Well there is the slight detail of him refusing to turn over data they contributed, as well as purchasing the site in his own name.
The line between extortion and what this guy did is very fine and, shockingly, it's probably too close to call without seeing *gasp* evidence. He basically took a public service that he agreed to provide for free, waited until the public and sheriffs office got used to using it, then refused to turn it over.
Even if they drop the charges, you know the sheriff's department made back up copies of the data, what he was really holding hostage, as fast as they could. It's also pretty sleezy for him to refuse to give them to domain name, as if they should pay him more than the $20 bucks it cost him to register it.
Keep in mind also the computers were seized, most likely with a warrent, AFTER he blocked their efforts to investigate whether the charges were reasonable.
Ah you're missing the point. If the battery is dead, you should throw it away. English grammer, the "it" would be the battery. That's the joke, that you should pitch a dead battery and keep the iPod.
So you're saying if I have a box of chocolates that I've filled with poison in a locked safe in a hidden room in my closet, and you break into my house, crack the safe and eat the chocolates, I should be charged with your murder?
I particularly like the emphasis through bolding. It's a subtle and yet clear way of saying, "This is what I mean" in a way that also says, "I speak Swedish and you don't".
It's truly an inspired effort to be very clear and yet say nothing at all to your largely English speaking audience. Kudos.
Gah you have to allow for creative license. It's completely impossible to fit ALL of the information from a series as complex as Gauntlet into only four hours. You have to give the director some wiggle room and just enjoy the movie.
You sir, are wrong.
Yelling fire in a theatre is illegal in and of itself, among other things. It is illegal because people could be injured as a result or your actions.
Yelling in a theatre is certainly not illegal, at worst it will get you kicked out. Causing a panic by telling people they are going to die is very illegal.
Actually they aren't as similiar as you'd think. Psychology studies, indeed even students in basic classes, have proven time and time again that given the option between a completely risk free theft and paying for something reasonably priced, people with "Western Morals" will chose to pay for it in most cases.
It isn't until you cross the price line where people think YOU are being unfair to them that they will prefer to steal it.
This is what allows unattended kiosks to function at all, or displays in front of stores, newspaper stands, and many other things.
Curiously, it seems that only good faith on the part of the seller invokes this response. The more responsibility you put directly on the buyer, the more likely they are to behave ethically. If you establish elaborate security and countermeasures, they are more likely to try and steal it.
Consider online music retailers that attempted to put elaborate restrictions onto the media. All it did was galvanize people to trying to break their format. iTunes, however, only requires you to burn it to a CD, which they'll do with a touch of a button, and then rip it back from the CD to counter their own protections. The big difference is, they don't pretend that it's a huge restriction, they charge what people are willing to pay, and they provided more than enough for the average user: 3 authorizations or 1 for work and 2 home computers. Did people break it? Yep. Did it hurt their bottom line that people broke it? Not at all. Many users are like me, we went and bought copies of the music we had "borrowed" before when the price was at a point we considered unreasonable.
The FBI has already visited the seller, and you better believe the CIA already knows which hand he beats off with. No matter how rich the buyer is, he better not have so much as an unpaid parking ticket.
Note to moderators, consider reading parent posts before moderating something as flamebait. Using someone's own words against them isn't in my definition of flamebaiting, even if they used profanity originally.
Which was exactly my point. You can take a name and PUT it onto something, but you can extract a name from a product and expect to have exclusive rights to it.
And I'm not so sure they'd win in US courts in the reverse case anyway. I know a great many people to whom Honda and Hyundai sound remarkably similiar, especially over radio ads and I've never heard a peep about them other than people saying, No that's a HondA not a HyunDAI you idiot.
He's not TALKING about a glass in a wall. He's TALKING about windows on the screen, which is where Microsoft got the name in the first place. It's like Xerox (do the research and you'll get the irony of the example) making a trademark of Xerox(tm) Copier(tm). Making copies is what it DOES and everyone already calls it that. Same for windows. When windows came out it took something GUI's DID (use windows instead of full screens), that professionals KNEW GUI's did, that had already been implemented by others, and tried to use it as a name. As if every time you said copiers you meant Xerox.
Brand recognition, you stupid fuck, works the other way. How if you say Xerox you mean copiers, even if it's a Cannon, or if you say Kleenex you mean tissues, or Band-aid, or any number of other things.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, you want to be the theme song sequence to a James Bond movie?
Well there is the slight detail of him refusing to turn over data they contributed, as well as purchasing the site in his own name.
The line between extortion and what this guy did is very fine and, shockingly, it's probably too close to call without seeing *gasp* evidence. He basically took a public service that he agreed to provide for free, waited until the public and sheriffs office got used to using it, then refused to turn it over.
Even if they drop the charges, you know the sheriff's department made back up copies of the data, what he was really holding hostage, as fast as they could. It's also pretty sleezy for him to refuse to give them to domain name, as if they should pay him more than the $20 bucks it cost him to register it.
