For violation of the law as it currently stands -- if the company or its officers are likely to face charges, and they've threatened to "pull out" of Finland, that demonstrates a flight risk.
The threat of pulling out should be sufficient grounds to place the company's officers located in Finland as flight risks to ensure they stand trial should they be unsuccessful in buying the new law.
When Windows XP was new, I remember reading that Windows XP was Windows 2000 plus eye candy, digital restrictions management support, and spyware. I still agree.
I suspect the Toyota dealers themselves were the ultimate beneficiaries of those incentives--why negotiate on the price of a Prius when demand is high and you know the buyer's getting a tax credit?
Probably already patented and royalties the only major barrier to the idea. Another is operation in areas with no reception, but that could be worked around (presence in a region enables that region for some period of time unless it detects itself in another region). I'll be quiet now:).
So it knows when to expire the DRM-encumbered tracks that might have been loaded on it. Hell, I'm surprised it doesn't have GPS so it can enforce region restrictions on "content" too.
Amen. Thanks to Firefox, web "developers" who code for IE only now do so at their peril and I also remember the bad old days when this was not the case.
I agree with you that this is a matter of the difference between Internet time and legal time. If Psion manages to get a jury composed of people without much technical inclination who will perceive the several years that netbook was unused by the holder and the couple of years it was used as generic term before Psion's sharks smelled blood and money, they have a chance. Then Psion will become known as trademark abuser, bloggers will use the term anyway, and corporations will come up with another term to work around the judgment.
Off the top of my head, Hollings (the Senator from Disney) and Biden. opensecrets.org shows that Democrats get more contributions from big content than do Republicans.
Interesting info about Psion--sounds like they have shifted to software rather than hardware and thus are below the radar (and not currently manufacturing a netbook). The examples you cite (Coke et al) haven't become generic terms because they were continuously and vigorously defended over long periods of time (over 100 years in the case of Coke). The word netbook had not been so defended for eight or so years, an eternity in this industry. While I suppose Psion's sudden awakening that there might be gold in that thar trademark might be sufficient to convince a jury in a trademark lawsuit, my (admittedly lay) opinion is that it's just another generic term now and it's too late.
The RIAA is going to love this. A big Federal investment in broadband will give the feds the leverage they need to enforce the three-strikes laws the MAFIAA will get now that their party is in power (having failed to even stall music sharing by abusing the courts). Before everyone jumps all over me, I voted for Obama, but let's face it: the Democratic party is practically a wholly-owned subsidiary of the "content" "industry".
If there were marketing a product now, I'd have some sympathy for them. What's more likely than that they have a product in wait is that someone from the empty husk of Psion saw an opportunity to litigate the trademark and perhaps bring in some cash. Thankfully, trademarks that become generic terms become invalid.
We'll see. Coca-Cola's been aggressively defended over a hundred year period, and this was used as the name for a device that hasn't seen any marketing for a number of years and whose holder only became interested in it when it seemed like there might be money to be made from its having become a generic term.
Seems a pretty natural compound of "net" and "notebook" and thus generic. I'd never even heard of the Psion product until they came out of the woodwork with their claims after the term was in wide use as a generic diminutive notebook intended to mainly access network resources.
No they're not--they used to use it, and it's a sufficiently generic term that they're going to lose their trademark anyway (except for maybe the sort of camel-case variation). From the summary (emphasis mine)
that years ago sold a small sub-notebook called a netBook
I'm only one, but I certainly will. I stopped buying any new RIAA-published music (still patronize music stores--I know that helps prop up the market, but at least their members don't get a cut) when the mp3.com lawsuit was filed. I have no intention to go back to filling their coffers because they've shifted their suppressive efforts from lawsuits against alleged infringers to strong arming ISPs and universities.
Right, but you implied that even if he had been born on U.S. soil that his mother's immigration status might somehow taint his claim to U.S. citizenship, which is not the case.
- The circumstances of his mother's precise status (wherever he happened to be born) and her ability to legally transfer citizenship to her son based on the law at the time of his birth, are certainly muddled.
This is incorrect. Anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen, regardless of the immigration status of that person's parents. From the 14th Amendment:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
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For violation of the law as it currently stands -- if the company or its officers are likely to face charges, and they've threatened to "pull out" of Finland, that demonstrates a flight risk.
