A few political sketches took a 15-year-old Prosser boy from his art class to questioning by the Secret Service -- and thrust him into a debate over free speech.
On Friday, the boy was questioned by the Secret Service after his art teacher turned in sketches by the boy featuring President Bush. In one, Bush's head was on a stake. In another, he was dressed as the devil, firing off rockets. The caption on one sketch read, "End the War -- on Terrorism." [Read More]
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true.
They called up the other day and gave me 500 more minutes a month at no additional charge if we would agree to recontract for an additional year. I had the Suncom(before they were bought by AT&T Wireless) unlimited incoming call plan (10$ a month for no limit on incoming calls and no per minute charges) and previously they had refused to allow my account any plan modifications unless I gave that up. They said this time I didn't have to so I gladly recontracted. So they are worried about something or someone.
Why are you paying big money to Real networks to encode and stream your program when there are tools and software available which allow to do it for free. The only cost you would have is bandwidth. No licensing fees or royalties required.
Shoutcast: http://www.shoutcast.com Windows Media http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmed ia/9ser ies/encoder/default.aspx Ogg Vorbis http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/
The players are free some are even already installed on a large number of people's systems. Two of the most common are
Windows Media player http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme dia/defa ult.aspx Winamp http://www.winamp.com
The best part is all of the above softwares are freely available and doesn't harass you to buy their pay version of their software, install spyware on your users systems, or to subscribe to their subscription based realone service.
Other stations have switched due to the actions of Real Networks in addition as a streaming audio junky I have found that Real Network streams are much lower in quality with a noticeably lower quality audio for conversely higher bandwidth levels.
http://cartalk.com/Radio/windowsmedia-switch.htm l http://www.clefmusic.btinternet.co.uk/stream2.h tm
In my personal opinion shoutcast may be the best option since you can basically stream in real time with nothing more than a winamp program, the shoutcast plugin, shoutcast server, and a patch cord running into the line in on the encoding pc's sound card. You stream the feed from the encoding pc to the streaming server. The plus benefit is that you can allow other people to relay the stream or to provide free hosting for the stream increasing the number of people you can serve and the reach of your broadcast.
Current Shoutcast Statistics: Listeners - 125,444 Servers - 6,495 775,669,061 listeners served
*Disclaimer: I have no association with any of the software packages, authors, or distributors above. I am just a streaming audio junky who finds that real networks is obnoxious and a low quality alternative.
Capital one has outsourced your credit card account customer service personnel to India. I called up with a question and hearing a distinctive accent I asked the young woman where she was located. To her credit she answered me honestly and I had no real problems with her. However I do feel that any information sent to outsourced personnel overseas should be subject to all US legal protections and the company should have to treat that data with the same responsibilities as if it was here in the USA.
I used to love to check the document statistics including readability, number of words, characters, sentances, and indicated grade level of the piece. When you wrote for technical people the higher the grade level was, the better off you were. When you wrote for most end users then you aimed for much lower. In addition let us not forget the grammer checker for those who were writing for the grammer nazi types:)
From http://www.dca.ca.gov/cba/discipline/bi-bz.htm
BROWN & MAUGHAN, AN ACCOUNTANCY CORPORATION (COR 2529)
MAUGHAN, MARK G. (CPA 38184) Fountain Valley/Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Revocation stayed with three years' probation and a 30-day suspension, via stipulation settlement.
Probation terms include:
30-day suspension from the practice of public accountancy.
Renewal of the CPA and corporate licenses, respectively, within 30 days of the effective date of this order.
Compliance with the citation order which contained administrative fines totaling $1,500.00 and an order of correction and abatement. Payment of $1,500.00 is due within 30 days of the effective date of this order.
Reimbursement of $4,360.17 to the Board for investigative and prosecution costs.
Submission of a sample set of financial statements, representing the highest level of service rendered, between August 1, 1995, and July 31. 1997.
Completion of a Board-approved ethics examination with a score of 90 percent or grater, within the first year of probation.
Other standard terms and conditions.
Effective December 27, 2000
For purposes of settlement, Respondent admits the truth and accuracy of the allegations and charges in the Accusation. Respondent and his accountancy corporation engaged in the practice of public accounting with expired licenses. Respondent additionally failed to pay an administrative fine imposed by the Board for failing to supply the Board with copies of a financial report representing the highest level of service rendered, in accordance with Section 89.1 of the California Code of Regulations. Respondent's failure to pay the administrative fine caused the Board to withhold renewal of his CPA license.
