Unfortunately, trademarks are fuzzy. If your phrase looks _somewhat like_ their trademark, then you could be infringing. Of course, if your phrase doesn't cause an average person to confuse it with their product or service, then you're in the clear.
HardRadio should never have been granted a trademark, IMHO, as it's simply an adjective and a noun that would naturally (as FfR have seen) be seen together.
Hahah, Monotype/AGFA can't have the brains they were born with!
It's good to see your story, in particular with the little guy and his voice of common sense.
FightForRock is one of my favourite radio stations (Snakenet Metal Radio being my preference for harder stuff, and Aural Moon for progressive stuff). I'd like to see FightForRock make a stand too.
Rockers being bullied by lawyers. NO IT JUST ISN'T RIGHT! Bike chains for coshes and a rendez-vous in the fucking carpark, that's what I say!
However, more immediately, I think that the google-bomb and blog-meme is probably the way to go. Make HardRadio regret their litigious stupidity.
If you're at the stage where you're parsing HTTP requests, you've already tied up a socket, and started a new thread/process, with all the memory allocation that that involves. You then serve a page rejecting the request you don't wish to serve. i.e. you're being a webserver and serving a page. How is that different from being a webserver and serving a page? Exactly. You're just as liable to be DDoSed with referrer checking as without.
"Is this yet another example of technologically illiterate politicians eagerly passing bills without bothering to find out..."
I shit you not, but just this week I heard of some council in the UK tha only at the last minute stopped a dihydrogen-monoxide banning bill. The stupid fuckers had fallen for the joke hook line and sinker and were trying to legislate against it!
Illiteracy is _rife_ in this field. Chose your vote wisely.
Not really. On the whole the legislature does not even consider such 'offences' as even being offences. They're off the map, neither expresly legal or illegal; and the way that you're set up, if it's not explicitly illegal, it's legal. So lots of those "bad" things peope complain about are in fact perfecty legal.
Of course, the law is out of date, but do remember that you can't charge someone retroactively.
e.g. Forging IP headers is not a crime, however despicable it may be.
Oh - I read the Utah bill - it's total codswallop. What the fuck are "Java Scripts". Can you say "dunnowhatthefuckimtalkingabout"?
YAW. (I apologise for my grammer/punctuation/spelling. I'm in a real can't-even-see-the-screen flu haze at the moment.)
Can you not imagine the situation where a google search for images of guitars pulled up an/auction site/ with a/guitar/ section, which would regularly carry/images of the guitars being sold/? Said auction site could have been serving/images of guitars/ for many months, and google was intelligent enough to recognise that fact.
"Anyway, foreign-key support is now in Postgres 7.0+, which means that when you insert a row, the database can do some fairly impressive validation checks. Same if you delete a row - it just plain won't let you delete a row if another table is depending on it. I love this idea and can envision rewriting entire websites just to take advantage of this feature."
That's it. The interview's over. He's not got the job. He can envision _rewriting entire databases_? Sorry, we wanted someone in the real world.
As someone who uses MySQL within C, Perl and PHP, I find your split amusing. If I were to split them into 2, I'd put Perl and C together as being usably efficient, and stick PHP way out in a different field entirely. I'm a compromise man - by default I'd probably chose Perl for everything, and only if speed or minimal startup time was utterly crucial would I hit C. I only do PHP because that's what the customer wants, I'd never actively chose it.
The best thing about Perl scripted tasks - you can get it to patch itself on the fly. I've had a server which has had almost every function rewritten, and yet it's had no downtime in 2 years! It really is like the 20 year old broom which has had the handle replaced a few times and the brush replaced a few times, but it's the same broom, honest!
I have no world-visable open ports (except ones where I myself wrote the daemon behind them), my girlfriend and I are the entirity of the local users, and I don't run unsigned code.
I read several security-related lists. Nothing that requires downtime has applied to that system for over 2 years. Daemons and crap like that can be upgraded without downtime.
