according to a different poster who actually uses and suppports a Itanium based systems, Linux runs magnificently on the Itanium.
Linux runs great on the AMD Opteron too. MySQL, on the other hand, currupts and truncates tables which it generally doesn't do on on 32-bit x86 machines. Probably something to do with 32 bit ints suddenly being 64 bit ints though it could just as easily be a one-off error buried in the libraries that doesn't express on a 32-bit architecture.
On the AMD you can just run the 32-bit version on top of 64-bit Linux until the mysql bug is found. No such luck on Itanium -- you're stuck with it, warts and all.
After the PC has been running for a few hours, open the case and touch your IDE hard drives. They should be cool to the touch. If they're warm (not hot, just warm) then your mad case modding skills are uncool. Also your drive will have an abbreviated lifespan, but why let that detail bother you?
It takes very little to keep a modern IDE hard drive cool. Just blow air at it. They only run warm if the air around them is stagnant. Stagnant air acts as an insulator, causing what little heat they generate to build up. You may as well wrap it in a blanket!
Bought the wrong case did you? No way to mount a fan so that it moves cool air across the drives? Here's a tip:
What works for CPUs works for hard drives too. Go out to your favorite hardware store and buy an aluminum bar. Mount the drive so that the rear-most screw hole is outside the drive bay inside the case. Drill a hole in the aluminum bar so you can attach it to the drive with a screw and then bend the bar so that one of the case fans blows air past the the thin edge. Attach the aluminum bar to the hard drive putting some thermal compound between the two. Congratulations: you just made a heat pipe that pulls heat away from the drive.
Itanium was dead at the starting gate for the same reason PowerPC and Sparc are dying: Not x86 compatible; doesn't run x86 software.
Sure, you can get the poorly tested Itanium versions of Linux, suffer through all the bugs that only express themselves on that architecture, recompile your apps, argue with the commercial vendors to get them to recompile their apps, etc. But why would you do that? At the end of the day the manpower costs far more than buying some extra servers.
If Intel (or anyone else for that matter) wants to create a commodity non-x86 chip, they'll have to solve the chicken-and-egg problem with the software. Since that problem is nearly insoluble with the direct approach, they'll have to find another way around it.
Yes, they're real. Yes, you really can use them to bring non-OpenBSD servers to a halt -- for as long as you keep sending packets.
But think it through: to use those vulnerabilities without getting very busted very fast, you have to have control of a botnet -- a significant anonymous source of packets. If you have control of a botnet, you can DDOS the server to death regardless of whether it has these vulnerabilies -- simply fill the pipe with normal packets.
And guess what? Getting a hold of a botnet is a lot easier than exploiting these vulnerabilities.
So, on a practical level, whats the difference between fixing these particular denial-of-service vulnerabilities and ignoring them? Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Better to spend your time worrying about problems whose solution might actually make a difference.
When I say "definately" instead of "definitely," do you understand me? When I say "should of" instead of "should have," is there any confusion about my meaning? How then have I failed to communicate effectively?
Perhaps I did not communicate elegantly but you understood every word. Language evolves. Don't be so snooty about it.
Here's an example: Haibane Renmei. I downloaded the first DVD off the Internet. Brilliant piece of work. Then I rented the rest via Netflix. Before I received all three, I scoured the local stores to try and buy the set. Coming up empty, I purchased all four online taking care to avoid the bootlegs.
Would I have purchased the set of four if I hadn't downloaded the first off the Internet? Unlikely. I might have eventually stumbled on it via Netflix, but I had never even heard of Haibane Renmei, and some of the religious overtones are likely to preclude it ever showing on US TV. Which is a real pity.
That's four sales plus three rentals that happened as a result of a single instance of so-called Internet piracy.
think about just how many anime DVDs have you purchased recently compared to the number of shows you've downloaded for free.
This is the same flawed logic that the RIAA, MPAA and BSA use. The correct question is:
How many anime DVDs have you bought only _after_ seeing a large part of it for free?
