So freakin' what? This isn't a public library, a university, or even a home internet service. It's a business used for fairly short durations by travelers. They have every right to limit the service they provide to meet their business needs, and as much as I might love me the pr0n, I see no need for anyone to access it while packed into a sardine can with a bunch of strangers.
You don't have to put "TM" next to something for it to be a trademark. Doing that helps establish your use of it as a trademark, and registering it helps even more and gives additional legal rights, but all that's required is for you to use the mark in trade.
If a web site at the domain has any traffic or search-engine placement at all, a domain farm will assume it has value as a place to put ads. I accidentally let a disused domain lapse a few years ago, and it now has a bunch of advert-links using key words from the site I used to have there. All 100% automated, I'm sure.
Back in those days there was a widespread belief (correct or not) that the internet could not be use for commercial purposes (the main argument being the US government's funding of the backbone). Sure, there was a "COM" TLD, but that was really just a basket for outfits that didn't fall into one of the main TLDs: GOV (government agencies), NET (infrastructure providers), EDU (colleges), ORG (non-profits), and MIL (military). If a commercial entity wanted on the net, they were welcome, but the assumption among most netizens at the time was that they were doing it to participate in the net's non-commercial activities.
If you dig a little more deeply to the statement by the Wikimedia Foundation, you'll see that they are planning to change licenses. GFDL 2.0 is just going to be intermediary revision, one which adds a clause allowing any massively multiauthor wiki to be relicensed under CC-By-SA.
The additional "security" this bill would provide is illusory.
And the whole point of this legislation is for the people who voted for it to give their constituents that illusion that they are now safer, which means that if people don't get that (false) impression, the legislators have failed at their objective. Trust me: people will fall for it; they already have.
A key difference (and one of the main reasons Wikitravel.org uses CC-BY-SA instead of GFDL) is the requirement that a copy of the license be included with any printed copies of the material. That's a reasonable requirement for printing a GFDL book, but not if you're printing individual pages from a travel guide.
Kasparov is "linked with" the NazBols only by them both being part of the same opposition coalition. It's little more than a classic example of "politics makes strange bedfellows".
Political parties - no matter how disgusting, crackpot, or offensive - are not banned in the U.S. I'm not aware of any Nazi Commie parties, but we have just plain Nazis and just plain Commies (and probably even a radical Islamist party) and they're perfectly legal.
Adding that he's a "giant critic" of the Putin government is an improvement, but how about the fact that Kasparov is an actual candidate for president, hoping to be elected head of that government in March? This is akin to arresting Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
I really miss computer power supplies that had a real, honest-to-god power switch like the IBM switch built into them. These days all they have are hold-it-in-to-say-Please-Turn-Off buttons, which just aren't the same. Let me tell ya: If the HAL9000 had been equipped with a classic IBM-style power switch, Frank Poole would still be alive today.
What I find astonishing is the fact that Citizendium still hasn't figured out what license(s) they're using. The bigger it gets, the bigger a crisis it's going to face when it comes time to relicense all of that content under whichever open-content license(s) they choose.
And in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first Sputniks, the BBC will post instructions for how you can build your own Sputnik 2 at home... including the dog.
As any paranoid US nationalist knows, nearly the entire Canadian population is massed on the US/Canada border, in preparation for an invasion. They've turned off all the lights in the rest of the country to protect it from retaliatory air raids.
I find the exceptions to the general patterns interesting. For example, on the map of connections, there's a cluster going to somewhere around the Gulf of Guinea... are those lines there to transport all the scam-spam from deposed Nigerian millionaires? And what's with the links to... northern Manitoba?
I don't expect any better. But I will answer both the snickering adolescent homophobes and the people who have have a stick up their puckered asses over a mere "celebrity" being honored this way.
Yes, George Takei is queer. And although he felt he had to hide this fact for most of his adult life, he had the courage and integrity to come out of the closet, by choice, giving inspiration to those fans who are gay (of whatever age) to be a little more courageous in their own lives. Plus, he's done it with class and humor.
