There is no registration or notice requirement anymore to assert copyright.
But isnt such a letter being sent to the complain about the forum's users useless unless all the potential "users" of the forum that are being ceased and desisted can read it (ie: everyone on the intertubes)? By posting it, the "defendant's" law firm is just notifying everyone that might be involved of whats going on, and that someone is complaining about their opinions, so they better stop complaining about the scammy infomertial company.
I read "getting gouged by greeks", mental image was of some sort of amphitheatre and gladiators with tridents.
Not sure why.
OT, and no amphitheaters, but fun and addictive, and lots of greeks and gouging with tridents and setting people on fire (and prostitutes), courtesy Adult Swim (cartoon network)
Next time you want to sell CDs on the sidewalk in $LARGE_CITY, make sure they're stolen copies rather than bootlegs. Your monetary penalty will be much less. You're looking at jail time for passing stolen merchandise, but that's criminal court so you get a free lawyer and the burden of proof is higher.
You know, that would make a great anti-riaa commercial. If someone just had the balls to actually make it and put it on display somewhere.... Make it kinda like the TRUTH ads about cigarettes, show some downtown city street, some guy hawking stolen cds on a table on the street: "You know, if you want to share music, just steal the cd's, this guy will get a night or two in jail and a small fine".. cut to some kid on his parent's computer downloading something: "but by simply downloading and sharing music with friends, you and your family could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars, dragged through the court system, and ultimately be forced to declare bankruptcy. You make the call, its clear the RIAA would rather have you to steal their CDs from the stores than let your friend hear the music"...
If you've ever defended yourself against a frivolous lawsuit, you'd know this sort of publicity is anything but "free". Right now, Jack Thompson has cost MS a non-trivial amount of money, because you can bet MS is already putting lawyers to work on this in preparation. Those lawyers' time is worth real money.
I'm not trying to gin up sympathy for MS or anything, I just want to dispel this ridiculous notion that getting legally harassed is "free publicity" by any stretch of the imagination.
True, but its probably not as much as you think. MS, being as large and lawsuit lightning-rod-ish as they are probably have a slew of high priced lawyers on staff already. One more frivolous lawsuit probably wont cost them much more than they already pay their sharks every day.
There is a huge difference between trendy sites back in the 90's and the sites now. I was a frequent internet user as a high school student back in the 90's, and I've never even heard of those sites you mentioned except for livejournal, and I don't think I've ever actually visited it. All that stuff was before the.com bust. Every one and their grandma was trying make trendy websites. And that's why the were just trends. Those websites you mentioned were minuscule compared to myspace and facebook today. FaceBook and MySpace are worth billions of dollars. Something worth that much isn't going to disappear in a few years. They are growing and are continuing to grow. I think most people would rather go to the networking site all their friends are on, even if there is something else better out there. Maybe in a few decades or generations, another website will take over. But most likely, a corporation will just by myspace or facebook and change the name.
Why is this being reported just now by discovery? Are they competing with/. on who can post the oldest articles and get away with calling it news? Really, this was posted on space.com back in APRIL!!!
Perhaps you could add other stereotypes in there, such as "Lazy, idealistic college kids," or "sheltered American youth" but it is very tempting for me to say, given my experiences, that a sizable segment of the hippie population is too inept, anti-authority, lazy and anti-knowledge to change anything, up to and including their own underwear.
iirc: It proclaims ANYTHING sent through the hotmail service can be used by Microsoft for any purpose, including business/trade secrets, patents, ideas, IP, etc. Think there was a/. on it a year or two ago... too lazy to go find it though.
Well I say that and it appears they no longer sell armadillo droppings. At least I cant find it on their page anywhere. Back in the beginnings, they sold scraps/broken stuff as "Armadillo Droppings" for a donation to their cause, small donations got smaller droppings, like nuts/bolts/etc, larger donations got larger parts. I guess they discontinued so they could concentrate more on the actual research/dev stuff (if not for just legal reasons, you know, selling rocket parts to lybian nationalists might not look so good, even if they do turn out to only be used pinball machine parts;) ).
Hydrogen peroxide? Hmm. Novel concept. When you accidentally scrape the fur off your cat while petting it, you can simply open up an arm valve nozzle and spray the flesh wound sterile.
The high concentrate used as rocket fuel (up to 90% or better, read the early stages of http://armadilloaerospace.com/ when they were playing with this stuff) would ignite the cat on fire almost immediately on contact. Stuff that comes in the brown bottle is 1% or less usually (whitening toothpaste can be around 5%).
Voyager 1 currently is the farthest human-made object at a distance from the sun of about 9.7 billion miles (15.6 billion kilometers). Voyager 2 is about 7.8 billion miles (12.6 billion kilometers).