Assume that they have 6*10^20 atoms of the stuff. If the half life is a billion years, then they can 'sample' >10^10 decays. That's not a small sample.
Is geting your John 3:16 placard/banner right in front of the TV cameras at the major sporting events clever? Is getting through security and getting to hand-shake 2 consecutive US presidents at their inaugurations clever? Is getting your kit off and running round the green with "19th hole" written on your back clever?
Is propagating a virus that does nothing apart from propagate and pop up a message taking the piss out a few of the most puffed-up wankers at AV companies (NickShitz & Clueless being prime examples of such characters (Hi Nick - you know who you are)) really so much worse than exploiting other real-world security holes?
I don't want to see John 3:16 banners when I watch soccer. I don't actually care about the handshaker. I don't want to see some old bloke's todger when I watch golf.
As I run BSD with procmail and good filtering I am less perturbed by things that may well be viruses (how would I know, like I would even be able to run a.exe or a.vbs on that system?) than I am about 2 of the above 3 things.
Are any of the above 4 things "clever"? In some ways, yes, some are. Being able to _find_ a hole in something that's been _designed_ not to have holes, albeit poorly designed, is in some way clever.
Not all viruses are clever, I'd say that about 99% are just plain trivial, and not worthy in any way at all. However, some of them have displayed extreme cleverness, like frodo and tequila, for example. If you fail to appreciate the intelligence involved in the creation of viruses like those (when there were no tutorials on the internet explaining how to do things just by handle-turning), then you're either lieing or have no appreciation for the finer arts of assembly language coding. If the latter, then I don't think you're clever enough to be qualified to make comments on the cleverness of some viruses.
How is the knee-jerk criticism of anything and everything to do with viruses in any way clever?
Some would say "deck-drop insurance" was for weaklings!
Did you do ever get hold of an 80-column reader (rather than sorter)? Did you use the newly acquired code-space, or stick to 72?
OMG -- I've just realised that I can say FAP without appearing rude!
(If anyone's lost, google for the history of punched card machines, it's a fun, but geeky, piece of computer history, perfect for a sunday afternoon. Back in the days where not everything computer oriented was powers of two (72 columns corresponded to two 36-bit words, for example).)
Show use the section of slammer which you think could be made 6 bytes shorter then, and don't tell us exactly how to make it shorter. Leave it as a challenge to the rest of us.
But you can't of course. As you're just a puffed-up windbag.
He wasn't talking about mpegs infecting computers, he mentioned files that _appear to be mpegs_ infecting computers. Typically by renaming them and then attaching with a different mime type, or simply by appending a second extension to the end which "usefully" doesn't get displayed by the recipient's mail reader. It's been done a hundred times, and will be done a hundred times more.
It's your comprehension skills that are called into question the most here.
Because that wasn't your only mistake.
Nowhere does it call Iron Maiden a punk band. The young one who lived at home with his parents was listening to Maiden. The 21-year old VB-er was the one who was into punk.
Slashdot Mirror
Unfortunately, trademarks are fuzzy.
If your phrase looks _somewhat like_ their trademark, then you could be infringing.
Of course, if your phrase doesn't cause an average person to confuse it with their product or service, then you're in the clear.
HardRadio should never have been granted a trademark, IMHO, as it's simply an adjective and a noun that would naturally (as FfR have seen) be seen together.
OCI2ANAL.
YAW.
CMU, eh?
The CMU with DST?
And a DMCA threat?
Hahah, Monotype/AGFA can't have the brains they were born with!
It's good to see your story, in particular with the little guy and his voice of common sense.
FightForRock is one of my favourite radio stations (Snakenet Metal Radio being my preference for harder stuff, and Aural Moon for progressive stuff). I'd like to see FightForRock make a stand too.
Rockers being bullied by lawyers. NO IT JUST ISN'T RIGHT!
Bike chains for coshes and a rendez-vous in the fucking carpark, that's what I say!
