I think Louis Vuitton should not be suing Google, instead, it should be suing the companies who post the adwords that violate trademarks.
In other words...
1. Google allows advertiser to use competitor's product name 2. Google writes script to automatically fine them for it 3. Google charges Louis Vuitton and others for this service 4. ??? 5. Profit!
Look inside this thing...I bet you find a very old, very cramped, and very ornery midget surrounded by all sorts of levers, buttons, switches, and pedals.
Let's think about it. What makes these goods more "virtual" (ie not-real) than MP3 music or videos? No, really?
They only "exist" as representations. Your comparison above would be between virtual goods (like a sword) and a text file with the content "Latest Britney Spears song" or perhaps an mp3 in The Sims world which just pops up a bubble that so-and-so is listening to it.
Unlike with viruses, it's not so much knowing more about the spammer that helps stop them, it's knowing more about techniques of filtering. One can find out the current spamming methods by collecting all e-mail for a few weeks and see all there is to see. Now, if the class pits some students writing SPAM filters with the rest trying to get past them, a useful arms race could result.
Exactly! I'll switch over to that LINIX or whatever when they properly support infection with spyware and viruses. Until then, they're barking up the wrong tree.
In the case of Trademark, it's purpose is not to protect companies that take out trademarks, but to protect _consumers_. The point with trademark is that if I want a Coca-Cola, or a Louis-Vuitonn bag, I can be sure that what I buy is actually such a product, and not a cheap knock-off.
This ruling protects stupid consumers who type "Louis-Vuitonn" in their computer and expect whatever products appear to be Louis-Vuitonn and not a competing brand, regardless of what text appears. Apparently Louis-Vuitonn's products are for incompetent consumers.
If it costs the companies this much, it's really a cost that the customers are paying. Do you think your ISP doesn't charge customers for the extra bandwidth and human resources wasted by SPAM?
But when I see a drunk driver they are all over 2 or three lanes. They nearly hit everyone. They often run off the road. Somehow it is hard for me to accept that I can see a 100+ cell phone users who are supposedly "more impaired" and they don't perform as poorly as drunk drivers.
How do you know when you are watching a drunk driver? If you answered "when they are swerving all over the road", then you can't use this as evidence that drunk drivers always swerve all over the road. Perhaps most drunk drivers don't swerve all over the road, and the problem is the slowed reaction that will cause a wreck if a quick reaction is needed but is otherwise invisible.
I offer proof that the CAN SPAM act caused more SPAM. Here is a graph of SPAM volume, starting when the CAN SPAM act was passed. Note how it increases after the act was passed. I think this should persuade anyone that the CAN SPAM act was the cause of this increase.
How long until we get arrested for paying for something with "funny money"? Remember, every time you use a non-standard currency, your funding terrorists!
As a quick summary, an MMU basically adds a logical address space on top of the physical address space (the actual memory), divided into pages (often 4KB each). The pages in the logical address space can be arbitrarily mapped to physical pages. Optionally a low-level exception can be raised for various conditions (read-only, execute-only, page written to, etc.).
In the MMUs I've studied, the memory cache is physically mapped to avoid MMU overhead for the most common case, and there is also a translation cache which keeps recently used mapping entries cached. For every memory access (even ones in the cache), the translation cache is queried so its result will be available without delay if the access misses the local cache and thus requires a bus transaction.
Here's my binary XML-like file format which gives the best of both text and binary file formats. It's human readable and efficient at the same time! Finally, an end to the text-versus-binary wars. Here's an example file:
The following data is in binary. UH)(&T^( @#t79nui**&tb x9#@ $Y*_@$ji[P{O@JIOHXIOU$HIIU#$hiuoHOP$UJ [etc.]
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I think Louis Vuitton should not be suing Google, instead, it should be suing the companies who post the adwords that violate trademarks.
In other words...
1. Google allows advertiser to use competitor's product name
2. Google writes script to automatically fine them for it
3. Google charges Louis Vuitton and others for this service
4. ???
5. Profit!
Look inside this thing...I bet you find a very old, very cramped, and very ornery midget surrounded by all sorts of levers, buttons, switches, and pedals.
If he's American, it's still a robot. <ducks>
An interesting tidbit, Viaweb (now Y! Store) used to have a program called storef*cker :)
Must have been a b*tch to invoke from the command line, with an asterisk in the name and all.
Now their empl^H^H^H^Hstudents will work 80-hour weeks and pay them for it, without benefits!
So? You can make a raid array out of anything
Exactly. Chewing gum already comes in a RAID configuration.