For me the answer is: several dozen discs. I've bought a couple other anime discs based on other criteria, but with only one exception the ones I bought before watching turned out horrible or mediocre.
Many times I saw them for "free" on television or by borrowing from friends. But if the owners of minor anime titles think they're going to somehow get those titles in front of me via TV, they can dream on. Far and away their best bet of getting new titles in front of me where I might make a buy decision is to make sure the first couple episodes are readily available on the Internet in an unencumbered format I'm willing to use.
Works for books too. I've made more than a few purchases after reading the first couple chapters online.
I remember getting a Tadpole Sparcbook once... It was thrown out because it had the classic problem with the Sun time(bomb) chip. I fixed it, and what a sweet notebook is was. 33mhz cpu, dual scsi drives, active matrix color screen, 64 megs of ram... Typical laptop at the time was grayscale with 16 megs and a 386. Finally went bad on me when I left it in the trunk of my car one summer...
For those not in the know, Sparcs back in the day had an timebomb "idprom" chip with its hostid, ethernet MAC address, boot instructions and time of day clock. An integrated lithium battery lasted up to 10 years if the machine was kept powere on, but usually only three or four if it wasn't. Battery dies, lose your bios settings. Unlike a PC, it won't reset the settings to sane values when you put in a new chip. No, you have to program it with a forth-like language via the openboot prom.
Anyway, Sparc laptops have been around for some time; they just havn't been manufactured by Sun. What we're seeing now is little more than the begnning of Sun's death throes. So starts the spasm of irrelevant products as Sun attempts to reinvent itself without first finding a cogent vision for the future.
If you're going to spend the effort, you should try to support Helen Keller as well.
Perhaps some kind of device where mechanical pins pushed with electromagnetism pop up to form a physical equivalent of a monochromatic screen? The pins would form the braille letters and could form simple pictures as well. Then use a single-handed chording keyboard so that one hand is free to read the "screen." You could lightly "buzz" the location where the cursor is so that Helen knows where to "look." If you build it right, Helen would also be able to estimate the distance and vector from the current position to the buzz so that she could manuver the cursor to the current location, giving you the ability to "select" menu items on the screen, though it would probably be more convenient to type commands rather than select items.
Then use a verbose mainly textual operating system. I doubt windowing would make any sense at all.
Actually, they started building Habitat in 1985, and the beta test started in 1986 wrapping up in 1987. I misremembered the dates: http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html
The problem is that Air Warrior could only have 41 planes in each instance of the game. (http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n2/kesmaiwar rior.html) Multiplayer? Yes. Wicked cool? Absolutely. Ahead of its time? Without a doubt. Massively multiplayer? No.
Habitat was massively multiplayer at a time where other games were figuring out how to be online at all.
A semi-grapical RPG called Island of Kesmai [...] used characters to draw the map, although a front-end was available that replaced that with real graphics, that is once graphics were available on the machines that could connect.
In other words, not a native graphical MMOG. Legends of Kesmai which followed it was graphical, but that didn't come until later.
First off, good for them. That was a remarkable rescue.
I do have a small bone to pick, though. Castle Infinity is not "one of the first" by a decade or so.
The first graphical MMOG I know of was Habitat from 1987. Yes, that's 1987 not 1997. Habitat was built by a partnership between Lucasfilm Games Division (now LucasArts) and Quantum Computer Corp (now America Online). It ran on a Commodore 64. Though usable at 300 bps, you really needed 1200 bps to do more than poke around.
Habitat didn't make it out of the beta test in the US because it used an indecent amount of server hardware. Quantum needed the hardware for the beta version of AOL. Habitat's bastard stepchild did make it to release, though: Club Caribe. In 1988 it had tens of thousands of players and supported upwards of 1000 at once.
Lucas later released a standalone game using the Habitat engine. You may have played it: Maniac Mansion.
You should always find a job that is above your skill level so that you can learn and be challenged.
Be careful here. Yes, you should seek a job that strives beyond what you've done before. That means seeking a position for which you don't have all the background, all the experience.
