Correct but to get to the point of discovery, the suit must have already begun. You can't just file suit and then apply for discovery. You'll at least have to have one hearing with both parties and if they fail to properly notify you of the suit (sheriff-delivered notice, certified mail, etc..), they are fscked. The judge also has to approve the discovery. Most judges aren't inclined to grant it without hearing the merits of the case from both sides. If one side doesn't show and the judge suspects that they were never notified of the suit, they'll grant an extenstion and have a court rep personally make contact with the defendant.
This is one of the things I've been holding out for prior to buying a laptop. The 1st was a G4 in the house. The 2nd was 32MB or 64MB of video RAM.
I wish Apple, ATI, and the rest of the industry would get together and work up a standard for video cards in laptops. I'd like to see the video cards be removable and not part of the mobo. As long as you had the support of the video card manufacturers like ATI and the GeForce folks, you could allow your laptops video setup to be upgraded when needed. Let's say that ATI comes out with the 8500 with 64MB in the mobility configuration. I do a little surgery on my laptop and *boom* I have a better video card that extends the useful life of the expensive laptop. I think Apple would be an ideal candidate to do this. They make a lot of inovative moves that are initially seen as risky. Many of the become "the thing" and everyone eventually does the same. Apple would be a good place to start this idea. Please Apple, do this!
I love those "fucked up shit caught on tape" shows. I remember one of the cop ones a little while back where I swear the patrolman sounded like the guy from King of the Hill over his radio.
What the hell are you doing? That boy's messed up."
Note, they can't do this even with the police and a search warrant. You can a citizen or even a lawyer can get a search warrant. A warrant is something a DA gets and enforces. You (as you a lawyer) aren't going to part of the searching of the premises. They must have a court order to have the software installed and even then it won't be them doing the installing. The judge will order the defendants to do it or the judge will appoint another part if the defendant fails to comply.
To go along with this, while I don't use a credit card for these purchases, I do use my Visa Check Card from my bank. It's a check card with Visa protection. Find a bank that offers such a card because it will afford you all the protections that come along with the Visa symbol and it will work like a credit card.
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I'd have to disagree. If they officers didn't ask "The Indian" his side of the story, they failed him in the due process side of things. They didn't have any reason to cuff him. In every account he was non-violent and non-threatening. Now if the store manager lied about the incident to hype it (is there any question here?) then the officers might have had a reasonable reason to believe they needed to restrain him. However aren't they required to charge him with something and read him his miranda before cuffing him?
I just wish the lazy SOBs would finish the Mac version. Why the hell is it taking them so fscking long?! The last test release was in November '01 for Christ's sake!!!
Many of the suggestions above say to put a mailto link on a hidden IMG that goes to uce@ftc.gov. THAT'S BAD! Or better put, that doesn't gain you anything more often than not. The reason I say this is because many of the spambots I've gotten my hands on lately automagically search for and remove that specific address. Many also remove all *.gov addresses. The best thing you can do as a server admin to seed an address that goes to uce@ftc.gov is to create a simple mail alias or user with a.forward on you mail server that forwards to uce@ftc.gov. That way these "smart" spambots won't detect that seeded address and remove it.
Ideally you would actually create a spam trap account for this task and use a procmail recipe to briefly explain what you're doing in the forwarded message. That way the raw forwarded headers can't be misinterpreted as your server sending the spam.
I do this very thing and have had great luck with it. I seed multiple addresses on key pages so that uce@ftc.gov is garunteed to receive a number of these pieces of spam. I also send this spam to the newsgroup bot for news.admin.net-abuse.sightings, a newsgroup filled with forwarded spam LARTs for us anti-spammers to search for patterns or previous spamming evidence. You just add "nanas-sub@cybernothing.org" to you recipient list and prepend the forwarded subject line with "(email)". That's it!
...for my mother at X-mas. It emits a tone everytime the line is picked up. Last I heard, the number of crap calls had noticeably dropped. I don't know if telemarketers will be able to work around it either. They'd be fools to not program their auto-dialers to listen for those tones and remove the "bad" numbers from their list. Someone will probably think of something though.