Yes, George Takei is an actor. But his dignified and non-stereotyped portrayal of a starship officer for whom being Japanese was only one of several interesting character traits, helped expose viewers to a broader picture of what Asian people were like, and to Asian kids in particular it gave another idea of what they might become. Plus his obvious contribution to Star Trek's promotion of space-related science.
So, yeah: There's no question he deserves the modest honor of having an object in space named after him. And he can handle the jokes.
I was almost there. Physically, that is. I worked at Hope in the Computing and Information Technology dept until the spring of 1997. Good thing Rob wasn't trying to run his little message board over the campus internet connection; we would've shut the bandwidth-wasting punk down. {stern stare}
The thing is, Windows ME was Microsoft's last example of "Oops, we screwed up; here's what you really wanted." Windows 2000 was supposedly going to replace Windows 98, but because it was based on a vastly different code base (WinNT) it was incompatible with a lot of application software, games, drivers, etc. So MS went back and dusted off the Win98 source code, and updated that. Yeah, it was a rushed and shoddy version, but it gave the users an actual upgrade (in features, not quality) from Win98.
Nor would a public abandonment of WinVista be a first. Win95 itself was an admission that WinNT wasn't the everybody-upgrade successor to Win31 that Microsoft promised it would be. Before that, Microsoft had hitched its wagon to OS/2 as the successor to Windows, until they backed off and announced WinNT instead. And is anyone else here old enough to remember when Microsoft overhauled the interface for MS Word 5.5 for DOS and touched off a user revolt?
Or whenever a piece of software they want to use no longer works with their version of the OS... which happens more often to much "younger" versions of Mac OS X than with Windows (e.g. Anyone try installing Adobe CS3 on a Panther system?)
How about they let the user decide what's "too slow"? I'm perfectly content with the speed of my 500MHz iBook G3 running Panther, so what makes them so sure I won't be happy running Leopard on my dual 533MHz G4 PowerMac?
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So freakin' what? This isn't a public library, a university, or even a home internet service. It's a business used for fairly short durations by travelers. They have every right to limit the service they provide to meet their business needs, and as much as I might love me the pr0n, I see no need for anyone to access it while packed into a sardine can with a bunch of strangers.
You don't have to put "TM" next to something for it to be a trademark. Doing that helps establish your use of it as a trademark, and registering it helps even more and gives additional legal rights, but all that's required is for you to use the mark in trade.
If a web site at the domain has any traffic or search-engine placement at all, a domain farm will assume it has value as a place to put ads. I accidentally let a disused domain lapse a few years ago, and it now has a bunch of advert-links using key words from the site I used to have there. All 100% automated, I'm sure.
Back in those days there was a widespread belief (correct or not) that the internet could not be use for commercial purposes (the main argument being the US government's funding of the backbone). Sure, there was a "COM" TLD, but that was really just a basket for outfits that didn't fall into one of the main TLDs: GOV (government agencies), NET (infrastructure providers), EDU (colleges), ORG (non-profits), and MIL (military). If a commercial entity wanted on the net, they were welcome, but the assumption among most netizens at the time was that they were doing it to participate in the net's non-commercial activities.
If you dig a little more deeply to the statement by the Wikimedia Foundation, you'll see that they are planning to change licenses. GFDL 2.0 is just going to be intermediary revision, one which adds a clause allowing any massively multiauthor wiki to be relicensed under CC-By-SA.
I read it; I think you're mistaken.
The additional "security" this bill would provide is illusory.
And the whole point of this legislation is for the people who voted for it to give their constituents that illusion that they are now safer, which means that if people don't get that (false) impression, the legislators have failed at their objective. Trust me: people will fall for it; they already have.
A key difference (and one of the main reasons Wikitravel.org uses CC-BY-SA instead of GFDL) is the requirement that a copy of the license be included with any printed copies of the material. That's a reasonable requirement for printing a GFDL book, but not if you're printing individual pages from a travel guide.
"Because a false sense of security is better than no sense of security at all."
