They are apparently filed "under penalty of perjury" (at least that's what the notice says) so whoever filed it should be prosecuted for perjury.
unfortunately [from the posted copy of the notice]:
A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
is only mentioned as a requirement for the counter-notice to un-take-down the not-actually-infringinging-but-we-needed-a-nice-bi g-round-number-for-the-press-release item in question.
If only the law required that same item for take-down notices [I would rather not have to read the section in question because large amounts of legalese makes me want to stab people in the face]
C) There's no money to be made there, since apparently only women know how to do it.
You realize that implies that women don't have any money? Just because they bring orgasm to themselves [or other women] doesn't mean they aren't violating the "Bringing a woman to orgasm" copyright.
I'm sorry I wasn't completely clear, The part of the quote I was responding to:
If people are not doing the correct steps, they are not violating his copyright. He may have a trademark case, since the owner of a trademark can compel people not to use his trademark incorrectly, but if his complaint is inaccuracy he has no copyright case.
I was refering to his possibly having a trademark case, not a copyright case. Which like most of the stranger bits (the ones that seem tacked on or very loosely defined) of IP law it confuses me because if he calls the dance the electric slide [I got a headache from his page so I don't think I made it that far down] he's using the title of the song which causes brand confusion for me, since music and dancing are very closely related in my mind.
If people are not doing the correct steps, they are not violating his copyright. He may have a trademark case, since the owner of a trademark can compel people not to use his trademark incorrectly, but if his complaint is inaccuracy he has no copyright case.
In that case isn't Electric Slide the name of a song? does he have permission to use that name? And if the dance move was designed for use for that song, would that make it a derivitive work? Does he have permission of the song's music and lyric writers to do that?
I'm sure Georgia can work up a good extradition deal with Cali... then the police can just cram MySpace into the back of a police car and drive it to Georgia.
I can understand how you can prove you are 18 [Use of a credit card number, Can you accept any string of 16 digits as "A credit Card Number"?], but how exactly do you prove you are someone's parent? Of course I'd solve the problem of [alleged] parents not being able to read and control the child's social pages by requireing all social networking sites to have all pages accessable and editable by all visitors.
As for my Age-checking software, it will consist of a 1024 question test on obscure pop-culture trivia from 18 years ago. missing 1 question will perma-ban your IP block [You darn kids and your non-static IPs] from accessing the web-server. passing the test will cause the site to generate an encryption key (the reason for so many questions) that will allow the user to access the site for a limited time [infinity minus one is acceptable to congress]
Engineering calculations are done sometimes in metric, sometimes in standard, and few really seem to care as the formulas and end results are the same. The same goes for machines- one machine might have metric-sized fasteners on it and another has SAE-sized ones.
The problem doesn't come from having two systems of measurements, it comes from people using both of them at the same time. I've lost count of how many times I've had to deal with machines with both metric and standard fasteners because someone wasn't careful and stripped the fastener by using the wrong tool in the first place. And since it is usually more efficient to move my tools to the machines than to move the machines to the tools, that extra 20 - 30 pounds of extra wrenches, sockets, and drivers (so the sockets don't get mixed up by accidentally throwing a metric back in with the standards) and fasteners (I'm pretty sure there is a difference between metric and SAE machine screws and nuts)
[I seem to have forgotten to actually hit submit, so I bet there's a post on this already, so I add the following]
My personal suggestion for converting the US to metric? If you use Imperial measurements the terrorists win, do it for the children. Support our troops. They have to deal with metric everwhere we have to conqu- i mean liberate. How much would it cost to convert our newest state to Imperial? And the terrorists are always attacking us because we are imperialist dogs, let's get rid of one of their excuses!
Civil war is a terrible thing, but I'd rather fight for my freedom and die than live my life as a serf in a fascist oligarchy.
And the timing couldn't be better, let's start a civil war while all the troops are off fighting someone else's civil war. Perhaps the geek community should get together and get enough people with some brain power into congress to block this sort of thing. That and to give the bills much more 1337 acronyms.
Who would vote against the America Lawmakers Like You Otherwise Utterly Relishing Bombing And Sending Explosions if All Rights of EveryBody Ever Living in Other Nations are Greatfully Turned Over to the United States ACT Since it's still under review all I can say about the body of the act is... Make Your Time suspected enemy combatants.
#insert Take off every Zig joke here# teehee
I'd personally prefer the Nation Of Americans Can't Read Obfusticated and Novelly Yclept Material Act to prevent congress critters from giving a bill any acronym that is even slightly misleading (ie Patriot act) [wow, scrabble dictionary FTW!]
perhaps Slashdot should attempt some form of copy protection... it is retaining all of our copyrighted material after all. and I hate having to dupe my comments for every dupe article. so much extra work
Unfortunately, no one's perfected that device where I can wipe the clouds out of the sky so I might be able to see this event from where I call home, in the Detroit area.
Actually, the thermonuclear cloud evaporator does work quite well. It will clear the sky of clouds in a jiffy. You just have to make sure that the single cloud which it creates won't block your view of the comet.
well... It's not so much the clouds as the sun itself which is making it difficult for me to see the comet (working hours suck) so instead of using your TNCE on the clouds. Perhaps If we used my Orbiting Solar Reflector Bat-station to block the sun it would solve a majority of our problems including global warming... i shouldn't watch futurama or (adamwest)Batman before posting
I can't wait until Harry Potter and the Increasingly Innacurately Named Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy comes out. I hear Voldemort even turns out to be mostly harmless.
Mailing out juror notices is one thing, but just imagine the postal bills from mailing out all of those BMWs and trophy wives.
They forgot to put airholes in the box when they shipped my trophy wife. Do you have any idea how long it took to get rid of that smell. It's the austrailian government, do you think they spring for next-day air? heck no!
And it's not using "cannibal" correctly. A cannibal is something that eats is own type. (Btw, ever fed pork to pigs or chicken to pigeons?) The question is not whether the Wii "eats Wiis", but whether the Wii "eats DS's" and vice versa. A better metaphor would be to ask if the Wii and DS are "type A and B Deftera".
I think the metaphor works rather well. You just have to consider them seperate genders. The Wii being male because it's larger... and called Wii. And the DS being female because it's smaller, you can take it places, and it's fun to poke, not to mention it has a pair of things to stare at.
I know i'm being pedantic, but strictly speaking pretty much all of the power sources used on Earth are solar in one way or another. Think of coal and oil as a huge battery that has been charging up for millions of years. Wind is generated by solar energy too, as is the rain that ultimately generates hydroelectricity.
Even more strictly speaking, given that the sun is a gigantic nuclear furnace (thanks TMBG:), we could say that almost all the energy we consume was ultimately created from a nuclear reaction (fusion or fission). Geothermal and tidal energy are two non-nuclear energy sources that spring to mind.
Hmmm.... perhaps we could de-group the nuclears and then we'd have Fission and 3 (fusion in the sun, tidal and geothermal) powered by gravity at that point we have power sources not powered by consuming fuel, but by fuel merely being present. Our next step is to increase our gravity efficiency. Unfortunately, during our last set of experements we accidentally compressed a star into a black hole obliterating the civilization funding our research.
PC is cost effective? Are you insane? Even if you spend $3000 on a PC and you will never get the kind of graphics that the PS3 is capable of running at a 1080 resolution. Half your system resources are dedicated to running a bloated and inneficient operating system. You're $3000 system will be worth half that a year later -- if you're lucky. A year from now, PS3 will still retail for, tada, $600.
Yes, i feel so deprived being stuck with my super low 1280 x 1024 resolution. Did you just call linux a bloated and inefficient OS? How much are you going to get when you sell your ps3 in a year? or you even going to be able to buy one in that year?
Perhaps you are not at a point in life where you find yourself directly in the same social bracket as some of your elected representatives. In that case, it may be simpler to shrug off politics and make statements like the one you made.
I'm not sure whether that's just smugness or you suggesting the entire population of the country should pick up and move into the neighborhood of their (nearest) elected representative.
On the other hand Perhaps a new requirement that the elected officials belong to the mean social bracket of their electors. Heck, let's just grab one random shmuck from each district every other year to serve as a representative, and once you've served you are inelligable for the rest of your life.
The good news is that about 100 games will be out at launch.
The bad news is that they're all Genji.
