OK, I was being sarcastic but this raises an interesting point. How would you defend yourself against that tactic?
You are a little guy and the big guy drops hints that they are within their right to file a lawsuit against you for something you are doing. They also 'ask' you to stop doing whatever it is that they would potentially sue you for (and give them something that they don't have any real right to). They don't explicitly say 'knock it off or we'll sue.
>What part of the DMCA gives NOA the right to ask for the unsold stock?
The part that lets the copyright holder use it as a threat of a lawsuit?
We say you are breaking the DMCA. Hand over the goods and we won't drag you into court for the next 5 years, driving you out of business. We are big and have lots of lawyers. You aren't and probably don't. Have a nice day.
>You are wrong. A wounded infantry soldier takes several people to carry / care for him
I thought that's what he said:
it creates a situation where instead of creating a dead enemy soldier it creates a wounded one, which must be cared for by his buddy, thus taking two men out of action with each hit
Roger Ebert has been saying this for a long time. The link here points to a piece on digital projection.
I have seen the future of the cinema, and it is not digital.
No matter what you've read, the movie theater of the future will not use digital video projectors, and it will not beam the signal down from satellites. It will use film, and the film will be right there in the theater with you.
I have cable, I get the sci-fi channel. I've even seen one or two episodes. I just feel like I missed the whole premise having never seen the first episodes and I've never made time to sit down and catch up.
My favorite character, then, would be based solely on superficial qualities. Whichever one is the cat-like female with white hair is my fav!
Seriously, this show always looked interesting. Now that I have a tivo, I keep my eyes peeled for a marathon or something where I can record enough episodes to sit down and catch up. (and no, sorry - I'm *not* ready to start buying season one episodes on video. I still have the first season of Sopranos on DVD unopened, I missed out on that show too!)
Cool. I give it 5 minutes before MS is lawyering up to C&D slashdot again (remember, what was it, the kerberos thing?)
What's that Dilbert quote? That sound you now hear is 500 lawyers buttoning their suit jackets as they prepare to decend upon you (or something like that?)
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>and the rules for the passage of the amendment were not strictly observed
Yeah, I keep hearing some story about some constitutional scholar that pays no income taxes. The IRS won't come after him because they know it would be ugly.
>would you rather the that the dishonest people in government really act like crooks and be forced to solicit and accept illegal bribes
No, I think his point is that the bribes are not legal or illegal, but that offering a bribe in the first place is pointless because the politician simply does not have the power to do what you want him to do.
Ugh, at the risk of getting modded down for replying to my own note, I did actually *gasp* read the article after this post and found the following:
The product comes in two versions; one that sells for $20,000 and scales to search up to 150,000 documents and a more powerful version for $250,000, which Google says can scan "millions and millions" of documents.
But that supposedly includes hardware so it still sounds like a good deal.
Yep, this appears to be pretty competitivie, at least based on the evaluation we did last year on search engines to license and install on our intranet.
AltaVista is like $50,000 for up to four processors indexing up to 250,000 documents (yes, they charge you based on how much you use it - $25,000 only lets you index up to 50,000 files).
Inktomi was cheaper, but didn't have al lot of the features of AVS.
Google wasn't a choice at the time. I wonder what that $20,000 includes (would be nice if it was for unlimited use within your network).
Well, I kinda agree - but then/. does have the feature to block categories from the front page.
I mean, I don't block anything. I don't like Katz, so I don't click on the link to his posts. Reading the headline and summary doesn't cause me undue distress. If it did (as it appears to do to some), I could check the box in my prefs and it would go away. Choice is good.
Some people seem to be very distressed about seeing repeated postings about linux development kernel releases. What is the harm in making a new category for these that can be filtered as well (especially if it shuts the ones that have to bring this up again each time).
Personally, I want to see posts about new kernel releases. I want to read comments about it that don't repeatedly say 'why is this on slashdot!?'.
Then again, me theory is that some people just need to have something to bitch about (over and over). Jon Katz and kernel releases are easy to avoid, yet they click on the links, read the posts and then express their outrage. I think it is a compulsion.
Exactly. I would expect these to show up in all kinds of places where you aren't normally making a specific trip to go rent a movie. Checkout at the supermarket or 7-11 comes to mind (kind of like phone cards right between the chicklets and national enquirer). Cheap, convenient impulse buy.
Ooooh! I wanted to see that movie. $2.95, and I can buy it now and watch it when I want without having to return it? Gimmie!
Of course, I personally wouldn't go for this in most cases. Seems really wasteful to toss out optical media. (especially after I bitch so much about how wasteful AOL CDs are!)
You might be able to get away with this *once* per store. After that, they will always be checking the seal (kind of like they do now with shoes, they always check to make sure both are the same size and don't have signs of having been worn outside, they must have gotten really sick of people bringing them back).
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*stplurffpt!*
That sound was me ejecting a mouthful of hot coffee out of my nose all over my keyboard! Thanks.... funny... must get paper towles now...
"Where did you find this guy!?"
"Me!? I thought *you* found him!"
>Why is it that everything /. does has to go under a microscope
Think of it as sort-of a ride!
OK, I was being sarcastic but this raises an interesting point. How would you defend yourself against that tactic?
You are a little guy and the big guy drops hints that they are within their right to file a lawsuit against you for something you are doing. They also 'ask' you to stop doing whatever it is that they would potentially sue you for (and give them something that they don't have any real right to). They don't explicitly say 'knock it off or we'll sue.
Has the big guy broken the law?
>What part of the DMCA gives NOA the right to ask for the unsold stock?