But don't seek a job too close to the edge of your abilities. I've seen more people miserable in their jobs and eventually fired because they accepted a position that was beyond their skill. They routinely fail to rise to the jobs' demands. Would-be Cisco engineers but who find they have to reference a chart to figure out a netmask. Software developers who are only proficient in one language. They do a poor job and they know it. It eats them a little more every day.
I'm not saying you choose to be a garbage hauler because you know you can do it. Working below your abilities is also unfulfilling. Just don't set yourself up to fail is all.
The only thing worse than wondering if you could have been good enough is finding out for certain that you aren't.
While nothing prevents you from continuing to use an obsolete package where desired, the Debian project will usually discontinue security support for it a year after sarge's release[3], and will not normally provide other support in the meantime. Replacing them with available alternatives, if any, is recommended.
I don't know if this means that all security updates for woody will be discontinued in a year, but that's the implication.
That's not quite true. For example, the staticly linked apt in a previous upgrade could run in to trouble looking up DNS entries. The problem?/etc/nsswitch.conf got upgraded and the staticly linked DNS library didn't understand some of the new options.
However, offering a staticly linked apt would probably have helped.
I haven't had problems with up2date on my production server
Bully for you. Personally, I've had trouble with up2date getting stuck in an infinite loop when it tries to remove the old version of the just-upgraded rpm about every 10th rpm that it upgrades on two of my production servers. I have to kill it and remove the old package with rpm -e.
Don't even get me started about how rpm usually silently replaces your config file with the stock config file during an upgrade.
And this is on minor security upgrades. Red Hat doesn't even attempt to upgrade from one major release to the next while the system is online. You have to take the server down for hours for that.
MCI Ashburn, Equinix Ashburn and Savvis Ashburn. I havn't shopped Abovenet, Switch and Data or Level 3 recently, but in 2003 they were in the same range as the other three.
I have seen someone talk globalnaps into $50/meg, but that was additive (in+out) and its lower quality bandwidth (higher packet loss and outage rate than the others).
I don't know about the Reeboks, but the time machine is firmly set on 2005. Which fantasy world are you living in?
At the very heart of the Internet, the colo centers of Northern Virginia, the typical price for bandwidth is $200 per megabit per month based on consumption at the 95th percentile. El Cheapo links can cost as little as $100/meg while some folks pay MCI as much as $400/meg.
That's what the companies you buy from are paying for their bandwidth, so when they charge you $60/month for a mutli-megabit link (after agregation), you're getting a fair price.
Yes, it is true that in the same area Verizon is offering FiOS (http://www.verizon.net/fios/) at 15 megs down, 2 up for $50/month to selected residential customers. But you can't use the bleeding edge as your yardstick.
In fairness to the folks in Kansas, parts of the theory of evolution are contradicted by the fossil record.
Evolution predicts that small random changes happen over many generations. The "good" changes have a higher tendency to survive and reproduce than the "bad" changes so they dominate.
The fossils show that this does in fact happen for tens of thousands of years. Then, suddenly, creatures which are significantly different from what came before appear. They're often similar to prior creatures, but the changes are nearly instantaneous in geologic time. The "missing link" is only the best known of these occurances.
Evolution offers no adequate explanation as to how such sudden major changes happen. According to its predictions, such changes shouldn't happen.
The Scientific Method says that when a theory disagrees with the evidence, the theory is disproven. It's not a weight of the evidence thing. A single valid counter-example disproves the theory.
The Theory of Evolution survives despite being disproven because there are no better theories to be had. Intelligent Design is a joke: as proposed it can neither be proven nor disproven, one of the core requirements for applying the scientific method. Evolution is at least Scientific, even though its disproven.
I figure I got a DMCA notice and I want to know what my rights are. So, I Googled "dmca notice my rights." No special knowledge of the DMCA in that search, right? The second link was to a chillingeffects.org article. The bottom of the page has a DMCA FAQ for which one of the questions is, "What are the counter-notice and put-back procedures?"