Good News: 100 games Bad News: It's just one title. Good News about the Bad News: We get to see the 1000 people who actually bought a PS3 fight over those 100 discs
I really don't see all that much HD adoption on the way until at least 5 years from now. And by then we'll be about ready for another console generation. The Wii's lack of HD will probably not really hurt it. N's next console after that would likely flop without some kind of HD support, though.
I don't know how many other people share this stance, but I have no interest in buying a PS3 or 360 until I have an HDTV in my game room, because I've seen the 360 on Standard (the TV in my game room [when High Definition surpasses 80% will it become standard def?]) and it didn't seem to look much better. and considering there isn't one in the living room yet, feh on them!
Yes, yes. You've drunk the cool-aid. Congratulations.
I'm not sure whether that is supposed to be some sort of insult but if it is, I think it's spelled Kool-aid. Thank's for drinking that cool-aid;)
Pre-orders benefit only the retailer at the expense of the customer. Nobody should 'desire' pre-orders.
I don't desire a pre-order, i desire a Wii. If I didn't have family at that store I wouldn't have bothered with it, standing in line for stuff is dumb.
I'm not saying that your story about paying into the pre-orders isn't true, but if it is true, then the whole "first come first serve" story is a lie... Which is it?First come first serve, or people who paid in full get their console first? Either way, somebody at Gamestop is lied to you, because they can't both be true.
well, since I did say.
I do know a number of people who work there and told me that in the case of the 360 it was a combination of where you when you got there and how much you had paid into your pre-order. everyone who had fully prepaid for their 360 got one with 5 or 6 left over going to the first to be there to pick up the system.
they treat the ones who paid in full as a completed transaction and any in excess of that were first-come-first-served.
You shouldn't trust them, or ask them for information. Do your research before you go into the store. They are not impartial or objective and have many incentives to mislead you.
Just like with any purchase, you should have you information before you get to the store. And since their job is to make a sale, their entire purpose for being in the store, of course they aren't going to be impartial or objective. And you would never go into a store with absolutely no intention of buying anything, since that would be loitering, so they have to assume you're either wanting to buy something, or looking for something to buy, in which case they offer suggestions. Go to a car lot and find a salesman that is impartial or objective. I doubt you could go anywhere and find someone who will tell you "You don't want to buy (insert the only class of item sold at store) here, you should buy it at (insert name of competition)."
Since my brother-in-law is the one doing the firing, and has never had to fire someone for missing a quota, I have to think that it may be different in different regions, or that the quotas here are rediculously low, because he has had some very poor sales people on his staff. Then again I'm sure that any sales job that gives you a quota and they say they will fire you if you don't meet would fire you if you don't meet it.
Artificial release day 'shortages' of popular games if you didn't pre-order (the miraculously have 50 copies in stock the next morning, even though they were 'all out' the previous evening way past the time any shipping companies deliver).
They do get deliveries in the mornings before the store opens as well. I know people who work for/have worked for a delivery company and I'm sure you might also know people who work for delivery companies and competing delivery companies that will tell you this, but they do make morning deliveries. They might also tell you that it costs more to over night something than to second day it. The margin on new games isn't too extreemely huge (else walmart would be selling with lower prices everyday, heh) so the difference between overnighting 1 case and overnighting 5 could be the reason.
They no longer stock used titles for older systems...
That is really just business. Is there really enough traffic in used PSX and N64 games at your local EB to devote shelf space to them? What price point are you looking for the games at? Because they would still need to make enough profit from those used games (even with their
Why isn't it making news that your pre-order at gamestop or EB doesn't guarantee you a console, even if you are sufficiently to the front of the line.
What are people paying $50 for? If they want money, I'd better get a guarantee, or at least more that $50 back when they're telling me they aren't actually going to sell me the machine I pre-ordered.
Yes but keep in mind that while thinking like that you can't also desire allowing pre-orders more than a month in advance. EBStop had to know how many units each store is getting so they don't over sell pre-orders. And manufacturers can't predict production mishaps higher up the supply chain (like a shortage of blue laser diodes) so they have to wait until they have a safe number they can assure the store it will get. This is all based on assumptions that sound reasonable to me though. YMMV in worlds that aren't the one in my head.