The part that lets the copyright holder use it as a threat of a lawsuit?
We say you are breaking the DMCA. Hand over the goods and we won't drag you into court for the next 5 years, driving you out of business. We are big and have lots of lawyers. You aren't and probably don't. Have a nice day.
How could I forget. Johnathan Winters, Carl Reiner - what a great movie!
Reminds me of that movie where a Russian sub runs aground off the New England coast.
Shoot, had Alan Arkin in it but I can't remember any other details.
Eee-mehr-gen-see... everrryone to get frrrrom strrreet!
Sure, for a home user it doesn't make sense to to do anything but build your own. It's not that hard (hell, if *I* can figure it out ;-) ).
But for a company looking to buy >100 + support? You don't have the time+money to build the machines. You pay someone else to do that.
This is (another) step in the right direction!
>You are wrong. A wounded infantry soldier takes several people to carry / care for him
I thought that's what he said:
it creates a situation where instead of creating a dead enemy soldier it creates a wounded one, which must be cared for by his buddy, thus taking two men out of action with each hit
emphasis mine
Roger Ebert has been saying this for a long time. The link here points to a piece on digital projection.
I have seen the future of the cinema, and it is not digital.
No matter what you've read, the movie theater of the future will not use digital video projectors, and it will not beam the signal down from satellites. It will use film, and the film will be right there in the theater with you.
I have cable, I get the sci-fi channel. I've even seen one or two episodes. I just feel like I missed the whole premise having never seen the first episodes and I've never made time to sit down and catch up.
My favorite character, then, would be based solely on superficial qualities. Whichever one is the cat-like female with white hair is my fav!
Seriously, this show always looked interesting. Now that I have a tivo, I keep my eyes peeled for a marathon or something where I can record enough episodes to sit down and catch up. (and no, sorry - I'm *not* ready to start buying season one episodes on video. I still have the first season of Sopranos on DVD unopened, I missed out on that show too!)
oops, more like this link, I guess.
Cool. I give it 5 minutes before MS is lawyering up to C&D slashdot again (remember, what was it, the kerberos thing?)
What's that Dilbert quote? That sound you now hear is 500 lawyers buttoning their suit jackets as they prepare to decend upon you (or something like that?)
All the fault of Linux, apparently...
Researchers at Cigital, of Dulles, Va., found that Microsoft apparently adopted a technique that has been used with the Linux (news - web sites) operating system and shown to be vulnerable to attack, the Journal said.
I thought everyone knew that our executive branch is being directed from an 'undisclosed location' at this point?
*ducks*
>and the rules for the passage of the amendment were not strictly observed
Yeah, I keep hearing some story about some constitutional scholar that pays no income taxes. The IRS won't come after him because they know it would be ugly.
>would you rather the that the dishonest people in government really act like crooks and be forced to solicit and accept illegal bribes
No, I think his point is that the bribes are not legal or illegal, but that offering a bribe in the first place is pointless because the politician simply does not have the power to do what you want him to do.
>you have to appreciate the irony
;-)
Quick, someone tell Alanis Morissette!
Ugh, at the risk of getting modded down for replying to my own note, I did actually *gasp* read the article after this post and found the following:
The product comes in two versions; one that sells for $20,000 and scales to search up to 150,000 documents and a more powerful version for $250,000, which Google says can scan "millions and millions" of documents.
But that supposedly includes hardware so it still sounds like a good deal.
Yep, this appears to be pretty competitivie, at least based on the evaluation we did last year on search engines to license and install on our intranet.
AltaVista is like $50,000 for up to four processors indexing up to 250,000 documents (yes, they charge you based on how much you use it - $25,000 only lets you index up to 50,000 files).
Inktomi was cheaper, but didn't have al lot of the features of AVS.
Google wasn't a choice at the time. I wonder what that $20,000 includes (would be nice if it was for unlimited use within your network).
Well, I kinda agree - but then /. does have the feature to block categories from the front page.
I mean, I don't block anything. I don't like Katz, so I don't click on the link to his posts. Reading the headline and summary doesn't cause me undue distress. If it did (as it appears to do to some), I could check the box in my prefs and it would go away. Choice is good.
Some people seem to be very distressed about seeing repeated postings about linux development kernel releases. What is the harm in making a new category for these that can be filtered as well (especially if it shuts the ones that have to bring this up again each time).
Personally, I want to see posts about new kernel releases. I want to read comments about it that don't repeatedly say 'why is this on slashdot!?'.
Then again, me theory is that some people just need to have something to bitch about (over and over). Jon Katz and kernel releases are easy to avoid, yet they click on the links, read the posts and then express their outrage. I think it is a compulsion.
Yup, kind of like when you 'dial' a phone number. When was the last time you stuck your finger in a rotary dial?
Exactly. I would expect these to show up in all kinds of places where you aren't normally making a specific trip to go rent a movie. Checkout at the supermarket or 7-11 comes to mind (kind of like phone cards right between the chicklets and national enquirer). Cheap, convenient impulse buy.
Ooooh! I wanted to see that movie. $2.95, and I can buy it now and watch it when I want without having to return it? Gimmie!
Of course, I personally wouldn't go for this in most cases. Seems really wasteful to toss out optical media. (especially after I bitch so much about how wasteful AOL CDs are!)
You might be able to get away with this *once* per store. After that, they will always be checking the seal (kind of like they do now with shoes, they always check to make sure both are the same size and don't have signs of having been worn outside, they must have gotten really sick of people bringing them back).
>may be well 100
doh! should have said "may well be less than 100"