It is the duty of a franchise to uphold the good name of the franchise for the franchisees, as the practices of one franchise do represent the entire chain.
. . . does this show us that the USPTO actually cares about bad patents, or that it can be induced to care about them for a megacorporation who has given sufficient campaign contributions?
3 -- Built-in command-line-interface. There's nothing I hate more than being slave to my mouse. If your Windows mouse doesn't work, you're screwed. Try navigating and performing normal tasks with only the keyboard. . . .
CTRL-ESC R CMD works fine for me. Windows was originally designed to follow the IBM CUA guidelines, which required that the UI could be operated mouseless. Certainly, some apps stray from that, but you'd be amazed at what you can do in Windows, even today, with only the keyboard shortcuts.
In both the recent high profile corporate scandals, the problems were manifested in the market before the DoJ had taken significant action. The DoJ's effective prosecution of Enron and Worldcom execs is more of a political necessity than a moral imperative for the administration.
Probably right. Not so sure about Gates' political orientation, though. Someone in MS' position will keep the bases covered with generous contributions to both parties. This speculated a few years ago on a potential shift in his orientation.
Don't hold your breath. Remember that the current DoJ is the one that administered the slap on the wrist for the convicted monopolist's most recent infractions. Even if Kerry wins, I'm sure his administration can be bought, as well.
Not player manufacturer will go openly against the RIAA maffia [sic] ever. Period.
One already has. It was called Diamond Multimedia, the inventor of the Rio. If you'll recall, they stared down both barrels of an RIAA lawsuit, fought off a preliminary injunction (the RIAA tried to use the AHRA and the absence of a "serial copy management system" to interfere in the marketplace) and introduced the first commercially successful portable MP3 player.
Heh:). Unless the HMO becomes an India corporation, too, the lawsuits will be handled in the U.S. And you can be the insurance industry isn't going to let the profits go from Hartford to Bangalore. So the principals, if not the operation, remain stateside, and are sued right at home.
That's pretty cool--but when they start charging in March, $2.95 per delivery. It'd be a bummer to have a tracking number associated with my credit card number posted to Slashdot:)!
Use a single use credit card number, such as Private Payments from American Express. That, or buy a Webcertificate for exactly the amount of the first year's subscription. I've found these useful for buying services that I only want once, but either won't sell the service or charge an outrageous fee for not using recurring billing.
Cut off the user's service, and when they call, say that you noted a "network anomaly" and will need to reset their client equipment. Reset the parms, turn the service back on. No accusation necessary, and the subscriber will probably get the message.
If it were to happen a second time, it would be time to either permanently cancel the user or escalate to less subtle threats.
Too bad there's so much money to be made in China by donors to both parties. Even right-wing Republicans look the other way at the slaughter of Christains for their faith to keep the campaign money rolling in.
That would also have the effect of DDoSing the Secret Service for awhile, since it's reputed that Xerox color copiers, and possibly others, disable themselves until reset by a technician when they detect an apparent attempt to copy currency. See this, which was pointed to by another poster in this story.
Well, it does look from another reply like lower proofs will burn if you can get some vapor started, so maybe there's still hope:). (Note to Ashcroft--I'm KIDDING.)
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It is the duty of a franchise to uphold the good name of the franchise for the franchisees, as the practices of one franchise do represent the entire chain.
. . . does this show us that the USPTO actually cares about bad patents, or that it can be induced to care about them for a megacorporation who has given sufficient campaign contributions?
CTRL-ESC R CMD works fine for me. Windows was originally designed to follow the IBM CUA guidelines, which required that the UI could be operated mouseless. Certainly, some apps stray from that, but you'd be amazed at what you can do in Windows, even today, with only the keyboard shortcuts.
That's tantamount to a charge for porting the number. I'd write the FCC. Worse thing that can happen is nothing.
Not quite per-site blocking, but Flash Click to View for Mozilla may be of interest to you.
In both the recent high profile corporate scandals, the problems were manifested in the market before the DoJ had taken significant action. The DoJ's effective prosecution of Enron and Worldcom execs is more of a political necessity than a moral imperative for the administration.
Probably right. Not so sure about Gates' political orientation, though. Someone in MS' position will keep the bases covered with generous contributions to both parties. This speculated a few years ago on a potential shift in his orientation.
Don't hold your breath. Remember that the current DoJ is the one that administered the slap on the wrist for the convicted monopolist's most recent infractions. Even if Kerry wins, I'm sure his administration can be bought, as well.
Not in the United States. The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act prohibits voiding a warranty on those grounds.
I wonder how good it is at identifying the psychoacoustic characteristics of the encrypted payloads increasingly common in P2P apps.
That, and the comic's mirrored over all creation. If American Greetings hadn't whined, it would have been forgotten by now.
One already has. It was called Diamond Multimedia, the inventor of the Rio. If you'll recall, they stared down both barrels of an RIAA lawsuit, fought off a preliminary injunction (the RIAA tried to use the AHRA and the absence of a "serial copy management system" to interfere in the marketplace) and introduced the first commercially successful portable MP3 player.
Wow--I didn't realize those duties weren't voluntary. It seems really dumb to force people into those jobs--particuarly DIs!
I like the idea, but without recruiters, who will bring these men to be transformed into elite Marines? Without DIs, who will train them?
Heh :). Unless the HMO becomes an India corporation, too, the lawsuits will be handled in the U.S. And you can be the insurance industry isn't going to let the profits go from Hartford to Bangalore. So the principals, if not the operation, remain stateside, and are sued right at home.
That's pretty cool--but when they start charging in March, $2.95 per delivery. It'd be a bummer to have a tracking number associated with my credit card number posted to Slashdot :)!
Use a single use credit card number, such as Private Payments from American Express. That, or buy a Webcertificate for exactly the amount of the first year's subscription. I've found these useful for buying services that I only want once, but either won't sell the service or charge an outrageous fee for not using recurring billing.
If it were to happen a second time, it would be time to either permanently cancel the user or escalate to less subtle threats.
Too bad there's so much money to be made in China by donors to both parties. Even right-wing Republicans look the other way at the slaughter of Christains for their faith to keep the campaign money rolling in.
Maybe, maybe not, but it does lend itself to some, um, interesting uses.
The executives from Cisco and Yahoo who cooperated with the Chinese government should be tried in the Hague and hanged for crimes against humanity.
That would also have the effect of DDoSing the Secret Service for awhile, since it's reputed that Xerox color copiers, and possibly others, disable themselves until reset by a technician when they detect an apparent attempt to copy currency. See this, which was pointed to by another poster in this story.
Hate to break it to you, but the rich and connected rarely go to prison. And the ones that do don't go to the one in which people "squeal like a pig."
Yes, but did the publisher who required transfer of the copyright to get it printed give permission :)?
Well, it does look from another reply like lower proofs will burn if you can get some vapor started, so maybe there's still hope :). (Note to Ashcroft--I'm KIDDING.)