If Sony were really serious about using the _DMCA_ against this guy, they would have had his ISP shut his sight down. The DMCA specifically grants Sony the ability to tell his ISP to shut him down - without notifying him directly. It's obvious to me that Sony's own lawyers don't think they have a real DMCA claim.
(The law firm I work for represents an ISP, and we had to advise our client that, yes when someone requests that you shut down a site under the provisions of the DMCA, you have to do it, otherwise the ISP will be held responsible. The DMCA is a big stick, and can be used to very quickly shut down a site. Sony was in no rush to get these files off the internet)
> Translation: Microsoft will be charging for significant upgrades.
Tell the whole story. You pay whether or not you actually install the upgrade. If you don't pay, then the next upgrade (the one you the user decide you need) you pay full list price for. Right now the company I work for only pays fro the upgrades we need.
Before anyone else says it again... Stuff in space just doesn't randomly start flying around because of zero gravity. "A body at rest tends to stay at rest", so therefore if you want to set something down, it would be quite handy to have a table. If you just let go of something it will probably be moving, if you set it on a table however... In addition to all of that, it would be nice to have something that was familiar to sit and eat at, even in zero g I'm thinking I'd like to have a meal where it would be similar to what I was used to on earth.
An example of a company trying to be all things to all people: Hewlett-Packard. They just don't want to accept that their hardware business is enough to make them stable and profitable for years... Maybe they'll eventually figure it out.
Bad info... You can always dispute a charge on a Credit Card. PayPal can't circumvent the way credit cards work. You can make PayPal help you get what you paid for, or your credit card company won't pay them. Then PayPal has to go after the company they paid the money to.
IANAL but I work for them. We constantly have docs that people have to sign off on. Everyone involved knows exactly who the other person is, and by the time the agreement or whatever is finished, they all know that then someone has to print it and then it starts the "fedex chain" where it has to be mailed from one person to the next to get their signatures. Usually it's just a signature page they return to us anyway, and if we were unethical could change the document and then attach their sig page. Instead, if this law goes through, the doc never has to be printed. It just gets e-mailed to the people that need to sign it, if someone wants to forge something like that, it will take a hell of a lot of leg work on their part. Not that it's not possible. We already to this to a certain extent with Adobe Acrobat pages - they aren't legally binding but we have a pretty good idea that they are legit.
I'm going to have to say that Symantec may be playing this thing down, but they certainly aren't providing a wealth of detail why. It looks to me like the typical "if we didn't find it first, then it must not be a real threat" attitude that most anti-virus vendors take.
Throughout the midwest anyway, McDonalds has implemented this. They call it "robots" but except for the French fries, it's basicxally a fancy program that runs a clock and then beeps at the humans working there that time is up on something. The fry machine is what I would call robotic though, an automated delivery chute dumps fries in a basket, which then gets dunked, wehn the time's up it pulls that up and dumps the fresh cooked fries in the bin, then the empty basket is cycled back through. Kind of interesting to watch, but I still like Burger King fries better... Oh well, robots can't improve some things
In all instances I'm aware of you can legally cross out language, add new language, etc. as long as you date and initial it on the contract. If the company then signs it (although in some cases the company is stupid enough to already have "pre-signed it") Then it IS legally binding. Just be sure to get a copy, and that nothing you added is inherently illegal. It works, and most people don't know you can do it. I even did it on my health care provider contract...
I remember specifically when Apple sued over the "Windows" interface you published one of your great articles which basically states "Don't support/write for/buy Apple". Is it possible for a company that has done something like this can ever make up for what it has done? If so, what would that involve, something as unlikely as releasing all of their source, or something less earth shattering?
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If Sony were really serious about using the _DMCA_ against this guy, they would have had his ISP shut his sight down. The DMCA specifically grants Sony the ability to tell his ISP to shut him down - without notifying him directly. It's obvious to me that Sony's own lawyers don't think they have a real DMCA claim.
(The law firm I work for represents an ISP, and we had to advise our client that, yes when someone requests that you shut down a site under the provisions of the DMCA, you have to do it, otherwise the ISP will be held responsible. The DMCA is a big stick, and can be used to very quickly shut down a site. Sony was in no rush to get these files off the internet)
> Translation: Microsoft will be charging for significant upgrades.
Tell the whole story. You pay whether or not you actually install the upgrade. If you don't pay, then the next upgrade (the one you the user decide you need) you pay full list price for. Right now the company I work for only pays fro the upgrades we need.
Before anyone else says it again... Stuff in space just doesn't randomly start flying around because of zero gravity. "A body at rest tends to stay at rest", so therefore if you want to set something down, it would be quite handy to have a table. If you just let go of something it will probably be moving, if you set it on a table however... In addition to all of that, it would be nice to have something that was familiar to sit and eat at, even in zero g I'm thinking I'd like to have a meal where it would be similar to what I was used to on earth.
An example of a company trying to be all things to all people: Hewlett-Packard. They just don't want to accept that their hardware business is enough to make them stable and profitable for years... Maybe they'll eventually figure it out.
Bad info... You can always dispute a charge on a Credit Card. PayPal can't circumvent the way credit cards work. You can make PayPal help you get what you paid for, or your credit card company won't pay them. Then PayPal has to go after the company they paid the money to.
IANAL but I work for them. We constantly have docs that people have to sign off on. Everyone involved knows exactly who the other person is, and by the time the agreement or whatever is finished, they all know that then someone has to print it and then it starts the "fedex chain" where it has to be mailed from one person to the next to get their signatures. Usually it's just a signature page they return to us anyway, and if we were unethical could change the document and then attach their sig page. Instead, if this law goes through, the doc never has to be printed. It just gets e-mailed to the people that need to sign it, if someone wants to forge something like that, it will take a hell of a lot of leg work on their part. Not that it's not possible. We already to this to a certain extent with Adobe Acrobat pages - they aren't legally binding but we have a pretty good idea that they are legit.
I'm going to have to say that Symantec may be playing this thing down, but they certainly aren't providing a wealth of detail why. It looks to me like the typical "if we didn't find it first, then it must not be a real threat" attitude that most anti-virus vendors take.
Throughout the midwest anyway, McDonalds has implemented this. They call it "robots" but except for the French fries, it's basicxally a fancy program that runs a clock and then beeps at the humans working there that time is up on something. The fry machine is what I would call robotic though, an automated delivery chute dumps fries in a basket, which then gets dunked, wehn the time's up it pulls that up and dumps the fresh cooked fries in the bin, then the empty basket is cycled back through. Kind of interesting to watch, but I still like Burger King fries better... Oh well, robots can't improve some things
In all instances I'm aware of you can legally cross out language, add new language, etc. as long as you date and initial it on the contract. If the company then signs it (although in some cases the company is stupid enough to already have "pre-signed it") Then it IS legally binding. Just be sure to get a copy, and that nothing you added is inherently illegal. It works, and most people don't know you can do it. I even did it on my health care provider contract...
I remember specifically when Apple sued over the "Windows" interface you published one of your great articles which basically states "Don't support/write for/buy Apple". Is it possible for a company that has done something like this can ever make up for what it has done? If so, what would that involve, something as unlikely as releasing all of their source, or something less earth shattering?