I'm not a lawyer, but AFAIK, fine print or hiding pertinent info is known as an unconsciouable tactic in contracts. Hiding a contract that you did not sign or check or click 'submit' to can be a termination for that contract. However, I'm quite sure you clicked on 'submit' instead of reading 50 pages of the contract to just get a phone service. Besides, you don't have the $$$ nor time for a good lawyer to defeat such a typical problem with cell companies.
You don't need such a lengthy contract to get a landline, do you? No. And this should be no different.
It all comes down to money. By SCO's request, it hits FSF pretty hard due to time and dollars spent collecting said documents or fighting against it. It has nothing to do with having a claim whatsoever.
Realistically, this is what they would go after. If they can fry a few small frys, this provides their case with credibility that they need to fry the big frys. That is the nature of running a patent-enforcing-business.
yes, I've had it happen twice back in 2001. someone would post an S2000 for sale, and being one of the admins at the time on s2ki, I swapped pictures to a wrecked S2000 on the guy's auction. he threatened lawsuits and such, so... I continued to post random pictures of wrecked S2000's every so many hours. he never did quite understand why he was the leecher and in the wrong. had he asked up front, well... he didn't, so that would have been another story.
Apparently, your name and his name is in the address book, or in an email of an infected computer's system. That system spoofs the From: address, and sends it To: someone else in there. Sometimes you will receive it from friends that do not have it, other times you'll get a kickback saying undeliverable due to a virus that you sent. But... you didn't send it. Instead, you were spoofed as the From: address and the To: was unreachable, thus bouncing back to you.
Ken, your estimates of 50% are more realistic than the original poster. Working in IT for a few hundred people, it floods our systems here no matter what patches, reghacks or other items we do to prevent them. It keeps my job secure because of the constant clean ups. Our firewall is managed due to a contract, and we don't have much say so in it. They block out useful information and let this kind of crap in. I say for $9K a month (don't get me started) they need to do a helluva lot more.
Now that reminds me, I gotta go tell this one girl to get the gator password reminder off of her system now, even if she cannot remember her passwords again.
And I wonder why websense has this filtered as adult content. Something I'm missing here or unable to see? Sheesh, looking at google cache of site it doesn't look like strictly adult content. Blah!
very much agreed. you have a valid point there. but the article itself isn't a whole, nor does it answer a lot of the problems or any questions, doubts or anything unanswered about the whole outsourcing gig.
there is one issue that can be handled on the homefront, and that would be H1B visas. since the made-up hype years ago, the number of H1B visas has increased. for me, it is a personal vendetta against a few and my former employer. but for others, it is about prioritizing domestic employers employing locals. instead, the H1B visas - at least the ones I know, and even the ones I currently work with, they are only it in for the interim - to save up money to take back home with them and live without day-to-day operations such as going to work.
but going back to the issue you brought up - the cost of living and the cost of necessities vary from country to country. necessity doesn't mean I must have a job so that I can pay for a tall moca from starbucks each and every day. that would eat up the 11K salary. so, lifestyle does come into play, and that is something that the outsourcers are doing - they cut back to push a lifestyle - and expect us to buy it with the money we no longer have, nor do the outsourcees have it either.
If Jon wins this case, then that will give him the upper hand on getting more money from the MPAA at a later date. Going for small chunks of change, the ~$22K USD, in this case, would provide him with a stronger legal ground.
Good luck Jon, you deserve the dollars for your wasted time!
Actually, google has money. Any patent lawyer that is wanting to make a profit (ethical or not), will always run credit checks on a possible individual or company that they intend to go after and reap rewards by suing.
However, if the company doesn't have a lot of money, they'll ask to settle for minimal dollars. If the company has some money, they'll go after them and reap them until they have no more. If the company has a lot of money, they'll wait until they have won a smaller case, in which they can gang up on the larger, more profitable companies out there. The problem with the SCO case is they haven't won the middle guy, yet they are going after IBM and google. And now, because of the money raised up, SCO is all uphill because no one will settle or pay up a dime because they are being defended. This means, there is no revenue from the little guys. $695 or even $65, they aren't getting a dime. This is the perspective that IBM wants to convey: SCO has legal funds and will not get any revenue to further fun legal issues.
You bring a lot of good points to the table, but one thing I'd challenge yo uon is the last comment about 'no terrorist activity in the US since 9/11'.
Several thoughts on this would be: - this is in part from efforts of the FAA / Homeland Security / FBI and other officials - it could be that they are not reported - but most likely, we live in terror because of prior terrorist acts and thus, I have to say... Congrats to the terrorist! They did a fine job at leaving us in terror.
while the stock ticks up, would this be a good time to sell short over the next several months? say, buy at 16 or 17 and sell short at 8 or 10? not sure how far apart you can spread the selling short, but if it is doomed to fall, so will the stock and this might bring dollars to the table.
