I mean, the vast majority of people, anyway. I doubt I could find one person's computer on a collage campus that didn't have pirated content.
The trick would be finding people who are distributing huge amounts of the stuff. In fact, I'm not even sure it's technically illegal to have pirated content.
I got a Cassiopia years ago, and I really liked it. It broke after awhile and I didn't replace it for a long time (since I didn't get the replacement plan, I broke the screen dropping it)
Later I got a new one, and the replacement plan, with the idea I could replace my broken one and have two, but by the time I got around to it the Cassiopea was already obsolite, so I got a nice iPaq with 64 megs of ram.
Anyway, the point of the story is that i have two nice WinCE PDAs, and I never use either of them, although I did use the planner a bit at the beginning of the semester.
I keep phone numbers on my cell phone, and planning... well, I don't really do that:P Perhaps if I was a more organized person in general, but I'm not.
A bit later I got a nice little Sony Vaio SR, which is small enough to take almost anywhere where I might need some mobile computing.
Ah well.
I do remember playing a game of Metroid on the can once using an NES emulator on my iPaq, though:P
Because the people who run slashdot are stupid
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They seem to think that hacked xboxes are like the coolest thing ever, since, like, you're sticking it to M$!!!
Btw, I've heard of modded Xboxes being used to play NES/SNES/etc games, can the PS2 with a linux kit do the same thing?
JSL has owned the "evisa" trademark in international category ic042 since October of 1999.
VISA has owned "evisa" in ic036 since august of that year. Why they didn't register evisa.com at the same time is beyond me, but in any event, they both have valid claims to the domain name, and JSL registered first.
See my other comment. There is no trademark on 'evisa.com' or 'e-visa.com'. JSL and VISA both own trademarks on "evisa" in different international categories. VISA also owns a trademark on "e-visa" and "e visa".
Obviously visa should get dibs on the "visa" trademark, but I had never heard of 'evisa' before. Had I seen the word out of context I would have associated it with neither banking or travel, but rather simply thought of it as one of those random company names (accenture, aquent, alcola)
Anyway, in an ideal world, JSL would have evisa.travel, and VISA could have evisa.bank.
well, according to The US government which won't let me link to search results (just do a search for evisa), they have both owned trademarks since 1999, with visa corp beating JSL by two months.
Visa also owns 'e-visa' and 'e visa', but not 'e-visa.com' or 'evisa.com'. Interestingly, they only own the TM in one international category IC036, while JSL owns it in IC046. I'm surprised VISA didn't register their TM in every single possible field.
Typed Drawing
-- Word Mark EVISA Goods and Services IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: COMPUTER SERVICES, NAMELY DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING WEB SITES; PROVIDING TRANSLATION SERVICES FOR OTHERS VIA A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK. FIRST USE: 19971227. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19971227 Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING Serial Number 75816558 Filing Date October 6, 1999 Published for Opposition May 15, 2001 Owner (APPLICANT) JSL Corporation CORPORATION NEVADA 3540 W. Sahara #081 Las Vegas NEVADA 89102 Attorney of Record PARKER H. BAGLEY Type of Mark SERVICE MARK Register PRINCIPAL Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
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Word Mark EVISA Goods and Services IC 036. US 100 101 102. G & S: Broad based financial services, namely, banking, payment, credit, debit, charge, pre-paid, stored value, cash disbursement, travelers cheque, travel insurance, deposit access, automated teller machine, point of sale, point of transaction services; providing electronic funds and currency transfer services; providing transaction authorization and settlement services; dissemination of financial information via a global information network Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING Serial Number 75779435 Filing Date August 19, 1999 Filed ITU FILED AS ITU Published for Opposition October 10, 2000 Owner (APPLICANT) Visa International Service Association CORPORATION DELAWARE 900 Metro Center Boulevard Foster City CALIFORNIA 94404 Prior Registrations 1065272;1071114;1313366;AND OTHERS Type of Mark SERVICE MARK Register PRINCIPAL Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
Trademarks can't stop people from using the names of things, just calling themselves that thing. I can say "JavaTM" (the name sun insists on using every time they write the word... anyway). I can even say "java java java". If I write a program I can say "I wrote this program in Java". What I can't do is call it "JavaWhatever", in which case sun will get their panties in a bunch.