Business and Professions Code, Division 3, Chapter 1, 5050, 5100 (f) and 5154; California Code of Regulations, Title 16, Division 1, 89.1.
The failure of E-books, Downloadable software, and Online Music.
We all have seen the many publisher provided services for purchasing E-books, E-Music, and Software Downloads.
These services try to limit your options and choices or even to remove them from you totally. With many of these services you must agree that you do not even own that which you wish to purchase in order to buy it. Instead they license you right to use their private property.
We see the prices on the virtual which rival that of the physical. We instinctively know that the production cost of a E-book, Downloaded software, or MP3s is so much less than the cost of a compact disc or a printed book both of which require paper, ink, artwork, packaging and so much more that is totally lacking from the ethereal versions.
Their sales decline. "Stop the thieves" they cry out into the night! Make more and harsher laws to protect that which is already protected they demand of our governments. Protect our property and damn their rights is their idea of an ideal. I am a honest person is my vehement reply. So why attempt punish me for the crimes of others.
They attempt to smother new technology on the premise that it may possibly be used for illegal activity.
While it is not my intention to justify the theft of their material I must point out it's their own fault really. I blame their lack of foresight and their lack of anything resembling common sense. They do not exploit the markets available for them or if they do it's a halfhearted attempt. In the real world people are not buying what you sale one common step generally taken is to consider lowering your prices until your sales pick up. This also applies on the Internet.
In a concise conclusion I state that I personally prefer to compensate the authors and composers of the material that I so enjoy in my daily life. Currently I do so off-line. So Publishing and recording industries I say make it worth my while and convenient to do so and I will be one of the first in line online.
In the United States we have the ability to decide which of many phone companies we wish to use. We have choices which now include unlimited long distance in the United States and Canada, Calls to Europe are starting to follow. Soon we will have flat rate home phone service able to call world wide available in the United States then domestic cellphone service must soon follow in order to compete. All this when the service becomes a commodity instead of a artificially scarce resource. The governments of the world would have absolutely no interest in lowering the prices. They would simply see it as another revenue stream to raise in cost every time they have a new pet project they wish to fund. Just Look at the United States Postal Service.
Just wanted to let you know full screen video commercials, blaring over my computers speakers, downloaded on my bandwidth using software from Macromedia by a company named Unicast has finally driven me to totally remove both Flash and Shockwave from my computer. There is not enough content on the net to make further aggravations of me by your companies products worth it. When enough people uninstall flash then perhaps you will get the message people do not want to be harassed with commercial advertising anywhere but on TV. I will be recommending to every user of my Internet service that they also remove Flash and Shockwave as Adware software along with other commercial serving softwares such as Gator. Macromedia's products have now sunken to their level of respectability in my eyes.
We all have seen the many publisher provided services for purchasing E-books.
These services try to limit your options and choices or even to remove them from you totally. With many of these services you must agree that you do not even own that which you wish to purchase in order to buy it. Instead they license you right to use their private property.
We see the prices on the virtual which rival that of the physical. We instinctively know that the production cost of a E-book is so much less than the cost of a compact disc or a printed book both of which require paper, ink, artwork, packaging and so much more that is totally lacking from the ethereal versions.
Their sales decline. "Stop the thieves" they cry out into the night! Make more and harsher laws to protect that which is already protected they demand of our governments. Protect our property and damn the public's rights is their idea of an ideal. I am a honest person is my vehement reply. So why attempt punish me for the crimes of others.
They attempt to smother new technology on the premise that it may possibly be used for illegal activity.
While it is not my intention to justify the theft of their material I must point out it's their own fault really. I blame their lack of foresight and their lack of anything resembling common sense. They do not exploit the markets available for them or if they do it's a halfhearted attempt. In the real world people are not buying what you sale one common step generally taken is to consider lowering your prices until your sales pick up. This also applies on the Internet.
In a concise conclusion I state that I personally prefer to compensate the authors and composers of the material that I so enjoy in my daily life. Currently I do so off-line. So Publishing and recording industries I say make it worth my while and convenient to do so and I will be one of the first in line online.
From: "me" me@notmydomain.org To: nothisaddress@aol.com Subject: Re: someterm is a registered trademark Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 23:02:14 -0600
Now you were nice in your request so I will inform you that the usage of the term in question was submitted by a user at the title of their website. Since the user in question has updated the title of their website I have updated the listing in question.
