And also don't forget who is going to BUY these boxes. The parents. But they aren't going to buy them because they've researched the different console options and decided on one. No, they are going to buy it because little johnny wants a Nintendo/Playstation/Sega for Christmas. The names of the three big consoles have been entrenched for years in the minds of kids. Many [if not most] of these kids have already been playing the last generation of consoles. They are going to want the same company's next generation because they know the games and they know the styles of the console.
If MS successfully releases the XBox, say before next Christmas, how many kids do you think are going to ask Santa/Mom/Dad for one compared to how many ask for a PS2, Dreamcast or Dolphin?
I for one won't be putting my money on the Xbox...as a matter of fact, I WILL be buying a PS/2.
Now I'll admit that Sony was the newcomer with the Playstation, but at the time the PS was way ahead of the competition [SuperNES] at the time, and they had great games and it was stable.
MS *might* be able to get some good games, but I honestly don't have much faith in them developing a STABLE platform. And if the kids have problems with it, they won't play with it. And if Johnny doesn't like his XBox, his friends aren't terribly likely to want one then either.
I can see why they (amazon) wouldn't give out the password without some verification, because if they do, then they would be basicaly be giving out your credit-card number! Dude, I don't think you a leg to stand on. Amazon was only covering their asses...and yours.
I think you missed the point.
The real issue was that he shouldn't have needed a password to get taken off the list in the first place. It was his email, so it's his right to not get spam from Amazon in that address.
If someone else had signed up for Amazon and put his email address [whether on purpose or not] he would be unable to be removed from the list because there's no way for him to find out the password of whoever did that to him.
He was only able to do so in this case because it was his wife...
I do hope these companies figure this crap out soon, or the government is going to 'figure it out' for them:(
That was pretty much my concern as well. Mitnick himself complains about the Federal Goverment's complete lack of regard for his rights as well as the possible [probable?] disregard of anynone elses: "If they can disregard Kevin Mitnick's rights, they can disregard yours" Yet now he's calling for that same government to be trusted with maintaining a database of our DNA [and/or other biometric info]? I think I'll pass, thank you. Besides, before we know it, companies will be buying those records ands granting or denying us jobs or benefits based on that. Oh how easy it would be for the HMO's to deny you certain covereage because they see that you've got a genetic predisposition to a disease? The next thing you know society will be just like the one in Gattaca.
but with the spin they put on it its not censoring, its filtering... just like they are trying to institute in all public schools
Right, but guess what I think is going to happen eventually... A school is going to say 'We are filtering such-and-such bad stuff from your childrens precious eyes'[which sounds like censoring to me] then some of the kids are going to get ahold of some of the bad stuff, and the parents are going to blame the school for not doing as they promised.
If you don't promise to filter, you can't be punished for failing to do so...
In this particular case, I would suspect that SBC.net isn't smart enough to throttle capacity at the mail or news servers (though I suppose they could, using Packeteer or some such). It's much more likely that these servers themselves have a poor connection to the SBC.net backbone, and congestion is causing delays.
Here in Silicon Valley, I've had my DSL for about 1.5yrs. When I first signed up, everything was through PacBell, both the line and the ISP. Then a couple months ago I got a letter saying that my DSL service had been taken over by SBC communications. Three weeks after that letter I got another one saying that access to mail servers and newsgroups would be limited to 128k. So it's not really a matter of congestion [other than that's why they are limiting it]. They are really throttling it.
So does the suit have merit? Unclear. Unless SBC advertised a guaranteed service speed for the mail and news services, I would doubt it
I'd have to say no, the suit doesn't have merit. The DSL company guarantees X-bandwidth between your house and their 'house'. They don't [and CANNOT] guarantee connection speeds to specific internet servers.They never guaranteed speed to their mail or news servers, only the speed of the line to the CO.
On that note, I'm a bit pissed at SBC already. For the 1+ years I had the DSL handled by PacBell, I got 1+Mb down/128 up. [I pay for only 384 down/128 up]... As soon as they switched to SBC, my downlink dropped to 800Kb... yeah I know thats still alot, and more than I'm guaranteed but after a year of near T1 speeds it still sucks.
They also have screwed up my billing. They credited me for 1 month of service then billed me for 4 months of service that I had already paid for. My last bill was $250, without long distance [DSL charges just come in on my phone bill]. I'm still trying to get that one taken care of.
being on the East Coast up here in Pennsylvania I don't get a chance to go to very many geek parties becasue they all happen about a 24 hour drive away from me in California...