To go along with the Opera folks out there, I've got to chime in and say I absolutely love being able to filter unsolicited popups. God I love that feature. It makes browsing pron sites soo much better. Also disable the window resizing shit. No longer will popup bastards resize a window beyond your screensize!
Sorry, I might not have worded that well. I don't *want* to block P2P apps like Kazaa. We purchased an expensive PacketShaper to slow it down so we wouldn't have to block it. However if this piggy-back program with Kazaa suddenly starts using our resources for a commercial purpose (ie, distributed Akamai), then we will block it. We can not permit the resources at this educational institutional to directly be used for commercial gain. I hope that's worded better. If they actually do this, they will lose their users on this regent's university's campus.
Forget what was in the EULA that the user consented to. I as a network administrator do not permit my users to use their bandwidth for commercial purposes. If this really is something that Brilliant is planning, they'll lose a campus full of users in the process. We're not going to stop our users from downloading music (although we will slow it down so it doesn't affect other users) but we will not permit our resources to be used for commercial purposes. I'll block KaZaa if that's their real intent.
I'm glad they have finally reached this milestone. Kudos to the Zilla gang!
I will say that I sure hope they've managed to get some bugs fixed. Last night, 3 times in less than a hour, Mozilla 0.9.9 crashed on me when trying to use two tabbed windows of cruisercustomizing.com. I just stumbled across another bug in this very slashdot comment window. When I scroll to the end of the text field, it wraps around and starts scrolling from the top. Weird. I also hope they get some javascript problems ironed out. I still can't administrate my PacketShaper 4545 with Mozilla because the popup menus don't work. Still kudos to the Zilla folks for their biggest milestone.
Give it enough umph to play a single player or maybe 2-person game, and whenever any more buddies than that come over to play, I'll tell them to bring their PS3 with them. I don't see that as being too unreasonable. Of course it would also mean more sales for Sony.
Apple didn't "chicken out", they weren't being driven out of their own market either. Companies like Epson and Umax were causing Apple to lose face. Epson and Umax made shitty Macs. They were horrible. I used to work at an Apple Service Center that was authorized for both Epson and Umax repairs. We had an entire bookshelf full of their damned dead clones. They couldn't be fixed for anything less than about 1/2 the cost of the unit new. They were pieces of shit. Literally. You had to wipe the ass stence off your hands after touching one. The was degrading to the Macintosh name. The average Joe wasn't associating the poor hardware with Epson or Umax. They associated it with Apple. After all the startup screen said "MacOS" and there was an Apple menu. It had Apple written all over it. I heard reports from Apple-employed service techs that they were inundated with tech support calls for clones. It was costing them a bundle. They users just didn't get it. The piss-poor clones were causing damage to Apple. They were building horrible machines for less. The people that bought one suffered from horrific failures and swore of Macs because of it. It wasn't Apple's fault that they vendors couldn't get their shit together.
Now there was one clone vendor that made some damned good hardware. Power Computing did an excellent job. Their engineering team should be commended for their efforts. Apple could have learned a bit from Power Computing.
Still Apple had to pull the plug. How else do you get rid of the problem? Can you think of any other way to kick Epson and Umax in the nads and make them get their shit together? I can't. Apple did the only thing they could do.
Now I won't attack the rest of your comment because I tend to agree. I'd love to be able to buy PPC hardware from people other than Apple. When I want a Mac, I'll buy it from Apple. When I want a solid PPC Linux machine, I'd rather get it somewhere else. I think I might buy one of these boards as well. I'm a bit intrigued by them.
This has got to be the ultimate fighting machine in a cubicle farm dart gun war. Add a few short walls and rig it so you can lay down and fly like Super Delbert and this would be an awesome gadget.
The Compuware suit says Armonk, New York-based IBM uses its massive Global Services
arm, the world's largest computer consultancy, to steer customers to its own products even
when products made by other software vendors may be more suitable.
This is called a sales pitch. If I make and sell product A and a customer comes to me and wants a basic server, I don't have to tell him about another companies product, B. It's not my job. If product A will do it but it's overkill, I don't have any reason not to want to sell it. If I sell Chevy's and a customer's description of what they're needing is a Ford, I'll still sell them a Chevy. I have no reason to want to sell them a Ford, even if the Ford is the perfect fit with their needs.