I dunno, maybe not just anybody can Google after all. Maybe I have some magic that lets me figure out how to ask Google questions. Really though, it seems to me like an awfully simple question to get an answer to.
Sort of. It often works that way in practice, but its not how its defined.
Shell Gasoline, for instance, can't win a suit against Shell Beachware but they can win against a Shell Auto Maintenance.
On the other hand, Exxon can win against just about everybody because Exxon is a made-up word that doesn't exist anywhere else.
couldn't I create a publication about McDonald's(tm), and publish it with the tradmarked term McDonald's(tm)?
Yes. Maybe. Infringement is in how you use it. If you published a parody "McDonalds' Cookbook" you'd probably be infriging. On the other hand, the movie "Supersize Me" was very obviously not infriging even though it referred to McDonalds constantly.
I'm not sure, but I think label=infringement while reference=not infringement.
I am never surprised when I see people falling for direct parody.
As the maintainer of whitehouse.net I can speak to this. You'd be amazed how many irate letters I get about Bush's proposal to paint the whitehouse green.
figure with discovery and drafting and filing fees - maybe as much as 10,000 and up
Yes, but that's true of virtually ANY threatened litigation. It would be the same if Walmart threatened to sue him for looking crosseyed at Sam Walton.
That's a very different problem in our legal system for which the DMCA does not deserve the blame.
Ignorance of one's rights has always had a dampening effect on the exercise of one's rights. That's hardly the law's fault.
This guy registered a domain and set up a web site. I'd hope he has enough intelligence to do a Google search on "dmca notice my rights". The third link is http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?NoticeID =232 . The bottom has a FAQ list, the last quesion of which is, "What are the counter-notice and put-back procedures?"
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according to a different poster who actually uses and suppports a Itanium based systems, Linux runs magnificently on the Itanium.
Linux runs great on the AMD Opteron too. MySQL, on the other hand, currupts and truncates tables which it generally doesn't do on on 32-bit x86 machines. Probably something to do with 32 bit ints suddenly being 64 bit ints though it could just as easily be a one-off error buried in the libraries that doesn't express on a 32-bit architecture.
On the AMD you can just run the 32-bit version on top of 64-bit Linux until the mysql bug is found. No such luck on Itanium -- you're stuck with it, warts and all.
How to tell if you're cool:
After the PC has been running for a few hours, open the case and touch your IDE hard drives. They should be cool to the touch. If they're warm (not hot, just warm) then your mad case modding skills are uncool. Also your drive will have an abbreviated lifespan, but why let that detail bother you?
It takes very little to keep a modern IDE hard drive cool. Just blow air at it. They only run warm if the air around them is stagnant. Stagnant air acts as an insulator, causing what little heat they generate to build up. You may as well wrap it in a blanket!
Bought the wrong case did you? No way to mount a fan so that it moves cool air across the drives? Here's a tip:
What works for CPUs works for hard drives too. Go out to your favorite hardware store and buy an aluminum bar. Mount the drive so that the rear-most screw hole is outside the drive bay inside the case. Drill a hole in the aluminum bar so you can attach it to the drive with a screw and then bend the bar so that one of the case fans blows air past the the thin edge. Attach the aluminum bar to the hard drive putting some thermal compound between the two. Congratulations: you just made a heat pipe that pulls heat away from the drive.
Itanium was dead at the starting gate for the same reason PowerPC and Sparc are dying: Not x86 compatible; doesn't run x86 software.
Sure, you can get the poorly tested Itanium versions of Linux, suffer through all the bugs that only express themselves on that architecture, recompile your apps, argue with the commercial vendors to get them to recompile their apps, etc. But why would you do that? At the end of the day the manpower costs far more than buying some extra servers.
If Intel (or anyone else for that matter) wants to create a commodity non-x86 chip, they'll have to solve the chicken-and-egg problem with the software. Since that problem is nearly insoluble with the direct approach, they'll have to find another way around it.
Thing is, none of those "vulnerabilities" matter.
