There was a bug in Zip drives like this. A particular scratch on the magnetic surface would slightly dislodge the read/write head. If a fresh disk was put in, the dislodged head would replicate that scratch. Cheers,
Ah, but that's just it. He reached into his subconscious, and being part of the great computer, pulled out the correct answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Cheers,
You can't really expect it to live up to Heavy Metal. Just because the movie won't be remembered, and loved, in 20 years, doesn't make it crap. Cheers,
I've heard monitors make a high pitched whining noise, but only when there's something wrong with them (they die shortly after starting doing that). Cheers,
IIRC, they sued mp3.com over that stupid patent. At least they'll be providing me with free movies now, I doubt their "security" will hold for long, and I certainly won't give cretins like this money. Cheers,
Trade secrets do not lose protection if they are stolen or otherwise illegally obtained.
But they weren't stolen or illegally obtained if MacNN was given them by someone breaking their NDA. MacNN has no obligation to uphold an agreement between Adobe and a third party. There's nothing illegal about participating in someone else breaking a contract. As long as the leak remains anonymous, Adobe has no legal recourse.
I really believe that one should be able to name a hobby site whatever one likes, as long as there is no potential for customer confusion. The law seems to back this up. However, Mattel may win simply because I probably can't afford a lawyer - this is what upsets me.
Well, you can't really present yourself as a comercial entity (by using the.comercial TLD), and then complain about the "big bad corporation" coming at you with their lawyers for trademark infringement. You forced their hand by not using the proper TLD, if they don't go after you, they could lose their trademark.
This is crying wolf. There are real abuses by corporations happening, this isn't one of them. Cheers,
Fine, this stuff is horrible, and no good person would involve themselves in it (except for historical purposes). But it isn't hurting anyone, and there's no good reason to make it illegal.
Remember, the French government's hands aren't exactly clean. Remember their language purity laws? They aren't exactly in a position to be making moral judgements. Cheers,
Truth is a defence, but I'm almost certian that lack of knowledge is not. Besides, they swore under penalty of perjury that those 300,000 people pirated their music. Cheers,
Take the average John Q Public with a Win9x system, what should we make him d/l?
Realplayer: Largest d/l: 9.3MB Smallest d/l: 3.6MB
Winamp: Largest d/l: 2MB Smallest d/l: 560KB
Also note that the winamp site has a big flashy "Get Winamp Now" link, while the realaudio site has the download link hidden off to the side under "Top Free Downloads", and even after following that, you're presented with an add for "Realplayer Plus", with a diminutive link to "Realplayer Basic". Even after that, they force you to enter demographic (read: spam) info before they let you at the download page.
Now which should you send John Q Public, who probably isn't that net savvy, to? Cheers,
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There was a bug in Zip drives like this. A particular scratch on the magnetic surface would slightly dislodge the read/write head. If a fresh disk was put in, the dislodged head would replicate that scratch.
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Rick Kirkland
Here in Canada, if they do that the ticket would get thrown out. It's selective prosecution and illegal.
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Rick Kirkland
I can't say for the US, and IANAL, but here in Canada, selective prosecution is illegal, and a valid defence.
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Rick Kirkland
Ah, but that's just it. He reached into his subconscious, and being part of the great computer, pulled out the correct answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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Rick Kirkland
Yes, but usually people mean Vancouver, BC, unless they specifically say WA. Doesn't get confusing that way.
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Rick Kirkland
You can't really expect it to live up to Heavy Metal. Just because the movie won't be remembered, and loved, in 20 years, doesn't make it crap.
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Rick Kirkland
I've heard monitors make a high pitched whining noise, but only when there's something wrong with them (they die shortly after starting doing that).
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Anyway they say you stop hearing those high frequencies after around age 25-30
My 50 year old mother can hear them.
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IIRC, they sued mp3.com over that stupid patent. At least they'll be providing me with free movies now, I doubt their "security" will hold for long, and I certainly won't give cretins like this money.
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Rick Kirkland
That's exactly my point. The illegal act is giving the info, not receiving it.
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Rick Kirkland
Trade secrets do not lose protection if they are stolen or otherwise illegally obtained.
But they weren't stolen or illegally obtained if MacNN was given them by someone breaking their NDA. MacNN has no obligation to uphold an agreement between Adobe and a third party. There's nothing illegal about participating in someone else breaking a contract. As long as the leak remains anonymous, Adobe has no legal recourse.
Of course IANAL.
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"Agent" is a fairly common AI term for an autonomous program. These network bots would be one, as would the agents in the matrix.
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I was just at EB, and they told me it'd been moved up to June 30th.
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True, however registering a ".com" does show a comercial intent. Ignorance is not a defence.
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Rick Kirkland
I really believe that one should be able to name a hobby site whatever one likes, as long as there is no potential for customer confusion. The law seems to back this up. However, Mattel may win simply because I probably can't afford a lawyer - this is what upsets me.
.comercial TLD), and then complain about the "big bad corporation" coming at you with their lawyers for trademark infringement. You forced their hand by not using the proper TLD, if they don't go after you, they could lose their trademark.
Well, you can't really present yourself as a comercial entity (by using the
This is crying wolf. There are real abuses by corporations happening, this isn't one of them.
Cheers,
Rick Kirkland
While I agree that most, if not all, governments have dirtied their hands at one time or another, the french are doing this *now*.
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Rick Kirkland
Fine, this stuff is horrible, and no good person would involve themselves in it (except for historical purposes). But it isn't hurting anyone, and there's no good reason to make it illegal.
Remember, the French government's hands aren't exactly clean. Remember their language purity laws? They aren't exactly in a position to be making moral judgements.
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Rick Kirkland
On the Space channel, I'm not sure what time, but early in the morning.
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Rick Kirkland
Unicode is an abomination. ASCII may not be perfect, but it fits in a byte.
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Rick Kirkland
Truth is a defence, but I'm almost certian that lack of knowledge is not. Besides, they swore under penalty of perjury that those 300,000 people pirated their music.
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Rick Kirkland
That is, unless you live in a country that gives free tv advertising time to all political parties.
This really happened here in Canada in the last federal election, there were ads for the "Yogic Flyers" party. Sigh.
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Rick Kirkland
Take the average John Q Public with a Win9x system, what should we make him d/l?
Realplayer:
Largest d/l: 9.3MB
Smallest d/l: 3.6MB
Winamp:
Largest d/l: 2MB
Smallest d/l: 560KB
Also note that the winamp site has a big flashy "Get Winamp Now" link, while the realaudio site has the download link hidden off to the side under "Top Free Downloads", and even after following that, you're presented with an add for "Realplayer Plus", with a diminutive link to "Realplayer Basic". Even after that, they force you to enter demographic (read: spam) info before they let you at the download page.
Now which should you send John Q Public, who probably isn't that net savvy, to?
Cheers,
Rick Kirkland
hehe, I loved that game.
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They're the ones who where suing mp3.com a while back over that inane patent on music distribution on the net.
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Rick Kirkland
On the order page, you can select Win98, Win2k, or a blank drive. Nice to see =)
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Rick Kirkland