What the hell do you drive!?!?! And where can I get one?
More importantly, how do you avoid the cops at your average speed of 125mph?!?!?:^)
As a fellow Taos'er I have to agree. I love getting paid for downtime and to wear a pager that never goes off.:) I'm on beach now as a matter of fact...life is good....
The only downside is, we don't get stock in all these little startups we end up working for... a real bummer, but otherwise a great job...
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On the other hand not all corporations are like that. I'd say that many times a company is started by someone because they really believed in a product. Or even those that didn't start the company but just work there really feel strongly about the product. These individuals who work at the 'big faceless corporation' do have feelings. I myself have worked at a company with a product I really believed in. It was a product that helped k-2nd graders learn to read. Hell I still promote the product as much as possible even though I don't work there anymore.
Now I'm not saying that NVIDIA's products are as world changing as teaching kids to read, but the point is there ARE people who believe in a product, and who try to run the company in an ethical way. These people are quite likely to feel bad if the company has done something wrong to a customer/reviewer/client and it's just easier to say 'nvidia feels this way' than to explain exactly who at Nvidia feels sorry...
Obviously not all corporations are like that, but there's no reason to generalize all of them in such a manner. Using that theory I'd have to call you a 'big fat dead hairy elephant' based on your name, and I'm sure that would hardly be accurate.:)
How can it be 25 years since the last new moon.. was discovered, if 3 moons were discovered in 1979?
Well, this is the reason they went to school for stargazing instead of math:) [SARCASM] If NASA can't do American -> metric conversions to land something on Mars, why should the Spacewatch project be able to subtract 1979 from 2000?
Or do you actually expect our scientists to be able to be bothered by such simple problems when they are so busy calculating things like the GUT?:) [/SARCASM]
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Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we've got scientists working on such things. But sometimes they need to get their brains back to the real world...
The WIPO is one of the common sorts of international organization; therefore: no real democratic representation, no due process, no appeal.
Then forgive my ignorance on this matter, but what legal recourse would the WIPO have if the loser in such a case were to refuse to give up the domain name? [Leaving aside that fact that NSI et all are probably going to rip it out from under you anyway]. Like if I ran my own registrar and refused to change over the name. What can WIPO do?
From the article: "CORINTHIAO in Portuguese is pronounced as Corinthian in English. In fact, unless the English word itself is used, phonetics (because of the nasal pronunciation) and correct spelling require that the word Corianthiao is used in Portuguese. Thus, when comparing Corinthians with Corianthiao, the Panel concludes that the domain name at issue is phonetically nearly identical to the Complainants trademark CORINTHIAO."
I knew I hated phonics "
[SARCASM]Great... we really needed a precedent set for taking a way a properly used domain name because it is phonetically similar to the name of foreign entity...[/SARCASM]
Are the judges and lawmakers of this world *THAT* fucked up in the head?!?!?! Seriously? Some of the things they come up with continue to defy explaination. There *MUST* be some alien conspiracy causing people to make decisions like this, probably to make it easier to take us over when the main fleet gets here in a few decades.
In all seriousness though, I hope that this is overturned somehow...And while I realize that a: not everyone is religous,and b: In some countries [ie Brazil] soccer *IS* a religion, does it make sense to anyone that the World Intellectual Property Organization is basically saying that the word "Corinthians" is better well known as a soccer team than as a religious text. Ha!
In doing some reasearch, I found a site with various domain name disputes. One dispute [that has been decided] jumped out at me. It seems that a fellow in Germany registered 'scientologie.org' and of course you-know-which-quasi-religious-entity had a hissy fit. In this case, even though that 'religious' entity had a trade mark on SCIENTOLOGIE, the judge dismissed the case...
It'd be nice if they were at least consistent, no?
Ender
PS. having looked further into it, there were [to me] good reasons for letting the guy keep the domain.
5: Something I don't know terribly much about, but it sounds like the bandwidth they're referring to is probably Internet2...
I'm wondering why no one else has pointed this out. I also got the impression that they were using Internet2. 'Because McGill has access to a high-speed research Internet available to relatively few organizations, the University's researchers can experiment with the possibilities available with "a huge, wide pipe." '
What they don't seem to be taking into account is that as soon as I2 goes public, it will be saturated with a billion people with broadband access downloading pr0n and the latest decrypted DVD release. At that point their 'huge wide pipe' will be little better off than todays internet.
