They have a trademark on just 'CYBERMAC' - not the.com part.
They did have the trademark before I registered my domains, but I hadn't heard of them.
What's funny about this is their laywers are telling me if I have cybermacfubar.com, I would be fine, but since the domain matches the word exactly, I'm screwed. But that brings up an interesting point - I don't just have cybermac - I have cybermac.com! (and.net, which I had first because some company nabbed the.com the day before I checked).
I did some calling around, it looks like I'll have to pay $200 an hour to fight having to pay $3,000 and lose my domains.
I have two domains, cybermac.com and cybermac.net. A company has sued me for trademark infringement, even though I'm not in their line of busniess (I use them for personal email).
They claim unless I had my own trademark of the word cybermac, like they do, I just flat out lose and have to give mine up.
They want $3,000 for their legal fees and my two domains, otherwise they're suing for $30,000+ in damages, plus legal fees.
I can't remember the name, but didn't MacNN's old rumor site close down because they were accused of breaking NDA's?
There was some talk going round that they were VAR's, getting the information from Apple then posting the info on their web site.
Personally, I like getting information ahead of time, it helps me help my customers. I'm playing with MacOS X right now, not because I'm a developer, but because I need to be well versed in it when it ships.
The airphones use a different frequency to handle your call and I think it may be an AM signal, I'm not sure.
AM is used by aircraft because the strongest carrier signal is heard, so even if someone sits on a microphone, the tower can still talk to other aircraft.
What AM seems to be bad at is blocking out interference. I have sat in my plane on a cell phone, while on the ground, and heard my conversation come through the radio gear. I have also heard a pilot scold a passagenger via the intercom for talking on his cell phone while we were headed for the runway for take off.
I like to listen to what's going on, but most airlines ban radio scanners for the entire trip - not just take offs and landings. They also usualy ban Ham Radios, but I guess I'm ok with banning anything that is designed to transmit.
There's an old story, which might be an urban legend, that a plane carring a basketball team home ended up slightly off course. They determined it was because every player and coach had a handheld radio tuned to the same AM station, listening to another game that effected their rankings. The small amount of RF produced by each radio messed up the navigational equipment.
Radio receivers do put out a small amount of RF and I suppose in theory, a planefull of folks putting out a small amount of RF on the same frequency could cause a problem. This story is also from many years ago.
My gawd, the woman pictured in your link is the same woman from the playboy article? Wow. She was better looking before. But hey, sucessfull games appearently lead to bigger breasts, so keep coding fellas!
Actually, Amazon.com had to settle out of court with a lesbian bookstore in Minneapolis to use the domain. I would guess some money changed hands. The new way to keep domain names is to have more money than the other guy.
Just so you know, MacInTouch hasn't posted anything about this rumor, let alone request folks email Connectix.
BTW, MacOS Rumors hasn't had a good rumor since the pre-Jobs-returns days. I do know BlackLightMedia (one of the several companies MOSR has created) used to handle the ads for Slashdot. Maybe Rob likes sending much needed traffic to an old friend?
I suppose the direct marketing lobby is far too powerful to allow this to happen, but I would still prefer to have to opt-in before getting junk mail (paper or otherwise). This we found "you and will keep bothering you until you say otherwise" just isn't working.
I haven't seen any ISO images over at ftp.linuxppc.org yet... but I'm figuring $20 to help the cause isn't a bad idea anyway.
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Man, don't get me started on that. Considering the design talent of the Newton folks, one can only wonder where two more years of development would have yeilded. It wouldn't have been no iNewt either!
Best Brains have kind of resigned to this fate; they've been through the ordeal once before and don't particularly expect anything to change. However, they apparently do still have an interest in continuing the show; they just now don't have anywhere to put it.
They could always come back to KGLT ch 23 where they started... I'm sure someone here in the Twin Cities would simulcast on the net for the rest of you folks:)
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But 20 people running wireless network cards shouldn't be a problem?
They did have the trademark before I registered my domains, but I hadn't heard of them.
What's funny about this is their laywers are telling me if I have cybermacfubar.com, I would be fine, but since the domain matches the word exactly, I'm screwed. But that brings up an interesting point - I don't just have cybermac - I have cybermac.com! (and .net, which I had first because some company nabbed the .com the day before I checked).