Research what exactly having a trademark entitles you to
http://www.chillingeffects.org/trademark/faq.cgi
You need to understand that having a trademark in California does not automatically grant you to that right either nationwide nor worldwide.
"A trademark is protected only within the geographic area where the mark is used and its reputation is established. For federally registered marks, protection is nationwide. For other marks, geographical use must be considered. For example, if John Doe owns the mark Timothy's Bakery in Boston, there is no infringement if Jane Roe uses Timothy's Bakery to describe a bakery in Los Angeles."
According to the USPTO which is the official source for federal aka nationwide trademarks in the United States the database which is searchable online at
I do not believe even in the presence of a trademark on a television show title would preclude a website with a similar title provided the average user would not mistake http://someurl.com with your business nor the purpose of your registered trademark.
There is the secondary consideration of the fact the site in question is clearly non-profit
"If no income is solicited or earned by using someone else's mark, this use is not normally infringement. Trademark rights protect consumers from purchasing inferior goods because of false labeling. If no goods or services are being offered, or the goods would not be confused with those of the mark owner, or if the term is being used in a literary sense, but not to label or otherwise identify the origin of other goods or services, then the term is not being used commercially. "
mysig
----- Original Message ----- From: nothisaddress@aol.com To: someone@somedomain.com; me@notmydomain.org Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:30 PM Subject: someterm is a registered trademark
> The title or words someterm is a registered trademark which I own. > My name is D. B. and I produce a show on public access TV in SF and I have submitted and now own the trademark on the title someterm. > Just a friendly reminder because I have noticed your websites using the same words or title. > Thank you.
The trick is this new memory is write once, read many. So is there really a benefit to consumers or is this just a way to improve the profitability of the corporations even more by milking money out of the consumer whenever they wish to take pictures ala with film based photography. With the other forms of solid state memory you have the benefit of write many, read many. This along with a fairly inexpensive cost makes this a step back instead of a step forward.
It's simple really the content industries will take as much of your rights as you are willing to allow them. If we the consumers do not fight for the right to do with what we purchase what we want to then I will be the first to welcome you to a world where pay per view is your only option. We must smack the hand of the congress people and the bank accounts of the movie and recording companies as they grab for more of the few rights we have left to us. Let them scream it is online file sharing reducing their profits we must simply scream louder that it's their attempted theft of our rights causing us not to buy the products they produce. Boycott for your rights, boycott for a future where you can legally own content instead of renting it, Boycott for your children's future.
The RIAA is not interested in anything that empowers the artist or the consumer unless they are the sole source for it. While free downloading is infinitely better publicity and promotion for bands it provides little benefits in return to the recording industry. They can not charge the artist or bands for the free distribution of their material on the net as they do with off net promotion. They can not report their ever increasing profits to their share holders. It is going to take a redefinition of the consumers and artists rights by Congress before the recording industries strangle hold on the music business is relaxed even a tiny bit. I am generally against legislated solutions however in this case it may be our only hope.
That's what I get for posting too fast. Benefits vs costs should be the title of my post.
Benifits vs cost
on
Tackling AGP 8X
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It's simple if the AGP-8x offers a clear benefit for the costs to the users such as an increase in the quality of the graphics or the screen's refresh rate, or new graphic features then they will embrace it. If it doesn't it will whither on the vine. People expect things to be much better then the items they are replacing when they buy new. I know I do.
Most companies want to make it harder to compete with them in their business sphere of influence. It's little surprise that the recording industries want to do the same. What the recording industries will end up facing is the fact that consumers are getting fed up with their tactics and this will eventually turn around and bite them in their ass hard. I personally will no longer go out and buy music. Not because I am pirating their content but because I got very tired very quickly of their assuming I was a thief. When enough people come to this decision then the recording industries influence will lessen and the balance can tip back towards the consumers.
Any time you limit speech by placing restrictions on access to information you thus are classifying it. It does not matter that you do not stamp it TOP SECRET if you do not make the information available for public comment and use. This would also be a easy way to hide fraud and abuse from the public eye by making it a breech of ethics to release the information on frivolous but sensitive research.
"[3] Charge accounting would most likely be done by uour ISP who -already- has your credit into."
You have to be kidding. The ISP's including the one I work for would simply say you want to be paid you bill the user yourself. We do not want the hassle, extra workload, and overhead needed to implement a system of this nature.