Other than that, it's pretty cool. I don't think it will work to have musicians at different parts of the world [due to lag, can't interact with the others] but for broadcast of 'localized' events it will be good.
Wow...to think I've given up 1001 days worth of spare CPU time... [I started on Day 1 of RC5...was the 15th person to create a team:) ] and that doesn't include the time put into the RC5-56 run...
Every once in awhile I wonder how much electricity [and $] I've wasted... but since MOST of it is on work machines, I guess it doesn't matter...
I have to hand it to the guys at distributed.net . The statsbox has had alot of problems [it's been much better lately] but the clients have been first rate. I switched over to Seti@Home for awhile, bit I just couldn't accept a client that took up 12Megs of RAM and crashed, when the RC5 client takes up aprrox 500k and doesn't crash. [Ok, I actually have 1 machine that freezes if I run the linux client,but it's only a 200MMX so I'm not worried about it]
It's far easier for a consumer to pick up a phone and talk to a computer to place their order for X widgets than it is for them to log on to the Internet, type in a URL, etc. *Far* easier.
I'm not so sure that this is a good thing. Even with increased quality of voice recognition software, we still don't seem to be progressing very quickly with AI. Of course companies are still going to use this [yeah I know many already do], but I personally don't like talking to computers over the phone. For something simple like "say 1 for Tech support, say 2 for customer service " etc it's not so bad, but even that can be annoying. A friend of mine called Sears the other day. They are set up to have the caller say the name of the department they'd like to be transferred to. Unfortunately saying "Operater" does NOT get you to a human [no matter how loud you scream it:) ].
I would love to have Voice Recognition on my computer. At least in that situation I can see how the computer is reacting to what I'm saying, and if it isn't working right, I can intervene with the normal keyboard/mouse controls. But until the 'intelligence' of the systems is improved, I'd rather talk to a human when ordering something over the phone. I'd hate to accidentally get 200qty of widget X @ $20/ea when I only wanted 2qty of Widget XY @ $20ea:)
Even more, can you imagine sitting in an office with one or more other people talking to their computers?!?!
Actually this could bring about some good things. I once occupied a huge office in Menlo Park,CA. I had a 20' wide window view of the Sand Hill Rd area and the SF Bay. Now I am stuck in an 8'x8' cube [not much bigger than the new G4 Cube;) ]. It sucks.
With any luck, all these people talking to their computers will force companies to start giving people private offices again.
...but I won't be satisfied until they release the 1021Mhz processor, solely so I can shout: One point twenty one gigawatts! er, hertz!
Trying to say this nicely [without flaming] but shouldn't that be 1210Mhz? Otherwise you'd be saying 1.021giga[hertz]..:)
Back on topic, I think this sort of proves that Intel/AMD really rushed in the race to 1Ghz. They both released an obnoxious number of processors increasing in speed until they hit the mark, and since then we haven't heard much of anything from them. I hope they both have calmed down enough to make sure everything is properly tested [ie, delaying Itanium...WTG Intel!]. I don't know that there have been any bugs found yet in the 800Mhz-1Ghz chips, but I'm sure some will be found eventually.
In the words of Miracle Max: "Never rush a miracle man...or you'll get a rotton miracle." -The Princess Bride...best movie ever:)
LOL you think you can cut into the iBorg and find room in that 8*8*8 enclosure? considering the size of a DVD drive, a power supply, and a motherboard w/heat sink, RAM, 'n a few other things, it's gonna be tight in there, else Apple would've made it 7*7*7 or something...(lucky 7s...)
Er... the Chinese consider 8 a lucky number. 888 triply so:) Maybe they have Chinese designers?
IOC, USOC, AND SLOC JOINTLY FILE GROUNDBREAKING LAWSUIT AGAINST CYBERSQUATTERS
Ok, while I think the parent post to this is a bit redundant, I need to make a statement... I can understand the IOC et.all wanting to go after people who are selling unlicensed "Olympic"[TM] goods. But I seriously doubt that all 1800 of these sites are selling such items. If someone has www.olympic-pizza.com, and it's the site for Olympic Pizza parlour in Olympia, Wa, then the IOC has *NO* right to go after them, because that's not cybersquatting... that's using a legit domainname for your legit business, and no one is going to mistake the site or the pizza place as being part of the Olympics[TM]. As a matter of fact, even those companies that are selling unlicensed goods are not cybersquatting. They're just selling unlicensed goods with the "Olympic"[TM] name. I thought cybersquatting laws were supposed to go after ppl buying domain names and sitting on them in the hopes of the trademark/copyright owner paying big buck$ for them. (though I suppose I could be wrong:) ]
Anyway, the entire thing is a load of crap. I hope the IOC loses big time on this one... What I hope happens is that the IOC realizes what a *DUMB* thing they are doing, re-evaluates their stance, and just files suit against those companies selling unlicensed "Olympic"[TM] goods..
