What it does mean is that you can't extort an inflated price for your "technology" by getting the infringer shut down while the legal proceedings take place if you are not somehow actually suffering damages by its use.
Not only that, but even if you are suffering damages, the injunction must still be "equitable". Shutting down every blackberry because they might infringe on a patent is clearly not equitable; even if you're suffering damages (non-paid royalties), you're not suffering irreparable harm (money can be paid later), and the damage to the company getting the injunction slapped on them is basically unfair.
In EU law, injunctions are pretty rare; it's more common for assets to be seized. Which doesn't mean those assets are taken away promptly, but merely that the owner can't run off with them or sell them -- usually only a portion of a bank account is frozen, or physical property is held hostage until the dispute is settled.
It's an easy cop out to say that credit cards only (or in the majority of cases) get compromised by "illigitimate" use. In the eyes of the consumer who falls for it, there's nothing illigitimate about a phishing e-mail, or a pharming site. There's nothing illigitimate about handing a waiter your credit card, even if it ends up being skimmed. The position taken here is "if it weren't for these pesky criminals, there'd be no crime, so it's not our fault we've come up with a system of fraudprevention that can be beat by a 3 year old". That's not an acceptable position.
The main effect of this will be that we see even more blogs that use Comic Sans. Oh boy, I can hardly wait!
Let's hope the fonts included in vista catch on - they're actually quite fetching, and designed by some of the greats of contemporary typography. (Props to Lucas de Groot!) Georgia is gorgeous too, and included with the current generation of windows.. Microsoft actually can do some stuff right; they're paying penance for comic sans..
Ummm...that error message just says you need to download the source code in order to build it. It says that because you have to do that because they can't download java automatically for you or bundle it because you have to agree to a restrictive license.
The "restrictive license" you refer to allows you to make any changes you want to the source And to not distribute it. In fact, you can only use the source code for "research and development". Even internal use isn't allowed. Let alone distribution. And you can't download the code if you're from certain countries. But if you modify it, guess who gets to use your code for free, and distribute it?
It's fairly typical for IT in large organizations to customize some stuff in Office, usually very sily things like having default templates that for some reason include macros, adding buttons to the menus to insert logo's and "confidential" marks, that sort of thing.
Those silly scripted pieces of annoyance are rolled out to every user in a large organization, and hey presto, most users of office are using "advanced" features, mostly because they can't be turned off easily.
I've not been in a large enterprise organisation that did NOT have office customization. (Nor in one where the customizations were NOT silly, or NOT dependent on ancient VB macros - it must be on page 1 of the MCSE book)
Damn, that's annoying.. having to click next a zillion times to "read" (mostly pictures) the "article".. And the remarkable revelation? You'll be getting popups because of restrictive file permissions! Well, gee, I would certainly never have figured out THAT was the reason for popups that say "you lack the required permissions"....
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Its becoming more and more common for legitimate companies to start a "competition" for one thing or another, its one thing for an FOSS project to hold these competitions or events, but for a "for profit" to hold these competitions seems like either lazyiness (their web developer doesn't want to) or incompetitance (their web developer isn't able to) I mean, honestly, just hire someone to do it
No, it's what we like to call "just a marketing gimmick". In fact, they even address any "ripping off" or "freeloading" concerns on the blog right there. They'll be using any winning design for one day only, as you'd expect from a marketing gimmick.
Also, the BBC isn't a "for profit". It's a corporation founded by royal charter, funded directly by the public via a "TV license fee". While it does own several for-profit entities (such as BBC America), the corporation itself is a non-profit.
In a truely cashless society, there would be no way to have private transactions.
Except for digicash. (Sadly, the company folded.. No government or corporation really stands to benefit from secure anonymous electronic cash, just private citizens/consumers.
Important messages such as "The network is going down, save your work!" or "you're running low on both RAM and SWAP space" etc are rather important.
Amusingly (well.. not for me), I get the "battery critical" warning AFTER plugging my laptop in because it's lost its power... That's the one popup they take too long to push in your face..:-(
It's quite possible that this is one of the areas in which forced password switching is a plus - it forces users to differentiate their passwords over different networks and sites, so that it is more difficult to "fish" for a particular password.
