like I said before, just because they have an address (or an office) doesn't mean they have a legal presence. It can be just a field office with no incorporation in France.
but I'm sure there are loopholes and ways around it. Just like how there are businesses that sell ".to" domain names, I'm sure there's a business that will let you have access ".fr" domain names (for a price of course).
Now if google does have a legit ".fr" domain, then they should have it redirect it to the US site and thus be able to get around the "censorship" as they (the french division) isn't violating french law. A reasoning for this is that it would be too costly, financially and in publicity to implement in France, etc.
The French courts seems to have the wrong impression that it has absolute jurisdiction over anything and everything on the net. Just like the Yahoo/Ebay/Nazi paraphernalia issue. They especially don't have jurisdiction if Google does not have any legal business presence in France and they can't really do much to Google otherwise if Google were to refuse (provided Google has no future plans of opening up offices in France). The French don't censor the internet and since they don't have legal presence in France, it's a bit hard to fine them and expect payment. Plus the US courts are probably not going to help the French courts if Bush has anything to say about it, since I'm sure he holds a grudge against the French.
Man...all this reminds me of that one Halloween ep of the Simpsons. "AHAHAHAHA! No no no, in francias...OHOHOHOHOHOH"
Hmmm....so they want to sell products to "fix" the security holes they have in their products?
It's like Ford selling fire extinguishers and fire insurance for their customers. It's just not right.
Thought there was a law against this sort of business practice. Like those companies that sell anti-spyware programs to remove their spyware that they install without the users permission in the first place.
It's true that the "64" in AMD64 signifies 64bit registers, it means that a portion in the machine code has to also signify 64bit registers in addition to 32bit and 16bit registers, thus making the instructions a tad "longer."
Wonder if there will be those remanufactured cartridges or those "fill it yourself" kits....or if the company will incorporate cartridge control chips like lexmark.
down with p0rn...down with p0rn...errr...oops...down with spam but not p0rn.
Good to see the FTC actually doing something about something that's really an issue. But about about the vioxx spam? Wasn't it just recently slashdotted that Vioxx spam took the crown from sex-related spam?
O well, at least my spam filters can finally get some rest.
u mean the dark abyss of nothingness where forgotten interesting and funny pages go for their eternal rest......well, that's how my bookmarks are anyways.
Apparently, it costs each retailer who lists 3+ grand a month for upto 99 items so that basically forces retailers to try to include as much stuff in each listing. This also causes alot of false positive matches when u do a search. Hell, just trying to search for "corsair" memory, u get generics and other non-corsairs.
Because of that, and the annoyance of it, I don't use pricewatch anymore. I use a combination of Pricegrabber, shopping.yahoo.com, and froogle.com in addition to techbargains, and fatwallet.
grandma...."grandma got run over by a RIAAndeer...." comes to mind.
The added benefit of suing the lil' guys is that they don't have enough money to fight back....but have just enough money to make a settlement worthwhile....especially when they don't have too many middlemen to pony up to.
Either way, they can't say that downloading is really hurting them any more....they are still selling more and more and the fact that they aren't focusing their attention to real pirates...and yet manage a gain in sales....that tells alot.
Unfortunately, Hitachi still has the stigmata of having unreliable drives, especially after they bought what remained of IBM's DEATHSTAR division. Hence ppl still tend to shy away from Hitachi drives, fearing that they would rather have two or more reliable drives than one drive that may be massive...but also comes with a more massive fine print.
It's also the reason why I haven't bought an Ipod mini...though there are modders out there who've taken apart their mini's and replaced the 4GB hitachi microdrive with a 4GB compact flash. (if apple was smart, they would sell a compactflash version of the mini for those who are more active...[no spinning drives, good for sporting], but that's another issue).
I'm just waiting for the Seagate 400GB SATA (NCQ) to come down in price to 2GB/buck or better (4GB/buck would be best but it'll take time). At the moment, it's at around 1GB/buck.
To acknowledge this guy, we as/.'ers should set up a fund (I can donate a buck...even though xmas has left my funds slightly dry) and get him an award; Visionary Innovator or something. Hell, even name it after the guy. The Russell award.
If the/. effect has taught us anything, swarms of ppl donating even a buck can swell into millions if not billions, enough to set up a trustee organization/foundation that can rival the Nobel Foundation.
Slashdot Mirror
like I said before, just because they have an address (or an office) doesn't mean they have a legal presence. It can be just a field office with no incorporation in France.
"...if Google doesn't..."
/. supported blinking text, I would make it blink too.
Who the fudge didn't get this parent some glasses?
if
There will always be loopholes in democracy, that's what makes it both great and bad at the same time.
but I'm sure there are loopholes and ways around it.
Just like how there are businesses that sell ".to" domain names, I'm sure there's a business that will let you have access ".fr" domain names (for a price of course).
Now if google does have a legit ".fr" domain, then they should have it redirect it to the US site and thus be able to get around the "censorship" as they (the french division) isn't violating french law. A reasoning for this is that it would be too costly, financially and in publicity to implement in France, etc.
If there's a will, there's a way.