Yes, they're real. Yes, you really can use them to bring non-OpenBSD servers to a halt -- for as long as you keep sending packets.
But think it through: to use those vulnerabilities without getting very busted very fast, you have to have control of a botnet -- a significant anonymous source of packets. If you have control of a botnet, you can DDOS the server to death regardless of whether it has these vulnerabilies -- simply fill the pipe with normal packets.
And guess what? Getting a hold of a botnet is a lot easier than exploiting these vulnerabilities.
So, on a practical level, whats the difference between fixing these particular denial-of-service vulnerabilities and ignoring them? Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Better to spend your time worrying about problems whose solution might actually make a difference.
When I say "definately" instead of "definitely," do you understand me? When I say "should of" instead of "should have," is there any confusion about my meaning? How then have I failed to communicate effectively?
Perhaps I did not communicate elegantly but you understood every word. Language evolves. Don't be so snooty about it.
Here's an example: Haibane Renmei. I downloaded the first DVD off the Internet. Brilliant piece of work. Then I rented the rest via Netflix. Before I received all three, I scoured the local stores to try and buy the set. Coming up empty, I purchased all four online taking care to avoid the bootlegs.
Would I have purchased the set of four if I hadn't downloaded the first off the Internet? Unlikely. I might have eventually stumbled on it via Netflix, but I had never even heard of Haibane Renmei, and some of the religious overtones are likely to preclude it ever showing on US TV. Which is a real pity.
That's four sales plus three rentals that happened as a result of a single instance of so-called Internet piracy.
think about just how many anime DVDs have you purchased recently compared to the number of shows you've downloaded for free.
This is the same flawed logic that the RIAA, MPAA and BSA use. The correct question is:
How many anime DVDs have you bought only _after_ seeing a large part of it for free?
For me the answer is: several dozen discs. I've bought a couple other anime discs based on other criteria, but with only one exception the ones I bought before watching turned out horrible or mediocre.
Many times I saw them for "free" on television or by borrowing from friends. But if the owners of minor anime titles think they're going to somehow get those titles in front of me via TV, they can dream on. Far and away their best bet of getting new titles in front of me where I might make a buy decision is to make sure the first couple episodes are readily available on the Internet in an unencumbered format I'm willing to use.
Works for books too. I've made more than a few purchases after reading the first couple chapters online.
I remember getting a Tadpole Sparcbook once... It was thrown out because it had the classic problem with the Sun time(bomb) chip. I fixed it, and what a sweet notebook is was. 33mhz cpu, dual scsi drives, active matrix color screen, 64 megs of ram... Typical laptop at the time was grayscale with 16 megs and a 386. Finally went bad on me when I left it in the trunk of my car one summer...
For those not in the know, Sparcs back in the day had an timebomb "idprom" chip with its hostid, ethernet MAC address, boot instructions and time of day clock. An integrated lithium battery lasted up to 10 years if the machine was kept powere on, but usually only three or four if it wasn't. Battery dies, lose your bios settings. Unlike a PC, it won't reset the settings to sane values when you put in a new chip. No, you have to program it with a forth-like language via the openboot prom.
Anyway, Sparc laptops have been around for some time; they just havn't been manufactured by Sun. What we're seeing now is little more than the begnning of Sun's death throes. So starts the spasm of irrelevant products as Sun attempts to reinvent itself without first finding a cogent vision for the future.
If you're going to spend the effort, you should try to support Helen Keller as well.
Perhaps some kind of device where mechanical pins pushed with electromagnetism pop up to form a physical equivalent of a monochromatic screen? The pins would form the braille letters and could form simple pictures as well. Then use a single-handed chording keyboard so that one hand is free to read the "screen." You could lightly "buzz" the location where the cursor is so that Helen knows where to "look." If you build it right, Helen would also be able to estimate the distance and vector from the current position to the buzz so that she could manuver the cursor to the current location, giving you the ability to "select" menu items on the screen, though it would probably be more convenient to type commands rather than select items.
Then use a verbose mainly textual operating system. I doubt windowing would make any sense at all.