What sucks is that I've had DSL through PacBell for the last 15months or so. There were two outages in that time. The rest of those months the DSL has been humming along nicely at 700k-1.4Mb [Avg'd about 900k I'd say]. Then I got a letter saying that the DSL stuff would be switched over to SBC. As of the date the switch over was supposed to take effect, my DSL connectivity has gone down the crapper! It's been totally flaky and the average speed has gone down to approx 400k [yes I know, that's more than my guaranteed 384k]. However Earlier today [and a couple times over the last week] I was getting a smokin' 218bytes/sec... yes, that's 'bytes'... glad I"m paying $50/mo for this...
I'm HOPING it's just a few switchover problems that will be remedied. If not, I'm going to have a long talk with PB/SBC [after a long wait time I'm sure]
Nah. Why stop charging you for those IPs when they know you'll pay? All it means is more profit for them
Actually, they're not... I'm not paying them... just using IPMASQ... it just makes it a little more inconvenient for things like hosting Diablo II games... But you're right... they aren't terribly likely to stop doing something that makes them money.:(
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If MS successfully releases the XBox, say before next Christmas, how many kids do you think are going to ask Santa/Mom/Dad for one compared to how many ask for a PS2, Dreamcast or Dolphin?
I for one won't be putting my money on the Xbox...as a matter of fact, I WILL be buying a PS/2.
Now I'll admit that Sony was the newcomer with the Playstation, but at the time the PS was way ahead of the competition [SuperNES] at the time, and they had great games and it was stable. MS *might* be able to get some good games, but I honestly don't have much faith in them developing a STABLE platform. And if the kids have problems with it, they won't play with it. And if Johnny doesn't like his XBox, his friends aren't terribly likely to want one then either.
Ender
I think you missed the point. The real issue was that he shouldn't have needed a password to get taken off the list in the first place. It was his email, so it's his right to not get spam from Amazon in that address.
If someone else had signed up for Amazon and put his email address [whether on purpose or not] he would be unable to be removed from the list because there's no way for him to find out the password of whoever did that to him.
He was only able to do so in this case because it was his wife...
I do hope these companies figure this crap out soon, or the government is going to 'figure it out' for them :(
Ender
Yet now he's calling for that same government to be trusted with maintaining a database of our DNA [and/or other biometric info]? I think I'll pass, thank you.
Besides, before we know it, companies will be buying those records ands granting or denying us jobs or benefits based on that. Oh how easy it would be for the HMO's to deny you certain covereage because they see that you've got a genetic predisposition to a disease? The next thing you know society will be just like the one in Gattaca.
Ender
Right, but guess what I think is going to happen eventually... A school is going to say 'We are filtering such-and-such bad stuff from your childrens precious eyes'[which sounds like censoring to me] then some of the kids are going to get ahold of some of the bad stuff, and the parents are going to blame the school for not doing as they promised.
If you don't promise to filter, you can't be punished for failing to do so...
Ender
Here in Silicon Valley, I've had my DSL for about 1.5yrs. When I first signed up, everything was through PacBell, both the line and the ISP. Then a couple months ago I got a letter saying that my DSL service had been taken over by SBC communications. Three weeks after that letter I got another one saying that access to mail servers and newsgroups would be limited to 128k. So it's not really a matter of congestion [other than that's why they are limiting it]. They are really throttling it.
So does the suit have merit? Unclear. Unless SBC advertised a guaranteed service speed for the mail and news services, I would doubt it
I'd have to say no, the suit doesn't have merit. The DSL company guarantees X-bandwidth between your house and their 'house'. They don't [and CANNOT] guarantee connection speeds to specific internet servers.They never guaranteed speed to their mail or news servers, only the speed of the line to the CO.
On that note, I'm a bit pissed at SBC already. For the 1+ years I had the DSL handled by PacBell, I got 1+Mb down/128 up. [I pay for only 384 down/128 up]... As soon as they switched to SBC, my downlink dropped to 800Kb... yeah I know thats still alot, and more than I'm guaranteed but after a year of near T1 speeds it still sucks.