Doctors and dentists around the nation are being sought by the SIIA for allegedly sharing and distributing magazines containing copyrighted articles to any and all people that visit their waiting areas. Each Doctor or Dentist will be fined $100000 per magazine found in their waiting area, and an additional fee per current client that has visited the establishment over the past 10 years to be determined by the total size of the Doctor's bank account. Anonymous Coward will be awarded $6000 per Doctor or Dentist successfully sued for tipping off the SIIA. The SIIA has hinted that this is just the beginning, and that veterinarians will be next, followed by Libraries and then your wife's weekly book club....
Reminds me of the short story from Stallman that was linked into another/. discussion not long ago...
In other words, RIAA has declared that it has no intention whatsoever of paying the money. Instead, they intend to continue a farsical court battle with no prospects of winning, no end in sight... merely for the publicity of being seen as being above the law.
And while I know it would never happen, cases like this, where the plaintiff lost and had counterclaims entered against and lost to the original defendant, yet refuses to pay up, should not be allowed to begin other cases of similar nature (same claims against other defendant(s)) until they either pay up or file appeal or make some motion on the case rather than just delay it. As it is, they seem to be merrily going about their business of launching hundreds/thousands of lawsuits, and still doing so in ways advised and ruled against by the courts (ie: multiple individual john doe cases instead of class-action or bulk filing, ex-parte against students, etc). If they cant be held to honor judgments held against them, or even honor the courts' previous rulings, why should anyone else honor judgments made in their favor? At the least, awards found in their favor should be suspended until they pay up or prove they shouldnt be paying rather than just sitting around wasting the time of the people and the courts as they seem to be doing now.
Asbestos suit is on, and expecting flames of why this is a bad idea...
Normally the bottom of the heat sink and the processor are roughly at equal temperatures (assuming you use a good thermal compound that does not have a large deltaT across it).
Now if you put something in between the heat sink and the processor that actively forces heat flow from the processor to the heat sink, you can make the bottom of the heat sink hotter than the processor, which makes the processor cooler, and which in turn makes the heat sink more effective since it is running hotter. (Wow, that was a nice run on sentence)
Congrats, you just described a peltier cooler, something completely different than this "sealed chamber" theory. Basically, yes, a sealed chamber would turn into a great insulator since convection is orders of magnitude less efficient than conduction, thus heating its insides until the cpu overheats. Think sealing your case completely and turning off all fans.
Will Crowther's original Fortran source code has been located in a backup of Don Woods's old student account.
So, they mean they found a stack of punch cards left in a hidden compartment of his old school locker? Or did he just leave them in the output bin of the card puncher and someone just now decided to run them?
Not a lot of information available, but found this http://www.darpa.gov/dso/thrusts/bio/biologically/ powerswim/index.htm/ that states that this device is 85% efficient, whereas typical recreational fins are only 10% efficient. Interesting, but does that mean that the device is going to be 75% more difficult to use that regular fins?
For the ammount of energy expended to move forward, as the other posters stated, no. It actually will take less effort to go faster, since its more efficient, thus more of your exerted power goes to moving you forward.
From a usability aspect, after watching the video of it in use, I have to say YES, it will be more difficult. Besides remembering to not extend your legs so far that the thing will hit you in the nuts, as you bring your legs back it extends down and away from you, just waiting to snag stuff on the bottom. This thing would only be good for swimming pools and open water where you have no intention of getting near the bottom.
SCUBA divers have a hard enough time as it is controling bouyancy so they can stay at a position close to the bottom without kicking up silt or breaking the delicate reefs. Having something like this just asks for trouble, and I seriously doubt any practial use for SCUBA exists. This being a DARPA project though, its more likely for military use such as covert SEAL ops requiring faster underwater swims. There it definately has potential, so long as they can shrink it down so its as small as/smaller than current fins when stowed, and can be put on/taken off just as quickly.
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But isnt such a letter being sent to the complain about the forum's users useless unless all the potential "users" of the forum that are being ceased and desisted can read it (ie: everyone on the intertubes)? By posting it, the "defendant's" law firm is just notifying everyone that might be involved of whats going on, and that someone is complaining about their opinions, so they better stop complaining about the scammy infomertial company.
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bleh... greeks/romans, same thing different empire
Not sure why.
OT, and no amphitheaters, but fun and addictive, and lots of greeks and gouging with tridents and setting people on fire (and prostitutes), courtesy Adult Swim (cartoon network)
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Next time you want to sell CDs on the sidewalk in $LARGE_CITY, make sure they're stolen copies rather than bootlegs. Your monetary penalty will be much less. You're looking at jail time for passing stolen merchandise, but that's criminal court so you get a free lawyer and the burden of proof is higher.