I do know a number of people who work there and told me that in the case of the 360 it was a combination of where you when you got there and how much you had paid into your pre-order. everyone who had fully prepaid for their 360 got one with 5 or 6 left over going to the first to be there to pick up the system.
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If only the law required that same item for take-down notices [I would rather not have to read the section in question because large amounts of legalese makes me want to stab people in the face]
And if the dance move was designed for use for that song, would that make it a derivitive work?
Does he have permission of the song's music and lyric writers to do that?
B) You really shouldn't be giving guys an excuse to skip that bit anyway.
I'm sure Georgia can work up a good extradition deal with Cali... then the police can just cram MySpace into the back of a police car and drive it to Georgia.
I can understand how you can prove you are 18 [Use of a credit card number, Can you accept any string of 16 digits as "A credit Card Number"?], but how exactly do you prove you are someone's parent?
Of course I'd solve the problem of [alleged] parents not being able to read and control the child's social pages by requireing all social networking sites to have all pages accessable and editable by all visitors.
As for my Age-checking software, it will consist of a 1024 question test on obscure pop-culture trivia from 18 years ago. missing 1 question will perma-ban your IP block [You darn kids and your non-static IPs] from accessing the web-server. passing the test will cause the site to generate an encryption key (the reason for so many questions) that will allow the user to access the site for a limited time [infinity minus one is acceptable to congress]
Rule #29 A: The Enemy of my Enemy is inside the kill circle of my thermonuclear device. Ergo the argument is null
The problem doesn't come from having two systems of measurements, it comes from people using both of them at the same time. I've lost count of how many times I've had to deal with machines with both metric and standard fasteners because someone wasn't careful and stripped the fastener by using the wrong tool in the first place. And since it is usually more efficient to move my tools to the machines than to move the machines to the tools, that extra 20 - 30 pounds of extra wrenches, sockets, and drivers (so the sockets don't get mixed up by accidentally throwing a metric back in with the standards) and fasteners (I'm pretty sure there is a difference between metric and SAE machine screws and nuts)
[I seem to have forgotten to actually hit submit, so I bet there's a post on this already, so I add the following]
My personal suggestion for converting the US to metric?
If you use Imperial measurements the terrorists win, do it for the children. Support our troops.
They have to deal with metric everwhere we have to conqu- i mean liberate. How much would it cost to convert our newest state to Imperial? And the terrorists are always attacking us because we are imperialist dogs, let's get rid of one of their excuses!
And the timing couldn't be better, let's start a civil war while all the troops are off fighting someone else's civil war. Perhaps the geek community should get together and get enough people with some brain power into congress to block this sort of thing. That and to give the bills much more 1337 acronyms.
Who would vote against the America Lawmakers Like You Otherwise Utterly Relishing Bombing And Sending Explosions if All Rights of EveryBody Ever Living in Other Nations are Greatfully Turned Over to the United States ACT
Since it's still under review all I can say about the body of the act is... Make Your Time suspected enemy combatants.
#insert Take off every Zig joke here#
teehee
I'd personally prefer the Nation Of Americans Can't Read Obfusticated and Novelly Yclept Material Act to prevent congress critters from giving a bill any acronym that is even slightly misleading (ie Patriot act) [wow, scrabble dictionary FTW!]
perhaps Slashdot should attempt some form of copy protection... it is retaining all of our copyrighted material after all. and I hate having to dupe my comments for every dupe article. so much extra work
well... It's not so much the clouds as the sun itself which is making it difficult for me to see the comet (working hours suck) so instead of using your TNCE on the clouds. Perhaps If we used my Orbiting Solar Reflector Bat-station to block the sun it would solve a majority of our problems including global warming... i shouldn't watch futurama or (adamwest)Batman before posting
As a guess the one your posted is childed to?
But since you neglected to quote anything and I'm not allowed to read minds while off the clock, it's only a rough estimate.
Unfortunately I've got enough vampire in me that I don't cast a reflection in cheap psuedo-mirrors like the one on the cover.
Well, at least one person has died retreiving a relic in the books
I can't wait until Harry Potter and the Increasingly Innacurately Named Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy comes out. I hear Voldemort even turns out to be mostly harmless.
That's not very nice. I mean they named you as "Person of the Year" after all, didn't they?