There are many problems with the "Automatic billing" payment system. Many businesses have noticed unrequested and unauthorized charges on their phone bills by "Directory publishers" who decided on their own that the business wanted them to publish a listing for anywhere up to 1000$+ You would have the same type of problems with unethical websites billing for supposed page views.
# IISBLOCK - Infected IIS server blocking utility.
# by Bill Larson of Compu-Net Enterprises.
# http://www.compu.net. This header must be kept intact if you
# wish to redistribute the script.
my $check = 0;
my $line = "";
my $weblog = "/etc/www/logs/access_log";
my $infection = "/root/infected";
my $removelist = "/root/fwclean";
#open the web server log file specified above and start processing
open (HTFILE, "$weblog");
until (eof (HTFILE))
{
$line =;
chop ($line);
#Pattern match on IIS Attempts then strip down to the hostname/ip addresss
if ($line =~/.*\/winnt\/system32\/.*/) {
$line =~ s/\ -.*//gi;
# This host is infected so lets do something about it.
}
}
close(HTFILE);
sub infected {
$check = 0;
# begin a check to ensure that we only take action once.
open (HTFILE2, "$infection");
until (eof (HTFILE2)){
$dupe =;
chop ($dupe);
if ($line =~/$dupe/){
$check = 1;
}
else {
}
}
close(HTFILE2);
# If this is a unique host continue
if ($check eq "0") {
# time to add to the list of infected hosts
open (HTFILE2, ">>$infection");
print HTFILE2 "$line\n";
close(HTFILE2);
# add using the specified add command
# firewall software will print an error on invalid hostnames.
# Zap them one at a time maunally
system ("/sbin/ipchains -I input -s $line -j DENY -l");
# write firewall removal line to the remove list file
# modify this line for your specific firewall software
Going by the fact that Bush has ordered flags to be flown at half-mast until the 21st, I suspect the first attacks will start early on the 21st. What could be better than the day America stops officially mourning than to start dealing some major damage to the instigator(s) of the terrorists attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon!
Slashdot Mirror
Please see below.
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Secret Service confiscates anti-Bush drawings by 15-year-old at Prosser High
A few political sketches took a 15-year-old Prosser boy from his art class to questioning by the Secret Service -- and thrust him into a debate over free speech.
On Friday, the boy was questioned by the Secret Service after his art teacher turned in sketches by the boy featuring President Bush. In one, Bush's head was on a stake. In another, he was dressed as the devil, firing off rockets. The caption on one sketch read, "End the War -- on Terrorism." [Read More]
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true.
The Federalist No.10 by James Madison (1787)
They called up the other day and gave me 500 more minutes a month at no additional charge if we would agree to recontract for an additional year. I had the Suncom(before they were bought by AT&T Wireless) unlimited incoming call plan (10$ a month for no limit on incoming calls and no per minute charges) and previously they had refused to allow my account any plan modifications unless I gave that up. They said this time I didn't have to so I gladly recontracted. So they are worried about something or someone.
Why are you paying big money to Real networks to encode and stream your program when there are tools and software available which allow to do it for free. The only cost you would have is
d ia/9ser ies/encoder/default.aspx
e dia/defa ult.aspx
m lh tm
bandwidth. No licensing fees or royalties required.
Shoutcast: http://www.shoutcast.com
Windows Media
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme
Ogg Vorbis http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/
The players are free some are even already installed on a large number of people's systems. Two of the most common are
Windows Media player
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsm
Winamp http://www.winamp.com
The best part is all of the above softwares are freely available and doesn't harass you to buy their pay version of their software, install spyware on your users systems, or to subscribe
to their subscription based realone service.
Other stations have switched due to the actions of Real Networks in addition as a streaming audio junky I have found that Real Network streams are much lower in quality with a noticeably lower quality audio for conversely higher bandwidth levels.
http://cartalk.com/Radio/windowsmedia-switch.ht
http://www.clefmusic.btinternet.co.uk/stream2.
In my personal opinion shoutcast may be the best option since you can basically stream in real time with nothing more than a winamp program, the shoutcast plugin, shoutcast server, and
a patch cord running into the line in on the encoding pc's sound card. You stream the feed from the encoding pc to the streaming server. The plus benefit is that you can allow other
people to relay the stream or to provide free hosting for the stream increasing the number of people you can serve and the reach of your broadcast.
