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I doubt it's the first. A quick google search shows that there are at least a dozen similar existing products. Also, I'm sort of disappointed by the "multi-touch" feature. When I read that, I was imagining two iPads -- one for each barefoot. As it stands in this case, multi-touch just means multi-buttons.
So by that definition, all phones (with more than one button) are "multi-touch" as well.
...and if a customer purchases more than x volume they get a call from the equivalent of AAA. Kind of like alcohol and tobacco sales but with an extra little measure.
I thought the entire point of AAA was that you had to be willing to be helped by them, for them to come and help you. Personally, I use Jerry instead when I need a car towed and I know the owner isn't going to be happy about it. I don't know if it's the tattoos on his face, the shot-gun rack on his tow truck, or the super aggressive pit bull by his side, but uncooperative people become really polite and even helpful once he gets there
Note that this is in Japan, the coffee drinks in their vending machines are actually pretty good, and already expensive. And from what I remember from my four day stay-over seventeen years ago, vending machines were not just used for coffee or soda drinks, some had soup, and some had porn magazines, manga, and vibrators (and these vending machines were not just in their red light districts, I'm talking about plain well-maintained and sophisticated electronic vending machines that one could even find in the suburbs).
On the Android Market, that app is still there, but it's getting mostly negative reviews (not because of anything controversial, but just because most planes are not equipped with that kind of ADS-B transmitter, and therefore don't show up in those public feeds). It has both a paid version and a free lite version if you guys want to try it (I suspect the data available will mostly depend on the country you're located in).
So according to your sound legal reasoning, it would be illegal for Amazon to put a little check-box next to each order saying "Allow person to return/exchange his gift for whatever else he/she wants", and/or a checkbox saying "Notify person receiving gift that the gift is on its way", or something else entirely.
Now I'm not a lawyer, nor do I work for Amazon, so I don't know what would be the best language for describing something like this to Aunt Milfy. But don't you think that, with enough legal oversight, and a little bit of common sense and enough user testing to make sure users understand, that this is an easily solvable problem for Amazon.
Dumb? The only thing your message proves is that, according to the time-stamps of this order at least, that they're currently hunting down this thing (or since it's probably far gone by now, that they're looking for any evidence that my have been left behind).
Twitter is like email. It can be pointless and/or useful. It really depends how you use it.
Take a look at your unfiltered email inbox, a lot of it is spam, a lot of it is announcements/mailing lists related, a lot of it is chit-chat (what your extended family did on vacation), a lot of it is someone carbon copying you on something (because they want to keep you in the loop just in case), and this is not to say that all these categories are completely pointless, they're not necessarily. It's just that if you judge email based on its most visible attributes, you're bound to make some incorrect assumptions about it.
And I won't bore you with my own use of Twitter, I'm not trying to accumulate the highest number of followers, I'm not famous, I don't have the most interesting tweets, I hardly re-tweet anything from anyone else (I did once, that's about it), and chances are if you start following me, I won't reciprocate, so it's not like my own use of Twitter would even be super-visible to you.
Can someone explain how this flaw can be used in real life? Does this mean a web site can tap your phone with skype? Wouldn't it also need access to the volume control as well to avoid the user hearing the Skype tone? Also, I thought the iPhone didn't allow third-party app multi-tasking. So does this mean that the malicious web site would be forced to lose control of the window and cede it to the Skype application instead? If it really did that last one, cede control to the Skype application, I wouldn't really consider this a major security risk.
And no, I'm not an Apple fanboy, nor am I an iPhone developer (thus the silly clueless questions on my end), I don't even own an iPhone. I am however a former Nokia user who used to be really pissed off at having to authorize every little action my phone had to take.
Lamebook is quite obviously a parody site, something that is protected by the First Amendment. Facebook (which has already tried to claim trademark on all ----book sites [slashdot.org]) has already threatened to go after Lamebook. If they do so, it will be tried in whatever Facebook-friendly court district that Facebook wants.