They also have screwed up my billing. They credited me for 1 month of service then billed me for 4 months of service that I had already paid for. My last bill was $250, without long distance [DSL charges just come in on my phone bill]. I'm still trying to get that one taken care of.
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What the hell do you drive!?!?! And where can I get one? :^)
More importantly, how do you avoid the cops at your average speed of 125mph?!?!?
Ender
Actually Panasonic already makes notebooks. Check out the Toughbook
Really nice products, if a little pricey.
Ender
The only downside is, we don't get stock in all these little startups we end up working for... a real bummer, but otherwise a great job...
Ender
I myself have worked at a company with a product I really believed in. It was a product that helped k-2nd graders learn to read. Hell I still promote the product as much as possible even though I don't work there anymore.
Now I'm not saying that NVIDIA's products are as world changing as teaching kids to read, but the point is there ARE people who believe in a product, and who try to run the company in an ethical way. These people are quite likely to feel bad if the company has done something wrong to a customer/reviewer/client and it's just easier to say 'nvidia feels this way' than to explain exactly who at Nvidia feels sorry...
Obviously not all corporations are like that, but there's no reason to generalize all of them in such a manner. Using that theory I'd have to call you a 'big fat dead hairy elephant' based on your name, and I'm sure that would hardly be accurate. :)
Ender
Well, this is the reason they went to school for stargazing instead of math :)
[SARCASM] If NASA can't do American -> metric conversions to land something on Mars, why should the Spacewatch project be able to subtract 1979 from 2000?
Or do you actually expect our scientists to be able to be bothered by such simple problems when they are so busy calculating things like the GUT? :)
[/SARCASM]
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Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we've got scientists working on such things. But sometimes they need to get their brains back to the real world...
Looks like a fella named Joshua Quittner was the culprit.
Ender
Then forgive my ignorance on this matter, but what legal recourse would the WIPO have if the loser in such a case were to refuse to give up the domain name? [Leaving aside that fact that NSI et all are probably going to rip it out from under you anyway]. Like if I ran my own registrar and refused to change over the name. What can WIPO do?
Just curious.
Ender
"CORINTHIAO in Portuguese is pronounced as Corinthian in English. In fact, unless the English word itself is used, phonetics (because of the nasal pronunciation) and correct spelling require that the word Corianthiao is used in Portuguese. Thus, when comparing Corinthians with Corianthiao, the Panel concludes that the domain name at issue is phonetically nearly identical to the Complainants trademark CORINTHIAO."
I knew I hated phonics "
[SARCASM]Great... we really needed a precedent set for taking a way a properly used domain name because it is phonetically similar to the name of foreign entity...[/SARCASM]
Are the judges and lawmakers of this world *THAT* fucked up in the head?!?!?! Seriously? Some of the things they come up with continue to defy explaination. There *MUST* be some alien conspiracy causing people to make decisions like this, probably to make it easier to take us over when the main fleet gets here in a few decades.
In all seriousness though, I hope that this is overturned somehow...And while I realize that a: not everyone is religous ,and b: In some countries [ie Brazil] soccer *IS* a religion, does it make sense to anyone that the World Intellectual Property Organization is basically saying that the word "Corinthians" is better well known as a soccer team than as a religious text. Ha!
In doing some reasearch, I found a site with various domain name disputes. One dispute [that has been decided] jumped out at me. It seems that a fellow in Germany registered 'scientologie.org' and of course you-know-which-quasi-religious-entity had a hissy fit. In this case, even though that 'religious' entity had a trade mark on SCIENTOLOGIE, the judge dismissed the case...
It'd be nice if they were at least consistent, no?
Ender
PS. having looked further into it, there were [to me] good reasons for letting the guy keep the domain.
I'm wondering why no one else has pointed this out. I also got the impression that they were using Internet2.
'Because McGill has access to a high-speed research Internet available to relatively few organizations, the University's researchers can experiment with the possibilities available with "a huge, wide pipe." '
What they don't seem to be taking into account is that as soon as I2 goes public, it will be saturated with a billion people with broadband access downloading pr0n and the latest decrypted DVD release. At that point their 'huge wide pipe' will be little better off than todays internet.
Other than that, it's pretty cool. I don't think it will work to have musicians at different parts of the world [due to lag, can't interact with the others] but for broadcast of 'localized' events it will be good.