Secondly, IBM ties or bundles its software products into its machines, making it difficult for
independent software suppliers to compete in the mainframe market, the suit said.
It's IBM's hardware. They can bundle whatever the hell they want to bundle with it. This would be comparable to M$ suing Apple because Apple doesn't sell a G4 without the MacOS. Apple makes their hardware and the software. If they want to stop selling the hardware, jack up the software price to $2k, and bundle the hardware with it, they are perfectly within their rights to do so.
Are these people really that stupid? Are they just bucking for some publicity?
Now I don't know anything about code stealing or manual plagarism. They might very well have done that. I think these other two key points are frivolous though.
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Correct but to get to the point of discovery, the suit must have already begun. You can't just file suit and then apply for discovery. You'll at least have to have one hearing with both parties and if they fail to properly notify you of the suit (sheriff-delivered notice, certified mail, etc..), they are fscked. The judge also has to approve the discovery. Most judges aren't inclined to grant it without hearing the merits of the case from both sides. If one side doesn't show and the judge suspects that they were never notified of the suit, they'll grant an extenstion and have a court rep personally make contact with the defendant.
I wish Apple, ATI, and the rest of the industry would get together and work up a standard for video cards in laptops. I'd like to see the video cards be removable and not part of the mobo. As long as you had the support of the video card manufacturers like ATI and the GeForce folks, you could allow your laptops video setup to be upgraded when needed. Let's say that ATI comes out with the 8500 with 64MB in the mobility configuration. I do a little surgery on my laptop and *boom* I have a better video card that extends the useful life of the expensive laptop. I think Apple would be an ideal candidate to do this. They make a lot of inovative moves that are initially seen as risky. Many of the become "the thing" and everyone eventually does the same. Apple would be a good place to start this idea. Please Apple, do this!
What the hell are you doing? That boy's messed up."
Note, they can't do this even with the police and a search warrant. You can a citizen or even a lawyer can get a search warrant. A warrant is something a DA gets and enforces. You (as you a lawyer) aren't going to part of the searching of the premises. They must have a court order to have the software installed and even then it won't be them doing the installing. The judge will order the defendants to do it or the judge will appoint another part if the defendant fails to comply.
To go along with this, while I don't use a credit card for these purchases, I do use my Visa Check Card from my bank. It's a check card with Visa protection. Find a bank that offers such a card because it will afford you all the protections that come along with the Visa symbol and it will work like a credit card.
I'd have to disagree. If they officers didn't ask "The Indian" his side of the story, they failed him in the due process side of things. They didn't have any reason to cuff him. In every account he was non-violent and non-threatening. Now if the store manager lied about the incident to hype it (is there any question here?) then the officers might have had a reasonable reason to believe they needed to restrain him. However aren't they required to charge him with something and read him his miranda before cuffing him?
of these in my house. Can you imagine running an OC-192 to each room of the house? :) Imagine what this could do to my beowulf cluster of 486s...
...spamming software too. How else will the propogate the good will of people like Alan Ralsky and Empire Towers?
I just wish the lazy SOBs would finish the Mac version. Why the hell is it taking them so fscking long?! The last test release was in November '01 for Christ's sake!!!
Ideally you would actually create a spam trap account for this task and use a procmail recipe to briefly explain what you're doing in the forwarded message. That way the raw forwarded headers can't be misinterpreted as your server sending the spam.
I do this very thing and have had great luck with it. I seed multiple addresses on key pages so that uce@ftc.gov is garunteed to receive a number of these pieces of spam. I also send this spam to the newsgroup bot for news.admin.net-abuse.sightings, a newsgroup filled with forwarded spam LARTs for us anti-spammers to search for patterns or previous spamming evidence. You just add "nanas-sub@cybernothing.org" to you recipient list and prepend the forwarded subject line with "(email)". That's it!
...but for doing this, I now (temporarily) love that Holstein!
if they look like Bob Barker
...for my mother at X-mas. It emits a tone everytime the line is picked up. Last I heard, the number of crap calls had noticeably dropped. I don't know if telemarketers will be able to work around it either. They'd be fools to not program their auto-dialers to listen for those tones and remove the "bad" numbers from their list. Someone will probably think of something though.
