say if I go to a store, I shouldn't expect the prices on the shelves to be right and I should use the price scanners to check even items that are clearly marked or on a clearly marked shelf in case the info on the shelf is wrong, or else not complain if the price at the register is higher.
How anti-consumer can you be?
I don't usually like lawsuits, judgements for plaintiffs, gov't fines, etc. I am a libertarian on a lot of these issues. I also don't support heavy handed Internet regulation.
But sometimes you just gotta put your foot down and draw a line in the sand. Unfair business practices are illegal (in many cases - should be in all cases, but isn't) and rightfully so, even on the Internet.
NZ 3000 is US $2,209.49, CDN $2,715.84, UKP 1,153.56, EURO 1,670.68 (for the benefit of people in other countries)
(thanks to xe.com for the conversions)
Not a small amount, a fine that definitely has a sting, but not huge for most business, and apparently fair considering the facts.
The court costs of NZ 260 seem somewhat reasonable considering the fine (under 10%).