Ender
Every once in awhile I wonder how much electricity [and $] I've wasted... but since MOST of it is on work machines, I guess it doesn't matter...
I have to hand it to the guys at distributed.net . The statsbox has had alot of problems [it's been much better lately] but the clients have been first rate. I switched over to Seti@Home for awhile, bit I just couldn't accept a client that took up 12Megs of RAM and crashed, when the RC5 client takes up aprrox 500k and doesn't crash. [Ok, I actually have 1 machine that freezes if I run the linux client,but it's only a 200MMX so I'm not worried about it]
KUDOS to the Distributed.net group!
Ender
I'm not so sure that this is a good thing. Even with increased quality of voice recognition software, we still don't seem to be progressing very quickly with AI. Of course companies are still going to use this [yeah I know many already do], but I personally don't like talking to computers over the phone. For something simple like "say 1 for Tech support, say 2 for customer service " etc it's not so bad, but even that can be annoying. A friend of mine called Sears the other day. They are set up to have the caller say the name of the department they'd like to be transferred to. Unfortunately saying "Operater" does NOT get you to a human [no matter how loud you scream it :) ].
I would love to have Voice Recognition on my computer. At least in that situation I can see how the computer is reacting to what I'm saying, and if it isn't working right, I can intervene with the normal keyboard/mouse controls. But until the 'intelligence' of the systems is improved, I'd rather talk to a human when ordering something over the phone. I'd hate to accidentally get 200qty of widget X @ $20/ea when I only wanted 2qty of Widget XY @ $20ea :)
Ender
Actually this could bring about some good things. ;) ]. It sucks.
I once occupied a huge office in Menlo Park,CA. I had a 20' wide window view of the Sand Hill Rd area and the SF Bay. Now I am stuck in an 8'x8' cube [not much bigger than the new G4 Cube
With any luck, all these people talking to their computers will force companies to start giving people private offices again.
Well I can dream can't I?
Ender
Trying to say this nicely [without flaming] but shouldn't that be 1210Mhz? Otherwise you'd be saying 1.021giga[hertz].. :)
Back on topic, I think this sort of proves that Intel/AMD really rushed in the race to 1Ghz. They both released an obnoxious number of processors increasing in speed until they hit the mark, and since then we haven't heard much of anything from them. I hope they both have calmed down enough to make sure everything is properly tested [ie, delaying Itanium...WTG Intel!]. I don't know that there have been any bugs found yet in the 800Mhz-1Ghz chips, but I'm sure some will be found eventually.
In the words of Miracle Max: "Never rush a miracle man...or you'll get a rotton miracle." :)
-The Princess Bride...best movie ever
Ender
Er... the Chinese consider 8 a lucky number. 888 triply so :) Maybe they have Chinese designers?
Ok so it's Horribly OT... sorry...
Ender
Ok, while I think the parent post to this is a bit redundant, I need to make a statement... :) ]
I can understand the IOC et.all wanting to go after people who are selling unlicensed "Olympic"[TM] goods. But I seriously doubt that all 1800 of these sites are selling such items. If someone has www.olympic-pizza.com, and it's the site for Olympic Pizza parlour in Olympia, Wa, then the IOC has *NO* right to go after them, because that's not cybersquatting... that's using a legit domainname for your legit business, and no one is going to mistake the site or the pizza place as being part of the Olympics[TM]. As a matter of fact, even those companies that are selling unlicensed goods are not cybersquatting. They're just selling unlicensed goods with the "Olympic"[TM] name. I thought cybersquatting laws were supposed to go after ppl buying domain names and sitting on them in the hopes of the trademark/copyright owner paying big buck$ for them. (though I suppose I could be wrong
Anyway, the entire thing is a load of crap. I hope the IOC loses big time on this one...
What I hope happens is that the IOC realizes what a *DUMB* thing they are doing, re-evaluates their stance, and just files suit against those companies selling unlicensed "Olympic"[TM] goods..
Ender
Hell, not only that, but Olympus Mons will have to be renamed as well!
Ender
I'm HOPING it's just a few switchover problems that will be remedied. If not, I'm going to have a long talk with PB/SBC [after a long wait time I'm sure]
Ender
It reminds me of something from Dark City or Blade Runner... surreal is right though...
Actually, they're not... I'm not paying them... just using IPMASQ... it just makes it a little more inconvenient for things like hosting Diablo II games... :(
But you're right... they aren't terribly likely to stop doing something that makes them money.
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