So is your notion that "illegal political rally" is somehow applicable to the United States.
Kasparov is "linked with" the NazBols only by them both being part of the same opposition coalition. It's little more than a classic example of "politics makes strange bedfellows".
Political parties - no matter how disgusting, crackpot, or offensive - are not banned in the U.S. I'm not aware of any Nazi Commie parties, but we have just plain Nazis and just plain Commies (and probably even a radical Islamist party) and they're perfectly legal.
If you're talking about his chances of winning, sure. But if you're talking about his status within the opposition party, he's a serious candidate.
Adding that he's a "giant critic" of the Putin government is an improvement, but how about the fact that Kasparov is an actual candidate for president, hoping to be elected head of that government in March? This is akin to arresting Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
I really miss computer power supplies that had a real, honest-to-god power switch like the IBM switch built into them. These days all they have are hold-it-in-to-say-Please-Turn-Off buttons, which just aren't the same. Let me tell ya: If the HAL9000 had been equipped with a classic IBM-style power switch, Frank Poole would still be alive today.
Manga Studio EX reportedly doesn't run properly on Leopard either, so I'll be holding off on this upgrade. {sigh}
What I find astonishing is the fact that Citizendium still hasn't figured out what license(s) they're using. The bigger it gets, the bigger a crisis it's going to face when it comes time to relicense all of that content under whichever open-content license(s) they choose.
And in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first Sputniks, the BBC will post instructions for how you can build your own Sputnik 2 at home... including the dog.
As any paranoid US nationalist knows, nearly the entire Canadian population is massed on the US/Canada border, in preparation for an invasion. They've turned off all the lights in the rest of the country to protect it from retaliatory air raids.
I find the exceptions to the general patterns interesting. For example, on the map of connections, there's a cluster going to somewhere around the Gulf of Guinea... are those lines there to transport all the scam-spam from deposed Nigerian millionaires? And what's with the links to... northern Manitoba?
I don't expect any better. But I will answer both the snickering adolescent homophobes and the people who have have a stick up their puckered asses over a mere "celebrity" being honored this way.
Yes, George Takei is queer. And although he felt he had to hide this fact for most of his adult life, he had the courage and integrity to come out of the closet, by choice, giving inspiration to those fans who are gay (of whatever age) to be a little more courageous in their own lives. Plus, he's done it with class and humor.
Yes, George Takei is an actor. But his dignified and non-stereotyped portrayal of a starship officer for whom being Japanese was only one of several interesting character traits, helped expose viewers to a broader picture of what Asian people were like, and to Asian kids in particular it gave another idea of what they might become. Plus his obvious contribution to Star Trek's promotion of space-related science.
So, yeah: There's no question he deserves the modest honor of having an object in space named after him. And he can handle the jokes.
{ahem} How about: "In Soviet Russia, they give asteroids' names to YOU."
I was almost there. Physically, that is. I worked at Hope in the Computing and Information Technology dept until the spring of 1997. Good thing Rob wasn't trying to run his little message board over the campus internet connection; we would've shut the bandwidth-wasting punk down. {stern stare}
Nor would a public abandonment of WinVista be a first. Win95 itself was an admission that WinNT wasn't the everybody-upgrade successor to Win31 that Microsoft promised it would be. Before that, Microsoft had hitched its wagon to OS/2 as the successor to Windows, until they backed off and announced WinNT instead. And is anyone else here old enough to remember when Microsoft overhauled the interface for MS Word 5.5 for DOS and touched off a user revolt?
Or whenever a piece of software they want to use no longer works with their version of the OS... which happens more often to much "younger" versions of Mac OS X than with Windows (e.g. Anyone try installing Adobe CS3 on a Panther system?)
How about they let the user decide what's "too slow"? I'm perfectly content with the speed of my 500MHz iBook G3 running Panther, so what makes them so sure I won't be happy running Leopard on my dual 533MHz G4 PowerMac?
In Post-Soviet Russia, the students program the computers! What a country!