Current Shoutcast Statistics:
Listeners - 125,444
Servers - 6,495
775,669,061 listeners served
*Disclaimer: I have no association with any of the software packages, authors, or distributors above. I am just a streaming audio junky who
finds that real networks is obnoxious and a low quality alternative.
Capital one has outsourced your credit card account customer service personnel to India. I called up with a question and hearing a distinctive accent I asked the young woman where she was located. To her credit she answered me honestly and I had no real problems with her. However I do feel that any information sent to outsourced personnel overseas should be subject to all US legal protections and the company should have to treat that data with the same responsibilities as if it was here in the USA.
I used to love to check the document statistics including readability, number of words, characters, sentances, and indicated grade level of the piece. When you wrote for technical people the higher the grade level was, the better off you were. When you wrote for most end users then you aimed for much lower. In addition let us not forget the grammer checker for those who were writing for the grammer nazi types :)
From http://www.dca.ca.gov/cba/discipline/bi-bz.htm
BROWN & MAUGHAN,
AN ACCOUNTANCY CORPORATION (COR 2529)
MAUGHAN, MARK G.
(CPA 38184)
Fountain Valley/Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Revocation stayed with three years' probation and a 30-day suspension, via stipulation settlement.
Probation terms include:
30-day suspension from the practice of public accountancy.
Renewal of the CPA and corporate licenses, respectively, within 30 days of the effective date of this order.
Compliance with the citation order which contained administrative fines totaling $1,500.00 and an order of correction and abatement. Payment of $1,500.00 is due within 30 days of the effective date of this order.
Reimbursement of $4,360.17 to the Board for investigative and prosecution costs.
Submission of a sample set of financial statements, representing the highest level of service rendered, between August 1, 1995, and July 31. 1997.
Completion of a Board-approved ethics examination with a score of 90 percent or grater, within the first year of probation.
Other standard terms and conditions.
Effective December 27, 2000
For purposes of settlement, Respondent admits the truth and accuracy of the allegations and charges in the Accusation. Respondent and his accountancy corporation engaged in the practice of public accounting with expired licenses.
Respondent additionally failed to pay an administrative fine imposed by the Board for failing to supply the Board with copies of a financial report representing the highest level of service rendered, in accordance with Section 89.1 of the California Code of Regulations. Respondent's failure to pay the administrative fine caused the Board to withhold renewal of his CPA license.
Business and Professions Code, Division 3, Chapter 1, 5050, 5100 (f) and 5154; California Code of Regulations, Title 16, Division 1, 89.1.
Something I wrote back in May 2003.
The failure of E-books, Downloadable software, and Online Music.
We all have seen the many publisher provided services for purchasing E-books, E-Music, and Software Downloads.
These services try to limit your options and choices or even to remove them from you totally. With many of these services you must agree that you do not even own that which you wish to purchase in order to buy it. Instead they license you right to use their private property.
We see the prices on the virtual which rival that of the physical. We instinctively know that the production cost of a E-book, Downloaded software, or MP3s is so much less than the cost of a compact disc or a printed book both of which require paper, ink, artwork, packaging and so much more that is totally lacking from the ethereal versions.
Their sales decline. "Stop the thieves" they cry out into the night! Make more and harsher laws to protect that which is already protected they demand of our governments. Protect our property and damn their rights is their idea of an ideal. I am a honest person is my vehement reply. So why attempt punish me for the crimes of others.
They attempt to smother new technology on the premise that it may possibly be used for illegal activity.
While it is not my intention to justify the theft of their material I must point out it's their own fault really. I blame their lack of foresight and their lack of anything resembling common sense. They do not exploit the markets available for them or if they do it's a halfhearted attempt. In the real world people are not buying what you sale one common step generally taken is to consider lowering your prices until your sales pick up. This also applies on the Internet.
In a concise conclusion I state that I personally prefer to compensate the authors and composers of the material that I so enjoy in my daily life. Currently I do so off-line. So Publishing and recording industries I say make it worth my while and convenient to do so and I will be one of the first in line online.
In the United States we have the ability to decide which of many phone companies we wish to use. We have choices which now include unlimited long distance in the United States and Canada, Calls to Europe are starting to follow. Soon we will have flat rate home phone service able to call world wide available in the United States then domestic cellphone service must soon follow in order to compete. All this when the service becomes a commodity instead of a artificially scarce resource. The governments of the world would have absolutely no interest in lowering the prices. They would simply see it as another revenue stream to raise in cost every time they have a new pet project they wish to fund. Just Look at the United States Postal Service.