Well, here's the benefit where I work in IT - we're bound by many in house applications that utilize Access 97 and cannot be updated to Access 2000. They are merely front ends, but the dev time and cost is too much due to continuing development on these apps.
Converting to OO would work best for this company since all of our word/excel documents are written in Office 97 (word/excel 97). Perhaps if we were converting from Office 2000/XP/2003, people might whine, but in this case - a rare one - it will work out.
We've started with a few test subjects in critical and non-critical areas and still awaiting further evaluation.
this is all ad hoc, and in the future when that has passed, the way that the law is played out will come down to 'patriot act'-ing means.
hopefully someday when terrorism isn't such a threat, or that we are no longer feel threatened because of media hypes and govt laws like this one - we'll get back to the roots of living in a free country. until then, I just have to say: grats to the terrorists - because your terrorist actions are working since we are all living in fear.
Electronic voting seems to appeal to ease of use and remote voting, if there ever should come a day when that should happen. With that, the politicians, who decide on a particular voting schema, decide this on the basis of electronics will get the younger population out there, and hopefully get more voters. It's quite a bad premise to automate everything. Perhaps, finally, a downfall in technology at the moment.
But my take is - go back to filling in those bubbled circles on scantron or whatever was once used in your local voting district. Technology doesn't need to be integrated into everything. If we rush and integrate it into everything... well, with electronic voting and mis-counts such as this, we're looking at losing a voting democratic nation. Okay, I will correct myself in stating - we'll lose our appearance of a voting democratic nation.
and with an attitude like that, rather than the C&D letters from Diebold with no motivation to do something better than NT security and an access database.. I say, give it to em.
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I'm not a lawyer, but AFAIK, fine print or hiding pertinent info is known as an unconsciouable tactic in contracts. Hiding a contract that you did not sign or check or click 'submit' to can be a termination for that contract. However, I'm quite sure you clicked on 'submit' instead of reading 50 pages of the contract to just get a phone service. Besides, you don't have the $$$ nor time for a good lawyer to defeat such a typical problem with cell companies.
You don't need such a lengthy contract to get a landline, do you? No. And this should be no different.
It all comes down to money. By SCO's request, it hits FSF pretty hard due to time and dollars spent collecting said documents or fighting against it. It has nothing to do with having a claim whatsoever.
agreed, stupid indeed. this is the same thing as the .batch files that are written out there for windows that deltree *.* /y
But.. the idea and principle behind it is what we are looking for as a voting nation.
Keep the same concept and apply it to something else. The voter must not be able to see any prior votes nor how high one tube would be.
Realistically, this is what they would go after. If they can fry a few small frys, this provides their case with credibility that they need to fry the big frys. That is the nature of running a patent-enforcing-business.
yes, I've had it happen twice back in 2001. someone would post an S2000 for sale, and being one of the admins at the time on s2ki, I swapped pictures to a wrecked S2000 on the guy's auction. he threatened lawsuits and such, so... I continued to post random pictures of wrecked S2000's every so many hours. he never did quite understand why he was the leecher and in the wrong. had he asked up front, well... he didn't, so that would have been another story.
FYI - Nazi material of any kind is not allowed on Ebay.
your != you are
your is possessive
grammer != grammar
(meant as constructive critisism only)
Did you just start receiving emails last week?
Apparently, your name and his name is in the address book, or in an email of an infected computer's system. That system spoofs the From: address, and sends it To: someone else in there. Sometimes you will receive it from friends that do not have it, other times you'll get a kickback saying undeliverable due to a virus that you sent. But... you didn't send it. Instead, you were spoofed as the From: address and the To: was unreachable, thus bouncing back to you.
Hope this helps.
Ken, your estimates of 50% are more realistic than the original poster. Working in IT for a few hundred people, it floods our systems here no matter what patches, reghacks or other items we do to prevent them. It keeps my job secure because of the constant clean ups. Our firewall is managed due to a contract, and we don't have much say so in it. They block out useful information and let this kind of crap in. I say for $9K a month (don't get me started) they need to do a helluva lot more.
Now that reminds me, I gotta go tell this one girl to get the gator password reminder off of her system now, even if she cannot remember her passwords again.
That's not too bad of a joke. Not as bad as telling a former gf to rewind the DVD before she takes it out of the player.
Cache request? Post of the article, please?
And I wonder why websense has this filtered as adult content. Something I'm missing here or unable to see? Sheesh, looking at google cache of site it doesn't look like strictly adult content. Blah!
