The problem here is that Apple did a piss-poor job of protecting their property. If a simple drag and delete overrides their protections then they really don't have any protection to begin with.
Apple made a mistake and the world should be free to discuss it. I do not, however, feel that the world should also feel free to use their software for free.
What Microsoft is doing really pisses me off. It's just arrogance on their part and that's what really hits me in the kidney. It's also the bullshit lies.
If they just came out and said "You have to use a Microsoft browser to use this Microsoft site simply because we want you to," I could stomach it a lot easier that this shit where they're supposedly looking out for my best interest and concerned that I'm not using a compliant browser.
The point here is that the slander is likely taking place in a public forum. So it wouldn't be a personal conversation. And a personal conversation, by its nature, can't damage anyones reputation. Word would have to get out into the community for that to happen.
Everyone keeps defending free speech and stating that nothing should be removed. Folks should be able to say what ever they want about anything. Bbut our laws are pretty clear that you cannot slander people. Making up lies about individuals, posting them on a forum and damaging their reptuation does indeed violate the law. And for good reason.
So it's no surprise he's facing legal trouble for running a completely unmoderated forum.
I doubt all of your surfing counts as AOL-Time Warner traffic, but I bet a lot of folks using their cable modems touch a couple of their pages each day because they're set up as browser defaults.
Sorry, but this question is a lot like someone saying "I want a way to strap a device to my body that allows me to tell time. But don't tell me to get a watch. I've already tried a watch and didn't like it."
Well, you're shit out of luck. You just described a watch and it's the best solution.
PGP does everything this person asks for and he seems to already know that. Sheesh!
The bulk of that 50% figure is AOL Time Warner. Of course you could most likely attribute that to AOL being an ISP with a proprietary interface that tends to route surfers through their own pages. So I'd say that AOL certainly commands a great deal of the audience which makes up its customer base. Look below AOL and I see dominance, but nothing that's so frightening. I imagine if you looked at folks who use another ISP AOL's dominance wouldn't be so great.
The bulk of that 50% figure is AOL Time Warner. Of course you could most likely attribute that to AOL being an ISP with a proprietary interface that tends to route surfers through their own pages. So I'd say that AOL certainly commands a great deal of the audience which makes up its customer base. Look below AOL and I see dominance, but nothing that's so frightening. I imagine if you looked at folks who use another ISP AOL's dominance wouldn't be so great.
This is certainly a cool little keyboard. But certainly there seems to be a decent learning curve. I imagine some folks my find it extremely handy, but I don't see it replacing a typical keyboard.
The standard QWERTY keyboard is still around because it works. In fact, it works great. Even my 7-year-old daughter can sit down at a keyboard and type out a letter to the grandparents.
What a terrible world you live on. Where I'm from there are fast food restaurants, but there are also plenty of locally-owned eateries. The and people in my town get to choose where to spend their dining dollars.
Also, in my city many teenagers find their first employment at fast-food restaurants, where they learn proper work etiquette and skills. So rather than being stuck in these jobs for live, as they apparently are where you live, employees use these jobs are launching points for higher paying jobs in other industries or frequently to generate seed money for an education.
Also, the very corporations that seem so frightening where you live are actually owned by the citizens of my country. And they can choose to withdraw their funding at any time and place it in a competing business. They can even choose to purchase products made by competing companies.
Good Luck Jon. I just want you to keep your head up and know that a better world is possible. I live on one.
Yeah, there's Palm and CE, but this is another small gadget and I love small, computer, electronic, glow in the dark things that beep.
Someone got Linux to run on a handheld? That's cool! I wish I had the money to buy one.
If someone got Windows 2000 to run on a handheld I would think that's cool too! And I would hope a friend of mine had the money to buy one so I could look at it.
How could someone write such a long rant without picking up a phone and trying to contact Microsoft's legal department for comment or calling a law professor somewhere for input?
Why not try to answer some of the questions you raised?
>yeah but don't forget how people made up their
>minds about O.J. long before there was a verdict.
To expand on an earlier post: The accused is entitled to a presumption of innocence until proven guilty *in the eyes of the court.*
The Constitution only demands that the court system give you a fair shake. I, as a citizen, can presume you are guilty whenever I want.
The Constitution doesn't address me. The court can find an individual not-guilty. That's fine, that person don't go to jail, but the Constitution does not demand that I now agree with the verdict.