I did some calling around, it looks like I'll have to pay $200 an hour to fight having to pay $3,000 and lose my domains.
They claim unless I had my own trademark of the word cybermac, like they do, I just flat out lose and have to give mine up.
They want $3,000 for their legal fees and my two domains, otherwise they're suing for $30,000+ in damages, plus legal fees.
Anyone know any cheap lawyers in Minnesota?
Anyone can get a .us domain, you just have to have access to a couple of nameservers.
I can't remember the name, but didn't MacNN's old rumor site close down because they were accused of breaking NDA's?
There was some talk going round that they were VAR's, getting the information from Apple then posting the info on their web site.
Personally, I like getting information ahead of time, it helps me help my customers. I'm playing with MacOS X right now, not because I'm a developer, but because I need to be well versed in it when it ships.
The airphones use a different frequency to handle your call and I think it may be an AM signal, I'm not sure.
AM is used by aircraft because the strongest carrier signal is heard, so even if someone sits on a microphone, the tower can still talk to other aircraft.
What AM seems to be bad at is blocking out interference. I have sat in my plane on a cell phone, while on the ground, and heard my conversation come through the radio gear. I have also heard a pilot scold a passagenger via the intercom for talking on his cell phone while we were headed for the runway for take off.
I like to listen to what's going on, but most airlines ban radio scanners for the entire trip - not just take offs and landings. They also usualy ban Ham Radios, but I guess I'm ok with banning anything that is designed to transmit.
There's an old story, which might be an urban legend, that a plane carring a basketball team home ended up slightly off course. They determined it was because every player and coach had a handheld radio tuned to the same AM station, listening to another game that effected their rankings. The small amount of RF produced by each radio messed up the navigational equipment.
Radio receivers do put out a small amount of RF and I suppose in theory, a planefull of folks putting out a small amount of RF on the same frequency could cause a problem. This story is also from many years ago.
My gawd, the woman pictured in your link is the same woman from the playboy article? Wow. She was better looking before. But hey, sucessfull games appearently lead to bigger breasts, so keep coding fellas!
Man, I fell for that. Some sort of mouse over would have kept me from figuring it out too.
Actually, Amazon.com had to settle out of court with a lesbian bookstore in Minneapolis to use the domain. I would guess some money changed hands. The new way to keep domain names is to have more money than the other guy.
BTW, MacOS Rumors hasn't had a good rumor since the pre-Jobs-returns days. I do know BlackLightMedia (one of the several companies MOSR has created) used to handle the ads for Slashdot. Maybe Rob likes sending much needed traffic to an old friend?
I suppose the direct marketing lobby is far too powerful to allow this to happen, but I would still prefer to have to opt-in before getting junk mail (paper or otherwise). This we found "you and will keep bothering you until you say otherwise" just isn't working.
I haven't seen any ISO images over at ftp.linuxppc.org yet... but I'm figuring $20 to help the cause isn't a bad idea anyway.
Man, don't get me started on that. Considering the design talent of the Newton folks, one can only wonder where two more years of development would have yeilded. It wouldn't have been no iNewt either!
Which I bought over two years ago.
There are two X-10 solutions for the Mac.
1) Mousehouse www.mousehouse.net or www.smarthome.com to get the hardware & software from IBM.
2) XTension from www.shed.com or www.bzzzzzz.com for software & hardware.
Both have CM11a or Lynx X-10 versions and free demos. XTension is $89.95 with a mac cable, Mousehouse is $69.95 plus $10 for a mac cable.
The XTension website has some great tutorials about X-10 and your Mac.
They could always come back to KGLT ch 23 where they started... I'm sure someone here in the Twin Cities would simulcast on the net for the rest of you folks :)
What did you think you would find when you followed the link off the main page?
http://www.apple.com/quickti me/trailers/fox/episode-i/
Some damn nice screen shots too.
It's been pretty nice today, plus the three for four inches of snow that's fallen today has put a nice coat of white on everything.
I've only heard about 2 roads being closed, so it's a pretty small storm.
I'm somewhat amazed that more of these soap operas don't happen.
With different personalities working within a hierarchy you'd think loud disagreements would happen more often.
8-9 hours a day hacking away? I'm all for dedication to a cause, but how does the guy get money to eat?