In order to help protect themselves, Lamebook is suing them preemptively to declare that they have the right to their parody site and avoid being put in a position where Facebook simply outspends them in litigation.
I doubt that they were worried about this going to court, even in a Facebook-friendly court that's one-thousand miles away from them.
The crux of their panic here was that the Facebook lawyer threatened the nuclear option, to "shut down their personal Facebook account if they didn't comply" (and that, I'm afraid they wouldn't have been able to do anything about, it's Facebook's right to shut down any personal Facebook page they desire, just like it was Rupert Murdoch's right to shut down any MySpace account that criticized him).
At least, by tackling the trademark issue head-on, and asking a preemptive verdict on that part at least, it will look that much worse if Facebook ever decides to shut down their personal account after that.
I know a limo driver now at Elkton who picked up a fare at JFK, the DEA pulled them over and found the fare's bags stuffed with cocaine and meth. The driver knew nothing about it, denied all knowledge, and went to trial with a public defender. He got 37 years and lost his appeal, and does not have the money for collateral attack.
This one sounds a little bit hard to believe. Are you sure you were told *both* sides of the case?
The problem is that importing Facebook "friends" to gmail requires you to get access to their email address.
Some people make their contact information available to their friends, and most don't. Currently, Facebook doesn't make it easy to extract even that smaller subset of information. It would be great if they started doing that.
'Assuming that only the web pages of Cotendo's customers are altered, are there nonetheless potential legal troubles with someone rewriting HTML before delivery to a browser?'"
Why should there be? They're not selling bandwidth. They're selling an optimization service (at least, according to their press release, that's what they're selling). This seems to be a clear opt-in situation for their customers. Also, their customers are the ones who are going to be saving money because of this, probably not Cotendo.
And in other news, disabling DRM ends up saving 74% and disabling video ends up saving 52% of battery life, Wired author writes. My next step is to disable the entire bloody Mac OS, and see how much energy I can save just running everything from the shell. Wish me luck.
Actually, she didn't. The powers that be claim that one of her kids shared some music on the internet. Legally speaking for this case, that's the same thing apparently, but I just wanted to make this distinction clear.
In Germany, not only the amount of the fine was tiny in comparison, but the father in that case wasn't even held financially liable for what his kid did.
May be, he's talking about Google's App Inventor, it's more like sets of blocks, drawings, and numbers (yes, numbers are still used), and (except for some of the labels) they don't seem to map out to any human-readable ascii source code (so in that sense, the drawings are the source).
Ah!! You must be an idiot-savant!! It's no wonder you couldn't keep the job. In the movie 'Rain Man', the retarded brother couldn't subtract 30 cents from 1 dollar, and yet he could perform fantastic calculations correctly in his head.
I'm the same way. Why learn math when I already have Fox News do all the heavy math for me? And why should my math-dumb kids be forced to learn math when we can just as easily import kids that are good at math and sciences from foreign countries?
I am amazed that people think google is a good search engine, rather then something to generate profit for google
Are these our only two choices? Why does it have to be a binary choice? Why can't it be a little bit of both?
Can you even name a search engine that's non-profit, altruistic, and yet any good at all? Yeah, good luck at searching for porn with that. I imagine the only pictures of "women's breasts" such a search engine could find would be the pictures of x-ray'd mammograms.
And that's the problem I think, your ideals didn't create Google, what makes you think your ideals could sustain an index that's even half as good as Google's. And no, I'm not just talking about porn, but about any of the casual content that normal people would actually google for (that wasn't already pre-approved by a large committee of authority figures and idealists such as yourself).
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I doubt it's the first. A quick google search shows that there are at least a dozen similar existing products. Also, I'm sort of disappointed by the "multi-touch" feature. When I read that, I was imagining two iPads -- one for each barefoot. As it stands in this case, multi-touch just means multi-buttons.
So by that definition, all phones (with more than one button) are "multi-touch" as well.
Many funeral plots are leased, not sold. And yet, leased funeral plots can still be part of your estate.