Left-leaning Salon has a good piece pointing out why Bush is the better choice: "Because George W. Bush has campaigned better, proposed more forward-thinking programs and proven, in the end, that he's smarter than Al Gore."
Looks like you missed the point of his response. He said that everyone should have the right to practice the religion of their choice.
Somehow you turned that into government approved religion.
I guess he should have said: "Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, Presybterian, Southern Baptist, Pentecostal, Apostolic, Catholic, Anglican, Buddhist, Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, Hare Krishna, Hindu, Taoist or Scientologits, Americans should be able to participate in their constitutional free exercise of religion."
But it does sound like a possible copyright infringement.
Anything I type and publish is copyrighted. If you republish it in it entirety then you have violated my copyright.
There are fair-use clauses that say you can use excerpts in your own original writing, but if you take my entire work and republish it you have violated my copyright.
The law doesn't really care if it's a news article or an internal technical document.
Now, that said, I like what this fellow did in exposing @Home. But he might have been better off just pulling excerpts. That is a more defensible tactic.
Couldn't you pick a more compelling question?
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In the past couple of days there has been some good conversation about where the candidates stand on issues concerning technology and the Internet.
We're better off building on those conversations and further exploring how everyone (tech-heads included) can play a bigger part in shaping government.
Quite honestly if someone answers "No, we shouldn't vote," I don't care what they have to say. They are not part of the process and their opinions matter very little since they are unwilling to use what power they are given to effect the process.
I'm all for helping my neighbor. In fact, my family is always in line to help. But you know what, I'd prefer to keep it that way.
Let me help and keep the damn government out of it. First I can do it much more efficiently. Second, it's really not the government's role to decide who needs assistance and under what conditions.
If I (and everyone else) had more of my money back from the government to give to charities and non profit organizations our country would be better for it.
Instead we're being told that the government will take care of you and people are beginning to believe it, rather than honsetly trying to give each other a helping hand.
I don't want my child hitting the back button on a library browser and seeing hardcore sex. The same way I don't want my child to stroll into the library and have access to Playboy magazine. That doesn't mean I would ban Playboy from the library. I'd just expect that my child would not have access to them.
When I say there is an expectation of safety at a library I mean I should be able to let my children roam freely, explore and discover. That's what libraries are great for.
I am raising my children to be smart and make the right decisions. I don't expect them to type www.animalsex.com into the browser, but neither do I want them to stumble unto that site because some other library patron just visited it and left it onscreen.
Ban the books that contain nudity at public libraries? No, I do believe that. I do believe, however, that they should be out of reach of children.
The same should be done for Internet porn sites. You want unfiltered browsing at a library? Fine, set up safe computers for children and unfiltered adult-only computers.
I'd be just as pissed if found my 6-year-old flipping through a Playboy at the public library. My child should not be able to access that.
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Apple made a mistake and the world should be free to discuss it. I do not, however, feel that the world should also feel free to use their software for free.
If they just came out and said "You have to use a Microsoft browser to use this Microsoft site simply because we want you to," I could stomach it a lot easier that this shit where they're supposedly looking out for my best interest and concerned that I'm not using a compliant browser.
Well, thanks dad, but I can take care of myself.
I'll get over it.
The point here is that the slander is likely taking place in a public forum. So it wouldn't be a personal conversation. And a personal conversation, by its nature, can't damage anyones reputation. Word would have to get out into the community for that to happen.
So it's no surprise he's facing legal trouble for running a completely unmoderated forum.
I doubt all of your surfing counts as AOL-Time Warner traffic, but I bet a lot of folks using their cable modems touch a couple of their pages each day because they're set up as browser defaults.
Well, you're shit out of luck. You just described a watch and it's the best solution.
PGP does everything this person asks for and he seems to already know that. Sheesh!
If you have problems with that just go to http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html and search on American Telephone and Speech Coding for 1988.
The bulk of that 50% figure is AOL Time Warner. Of course you could most likely attribute that to AOL being an ISP with a proprietary interface that tends to route surfers through their own pages. So I'd say that AOL certainly commands a great deal of the audience which makes up its customer base. Look below AOL and I see dominance, but nothing that's so frightening. I imagine if you looked at folks who use another ISP AOL's dominance wouldn't be so great.
