See their technology overview. I believe they have a number of (ugh!) patents on Bayesian text analysis. They were founded by a Dr. Michael Lynch to productize research he did at Cambridge U.
Yeah, I know, go ahead mod me down for bitchin about it and after all, stories like "Pokemon Game Boy Advance Update," that appeared that day really were more "stuff that matters."
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"Is the stylesheet in the browser cache? If so, is it in date? If so, then it uses it. "
How do you put an expire date in a stylesheet? Not saying you can't, I'm just not aware of the syntax for doing this and would like to know for my own reference.
Admittedly I wasn't familiar w/ Linux Today until the linking issue arose last week and linking rights. My earlier comment was unwarranted. Fair use is a hot button issue for many of us, me included. On closer review, it is clear that what LT was doing didn't always fall under fair use doctrine. Quoting large portions of of a targeted article, especially while adding little or no original commentary about the article, is certainly not fair use by any stretch.
I've had frequent occasion myself, in several sites I've been involved with, to link to content from various news sources. In doing so, I have always been scrupulously careful to be respectful toward the rights of the sites I link to by keeping quoted excerpts ever so brief and usually only briefly paraphrasing a couple key points. That is fair use.
Admittedly I wasn't familiar w/ Linux Today until the linking issue arose last week and linking rights and fair use is a hot button issue for many of us. On closer review, it is clear that what LT was doing didn't always fall under fair use doctrine. Quoting large portions of of a targeted article, especially while adding little or no original commentary about the article, is certainly not fair use by any stretch.
I've had frequent occasion myself, in several sites I've been involved with, to link to content from various news sources. In doing so, I have always been scrupulously careful to be respectful toward the rights of the sites I link to by keeping quoted excerpts ever so brief and usually only briefly paraphrasing a couple key points. That is fair use.
Nope. A reader replied to the LT editorial by posting a direct link to CMP's feedback page. Guess what? That link also resulted in the blocking message cited in the editorial. However, when I later chose that same link from my browser history it then did *NOT* redirect to the blocking page.
/.ing them sends exactly the wrong message. You want them to see a sharp reduction in traffic to all CMP sites and reduced readership for their dead tree publications as well:
Bank Systems & Technology BioMechanics C/C++ Users Journal Call Center Communications Convergence CRN DB2 Magazine Diagnostic Imaging Diagnostic Imaging Asia Pacific Diagnostic Imaging Europe Diagnostic Imaging SCAN Dr. Dobb's Journal DV Magazine EE Times Embedded Systems Programming Magazine Game Developer Geriatric Times InformationWeek Insurance & Technology Intelligent Enterprise Magazine MSDN Magazine Network Computing Network Magazine Optimize Psychiatric Times Software Development SysAdmin Technology & Learning Transform Magazine VARBusiness Wall Street & Technology Windows Developer Network Xtreme Video
" Defamation usually requires that you know that the information is incorrect, and you intend to cause harm by publishing it."
Well the harm here is very real and I'm not so sure intent to harm need be proven. The content of the refusal page strongly imples that the linker has done something roguish and has attempted to violate their intellectual property rights. Below is a fair use excerpt of CMP's blocking page:
"Unfortunately, we cannot satisfy this particular request because it comes from a source that is not authorized to redistribute our content. Thank you for helping us protect our intellectual property."
Nonetheless, I'm sure this CMP will reverse this foolhardy decision, once they notice the blinky lites in their server farm aren't blinking so much anymore and as their advertisers start clammoring for make good ads to offset the reduced traffic. This is just the kind of issue that will lead to a mushrooming boycott by their primary target audiences and make CMP an overnight Internet pariah.
Not really. You're not going to see ATMs directly connected to the public Internet. The typical connections are using frame relay or, very popular for ATMs, but now deprecated, SMDS (Switched Multimegabit Data Service) circuits from a telco LEC.
I've been told by a Vz test center old timer that the banks particularly like SMDS for the reason that it's trivial to switch the whole network over to an alternate head end/data center in an emergency or for maint. SMDS circuits have a cloud topology, similar to frame relay. Verizon was pushing SMDS for a few years as a less expensive alternative to PtP T1s (also was avail in other capacities from 56k up to 45mb). From what I understand, smds is no longer being provisioned due to the telco gear makers dropping it from their products; supposedly telcos now have to canibalize parts when something fails. The other downside of smds these days is in the event of a failure, you'll have to get lucky to find a Verizon tech who is familiar enough with it to get your trouble resolved anytime soon (tell 'em they need to reload the group addresses, that'll fix it usually, unless it's a catastrophic hardware failure at the CO).