...and if a customer purchases more than x volume they get a call from the equivalent of AAA. Kind of like alcohol and tobacco sales but with an extra little measure.
I thought the entire point of AAA was that you had to be willing to be helped by them, for them to come and help you. Personally, I use Jerry instead when I need a car towed and I know the owner isn't going to be happy about it. I don't know if it's the tattoos on his face, the shot-gun rack on his tow truck, or the super aggressive pit bull by his side, but uncooperative people become really polite and even helpful once he gets there
In China the headline was: China Triumphs (Again) Imperial Denial of Services Attack Thwarted after only 18 Minutes of Disruption.
I would link to the article, but it's all in Chinese.
Cool!! Soulskill is just one scuba gear away from sending us some really cool pictures.
Note that this is in Japan, the coffee drinks in their vending machines are actually pretty good, and already expensive. And from what I remember from my four day stay-over seventeen years ago, vending machines were not just used for coffee or soda drinks, some had soup, and some had porn magazines, manga, and vibrators (and these vending machines were not just in their red light districts, I'm talking about plain well-maintained and sophisticated electronic vending machines that one could even find in the suburbs).
You sound like a great defense attorney! Can I have your card, to put in my wallet (just in case!).
On the Android Market, that app is still there, but it's getting mostly negative reviews (not because of anything controversial, but just because most planes are not equipped with that kind of ADS-B transmitter, and therefore don't show up in those public feeds). It has both a paid version and a free lite version if you guys want to try it (I suspect the data available will mostly depend on the country you're located in).
The boss of the UK game retailers said:
This has got to be the most timid boycott I've ever seen. Please just name the "two major retailers" already (so we know which ones to avoid).
So according to your sound legal reasoning, it would be illegal for Amazon to put a little check-box next to each order saying "Allow person to return/exchange his gift for whatever else he/she wants", and/or a checkbox saying "Notify person receiving gift that the gift is on its way", or something else entirely.
Now I'm not a lawyer, nor do I work for Amazon, so I don't know what would be the best language for describing something like this to Aunt Milfy. But don't you think that, with enough legal oversight, and a little bit of common sense and enough user testing to make sure users understand, that this is an easily solvable problem for Amazon.
Dumb? The only thing your message proves is that, according to the time-stamps of this order at least, that they're currently hunting down this thing (or since it's probably far gone by now, that they're looking for any evidence that my have been left behind).
Twitter is like email. It can be pointless and/or useful. It really depends how you use it.
Take a look at your unfiltered email inbox, a lot of it is spam, a lot of it is announcements/mailing lists related, a lot of it is chit-chat (what your extended family did on vacation), a lot of it is someone carbon copying you on something (because they want to keep you in the loop just in case), and this is not to say that all these categories are completely pointless, they're not necessarily. It's just that if you judge email based on its most visible attributes, you're bound to make some incorrect assumptions about it.
And I won't bore you with my own use of Twitter, I'm not trying to accumulate the highest number of followers, I'm not famous, I don't have the most interesting tweets, I hardly re-tweet anything from anyone else (I did once, that's about it), and chances are if you start following me, I won't reciprocate, so it's not like my own use of Twitter would even be super-visible to you.
Can someone explain how this flaw can be used in real life? Does this mean a web site can tap your phone with skype? Wouldn't it also need access to the volume control as well to avoid the user hearing the Skype tone? Also, I thought the iPhone didn't allow third-party app multi-tasking. So does this mean that the malicious web site would be forced to lose control of the window and cede it to the Skype application instead? If it really did that last one, cede control to the Skype application, I wouldn't really consider this a major security risk.
And no, I'm not an Apple fanboy, nor am I an iPhone developer (thus the silly clueless questions on my end), I don't even own an iPhone. I am however a former Nokia user who used to be really pissed off at having to authorize every little action my phone had to take.