AOL Time Warner Network 32.0%
Microsoft Sites 7.5%
Yahoo! 7.2%
Napster Digital 3.6%
The bulk of that 50% figure is AOL Time Warner. Of course you could most likely attribute that to AOL being an ISP with a proprietary interface that tends to route surfers through their own pages. So I'd say that AOL certainly commands a great deal of the audience which makes up its customer base. Look below AOL and I see dominance, but nothing that's so frightening. I imagine if you looked at folks who use another ISP AOL's dominance wouldn't be so great.
AOL Time Warner Network 32.0%
Microsoft Sites 7.5%
Yahoo! 7.2%
Napster Digital 3.6%
The standard QWERTY keyboard is still around because it works. In fact, it works great. Even my 7-year-old daughter can sit down at a keyboard and type out a letter to the grandparents.
Also, in my city many teenagers find their first employment at fast-food restaurants, where they learn proper work etiquette and skills. So rather than being stuck in these jobs for live, as they apparently are where you live, employees use these jobs are launching points for higher paying jobs in other industries or frequently to generate seed money for an education.
Also, the very corporations that seem so frightening where you live are actually owned by the citizens of my country. And they can choose to withdraw their funding at any time and place it in a competing business. They can even choose to purchase products made by competing companies.
Good Luck Jon. I just want you to keep your head up and know that a better world is possible. I live on one.
"The new restrictions in Windows XP won't prevent other vendors' software applications from recording MP3 music at a higher fidelity"
Is anybody seriously using a Microsoft product now to record or listen to their MP3 collection?
I imagine folks will just install MusicMatch on the new system and all will be fine with the world.
Of course they were able to find folks with a vested interest in seeing MP3s die who would predict that this is the "death of MP3s."
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Yeah, there's Palm and CE, but this is another small gadget and I love small, computer, electronic, glow in the dark things that beep.
Someone got Linux to run on a handheld? That's cool! I wish I had the money to buy one.
If someone got Windows 2000 to run on a handheld I would think that's cool too! And I would hope a friend of mine had the money to buy one so I could look at it.
Why not try to answer some of the questions you raised?
To expand on an earlier post: The accused is entitled to a presumption of innocence until proven guilty *in the eyes of the court.*
The Constitution only demands that the court system give you a fair shake. I, as a citizen, can presume you are guilty whenever I want.
The Constitution doesn't address me. The court can find an individual not-guilty. That's fine, that person don't go to jail, but the Constitution does not demand that I now agree with the verdict.
But apparently too conservative for someone in this crowd, hence you were moderated down.
Read it here: http://www.salo n.c om/politics/feature/2000/11/06/bush/index.html
Sorry, those aren't on my approved list!
Somehow you turned that into government approved religion.
I guess he should have said: "Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, Presybterian, Southern Baptist, Pentecostal, Apostolic, Catholic, Anglican, Buddhist, Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, Hare Krishna, Hindu, Taoist or Scientologits, Americans should be able to participate in their constitutional free exercise of religion."
Anything I type and publish is copyrighted. If you republish it in it entirety then you have violated my copyright.
There are fair-use clauses that say you can use excerpts in your own original writing, but if you take my entire work and republish it you have violated my copyright.
The law doesn't really care if it's a news article or an internal technical document.
Now, that said, I like what this fellow did in exposing @Home. But he might have been better off just pulling excerpts. That is a more defensible tactic.
We're better off building on those conversations and further exploring how everyone (tech-heads included) can play a bigger part in shaping government.
Quite honestly if someone answers "No, we shouldn't vote," I don't care what they have to say. They are not part of the process and their opinions matter very little since they are unwilling to use what power they are given to effect the process.
The simple fact is you are willing to accept anything that supports your views, no matter how fullish you may look.
Let me help and keep the damn government out of it. First I can do it much more efficiently. Second, it's really not the government's role to decide who needs assistance and under what conditions.
If I (and everyone else) had more of my money back from the government to give to charities and non profit organizations our country would be better for it.
Instead we're being told that the government will take care of you and people are beginning to believe it, rather than honsetly trying to give each other a helping hand.
When I say there is an expectation of safety at a library I mean I should be able to let my children roam freely, explore and discover. That's what libraries are great for.
I am raising my children to be smart and make the right decisions. I don't expect them to type www.animalsex.com into the browser, but neither do I want them to stumble unto that site because some other library patron just visited it and left it onscreen.
The same should be done for Internet porn sites. You want unfiltered browsing at a library? Fine, set up safe computers for children and unfiltered adult-only computers.
I'd be just as pissed if found my 6-year-old flipping through a Playboy at the public library. My child should not be able to access that.