To go along with the Opera folks out there, I've got to chime in and say I absolutely love being able to filter unsolicited popups. God I love that feature. It makes browsing pron sites soo much better. Also disable the window resizing shit. No longer will popup bastards resize a window beyond your screensize!
"..Houston we have a CodeRed!"
Sorry, I might not have worded that well. I don't *want* to block P2P apps like Kazaa. We purchased an expensive PacketShaper to slow it down so we wouldn't have to block it. However if this piggy-back program with Kazaa suddenly starts using our resources for a commercial purpose (ie, distributed Akamai), then we will block it. We can not permit the resources at this educational institutional to directly be used for commercial gain. I hope that's worded better. If they actually do this, they will lose their users on this regent's university's campus.
Forget what was in the EULA that the user consented to. I as a network administrator do not permit my users to use their bandwidth for commercial purposes. If this really is something that Brilliant is planning, they'll lose a campus full of users in the process. We're not going to stop our users from downloading music (although we will slow it down so it doesn't affect other users) but we will not permit our resources to be used for commercial purposes. I'll block KaZaa if that's their real intent.
It's true! Didn't you know? Microsoft is making their next version of Windows on Sun's Java. Microsoft Windows J
I will say that I sure hope they've managed to get some bugs fixed. Last night, 3 times in less than a hour, Mozilla 0.9.9 crashed on me when trying to use two tabbed windows of cruisercustomizing.com. I just stumbled across another bug in this very slashdot comment window. When I scroll to the end of the text field, it wraps around and starts scrolling from the top. Weird. I also hope they get some javascript problems ironed out. I still can't administrate my PacketShaper 4545 with Mozilla because the popup menus don't work. Still kudos to the Zilla folks for their biggest milestone.
I'm glad to hear this, even if Ian doesn't bring back ORBZ. Kudos to the Battle Creek people for recognizing the truth and doing the right thing.
Give it enough umph to play a single player or maybe 2-person game, and whenever any more buddies than that come over to play, I'll tell them to bring their PS3 with them. I don't see that as being too unreasonable. Of course it would also mean more sales for Sony.
Now there was one clone vendor that made some damned good hardware. Power Computing did an excellent job. Their engineering team should be commended for their efforts. Apple could have learned a bit from Power Computing.
Still Apple had to pull the plug. How else do you get rid of the problem? Can you think of any other way to kick Epson and Umax in the nads and make them get their shit together? I can't. Apple did the only thing they could do.
Now I won't attack the rest of your comment because I tend to agree. I'd love to be able to buy PPC hardware from people other than Apple. When I want a Mac, I'll buy it from Apple. When I want a solid PPC Linux machine, I'd rather get it somewhere else. I think I might buy one of these boards as well. I'm a bit intrigued by them.
Good luck, Karl! It sounds like at least one person over at ICANN isn't a horrible waste of carbon.
This has got to be the ultimate fighting machine in a cubicle farm dart gun war. Add a few short walls and rig it so you can lay down and fly like Super Delbert and this would be an awesome gadget.
This is called a sales pitch. If I make and sell product A and a customer comes to me and wants a basic server, I don't have to tell him about another companies product, B. It's not my job. If product A will do it but it's overkill, I don't have any reason not to want to sell it. If I sell Chevy's and a customer's description of what they're needing is a Ford, I'll still sell them a Chevy. I have no reason to want to sell them a Ford, even if the Ford is the perfect fit with their needs.
Secondly, IBM ties or bundles its software products into its machines, making it difficult for independent software suppliers to compete in the mainframe market, the suit said.
It's IBM's hardware. They can bundle whatever the hell they want to bundle with it. This would be comparable to M$ suing Apple because Apple doesn't sell a G4 without the MacOS. Apple makes their hardware and the software. If they want to stop selling the hardware, jack up the software price to $2k, and bundle the hardware with it, they are perfectly within their rights to do so.
Are these people really that stupid? Are they just bucking for some publicity?
Now I don't know anything about code stealing or manual plagarism. They might very well have done that. I think these other two key points are frivolous though.