In Philadelpia, and I imagine other large US cities, within just the past year or so taxicabs have begun sporting new rooftop electronic advertising signs. Each of the signs' 2 sides, about 4' long, is divided into 2 portions. For most of its length, it consists of a orangish leds, which are used to display sports scores and crude pixelated versions of league logos. The rightmost portion, however, is a full color lcd display, typically showing a red & white ESPN logo. What caught my eye was one day seeing a cab pulling away from a hotel, apparently from a cold start, and before it was out of view, I plainly saw the lcd going through post and the bios portion of a pc boot sequence. Regretably the cab was gone before I could observe what os it was running.
Not to come off as a shill for groopz, but my curiosity got the better of me and I just took a look at their site. Unfortunately, after the java app loaded, it displayed an image with the message, "E-mail us, operators are unavailable." But I did take the flash virtual tour of the product, which gives a pretty thorough demonstration of the functionality and operator and supervisor interface. At first blush it appears to be a very well thought out product. One of the features I like is the ability for the operator to choose an FAQ item from a menu and push it to the visitor's browser, but I know too that that's just the kind of thing many/.ers would find bothersome or invasive, since it does actually cause your entire browser window to jump to a different page, according to what the demo says.
No sco suits filed (yet) against fed labs
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"If not, why announce the Fed-suit instead of going back after BoA?"
Keep your tinfoil hat on; there's plenty of other oddities about this thing of SCO's, but you're a little off on this one point.
1.) SCO hasn't sued the fed labs yet and announced nothing yesterday.
2.) The letters were part of one of the threatening spam runs SCO did in December; the revelation now comes because an attorney representing several recipients of the sco scam spam just now has been able to obtain them, after filing a Freedom of Information Act request for the letters.
Re:No, it wasn't *that* letter, it was this one
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whoops, typing error; should be: the danger to our way of life posed by the GPL.
No, it wasn't *that* letter, it was this one
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"SCO sent the letter to every member of the Senate and House of Representatives, said Blake Stowell, a SCO spokesman."
No, no, they did not send the extortion letter to congress. This refers to Darl's letter warning congress about the danger to our way of life posed by the and their GPL.
...and you certainly shouldn't kick beehives containing nuclear devices. Hehe, I expect someone will shortly post a photoshopped pic of a lovely mushroom cloud rising from sco HQ.
Old (but unknown publicly) event = News
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No, it's news because the targets of the letters, save a few, hadn't been previously known publicly. An attorney for several of the targeted companies managed to snag these two letters from the gummint labs via a Freedom of Information Act request. FOIA requests are not fullfilled instantaneously.
I could say, by the same token, this is just a bit of bad reporting by/. (surprise). I posted this same story to/. early last evening, but it was ignored and then rejected by the editors.
"SCO threatened US DOE labs in December letters 18:32 Friday 19 March 2004 Rejected"
At least to some extent, they've been rejecting mail that contains urls believed to be connected with spam. This can be mail from domains that aren't otherwise blocked by their filters. I forget the exact text I saw in their bounce message. A user at ISP where I work NOC had complained of not being able to send mail to an aol address. I could see she was trying to forward a spamish mail she had received to her aol-using friend (gee, what are friends for, if not to share spam); my recollection months later is fuzzy, but it was clear from the body of the rejected mail and the aol bounce did specifically mention that it was rejected on the basis of the url contained in the mail.
If any of their victims were in the UK they have committed a crime - unauthorised modification of data on a computer - which carries a 5 year jail term.
Excuse me for pointing out the sheer idiocy of your infantile assertion (mommy, mommy, he modified my data), but the mere act of visiting a website causes data to be modified on your computer. Well, you say you authorize those modifications by virtue of voluntarily visiting a webpage - just as you do by downloading a file to your system.
...a prediction by Mr. Anderer that Microsoft has many more disruptive lawsuits planned up their sleeves.
Let's not get it twisted now. From the context I'm pretty sure he was referring to patent suits against MS, although obvious it won't be unexpected to see MS filing large numbers of suits as well.
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See their technology overview. I believe they have a number of (ugh!) patents on Bayesian text analysis. They were founded by a Dr. Michael Lynch to productize research he did at Cambridge U.