It's probably unlikely to end with a Darwin Awards entry, though, unless there's a major design flaw.
Yeah, as long as someone doesn't try to eat one of the devices!
Let's think about it. What makes these goods more "virtual" (ie not-real) than MP3 music or videos? No, really?
They only "exist" as representations. Your comparison above would be between virtual goods (like a sword) and a text file with the content "Latest Britney Spears song" or perhaps an mp3 in The Sims world which just pops up a bubble that so-and-so is listening to it.
Unlike with viruses, it's not so much knowing more about the spammer that helps stop them, it's knowing more about techniques of filtering. One can find out the current spamming methods by collecting all e-mail for a few weeks and see all there is to see. Now, if the class pits some students writing SPAM filters with the rest trying to get past them, a useful arms race could result.
The new Roombas make your cleaning chore even easier. Roomba Red, Sage, Discovery and Discovery SE:
Yeah, but will it avoid vacuuming up my LEGO bricks?
Exactly! I'll switch over to that LINIX or whatever when they properly support infection with spyware and viruses. Until then, they're barking up the wrong tree.
In the case of Trademark, it's purpose is not to protect companies that take out trademarks, but to protect _consumers_. The point with trademark is that if I want a Coca-Cola, or a Louis-Vuitonn bag, I can be sure that what I buy is actually such a product, and not a cheap knock-off.
This ruling protects stupid consumers who type "Louis-Vuitonn" in their computer and expect whatever products appear to be Louis-Vuitonn and not a competing brand, regardless of what text appears. Apparently Louis-Vuitonn's products are for incompetent consumers.
If it costs the companies this much, it's really a cost that the customers are paying. Do you think your ISP doesn't charge customers for the extra bandwidth and human resources wasted by SPAM?
'rm -rf' will 'fix [whatever]' , isn't posting this asking for trouble? Last thing we want is people actually trying this.
Wait, I wasn't supposed to do that? Why?
Oh crap, all my files are missing!
Apparently a fifteen-year-old system, too.
But when I see a drunk driver they are all over 2 or three lanes. They nearly hit everyone. They often run off the road. Somehow it is hard for me to accept that I can see a 100+ cell phone users who are supposedly "more impaired" and they don't perform as poorly as drunk drivers.
How do you know when you are watching a drunk driver? If you answered "when they are swerving all over the road", then you can't use this as evidence that drunk drivers always swerve all over the road. Perhaps most drunk drivers don't swerve all over the road, and the problem is the slowed reaction that will cause a wreck if a quick reaction is needed but is otherwise invisible.
I offer proof that the CAN SPAM act caused more SPAM. Here is a graph of SPAM volume, starting when the CAN SPAM act was passed. Note how it increases after the act was passed. I think this should persuade anyone that the CAN SPAM act was the cause of this increase.
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CAN SPAM Present
The DOJ has already stated they can collect email and IP addresses, but has not been forthcoming on the subject of URL addresses.
URL addresses? Simple, at the top of my web browser windows, just below the button. Next!
Maybe if they release Duke Nukem Forever as a board game, they can manage a release within my lifetime.
No, but it does come with a pair of electric scissors (batteries not included).
And not a cent is wasted on keeping unauthorized people from using it.
You can get EMF-blocking clothes made with silver thread on the web.
I was like, "Betamax"? That's 1980s technology!
Of course it turns out this is technology that's been with us since before we learned to speak: deception.
How long until we get arrested for paying for something with "funny money"? Remember, every time you use a non-standard currency, your funding terrorists!
Using a two dollar bill in the U.S. can result in something close to it.
As a quick summary, an MMU basically adds a logical address space on top of the physical address space (the actual memory), divided into pages (often 4KB each). The pages in the logical address space can be arbitrarily mapped to physical pages. Optionally a low-level exception can be raised for various conditions (read-only, execute-only, page written to, etc.).
In the MMUs I've studied, the memory cache is physically mapped to avoid MMU overhead for the most common case, and there is also a translation cache which keeps recently used mapping entries cached. For every memory access (even ones in the cache), the translation cache is queried so its result will be available without delay if the access misses the local cache and thus requires a bus transaction.
Here's my binary XML-like file format which gives the best of both text and binary file formats. It's human readable and efficient at the same time! Finally, an end to the text-versus-binary wars. Here's an example file:
The following data is in binary.
UH)(&T^( @#t79nui**&tb x9#@ $Y*_@$ji[P{O@JIOHXIOU$HIIU#$hiuoHOP$UJ [etc.]