Actually, they started building Habitat in 1985, and the beta test started in 1986 wrapping up in 1987. I misremembered the dates: http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html
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r rior.html) Multiplayer? Yes. Wicked cool? Absolutely. Ahead of its time? Without a doubt. Massively multiplayer? No.
Air Warrior began its testing in 1986 as well and was released in 1987. That puts them in about the same time frame. There is an excellent timeline in http://www.gatecentral.com/shared_docs/Timeline1.
The problem is that Air Warrior could only have 41 planes in each instance of the game. (http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n2/kesmaiwa
Habitat was massively multiplayer at a time where other games were figuring out how to be online at all.
Found at: http://www.gamegrene.com/node/30
A semi-grapical RPG called Island of Kesmai [...] used characters to draw the map, although a front-end was available that replaced that with real graphics, that is once graphics were available on the machines that could connect.
In other words, not a native graphical MMOG. Legends of Kesmai which followed it was graphical, but that didn't come until later.
First off, good for them. That was a remarkable rescue.
I do have a small bone to pick, though. Castle Infinity is not "one of the first" by a decade or so.
The first graphical MMOG I know of was Habitat from 1987. Yes, that's 1987 not 1997. Habitat was built by a partnership between Lucasfilm Games Division (now LucasArts) and Quantum Computer Corp (now America Online). It ran on a Commodore 64. Though usable at 300 bps, you really needed 1200 bps to do more than poke around.
Habitat didn't make it out of the beta test in the US because it used an indecent amount of server hardware. Quantum needed the hardware for the beta version of AOL. Habitat's bastard stepchild did make it to release, though: Club Caribe. In 1988 it had tens of thousands of players and supported upwards of 1000 at once.
Lucas later released a standalone game using the Habitat engine. You may have played it: Maniac Mansion.
You should always find a job that is above your skill level so that you can learn and be challenged.
Be careful here. Yes, you should seek a job that strives beyond what you've done before. That means seeking a position for which you don't have all the background, all the experience.
But don't seek a job too close to the edge of your abilities. I've seen more people miserable in their jobs and eventually fired because they accepted a position that was beyond their skill. They routinely fail to rise to the jobs' demands. Would-be Cisco engineers but who find they have to reference a chart to figure out a netmask. Software developers who are only proficient in one language. They do a poor job and they know it. It eats them a little more every day.
I'm not saying you choose to be a garbage hauler because you know you can do it. Working below your abilities is also unfulfilling. Just don't set yourself up to fail is all.
The only thing worse than wondering if you could have been good enough is finding out for certain that you aren't.
From the release notes:
While nothing prevents you from continuing to use an obsolete package where desired, the Debian project will usually discontinue security support for it a year after sarge's release[3], and will not normally provide other support in the meantime. Replacing them with available alternatives, if any, is recommended.
I don't know if this means that all security updates for woody will be discontinued in a year, but that's the implication.
That's not quite true. For example, the staticly linked apt in a previous upgrade could run in to trouble looking up DNS entries. The problem? /etc/nsswitch.conf got upgraded and the staticly linked DNS library didn't understand some of the new options.
However, offering a staticly linked apt would probably have helped.
I haven't had problems with up2date on my production server
Bully for you. Personally, I've had trouble with up2date getting stuck in an infinite loop when it tries to remove the old version of the just-upgraded rpm about every 10th rpm that it upgrades on two of my production servers. I have to kill it and remove the old package with rpm -e.
Don't even get me started about how rpm usually silently replaces your config file with the stock config file during an upgrade.
And this is on minor security upgrades. Red Hat doesn't even attempt to upgrade from one major release to the next while the system is online. You have to take the server down for hours for that.
MCI Ashburn, Equinix Ashburn and Savvis Ashburn. I havn't shopped Abovenet, Switch and Data or Level 3 recently, but in 2003 they were in the same range as the other three.
I have seen someone talk globalnaps into $50/meg, but that was additive (in+out) and its lower quality bandwidth (higher packet loss and outage rate than the others).