Lamebook is quite obviously a parody site, something that is protected by the First Amendment. Facebook (which has already tried to claim trademark on all ----book sites [slashdot.org]) has already threatened to go after Lamebook. If they do so, it will be tried in whatever Facebook-friendly court district that Facebook wants.
In order to help protect themselves, Lamebook is suing them preemptively to declare that they have the right to their parody site and avoid being put in a position where Facebook simply outspends them in litigation.
I doubt that they were worried about this going to court, even in a Facebook-friendly court that's one-thousand miles away from them.
The crux of their panic here was that the Facebook lawyer threatened the nuclear option, to "shut down their personal Facebook account if they didn't comply" (and that, I'm afraid they wouldn't have been able to do anything about, it's Facebook's right to shut down any personal Facebook page they desire, just like it was Rupert Murdoch's right to shut down any MySpace account that criticized him).
At least, by tackling the trademark issue head-on, and asking a preemptive verdict on that part at least, it will look that much worse if Facebook ever decides to shut down their personal account after that.
I know a limo driver now at Elkton who picked up a fare at JFK, the DEA pulled them over and found the fare's bags stuffed with cocaine and meth. The driver knew nothing about it, denied all knowledge, and went to trial with a public defender. He got 37 years and lost his appeal, and does not have the money for collateral attack.
This one sounds a little bit hard to believe. Are you sure you were told *both* sides of the case?
Push a button, mark it as spam, and let the Bayesian filters take care of it. Your spam is obviously not my spam.
The problem is that importing Facebook "friends" to gmail requires you to get access to their email address.
Some people make their contact information available to their friends, and most don't. Currently, Facebook doesn't make it easy to extract even that smaller subset of information. It would be great if they started doing that.
'Assuming that only the web pages of Cotendo's customers are altered, are there nonetheless potential legal troubles with someone rewriting HTML before delivery to a browser?'"
Why should there be? They're not selling bandwidth. They're selling an optimization service (at least, according to their press release, that's what they're selling). This seems to be a clear opt-in situation for their customers. Also, their customers are the ones who are going to be saving money because of this, probably not Cotendo.
And in other news, disabling DRM ends up saving 74% and disabling video ends up saving 52% of battery life, Wired author writes. My next step is to disable the entire bloody Mac OS, and see how much energy I can save just running everything from the shell. Wish me luck.
This woman shared some music over the internet...
Actually, she didn't. The powers that be claim that one of her kids shared some music on the internet. Legally speaking for this case, that's the same thing apparently, but I just wanted to make this distinction clear.
In Germany, not only the amount of the fine was tiny in comparison, but the father in that case wasn't even held financially liable for what his kid did.
Sorry Rob,
With that number next to your "anonymous" name, #34103516, you might as well just have given us your full social security number.
May be, he's talking about Google's App Inventor, it's more like sets of blocks, drawings, and numbers (yes, numbers are still used), and (except for some of the labels) they don't seem to map out to any human-readable ascii source code (so in that sense, the drawings are the source).
Ah!! You must be an idiot-savant!! It's no wonder you couldn't keep the job. In the movie 'Rain Man', the retarded brother couldn't subtract 30 cents from 1 dollar, and yet he could perform fantastic calculations correctly in his head.
I'm the same way. Why learn math when I already have Fox News do all the heavy math for me? And why should my math-dumb kids be forced to learn math when we can just as easily import kids that are good at math and sciences from foreign countries?
I am amazed that people think google is a good search engine, rather then something to generate profit for google
Are these our only two choices? Why does it have to be a binary choice? Why can't it be a little bit of both?
Can you even name a search engine that's non-profit, altruistic, and yet any good at all? Yeah, good luck at searching for porn with that. I imagine the only pictures of "women's breasts" such a search engine could find would be the pictures of x-ray'd mammograms.
And that's the problem I think, your ideals didn't create Google, what makes you think your ideals could sustain an index that's even half as good as Google's. And no, I'm not just talking about porn, but about any of the casual content that normal people would actually google for (that wasn't already pre-approved by a large committee of authority figures and idealists such as yourself).