So if slashdot changed their name to "visa", then they would be in trouble. In the interim, they can talk about visa all they want.
This guy is probably screwed, sorry to say. Has the EFF had any actual success at all? I only seem to hear about them losing.
I agree with what the EFF is trying to do, but it seems like we're all going to be fucked in the ass pretty soon, the way things are going. I guess I'm just a cynic.
SME's new Label Gate CD consists of two kinds of music data -- one is data for audio devices to replay and the other is encoded compressed data for PCs to replay.
So it will play in regular CD players. This is probably just the same crap you can use a pen to remove with a special sony brand name like "iLink" for firewire.
Hmmm, my ISP connection has been crap lately. I wonder if it has anything to do with other people on the same ISP downloading pr0n/mp3s/warez all day and using up the bandwidth?
How is the incovinence to you any diffrent then if they were paying for movies with Movielink.com or something? Your example is the most idiotic use of logic I've seen in a long time. In other words, no, it is not the same thing.
Am I the only one who found it funny the guy they profiled was working on DRM technology? In other words, he was trying to bring about the very thing you're complaining about.
[Brandon Wirtz] was on the verge of releasing a Smartcard based DRM solution for Windows Media Player to several different companies before his life was turned upside-down.
Wow, talk about ironic.
I don't think I'll shed to many tears for this guy, personaly.
Why all the focus on microsoft products, I submitted an exploit for opera a month or so ago, and it was rejected.
I think this is just going to make spam more annoy
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Call me a cynic, but in my estimation, the only thing effective Spam filters based on content are going to do is make Spam more annoying. Why? Because spammers are going to have the same access to filters that regular people do. All they'll need to do is run their Spam through the filters to check and make sure they pass. In other words, if these Spam filters really work well then it won't be possible to determine what is and isn't Spam by a quick glance at the subject line or formatting of the message. Rather then "INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY FOR FAST EAZY MONEY$$$$$$$$$5390ANFP9O" and "HOT HORNY SLUTS WANT TO MEAT YOU" we'll get stuff like "Dude, check this out!" with a body like "hey man, long time no see. What have you been up to? I've just been hanging out, not too exciting, although I met this cool chick off the 'net. Hrm, you still looking for a gf? You should check out FriendFinder.com:). Anyway, talk to you later, bro."
And you'll need to read the whole message before you realize its Spam
You might not like to believe it, but spammers (or at least some spammers) are hackers, in both senses of the word. ESRs supposed "hacker ethics" are as much bullshit as anything else he says.
The only way these things will work is if the vast majority of people do not use these things. I don't know how likely that will be, with MSN already promoting it's 'less Spam' features.
I think what we need is a fundamental change in the way email is handled. The current system is just way to prone to abuse, and should be replaced entirely. The new standard could use things like digital certificates and other technology to make sure you're talking to an individual (while protecting anonymity in some cases, although the receipt of anon email could be optional, etc, etc)
Hell I though people around here would see the logic in all this, but guess there are to many bleeding heart liberals around here
Where is the logic in supporting one class of people over another class of people?
Sorry pal, you are the commie, we are the capitalists. you are one being guided by emotions, we are the ones being guided by logic. You are the moron here.
Anyone remember those old warez sites, (and some H/P/A sites as well) where they tried to force you to click their sponsors, or links to top-sites in order to access them?
I guess all kinds of marketing comes around. But the real question is, are people too cheap to pay for salon premium really going to buy Mercedes-Benzs?
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I mean, the vast majority of people, anyway. I doubt I could find one person's computer on a collage campus that didn't have pirated content.
The trick would be finding people who are distributing huge amounts of the stuff. In fact, I'm not even sure it's technically illegal to have pirated content.
