Amazon's delivery performance has degraded so greatly in the last year or two that I thought they were already doing something like this. I've been a big shopper with them since they began, and I have seen their delivery performance going into the sewer for quite some time. As their delivery performance suffered, my purchases from them have dropped-off to almost nothing. Whatever possessed them to think that a punishment would improve their sales is beyond my imaginiation.
BN
Just when you thought Congress was totally useless, they go and do something right. It was always wrong for the small repair shops to be excluded from being able to repair newer cars, but we citizens were also being excluded from being able to repair our own cars. It surprises me that Congress has the cojones to do this, but I do applaud the action.
By excluding the small repair shops, the auto manufacturers are preventing customers from getting the best repair deals. By exluding US from reading our own engine error codes, we can't easily perform many basic auto maintenance tasks.
Bravo to whomever decided to step out-of-character in our Congress.
That is an excellent idea. I haven't been a member of Netflix for quite some time. This would save me from buying multiple versions of the same movie.
Then again, the standard editions make good presents for friends with limited funds. You can feel good about yourself and still indulge in crass consumerism.
A list of sources would be insanely unpractical in the case of many large databases. If a description of the process was enough to prove independent work, then NOBODY could protect their copyright. It is far too simple.
Either way, this doesn't work.
Then we come to the point of "how do you prove that it was independently gathered?". Allowing for such a possibility does not make proving it possible.
We are talking about databases. A database is a collection of (hopefully) facts. Take your example of a sports almanac. If somebody else collected the scores for the same time period, their database would violate your copyright, even though they did the same work. So, we are indeed talking about OWNING THE FACTS.
The next question comes about when we consider a person who collects the same scores, but for a longer period of time. Would the fact that your copyright covers a subset of his database still put him in violation of your copyright?
This is bad legislation. Common sense should send it into the dumper. The lack of common sense in Congress is what has me concerned.
Re: "long-term support for Peoplesoft products is threatened by the takeover, making potential customers wary of making a decision to buy now"
Don't forget the promise that Peoplesoft made to its customers to pay them some nice cash if Oracle comes in and cancels their products. I think that actually convinced some customers to buy who weren't even interested before.
I hope it's not another Windows ME style dead-end branch of the Windows tree. US customers need to get the rumored stripped-down Windows that the EU may be getting. Windows, without all the unwanted crap, would be interesting to see.
BN
Re: "If anything, the internet is making the general public spell better....all you have to do with a word you're unsure of is type in in google, and they'll find the correct spelling for you.
The problem is that almost nobody does that. Even many people who have spell checkers do not use them. Prior to the Internet, I had never seen the pseudo-word "definately". Now I see it many times in a single day.
...and in a further study, the same researchers determined that ingesting two teaspoons of drain cleaner reduced the likelihood of old age related illnesses.
RE: "Vanity domains and.forward files already solve this problem."
That's a different situation.
Portability would have to include mail for me that goes to a domain that I don't own and no longer pay for (i.e. me@msn.com) being auto-forwarded to my account at a new domain that I don't own (i.e. me@mindspring.com). Neither company is going to let me mess around with their mx record, but my mail would have to be forwarded anyway.
So, I would get my bubba@toofless.com email delivered to my new yankee@stankee.com account?
Since email addresses contain the ISP's domain account, this would get truly messy. However, if we changed the way email addresses were constructed so that the ISP's domain name wasn't involved, then we might have a workable method of keeping them portable.
Nah, there are drives available that run both standards (i.e. Plextor PX-708a). Those will allow users to function until this whole situation shakes out.
You are heading for a lifetime of frustration if you continue fixating on that issue. Herding cats is easy compared to your attempt to force humans to behave as you wish.
They need to focus on invalidating the trademark word "Windows" first, then Lindows wouldn't be infringing on anything. Microsoft should never have been able to trademark such a ubiquitous term.
Egad! Is this the destination we have reached via all of the bloodshed and vigorous negotiation in US history? The richest guy wins?
We may suspect that to already be true, but we live by the illusion that our votes count.
If we give up that important illusion, there are some not-so-mentally-stable elements of our society who might start voting with higher velocity ballots.
BN
Verisign has now invented DNS Spamming. I guess they will now start hiring hackers to get their spamming past the various types of blocks that we put up.
As with email spam, Congress will lack the cojones to stop the Verisign spam, and it will be another ongoing battle for the citizens to handle for themselves. Egad.
...but, of course, you have absolutely NOTHING to base that humble opinion upon...
A simple checkbox at the point of registration is the way that Register.Com handles other parameters of the domain. They could easily do the same thing in this case, with no loss of efficiency.
I have never bothered to send out a protest letter before but when I received this email, I felt compelled to send a letter to the clerk of court telling them how rediculous the whole thing is....
You will take the time to spell-check the letter to the clerk, won't you?
Slashdot Mirror
OK, so how long will it take for them to start building national firewalls? BN
Amazon's delivery performance has degraded so greatly in the last year or two that I thought they were already doing something like this. I've been a big shopper with them since they began, and I have seen their delivery performance going into the sewer for quite some time. As their delivery performance suffered, my purchases from them have dropped-off to almost nothing. Whatever possessed them to think that a punishment would improve their sales is beyond my imaginiation. BN
Just when you thought Congress was totally useless, they go and do something right. It was always wrong for the small repair shops to be excluded from being able to repair newer cars, but we citizens were also being excluded from being able to repair our own cars. It surprises me that Congress has the cojones to do this, but I do applaud the action.