PanIP e-commerce patent suits withdrawn
20:52 Thursday 25 March 2004 Rejected
Yeah, I know, go ahead mod me down for bitchin about it and after all, stories like "Pokemon Game Boy Advance Update," that appeared that day really were more "stuff that matters."
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Software created with Qt Free Editions is governed by the terms of the GPL and QPL.
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"Is the stylesheet in the browser cache? If so, is it in date? If so, then it uses it. "
How do you put an expire date in a stylesheet? Not saying you can't, I'm just not aware of the syntax for doing this and would like to know for my own reference.
Admittedly I wasn't familiar w/ Linux Today until the linking issue arose last week and linking rights. My earlier comment was unwarranted. Fair use is a hot button issue for many of us, me included. On closer review, it is clear that what LT was doing didn't always fall under fair use doctrine. Quoting large portions of of a targeted article, especially while adding little or no original commentary about the article, is certainly not fair use by any stretch.
I've had frequent occasion myself, in several sites I've been involved with, to link to content from various news sources. In doing so, I have always been scrupulously careful to be respectful toward the rights of the sites I link to by keeping quoted excerpts ever so brief and usually only briefly paraphrasing a couple key points. That is fair use.
Admittedly I wasn't familiar w/ Linux Today until the linking issue arose last week and linking rights and fair use is a hot button issue for many of us. On closer review, it is clear that what LT was doing didn't always fall under fair use doctrine. Quoting large portions of of a targeted article, especially while adding little or no original commentary about the article, is certainly not fair use by any stretch.
I've had frequent occasion myself, in several sites I've been involved with, to link to content from various news sources. In doing so, I have always been scrupulously careful to be respectful toward the rights of the sites I link to by keeping quoted excerpts ever so brief and usually only briefly paraphrasing a couple key points. That is fair use.
...lest anyone should forget. Of course a pale imitation by that name is still available as a web edition for just 19.95/yr.
Nope. A reader replied to the LT editorial by posting a direct link to CMP's feedback page. Guess what? That link also resulted in the blocking message cited in the editorial. However, when I later chose that same link from my browser history it then did *NOT* redirect to the blocking page.
/.ing them sends exactly the wrong message. You want them to see a sharp reduction in traffic to all CMP sites and reduced readership for their dead tree publications as well:
Bank Systems & Technology
BioMechanics
C/C++ Users Journal
Call Center
Communications Convergence
CRN
DB2 Magazine
Diagnostic Imaging
Diagnostic Imaging Asia Pacific
Diagnostic Imaging Europe
Diagnostic Imaging SCAN
Dr. Dobb's Journal
DV Magazine
EE Times
Embedded Systems Programming Magazine
Game Developer
Geriatric Times
InformationWeek
Insurance & Technology
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine
MSDN Magazine
Network Computing
Network Magazine
Optimize
Psychiatric Times
Software Development
SysAdmin
Technology & Learning
Transform Magazine
VARBusiness
Wall Street & Technology
Windows Developer Network
Xtreme Video
" Defamation usually requires that you know that the information is incorrect, and you intend to cause harm by publishing it."
Well the harm here is very real and I'm not so sure intent to harm need be proven. The content of the refusal page strongly imples that the linker has done something roguish and has attempted to violate their intellectual property rights. Below is a fair use excerpt of CMP's blocking page:
"Unfortunately, we cannot satisfy this particular request because it comes from a source that is not authorized to redistribute our content. Thank you for helping us protect our intellectual property."
Nonetheless, I'm sure this CMP will reverse this foolhardy decision, once they notice the blinky lites in their server farm aren't blinking so much anymore and as their advertisers start clammoring for make good ads to offset the reduced traffic. This is just the kind of issue that will lead to a mushrooming boycott by their primary target audiences and make CMP an overnight Internet pariah.
"a network break-in waiting to happen"
Not really. You're not going to see ATMs directly connected to the public Internet. The typical connections are using frame relay or, very popular for ATMs, but now deprecated, SMDS (Switched Multimegabit Data Service) circuits from a telco LEC.
I've been told by a Vz test center old timer that the banks particularly like SMDS for the reason that it's trivial to switch the whole network over to an alternate head end/data center in an emergency or for maint. SMDS circuits have a cloud topology, similar to frame relay. Verizon was pushing SMDS for a few years as a less expensive alternative to PtP T1s (also was avail in other capacities from 56k up to 45mb). From what I understand, smds is no longer being provisioned due to the telco gear makers dropping it from their products; supposedly telcos now have to canibalize parts when something fails. The other downside of smds these days is in the event of a failure, you'll have to get lucky to find a Verizon tech who is familiar enough with it to get your trouble resolved anytime soon (tell 'em they need to reload the group addresses, that'll fix it usually, unless it's a catastrophic hardware failure at the CO).