They forgot to put airholes in the box when they shipped my trophy wife. Do you have any idea how long it took to get rid of that smell. It's the austrailian government, do you think they spring for next-day air? heck no!
I think the metaphor works rather well. You just have to consider them seperate genders. The Wii being male because it's larger... and called Wii. And the DS being female because it's smaller, you can take it places, and it's fun to poke, not to mention it has a pair of things to stare at.
Hmmm.... perhaps we could de-group the nuclears and then we'd have Fission and 3 (fusion in the sun, tidal and geothermal) powered by gravity at that point we have power sources not powered by consuming fuel, but by fuel merely being present. Our next step is to increase our gravity efficiency. Unfortunately, during our last set of experements we accidentally compressed a star into a black hole obliterating the civilization funding our research.
Yes, i feel so deprived being stuck with my super low 1280 x 1024 resolution. Did you just call linux a bloated and inefficient OS? How much are you going to get when you sell your ps3 in a year? or you even going to be able to buy one in that year?
Hooray for trolls!
I'm not sure whether that's just smugness or you suggesting the entire population of the country should pick up and move into the neighborhood of their (nearest) elected representative.
On the other hand Perhaps a new requirement that the elected officials belong to the mean social bracket of their electors. Heck, let's just grab one random shmuck from each district every other year to serve as a representative, and once you've served you are inelligable for the rest of your life.
Good News: 100 games
Bad News: It's just one title.
Good News about the Bad News: We get to see the 1000 people who actually bought a PS3 fight over those 100 discs
I don't know how many other people share this stance, but I have no interest in buying a PS3 or 360 until I have an HDTV in my game room, because I've seen the 360 on Standard (the TV in my game room [when High Definition surpasses 80% will it become standard def?]) and it didn't seem to look much better. and considering there isn't one in the living room yet, feh on them!
I'm not sure whether that is supposed to be some sort of insult but if it is, I think it's spelled Kool-aid. Thank's for drinking that cool-aid ;)
I don't desire a pre-order, i desire a Wii. If I didn't have family at that store I wouldn't have bothered with it, standing in line for stuff is dumb.
well, since I did say.
they treat the ones who paid in full as a completed transaction and any in excess of that were first-come-first-served.
Just like with any purchase, you should have you information before you get to the store. And since their job is to make a sale, their entire purpose for being in the store, of course they aren't going to be impartial or objective. And you would never go into a store with absolutely no intention of buying anything, since that would be loitering, so they have to assume you're either wanting to buy something, or looking for something to buy, in which case they offer suggestions. Go to a car lot and find a salesman that is impartial or objective. I doubt you could go anywhere and find someone who will tell you "You don't want to buy (insert the only class of item sold at store) here, you should buy it at (insert name of competition)."
Since my brother-in-law is the one doing the firing, and has never had to fire someone for missing a quota, I have to think that it may be different in different regions, or that the quotas here are rediculously low, because he has had some very poor sales people on his staff. Then again I'm sure that any sales job that gives you a quota and they say they will fire you if you don't meet would fire you if you don't meet it.
They do get deliveries in the mornings before the store opens as well. I know people who work for/have worked for a delivery company and I'm sure you might also know people who work for delivery companies and competing delivery companies that will tell you this, but they do make morning deliveries. They might also tell you that it costs more to over night something than to second day it. The margin on new games isn't too extreemely huge (else walmart would be selling with lower prices everyday, heh) so the difference between overnighting 1 case and overnighting 5 could be the reason.
That is really just business. Is there really enough traffic in used PSX and N64 games at your local EB to devote shelf space to them? What price point are you looking for the games at? Because they would still need to make enough profit from those used games (even with their
Yes but keep in mind that while thinking like that you can't also desire allowing pre-orders more than a month in advance.
EBStop had to know how many units each store is getting so they don't over sell pre-orders. And manufacturers can't predict production mishaps higher up the supply chain (like a shortage of blue laser diodes) so they have to wait until they have a safe number they can assure the store it will get.
This is all based on assumptions that sound reasonable to me though. YMMV in worlds that aren't the one in my head.
I do know a number of people who work there and told me that in the case of the 360 it was a combination of where you when you got there and how much you had paid into your pre-order. everyone who had fully prepaid for their 360 got one with 5 or 6 left over going to the first to be there to pick up the system.