Thanks!
agreed. this will benefit you far greater than a wireless connection.
very much agreed. you have a valid point there. but the article itself isn't a whole, nor does it answer a lot of the problems or any questions, doubts or anything unanswered about the whole outsourcing gig.
there is one issue that can be handled on the homefront, and that would be H1B visas. since the made-up hype years ago, the number of H1B visas has increased. for me, it is a personal vendetta against a few and my former employer. but for others, it is about prioritizing domestic employers employing locals. instead, the H1B visas - at least the ones I know, and even the ones I currently work with, they are only it in for the interim - to save up money to take back home with them and live without day-to-day operations such as going to work.
but going back to the issue you brought up - the cost of living and the cost of necessities vary from country to country. necessity doesn't mean I must have a job so that I can pay for a tall moca from starbucks each and every day. that would eat up the 11K salary. so, lifestyle does come into play, and that is something that the outsourcers are doing - they cut back to push a lifestyle - and expect us to buy it with the money we no longer have, nor do the outsourcees have it either.
If Jon wins this case, then that will give him the upper hand on getting more money from the MPAA at a later date. Going for small chunks of change, the ~$22K USD, in this case, would provide him with a stronger legal ground.
Good luck Jon, you deserve the dollars for your wasted time!
Actually, google has money. Any patent lawyer that is wanting to make a profit (ethical or not), will always run credit checks on a possible individual or company that they intend to go after and reap rewards by suing.
However, if the company doesn't have a lot of money, they'll ask to settle for minimal dollars. If the company has some money, they'll go after them and reap them until they have no more. If the company has a lot of money, they'll wait until they have won a smaller case, in which they can gang up on the larger, more profitable companies out there. The problem with the SCO case is they haven't won the middle guy, yet they are going after IBM and google. And now, because of the money raised up, SCO is all uphill because no one will settle or pay up a dime because they are being defended. This means, there is no revenue from the little guys. $695 or even $65, they aren't getting a dime. This is the perspective that IBM wants to convey: SCO has legal funds and will not get any revenue to further fun legal issues.
You bring a lot of good points to the table, but one thing I'd challenge yo uon is the last comment about 'no terrorist activity in the US since 9/11'.
Several thoughts on this would be:
- this is in part from efforts of the FAA / Homeland Security / FBI and other officials
- it could be that they are not reported
- but most likely, we live in terror because of prior terrorist acts and thus, I have to say... Congrats to the terrorist! They did a fine job at leaving us in terror.
I was thinking of something similar, but more along the lines of "McBride is up to something with this void."
while the stock ticks up, would this be a good time to sell short over the next several months? say, buy at 16 or 17 and sell short at 8 or 10? not sure how far apart you can spread the selling short, but if it is doomed to fall, so will the stock and this might bring dollars to the table.
Here in Austin, TX, there's a Goodwill Computer Store - it is specifically for computers & computer parts only.
Well, here's the benefit where I work in IT - we're bound by many in house applications that utilize Access 97 and cannot be updated to Access 2000. They are merely front ends, but the dev time and cost is too much due to continuing development on these apps.
Converting to OO would work best for this company since all of our word/excel documents are written in Office 97 (word/excel 97). Perhaps if we were converting from Office 2000/XP/2003, people might whine, but in this case - a rare one - it will work out.
We've started with a few test subjects in critical and non-critical areas and still awaiting further evaluation.
what happens to the independent record companies who want to persue a marketing model outside of the RIAA?
Or even the indie film companies who are now suing the MPAA?
exactly.
this is all ad hoc, and in the future when that has passed, the way that the law is played out will come down to 'patriot act'-ing means.
hopefully someday when terrorism isn't such a threat, or that we are no longer feel threatened because of media hypes and govt laws like this one - we'll get back to the roots of living in a free country. until then, I just have to say: grats to the terrorists - because your terrorist actions are working since we are all living in fear.
Electronic voting seems to appeal to ease of use and remote voting, if there ever should come a day when that should happen. With that, the politicians, who decide on a particular voting schema, decide this on the basis of electronics will get the younger population out there, and hopefully get more voters. It's quite a bad premise to automate everything. Perhaps, finally, a downfall in technology at the moment.
But my take is - go back to filling in those bubbled circles on scantron or whatever was once used in your local voting district. Technology doesn't need to be integrated into everything. If we rush and integrate it into everything... well, with electronic voting and mis-counts such as this, we're looking at losing a voting democratic nation. Okay, I will correct myself in stating - we'll lose our appearance of a voting democratic nation.
and with an attitude like that, rather than the C&D letters from Diebold with no motivation to do something better than NT security and an access database.. I say, give it to em.