In Philadelpia, and I imagine other large US cities, within just the past year or so taxicabs have begun sporting new rooftop electronic advertising signs. Each of the signs' 2 sides, about 4' long, is divided into 2 portions. For most of its length, it consists of a orangish leds, which are used to display sports scores and crude pixelated versions of league logos. The rightmost portion, however, is a full color lcd display, typically showing a red & white ESPN logo. What caught my eye was one day seeing a cab pulling away from a hotel, apparently from a cold start, and before it was out of view, I plainly saw the lcd going through post and the bios portion of a pc boot sequence. Regretably the cab was gone before I could observe what os it was running.
Not to come off as a shill for groopz, but my curiosity got the better of me and I just took a look at their site. Unfortunately, after the java app loaded, it displayed an image with the message, "E-mail us, operators are unavailable." But I did take the flash virtual tour of the product, which gives a pretty thorough demonstration of the functionality and operator and supervisor interface. At first blush it appears to be a very well thought out product. One of the features I like is the ability for the operator to choose an FAQ item from a menu and push it to the visitor's browser, but I know too that that's just the kind of thing many /.ers would find bothersome or invasive, since it does actually cause your entire browser window to jump to a different page, according to what the demo says.
"If not, why announce the Fed-suit instead of going back after BoA?"
Keep your tinfoil hat on; there's plenty of other oddities about this thing of SCO's, but you're a little off on this one point.
1.) SCO hasn't sued the fed labs yet and announced nothing yesterday.
2.) The letters were part of one of the threatening spam runs SCO did in December; the revelation now comes because an attorney representing several recipients of the sco scam spam just now has been able to obtain them, after filing a Freedom of Information Act request for the letters.
whoops, typing error; should be: the danger to our way of life posed by the GPL.
"SCO sent the letter to every member of the Senate and House of Representatives, said Blake Stowell, a SCO spokesman." No, no, they did not send the extortion letter to congress. This refers to Darl's letter warning congress about the danger to our way of life posed by the and their GPL.
...and you certainly shouldn't kick beehives containing nuclear devices. Hehe, I expect someone will shortly post a photoshopped pic of a lovely mushroom cloud rising from sco HQ.
No, it's news because the targets of the letters, save a few, hadn't been previously known publicly. An attorney for several of the targeted companies managed to snag these two letters from the gummint labs via a Freedom of Information Act request. FOIA requests are not fullfilled instantaneously.
/. (surprise). I posted this same story to /. early last evening, but it was ignored and then rejected by the editors.
I could say, by the same token, this is just a bit of bad reporting by
"SCO threatened US DOE labs in December letters
18:32 Friday 19 March 2004 Rejected"
At least to some extent, they've been rejecting mail that contains urls believed to be connected with spam. This can be mail from domains that aren't otherwise blocked by their filters. I forget the exact text I saw in their bounce message. A user at ISP where I work NOC had complained of not being able to send mail to an aol address. I could see she was trying to forward a spamish mail she had received to her aol-using friend (gee, what are friends for, if not to share spam); my recollection months later is fuzzy, but it was clear from the body of the rejected mail and the aol bounce did specifically mention that it was rejected on the basis of the url contained in the mail.
Excuse me for pointing out the sheer idiocy of your infantile assertion (mommy, mommy, he modified my data), but the mere act of visiting a website causes data to be modified on your computer. Well, you say you authorize those modifications by virtue of voluntarily visiting a webpage - just as you do by downloading a file to your system.
My bad %-) For the benefit of those who don't RTFRFCs, RFC1149 - Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers. Laugh, if you must, but RFC1149 has been successfully implemented. Need QOS? No problem - RFC2549.
Naw, physical layer (layer 1) is copper, glass and silicon.
Not at all. You're totally free to go and enlist before they get around to drafting you %-)
...a prediction by Mr. Anderer that Microsoft has many more disruptive lawsuits planned up their sleeves.
Let's not get it twisted now. From the context I'm pretty sure he was referring to patent suits against MS, although obvious it won't be unexpected to see MS filing large numbers of suits as well.
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