If you wish to remove flash and shockwave as well here's a url with removal tools by macromedia
http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/alter
We all have seen the many publisher provided services for purchasing E-books.
These services try to limit your options and choices or even to remove them from you totally. With many of these services you must agree that you do not even own that which you wish to purchase in order to buy it. Instead they license you right to use their private property.
We see the prices on the virtual which rival that of the physical. We instinctively know that the production cost of a E-book is so much less than the cost of a compact disc or a printed book both of which require paper, ink, artwork, packaging and so much more that is totally lacking from the ethereal versions.
Their sales decline. "Stop the thieves" they cry out into the night! Make more and harsher laws to protect that which is already protected they demand of our governments. Protect our property and damn the public's rights is their idea of an ideal. I am a honest person is my vehement reply. So why attempt punish me for the crimes of others.
They attempt to smother new technology on the premise that it may possibly be used for illegal activity.
While it is not my intention to justify the theft of their material I must point out it's their own fault really. I blame their lack of foresight and their lack of anything resembling common sense. They do not exploit the markets available for them or if they do it's a halfhearted attempt. In the real world people are not buying what you sale one common step generally taken is to consider lowering your prices until your sales pick up. This also applies on the Internet.
In a concise conclusion I state that I personally prefer to compensate the authors and composers of the material that I so enjoy in my daily life. Currently I do so off-line. So Publishing and recording industries I say make it worth my while and convenient to do so and I will be one of the first in line online.
From: "me" me@notmydomain.org
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To: nothisaddress@aol.com
Subject: Re: someterm is a registered trademark
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 23:02:14 -0600
Now you were nice in your request so I will inform you that the usage of the
term in question was submitted by a user at the title of their website.
Since the user in question has updated the title of their website I have
updated the listing in question.
Research what exactly having a trademark entitles you to
http://www.chillingeffects.org/trademark/faq.cg
You need to understand that having a trademark in California does not
automatically grant you to that right either nationwide nor worldwide.
"A trademark is protected only within the geographic area where the mark is
used and its reputation is established. For federally registered marks,
protection is nationwide. For other marks, geographical use must be
considered. For example, if John Doe owns the mark Timothy's Bakery in
Boston, there is no infringement if Jane Roe uses Timothy's Bakery to
describe a bakery in Los Angeles."
According to the USPTO which is the official source for federal aka
nationwide trademarks in the United States the database which is searchable
online at
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&stat
There is no registered trademark for the term someterm
A list of all registrations containing the word portionofsometerm is available at
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&stat
I do not believe even in the presence of a trademark on a television show
title would preclude a website with a similar title provided the average
user would not mistake http://someurl.com with your business nor the
purpose of your registered trademark.
There is the secondary consideration of the fact the site in question is
clearly non-profit
"If no income is solicited or earned by using someone else's mark, this use
is not normally infringement. Trademark rights protect consumers from
purchasing inferior goods because of false labeling. If no goods or services
are being offered, or the goods would not be confused with those of the mark
owner, or if the term is being used in a literary sense, but not to label or
otherwise identify the origin of other goods or services, then the term is
not being used commercially. "
mysig
----- Original Message -----
From: nothisaddress@aol.com
To: someone@somedomain.com; me@notmydomain.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:30 PM
Subject: someterm is a registered trademark
> The title or words someterm is a registered trademark which I own.
> My name is D. B. and I produce a show on public access TV in SF and I
have submitted and now own the trademark on the title someterm.
> Just a friendly reminder because I have noticed your websites using the
same words or title.
> Thank you.
The trick is this new memory is write once, read many. So is there really a benefit to consumers or is this just a way to improve the profitability of the corporations even more by milking money out of the consumer whenever they wish to take pictures ala with film based photography. With the other forms of solid state memory you have the benefit of write many, read many. This along with a fairly inexpensive cost makes this a step back instead of a step forward.
Slashdot Editor?
It's simple really the content industries will take as much of your rights as you are willing to allow them. If we the consumers do not fight for the right to do with what we purchase what we want to then I will be the first to welcome you to a world where pay per view is your only option. We must smack the hand of the congress people and the bank accounts of the movie and recording companies as they grab for more of the few rights we have left to us. Let them scream it is online file sharing reducing their profits we must simply scream louder that it's their attempted theft of our rights causing us not to buy the products they produce. Boycott for your rights, boycott for a future where you can legally own content instead of renting it, Boycott for your children's future.