Forgot two words; the above should read "under arrest as flight risks"
The threat of pulling out should be sufficient grounds to place the company's officers located in Finland as flight risks to ensure they stand trial should they be unsuccessful in buying the new law.
When Windows XP was new, I remember reading that Windows XP was Windows 2000 plus eye candy, digital restrictions management support, and spyware. I still agree.
I suspect the Toyota dealers themselves were the ultimate beneficiaries of those incentives--why negotiate on the price of a Prius when demand is high and you know the buyer's getting a tax credit?
Probably already patented and royalties the only major barrier to the idea. Another is operation in areas with no reception, but that could be worked around (presence in a region enables that region for some period of time unless it detects itself in another region). I'll be quiet now :).
So it knows when to expire the DRM-encumbered tracks that might have been loaded on it. Hell, I'm surprised it doesn't have GPS so it can enforce region restrictions on "content" too.
Amen. Thanks to Firefox, web "developers" who code for IE only now do so at their peril and I also remember the bad old days when this was not the case.
I agree with you that this is a matter of the difference between Internet time and legal time. If Psion manages to get a jury composed of people without much technical inclination who will perceive the several years that netbook was unused by the holder and the couple of years it was used as generic term before Psion's sharks smelled blood and money, they have a chance. Then Psion will become known as trademark abuser, bloggers will use the term anyway, and corporations will come up with another term to work around the judgment.
Off the top of my head, Hollings (the Senator from Disney) and Biden. opensecrets.org shows that Democrats get more contributions from big content than do Republicans.
Interesting info about Psion--sounds like they have shifted to software rather than hardware and thus are below the radar (and not currently manufacturing a netbook). The examples you cite (Coke et al) haven't become generic terms because they were continuously and vigorously defended over long periods of time (over 100 years in the case of Coke). The word netbook had not been so defended for eight or so years, an eternity in this industry. While I suppose Psion's sudden awakening that there might be gold in that thar trademark might be sufficient to convince a jury in a trademark lawsuit, my (admittedly lay) opinion is that it's just another generic term now and it's too late.
The RIAA is going to love this. A big Federal investment in broadband will give the feds the leverage they need to enforce the three-strikes laws the MAFIAA will get now that their party is in power (having failed to even stall music sharing by abusing the courts). Before everyone jumps all over me, I voted for Obama, but let's face it: the Democratic party is practically a wholly-owned subsidiary of the "content" "industry".
If there were marketing a product now, I'd have some sympathy for them. What's more likely than that they have a product in wait is that someone from the empty husk of Psion saw an opportunity to litigate the trademark and perhaps bring in some cash. Thankfully, trademarks that become generic terms become invalid.
We'll see. Coca-Cola's been aggressively defended over a hundred year period, and this was used as the name for a device that hasn't seen any marketing for a number of years and whose holder only became interested in it when it seemed like there might be money to be made from its having become a generic term.
Seems a pretty natural compound of "net" and "notebook" and thus generic. I'd never even heard of the Psion product until they came out of the woodwork with their claims after the term was in wide use as a generic diminutive notebook intended to mainly access network resources.
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We can, but they're both 100%.
And then dialup will be just as useful as a cable modem, at 20% of the cost, and they are out of the ISP business.
What's interesting is that a french fry and a pair of french cut panties are both "french cut" but look nothing alike.
I'm only one, but I certainly will. I stopped buying any new RIAA-published music (still patronize music stores--I know that helps prop up the market, but at least their members don't get a cut) when the mp3.com lawsuit was filed. I have no intention to go back to filling their coffers because they've shifted their suppressive efforts from lawsuits against alleged infringers to strong arming ISPs and universities.
Right, but you implied that even if he had been born on U.S. soil that his mother's immigration status might somehow taint his claim to U.S. citizenship, which is not the case.
Yup. Still have an O^2 in the garage.
If you only have a "license" when you "buy" a game, surely the publisher will replace a scratched disc for a nominal charge. Right? RIGHT?
This is incorrect. Anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen, regardless of the immigration status of that person's parents. From the 14th Amendment: