At the heart of the case is patent paperwork Woolston filed less than five months before eBay founder Pierre Omidyar spent Labor Day weekend of 1995 creating the first iteration of his auction site.
So he files his patent and 5 months later EBay founder Omidyar starts his auction site. How is this contrary to what we'd all like the ideal patent process to be?
It looks like your request for help with the stress test has caused at least one web master to insert a "webbug" into every page on his site that links to a non-existant image on the banjo site. This means all his visitors are participating in the test without any knowledge of it.
Check the source at http://www.brickshelf.com - the last line contains the link.
Based on that site's stats, on 8-16-2001 he served 629,984 pages, meaning that many people unwillingly participated in the test.
Of course, there's also the possibility that the webmaster there doesn't like you, so he hopes all the extra traffic will "doom" the project - basically a poor-man's DDoS.
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Check out this - all 25 hits on the quoted words "candle truck" should be showing up in the non-quoted search ...
Not any longer!! (unless you're running the bind patch
So, at least up to 9-17-03, they could detect maphack users.
So he files his patent and 5 months later EBay founder Omidyar starts his auction site. How is this contrary to what we'd all like the ideal patent process to be?
Not much of a review if they're going to wait for a replacement mobo to see if stability gets better.
MA
It looks like your request for help with the stress test has caused at least one web master to insert a "webbug" into every page on his site that links to a non-existant image on the banjo site. This means all his visitors are participating in the test without any knowledge of it.
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Check the source at http://www.brickshelf.com - the last line contains the link.
Based on that site's stats, on 8-16-2001 he served 629,984 pages, meaning that many people unwillingly participated in the test.
Of course, there's also the possibility that the webmaster there doesn't like you, so he hopes all the extra traffic will "doom" the project - basically a poor-man's DDoS.
You decide
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