However, more immediately, I think that the google-bomb and blog-meme is probably the way to go. Make HardRadio regret their litigious stupidity.
YAW.
Nonsense.
If you're at the stage where you're parsing HTTP requests, you've already tied up a socket, and started a new thread/process, with all the memory allocation that that involves. You then serve a page rejecting the request you don't wish to serve. i.e. you're being a webserver and serving a page. How is that different from being a webserver and serving a page? Exactly. You're just as liable to be DDoSed with referrer checking as without.
YAW.
"Your link is incorrect."
Nope, his link was fine. Slashcode mangled it; he provided a perfectly well-formed link, and is not to blame.
YAW.
"Is this yet another example of technologically illiterate politicians eagerly passing bills without bothering to find out..."
I shit you not, but just this week I heard of some council in the UK tha only at the last minute stopped a dihydrogen-monoxide banning bill. The stupid fuckers had fallen for the joke hook line and sinker and were trying to legislate against it!
Illiteracy is _rife_ in this field. Chose your vote wisely.
YAW.
"already violating other laws"
Not really. On the whole the legislature does not even consider such 'offences' as even being offences. They're off the map, neither expresly legal or illegal; and the way that you're set up, if it's not explicitly illegal, it's legal. So lots of those "bad" things peope complain about are in fact perfecty legal.
Of course, the law is out of date, but do remember that you can't charge someone retroactively.
e.g. Forging IP headers is not a crime, however despicable it may be.
Oh - I read the Utah bill - it's total codswallop. What the fuck are "Java Scripts". Can you say "dunnowhatthefuckimtalkingabout"?
YAW.
(I apologise for my grammer/punctuation/spelling. I'm in a real can't-even-see-the-screen flu haze at the moment.)
Wake up.
/auction site/ with a /guitar/ section, which would regularly carry /images of the guitars being sold/? Said auction site could have been serving /images of guitars/ for many months, and google was intelligent enough to recognise that fact.
Can you not imagine the situation where a google search for images of guitars pulled up an
Simple, eh?
YAW.
I was hotbotting things in 1996, certainly.
Oooer miss!
YAW.
Amazing?
"Anyway, foreign-key support is now in Postgres 7.0+, which means that when you insert a row, the database can do some fairly impressive validation checks. Same if you delete a row - it just plain won't let you delete a row if another table is depending on it. I love this idea and can envision rewriting entire websites just to take advantage of this feature."
That's it. The interview's over. He's not got the job.
He can envision _rewriting entire databases_?
Sorry, we wanted someone in the real world.
YAW.
I the face of the fact that I have SQL queries that don't run correctly on MySQL, it's obvious that your argument is fatuous.
Anecdotes make extemely poor arguments.
YAW.
As someone who uses MySQL within C, Perl and PHP, I find your split amusing. If I were to split them into 2, I'd put Perl and C together as being usably efficient, and stick PHP way out in a different field entirely. I'm a compromise man - by default I'd probably chose Perl for everything, and only if speed or minimal startup time was utterly crucial would I hit C. I only do PHP because that's what the customer wants, I'd never actively chose it.
The best thing about Perl scripted tasks - you can get it to patch itself on the fly. I've had a server which has had almost every function rewritten, and yet it's had no downtime in 2 years! It really is like the 20 year old broom which has had the handle replaced a few times and the brush replaced a few times, but it's the same broom, honest!
YAW.
I have no world-visable open ports (except ones where I myself wrote the daemon behind them), my girlfriend and I are the entirity of the local users, and I don't run unsigned code.
I read several security-related lists. Nothing that requires downtime has applied to that system for over 2 years. Daemons and crap like that can be upgraded without downtime.
Phil
Which bit of "work" have I been missing out on for so long?
$ uptime
11:16:57 up 372 days, 2:26, 9 users, load average: 1.04, 1.03, 1.05
Maybe, maybe not.
Assume that they have 6*10^20 atoms of the stuff. If the half life is a billion years, then they can 'sample' >10^10 decays. That's not a small sample.
