We all know about the hazards of lead based paints, so is this safe ? I'm assuming the plastic lining in aluminum cans is there for a reason. Perhaps adding panelling containing a solid aluminum oxide mesh of some sort would be better.
AFAIK, the law states that under penalty of perjury, the issuer of a DMCA takedown notice must be the holder of the copyright on the work in question. There's no requirement that the notice itself be legitimate.
Have there been any documented cases of perjury charges actually being presses to the issuer of a DCMA take down notice?
I don't think this has ever actually be prosecuted; not even for the DMCA take down notice of Open Office a few years ago.
as some users are reportedly being reminded when they get phone calls from the publishers of a free app they've downloaded from the App Store.
This was an interesting bit that wasn't explained anywhere in the article. What kind of phone calls they get? Asking for user feedback of the app, marketing other products (maybe on other platforms)? Late night drunk calls?
But for that matter, I've always though that phone apps have access to your number anyway. It just makes sense, same way that PC apps have access to your IP address and other personal data saved on the machine.
Not that it's that bad anyway. Many kind of software need better access to the information to function to function. Answering machine software needs access to the phone book to show who called, or to make custom rules.
I dont think that the issue is really that the phone number and other data are available, but more on abusing said info. With Apple's really closed approach and the app store, it would probably be a good idea to send info about the abuse to Apple directly. Technically the apps require access to information to function.
As a side note, most of us probably think that "real-time traffic monitoring application" refers to internet traffic. I looked it up and it's actually about road traffic, not about internet stuff:)
Its not an issue that its available, its an issue that its getting sent back to the vendor.
Not everyone is eager to expand upon academic study of Joyce, however; Stephen Joyce, James' grandson and sole beneficiary owner of the estate, has been alleged to have destroyed some of the writer's correspondence,[49] threatened to sue if public readings were held during Bloomsday,[50] and blocked adaptations he felt were 'inappropriate'.[51] On 12 June 2006, Carol Schloss, a Stanford University professor, sued the estate and prevailed for refusing to give permission to use material about Joyce and his daughter on the professor's website.
I have no public comment other than I guess this is what the current copyright laws have brought us and I'm not sure if this is what the founders had in mind.
How about stop buying Joyce's books?
There are plenty of other books to read and study.
How hard is it to fax a contract and link PayPal to a checking account? I learned how to work a fax machine when I was 8 and linked my PayPal when I was 10. So I guess the real question is: who would want an app from this guy in the first place?
Not everyone finds PayPal's Terms of Service acceptable.
In addition its none of Palm's business where your payment vendor points; checking account or no.
Monsanto has gone through a very confusing corporate history.
This is quite simplified;
Monsanto used to be a large chemical company with several agricultural divisions. Products like PCB and DDT were made by the Monsanto chemical company.
At some point in the company history, they decided to spin off the agricultural products. The new spin-off got to keep the "Monsanto" name, while the chemical company renamed itself Solutia. Solutia continues to exist today and is the historical descendant of the original Monsanto chemical business.
This ignores the Pharmacia spin-off, the Pfizer acquisition, and several other twists and turns, but it makes the general point clear - the agricultural company known today as "Monsanto" is not the linear descendant of the old chemical company with the same name.
I fail to see the difference.
Sure the legal entity/incorporation is different. But has the corporate culture changed?
If it's truly premium content, then I can see justifying paying for it.
However, the real problem is that most newspapers think that their editorial content is almost as good as the WSJ and the like. But the sad truth is that it's nowhere near that. It's not indepth, it's not researched, it's not thorough, hell, it's not usually spell checked. And every newsroom I've ever been in believes they have great content. In spite of the fact that most stories are PR pieces or written by someone else who emailed it to the features, sports or news desk.
And yet the newspapers think that they'll make more money by putting this crap behind a pay wall. In reality, they'll just get fewer hits on their website, and thus ads, and will end up lowering their revenue way more than what they charge for access to their 'premium' content.
If they wanted to actually increase revenue, there's a simple solution.
1. Create compelling content
2. Charge a premium for ads around that compelling content.
Compelling content = more readership which means more ad impressions which means more ad revenue. Yes, compelling content is hard. But it's the only way for newspapers to make it in the future.
Yet every paper sees it as giving content away for free. And they're all idiots. They provide a real service - information. They just need to figure out how & who to charge to optimize their bottom line. Because advertisers, especially local ones that are impacted by that compelling content, are willing to pay for good quality ad hits.
If the content is subsidized with advertisements I'm not going to pay for it.
I've used both environments over a long period of time on dedicated linux desktops. Both are competent products. Gnome looks good under Ubuntu 9.04. KDE 4.3 looks awesome as well. Both are sufficiently feature rich. Both add features rapidly on an ongoing basis. Both are solid products. The money is being well spent no matter how you look at it. I like that KDE has about a quarter million dollars banked. It shows strength and greater longevity.
My personal favorite, after using gnome for years, is KDE (which I have used since KDE 4.2). On a regular basis I see fixes and upgrades, though there still are some annoying aspects to it. After 25 years in computing and having dealt with Windows for most of that, KDE is probably the best and most well rounded desktop manager, even well beyond windows Win7, and certainly Vista. I have 4 Vista boxes in shop and I have a Win7 RC box for testing. I also have 3 Apple OSX systems. Nothing generally impresses me about them. I've watched compiz, beryl, and kwin turn into super feature rich, well balanced, polished and tailored products that in many ways existed before Vista was released.
Let's just say that I'm very impressed that these two organizations are producing products comparable or better than the competition. It is good to see that they are doing so much with so little.
Unfortunately the KDE 4.3 control center still feels crippled compared with old 3.5 stuff.
They did it with the monster cables vs a coat hanger. You could probably just grab a $500 violin and pit it against one of these 2 million dollar ones and see. The only problem is that the cost of $2m and $500 vs $150 and a coat hanger is a much bigger monetary difference.
But in 10 years that monster cable will be worth the price of scrap copper and the Strad will probably go from $2M to $5M.
Why not? The Pentagon continued using Halliburton for years, on huge no-bid contracts, even when its divisions were installing showers in Iraq that electrocuted our servicemembers. And that's just the worst failure the public heard about, after most of a decade of abusive cronyism.
Microsoft is much richer than even Halliburton, and its failures much less publicly scandalous. Why would it face a tougher standard? I'm sure Dick Cheney owns a lot of Microsoft stock, too.
I don't see what the problem is, capitalism and competition will take care of everything, let the market decide.
* More Data: Sprint includes unlimited GPS Navigation, Blackberry Internet Service, Sprint Music Premier (50 commercial-free streaming music channels, 100 local stations), Sprint TV Premier (25+ channels of live TV, on-demand clips and full-length episodes), NFL Mobile and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile; AT&T does not include Blackberry Internet Service, streaming music channels, on-demand full-length TV episodes, NFL Mobile or NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile.
You do the math.
So I can actually get a service that does not include NASCAR or football?
As well as Google pays Firefox, Opera and other browsers to have Google as the default search engine. This is their main marketing method, to have their services as default. There has been occasional other ad's, but they're quite minority with google. And well, it seems to work great for them.
Many server motherboards have more then 4 RAM slots. Many DDR3 desktop motherboards have 6 RAM slots. But it is not uncommon for server motherboards to have 12 or more RAM slots. Can one get 64 GB of RAM with 6 RAM slots? Sure, we can even do it with 4 RAM slots if you can get 16 GB RAM modules. Most people do not do that. And most regular people have no need for 32GB or 64GB of RAM in their desktop. Vista jokes aside, 64GB of RAM should really be in the for servers not desktops. That can be the thinking behind the 4GB of RAM limit for 32 bit desktop operating systems. Most people who use them will not have a need for more then that.
Also when the 4GB of RAM limit was set, RAM was really expensive. RAM prices have dropped a lot over the years. While having 4GB of RAM today can be commonplace, that was not the case 10 years ago.
If the system needs swap or a page file, then it doesn't have enough RAM.
These sound like the conservatives who protest health care reform and screaming about 'death committees'.
You know, the same people who take guns to presidential rallies because they can. Then scream about Bush protesters, who are exercising their freedom of speech, as being un-patriotic. while applauding the so-called "free speech" zones.
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We all know about the hazards of lead based paints, so is this safe ? I'm assuming the plastic lining in aluminum cans is there for a reason. Perhaps adding panelling containing a solid aluminum oxide mesh of some sort would be better.
An easy solution would be to stop eating paint.
AFAIK, the law states that under penalty of perjury, the issuer of a DMCA takedown notice must be the holder of the copyright on the work in question. There's no requirement that the notice itself be legitimate.
Have there been any documented cases of perjury charges actually being presses to the issuer of a DCMA take down notice?
I don't think this has ever actually be prosecuted; not even for the DMCA take down notice of Open Office a few years ago.
as some users are reportedly being reminded when they get phone calls from the publishers of a free app they've downloaded from the App Store.
This was an interesting bit that wasn't explained anywhere in the article. What kind of phone calls they get? Asking for user feedback of the app, marketing other products (maybe on other platforms)? Late night drunk calls?