By excluding the small repair shops, the auto manufacturers are preventing customers from getting the best repair deals. By exluding US from reading our own engine error codes, we can't easily perform many basic auto maintenance tasks.
Bravo to whomever decided to step out-of-character in our Congress.
That is an excellent idea. I haven't been a member of Netflix for quite some time. This would save me from buying multiple versions of the same movie.
Then again, the standard editions make good presents for friends with limited funds. You can feel good about yourself and still indulge in crass consumerism.
BN
A list of sources would be insanely unpractical in the case of many large databases. If a description of the process was enough to prove independent work, then NOBODY could protect their copyright. It is far too simple. Either way, this doesn't work.
Then we come to the point of "how do you prove that it was independently gathered?". Allowing for such a possibility does not make proving it possible.
We are talking about databases. A database is a collection of (hopefully) facts. Take your example of a sports almanac. If somebody else collected the scores for the same time period, their database would violate your copyright, even though they did the same work. So, we are indeed talking about OWNING THE FACTS.
The next question comes about when we consider a person who collects the same scores, but for a longer period of time. Would the fact that your copyright covers a subset of his database still put him in violation of your copyright?
This is bad legislation. Common sense should send it into the dumper. The lack of common sense in Congress is what has me concerned.
Re: "long-term support for Peoplesoft products is threatened by the takeover, making potential customers wary of making a decision to buy now"
Don't forget the promise that Peoplesoft made to its customers to pay them some nice cash if Oracle comes in and cancels their products. I think that actually convinced some customers to buy who weren't even interested before.
I hope it's not another Windows ME style dead-end branch of the Windows tree. US customers need to get the rumored stripped-down Windows that the EU may be getting. Windows, without all the unwanted crap, would be interesting to see. BN
Hitler must be spinning in his lake of fire!
Re: "If anything, the internet is making the general public spell better. ...all you have to do with a word you're unsure of is type in in google, and they'll find the correct spelling for you.
The problem is that almost nobody does that. Even many people who have spell checkers do not use them. Prior to the Internet, I had never seen the pseudo-word "definately". Now I see it many times in a single day.
The Internet is definitely teaching bad spelling.
Darl's mommy?
If that tramp had been smart enough to spell Daryl's name correctly, he probably would not be the miscreant he currently is.
BN
...and in a further study, the same researchers determined that ingesting two teaspoons of drain cleaner reduced the likelihood of old age related illnesses.
RE: "Vanity domains and .forward files already solve this problem."
That's a different situation.
Portability would have to include mail for me that goes to a domain that I don't own and no longer pay for (i.e. me@msn.com) being auto-forwarded to my account at a new domain that I don't own (i.e. me@mindspring.com). Neither company is going to let me mess around with their mx record, but my mail would have to be forwarded anyway.
BN
RE: "Make email addresses portable"
So, I would get my bubba@toofless.com email delivered to my new yankee@stankee.com account?
Since email addresses contain the ISP's domain account, this would get truly messy. However, if we changed the way email addresses were constructed so that the ISP's domain name wasn't involved, then we might have a workable method of keeping them portable.
BN
RE: "but -R is the more compatible of the two formats."
Compatible with what?
BN
Nah, there are drives available that run both standards (i.e. Plextor PX-708a). Those will allow users to function until this whole situation shakes out.
BN
Anonymous coward, you sure know how to ruin a good joke. BN
RE: "Top posting bastards"
You are heading for a lifetime of frustration if you continue fixating on that issue. Herding cats is easy compared to your attempt to force humans to behave as you wish.
BN
They need to focus on invalidating the trademark word "Windows" first, then Lindows wouldn't be infringing on anything. Microsoft should never have been able to trademark such a ubiquitous term.
BN
Other than the price, that sounds a bit like Zone Labs' new semi-worthless product "IMSecure" BN
Egad! Is this the destination we have reached via all of the bloodshed and vigorous negotiation in US history? The richest guy wins?
We may suspect that to already be true, but we live by the illusion that our votes count.
If we give up that important illusion, there are some not-so-mentally-stable elements of our society who might start voting with higher velocity ballots. BN
Verisign has now invented DNS Spamming. I guess they will now start hiring hackers to get their spamming past the various types of blocks that we put up.
As with email spam, Congress will lack the cojones to stop the Verisign spam, and it will be another ongoing battle for the citizens to handle for themselves. Egad.
Time to redefine that IP address...
imho more people want the service than not
...but, of course, you have absolutely NOTHING to base that humble opinion upon...
A simple checkbox at the point of registration is the way that Register.Com handles other parameters of the domain. They could easily do the same thing in this case, with no loss of efficiency.
BN
I have never bothered to send out a protest letter before but when I received this email, I felt compelled to send a letter to the clerk of court telling them how rediculous the whole thing is....
You will take the time to spell-check the letter to the clerk, won't you?
BN