You know, that would make a great anti-riaa commercial. If someone just had the balls to actually make it and put it on display somewhere.... Make it kinda like the TRUTH ads about cigarettes, show some downtown city street, some guy hawking stolen cds on a table on the street: "You know, if you want to share music, just steal the cd's, this guy will get a night or two in jail and a small fine".. cut to some kid on his parent's computer downloading something: "but by simply downloading and sharing music with friends, you and your family could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars, dragged through the court system, and ultimately be forced to declare bankruptcy. You make the call, its clear the RIAA would rather have you to steal their CDs from the stores than let your friend hear the music"...
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Yes! Now that everyone is finally picking up on THE language, Esperanto, soon everyone will understand everyone else!!
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I'm not trying to gin up sympathy for MS or anything, I just want to dispel this ridiculous notion that getting legally harassed is "free publicity" by any stretch of the imagination.
True, but its probably not as much as you think. MS, being as large and lawsuit lightning-rod-ish as they are probably have a slew of high priced lawyers on staff already. One more frivolous lawsuit probably wont cost them much more than they already pay their sharks every day.
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... i mean hell. if the next steps are moon and mars, you will *need* a space station in orbit.-Nex6
No, you dont. Remember, we went to the moon well before we had ANY space station in orbit, several times.
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There is a huge difference between trendy sites back in the 90's and the sites now. I was a frequent internet user as a high school student back in the 90's, and I've never even heard of those sites you mentioned except for livejournal, and I don't think I've ever actually visited it. All that stuff was before the
Tell that to friendster....
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everyone knows hippies dont wear underwear...
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The high concentrate used as rocket fuel (up to 90% or better, read the early stages of http://armadilloaerospace.com/ when they were playing with this stuff) would ignite the cat on fire almost immediately on contact. Stuff that comes in the brown bottle is 1% or less usually (whitening toothpaste can be around 5%).
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I think theres Another contender for that title...
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Where they bet on whether or not we have one?
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Reminds me of the short story from Stallman that was linked into another /. discussion not long ago...
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And while I know it would never happen, cases like this, where the plaintiff lost and had counterclaims entered against and lost to the original defendant, yet refuses to pay up, should not be allowed to begin other cases of similar nature (same claims against other defendant(s)) until they either pay up or file appeal or make some motion on the case rather than just delay it. As it is, they seem to be merrily going about their business of launching hundreds/thousands of lawsuits, and still doing so in ways advised and ruled against by the courts (ie: multiple individual john doe cases instead of class-action or bulk filing, ex-parte against students, etc). If they cant be held to honor judgments held against them, or even honor the courts' previous rulings, why should anyone else honor judgments made in their favor? At the least, awards found in their favor should be suspended until they pay up or prove they shouldnt be paying rather than just sitting around wasting the time of the people and the courts as they seem to be doing now.
Asbestos suit is on, and expecting flames of why this is a bad idea...
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Now if you put something in between the heat sink and the processor that actively forces heat flow from the processor to the heat sink, you can make the bottom of the heat sink hotter than the processor, which makes the processor cooler, and which in turn makes the heat sink more effective since it is running hotter. (Wow, that was a nice run on sentence)
Congrats, you just described a peltier cooler, something completely different than this "sealed chamber" theory. Basically, yes, a sealed chamber would turn into a great insulator since convection is orders of magnitude less efficient than conduction, thus heating its insides until the cpu overheats. Think sealing your case completely and turning off all fans.
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So, they mean they found a stack of punch cards left in a hidden compartment of his old school locker? Or did he just leave them in the output bin of the card puncher and someone just now decided to run them?
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Unless you happen to own a jet-car like this guy or a bike like this guy, generally the motor is connected to the wheels....
sorry.. just had to :P
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For the ammount of energy expended to move forward, as the other posters stated, no. It actually will take less effort to go faster, since its more efficient, thus more of your exerted power goes to moving you forward.
From a usability aspect, after watching the video of it in use, I have to say YES, it will be more difficult. Besides remembering to not extend your legs so far that the thing will hit you in the nuts, as you bring your legs back it extends down and away from you, just waiting to snag stuff on the bottom. This thing would only be good for swimming pools and open water where you have no intention of getting near the bottom.
SCUBA divers have a hard enough time as it is controling bouyancy so they can stay at a position close to the bottom without kicking up silt or breaking the delicate reefs. Having something like this just asks for trouble, and I seriously doubt any practial use for SCUBA exists. This being a DARPA project though, its more likely for military use such as covert SEAL ops requiring faster underwater swims. There it definately has potential, so long as they can shrink it down so its as small as/smaller than current fins when stowed, and can be put on/taken off just as quickly.
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