I've been here for over 10 years, and I've never seen any of these complaints of submitter favoritism. Not once that I can recall. Maybe there's some insider-y meta-forum I don't know about.
No, they've out right in the open. I don't know how you've missed them.
Heck, I think even I've complained about it, particularly when Daniel Eran Dilger managed to get his largely fictional Pro-Apple stories (see: Roughly Drafted Magazine) published once or twice a week.
(FYI: While I'm not a big fan of Apple, if your stories have actual facts in them, I'm not against Slashdot publishing them.)
The trouble is, you now CAN copyright databases. It's been made explicit in EU law, but I think it's still defensible under US law. The idea is that the organization of facts is copyrightable (take for example, encyclopedias, atlases, etc.). The trouble is, copyright transcends specific media, while a database separated from a specific medium is a mundane collection of facts. The argument here is that Olson's TZ database just cribbed Thomas Shanks' atlas.
It may be explicit in EU law, but the US Supreme Court made collections of facts non-copyrightable in the US in 1991. And this case was brought up in a US Court.
OK, since you missed my point, I'll stop trying to be subtle:
Why would a toolbar contact a government-run weather services instead of their own, since if they contact their own weather service they can track your information rather than having the government track it?
Here's the scenario I imagine a few months down the road:
*dials phone* "Hello, Game Stop!" "Hi, do you have any copies of {first party Sony title}." "I'm sorry, we don't carry that title in either New or Used." "Why?" "Sony won't let us." (ed: and you know that's how it will be phrased, too)
*dials phone again* "Hello, Best Buy" "Hi, do you have any copies of {first party Sony title}." "No, sorry." "Man, does no one carry {first party Sony title}"
*dials phone once more* "Hello, Wal-Mart" "Hi, do you have any copies of {first party Sony title}." "Nope." "Fine, I'll just order it from Amazon."
*boots computer* *click* *click* *click* "WTF? I can't find this game on Amazon either?"
What do these retailers have in common? They all sell used games.
Oh, and they make up something like 90% of the game retailers in the US.
When you buy used, you are buying Game Stop's product, not Sony's. Sony needs money to run PSN, which they don't get unless you are the first party. The real complaint should be based on the price and quality of games that make it to retail.
That's a false premise, as the original owner is no longer using the part of PSN that applies to the game they sold.
Unless they're pirates and made a copy of the game first, that is.
The scary thing is... Leonard Nimoy was in the original Transformers movie. No, not that one, I mean the one from the 1980s. Leonard Nimoy voiced Galvatron in it.
Something that can decrypt a cookie can just look at your cookies directly from your machine. If you install an evil Java pluggin it could decrypt and expose the content of your encrypted cookies without you knowing about it.
So, if you're already compromised, your information can be compromised?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
The statement here is referring to the DMCA notice. Guess what, if you're filing them for things that clearly aren't the work you're claiming, then it's an act of perjury.
What exactly the punishment is for that, I do not know... I am not a lawyer, after all.
"Pricing is also a very important factor. At $499, why would you buy - it's like going to China and buying a [fake] Louis Vuitton bag, at the same price as the real Louis Vuitton bags. It doesn't make sense, when you know it's a rip-off product," he said.
Wait, what did he just say about his product? That's it's a fake iPad and/or a rip-off?
Shouldn't you say more neutral or positive things about your own products? Maybe something like "Due to lower than expected manufacturing costs, we're lowering the price on the Grid10 to $299."
If the Dart language is intended to replace something like the buggy, slow and badly designed PHP language,
I was rather hoping it was intended to replace the buggy, slow (although progress has been made), and badly designed ECMAScript language, which you may also know as JavaScript.
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I've been here for over 10 years, and I've never seen any of these complaints of submitter favoritism. Not once that I can recall. Maybe there's some insider-y meta-forum I don't know about.
No, they've out right in the open. I don't know how you've missed them.
Heck, I think even I've complained about it, particularly when Daniel Eran Dilger managed to get his largely fictional Pro-Apple stories (see: Roughly Drafted Magazine) published once or twice a week.
(FYI: While I'm not a big fan of Apple, if your stories have actual facts in them, I'm not against Slashdot publishing them.)
Actually, according to Stallman it is "GNU/LINUX".
If we ever hear him say "linux", we know something is wrong.
Or he's just talking about the kernel. I recall that's happened just recently.
It's interesting to me that you've never heard of a duplex.
My wording may have been bad, but these houses (from the article) have not been mentioned to be duplexes.
Maybe the downstairs neighbor has a Frankenstein/Tesla/Van-der-Graaf playground set up and all this bad stuff happens whenever he plays his Thermin.
Last time I checked, houses don't have downstairs neighbors.