The French courts seems to have the wrong impression that it has absolute jurisdiction over anything and everything on the net. Just like the Yahoo/Ebay/Nazi paraphernalia issue.
They especially don't have jurisdiction if Google does not have any legal business presence in France and they can't really do much to Google otherwise if Google were to refuse (provided Google has no future plans of opening up offices in France). The French don't censor the internet and since they don't have legal presence in France, it's a bit hard to fine them and expect payment. Plus the US courts are probably not going to help the French courts if Bush has anything to say about it, since I'm sure he holds a grudge against the French.
Man...all this reminds me of that one Halloween ep of the Simpsons. "AHAHAHAHA! No no no, in francias...OHOHOHOHOHOH"
Hmmm....so they want to sell products to "fix" the security holes they have in their products?
It's like Ford selling fire extinguishers and fire insurance for their customers. It's just not right.
Thought there was a law against this sort of business practice. Like those companies that sell anti-spyware programs to remove their spyware that they install without the users permission in the first place.
Don't forget the sun tan lotion!
LiveHeaders on FF correctly reports that the HOST is not paypal.com
Looks like I'll have to use that to double check now. Still safer that IE.
Just imagine....someone calling OnStar to get them to unlock the car door when they are driving.
Or calling them to flurt with the operator or to order a pizza and have them deliver it to the GPS coordinates that the system says.
That's categorically false.
It's true that the "64" in AMD64 signifies 64bit registers, it means that a portion in the machine code has to also signify 64bit registers in addition to 32bit and 16bit registers, thus making the instructions a tad "longer."
that's a good one...amazed it's from an AC
Did AMD just release a new chip that uses 65-bit instructions?
anyways...cool...new linux disc.
Wonder if there will be those remanufactured cartridges or those "fill it yourself" kits....or if the company will incorporate cartridge control chips like lexmark.
down with p0rn...down with p0rn...errr...oops...down with spam but not p0rn.
Good to see the FTC actually doing something about something that's really an issue. But about about the vioxx spam? Wasn't it just recently slashdotted that Vioxx spam took the crown from sex-related spam?
O well, at least my spam filters can finally get some rest.
u mean the dark abyss of nothingness where forgotten interesting and funny pages go for their eternal rest......well, that's how my bookmarks are anyways.
better get super miles for my mileage card...or a free "escort" service with that $200k price tag.
Good point except for one minor problem....
it wasn't slashdotted yesterday.
O well.
I beg to differ....it's been slow and I've been getting timeouts and all I wanted to do is look at the so-called nifty graphs.
Over 40 high performance webservers : $
12 firewalls : $$
8Gbps network to connect them : $$$
Not able to handle the Slashdot effect : Priceless.
Apparently, it costs each retailer who lists 3+ grand a month for upto 99 items so that basically forces retailers to try to include as much stuff in each listing.
This also causes alot of false positive matches when u do a search. Hell, just trying to search for "corsair" memory, u get generics and other non-corsairs.
Because of that, and the annoyance of it, I don't use pricewatch anymore. I use a combination of Pricegrabber, shopping.yahoo.com, and froogle.com in addition to techbargains, and fatwallet.
grandma...."grandma got run over by a RIAAndeer...." comes to mind.
The added benefit of suing the lil' guys is that they don't have enough money to fight back....but have just enough money to make a settlement worthwhile....especially when they don't have too many middlemen to pony up to.
Either way, they can't say that downloading is really hurting them any more....they are still selling more and more and the fact that they aren't focusing their attention to real pirates...and yet manage a gain in sales....that tells alot.
Unfortunately, Hitachi still has the stigmata of having unreliable drives, especially after they bought what remained of IBM's DEATHSTAR division. Hence ppl still tend to shy away from Hitachi drives, fearing that they would rather have two or more reliable drives than one drive that may be massive...but also comes with a more massive fine print.
It's also the reason why I haven't bought an Ipod mini...though there are modders out there who've taken apart their mini's and replaced the 4GB hitachi microdrive with a 4GB compact flash. (if apple was smart, they would sell a compactflash version of the mini for those who are more active...[no spinning drives, good for sporting], but that's another issue).
I'm just waiting for the Seagate 400GB SATA (NCQ) to come down in price to 2GB/buck or better (4GB/buck would be best but it'll take time). At the moment, it's at around 1GB/buck.
including me.
/. effect in action.
And I need a text-based (cmdline) version....
Maybe we need to convince them some more.....let's all go to the feedback page or whatever and ask them.
The
To acknowledge this guy, we as /.'ers should set up a fund (I can donate a buck...even though xmas has left my funds slightly dry) and get him an award; Visionary Innovator or something. Hell, even name it after the guy. The Russell award.
/. effect has taught us anything, swarms of ppl donating even a buck can swell into millions if not billions, enough to set up a trustee organization/foundation that can rival the Nobel Foundation.
If the
now if the usb device also has a CF/MMC/SD/etc. reader and it can offload it directly....
l s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1056270&CatId=1203
Anyways, I thought there was a portable CDRW drive with that ability...
oo...found one that has a hard drive.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchToo
I'd like to see their expense reports before I'll jump to saying anything.
Maybe they used Anderson's or had Martha Stewart do their books.