But for that matter, I've always though that phone apps have access to your number anyway. It just makes sense, same way that PC apps have access to your IP address and other personal data saved on the machine.
Not that it's that bad anyway. Many kind of software need better access to the information to function to function. Answering machine software needs access to the phone book to show who called, or to make custom rules.
I dont think that the issue is really that the phone number and other data are available, but more on abusing said info. With Apple's really closed approach and the app store, it would probably be a good idea to send info about the abuse to Apple directly. Technically the apps require access to information to function.
As a side note, most of us probably think that "real-time traffic monitoring application" refers to internet traffic. I looked it up and it's actually about road traffic, not about internet stuff :)
Its not an issue that its available, its an issue that its getting sent back to the vendor.
A lo and behold, the "estate" is really Joyce's grandson.
Not everyone is eager to expand upon academic study of Joyce, however; Stephen Joyce, James' grandson and sole beneficiary owner of the estate, has been alleged to have destroyed some of the writer's correspondence,[49] threatened to sue if public readings were held during Bloomsday,[50] and blocked adaptations he felt were 'inappropriate'.[51] On 12 June 2006, Carol Schloss, a Stanford University professor, sued the estate and prevailed for refusing to give permission to use material about Joyce and his daughter on the professor's website.
I have no public comment other than I guess this is what the current copyright laws have brought us and I'm not sure if this is what the founders had in mind.
How about stop buying Joyce's books?
There are plenty of other books to read and study.
How hard is it to fax a contract and link PayPal to a checking account? I learned how to work a fax machine when I was 8 and linked my PayPal when I was 10. So I guess the real question is: who would want an app from this guy in the first place?
Not everyone finds PayPal's Terms of Service acceptable.
In addition its none of Palm's business where your payment vendor points; checking account or no.
Actually socialism isn't bad. It's just that Soviets gave it a bad image.
The soviets didn't actually practice socialism; they took fascism, and stuck a socialist/communist label on it.
Just because a group takes a pile of shit, calls it a diamond, and puts a gun to your head to make you call it a diamond as well, doesn't make it one.
Monsanto has gone through a very confusing corporate history.
This is quite simplified;
Monsanto used to be a large chemical company with several agricultural divisions. Products like PCB and DDT were made by the Monsanto chemical company.
At some point in the company history, they decided to spin off the agricultural products. The new spin-off got to keep the "Monsanto" name, while the chemical company renamed itself Solutia. Solutia continues to exist today and is the historical descendant of the original Monsanto chemical business.
This ignores the Pharmacia spin-off, the Pfizer acquisition, and several other twists and turns, but it makes the general point clear - the agricultural company known today as "Monsanto" is not the linear descendant of the old chemical company with the same name.
I fail to see the difference.
Sure the legal entity/incorporation is different. But has the corporate culture changed?
If it's truly premium content, then I can see justifying paying for it.
However, the real problem is that most newspapers think that their editorial content is almost as good as the WSJ and the like. But the sad truth is that it's nowhere near that. It's not indepth, it's not researched, it's not thorough, hell, it's not usually spell checked. And every newsroom I've ever been in believes they have great content. In spite of the fact that most stories are PR pieces or written by someone else who emailed it to the features, sports or news desk.
And yet the newspapers think that they'll make more money by putting this crap behind a pay wall. In reality, they'll just get fewer hits on their website, and thus ads, and will end up lowering their revenue way more than what they charge for access to their 'premium' content.
If they wanted to actually increase revenue, there's a simple solution. 1. Create compelling content 2. Charge a premium for ads around that compelling content.
Compelling content = more readership which means more ad impressions which means more ad revenue. Yes, compelling content is hard. But it's the only way for newspapers to make it in the future.
Yet every paper sees it as giving content away for free. And they're all idiots. They provide a real service - information. They just need to figure out how & who to charge to optimize their bottom line. Because advertisers, especially local ones that are impacted by that compelling content, are willing to pay for good quality ad hits.
If the content is subsidized with advertisements I'm not going to pay for it.
I've used both environments over a long period of time on dedicated linux desktops. Both are competent products. Gnome looks good under Ubuntu 9.04. KDE 4.3 looks awesome as well. Both are sufficiently feature rich. Both add features rapidly on an ongoing basis. Both are solid products. The money is being well spent no matter how you look at it. I like that KDE has about a quarter million dollars banked. It shows strength and greater longevity.