The trouble is, you now CAN copyright databases. It's been made explicit in EU law, but I think it's still defensible under US law. The idea is that the organization of facts is copyrightable (take for example, encyclopedias, atlases, etc.). The trouble is, copyright transcends specific media, while a database separated from a specific medium is a mundane collection of facts. The argument here is that Olson's TZ database just cribbed Thomas Shanks' atlas.
It may be explicit in EU law, but the US Supreme Court made collections of facts non-copyrightable in the US in 1991. And this case was brought up in a US Court.
OK, since you missed my point, I'll stop trying to be subtle:
Why would a toolbar contact a government-run weather services instead of their own, since if they contact their own weather service they can track your information rather than having the government track it?
weather.noaa.gov is the stupid toolbar something added.
Why would a toolbar contact a government-run weather service?
Here's the scenario I imagine a few months down the road:
*dials phone*
"Hello, Game Stop!"
"Hi, do you have any copies of {first party Sony title}."
"I'm sorry, we don't carry that title in either New or Used."
"Why?"
"Sony won't let us." (ed: and you know that's how it will be phrased, too)
*dials phone again*
"Hello, Best Buy"
"Hi, do you have any copies of {first party Sony title}."
"No, sorry."
"Man, does no one carry {first party Sony title}"
*dials phone once more*
"Hello, Wal-Mart"
"Hi, do you have any copies of {first party Sony title}."
"Nope."
"Fine, I'll just order it from Amazon."
*boots computer*
*click* *click* *click*
"WTF? I can't find this game on Amazon either?"
What do these retailers have in common? They all sell used games.
Oh, and they make up something like 90% of the game retailers in the US.
When you buy used, you are buying Game Stop's product, not Sony's. Sony needs money to run PSN, which they don't get unless you are the first party. The real complaint should be based on the price and quality of games that make it to retail.
That's a false premise, as the original owner is no longer using the part of PSN that applies to the game they sold.
Unless they're pirates and made a copy of the game first, that is.
The scary thing is... Leonard Nimoy was in the original Transformers movie. No, not that one, I mean the one from the 1980s. Leonard Nimoy voiced Galvatron in it.
Given that the top selling game for iOS is "another physics puzzle variation of the same game," this is well ingrained into the mobile culture.
Something that can decrypt a cookie can just look at your cookies directly from your machine. If you install an evil Java pluggin it could decrypt and expose the content of your encrypted cookies without you knowing about it.
So, if you're already compromised, your information can be compromised?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
(Apologies to Raymond Chen.)
Yes, strangely it's Java Web Start applications that must request permissions from the users. Signed Java Applets don't seem to have that restriction.
And yes, in a sense it means that unsigned Java Web Start apps are more secure than Signed Applets are.
And what's with all the carrots... what do they need good eyesight for, anyway?
I've got a theory, that it's a demon, a dancing demon, no... something isn't right there...
In my opinion... kill it! Kill it with fire!
er... so, what are some good bargain book stores in the Lansing area? It seems like most of the ones I knew about are gone now.
(Oh, and it's interesting to see someone else on Slashdot from the Lansing area.)
That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage!
Is sol our sun?
Yes, hence the name "Solar System" which is specifically Sol and its 8 planets and other bodies (er... sorry Pluto).
On the other hand, the wayback machine's version does have working images. And it doesn't use your page view to harvest information about you.
Except that's the first article from June rather than the second article from September.
USC17 512 (a)(3)(vi):
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
The statement here is referring to the DMCA notice. Guess what, if you're filing them for things that clearly aren't the work you're claiming, then it's an act of perjury.
What exactly the punishment is for that, I do not know... I am not a lawyer, after all.
Yeah.. And the video recorder killed movies!
Video Killed the Radio Star!
"Pricing is also a very important factor. At $499, why would you buy - it's like going to China and buying a [fake] Louis Vuitton bag, at the same price as the real Louis Vuitton bags. It doesn't make sense, when you know it's a rip-off product," he said.
Wait, what did he just say about his product? That's it's a fake iPad and/or a rip-off?
Shouldn't you say more neutral or positive things about your own products? Maybe something like "Due to lower than expected manufacturing costs, we're lowering the price on the Grid10 to $299."
If the Dart language is intended to replace something like the buggy, slow and badly designed PHP language,
I was rather hoping it was intended to replace the buggy, slow (although progress has been made), and badly designed ECMAScript language, which you may also know as JavaScript.
Have you tried turning indexing off and seeing how much you like it then? As far as I'm concerned Windows 7 doesn't have a search feature.
You mean to tell me that when I tell it to stop doing its job, it doesn't produce correct results?
I never would have guessed!