YAW.
Erm, but oon't SCO own the Linux kernel? They did write it, after all.
YAW.
One of these looks particularly interesting:
x .h tml
ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/emulators/inde
YAW.
You're not cyberwrong there.
Thanks for the laugh, whoever you are.
YAW.
AMEN!
YAW.
Is geting your John 3:16 placard/banner right in front of the TV cameras at the major sporting events clever? Is getting through security and getting to hand-shake 2 consecutive US presidents at their inaugurations clever? Is getting your kit off and running round the green with "19th hole" written on your back clever?
.exe or a .vbs on that system?) than I am about 2 of the above 3 things.
Is propagating a virus that does nothing apart from propagate and pop up a message taking the piss out a few of the most puffed-up wankers at AV companies (NickShitz & Clueless being prime examples of such characters (Hi Nick - you know who you are)) really so much worse than exploiting other real-world security holes?
I don't want to see John 3:16 banners when I watch soccer.
I don't actually care about the handshaker.
I don't want to see some old bloke's todger when I watch golf.
As I run BSD with procmail and good filtering I am less perturbed by things that may well be viruses (how would I know, like I would even be able to run a
Are any of the above 4 things "clever"? In some ways, yes, some are. Being able to _find_ a hole in something that's been _designed_ not to have holes, albeit poorly designed, is in some way clever.
Not all viruses are clever, I'd say that about 99% are just plain trivial, and not worthy in any way at all. However, some of them have displayed extreme cleverness, like frodo and tequila, for example. If you fail to appreciate the intelligence involved in the creation of viruses like those (when there were no tutorials on the internet explaining how to do things just by handle-turning), then you're either lieing or have no appreciation for the finer arts of assembly language coding. If the latter, then I don't think you're clever enough to be qualified to make comments on the cleverness of some viruses.
How is the knee-jerk criticism of anything and everything to do with viruses in any way clever?
YAW.
As a debian user who really likes how apt works, all I can say to you is...
Dude, I laughed my tits off reading your comment! Fanboys - doncha just hate them, particularly if they 'spoil' something that you yourself like.
Oh - you forgot Gentoo (and I now use that as well, but the fanboys are definitely a legitimate target).
YAW.
Just Foe him, and you'll be less likely to see his regurgitations.
YAW.
Some would say "deck-drop insurance" was for weaklings!
Did you do ever get hold of an 80-column reader (rather than sorter)? Did you use the newly acquired code-space, or stick to 72?
OMG -- I've just realised that I can say FAP without appearing rude!
(If anyone's lost, google for the history of punched card machines, it's a fun, but geeky, piece of computer history, perfect for a sunday afternoon. Back in the days where not everything computer oriented was powers of two (72 columns corresponded to two 36-bit words, for example).)
I.e. you're entirely full of shit.
Show use the section of slammer which you think could be made 6 bytes shorter then, and don't tell us exactly how to make it shorter. Leave it as a challenge to the rest of us.
But you can't of course. As you're just a puffed-up windbag.
YAW.
He wasn't talking about mpegs infecting computers, he mentioned files that _appear to be mpegs_ infecting computers. Typically by renaming them and then attaching with a different mime type, or simply by appending a second extension to the end which "usefully" doesn't get displayed by the recipient's mail reader. It's been done a hundred times, and will be done a hundred times more.
It's your comprehension skills that are called into question the most here.
Because that wasn't your only mistake.
Nowhere does it call Iron Maiden a punk band. The young one who lived at home with his parents was listening to Maiden. The 21-year old VB-er was the one who was into punk.
Engage brain before posting, please.
YAW.
A challenge:
Take 6 bytes off the length of Slammer.
Put your l33t sk1||z where your mouth is.
Or shut up.
6 measly bytes, that's all I ask.
Haha - anyway you're AC, so we know from the outset that you'll spout any old shit because there's no comeback.
YAW.