Keep in mind also the computers were seized, most likely with a warrent, AFTER he blocked their efforts to investigate whether the charges were reasonable.
Ah you're missing the point. If the battery is dead, you should throw it away. English grammer, the "it" would be the battery. That's the joke, that you should pitch a dead battery and keep the iPod.
X FREE 86 also returns the correct Xfree86 homepage, and XXX free 86 doesn't generate a warning.
Boy I'd like to see a beowu... oh.
And, as we all know, the plural of anecdote is indeed "data".
Filing one suit, announcing 2 suits.
Announced and filed = 1
Not announced x2 = 2
1 + 2 = 3
So you're saying if I have a box of chocolates that I've filled with poison in a locked safe in a hidden room in my closet, and you break into my house, crack the safe and eat the chocolates, I should be charged with your murder?
Seen that link a few places.
It's only quasi informative as the link apparently contains outdated information.
2003 printings exist, at least in sheet form
I particularly like the emphasis through bolding. It's a subtle and yet clear way of saying, "This is what I mean" in a way that also says, "I speak Swedish and you don't".
It's truly an inspired effort to be very clear and yet say nothing at all to your largely English speaking audience. Kudos.
Obviously, 42 / 6 (which is 2 times PI, which is exactly 3)
Gah you have to allow for creative license. It's completely impossible to fit ALL of the information from a series as complex as Gauntlet into only four hours. You have to give the director some wiggle room and just enjoy the movie.
You sir, are wrong. Yelling fire in a theatre is illegal in and of itself, among other things. It is illegal because people could be injured as a result or your actions. Yelling in a theatre is certainly not illegal, at worst it will get you kicked out. Causing a panic by telling people they are going to die is very illegal.
Actually they aren't as similiar as you'd think. Psychology studies, indeed even students in basic classes, have proven time and time again that given the option between a completely risk free theft and paying for something reasonably priced, people with "Western Morals" will chose to pay for it in most cases.
It isn't until you cross the price line where people think YOU are being unfair to them that they will prefer to steal it.
This is what allows unattended kiosks to function at all, or displays in front of stores, newspaper stands, and many other things.
Curiously, it seems that only good faith on the part of the seller invokes this response. The more responsibility you put directly on the buyer, the more likely they are to behave ethically. If you establish elaborate security and countermeasures, they are more likely to try and steal it.
Consider online music retailers that attempted to put elaborate restrictions onto the media. All it did was galvanize people to trying to break their format. iTunes, however, only requires you to burn it to a CD, which they'll do with a touch of a button, and then rip it back from the CD to counter their own protections. The big difference is, they don't pretend that it's a huge restriction, they charge what people are willing to pay, and they provided more than enough for the average user: 3 authorizations or 1 for work and 2 home computers. Did people break it? Yep. Did it hurt their bottom line that people broke it? Not at all. Many users are like me, we went and bought copies of the music we had "borrowed" before when the price was at a point we considered unreasonable.
And he's never cared, apparently.
Can you truly miss something you never had?
Sadly some apology is due
For the things that I said to you
What I said for a laugh
Has become a great gaffe
I'm sure you're hung to your shoe
And then there's the anonymous coward
Who winced whenever he showered
It seems he's upset
that he noticed when wet
O'er him even SCO towered
Bah plain text! Plain text!
And then there's the anonymous coward Who winced whenever he showered It seems he's upset that he noticed when wet O'er him even SCO towered
The FBI has already visited the seller, and you better believe the CIA already knows which hand he beats off with. No matter how rich the buyer is, he better not have so much as an unpaid parking ticket.
No, we should wait until he commits perjury over the incident.
Ah hah, you've cleverly chosen secret option D) I don't understand my own hardware.
AMD FX 64
Mobile AMD Athlon 64
You aren't talking about the same chips at all.
Bah, but you can't extract oops.
Note to moderators, consider reading parent posts before moderating something as flamebait. Using someone's own words against them isn't in my definition of flamebaiting, even if they used profanity originally.
Which was exactly my point. You can take a name and PUT it onto something, but you can extract a name from a product and expect to have exclusive rights to it.
And I'm not so sure they'd win in US courts in the reverse case anyway. I know a great many people to whom Honda and Hyundai sound remarkably similiar, especially over radio ads and I've never heard a peep about them other than people saying, No that's a HondA not a HyunDAI you idiot.
Sorry, you're the stupid fuck.
He's not TALKING about a glass in a wall. He's TALKING about windows on the screen, which is where Microsoft got the name in the first place. It's like Xerox (do the research and you'll get the irony of the example) making a trademark of Xerox(tm) Copier(tm). Making copies is what it DOES and everyone already calls it that. Same for windows. When windows came out it took something GUI's DID (use windows instead of full screens), that professionals KNEW GUI's did, that had already been implemented by others, and tried to use it as a name. As if every time you said copiers you meant Xerox.
Brand recognition, you stupid fuck, works the other way. How if you say Xerox you mean copiers, even if it's a Cannon, or if you say Kleenex you mean tissues, or Band-aid, or any number of other things.