X was big and slow. Over the years, our values of big and cpu-power have changed radically. Those "very memory- & CPU-limited devices" would blow the doors (and windows) off workstation class boxes from a few computer eras ago. Cool!
I'm sure that when auto-makers went to Just In Time inventory and ordering systems via B2B communications, their suppliers were compensated for any cost of conversion and restructuring. Right?
If their suppliers don't make any money selling razors to Walmart, why do they?
According to the story Mike wants $10,000 for the domain. Now that there have been over 250,000 hits in such a short time, and huge publicity, he should probably ask for more if someone wants to buy it from him.
With environmental battles, I'm sure that you're familar with the difficulty in getting effective laws passed in the teeth of entrenched interests who also use national borders to hide behind? The ones that allow laws passed that hit the small polluter, but leave their large-scale operation alone?
Same thing when it comes to spam laws, the DMA, and their lobby group.
Turning your analogy around, listed ISPs that don't handle their spammers and don't care when their honest customers get blocked take hostages and use human shields. UUNET/MCI sends their human shields to nanae even when they know that it won't solve their customer's problem.
But telemarketers are restricted in their calling times. (Check the rules in your area.) Those hangup calls at 3am aren't from telemarketers.
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It looks okay in Lego with Biff Starling and Sandy Moondust on Mars (Kind of combining two continuing/. stories.) They even have Lego rovers that you can drive by web. I don't suppose they use the Maestro software? A working Lego Mindstorm rover would be cool--with experiment add-on packs. Imagine the probes that would be built by people who had been playing with them since they were kids?
You might see a speed-up if you change 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0(blivion). There's no reason to query localhost for a webserver unless you've got one rigged to serve up cute cat pictures instead when the ads are requested.
An email isn't bogus, but it can be safely ignored if you want to. "It must have got lost", "My spam filter ate your homework" and "Are you sure you sent it?" are valid excuses. If they send it email, they aren't serious yet.
There are two things about a trademark to keep in mind: (1) A trademark/company name usually has a limited domain of geography or type of business. You can't just own a word (unless you invented it), it has to be related to the scope declared and approved in the application. (2) Trademarks have to be defended or they are lost. They might not have wanted to hassle you or care, but if they don't at least put on a show of defending their name or anything close to it, they lose it. Some people are jerks (mumblesoft), and some are nice about it (Hormel and Lego).
I recented incorporated a company and used a numbered name (1234567 Canada Inc). $20ish cheaper, I don't have to deal with people who think my name is too close to theirs, and I don't have to keep scanning for people encroaching on my name space. Best of all, I bet the domain name is available. If not, I can send *them* a nasty letter.:^)
I did read the article. Mostly... Actually I read the paper version in the Toronto Star, before coffee. (Nice story about Memory Glasses if anyone wants to submit it. Got work to do today, whee!)
Not just the Register. The Canadian Press version also used copyright rather than trademark. Probably the source story that went out over "the wire" misused it and it spread from there. If the email actually said copyright, then it can be filed in/dev/null.
That Microsoft's lawyers sent this notice by email is also odd. That's not any kind of proper legal notification. (But then some people trust faxed signatures, so who knows?)
It's not entirely a non-issue. Eventually the whole cybersex thing and lack of checking ages is going to turn into a messy case that's going to get a lot of (real) press. If the game ever collides with law enforcement tracking down predators having simulated sex with underage minors who lied about their ages, oh my. It'll open a big can of silly-ass, but it'll happen eventually.
Wasn't there a lawsuit a few years ago over some kind of an online "virtual rape"?
So? How did they determine that those IPs should be blocked, and more importantly, that the rest shouldn't be? Anyone checking P2P out for the RIAA is going to look like just another file-sharer and blend in. Short of sending PeerGuardian teams over to check under the beds for lawyers, sniffers and loggers, they're just guessing.
It's not a troll. NASA routinely does this with CDs or chips on probes. Somewhere near Mars' south pole there's a splattered CD with my name on it. Stardust carried chips, two of which will return with the sample. Here's the signup page for Deep Impact until the end of January.
After going through this in low gear, let's see if I've got this right: SCO is making money on paper by selling their own shares short. (They bet against themselves.)
If they do this, Darl makes 600,000 * thousand * ($11 or so - what the options cost Darl). Holy sheep! That company's stock should be red-flagged and teams of SEC strike auditors standing by.
One place to start would be the 386BSD articles in Dr. Dobb's some 14 years ago. That's not the start of BSD UNIX, of course, and a lot has changed and forked since then. They're not a bad read, and a good look at how things were Way Back Then and the inside of a kernel.
Since I own dead tree versions, I have no idea if they're easily available or have been collected together.
They tried for much worse. They wanted only their sites to appear in the search results for "scientology". Google caved in for a couple of days. The backlash boosted critial sites much higher in the results order.
Are you using the keywords in a way that would conflict with the coverage of the trademarks? i.e. I could have a Playmate Daycare Inc, and possibly even trademark the name without conflicting with Playboy's trademark.
When registering/incorporating/trademarking a name, you always have to specify a narrow domain for the use of the name.
If they're just using a simple search, they're probably getting a lot of false-positive conflict hits.
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X was big and slow. Over the years, our values of big and cpu-power have changed radically. Those "very memory- & CPU-limited devices" would blow the doors (and windows) off workstation class boxes from a few computer eras ago. Cool!
If their suppliers don't make any money selling razors to Walmart, why do they?
No platinum? Bah, next you'll be saying that silver duct tape doesn't have any silver either! (Perhaps that's why it's such an amazing bargain?)
According to the story Mike wants $10,000 for the domain. Now that there have been over 250,000 hits in such a short time, and huge publicity, he should probably ask for more if someone wants to buy it from him.
According to this Mars may be chocolate. The poor bugger is probably just sleeping off a sugar-binge. But that's okay because 'Just Sleep On It' Solves Tricky Problems
Mars on a wet Sunday would not be dull. But I doubt it has a seaside or historic castles. Pity.
No, because it never happened. (Unless you're saying Osirusoft was SPEWS?)
Same thing when it comes to spam laws, the DMA, and their lobby group.
Turning your analogy around, listed ISPs that don't handle their spammers and don't care when their honest customers get blocked take hostages and use human shields. UUNET/MCI sends their human shields to nanae even when they know that it won't solve their customer's problem.
But telemarketers are restricted in their calling times. (Check the rules in your area.) Those hangup calls at 3am aren't from telemarketers.
It looks okay in Lego with Biff Starling and Sandy Moondust on Mars (Kind of combining two continuing /. stories.) They even have Lego rovers that you can drive by web. I don't suppose they use the Maestro software? A working Lego Mindstorm rover would be cool--with experiment add-on packs. Imagine the probes that would be built by people who had been playing with them since they were kids?
You might see a speed-up if you change 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0(blivion). There's no reason to query localhost for a webserver unless you've got one rigged to serve up cute cat pictures instead when the ads are requested.
There are two things about a trademark to keep in mind: (1) A trademark/company name usually has a limited domain of geography or type of business. You can't just own a word (unless you invented it), it has to be related to the scope declared and approved in the application. (2) Trademarks have to be defended or they are lost. They might not have wanted to hassle you or care, but if they don't at least put on a show of defending their name or anything close to it, they lose it. Some people are jerks (mumblesoft), and some are nice about it (Hormel and Lego).
I recented incorporated a company and used a numbered name (1234567 Canada Inc). $20ish cheaper, I don't have to deal with people who think my name is too close to theirs, and I don't have to keep scanning for people encroaching on my name space. Best of all, I bet the domain name is available. If not, I can send *them* a nasty letter. :^)
I did read the article. Mostly... Actually I read the paper version in the Toronto Star, before coffee. (Nice story about Memory Glasses if anyone wants to submit it. Got work to do today, whee!)
That Microsoft's lawyers sent this notice by email is also odd. That's not any kind of proper legal notification. (But then some people trust faxed signatures, so who knows?)
Wasn't there a lawsuit a few years ago over some kind of an online "virtual rape"?
In this case, I think it would be better left to contract law and the market place.
It's an electronic gated village. Private property. eMall cops and everything.
So? How did they determine that those IPs should be blocked, and more importantly, that the rest shouldn't be? Anyone checking P2P out for the RIAA is going to look like just another file-sharer and blend in. Short of sending PeerGuardian teams over to check under the beds for lawyers, sniffers and loggers, they're just guessing.
It's not a troll. NASA routinely does this with CDs or chips on probes. Somewhere near Mars' south pole there's a splattered CD with my name on it. Stardust carried chips, two of which will return with the sample. Here's the signup page for Deep Impact until the end of January.
If they do this, Darl makes 600,000 * thousand * ($11 or so - what the options cost Darl). Holy sheep! That company's stock should be red-flagged and teams of SEC strike auditors standing by.
Since I own dead tree versions, I have no idea if they're easily available or have been collected together.
They tried for much worse. They wanted only their sites to appear in the search results for "scientology". Google caved in for a couple of days. The backlash boosted critial sites much higher in the results order.
When registering/incorporating/trademarking a name, you always have to specify a narrow domain for the use of the name.
If they're just using a simple search, they're probably getting a lot of false-positive conflict hits.
Before you left? Once you landed, I'm sure that you would get postal mail from Capital One every few days offering you one.
Heaven-sent, like god-willing, is null-noise. Replace it with "lucky", no biggy.