If I pay for the game software I am entitled to play for free. Blizzard is a prime example of this in action and working..
If I get the software free I am willing to pay to play.
I am not willing to violate rule 1 or 2.
If they expect me to pay for the software and pay to play and pay for stuff in the game they must be totally bonkers.
Funny. I thought that was the purpose of all those 3-6am infomercials :P
The RIAA is not interested in anything that empowers the artist or the consumer unless they are the sole source for it. While free downloading is infinitely better publicity and promotion for bands it provides little benefits in return to the recording industry. They can not charge the artist or bands for the free distribution of their material on the net as they do with off net promotion. They can not report their ever increasing profits to their share holders. It is going to take a redefinition of the consumers and artists rights by Congress before the recording industries strangle hold on the music business is relaxed even a tiny bit. I am generally against legislated solutions however in this case it may be our only hope.
That's what I get for posting too fast. Benefits vs costs should be the title of my post.
It's simple if the AGP-8x offers a clear benefit for the costs to the users such as an increase in the quality of the graphics or the screen's refresh rate, or new graphic features then they will embrace it. If it doesn't it will whither on the vine. People expect things to be much better then the items they are replacing when they buy new. I know I do.
Most companies want to make it harder to compete with them in their business sphere of influence. It's little surprise that the recording industries want to do the same. What the recording industries will end up facing is the fact that consumers are getting fed up with their tactics and this will eventually turn around and bite them in their ass hard. I personally will no longer go out and buy music. Not because I am pirating their content but because I got very tired very quickly of their assuming I was a thief. When enough people come to this decision then the recording industries influence will lessen and the balance can tip back towards the consumers.
Any time you limit speech by placing restrictions on access to information you thus are classifying it. It does not matter that you do not stamp it TOP SECRET if you do not make the information available for public comment and use. This would also be a easy way to hide fraud and abuse from the public eye by making it a breech of ethics to release the information on frivolous but sensitive research.
"[3] Charge accounting would most likely be done by uour ISP who -already- has your credit into."
You have to be kidding. The ISP's including the one I work for would simply say you want to be paid you bill the user yourself. We do not want the hassle, extra workload, and overhead needed to implement a system of this nature.
There are many problems with the "Automatic billing" payment system. Many businesses have noticed unrequested and unauthorized charges on their phone bills by "Directory publishers" who decided on their own that the business wanted them to publish a listing for anywhere up to 1000$+ You would have the same type of problems with unethical websites billing for supposed page views.
Edit this to suit
/.*\/winnt\/system32\/.*/) {
/$dupe/){
#!/usr/bin/perl
# IISBLOCK - Infected IIS server blocking utility.
# by Bill Larson of Compu-Net Enterprises.
# http://www.compu.net. This header must be kept intact if you
# wish to redistribute the script.
my $check = 0;
my $line = "";
my $weblog = "/etc/www/logs/access_log";
my $infection = "/root/infected";
my $removelist = "/root/fwclean";
#open the web server log file specified above and start processing
open (HTFILE, "$weblog");
until (eof (HTFILE))
{
$line =;
chop ($line);
#Pattern match on IIS Attempts then strip down to the hostname/ip addresss
if ($line =~
$line =~ s/\ -.*//gi;
# This host is infected so lets do something about it.
}
}
close(HTFILE);
sub infected {
$check = 0;
# begin a check to ensure that we only take action once.
open (HTFILE2, "$infection");
until (eof (HTFILE2)){
$dupe =;
chop ($dupe);
if ($line =~
$check = 1;
}
else {
}
}
close(HTFILE2);
# If this is a unique host continue
if ($check eq "0") {
# time to add to the list of infected hosts
open (HTFILE2, ">>$infection");
print HTFILE2 "$line\n";
close(HTFILE2);
# add using the specified add command
# firewall software will print an error on invalid hostnames.
# Zap them one at a time maunally
system ("/sbin/ipchains -I input -s $line -j DENY -l");
# write firewall removal line to the remove list file
# modify this line for your specific firewall software
open (HTFILE3, ">>$removelist");
print HTFILE3 "/sbin/ipchains -D input -s $line -j DENY -l\n";
close(HTFILE3);
}
# That's all folks!
}
Going by the fact that Bush has ordered flags to be flown at half-mast until the 21st, I suspect the first attacks will start early on the 21st. What could be better than the day America stops officially mourning than to start dealing some major damage to the instigator(s) of the terrorists attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon!