Using aol.com in your domain name for something AOL related is just asking for trouble.
Bullshit. AOLSucks.com wouldn't have the impact without "aol" being part of the domain name. They successfully defended the domain under the auspices of fair use.
Just because the letters aol are part of your domain name doesn't give AOL the right to stomp down on your ass - even if the subject of your site is related to AOL.
If you're up to something infringing on their trademark like trying to make money off their good name, then yeah you're violating their mark. But this doesn't.
IANAL, but you should get one. They're really not all that expensive. Stand up to the bully. Tell AOL to fuck off.
I disagree. I find Angelina Jolie (cache names in my brain) to have quite ample tracts of land for the character. Hell, I'm sure Billy Bob felt the same way.
Tell your insurance agent(s) you're checking it out with your attorney. File complaint with your state (province) FTC and insurance regulatory agency. A tree falling on your truck should be covered, if you have full coverage insurance. Weather isn't an Act of God.
BTW, I'm an atheist, so Act of God isn't fitting for me either. Perhaps for you it could be considered karmic consequences. However, as another poster noted "shit happens."
Impressive achievement. Just goes to show you that the line between amateur and professional rocketry isn't quite as divided as many profess. No doubt they'll be able to get someone beyond the "space" altitude (or orbit) before the end of the decade.
I think it would be equally or potentially more interesting to deploy a small army of ThinkGeek-style rovers. Perhaps small-scale industrial stuff later, all done via remote-control.
Depends, of course. You'll find it difficult to get Act of God coverage for your house. I recall reading - probably an urban myth - about an old lady in Flordia whose house burned to the ground. The cause of the fire was determined to be a meteor which had plowed through the roof of her house. The meteor apparently started the fire.
Allegedly, her insurance company balked and said that her policy - which included everything from fire and flooding to sinkholes - did not cover Acts of God. Clearly, a meteor hurtling through the atmosphere to striker her house was an Act of God. However, the company ultimately paid, bowing to public pressure.
Ran keywords against google, but couldn't find a reference - so it's probably bullshit.
My boss and his wife had LASIK surgery. It worked fantastic for him; he went from shitty vision to better than 20/20; and he's also a pilot.
His wife, however, and two other patients had their vision severely damaged due to a bad instrument. Since the surgeries are quick (just a few minutes), it wasn't noticed.
They only do one eye at a time, just in case of something like this. So, only one eye is affected. However, she can't sit in front a computer very long and is subject to severe headaches. Even with glasses, her vision in that eye is poor.
Is it worth the risk? Well, there is only one person that can answer that question: you. Personally, I'm willing to take it, but would rather go for intacts than LASIK because my night vision sucks ass as it is. Unlike my boss, who has good night vision even after the surgery, my night vision sucks ass without any surgery. Since I'm planning to get my pilot's license, I'd rather go for intacts.
Sigh. Not *everything* on P2P is copyrighted materials. There are those who make our own music and videos and want to share them. I'm sure that's the tack they're taking on this, and I think they're right.
I have to agree with you here. My old BX-6R2 based box finally bit the big one at a LAN party. It started life as a Celeron 300A overclocked to 450.
With a 50% increase in clock speed, overclocking was well worth it. Even when I spent almost as much on my cooling solution as I did on the processor ($55 for former, $65 for latter). It let me build a system I was happy with for 2+ years at an unbeatable price.
Later, I went to a 800MHz Celeron. Just as I was considering pushing it to a 1.8GHz Celeron through an upgradeware upgrade, a fellow LANner managed to snap two capacitors off my motherboard and fry the whole box. (Don't ask how - and no, he's not going to pony up).
I just didn't see the point in upgrading my box except with processor b/c I was maxed with 1GB of RAM and the box performed (almost) flawlessly. Need ATA-133, pop in a card. Yeah, I only had AGP 2x, but I held my own fraggin' with a low-end GeForce2. If it hadn't been for the accident, I wouldn't have upgraded.
Now I'm the proud owner of a Shuttle SS51G-based system. With a DVD-burner, a smokin' WD 120GB drive, and a GeForce4 Ti 4600 w/VIVO. I wanted to wait for the Athlon/nForce2 based systems to come out in October, but I had a dead box and couldn't really wait. Being an old-school overclocker, I decided to see how far the CPU would go:
I started with a stock 2.4GHz rev B Pentium 4 and cranked it up to 2.52GHz. Went a tad higher, but had to clear CMOS and start over. When I benchmarked the system at different speeds, there was negligible difference. Why make the extra heat? Bah.
My system absolutely smokes. I'm extremely happy and if current trends continue, I won't feel the need to replace this box for another 3-4 years. And the size is perfect for toting to LAN parties. Now I just need a sweet LCD monitor without tracies....
There is a cost associated with going digital too. The last time I checked, hard drives and mp3 players weren't free. You need a place to store your movies and music, hence the analogy holds.
Independent reviews show that Al Gore should be sitting in the White House right now. Instead of mandating a state-wide recount, the Supreme Court ended recount and handed the election to George Bush. He was selected, not elected President. Ironically, the Supreme Court action was unconstitutional. In a disputed tied election, such a decision goes to the House of Representatives - not the Supreme Court.
You *do* live in a country that at least has indirection elections that are fairly free from corruption.
Really? How about the Florida elections of 2000 and 2002? Those sure the hell weren't free of corruption. Bush was "elected" due to rampant voter fraud. And now his brother will be re-elected in Florida - again due to vote fraud.
You see, Senator? This is a perfect example of why we need Trustworthy Computing(TM) protection like Palladium(TM). Protection at the hardware level is absolutely essential to stop the rampant piracy of intellectual property that threatens to destroy the entertainment industry.
Imagine, if you will, the billions of dollars in lost revenue, the thousands of lost jobs, the dozens of dollars of lost tax revenue (for those of us who don't shelter our money overseas) if this behavior is allowed.
This is more damning that the threat of VCRs and audio tapes that nearly destroyed our industry in the 1980's. Then consumers could watch television whenever they wanted and fast-forward over commercials. They could watch these shows again and again without new revenue being generated with each play. They could make mix tapes of their favorite music to listen whenever they wanted as often as they wanted, without paying more money, and without being forced to listen to the new music and messages we're selling.
See how much money we lost in the 1980's a direct result of the evil Socialist conspiracy? This is why we need perpetual copyright and why we must control every aspect of the consumer experience. We must be rid of choice; it threatens our very existence. And yours. Imagine what would happen if voters had real free choice of who they wanted in office.
get to do pretty much whatever they want. If you want more socially responsible government, then vote Socialist. And there's more to it than just voting once every few years. Be politically active. Call and write your representatives and express your views. Get involved in local politics. If all you do is sit on your ass and watch your TiVo, don't be suprised when you've found your political power gone.
Any license which restricts your constitutional rights (e.g. Microsoft's "thou shalt not write a bad review of our software") or other rights (reverse engineering) is unenforceable. You can sign a contract with your landlord that prohibits you from ever having dark people as company, but that part of the contract is unenforceable. IANAL, but run it past yours and you'll find this kind of restraint is bullshit. This will be overturned on appeal.
Nobody lives in a vacuum and it's ludicrous to demand that they do. There is no such thing as objectivity; those who say otherwise are full of shit. The best you can do is to represent both (or more) sides of an issue as accurately as possible from the point of view of each side. But you have to take a stand, THAT is good journalism.
In "firing the ass" of any reviewer who states an opinion, political, artistic, or otherwise that "gets in the way" of your well-oiled corporate machine makes you little different from press-release "news" organizations like Fox News and CNN.
If you don't think that your reviewers would be interested in the fact that Sony (or whoever) is sealing new releases in glued Walkmans to "prevent piracy" (and prevent a reviewer from doing their job by reviewing it on a hi-fi) then you're sadly mistaken.
Were I a reviewer, I would do exactly what the parent poster suggested. I'd send the damned thing back to Sony and write up my review of those who send me a CD, making a note as to why Perl Jam:-) didn't make the review and rant about how stupid "anti-piracy" has become. Anyone who fires me for doing my job (reviewing things FOR CONSUMERS) isn't doing THEIR JOB.
Nah, the SS51 has an AGP slot. LOL. This is my new gaming box - I'm putting in a GeForce4 Ti 4600 w/128MB RAM, with VIVO (TV in/out & stuff). I'll get all the goodies.:-)
I'm buying a new system now (tonight) and have been agonizing over the decision since a guy accidentially fragged my box at a LAN party. Sniff. Besides, I'm insulating against Palladium & DRM crippled hardware.;-)
I've been waiting for the NV30, but the time to buy a computer is when you need it. For the record, I'm getting a Shuttle SS51. I've been impressed with the little boxes younger brother and have over about fifteen at work now. Disconnect drive cables, undo two thumbscrews, slide drive out. I wish there were an AMD nForce2-based version out right now. <wah>
Like the parent post says (most funny, deserves a mod up):
Any self-respecting geek knows full well that whatever tech product you end up buying, no matter how well researched, no matter how "latest and greatest," will be instantaneously transformed into the lamest piece of outdated old fashioned stone knife and bearskin technology that even your grandfather wouldn't be caught dead using -- the *moment* you pay for it.
I didn't think you were suggesting server-side; just that I prefer readability on the client side. But as you and several others pointed out, saving 25%+ bandwidth means that I should optimize client output on the production server.
I can't flame you for ASP development - that's how I make most of my living and what the clients want.
Good point. However, readability is important. I do a lot of ASP (yeah, I know..., migrating to perl) coding and optimize my code for scalability and speed; however, I won't sacrifice readability. I leave my comments in. Yes, I know I can strip them out for the production server, but I prefer to leave my comments in and use vbcrlf line feeds to break up the html into something readable. Helps with debugging on the development server.
That said, text compresses pretty damned well. So I'm less concerned with text than with images. I much prefer png to jpeg & gif, but gotta make sure the client supports it (dynamically feed whichever).
For sites with massive traffic, you're right - it behooves you to optimize everything you can - but not to the point of making life difficult for the development team:
Monkey 1: "Hey, what the hell is 'lnm'?" Monkey 2: "Hell if I know." Monkey 1: "You wrote it!" Monkey 2: "Yeah, but that was like 4 months ago. What do the comments say?" Monkey 1: "DOH!"
I don't like my HTML generated in one humumgous unbroken string when I look at the source.
These little boxen little brothers look sweet. I love the size and the price isn't really all that bad. But it would rock if they could squeeze in a mobile Radeon 9000 for video, a next-gen GeForce mobile when it's released (GeForce4 Go doesn't cut it with next-gen games, e.g. Doom III). Still using VGA instead of DVI?
Now for the naysayers complaining about journalistic integrity. Once again Slashdot is not a newspaper, it's a blog. CmdrTaco, Hemos, and the gang are not journalists, they're geeks. Yeah, the article is pretty much hyping something - I think the Cappucino line is pretty cool, just like the Shuttle line of mini-PCs. Is this an "ad" in disguise? Opinions are like assholes...that's why/. has a comments section. Sheesh.
Got lucky in Wal-Mart and picked up 2 Philips DVD+RW burners for $78.84 apiece when they were selling for ~$480 each. Talk about rolling back the prices. They must have screwed up and thought they were selling CD-RW drives 'cause I haven't seen them since.
Is there any way to disguise the antennae in a flowerpot, flowerbed, or in part of the facade? Are any windows available that face each other (just 2 buildings). Be creative.
EDITORS: Can you post a picture of the buildings, diagram? A VRML or other CAD file? Notes and diagrams on existing wiring would be enormously helpful.
Can you run fibre through the plumbing system?
I'm sure we (as a community) can come up with something inexpensive and innovative.
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Bullshit. AOLSucks.com wouldn't have the impact without "aol" being part of the domain name. They successfully defended the domain under the auspices of fair use.
Just because the letters aol are part of your domain name doesn't give AOL the right to stomp down on your ass - even if the subject of your site is related to AOL.
If you're up to something infringing on their trademark like trying to make money off their good name, then yeah you're violating their mark. But this doesn't.
IANAL, but you should get one. They're really not all that expensive. Stand up to the bully. Tell AOL to fuck off.
I disagree. I find Angelina Jolie (cache names in my brain) to have quite ample tracts of land for the character. Hell, I'm sure Billy Bob felt the same way.
BTW, I'm an atheist, so Act of God isn't fitting for me either. Perhaps for you it could be considered karmic consequences. However, as another poster noted "shit happens."
I think it would be equally or potentially more interesting to deploy a small army of ThinkGeek-style rovers. Perhaps small-scale industrial stuff later, all done via remote-control.
Allegedly, her insurance company balked and said that her policy - which included everything from fire and flooding to sinkholes - did not cover Acts of God. Clearly, a meteor hurtling through the atmosphere to striker her house was an Act of God. However, the company ultimately paid, bowing to public pressure.
Ran keywords against google, but couldn't find a reference - so it's probably bullshit.
His wife, however, and two other patients had their vision severely damaged due to a bad instrument. Since the surgeries are quick (just a few minutes), it wasn't noticed.
They only do one eye at a time, just in case of something like this. So, only one eye is affected. However, she can't sit in front a computer very long and is subject to severe headaches. Even with glasses, her vision in that eye is poor.
Is it worth the risk? Well, there is only one person that can answer that question: you. Personally, I'm willing to take it, but would rather go for intacts than LASIK because my night vision sucks ass as it is. Unlike my boss, who has good night vision even after the surgery, my night vision sucks ass without any surgery. Since I'm planning to get my pilot's license, I'd rather go for intacts.
Sigh. Not *everything* on P2P is copyrighted materials. There are those who make our own music and videos and want to share them. I'm sure that's the tack they're taking on this, and I think they're right.
With a 50% increase in clock speed, overclocking was well worth it. Even when I spent almost as much on my cooling solution as I did on the processor ($55 for former, $65 for latter). It let me build a system I was happy with for 2+ years at an unbeatable price.
Later, I went to a 800MHz Celeron. Just as I was considering pushing it to a 1.8GHz Celeron through an upgradeware upgrade, a fellow LANner managed to snap two capacitors off my motherboard and fry the whole box. (Don't ask how - and no, he's not going to pony up).
I just didn't see the point in upgrading my box except with processor b/c I was maxed with 1GB of RAM and the box performed (almost) flawlessly. Need ATA-133, pop in a card. Yeah, I only had AGP 2x, but I held my own fraggin' with a low-end GeForce2. If it hadn't been for the accident, I wouldn't have upgraded.
Now I'm the proud owner of a Shuttle SS51G-based system. With a DVD-burner, a smokin' WD 120GB drive, and a GeForce4 Ti 4600 w/VIVO. I wanted to wait for the Athlon/nForce2 based systems to come out in October, but I had a dead box and couldn't really wait. Being an old-school overclocker, I decided to see how far the CPU would go:
I started with a stock 2.4GHz rev B Pentium 4 and cranked it up to 2.52GHz. Went a tad higher, but had to clear CMOS and start over. When I benchmarked the system at different speeds, there was negligible difference. Why make the extra heat? Bah.
My system absolutely smokes. I'm extremely happy and if current trends continue, I won't feel the need to replace this box for another 3-4 years. And the size is perfect for toting to LAN parties. Now I just need a sweet LCD monitor without tracies....
There is a cost associated with going digital too. The last time I checked, hard drives and mp3 players weren't free. You need a place to store your movies and music, hence the analogy holds.
Independent reviews show that Al Gore should be sitting in the White House right now. Instead of mandating a state-wide recount, the Supreme Court ended recount and handed the election to George Bush. He was selected, not elected President. Ironically, the Supreme Court action was unconstitutional. In a disputed tied election, such a decision goes to the House of Representatives - not the Supreme Court.
Really? How about the Florida elections of 2000 and 2002? Those sure the hell weren't free of corruption. Bush was "elected" due to rampant voter fraud. And now his brother will be re-elected in Florida - again due to vote fraud.
You see, Senator? This is a perfect example of why we need Trustworthy Computing(TM) protection like Palladium(TM). Protection at the hardware level is absolutely essential to stop the rampant piracy of intellectual property that threatens to destroy the entertainment industry.
Imagine, if you will, the billions of dollars in lost revenue, the thousands of lost jobs, the dozens of dollars of lost tax revenue (for those of us who don't shelter our money overseas) if this behavior is allowed.
This is more damning that the threat of VCRs and audio tapes that nearly destroyed our industry in the 1980's. Then consumers could watch television whenever they wanted and fast-forward over commercials. They could watch these shows again and again without new revenue being generated with each play. They could make mix tapes of their favorite music to listen whenever they wanted as often as they wanted, without paying more money, and without being forced to listen to the new music and messages we're selling.
See how much money we lost in the 1980's a direct result of the evil Socialist conspiracy? This is why we need perpetual copyright and why we must control every aspect of the consumer experience. We must be rid of choice; it threatens our very existence. And yours. Imagine what would happen if voters had real free choice of who they wanted in office.
</sarcasm>
"There's no real science to it--it's hit or miss," says skydiver/skydriver Greg Gasson.
I can see the headlines now:
Bus Accident Kills 40 in Arizona
It looks like a lot of fun. :)
get to do pretty much whatever they want. If you want more socially responsible government, then vote Socialist. And there's more to it than just voting once every few years. Be politically active. Call and write your representatives and express your views. Get involved in local politics. If all you do is sit on your ass and watch your TiVo, don't be suprised when you've found your political power gone.
Any license which restricts your constitutional rights (e.g. Microsoft's "thou shalt not write a bad review of our software") or other rights (reverse engineering) is unenforceable. You can sign a contract with your landlord that prohibits you from ever having dark people as company, but that part of the contract is unenforceable. IANAL, but run it past yours and you'll find this kind of restraint is bullshit. This will be overturned on appeal.
In "firing the ass" of any reviewer who states an opinion, political, artistic, or otherwise that "gets in the way" of your well-oiled corporate machine makes you little different from press-release "news" organizations like Fox News and CNN.
If you don't think that your reviewers would be interested in the fact that Sony (or whoever) is sealing new releases in glued Walkmans to "prevent piracy" (and prevent a reviewer from doing their job by reviewing it on a hi-fi) then you're sadly mistaken.
Were I a reviewer, I would do exactly what the parent poster suggested. I'd send the damned thing back to Sony and write up my review of those who send me a CD, making a note as to why Perl Jam :-) didn't make the review and rant about how stupid "anti-piracy" has become. Anyone who fires me for doing my job (reviewing things FOR CONSUMERS) isn't doing THEIR JOB.
Nah, the SS51 has an AGP slot. LOL. This is my new gaming box - I'm putting in a GeForce4 Ti 4600 w/128MB RAM, with VIVO (TV in/out & stuff). I'll get all the goodies. :-)
I've been waiting for the NV30, but the time to buy a computer is when you need it. For the record, I'm getting a Shuttle SS51. I've been impressed with the little boxes younger brother and have over about fifteen at work now. Disconnect drive cables, undo two thumbscrews, slide drive out. I wish there were an AMD nForce2-based version out right now. <wah>
Like the parent post says (most funny, deserves a mod up):
Any self-respecting geek knows full well that whatever tech product you end up buying, no matter how well researched, no matter how "latest and greatest," will be instantaneously transformed into the lamest piece of outdated old fashioned stone knife and bearskin technology that even your grandfather wouldn't be caught dead using -- the *moment* you pay for it.
I can't flame you for ASP development - that's how I make most of my living and what the clients want.
That said, text compresses pretty damned well. So I'm less concerned with text than with images. I much prefer png to jpeg & gif, but gotta make sure the client supports it (dynamically feed whichever).
For sites with massive traffic, you're right - it behooves you to optimize everything you can - but not to the point of making life difficult for the development team:
Monkey 1: "Hey, what the hell is 'lnm'?"
Monkey 2: "Hell if I know."
Monkey 1: "You wrote it!"
Monkey 2: "Yeah, but that was like 4 months ago. What do the comments say?"
Monkey 1: "DOH!"
I don't like my HTML generated in one humumgous unbroken string when I look at the source.
IMHO, this is a great solution - I've been looking for something like this for fuss-free backups at work. Viola.
Being the only "computer guy" at work sucks ass when you're the programmer/sysadmin/engineer/tech. Gah.
Now for the naysayers complaining about journalistic integrity. Once again Slashdot is not a newspaper, it's a blog. CmdrTaco, Hemos, and the gang are not journalists, they're geeks. Yeah, the article is pretty much hyping something - I think the Cappucino line is pretty cool, just like the Shuttle line of mini-PCs. Is this an "ad" in disguise? Opinions are like assholes...that's why /. has a comments section. Sheesh.
Got lucky in Wal-Mart and picked up 2 Philips DVD+RW burners for $78.84 apiece when they were selling for ~$480 each. Talk about rolling back the prices. They must have screwed up and thought they were selling CD-RW drives 'cause I haven't seen them since.
So that's what they're calling perjury, lies and fabrication of evidence? Why the hell haven't these agents been prosecuted?
This is exactly why we should NEVER have secret courts and secret evidence. I can't friggin' believe this is being allowed to happen here.
EDITORS: Can you post a picture of the buildings, diagram? A VRML or other CAD file? Notes and diagrams on existing wiring would be enormously helpful.
Can you run fibre through the plumbing system?
I'm sure we (as a community) can come up with something inexpensive and innovative.