I got a Cassiopia years ago, and I really liked it. It broke after awhile and I didn't replace it for a long time (since I didn't get the replacement plan, I broke the screen dropping it)
:P Perhaps if I was a more organized person in general, but I'm not.
:P
Later I got a new one, and the replacement plan, with the idea I could replace my broken one and have two, but by the time I got around to it the Cassiopea was already obsolite, so I got a nice iPaq with 64 megs of ram.
Anyway, the point of the story is that i have two nice WinCE PDAs, and I never use either of them, although I did use the planner a bit at the beginning of the semester.
I keep phone numbers on my cell phone, and planning... well, I don't really do that
A bit later I got a nice little Sony Vaio SR, which is small enough to take almost anywhere where I might need some mobile computing.
Ah well.
I do remember playing a game of Metroid on the can once using an NES emulator on my iPaq, though
They seem to think that hacked xboxes are like the coolest thing ever, since, like, you're sticking it to M$!!!
Btw, I've heard of modded Xboxes being used to play NES/SNES/etc games, can the PS2 with a linux kit do the same thing?
JSL has owned the "evisa" trademark in international category ic042 since October of 1999.
VISA has owned "evisa" in ic036 since august of that year. Why they didn't register evisa.com at the same time is beyond me, but in any event, they both have valid claims to the domain name, and JSL registered first.
See my other comment. There is no trademark on 'evisa.com' or 'e-visa.com'. JSL and VISA both own trademarks on "evisa" in different international categories. VISA also owns a trademark on "e-visa" and "e visa".
Obviously visa should get dibs on the "visa" trademark, but I had never heard of 'evisa' before. Had I seen the word out of context I would have associated it with neither banking or travel, but rather simply thought of it as one of those random company names (accenture, aquent, alcola)
Anyway, in an ideal world, JSL would have evisa.travel, and VISA could have evisa.bank.
To bad ICANN is run by monkies. Ah well.
well, according to The US government which won't let me link to search results (just do a search for evisa), they have both owned trademarks since 1999, with visa corp beating JSL by two months.
Visa also owns 'e-visa' and 'e visa', but not 'e-visa.com' or 'evisa.com'. Interestingly, they only own the TM in one international category IC036, while JSL owns it in IC046. I'm surprised VISA didn't register their TM in every single possible field.
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Goods and Services IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: COMPUTER SERVICES, NAMELY DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING WEB SITES; PROVIDING TRANSLATION SERVICES FOR OTHERS VIA A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK. FIRST USE: 19971227. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19971227
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 75816558
Filing Date October 6, 1999
Published for Opposition May 15, 2001
Owner (APPLICANT) JSL Corporation CORPORATION NEVADA 3540 W. Sahara #081 Las Vegas NEVADA 89102
Attorney of Record PARKER H. BAGLEY
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
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Word Mark EVISA
Goods and Services IC 036. US 100 101 102. G & S: Broad based financial services, namely, banking, payment, credit, debit, charge, pre-paid, stored value, cash disbursement, travelers cheque, travel insurance, deposit access, automated teller machine, point of sale, point of transaction services; providing electronic funds and currency transfer services; providing transaction authorization and settlement services; dissemination of financial information via a global information network
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 75779435
Filing Date August 19, 1999
Filed ITU FILED AS ITU
Published for Opposition October 10, 2000
Owner (APPLICANT) Visa International Service Association CORPORATION DELAWARE 900 Metro Center Boulevard Foster City CALIFORNIA 94404
Prior Registrations 1065272;1071114;1313366;AND OTHERS
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
Trademarks can't stop people from using the names of things, just calling themselves that thing. I can say "JavaTM" (the name sun insists on using every time they write the word... anyway). I can even say "java java java". If I write a program I can say "I wrote this program in Java". What I can't do is call it "JavaWhatever", in which case sun will get their panties in a bunch.
So if slashdot changed their name to "visa", then they would be in trouble. In the interim, they can talk about visa all they want.
This guy is probably screwed, sorry to say. Has the EFF had any actual success at all? I only seem to hear about them losing. I agree with what the EFF is trying to do, but it seems like we're all going to be fucked in the ass pretty soon, the way things are going. I guess I'm just a cynic.
Don't use Style Sheets - it makes web pages unreadable in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
First of all it should say "they make" not "it makes" and second of all, wtf are you talking about?
SME's new Label Gate CD consists of two kinds of music data -- one is data for audio devices to replay and the other is encoded compressed data for PCs to replay.
So it will play in regular CD players. This is probably just the same crap you can use a pen to remove with a special sony brand name like "iLink" for firewire.
Hmmm, my ISP connection has been crap lately. I wonder if it has anything to do with other people on the same ISP downloading pr0n/mp3s/warez all day and using up the bandwidth?
How is the incovinence to you any diffrent then if they were paying for movies with Movielink.com or something? Your example is the most idiotic use of logic I've seen in a long time. In other words, no, it is not the same thing.
Can you think of any other job that is more purely evil than working for a mega-spammer?
Being a murderous dictator?
In windows you would use 'net send' and then something which I forget
In the US 'fag' refers to a 'homosexual man', not a cigarette.
Just thought you might like to know that. I know a lot of people consider it wrong, but I was wondering how faggotry could be considered profitable...
As you can read in other comments, its very simple for cable providers to 'recap' people at their end.
Am I the only one who found it funny the guy they profiled was working on DRM technology? In other words, he was trying to bring about the very thing you're complaining about.
Not that this helps the other 16...
Since most insurance companies do not profit from insuring people, but rather from investments.
[Brandon Wirtz] was on the verge of releasing a Smartcard based DRM solution for Windows Media Player to several different companies before his life was turned upside-down.
Wow, talk about ironic.
I don't think I'll shed to many tears for this guy, personaly.
Why all the focus on microsoft products, I submitted an exploit for opera a month or so ago, and it was rejected.
Call me a cynic, but in my estimation, the only thing effective Spam filters based on content are going to do is make Spam more annoying. Why? Because spammers are going to have the same access to filters that regular people do. All they'll need to do is run their Spam through the filters to check and make sure they pass. In other words, if these Spam filters really work well then it won't be possible to determine what is and isn't Spam by a quick glance at the subject line or formatting of the message. Rather then "INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY FOR FAST EAZY MONEY$$$$$$$$$5390ANFP9O" and "HOT HORNY SLUTS WANT TO MEAT YOU" we'll get stuff like "Dude, check this out!" with a body like "hey man, long time no see. What have you been up to? I've just been hanging out, not too exciting, although I met this cool chick off the 'net. Hrm, you still looking for a gf? You should check out FriendFinder.com :). Anyway, talk to you later, bro."
And you'll need to read the whole message before you realize its Spam
You might not like to believe it, but spammers (or at least some spammers) are hackers, in both senses of the word. ESRs supposed "hacker ethics" are as much bullshit as anything else he says.
The only way these things will work is if the vast majority of people do not use these things. I don't know how likely that will be, with MSN already promoting it's 'less Spam' features.
I think what we need is a fundamental change in the way email is handled. The current system is just way to prone to abuse, and should be replaced entirely. The new standard could use things like digital certificates and other technology to make sure you're talking to an individual (while protecting anonymity in some cases, although the receipt of anon email could be optional, etc, etc)
Hell I though people around here would see the logic in all this, but guess there are to many bleeding heart liberals around here
Where is the logic in supporting one class of people over another class of people?
Sorry pal, you are the commie, we are the capitalists. you are one being guided by emotions, we are the ones being guided by logic. You are the moron here.
You can get your CS degree, move to india, get your $400/mo and live like a king!
Or Islam, christianity, etc...
In fact, many hours were devoted just to making sure that it would run starcraft.
Anyone remember those old warez sites, (and some H/P/A sites as well) where they tried to force you to click their sponsors, or links to top-sites in order to access them?
I guess all kinds of marketing comes around. But the real question is, are people too cheap to pay for salon premium really going to buy Mercedes-Benzs?