My personal favorite, after using gnome for years, is KDE (which I have used since KDE 4.2). On a regular basis I see fixes and upgrades, though there still are some annoying aspects to it. After 25 years in computing and having dealt with Windows for most of that, KDE is probably the best and most well rounded desktop manager, even well beyond windows Win7, and certainly Vista. I have 4 Vista boxes in shop and I have a Win7 RC box for testing. I also have 3 Apple OSX systems. Nothing generally impresses me about them. I've watched compiz, beryl, and kwin turn into super feature rich, well balanced, polished and tailored products that in many ways existed before Vista was released.
Let's just say that I'm very impressed that these two organizations are producing products comparable or better than the competition. It is good to see that they are doing so much with so little.
Unfortunately the KDE 4.3 control center still feels crippled compared with old 3.5 stuff.
They did it with the monster cables vs a coat hanger. You could probably just grab a $500 violin and pit it against one of these 2 million dollar ones and see. The only problem is that the cost of $2m and $500 vs $150 and a coat hanger is a much bigger monetary difference.
But in 10 years that monster cable will be worth the price of scrap copper and the Strad will probably go from $2M to $5M.
this is the way 90% of news is, ultimately useless or irrelevant
90% of all statistics are erroneous.
Why not? The Pentagon continued using Halliburton for years, on huge no-bid contracts, even when its divisions were installing showers in Iraq that electrocuted our servicemembers. And that's just the worst failure the public heard about, after most of a decade of abusive cronyism.
Microsoft is much richer than even Halliburton, and its failures much less publicly scandalous. Why would it face a tougher standard? I'm sure Dick Cheney owns a lot of Microsoft stock, too.
I don't see what the problem is, capitalism and competition will take care of everything, let the market decide.
So how do you get the girls to flock to science?
I don't hear a great debate over how to get more girls into plumbing, NASCAR, or masonry.
From here: http://www.product-reviews.net/2008/07/19/comparison-sprints-everything-plan-and-the-att-nation-plan/
You do the math.
So I can actually get a service that does not include NASCAR or football?
That makes the AT&T service almost worth it.
MySQL is known for being fast as hell under the right workload, just gotta use it the right way.
Sure its fast, when you don't turn on data validation.
Looks like the White Wolf guys should have gone to Dragon*Con instead.
Nobody called the police. In fact, my friend was carrying the other weapon I bought, a AR-15.
You're obviously a white guy
Or going to an Obama rally.
As well as Google pays Firefox, Opera and other browsers to have Google as the default search engine. This is their main marketing method, to have their services as default. There has been occasional other ad's, but they're quite minority with google. And well, it seems to work great for them.
Better Google than Bing or Yahoo!.
Am I the only one who thinks the 360 is one of the few things MSFT has got right in the last few years?
I'm no fan of our evil corporate overlords but hell, I like my 360. Halo rules. Geas of War rules. And XBL is a well done online offering.
What? It should be free? Sigh....
I would rather not game than subsidize Microsoft.
That's the point. If someone is going to steal my $2 in quarters I'd prefer that they not cost me hundreds by breaking the window to get it.
Then there are those of us to drive convertibles who would prefer not to have our roof cut.
Many server motherboards have more then 4 RAM slots. Many DDR3 desktop motherboards have 6 RAM slots. But it is not uncommon for server motherboards to have 12 or more RAM slots. Can one get 64 GB of RAM with 6 RAM slots? Sure, we can even do it with 4 RAM slots if you can get 16 GB RAM modules. Most people do not do that. And most regular people have no need for 32GB or 64GB of RAM in their desktop. Vista jokes aside, 64GB of RAM should really be in the for servers not desktops. That can be the thinking behind the 4GB of RAM limit for 32 bit desktop operating systems. Most people who use them will not have a need for more then that.
Also when the 4GB of RAM limit was set, RAM was really expensive. RAM prices have dropped a lot over the years. While having 4GB of RAM today can be commonplace, that was not the case 10 years ago.
If the system needs swap or a page file, then it doesn't have enough RAM.
These sound like the conservatives who protest health care reform and screaming about 'death committees'.
You know, the same people who take guns to presidential rallies because they can. Then scream about Bush protesters, who are exercising their freedom of speech, as being un-patriotic. while applauding the so-called "free speech" zones.
Yeah, because during the 80's he was doing such a good job with the Star Wars IP...
What do you mean 80s? He jumped off that cliff in 1979.
Oops, that should have been 1978.
Yeah, because during the 80's he was doing such a good job with the Star Wars IP...
What do you mean 80s? He jumped off that cliff in 1979.
It kills me that the moon has better bandwidth than my house.
That why its called "Rocket Science".