Usually what happens is that people start changing all of their passwords on the password-age-restricted systems synchronously. So when some systems have a limit of 30 days, and some other 60 days or 99 days, they'll just change their passwords on all of these monthly. To something like "MyCatsNameJan", "MyCatsNameFeb" etc.
Yeah, but when is the last time you saw ANY software that actually echoed passwords to the screen? Basic security says that this should never occur. Unless you're really good at reading keystrokes, that isn't a real concern.
The problem lies with badly designed operating system/windowing system software that allow windows to grab focus. No window should be allowed to programmatically, without user intervention, pop to the foreground and get focus (whether it's a pop-up ad or any sort of dialogue). Unfortunately, this happens all the time. Especially windows applications love to pop up messages, dialogues, windows, and all allow you to quickly (without noticing) press OK and continue typing your password in plain sight in the application that just hijacked your focus! XP's "prevent applications from stealing focus" doesn't always work, and never works if an application happens to be spawning in the background (like during startup, which might be a good time to enter a password into putty's pagent for example).. *sigh*
One of the major problems with a number of useful open source projects is that their names are terrible for the corporate environment. This is a perfect example of such a project. I sure wouldn't want to pitch the use of this software to a CTO or CIO, even if it was perfect for our database cluster, just because it is called 'Ultra Monkey'. That's just not a professional name, and this product will likely not be taken seriously.
Of course, since it's open source there's nothing to prevent you from renaming it.
And let's not forget there are plenty of stupid names for succesful, commercial software. Like "Oracle" - an oracle being an ancient greek priestess high on volcanic fumes who pulls stuff out of her ass - for a database - meant to reliably store information, not make it up. Or "Lotus Notes", which has nothing to do with making notes (and e-mails are called "memos" in Notes), and nothing to do with flowers, either. Or the sophomorically named "COOL:GEN" programming language. It's like, really cool, and like, professional. Or the way how "excel" is spelled with only one L - and imagine what amateurish hubris it would be to name your software "excel" to begin with; the only reason we don't bat an eyelid is because it's become so entrenched.
I'm sure this thread will devolve into a shouting match of the most inane names for software (and I'd like to encourage this;-)).
I'm glad you've reconciled GE with yourself, but getting software (DNA) to work on a machine (the organism) without studying it first is an excercise in late-night comedy.
Well, I'd say putting a strand of genetic material that is known to encode for a specific enzyme in one organism into another, and then lo and behold, the other organism makes the same enzyme, isn't quite rocket science.
This is a (not particularly well documented) setting on the server that was botched up. If you install a printer driver on the server, you'll usually end up installing the printer driver for the windows server OS *only*. When clients want to use the printer, they'll be presented with the same driver. However, you can add printer drivers for additional operating systems; well, windows OSes. the instructions are here. When a different OS client tries to connect, it's presented with its own driver version, if available. Make sure your friendly BOFH gets that link.
One note; I've found that drivers for different windows versions can behave differently, even if it's the same printer driver version (yes, HP, I'm talking to you). Not only will they have ever so slightly different GUIs (confusing your lusers) but they'll be broken in interesting, and more importantly *different* ways.
To avoid too much heterogenity, I've had most luck using as-generic-as-possible postscript drivers (e.g. the adobe postscript drivers for windows 98/NT, and the built-in postscript driver on 000 and up, with a.ppd file that describes the printers specific options).
You can also just send postscript (or PCL) files to a (ps/pcl) printer using copy/b file.bin \\driver\printername or you can even output postscript directly to \\server\printername\filename.bin - the filename is ignored. Certified Postscript Level 3 printers (HP printers "emulate" PS3!) will even directly print off PDF files just copied to them; it's a native format to them. Quite a bit faster than viewing the PDF in acrobat, then printing it, though you lose options like double sided printing, n-up, etc.
What about that TFA? Some one converted a stack of indexcards to a relational database? And this warrants a post on regdeveloper AND slashdot, exactly why? Like there aren't things to write about like the Open Archives Initiative Protocol.. Geez.
It was Sony's decision not to put BluRay to the DVD Forum, which was specifically founded to prevent format wars. Since then, others have signed up to BluRay, which does not change the fact that it's NOT HD-DVD, and that we now have another format war on our hands. BluRay is superior to (though more expensive than) HD-DVD, but it should have been HD DVD. This sort of silly competition has NO place in the consumer arena, this is what the standards bodies are for in the first place. (And besides, you'll find the list of companies supporting BluRay is longer than yours, as is the list of HD DVD backers check here.. Porn producers aren't listed in the HD DVD camp, but they are, since it's cheaper to fab for them, which may be an important factor (cf. VHS vs. Betamax)). Lists of supporters don't really tell the whole story; we're still waiting for working devices from either camp. It DOES tell us there's yet another wholly unnecessary formats war, though.
And your nitpick doesn't adress any of the other examples at all. Not very impressive ground for calling some one completely wrong.
Geez, you're a might touchy about the capabilities of an inanimate object you happen to own.
GPS operates on microwave frequencies. Those signals are highly directional, you need a line of sight. In fact, if they were easily dispersed and bounced off of lots of things (the way AM bounces of the stratosphere itself for example) it would be pretty useless as a navigational tool. Now, I'm sure it operates in your pocket. Pockets don't insulate that well against microwave RF. So your receiver will still see the RF pouring down from the sky.
Most car roofs, and some specially coated (against the sun/heat) windshields do too (they usually have a non-shielded spot in the middle of the windshield where you can put an RF toll-token or a GPS receiver). Also, in built-up areas buildings on either side of the road will obstruct the line-of-sight to satellites, and your receiver will be best off lying horizontally on a flat surface, with no roof obstructing the view of the sky above it.
It is well possible that you never drive in built-up areas and have a rooftop that is made out of some sort of flimsy balsawood. That does not in any way discredit a piece of general advice given to ALL readers of this website. You're line of reasoning is basically "STFU". Yeah. Real helpful. I respond to that with a hearty "Cognitive dissonance or phallus symbol?"
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What it does mean is that you can't extort an inflated price for your "technology" by getting the infringer shut down while the legal proceedings take place if you are not somehow actually suffering damages by its use.
Not only that, but even if you are suffering damages, the injunction must still be "equitable". Shutting down every blackberry because they might infringe on a patent is clearly not equitable; even if you're suffering damages (non-paid royalties), you're not suffering irreparable harm (money can be paid later), and the damage to the company getting the injunction slapped on them is basically unfair.
In EU law, injunctions are pretty rare; it's more common for assets to be seized. Which doesn't mean those assets are taken away promptly, but merely that the owner can't run off with them or sell them -- usually only a portion of a bank account is frozen, or physical property is held hostage until the dispute is settled.
It's an easy cop out to say that credit cards only (or in the majority of cases) get compromised by "illigitimate" use. In the eyes of the consumer who falls for it, there's nothing illigitimate about a phishing e-mail, or a pharming site. There's nothing illigitimate about handing a waiter your credit card, even if it ends up being skimmed. The position taken here is "if it weren't for these pesky criminals, there'd be no crime, so it's not our fault we've come up with a system of fraudprevention that can be beat by a 3 year old". That's not an acceptable position.
The main effect of this will be that we see even more blogs that use Comic Sans. Oh boy, I can hardly wait!
Let's hope the fonts included in vista catch on - they're actually quite fetching, and designed by some of the greats of contemporary typography. (Props to Lucas de Groot!) Georgia is gorgeous too, and included with the current generation of windows.. Microsoft actually can do some stuff right; they're paying penance for comic sans..
Ummm...that error message just says you need to download the source code in order to build it.
It says that because you have to do that because they can't download java automatically for you or bundle it because you have to agree to a restrictive license.
The "restrictive license" you refer to allows you to make any changes you want to the source
And to not distribute it. In fact, you can only use the source code for "research and development". Even internal use isn't allowed. Let alone distribution. And you can't download the code if you're from certain countries. But if you modify it, guess who gets to use your code for free, and distribute it?
It's fairly typical for IT in large organizations to customize some stuff in Office, usually very sily things like having default templates that for some reason include macros, adding buttons to the menus to insert logo's and "confidential" marks, that sort of thing.
Those silly scripted pieces of annoyance are rolled out to every user in a large organization, and hey presto, most users of office are using "advanced" features, mostly because they can't be turned off easily.
I've not been in a large enterprise organisation that did NOT have office customization. (Nor in one where the customizations were NOT silly, or NOT dependent on ancient VB macros - it must be on page 1 of the MCSE book)
This guys best defense would be to issue a full and frank admission of guilt.
Who would believe him?
Damn, that's annoying.. having to click next a zillion times to "read" (mostly pictures) the "article".. And the remarkable revelation? You'll be getting popups because of restrictive file permissions! Well, gee, I would certainly never have figured out THAT was the reason for popups that say "you lack the required permissions"....
Its becoming more and more common for legitimate companies to start a "competition" for one thing or another, its one thing for an FOSS project to hold these competitions or events, but for a "for profit" to hold these competitions seems like either lazyiness (their web developer doesn't want to) or incompetitance (their web developer isn't able to) I mean, honestly, just hire someone to do it
No, it's what we like to call "just a marketing gimmick". In fact, they even address any "ripping off" or "freeloading" concerns on the blog right there. They'll be using any winning design for one day only, as you'd expect from a marketing gimmick.
Also, the BBC isn't a "for profit". It's a corporation founded by royal charter, funded directly by the public via a "TV license fee". While it does own several for-profit entities (such as BBC America), the corporation itself is a non-profit.
We all know it was Al Gore who invented the internet. And killed Manbearpig.
"In our defense, your Honor, we did it in secret so as not to get caught."
"Case dismissed!"
In a truely cashless society, there would be no way to have private transactions.
Except for digicash. (Sadly, the company folded.. No government or corporation really stands to benefit from secure anonymous electronic cash, just private citizens/consumers.
Important messages such as "The network is going down, save your work!" or "you're running low on both RAM and SWAP space" etc are rather important.
:-(
Amusingly (well.. not for me), I get the "battery critical" warning AFTER plugging my laptop in because it's lost its power... That's the one popup they take too long to push in your face..
It's quite possible that this is one of the areas in which forced password switching is a plus - it forces users to differentiate their passwords over different networks and sites, so that it is more difficult to "fish" for a particular password.
Usually what happens is that people start changing all of their passwords on the password-age-restricted systems synchronously. So when some systems have a limit of 30 days, and some other 60 days or 99 days, they'll just change their passwords on all of these monthly. To something like "MyCatsNameJan", "MyCatsNameFeb" etc.
Yeah, but when is the last time you saw ANY software that actually echoed passwords to the screen? Basic security says that this should never occur. Unless you're really good at reading keystrokes, that isn't a real concern.
The problem lies with badly designed operating system/windowing system software that allow windows to grab focus. No window should be allowed to programmatically, without user intervention, pop to the foreground and get focus (whether it's a pop-up ad or any sort of dialogue). Unfortunately, this happens all the time. Especially windows applications love to pop up messages, dialogues, windows, and all allow you to quickly (without noticing) press OK and continue typing your password in plain sight in the application that just hijacked your focus! XP's "prevent applications from stealing focus" doesn't always work, and never works if an application happens to be spawning in the background (like during startup, which might be a good time to enter a password into putty's pagent for example).. *sigh*
One of the major problems with a number of useful open source projects is that their names are terrible for the corporate environment. This is a perfect example of such a project. I sure wouldn't want to pitch the use of this software to a CTO or CIO, even if it was perfect for our database cluster, just because it is called 'Ultra Monkey'. That's just not a professional name, and this product will likely not be taken seriously.
;-)).
Of course, since it's open source there's nothing to prevent you from renaming it.
And let's not forget there are plenty of stupid names for succesful, commercial software. Like "Oracle" - an oracle being an ancient greek priestess high on volcanic fumes who pulls stuff out of her ass - for a database - meant to reliably store information, not make it up. Or "Lotus Notes", which has nothing to do with making notes (and e-mails are called "memos" in Notes), and nothing to do with flowers, either. Or the sophomorically named "COOL:GEN" programming language. It's like, really cool, and like, professional. Or the way how "excel" is spelled with only one L - and imagine what amateurish hubris it would be to name your software "excel" to begin with; the only reason we don't bat an eyelid is because it's become so entrenched.
I'm sure this thread will devolve into a shouting match of the most inane names for software (and I'd like to encourage this
C:\>cat /etc/motd
'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
On windows, you need to use
type C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\motd
Cringely doesn't make this stuff up, he has inside contacts
who make it up for him.
I'm glad you've reconciled GE with yourself, but getting software (DNA) to work on a machine (the organism) without studying it first is an excercise in late-night comedy.
Well, I'd say putting a strand of genetic material that is known to encode for a specific enzyme in one organism into another, and then lo and behold, the other organism makes the same enzyme, isn't quite rocket science.
This is a (not particularly well documented) setting on the server that was botched up. If you install a printer driver on the server, you'll usually end up installing the printer driver for the windows server OS *only*. When clients want to use the printer, they'll be presented with the same driver. However, you can add printer drivers for additional operating systems; well, windows OSes. the instructions are here. When a different OS client tries to connect, it's presented with its own driver version, if available. Make sure your friendly BOFH gets that link.
.ppd file that describes the printers specific options).
/b file.bin \\driver\printername or you can even output postscript directly to \\server\printername\filename.bin - the filename is ignored. Certified Postscript Level 3 printers (HP printers "emulate" PS3!) will even directly print off PDF files just copied to them; it's a native format to them. Quite a bit faster than viewing the PDF in acrobat, then printing it, though you lose options like double sided printing, n-up, etc.
One note; I've found that drivers for different windows versions can behave differently, even if it's the same printer driver version (yes, HP, I'm talking to you). Not only will they have ever so slightly different GUIs (confusing your lusers) but they'll be broken in interesting, and more importantly *different* ways.
To avoid too much heterogenity, I've had most luck using as-generic-as-possible postscript drivers (e.g. the adobe postscript drivers for windows 98/NT, and the built-in postscript driver on 000 and up, with a
You can also just send postscript (or PCL) files to a (ps/pcl) printer using copy
Of course! drive.by.net !
What about that TFA? Some one converted a stack of indexcards to a relational database? And this warrants a post on regdeveloper AND slashdot, exactly why?
Like there aren't things to write about like the Open Archives Initiative Protocol.. Geez.
It was Sony's decision not to put BluRay to the DVD Forum, which was specifically founded to prevent format wars. Since then, others have signed up to BluRay, which does not change the fact that it's NOT HD-DVD, and that we now have another format war on our hands. BluRay is superior to (though more expensive than) HD-DVD, but it should have been HD DVD. This sort of silly competition has NO place in the consumer arena, this is what the standards bodies are for in the first place. (And besides, you'll find the list of companies supporting BluRay is longer than yours, as is the list of HD DVD backers check here.. Porn producers aren't listed in the HD DVD camp, but they are, since it's cheaper to fab for them, which may be an important factor (cf. VHS vs. Betamax)). Lists of supporters don't really tell the whole story; we're still waiting for working devices from either camp. It DOES tell us there's yet another wholly unnecessary formats war, though.
And your nitpick doesn't adress any of the other examples at all. Not very impressive ground for calling some one completely wrong.
Hey, the best way to wreck a system is from within. Just look at all the stoners who're wreaking their revenge at the DMV by taking a job there..
Geez, you're a might touchy about the capabilities of an inanimate object you happen to own.
GPS operates on microwave frequencies. Those signals are highly directional, you need a line of sight. In fact, if they were easily dispersed and bounced off of lots of things (the way AM bounces of the stratosphere itself for example) it would be pretty useless as a navigational tool. Now, I'm sure it operates in your pocket. Pockets don't insulate that well against microwave RF. So your receiver will still see the RF pouring down from the sky.
Most car roofs, and some specially coated (against the sun/heat) windshields do too (they usually have a non-shielded spot in the middle of the windshield where you can put an RF toll-token or a GPS receiver). Also, in built-up areas buildings on either side of the road will obstruct the line-of-sight to satellites, and your receiver will be best off lying horizontally on a flat surface, with no roof obstructing the view of the sky above it.
It is well possible that you never drive in built-up areas and have a rooftop that is made out of some sort of flimsy balsawood. That does not in any way discredit a piece of general advice given to ALL readers of this website. You're line of reasoning is basically "STFU". Yeah. Real helpful. I respond to that with a hearty "Cognitive dissonance or phallus symbol?"
"job cuts in the tech sector are down 40 percent." Great statistic! Now what on earth does it mean for the actual amount of jobs? And job seekers?
This sort of statistic sound like it might be due to the increase in growth not slowing down as fast...
In other words; hard, useless, figures.