I don't know about the Reeboks, but the time machine is firmly set on 2005. Which fantasy world are you living in?
At the very heart of the Internet, the colo centers of Northern Virginia, the typical price for bandwidth is $200 per megabit per month based on consumption at the 95th percentile. El Cheapo links can cost as little as $100/meg while some folks pay MCI as much as $400/meg.
That's what the companies you buy from are paying for their bandwidth, so when they charge you $60/month for a mutli-megabit link (after agregation), you're getting a fair price.
Yes, it is true that in the same area Verizon is offering FiOS (http://www.verizon.net/fios/) at 15 megs down, 2 up for $50/month to selected residential customers. But you can't use the bleeding edge as your yardstick.
In fairness to the folks in Kansas, parts of the theory of evolution are contradicted by the fossil record.
Evolution predicts that small random changes happen over many generations. The "good" changes have a higher tendency to survive and reproduce than the "bad" changes so they dominate.
The fossils show that this does in fact happen for tens of thousands of years. Then, suddenly, creatures which are significantly different from what came before appear. They're often similar to prior creatures, but the changes are nearly instantaneous in geologic time. The "missing link" is only the best known of these occurances.
Evolution offers no adequate explanation as to how such sudden major changes happen. According to its predictions, such changes shouldn't happen.
The Scientific Method says that when a theory disagrees with the evidence, the theory is disproven. It's not a weight of the evidence thing. A single valid counter-example disproves the theory.
The Theory of Evolution survives despite being disproven because there are no better theories to be had. Intelligent Design is a joke: as proposed it can neither be proven nor disproven, one of the core requirements for applying the scientific method. Evolution is at least Scientific, even though its disproven.
I figure I got a DMCA notice and I want to know what my rights are. So, I Googled "dmca notice my rights." No special knowledge of the DMCA in that search, right? The second link was to a chillingeffects.org article. The bottom of the page has a DMCA FAQ for which one of the questions is, "What are the counter-notice and put-back procedures?"
I dunno, maybe not just anybody can Google after all. Maybe I have some magic that lets me figure out how to ask Google questions. Really though, it seems to me like an awfully simple question to get an answer to.
You have to say:
1. This is my name and address.
2. I certify under penalty of purjury that the material is not infringing.
3. Signature.
That's it. The formula is easy to find on Google. This ain't the dark ages where data mining was restricted to specialists. Anybody can Google.
I thought that Trademark was industry specific.
Sort of. It often works that way in practice, but its not how its defined.
Shell Gasoline, for instance, can't win a suit against Shell Beachware but they can win against a Shell Auto Maintenance.
On the other hand, Exxon can win against just about everybody because Exxon is a made-up word that doesn't exist anywhere else.
couldn't I create a publication about McDonald's(tm), and publish it with the tradmarked term McDonald's(tm)?
Yes. Maybe. Infringement is in how you use it. If you published a parody "McDonalds' Cookbook" you'd probably be infriging. On the other hand, the movie "Supersize Me" was very obviously not infriging even though it referred to McDonalds constantly.
I'm not sure, but I think label=infringement while reference=not infringement.
I am never surprised when I see people falling for direct parody.
As the maintainer of whitehouse.net I can speak to this. You'd be amazed how many irate letters I get about Bush's proposal to paint the whitehouse green.
http://www.whitehouse.net/index1.html
figure with discovery and drafting and filing fees - maybe as much as 10,000 and up
Yes, but that's true of virtually ANY threatened litigation. It would be the same if Walmart threatened to sue him for looking crosseyed at Sam Walton.
That's a very different problem in our legal system for which the DMCA does not deserve the blame.
Ignorance of one's rights has always had a dampening effect on the exercise of one's rights. That's hardly the law's fault.
D =232 . The bottom has a FAQ list, the last quesion of which is, "What are the counter-notice and put-back procedures?"
This guy registered a domain and set up a web site. I'd hope he has enough intelligence to do a Google search on "dmca notice my rights". The third link is http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?NoticeI